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28 February 2024

Is the spirit-world something or nothing?


My first proposition is this

The spirit world is somethingor it is nothing. 

There is a spirit worldor 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. 

Anythingeverythingcan 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 growthor 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 shrubseven to the tiny mosses and lichens.

All things separateeach 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 upwardnor does it pause until it strikes the spirit-land. 

The animal has a certain amount of intelligence and finds its place according to its attractionsa 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 songsthey 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.

23 January 2023

The Devil's golden hoofs are relentless.

Each and every man who tramples upon and robs his brother, whatever method he may employ, is a personal Devil, and his golden hoofs are hard and relentless.

Spirit Robert G. Ingersoll

Caye Caulker, Belize Barrier Reef | dronepicr/Wikimedia Commons | (CC BY 2.0)

21 February 2014

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 — 

Vengeance is mine and I will repay, saith the Lord of hosts

Vengeance is mine and I will repay, saith the Lord of hosts.

The true meaning of that saying is this — The Lord of hosts is the principle which governs them. If they are governed by the principles of war, hate and slaughter, those principles will turn again and rend them, for they are the principles of vengeance, or revenge, and nothing that is revengeful can be Christ-like or truly spiritual, and when the war spirit governs a nation, by war, or the same principle, shall it be laid low; and those nations that have warred the most vengefully shall be warred upon with more vengeance than any others and shall be conquered and laid waste, for a great natural law or principle can never work otherwise.

Madam — 

02 February 2014

Sisters, if you suffer under such horrors, read Oceanides

In Oceanides, spirit author, Professor Franz Petersilea, shows us what a woman once suffered from the abuse her husband heaped upon her – bound in a miserable union with an uncongenial partner. Sisters, if you suffer under such horrors, as thousands do at the present day, read Oceanides – it will comfort you. If you wish to see the spiritual world as it is and the happiness and joy that is yet in store for you, read the book, for it was written in a spirit of love and the book will comfort and bless all who read it if read in the right spirit. 

01 February 2014

The Law of Gravitation

A Series of Letters from the Spirit of a Well-known Lady 

Letter Number Thirteen

At this writing I wish to tell you about the attraction of gravitation. First I shall make an assertion, and the assertion shall be a most truthful one. Perhaps not many have thought much about it. All the better; you want new thoughts. Never run in an eternal treadmill of old thoughts. Try to get fresh, new ones, and if you try you will find an eternal supply ever ready to be received, and eager to be put to the best use possible. But, put your thoughts to the test—try them in the light of your highest wisdom and reason—and if they stand the test, then are they true.

My assertion is this—The earth has the power of drawing and holding to itself all material things. The spiritual world has the same power of drawing and holding to itself all spiritual things. One attracts heavy or coarse matter, the other fine, sublimated matter, and the attraction of gravitation of the one is as powerful as the other—no, that is not quite exact—one is far more powerful than the other. The spiritual realm is far more powerful than the coarser and heavier earth.

Why, the spiritual realm is attracting and holding countless billions of tons of attenuated matter every day, and yet with this great truth staring them in the face, some doubt the existence of a spiritual world. Every blade of grass, every leaf of vegetation, tree and shrub, every stream, river, pond, and all large bodies of water, are being drawn upward as rapidly as the sun and air can do it. To be sure a very large part of the water condenses, and when it becomes too heavy for the upper air is attracted back to earth, but not nearly all of it—much, very much never condenses sufficiently to be attracted back to earth, consequently is attracted by the higher, lighter spirit world, and as I stated in a former letter, becomes subject to the natural laws appertaining to that world—and what of the countless tons of other matter that is being drawn upward every day? Can the most learned of men on earth deny this statement? No, sirs, you cannot. Then why don't you tell the people something about it? Why don't you tell them what becomes of all these countless billions of tons of matter that are being drawn upward each day of the year?

Now, I, Madam —, a spirit, challenge the whole world of learned men to contradict my assertion. I want you to contradict it. Still, I would like you to contradict me in a gentlemanly manner. I expect you to treat me as gentlemen should treat each other, or as gentlemen treat ladies, even if I am a spirit lady.

When I was with you in the form I exacted gentle manners and kind treatment, and was ever ready to be gentle and kind to those who were gentle and kind to me. But, to take opposite sides in a debate is all right, and we can use any arguments we please if we do not descend to personal abuse, remembering that you have no more right to abuse a spirit, because it has left the body, than you have if it stood before you in the flesh, for it is a person the same as yourself. The reason why I want to be contradicted is that I wish to agitate the minds of the people of earth on this all-important subject.

When one speaks of the spirit world as anything tangible and real, as having land, water, hills, dales, grass, flowers, trees, buildings, schools, and so forth, others look upon them as lunatics fit for an asylum. Then, again, there are thousands of so-called Spiritualists whose ideas are exceedingly vague and uncertain; they look upon the spirit world as a vapourish kind of spookland, which amounts to a certain kind of nothingness, wherein formless, invisible spirits, who amount to little else than nothing, forever aimlessly float about, progressing toward nothingness.

