The spirit world is peopled with a vast variety of intelligences, from the highest to the lowest, and it is a Law of Divine Life that every soul will unfold or perfect itself through the agencies of being as best it can.—William E. Channing in Spirit
22 February 2026
What are the laws of the spirit?
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What is the souvenir of the Creator?
What is the souvenir of the Creator?
Divinely implanted in you is the souvenir of the Creator, and your immortal destiny persists and guides you through life’s paths.
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Moderation in asll things?
Moderation in all things!
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Why is conscience important in life?
The dictates of conscience abide with everyone—it is a part of the soul and is immortal.
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What makes up your conscience?
Conscience is a guiding element and is the spirit shining through the material covering, which expresses the cast or mould of the mind.
The origin of conscience cannot be defined any more than that of the spirit—both had their origin and are governed by laws cognisant by the First Great Cause. Perverting its manifestations brings it into disrepute through subjugation to another power.
The motives by which you are governed are fluctuating and transient, but there is a monitor within, presiding with accuracy, and sitting as judge upon every act, defining the position taken long before it is acted upon.
The conscience, when rightly acting and left to decide the course, which ought to be followed is replete with discretion, guiding aright, and if not violated will direct every act, according to the internal workings of the spirit. It glides with perfect power of reconciliation from one emergency to another, tranquillising by the qualities possessed within itself. Propriety and decorum are within its sphere of action. It becomes the highest gift to you, for it is a right mediator and conductor of your ever-varying course in life. It seemed necessary that there should be a guiding element within you as a part of your own being.
Every act should be harmonious with conscience and it will surely entice from wrong when coming in contact with it, as oil is separated from water. Its natural tendency is upward through the ranks of progression—it does not stop for a mediatorial resting place, but is so inclined toward the source whence it was given that of necessity it gravitates to that condition of existence.
It is just as impossible to violate a spiritual law without remorse of conscience, as it is to violate a physical law without pain.
The conscience is ever active and alive to wrongs of whatever character. It is the thinking, reflecting part and acts simultaneously with the mind.
Every touch of the conscience meets its full counterpart in the exalted condition it produces, and shares its renovating effects with the mind, one acting in accordance with the other.
Every act is based upon progress and if the conscience should be violated, it intercepts the spiritual tendency of the immortal part, deadens its growth and keeps it upon a plane no farther in advance than its primal condition.
You have all confidence in its power to complete every design and work out its own salvation if you would let its current pursue a course unmolested and not submit its highest aims to violation and abuse, constantly thwarting and uprooting its hold and claims upon the spiritual direction of the inner life.
In tendering to you salvation that must consist in the susceptibility of the spirit to good and in proportion as its manifestations are kept pure is its salvation becoming complete. There must be a capacity in you for elevation or no saving influences could be brought to bear. The question arises―What may it be that is thus acted upon?
When the mind is brought to a full realisation of wrong, it is no hardship to adopt a proper course and let the tide of life run smooth.
The difference between the mind and conscience is in the superior capabilities of one for intellectual attainment, therefore, it does not comprise the mind wholly, but is its accomplice and one with it in moral pursuits. It is an office of the mind that cannot be separated and which presents the best motive where good can be done.
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Who then is to blame? God or man?
Unknowingly, you walk amid a crowd of angels who are anxiously waiting to impart a thought that may be to your and their advantage.
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Why do we suffer? Is it God's fault?
Unknowingly, you walk amid a crowd of angels who are anxiously waiting to impart a thought that may be to your and their advantage.
Without their assistance—without their guardian care, we would indeed be isolated. They impart strength, giving the magnetic power from the spiritual source, which, interblending with their faculties usually called impressions, aid them in accomplishing designs and objects for the material benefit of the human race.
The material influence remains with you as a protection amid physical surroundings, against accidents—calamities of any character or kind to mortals constantly standing in danger through which many escape not knowing how—always attended with a fright to the individual, which is the electric positive charge imparted to the body by this influence.
Having the guardian guidance of these two opposite powers, you will readily understand why you can assist the one at the time you are being assisted yourself.
If you are crude material, only inclined to the crude material, you cannot be benefitted much by the intellectual influence. It depends upon the organisation of the individual. If the organisation is devoid of sensual passions, not given to excessive use of stimulants or abuse of sexuality, of an even balanced temperament, the intellectual force can work to your benefit and to the benefit of the undeveloped influence.
The mortal then is under the complete control of the undeveloped.
