3) The Theory of Rebirths which teaches that each spirit is an integral part of God, that it enfolds all divine possibilities as the acorn enfolds the oak; that by means of many existences in an earthy body of gradually [pg 040] improving texture its latent powers are being slowly unfolded and become available as dynamic energy; that none can be lost but that all will ultimately attain to perfection and reunion with God, each bringing with it the accumulated experience which is the fruitage of its pilgrimage through matter.
Or, as we may poetically express it:
WE ARE ETERNAL.
On whistling stormcloud; on Zephyrus wing,
The Spirit-choir loud the World-anthems sing
Hark! Lis't to their voice “we have passed through death's door
There's no Death; rejoice! life lives evermore.”
We are, have always been, will ever be.
We are a portion of Eternity
Older than Creation, a part of One Great Whole,