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The spiritual world co-exists with the physical world and the universe. It is within, and around, and about, and intermingled with all physical matter.

Fragments of Spiritual Knowledge Pertaining to the Spiritual World, Benjamin F. Woodcox, Woodcox & Fanner, Battle Creek, Michigan, 1923

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Everything that belongs to the spiritual world and that contains supernatural beauty lies concealed behind the invisible. And the invisible is the spiritual.

Fragments of Spiritual Knowledge Pertaining to the Spiritual World, Benjamin F. Woodcox, Woodcox & Fanner, Battle Creek, Michigan, 1923

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The world in which we live is still at the beginning of its history, though it is many millions of years older than most of us have any idea or suspect.

Man appeared on this planet only yesterday, and tomorrow man will have disappeared, for the successor of this very remarkable species is on its way.

There are some who think that in man physical nature has reached her highest point and that nothing superior to man is to be expected, or is possible. But in this, the successor to the human species being on its way, they are mistaken.

Fragments of Spiritual Knowledge Pertaining to the Spiritual World, Benjamin F. Woodcox, Woodcox & Fanner, Battle Creek, Michigan, 1923

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The physical material universe is of no great importance in the scheme of things. It is not necessary to life, but only to the maintenance of a certain kind of life.

This universe could be blotted out of existence today and nothing would be lost. Not an atom of the invisible elements of which the physical material universe is composed would be in any way harmed or destroyed, and all could be reassembled, reformed, recreated, or made new. Such a vast change has come to pass many times in the history of the physical material universe.

If the physical material world, of which we know, were to be destroyed today and to be reformed and made new, perhaps the world that would replace it, or be made out of it, would be a much superior world to the one of which we know.

Nothing would be required in this reformation except a little time—a few thousand centuries, which compared to all eternity is not so long as one second of our time compared to the length of any one of our physical lives.

Fragments of Spiritual Knowledge Pertaining to the Spiritual World, Benjamin F. Woodcox, Woodcox & Fanner, Battle Creek, Michigan, 1923

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That which the intellect perceives in the physical world as law reveals itself to the spiritual ear as harmony, melody, and the spirit-life is guided toward the truth of things spiritual by keeping in tune with the harmonies of the spheres, or in other words, with such musical sounds as register on the spiritual ear.

We are guided along the way by melodies that grow sweeter and more sublime the nearer we approach their source—the higher spiritual planes of life.

Fragments of Spiritual Knowledge Pertaining to the Spiritual World, Benjamin F. Woodcox, Woodcox & Fanner, Battle Creek, Michigan, 1923

FRAGMENTS OF SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE 107

No spirit-life that is in human form can enter the second and higher spiritual zones, yet actual scenes from within these zones are sometimes flashed to us in moments of illumination.

In such moments, we sometimes catch glimpses of landscapes, plants, flowers, rivers, lakes and various other things that are of the second and higher spiritual zones.

The flowers of the second spiritual zone are beautiful, and in some respects resemble those of the earth plane, from which they may have come through having attained their physical completion.

I know not from whence these flowers of the second spiritual zone have come, but I know that the few varieties which it has been my pleasure to observe are very beautiful, with a delicate, spirit-like beauty that is not in form, nor shape, nor colour, and that cannot be described in words.

Unless the spiritual world has been illuminated for you, and you have caught a few glimpses of its landscapes, flowers, foliage and other life thereon, it is useless for me to continue, for I can bring to you no description that you will understand, or that will convey to you any impression whatever.

The flowers of the second spiritual zone do not grow in such profusion that they get in the way, and must be stepped upon. Rather, flowers are rarer in the second spiritual zone than here and seem to have been planted and cared for with more love and devotion than is usually bestowed upon flowers, at least upon this earth plane of ours.

Among the flowers of the second spiritual zone, there are some in shades and colours that are entirely unknown to me, some in shades and colours that I have never observed before, and know do not exist in the physical material world.

Fragments of Spiritual Knowledge Pertaining to the Spiritual World, Benjamin F. Woodcox, Woodcox & Fanner, Battle Creek, Michigan, 1923

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Intense activity upon every plane of life, and especially on the spiritual plane, tends to harmony and produces a state of rest, or rather a state of ease that greatly resembles rest, and that is very soothing and elevating.

Fragments of Spiritual Knowledge Pertaining to the Spiritual World, Benjamin F. Woodcox, Woodcox & Fanner, Battle Creek, Michigan, 1923

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The physical body that contains our spirit body, and our spirit-life, and all the elements from which other physical bodies are produced is composed largely of air, water and gases, intermingled and woven together by an intelligence that is concealed in nature, and that is working through the electromagnetic and vitochemical life elements within us. However, the spirit-life, which is us, also plays its part in the modelling and the fashioning of the physical body that is to contain it, and also those physical bodies that are to contain other spirit-lives that are journeying toward our earthland.

