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( 37 ) beings to the minimum. The ideal individual efforts began to be directed to the end which would cause the least suffering to the other living beings. This second discovery of the Efficacy of Effort became the driving force of the Soul. These two discoveries combined, led to the third discovery of the Transmigration of Soul. If Soul is a permanent substance, it has the capacity to attain its fullest purity. This led to the Fourth Discovery of Siddhi or final attainment. These four discoveries together constitute the fundamental basis of the Ideology of Spiritualism.
The Egyptians believed in soul, its transmigration to future life and its final attainment. When an Egyptian Egyptian died, he went to his ka.' This was his Spiritualism material body after death. The actual personality of the individual in life consisted of visible body and invisible intelligence. The Visible and the Invisible was depicted in one symbol—the human-headed bird with human arms. This signified the fact that the material or physical existence of the individual is best typified in the animal while his spiritual existence in his innate intelligence, This bird-man is called 'ba'. "Ba' has commonly been translated as Soul. This symbolism of bird-man is of great far-reaching significance. Egyptians held the animal sacred. The immigrant Asiatic people engrafted a more elevated form of belief. 'They believed that animals had certain attributes of divinity. They had 'Souls' just like men. This symbolism definitely establishes the unity and oneness of spirit in animal and man. It is quite certain that the Egyptians believed in body and intelligence ; Matter and Spirit.
These spiritual beliefs of the Egyptians are contained in the book "The Manifestation of Light" miscalled "Book of the Dead.' The essential parts of this Book
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