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cal death. How can one imagine the silence and inertness of this Soul before and after
an ephemeral terrestrial existence, when it is in the midst of a Cosmos where everything

vibrates, when it is surrounded by this perpetual throbbing and is caught up in this

movement which consciously expresses the straining towards a goal? Whether it

happens in the celestial empyrean or in the flames of hell, this immobilization of energy
appears paradoxal in a Universe where everything is founded on the interdependence of

the elements and on the economy of energy.

We can, therefore, interpret the indications to be found in the Tradition in the

following manner: the general Resurrection, at the time of the last Judgment, does not
mean that milliards and milliards of Souls, each having been incarnated only once, will

recover their bodies; but that all the Souls attached to our planet will be incarnated in

the same generation. If we consider that a few milliards of Souls were incarnated and

return to Earth periodically, we will see the concept of a general Resurrection in an
entirely new light. For example, we will be able to understand that the progressive

increase in the population of the globe represents, from an esoteric point of view, a step

towards this general Resurrection. When the few milliards of Souls attached to the Earth

will all be incarnated at the same time, it will be a sign that the era of the Holy Ghost
(spirit) has begun. It will be the advent of the heavenly Jerusalem, of the Kingdom which

is not of this "world" as we know it today, this world whose fashion