142 SKETCHES OF GREAT TRUTHS

The recognition of friend to friend after
death is a great puzzle, I know, to many.
There may not be individual recognition,
but does that matter? Some may find this
a difficult saying, but consider dispassionate-
ly with me one instance; say a much loved
child dies when he is very young, when
the parents are young, the loss has made a
deep impression upon them, but other children
have been born, and it is even possible that the
ego of the first child may have returned, in such
an instance the recognition may be here. I feel
very strongly that we should not be bound by
any idea of recognition in this sense, because
physically speaking it would be impossible
for the very young child to recognise its
parents who may have lived on here and
become very old people. Take as another
instance the case of a husband and wife,
the wife may have died very young and the
husband may have lived on to old age and
probably remarried. It is the inner tie, the tie
between the two souls that lives. It is the love
of soul to soul, love that is immortal and is
recognised on through the ages, and accounts
for the sudden and unbreakable friendships that
are often formed, and the unaccountable recog-
nition, sometimes without a word being spoken,,