The Laws of Spiritual Development

Every spirit, as soon as he realises that he is really to live for ever, wants to advance; as soon as the wonders and beauties of God's great laws burst upon his comprehension he searches on and on, with a longing and love that is never appeased though constantly fed.

And as he goes on he learns to transmit in some way every ray of light that he absorbs.

The sciences, or profundity of the laws taught, depend upon the spiritual plane where one is located, and the systems of education differ accordingly.

There are centres of education for all sorts of branches of knowledge on every spiritual plane, unless among very low, earth-bound spirits, who neither realise their condition nor desire to advance it; but these centres of education differ according to the development of the plane upon which they are situated. All is adapted to the needs and requirements of the plane.

Attraction governs everything. The spirit who has a great longing after music will be attracted by the melodious harmonies of some musical centre upon his plane of development. The one who earnestly desires to obtain knowledge of scientific laws will naturally gravitate to a centre where such laws are discussed and expounded.

When he has absorbed as much as he feels he can hold he will in turn go out to prove the laws, perhaps to make some new discoveries. As soon as he has accomplished anything he hastens to communicate it where it is needed, then back to some great educational centre again, or drawn by attraction, may be, to some individual, more highly-developed spirit, who as eagerly gives as he receives.

Everything is taught that anybody knows, limited only by the receiver's ability to absorb.

And the widest toleration for differing views—the most thoughtful consideration of adverse opinions—is always given and received.

A spirit is not afraid to present any side of a subject that seems to him true, nor to tell anything which he has experienced to be a fact.

Several may combine and work for long periods to perfect some invention, to prove some new discovery, to discover some missing link in a chain of laws; but when any attraction which holds the mind loses its force through completion, the ever-busy spirit must on to new attractions and new fields of discovery and advancement.

There is no such thing as monotony or weariness among enlightened spirits.

Can you comprehend the joy and exultation of a mind that never wearies and never rests?

The writer has prepared an abridged and edited copy of the original – Leaflets of Truth; or, Light from the Shadow Land (published before 1923 and now in the public domain), M. Karl, S. R. Miner (Publisher), Chicago, 1886