The Pure Spiritual Science
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forgotten its own position and that of the Supreme Lord that the distinct being sinks in Maya, or in conditioned existence. It is written:

At the beginning of the creation, Brahma, the father of all living beings in the universe, found that all these creatures were without attachments. In order to increase the population, he then created the woman from the best half of the man's body, because the woman's behavior delights man's mind.

The perfection of such an attitude can only be reached by diverting the desire for the service of matter or Satan towards the spiritual service offered to God.

The spiritual soul is indeed the active principle of the body.

In truth, the spiritual soul, also called the spiritual entity, differs from the material body. They are two distinct entities. The material body dies, but not the soul. The body is nothing but a mass of inert matter, for it is naturally deprived of life. The body is a dead mass. It is the soul that temporarily resides in him, which gives him life.

The soul is the pure consciousness that is expressed. It is the vital force, the active principle that allows the body to live and move. It is the true Self, the conscious Self and the true Ego. The true spiritual memory is in it. It gives the body its beauty and life. We are the soul.

Let one go out of the body, and the latter collapse, lifeless, inanimate. The soul is indestructible, eternal and without measure. Only the material bodies which it borrows are subject to destruction.

The goal reached by the impersonalists (those who see God as the radiating Spiritual Being) and the servants of God.

The spiritualists are of two kinds: the impersonalists and the servants of God. For the former, the ultimate goal, the ultimate destination to be attained, is the radiance of the spiritual world, while the servants of God aim at the spiritual planets. The latter experience the condition described above by obtaining a spiritual form that will enable them to pursue the active practice of the service of absolute love offered to the Lord. The impersonalists, however, because they reject contact with the Lord, do not obtain a spiritual body proper to spiritual action, but remain mere spiritual sparks, melted in the dazzling radiance that emanates from the Supreme Lord. The Lord represents the finished form of eternity, knowledge and bliss, while the radiance that emanates from his body, devoid of form, is a mere manifestation of eternity and

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