Note 17 — CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE A COMMEMORATION OF HUMILIATION AND DESPAIR
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It is a mistake to suppose that the personality originates thought. The sphere called mind reflects thought, as the earth reflects the light of the sun. It is quite as mis-leading to assert that the spirit leaves the body at death as it would be to assume that the sun is actually in the earth, because this planet lives by its rays. The spirit never is in the body—therefore it has neither birth nor death. It contacts and vivifies the body in the same manner as does the sun and the earth. The photosphere of the earth, and the aura of man are universal exemplifications of the mysterious Bridge of Kinevat.