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THE MIRROR OF LIFE 
 
 SUNSHINE AND DARKNESS 
 
 •* A Book for the People Who Think >* 
 
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 William M. Goff 
 
 Words of Wisdom from 
 the World of Spirits 
 
 MODERN-SCIENTIFIC SPIRITUALISM 
 
THE MIRROR OF LIFE 
 
 SUNSHINE AND DARKNESS 
 
 «* A Book for the People Who Think •* 
 
 PUBLISHED BY 
 
 William M. Goff 
 
 Words of Wisdom from 
 the World of Spirits 
 
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 CONTENTS 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Eminent x\uthorities 
 
 Introduction 
 
 Some Startling Facts i 
 
 Declaration of Principles ii 
 
 Definitions . . . iv 
 
 Remarks by the Writer v 
 
 Material Melancholia viii 
 
 Harvest of Spiritual Truths x 
 
 Chapter I — Sins and Wickedness of the People 1 
 
 Chapter II — The Church 9 
 
 Chapter III — Skepticism . % 13 
 
 Chapter IV — Philosophy and Science of Spirit- 
 ualism , ' . . 17 
 
 Chapter V — Selfishness 21 
 
 Chapter VI — Material and Spiritual Laws . . 25 
 
 Chapter VII — The Family Circle 31 
 
 Chapter VIII — Prayers 35 
 
 Chapter IX — The Heal Devil ....... 43 
 
 Chapter X — The Real Hell on Earth .... 55 
 
 Chapter XI — Guilty Conscience 65 
 
 Chapter XII — The Marriage Vow 73 
 
 Chapter XIII — The Result of Wickedness . . 77 
 
 Chapter XIV — Gossip and Slander 93 
 
 Chapter XV — Enmity, Hatred, Malace, Re- 
 venge 95 
 
 Chapter XVI-^Profane Language 97 
 
 Chapter XVII — Children Born Out of Wed- 
 lock 99 
 
 Chapter XVIII — How to Progress Spiritually 101 
 
 Chapter XIX — Invisible World 105 
 
KMINKNT AUTHORITIES 
 
 In Science, Art and Literature, Whose Names Are of 
 Record as Spiritualists 
 
 Sir Oliver Lodge, F. R. S. 
 I )i . Kane, Arctic explore) . 
 W. M. Thackerav, author. 
 S. C. Hall, English writer. 
 Prefessor William C. Gregory. 
 Hiram Powers, famous sculptor. 
 F.milio Castelar, Spanish patriot. 
 Sir A. Conan Doyle, Famous Author 
 Ex-Senator Howard, of Michigan. 
 Senator Simmons, of Rhode Island. 
 Epes Sargent, author and scientist. 
 Bayard Tavlor, author and travleer. 
 Dr. Rohert Hare, scientist, chemist. 
 Prof. Joseph Rodes, Buchanan M.D. 
 H. S. H. the Prince George of Solms. 
 Professor Butlerof, Chemist, Russia. 
 Capt. R. F. Burton, African traveler. 
 Joseph Jefferson, the celebrated actor. 
 William Howitt, noted English writer. 
 H. I. H Nicholas. Duke of Leuchtenberg. 
 M. Leon Favre, Consul General of France. 
 Professor Marghieri, University of Naples. 
 N. P. Talmadge, ex-Governor of Wisconsin. 
 M. Thiers, ex-President of French Republic 
 Professor Ocharowicz, University of Warsaw. 
 Prof. M. T. Falconer, Alessandria, in Piedmont. 
 Ex-United States Senator Miller, of Alabama. 
 Hon. J. L. Sullivan, ex-Minister to Portugal. 
 Dr. B. O. Flower, essayist and moral scientist. 
 Ex-United States Senator Sprague, of Rhode Island. 
 Professor Wagner, Geologist, University of Russia. 
 M. Thiers, ex-President of the French Republic. 
 William Lloyd Garrison, author and speaker. 
 Hon. George Thompson, bosom friend of Garrison. 
 James G. Clark, writer, poet and music composer. 
 W. Emmette Coleman, writer, author and Orientalist. 
 Hon. Luther Marsh, jurist, law compiler and author. 
 William T. Stead, editor English "Review of Reviews " 
 Professor Challis, Professor of Astronomy at Cambridge. 
 Abraham Lincoln, martyred President of the United States- 
 Alfred R. Wallace, F. G. S., author, scientist, naturalist. 
 Judge J. W. Edmonds, formerly of the New York Bench. 
 Oliver Johnson, a former editor of the "Christian Union." 
 Prof. Alexander Wilder, M. D., writer, author, metaphysician. 
 Prof. Cesar Lombroso, Professor Psychiatry, University of Turin. 
 Gastav T. Fochner, Professor of Physics, University of Leipsic. 
 Prof. Henry Kiddle, formerly Superintendent New York City Schools. 
 Robert Bell, distinguished dramatist and novelist, of England. 
 W. E. Webber, Professor of Physics, University of Gottenburg. 
 Professor F. Zoellner, author "Transcendental Physics," Leipsic. 
 C. F. Varley, Chief Engineer Electric & International Telegraph Co. 
 Professor Scheibner, Teacher of Mathamatics, University of Leipsic. 
 W. F. Barrett, Professor of Physics, Royal College of Science, Dublin. 
 Dr. Lockhart Robertson, former editor "Journal Mental Science." 
 Herr Max Seiling, Professor of Polytechnics, University of Helsingfers. 
 Dr. Franz Hoffman. Professor of Philosphy, Wertzburg University. 
 Prof. William Crookes, F. R. S., editor London "Journal of Science." 
 Lord Rayleigh, F. R. S., Professor of Physics, University of Cambridge. 
 Professor De Morgan, at one time London's greatest mathematician. 
 Hon. Benjamin F. Wade, ex-United States Senator, ex-President of Senate. 
 Dr. Miguel Sans Benito, 'Professor, of Metaphysics, University of Barcelona. 
 Hon. John P. Brown, former attache of the Turkish Legation, Constantinople. 
 
 NOTE. — The information contained in this page is copied from the works of 
 J. M. Peebles, A.M., M.D., Ph.D., "Spiritualist Manual." 
 
INTRODUCTION 
 
 This book has been written for the Spiritual welfare 
 of the human race; "to be used as a guide to lift, humanity 
 out of the rut of Ignorance, and to impart to the world 
 the great Truths of life as given through messages re- 
 ceived from High Intelligences living in the World of 
 Spirits. 
 
 "The Spirit World has no intention of criticizing the 
 Bible, Creeds, Dogmas, or Isms," it is to give the True 
 Version of how to live through this life in order to be 
 spared suffering and woe in the next world. 
 
 The contents of this book will show discrepancies in 
 the present day beliefs, and the inconsistency in many 
 of the chapters of the Bible which are contrary to the 
 laws which exist in the next world. 
 
 "There are no better teachers than those who have 
 had experience;" — So we all must consider seriously what 
 we are told from the world beyond. 
 
 "Wickedness is the power that is ruining humanity, 
 and the power that must be battled from all quarters of 
 the land," for that reason, in order to do our share of the 
 good work, "Spirit Intelligences has dictated this book, 
 trying to show the actual results of sin, and to specify the 
 many serious little wicked acts which is committed 
 through ignorance of Divine Laws. 
 
 The object is "to encourage mankind to THINK, — 
 and REASON, — To follow the dictates of conscience in 
 Spiritual affairs; To Investigate, — Analyze and classify 
 facts; — To study the Law of Nature both on the seen and 
 unseen side of life. — 
 
 Thinking is living, and the person who does not think 
 for themselves is but little above the dumb animal. — 
 
SOME STARTLING FACTS 
 YOU SHOULD CONSIDER 
 
 Doctor J. Don Ball, of Oakland, California, who is conducting a Crim- 
 ology Course at the University of California, says: there are twenty- 
 seven distinct types of Insanity. He lists them as follows. Queer 
 guys, eccentrics, disturbers, querrulous, unreliable, and unstable, misfits, 
 irritables, sullen, socially, skepticle, unsociable, negative, conscientious, 
 litigious, bear-a-grudge, peculiar, glad hand, gossipy, roving, restless, 
 malicious, lying, stealing, sex pervert, false accusers, morbid impulse, 
 adnormal, suggestible, and mental twist. 
 
 The number of illiterate in the U.S. is estimated at EIGHT MIL- 
 LION, — A number equal to the combined population of Nevada, 
 Wyoming, Delaware, Arizona, Idaho, Mississippi, Vermout, Rhode 
 Island, North Dakota, South Dakota, Oregon, Maine, Florida, Con- 
 necticut and Washington. 
 
 In men drafted for war, hundreds of thousands could not read or 
 write. 
 
 Over seventeen per cent, of the persons in the East South, Central 
 vStates have never been to school. 
 
 Every year, more than 100,000 Men and women are released from 
 the Penitentiaries and Jails of the United States. 
 
DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES 
 
 ADOPTED BY 
 
 THE NATIONAL SPIRITUALISTS' 
 
 ASSOCIATION 
 
 U. S. A. 
 
 1. We believe in Infinite Intelligence. 
 
 2. We believe that the phenomena of nature, both 
 physical and spiritual, are the expression of Infinite Intel- 
 ligence. 
 
 3. We affirm that a correct understanding of such 
 expression and living in accordance therewith, constitute 
 "true religion." 
 
 4. We affirm that the existence and personal identity 
 of the individual continue after the change called death. 
 
 5. We affirm that communication with the so-called 
 dead is a fact, scientifically proven by the phenomena of 
 Spiritualism. 
 
 6. W T e believe that the highest morality is contained 
 in the Golden Rule. "Whatsoever ye would that others 
 should do unto you, do ye also unto them." 
 
 7. We affirm the moral responsibility of the individ- 
 ual, and that he makes his own happiness or unhappiness 
 as he obeys or disobeys Nature's psychic laws. 
 
 8. We affirm that the doorway to reformation is 
 
 against any human soul here or hereafter. 
 
DEFINITIONS 
 
 ADOPTED BY 
 
 THE NATIONAL SPIRITUALISTS' 
 ASSOCIATION 
 
 1. A Spiritualist is one who believes, as a part of his 
 or her religion, in the communication between this and 
 the spirit world by means of mediumship, and who en- 
 deavors to mould his or her character and conduct in 
 accordance with the highest teachings derived from such 
 communion. 
 
 2. A medium is one whose organism is sensitive to 
 vibrations from the spirit world, and through whose in- 
 strumentality intelligences in that world are able to con- 
 vey messages and produce the phenomena of Spiritualism. 
 
 Spiritualism is the Science, Philosophy, and Religion 
 of continuous Life, bused upon Demonstration. 
 
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REMARKS BY THE WRITER 
 
 You can learn more TRUTH and KNOWLEDGE in 
 five minutes conversing with Intelligent Spirits, than a 
 life-time of sermons. That is the reason the Religion of 
 Spiritualism has rendered unique service to the cause of 
 religion by adding to faith, knowledge. 
 
 The Christianity of Christ, consists entirely in per- 
 fecting the individual character. HIS salvation is nothing 
 more or less than self development. HE taught that man 
 was to be saved by love, and Love, alone. 
 
 If you will look into the Spiritualist's Religion you 
 will find that its teachings harmonizes with HIS plan of 
 salvation which is profoundly philosophical. 
 
 There is nothing in the broad truths Spiritualism 
 teaches that is incompatible with what the church re- 
 quires people to believe. 
 
 There is nothing that conflicts with the simple teach 
 ings of the Christ. Spiritualism .has no contradiction to 
 any creed, Dogma, or isms, that teaches the true Christ 
 principles. 
 
 The Church should thankfully acknowledge the 
 truths of Spiritualism, because its teachings acts as a 
 weapon against all the anti-Christianism of the age. 
 
 Clergymen are so terribly afraid of saying a word about 
 the intermediate state in the spirit realm of existence, — 
 that they draw a hard, and fast line between the seen and 
 unseen world. 
 
 The creeds express the belief in the communication 
 of Saints, yet — deny our fathers and mothers the same 
 privilege. 
 
It is no more wonderful that we should live again, 
 than that we have begun to live. 
 
 Life in the physical body is supposed to be an un- 
 material force, organism supplying the existing force out- 
 side of it; — which justify us in identifying this force with 
 the soul. This force existed before the growth of the 
 physical body, and must exist outside of it after death 
 of the body. There must be a life after death if there is 
 a purpose to live before death! 
 
 There must be an immortal soul if there is an immortal 
 GOD; and as the seed is planted here, there must be a 
 ripening process to finish the work for some higher sphere 
 of perfection for which the soul yearned while in the 
 mortal frame. 
 
 There must be a life after death of the body where 
 justice will be meted out to those who suffer injustice, 
 and where those who were cruelly separated shall be 
 united in yet deeper and richer love, — and by no law are 
 we prevented from communicating with them, and them 
 communicating with us. 
 
 The spirit world is so close to us that it's inhabitants 
 walk the earth both when we wake and when we sleep. 
 
 This great truth should be the center of all true 
 religion;— which is only reviving the forgotten truth which 
 the prophets and Christ himself have taught us. 
 
 People cannot comprehend such well attested facts, 
 and consider the many apparitions that is reported from 
 time to time as mere whims and fables. 
 
 They claim to believe the Bible, but do not accept its 
 teachings by denying that good and pure spirits com- 
 municate with mortals. 
 
 If the intercourse is admitted, then the whole castle 
 in the air falls to the ground. 
 
Spiritualism will eer long be shown to be the true 
 religion, — and the fact of a conscious intercommunion 
 between the two worlds. 
 
 Realizing that this book will be criticized by narrow 
 and bigoted minds, — I will, state emphatically that in no 
 wise will I enter in, or take part in any debate, argument, 
 disagreement, dispute or controversy. 
 
 Those who would cast the first stone, let them first 
 investigate self— -and find out just how much good has 
 been accomplished in following the teachings of their own 
 belief! If the soul is found to be perfect, any change would 
 be very unwise; if not perfect, — something is wrong, and 
 it will be well to seek for a new field of thought — and 
 knowledge for self -protect ion. 
 
 This is a free country, and every indivudual has re- 
 ligious rights to believe and practice any form of religion 
 that appeals to the best interests of those concerned, and 
 no one has a right to dispute that privilege. 
 
 The religion of Spiritualism to me is the true gospel 
 of Jesus Christ, and is proclaimed by spirits from the 
 higher realms to be the true version of life. I believe, 
 and know it is the truth, and consider it my mission to 
 acquaint the world with the knowledge this book contains. 
 
 The only proof that the world of religion can produce 
 to verify the various creeds, dogmas, etc.,— has been 
 given to the world from the brains of man; — the evidence 
 I possess has been through personal communication with 
 souls living in the otherworld where they can obtain the 
 truth. 
 
 In conculsion, if the reader fails to comprehend the 
 spiritual side that is contained in this book, and refuses 
 to think and reason, there is one remedy left that we all 
 <ian use! Think as our conscience directs us. 
 
 William M. Goff. 
 
MATERIAL MELANCHOLIA 
 
 The real secret of happiness, consists in learning how 
 to read your own character. If you are bankrupt spiritu- 
 ally, and look for nothing but material things, you will 
 never find the secret of happiness for it is not contained 
 in earth's vulgar side of life. 
 
 When a person lives entirely surrounded by the hard 
 luck that materiality always brings to the door, and never 
 sweeps the musty cobwebs that are woven through the 
 habit of Panhandling friends for sympathy with tears of 
 sorrow, they will never find comfort and happiness in this 
 system of earth's one sided existence. 
 
 Too much lamenting because other people seem to 
 have more of earthly pleasures than we do! soon forces 
 the victim to join the Melancholy Club, which brings real 
 fate to the person. 
 
 When a person contracts that terrible disease, jeal- 
 ousy, — and envies every person what little success in life 
 they may obtain; it is the worst burden a person can load 
 on their shoulders, because it rapidly grows in weight, 
 and what little money has been saved is soon peddled out 
 for the services of Doctors. 
 
 The way humanity interprets human life is surprising. 
 People will live entirely on the material, or musty and 
 unhappy side, and whine because they are not rich, and 
 expect a prize for every little thing they happen to do 
 for others; — which always benefits themselves? 
 
 Cultivating good common sense is the greatest asset 
 in human life. 
 
Money; — that other people begrudge is many times 
 gall for the person who is begrudged. What appears to be 
 success and happiness is nothing but sham, and many 
 times that person who is considered on the sunny side of 
 life, is a most miserable person. 
 
 Money, — and spirituality will never mix together, — 
 Billions have tried this remedy ever since the first dollar 
 was coined, but to this day! — not one penny has ever pur- 
 chased a seat in the hall of spiritual happiness. Some 
 people become so obsessed with Melancholia, that they 
 think they should be the darling of the Gods, and have 
 all the good things of life handed to them in a bunch. 
 
 They pity themselves because they may be forced to 
 earn their own living, and treat everybody with contempt 
 who has nothing to think of but just the dreary pastime 
 of killing time. 
 
 People will drag through life cold, harsh, cruel and 
 vindicative, then expect Heaven for their home, but it 
 requires a smile, a word of cheer, and a life of goodness 
 to claim entrance to eternal joy. 
 
HARVEST OF SPIRITUAL TRUTHS 
 
 People who borrow trouble are never happy. "Put 
 out of your mind dreary imaginings, shut out the dismal 
 forebodings from your soul," come up into the light of 
 sunshine of Hope, and escape half the sorrows of life. 
 
 It is not God who does cruel things! It is the people 
 themselves. 
 
 When the Death Angel knocks at your door, can you 
 say, I AM READY? 
 
 Deeds counts more than words, Words are cheap. 
 Those who cry out about Hypocracy is no proof they 
 are not Hypocrites. 
 
 There are always two forces at work, one trying to 
 build up, another trying to tear down. 
 
 Only the ignorant refuse to investigate the problem 
 of life after Death! Don't be one sided, change your 
 opinion and listen to reason. 
 
 Greed, Hate, Ambition and the like, must be over- 
 come by Love, Brotherhood and human Kindness. 
 
 Some people consider themselves religious because they 
 carry a prayer book. 
 
 If people realized there are no pockets in shrouds, they 
 would soon begin hunting for Honest Dollars. 
 
One of the many blessings that Spiritualism brings to 
 humanity is the understanding of the Bible, and its 
 application to everyday affairs. 
 
 We receive just what we give, and no more! Would 
 you be ashamed to publically confess all your little secrets 
 before the world? 
 
 Foolish people run after bad women, and bad women 
 run after foolish people. 
 
 Spiritualism is the only religion on earth that has a 
 Science and Philosophy. 
 
 The love of a good woman is the most powerful lever 
 to raise man to greatness. 
 
 How is thy Command, of Love one another obeyed? 
 
 If you are not contented, blame your own thinking. 
 
 Life has three tragedies, birth, death, and old age. 
 Old age is a haunting spCctre, it terrorizes more people 
 than fear of death. 
 
 The most dangerous weapon of ignorance is ridicule. 
 A great many narrow minded people were born sneering. 
 
 THE FIGHT IS ON,— Spirit return is a Scientifically 
 demonstrated FACT. 
 
SINS AND WICKEDNESS OF THE PEOPLE 
 
 CHAPTER ONE 
 
 In life's mad rush for gain and social position, millions 
 of men and women are burning the candle at both ends 
 of life. They are gradually using up surplus vitality and 
 strength until the brain becomes both mentally and phy- 
 sically weakened, and under those conditions humanity 
 does not make progress because they are living under the 
 handicap of false conceptions of the law of life. 
 
 The world is not progressing as GOD intended the 
 human race should progress. Humanity remains at the 
 bottom of the ladder while they struggle for earthly honor 
 instead of spiritual. 
 
 When a person forgets the spiritual side of life and 
 looks only to material pleasures and vulgar gain, the 
 brain is not supplied with proper spiritual nourishment 
 to achieve success in life GOD intended. 
 
 Without spirituality the brain becomes dormant 
 thereby lowering the mental vitality until gradually the 
 brain refuses to think and reason. 
 
 The mentally strong are the people who seek for 
 knowledge ,and the person who knows best is the person 
 who thinks. 
 
 A free thinker is one who breaks away from the chains of 
 skepticism, and listens to reason. Mental growth depends 
 on many factors. One of the most essential is contact 
 
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with other progressive minds, — you who wish to develop 
 brain power must mingle often and freely with people who 
 think and then think and reason for yourself. 
 