Now you may each and all declare that you don't think so; but what the world wants is something definite, and there is nothing easier than to arrive at what you do want.

There is nothing indefinite in nature, neither in the spirit world nor in the earthly world, and one is as definite as the other, one is as real as the other, and I want those who do not think so to prove to the contrary, if they are able, and I will prove the opposite, for I am able.

Tell me, ye sages – What becomes of all the countless millions and billions of tons of matter that rise up from your earth at all times and seasons? You may reply that it remains a formless, conglomerate mass, but I assert to the contrary. You may say that it all returns back to the earth, but I say to the contrary. You may say, as you are in the habit of doing, that it is worked over and over again, but I say no, no, no, and reiterate, no! and just here is where you savants make your mistake.

A portion of the grosser elements are attracted and drawn back to earth, those that by the law of natural affinity belong to earth, but not the finer, the more sublimated, the spiritual; that is attracted and held by the spirit world. And now let me tell you another great fact – Your earth grows larger and lighter every year. Two or three millions of years ago your earth was not as large as it is today, and it was much heavier and coarser than at present; its mountains were higher and more abrupt; its surface more rocky, its volcanoes far more numerous and active, and many spurted forth boiling water well mixed with rock and sand and often much bituminous matter. Now»if your earth does not weigh nearly as much today as it did some millions of years' ago, where is its lost surplus weight? Nothing is lost—nothing can be lost—but it has gone somewhere, it is going somewhere every day. Of course it will be eons of ages, to man, before it will all be spiritualised, but in the meantime what has become of this enormous bulk of matter that it has already lost? Let me tell you—let me whisper it softly in your ear – It has gone to form beautiful, exquisite, sublimated material, ethereal, spiritual spheres or zones, which lie all around the earth in different stratas, one above another; the first commencing just beyond the dense atmosphere of earth.

Now I want some of you savants to contradict me in a kind way, so that you may not raise my ire and indignation, for I am not yet beyond indignation and I cannot say when I shall be. I have not yet found any spirit who is, for if they were beyond feeling they would cease to feel love, in fact, cease to have any feelings whatever. Perhaps you may say that I cannot prove that the earth is lighter in weight and larger in circumference than it was some few millions of years ago; but I think I can.

A porous body is lighter than a solid one, and the earth is more porous, by far, today, than it was a few million years ago. Sponge is lighter than rock, and the earth is far spongier than it once was. A thistle-down is lighter than a pebble of the same size. The earth is more downy, by far, than it once was. Anything which is pulverised occupies a larger area, or takes up more space than that which is compact and solid.

Can anyone deny that the earth has been pulverising for millions of years? There was a time when the whole face of the earth was a vast body of rock and water, and, my friends, it was not nearly as large as it is at present, besides it had not on its whole surface so much as a particle of moss, and not a living thing within its waters for they were at the boiling point and could not sustain life. Life came later when they were cool enough; and moss could not grow upon the rocks because they were too hot, it could not form until they cooled a little, and at that time, my friends, the earth had not a spiritual sphere about it. The moon has no spiritual sphere at present, that is in store for it. But as soon as the germs of life could develop, the spiritual spheres began to form, yet this period is so remotely in the past that finite man can scarcely conceive of it, or infinite man with his present limitations; moreover, all planets which are nearest the sun are heavier and smaller than those farther away; those far on beyond the earth are larger and lighter even than the earth. These facts alone ought to be proof
enough of the truth of my assertion.

Jupiter weighs far less than the earth according to its bulk, being a more perfect world and not a mass of fire as some may think. They are simply mistaken, that is all, and reason from wrong premises. A world cannot be made from fire, for fire is combustion, it destroys and scatters instead of coalescing and condensing.

No world is made of fire. Fire is simply an effect. Something is being consumed by the action, or driven apart, or changed into an elementary state; consequently one can see at a glance that the solid, compact earth cannot be made of fire, or fire-mist, but by the attraction and coalescing of atoms, which contain all the principles of earthly matter.

But, even at this, the earth is a secondary world, being a child of the sun, or a ring cast off from the sun, but the sun was first formed in the way above mentioned. Of course I cannot enter into a very long dissertation in this short letter, hut Professor Franz Petersilea has written it all out in his books. Oceanides, one of his books, will tell you all about it in the most charming way possible. It only costs fifty cents. Get it and read it. It will also show you what a woman once suffered from the intemperance of her husband, and the abuse he heaped upon her. Get it, 0, ye women who are supinely suffering under such horrors, as thousands of you are at the present day, although this happened many years ago.

But you, egotistical men. I warn you not to read it.

