Benjamin Franklin Woodcox – Fragments of Spiritual Knowledge Pertaining to the Spiritual World

 

1. In the mineral kingdom, the struggle for life, and the struggle of life, begin, and guided by an in­telligence that is mathematically accurate in all its ef­forts, this life develops, and spreads, and passes through each of the other kingdoms of nature, and on through the more rarefied kingdoms which are invisible to man.

While life originates in the mineral kingdom, and develops and spreads through all the other kingdoms, and creates and is the beginning of these kingdoms, yet there is left behind in each of these kingdoms an indi­vidual life element which also evolves, and develops, and attains through refinement and vibratory action an immortality that carries the most beautiful and highly developed species of each of these kingdoms into the invisible and spiritual world.

The flowers are not lost to the spiritual kingdoms, nor the plants, nor the minerals, nor even such of the animals as develop and attain a vibratory action that is sufficiently refining and perfecting to carry them over into the invisible and spiritual worlds.

While each individual life, and particular species of life, represented in the coarser materials of nature, can attain to a refinement and immortality that will carry them over into the spiritual world, yet the particular life element in which nature is most interested, and upon which she spends most of her time, is that life element

 

that passes through all the different species and king­doms of life, and attains to immortality as the final product of all of these comibined or united in one. I refer to that life which has passed through from the mineral to man, and on into the invisible or spiritual world.

2. Life is the most beautiful thing in the uni­verse. And the more highly a spirit-life is developed, the more beautiful it becomes, until it reaches a point in perfection and beauty that is indescribable and in­comprehensible to man.

We can best describe a highly developed spirit-life by saying that it is a beautiful life that emits a pearly white light which throws a radiance around that is fairly blinding in its brilliancy; and that this light is just as refined and powerful as electricity, though not fatal to human touch.

A spirit-life that is highly developed radiates a great pearly white light that shines around like a heaven­ly body, and lights up all that is near to it. And through this light, that shines from the spirit body of each high­ly developed spirit-life, there appears many shades and colors of light, some of which are unknown to man, and to this physical plane of existence.

3. Life here and hereafter is the same life, and differs not a particle except in the conditions under which it lives.

The coarser physical body necessary to the spirit- life’s existence in the coarser physical world disappears, as does also its purely physical environment, and these are replaced by spiritual conditions and environments suitable to its spiritual needs. Beyond this there is no change, except as change takes place slowly, gradually, a little at a time—as the life evolves, unfolds, develops and becomes more perfect.

4. Man represents a life force that has traveled about one-half its journey, and has secured somewhat less than one-half its development. That is, the life that is in man has since the beginning of time traversed all the kingdoms from the mineral to the higher animal kingdom, a distance of about one-half its journey to completion; and has evolved somewhat less than half the vitality and strength necessary to its eternal life.
5. Those who are of the spiritual world see us, not as we appear to each other, but as we would appear to each other were we able to see each other outside, or through, our physical bodies.
6. A spirit-life approaching birth in a physical body, approaches upward, from a lower plane in the scale of development, and is usually not a new ar­rival in the human form; but a spirit-life that has in­habited the human form before, and is merely return­ing to continue, or complete, its journey in the physi­cal world.

The completion of a spirit-life’s journey in the phy­sical world depends entirely upon the amount of spiritual vitality attained, and not upon any theory, creed, belief, nor even upon the possession of exact spiritual know­ledge. However, the spirit-life that has attained to a point in its spiritual development where it can grasp, understand, and even on occasions perceive for itself exact spiritual truths, is nearing physical completion, and is about to enter into a new phase, or world, of life.

It is perfectly understood and known, by all who are in position to know anything about the spiritual world and life, that those in human form who have not yet attained a point in their spiritual development where they can know or grasp, or even possess an inkling of this spiritual world and life, are not nearing the end of their journey in human form; have still some physical lives before them in which to develop, to approach nearer to the spiritual world, and in which to obtain more spiritual vitality.

We cannot approach near to the spiritual world and life, in our development, without becoming in some way conscious of such world, and in possession of some exact knowledge concerning it.

7. A spiritual entity is without weight in a pure­ly physical sense. It knows no law of physical gravita­tion. It finds the spiritual materials of our atmosphere, and the higher atmospheres and space, sufficient to up­hold it, and to maintain it in comfort, with all the con­veniences of a superior world life.

In order to fully understand spirit-life and the spirit­ual universe, it is necessary for us to fully grasp the difference between invisible spiritual material and the coarser physical material.

All material, or matter, is fundamentally invisible. We can no more see a single atom of physical material than we can see an atom of spiritual material. In fact, it is from the invisible materials of the invisible universe that all visible—and therefore physical material things— are made. And the only difference between the invisible physical materials and the invisible spiritual materials, of which the two different worlds are composed, is a difference in the fineness of the particles of material se­lected for the construction of these two different worlds.

The physical worlds are constructed from the coars­er particles of the invisible materials of space, and the spiritual universe is built out of the finer, or the re­fined particles of the invisible materials obtained from the same source.

8. The spirit body, or the body in which the spirit-life dwells, is more akin to a liquid, or a gas, than to any more solid material substance. It is a great white light that is vibrating at a rate of more than seven hundred and sixty-four trillion times per second, and is therefore not visible except to clairvoyant vision, or to an eye attuned to a higher rate of vibration than that of which the physical eye is capable.

The spirit body is composed of spiritual material which, compared to physical material, is like the finest piece of silk compared to a piece of gunny sack, or any other coarsely woven material.

The spirit body differs in the fineness of the par­ticles of which it is composed, in the quality of these par­ticles, and in the workmanship and skill with which these particles have been woven together.

9. The spirit body is connected to the physical body near the lower end of the spinal cord, and this connection is never broken except at death. Yet the spirit-life can, and often does for brief periods of time, leave its spirit body behind, and go forth into the phy­sical and spiritual world alone. This life has the ability to convey for any conceivable distance, and at a speed of one hundred and eighty-three thousand miles a second, an electro thought form or impression of itself. It can maintain this thought form in any position or lo­cality for a brief period of time, by continuous reproduc­tion, or by sending one thought form after another.
10. The spirit body is not a counterpart or dupli­cate of the physical body, as some assume; else the spirit body of an elderly man would be somewhat crooked and unpleasant to look upon. There are no such spirit bodies in the spiritual world.

The spirit body, like the physical body, is subject to the law of “change,” “unfoldment,” “growth” and “de­velopment,” and to the law of “vibratory correspon­dence.” It grows not old as does the physical body be­cause the spirit-life is still in its infancy, and is trans­planted to the spiritual world before it has reached ma­turity. There in the spiritual world it continues to evolve; to vibrate in harmony with its surroundings, and to become more and more refined and beautiful.

11. If the departed spirit-life of an elderly man desired to appear to us, who are still in the physical world, it would remodel and assemble its spirit body sufficiently for us to identify it, and would then assume its rightful and natural shape. However, most spirit-lives who appear to us do not make use of their spirit body, but assemble, and use for that purpose, some of the in­visible elements of the invisible universe with which we are continually surrounded.
12. The spirit body with which we depart this earth life    and enter the first spiritual zone, continues to evolve and to undergo changes, and to become more re­fined and beautiful as it attains to the second and each of the succeeding spiritual zones.

13. The spirit body grows more beautiful through refinement and culture and vibratory activity, and may attain to a beauty that is super-human while still in­cased in a human form. It may attain to a beauty that is super-human while the physical body in which it is incased grows not more beautiful, but less beautiful with each succeeding day. All depends upon vibratory re­finement and culture, and toward what end, or life, this refinement and culture is directed.

The thinking of beautiful thoughts, and the keeping of the mind clean, and directed toward the ideal, has much to do with the formation and beauty of both the physical and spiritual body, and with the life within.

The beauty of the spirit body increases with its growth, maturity and completion, and that spirit-life which is the most highly developed spiritually, possesses the most beautiful spirit body.

14. The spiritual eye is the most beautiful organ of the spirit body. But no words can describe its beauty because the beauty is not in the eye, but in the life that looks out at you through the eye, of which you catch a glimpse now and then as you cast a swift glance at the spiritual eye.

The spiritual eye is usually of the lighter shades of blue and gray, and is usually surrounded by a field of the purest white. It is large and round, and emits rays of light that are of a pearly or silvery white. This or­gan has immense magnetic power.

The darker shades and colors which we know on this earth plane are very rare in the spiritual world, and do not extend beyond the first spiritual zone.

15. The hair of a spiritual entity that is highly developed spiritually, possesses great lustre, and is a thing of great beauty. All such hair varies in shades and colors from the very lightest down to the shades of brown that still have a little sunshine in them, but does not extend to the darker shades of the brown or to the black. The hair of a highly developed spirit-life is of the finest possible texture and quality of spiritual material, and possesses a lustre and beauty that can not be described. The refinement and the development of the spirit- life can be told by the fineness, the quality, and the texture of the hair, and to some extent by its tints and shades and colors.

16. All spirit-lives of the spiritual universe, above that of the first spiritual zone, are tall, well proportioned and graceful; with classical features, and long, shapely and tapering fingers and hands that betoken a high state of ecstatic development.

In fact, there are no fat, stocky, ill-proportioned and deformed spirit bodies in the spiritual universe, though there are some in the first spiritual zone that have not yet attained to graceful proportions. And then there are the earth bound spirit-lives, and those dainty and little, though well proportioned and matured, spirit-lives that have charge over the wild life of the physical ma­terial worlds. I refer to what we call “fairies.”

17. The spirit body in which a spiritual entity resides after leaving its physical body, has certain func­tions to perform, like those of the physical body, but these functions are of a cleaner and more wholesome nature, and consist mostly in that of an outer protec­tion or house in which the spirit-life can dwell, and in which it can travel about through the spiritual universe.

The spirit-life does not require food nor drink of any kind, except that which it absorbs from the atmo­sphere through which it is passing, and in which it dwells.

18. The spirit body has organs for the free circu­lation of air and the ethereal fluids of the spiritual uni­verse, but this spirit body is chiefly remarkable for the development and the number of the organs by which it is able to perceive, to enjoy, and to know. It is chiefly remarkable because of its senses, and the range and the power of these.

