What does spiritual elevation mean?

Nothing is more cheering to the spirit when it enters upon this natural life than to look back to earth and receive the reflections of those whom he has befriended. 

This is self-elevation—this adds to the aggrandisement of the spirit and inspires it with a feeling of love and sympathy for all, no matter how low. 

True—you cannot assimilate with them, but you can befriend and relieve their suffering, which adds to your self-sustenance, and it is only when you are enabled to assist others that you assist yourself, and through the merits of your own exertions you save yourself. 

This is the doctrine or philosophy of Spiritualism, so-called.

Spiritual elevation, I term it, and soul growth, for through the growth of the soul the spirit elevates itself. The spirit depends on the soul while in the body but when disembodied the soul depends upon the spirit.

—B. H. in Spirit