What is the spiritual body?

The spiritual body is not made of ether—it manifests on the Etheric sphere, resting on the ether—spiritual spheres are built of and formed in ether.

The spiritual body exists on the spiritual—or etheric plane, and is a spiritual—or etheric body, just as the physical body is termed physical when functioning in the physical plane.

The spiritual body is made of chemicals and gases and atoms—atoms certainly of a finer kind than one gets on the earth plane. 

These are held together in much the same way as the atoms of the physical body, but this body does not disintegrate in the same way as the physical one does because life on the other side is sure to be as long and perhaps many times longer than the one on the earth plane.

There is something substantial about the spiritual body—the nearer the spirit-life goes to the God force—or life force, the more actual life force there is running through the body and holding those atoms together—because of this greater force in the higher spheres, spirit-lives would require less chemical matter.

Their bodies are made of the extremely refined variety.

The farther spirit-lives go, the purer and more refined in nature those gases and chemicals are, and just as the physical body is made of the grosser gases, which belong to the earth plane, so their bodies are made of the finer gases, which exist in the air—or atmosphere of their plane.

The God force holds together everything on the earth plane—animates it. 

As this power penetrates through the spirit spheres and reaches the earth plane, it seems to become divided into different forms—or manifestations of power, that is to say, it is in man's power to use it for different purposes.

The God—or life force is to all atomic matter what the water is to dry matter—it consolidates it.

The whole Universe is full of revolving atoms, but unless they are gathered and solidified in a mass, you would not see them. 

Earth is only atoms gathered into solid form—if you could scatter them sufficiently, they would go out into the Universe again. 

They would go back into space whence they came.

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