For instance, a spirit-life that has attained even to the first zone of spiritual life has a power of enjoyment that is many times greater than that of the physical man, even in the highest state of his physical development; has a power of enjoyment that is equal, if not superior, to that of the seer in moments of ecstasy, illumination, or spiritual transportation. The spiritual entities of the higher spiritual zones have a sense of enjoyment and a power of perception that are as great as those of the seer in moments of ecstasy multiplied more than a thousand times.

19. The spirit-lives of the spiritual world are clothed in raiment woven from the rays of light emitted from their own spirit bodies. This raiment is for the most part spotless white, though there is some that is woven into beautiful designs with dots and lines of light in colors; pink, rose, orange and yellow, crossing the white back ground, and now and then with lines of delicate light shades of blue, or with a blue back ground. However, the blue is never found as a back ground in the higher spheres of spiritual life, but in the back ground of spiritual lives that are near to some physical material earth, or are earth bound.

The raiment of the spirit-lives that are near to some physical material earth, or are earth bound, varies from the silvery white down through the lighter shades of the blue, to the darker and even blue-black shade, and to the brown. This raiment may also be dotted and lined in beautiful designs with rays of light ranging from fire light down to the dim shades of pale yellow. However, these vary with the life, and the yellow is not a very frequent shade or color, even among the spirits that are earth bound.

20. A spiritual entity of the spiritual world evolves within its spirit body a means of maintaining a spiritual temperature of sixty-eight degrees, and this temperature is maintained throughout the spiritual uni­verse. However, this temperature is from within the spirit body, and does not extend beyond its immediate environment. I might add, in this connection, that the spirit-life’s ability to control temperature extends downward, rath­er than upward, and that spirit-lives of the first spiritual zone ofttimes suffer from excessive heat. The ability of a spirit-life to control its environment increases with its development, and is far more perfect and complete in the second and higher spiritual zones than in the zone that is near to the physical material world.

21. The ability of the spirit-life to generate and maintain an average temperature of sixty-eight de­grees within its immediate environment is due to the emitting of rapidly vibrating rays of light from its spirit body, and the action of these rays one upon the other.
22. The suns that shine in space do not tend to heat and to light the spiritual universe. Rather, their rays are too gross for so refined a substance as spiritual material. So they pass directly through this universe until they are brought to a halt by some physical ma­terial world. Yet the spiritual universe is supplied with heat and light.

I have just told you of the rays of light emitted from each spirit body, and how these rays contain and pro­duce heat, and maintain an average temperature of sixty-eight degrees in the vicinity of each individual spirit-life. I now will add that in the higher spiritual zones these rays of light containing heat are gathered by a powerful heat magnet and the heat is stored, and is used to maintain an average temperature throughout these zones that is suitable to the life therein.

23. A spiritual entity can pass directly through a door or wall as easily as if these did not exist, though not quite so quickly; because in passing through a door or wall a spiritual entity must disunite the different par­ticles of its spirit body and pass through between the molecules of the physical material that is in its way, and then re-assemble or unite its spirit body on the other side. This requires time, but not nearly so much time as we might assume. In fact, it can be almost in­stantaneously accomplished. Yet a spiritual entity, as a rule, moves more slowly and leisurely, and often uses the larger part of a minute in passing through a door, through which it could pass, if necessary, in the frac­tional part of a second.
24. The usual mode of travel, and the one most natural to a spiritual entity, is that of leisurely floating along through the atmosphere, or through space, usually at no great distance from the physical material planet on which it once resided. However, if a spiritual entity has attained a very high state of spiritual development, and has been long in the spiritual worlds, it may not’be found so near to its former physical material home. First, because it no longer belongs so near to the physi­cal earth, and second, because the physical earth no long­er holds any who are dear to it.
25. When a spiritual entity desires to ascend or to descend through the atmosphere, it does so by a slight movement of the arms, hands and feet of its spirit body, but when it desires to float leisurely along, it does so without any perceivable movement whatever.
26. In the spiritual world, there are no races, na­tionalities, nor color lines. Yet in the spiritual universe as well as in the physical material worlds, there is a very wide range of differently developed spirit-lives and bodies, owing to the point that each has attained in its development.

The higher in the scale of spiritual development a spirit-life is, the more beautiful does it become, and the nearer does it approach to the likeness of its Creator. It would be impossible to convey to an earth bound creature even the slightest conception of the beauty of a spirit-life that is approaching completion on any of the higher spiritual planes. The brilliancy of the light emitted from the spirit body of a highly developed spirit- life, would prevent a human from approaching sufficient­ly close to behold, or to form an exact idea of the beauty of such a being.

27. In the spiritual world there are reservations set apart for worship, quiet, garden like places of great natural beauty, in the silence of nature. And it is here, in these reservations, that the spirit-lives of each re­spective zone come to worship; some in little assemblies gathered here and there, and others quite alone in the silence.

The silent worshipers of each respective spiritual zone are the most highly developed spirit-lives of that zone, and are preparing for the final transportation to a higher plane, while the different assemblies gathered here and there in little groups by the law of affinity, rep­resent the different stages of spiritual development and attainment of that zone.

There are no dogmas, theories and creeds preached to the different worshipers of the several spiritual zones. In fact, each spirit-life believes according to his or her enlightenment. They do not dispute their beliefs with each other; because each instinctively knows that what each believes is the best possible belief for him in his present state of development, and that this belief will change as he changes. This is the precise truth. Beliefs do, in reality, change as we change in our enlightenment and spiritual development, even in this earth life; and it naturally follows, therefore, that the more enlightened we are, and highly developed spiritually, the more nearly do we approach to the truth.

I might say, in this connection, that enlightenment comes with spiritual development; that enlightenment is a spiritual attainment, and that none are enlightened save those who are correspondingly spiritually developed.

28. One of the most remarkable discoveries we make, in the first spiritual zone, is the almost universal change of front on the subject of religion that has taken place in the lives of those who have crossed over.

In the first spiritual zone, and in all other zones of the spiritual universe, belief is no longer looked upon as the key that unlocks the door to immortal life, nor is heaven looked upon as a reward that is given to those who believe. Instead, evolution, growth and develop­ment, obtained through the operation of natural law, is looked upon as the means by which immortal life is attained, while heaven is looked upon as the goal toward which we evolve, as the zone and state of development that will be ours when we have attained completion.

29. There are in the spiritual world, and even near us, invisible spiritual creatures other than those that have come up through the evolution of our planet­ary life; invisible spiritual creatures that have evidently attained to the spiritual world from planets other than ours. But these spirit-lives from other worlds do not differ in any essential from us. The difference is mere­ly one of detail, due to a difference in planetary condi­tions and the environment through which they have evolved.

The laws of nature are all the same on every ter­restrial globe, and throughout the spiritual universe. So the life that has attained to the spiritual world from planets other than ours is so nearly like us that a detailed description does not seem to be necessary nor desirable. However, there is invisible and spirit-life on the surface of our planet other than that with which we are acquaint­ed, and some species of this life are interesting and might be briefly described.

For instance, there is the fairy-like spirit-life that is to be found in the forest, along the streams and lakes, and in other wild and beautiful places on the surface of our globe. These are spiritual creatures, small in stature, generous in impulse, inclined to do good, and to help mankind; fond of child life, and more akin to the creatures of our woodlands and streams than to man.

Then again, there are spiritual creatures that are to be found on the surface of our physical material world, and even within our homes and by our firesides, other than the departed spirits of our friends. These are spiritual creatures apparently of our species and our world; obtrusive but not friendly, silent, thoughtful. They are clothed in raiment of dark blue, black or grey, and apparently are earth bound spirits.

Still again, there are spiritual creatures, highly de­veloped, intelligent and friendly, that generally appear for a moment, disappear and reappear in little globes of light, in colors of light blue to silver white, with pinkish background.

These spiritual creatures, or spirits, usually appear when we are alone in the silence, and they are usually the bearers of information, knowledge, and the gift of spiritual perception. Their presence is first made mani­fest by the sense of spiritual touch, which causes a ting­ling sensation to run over the entire nervous system of the physical body.

30. The first spiritual zone is that which immedi­ately surrounds our earth, and that of each physical material world in space. It is a zone of less refinement than that of the zones above and beyond it, though more refined than that of the physical material earths and more beautiful than these.

The first spiritual zone is near to us. It is, in a sense, around and about us. It contains those spirit-lives who have recently departed, those who are earth bound, and considerable other invisible and spiritual life of which we know but little.

The length of time which each spirit-life remains in the first spiritual zone depends upon the point that it has reached in its development, and the rate with which it continues to evolve.

Some spirit-lives remain in the first spiritual zone for a long period, and are met in this zone by most of their loved ones whom they left behind in the physical material world; while other spirit-lives pass rapidly through the first spiritual zone, and are soon to be found amid the beauties of the second.

The second spiritual zone lies directly above the first, and in a more rarefied and beautiful atmosphere. It is a zone that is perfectly free from all earth bound spirits, from all spirits of the coarser refinement, and from the many different species of invisible and spirit­ual life that are to be found on and near the earth and other physical material planets, and in the first spiritual zone.

There are in the second spiritual zone many beautiful things that it would be impossible to describe, or to con­vey anything like an accurate conception of to human beings, and this is also true of the third, fourth and other spiritual zones.

In the second spiritual zone we begin to have beau­tiful spiritual structures, built from the finer particles of spiritual materials; beautiful spiritual creations in art, music and literature; beautiful plants, flowers, trees and forests, built from the refined particles of the vege­table kingdom, transported from the different physical material worlds.

There are also in the second spiritual zone many beau­tiful gems that may have existed in a crude state in physical matter.