We have much to do with preparing the physical houses for the spirit-lives that are coming toward us, but these spirit-lives, through a law in nature, choose the avenue through which each shall enter the physical world.

We assume that we create the life that is given birth through us, but that life was created a hundred thousand centuries or more back and has been evolving toward completion through all these years, even as we are evolving toward completion.

The spirit-life that enters the physical world through a physical body of our creation does so through the law of attraction and selection, and of vibratory correspondence and, therefore, must of necessity be in some way like us.

We do not give life, but we prepare the way for the life that is evolving toward us and build the houses in which this life shall enter, and for a few brief years dwell.

Fragments of Spiritual Knowledge Pertaining to the Spiritual World, Benjamin F. Woodcox, Woodcox & Fanner, Battle Creek, Michigan, 1923

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Sounds are closely related to the physical material and do not exist, in the sense in which we know sounds, in the more rarefied atmospheres of the spiritual worlds above that of the first spiritual zone.

All spiritual zones above the first are filled with an eternal silence, in a physical sense. Yet in these zones, there are sounds, and continuous melodies, and the sweetest music, but not attuned to the physical ear, nor to the ear that has not attained to the spiritual refinement of the sphere in which the sounds exist.

In fact, there are sounds and melodies in the physical material worlds that are not attuned to the physical ear and are heard only by the spirit-lives of the first spiritual zone, and occasionally by someone in human form who spiritually is highly developed.

All nature is attuned to music and each separate thing in nature has its own melody which it prefers to render. 

Silence is merely sound that has reached a spiritual refinement; sound that is not heard except by a life of the same vibratory refinement as that of the sound that is heard through the silence—through that which to all others is silence.

Fragments of Spiritual Knowledge Pertaining to the Spiritual World, Benjamin F. Woodcox, Woodcox & Fanner, Battle Creek, Michigan, 1923

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There are zones in the physical human world as well as in the spiritual world and each of these zones is set off from the others by boundary lines that are invisible. The boundary lines of each of these physical human zones are composed of human experience, knowledge, perception, grasp; spiritual, physical and mental development and many other things besides.

Some human spirit-lives spend all of one lifetime within the boundaries of one of these physical human zones, while other spirit-lives traverse in one lifetime all of the physical human zones and arrive at death at a point in their development from which it will not be necessary for them to return again in human form to the physical material world.

Each species of life represents a zone and each zone is divided into a number of other zones, representing the different stages of development of the life of that species.

Fragments of Spiritual Knowledge Pertaining to the Spiritual World, Benjamin F. Woodcox, Woodcox & Fanner, Battle Creek, Michigan, 1923

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The human body is composed largely of water and gases—of substances of which the different particles are widely separated and so the human body and all physical bodies that contain life appear to the spiritual perception much as a phantom appears to us. That is, vaguely, indefinitely, not so clearly as most physical material substances appear.

Growing spiritually, Spiritual Growth Books, Spirit Writings, Spiritual Inspiration, Spiritual Wisdom, Spirit World, Spirit Life

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All material, be it spiritual or physical is transparent to spiritual vision. That is, it can be seen through.

Each particle of physical material is sufficiently separated from each and every other particle of physical material that to the perception of those spirit-lives that have attained to the other side, physical material as a solid does not exist but is seen as a cluster or number of physical material particles or atoms that are held more or less closely together by the law of affinity and the law of vibratory activity. And between each of these different particles of physical material, there exists a space that is sufficiently large for a spirit-life to see or to pass through.

Fragments of Spiritual Knowledge Pertaining to the Spiritual World, Benjamin F. Woodcox, Woodcox & Fanner, Battle Creek, Michigan, 1923

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Spirit-lives are sensitive to thought formations and respond instinctively to such thought desires as reach their sphere or zone of life. The spirit-lives of the first spiritual zone are sufficiently near to the physical material world—in their vibratory correspondence—that they are influenced by every thought that is thought of them or about them.

When we persistently cling to our departed loved ones in our thought and will not let them go, we tend to retard them in their spiritual development and to hold them near to us. By so doing, we do them harm and produce a condition that is temporarily fatal either to their development or to our physical material existence.

When we retard the development of spirit-lives that are in the first spiritual zone by persistently holding them near to us through our thought, we produce a condition that tends to unhappiness and that finally results either in their breaking this tie that binds them or in their pulling us over to their side of life.

Fragments of Spiritual Knowledge Pertaining to the Spiritual World, Benjamin F. Woodcox, Woodcox & Fanner, Battle Creek, Michigan, 1923

Why are there no secrets in the spiritual world?

There are no secrets in the spiritual world, for in the spiritual world all things are more nearly transparent, and thoughts, feelings, emotions and desires have form and shape and colour, and are perceivable by the spirit-life of the different spiritual zones.

To a superior intellect, there are no secrets in the physical material world, and to a spirit-life that has attained to a high state of spiritual development on the other side of life, all your secrets are revealed.

