Life Beyond The Grave Described By A Spirit Through A Writing Medium

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 edition. Excerpt: ... overboard and been drowned. The disappearance of any of their number does not even tend to release the survivors; but if the person who has been released has any interest or affection for those whom he has quitted, he will, in all probability, return sooner or later, and release them likewise. You wish to know how it is that the spirit guides--those from a higher sphere--do not inform these imprisoned spirits of the change they have undergone. The reason is, simply because higher spirits cannot always convince those beneath them of facts which they may desire to communicate, since the persons to be convinced are not always disposed to listen to them. This is the case with you in the flesh also. You reject our communications for the same reason. You assume, however, that after death spirits on the earth plane can get communications from the higher spirits much more readily than you can get them from us, but you are mistaken. We cannot, as you imagine, show ourselves whenever we like to those beneath us, and convince them of the error of their ways by ocular demonstration of spirit guardianship. Our means of communication is a little better than yours, but, as hereafter explained, the higher spirits see the lower ones, whilst the latter are not cognisant of the presence of the former. Hence, when it is desired to communicate between those in a higher sphere and those on a lower plane--we do not mean between those on the earth plane who may be more advanced than their neighbours, for these are all alike visible to one another, but between spirits in the Summer G land, for instance, and spirits on the earth plane--a special effort is required, and special conditions must exist, as is the case with you. Spirit communion is practised in our...

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