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and others still none whatever. Briefly stated, they described
such conditions and localities as they had explored.
In all the planes and states of infinity, there's a marvelous
adaptation of means to ends. If discord is the child of the
hells, order reigns in the heavens. . . . Grossness of condition,
referring not alone to the spiritual body, holds a
direct relation to the mind, alias^ the inner spiritual nature,
and the influences proceeding therefrom. Coarse, selfish
organizations in spirit-hfe ehminate coarse auras and influences,
tending to deception and vice ; while those in high
celestial spheres, having more refined spiritual bodies, and
more intellectual and spiritual natures, generate conditions
of harmony and purity. These revel in the golden sunlight
of perpetual love and happiness. The life that each leads
on earth prepares him for the sphere of his own moral likeness.
These spheres — heavens and hells— were vaguely
described by the seers of antiquity.
All modern theological
doctrines are but the shadows that the ancient cast."
" These spheres, or zoe-ether zones, related to, sail with, the
earth in her revolutions through space. Some spmts take
up their immediate abode just above their former homes,
casting upon them a powerful psychological influence.
Miserly spirits linger about their vaults ; and others, disorderly,
and maliciously inclined, cUng to their previous localities,
producing magnetic conditions suitable for haunting
houses, for
producing obsessions, insanity, and nervous diseases."
SEANCE vn.
" Remember that in the lower spheres are found the counterparts
of your earth, — its follies and vices, its labors and
pursuits, prompted by natural desires ; and spirits here, as
mortals with you, are subject to disappointments and failures
;
while in the heavens love, — love devoid of all selfishness,
is the motive that inspires action. Here harmonial
spirits reap a rich reward in leading the aspirational into the