31. Each spiritual zone of the spiritual universe has boundary lines that are as distinct and marked as the animal is from the human. While these zones fade and blend into each other through the evolution, growth and development of the life, yet the distinction is still there, and we are able to tell in which zone of spiritual de­velopment a selected spirit-life is to be found, or to which zone it belongs.
32. Each zone of the spiritual universe has its own peculiar government; a govejmment that varies slightly, according to the development of the life there­in, and to the point that the majority thereof have at­tained in their spiritual enlightenment and refinement. However, each of these governments is largely of a personal nature, with the exception of that of the first spiritual zone. In this zone there is so much life of a lower nature that a more restricted and centralized gov­ernment is necessary. And this government of the first spiritual zone—the first zone removed from our earth life—is not very different from our own government, except in some details, the exact nature of which I am not able to understand. Yet I know that these details refer, largely, to certain laws and forces in nature that may be and are occasionally misused by some of the malicious, evil and mischievous life of the first spiritual zone.
33. beauty of the first spiritual zone does not greatly exceed that of this earth plane. But the spirit-life’s ability to appreciate and to admire the beau­tiful is in some instances greatly increased, and con­tinues to increase with its advance upward, and into the second spiritual zone; a zone that attains to a state of the beautiful that is beyond the comprehension of man.
34. There are around and about us at least five Worlds that are invisible to us, and of which we know next to nothing.

The first is a microscopic world, or a world of life so small that we can not see it. The second is a world that is not sufficiently condensed for us to see—a world through which we see without seeing anything. The third is a world of rapidly vibrating matter; a world of matter that is moving at a speed that eludes all senses. The fourth is the psychic, or thought world. The fifth is the spiritual world, or that world of life that intermingles and interpenetrates the thought world, and each and all of these other worlds.

To these worlds may be added the world of the un­conscious mind. This is that world which is the most near to the spiritual world, and through which most of our spiritual knowledge must necessarily come.

35. Spiritual material being finer than physical material, it has the ability to penetrate through even the most compact and solid of all physical substances, and if necessary can occupy the same space that these substances occupy.
36. Everything is invisible in proportion to its refinement on the spiritual side. Therefore, there are as many different shades of the invisible as there are grades of spiritual refinement. Some of these shades of the invisible are themselves invisible to the spiritual creatures of the first spiritual world, who in their turn are invisible to us.
37. The invisible is the real. Were this not so we should not be able to reduce nearly everything in nature back to the invisible.

The reason why we can not reduce everything in nature back to the invisible is because we do not suffi­ciently understand the laws of their composition.

Everything of which we know in the physical uni­verse came from the invisible, and will and does even­tually return to the invisible.

38. It is from the invisible that the visible is made. It is through a condensing and a reducing, and a making more compact and solid, and a proper mixing of the invisible elements, that the visible comes into existence; that it has form, and takes unto itself certain characteristics.

All the elements of the spiritual and the physical universe are invisible when in their native state. They only become visible, to certain kinds of perception, when they are confined or compact, and arranged in a certain order; or when mixed in certain ways by the application of forces known to the Creator of the universe, and known to a more limited extent to spirit-lives of the spiritual world, and to man.

The difference between spiritual material and physi­cal material is largely in the different materials selected, and in the fineness of the particles of these materials, and in the way that they are mixed together.

There is also a difference in the rate of vibratory ac­tion with which the particles of these different ma­terials act upon each other. This has nothing to do with the original materials, but with the refining of these, and the law by which they are held together.

39. The atmosphere of the higher spiritual zones is clearer and lighter, and more rarefied, than the atmo­sphere of our earth lands. It is entirely free from the coarse particles of physical material which pollute the atmosphere of the first spiritual zone.

Spirit-lives of the higher spiritual zones find it diffi­cult to remain in the denser, darker, and more polluted and melancholy atmospheres that surround each of our terrestrial globes, and hence, do not descend to these earth lands except when duty calls them.

40. There are in the higher atmospheres, yet im­mediately surrounding each of the physical material worlds, atmospheric solids of more or less density and thickness, and currents or rivers of moving atmospheric matter, lakes and ponds of more rarefied air, and many other atmospheric conditions that correspond to the phy­sical material world. And these solids, rivers, lakes and ponds of the higher atmosphere are to physically disem­bodied spirit-life, as are the physical material solids, rivers, lakes and ponds to embodied spirit-lives.
41. There is no pain on the spiritual side of life. But there is a sort of anguish, a spiritual suffering, due to two things, namely: to our being or getting out of harmony with the purpose of life, and to our having those who are near and dear to us make such mistakes.

When those who are near and dear to us, on any of the planes of life, fail to live as wisely as we do, they are soon separated from us by the law of evolution, which causes them to evolve less rapidly than we evolve, and therefore to be left behind us on some of the lower planes or worlds of life. This separation causes us spiritual suffering or anguish, and even sometimes de­lays us on our journey to higher spiritual zones.

We sometimes attempt to delay our own spiritual development in order to carry those with us who are near and dear to us, but usually we find this task use­less, or hopeless, and so depart in sorrow; knowing full well that it is our own spiritual development that is of importance to each of us.

Some of us who are struggling through the physi­cal world today might have been where some of our loved ones are in the spiritual- world if we had lived more; in harmony with the law of spiritual evolution in some of our former lives. Had we so lived, much spirit^ ual anguish and sorrow would have been saved to us and to them, and we should not have been separated by the law of evolution until more than one life time lies be^ tween.

42. Restlessness is a spiritual sickness. It is a state of being out of harmony with the purpose of life. Often spirit-lives of the first spiritual zone are afflicted with this disease.
43. There is sickness in the spiritual world as well as here, and in the other physical material worlds, but there are no infectious germ diseases. In fact, all the sickness there is in the spiritual world is due to the violation of natural and spiritual laws. These viola­tions become less frequent as the spirit-life evolves and becomes more enlightened and developed, and may be said to disappear entirely in the second spiritual zone.

In the first spiritual zone, however, sickness is com­paratively frequent, due in part, to the fact that the spirit-life is still imperfectly developed and inclined to evil, and in part to the nearness of earth bound spirit- lives and of the. spirit-lives of the physical material worlds.

This sickness that is in the spiritual world varies from that of mere restlessness and unhappiness to actual spiritual suffering, according to the frequency with which laws ihave been violated., and the spirit-life general attitude toward these laws and the purpose of life.

The ability of the spirit-lives of the first spiritual zone to know all our secret thoughts, desires, motives and acts, tends to disgust them with things that are evil, and to help them the more quickly to overcome all forms of sickness through continually living in har­mony with the laws of nature and of the spiritual world.

The spirit-lives of the spiritual world soon learn how best to live, through seeing and experiencing that restlessness, unhappiness and suffering which are the result of living otherwise, and through constantly being urged on, by something within them, to the joy of a higher life.

44. Earth bound spirits, and spirits that are yet near to some physical material earth, need to be ex­plained, as these differ slightly in their development, and in the point to which they have attained in life.

Earth bound spirits are spirit-lives that have not yet completed their journey in human form, and must there­fore return again to earth, and keep on so returning until they have attained sufficient spiritual vitality, strength and development to no longer need the pro­tection of a physical body or form. They are spirits that departed their physical body, through death, be­fore they had completed their physical journey, or were prepared for the life that is beyond.

All other spirit-lives that are in the first spiritual zone are spiritual entities that Ihave ^completed their physical material journey, but have not yet attained to a high point in the spiritual world, and so must linger near to earth until they have attained a little more spiritual vitality and strength, before they can venture into that more rarefied atmosphere which is above.

It is not an uncommon thing for a spirit-life to have failed to complete its earthly journey in one lifetime, or in a number of lifetimes, and therefore to have to re­turn to earth again in human form. In fact, this re­turning is so common that it fails to attract any at­tention on that spiritual plane, next to the physical ma­terial world, where these earth bound spirits dwell until they can again return to earth, to complete their jour­ney in the physical material world.

45. Most of the departed spirit-lives that we have known in our present journey through this world, are to be found in this near-to-earth zone, which in reality in­termingles with our earth life, though it is invisible to us. That is to say, that most of our departed loved ones are near us—are with us. They are in our presence, and are able to help us, and to suggest things to us that are for our good, without our being conscious of the source from which we have received the suggestion.

However, the means of communication between the living and the dead is imperfect—in some cases does not exist on a conscious plane. Hence many of us pass through this physical life more or less unconscious of the presence of our departed loved ones, and of the presence of that vast world of invisible and spiritual life that is around and about us.

Remember that the first spiritual zone, of the spiritual universe, is around and about us, and that the departed spirit-lives, both those who are earth bound and those who have completed their earthly journey, remain in this zone for an indefinite period of time, that may ex­tend over many years; and that these spirits of the first spiritual zone intermingle with us, live with us, and in some cases are us, more completely than we are our­selves.

46. Some little time is usually required, at death, for the spirit-life to disengage and to disconnect its spirit body, and to assemble this body outside the phy­sical body.

Nature, or the spirit-life, usually does this gradually, slowly, a little at a time, over a period of several hours, but it can, when necessary, accomplish this task in a much shorter though indefinite period of time.

Many things may interfere, to a limited extent, with the rapid assembly of the spirit body outside the phy­sical body. Among these, besides other unnecessary thinjgs, are ‘atmospheric disturbances, especially those that produce loud and discordant sounds; such as laughing, crying, weeping and wailing.

Instinctively we are silent in the chamber of a de­parting spirit. Not to be so is wrong, because it is in the silence that the spirit-life is best able to take its de­parture. However, harmonious sound waves, when not too loud or too gay, when not harsh or sad, are not to be despised, and may be, in some cases, a fitting and appropriate accompaniment to the spirit-life’s departure.

It is an infallible guide that anything which pro­duces discord, or is exciting to the nerves, is harmful, and tends to retard and make more painful the depar­ture of a departing spirit-life. Loud colors, sounds, scents, and anything else which does not blend into the harmony of the surroundings, are to be avoided, and especially is silence to be desired.

47. What we call the departing is to those on the spiritual side the arriving. Usually there are some of the departing spirit-life’s friends, from the other side, waiting at his bedside to receive him. To these we owe a certain courtesy and consideration irrespec­tive of our own personal grief, and of the fact that they are not visible. The departing belongs to those who are waiting to receive him, and not to us, from whom he is departing.
48. A spirit-life may arrive in the first spiritual zone in a stunned condition, due to the violent and sud­den tearing apart of the physical and the spirit body. Under such conditions the spirit-life is apt to pass through a profound sleep, lasting for many days and even months, before it attains to a state of spiritual health. Yet the average spirit-life arrives in the first spiritual zone in a perfectly conscious and even happy state of mind, and suffers no inconvenience whatever in being transplanted from one world to the other.

