What is the best spiritual secret you know?

Spirits and angels can be with you in their higher and more perfect forms―their forms being composed of ethereal substance and filled with magnetism which is an invisible flame―their ethereal and magnetic bodies, coupled with their greater intelligence, are able to penetrate, fill, influence, control those still within a material body.

Atoms once thrown off―or subtracted from a living body can never again become living atoms of flesh and blood―atoms that have once yielded up their vital principle of magnetism are worthless―they do not have the power of attracting―or of being attracted―they lie helpless at the mercy of natural law―

They are pushed up by the atmosphere outside its limits and lie in great belts about the earth until again revivified by comets, and when each atom has again received its proper amount of magnetism, it has the power of attracting, and of being attracted, and they thus weld themselves together and form rings or zones about the earth. As ages roll on, and they become large and heavy enough, they break and are thrown off from the parent world and become an independent orb or moon, a satellite revolving around its parent earth. 

One can see belts by looking at the planet Jupiter, and one can see the welded rings or zones by looking at Saturn.

The wisest chemist that ever lived can never work outside of natural law―he is the servant of higher natural laws, and not their master―do his best and he cannot make a tree or plant grow with its roots in the air and its branches buried beneath the soil―he cannot fill an inverted goblet with water. A full grown tree can never again become a sapling―he can never become a babe―a developed, emancipated soul can never again clothe itself with flesh and blood.

All creation runs in spiral circles, and when it has reached the top of one spiral, it has become too large to go back the same way it has travelled―it must enter upon a new and larger spiral circle.

It is pure reason that the world most needs, not wonders, nor miracles. Nothing yet ever transpired outside of natural law, nothing ever will, nothing ever can.

Worlds grow from atoms―atoms are composed of spirit and matter―

In other words, magnetism and matter, the marriage or union of spirit and matter brings forth form―the earths yield up their spiritual and angelic spheres and peoples become spirits and angels. 

All things within the universe bear a relation, one to the other, and a great analogous chain holds all things together.

Now the earth became rock and yielded up its water―the water in its turn washed the rock. The water yielded up its atmosphere―the atmosphere in its turn embraced and kissed both rock and water. The atmosphere yielded up its ether or ethereal atmosphere―the ether in its turn permeated the atmosphere and the water and even the dark earth as much as possible. 

Now, all this was for the sole purpose of developing an imperishable, intelligent, an all-wise angel. 

A strict analogy runs through all things. 

You yield up your spirit, as the rock does water―the spirit in its turn purifies and enlightens you. 

Spirits yield up their higher principle, which is the angelic―the angels embrace and kiss both spirits and man. The angels become archangels―they permeate and fill with their wisdom angels, spirits and man. 

Now water can never return to its first condition before it was evolved from that which was to become rock. The atmosphere can never again return and fill that which was water in its first form, and from which the air was evolved. Ether can never again reside as an inseparable thing―or as one with air―

An archangel can never again be anything but an archangel, just as a man can never again be a boy. A boy can never again be a babe―a  babe can never again be an undeveloped germ. But the man can guide and instruct the boy―the boy can teach the babe to walk―the babe holds the undeveloped spirit-germ of the boy―man―spirit―angel―archangel. The babe must first grow a boy, then a man. So the angel must be developed carefully and gradually from man.

The babe holds within its tiny self all wisdom, all love, all truth―that chubby little hand holds within its grasp the great universal whole or all things that are or ever shall be. 

For it, countless worlds roll in space―to it, the sun, moon and stars pay their homage―for it, the oceans rock their cradles―for it, the lofty mountains crest their heads―to it, all Nature bends the knee. It is on the same principle that water beats against the rock―that air holds in its embrace both rock and water, and ether permeates the whole. 

All things rush forth to find their level.

Spirits and angels can, do, influence you, and often control your destiny.

Do not doubt immortality, for it has a very deadening and depressing effect upon the mind―its tendency is to lower man toward the brute creation. Worse than that, it is the handmaiden of vice and debauchery. But your faith in immortality, which is not merely blind faith, but certainty, is as the strong wings of a flying bird―they buoy you up. It fills your soul with glad songs and your eyes are bright with hope and joy.

You must not think that spirits and angels do not know your thoughts, for whenever they are near you, your thoughts are to them like an open book―they read it, as they would a page.

Attraction, which is another name for love, is the secret moving spring of all creation. 

Without attraction or love, all things would fall into chaos. 

The mother loves and nourishes her child, and it was the attraction of love that first caused that child to be. If the mother is attracted to heaven, and leaves her earthly body, the body perishes and falls apart because attraction or love has left it. 

