Purification Of The Thought-Life

The One Goal of Humanity is to recognize that we are lacking in Spirit, to re-link with Spirit and thus liberate ourselves from Matter. This cannot be done with the physical body. The dense physical body and the more subtle etheric, astral and mental bodies are but temporary instruments whose purpose is to assist in the process of transformation.

Spirit is Divine, it is of God, and as such cannot bear to come into direct full contact with the defiled mortal soul that we carry while incarnate on earth. For its part, the mortal soul cannot bear so great a Divinity as Spirit, from whose Fire it would surely be burned.

Therefore a new Soul must be built within the microcosm of the personality. This New Soul must be constructed of pure ethers in order to create a Soul-body that can provide a suitable abode for the descending Divine Spirit. Hermes calls this New Soul the Spirit-Soul. Only the Spirit-Soul is capable of cloaking Spirit.