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HEAVEN AND HELL OR THE DIVINE JUSTICE ACCORDING TO SPIRITISM > PART FIRST – DOCTRINE > CHAPTER VIII - ANGELS > REFUTATION > 11
11. The union of the soul with a material body, though necessary to its progress in the early stages of its development, only takes place during the period which may be termed its infancy and youth; when it has attained to a certain degree of purification and dematerialization, this union is no longer needed by the soul, which thenceforth continues to progress in spirit-life. However numerous may be the corporeal existences of the soul, those existences are necessarily limited to the life of its successive bodies; and the sum total of those existences only comprises in any case an imperceptible fraction of the life of the soul, which is without end.