What are handmaidens in the Bible?

All things tend upward, together with (hu)man, consequently, on arriving in the spirit-world, he feels very much at home.

He may have his faithful dog—or horse, together with other pet animals.

He may have his house, garden and flowers.

He may live in a city, village, town—or in the country.

He may sail on the water—or visit forests, mountains, valleys and glens.

He may visit different races of (hu)men—also, planets and constellations of worlds, and oftentimes, he can hardly realise that he is not on the material plane of being.

All the distinction he finds is that all things now are spiritual—devoid of gross matter.

When we say gross matter, we mean just what we say—this world is really material after all, for spirit here also clothes itself with sublimated matter, and the earthly world is gross matter.

The spiritual world is sublimated matter, and there is not any place throughout eternity that is devoid of matter, either in its gross—or sublimated form.

There is no place throughout eternity that is devoid of spirit.

There is no spot throughout eternity that is devoid of soul.

Spirit and matter are but the handmaidens of soul, and soul is God—the living and governing principle within all that exists—or has life.

—Spirit Herr Franz