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"Thou hast well said thou art not ready. Your life has yet but

only begun for you. Its experiences, its many lessons and duties,

are all unlearnt and you would pass to the spirit world

immatured. Your young soul, like fruit plucked from the tree too

soon, would ripen slowly, losing many of its flavors and never

attaining certain of its best and highest qualities, for as you

well know, progress in the next stage of existence depends upon

the attainments in this.

"Thou art not ready, yet say you are willing to bow to the

inevitable. This is wise, still have you not heard it said many

times that man is the arbiter of his own destiny and that the

soul was the inheritor of God-like powers by which it could rise

to the plane whereby it ruled, instead of obeying the blind or

planetary forces of Nature?"