Glory to the advantages of spirit-life!

Glory to the advantages of spirit-life! 

Friendship, love and truth characterise spirits of a progressive order. 

Spirit associations are rendered agreeable from the fact that frankness is manifested and participated in by all. 

No deception or disguise is indulged by spirits but each comes to the work with simplicity and unfeigned interest, as manifested in the earnestness of every spirit.

Gathering together those whose opinions are varied and who dissent from each other, for the purpose of hearing ideas adverse to their own is one phase of spirit associations, which produces a stimulus that enlarges the capacity of understanding. 

Spirits know full well that it is for their benefit and reap the reward with feelings of gratitude. 

Many spirits wend their way through a thorough course of instruction by the aid of such associations. 

These call together a class of spirits whose truthfulness, integrity and honour abound in intellectual pursuits; some in one direction and some in another. 

They combine with love of wisdom and of each other.

Nor is this the only phase of association in spirit life.

Spirits are associated with a class whose high moral standing is such as to render them, through congenial and sympathetic regard, accessible to the hearts of all classes; overpowering them with the effulgence of spirit emanations and impressing with a fervour so strong that the impenitent yield as readily as the sun clears away darkness. 

Opportunities are given through this source for all to improve; these spirits delighting thus to work for the good of others, the purity of their lives being freely imparted to those desiring elevation.

Spirit association is a principle from which we may draw many conclusions. 

One among the many is the propriety of being true to yourself, never letting deception mar your spiritual growth. 

Pour a flood of light wherever the feet tread, disarming pride, vain display and attempts to be what you are not. 

Let sympathy greet the feelings with a flood of intelligence, pouring the balmy effulgence of light into the hearts of all, and lifting the veil of estrangement.