Sleep, in the first spiritual ^one of the spiritual world, is not an uncommon thing. But the desire for slumber, and the necessity for it, gradually grow less frequent as the spirit-life evolves, and finally disappear entirely with the transplanting of the spirit-life into the second spiritual zone of the first spiritual world.

49. Death, such as we know it in the physical material universe, is unknown to the spiritual worlds. In these the spirit-lives change from one zone to an­other, and from one spiritual world to another, through the refining of the different partidles of their spirit bodies, and through the evolution of their spirit lives.

Death, in the physical sense, ends with the physical body. In the spiritual worlds there is a continual fad­ing out of one’s former self, into one’s newer self, through a process that is scarcely perceivable except to a close observer. We simply change from one zone to another, and from one world to another, and are scarcely conscious of the change until suddenly we awake to find ourselves already transported from one zone to another, or from one world to another.

There is in the spiritual world no passing out of the spirit body, and no entering in of another spirit body. We simply change our body gradually, for the change that is about to take place in our spiritual environment, and depart taking our spirit body with us.

50. Death, in the physical sense, does not change the life of the departing spirit in any way. The change is entirely with the conditions under which the life lives, and not with the life itself.

The spirit-life that has attained to the first spiritual zone has all the weaknesses, and all the vices, and all the virtues and strong points of character that it pos­sessed in human form, save those that were of a purely physical nature, and that therefore disappeared with the physical vitality and life.

If the departed spirit-life was inclined to malice, and to hate, and to evil, it is still so inclined, and has not, in fact, completed its physical journey, and must return again to earth in human form; until it has learned its lessons, and obtains sufficient spiritual vitality and de­velopment to become a suitable citizen of the first spirit­ual zone.

Nature can not be deceived, nor outwitted, nor tak­en advantage of. No man shall enter and remain in the spiritual world until he has attained to a certain point in his spiritual development. To this law there is no exception, nor is there, in fact, any exception to any of the laws of nature.

51. There is no reason why the dead should im­mediately depart from their earth homes, merely because they have departed from their physical bodies, nor do they always do so. In fact, the first spiritual zone, in which the dead are to spend a considerable period of time, is upon this earth plane, and within our atmo­sphere. Therefore, it is not necessary for the dead, or the physically departed, to immediately depart from their earth homes unless they so desire. But though the dead depart not, they are not visible to us, and they may remain within our homes for an indefinite period without our knowledge.

The dead do often remain within our homes indef­initely, but seldom do we become conscious of their presence except under certain conditions, the nature of which is so complex that to describe these conditions perfectly would require volumes.

52. All life is spirit. The refrain of all nature is: “All life is spirit.” And all spirit-life is in course of evolution through innumerable forms and changes and lives until it reaches and passes through the human form, and continues its evolution is the spiritual world.

The spirit-life is transferred to the spiritual world as soon as it has evolved sufficient vitality, strength and development to no longer need the protection of a physical material form. And this requires at least one hundred thousand centuries of our earth time.

The spirit-life that has attained to the spiritual world has covered less than one half its journey to the high­er heavens of the first spiritual world, where the angels dwell, and where all spirits, who attain to that zone, become angels.

The angels of the higher heavens of the first spirit­ual world are still at the beginning of their journey. They have just begun to enter into the joys of life. All eternity is before them, and an innumerable number of other spiritual worlds through which to evolve, and to enjoy life.

53. Angels and fairies are the two most widely known of all the spiritual creatures of the spiritual uni­verse. This is true of fairies because the fairy was associated with man in the earlier stages of his develop­ment, or before he even entered into the human form, and because this spirit is especially fond of children and child life, and delights in entertaining and visiting with them, though unperceived by them. The same is true of the angels, because the angels are the official repre­sentatives of the Creator of the universe, and have been known to man from the remotest period of his intel­ligence.

Angels are the most highly developed spiritual crea­tures of the spiritual universe. They are clothed in raiment of spotless white, composed of rays of light emitted from their own spirit bodies, which throw a radiant light around them that is blinding to the human eye for a distance of many feet.

Angels seldom travel alone. Usually they travel in twos and threes, and sometimes in vast hosts, accord­ing to the mission on which they journey. These mes­sengers from the heavenly throne travel here and there throughout the whole spiritual universe, and often are assigned tasks that keep them for long periods of time on or near some one of the physical material planets.

Angels sometimes visit the bedside of a departing spirit from this earth life when in some way that de­parting spirit has performed some especially important mission during its earthly journey, and has attained to an especially high state of spiritual development in human form.

Again, a single angel, or a host of angels, may be assigned to watch over, or to guard, some spirit-life that has been sent to earth, on some mission, in human form.

54. The idea that angels, or highly developed spirit-lives, possess wings is not entirely correct, because these wings are not wings really, but rays of light that are emitted from the body, and that serve as a means of travel when the spirit-life is in haste.

I might add, in this connection, that the speed of a heavenly messenger through space exceeds that of light, and that light has a speed of one hundred and eighty-three thousand miles per second.

55. The angels are the only spiritual creatures in the universe that have attained to spiritual completion, and therefore to the higher heavens, where the Creator of the universe reigns. There all things are first con­ceived. There the first life germ of each species and kind of life is compounded and sent to some physical material world, to be united with the mineral elements, and thus started on its journey.

I might add, that those in these higher heavens know the final history of each life germ, or species of life, before it is implanted in nature, but do not know all the details of that life germ’s journey to completion.

Through a knowledge of the laws of nature, and the compound of which each life germ is composed, the Creator and the creatures of the higher heavens are able to comprehend and to know the final outcome of, the life journey of each germ of life, but not to compre­hend and to know all the little events that may happen to that life germ in the course of its evolution.

It is clearly an unimportant thing whether you com­plete your human journey in one human body or in two, so long as you complete your journey in human form.

It is the final outcome that is important, and not the details through which that outcome is attained.

56. In the beginning there were no angels in the higher heavens. Indeed, no higher heavens existed. All had to be created, evolved and perfected.

The angels are merely spirit-lives that have completed their evolution and attained to perfection in the usual way, having traversed all the physical material kingdoms and species of life up to and including man, and having passed through all the spiritual zones this side of the higher heavens.

In the beginning God alone existed. Of the source of his existence he knew nothing, save that he came to consciousness out in the great silence of space. He at once conceived the idea of creating a universe out of the materials that were all about him—materials to us in­visible.

God’s original conception of a universe was very different from the universe that now exists, because his idea grew as he continued to think upon it, and to build it. Even yet the idea is not complete, but is con­tinuing to grow, evolve, and change.

57. All the laws of nature run directly through and exist on the spiritual plane, and in the spiritual worlds, as well as here. But all of these laws are not generally understood, and some of them need to be ex­plained.

For instance, there is the law of evolution, by which all things obtain their development, or growth, and at­tain to different kingdoms of life, and planes of life. Through that law they finally attain completion, through innumerable changes, births and deaths experienced in connection with the mineral, vegetable and animal kingdoms, as well as with the spiritual kingdoms, of which there are many.

Then there is the law harmony. This is the law by which all things work together, and in vibratory correspondence with each other, and by which discord is prevented. Then there are the law of love, the law of affinity, and various other laws, too numerous to men­tion. Each of these laws should be studied and under­stood, because they exist in the spiritual as well as in the physical worlds, and are of vital importance to us on every plane of life, and in every world in which we shall find ourselves in the course of our journey to completion.

58. There are thousands of forces or laws in na­ture of which we know nothing, and yet of which it is necessary that we should know before we can fully un­derstand spiritual life, or even physical life in all its phases.

For instance, why do some spirit-lives at death de­part immediately, while others linger behind, sometimes for days and months and even years? Then again, why do the departed spirits of some whom we have never known in life come and reside with us, while per­haps our own departed loved ones may take their im­mediate departure?

There are laws and reasons for these things, and these laws and reasons are known to spiritual entities of the spiritual worlds, and many of these laws can be made known to us.

59. The reason why some of our loved ones take their departure, while others linger behind, is because some of them have completed their journey in human form, while others are still earth bound; is because some of them have completed their earthly journey, and so enter into the life of the spiritual worlds, while oth­ers—the spirit-lives who are still earth bound—linger behind, and take up their abode with us until such time as they can return to earth in human form.
60. You can mount to the height of your highest spiritual conception, but you can not remain there. You must return again to the point you have attained in your spiritual development. Yet each time that you mount above your spiritual development, you tend to strengthen and to increase the rate of your vibration upward. Each time that you try to mount out of your­self, you succeed in lifting yourself a little nearer to the final goal.
61. We approach nearer to the spiritual on the side of our feelings than at any other point. It is here that our inability to hear and to see does not disturb us, nor rob us of anything that we should know. The ability to see—spiritual perception—follows closely upon feel­ing, and we are soon able to see that which in a spirit­ual sense we are able to feel.
62. The instinctive desires that possess us here continue to control us on the other side. Thus, those who desire to create beautiful things in earth life, con­tinue still to so desire; and if the desire be strong enough they will strive to create beautiful things, and will succeed.

Yes, there are artists, and musicians, and poets, and thinkers, and philosophers, and authors, on the other side of life. And some of these, in their striving, suc­ceed in communicating to us some part of that which they have conceived and created over there.

Those spirit-lives who were not successful here, but who continued their efforts on the other side, and who have eventually succeeded, are the ones who are the most anxious to convey back to us some idea of their identity, and some inkling, or some part, of their work.

Some of these spirit-lives come to us with beautiful songs, all complete and ready to be set to music, or to be transplanted to paper. Others bring us beautiful truths, or conceptions, or pictures, and bid us reproduce them. And all strive to help us, to communicate through us, and to convey to the world some idea of their work, identity and eventual success.

63. Most spiritual communications that reach this earthland of ours, arrive from earth bound spirits, and spirit-lives of the first spiritual zone.

This is due entirely to the law of vibratory corres­pondence. That law requires that in order for two or­ganisms to respond to each other, they must vibrate at the same rate. In other words, they must be keyed to the same number of vibrations per second—must be in tune with each other.

