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Footnote: Barring the higher call of the Law of Attraction determining the "point of entrance" into the spheres, the progress of a soul from that point on is largely determined by where it wishes to abide. As Ann Rollins explains ("Mr. Padgett's Grandmother Describes Several Spheres and the Different Kinds of Spirits Inhabiting Them,") each spirit, "Following the natural inclination of its condition, as I have explained, will endeavor in its progress to get into that sphere where there are afforded the greatest opportunities for the development of the particular phase of its condition which constitutes its chief motive force. And this is in accordance with a spiritual Law. The spirit desiring the development of its mental qualities above all else will naturally seek that sphere where these qualities have the greatest opportunity for such development. And so with the moralist and the spirit of religious thought. (...) And so with the spirit who, while on earth, gave his studies and thoughts to mental pursuits to the exclusion of thoughts relating to God or to religious matters. Such a spirit will naturally be attracted to those things which it considers a continuation of its earthly thoughts, or which will enable it to pursue the development of those thoughts; and consequently they are its "treasures" which necessarily have the most of its affections. And from these affections will arise its desires which, unless something greater intervenes, will cause it to follow the course of these desires." The "something greater" to which Ann Rollins refers, be the Law of Attraction (and with It, the Law of Compensation if expiation is still called for.) |