How does Milton justify the way of God?

In the spirit world, honour due and reverence none neglects, as Milton says in the Paradise Lost. 

I believe the world would fall to pieces if it were not held together by the influences from the spirit world. There is so much of a disintegrating power in the world today that the spiritual forces of man would be dissipated and lost if it were not for the continual outpouring of the spiritual fluid from this life.

—Goldwin Smith

Oh—it is such a joy to come to you and speak in this clear and definite way. You know that we are always near you, always at your call, and yet to be able to express some of the things we have long wanted to tell you is a joy to all of us. 

First, I want to tell you about our home. 

Something we have never talked much about is the capacity to see you even while we are busy and concerned in the affairs of the life we now lead. 

We have a power not possessed by mortals of seeing long distances and through opaque substances. 

Solid matter has no power to obstruct our view. Consequently, wherever we are, we are able to see you and know what you are about. We are not obliged to be present in the room where you are to be conscious of your thought or attitude, but when we desire to express something to you, we draw near in the same normal and natural way as we should if we were in the physical world.

It seems as if the eye of the spirit had telescopic power and microscopic power as well. 

So you see that we have added powers, which help us to bear the separation, which seems always so hard for mortals who do not understand the progressive steps or changes from death into life eternal.

—Pauline (Paulie) Henriette Corson

Help me to say all that is in my heart. 

The sweet associations of the past crowd in upon me now as I stand here speaking to you from this glorious life that is all about me. 

It was a great cross to us that our sons were not spared, and yet when I found them here so highly developed, so real and so like men, I felt quite content that they had preceded me, and you will feel just as I did when you come over where I am. They are still studying and working and tell me in confidence that they have so much they want to do before you come. Mr Whitman has been like a father to them and they love him sincerely, and he has grown through his service to them, which was rendered first for love of you, now combined with a devotion to them.

—Caroline (Carrie) Rollin Corson

It is as interesting to see a man of degree, apparently from the world's standpoint, slip into his place of spiritual height and understand himself at once. The one thing that stands out more definitely to the thinkers of the race is the classification of spirits by their earth expressions. 

They slip into the class to which they belong as naturally and normally as rain falls into running brooks and becomes a part of the great water system of the world. 

Most poets have a sense of the unfitness of things in human life and the cry of their souls after adjustment becomes the song that soothes the heart of the nation. We are so happy to think how this has all been brought about. 

God's hand is in all friendships and his fingers close fast into the fingers of our loved ones. 

It is wonderful to think of, but we who stand in the light of the revealed life see an explanation for all the intricate paths that cross and recross the lives of our human friends. It is good—so good to be with those you love—to feel the very heavens stoop low, enfolding as a lily in white clouds from above all the sweet influences and bringing perfect peace.

—Elizabeth B. Browning

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