The reason that spiritual knowledge arriving from the first spiritual zone is unsatisfactory, and tells us nothing or next to nothing, of the spiritual world, is due to the fact that the spirits of the first spiritual zone have not, in a sense, entered the spiritual world, but are merely preparing to enter; and are therefore in no po­sition to tell us anything of the spiritual world.

The only precise knowledge of the spiritual world that is reaching this earthland of ours is arriving from higher spiritual zones, and is being received by a few masters and seers who have attained in human form to a remarkably high state of spiritual development.

Most, if not all, of the communications received from the first spiritual zone have to do with the estab­lishing of identity, and with the consolation of, and the suggestion of things to, the spirit-lives that are still in hu­man form.

64. Some spirit-lives of the spiritual world have attained to a more complete mastery of the means of communication between the spiritual world and the physical world than have others, and are therefore in position to tell us more than other spirit-lives are able to tell us, and to convey their information in a way that will be more accurately and completely understood by us.

There are spirit-lives in the spiritual world, as well as here, who have developed along certain lines, and who have mastered certain difficult arts and accom­plishments more completely than have others. Among these masters of the spiritual world are some who have attained to a considerable knowledge of things spiritual, and who are able to convey a part of this knowledge to a very few and select number of spirit-lives who are still in human form.

In the physical material worlds there are also those who have developed along certain lines, and among these there are some who have attained to a very high point in their spiritual development, and who possess a considerable knowledge of the means of communica­tion between the physical and the spiritual worlds, to­gether with an especially sensitive intellect, or means of receiving such communications.

It naturally follows that the masters of knowledge and of the means of communication, on the spiritual side of life, seek to and do convey that knowledge to the more highly developed spirit-lives on the physical side of life, who possess the required sensitive receiv­ing stations, or intellects.

65. There are two reasons why most persons know so little of the spiritual world and of the life beyond. The one reason is lack of sufficient spiritual develop­ment. The other reason is lack of a sufficiently sensi­tive intellect with which to receive spiritual communi­cations and knowledge.
66. The usual means of communication in the spiritual world, and between the spiritual and the phy­sical worlds, is that of thought transfer sent clairvoy- antly, or clairaudiently, or that of rays of light.

When a spirit-life desires to send a message clair- voyantly, it does so by picturing the receptive person­ality and locality, and the message to be sent. If it desires to send the message clairaudiently, it thinks of the receptive mind, and directs the message to that mind by force of will, and in thought form.

Messages sent by rays of light, emitted from the spirit body of the sending life, have the peculiar ad­vantage over other messages of conveying to the re­ceiving life a sense of personal touch and presence.

Spiritual communication between spirit-lives of the same spiritual zone is comparatively easy, though this ability to communicate becomes more difficult as it ex­tends downward or upward in the scale of spiritual evolution, and therefore of vibratory activity and re­finement.

It is with difficulty that the spiritual world is able to communicate with the physical world because of the coarseness of the physical mind and the difference in the rate of vibration between the different lives of the spiritual and the physical worlds.

67. All our secrets and secret thoughts are re­vealed to the spirit-life of the first spiritual zone, and to such of the spirit-lives of the higher zones as may care to know them.

When we have done anything that is wrong, or have thought anything that we should not have thought, we are possessed with a vague consciousness that our secret is known, and that our act or thought has not been approved, or favorably received, by that vast host of invisible life with which we are surrounded.

68. No long and continuous communications reach us from the spiritual world. Even those com­munications coming from the more enlightened, intel­ligent and informed spirit-lives of the higher spiritual zones are apt to be in fragments or pieces, and to lack unity and sequence.

Today we receive from one in the higher spiritual zone a beautiful message—in part. Then some other spiritual entity seizes the line of communication and the beautiful message is broken. Then tomorrow, or next day, or next month, or next year, the beautiful message is continued from the point where it was broken off. Thus the beautiful message comes through in pieces and fragments, each of which is received at a different time, over a period that may extend into many years.

The spiritual world is able to get through a few trivial and unimportant messages complete, but even these are apt to be fragmentary, and to be continued at a later date.

Communications containing exact information, and knowledge of importance, to the physical material worlds, are continually coming through from the spirit­ual universe. But these communications are often in pieces, with each piece received at a different time. Sometimes not all of these pieces are received by the same mind, and so much valuable information, know­ledge and truth are lost to the world, or are obtained in pieces, and from different minds.

69. The most lofty and intelligent messages that reach us from the other side reach us in moments of inspiration or illumination, or in the depth of profound and natural sleep. These messages reach us when we are in an exalted state, and above normal, not when we are in a trance state, or in any other state that is below normal.
70. The recent dead can tell us nothing of the spiritual world because of the fact that they have not advanced beyond the borderland of the first spiritual zone, and know not what is beyond. Besides, most of the recently departed spirit-lives are earth bound—have yet some lives to live upon this earth—and will not ad­vance, on their present journey, beyond the borderland of the first spiritual zone.

All the knowledge of the spiritual world that we may receive, and that can be relied upon, must come from spirit-lives who have long departed this life, and who completed their journey in human form before their departure.

Indeed, all other spirit-lives are silent upon this important question. Though they may hover near us and seek to guard and protect us, and even may warn us of approaching events that cast their shadows be­fore, yet do they remain discreetly silent in regard to the spiritual world, because they know not of this world, and are not therefore in position to speak of it.

All knowledge of the spiritual world must be ob­tained from the more highly developed spirit-lives of the spiritual world; from spirit-lives that have at least passed beyond the borderland of the first spiritual zone.

71. The author of this book has on the other side of life many who were, and are, near and dear to him. Among these are his father and mother, and a number of his very dearest and best friends. Yet none of these have ever been able to reveal to him any im­portant knowledge of the spiritual worlds, though they have often been in rapport and communication with him, and have on a number of occasions conveyed to him some very important information concerning this earth life, and events that were casting their shadows before.
72. All spiritual knowledge that is conveyed to us directly from the second and higher spiritual zones reaches us clairaudiently, and by means of spiritual sound waves. And silence is necessary to the receiv­ing and the recording of spiritual sound waves, because these waves are keyed to a pitch so low that they can not be heard amid the roar and clash of the sound waves of every day life.

We must enter the silence in order to hear that still, faint voice with which angels speak, and with which spiritual entities of the higher spiritual zones seek to convey to us some knowledge of their world and life. Not only must we enter the silence, but in the silence we must remain perfectly still. That is, we must keep our minds free from earthly impressions, and in con­dition to receive the faintest sound waves that may be wafted to us on the wings of that eternal silence of which we, for the moment, have become a part.

The silence is the first essential. A mind free from earthly impressions is the second. But before either of these can admit of success, we must have attained to a sufficient refinement of mind to make this organ especially sensitive to the presence of the finest and most faintly perceivable of sound or thought waves, and must have attained to a rather high state in our spiritual development. Otherwise we shall not get in rapport with any of the higher spiritual zones.

73. There are individuals in the physical ma­terial world who have especially sensitive intellects, and who are able to get into vibratory correspondence with spirit-lives of the first spiritual zone, and to receive from these unimportant information in a more or less frag­mentary state. Then there are a few highly developed spirit-lives, still in human form, who are able to get into communication with the higher spiritual zones, and to receive from these zones much information that is of vital importance to the human race.

Little information, if any, from the higher spiritual zones, reaches us through the usual channels of com­munication. All of the more important and beautiful messages that are received by man are received direct, and by a few highly developed spirit-lives, in human form, who are in vibratory harmony with the higher spiritual zones.

74. A receiving station is necessary to the re­ceiving of messages from the spiritual world. But most of the messages thus received are mistaken for passing thoughts or conceptions, and are never understood to have been received from the spiritual world. However, we sometimes have a sneaking conviction that what we conceive, or receive, is not our own; but we take the credit for all that, and the more brilliant the concep­tion is, the more we are prone to claim it as our own.

We are willing to concede to the spiritual world all our trivial and unimportant thoughts and passing con­ceptions, but we are unwilling to concede to anyone, the more important and beautiful thoughts and conceptions that come to us.

75. Not all the thought forms, communications and impressions that assail us, and are received by us, can be depended upon to be accurate, truthful and just. First, because these may arrive in part from different minds, and from both the spiritual and the physical worlds. Second, because there are malicious, mischiev­ous and evil lives in both these worlds, and we may be receiving from any one of these lives or worlds, and from a number of both, at the same time.

The atmosphere of our terrestrial globe is teeming with thought forms and impressions of every conceiv­able kind, which are traveling at every conceivable rate of vibration per second, and we must continually be assailed by such of these thought forms and impressions as are attuned to our rate of vibration.

In cases of physical illness and abnormal physical condition, our mind may change its rate of vibration rapidly, both upward and downward in the scale of vibratory activity. Therefore such a mind may receive a very miscellaneous collection of messages, ranging from those of the higher spiritual zones downward to those of earth life of the most evil nature.

All evil thought forms, impressions and messages vibrate less rapidly than those that come from a more lofty height in spiritual evolution or life.

76. Thought is the usual means of communica­tion in the spiritual worlds; and as all thought elements are fundamentally the same among all nationalities, and on all the terrestrial globes, there is no confusion through a failure to understand each other in the spiritual worlds.

Each spirit-life thinks the thought it wishes to ex­press, or pictures it, and the receiving spirit-life in­stantly recognizes the thoughts and understands, with­out the intervention of words. However, I would not have you think there is no spoken language in the spirit­ual worlds, but merely that this language is seldom used, because thought transfer is the easier and more natural way.

77. The only claim that most of us have on the spiritual world is a love claim; is a love for some one on the other side that tends to draw that one near to us, and to establish rapport, or a state in which com­munication is made easy. However, this love claim may be on the side of the departed, as well as on our side, and may cause them to draw near to us, and to bring the conditions necessary to communication within our grasp.

A love claim is usually the connecting link between the physical and the spiritual world in so far as it con­cerns the first spiritual zone and the lives of those who have recently departed. But something more than a love claim is necessary when higher spiritual zones are to be entered, and more highly developed life communi­cated with.

We may attain to the first spiritual zone, and to a communication with our departed loved ones there through the attractive power of love alone, but when we wish to get into communication with the higher zones, we must do so through evolution, growth, development —through attaining to a high state of vibratory refine­ment while still in human form.