Ye dames who are happy and have good husbands, or even passable ones, you need not get it. It is not meant or written for you. But you, my poor, suffering sisters, tied to drunkenness and debauchery, squeeze out fifty cents and go buy it. It will do you good. It will show you the spirit world as it is—it will show you the happiness and joy that is yet in store for you. You can get it from the office of The Progressive Thinker, and every book purchased may the blessings of the angel world rest upon the purchaser. Read it and they will—be sure of that. The angels wrote it or caused it to be written, for a comfort and blessing to you, and they will comfort and bless all who read it if they read it in the right spirit, for in the spirit of love was it written. The one through whom it was written would give it without money and without price, but it has cost him a number of hundreds of dollars,which he earned in other ways, and he can illy afford to lose them, for it costs money to live in the material world; but this book was not written for the purpose of making money out of mediumship. He only desires to, receive back that which the book cost him in actual cash, for, owing to the prejudice of the world against Spiritualism, he cannot earn the money he once could. But I am diverging from my subject, which I will continue in my next letter.

Yours Truly, 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 —

The Thought Body

A Series of Letters from the Spirit of a Well-known Lady  

Letter Number Twelve

In my last letter I wrote of the sublimated material spiritual body, of the thought body, of the astral body, and the ego or soul; and fearing that I may be misunderstood, let me here say that on earth a man has a body of bones, a body of flesh, a body of nerves, a body of veins and arteries, and a body of skin, or the epidermis, and these various bodies go to make up his material form; but within that material form is a sensational or spiritual body, a thought body, an astral body, and the ego, or soul, yet all these are apparently within one body, for only one form is visible to the sight. So in spirit life, there is but one form apparent, yet this form is composed of spiritualised material substance—or like the epidermis—a fine spirit body, a thought body, and an astral body, together with the soul.

Therefore one can see that as Lady — and I grew wiser in spiritual knowledge we began to take on the more dense, sublimated material, spiritual body; consequently, each time we visited the spheres, it became more and more difficult for us to return to earth in our sublimated material forms, and at last we left the house in Russia altogether, for the spirit realm was so entrancingly beautiful, its homes so exquisite and refined, that earth and its scenes became more and more distasteful to us, almost disgustingly coarse, and really much of it quite so, and at last if we returned at all it must be in our attenuated spirit bodies, leaving our more dense bodies at rest in the spiritual realm. Besides, it now must be for a purpose, or some strong magnetic attraction must draw us, such as a powerful love of some kind, or that we have some especial mission or duty to perform, or we could join a band of spirits or angels for the same purpose, in that way becoming stronger and more powerful for the performance of good works. Our sensitive says we flit back and forth like birds. But when we are engaged in writing a message we remain for an hour or more as the occasion requires.

Now I am here at this moment because I have a mission and duty to perform for those who are still in the material body, being one of the spirits or angels commissioned to give truth to the world below our own.

There is one idea that is at present being given forth to the world as a great scientific fact, while in reality it is scientific nonsense; and that is, that the minutest atom of matter is possessed of a certain amount of intelligent spirit.

0, what balderdash! Matter is matter, and spirit is spirit, and soul is soul. Spirit and soul clothe themselves with matter, and only the spirit and soul are intelligent. Matter possesses no intelligence of any kind, and speaking closer to the point, nothing possesses intelligence but the soul. The spirit is simply the soul's vehicle and matter its clothing. Does clothing or a dress possess intelligence? Bah! Can learned nonsense go farther into ridiculousness? One would think that there existed no air, no ether, nothing but matter—matter! and that all life first existed within matter, and spirit, intelligence, and soul was evolved from matter, whereas it is exactly the contrary.

Life—intelligence—soul—exists first within the air—the ether. It picks up matter as a rag to cover it, that it may dwell within materiality for a season until it is grown or developed. And this applies to the smallest thing that has life. It is life itself, and it is surprising that Spiritualists, of all others, should accept such nonsense. When the air and earth, or matter, kiss each other, then there is a marriage, and then life and intelligence enter earth, or matter, and only then. Take away the germs of life that exist within the air or the ether and matter would remain forever sterile. Take some earth, for instance, destroy all the germs that it might possibly contain—but here I wish to add, they are not destroyed, merely driven out or back into the ether—then seal up this matter so that not a particle of air or ether can touch it, and it would remain forever without life or intelligence.

Spiritualists, I, Madam, caution you – Do not drift into such materialistic nonsense. Return, my beloved, into true spiritual Spiritualism. It would be far better and even nearer the truth, if you were to believe as you formerly did, that God in person breathed the breath of life into man. But Professor Petersilea has already informed you—as I read in the mind of the medium—that all spiritual, or soul germs, are inhaled, or enter matter through the breathing process; or by the flower attracting and holding the germs of its own kind or species, which afterward bear seed, and seed is merely a living germ embedded deeply in matter, and the germs are all and wholly within the air or ether; it is simply the process by which germ life and matter meet and blend, or the spiritual intelligence buries or clothes itself, and in my last letter I told you of the emanations arising from the earth, which is merely the developed life and intelligence arising again into the air or ether. It really seems to me now, that such a great truth cannot but strike home to every reasoning mind. Besides, no earth whatever has life upon it of any kind that has not an atmosphere. You say the moon has no life upon it because it has no atmosphere; and you are right. Life does not reside within the bulk of its matter, or material substance, but if it had an atmosphere life would soon find lodgment there; be sure of that.

