What earthly religion is there where all its adherents are entirely of one mind?
There is none.
It has been thought essential on earth that to offer up thanks and worship to the Supreme Being, there must be a complexity of ritual and formularies and ceremonies, with creeds and dogmas and strange beliefs over which there is as much diversity of views, as there are numbers of different religions.
The spirit-world is in no better case than earth.
When the earth becomes really enlightened, these established communities of those same religions in the spirit-world will disappear.
It is the blindness and stupidity of the earth that causes these to be here at all.
They are given tolerance, and they must exercise tolerance themselves, otherwise they would be swept away.
They must never attempt to influence or coerce any soul into believing any of their erroneous doctrines.
They must confine themselves strictly to themselves, but they are perfectly and absolutely free to practice their own false religion among themselves.
The truth awaits them on the threshold of their churches, as they leave their places of worship, not when they have entered.
When a soul, at length, perceives the futility of his particular and peculiar religious beliefs, he quickly dissociates himself from them—
In full freedom and complete truth, which has no creeds or ecclesiastical commandments, he offers up his thoughts to his Heavenly Father just as they flow from his mind—free and unaffected—stripped of all jargon—simple and heartfelt.
But spirit-lives have their temples where they can receive the great messengers from the highest realms, fitting places to receive the Father's representatives, and where such messengers can send their united thanks and petitions to the Great Source of All.
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