LIFE IN THE SPIRIT WORLD

BELIEF IN SPIRIT LIFE

 

"We know your great desire to learn the truth, and we are allowed to answer that desire, for we are the truth, the truth of life eternal. We are the proof of the farther life to which all must come, and we are here to give unmistakable evidence of the life eternal. We too were mortals, we too suffered the earth life with all its mistaken beliefs, its poverty of thought and ideals. But even so, we are here to bear testimony to the final uplift of the soul, and its indescribable power of growth and progress. Believe in us. Believe in a just and true God who adds to our poor earthborn lives, with their darkened beliefs and groping knowledge, the pure heavenly existence with its first real liberty of choice and progress."

 

'Why do you say the first real liberty?'

 

"Because we began our earthly existence with tendencies and characteristics for which we were not responsible, and which fettered our liberty."

 

'But do you not begin that life still fettered by earthborn habits?'

 

"Yes, partially. But think how many chains have been removed:—physical weakness, the fight against poverty, the necessary effort to gain a living, race problems, and many others. We are at least free from these."

 

"It is a sorrowful condition we behold on earth, and we wish to try to give a new thought that will turn the world to better things. It is not easy to say something really new, you have exhortations from the pulpits that should be sufficient. But they seem to have lost their effect. We know that materialism is leading many into habits of life and thought that will defer their awakening and advance here very seriously. This is not necessary for most of them, for they are not evil, and in many cases not especially selfish. But the strong thought that they hold, that there is no future life, reacts upon them to such an extent that they fail to respond to the influences here after they arrive. We have no influence upon such people while they are on earth, of course. If we did, they would not be adopting these wrong beliefs."