Now, someone says – But it is surrounded by ether. Very true; but ether must convey life to matter through the atmospheric principle, through that principle by which life must be sustained and exist within matter. Even in the spiritual realm we have a refined and rare atmosphere entirely distinct from ether.

If you, as Spiritualists, drift back into materiality our fifty years of labour will be lost to you. Science never yet gave you the great truths of Spiritualism. Science might delve a thousand years—aye, even more—and not be any nearer the truth. Fact is, it is just as likely to burrow downward—even more likely—than to rise upward into the heavens of spirituality. It is like a blind mole digging away at matter without a ray of light to illumine its pathway, with the mind forever looking downward instead of upward, and it is folly to say that life commences and originates within a cell of matter, and the two cells meeting, and so forth. It does not. I, Madam , a spirit, tell you so and I tell you the truth, whether you accept it or not.

Sperm is formed in the blood, or takes on its first material clothing in the blood, and the invisible spermatozoas or germs are in the air and ether, and are taken in with the breath, clothed with matter in the blood, are then injected into an egg or ovum, which is simply food and clothing for it to develop in. Now when science begins here it will come out all right and very little burrowing will have to be done, for it will be working in the light of a great spiritual truth, and a truth that science never did nor never will give you without this light. They tell you that fish can be produced without milt, by certain chemicals, but they cannot keep fish alive, or the eggs of fish, without water; and as milt is invisible in the water, or we may call it spermatozoa, can any one say that it may not be in the water instead of in the chemicals? Whatever they may try to prove to the contrary, old Mother Nature will work her mill—the mill of life—just as she does at present, ten thousand years from now, the great new discovery of creating life to the contrary.

Most people are afraid to write against a great, scientific discovery, as they term it, but I, a spirit, am not afraid to write against it, for it is not true, and it is one of my duties as a spirit messenger to write against that which is not true and to write that which I know to be true.

Then one hears so much about differentiation, whatever that may mean, but the way it is put it is perfectly meaningless. A million or more, or many millions of entirely different forms of life all being produced from the word differentiation. Can unmeaningness go any farther? Or two cells starting exactly alike differentiating into a number of millions of different forms. 0, consistency, what a jewel thou art! But here is the truth; accept it or not, as you please.

The germs of all things that exist in nature, exist in the atmosphere, each distinct as to its kind and species, and they have existed from all eternity and were different, from the beginning. Yet we as spirits cannot conceive of a beginning. Germinal life is co-existent with spirit and matter. 

Yours truly, MADAM

Germinal life is co-existent with spirit and matter

The germs of all things that exist in nature, exist in the atmosphere, each distinct as to its kind and species, and they have existed from all eternity and were different, from the beginning. Yet we as spirits cannot conceive of a beginning. Germinal life is co-existent with spirit and matter. 

Madam —

The Startling Truth

A Series of Letters from the Spirit of a Well-known Lady  

Letter Number Eleven

I am about to write something in this letter that may not meet the views of most Spiritualists, and I doubt very much if any will believe me. Nevertheless, I shall write nothing but the truth.

Any truth when first given to those of earth from the spheres is met in an antagonistic spirit, but if we ceased to give of our knowledge to the earthly world on that account no progress would be made there.

The startling truth I have to give is this — 

No spiritual being ever yet returned to earth in its real, tangible, spiritual body. I mean its sublimated material body—the body that it at length takes on after being here quite a length of time. Do not start at this assertion and say that I am a falsifier, or that I contradict myself, as I have already told you that Lady — and I went back to earth and dwelt in a sequestered home in Russia. But Lady — and I had not yet taken on our sublimated material spiritual bodies; we were yet simply spirits without density and were not yet grown or covered by tangible bodies. That was still in store for us. To the spirits in the spheres we yet appeared pale, fluttering, weak and vapourish; fluctuating, undecided, for we as new-born spirits were in this condition. A spirit appears precisely like what it is. No one on earth expects a new-born babe to be like a large, solid man or woman; it is small, soft and tender. I do not mean that our bodies were small, they were exact counterparts of what our earthly bodies had been, minus decrepitude and age, but they were not yet firm, condensed and beautiful as they were at length destined to be.

And now you ask me – What kind of a spirit body is it, then, that returns to earth? and I reply – A soul can clothe itself in various bodies, or rather it has various bodies. It has a thought body, an astral body, a spiritual, vapourish body, and a sublimated material spiritual body; and it is this last body that never returns to earth. While you are on earth in the fleshly form you have all these bodies, but are not yet conscious of them; still, the world is getting there very fast. You talk of telepathy. Well, that is the action of the thought body. You talk of etherealisation. Well, that is the astral body—when it is genuine. You talk of an intangible, impalpable spiritual presence. Well, that is the thin, vapourish body, and this sometimes takes on from those sitting in a circle a materialised body—and it is just here that I shall prove to you the truth of what I say.