78. The mind of a spirit-life that is highly de­veloped is attuned to a speed of thought that is many times as rapid as that of the human mind; to a speed of thought that can not be recorded by the human mind in its ordinary or normal state.

In order to make a spiritual communication between the living and the dead possible, the mind of the living must be stimulated to an increased activity, and the communication to be received must be slowed down un­til a state of vibratory correspondence exists between the sending and the receiving mind.

79. When we come into contact with an invisible or spiritual body, we are thrilled by the spiritual sense of touch, and every cell of our physical brain begins to vibrate with increased rapidity. And sometimes, when we possess a very finely adjusted physical intellect, this organ reaches a rate of vibration that is in tune With spiritual matter, and we enter into harmonious rapport and communication with the spiritual world, or with such life from that plane as happens to be keyed to the same rate of vibration as that to which we have attained.
80. There are two principal reasons why all spirit­ual communications are fragmentary, or in pieces. The one reason is, that the communicating spirit-life has difficulty in repressing or slowing down its thoughts sufficiently for us to record them ; and the other reason is, that the recording spirit-life has difficulty in main­taining the intense mental activity necessary to the re­cording of such communications.
81. While the spirit-life depends largely upon the physical brain to receive and to transmit impressions for it, yet this life has the ability to receive and to trans­mit impressions and knowledge independent of the phy­sical brain. When the spirit-life is especially highly de­veloped, its ability to receive and to transmit impres­sions and knowledge independent of the physical brain, reaches a point that is truly remarkable, and far be­yond the ability of any of our physical organs.

The spirit-life can, and does, receive impressions and knowledge that are keyed to a higher rate of vibration than that of which the physical intellect is capable. It can, and does, mount far above the physical intellect, in its ability to grasp and to translate rapidly vibrating spiritual impressions, communications and knowledge.

It is in the higher rates of vibration per second that the spirit-life is especially apt, and able to transcend that of the physical intellect.

The ability of the spirit-life to receive and to trans­late rapidly vibrating spiritual impressions and know­ledge is limited only to the height that it has attained in its development, and in any case transcends that of the physical mind many times.

82. The human intellect is capable of receiving communications from the first spiritual zone only. All spiritual communications from the higher spiritual zones must be received by the spirit-life direct, and be trans­mitted by it to the intellect.

Spirit-lives that are highly developed may receive direct spiritual communications coming from the second and third spiritual zones, but from beyond the third zone they can not. They must depend for further in­formation upon relayed messages; that is, upon mes­sages that have been received by at least one or more spiritual entities while enroute, and have been re-trans­mitted by these entities until they have come into vibra­tory harmony with some human receiving station, or life.

83. Spiritual communications arriving from the higher spiritual zones reach us clairaudiently. Those from the lower spiritual zones reach us clairvoyantly. In other words, communications coming from the high­er spiritual zones reach us as though spoken to us, and those from the lower zones reach us as symbols and pictures, which are made manifest to us through the spiritual sense of sight.
84. There are many things that are inexpress­ible. Especially is this true when that which we wish to express is beyond the experience of living men. In the spiritual world man has not passed beyond the first spiritual zone, or that zone in which he has frequently been cast by death, and knows not what is beyond.

He who is able to get into rapport and communica­tion with the second spiritual zone, of the spiritual world, is confronted with many things that he does not understand, that have not entered into any of the ex­periences of his former lives, and therefore are inex­pressible.

Communication with the second and higher spiritual zones is not all that is necessary. We must be able to grasp, to understand, to translate and to express in human language, that which an attempt is being made to communicate to us. In this we can not succeed en­tirely at first; and only after prolonged efforts and re­peated failures, can we succeed at all.

In order that we may get in communication with the second and higher spiritual zones, it is necessary that we have completed our spiritual development in human form, and are in vibratory rapport with the second and higher spiritual zones.

Having passed to physical completion, and entered into rapport and communication with the second and higher spiritual zones, we find ourselves in a world of which we know nothing—a world that is governed by many laws which are new to us.

The laws of the second and higher spiritual zones, however, are not all new, because some of these laws are but the continuation of laws which we have known on this earth plane; and it is because of these laws which we have known that we are able to eventually understand.

Having grasped a limited knowledge of the second and higher spiritual zones through the laws of which we know, we proceed to study these laws in connection with the other laws of which we know nothing, and succeed in grasping an idea of them. In this way wie advance slowly but surely upward, and eventually arrive at an ability to understand, and to express, and even to con­vey to those who as yet know nothing, some faint though doubtless imperfect idea of the second and higher spirit­ual zones.

85. The senses of those of the spiritual world have a wide and ever widening range of perception; a sense of perception that includes the physical, coars­er, and therefore slowly vibrating materials of the low­er worlds, as well as those of the higher and spiritual worlds from which they are apart. But this sense of perception does not exceed that of the height to which the spirit-life has attained in its spiritual development, and is therefore limited on the upward rather than on the downward scale.

While a disembodied spirit-life sees us as a spirit, yet it is also conscious of the coarser and therefore phys­ical body, and is not deceived as to which world of life we belong, or as to the world in which we are for the moment to be found.

The spirit-lives of the spiritual worlds are able to get in touch with the physical world, and to receive from the physical world such information as they may desire, yet their interests are no longer of the physical world, and what interests they may have had grow less as they evolve higher and higher in the scale of spiritual de­velopment, and advance further and further into the realms of the spiritual worlds.

86. We seldom receive messages from spirit- lives that departed this earth life a hundred or more years ago, because all such spirit-lives have either again returned to earth to complete their evolution, or have attained to a point in the spiritual world from which they are not likely to communicate with us.
87. Some spirit-lives of the spiritual world may desire to establish their identity, and to prove to some of their earth friends that they still exist. But most spirit-lives have no such desire, and never seek to com­municate with us unless they have something of import­ance to say to us.

Most spirit-lives of the spiritual universe, and es­pecially those that have attained to a high point in their spiritual development, do not deal in trivials, nor descend to earth to convey to us the information that two and two equal four. Rather, they are interested only in the vital things of life, and convey to us only such information and knowledge as is, in some way, important to us, or to the world.

Most highly developed spirit-lives of the spiritual universe prefer to convey their communications direct to the person most interested. And most often they do this without disclosing their identity, or revealing the fact that the information conveyed is of a super-phys­ical origin.

We often think that we have made a wonderful dis­covery, or conceived a remarkable truth, when the dis­covery we have made, or the truth that we have con­ceived, has been conveyed to us by, and is the property of, some highly developed spirit-life of the spiritual uni­verse.

88. All things come to us by a slow awakening; by a transcending of ourselves, an unfolding, a coming out of ourselves into a knowledge of ourselves and life. And if we suddenly become conscious of some truth, it is not that the truth has come to us suddenly, but that we have suddenly become aware of its presence.

Many truths that are plainly visible within the hori­zon of our present spiritual development are still un­observed by us, and any of these truths may suddenly be discovered by us, or revealed to us by the invisible and spiritual life with which we are surrounded.

89. We are all musical instruments keyed to re­ceive certain vibrations, ranging from the animal phys­ical to the super-spiritual. And these vibrations, to which we are attuned, convey to us information and knowledge that is denied to those who are not keyed to our rate of vibration, or who, in other words, are differently developed.

Much of that which we assume we know we must accept on faith, or else wait for that knowledge until we have evolved sufficiently to include that knowledge within the range of our vibratory perception.

There are those among us who are in tune with the spiritual; that is, who have developed sufficiently to have attained to spiritual knowledge and perception. And we must accept what these individuals have to say to us as true, or else we must remain in ignorance until we have attained to the same rate of vibratory percep­tion to which they have attained.

Each man who with sincerity reports anything to us deserves to be believed; but only those who have at­tained the highest possible points in spiritual develop­ment are in position to convey to us anything like an accurate knowledge of things spiritual.

90. Spirit-lives of the first spiritual zone possess comparatively little spiritual information and knowledge that is remarkable. This regarding the first spiritual zone is also true to a less degree of the second and third spiritual zones. Yet, when we come into communica­tion with the second spiritual zone, we suddenly sit up and take notice, because some of the messages that come to us from this zone are remarkable, and contain in­formation that is of vital importance to the human race.

It is not from¹ the living that we learn the secrets of life, but from the dead; from those who have passed over into the spiritual world, and who, having attained to a high point in their spiritual development in this new world, are able to see clearly, and to understand, and to convey some small part of their knowledge to a few highly developed spirit-lives in human form who have especially sensitive intellects.

91. The spiritual is merely a continuation of the natural beyond the point where we have a sufficient acquaintance with it to fully understand. It is merely the natural after the natural has reached a vibratory re­finement and development beyond that of the human and the visible.
92. Spirit-lives of the first zone possess but a very imperfect and indefinite memory of their former selves. Yet this memory improves and becomes more perfect as they evolve and attain to the higher spiritual zones.
93. We are able to sense or to feel the presence and influence of those who are keyed to the same rate of vibration as ourselves and to sense and feel their presence and influence on that plane of life on which they are in tune with us; be this the physical, the men­tal, or the spiritual plane.
94. All life, when it leaves its physical material abode at death, whether it be of the mineral, the vege­table, or the animal kingdom, enters into the first spirit­ual zone, there to await its reincarnation in some other physical material form, in accordance with the laws of nature.

The first spiritual zone is so nearly earth-like in ap­pearance, due to the presence of all kinds of disembodied life, that some spirit-lives are not at first conscious of the fact that they have passed over into a new world of life.

In the first spiritual zone there is mineral life as natural as that of the mineral in the physical material world, and vegetable life, and’ the life of all the differ­ent animals, including that of man.

The first spiritual zone is largely a receiving zone for earth bound life, though there is much life here that has attained to a sufficient vitality, strength and spiritual development to proceed upward toward and into the second spiritual zone.

95. There are spirit-lives in the fijrst (Spiritual zone that have a morbid desire and curiosity to wit­ness human sorrow, suffering, and even tragedy and death; and these diseased spirit-lives are often found in homes of sorrow and tragedy, and in homes toward which these evils are approaching.

