Fast Facts—Spiritual Language

Spiritual language comes to one naturally, without effort, though to some with a greater ease than to others, according to their receptive state.  

The simplest speech of heavenly spirits is more melodious than any earthly sounds and comes from the characters of the people using it, that is, the sounds are according to one's characteristics. If one is loving, the language is very sweet, smooth and flowing, as if there is a liquid quality. If one is inclined more to Wisdom, the sounds are clearer, more distinct, and not so smooth, and yet the words are the same. 

Inhabitants in the Spiritual World have no difficulty in understanding. There are not many words that suggest the old familiar ones, but Halleluiah is the same as we use on earth (no other combination of sounds so perfectly expresses the idea of worship).

The use of speech is much easier than the written or printed words. Nearly all of the letters or parts of words are segments of circles, concave or convex according to the expression of opposite ideas. For instance, if the affirmation is expressed by convex signs, the negative of the same subject is expressed by the same signs reversed.

The ideas expressed in spiritual language are of thousands compared to one of earth, and our mortal language here would be like trying to make a grand oration from the meaningless sounds of an infant.

When inhabitants of the Spiritual World see anything, they perceive not only its external forms, but its history from the earliest moment of existence, and all of its uses, what it will achieve and in what it will fail. All this is expressed in briefer phrase than we use on earth to tell the mere outer form. Hence, when they speak a name, they feel its meaning in its fullness, for there are many degrees of natures, and the name expresses them all. An Angelic spirit could not say Jehovah without feeling awe, love, adoration, self-abnegation so complete as for the time being to make the whole nature only an expression of worship. They are all or nothing in every act. Unless the whole nature goes into action, it is impossible to perform it at all. There are no triflers here. Whatsoever they find to do, they do with all their might.

In Letters from a Spirit [Unknown], the Spirit Author explains—

I asked Florence who is the type of Love, to repeat some sentences after me, and it seemed as if all the angles in the letters of every word were in the sound of my voice, as compared with hers. When she writes the same sentence on the page, it is the same way. My words are sharp and bristling with points, and hers to express the same ideas in spiritual writing, look like waves, curves, or anything lovely and flowing.

Like water, I told her. Well, she said, it is like water because only truth can be written, and water is truth.