 It all depends on you; nobody can do it for you. 
 Success in life does not come through hopeing and waiting 
 but by effort. 
 
 The great question for each one of us to answer is? 
 What can we do to improve, develop, stimulate and 
 make more progressive our thinking machine. 
 
 There is nothing real about a human being except 
 what goes on in the brain, you are what you THINK, 
 what your thoughts create, and nothing more. 
 
 From the brain of mortals has come everything that 
 we have on this earth, except the earth itself, — strange 
 beliefs, superstitions, myths, hatreds, crudities, and all 
 the wickedness of the people. 
 
 Most of the world's trouble is due to spiritual ignor- 
 ance which has been caused by centuries of wrong teach- 
 ings, wrong thinking, and action — the result, CHAOS. 
 
 The deplorable state of the world today is through 
 false teachings of men who wrote history back in the 
 dark ages, and who wrote myths that are absolutely re- 
 verse to the LAW of GOD, and NATURE. 
 
 Let us use good common sense, cast out all skepticism 
 and analyze and dissect for example — the first book of 
 Genesis, — Chapter first. 
 
 In the beginning GOD created the heaven and the 
 earth, and the earth was without form, and void, and 
 darkness was upon the face of the deep, and the spirit 
 of GOD moved upon the face of the waters, and GOD 
 said, let there be light, and there was light, etc. 
 
 Suppose we compare the words of Moses, with our 
 present day wisdom. 
 
Men of science know that this earth has existed for 
 more than one hundred million years, and that human 
 beings have lived here for at least one half million years, 
 — probably much longer. They also know what the 
 different suns, and neighboring planets weigh, and tell us 
 they are made up of elements, iron, copper, gold, etc., 
 that make up this earth. 
 
 Astronomy teaches that our earth is the third planet 
 out from the sun, and our average distance from the sun 
 is 93,000,000 of miles. Beyond us come Mars, Jupiter, 
 Saturn, TJranus, and Neptune. This earth is approxi- 
 mately 8,000 miles in diameter, while Neptune from one 
 side to the other is between five and six billions of miles. 
 Astronomy is called the king of sciences, and conclusively 
 proves the ignorance of man's religion ,as nothing but 
 fables as written by Moses. The spirit of GOD must have 
 departed from some planet, or world, billions of miles out 
 in space to find the location for this earth, and in six days 
 created heaven and earth, and all therein contained. LET 
 US REASON. 
 
 Science can prove that every star or planet revolving 
 in space requires thousands of years, to develop by the 
 law of nature, which is God's law. We know that this 
 planet was created by nature, and that it required many 
 thousands of years to become cold enough for human 
 life to exist. 
 
 Is it reasonable to believe God would break one of 
 his own laws just to create this small planet? — when the 
 same law has been in existence for time inknown without 
 one iota of change in it's great solar system. 
 
 Why should this planet be an exception to the great 
 natural law? Can anything be more unreasonable, and 
 improbable? Note the following: 
 
NEW WORLDS IN THE UNIVERSE 
 
 By Chas. Nordman 
 Noted French Astronomer. 
 
 PARIS, Oct. 5. 
 
 "The visible universe is a thousand fold greater 
 than has been generally believed. Recent discoveries 
 have demonstrated the existence of worlds so far 
 distant from our earth that light , which travels at the 
 rate of 189,000 miles a second, would take seventy 
 million years to reach us from these astral bodies lost 
 in the depths of space. 
 
 "We owe this discovery to the work of American 
 observers. During the last Rve years w T e in Europe 
 w T ere unable to devote much attention to the heavens, 
 but our American colleagues employed their time 
 occupying new territories in the firmament in spite 
 of the policy of non-annexation proclaimed by 
 President Wilson. 
 
 "It has been believed that all the stars observed 
 through the telescope formed part of that archipelago 
 of the infinite known as the Milky Way, the central 
 sun of which is merely one of the mediocre islands of 
 space which shed their brilliant radiance around us. 
 New mesthods have demonstrated that this is not so. 
 Contrary to astronomical belief, there is an enormous 
 class of stars which do not belong to the Milky Way. 
 They are known as the spiral nebulae. These bodies 
 are in appearance little vapory spots formed of two 
 spirals and which are seen through the telescope like 
 hundreds of silver snails in the garden of stars. 
 
 "Not only do these nebulae not belong to the con- 
 stellation known as the Milky Way, but each of them 
 is in itself precisely a Milky Way, an isolated universe 
 
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with millions of suns and — much lower in the atasral 
 hierarchy — billions of planets, and, doubtless, here 
 and there, its high cost of living problem. 
 
 "Taking into consideration the fact that our 
 Milky Way comprises about fifteen hundred million 
 stars — that is to say, suns — we may be able to get 
 an idea of the prodigious amount of light, energy and 
 matter comprised in these new systems which, how- 
 ever, appear through the most powerful telescopes 
 as scarcely more than the faint light of a glow worm." 
 Note the following copied from writing by Dr. Richard 
 Swann Lull, Professor of Vertibrate Preteonitology at 
 Yale University, — and here is a very curious little lesson 
 on what happens when things do not develop brains and 
 use what they have. The running monster is known as 
 Ignanodon. It lived in the Crettaceous Age, — millions of 
 years ago, in Belgium, and on the Isle of Wight, — it 
 developed, as the fossils show, arms and hands almost 
 exactly similar to the human arm and hand of today, but 
 it never developed a brain big enough to know how to 
 use them, — all it did with them was tear and cut and slay. 
 The consequences was that after a few thousand years 
 Ignanodon died out. If there had been a brain which 
 would have enabled it to use its hands for making fires, 
 etc.* as our primitive ancestors did, the story of the dom- 
 inant race on earth might have been very different, — for 
 this dorsorant lived a million years before the first ape 
 like creature which was to turn into a man began to appear 
 on the facie of the earth. 
 
ANCIENT CAMEL ABOUT SIZE OF 
 JACK RABBIT 
 
 "THE DALLES- Ore., Oct. 18.— That an an- 
 cient camel, the size of a jack rabbit, roamed this 
 section 2,000,000 years ago is a fact recently dis- 
 covered by a group of University of Chicago geolog- 
 ists. Bones of the prehistoric camel and those of a 
 horse of the three-toed variety were found in caves 
 near The Dalles during a tour to inspect the form- 
 ation of the Cascade mountain range. 
 
 "The old-time ship of the desert according to the 
 bones found, had no hump. Its feet bones are like 
 those of the present-day camel. " 
 
 I will leave this decision to your good common sense. 
 Which is the most reasonable. The story written by 
 Moses, or proof offered by science? It does not seem 
 reasonable to believe that a man who lived in ancient 
 times had any more sense than our learned scientists of 
 the present age. Are we to believe the story of creation 
 which is reverse to the law of God? If we are to credit 
 such imaginable myths as a truth, we also admit that 
 the wisdom of our scientists are mere idiots in comparison 
 to the great wisdom Moses must have been endowed with. 
 Any human being that can delve into the past and tell 
 us how this earth was created — must have been a man 
 of marvelous conception. 
 
 Common sense teaches that it is nothing but a myth, 
 and humbug, originated in the brain of a man who was 
 a false prophet, a man like some of our present day re- 
 ligious writers who try to make us believe imaginable 
 fables. 
 
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The world is full of hob-nob myths ,and false beliefs 
 that the human race swallow without thought, reason, 
 or common sense, — and some are the most unreasonable^ 
 and impossible teachings that forces it's victims in the 
 deep rut of ignorance. 
 
 Must we, — as a civilized nation believe foolish trash 
 conceived by man — simply because it is ancient history? 
 Must we as a people with brains believe history that was 
 written by priests in ancient times who originated the 
 myths for selfish purposes, and material power? Most 
 of the writers was no more more fit to write history about 
 creation and other myths, than man of today. Where 
 would you find a man today that would dare attempt 
 such an impossible impossibility! No man ever lived 
 who can fathom the great mystery of creation. 
 
 Are we also to believe that God created evil? — (Genesis 
 
 1—27-28) 
 
 So God created man in his own image, in the image 
 of God created he him, male and female created he them, 
 and God blessed them, and God said unto them, be 
 fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, etc. — 
 
 According to the words of Moses, In seven days the 
 first man and woman was on earth, created for good, — 
 then we read, (Chapter %. 9 ) — and out of the ground 
 made the Lord God to grow every thing that is pleasant 
 to the sight, and good for food, — the tree of life also in the 
 midst of the garden of Eden, — and the tree of knowledge 
 of good and evil, etc. 
 
 NOW LET US REASON, 
 
 God, created man and women for good which is proof 
 they were innocent, — then, God immediately created a 
 tree to grow that was both good and evil, commanding 
 the man, saying, of every tree of the garden thou mayest 
 
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freely eat, but of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, 
 thou shalt not eat of it, for in the day that thou eatest 
 thereof thou shalt surely die. 
 
 How can we as civilized people, believe such a story? 
 — That our loving Merciful God would grow a tree that 
 would produce poison fruit, (or evil) — and warn them 
 not to eat or they would be murdered. 
 
 Are we to believe such impracticable myths? Con- 
 tinuing, we find that for fear that Adam and Eve would 
 not eat of the fruit, God created a human serpent with a 
 human voice to tempt them to commit evil, — because 
 we find in chapter 3-4-5, — and the serpent said unto 
 the woman, ye shalt not surely die; for your eyes shall 
 be opened, etc. 
 
 In all history, ancient, and modern, there has never 
 been known any specie of serpent that had a human 
 voice, except, in the book of Genesis. Under those con- 
 ditions this particular specie of serpent must have been 
 the only one ever in existence, created especially for this 
 one particular fable story: 
 
 After Adam and Eve had eaten of the forbidden fruit, 
 instead of dieing as God had commanded, he curses them 
 because he became very angry, (angry, mind you) — A 
 great merciful God, turning into a material, earth bound 
 spirit, etc. 
 
 The day of such nonsense has passed, So let us open 
 our eyes to the LIGHT of TRUTH, and see our God as 
 He is; — A great Merciful Heavenly Father who is all 
 LOVE and Devotion, and not a God of anger and re- 
 venge. 
 
. THE CHURCH 
 
 CHAPTER TWO. 
 
 The church has been preaching and advocating a 
 personal devil for centuries without one iota of evidence 
 that such a thing ever existed. Ministers have been 
 content to preach such misty, intangible things until it 
 is no longer believed by the educated masses. 
 
 The day of formalism is past, Clover footed Satan 
 and his ever ready pitch fork is another myth and humbug. 
 
 Why? would God permit such a sin making monster 
 with dark and sinister form and features to roam the 
 world free to smear us ,all over with sins, and then send 
 us to a bottomless pit to be damned for all eternity? 
 
 But to the orthodox theory such a plan was devised 
 by God, He prefers to permit the ruin and destruction of 
 mankind. 
 
 Does that show the goodness and wisdom of God? — 
 NO, — it shows the foolishness of poor deluded men and 
 women who can be duped by false teachers in believing 
 so ridiculous a story. 
 
 There is not one scrap of authentic evidence that such 
 a thing ever existed, it is all the result of false education. 
 
 High intelligences from the other world tell us that it 
 is a myth, and that the most perfect devil they ever saw 
 lived on this earth in the form of a man. 
 
 According to the Christian world, Hell, is a place of 
 torment for the damned, in literal fire and brimstone for 
 ever, and forever, where the fire is never quenched, and 
 the dead must live until judgment day, when Gabriel 
 will blow his trumpet then all will ascend into Heaven, etc. 
 
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It is but a figment of imagination, a misconception of 
 ancient leaders in religious matters who did not know 
 anything about it. 
 
 If the ancient writers had been in communication with 
 good and Holy spirits from the spirit world, the truth 
 would have been given to the world instead of fables and 
 myths. The church has been preaching these same 
 stories since the dawn of civilization, and continues to 
 this day to preach such tangible things and remain, What 
 they are, — mere blind leaders of the blind. 
 
 With the amazing amount of wickedness in the world, 
 without the church we must admit the inhabitance of this 
 world would soon degenerate to the level of animal life. 
 
 It has been the church that has held in check, to a 
 certain degree, the large majority of the human race 
 from becoming a race of mad hypocrites. 
 
 Many can testify that they Have been made better 
 through its influence, and any person unless bigoted will 
 admit the church has done an inestimable amount of 
 good. 
 
 Any belief, — that can lead men and women to lead 
 better and decent lives is a blessing to humanity. Any 
 system, by what name you may call it, that is beneficial 
 in making men and women better, — better husbands, 
 better mothers and wives should be helped and respected 
 by all. 
 
 Anything that helps men and women to live a God 
 life helps to elevate humanity into the straight and narrow 
 path. 
 
 I draw no religious lines, I esteem them all, 'FMalice 
 toward none and Charity for all." 
 
 If the church teaches men and women to be moral, 
 honest, truthful, upright and loving, to quit their mean- 
 ness, Why? no one has a right to criticize the church for 
 
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the good they are doing. The church is not perfect, that 
 is sure, for the reason that it is made up of imperfect men 
 and women. 
 
 Envy, strife, and division of the church have caused 
 confusion, and distrust in the minds of the people, until 
 it is simply a case of men and women thinking for them- 
 selves. 
 
 God, is not the author of confusion, but of peace, 
 therefore taking into consideration the good the church 
 has accomplished, they must be recognized as being a 
 benefit to mankind. 
 
 If the leaders of religion would broaden out and break 
 away from all the old time myths, and have immortality, 
 and spirit communication preached from the pulpits, the 
 greater truth would be given and the power of the churches 
 would soon rule the world, but as long as ministers con- 
 tinue preaching prejudice, and narrowmindedness in the 
 minds of the people, just so long will thinking people 
 continue leaving the churches, and just so long will the 
 churches remain in the non-progressive rut, only ac- 
 complishing a small amount of good, when they should 
 be elevating the people to a higher and nobler condition. 
 
 The preachers of the land would be horrified, (perhaps) 
 — if they knew how far their preaching failed to convince 
 the thinking people. 
 
 The thinking world is beginning to see how little they 
 really know. Real thinking has but just begun, for the 
 brightest minds in the world are everywhere in action. 
 
 The opinions of men and women are changing from 
 silly bigoted beliefs to the living truth, which is being- 
 revealed from the spirit world in all parts of the universe, 
 Eventually, the church must turn to the source of TRUTH, 
 and preach it to the world, or slowly sink into oblivion. 
 
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SCEPTICISM 
 
 CHAPTER THREE 
 
 Millions of people pass through life without having 
 a single moment of deep or earnest thought . . . The 
 goal of their ambition is pleasure, How many ever 
 analyze a thought, a principle, or originate an idea of 
 their own? Each individual has some pet idea, whim or 
 conceit that they desire to promulgate ,but there is no 
 intellectual growth, or spiritual development, their minds 
 being like water that stands still, they waste time on 
 trifles seeking pleasure instead of information. 
 
 If each was at liberty to express their own honest 
 convictions instead of somebody elses, with no devil, or 
 literal hell to make them afraid, or priest, or preacher who 
 do not understand their own conscience, we would all get 
 some good common sense. 
 
 Many lies have been made to pass as truth, until 
 people have become so obsessed by its false authority 
 that if you would tell that class of people they must either 
 change their belief or go to the orthodox hell, every last 
 one of them would take chances on hell before they would 
 change their belief, That is what causes Skepticism. 
 
 Skepticism is the weed of contention that brings repute 
 to the man or woman who centers thoughts on anyone 
 particular subject, and then refuses to listen to the pro- 
 gressive minds used throughout our land by men of 
 Science to advance civilization to a higher pinacle of 
 wisdom. 
 
 In this world we have a mixed creation of human 
 beings that ascends from the smallest atom of intelligence 
 to the highest point of widsom, — men of Science, all 
 placed on this earth for some purpose^ either to pass 
 
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through as the smallest atom of nothing, or to produce 
 results that will bring development and brain power to 
 humanity. 
 
 The man or woman who listens to the teachings of 
 others without a thought for themselves to advance their 
 own knowledge is but little above the lowest form of 
 human intelligence because the brain remains inactive 
 and lack of mental action is what holds civilization in 
 the fearful rut of ignorance. 
 
 It is not book education that always builds up wonder- 
 ful productive brains, for many a person who has only 
 sufficient book learning to converse in an intelligent 
 manner can discount the most learned Professor in Scien- 
 tific theories that is even beyond the realm of educated 
 minds, proving conclusively that the power of thought 
 and science has been given to most of us to develop for 
 progressive methods. 
 
 Every child should be compelled to educate the mind 
 to a point of high perfection, both mentally and Spiritu- 
 ally, then, men and women would be more free to reason, 
 grow further intelligent through life's experiences which 
 God intended for our object lessons to produce good 
 results for the great new birth into the higher planes of 
 intelligence in the world to come. 
 
 The man or woman who laughs to scorn anything new 
 that appears, Invention, Mechanical, Scientific or religious 
 do so at their own peril, because the time wasted brings 
 them so much nearer to death's door, and they are but 
 the acme of pity in the minds of people who grasp the 
 truth. Everything on earth contains truth, nothing was 
 ever created that has no TRUTH. 
 
 A certain class of people would rather believe old 
 handed down beliefs written by Kings and Priests whose 
 objects was to use religion to keep the people down to 
 mental slavery, that they might live high and easy lives, 
 
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in extravagance, in pomp and splendor ,and amass great 
 fortunes, the same as is ever prevalent in all parts of the 
 world today. 
 
 The greatest obstacle to progress and enlightenment is 
 the attitude and prejudice of people from other denom- 
 inations against any other belief than their own. Many 
 become obstinate in their narrow confines. They do not 
 read; they do not discuss; they do not inform them- 
 selves on any subject reverse to their own religious views, 
 but go on day after day with minds filled with one narrow 
 belief, and pronounce all other religions humbugs, and 
 fakes without investigation. 
 
 It is this class of bigoted people who pronounce the 
 great philosophy and science of spiritualism the works 
 of the devil. They are simply materialists who know no 
 more about the religion of spiritualism than a new born 
 babe would know about the alphabet. They are simply a 
 religious fanatic who will not look for good common sense 
 for fear it will interfere with some wicked secret they are 
 afraid will be exposed. This does not apply in all in- 
 stances, because ignorance is the usual cause. 
 
 The mind of the mass of the people cannot realize 
 such an astounding fact as communication with spirits 
 of the so called dead. Under no circumstances will 
 they conceve that it may be possible for loved ones to 
 return to earth, their creed being, death ends all, or that 
 the dead are either asleep in the grave, or that they are 
 far away and cannot return to earth. Is it not terrible 
 to see such individuals condemn themselves? 
 
 The spirit world tell us that it is a pitiful sight to see 
 a new spirit born in the spirit world who has wasted time 
 and energy on foolish, unreasonable beliefs that has 
 clouded the soul to a disastrous condition through false 
 teachings of the true version of death, and the laws that 
 governs the spirit world. 
 
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No excuse can alter the condition for the mistakes 
 contracted through this life. If your teachers are not 
 prepared to teach the truth, they are at fault far more 
 than those who follow, and will receive just punishment 
 for the wrong they commit. The law of God demands 
 the truth for it is in the world today and free for every- 
 body, so it remains for every one to grasp every oppor 
 tunity offered for future good results. 
 
 The blind cannot lead the blind and win spiritual 
 gifts, it must be procured by seeking and knowing. 
 
 This advise is given to humanity from the world of 
 spirits. Idle watching, using what others produce with- 
 out any effort to advance, produces little. Knowledge 
 is power. 
 
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THE PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENCE OF 
 SPIRITUALISM 
 
 CHAPTER FOUR 
 
 The birth of spiritualism is the most portentious event 
 of the world. Nothing in interest or importance equal 
 to it ever occurred in the history of man. 
 
 The world's greatest question — If a man die, shall he 
 live again? Has been answered. 
 
 After centuries of weary waiting, modern scientific 
 spiritualism gave that question a clean, positive scientific 
 answer— THERE ARE NO DEAD. 
 
 For many centuries humanity has been striving to 
 reach the land of departed spirits, the long desired 
 connection has been opened up, communication be- 
 tween this side of the grave and life on the other 
 side of the grave is positively established. Husband 
 and wife, brother and sister, parents and children sep- 
 arated by death can meet and greet each other. 
 
 Our scientists who formerly ignored it, and the news- 
 papers that once held it up to ridicule are publishing great 
 full page articles and teaching spirit return as a demon- 
 strated reality. The literature of the day is publishing 
 large articles day after day, until the great truth is grow- 
 ing with a mighty power all over the universe, and will 
 continue to grow until it becomes a universal reglion. 
 