I have on a number of occasions observed one or more of these spirit-lives in homes of sorrow, and have on a number of other occasions been able even to for- see the approach of a tragedy within a home by having observed the presence of one or more of these spirit- lives. Yet I do not fully understand these lives. How­ever, I know that they are earth bound spirits of a very low order, who in their former life committed some pe­culiarly atrocious crime, or caused great human suffer­ing to some one, and who therefore have a morbid curi­osity to study the things that caused their downfall, and delayed them in their spiritual development.

These sorrow loving or morbidly curious spirit-lives of the first spiritual zone, or rather those that I have had an occasion to observe, were quiet, silent, unob­trusive, dark and brooding spiritual entities, clothed in raiment of the darker shades, resembling black and brown intermingled.

96. The spirit-lives of the first spiritual zone are able to foresee events that are approaching us, and can on occasions convey to us some inkling of their approach. But these spirit-lives have no power to prevent the happening of that which is to be.

However, there are some exceptions to this rule. Much depends upon whether that which is to happen to us is the result of the violation of some of nature’s laws, or whether the danger that is approaching is com­ing from a source that is outside us and within the realm of the merely chance happenings of life.

In the latter case we may be saved, if we receive the warning in time, and act upon it.

97. There is the division of sex in the spiritual world, and among the spiritual creatures who have come up from this earthland, and from the other physical ma­terial worlds that dot the surface of the spiritual uni­verse. And this division of sex is of a positive and negative nature, like electricity, and has to do with the generating of vitality, light, heat, and various other things in connection with the life of a spirit-life and body.

The operation of this law of sex, which brings two spirit-lives together, as positive and negative vital forces in life, produces that condition known on this earthland as love, or sex affinity, with the exception that in the spiritual universe this love, or sex affinity, is free from the desire for personal touch, from passion, lust, and all the other things that tend to mar love on this earth­land of ours.

The selection and union, in the spiritual world, of positive and negative spirit-lives, through the opera­tion of sex affinity or love, is brought about in part by the law of vibratory correspondence, which declares that only elements or lives attuned to the same number of vibrations per second can unite and become as one.

In the spiritual world, and throughout the spiritual universe, as well as here in this earthland, there are sex, and sex affinity, and love between different spirit-lives, and marriage, and all that goes to make up a perfect union and happiness, except that which must yet be attained through a higher state of spiritual develop­ment, and a transportation to higher spiritual zones.

98. The approach to the spiritual world is closely guarded, extremely so, as I have recently discovered, and when you are not in rapport with the higher spirit­ual entities you are in extreme danger of coming in con­tact with spirit-lives of a much lower order, some of which have all the appearance of being demented.

I have recently, while in the midst of receiving beau­tiful thought impressions and information from the spiritual world, come suddenly in contact With malicious and evil influences and spirit-lives, and have been greatly frightened, and forced to draw back with all the caution of one who momentarily expects an attack. And I would warn you, one and all, of the dangers of approaching the spiritual world—even if you are able to do so—until you have made long and special prep­aration; for there is danger here of a nature which you do not understand, and of which I am not able as yet to fully inform you.

99. There are no secrets in the spiritual world, for in the spiritual world all things are more nearly transparent; and thoughts, feelings, emotions and de­sires have form and shape and color, and are perceiv­able by the spirit-life of the different spiritual zones.

In fact there are no secrets in this earth life of ours, except only in so far as we are too stupid to perceive them, or to grasp and understand them.

To a superior intellect there are no secrets in the physical material world; and to a spirit-life that has attained to a high state of spiritual development on the other side of life, all our secrets are revealed.

100. Spirit-lives are sensitive to thought for­mations, and respond instinctively to such thought de­sires as reach their sphere or zone of life. The spirit- lives of the first spiritual zone are sufficiently near to the physical material world—in their vibratory corres­pondence—that they are influenced by every thought that is thought of them, or about them.

When we persistently cling to our departed loved ones in our thought, and will not let them go, we tend to retard them in their spiritual development, and to hold them near to us. By so doing we do them harm, and produce a condition that is temporarily fatal, either to their development, or to our physical material exist­ence.

When we retard the development of spirit-lives that are in the first spiritual zone by persistently holding them near to us through our thought, we produce a condition that tends to unhappiness, and that finally re­sults either in their breaking this tie that binds them, or in their pulling us over to their side of life.

101. All material, be it spiritual or physical, is transparent to spiritual vision. That is, it can be seen through.

Each particle of physical material is sufficiently sep­arated from each and every other particle of physical material that, to the perception of those spirit-lives that have attained to the other side, physical material as a solid does not exist, but is seen as a cluster or number of physical material particles or atoms, that are held more or less closely together by the law of affinity, and the law of vibratory activity. And between each of these different particles of physical material there exists a space that is sufficiently large for a spirit-life to see, or to pass through.

102. The human body is composed largely of water and gases—of substances of which the different particles are widely separated; and so the human body, and all physical bodies that contain life, appear to the spiritual perception much as a phantom appears to us. That is, vaguely, indefinitely, not so clearly as most physical material substances appear.
103. There are zones in the physical human world as well as in the spiritual world, and each of these zones is set off from the others by boundary lines that are in­ The boundary lines of each of these physical human zones are composed of human experience, know* ledge, perception, grasp; spiritual, physical and mental development; and many other things besides.

Some humian spirit-lives spend all of one lifetime within the boundaries of one of these physical human zones, while other spirit-lives traverse in one lifetime all of the physical human zones, and arrive at death at a point in their development from which it will not be necessary for them to return again in human form to the physical material world.

Each species of life represents a zone, and each zone is divided into a number of other zones, representing the different stages of development of the life of that species.

104. Sounds are closely related to the physical material, and do not exist, in the sense in which we know sounds, in the more rarefied atmospheres of the spiritual worlds above that of the first spiritual zone.

All spiritual zones above the first are filled with an eternal silence, in a physical sense. Yet in these zones there are sounds, and continuous melodies, and the sweet­est music, but not attuned to the physical ear, nor to the ear that has not attained to the spiritual refinement of the sphere in which the sounds exist.

In fact, there are sounds and melodies in the physical material worlds that are not attuned to the physical ear, and are heard only by the spirit-lives of the first spirit­ual zone, and occasionally by some one in human form who spiritually is highly developed.

All nature is attuned to music, and each separate thing in nature has its own melody which it prefers to render.

Silence is merely sound that has reached a spiritual refinement; sound that is not heard except by a life of the same vibratory refinement as that of the sound that is heard through the silence—through that which to all others is silence.

105. The physical body that contains our spirit body, and our spirit-life, and all the elements from which other physical bodies are produced, is composed largely of air, water and gases, intermingled and woven to­gether by an intelligence that is concealed in nature, and that is working through the electro-magnetic and vito- chemical life elements within us. However the spirit- life, which is us, also plays its part in the modeling and the fashioning of the physical body that is to contain it, and also those physical bodies that are to contain other spirit-lives that are journeying toward our earthland.

We have much to do With preparing the physical houses for the spirit-lives that are coming toward us; but these spirit-lives, through a law in nature, choose the avenue through which each shall enter the physical world.

We assume that we create the life that is given birth through us, but that life was created a hundred thous­and centuries or more back, and has been evolving to­ward completion through all these years, even as we are evolving toward completion.

The spirit-life that enters the physical world through a physical body of our creation does so through the law of attraction and selection, and of vibratory correspon­dence, and therefore must of necessity be in some way like us.

We do not give life, but we prepare the way for the life that is evolving toward us, and build the houses in which this life shall enter, and for a few brief years dwell.

106. Intense activity upon every plane of life, and especially on the spiritual plane, tends to harmony, and produces a state of rest, or rather a state of ease that greatly resembles rest, and that is very soothing and elevating.
107. No spirit-life that is in human form can enter the second and higher spiritual zones, yet actual scenes from within these zones are sometimes flashed to us in moments of illumination.

In such moments we sometimes catch glimpses of landscapes, plants, flowers, rivers, lakes and various other things that are of the second and higher spiritual zones.

The flowers of the second spiritual zone are beautiful, and in some respects resemble those of the earth plane, from which they may have come through having attain­ed their physical completion.

I know not from whence these flowers of the second spiritual zone have come, but I know that the few varie­ties which it has been my pleasure to observe are very beautiful, with a delicate, spirit-like beauty that is not in form, nor shape, nor color, and that can not be des­cribed in words.

Unless the spiritual world has been illuminated for you, and you have caught a few glimpses of its land­scapes, flowers, foliage and other life thereon, it is use­less for me to continue; for I can bring to you no des­cription that you will understand, or that will convey to you any impression whatever.

The flowers of the second spiritual zone do not grow in such profusion that they get in the way, and must be stepped upon. Rather, flowers are more rare in the sec­ond spiritual zone than here, and seem to have been planted and cared for with more love and devotion than is usually bestowed upon flowers, at least upon this earth plane of ours.

Among the flowers of the second spiritual zone there are some in shades and colors that are entirely unknown to me, some in shades and colors that I have never ob­served before, and know do not exist in the physical material world.

108. That which the intellect perceives in the physical world as law reveals itself to the spiritual ear as harmony, melody; and the spirit-life is guided toward the truth of things spiritual by keeping in tune with the harmonies of the spheres, or in other words, with such musical sounds as register on the spiritual ear.

We are guided along the way by melodies that grow sweeter and more sublime the nearer we approach their source—the higher spiritual planes of life.

109. The completion of each individual life on each and every plane of life, through a refining, an ele­vating, and a making more vital and perfect, is the aim and the goal of all the activities of nature.
110. The physical material universe is of no great importance in the scheme of things. It is not necessary to life, but only to the maintainance of a certain kind of life.

This universe could be blotted out of existence today and nothing would be lost. Not an atom of the invisible elements of which the physical material universe is com­posed would be in any way harmed or destroyed; and all could be reassembled, reformed, recreated, or made new. Such a vast change has come to pass many times in the history of the physical material universe.

If the physical material world, of which we know, were to be destroyed today, and to be reformed and made new, perhaps the world that would replace it, or be made out of it, would be a much superior world to the one of which we know.

Nothing would be required in this reformation ex­cept a little time—a few thousand centuries; which, compared to all eternity, is not so long as one second of our time compared to the length of any one of our physical lives.

