This earth may in fact be likened to a school to which we return life after life to learn new lessons

(By Rosicrucian, Max Heindel) – This earth may in fact be likened to a school to which we return life after life to learn new lessons, as our children go to school day after day to increase their knowledge.

The child sleeps through the night which intervenes between two days at school and the spirit also has its rest from active life between death and a new birth.

There are also different classes in this world-school which correspond to the various grades from kindergarten to college.

In the lower classes we find spirits who have gone to the school of life but a few times, they are savages now, but in time they will become wiser and better than we are, and we ourselves shall progress in future lives to spiritual heights of which we cannot even conceive at the present.

If we apply ourselves to learn the lessons of life, we shall of course advance much faster in the school of life than if we dilly-dally and idle our time away.

This, on the same principle which governs in one of our own institutions of learning. – By Max Heindel from the “Rosicrucian Mysteries: An Elementary Exposition of Their Secret Teachings.”