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the spirit progressed till it reached the fulness of the Godhead bodily. From these spheres were appointed the guardians of the inferior spheres, the messengers of God, ministering spirits, sent to minister for them, who shall receive the inheritance of salvation.
Such is a brief outline of spiritual occult philosophy; it may seem to be inconsistent with the ideas of modern Spiritualism, yet even Spiritualism has not altogether lost sight of the seven spheres and other peculiarities of the ancient astor spiritual faith; and as knowledge is acquired and experience gained, a better understanding of both ancient and modern mysticism will bring them nearer together, and show a consistency and mutual agreement which has never been disturbed only obscured by human ignorance and presumption. But Occultism has a physical aspect which I cannot afford to pass by. Man is a fourfold being:
Four things of man there are: spirit, soul, ghost, flesh; |
When the spirit leaves the body, and is properly prepared for the stellean spheres, it leaves behind all sensual thoughts and memories. These are retained in the mortal remains, and the shade which is no part of the spirit or the tree man or woman, may still counterfeit them, make revelations of the past, in fact reveal more of its sensual history, and prove sensual identity better than the spirit itself could do, seeing it knows only spiritual things. The sciomancy of the past bears the same reality to modern psychometry, that ancient magic does to modern Spiritualism. Thus in haunted houses, in grave-yards and places where deeds of violence have occurred, sensitives see the drama reacted which transpired long ago, the spirit being no accessory thereto.
Even the spirit cannot communicate unless through the interblending of physical and spiritual aural, and only by coming en rapport with physical things can it know anything of them; and thus mediums are as necessary on the other side as this; through which mediums, guardian spirits, we may gain a nearer apprehension of spiritual truths, if we live for them.
Is Spirit Material?
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The Russian Experiments in the Phenomena of Spiritualism abandoned
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