 A few years ago the religion of Spiritualism was quite 
 unknown, except as contained in a handful of advanced 
 mortals who constituted the vanguard of what is today 
 becoming a multitudinous army. 
 
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It has aroused widespread interest because of two 
 things. It's radical departure from the old lines — and 
 the success of its teachings in raising humanity out of 
 the depths of ignorance, and superstition. 
 
 The great Scientific Religion is transforming the 
 hitherto prevailing conception of death, and the nature 
 of the life we all must live in the world to come. 
 
 Spiritualism embraces science, philosophy and phen- 
 omena, together producing a religion founded on facts 
 and actual knowledge rather than faith and belief. It 
 is surprising that the churches do not eagerly investigate 
 the claims of Spiritualism, the truth established in the 
 churches would fill the buildings to overflowing with 
 eager investigators. If they do not accept now, the day 
 is soon coming when they will be forced to accept, — 
 regardless of all creed bound skepticism. 
 
 Spiritualism teaches the truth of eternal existence; 
 it shows human beings the way to live in honor to them- 
 selves, and justice, to mankind. It teaches the true 
 ethics of spirituality, and harmonizes the living existence 
 to a pure and perfect state. 
 
 It teaches that we are the architects of our own future 
 destiny, that we inflict our own punishment and select 
 our own rewards. 
 
 If thoughts of love, of kindness, of sympathy, of purity 
 eminates from our being, when we die our spiritual body 
 will be bright and radiant in proportion to our goodness — 
 we enter the next world with power of perception, in- 
 telligence and soul progression. 
 
 If our thoughts have been of cruelty, hatred, and 
 revenge, we enter the next world the same in mind, and 
 spirit, our spiritual body being clothed with mist like 
 vapors, causing misery, despair and darkness. 
 
 Death is only a transition to another plane of existance, 
 it neither deprives us of the virtues, nor relieves us of 
 
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the vices, both go with us — a fool does not become a man 
 of science, or a sinner a saint. 
 
 Nature's psychic laws plays a wonderful game with 
 the human race. As you sow so shall you reap., it re- 
 mains with each individual how well the lesson has been 
 learned. The lesson that has been taught with the sow- 
 ing of good seeds of love, mercy, gratitude and righteous- 
 ness, are like flowers in the garden, they grow beautiful 
 with care and cultivation, but with the opposite of hate, 
 deceit, greed, jealously, and dishonor, they are filthy 
 weeds that flourish, they take away the life of the flowers. 
 and they wither and die. 
 
 Eight living, right thinking, right doing, and obeying 
 the Divine laws of God and nature thus make a Heaven 
 within. 
 
 In thousands of homes throughout the land wonderful 
 demonstrations are being given every hour of the day 
 such as has never been demonstrated to the public eye. 
 Men of science, publicists, statesmen, religious leaders 
 and heads of the world of new thought have been pro- 
 foundly convinced of the life after death, and it's ability 
 to communicate with the living. Because of this con- 
 viction, it counts its followers today by millions. 
 
 Spiritualism, is the key that opens the door between 
 this world and the next, it is the guiding star that will 
 lead humanity on the straight road and keep foolish 
 people out of the material rut of wickedness. 
 
 Spiritualism, is the headlight that shines in every 
 direction showing the good road ahead. It is the power 
 behind the human race that will make men and women 
 spiritual, and will take all through this life safely who 
 joins the army of Progressive Spiritualists. 
 
 Spiritualism, unfolds the spiritual gift lying dormant 
 in the world of humanity, a blessing given to the human 
 race for spirit communication with the next world. 
 
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Every home throughout the land contains one or more 
 persons who could cultivate the great spiritual power 
 within, and direct communication with the spirit world 
 could be made — thereby bringing convincing evidence 
 that the religion of Spiritualism is a great truth. Every 
 home contains hosts of unseen spirit forces waiting pa- 
 tiently for the time to arrive when humanity will get their 
 eyes open, and give the spirit world a chance to talk with 
 the home circle they have left behind. This is one of 
 the greatest blessings that God has given to the human 
 race, and it is ignorance, and superstition that is holding 
 this great Divine power we all have from becoming more 
 fully understood. It is a disgrace to the human race to 
 be so blind, when the greatest science on earth lays covered 
 up under ignorant spiritual minds. That could be easily 
 developed and made the most perfect degree of earthly 
 happiness for this so called civilized nation. 
 
 To be able to talk with spirits from the spirit world 
 is the simplest thing that a person can undertake. All it 
 requires is to first understand how to develop the gift 
 so that it will bring you in direct communication with 
 the higher planes of spirit intelligence, and the rest is 
 very simple for you can learn more in five minutes con- 
 versing with intelligent spirits than can be learned in a 
 lifetime from other sources. 
 
 Spiritualism teaches that a sin is a sin whether it is 
 caused by deceit, jealousy, enmity or murder. Every 
 deed has its own future punishment. Humanity does 
 not understand what constitutes wickedness, and through 
 the lack of knowledge many believe if they escape the 
 death chair in prison and are not publically branded 
 as a criminal they are living a good Christian life. 
 
 Every act, every deed, every thought that is not pure 
 is impure, and registered on the dark side of life, so it 
 behooves us all to find out the truth before it is too late. 
 
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SELFISHNESS 
 
 CHAPTER FIVE 
 
 Selfishness today is the curse of the human race. It 
 has grown to such sinful conditions that friendship, 
 sociability, harmony, honesty, and charity has been 
 nearly exterminated from the earth through its terrible 
 influence. Humanity in general has sunk so low that 
 a free giver is almost a curiosity. If a person is sincere 
 and wishes to give a few dollars for some worthy cause — 
 that person soon comes under the ban of what is termed 
 an easy mark, and is literally hounded by selfishness of 
 human sharks who begrudge the little comfort others 
 may be given. Selfishness controls nearly all the in- 
 dustries — it controls nearly every branch of finances — 
 it rules the financial resources of nearly every line of 
 business — it governs the churches — it brings unhar- 
 monious conditions in nearly every home and creates 
 enmity, hatred, jealousy, gossiping, malice and every 
 known sin on the calendar — between friends, relatives, 
 acquaintances and strangers. 
 
 Profiteering is nothing but absolute selfishness 
 Cheating is selfishness — jealousy and begrudging others 
 for what they may possess is insane selfishness- — being 
 two faced for personal gain is a very low degree of selfish- 
 ness and causes more suffering than many of the other 
 branches of meanness. 
 
 Where are your friends today and whom can you 
 trust? If you loan money without positive proof that 
 the money was loaned, do you know that the person 
 is honest? Are you positively sure that the party can 
 be trusted? How many friends have you lost by being 
 a good fellow and in the end they become your enemy? 
 
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How many good opportunities have you lost by trusting 
 your secret to some friend who you thought had influence 
 to give you assistance— but to find your friend had taken 
 your place. How many times have you placed confidence 
 in certain persons, only to discover later your confidence 
 has been abused? How many dollars have you squan- 
 dered foolishly with your friends, while they enjoyed 
 your hospitality — and when in distress asked the loan 
 of a few paltry dollars to see you through a little financial 
 loss — to hear those very familiar words; very sorry,'' 
 but really I am short myself and of course you under- 
 stand my position;" I would really like to accommodate 
 you — but I don't see how I can do it at this time:" — 
 Nothing but selfishness and human distrust of mankind. 
 We have all been so deceived by unscrupulous selfishness 
 in humanity that we fear to take chances on even our very 
 near friends. 
 
 Wickedness of the people has gradually driven hu- 
 manity to become selfish and deceitful. In some quarters 
 it is almost impossible to secure anything without using 
 deceit — if you want work the boss has a list of friends 
 that receive the first chance — if the purchasing price 
 of some article you wish to purchase is too high you are 
 forced to use deceit in trying to convince the merchant 
 that you cannot afford to pay the price. Nearly all 
 transactions between human beings is contracted on 
 that selfish principle. The merchants are selfish for a 
 few more pennies, and the buyer is selfish because the 
 merchant is making the profit. 
 
 The millionaire is condemned for his success and 
 luxury; the middle class of rich prople are not blessed 
 by the minds of the masses because they begrudge the 
 money they have given to build the fortune of the rich, 
 and the common people are jealous of each other if one 
 is fortunate in possessing a little more wealth than the other. 
 
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To sum this condition of the human minds to a 
 spiritual degree; — we have but a small love for God, — 
 and a less amount of love and respect for fellow man. 
 We all want just what we want without one thought of 
 doing to others as we wish to be done by. Selfish, mean, 
 and greedy without fear of future punishment — or love 
 for each other. Is it not terrible to see the brains of human 
 beings placed in this filthy condition? Is it not against 
 the teachings of Christ? Does the words of God say 
 that we shall live together in selfishness and strife; and 
 do unto each other just as our selfish hearts dictates? 
 Where is the religion in this state of mental corruption? 
 Is it right? Is it just? 
 
 Humanity is becoming so materially selfish that a 
 friend in need is a friend indeed! A man would rather 
 squander ten dollars foolishly, than to give fifty cents 
 for some worthy cause. Simply advertise some vulgar, 
 and uncouth performance and men and women will 
 stand in line for hours to secure a seat, money is no object 
 — because it personally helps to satisfy the craving for 
 selfish motives. In all our courts you will find a strug- 
 gling mass of men and women who attend every trial 
 of notorious people just to listen to the vile and obscene 
 testimony. Nothing seems to appease the mental 
 faculties of this class of people but filth. Many are 
 people of education and refinement who has attained 
 admission in high society — but with mind and soul 
 diseased with animal nature — and the only pleasures 
 that appeals to their liking, is vulgarity. 
 
 This same class of people will make up parties to visit 
 the slums of wickedness, the selfish minds continually 
 craving for low material scenes — and the nearer they come 
 to the lowest degrees of vile wickedness the more pleasure 
 it brings to the selfish nature. 
 
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When once the spiritual sense is abused nature reverts 
 to lower conditions. This is the wicked force that is 
 sending millions to an untimely ending and future dark- 
 ness. It requires a powerful determined mind to battle 
 this wicked force if allowed to develop. Evil in the 
 mind without spiritual guidance has a hard battle to 
 fight to live free from wrong doing. If the brain is once 
 deluded by false pleasures it is like a man who has become 
 a drunkard! He will take just one more drink and that 
 will be the last, the last never comes. 
 
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MATERIAL AND SPIRITUAL LAWS. 
 
 CHAPTER SIX 
 
 Material and spiritual laws that govern human life 
 is as far apart in relation to each other, as the moon and 
 sun is as far apart in space. The two conditions are 
 like a house with two rooms, one palatial in every par- 
 ticular, and the other filthy, and filled with disease germs. 
 Materiality is everything earthy, and is the basis of all 
 crime, poverty, suffering and woe. 
 
 It is the sins we commit against ourselves, and the 
 lowest standard of mankind that lead men and women to 
 steal, lie, gamble, to be selfish, hardhearted and mean. 
 It is the wolf of humanity that has thrown multitudes of 
 souls into the condition known as hell. It is the unholy 
 power that ruins our unwise fathers and mothers, foolish 
 girls and boys, and makes men and women social hypo- 
 crites with the cunning of the fox and the morals of a 
 degenerate who hide the heart of a wolf, and the passions 
 of a tiger under the cloak of false piety and virtue. 
 
 It is the lowest mental state of life that is a terrible 
 foe to innocence. It creates ignorance, superstition and 
 vulgarity, and has wrecked the human race from the 
 beginning of civilization through following after the lusts 
 of the body instead of seeking for goodness, and trying 
 to live better, and understand the spiritual side of life. 
 
 Materiality is the cause of diseases that impoverish 
 our physical bodies, and weakens the mental faculties 
 to such an extent that this generation is barely spiritually 
 strong enough to choose the good from the bad. We 
 look to the material and vulgar side of life for pleasure 
 and happiness instead of choosing the pure and good. 
 
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Material selfishness has created millions of conceited 
 hypocrites with a heart full of hell, and a mouth full of 
 heaven. There is that type of individual who goes 
 around one half saint, and the other half devil. Every 
 Sunday they proclaim aloud in the church their love 
 for everybody and on the week days the same person 
 would do enough mean things to you to make even the 
 devil ashamed of himself. Love is only artificial, and 
 mischievous hatred lurks within the fellowship hand. 
 This same class of shouting hypocrites call themselves 
 Christians, and condemn innocent pleasures of the com- 
 mon people as vulgar and corrupt, and preach piety 
 under the cloak of deceit. The world is filled with that 
 class of Sunday shouting hypocrites that will be so small 
 when they enter the next world, it will take a powerful 
 magnifying glass to find the soul. That class of deceitful 
 hypocrites can fool themselves, but they cannot deceive 
 God or the spirit world. 
 
 People who do not understand the true law of God and 
 nature imagine they can live just as they please in this 
 life, and receive no punishment in the next. They break 
 the laws of virtue, honor and justice, and expect when 
 they die to be ushered into heaven, and receive all the 
 great blessings that is bestowed on the righteous who go 
 to heaven. It is like a person trying to carry water in a 
 sieve, it can't be done. 
 
 Millions hold wicked secrets in their conscience that 
 they dislike to remember, yet, — often remember because 
 memory creates a guilty conscience, and would be shocked 
 to have them printed on the front page of a morning 
 paper. Yet, they will find them printed on the soul in 
 the other world, and displayed publicly before every 
 spirit they meet. This is the Divine spiritual law that 
 causes wicked spirits to seek shelter in some dark corner 
 to cover up shame and disgrace. They are ashamed to 
 
meet spirit friends face to face. This is the reason a 
 wicked person cannot enter heaven, shame forces them 
 to the planes where they can mingle with other spirits 
 as wicked as they are themselves. 
 
 Materialism is the wicked power that provides jails 
 and insane asylums where men and women are placed 
 when they become so sin crazed that they are a menace to 
 the peace of the community, but they are only a small 
 percentage of our wicked population. 
 
 At the present day, the world is full of terrible heresies 
 and open blasphemy. Man's uneducated licentiousness 
 and inherent love of strife and lusts for worldly riches 
 has caused grossness of personal conduct. Injustice 
 and cruelty to mankind without heart, without thought; 
 save for the gain, or loss of gold until sin is rampant to 
 a low degree in every stage of life. 
 
 There is very little goodness in the world today; two 
 men, or even brothers, will fight like dogs quarreling over 
 a bone, and two women will scream themselves hoarse 
 if one receives more attention than the other. The world 
 is degenerating in honor, in prestige, in faith, in morals, 
 in justice, in honesty, and in clean living, that men and 
 women are getting dissolute, shameless, and youth of 
 both sexes depraved. All through the influence of ma- 
 terial sins. 
 
 Following is a list of Divine laws that must not be 
 broken, for every one creates a guilty conscience, and a 
 guilty conscience sends people from earth to the lower 
 planes of darkness. Read the list carefully. 
 
 Murder, suicide, malpractice, seducers, haters of God, 
 unholiness, ungodliness, worldly lusts, malice, unmerciful, 
 enmity, traitors, maliciousness, hating one another, cur- 
 rupt minds, shamefacedness, blasphemers, gossiping, 
 cruelty, covetousness, liars, profane, greed, hypocrisy, 
 full of envy, deceiving, false accusers, despising those 
 
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that are good, truce breakers, jealousy, deceit, backbiters, 
 vain, unthankful, tattlers, evil surmizings, perjury, 
 cheating, stealing, hatred, white slavery, selfishness, 
 busy bodies, etc. These are the first laws of the kingdom 
 of God and laws that must be obeyed. 
 
 To the people who have broken any of the above laws, 
 if they could see their own brains as God, and the spirit 
 world can see them, they would be horrified beyond ex- 
 pression. 
 
 Thoughts are things — and they become so imprinted 
 on the brain, that any degree of spirits, coming from any 
 spirit plane can read human thoughts as readily as we 
 can read the English language. So it behooves all of us 
 to watch our step if we wish to produce clean reading for 
 our invisible friends. Bands of angels travel all over the 
 civilized world on earth, branding every wicked person 
 with the seal of hypocrite, and the brand remains stamped 
 on the soul until washed away by redemption. There 
 is no escape for a living soul. This law is inevitable. 
 
 Spirituality is the Divine power that builds good 
 characters. It creates good and loving people who treat . 
 others as they wish to be treated themselves. It beautifies 
 the home and keeps the family united in charity, love 
 and perfect harmony. It forces people to forgive their 
 enemies and forbids them to trespass upon the rights 
 of others. It causes money mad hypocrites to visit the 
 poor and needy, and extend the hand of fellowship in 
 friendship and charity. It kills the animal nature in 
 vulgar and disreputable people, and makes them con- 
 verts to a new and better earthly existance. 
 
 Spirituality is the power behind the world that has 
 retarded wickedness to practically a degree of safety, 
 and created what little true happiness there is in the 
 world for those who are good enough to enjoy it. 
 
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To be spiritual and yield not to temptation is living 
 a good life that is the highest and most beautiful science 
 on earth. 
 
 Those who think they can sham spirituality, is like 
 the thistle trying to become a rose, the two separate ele- 
 ments will not mix together. 
 
 We are either like the thistle, impure and of very little 
 use to humanity, or like the beautiful rose which is pure, 
 and one of God's perfected models of nature that is a 
 lesson for us all to copy. 
 
 Spirituality, teaches a moral code of virtue, which if 
 followed will purify the mind and body under its wonder 
 ful influence. Life without spirituality is wasted, and 
 produces little hope, little power and no gain at the end 
 of this life which is sure to come. 
 
 How many really understand, and realize the wonder- 
 ful power of love? The Divine power that brings the 
 only genuine happiness to humanity. Without love, 
 the world would sink to the plane of animal life, and even 
 today the terrible conditions which we see all around us 
 is nothing higher than the vulgar animal nature in man. 
 
 Only a few people ever experience true love; they utilize 
 the material power of infatuation, which is creating a 
 race of unhappy uneducated,, and miserable dejected 
 people. 
 
 Infatuation, is not love; it is a wicked influence that 
 eminates from selfish individuals who follow wicked 
 thoughts and desires for personal gratification. 
 
 Infatuation, is the power that unites so many unhappy 
 marriages, and which leaves its mark on the children who 
 follow. It is the power that causes so many divorces, 
 and leaves children homeless by the thousands without 
 shelter or parental love. 
 
Where there is no true love at the fireside, there is no 
 harmony, and where there is no harmony there is no 
 goodness. A family living together under those condi- 
 tions send the children out in the world with unclean 
 minds, and the result is a disastrous ending. 
 
 Materiality, is forcing the world's people to shame 
 and disgrace. 
 
 Spirituality is trying to build the human race to be- 
 come pure and holy, but under the present distressing 
 conditions, materiality is master, and unless checked, 
 will eventually drive all true love and spirituality off 
 the earth. 
 
 God, our Heavenly Father, is on the side of goodness. 
 If we expect to ever go to his Heavenly Domain, we had 
 better begin living the lives here. He commanded we 
 should live," The following list is God's own laws, and 
 given to us to obey. If we fail — it is our own fault, and 
 must suffer the consequences. Study the list carefully. 
 
 We must love God and humanity, be righteous, be 
 charitable, virtuous, Godly, must have honor, hos- 
 pitality, fidelity, must be truthful, giving of thanks, 
 temperate in all things, good behavior, pure thoughts and 
 acts, kindness, affection, self respect, and obeying all the 
 laws of nature. 
 
 When you choose, choose well, for it all depends on 
 you, and you alone. 
 
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THE FAMILY CIRCLE 
 
 CHAPTER SEVEN 
 
 The Creator gave man many blessings but the last 
 and greatest gift to man was woman to mend his faults 
 and mould him into virtue! 
 
 One of the greatest things in this world for a man and 
 wife is love! — Love is greater than life itself for without 
 love life is barren. The sweetest wisdom in all this world 
 is a pure woman's council, and the marriage vow is the 
 noblest alter in life's journey. 
 
 The day after the marriage the bride should begin her 
 new era of life as the queen of the home, and the husband 
 should love and protect his queen with honor and morality 
 
 When a man loves a woman unreservedly and marries 
 her, he thereby elects to resign all other woman in the 
 world for all eternity, and to confine the giving and 
 receiving of all attentions to that one woman — his wife 1 
 and both shall conform to that rule. 
 
 The home is the most sacred place on earth! — because 
 it is the beginning of life, and usually the ending. 
 
