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

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

Go, tell the good news — the good news!

Gospel! Good news! Jesus still lives; and if Jesus still lives, we also shall live. This is evidence to our material senses. It is positive evidence, for we have seen him, had hold of him, and heard him talk. Now he is in that place where spirits dwell, and there are many mansions there. If he can come again, we also can come again. Go, tell the good news—the good news!

Robert G. Ingersoll (Spirit)

The spiritual spheres must consist of something tangible

The spiritual spheres must consist of something tangible or the earth could not hold them around it.

The medium before-mentioned says that we have neither cold, heat, nor storms of any kind. Now we beg to differ, for we are here and know about it. That we do not have the coarser earthly storm, we admit; that the elements do not war so violently as on earth, we also admit; but it is not one eternal, everlasting day of intense light here, no more than there. We have a soft dew and many light clouds; we also have gentle rain and sometimes there is quite a breeze, for we have a spiritual atmosphere. Of course it is very refined and rare but it is as real to us as the earth's atmosphere is to earth. We also have heat and cold. In fact, heat and cold do not really originate on earth at all; then why suppose that we are not to a certain degree, subject to them both? But such is the case, whether accepted by man or not, he will soon find it out when he gets here. Moreover, we must have homes wherein to educate and care for children, youths and maidens. They are coming here at all times and seasons.

Now, if your astronomers can see, with the aid of the telescope, nebulae, millions of miles from the earthly sphere, why should it not be accepted that we here in the celestial life have fleecy clouds and gentle rain? exceedingly rarefied to be sure, to suit the rare condition of our ethereal atmosphere. Our atmosphere is, after all, some thing more than ether—it is ethereal hut more dense, or different from the fundamental ether.

Herr Franz (Spirit)

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.

Thoughts are really things and very tangible ones too

Thoughts are really things and very tangible ones too.

Thoughts are things that can be seen

Thoughts are things that can be seen and enjoyed by all spiritual beings.

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)

Do you think that orange groves belong only to earth?

Beauty is not confined to earth, else heaven would not be as beautiful. If heaven had no flowers the most of the women and children would rather remain on earth, for a sucking babe cares nothing for ambient ether, but it'will clutch, with its little hands, eagerly at a flower. Most women and girls would be very unhappy if their eyes could never look upon flowers.

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.

Wisdom, love and truth – all things can be compressed in those three words

Wisdom, love and truth – all things can be compressed in those three words.

Herr Franz (Spirit)