Logos 312
Spiritual education is the basis of the science of God, of the teaching of the Lord, and it enables to understand that the spiritual soul is different and distinct from the material body.
The Lord said: “At the moment of death, the soul takes on a new body, as naturally as it has passed, in the previous one, from childhood to youth, then to old age. This change does not disturb the sober being.”
Unfortunately, this spiritual education is completely absent from modern civilization. No one understands his real interest, which is that of the spiritual soul and not of the material body. True education is spiritual. To work intensely under the influence of a bodily conception of life, without spiritual education, amounts to living like an animal. People spend so much energy just for the convenience of the body, without being educated about the best interests of the spiritual soul. They thus live in a dangerous civilization, because the spiritual soul must indeed transmigrate, reincarnate from one body to another. Without spiritual education, people are kept in the dark and do not know what will happen to them after their bodies die. They work blindly, and blind leaders run them. The man deprived of reason does not know that he remains completely under the slavery of material nature and that this one will impose on him after death a certain type of body, which he will have to accept. He does not know that although there may be someone very important in this present body, he risks being reborn with the body of an animal or of a tree for having acted in ignorance of God under the influence of the modes of influence of material nature.
Spiritual education helps to cultivate and develop the consciousness of God, and gives mankind the true light of spiritual existence. It allows us to teach that each of us is a spiritual soul and not the body, and to learn to abandon ourselves to God, to renew the bond which unites us to him, and to serve him with love and devotion. It gives the key which allows entry into the kingdom of God.
Logos 313
The true principles of religion which are purely spiritual are defined by the Supreme Eternal, for he is the source of perfect purity, absolute perfection and unlimited wisdom.
The essence of true spiritual principles is total surrender to God, love for the Supreme Lord, obedience and the service of love and devotion offered to him, pure heart. Whoever assimilates and applies them is immediately released and returns to God, to his eternal and absolute kingdom. The supreme religion is that which teaches its