The aura of the individual co-blending with that of the undeveloped becomes material, murky and offensive.
The benefit can come only by being brought in contact with purer magnetism on the material plane and through material assistance.
Never too late to reform.
The evil part of the spiritual nature is material. Thus good and evil lie embedded within the nature of every individual. And it lies within the individual's character, which germ to develop.
This power depends largely upon the matrons of this life.
Mortals should comprehend that they are creators.
No matter what their surroundings may be the spirit in its tenement feels its inability, its incapacity to work out its experiences—feels the regret being unable to act and pursue that course, which it was predestined to pursue before its incarnation.
Who then is to blame—God or man?
If man and woman would study this law, working to benefit each other, they will become as one, the same as God and Nature. Father God the positive force, Mother Nature the negative power. Without Mother Nature, the creative positive could accomplish nothing.
You must remember that all must pass through changes—minerals existing many million years before vegetation, vegetation existing millions of years before animals, man existed not so many years after the development of animal life.—B. H. in Spirit
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What is the correct way to end a prayer?
Oh—the depth and richness of the fullness of God. How unspeakable are His judgments and His ways past finding out. For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things, to Whom be glory forever.Amen
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How do you live your being in love?
The process of creating a happier life begins with a fundamental choice―a choice to live your being in love.
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What are the fundamental qualities of spirit?
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What is the quote about putting your mind to it?
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What is the meaning of climax in the Bible?
Not my will, but Thine be done in me, and through me, now and always. Amen
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Does eternity have a beginning or an end?
Eternity is filled with forms of all kinds, and eternity has no beginning or ending, bounds or limits.
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How do spiritual communications arrive?
Most spiritual communications that reach you arrive from earthbound spirits and spirits of the first spiritual zone.
The reason that spiritual knowledge, arriving from the first spiritual zone is unsatisfactory, and tells you 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 you anything of the spiritual world.
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 spirits that are still in human form.
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What is the mental activity necessary for spiritual communications?
There are two principal reasons why all spiritual communications are fragmentary or in pieces.
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Why do most persons know so little 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.
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What is the greatest force to be desired?
All virtue has strength for its foundation.
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Is there one God or many gods?
This is the statement, which I have to make—
Do what you like with that statement, dear world, for truth is more vital than anybody’s dream, even yours or mine.
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Can you recall any one act absolutely devoid of self?
Think of your own lives. Can you recall any one act absolutely devoid of self? Even in the next world, it is almost impossible of attainment.
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Why can we say that the whole world is a family?
The world is all one family.
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What did Jesus say about mysteries?
The time will come when mystery will no longer be mystery, and spirit will no longer be a term applied to one world more than another, for it will be known that all is spirit in truth, and that the world called the material world is as much a spiritual world, as any other, only its development is at a different place in evolution from those beyond the veil.—A Friend of the Cause
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Is the word of God the law of God?
The Lord is the Law, and God the Soul of man.
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What is the principle of polarity?
Male and female, positive and negative, involution and evolution—every existing law has its counterpart—heaven and earth, spirit and matter, and so forth.
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All things translate to spiritual life?
It is not we alone who are translated to spiritual life, but all the things, which surround us on earth.
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What is the ether theory of space?
Matter, spirit and germinal points fill all space, and all space is ether.
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How to cleanse myself from my mortal sins in my soul?
Don't call other men sinners until you cleanse your own soul.
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Is anything lost?
Nothing is lost—nothing can be lost, but it has gone somewhere, it is going somewhere every day.—Madam in Spirit
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How does gratitude affect your heart?
Gratitude will cause the tear to flow and the heart to palpitate sooner than the other emotions.—The Sage
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How does justice relate to love?
Eternal justice is the correlative of eternal love.
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Does the soul continue to exist after death?
No fabled dreamy heaven of eternal inactivity awaits us, but a sphere of progressive usefulness and growth to higher perfection.
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How do I identify my spiritual gift?
Rich spiritual gifts come to the spiritual soul.
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Is there finality?
There is no finality—none, none, none!
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What is the most essential need?
The most essential need is to understand God.
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What is the very best work you can do on earth?
The very best work you can do on earth is to permit each little child to work out its own destiny.
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What is the whole law?
Love God above all things, and your neighbour as yourself, contains the whole law.
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What contains the whole law?
Love God above all things, and your neighbour as yourself, contains the whole law.
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How can you live a healthy and fulfilled life?
And this applies not only to the fragment of existence, which we call life, but to the totality of being.