 If God gives the home the blessing to bring children 
 in this life! — it is the advice that mother and father give 
 the children that rules the destiny of mankind. Good 
 seeds sown in the home will grow and develop, and the 
 children will have a guiding hand to help them face the 
 world! To keep them in the straight and narrow path 
 through life — so they can pass on into the great world 
 beyond without sorrow or shame. 
 
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The kind words and loving prayers of mother is what 
 helps us through life, — without mothers advice we are 
 like lost sheep, we wander to pastures new and find there 
 only stale grass and impure water. 
 
 Fathers advice to the son is education for the boy. 
 Many wicked and degraded men today would be a credit . 
 to the family circle if father had made a companion of 
 his son, and gave him the advice necessary to teach him 
 how to shun evil. 
 
 When the wife or mother forgets her family circle and 
 accepts the evil attentions of another man, no matter 
 what the circumstances may be, she has opened the door 
 that leads to dismal darkness, and when she passes 
 through that door her sin is almost unpardonable. A 
 wife must obey the law of God if she expects to find future 
 happiness, and have no thought for any Other man but her 
 husband. This is a divine law — that every wife should 
 obey with strict obedience. 
 
 The husband and father who forgets his vow of devo- 
 tion to his family circle, and thinks there is no harm in 
 entertaining lady friends and admirers does not possibly 
 realize what danger lurks in the background of such 
 meetings. It is astonishing the number of married men 
 who defy and disobey the law of virtue, and bring shame 
 and disgrace on their miserable souls, which at the end 
 of this life causes untold sorrow, and destruction in the 
 next world. 
 
 This great Divine law should be understood and obeyed 
 by all who look for rest and peace. 
 
 Immorality is sending millions of men and women to 
 the lowest planes of darkness because this great Divine 
 law is being broken with severe impropriety. Ignorance 
 has no excuse; the law is unmerciful and all powerful 
 in the spirit world — it is God's law. 
 
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It is positively disgusting how men attempt to force 
 their attentions upon every beautiful woman they see — 
 married or single. 
 
 This filthy disease of the mind is called flirting, and 
 married men as well as young men, even boys, will attempt 
 by all manner of means to inflict themselves upon the 
 company of innocent women. This evil practice has be- 
 come so prevalent that men of seemingly respectable 
 appearance almost torture a beautiful woman. The 
 boldness and cunning of these men are astounding which 
 affords no temptation for a real woman, but causes no 
 end of trouble. To the weak willed girl or woman this 
 evil practice is a most dangerous temptation and curse. 
 
 Married people are getting so they do not want the 
 society of each other. The wife prefers flirtations with 
 uncouth strangers, and the husband wants only the 
 painted, powdered, mushy girls. 
 
 Love one another is the law God commanded should 
 govern the home circle; not poluted with anger, disputes, 
 enmity and spite. 
 
 The home life of many young boys and girls is every- 
 thing but spiritual; they are scolded, abused and seldom 
 receive true parential devotion that is rightfully due them; 
 instead of affection! — they receive cross words and are 
 punished by angry parents who are unreasonable and 
 unrelenting, thereby forcing many children to become 
 unruly and disobedient. 
 
 Parents who follow stern discipline without principle, 
 will allow children the free privileges of the streets day or 
 night without a watchful eye for their welfare, not showing 
 the least interest in whom they select as companions. 
 They know not whether the little ears are wide open listen- 
 ing to vile stories related by uncouth children, or what 
 they are doing. 
 
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They have no patience for innocent childish amuse- 
 ments. The children are always in the way: Goodness — 
 begins at home! Nothing but harmony should prevail; 
 Devotion, Generosity, Kindness and Charity should be the 
 controlling force to regulate every fireside to a perfect 
 and harmonious condition. As we find the average home 
 of today, — it is more like a retreat for the insane than 
 the dwelling place for a loving, united and happy home 
 circle. 
 
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PRAYERS 
 
 CHAPTER EIGHT 
 
 The Christian world since the dawn of civilization has 
 been placing implicit faith in prayers, believing that 
 prayers are personally answered by our Supreme Heavenly 
 Father, and no matter what class of sins has been com- 
 mitted, — every person who prays will be forgiven. 
 
 This system of worship has been handed down from 
 ancient times, and not one person can truthfully say that 
 they KNOW for a positive fact that personal prayers have 
 ever been answered by a personal God. 
 
 The time has arrived for the world to know the 
 TRUTH — concerning this one great method of saving 
 souls. 
 
 If God has devised such a wholesale system of saving 
 souls, — after people have broken his commandments: 
 Then Heaven must be inhabited with a race of human 
 spirits instead of Angelic Angels, because nearly every 
 person has some hope of sailing direct to Heaven, through 
 prayer at the eleventh hour, and that includes all classes 
 of people from sin crazed inhuman monsters to hypo- 
 crites. Such a mixture of human spirits in Heaven would 
 make it but little above earth life. 
 
 If God has bestowed his Gracious Blessing on human- 
 ity by such a simple method of reaching this wonderful 
 Heaven, — any one of us can break all the commandments 
 and be ushered into Heaven without any punishment for 
 our sins. If this system is true, — why does the scriptures 
 say, "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and all the rest 
 
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will be added unto you?" Does that mean that we can 
 first seek shame, and disgrace, and the rest will be Heaven? 
 Does it mean that we can Cheat, Steal, and Profiteer for 
 selfish gain, — and go to Heaven? Does it mean that we 
 can sham our earthly existence,— and deceive people in 
 believing we are Christians when we are cruel, and un- 
 merciful to fellow man? What a Merciful God we must 
 have to give humanity such a wonderful blessing. 
 
 Is it reasonable to "believe that just to satisfy the 
 different religious beliefs, God will break his own laws, — 
 and disobey his own commandments? 
 
 Heaven is not a free and easy sphere of spirit existence 
 where the wicked can flee for protection to cover up 
 earthly sins : Heaven is a celestial abode for the Righteous, 
 — where the highest intellectual and Spiritual Beings can 
 rest in peace after passing through degrees and zones of 
 preparatory, Etherial Schools of Spiritual Science. This 
 requires many, many years of time to even enter the 
 first degree of Heaven, and beyond this first degree there 
 are worlds without end. 
 
 There are many mysteries in this world, but the 
 greatest of all is why sensible beings will believe such a 
 myth that wicked people can die and go to Heaven, even 
 after Gabriel has blown his trumpet. If spirits sleep for 
 hundreds, — and thousands of years before the sound of 
 the trumpet, what opportunity will a sleeping soul have 
 to work out their own salvation? When a brain is once 
 diseased with wickedness, — it requires more than the call 
 of a trumpet to wash out the scars of earthly vulgarity. 
 It requires severe punishment, The spirit of man does 
 not sleep, — or wait for Gabriel to blow his trumpet, it 
 passes on to the plane that is best suited for its existence, 
 — and by faithful labor it can be slowly released Cycle 
 by Cycle, Degree by Degree until it reaches the higher 
 
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planes of light and wisdom, — and all the praying on earth 
 will not help the soul on its journey to the brighter planes 
 of spirit life. 
 
 God has said, "I go to prepare a place for you, that 
 where I am, ye may be there also;" which means, — when 
 properly interpreted; you can go to Him when Spiritually 
 Prepared, and not before. 
 
 Heaven, — and the Spirit world is so wonderful, — and 
 mysterious that it's true conception is beyond all human 
 intelligence. Just a faint idea of its' tremendous size and 
 extent,— Science estimates that over THIRTY THOU- 
 SAND BILLION of human beings has died on this earth, 
 — and is now some where in this great belt of invisable 
 Spiritual Worlds that goes to make up our future Eternal 
 Progression FOREVER. 
 
 No person can begin to conceive the number of worlds 
 where the mighty multitudes of once-human beings now 
 exist, and as much alive today as when they walked this 
 earth occupying the human body. 
 
 Many of this vast number has been progressing on and 
 on from one world to another, — f or thousands of years, 
 and today live in some world so far out in space that no 
 estimate of distance can be measured. 
 
 There are billions of spiritual souls that has not 
 visited this earth for thousands of years. In fact, — it 
 would be an utter impossibility because they are so 
 highly spiritualized that the material force that surrounds 
 this earth, — and rises some distance above the earth, 
 would act as a barrier through which a highly developed 
 spiritual body could not penetrate. It would be like a 
 stone wall around a building. This earth under its present 
 existing wickedness, — would look to Angelic Angels like 
 the Orthodox Hell is supposed to look to us poor and 
 benighted people. 
 
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Millions of spirits who live in planes of progression 
 a few degrees from earth's conditions, is the missionary 
 planes, where good spirits are given missions on earth to 
 fulfill for the uplift of humanity, and at the same time 
 improve their own progression. A good deed performed 
 by spirits, has its reward in the next world the same as 
 here, only more spiritual. From these planes of spirit 
 life, true, and sincere prayers are answered, providing 
 the person praying is spiritually good enough to send 
 thoughts of prayer to these planes. The person praying 
 must be just as good as the spirits, or the prayer thoughts 
 will not be sufficiently strong to enter the missionary 
 plane, — consequently, the thoughts will enter the lower 
 planes where the lower uneducated spirits will interpret 
 the prayer message, and if the spirits are truthful, and 
 desires to perform an act of charity, the spirit will some- 
 times be able to answer the prayer to the satisfaction of 
 the person who sent the message. Ever since the be- 
 ginning of human life on this earth, many prayers have 
 been answered from some spirit plane situated close to 
 earth. 
 
 Common sense should teach us that God, Who is the 
 Divine, immaculate, etherial power, would not live on 
 this little, miserable planet, and listen to the material 
 pleadings for help coming from millions of different 
 minds, different creeds, different beliefs, different dogmas, 
 different denominations, that human beings should be 
 ashamed for God. to interpret. 
 
 Our poor ignorant population are taught to believe 
 such rubbish, through the teachings of spiritually 
 blind religious teachers. A wonderful unseen power is 
 so close to this earth, that if humanity would investigate 
 the power, this world would be mystified beyond expres- 
 sion. Right in our very midst we have millions of in- 
 
visible human souls that are waiting with outstretched 
 hands to be recognized, and the door opened that they 
 may instruct and guide us on our journey through life. 
 
 The greater part of humanity would be nonplussed 
 if they knew they were being watched by many invisible 
 eyes that see all the wicked deeds as well as the good. 
 If they knew that father and mother, brother and sister, 
 sweetheart and friends are enabled to come so close that 
 they can place spirit hands on our heads, and whisper words 
 of warning in our ears. False teachings advise the world 
 that the good are taken to some far off land, and never 
 return because Satan and his imps have the monopoly 
 on earth, and a poor mother who has been called away 
 from her children by the grim reaper, must go to Heaven, 
 and play on golden harps. Would our great, loving 
 God bring such condemnation on the human race and 
 permit the orthodox devil to ruin her babies whom she 
 loved with that great mother's love? If such trash is 
 believed, it is about time good common sense began to 
 rule the people. 
 
 There is no law in the spirit world to compel any 
 mother to desert her children. Such a law would con- 
 demn humanity to a frightful punishment, for surely it 
 is not wicked for a mother to love her children. It is 
 Mother's voice from the Spirit world that keeps many a 
 young man and girl from yielding to temptation. It is 
 the Mother's Spirit who sits by the bedside while she 
 watches over her sleeping children to keep away evil 
 influences. 
 
 People cannot realize that such a thing could be 
 possible; but it is TRUE nevertheless, for many un- 
 natural dreams are spoken by spirits who can influence 
 the brains of people who are unconscious with sleep — 
 and wicked deeds has been committed by innocent 
 people, from the impression the dream left on the mind. 
 
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With love in the home, Mother or Father, in spirit, 
 can enter and administer a helping hand that will guard 
 and guide all who are left behind, and it is the Mother 
 or Father who answers sincere prayers of their children 
 if they are worthy to receive a communication from 
 loved ones. 
 
 Those who offer fervent prayers for spiritual assistance 
 and who do not use a mechanical system of prayers, and 
 who can kneel before their Maker with a clean mind 
 will be recognized by good spirits, and prayers will be 
 answered as far as spirit power can assist. The persons 
 who offer prayers with unclean minds attract the lower 
 forces of ignorant spirits, and many times prayers will 
 be answered with the return of evil thoughts. It all 
 remains with the class of spirits who has been attracted, 
 LIKE ATTRACTS LIKE. 
 
 Following is a list of eleven rules. The person who 
 follows this good advice will never leave the straight and 
 narrow path. By living up to these rules, it will progress 
 every living human soiil to the higher planes, and prayers 
 offered to Our Heavenly Father will be answered. 
 
 1. — Thou shalt not commit Murder or Suicide. 
 
 2. — Thou shalt not break the Holy Laws of Virtue. 
 
 3. — Thou shalt not seduce the innocent, nor trespass 
 where temptation will lead to evil. 
 
 4. — Thou shalt not Steal, Cheat, Plunder, Gamble, 
 Covet, nor Profiteer any material thing that disobeys the 
 law of Honesty, Honor, and Justice. 
 
 5. — Thou shalt not hold Enmity, Jealousy, Hatred, Re- 
 venge, Malice, nor Evil Surmizings against any human 
 being. 
 
 6. — Thou shalt not think unclean thoughts, nor 
 yield to Temptation. 
 
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7. — Thou shalt not Worship Money, nor cause Physical 
 Mental, or Spiritual suffering to fellow man. 
 
 8. — Thou shalt Love thy Neighbor and treat animals 
 with kindness. 
 
 9. — Thou shalt not Gossip, Slander, Lie, nor bear 
 false witness. 
 
 10. — Thou shalt obey the law of Truth, Justice and 
 Charity. 
 
 11. — Thou shalt not cause the blush of shame to enter 
 thy soul. 
 
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THE REAL DEVIL 
 
 CHAPTER NINE 
 
 The actual devil on earth! The serpent that leaves 
 evil trails not only through the highest places, through 
 luxurious surroundings, through the dens of the most 
 squalid and most depraved classes of society is the 
 Master Criminal Devil— TAINTED MONEY. 
 
 This great serpent devil rules the entire world, a 
 million times more powerful and dangerous than the 
 great horned devil many people believe inhabits the 
 earth. 
 
 This great devil with its master power commands 
 explicit obedience from all its subjects, and holds them 
 in bondage through its cunning campaigns for loot, 
 greed, and profiteering, and the unmasking very seldom 
 takes place unless elected to serve a term of years in a 
 penitentiary, or when the grim reaper takes the soul into 
 the world beyond. 
 
 This great Master Criminal Devil makes great prom- 
 ises of prosperity, and opportunities for debaucheries, 
 these are the common means by which men and women, 
 good and bad, make contracts with each other to buy and 
 sell everything on earth from the smallest thing ever 
 invented to the soul! — and the money devil buys millions 
 of Hands, Minds and Brains of men and women. 
 
 The promise of money places millions under the leash 
 of villainy, and makes Crooks, Confidence men, Mur- 
 derers, and Thugs of honest people who yield to the 
 wicked temptation of easy tainted money. 
 
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For many centuries humanity has been fighting an 
 imaginary devil, a great inhuman monster with sufficient 
 Satanic power and influence to not only defy the great 
 Angel world with its thirty thousand billions of inhabi- 
 tants, but considered so powerful that he can defy GOD, 
 Who created all life, and the creator of the devil himself. 
 
 After thousands of years of this unreasonable myth, 
 no evidence has ever been produced as proof that such 
 a thing as a devil ever existed only in the imaginative 
 minds of people who refuse to think! or reason.'' To 
 this class of people this great devil remains a reality, and 
 always will until common sense takes the place of old 
 handed down myths and fables. 
 
 Religion, teaches that this great evil monster was 
 driven out of Heaven — Yet the Bible teaches that heaven 
 is a Sublime Realm of Angelic Angels, where none but 
 the righteous can ever enter. 
 
 According to this belief this man devil was either a 
 righteous soul who was dissatisfied with heavenly blessings 
 and preferred earth with its terrible wickedness, or he 
 deceived God, and the i^ngels. 
 
 Is it reasonable to believe that a hypocrite could be 
 smuggled through all the progressive spirit planes, and 
 then enter the great heavenly domain of righteous souls 
 without being discovered? 
 
 Humanity has never been advised where this great 
 man devil was created — but according to the divine law 
 of God and nature — he was created on this earth — be- 
 cause this earth is the great creative source for all life. 
 Life has its beginning here, and progression takes the 
 souls from this zone of existance to the innumerable 
 zones beyond. Nothing is created in the form of life 
 in the eternal cycles, degrees, realms and zones, and 
 nothing can defy the law of creation, God and Nature ! 
 
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Under such a powerful existing divine law, the man 
 devil was simply a common every day man while he lived 
 on this earth in his human body, Under that condition, 
 is it possible for a human being to be in more than one 
 place at one and the same time? (If not) then the spirit 
 of man cannot be in more than one place at one and the 
 same time in the spirit world; (then how), is it possible 
 for this one spirit devil to be all over the world in a 
 billion places at one and the same time? One man has 
 but one personality; and there is no law or power that 
 can change this great ruling power of nature. 
 
 We have also been taught to believe that the Imps of 
 the devil performs much of his devilish works of sending 
 souls to the damned bottomless pit. The word Imps 
 implies spirit life and as no life is created in the spirit 
 worlds, the devil Imps must also be the spirits of human 
 beings, wicked men and women who prefer to suffer 
 damnation than to progress to eternal happiness! Can 
 you believe such misty nonsense as we are taught to 
 believe by religious teachers today? 
 
 Let us all take serious consideration of the true version 
 of the devil as told to us by highly developed men and 
 women spirits living in the other world, where knowledge 
 is power. 
 
 The spirit of man as he is born into a new life enters 
 the great invisible world only as a misty intangible force, 
 a something with a sufficient amount of strength to hold 
 together, but so invisible, and so frail that it is not visible 
 to the human eye. 
 
 This misty counterpart of the human body is composed 
 of but two conditions, (namely) spiritual and material. 
 Every spirit that enters the other life is either one or the 
 other. The material spirit is in a frightful condition, 
 because it is rusty with the scars of evil, and has the 
 appearance of deformity when in the presence of a higher 
 
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class of spirits. If the spirit soul is filled with wickedness, 
 it becomes black and hideous, and the only devil, or. 
 imps that was ever in existance. 
 
 This class of wicked spirits are forced to enter low 
 degrees of spirit life, because the spirit is just what it 
 represents, and lives in darkness and impure surround- 
 ings that causes pangs of remorse and regret. Many 
 of this class of spirits remain in this low condition for long 
 periods of time because the stubborn soul rebels against 
 humbleness, and repentance, and continue on and on 
 living close to some human being that opens the door of 
 welcome. They become obsessing spirits to human 
 beings. 
 
 This plane of earth bound spirits are a menace to the 
 growth of spirituality on earth. Millions of men and 
 women are living day and night with the spirit of some 
 wicked man or woman who cling to the human body like 
 a leech; and if the person who is obsessed yields to the 
 whispered evil temptation of the leech spirit, the bond 
 becomes so tight that the evil spirit can rule the destiny 
 of the human subject. 
 
 Spirit obsession has grown to a frightful condition 
 through the ignorance of spirit communication. The 
 mortal mind has remained in such a blank condition con- 
 cerning the great force of spirit life amongst us that the 
 lowest class of spirits, who live with us, has taken ad- 
 vantage of the opportunity afforded through ignorance, 
 and today thousands of unthinking men and women are 
 traveling direct to the plane of degradation through the 
 unknown evil influence that is obsessing humanity. Not 
 one human being can escape this menace, if they take 
 the first step on the downward course. Every person 
 is subjected to obsession who thinks wickedness, it makes 
 no difference whether rich or poor. The atmosphere is 
 
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actually alive with invisible spirits, all trying to reach 
 some source of communication with earth. If this law 
 of attraction was fully understood by humanity there 
 would be less sin and wickedness of the people. The 
 principle reason why evil spirits attach their influence 
 to some mortal is because it brings the spirit right back 
 on earth. If the spirit is given the opportunity, they 
 can become so closely associated with the mortal subject 
 that the spirit can practically enjoy all the good and evil 
 conditions in which the subject partakes. Millions of 
 human beings are obsessed in this manner that has not the 
 least idea such a thing could be possible. Yet it is as 
 true as the sun shines on God's green earth. 
 