If an impalpable spiritual body can for a short time clothe itself with material substance on earth, can it not form and wear a body within the spheres, of sublimated material substance?

Whatever you may think, such is the fact. But this body cannot, and does not return to earth. It must
remain, necessarily, beyond the attraction of gravitation, else it would be injured; for it is dense enough to receive injury were it to strike the hard, revolving earth.

My friends, the thought body returns, the astral body returns, and the vapourish spiritual body returns; but not the real, sublimated material spiritual body. The soul desires to return to earth. It leaves its dense body here in the spheres and goes forth clothed in its thought, astral and vapourish bodies, or rather it is covered by these bodies. The astral corresponds to the ether, the vapourish to the vapour, and the thought body to the thought, while the exquisite, sublimated material spiritual body is at rest here like one of earth who is sleeping. For instance – I, Madam, am here with this sensitive now, controlling to write; but, before coming here for that purpose, I said in my mind or with my thought body – I am now going down to earth to write a message to the people, consequently I went and laid myself down, as one does who goes to sleep on earth, and my sublimated material body is asleep, or unconscious, while I am doing this. I sent forth my thought, it took with it my astral body and my vapourish, spiritual body, but the other body it must leave behind, then when I return I shall awake, or, rather, my various bodies will once more be joined together and I shall arise and go about my business in the spheres.

I hope I have made this clear to the most obtuse mind. I have tried to at least.

Now if earthly emanations condense here in the spheres, as they certainly do, and we have animals, vegetation, water, land and homes, you must see that our bodies must correspond, and that if we could take these bodies with us to earth, of course we could take—as those of earth do when they journey—many other things besides. So by this you perceive that I have told you a great truth. How glad I am that so great and good a man as the Rev. Heber Newton has told his people, that in the heavenly world there are homes and employments similar to those of earth, for he has voiced a great, grand, eternal truth.

Yes, friends, we have all these things here in the spheres. If we only understood the Christians better, and they understood us better, we should scarcely disagree in anything. Professor Franz Petersilea tried to tell you of some of these halls, homes, institutions of learning, and so forth, and his heart is grieved and sore because he has been met by many in such a spirit of intolerance, the same spirit that you Spiritualists accuse the Christians of. We advise to pluck the beam from your own eyes before looking for the mote in your brother's eyes.

Those great and good men, Rev. Heber Newton, and Rev. Minot Savage, are more tolerant, by far, than the most so-called Spiritualists. It seems that most Spiritualists cannot and will not accept any truth beyond that which they think they already know, yet they are continually talking of progression. If they will not accept any new truth which may be given, where is the progress, pray? Now there is just one point more that I wish to touch upon, and it is this – Franz Petersilea tried to tell how we build our homes in the spheres, and immediately there arose the cry – Insane spirits! for it is nothing but insanity for a spirit to build his home within his mind and then reside within it as the insane of earth imagine they have what they have not.

If anything can be more material and obtuse than that, I should like to know it. And yet these same people will tell you of shining spiritual cities, and houses not made with hands, eternal and in the heavens. O consistency, thou art a jewel when found!

How do these intolerant, fault-finding ones think our houses and. cities are built? Do they suppose they are built of brick, stone and mortar, or wood—that the workmen use plane, saw and trowel, ladders and derricks, together with all the paraphernalia that is made use of on earth? Do they think we burn brick, mix lime and cement, cut down trees, have planing and saw mills, make shingles, and so forth? If they do, then I reply, We do not.

How, then, do they build these homes and shining cities? They build them within the mind. Thoughts are things and go forth from the mind, and from the desire of the mind, or, rather, the force or will-power exercised they are clothed with sublimated material and become real. Do you call a man of earth insane because he first builds his house in his mind and then clothes it with brick, stone, and mortar or wood, glass, and so forth? But the house must be planned, or built in the mind first, or there can be no house. Throw brick, lime and mortar together promiscuously, and see if it will build itself. No, friends; all things, except natural things, must first exist in the mind or thought, to be clothed upon by material or spiritual substance, as the case may be. It is only an obtuse and intolerant spirit that can think or talk otherwise.

Rev. Heber Newton also referred to the employments of heaven, saying that they were similar to those of earth; and a greater truth was never uttered, for they are, indeed. There is not a trade, art or employment of earth that we do not have here, with this difference – we do not work with the hands, but with the mind, the thought, the spirit, and these thoughts take on tangible shape and are clothed with sublimated or spiritual substance, and you of earth must perceive this great truth.

How can we cut down a spiritual tree, or kill a spiritual animal, or burn brick and so forth? Spiritual life of any kind cannot be taken. If it could, the life of a spiritual man could be taken. 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!

Now the more perfect and beautiful our thoughts the more beautiful our houses or homes; the more perfect we are, the more perfect our surroundings; and thus it is. How sublime, beautiful and true – A house not made with hands, eternal and in the heavens.

No; our houses are not made with hands and they are eternal and in the heavens. Also – 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. The heavens are the spheres. A rose is a rose call it by whatever name one will. Heavens or spheres. Call them by which ever name one may choose.

