Is there an end to space?

Entirely free from earthly faults, you are enabled to feel God's tender mercy more readily enter your being, quivering through you with electrical thrills. 

Gentle waves they are, which make you float the faster and lighter. 

Motion here is all of a gliding form―free and smooth―nothing abrupt. 

You hasten, but never rush.

Through this perpetual and beautiful glow, spirit-lives move  by millions―yet never crowded―for there is no end to the space about them―

All is beautiful and without vacancy, as you might think when I say no end to space. 

Every direction is filled with untold beauty.

It is a glorified existence for spirit-lives to be here in this wonderful home―an everlasting form of peace is theirs. 

Their hearts and minds are ever on their upward flight to greater improvement.

―Spirit Clifford

I will tell you, my pretty girls.

 

How are the women in the celestial world clothed? 

How do they wear their hair? 

Do they wear shoes?

Spirit Herfronzo explains―

We have never yet met a soul unclothed except in the lowest sphere. 

The higher and more exalted the angel, the more beautiful their clothing, for it is from the emanations of their love, truth and wisdom that they are clothed. 

Well, you ask, what is their general appearance―or rather how are the women in the celestial world clothed?

Their garments are soft and flowing―floating about them in exquisite grace, and we have never yet seen two of the same colour―

The style and colour correspond to the soul, and as no two souls are alike, so no two garments are exactly alike, yet all are flowing.

How do they wear their hair? 

This is an all-important question with many women of earth. 

I will tell you, my pretty girls.

The angels wear their hair as nature intended all women should―flowing about their shoulders in beauty. 

There are those who braid it slightly and tie a ribbon about it, but such have not been long in spirit-life, and still retain some of the earthly habits. 

We are well aware when spiritual-beings present themselves before the clairvoyant sight of mediums―

They appear clothed, as they were wont to be clothed on earth, but they merely assume the garb that they may be recognised, and throw it off immediately thereafter.

We shall not speak of many of the miserable, misguided creatures of the lower sphere―or of the earthly sphere, for we do not like to allow the mind to dwell on impure subjects.

Do the angels wear shoes? 

They wear something that corresponds to soft sandals, which is usually of a rose colour and soft bands of rose-coloured ribbons that confine them to the feet, yet this is not invariably the rule. 

Sometimes, a soul is so engrossed―or enwrapped about that nothing is visible, but a figure of light, and when startled, a beautiful angelic face peeps forth at the beholding intruder.

The garments of those who dwell in the grand zone are so dazzling in splendour that a man of earth could not behold them and yet remain within the fleshly form.

The clothing of the men differs little from that of the women. 

Their garments also flow about them, but more in a belted style, not as long―or flowing as those of the women―of graver hue, usually not quite as beautiful. 

They do not cut their hair―or beard, but wear it as nature intended―full and flowing. 

No two are exactly alike, for all things and creatures in nature differ. 

How do angels wear their hair?

How do they wear their hair? 

Do angels wear shoes?

Do angels wear shoes?

What is alotted to angels?

There is no sweeter mission allotted to angels than that of helping those who have fallen into the pit of sin and darkness. 

Gazing down from their holy heavens, their humane natures are awakened at the spiritual weaknesses below, and the full power of their sanctifying influence is exerted to restore the fallen to purity and holiness of life, and to a higher condition in the Father's Kingdom.

What is the marriage question?

In all ages of the civilised world, the marriage―or union of a man and woman has been observed as a time of joy and rejoicing and worship and praise to the Great Father of All has been one of the accompanying ceremonies. 

The reason is obvious and beautifully appropriate. 

God―the First Cause of All―the Father and Mother of every living thing―is in this union more truly typified than in any other event on your mundane sphere. 

And the marriage is more sanctified and hallowed when His presence and His goodness is recognised and invoked to bless these earthly types of Him, that they, like Him in their sphere, may fructify and replenish the earth with new recipients of His bounty and untiring love. 

No one who thinks rightly on this subject can wish the marriage ceremony omitted. 

No right-feeling man―or woman would be contented in such an unblessed, unsanctified state. 

To me, my friends, it appears the most solemn―the most important―both to yourselves and your unborn children, and if rightly entered upon, the most joyful ceremony that can be performed upon your sphere. 