 This class of spirits are causing humanity to become 
 obsessed in a frightful manner. Each obsessing spirit 
 naturally looks for the best interests of their subjects 
 (in a financial condition,) and will use any means to fill 
 the pockets with tainted money, but in a true spiritual 
 sense, the obsessing spirit has very little to offer, because 
 they are not spiritual, but selfish and unclean, con- 
 sequently have but little respect for the morals of their 
 victim and use influence to corrupt the mind in order to 
 satisfy their own wicked soul. 
 
 The other condition in which a spirit enters the other 
 life is Spiritual. A divine power of brightness which 
 glorifies the soul and sends forth a bright spiritual light 
 which eminates from the spirit form. Spirits of this 
 class escapes the three lowest cycles, and remain away 
 from the turmoil of earth only at times when they return 
 to perform some act of charity, or to give waring to 
 some friend of impending danger. This is the true 
 explanation to the skeptic mind why so many conflict 
 ing messages are reported coming from the world of spirits. 
 All good spirits live in planes away from earth. All evil 
 spirits (the three lowest planes) live right here on earth — 
 
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and the class of spirits that deceive the investigating 
 public — because they do not employ scientific methods 
 to reach the higher spirit forces. The condition is similar 
 to trying to telephone to some person in a western city, 
 and the telephone call being answered from the adjoining 
 room — by some person who is liable to answer the message 
 just to suit their own convenience. In order to show 
 conclusive proof that it is an utter impossibility for an 
 Angel to descend from Heaven as an Angelic hypocrite, 
 I will minutely describe the actual progression each and 
 every soul must pass through before the soul can be pre- 
 pared to enter the great heavenly realms. 
 
 The spirit world is a mighty wonderful progressive 
 world. It begins with the birth of the spirit and con- 
 tinues on and on up tl^ ladder of life to worlds without end. 
 
 The first condition is the planes of punishment for 
 all the wicked debts contracted while on earth. The 
 three lowest planes can be classed as prison punishment — 
 because there is no happiness, no sunshine, and no flowers, 
 everything is dismal and cold. When a spirit has devel- 
 oped out of this prison condition, and can enter the 
 fourth plane above the earth condition, there yet remains 
 forty-five cycles that must be passed through before the 
 first realm of heaven has been reached. The spirit that 
 progresses through all the forty-nine cycles, has purified 
 and cleansed the soul of all earthly materiality, and the 
 soul shines with a bright golden light that no mortal 
 brain can conceive its spiritual magnitude. The light is 
 so beautiful, and so heavenly that it would be like trying 
 to look at the sun with our naked eye. 
 
 As the soul progresses through the various cycles each 
 cycle becomes one step higher in wisdom and the souls 
 must pass a rigid examination before a great spiritual 
 council, (or court of justice), and no soul can leave any 
 one of the separate cycles until spiritually educated. 
 
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This is the true ladder of life we all must climb in the 
 other- world, and this version should be sufficient to con- 
 vince the most skeptical mind that in all history from the 
 actual beginning of human life, not one soul has ever for- 
 saken this blissful state of heavenly existance for one of 
 debauchery and vulgarity, called Satan and the Devil. 
 
 Humanity has been frightfully misled. In the first 
 place there is no such thing as a spirit devil. The only 
 invisible devil coming from the other world that can 
 cause human beings spiritual disaster, may be people 
 who but a few short months ago walked the earth as we 
 are doing today. These same spirits committed enough 
 wickedness to force them to remain as spirits on earth 
 just as they left it, vulgar, and uncouth. Not under- 
 standing the progressive laws of the other world, they re- 
 main close to earth and if the opportunity affords them 
 the privilege to obsess some mortal they become the only 
 invisible power that is a real menace to humanity. If 
 the spirit was selfish and deceitful, he or she is very likely 
 to use that same personality when in spirit and cause 
 the mortal obsessed much inconvenience. 
 
 Tainted money, is the devil on earth and also a menace 
 to the uplift of spirituality in the world. The man who 
 worships money, and forgets goodness cannot be classed 
 as a christian, because he is in league with evil conditions. 
 Clean money is essential for the comforts of the human 
 race, and has no bad results in the future, but money 
 secured unwisely, and used for unclean purposes becomes 
 tainted and in the end nothing will be gained but soul 
 punishment. 
 
 Tainted money has become almost the supreme ruler; 
 and its followers are eager to obey its slightest command, 
 from the fashionable rich, to the vile criminal of the slums. 
 
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The real devil is building pyramids of wealth, moun- 
 tains high, and is covering the earth with a slimy trail 
 that will eventually ruin the human race. 
 
 The old saying that money is the root of all evil; is 
 the truest words ever spoken by man. It is a poor 
 investment, for it creates, selfishness, jealousy, hatred, 
 enmity, revenge, stealing, fraud, deceit, malice, back- 
 biting, gambling, cheating, blaspheming, cruelty, liars, 
 hypocrites, false accusers, murders and suicides. 
 
 In the other world we are brought face to face with 
 ourselves, we see ourselves just as we are, and the result of 
 our wrong living clings to us no matter how hard we try to 
 escape. 
 
 If we have filled our pockets with tainted money, 
 every penny must be accounted for until every dollar has 
 been cleaned of taint, and when every penny has been 
 polished with good deeds, then and only then can a spirit 
 progress. 
 
 It is better that a man has but a few honest dollars, 
 than millions if he seeks for comfort when he enters spirit 
 life. Future punishment is not caused by the influence 
 of devils, or imps, but by thoughts, and deeds of wick- 
 edness. Each person is responsible for themselves, and 
 each person sends their own soul to the respective plane 
 of existance they enter. It is like a person starting on a 
 journey across the continent, and by having a wrong 
 ticket lands in a dismal swamp in the state of New Jersey 
 instead of landing safely in California, the destination. 
 If you start for Heaven and land in some dark and dismal 
 spirit plane, you have no one to blame but yourself. If 
 you get lost on the journey it requires tedious work to 
 return to the main line of connection. 
 
 |A few years ago women was not considered as wicked 
 as the men, but today it is difficult to make the same 
 statement because a great change has taken place, not 
 
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only with the younger population, but in all stages of life. 
 One has but to consult the lists of fashionable men's 
 clubs today to note the ever increasing number of bachelors 
 Men representatives of the business, professional, financial, 
 and social world. 
 
 Today the bachelor has his own friends, cars, motor- . 
 boats, country homes, (which many of them has in- 
 herited), handsome apartments in town, which in many 
 instances involves unpleasant notoriety with a future 
 career not favorable for having made a success of spiritual 
 things. 
 
 Formerly a bachelor was an object of sympathy in 
 the eyes of his married friends; but today a great change 
 is taking place. Men are afraid of matrimony because 
 women has gone socially and financially crazy under the 
 power and influence of tainted money which is growing 
 to be the kernel of every woman's happiness. 
 
 Women are calculating, mercenary. She expects 
 enormous returns from matrimony with scarcely any 
 investment on her part. 
 
 The modern girl is so selfish men are afraid of matri- 
 monial bankruptcy. No man could suffer a worse fate 
 than this. 
 
 Women today, instead of being home loving and 
 would be the right sort of a girl to bring her husband 
 happiness and supreme contentment in a cozy well kept 
 home where there is true love, and not the artificial brand, 
 they demand luxury and material pleasures at an expense 
 beyond the average income of many financial business 
 men. 
 
 There are many girls in the world who are reasonable 
 in this respect and works for the interests of her husband 
 at heart at least, and loves her home better than she 
 does cabaret, dances, etc., but the largest majority are 
 
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fickle, restless, and society and mercenary crazy. Plenty 
 of money is the question, regardless of maintaining 
 peace and contentment in the home. 
 
 Young people will rush madly into matrimony, and 
 soon trouble brews because the salary he earns is not 
 sufficient to supply the extravagant wants, and eventually 
 he loses the girl he wants either through the money devil, 
 or the divorce proceedings. 
 
 How few marriageable daughters will consent to 
 sacrifice selfish desires for a true unselfish life with a man 
 who can only afford the comforts of a cozy little happy 
 home, — not many — but a few, social position, upper 
 society, dress, automobiles, and numerous clubs, and a 
 longing for things impossible, and dissatisfied after 
 getting what they do not require. 
 
 Thousands will marry men much older than them- 
 selves, who has wealth and position, and then associate 
 with a younger element for false pleasures, wishing, and 
 praying for the old man to die so the money devil can 
 fall in their pockets. WISHING OTHERS DEATH, 
 IS TERRIBLE WICKEDNESS. 
 
 This is the key note to the whole miserable matri- 
 monial existance today. Matrimony as devised today 
 is composed of but three principles; namely, selfishness, 
 money and divorce. True love is but a fading mystery 
 dissolved by modern wickedness. 
 
 Men and women are becoming slaves to gambling, 
 dope and company of dissolute male and female com- 
 panions. Soon after marriage the true wild nature 
 which was cultivated earlier in life asserts itself, and wife 
 and baby become a plaything, a slave to merely supply 
 the table that the high lord can occupy the seat of com- 
 mand, and abuse not only the wife but neglect the inno- 
 cent baby. This same rule applies to both sides of the 
 home, because many a man is left at home alone to suffer 
 
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his wrongs in silence. Later in life this condition usually 
 ends with murder, or suicide. SUICIDE IS MURDER 
 IN THE FIRST DEGREE AND HAS A TERRIBLE 
 DEBT TO PAY, IN FULL, IN THE SPIRIT WORLD. 
 
 The money devil is considered a friend to mankind, 
 but it is a curse, the way it is being worshipped today. 
 It is more powerful than the power of God, because the 
 whole world is defying all laws that govern spirituality, 
 which is the law of God. A vulgar prize fight will draw 
 thousands of yelling, and almost insane mass of people 
 that become frenzied with excitement, and pay many dol- 
 lars as admission fee. On Sunday about a handful of the 
 same people will put forth a special effort to attend the 
 church services, and drop one or two pennies in the con- 
 tribution box. The money devil is ruling the churches 
 today. The man with the most, is the power behind 
 the church, and no one dares to dispute his authority. 
 If he wants a certain class of sermons, he gets it or leaves . 
 the church, and no one dares to refuse to accept the 
 tainted money placed in the church funds because Mr. 
 Moneybags is king of the situation. This condition is 
 prevalent throughout the land, and it is one of the prin- 
 ciple reasons that the common people stay at home. 
 They are not popular enough to be wanted. When the 
 doors are thrown open to all churches, and the public is 
 invited to worship God, in any manner they desire, and 
 cut out so much deceit and narrow principles, religion 
 will grow, and great good will be accomplished. As it 
 is today, my way is the only way, and people who think, 
 will not submit to things they do not believe. 
 
 The man or woman who is right, is the man or woman 
 who follows their best thoughts and lives up to their own 
 good principles. 
 
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THE REAL HELL ON EARTH 
 
 CHAPTER TEN 
 
 If we are to judge by the accepted creeds of the 
 Christian world, we find that almost universal belief exists 
 that there is a hell. Upon this sbject there is a great 
 diversity of opinion, but the majority believe that this 
 great horrible place really exists, and is situated some- 
 where below the surface of the earth, and is either a great 
 underground cavern, or cave where the devil rules and 
 he, and all his imps shovel brimstone on the eternal fire 
 to keep it hot for the next victim to arrive. 
 
 The fearful horrors of this never ending punishment 
 is used as a mighty power to influence the minds of the 
 people in a religious sense, and portrayed in such lively 
 colors from the Christian pulpits of the land that the love 
 of God and justice is lost sight of in the unreasonable 
 description. Not so much upon unbelievers as upon those 
 who reject the creeds, article of faith, and discipline. 
 
 In one way this conception has been a blessing to 
 humanity because it has frightened many a person from 
 committing terrible wickedness, and in another way it 
 has condemned the creeds that has forced it on the world. 
 If there had not been a devil preached to frighten the 
 people into submission, the world would be today un- 
 bearable, and the home would not be safe from the 
 male brutes that has no fear of God, or man, but stands 
 in fear of the devil. 
 
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It requires a watchful eye even today to keep the home 
 free from this class of inhuman brutes from trespassing 
 and taking advantage of the innocence of the wife or 
 daughter and leading them to destruction. 
 
 Men and women of today are like wolves after a flock 
 of sheep. They use wicked influence and soft words, 
 and the innocent minds listen with confidence and faith, 
 but the demon of evil soon ruins the home, and another 
 perfect man goes out in the world to be looked at as a 
 perfect model of manhood, without blemish or fault. 
 Man can create the wrong, and so called high society will 
 cover up the stain. 
 
 Women and young girls could crush, — and grind in 
 the earth many black hearted scoundrels who prey on 
 innocence and ignorance.— IF THEY WOULD USE 
 REASON AND GOOD COMMON SENSE. 
 
 This class of imps are not fallen angels from Heaven, 
 BUT imps of human beings, and when the good people 
 wake up and exterminate this class of inhuman brutes, — 
 it will be safe for girls to look for a good honest husband, 
 and the morals of the people will greatly improve. As 
 it is today, — wicked immoral men are destroying millions 
 of our young girls, — and nobody seems to notice that 
 a fearful crime is being committed against our coming 
 generation. This one great crime cannot be laid at the 
 door of any Orthodox devil. It is the spiritual ignorance 
 that the world is under. People do not consider it is a 
 sin to corrupt morals, but it is one of the worst sins a 
 person can commit, — for no person who breaks the law 
 of Virtue, can escape the planes of darkness. This mes- 
 sage is spoken from my Spiritual Advisers from the 
 Spirit World, and it is well to heed the advise. Words 
 given from on high, where wisdom is predominant. 
 
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Men are becoming so debased that they look at a good 
 woman with eyes of evil, and send out vulgar thoughts 
 to win the attention of the intended victim. 
 
 If our religious teachers would dispense with an im- 
 aginary devil, — and Hell, — and preach the actual hell 
 growing in our younger population, great good would be 
 accomplished. 
 
 The real Hell, is the lowest plane of Spirit Darkness, 
 and situated in every conceivable place on earth. When 
 a man dies, — and his soul passes into the other life,he 
 does not go down or up, but usually remains with his 
 body until it is placed in the grave. 
 
 At the hour of death, his astral body, which is a per- 
 fect counterpart of our earth body, simply steps from 
 the sunlight of life to the darkness of the other. He closes 
 his eyes on this bright earth, — and opens his spirit eyes 
 in a black and dismal condition he has created here, — 
 and taken with him. 
 
 If the man has formed sinful habits, those go with 
 him, — and holds him so close to the earth that he is 
 bound to earth's conditions, and forced to remain in the 
 house in which his soul left the body, or seeks some 
 familiar place he had been accustomed to visit. 
 
 The home ties usually holds the spirit, — because he 
 can draw more or less knowledge how his family is pro- 
 gressing, and at the same time be able to enjoy just a 
 little pleasure in being in his old surroundings. 
 
 Very few spirits that are earth bound can leave the 
 body because of the natural attraction, and nearly all 
 are privileged to witness their own funeral. Many spirits 
 can hear, and see the sham that is practiced at funerals 
 by people who profess to be in great sympathy with the 
 bereaved family, but merely assume sorrow, — and then 
 scandalize not only the soul who has passed out of the 
 body but the family as well. 
 
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Many people will put on a sanctified expression at 
 funerals, — and thrash out with the neighbors every thing 
 they know about the family, and relate many false stories 
 that had never transpired. 
 
 If humanity understood that many spirits listen to the 
 gossip of false friends, and can interpret all the hypo- 
 cracy practiced at funerals, many vulgar minds would 
 be more careful how they criticized the family of the 
 dead. 
 
 When a spirit discovers he is chained to his own con- 
 ditions, and cannot arise above them; he endeavors to 
 communicate with his family, — believing that by so doing 
 he can help them in life's hard struggle for existence, — 
 and at the same time help his soul to progress out of his 
 prison. 
 
 If the law of communication was understood, death 
 would not separate the living from the so called dead, 
 because they are not dead, but as much alive as when in 
 the body. Every home could remain intact, for the 
 spirits of all departed could reunite at any time they 
 were permitted to enter for communication with the 
 people still in the material body. 
 
 Nearly every family contains one or more persons who 
 are gifted with the divine spiritual gift, and if people open 
 the eyes to greater knowledge of divine laws — Earth and 
 the Spirit World would be brought into close communion. 
 Millions of spirits in the planes of darkness, as well as 
 from several of the higher planes could associate in 
 family groups, and death would be nothing but stepping 
 from one room to the other. Today through the terrible 
 ignorance of spiritual truths, people suffer sorrow, and 
 bereavement over the loss of a loved one, when in reality 
 the spirit is standing by the side of the persons in sorrow, 
 speaking words of comfort, — and endeavoring to impress 
 
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the mourner that the loved one is not dead, — but happy 
 and contented in their new life, and grieved to see any 
 one in sorrow over their new found happiness. 
 
 Every person who passes through the condition of 
 death, — if the soul is clean passes into sublime happiness, 
 and in many instances greatly benefited by the change, 
 and would be permitted to enjoy the new life, — but are 
 held in earth's conditions by the sorrow created through 
 ignorance of life and communication after death. 
 
 No spirit wants us to grieve over their departure from 
 this life. Every soul that returns tell us it is wrong, — 
 because it retards the progression of the spirit. 
 
 Men and women who enter the lower planes of spirit 
 life, even with the soul black with earth's wickedness 
 would be saved from much spirit distress if they knew 
 the spiritual law. Going to the spirit world in ignorance 
 is a curse to humanity. It is similar to traveling in an 
 unknown country without a guide or a helping hand to 
 point out the way. It behooves every living human soul 
 to study the teachings of the Science and Philosophy of 
 the Religion of Spiritualism, — for their own travels they 
 must surely take sometime through the mysterious Spirit 
 World. Never enter that great world BLIND, — it is a 
 world of Science and Philosophy, — and requires a de- 
 veloped soul, and a progressive mind to partake of the 
 good things that should be ours, ordained by the goodness 
 of God. 
 
 If humanity knew the great blessing that awaits every 
 person who works out their own salvation in this life before 
 passing to the great beyond, no human being would break 
 even one of God's laws. False beliefs has been telling the 
 world for thousands of years how to live this life, and 
 very few have any conception where the soul will go; or 
 what they can expect after getting there. It is blindness 
 of the lowest order because common sense should teach 
 
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us, that God never created a blind world beyond this 
 earth where we must go in total ignorance. That is not 
 reasonable. No Father would create a condition of 
 happiness for his children without pointing out the way 
 for the children to find. it. It is unreasonable to believe 
 suchfan impossible thing that God prepared this great 
 world of wonderment for our happiness, and then leave 
 his earthly children to find it through over five hundred 
 different creeds, dogmas and religions. 
 
 God never intended that any class of human beings 
 could sin and pray, day in and day out, — year in and 
 year out, and expect to be forgiven when they had the 
 ten Commandments as a guide to show them the way. 
 
 As humanity stands today, — but a very few is pre- 
 pared to even enter the third cycle above earth's blackest 
 cycles, — and between the third cycle, and the first realm 
 of Heaven, there is forty six planes that must be passed 
 through by severe spiritual labor before any soul can 
 enter Heaven, — the great heavenly home that ignorant 
 humanity think they will enter at their own pleasure. 
 But what a sad mistake. — the real hell on earth must be 
 the beginning of all who disobey God's laws, — and from 
 this plane work up, step by step until soul progression 
 has redeemed the soul. Any person who is narrow minded, 
 — and prejudiced, — and live under the false belief that 
 they are saved, and will go to Heaven, — is on the wrong 
 road. So we are told by many highly developed Spirits 
 from the eighth and ninth cycle above earth planes. 
 Only TRUTH, is given from these cycles of knowledge ! 
 
 The real hell, or plane of darkness, is inhabited with 
 all classes of human spirits from kings to paupers, and 
 is situated on this earth the same as we poor mortals are 
 situated, — Living, walking, talking and fighting the same 
 as we do, — only in different degrees of darkness. 
 
As all nationalities, religious, and non-religious, wicked 
 and unrighteous human spirits live in these planes, it is 
 only natural that the wicked planes, (or so called Hell) 
 is almost a counterpart of earth's plane. The only dif- 
 ference being the Hell planes are spirits of people who once 
 walked, talked and fought under the influence of evil. 
 
 Under those conditions, we, — as a human race live so 
 close to the hell plane that the spirits live in our homes, — 
 and mingle with us at all times, some striving to assist 
 us in our material labors, — and others trying to influence 
 us to commit evil. 
 
