What is the spirit world explained?

What is the spirit world explained?

Like a soft moonbeam, her influence was that of a tranquil, satisfied nature, in harmony with her spirit life, glad to impart information and rejoiced to live and speak again in the next world. 

The spirit world, I am told, is many times larger than earth and its cities are much more numerous and extensive.

Many kind friends have joined together in erecting a dwelling for me here.

It is in a very beautiful locality known as the Victoria Garden Home.

The soil of the spirit globe is of a greater depth of alluvial compound than that of earth and deposits of slate and stone are rare.

Its chemical constituents differ materially from those of earth and the growth of vegetation is stimulated by the peculiar magnetic condition of our air.

The residences are of various styles of architecture, but the Oriental and Grecian types prevail.

Those persons who have brought with them a love for any particular homestead or villa have erected facsimiles of the same, but the designs are new and adapted to the salubrious climate with which we are blessed.

But the crowning glory of the place is a magnificent temple, grand in proportions and harmonious in design, which rises on a commanding eminence, like Jove on Mount Olympus, in it the great and wise and good congregate and send forth their inspirations to humanity. In this temple we meet, converse and study. 

Here I have seen assembled many of England's greatest minds―

Byron, Scott, Shelley, Mrs Browning, Coleridge, Charles Lamb, Leigh Hunt, also Mesmer, Fourier, Faraday, Reichenbach, and hosts of agitators, statesmen and poets who have passed away from the old world dissatisfied with life and restless in their aims for a higher condition of humanity, and who live here a happier and more harmonious life. 

Here too I have met painters―

Reynolds, Haydon, Blake and Turner, also the sculptors Canova, Powers and Thorwaldsen, and here also convene the more advanced minds who have attained to a higher state of existence.

There is one peculiarity, which I have observed in spirit life―spirits avoid living for any long period of time in one place.

As a consequence, they interchange visits with neighbouring communities and organise settlements among spirits of a different nation and language.

Spirits carry with them their own peculiarities of dialect, for memory is strengthened by death.

There is no homage paid to rank here, only to worth. 

―Spirit Harriet Martineau

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