[152] Exodus, chap. 21, verses 23, 24, 25.
[153] Genesis, chap. 9, verses 5, 6; also Leviticus, chap. 7.
[154] Exodus, chapters 6, 12, 14, 22, 32,
[155] Ecclesiastes, chap. 3, verses 18, 19, 20, 22.
[156] The souls of a race in its maturity are of a more advanced type than those of its infancy or old age.
[157] The Kabala is the secret teaching of the Jews; in it lie hidden doctrines that are too profound to be taught in public.
[158] Zohar, 2, 99, quoted in Myer's Qabbalah, p. 198.
[159] Evolution develops the soul, enabling it to reach its goal: the divine state.
[160] The force of evolution comes from God and ceases only when the soul is fully developed, and has reached the "promised land" at the end of its pilgrimage: the divine state.
[161] Franck, La Kabbale, p. 244, etc.