What are evil spirits?

Do evil agencies exist?

We have all our guides. These angels, unknown and unseen by us, prompt us to all good actions and dissuade us from evil. 

They are with us in thought, and we often receive their warnings as if they were the promptings of our own spirit. 

So they are, but the spirit, which prompts is quite outside our own conscious self.

Your Higher Self

The guardian angel is indeed a kind of other self, a higher, purer, and more developed section of our own personality. This is perhaps a little difficult to understand, but it is true. There are, as well as good, evil angels who are with us no less constantly, and they are also sometimes visible as angels of darkness when we come across. They are with us always, and we are with them in the spirit world when we leave our body.

We are always swaying hither and thither towards our good and evil guides.

We call them impulses, wayward longings, aspirations coming we know not where or whence. The soul in the body hears but dimly and does not see at all the innumerable influences with which it is surrounded.

The first and most startling thing we have to learn is that our senses, materials senses, are not so much to help us to see and hear, as to bar us off from seeing or hearing.

We are on earth, as it were, with blinkers on. We must not see or hear or know much that surrounds us. 

The physical consciousness needs for its development the temporary seclusion of life from the realities of the world of spirit into which it is ushed at death. 

Hence, when we close our eyes in the sleep of death, it is more of a laying down of the blinkers that limited and confirmed our vision than almost anything else.

God and Evil Spirits

We then can see what were the sources of these vague impressions, intuitions and aspirations, both up and down.

We were in the midst of these beings always, but we mistook them for part of ourselves.

They are distinct although united, for no one can live to himself alone. We are all members one of another, and this is as true of spirits, as of bodies. 

These evil agencies exist.

Continuity of life after death?

O, that men would consider their ways and understand that misery inevitably awaits the mortal that treads the paths of wickedness.

—Hafed, Prince of Persia—His Experiences in Earth Life and Spirit Life

Redemption? Reflection? Example?

O, that men would but think! How much better it would be that all should live to redeem their characters and have opportunity on earth to attain to a better and brighter condition of soul by following in the steps of the Nazarene. 

—Hafed, Prince of Persia—His Experiences in Earth Life and Spirit Life

What is the prosperity of the soul?

Perseverance overcomes great obstacles. Remember that.

How does a woman differ from a man?

Should woman in all respects have equal rights with man?

Woman in bodily and mental constitution is different from man. The sexes occupy different spheres of action, each with rights peculiar to itself. Delicate in form, woman is not fitted for many of the duties devolving on the robust man, neither on the other hand should man be permitted to labour in vocations fitted only for woman.

Though the highest in creation, they may well take a lesson from the beasts of the field. As a rule, amongst the lower creatures, the female is under subjection to the male.

You have an example of tenderness and affection in the lion and lioness—the two will go together until age cuts them down. The ferocious tiger is docile with the tigress—kind to her when sick, hunting for and feeding her and her cubs.

How to heal a troubled soul?

Light on the Hidden Way

To the sorrowing, life-weary, and sin-laden—To all who may find in these pages that cup of strength in some great agony—

This little book is inscribed with an earnest trust that though it should contain great potency for pain, its deeper message is one of inspiration, strength, comfort, and that peace of God, which passeth all understanding.

—Katherine B. Caine

Prayer of Devotion?

The Prayer of Devotion—Study it line by line and word by word until you get a realisation of its meaning.

THE PRAYER OF DEVOTION

We, Thy chosen servants, to whom Thou hast given the great privilege of becoming co-workers with the Masters of Wisdom, ask that we may have Wisdom and Power and Courage and Humility to carry us through the work of this day.

We open our hearts that the Divine Love of the Master may fill us—that all irritation, inharmony and slothfulness may be transmuted into Love that shall draw us closer in unity to all our fellow workers, both seen and unseen—that we may grow absolutely one with the Force of Wisdom and Compassion that is sent forth to accomplish the great work for humanity.

Give us all things necessary, that there may be no hampering conditions.

Lead us through this day in the name of the Divine, Everliving Christ, that the will of the Father may be done in us and through us forevermore. 

AMEN

Do animal souls go to heaven?

Spirits of animals seldom or never return to earth. Not having as much intelligence or mind as man, they do not wish, will or desire, consequently, do not often return, but sometimes do.

A dog very much attached to his master may remain near him for a long time after leaving the material body, so may a horse, and occasionally some other pet animal or bird, but these are merely exceptions to the rule.