 Every person remains in spirit just the same as in the 
 body. If a man was a thief, — his soul would be black 
 with a thief's wicked deeds. If a man was a hypocrite, — 
 he would be the same hypocrite in spirit, for death only 
 separates the two bodies, the mortal body leaving the 
 spirit astral body all the wicked scenes that the earth 
 body had committed. 
 
 In the low spirit planes, — the spirits are as active and 
 unsettled as we are on earth, and passing through ail kinds 
 of good and evil conditions as they did before leaving the 
 body. Millions using the brains of earth's population to 
 continue the evil habits they contracted before passing 
 over. 
 
 If a man dies under the influence of drink. — or the 
 terrible ravages of opium, or other terrible drugs, — the 
 spirit suffers the pangs of hell, and as there is but one way 
 his desperate condition can be retarded, and his suffering 
 appeased, he attaches his spirit to some weak mortal. — 
 and through the controlling power of obsession, he can 
 force the mortal subject to succumb to his power. 
 
 This condition is ever present in all quarters of our 
 civilized land. 
 
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The largest majority of our population is controlled 
 by invisible, spirit leaches* that forces many persons to 
 commit every black deed that wickedness can conceive. 
 Many men and women are controlled by bands of sin 
 crazed spirits who can enter the condition, — and to a 
 certain extent partake of the wickedness performed by 
 the mortal. This condition applies to men, women, boys 
 and girls who associate and take part in evil conditions. 
 This degree of spirit control is the most dangerous unseen 
 power on earth. Many a pure innocent mind has been 
 ruined by this invisible influence. Young people espec- 
 ially being subjected to this power, — because the mind 
 has not gained will power to ward oft' influences, and 
 more liable to select wicked companions, who is obsessed. 
 It is usually the downfall of the person. 
 
 Parents should guard the children with watchful eyes, 
 and guard them from mingling in company where wicked 
 minds are at work, — for thoughts are things, — and if a 
 wicked person centers thoughts on another person, and 
 sends evil thoughts to that person, — evil spirits will follow 
 the thoughts, and if the mind is not sufficiently strong to 
 battle the influence — between the hypnotic power, and 
 the power of the invisible influence the person can be 
 influenced to commit wicked deeds. 
 
 Men and women who live good clean lives, — marry 
 and contented with a happy little family with nothing to 
 mar the happiness, may suddenly discover a great change 
 taking place. The husband and father begins to use 
 vulgar language, nothing pleases his disturbed mind, — 
 he begins staying out until the early hours of morning, 
 and abuses his wife and children in a shameful way, finally 
 disrupting the once happy home, and bringing disgrace 
 to himself and his family. 
 
Did you ever try to fathom out this mystery? Did 
 you ever wonder how a good moral man could suddenly 
 change to a human beast? The true answer is very' 
 simple: The man innocently ,perhaps, became socially 
 acquainted and formed a friendship with a stranger whom 
 he did not mistrust had a wicked heart, and under his 
 thoughts and the invisible influence which belonged to 
 the stranger, the husband and father yielded to tempta- 
 tion, and in so doing opened the door to some evil in- 
 fluence which took advantage of his weakness, and soon 
 guided the father down the path of wickedness. 
 
 Every spirit in the lowest planes are active in some 
 manner. Some are acting as guides of fortune tellers, 
 seers, card readers, and various kinds of so-called Mediue- 
 mistic instruments. In many instances a disgrace to the 
 true cause of Spiritualism, because these mediums who 
 draw their invisible helpers from this plane, usually cheat 
 and gull the public through lying spirits. 
 
 A true medium, one who is a credit to humanity, 
 selects guides and controls from the higher planes, thereby 
 getting spiritual control from good honest spirit people. 
 The skeptic who is careful and selects a true worker in 
 the cause, and one who works for honor and truth, — will 
 get in communication with mother, father, sister or 
 brother, and often times many friends and acquaintances 
 who will give good advise, and impart great spiritual 
 truths from the world of souls. 
 
 Many homes are kept in order by spirits with good 
 intentions who wronged their own soul through ignorance, 
 and in trying to work out their own salvation do all the 
 good possible to guard and guide whole families, sending 
 thoughts of warning to escape disaster, and following all 
 members of the family wherever they go to protect them 
 from sinning. 
 
So you see, — we as a people are living in the midst of 
 the only hell on earth. 
 
 Two great worlds in one. 
 
 This is absolutely the truth, and millions of advanced 
 spiritualists can testify to the truth of this assertion. It 
 will be well to investigate because, every living human 
 soul should understand this condition of spirit obsession 
 that is gradually lowering the morals of humanity. 
 
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GUILTY CONSCIENCE 
 
 CHAPTER ELEVEN 
 
 It requires a life time of clean living and good deeds 
 to prepare a person for Heaven. In order to accomplish 
 this one ambition that most all possess; a person must 
 build and build until they become a halo of pure spiritual 
 light, which must have its beginning at childhood and 
 only ending at death. 
 
 Those who have done their work well and have no 
 guilty conscience to cast shadows across life's journey, 
 will reap the reward justly due them. If we labor in the 
 vineyard of goodness and cultivate for ourselves a true 
 honest soul we will progress onward and upward, — but 
 if we build badly all our labor will be lost and we will 
 have no rest until all has been made perfect. 
 
 Life is like a candle that begins burning at birth, — 
 and continues burning through life, never ending until 
 called to the great beyond. As life develops and the 
 candle grows shorter the part that burned yesterday has 
 gone forever, and is one more day nearer the end. So it 
 is with human life; every second of time has left its 
 mark, — and when death ends this life it has burned its 
 way through trials and tribulations that either helps us 
 on our way, or retards our spirit flight in the next world. 
 
 As we progress through life there are three separate 
 conditions of nature we are obliged to pass through; 
 yesterday, today and tomorrow. Each day as they come 
 and go brings new conditions in our life, and one day is 
 
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not the same as the other; all are separate and plays a 
 different part in our life history. Each second, each 
 hour and each year has it's separate record, and the 
 pages of yesterday must be made clean that today will 
 bring profit to tomorrow. 
 
 Life is just what we make it; today, tomorrow and 
 forever. It all depends on what we take with us to the 
 next world. If it is not good we pay dearly — for there 
 is no forgiveness of sins, only through our own efforts. 
 
 Depend on no one! help yourself, or go where you 
 belong. 
 
 No man or woman can save the soul of another person. 
 Good advice can be given, but depending on some leader 
 of religion to save your soul is a sham, because no man 
 has lived on earth since our Lord Jesus Christ who was 
 endowed with Divine Power. The world has been de- 
 ceived in a frightful manner in this respect, many religious 
 leaders leading people to believe that confession of sins 
 will save souls. 
 
 Confession of sins to another person is decidedly 
 wrong, because in the first place it does no good, as every 
 person must work out their own salvation, and because 
 the person who makes the confession is being deceived, 
 which at the same time creates a condition between the 
 two persons that will bring the two spirits together in the 
 same condition in the spirit world. This life is composed 
 of conditions and mental pictures. Each condition is 
 drawn together the same as like attracts like; and secrets 
 of any nature should not be disclosed to others unless 
 the party wishes to draw the second party into the con- 
 dition. Keep your secrets — SECRET. 
 
 Total ignorance of this great Divine Law has caused 
 millions to be partly placed under the power of others. 
 No two persons are exactly alike, and no two persons 
 should be drawn together in the same condition, unless 
 
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brought together under Divine Law. Confession, and 
 hearing confession from one person to another is not 
 Divine, consequently — it creates a material condition 
 instead of spiritual. 
 
 Through false teachings that man, can forgive sins, — 
 humanity is losing all fear of personal responsibility in 
 believing that sins are forgiven. Tens of thousands are 
 entering the spirit world with souls black with every kind 
 of sins, — and when they discover they have been deceived, 
 and nothing has been forgiven, they condemn the teachers 
 for such wrong teachings and become the accusers that 
 will bring punishment to the person who did not tell the 
 truth. 
 
 There is no excuse for ignorance, for the Divine Law 
 says: Stop, look and listen, Seek and ye will find. 
 
 There are so many different ways to cause a guilty 
 conscience, that every person should be careful in all 
 things. No one seems to realize that little things such as 
 lieing, borrowing and never returning, not paying honest 
 debts, quarreling, etc., are not acts of kindness, conse- 
 quently are not spiritual, and registered on the soul. 
 Spirits are more than dumbfounded when they discover 
 that the spirit mind is filled with thousands of this class 
 of earth's materiality, which retards the growth of the 
 spirit. This great truth should be preached from every 
 pulpit in our land because it is the real saving of souls. 
 Preaching what happened hundreds of years ago, and re- 
 lating the sins of the dark ages is not enlightening the 
 world concerning ourselves. It is ourselves we must know. 
 We must know how to live this life, and where we are 
 going and what to expect after we get there. 
 
 Of what account is it to the world today to dig up 
 old ancient history, when we are living today and require 
 today's knowledge to help us to build strong and well. 
 
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One truth about ourselves is better than all the old 
 history that was ever written. In fifty years from today, 
 if our coming generation spends their time listening to 
 how we live, the world would be at a standstill, and the 
 human race would not progress in the least. This is the 
 same reason why Christianity is standing still, and will 
 stand still until we drop all the old ancient stuff for the new. 
 
 Let us begin to think more about ourselves, and try 
 to find out just who we are, — and how to govern our 
 spiritual welfare in a more enlightened manner. Let us 
 all begin to know more about human life, its good qualities, 
 and learn how to cultivate our souls for progressive de- 
 velopment. 
 
 Suppose ancient history is correct (many of the 
 ancient teachers was not spiritually good for us to follow) . 
 
 Are we obliged to take their words for what we live 
 today. Two thousand years is a long time, — and during 
 that period of time Nature has developed a new race of 
 people. So today, we require today's remedy to elevate 
 ourselves, instead of ancient history. 
 
 If the various religions throughout the land had 
 dropped many of the myths and fables, and studied the 
 science and philosophy of the other world, today, — every 
 one of us would understand ourselves, and the law, Love 
 thy neighbor would be respected. With a billion thinking 
 brains in the world, it requires more than form, conceit, 
 deceit, hypocracy and myths to hold the people. It 
 requires brains, common sense, investigation, science and 
 philosophy. Without these, we are but a unit, and 
 religiously amount to every little. Narrow minds, con- 
 ceited and bigoted people proclaim that the world is 
 growing better by leaps and bounds. It is not so. The 
 human race is falling lower and lower every day we live. 
 Only a small majority are even trying to do the square 
 thing; the remainder is trying to do their neighbor. 
 
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Look at our younger element: What is the highest 
 ambition of our high school and college bred students, 
 flirting, playing pool, shooting craps, gambling, swearing, 
 etc., and afraid of manual labor. 
 
 The seed of contention is planted so deep in the minds 
 of our young element, — that it is difficult to find what is 
 termed a model young man. If a young man has the desire 
 to live a good clean life, he is considered out of the ordinary 
 and has much difficulty in finding agreeable companions. 
 Young girls and women have the same experience: Her 
 companions are few, and even with great care in selecting 
 her company she is liable to be deceived, and discover 
 that her friend has a bad reputation, and thinks only of 
 dress, men, — and what is termed a good time. 
 
 There is so much wickedness in the world, that a young 
 woman is obliged to fight her way through an army of 
 vulgar minded men, and even boys, This vile condition 
 is in every section of the United States. 
 
 The average young mind thinks so much obscene, and 
 unclean thoughts that they cannot find contentment in 
 any pleasures unless it is filled with vulgarity. 
 
 When a person becomes so depraved that they can 
 think of nothing good, it is like filling a barrel with 
 garbage, — it soon becomes so pregnated with disease germs 
 that it becomes a menace to the public. So it is with 
 people who have corrupt minds. The whole system be- 
 comes so pregnated with mental stagnation, that they 
 become a menace to those who try to do what is right! 
 
 Under nature's law, water will flow from the ground 
 pure, and clear as cyrstal giving health and strength to 
 all life, but simply place one drop of poison in a cup of 
 water, and it becomes deadly poison. 
 
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Innocence, and virtue under the same law of nature 
 keeps the brain pure, and clear as crystal, but when the 
 law is broken, it changes the life of the person and acts 
 like poison to the soul which causes a guilty conscience. 
 
 If we school ourselves to live on the bright side of 
 life, and do not fall to temptation, we have fulfilled life's 
 mission, and our conscience will be free to bring the reward 
 we have earned for ourselves. 
 
 It is not our young people who commit all the wicked- 
 ness, millions of old men scamps are offering such induce- 
 ments to foolish girls and women, spending the tainted 
 money devil with such a free hand, — that girls and women 
 fall as easily as an apple falls from the tree. 
 
 The present day religions has no hold on the reigns 
 to check the terrible crime wave that is sweeping the 
 world — with the crimson hands of fate. 
 
 But a few are directly benefitted by religion, for it 
 has no fertile seed to plant that will grow and develop. 
 The masses do not believe, and those who do set such a 
 bad example that the people are loath to follow, and the 
 result is : very little religious good is being accomplished. 
 
 People have been listening to that old fable that sins 
 are forgiven while living on this earth that the masses 
 believe they do not require religion because at any time 
 they can experience a change of heart, and all will be 
 forgiven. What a farce! 
 
 Today, — humanity has fallen as morally low as the 
 world is supposed to have been before the flood, and our 
 great loving Godjis supposed to have almost exterminated 
 human life for that reason. You can find the same degrees 
 of wickedness all over the world as the ancient writers 
 tell us about, and the human family has no more fear of 
 disastrous results than if we were a race of loving and 
 truly religious people. 
 
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People who remain home all the time and shout their 
 great glorious truths, claiming that the world of religion 
 is saving souls, and that the world is growing better and 
 more religious, should get out in the world and learn the 
 shocking condition under which humanity is living. 
 
 Begin the journey of investigation by watching the 
 actions of our young boys and girls on the streets, follow 
 and listen to the vulgar conversation, hear the slang and 
 evil expressions that eminates from their weak undevel- 
 oped spiritual minds, — and watch the vile temptation 
 that men throw in the path of young girls and women. 
 
 Today, — it is a common practice for boys and girls, 
 men and women to have a meeting place for immoral 
 practices, not realizing that it is breaking the law of God, 
 which brings punishment to the soul. Immorality creates 
 a guilty conscience, — and a guilty conscience spells the 
 word, Suffering. 
 
 If the world was being taught the turth as it should 
 be: You pay dearly for what you get; humanity would 
 get their eyes open, and people would be more careful what 
 they do. 
 
 Under the present teachings people believe that wick- 
 edness amounts to very little, they imagine all sins are 
 forgotten, — because they see no immediate punishment 
 and nothing will ever appear to cause sorrow. It is but 
 a figment of selfish imagination, — for nothing escapes the 
 book-keeper in the soul. Every item is recorded and all 
 bears fruit in time to come. 
 
 It is safe to estimate that nine-tenths of the human 
 race does not know what constitutes wickedness — and 
 the effect it has on mind, body, and soul. If the human 
 race was perfect — without wickedness there would be no 
 sorrow, unhappiness, or sickness. Wickedness causes them 
 all. A Guilty Conscience. 
 
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THE MARRIAGE VOW 
 
 CHAPTER TWELVE 
 
 One of the greatest blasphemies of the age is the 
 degradation of the sacrament of Matrimony. 
 
 When men and women swear to be true to each other 
 before God; — so long as life shall last and afterwards 
 break that vow severe punishment falls where it is due. 
 
 The man who accepts the life of a woman given to 
 him in trust and love, and then betrays that love, it is 
 better that he had never been born. 
 
 In these days of wickedness, men and women break the 
 marriage vow as though it was nothing in the eyes of God. 
 Love of the purest, honest, and highest kind should be the 
 foundation of the marriage sacrament, Love that can 
 keep its faith unbroken. 
 
 True love, — is the meaning of the wedding ring, and 
 will live forever. Those who love truly can never be 
 parted, death has no power over their souls. 
 
 Marriage performed between persons who are utterly 
 unsuited to each other in every way who are not drawn 
 together by love, but by only worldly consideration always 
 has a tragic ending. Such marriages are not religious, — 
 they are mere profanity, for marriage was not intended to 
 be a mere union of bodies, but a union of souls. It is the 
 most sacred bond of humanity. Men who, are social 
 blackguards of the worst type marry innocent girls just 
 out of school. When an inexperienced girl or woman 
 marries a man of that character it would be better if 
 
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she were in her grave. There are men of title and position 
 who even sell their wives to friends in order to secure 
 needed cash, or social advantages, and while our law is 
 covering up aristocratic crimes from publicity, the hard 
 working man is severely punished for smaller sins. 
 
 If we make our marriage for worldly desire, or per- 
 sonal convenience, our children will be moulded on these 
 passions, and grow up to be a curse to the world they 
 live in. If we wed in sin, — our children must be born in 
 sin. 
 
 Woman, is the victim of injustice today, and so-called 
 civilization that keeps her ignorant through her youth 
 causes her to become a victim to the very ignorance and 
 innocence that have been so sedulously cultivated. The 
 girl should be told that she must not trust man, and must 
 be her own protector. Everybody knows that man is 
 responsible far more than women for the crime that 
 destroys women. 
 
 The mother, and no one else should frankly tell the 
 daughter what life is and what men are ! The girls should 
 be taught that men will make every promise, and break 
 every promise, these things will help to protect girls from 
 the cruelty of men, and save the women with all her 
 dreams of happiness gone, every path closed to her, all 
 hope for a happy home shut out ! This is a common sight 
 today throughout the land. 
 
 Unfortunately, nine parents out of ten have false 
 ideas of modesty, they allow their girls to learn from some 
 sad experience, or from some degraded source that should 
 have been explained clearly by the mother. 
 
 When a woman falls, the others eat her up morally 
 with their ostracism. The brutality of women toward 
 her unfortunate sister is like a pack of wolves, if one 
 becomes wounded the other wolves eat her up. 
 
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These matters should be discussed by father with the 
 son! Let boys and girls be taught by their parents that 
 there is one wicked crime that is a curse to civilization, 
 it will help to protect our girls, and protect our boys from 
 becoming brutes of men and women. 
 
 The marriage game would be less of a gamble if there 
 were more honesty before marriage. If a woman saw a 
 man, and a man saw a woman with all defects uncovered, 
 marriage would become more holy and righteous, and 
 there would be less ill-mated and unfortunate marriages. 
 
 I pity a bride who contracts a marriage with a man 
 who has put up a bluff and much highly colored camou- 
 flage. 
 
 To tie an active, ambitious woman in a matrimonial 
 stall with a man that is a black hypocrite who has been 
 an immoral parasite, is the kind of marriages that ends 
 with a domestic tragedy. 
 
 Many a home is wrecked on the rock of sin through 
 suspicions and jealousy, caused by confession of a bride, — 
 and the love letters of a disillusioned hubands. 
 
 The woman who has extravagant tastes, or has been 
 bitten with the society bug, and can spend ten dollars 
 while the husband is earning one, are bound to plant 
 thorn bushes that is surely going to hurt in the future. 
 
 Through ignorance of the Divine law of marriage and 
 virtue, the world is degenerating in morals, and clean 
 living, men and women, single and married are getting 
 dissolute, shameless, and youth of both sexes depraved. 
 The world is so filled with immoral minds, that a good 
 woman has but to be seen walking alone in the public 
 gardens, or streets with a man, and her reputation is 
 gone forever. 
 
 God help the poor girl or woman who is alone in the 
 world without a guardian, or protector. The human 
 wolves in men's clothes are secreted in every line of 
 
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business, and on every corner of the streets to pounce 
 upon her with their vulgar proposals, and smooth tongue 
 promises. 
 
 Men of age with hair as white as snow are culprits of 
 sin so black that the dismal light of hell will make them 
 look hideous with sin and corruption. Christians claim 
 that humanity is growing better morally, and spiritually; 
 but our population is going the other way, and if some- 
 thing is not done to check the ravages of crime, our 
 asylums and prisons will not hold the sin mad hypocrites. 
 
 The sacrament of marriage should be the most strin- 
 gent law in every state of the Union. That will be the 
 only way to check, and improve the present immoral 
 condition of our land. 
 
THE RESULT OF WICKEDNESS 
 
 CHAPTER THIRTEEN 
 
 Every person with sufficient intellect to think and 
 reason must know the great difference between good and 
 evil. 
 
 Common sense should teach that we must reap a 
 reward for living a good clean life, and punishment for 
 committing evil. 
 
