10. Should man, after being attracted by the vanities of the world and then after obtaining a knowledge of the things that really are, return to the vanities of the world, he will be punished with torments and fire in the darkest states of disembodied Souls.
11. Should a man, after knowing the things that are, become rebellious of restraint to that part which is immortal, and return to the vanities of the world, the higher essence will straightway depart from him, and he will become the slave of the lower essence which will seize upon him and drive him to all sorts of wicked arts and evil ways.
12 When man has thus impiously disobeyed nature and turned his face away from that which is Immortal, behold he is then disinherited from his birthright, and is no longer counted among the children of Nature because he has become an evil, perverse thing, possessing only those things which are mortal, and he is punished with death.
13 And so death is meted out to all those who rebel against Nature impiously, because they know the things that are. But to those foolish souls who are ignorant, and who have not knowingly rejected Nature, behold, they are purified after much suffering and are sent to the world again.
The teachings in the above laws are so clear, so simple and so divinely just, that to attempt in any way to explain or annotate them would only sow the first seeds of error and misunderstanding. We will, therefore, leave them with the reader as they are, pure and free from the mental bias of any mortal being.
Man alone, possesses the elements of both life and death. The laws of life have been fully elucidated, and the Soul which imperfectly obeys them will, “After it has purified by much suffering,” ultimately reap the reward of eternal conscious existence. Consequently, the great majority of those Souls who are really human beings, will inherit immortality as the natural consequence of their humanity But there are exceptions, which though few in number, require special notice. These exceptions may, for the sake of convenience, be divided into three distinct classes. The first and most numerous consists of imperfectly organized, sensitive, weak natured individuals, with little or no mental bias but who possess strong mediumistic magnetism. Individuals of this class, though perfectly human to begin with, soon lose the actual control of the external organism, and in consequence the body becomes the obedient instrument for any and every class of earth spirits. But what is still worse, it may become the slave of some vicious elementary.
In this case, there was no real or true individuality, therefore, no one can assert truthfully he was actually
acquainted with the true personage. The real soul has departed in the very early infancy of the organism physical existence. Just how, or when, or where, none but the trained seer can tell. In every individual case the astral causes which produced the Soul’s abortion widely differ.
The second class are those who fall victims to premeditated obsession, and are by no means so numerous as the first class. In this case the organism is generally very fine, insofar as the magnetic temperament is concerned, but the Soul is utterly wanting in Spiritual volition or will. The magnetic polarity their Soul is of such a nature the Spiritual will of the Soul is almost powerless to act. The absence of this essential element of human life may be the result of the mental condition of the mother during pregnancy, or of a mental coma of both parents at the moment of conception.