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{{Style S-Small capitals|Sir}},—I do not think that Spiritualists in general would find it so difficult to accept the idea of “shells,” as so called by Occultists, if they would simplify matters to their own thoughts by remembering that they do not expect the “natural man,” as he is on earth, to “go to Heaven” (I employ phrases ordinarily in use). They one and all believe there is “progression” on the other side. Progression implies “change,” a casting off of old states, habits, earthly modes of thought and life; in short, the growth of the “spiritual man,” who puts off, as an old “shell” we will say, the “natural man.” Spiritualists, it appears, have mistakenly been in the habit of considering this external, temporary personality, formed on the earth-plane for the convenience of the spirit in earth-life, as ''the'' man proper—or the individual—the Ego: when, in reality, the true man or individual is the inner spirit, which in the processes of human evolution, wears many external, temporary forms of personalities, which are necessarily evanescent. | {{Style S-Small capitals|Sir}},—I do not think that Spiritualists in general would find it so difficult to accept the idea of “shells,” as so called by Occultists, if they would simplify matters to their own thoughts by remembering that they do not expect the “natural man,” as he is on earth, to “go to Heaven” (I employ phrases ordinarily in use). They one and all believe there is “progression” on the other side. Progression implies “change,” a casting off of old states, habits, earthly modes of thought and life; in short, the growth of the “spiritual man,” who puts off, as an old “shell” we will say, the “natural man.” Spiritualists, it appears, have mistakenly been in the habit of considering this external, temporary personality, formed on the earth-plane for the convenience of the spirit in earth-life, as ''the'' man proper—or the individual—the Ego: when, in reality, the true man or individual is the inner spirit, which in the processes of human evolution, wears many external, temporary forms of personalities, which are necessarily evanescent. | ||