Think on This …
Yet the choice of that form which any of these shall take is ever dependent upon the will, that heritage from the Father that makes for every soul’s development–whether as a companion for those environs of the celestial form or whether the terrestrial or the earth that must find its way. For the will of self is as of the Father; He hath not willed that any soul should perish but hath with each temptation, with each trial prepared a way of escape; making as the bridge the Cross, over which each soul may find the glory of its Lord and of that to which it has sought to attain.
Edgar Cayce Reading 1246-2