And while we would have no oaths―no bonds of man's devising to cement it―we would have it observed with all dignified solemnity. 

The prayers and good wishes of the assembled friends should bless the day and the Holy Spirit of God be called down to sanctify and purify the newly-married ones for the journey of life that is before them.

The day should be one to be remembered by the parties in a reverent manner and they must feel that they have undertaken responsibilities, which they cannot and would not lay aside. 

There being no oath―or law to bind them must make no difference to them in this matter―

They have a moral law in their own souls and by that they must stand.

In the early stages of this reform movement, parties may find that they have been mistaken in the choice they have made, and when this is the case, let them examine themselves carefully before they make known their difficulties, and when they are convinced that they are unconquerable, quietly and decently separate before children who may be tainted with their parents' discordant feelings are born to them. 

It can only be for a short time that such ruptures of the marriage-tie will occur, for as men and women develop and assume their true position, they will be more particular and more clear-sighted in this, as in everything else, and will know by intuitive perceptions who is their true affinity.

We would show you that there is no union so blessed and hallowed by God as the married one and of what importance it is for each one who thinks of entering into it to examine thoroughly and ascertain to his or her satisfaction that the party selected is the one intended for them―

That they are truly congenial and that they love them with an undying and well-founded affection that can never know change. 

Then there will be no cause of fear for the results―

They are sure to prove happy ones. 

Worldly trials and cares may sometimes darken over their peaceful lives, but sustained by a love such as I have been picturing to you, they cannot injure their permanent and well-grounded felicity.

―Mary Magdalene (In Spirit)

Who do you have for your ideal?

You have Jesus for your Ideal. 

He said―

I sanctify myself―

So perfect was his consecration. 

After his death, when his disciples were assembled at the familiar meal, so fraught with tender associations, He appeared in their midst simply to impress his teachings upon them and fill their hearts with peace―to breathe upon them His Holy Spirit and charge them to be faithful to the light they had received. 

Nor do you find them waiting in the dark for him to come again, but working through trial and persecution to advance the coming of His Kingdom. 

This is the only true Spiritualism.

Light onthe Hidden Way

What is the promise given to all?

This is the promise given to all who are willing to climb. 

Nothing will be withheld from those who seek―if courage is needed, that greater courage, which is of the Spirit, will be your own, and the brightest of the Master's Presence will hallow and sanctify the path you tread.

What can triumph over the terrors of Nature?

 

What is death?

Nothing, but the separation of the soul from its earthly case.

What becomes of the case when it is cast aside?

Does it vanish from God's creation?

No, it falls to dust and ashes and is mingled with the rest of the earth whose nutritive elements formed it in the beginning.

It does not leave creation, but remains there awaiting another destiny.

But what becomes of the soul stripped of its veil? 

Does it vanish from God's creation? 

Oh, no! How could it be possible for the nobler element to cease to exist when the viler is imperishable?

Must we believe that it has been removed from the infinite multitude of created beings because it has thrown off the veil through which it alone could reveal its presence to our senses? 

No, it lives, for its very dust, which once served to enwrap it, still exists. 

It lives, for God creates and does not annihilate. 

It lives, for, in His sovereign wisdom, He could not repent in any sort for the high destiny for which He gave it being.

Is it then so painful to cast off this earthly veil? 

In truth, the natural love of life, which the Creator has so deeply implanted within you inspires you with fear at the idea of parting with your mortal form, but the power of the human mind can triumph over the terrors of nature. 

How many generous men have faced death for their God—country—faith—their friends? 

Death had no terrors for them. 

How many poor, weak, degenerate beings—driven by despair—have voluntarily laid down the life, which had become a burden to them?

Dying men do not dissimulate and we can judge by their features what is going on in their mind. 

From such study, it would seem almost as if the soul must experience an agreeable sensation at the moment it lays aside its mortal spoil, for it has been often observed that the features of persons dying of painful maladies assume at the final instant an expression of calm serenity, while a peaceful smile quivers on the lips of the lifeless body, left there by the departing soul—

A smile which seems to say—

Ah, what relief!

—Queen Victoria In Spirit

—The Encyclopaedia of Death and Life in the Spirit World—Opinions and Experiences from Eminent Sources