 Not one of us can tell the exact time nature will finish 
 its work on earth, so we must try and find gut where we 
 are going when we die, and what our future destiny will be. 
 
 We have no excuse for what others may do! It is 
 what we do ourselves to prepare for the coming of death 
 that will surely take us across the border to the great 
 world beyond. 
 
 The question to be answered is — shall we go to the 
 beautiful spiritual realms, or to the dark and dismal 
 planes of evil? 
 
 At the hour of death, as our soul or spirit leaves the 
 body, there arises from the body a vapory substance com- 
 posed of electric properties which develops the soul to a 
 perfect counterpart of the human body, and as this 
 invisible vapory substance gathers spirit strength it 
 gradually becomes a new birth in the other world. 
 
 Under natural conditions, the new spirit, is given help 
 by some spirit doctor who makes it a practice to attend 
 a new birth in the spirit world the same as it is customary 
 in this life. 
 
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The strength of the spirit depends upon the past life 
 of the person. The new soul will either be bright, with a 
 spiritual light, or the soul will be black and misty without 
 light, and no power can change the condition, it is what 
 the person built for themselves, and just what they took 
 with them to the new world. It would be as impossible 
 for a new spirit to produce spiritual light, as it would be 
 for an infant to change at birth in this life. The religious 
 teachers who preach that a soul can be saved by prayers, 
 and at the time of death have the soul changed from black 
 to white is preaching a false belief, because the spirit is 
 black through wickedness, and requires serious work to 
 unravel the web of black wicked spots that has stained 
 the soul with blackness. 
 
 The spirit form is but a shadow of the human form, 
 a mere reflection, like the sun's rays casts its shadows 
 from material bodies on earth. The astral* body of a 
 person is nothing to the human eye, it is so vapory and 
 shadowy that it requires a well developed spiritual power 
 in man to penetrate the invisible veil that separates the 
 human eye from the spirit body. 
 
 To the spirit itself, the astral body appears so natural, 
 and so perfect that many do not realize they are not the 
 real person. The spirit body retains the entire history 
 of the human life; nothing is forgotten. Every scene 
 that the man or woman has passed through is imbedded 
 in the vapory form ,that is all they have taken with them. 
 A complete moving picture from the cradle to the grave. 
 This spirit condition is the great Divine Law that sends 
 all souls to the plane they have made for the soul! The 
 power of the spirit light is what decides the exact location 
 for the soul. 
 
 Each plane in the next world is graded by spiritual 
 light. The lowest plane, which is the prison plane is 
 dark and dismal, the souls who live in this plane suffer 
 from a guilty conscience and shame. 
 
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The next plane above has a faint light, and the souls 
 have more goodness, and were people who lived imper- 
 fect lives, causing injury to their own souls. 
 
 Each plane is one grade higher than the other, and 
 more spiritual which increases the light. As a spirit as- 
 cends from one plane to the other the spirit becomes more 
 perfect, and one by one all the vulgar scenes of life are 
 washed away by soul progression, and redemption, and 
 shame and disgrace is eliminated. 
 
 The new spirit soon discovers that they are in the 
 wrong plane just as soon as they endeavor to enter — any 
 condition above their own power. 
 
 It is like trying to pass through a tunnel without a 
 light, Each soul must take their medicine whether it is 
 sweet or bitter. 
 
 When a spirit has discovered this lav/ that governs the 
 other world, they also discover what a big fool they were 
 back on earth, and here is where the real punishment 
 begins. The great I AM power has been converted to 
 go where you belong ,and your spirit goes there without 
 any coaxing or invitation. 
 
 This is the condition that teaches the spirit that the 
 mean and little wicked acts had more force than they 
 expected. This is the time the man or woman spirit finds 
 a black dirty spot in their vapory spirit body that makes 
 them shudder with horror at their earth's ignorance. 
 
 Here is where they discover that the more black spots 
 they find, the lower down the spirit will be forced, and 
 the longer sentence to the plane of distress. 
 
 As the spirits begins to measure up their earth's 
 existance, they will find a condition of shame and disgrace 
 planted with every black spot, and if the person has 
 lived the life of a hypocrite they will have a severe battle 
 to fight to keep the spirit from constantly living over his 
 or her past wickedness. 
 
The conscience of a human life is the spirit counter- 
 part; and when the spirit is separated from the human 
 body, all the evil that has been decreed against the human 
 body is buried with the body. It makes no difference 
 how badly the body has been maltreated, suffering, 
 disease and death will end all material life, but the soul 
 has a perfect body, and merely registers the good and 
 bad deeds. 
 
 A person can suffer untold agony with the human body, 
 and the spirit only registers the mental condition which 
 does not leave a scar, but cause suffering to others, and 
 the scar of iniquity will be planted in the soul. 
 
 No person who dies with sin on their soul need 
 expect to enter any condition of heaven, because it re- 
 quires a pure mind and clear conscience, that can pro- 
 duce a beautiful spiritual light. 
 
 Every person is born under different planitary forces 
 that more or less predict the destiny of each individual, 
 and if a person understands the law that governs the 
 plants it is an easy matter to assist nature, and develop 
 as nature advises. 
 
 Each person is surrounded by astral light, the power 
 and color is the result registered from each individuals' 
 life according to what they make for themselves. The 
 better the life the more brilliant the light. The more 
 wickedness placed in the soul, the light becomes fainter 
 and weaker, all color vanishes with sins, and the soul 
 becomes a dirty brownish misty force without spiritual 
 power that condemns the soul to hard work in some one 
 of the lower planes of existance. 
 
 Spirits from the higher cycles of spirit development 
 usually have a pure golden light, and this beautiful light 
 is what guides the soul from one cycle to the other. This 
 beautiful condition is what brings joy and perfect happi- 
 
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ness to the soul, for they are free from all earthly con- 
 ditions. They have performed their work well, and the 
 golden light is the result of purifying the soul from all 
 impurities. 
 
 This great truth should convince humanity that it is 
 absolutely foolish to pray for help to brighten the spirit 
 when the soul is black from sin. All the prayers on earth 
 cannot produce a golden light. It requires a life time of 
 careful living to build your own spirit power. No one 
 but yourself can change the color of the soul. 
 
 Humanity has been terribly deceived in this matter. 
 Thousands of unthinking minds has no conception of this 
 one great spiritual law that governs all our lives. When 
 people get their eyes open to the fact that no invisible 
 force will wash away the sins, then, and only then will 
 true Christianity progress out of the selfishness of expect- 
 ing some other power to do the work we must do our- 
 selves. Laying your burdens on the cross for our Saviour 
 to wash away is not spiritual. Bear the burden on your 
 own shoulders is the only law that will save your soul. 
 
 Shouting for glory, and praying three times every day 
 has no effect on the future state of existance. Prayer is 
 merely a variety of words many times eminating from a 
 filthy mind. Words are not what saves the soul. It is 
 good deeds, which builds, and builds and prepares the 
 soul for the great and glorious realms. 
 
 The spirit form of a human being is only a mere shadow, 
 a mirage of the human person, the material weight being 
 so light that one thousand spirit souls could be placed 
 in the smallest thimble, and sufficient room left in the 
 thimble for five thousand more! The material element 
 that death permits us to take to the spirit world is so 
 small, that all the wealth, on earth has no power in the 
 next world. 
 
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The person who dies wicked takes plenty with them, 
 but not material things, only the counterpart, the same 
 as the spirit is the counterpart of the person. What a 
 spirit does take with them is the horrors of everything 
 that was wrong. 
 
 The spirit, or soul is the history. It is the book of 
 life and nothing has been erased or forgotten. A full 
 description of what we do here is printed in separate 
 scenes, and each scene represents every second of life 
 on earth. If we find a lot of miserable scenes that bring 
 shame we have no one to blame but ourselves, and down 
 we go to the place that best suits our own condition. 
 
 A new spirit in the land of mystery finds they can turn 
 to every second of past life and find a picture recorded 
 that will reproduce the scene that was enacted at that 
 respective time. The instant a spirit mind centers on 
 that condition the whole soul enters that one picture, and 
 it becomes so vividly realistic that they live over the same 
 scene, experiencing the mirage of the act so vividly that 
 the soul passes through a reproduction almost equal to 
 the real act itself. 
 
 This condition of spiritual law is what causes severe 
 punishment, because it is the wicked side of the act that 
 stings the soul, the conscience does its work well, for this 
 is the real punishment of wickedness. Before a spirit 
 can advance out of these conditions, every black spot on 
 the soul must be cleansed. One by one, each scar must 
 be made perfect. This process of soul purification must 
 be absolutely worked out before a spirit can advance one 
 degree, the spirit form changing the astral light to comply 
 with the cycle above. This law is so severe that millions 
 of debased spirits cling to earth's conditions for many 
 years, and remain in the same condition because they are 
 ashamed to meet the spirits of mortals whom they wronged 
 on earth. 
 
The spirit who refuses to progress follows the same 
 unreasonable system as mortals follow here. You can 
 find thousands of human beings who merely exist. They 
 have no ambition, no energy, and simply follow in the 
 tracks of others, regardless of whether it is good or bad. 
 This same condition exists in the lower planes of spirit 
 life they are spirits of men and women who amounted 
 to nothing on earth, and continue on in the same old rut. 
 It behooves us all to not stand still here, for nothing 
 gained here spiritual, is nothing prepared for the coming 
 death for all of us. We should all begin at the age of 
 maturity and put all the ambition and energy into our 
 life that we can possibly possess, but not the kind that is 
 now causing suffering to mankind. 
 
 If the human race was living as God intended the 
 human race should live we would all enjoy life to its 
 fullest, and the lower planes of spirit life would be almost 
 empty, but under the existing conditions, millions of all 
 classes of human beings is being forced into darkness 
 through ignorance of self progression. 
 
 Humanity has been so terribly misled in spiritual 
 teachings that no one, only people who has advanced 
 through the great teachings of Spiritualism has any idea 
 or conception of what the next world is like, only under a 
 very imaginative mind. 
 
 Spirit life in the next world is almost exactly like this 
 earth. You must not forget that the spirits who inhabit 
 the other world are all that is left of the people who 
 departed this life. Passing over as spirits and retaining 
 the same poor weak wicked brain they carried through 
 this life, and the selfish character that brought the human 
 form many trials and tribulations. 
 
 In the lowest plane, the spirits follow all manner of 
 different conditions which each one chooses for their 
 occupation. Nearly all try to associate with mortals, 
 
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some for good purposes, some to finish some invention 
 not fully completed, others seek for educational develop- 
 ment through the brains of students. Thousands con- 
 gregates in places where all manner of wickedness is 
 practiced and thousands who were ignorant of the true 
 development of the soul, who believed they were to be 
 saved by prayer, continue the same process in spirit 
 life, not realizing they cannot gain redemption in that 
 manner. Ministers of the gospel, many of them still 
 hold religious meetings the same as in this life, still 
 believing they will be saved by the blood of Jesus Christ. 
 Instead of opening up the spirit mind to reason and com- 
 mon sense, they keep their soul down in darkness. They 
 are so positive not even spirit missionaries can change 
 their religious views. 
 
 The whole lowest planes of the spirit world is composed 
 of this class of spirits, who are stubborn and conceited, 
 but by the law of evolution, after a certain period of time, 
 invisible power causes this class of spirits to open the 
 spirit mind to progressive thoughts, and in time they 
 join the army of progressive souls that eventually enter 
 the realms of glory. People who imagine that they 
 can with one big jump land through the pearly gates 
 of heaven, had better study the laws of the 
 spirit world. Nothing exists there as thousands of 
 people believe. A soul can no more go to heavenly 
 realms from this life, than an infant can jump from the 
 cradle to old age. Infant life requires the law of nature 
 to fulfill the mission on earth. Spirit law comes under 
 the same rule. A new birth in. the next world requires 
 spiritual training to move higher and higher, the same 
 as children passes through different degrees of learning. 
 Heaven is like the ending of a college education. None 
 but the most finely educated souls who has passed through 
 
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many grades of spiritual education, and graduated from 
 spirit colleges can reach the great goal ahead for all 
 who prepare to enter. 
 
 This earth is only the kindergarten to the next world, 
 and the best of us do not get much beyond this grade of 
 spirituality. 
 
 It requires a wonderful soul, and a wonderful spiritual 
 education to even enter the third cycle above this earth 
 plane, beyond this plane we must pass through forty six 
 more planes before we are prepared to enter the first 
 realm of heavenly conditions. As we progress upward 
 each plane becomes more complicated, and we must 
 understand, or remain in the cycle, we inhabit. 
 
 This earth is where we start our endless journey for- 
 ever. We should go through this life as perfect as possible, 
 to be sufficiently advanced to take up our work over 
 there just where we left off, here. If we start wrong and 
 fill our life full of vulgarity, we tie ourselves into a material 
 knot that holds us fast for many months, and perhaps 
 years that we should be progressing onward. 
 
 Humanity has a wonderful mystery before them. 
 Little do the people know what is situated right ahead 
 of them. Little do human beings realize the great com- 
 plex spiritual laws, and spiritual life they must live in 
 the other great world. It contains such wonderful 
 processes of development that the human mind is not 
 strong enough to interpret the simplest of them all. 
 For this very reason, this great truth has not been given 
 to the world before. There are too many skeptical 
 minds to condemn. The same as new inventions, and 
 new thoughts are condemned today. 
 
 The spirit world does not speak in very endearing 
 terms of those who condemn others for what they do not 
 know themselves. God created the universe for every 
 person to advance, and when the mind becomes so bitter 
 
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against those who has developed new thoughts that they 
 try to check progressive methods, and retard spiritual 
 growth it is not living up to the fullest power of 
 advancement. 
 
 We are born in this life to begin at the age of dis- 
 cretion to build a perfect soul; one so pure and clean that 
 after God has seen fit to move us on into the next world 
 we can meet all spiritual beings with a clear conscience, 
 and have our Maker say. "Well done good and faith- 
 ful servant; you have fulfilled life's mission bravely." 
 Your new work you must perform will multiply ten fold 
 for the good deeds accomplished while on earth, thereby 
 advancing your soul to greater wisdom and into the holy, 
 eternal spiritual light. 
 
 The person who dares to die as a hypocrite, soon dis- 
 covers they have taken very little with the soul to the 
 next world but hypocrisy, for it is one of the lowest 
 degrees of wickedness. 
 
 The spirit discovers that they are as much alive as 
 they were before leaving the body, and has retained all 
 the intellect, every thought that ever passed through the 
 brain is registered in the spirit. The fact is, — the person 
 is a worse hypocrite than when in the body because their 
 hypocrisy is exposed to the spirit world, and all whom they 
 come in contact with can see the filth that the person has 
 been covering up under the cloak of piety. 
 
 This same spirit will be in such a filthy condition 
 that they must either skulk to some secluded spot, or 
 begin cleaning house and start true spiritual progression 
 in the right way. 
 
 The very largest majority of this class of spirits has 
 not the nerve to come out in the open and face the terrible 
 consequences, so they secrete their miserable spirit self 
 in some room or place where they can be alone, or to 
 choose a few miserable companion spirits who has a 
 
soul as black as themselves. A miserable existance 
 stands before this class of degraded souls, they must 
 either come out and expose their shame, or skulk in dark 
 corners to cover up the wicked scenes the soul contains. 
 
 Thousands of spirit hypocrites remain in this condition 
 for years, and do not progress but live over and over their 
 miserable earth's life, suffering untold sorrow and regret 
 without light, happiness or progression. 
 
 One of the most severe degrees of future punishment 
 is the law that compels evil spirits to meet face to face all 
 victims of men and women whom they wronged while on 
 earth. This debt of wickedness must be paid in full. 
 There is no escape. 
 
 Human beings who defy the law of God and nature, 
 and think they can cheat, rob, plunder, and commit all 
 kinds of degrading acts, and never pay the debts in full 
 is sadly mistaken. This system of returning good for evil 
 is the only possible avenue for escape out of the plane of 
 darkness. One spirit can read the entire past life of the 
 other, and this same law is in effect in every cycle, degree 
 and realms in the spirit worlds. 
 
 In this life we can associate with people and be deceived 
 as to their real life and character, but in the next world 
 it is absolutely to the reverse. One spirit cannot deceive 
 the other. Each spirit stands before the other naked 
 souled, the spirit body being so vapory and so astral that 
 the law of compulsion produces the effects of life vididly. 
 Under this law no two spirits from different degrees of 
 spirit development can mingle and associate in the same 
 condition, because the law of attraction would force the 
 higher developed spirit to the lower plane. To a certain 
 degree the same law applies here on earth. It is a very 
 uncommon thing to see the good and bad mingle together. 
 If companionship is formed between these two separate 
 elements, either the person with good moral principles 
 
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will fall to the same low degree of the other, or the lowest 
 will take on new strength and rise to the level of the good. 
 If you seek good companions in the next world, you must 
 make them here in this life. 
 
 This divine law is the controlling power in all planes, 
 cycles, degrees and realms. 
 
 The question is often asked; Can I see my loved ones 
 in the other world? Will I join them forever? Shall 
 we be happy together, etc.? The answer is YES — pro- 
 viding the person who seeks for information is spiritually 
 prepared to associate with spirit friends. Many families 
 and friends are separated by secrets that are not exposed 
 until brought face to face in spirit life. The person who 
 was guilty is the spirit that must answer for themselves. 
 If they are ashamed for past deceit and have been un- 
 faithful to each other, the spirits must separate because a 
 guilty soul cannot enter the same plane that the innocent 
 inhabit. According to the law of God, and nature. 
 The Holy bonds of matrimony should not be performed 
 but once. The wedding ring means for all eternity and 
 when men and women take the solemn vow until death 
 do we part, it does not imply that the wife or husband 
 can re-marry, because placing the body of a loved one 
 in the grave has not separated the two souls, but brought 
 them closer together for God only joins the souls of man 
 and woman as one. The bodies are but clay, and return 
 to earth. The soul lives for all eternity and should exist 
 together in everlasting happiness. Through the terrible 
 ignorance of humanity people believe that as soon as 
 man and wife are separated by a funeral they are at 
 liberty to immediately remarry, and no harm is forth 
 coming. This is a sad mistake; for the husband or wife 
 in spirit is just the same husband or wife as they we're 
 before being separated. The spirit can see and know 
 everything that transpires in the home and should be just 
 
as closely united as they were united as man and wife on 
 earth. When the law of spirit communication is per- 
 fectly understood, as it should be, separation will be 
 nothing but a departure of the body with the two souls 
 united in perfect harmony and in communion with each 
 other. This Divine law should have been given to the 
 world thousands of years ago, but the manuscript on 
 which this divine teachings of Christ was written was 
 destroyed because it interfered with the personal desires 
 and debased principles of religious lawmakers who was 
 not satisfied with one wife, but took unto themselves 
 as many as they desired. Many men and women marry 
 and re-marry several times, and bring forth children 
 from each union. If a man has three wives, how can he 
 claim any one of them as his true and lawful wife? Each 
 wife would demand her matrimonial rights for herself, and 
 her children, hence, according to the divine laws, only 
 one union for each man and woman is permitted. NO 
 MAN CAN ENTER HEAVEN WITH TWO OR THREE 
 WIVES. 
 
 In the lowest spirit plane men and women who allowed 
 animal nature to cast them in this condition, cling to 
 earth so close that humanity practically live with them, 
 or they live with us which is more correct. 
 
 In this plane you will find murderers, suicides, and all 
 the lower degrees of material wickedness. It is inhabited 
 by every nationality on earth from civilized hypocrites 
 to uncivilized savages. The poor savages who commit 
 crimes through innocence, is far better situated in the 
 lowest plane than a man or woman who is civilized, and 
 knows the difference between right and wrong. 
 
 The poor savage is forced to the low planes because 
 he is all material and has no spirituality or light to guide 
 him higher. His punishment is not for wickedness be- 
 cause he innocently committed no sin. He lived accord - 
 
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ing to the laws of the tribe in which he belonged, conse- 
 quently, his punishment is only the severe course of 
 spiritual training he must pass through for soul develop- 
 ment, The man who knows right from wrong, and 
 then disobeys causes punishment of a very severe nature. 
 
 The spirit of a savage usually remains with his own 
 tribe, very seldom realizing that he has departed from the 
 body. Today, the inhuman savages are more advanced 
 than civilization, because it is a common occurrance 
 for many tribes of savages to communicate with spirits. 
 It requires many years to civilize this class of spirits, and 
 elevate them to high planes, but missionaries assume the 
 task and not one soul is lost. All are given charity, and 
 this is real charity, in assisting some poor ignorant, or 
 deluded soul to understand themselves. Charity comes 
 from the soul, NOT THE POCKET. Help some person 
 to arise out of the slums of wickedness — and a merciful 
 act of real chairty has been performed. 
 
