The soul, on its journey to the Infinite, cannot turn back half way. And when it reaches that goal, it experiences only the light, the wisdom, the love of God, and it loses two things: it loses all the marks of the experiences and thoughts of its manifestation, and it loses its individuality, and is merged in the infinite, divine Consciousness.

If an earthen thing is thrown into the water, it has a tendency to go to the bottom, to its own element.
If water is accompanying fire on its journey, its water-part still drips down as steam.
When fire travels with the air, it takes its smoke so far, but in its higher spheres it gets rid of the fire.
When ether turns into spirit, it drops its contact with the air element.

In the same manner it is with the soul.

On its return journey it gives all the above properties to their own source, thus lightening its load on its way toward its own element. The earthly body goes to earth, its water part to the world of water, its heat to the kingdom of heat, its air to the spheres of the air, its ether into the ethereal regions. Its impressions, thoughts, feelings, merits, qualities go as far as they can reach, and remain at their stations, wherever they are meant to be. Then it is the soul in its own essence that is left, merging into the ocean of Consciousness where nothing of its previous property remains.