14 June 2026
How can we be spiritually blind?
Do you forget that it is the spirit and not the body that is to live forever?
Do you forget that you brought nothing into this world with you and that you can take nothing earthly away?
How can you be so blind to these things?
How can you wrap yourselves up in careless ease and indifference about a future state when you know that it will be forever and forever, that this life is only a short probation for that and here you must make those preparations that may decide the destiny of your souls for ages?
We do not hold to the doctrine that punishment is eternal, we know it is not. But there are punishments in a future state quite sufficiently severe to make you earnest to avoid them if you rightly understood these things.
What an awakening is yours when the portals of the grave are passed and you enter that unknown spirit world!
There you will find a purgatory indeed from which no priest or prayer can save you—
A purgatory from which you might have escaped had you only known how to act on this earthly plane.
Had your spiritual teachers taught you to work instead of pray, to cultivate the higher nature within you, the God-principle implanted in every breast—had they taught you to control yourselves, to love and help your fellow (wo)man, irrespective of degree or station, rather seeking out the debased and vile as objects of your care, and doing to everyone as you would be done by, how different your awakening would be in your spirit home!
But the (wo)man who has done his work while on the earth, cultivating the interior principle, while not neglecting the body, who has fed his spirit with deeds of kindness and mercy, following in the footsteps and example of Jesus, self-denying, patient, charitable, and full of love for his fellow (wo)man, not merely relieving his bodily wants, but also nourishing his soul with heavenly manna—
He will find when he enters on his new state of existence what a beautiful spirit body he has prepared for himself, what crowds are waiting to welcome him and to see him clothed in it! All the poor afflicted ones that he may have relieved or soothed on their dying beds will be there—
All the bright spirits who have aided and strengthened him in his daily walk will be there—these and many others that he never knew, but who have watched his course approvingly will welcome and conduct him to the bright and glorious home—the mansion he has prepared for himself in the Heavens!
No priest, no prayer can save you from your own evil deeds—in your own hands is the remedy.
Cultivate your higher nature. Elevate your soul, that portion of God's nature implanted in you, and do deeds worthy of them.
Let truth and love reign in your heart and universal benevolence guide your actions to your fellow creatures.
If such principles obtain, if this brotherhood of feeling and acting be established, your soul and spirit will grow together in beautiful proportions, and the change called death will be looked upon as merely an opening to a better life instead of being regarded as a thing of dread and horror.
—L. D. in Spirit
Whose voice is Spirit?
Oh, friends of earth, if you can but be made to realise that you are never forgotten, never alone—we are ever trying to help you onward in your daily life, trying so hard to point out to you the right road to take through your journey—we are light, we are hope, we are truth, great and strong.
So meet us and greet us to help Life's journey on,Think bravely, think truly of all that is dear—Let not idle tongues wage war, neither fearWith unkindly whisperings into thine ear,But list for the voice of some Spirit friendWho comes bringing comfort unto the end—Which in truth means the beginningOf all that is noble and worthy of lifeEternal, everlasting, ever happy and bright.—Clifford in Spirit
Does a soul have a right to lay burdens on any other?
No soul has a right, consciously or unconsciously, to lay burdens on any other.
It may be that this other is just struggling to lift its head out of the dark pool of ignorance, straining every nerve to drag its heavy body up into the light—it quivers with the strain of effort. At this point, a careless push, however light, may plunge it backward whence it came, retarding its evolution for years, perhaps for ages.
We are brothers all, and the soul's development is a result of what the strong do for the weak.
How do you save your soul?
The steady stream of souls departing from earth filled with hatred, malice, cruelty, distress, fear and despair—
Advancement while in this condition is impossible.
Others are so filled with revenge and hate that nothing can be seen through their immortal eyes, but dark shadows and fiendish thoughts. Others come to the astral with some religion imprinted upon their soul minds, and they pass on to the astral with confidence in a heaven—a heaven of angels with wings and golden harps and singing everywhere.
Such thoughts are not made manifest in the astral because this is a plane of progression—a plane of steady work, not play.