A few words more and I am done with this letter. If the sound of a voice, or any other sound, goes on forever in the ether, how about the life or spirit of anything whatever? Will the bark of a dog go on forever in the ether, and the spirit that causes the dog to bark become extinct? Will the neigh of a horse go on forever, and the spirit, or living principle of the horse, become extinct? Think more deeply, oh, ye sapient sages, or a woman will outwit you, and that will never do, at least you think she never can. But I have to tell you that the coarser atmosphere of earth does not carry the sound of your voice beyond its own atmosphere, the finer ether holds the sound and carries it onward forever – I will not call it vibration, for people get terribly mixed on that word, but you may call it that or anything else you please.

So the finer ether holds the life, or spirit, of all things and carries it onward forever and forever. Spirits of animals seldom or never return to earth. Not having as much intelligence or mind as man, they do not wish, will or desire, consequently do not often return, but, sometimes do. A dog very much attached to his master may remain near him for a long time after leaving the material body, so may a horse, and occasionally some other pet animal or bird, but these are merely exceptions to the rule. Ethereal sounds are not heard by mortal ears, but the ethereal, or spiritual ear hears all the sounds that the ethereal air, or ether, brings to it. The mortal sight cannot see the spheres or the angels, it can only see what is within the dense earthly atmosphere, but the ethereal, or spiritual eye can see all things that exist within the ether. It is simply a difference of atmospheres, that is all. One is dense, almost opaque; the other sparkling and bright.

Yours truly,

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 

Spirit Memory

A Series of Letters from the Spirit of a Well-known Lady 

Letter Number Ten

Now I, Madam —, want to say a word or two about spirit memory, and I really hope you will believe me. It will be much better for all if you do. I shall make an assertion, then afterwards try to prove it. The assertion is this – Spiritual beings remember with great distinctness all that ever happened to them in the earth life—they remember every thought that has ever been impressed upon the mind, every word that has ever been heard by the ears, everything which the eyes have ever seen, every person with whom they have ever come in contact, not the smallest detail that they have ever been conscious of in the earth life is forgotten; but on the contrary everything is remembered with vivid clearness.

This is my assertion.

That they cannot give all this with clearness through an earthly medium is true. A man cannot see his own image in muddy water, but when this water is clear and undisturbed the image is distinctly outlined. Mediums are at fault, but it is not often that the spirits are. They nearly always do the best they can through the instruments they make use of. If that which they wish to convey through the mind of a medium is distorted according to the bent of the mind of the medium it is not the fault of the spirits. If the medium cannot give one everything that the spirit remembers well, it is not the fault of the spirit, or lack of memory on his part, but the waters are muddy and disturbed, consequently do not reflect the image which the spirit wishes to cast upon it. Mediums should try to become calm, clear reflectors, and even then names and dates cannot always be given. Names and dates become very unimportant to spiritual beings who  have risen up out of and beyond days, weeks and months—aye, and years, too.

Persons on earth who have travelled long distances on deserts and prairies, with camels or oxen, often forget the time to that extent that they cannot tell how long they have been travelling and can only regain the time and dates on reaching their destination by asking what month or year it may be—what day of the week and the date of the month. This is often and often the case, consequently many take great care to mark each day as it passes, so that time may not slip out of the mind. Now on coming to the spirit life one enters upon an eternal journey, where there are no days, weeks or months, nor even years, for these only pertain to earths, and each earth is marked by a different time. One readily loses all sense of time and often cannot tell how long he or she has been in spirit life; and this is especially true of those who are far removed from earth.

Now when a spirit returns who has been for some time in the spirit world, and you say to him – Father, how long have you been in spirit life? he might truthfully say – I do not know, for he does not, but he wants you to know that it is he, and he will try to read from your mind or the mind of someone else, how many years, months or days he has been there, consequently will tell you what you already know. Then you say, This is not a test. The medium read it from the mind of the interlocutor. Then, again, one will say to a spirit – Won't you give your name and tell how old you were when you passed out of the body? Now, perhaps that person had been sick a long period of time before passing out, so weary and ill that he had not been conscious of time to any great extent, and many are entirely unconscious for days and days together before they cross the river called death, and they may have been in spirit life many more days, weeks, months or years, which do not exist for them; then how expect them to tell when they died, what they died of, and how long they have been in spirit life? 

Now I hope I have have been able to point out the rock on which so many split until they lose faith in spiritual communion. The fault is with themselves and not with the spirits. A spirit does not so readily forget the name he bore, still there are many instances when it is hard to tell even that. Few spirits in spirit life are called by the names they bore on earth. A child on earth is named or  christened shortly after its birth. A spirit is named shortly after arriving here unless it greatly desires to be called by the name it bore on earth. A great many people do not like the names they were called by on earth, and when they get here choose some pretty and appropriate name that suits and pleases them. The old name has fallen away from them like the old body, and it is often distasteful and hard for them to pick it up again, and small children do not even know what their names were.