111. The world in which we live is still at the be­ginning of its history, though it is many millions of years older than most of us have any idea, or suspect.

Man appeared on this planet only yesterday, and to­morrow man will have disappeared, for the successor of this very remarkable species is on its way.

Some there are who think that in man physical na­ture has reached her highest point, and that nothing superior to man is to be expected, or is possible. But in this, the successor to the human species being on its way, they are mistaken.

112. Everything that belongs to the spiritual world, and that contains supernatural beauty, lies con­cealed behind the invisible. And the invisible is the spiritual.
113. The spiritual world coexists with the physi­cal world, and the universe. It is within, and around, and about, and intermingled with, all physical matter.
114. The spiritual world is a world that is seeth­ing and teeming with life and activity. Intense activity is going on there, as well as here, though the activity of the spiritual world is directed more toward the beau­tiful, and less toward that which we call the practical, than is the activity of this earthland.

To one who has observed this ceaseless activity of the spiritual world, the unpracticality of the practical becomes more and more apparent, and he is forced to the conclusion that the real business of life is just to live; to get out of each successive life the most pos­sible good—that is, beauty and development.

115. The spiritual world is a world of refined matter that is not sufficiently condensed or compact to be seen with the physical eye. It is a world of life that is vibrating at a rate of vibration per second that is be­yond that which the physical eye can register. Because this is so, many men in their ignorance assume that the spiritual world does not exist; that it is all a delusion, and that nothing is real that does not happen to fall within the narrow range of their limited faculities, or senses.
116. The invisible and spiritual world, of which I speak, is that world of space that encircles all the worlds we know, and many that we have not yet discov­ered. And so vast is the distance across this invisible world that our world appears as a mere speck upon its surface. Viewed from the distance of less than a thousandth part of the circumference of this invisible world, many of our worlds disappear entirely. Yet this invisible spirit world, of which we know, is but one of an innumerable number of such worlds, through which we shall pass on our road to perfection.

Some there are who are blind, and who therefore do not see this spiritual world. And some that see and are afraid, lest this world do them harm. Others wel­come with open arms this invisible world and all the invisible life of the universe, and strive to learn from each of these worlds, and from each life, how best to live—how best to attain their spiritual development the most rapidly, and thereby a place in the spiritual world.

The spiritual world is a world that contains on its surface a number of egg-shaped hatcheries, called “earths, or stare,” in which life is being generated, evolved and made ready to live.

117. If you would visit the spiritual world, you must do so through the subsconcious life, which is the life of the spirit. You must go from within out. That is, you must leave your physical body behind and act­ually enter the spiritual world, as one who has a right to enter. You may be able to do this, and you may not. All depends upon your knowledge of things occult, and upon the point to which you have attained in your spirit­ual development.

The world of the spirit and the world of the physical body intermingle and interpenetrate each other in what is known as the first spiritual zone; and you should be able, while still living in a physical body, to withdraw from this body for brief periods of time and enter into the first spiritual zone.

118. Just as the spirit-life in the early stages of its development in the physical world is forced to rapid­ly change its physical material abode and pass rapidly through many births and deaths, so does the spirit-life, upon its entrance into the spiritual world, find that it must pass rapidly through many changes before it can be certain that it will not have to return to earth to complete its development, or to secure a little more spiritual vitality.

The spirit-life’s ability to remain in the spiritual world depends entirely upon its vitality; depends entire­ly upon whether it can be depended upon to continue its journey without the protection of a physical body and a physically constructed intellect.

I might add in this connection, that mentality is in some mysterious way closely connected with the develop­ment of the inner or spirit-life. And the more we cul­tivate and strengthen ourselves in this life, on the side of our intellect, the more and better equipped we are for the struggle that awaits us on the other side.

The life is in the mentality. It is in the uniting and the blending of the spiritual and the physical mentality that we approach most near to the spiritual world. And those spirits on the other side who attained to a high state of both spiritual and mental development while here, are the best equipped for their journey over there.

119. All life is spirit. Spirit-life is the only kind of life there is in the universe, except the life of the different physical material forms or bodies that contain spirit-life. And these physical material forms or bodies have no life, except when they are in contact with spirit- life as a life giving or generating force.

All life is spirit. And the life that is in man is a child life; is a life that is still in the infant or childhood period of its development. Though this life that is in man has been in course of evolution from the remotest period of time, yet it has only obtained in the most highly developed—in those who are about to depart this life to return in physical form no more—a state of development that corresponds to the physical life of a child of seven to eleven years of age.

There are no matured spirit-lives in human form; no spirits that have attained to maturity either in this world nor in the first spiritual zone.

The minute that a spirit-life has reached a spiritual development where a physically constructed body and intellect are no longer necessary to its development, it is transferred to the spiritual world.

120. Do not imagine that you live in the phys­ical world. You only inhabit this world, and that in an imperfect way.

All your senses fail you. You do not catch the sweetest melodies that are wafted to you on the wings of silence—m’elodies that come to you from each and every separate thing in nature. Nor do you behold the beauties of nature that are about you except imperfectly, and with the eye of the camera, the telescope, the micro­scope, the x-ray and various other mechanical con­trivances that have been suggested to you, and built for you, by those who have followed the suggestions and ad­vice of spiritual entities of the higher spiritual worlds and zones.

If you had the eye of a camera, you might enjoy the beautiful and the various designs of a snowflake or an ice crystal. And if this eye had the power of the x-ray, you might see through many physical material solids, even as these are seen through by the x-ray, and by those spiritual entities who have attained to the spiritual world.

121. Those who have not yet attained to the spiritual plane of life may believe in the spiritual, and in the spiritual world, but they can not possess any exact and personal knowledge of the spiritual, and of the spiritual world, until they have attained to the spirit­ual plane of life.

Exact knowledge of the spiritual world is possessed by but few, and those few are nearly all masters and seers, though some of them are persons who are nearing completion on the spiritual mental plane of life.

The amount of knowledge of things spiritual that we may possess depends upon our development, and does not in any case extend beyond the first and second spiritual zones.

122. Life is an illuminated substance. It is a substance that gives off light. And the more highly de­veloped a life is, the greater is the amount of light that the life gives off, and the more brilliant is this light un­til—in cases of highly developed spirit-lives of the spirit­ual universe—this light reaches a brilliancy that is un­endurable to physical vision, and therefore blinding to those of us who are of this earth plane.

A spirit-life, in all the early stages of its develop­ment is a mere speck of light, round or somewhat oval in shape, and no larger than a pin-point—usually not so large. And this is true even of at least some of the life that has attained to a considerable distance on its road to completion.

123. There is nothing that can be conceived or imagined that does not already exist in the unseen and spiritual world.
124. We arrive in the next life in exactly the same state of mind as that in which we pass over; in a confused state, in a clear state, in a clouded state, in’a de­mented state, or in any other state in which we hap­pen to be at the moment of our departure. However, we soon recover our natural and a healthful state of mind over there, and are once more contented and happy.

An illness may extend beyond the grave for a per­iod upward toward sixty days, but the usual period is about thirty days. In many cases it consists of nothing but a profound sleep.

We are all met at the gateway of this new life and escorted beyond the boundary, and are given such care as is necessary to our recovery.

Blessed are those who suffer no illness nor confu­sion in passing over, but who enter this new world in a perfectly clear and happy state of mind.

125. There are a sufficient number of invisible particles of physical material floating about in any room or locality to make a visible body for any spiritual entity that may take the trouble to gather these particles, and to arrange them according to the desired design that it may wish to produce.

These invisible particles of physical material are often spoken of as dust particles, and they are in suffi­cient quantity everywhere that they may be used by any spiritual entity to make itself manifest to those of us who lack sufficient spiritual perception to behold a spirit­ual entity in its more refined and spiritual material body. However, most spirit-lives that desire to appear to us prefer illuminable gases to dust particles, and so when we lack sufficient development to perceive them in their natural form they most often make use of these gases.

The most natural way for a spiritual entity, phantom, or so called ghost to make itself visible to those of us who are in position to receive spiritual impressions, is by way of the mental world and in thought form; by way of causing us to see, feel or hear them through the stimulating of the right nerve cells within our minds.

There are two kinds of haunts, by the way; those that are on the mental plane and of the physical world, and those that are from the other side of life.

126. All haunts of an evil order make themselves manifest to us through the medium of darkness, be­cause darkness is more in harmony with their rate of spiritual vibration than is light.

Ghosts or haunts that belong to a certain plane of life, or number of vibrations per second, may be seen by animals; especially by those animals that see well at night, because it is by night that ghosts of this particular land are to be seen.

127. The dead can be and are around you just as much in the light as in the dark. However, they are slightly more able to make themselves visible to you through a medium of light that has been reduced to a certain number of vibrations per second.

The number of light vibrations necessary for a spirit-life to make itself visible varies and changes with the growth and development of each individual spirit- life.

The lower in the scale of spiritual development a spirit-life is, the more slowly do the different mole­cules of its spirit body and life vibrate, and the darker must be the medium through which it is the most able to make itself visible.

The highly developed spirit-lives of the spiritual worlds do not need the presence of darkness in which to make themselves visible, but all the lower life of these worlds finds the presence of darkness in some form a necessity.

128. Darkness, in a physical sense, reaches a density and a thickness that is unknown to the spiritual worlds—even unknown in the first spiritual zone—that zone which is known as the dark zone of the spiritual worlds. On the other hand, light in the spiritual world reaches a brilliancy that is inconceivable to physical life, and many times greater than that which the physical eye can register.

As we advance toward the spiritual worlds, we ad­vance toward the light, and away from the dark, and each zone in which we find ourselves is lighter than the zone that preceded it. This state of increasing light continues throughout all the zones of the first spiritual world, or until this light reaches a vibratory activity that is in harmony with the light of each spiritual zone of the second spiritual world.

129. Time in the spiritual world is not measured by years, nor by the rising and setting of suns, but by events, by evolution; by the attaining of some point higher in the scale of spiritual development.

In reality, time in the spiritual world is as if it were not. It has no beginning nor ending, and therefore no accurate record is kept of it. Yet each spirit-life lives as if it had but a few brief hours in which to attain com­pletion; lives a life of intense activity and ceaseless ef­fort.

 

 

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