Spiritual Wisdom:

"God created many beings and many worlds long before a material world existed: worlds of harmony, happiness, infinite beauty, and infinite possibilities to unfold creative divine aspects for all beings. Here, the divine substance of each created being was freely active, uncovered by foreign, un-Godlike matter. I have often said to you that it is your task to uncover this divine substance, to free it of these God-opposed layers which rob you of your unity with yourself and with God. This divine substance is also referred to as man's higher self or divine spark. This is divine in every respect and possesses some of that divinity." (PL #20)

"Each living being has his higher self or the divine spark... Since the fall of the angels, the higher self surrounded itself in a slow process and in gradual stages with various layers of denser matter... Thus the lower self came into existence. The aim of spiritual development is to eliminate the lower self so that the higher self becomes free again of all layers it has acquired ... infinitely denser than the higher self." (PL #14)