It is very hard, even on earth, for a small child to tell you what his name is, or how old he may be. Some children of even eight or ten years often find it difficult to tell, and parents and guardians are drilling them continually on the subject. Yet, of course, it is far easier for a spirit to give his name than to tell time correctly; but, suppose he has been in spirit life fifty or more years, and has not in all that time even heard the name by which he was called on earth; one may see how hard it may be to recall it; besides he has passed through so many and exalted experiences, has visited so many other planets and worlds, that the old name, if not forgotten, is often recalled with much effort. Still if a spirit remains very near to earth and en rapport with his former relatives he does not find it so difficult.

Now I hear some one say – Why, you are proving that spirits do forget instead of the contrary, according to your first assertion. No; I am simply explaining how it is that to you of earth it appears as though they had forgotten or do forget. But as I said at first, the soul forgets nothing, yet it often takes some time to recall unimportant events, or impressions that were not assimilated by the person enough to have become a part of his being, and what might seem of the utmost importance to a questioner might to the spirit have little or no interest, might, in fact, be extremely distasteful and irritating; besides the questioner and the spirit might be antagonistic.

A highly progressed, wise and good spirit, might want to give some great universal truths to a questioner, something of importance to the world at large, and the questioner, in the narrowness of his material earthly mind, might insist on asking silly or selfish questions, and because the spirit might not in its higher and broader wisdom reply to these questions just to suit the small mind of the questioner, immediately the questioner might say that the spirit forgot, or that it was a wicked or lying spirit and so forth, ad nauseam; moreover, a spirit likes far better to impress directly the mind of some loved one than to work through a foreign instrument, one, perhaps, not to its liking. Many mediums are very distasteful to some spirits, and they do not come en rapport with them at all, although for the money which is paid them the mediums pretend that they do, and give fraudulent messages which, of course, are false, then the blame is laid to Spiritualism or to the spirits, when the fault is entirely with the mediums.

There are not nearly as many evil spirits as some suppose, and when all this is better understood we shall hear less about lying, wicked spirits, and more about goodness, virtue and truth, but—and now I expect to prove that spirits cannot and do not forget anything. Can the Infinite forget? Can a mother forget her child? The Infinite is the father and mother of the Finite. Can the Infinite forget its children? The Finite becomes the Infinite. Can the Infinite forget? An Immortal Spirit is Infinite, for Immortality constitutes Infinity. The spirit may apparently forget for a season, but the Infinite restores all that seemed to be lost. The Finite may not understand but the Infinite does.

Now before closing this letter I want to say a few words about astronomy. The heavenly bodies are very deceptive in their appearance, and what is at present, on the earth, supposed to be entirely correct will at length be found to be quite erroneous. New laws will be discovered that will change the aspect of that which is now the accepted theory regarding the worlds in space. So be very chary about calling the spirits bad names because they are already giving an inkling of the truth. Hear them gravely and ponder well what they tell you, for by so doing you may be the one to discover some great, eternal truth not known before.

Galileo said that the earth moved. Astronomers thought they knew better, but you see he was right and they were wrong. It has been but a short time since it was discovered that what was before thought to be void was really ether and that this ether filled all space, penetrated in and through all things, and knowledge will not stop here; other things and laws will be discovered that will upset many of the present ideas about the heavenly bodies. So do not be too sure of anything, but, as I said before, listen gravely to what the spirits have to tell you if you desire aid in any direction.

Perpetual motion has been laughed to scorn, but it is a great truth, as true as that the earth and all the worlds in space are in perpetual motion, and it will not be long before this great fact will be given to the world for its untold benefit. Some sensitive will listen to the voice of a spirit or spirits and it will be whispered within the soul; possibly it has already been done, for, let me tell you, we know all about it here and have only to wait to find the right one to give it to earth.

It has not been very long since the stars, in thousands of instances have been found to be double, and fifty years ago if one had pointed to a star and said – That is not one star, but two, he would have been called luny.

Now when Professor Petersilea tells you that the sun is dual in its nature, he is called—well, never mind what. It so grieved his noble, truthful soul that he had to leave the earthly atmosphere for awhile to regain his equilibrium.

Now I, Madam —, a spirit, tell you the same thing. You may laugh me to scorn, you may call me a—well never mind what, but it will not change the fact one iota. You had better hear me with gravity, listen to what I say, and some other one of you may become a Galileo to be remembered as one of the world's great discoverers, and this discovery will mark an epoch in the history of the earthly world.

Again, the Professor told the world that animal life existed in the spiritual realm as well as man's. He was not the first to tell the world this for others had believed and said so, and in consequence been adjudged insane; but now a large portion of the world believe this great fact, and soon all will know it to be true. Be very cautious, friends and enemies, how you laugh or sneer, for you may be slapping one of the greatest and grandest truths in nature directly in the face. Examine everything gravely, minutely, without prejudice, for who can tell that beautiful Truth may not be hidden there simply waiting to be unveiled. 

Yours truly,

MADAM

27 January 2014

Beautiful jewels are often hidden by heaps of rubbish

Always remember that beautiful jewels are often hidden by heaps of rubbish.