But the love has gone up higher, that is all―

There is really no such thing as higher or lower―such terms are merely relative. 

For the earth is rolling with great rapidity in space, consequently, there can be no such thing as higher or lower. But the spiritual and angelic spheres surrounding the earth are globular in form like the earth they surround, and when love goes forth, it finds an abiding place in a larger, more complete circle. 

All things correspond one with another. 

If love finds its home in a larger, more complete circle, then the love itself is larger, stronger, more perfect and complete, and the power of that love is enhanced ten or even a thousandfold.

The work and mission of an angel, whether in or out of the body, is to discover truth and give it to the world. 

An angel’s first duty is to search diligently for truth. 

Truth is like a simple and unaffected maiden. 

Truth is entirely natural, for Nature is truth. 

Affectation of any kind is not truth.

 

Unhappiness is caused by the affectation of error. Heaven never fails to redeem its own.

Love is the saviour of mankind, not a crucified God.

All things grow―all things come forth from a spirit-germ. This is plain, pure reason, not a fable―this is the first great natural law that has no exception. 

The second great law is male and female―positive and negative. Here again, there is no exception throughout all of Nature’s domain. 

Nothing in Nature springs from one parent alone. 

There was never a man born on earth who did not have a mother and a father. There never existed an animal that did not have a mother and a father, not an insect, not a worm, not a fish in the sea. Some of the very lowest reptile- and insect-life bear the male and female in one form, but the principle is precisely the same.

The same principle holds good in all vegetable life, and the atoms that compose rock and the soil hold the male- and female-principle within each one.

There is no exception to this great law, and whenever you find a law that has no exception, you may start at one end of the chain and follow it as far as your reason can go, and you will make no mistake. 

When you use your reason, fables fall to the ground.

If all the rolling worlds come into being through the great unchangeable law of growth and development, and one thing is gradually evolved from another, for this is another great unchangeable law―

Can you find anything on earth or in the air that has not evolved from something that existed before it? You cannot. The law is unchangeable―

Each evolution is higher than that which preceded it. 

Then is not reason’s chain complete when it begins with an atom holding within itself the male- and female-principle, positive and negative force―or rather, magnetism and matter? Whatever the terms may be, the principle is the same―he follows the atoms up without a break until worlds are formed, water is evolved from the primary rock, air from water, ether from air―then, starting with decaying rock, vegetation is evolved, animal from vegetable, man from animal, angel from man―the chain of reason is complete without a break.

There is no beginning, there is no end―the chain is a circle.

And here is another great unchangeable law―every world is round or egg-shaped, a circle―every world moves in an egg-shaped or elliptical orbit―

An atom is elliptical in form―all spirit-germs are egg-shaped―all spirit-germs are developed into eggs, whether within bird, fish, beast or man. 

Your head is egg-shaped―your brain is egg-shaped.

Your reason can begin with one link of the chain and follow the circle, but you can find no beginning, no end.

When you say God made a world out of nothing in six days, you are quoting a childish fable. 

When you talk about God making Adam out of the dust of the earth, you are right in one sense and wrong in another.

You were evolved from beast, beast from vegetable, vegetable from rock, which is earth or the dust of the ground or the dust of the rock.

When you talk of Eve being made out of one of Adam’s ribs, you are right in one way and wrong in another, for it is actually by the separation of the male- and female-principle, which resided within one germinal form at first, into two forms, that we exist in our present state, and so, of all animals as well. 

But that God made Adam a full-grown man in a very short time, then put him to sleep, and took a rib out of him wherewith to make Eve is a silly fable, and that Jesus had no earthly father is another silly fable.

Hell and the Devil are partly true, partly false. 

Unhappiness is hell―Hell is unhappiness. 

Unhappiness is caused by error or mistakes, and mistakes are made for lack of wisdom or not fully understanding truth. 

The more you use your reason, the less you believe in silly fables, the nearer heaven you will be, for heaven is happiness, happiness is heaven.

God is wisdom―wisdom is God. 

Lack of wisdom is ignorance―ignorance is the Devil, the Devil is ignorance. So Hell and the Devil, God and Heaven, do really have an existence, but not in the general acceptance of the terms.

Your reason is wisdom, wisdom is reason―the lack of it or not using it is error―error is fable or falsehood. Therefore, the fool exercises faith or the belief in fables without reason, for the lack of reason makes him a fool. A fool is faith without reason, and reason is wisdom or God.

Oceanides―A Psychical Novel