And so they dwell in semi-darkness, their only light a faint gleam of their delusion. Then there are others who come with a thought of uncertainty, doubt and wonder. Others come with their bodies, as well as their minds, shattered wrecks, their hope gone, fearing everlasting death, fire and brimstone.
There are those of no creed or religious beliefs, other than trust in God.
The man who is fearless, who does his duty, who is not filled with revenge, but with calm submission, who passes over knowing there is a beyond, and wanting to find out what it is comes open and ready to receive.
He is receptive and advancement is quickly gained.
Is high alcohol tolerance genetic?
When the mind feels intense fear, it brings the molecules of the body en rapport with it, and weakness and timidity are the result.
The life that surrounds your spirit is not one individual life, but trillions of individual lives, which influence you in your daily walks and which compose your physical organism!
Man becomes a toper because those millions of infinitesimals prompt him to.
They have been nursed perhaps by liquor, hence require it as an absolute necessity. The mind may fight against it, but they triumph—they rule with an iron hand.
There is the little child in the womb.
The molecules of its system are derived from the mother—the mother is saturated with whisky, and the result is all of its numberless living entities are natural born inebriates, and they eventually drive the mind to indulge them.
—Lucretus in Spirit
What is the meaning of perfect harmony?
All is perfect harmony in the grand reflex of its perfect grandeur.
What did God make the peak of His creation?
In The Path of the Masters, Julian Johnson says it really well―
In the meantime, while you sojourn in this dark region of matter, you have to deal with the negative power. With him, you must contend in your struggles here, while it is your duty to escape.
The resulting struggle purges you and makes you strong and fits you for your homeward journey.
This everlasting fight, this struggle in a welter of pain and blood and heart cries is designed by the Supreme Father to purge you and make you clean, ready for your homeward ascent.
Never become discouraged.
All of this is designed by the Father for your benefit. It is much as if you enter a gymnasium to take exercise. If you meet these difficulties in the right spirit, you will greatly profit by them.
The idea of pain and struggle is to purge you and inspire in you a longing to rise above the regions of pain and shadow.
The fundamental qualities of spirit are wisdom, power and love. The larger the measure of these three you possesses, the higher does your soul rank in the grand hierarchy. You, however, have the privilege when initiated by a Perfect Master to rise above all those planes and reach Home.
Hence, you are rightly regarded as the top of creation.
Why does God test his children?
Whatever may happen in your life, either in a physical way or those spiritual tests, which are very hard to grapple with, take it to Christ and leave it there. Be certain that the Father, being our Father, will not forsake His children when we try so hard to do His will.
In the beginning, God alone existed?
In the beginning, there were no angels in the higher heavens. No higher heavens existed. All had to be created, evolved and perfected.
The angels are merely spirits 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 you 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.
What is the division of sex?
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 and body.
The operation of this law of sex, which brings two spirits 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 spirits 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 spirits 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.
What is the spiritual world?
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 faculties—or senses.
What are the mechanics of haunting?
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 spirits 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.
How does the vibrational rate of a spirit dictate its visibility?
The dead can be and are around you just as much in the light as in the dark. However, they are slightly abler 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 to make itself visible varies and changes with the growth and development of each individual spirit.
The lower in the scale of spiritual development a spirit 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 ablest to make itself visible.
The highly developed spirits 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.
God over all?
Light after darkness, the calm after the storm, rest after weariness, and God over all.
Immunity from suffering?
To those who wish to follow the Master, not only is there protection, but immunity from suffering held out lavished upon us in a way we cannot grasp.
_-_James_Tissot.jpg "The Lord's Prayer | James Tissot (1836–1902)")
Get the God view more and more?
Widen your borders, get the God view more and more, from dust and ashes to the fruits of the Spirit in the Garden of the Lord.
What does the spirit world look like?
You will see that on all sides are wonderful and joyous surroundings and unnumbered souls who have been raised to this glorious place of honour.
All around are matchless and exceedingly beautiful mountains, springs and landscapes.
You will find an abundance of all kinds of sweet fruits and beautiful flowers in gardens.
Everything that the heart could desire is there.
Earth is a dim reflection of the spirit world—a poor facsimile—you grieve over your beloved departed, but there is no death.
Tell me, is this death or the real-life for which every heart yearns?
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