Is the spirit-world something or nothing?

My first proposition is this―

The spirit world is something―or it is nothing. 

There is a spirit world―or there is not. 

There can be no half-way about it.

If  the spirit world is something, you ought to know about it. 

It is folly to say―

I cannot know very much about the higher life until I get there. 

You can know a great deal about it. 

Anything―everything―can be known if the knowledge is diligently sought for. 

There are thousands of spirits eager and willing to give this knowledge to those who seek for it in the right way.

If the spirit-world does exist, it is a real and tangible world, filled with life and beauty―

If there is a spiritual world, it is for the purpose of holding spiritual life, for life is spirit―

Without spirit, there is no life. 

Everything that lives and moves and has a being is the spirit that lives, and moves within it, or rather, the life or spirit covers itself with matter, and whenever that matter is cast aside, the life or spirit rises and takes its place within the spiritual world―

The principle holds good with everything that has the power of growth―or has a form.

The waters rise into the spiritual realm, carrying with them the life and spirits within them in their various beautiful forms. 

This spirit-land, Summer Land, spirit-world, exists.

To spirit-lives, the things of earth look coarse, unreal, and unsubstantial―

All spiritual forms come up from the earth, for all spiritual germs must develop within matter, and as they develop and throw off their coarser covering, they rise into the spiritual realm.

The trees, the grass, the flowers, the shrubs―even to the tiny mosses and lichens.

All things separate―each to its own order or kingdom. 

The earth is the great reservoir, or feeder, of the realms, which rise above and surround it. 

Vegetation, grass, trees and flowers yield up their lives more slowly than the animal and insect kingdom do, for the animal kingdom is higher than the vegetable or floral. 

The animal yields up his life or spirit at once, and rises rapidly upward―nor does it pause until it strikes the spirit-land. 

The animal has a certain amount of intelligence and finds its place according to its attractions―a wild animal immediately seeks a dense, spiritual forest―

A domestic animal often pauses near the lovely, spiritual homes, or revels in the green meadows beside the running streams and rivers, gazing with its large, beautiful, dewy eyes at the lakes―

The birds wing their way, singing their sweet songs―they love to linger near the habitations of men—or spirits.  

The insects also gravitate to their natural places.

The spiritual world is not an intangible nothingness, but real―filled with real-life, and the living souls and spiritual bodies of men, women and children―with its homes, colleges, institutions for knowledge of all kinds, and as rapidly as the errors and mistakes of earth can be purged away, peace and purity reign supreme—

Wisdom and love go hand in hand, and an eternity of joy and gladness awaits the soul.

Every truth given by us to the world below makes that world better

All worlds in space move in strict time, perfect rhythm and heavenly harmony. Each moves within its own measure. The music of the spheres is not a mere figure of speech, but they throb in unison, they move in time, their rhythm is perfect, and their harmony according to the great harmonies of heaven. The more you know about this world the better able you will be to make the earthly world correspond to it. The more you know about us, and our lives here, the nearer you will try to make your own lives like ours.

Every truth given by us to the world below makes that world better.

Madam — 

Nothing is lost—nothing can be lost—but it has gone somewhere, it is going somewhere every day

Nothing is lost—nothing can be lost—but it has gone somewhere, it is going somewhere every day.

Madam —

There are mansions, very many mansions in the heavens

In my father's house are many mansions. There are mansions, very many mansions in the heavens, or, as you now call it—the Spiritual Spheres—which is all one and the same thing. 

Madam —

Nothing can rob an Ego of its life

Nothing can rob an Ego of its life. 

It may be robbed of material substance, 

but not of its identity or; life. 

Life is life forever and aye!

Madam —

Don't call other men sinners until you cleanse your own soul

Don't call other men sinners until you cleanse your own soul.

There is no such thing as void or nothing

Matter, spirit and germinal points fill all space and all space is ether.

The spiritual world, together with all its spheres, is a vast deal more tangible than the coarser earth

The spiritual world, together with all its spheres, is a vast deal more tangible than the coarser earth.

All souls are united in oneness to their eternal counterparts

All souls are united in oneness to their eternal counterparts.

This general law holds good throughout eternity

An individual holds his individuality throughout eternity, so do nations and races.

The natural law of attraction and adaptability holds nations and tribes together. The Chinese are Chinese still. The Hindoos are Hindoos still. The African is African still, and so on and we are told, by those very far above us in wisdom, that this law holds good throughout eternity. 

Herr Franz (Spirit)

All things translate to spiritual life

It is not we alone who are translated to spiritual life but all the things which surround us on earth.

Spirit nor Soul can ever be evoluted from Matter

Spirit nor Soul can ever be evoluted from Matter. Spirit is Spirit forever. Soul is Soul forever. Matter is matter forever. A thing cannot be evolved from that which does not possess it.

Mr Darwin has told you that races of men, also different species of animals, do not run into each other, and I will here state the reason why they do not. All nations are graded and exist as nations—distinct nations in the germinal state—in the soul-germinal state—and when a nation has reached the development which nature designed for it, it disappears, or dies out; and so on of all species of animal, insect and reptile life—so of all vegetable and floral life. When the earth has no further need of horses they will cease to exist or die out, and so of all other animals; and, as the ages roll on, man himself will also disappear from the earth; but, all these things, together with man, will be simply moved onward and upward into a higher state and condition.

Herr Franz (Spirit)

We degrade our nature if we do not admit a mistake

Remember that when we make a mistake – as we are all liable to do – we degrade our nature if we do not admit it – if we do not make amends and try to retrieve our error.

Now this is a great truth that many overlook

If angels here simply thought only of their own progress and happiness, never looking back to aid the ones left behind, they would not be worthy of all wisdom or happiness, and consequently would be neither wise nor happy. 

Spirits and angels must work, and work continually, for there are millions of spirits here, low, ignorant, debased and degraded. These must be taught as well as the people of earth. No time for idleness here—no time for selfish enjoyment alone. We must give of our knowledge and happiness almost as fast as we receive it.

Herr Franz (Spirit)

No romances of earth can exceed, or compare with those of the celestial life.

Herr Franz (Spirit)

So weep not, lonely, desolate ones of earth

Earthly marriage is the type of the heavenly union—and you have an ancient saying, That they twain shall be one flesh, or one; and if this is true of earth, it is, in a higher degree—or a higher plane of evolution—also true.

So weep not, lonely, desolate ones of earth. A little while and the joys of a true union will be yours. A loving companion awaits you somewhere, and you will surely meet and go hand in hand throughout eternity together. The universe is not governed by accident but by eternal, underlying laws or principles which never vary in their results; neither do we speculate when we tell you from positive knowledge and experience—tell you things as we have actually found them.

Herr Franz (Spirit)

A great analogical chain runs through all nature

No law runs alone throughout the universe—but its complement, whether hidden or otherwise, is always with it and must be taken into account.

Herr Franz (Spirit)

Now, right about face!

People on earth can no more live for one world at a time than man can live for himself alone without reference to his brother man. So, dear friends, think of other worlds in connection with your own—think of the sweet bye-and-bye, and it will not only sweeten your lives but bring you near to the angels, for they are now in that which you call the sweet bye-and-bye, and the closer you come in contact with the celestial life the more celestial and the happier your own lives will be.

Herr Franz (Spirit)

We make our home according to our former habits

We make our home according to our former habits, yet we travel extensively whenever we feel inclined.

Brothers, sisters, these things are so; they are not imaginary

Teach and practice war on earth and it is continued within the heavens, often long and extensively before those engaged in it can be brought to see the error of their ways, for nature evolves slowly and a spirit does not become wise and good at one stride.

Herr Franz (Spirit)