HOW MUCH OF EARTH IS REFLECTED ON THE SPIRIT.

The spirit, free from the physical body, is also free from all conditions and relations to physical matter. In its new sphere it is affected only by the conditions existing therein. Through and by means of its mental state, the spirit may be drawn to earth, and be held back from its destiny, and in this manner influenced by the reflected conditions of its former life.

The senses of the spiritual being can only receive sensation from the realm of spirit, as the physical senses can only from the world of matter. But as all things have a spiritual, permeating form, a spirit may become cognizant of the outer by the inner. It is from this cause that confusion many times arises, as the spirit fails to distinguish those living in the mortal body from those departed therefrom.

Clairvoyants often fail in the same manner and from the same cause.

It is the unbroken testimony of spirits in their communications that becoming in rapport with sensitives restores their consciousness to the events of their earth life, freshening their memories, sometimes to an undesirable and painful degree. Regrets, passion, appetites, desires, return by their thus coming in direct contact with earth life.