And the fact that we recognise it as duty, as ideal, is the promise for the future.

We are what our past has made us; we shall be what our present is creating; and if within your heart and mine the longing for the nobler state is found, that marks our place in the future, and our right to be among the earlier members of the sub-race that is now preparing to be born.

For our thoughts now are what we shall be in our next life; our aspirations now mark our capacities then.

You know how the intermediate life is spent, between the death that will close your present lives and the birth that will open the portal of your next lives.

You know that in the heavenly places you will be weaving into faculty, into capacity, every thought and every aspiration towards the higher life which in these days of your weakness you are generating, and are trying to cherish and cultivate.