Can a spiritual being travel more rapidly than light?

Is it possible for spiritual beings to visit such remote, far-away zones as the so-called Milky Way, or stars so far distant that it takes such a long period of time for their light to reach us here? Can a spiritual being travel more rapidly than light?

A spiritual being cannot travel to these far distant spheres. A spiritual body cannot travel faster than light—but within this body is another body, which for want of a better name we shall call the thought body.

Some may think that we here mean the soul, but we do not, for within this thought body dwells the soul. A person on earth, who has not yet laid aside the material body, has a material body, a spiritual body, a thought body, and a soul. The soul is the immortal living principle that has neither beginning nor end, and it clothes itself with these various bodies or substances—the material body, the spiritual body, the thought body—and it expresses itself through these various forms.

The material body cannot leave the material earth, and yet the thought body can transfer itself instantaneously to any part of the globe, as well as to the far-away regions in space. The spiritual body, after leaving the material body, cannot leave the spiritual spheres, but the thought body can go, in a comparatively short time, to any sphere or zone that it is possible to cognise; but when the spirit is freed from the earthly body its powers are increased an hundred fold, and its perceptions and sight become clear and lucid.

If, while in the material body one can weigh and measure the stars and compute their distance, understand them somewhat, and see their light, what may not the soul and thought body be capable of? But we have the power here of freeing ourselves of the spiritual body for quite lengthy periods of time. One might say the spiritual body goes to sleep, or becomes unconscious, while the soul and thought body fly away to other zones.

And this is what we meant when, in a former letter we stated that men of earth travelled from one city to another, from one country to another, and occasionally around the globe; while we, here, travel from one sphere to another, from one planet to another, and occasionally took a turn through the milky way, as we really do; still, we can visit all the planets in our sublimated spiritual body, that is, all belonging to the system of which your earth is one.

After we have taken these delightful journeys we return home, so to speak, enlarged and refreshed, having added to our store of knowledge.

Ah! the egotism of it!

Nature has never asked man whether he would have serpents, reptiles, noxious weeds, bacillus, scarlet fever germs, yellow fever germs, small-pox germs, carnivorous animals, birds of prey, sharks, whales, sea-serpents, crocodiles, asps, cobras, or anything else which he considers obnoxious. She never consulted him about it but placed his life in the midst of all other teeming lives. Their lives are just as sweet to them as his life is to him. Their lives are just as necessary in the great ocean of life as his is. The animals that man slays and feeds upon, object strongly to being murdered and eaten by him, as he objects strongly to being eaten by some of them. Man objects to being stung by a cobra. The cobra objects to the man's crushing heel and has nothing but a poisonous fang to protect herself with, together with her young. The cobra and the man are antagonistic, that is all. Mother Nature sees to it that her most helpless ones shall have some means of defending themselves.

Man talks of wild animals while he goes to war with cannon, shell and gatling-guns, slaying his fellow-men by the thousands. He talks of himself as being the only creature worthy immortality, while he invents the most horrible tortures, such as no animal ever did or could inflict upon him.

Ah! the egotism of it!

From the spirit of Herr Franz

Old Mother Nature is far wiser than man

Cast your eyes over the large expanse of spiritual territory and let us see what we see – Singing birds are flying about among the trees—beautiful, exquisitely beautiful! Their songs are far sweeter than they were on the earth. Look at those homes. Do you not perceive that there is, as usual about such homes of earth, cats and dogs, rabbits, poultry, horses, cows and so forth? But these are all pets, and they are not numerous. The spiritual realms are exceedingly spacious, not cramped for room at all. Now glance into those waters —fish? Yes, fish. Now let us enter the forest—wild animals? Yes, wild animals. Not wild now, however, but exceedingly beautiful. As nothing propagates within all the great realm of spirit, the earths can give no more than is needed to give life and beauty to its great fields, forests, oceans, seas, rivers, and so on—to give life and beauty, pets and living companionship to men, women and children.

Old Mother Nature is far wiser than man, and knew best what was for his good, better far than he knows himself.

Herr Franz (Spirit)

The smallest thing that lives has a certain amount of reason

The smallest thing that lives has a certain amount of reason. There never lived an animal that had not its share of reason—not a bird that flies nor an insect that chirps.

Herr Franz (Spirit)

Nature loves a toad just as well as she loves a man

Nature loves a toad just as well as she loves a man. She does not stop to ask whether one has a little more intelligence than another. She loves intelligence, but she loves form and beauty and life, whether in man or animal, flower or tree. She never stops to ask the tree whether it is intelligent or not, or the flower, or the shrub, or man; but she makes the best use possible of them all. 

From the spirit of Herr Franz

Man is the crown, you say, but nature does not think so

Man is the crown, you say, but nature does not think so. Man thinks that of himself. But whether he is the crown or not, he is no more immortal than the rest of living and created things. Nature is as careful of her lowest treasures as she is of man.

From the spirit of Herr Franz