We are alive and we possess a certain degree or measure of intelligence. These are facts in our conscious experience.
We may shape or mold our lives. We may do this according to our ideals, or we may drift with the tides of circumstance, or of passion and caprice, and this is what most persons do.
So also with that intelligence which is the guiding light in our lives. It may illumine our pathway, or it may flash and fitfully glare, with the shadows, rendering our pathway obscure and uncertain, illusory and deceitful, or dangerous and fearful.
The soul is in the body; and this light of intelligence is in the soul, its center, its very essence.
All else in us, and round about us, is diversity and multiplicity. This light of intelligence in us is One and unchanging.
Our experience in life, however varied and diversified, is co-ordinated and unified by this Intelligence in us. It is that which puts all our experiences together and views them through a single lens. It stands by itself alone, and all else pays tribute to it.
It is the pronoun “I” and it stands for, speaks and acts for, all else in us.
It is not alone the only unity in us, but it is that which unifies all the rest, uses the “possessive case,” and may subordinate all else in us to its Will.
Does it, then, do violence to common sense and hourly experience, or is it any stretch of the imagination to speak of this unity as an entity, and call it the human soul?
If we live after the change called death, in a spiritual world, in place of the physical we now inhabit, and with a spiritual or refined body to correspond with that plane of refined or etherialized substance, the Individual Intelligence must function in that body and on that plane as it does now in the physical body on the physical plane.