Benjamin F. Woodcox, Fragments of Spiritual Knowledge Pertaining to the Spiritual World, Woodcox & Fanner, Battle Creek, Michigan, 1923

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There is the division of sex in the spiritual world and among the spiritual creatures who have come up from this earthland and from the other physical material worlds that dot the surface of the spiritual universe. And this division of sex is of a positive and negative nature, like electricity, and has to do with the generating of vitality, light, heat and various other things in connection with the life of a spirit-life and body.

The operation of this law of sex, which brings two spirit-lives together as positive and negative vital forces in life produces that condition known on this earthland as love or sex affinity with the exception that in the spiritual universe this love or sex affinity is free from the desire for personal touch, from passion, lust and all the other things that tend to mar love on this earthland of ours.

The selection and union in the spiritual world of positive and negative spirit-lives through the operation of sex affinity or love is brought about in part by the law of vibratory correspondence, which declares that only elements or lives attuned to the same number of vibrations per second can unite and become as one.

In the spiritual world and throughout the spiritual universe, as well as here in this earthland, there are sex and sex affinity and love between different spirit-lives and marriage and all that goes to make up a perfect union and happiness except that which must yet be attained through a higher state of spiritual development and a transportation to higher spiritual zones.

Fragments of Spiritual Knowledge Pertaining to the Spiritual World, Benjamin F. Woodcox, Woodcox & Fanner, Battle Creek, Michigan, 1923

Do spirit-lives foresee approaching events?

The spirit-lives of the first spiritual zone are able to foresee events that are approaching you, and can on occasions convey to you some inkling of their approach. 

But these spirit-lives have no power to prevent the happening of that which is to be.

However, there are some exceptions to this rule. 

Much depends upon whether that which is to happen to you is the result of the violation of some of nature's laws, or whether the danger that is approaching is coming from a source that is outside you and within the realm of the merely chance happenings of life.

In the latter case, you may be saved if you receive the warning in time and act upon it.

Benjamin F. Woodcox, Fragments of Spiritual Knowledge Pertaining to the Spiritual World, Woodcox & Fanner, Battle Creek, Michigan, 1923

What are the sorrow-loving spiritual entities?

There are spirit-lives in the first spiritual zone that have a morbid desire and curiosity to witness human sorrow, suffering, and even tragedy and death, and these diseased spirit-lives are often found in homes of sorrow and tragedy, and in homes toward which these evils are approaching.

I have on a number of occasions observed one or more of these spirit-lives in homes of sorrow, and have—on a number of other occasions—been able even to foresee the approach of a tragedy within a home by having observed the presence of one or more of these spirit-lives. 

Yet I do not fully understand these lives. 

However, I know that they are earthbound spirits of a very low order who, in their former life, committed some peculiarly atrocious crime or caused great human suffering to someone, and who, therefore, have a morbid curiosity to study the things that caused their downfall and delayed them in their spiritual development.

These sorrow-loving or morbidly-curious spirit-lives of the first spiritual zone—or rather those that I have had an occasion to observe—were quiet, silent, unobtrusive, dark and brooding spiritual entities, clothed in raiment of the darker shades, resembling black and brown intermingled.

Benjamin F. Woodcox, Fragments of Spiritual Knowledge Pertaining to the Spiritual World, Woodcox & Fanner, Battle Creek, Michigan, 1923

Why are messages from 100-plus spirit-lives seldom received?

You seldom receive messages from spirit-lives that departed this earth-life a hundred or more years ago because all such spirit-lives have either again returned to earth to complete their evolution or have attained to a point in the spiritual world from which they are not likely to communicate with you.

Benjamin F. Woodcox, Fragments of Spiritual Knowledge Pertaining to the Spiritual World, Woodcox & Fanner, Battle Creek, Michigan, 1923

Are there colour lines in the spiritual world?

In the spiritual world, there are no races, nationalities, nor colour lines. 

Yet, in the spiritual universe, as well as in the physical material worlds, there is a very wide range of differently developed spirit-lives and bodies, owing to the point that each has attained in its development.

The higher, in the scale of spiritual development, a spirit-life is, the more beautiful does it become, and the nearer does it approach to the likeness of its Creator.

It would be impossible to convey to an earthbound creature even the slightest conception of the beauty of a spirit-life that is approaching completion on any of the higher spiritual planes. 

The brilliancy of the light emitted from the spirit body of a highly developed spirit-life would prevent a human from approaching sufficiently close to behold or to form an exact idea of the beauty of such a being.

Benjamin F. Woodcox, Fragments of Spiritual Knowledge Pertaining to the Spiritual World, Woodcox & Fanner, Battle Creek, Michigan, 1923

The World of Consequences!

Since the word hell seems to have become objectionable with well-bred people, let me suggest their calling this place The World of Consequences!

Letters from Hell, L. W. J. S., Richard Bentley & Son, London, 1889