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What is wise counsel in the Bible?
Moderation in all things!
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How to be moderate in all things?
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What is a famous quote about moderation?
Moderation in all things!
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How does God reveal himself through revelation?
God's revelation is correlative with our spiritual development and He is revealed in proportion to our capacity.
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How then can God be afar off?
Remember that nothing is yours unless you take and possess. You have never known true prayer to fail. Do not cast your care upon an outside God and wait for results. God being within you, the answer is not distant from the desire. The spirit within is one with God and Christ—
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What takes place when you speak from the God-centre of your being?
In the strength of your calm assurance, false vibrations are withered entirely. There is neither darkness, nor depth where God is not, and you bring the troubled spirit into touch with God instantly.
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How do you send forth this God-energy?
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Have you ever known true prayer to fail?
Prayer is the breathing of the breath of life. It is the strongest spiritual element in all worlds.
How do you send forth this God-energy?
Remember, Jesus spoke to the maid alone when He entered the room, saying, Talitha cumi, and you, too, must be definite, clear, positive.
What takes place when you speak from the God-centre of your being?
You cannot estimate the value of true prayer.
Your faith in God is your life and power. With true prayer, you ask what you will—
How then can God be afar off?
Live in the thought of love toward all—your life will become one unceasing prayer, a constant going forth of God.
Have done with shadow and illusion—
You always are, you always will be. Try to realise this now. Rest from your anxieties and live in the eternal. The blessing of God is with you always and forever.
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What is the true religion of Christ?
He stands, as it were, in the centre of this great spiritual revolution.
Christ's mediumistic power consisted of twelve definite forms. His prophetic words are now being fulfilled—the Son of man will come again in the clouds and with more power. This is the fulfilment of those words—Verily he is in the midst of us all.
Legions of angels or spirits, one and the same, are constantly going back and forth from this earth to work out the fulfilment of his prophetic words.
Christ the reformer, since his entrance into spirit life, nearing the nineteenth century, has worked more faithfully, and with more efficiency by far than the preceding reformers, and why?
Salvation, not consisting in the simple faith in Christ without works, but in faith with works.
He was a martyr. He resigned himself to every fate, suffered pain and deprivation, for the sake of truth. Prayed to get in more thorough rapport with his guides and controlling influences, fasted forty days in the wilderness to set an example by purifying his body for spiritual communion—He gained strength in spirit by abstaining from material pleasures, the outgrowth of which has become firmer and stronger up to the present day. He died for the truth.
The great philosophers, the remotest reformers, having concentrated their forces are drawn towards the centre where Christ the reformer stands.
Christ the reformer is the Tree of Life. Look at the millions who are imploring him daily! See the millions of mortals invoking Allah, Omah, Jehovah, and a host of other gods!
Buddha accomplished greater works, but owing to the ignorance and arrogance of other sects and nations, his power was interfered with and greatly impaired.
Those persons who are individualised powers, standing where Christ stood, working to establish the same purposes in effect have added additional branches to the trunk.
Thoughts and expressions, influences of love and truth, are thrown off, sent hither and thither through space to the various inhabitants of earth. The more impressive mortals are sensitive to this influence.
This great reformatory principle will develop the true spiritual nature of man and impart the identical conditions necessary for his development, drawing him nearer toward the Infinite Creator whom they resemble in spirit.
The unfoldment or development of the sixth sense, which is purely spiritual and interblends with the higher attributes of nature, gives strength and individuality to the conceptions of the spirit and causes it to grow more potent in purity.
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Where do you find the truth?
The truth is always found in life itself.
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What is only an episode in your life?
Your earthly career is only an episode in your life, and in His clear vision, He knows that free will is one of His noblest gifts. It is godlike in itself. If you could understand this, you would see that nothing in your power can interfere with this God-given gift.
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What are the golden gems of mysticism?
Golden in their wisdom and luminous with love, the treasured thoughts grouped herein have been to me as life itself. Meditate on them in gratitude, and they shall give you Light in the hour of darkness, Courage in defeat, Faith in time of trial, Patience in adversity, Love when beset by hate, Wisdom in the midst of error and the Key to find the Master whom you seek.
Where your secret thought is, there are you.
—F.K. Davis
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What is unseen except in its outcome?
So, in our world, we have the psychic life in all stages—that life, which may be said to be outward and visible to our psychic senses. We have, also, the spirit life, unseen except in its outcome, as it manifests itself through the psychic.
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