What are the great laws of chemical affinity?

The great laws of chemical affinity hold good in the spirit-world as on earth.

Why do the waters of earth seek each other, and all seek a level? 

Chemical affinity. 

Why does the dry land hold itself together? 

Attraction of gravitation and chemical affinity―

These two great laws run through all things―

They are just as operative in the spirit-world, as they are on the earth. 

When the emanations―or refined essences rise up―or are pushed up by the dense atmosphere―they do not return to earth, they are too sublimated―

The earthly attraction of gravitation has no more power over them, but the great law of chemical affinity still holds good and they come under a still higher law of the attraction of gravitation—

In other words, they attract and gravitate together to form a sublimated spiritual world, more beautiful than tongue can tell or brush can paint. 

The ethereal waters seek each other, and their level, as on earth―the difference being that one is material, the other ethereal―one exists in the dense atmosphere―the other in the ethereal atmosphere―or ether.

That which forms Summerland is also drawn together by the higher or more spiritual law of gravitation―or the attraction of gravitation and chemical affinity―

Thus, spirit-lives have land―or ethereal land, hills, dales and mountains―

By the same laws, they have trees, vegetation, grass, flowers, shrubs―

There is an atmosphere in which all life originates―or ethereal space wherein may be found all things and the cause of all things. 

Nothing originates within earthly matter, but all things originate within the atmosphere or ether.

A flower or plant of any kind does not draw its life from the earth―its roots simply find lodgment to hold―or sustain it in place―

Then the little rootlets seek water or moisture within the damp ground, but its life―its beauty―its colour―are all drawn from the atmosphere, not from the earth. 

Plant a seed and cover it tightly away from the light―sun―air―

See if it will develop into a tree, shrub or flower―or vegetation of any kind―

No seed can ever be formed without the ethereal germ―

All will come to know this sooner or later.

When one talks of life commencing and living within all matter, one is talking nonsense.

Life exists in a germinal state within the atmosphere, and enters matter through the great laws of chemical affinity and the attraction of gravitation.

Now do not wonder at this which I tell you and think it not true. 

You do not think it at all strange that you go to sleep on earth―

In fact, you cannot exist without sleep, but your soul does not sleep, the astral body does not sleep, and the thought body is as busy as ever.

Nothing sleeps. 

The body and material brain become weary and need replenishing―

The soul takes the astral- and thought- bodies with it, and goes avisiting―leaving the body quiescent, but the soul takes good care not to break the magnetic cord, which binds it to the body―

It is bound to it by the great law of magnetic attraction, which it may not sever until the body becomes unfit for it to dwell in―then the cord is severed and the body no longer has the power of holding itself together through the law of magnetic attraction. 

The soul―clothed in its thought and astral bodies―now gravitates through the law of magnetic attraction to the spiritual realm.

You now ask me why the material body does not remember that which the soul has been busy in receiving? 

The soul does not talk and think as the body does―

It does not analyse and compare as the material brain does. 

It receives and stores up energy―soul-power.

Soul-power is the strength and energy to run the machine―

The body is simply an engine or machine run by the will-power, energy and strength of the soul, and the soul must be replenished. 

Nothing can be continually exhausted without being replenished from some source―

The soul is fed and replenished from the Great Reservoir of Soul―or Oversoul. 

Not a God―or a God in the form of a person―but the Great Soul-Fountain of All That Is―or was―or ever shall be. 

I cannot make it any clearer to you than this. 

But when the body is laid aside and you enter the spiritual, all things are changed in this respect. 

The soul still drinks at the great Soul-Fountain, but the spirit-body has become so clear and refined that like a superfine sensitive plate it holds and remembers all things, for memory is simply spiritual photography—photography that never fades. 

The soul also remembers all that ever transpired to it while in the body of coarser material substance.

Spirit-lives find a natural spiritual world―they do not find homes already made for them, no more than they do here, unless some dearly loved one has already built one for the one thus loved.

Their homes are first modelled within their minds, according to their tastes and desires―

The thought is a thing and takes on―or clothes itself with sublimated material substance, which it attracts according to the law of magnetic attraction and the spiritual attraction of gravitation, consequently spirit-lives soon have a home according to their united desires.

Their homes suit them to a charm and is as beautiful as a dream, for so-called dreams of the imagination are spiritual realities in the spirit-world―

Dream or imagine the home in your mind―

You do precisely the same thing on earth.

You first dream―or image your home in your mind―

Then you clothe it with stone, brick or wood, as you please. 

Spirit-lives in the spirit-world clothe theirs as they please, but do not use the coarser, more material brick, stone or wood―

If they think intently of a beautiful jewel―or any other substance―the thought has form and attracts through magnetic chemical affinity substantial matter according to the thought.

Spirit-lives follow the bent of their gifts and inclinations. 

They certainly have employments, but hard manual labour is left on earth, and only appertains to earth. 

They could not cut a tree if they wished. 

The tree is spiritual and cannot be hewn down—

The laws bring into requisition all the power that resides within spirit and their employments are as varied as those of earth―even more so―for they have many things there not yet wrought out on earth, for everything here is given down to earth from the spheres through the mind or photographic impression upon the mind by these spirit-lives.