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A SERIES OF SEANCES TJPON THE OCEAN". 127
for some scheming wicked purpose, may psychologically
lead mediums into debauchery and the ' unfruitful works
of darkness.' Low, selfish, disorderly spirits are at the
bottom of the 'free-lust movement,' known by the more
attractive term, ' social freedom.' This scum, now floating
upon the peaceful stream of spirit-communion, will ere long
settle away into merited oblivion."
SEANCE V.
You speak of conditions and employments in the spiritworld
: I wish you would be more minute in your descriptions.
" Hoping to enlighten, I will try. The spirit-world, real
and substantial, is the counterpart of your world. The
earthly life is rudimentary and preparatory. The wise of
earth ripen up, while in their bodies, for higher planes of
existence. As to 'discreet degrees,' referred to by the
admirers of the Swedish seer, they do not exist per se. The
phrase ' discreet degrees ' should give place to ' states ' and
'
conditions ' of being. Logically understood, the spiritworld
is all space, because essential spirit fills all immensity.
Inhabitants leaving your earth by death occupy the atmosphere
immediately surrounding it, — many of them, at least,
for ages. They can in time occupy other places and spheres.
The difficulty in passing to remote spaces and regions is at
the medial points of conjunction between different planets
and systems. Each planet, and system of planets, have their
physical, gaseous, ethereal, electrical, and spiritual atmospheres.
In these atmospheres abound the centripetal and
centrifugal forces ; and these forces hold a similar relation
to spiritual beings that the physical forces do to human
beings. Therefore they encounter kindred difficulties in
passing and repassing the aural atmospheres, and different
strata, of the interstellar spaces, that mortals do in exploring
pathless oceans, or aeronauts in their air-ship expeditions.
" In the belts that encircle your earth, the grosser lie the