 Many of the brightest Angels in the heavenly realms 
 has progressed from the lowest plane. Not one soul is 
 lost. Every soul can progress to the realms above, but 
 has a terrible time climbing the ladder of progression . . 
 
 Many spirits as they progress out of the darkness 
 into light, are assigned missions to perform for humanity. 
 Each spirit is selected to act as guides and controls to 
 watch our footsteps, and to whisper a warning word of 
 danger, or to assist mortals out of some complicated 
 material condition. If we would listen to the still small 
 voice that is waiting to assist us; many serious problems 
 would be made much easier for our welfare. 
 
 This class of spirits are not thoroughly educated, and 
 only understand their own planes, so cannot impart 
 through communication with mortals only a vivid illus- 
 tration of the spirit world. Mortals who seek words 
 
of advise from these guides and controls, receive honest 
 messages of truth, but very little matter of scientific 
 interest. 
 
 People who are seeking for material messages attract 
 only the common element. People who seek for worldly 
 selfish messages attract spirits from the lower planes, 
 and usually receive only words of fraud and deceit. 
 People who live good clean lives attract only the highly 
 developed spirits from the higher planes who come to us 
 as spiritual advisers, and only under those conditions can 
 any person communicate with higher powers from the 
 cycles of knowledge. 
 
 People who are narrow minded and conceited, and who 
 deny the existance of spirit communication shut the door 
 and drive away all good influences, by not understanding 
 themselves, they permit all classes of spirits to guide and 
 control them, not realizing that such a thing could be pos- 
 sible. Under this state of mind, they attract the undesir- 
 able spirits thereby many times committing acts that is 
 given impressionally from some invisible influences. 
 The entire world of human beings is subjected to this 
 invisible force. This same class of conceited people 
 will boo-hoo at this truth, but regardless of what the 
 whole human race may believe this condition is a positive 
 fact nevertheless. 
 
 Some day in the near future this fact will be brought 
 out more forceably and humanity will receive a shock 
 that will make people more receptive to good common 
 sense, and reason. 
 
 The result of wickedness is just what you make it. 
 You cannot crush humanity and get away with it. You 
 cannot gain wealth by false pretences, and escape punish- 
 ment. You cannot live an immoral life and expect pity, 
 
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because it is a terrible sin in the eyes of God. You cannot 
 disobey one of God's laws, it makes no difference how 
 small or large it may be. When you break one command- 
 ment you break all. 
 
 In the democracy of death all men are equal. There 
 is neither rank nor station in the six feet of earth that 
 covers our body. The wrongs of time and injustice is 
 explained, the unequal distribution of wealth, honor, 
 capacity, pleasure and opportunity, which makes life so 
 miserable and cruel ceases in the realms of death. 
 
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GOSSIP AND SLANDER 
 
 CHAPTER FOURTEEN 
 
 The pages of Scripture are full of condemnation of 
 these two atrocious sins, and next to suicide and murder 
 it is the most current sin on the calendar. 
 
 Its victims are numbered by the hundredsof thousands. 
 Homes have been broken up, men and women driven to 
 self destruction because gossip mongers have broken the 
 ninth commandment which forbids not only false court 
 testimony, but gossip, slander, misrepresentation, and 
 the whispering game of backbiting. 
 
 Everytime you speak of another person you are bear- 
 ing witness, either false, or true. Gossip and slander is 
 one of the worse sins of the tongue and the most dangerous 
 to humanity. 
 
 Peddlers of scandal are a vendor of vile things, and 
 many a life is darkened, many a heart broken, many a 
 soul wounded by the heartless, unkind criticism of those 
 who gossip, and slanders other people. 
 
 The world is so filled with gossiping, mischief makers 
 with evil surmisings, that the case is rare where two or 
 three are gathered together that slander is not the main 
 conversation. Through this source of evil, entire 
 blocks in cities, and towns become a den of enmity, hate, 
 malice, jealousy and revenge. It doesn't take brains to 
 ruin another, in fact — this class of people are barely half 
 civilized. A half witted person can do it. All it requires 
 is a quick tongue and an evil imagination, and if they 
 have any prejudice, envy, or jealousy against the person, 
 
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or a slighted hurt feeling, they make them a pin cushion 
 in which they thrust all the sharp things they have ever 
 heard, and lie unmercifully in the balance. They are 
 wicked peddlers of POISON. 
 
 You will find the slimy trail of these backbiting tale 
 bearing serpents everywhere. They are a curse to hu- 
 manity, and should be subjected to prison punishment 
 for the slightest deviation from the actual truth in every 
 particular. Under this stringent administration, a large 
 majority of mental suffering would be exterminated from 
 our land. 
 
 If there were not so many open ears, there would not 
 be so many open mouths. 
 
 Be careful what you hear, and more careful what you 
 repeat. Hearsay is not evidence. Any person could ruin 
 the reputation of any clergyman in a week; doctor or 
 dentist in a village in three days. So beware of a slander- 
 ous person as you would a viper, — they are just as dang- 
 erous. It is one of the perils of human life. Perjury 
 before a civil court is severe punishment, so is gossip and 
 slander. The lower plane of darkness is the first stopping 
 place for that type of mental degenerates. The Almighty 
 forbids it, and his laws are severe. 
 
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ENMITY, HATRED, MALACE, REVENGE 
 
 CHAPTER FIFTEEN 
 
 Nearly everybody believes that yesterday is as dead 
 as a doornail, but the truth is : it is more alive than today 
 because the human brain works continually ,and today 
 is trying to fulfill many of the new ideas, new desires, 
 new schemes, and hundreds of new brain pictures that 
 was originated yesterday. Everything that the brain of 
 man created yesterday is out in the world working today. 
 
 This great truth shows the inconsistency of the narrow 
 flimsy belief that we can do just as we desire yesterday, 
 and forget it today. That old saying that tomorrow 
 never comes has very little logic. What we sow today 
 grows tomorrow, and nearly all our thoughts are centered 
 on the rising of the new earthly sunshine that either 
 brings good or bad results. 
 
 The trouble with most of us is we try to forget the 
 bits of wreckage we floated yesterday on the troubled sea 
 of false living. If success fails to come in bunches we 
 put on the beggars whine, and harp on ill fate and trouble, 
 and blame God, the devil, and humanity, never once 
 laying the blame at our own door, forgetting the enmity 
 and hatred we carry around with us. Enmity and revenge 
 is seed planted that is merely sprouting today for our 
 discomfort. Evil thoughs are evil seeds, and when 
 planted in the brain they grow in power, and in time the 
 whole force rebounds to the brain that created the con 
 dition. 
 
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Enmity, causes untold physical suffering to many who 
 try to punish some person who they dislike. This evil 
 condition is like placing the hand on a red hot stove, it 
 burns, and scorches the conscience until it effects the 
 brain, and from the brain it causes the nervous system 
 to become a diseased magnet that sends unnatural cur- 
 rents to all parts of the human body, thereby causing 
 diseases that eventually sends the victim to an untimely 
 grave. 
 
 Evil thoughs is the direct cause of mental worry, bad 
 luck, ill fate, and many of the discomforts of life. We 
 must build high with good thoughts, respect manhood, — 
 and use our brains for honest methods ; then sickness will 
 disappear and the change will come for a more prosperous 
 condition. 
 
 People who annoy every person they come in contact 
 with, and send out evil thoughts, had better take a long 
 look in the mirror of life and try to see themselves as 
 others see them. Enmity, hatred, malace, and revenge, 
 are sending millions of souls into darkness. To secape 
 this terrible spirit plane, elevate the mind above such evil 
 influence, because it is dangerous. 
 
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PROFANE LANGUAGE 
 
 CHAPTER SIXTEEN 
 
 A great many make free use of profane language as if 
 it was a part of the daily exercises. It not only degrades 
 the spiritual senses but generates a poison of the mind 
 which seriously affects the entire physical system, and 
 has a bad effect on all sensitive people who may be near. 
 It is just as simple a matter to talk a good clean language 
 as it is to use profane language. 
 
 Does any sane man or woman really believe that there 
 is no bad results from such a degrading practice? Is it 
 possible any person can believe no injury follows 
 cursing; taking God's name in vain? 
 
 Good manners and a clean tongue are valuable assets 
 that anybody can have cheaply. It will make your life, 
 and the life of others you come in contact with more 
 agreeable. Some people think manners are sissyfied, but 
 being polite with good words and manners shows the 
 breeding and good character. 
 
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CHILDREN BORN OUT OF WEDLOCK 
 
 CHAPTER SEVENTEEN 
 
 Those who violate a moral code of law will as surely 
 regret the act, and personally suffer for it in the next 
 world to corners will the violator of physical law here 
 who thrusts his hand into a fire. The penalty is sure to 
 follow the deed. 
 
 The law of equity exists and is maintained in the 
 spiritual world, and works with unerring justice and cer- 
 tainty. 
 
 Children born out of wedlock are not held responsible 
 for the sins of the parents, but those who wrong others 
 must face the light of inspection and receive just the 
 degree of condemnation it deserves. There is no escape. 
 
 Millions of unborn infants are murdered by mothers 
 who listen to the human snake who beguiles, and coils 
 his poisoned thoughts around some innocent mind, and 
 in the hour of disgrace, they unite in wickedness and des- 
 troy the little spark of life to cover up the shame and 
 disgrace of their own mistake. 
 
 Murder of the lowest degree is the result of such 
 inhuman practices. The tiny little body can be separated 
 from the soul, but the soul lives, and enters the other 
 world as a tiny little spark of life, where it grows and 
 develops to manhood or womanhood the same as if it 
 had been permitted to be born in this life. 
 
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This fiendish inhuman wickedness is ever prevalent 
 throughout the land. It is considered nothing wrong in 
 the minds of all classes of people, only a mere saving of 
 a vile character. Oh, such hypocracy; it is just as much 
 wilful murder as it is for one man to slay another, and 
 the lower hell plane is where every soul is cast who enters 
 into such vile and wicked acts. 
 
 Millions of impure mothers and fathers are today living 
 out the murder of a poor little soul that was crushed by 
 infamy, and when they were cast into the spirit world, 
 they come face to face with the spirit of the unborn 
 infant in this life, but grown to maturity in the spirit 
 world. When humanity learns they cannot kill a soul; 
 then will be the time humanity will learn good common 
 sense. 
 
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HOW TO PROGRESS SPIRITULLY 
 
 CHAPTER EIGHTEEN 
 
 Human life is a mysterious creation; we are here on 
 the earth as mental and physical human beings, endowed 
 with sufficient brain power to keep pace with nature's 
 natural progressive laws, and yet after many thousands 
 of years of birth, growth and death of every human soul 
 that has lived in the past, Very few today know there 
 is but two separate divine laws that govern human life — 
 namely, material and spiritual. 
 
 Through the ignorance of these separate laws the 
 material side of life has been interpreted as the only road 
 to follow to supply the wants and desires of human de- 
 mands, and today nearly the entire world's population 
 is living one sided and developing the spiritual side to 
 only a small degree. 
 
 Human life was never created to be one sided. We 
 were created to be evenly balanced by developing both 
 laws, thereby producing a perfect specimen of material 
 and spiritual human life. 
 
 Spiritual law is the first that should be developed be- 
 cause it is the divine law that governs the material law. 
 The material law depends entirely on the spiritual for 
 perfect health, strength and goodness to grow rich in 
 mind, body and soul, thereby living perfect, and devel- 
 oping a perfect human lif e . as[.creation demands. 
 
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The spiritual law builds on the illuminated side of 
 life, and the material builds on the dark and dismal side, 
 creating injury to the spiritual side that weaves both 
 together into a spirit of low mental power. 
 
 When a person develops according to both laws, using 
 the spiritual first, it develops a perfect law, and produces 
 a mind, body and soul according to the ten command- 
 ments of God. 
 
 As we journey through life climbing up and up in 
 knowledge, we must put each foot forward on solid 
 ground made safe by good deeds, and love for mankind, 
 and steer clear of all vulgar conditions that produces 
 unsafe broken rounds that will throw us back many 
 cycles, and finally launch our soul out in spirit space 
 without sunlight or happiness. 
 
 When we develop only the shady side of life, we are 
 cast into the spirit world only half developed, and that 
 half filled with animal nature which acts as deadly poison 
 to the spirit, and sends the spirit to darkness. If we 
 climb up the bright side of life and make no misteps our 
 harvest will be golden and brighter as we progress, and 
 each day brings us closer to the realm of Heaven where 
 none can enter who does not climb up on the side of 
 goodness. 
 
 It is the spirit light that decides which plane the soul 
 will enter. Those who travel up the dark side of life and 
 produce only a faint spirit light, had better beware be- 
 cause each spirit is spiritually forces to the exact plane 
 they made for themselves. There is no skipping around 
 to suit their own pleasure. The spirit who enters with 
 shame written all over the soul goes direct to the shame 
 plane. Any spirit who would dare enter the planes of 
 bright lights — with shame on the soul would soon receive 
 a soul shock that ^would • teach a lesson they would 
 never forget. The wicked cannot mingle with the good. 
 
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That law is positive. No person with secrets on the soul 
 can sneak into Heaven. Your own spirit soul would 
 punish you severely, and it would be a blessing to sneak 
 to the plane your soul belonged. Like attracts like! 
 
 This life is the place to get your good training, — this 
 is where we must live right. Gold and earthly power 
 has no force in the other world. It is a waste of energy 
 that should have been used on the spiritual side. Nothing 
 in this life, is two nothings in the spirit world. 
 
 To the man or woman who has broken one of God's 
 commandments, and has made a dismal failure of this 
 life; there is but one possible way that the wrongs can be 
 righted, they must personally be forgiven by the person 
 whom they have wronged, thereby erasing the evil con- 
 dition. Otherwise, — if the wrongs are held in secret and 
 taken with the spirit into the other world, the punish- 
 ment is a hundred fold more severe than in this life. 
 Every act of meanness must be personally forgiven. 
 
 Much more can be accomplished in this life in a short 
 period of time, than in many years of our time in the 
 spirit world. 
 
 For all the wrongs that has been contracted, the debts 
 must be paid. Personal forgiveness is the only soul 
 progression, and the only true conversion that a person 
 can experience, and the only salvation of the soul that 
 will elevate each spirit higher in spirituality. Praying 
 and publicly proclaiming that "I AM SAVED", — is 
 hypocracy unless the person who makes the claim has 
 first been personalty forgiven for all the sins and meanness 
 ever contracted through this life. For each and every 
 person who spiritually forgives the wrong committed 
 against them, and casts out all enmity, receives a golden 
 reward, and for the person who committed the wrong, 
 they receive a ten fold blessing. Each wrong that is 
 righted elevates the spiritual side and gives the . soul 
 
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more strength, and spirit light which elevatei the spirit 
 to hotter conditions. This process of soul culture is the 
 only possible way to save future punishment. The debts 
 you pay here will not be recorded in the book of life. 
 What is accomplished in this ljfe, — is profit in the next. 
 Forgive your enemies is a Divine Law. 
 
 It is just as easy to live a good pure and honest life 
 as it is to be mean, selfish, greedy and want everything 
 for ourselves. While we live in the body we must respect 
 our material side as well as our spiritual. God and re- 
 ligion does not demand that any man shall pass through 
 life with a sanctified expression and afraid to enter into 
 the honest dealings with fellow man. We are put here 
 to develop this earth, and to enjoy the comforts afforded 
 by honest methods. 
 
 Life means active interest in the great things. It 
 means keeping ourselves informed on both sides of life, 
 and the subjects under daily discussions. It means if we 
 refuse to see but one side of everything we become lop- 
 sided, and our mental faculties are only half developed. 
 If in the midst of these stirring times we sit calmly back 
 and let the thinking people learn of the world's great in- 
 terests and possibilities we are dead! If we do not rise 
 and seek for the full measure of possibilities, we shall 
 find ourselves deeply mired in the muddy sea of our own 
 selfishness. Living in the rut of carelessness, or ignorance 
 never produced an ounce of value. It is but a subterfuge 
 for selfish interests, that human beings will wake up to 
 the fact that God's laws must be obeyed. 
 
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THE INVISIBLE WORLD 
 
 CHAPTER NINETEEN 
 
 From the beginning of human life, with thousands of 
 billions of people who have lived on this earth, not one 
 soul has perished! Not one soul has died and passed to 
 a nothingness without life or intelligence. Every spark of 
 life lives, and lives for all eternity; God and nature has 
 decreed this great law, and it must be obeyed. Even the 
 smallest insect lives; everything that grows has life, and 
 life cannot perish. All nature develops materially, than 
 moves on into invisible forces and produces new and 
 greater productive elements in the next world than -in 
 this. A man can live in this life and enjoy the shade of 
 a beautiful tree; he can destroy the tree, cut it into 
 lumber, build himself a house out of the material sub- 
 stance, and when he dies and enters the next world, if 
 he has sufficient spiritual goodness in his soul to enter 
 the higher planes where the spirit trees are transplanted, 
 this same man spirit can sit under the astral body of the 
 same tree, and this time enjoy the fragrant spiritual 
 essence that will emanate from its perfect development. 
 
 Always treat animals with kindness, because they live, 
 and have a soul, and when the soul of the man who was 
 kind, and affectionate has progressed to the plane that is 
 in direct association with the animal kingdom, he will 
 find one of the most faithful, and loving animal con- 
 panions that could be desired. The animal kingdom is 
 one of the planes of spiritual light. There are no aminals, 
 birds, trees or vegetation of any kind in the hell plane. 
 
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The entire surface is like a barren desert, where spirits 
 must float around trying to find some mortal to obsess, 
 or live a lonely and terribly distressed existence. 
 
 The great invisible world, a mystery that religion has 
 never solved, and never will, until different teachings are 
 administered to the people is drawing closer and closer 
 to earth all the time, because the world of intelligent 
 investigating minds is gradually opening the wall that 
 has been built by skepticism, so high, and so strong that 
 only the lower planes right on earth has been able to 
 break open the barrier that separates the two worlds. 
 
 The world of skeptics today condemn the philosophy 
 of spiritualism simply because nearly all the communi- 
 cations received from the other world, are not always 
 wise sayings, and forceful evidence that the spirits who 
 converse are not the imps of the devil. 
 
 After seventy years of spiritualism,' or communication 
 with the so-called dead, the actual soul to soul communi- 
 cation has but lately begun. Up to nearly the present 
 time, millions of people have positively conversed with the 
 spirits of the dead, but through false methods devised 
 by false prophets, who could not develop their inate power 
 to a high degree, nearly all have been mingling with only 
 the very lowest spirits, who has very little education, and 
 no knowledge of the great invisible world, they are like 
 prisoners trying to explain new inventions that has been 
 developed since they were cut off from the outside world. 
 
 In this world today, there are very few developed 
 mortals that can attract spirits from the high plane of 
 knowledge, and form a direct channel for the higher de- 
 veloped spirit forces to utilize This explains why the 
 world is yet in a very crude, and undeveloped condition 
 for angels to come to earth and talk to people. Thou- 
 
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sands of angel spirits have been seen by mortal eyes, but 
 only a few has ever found the right medium through 
 which the secrets of the other world could be disclosed. 
 
 Earth's people are talking with spirits that describe 
 what they know, to the best of their ability — but know- 
 ledge cannot be given from an inferior source. When 
 people begin to use human brains, and begin looking for 
 higher wisdom, and mortals themselves will develop their 
 brains and soul fit for angels to visit, then the world will 
 receive the most wonderful descriptions of the invisible 
 worlds that will expell the miserable false teachings that 
 has literally ruined the whole world. Civilization as it 
 is today is nothing but a humbug and disgrace. Human 
 beings are practically nothing when they should be perfect. 
 
 Humanity today is almost totally blind to the in- 
 visible forces that live on this earth, and have their being. 
 The very atmosphere is filled with unseen life that is 
 moving and performing missions connected with the pro- 
 gression of the invisible world, all striving to accomplish 
 a work of some kind the same as mortals strive to gain 
 or loose — in this life. Only a few human beings has 
 stopped long enough in the miserable struggles of this 
 life to try to find the secret door that has been closed 
 between the two worlds for countless ages. God, and 
 nature never intended that the human race should live 
 in ignorance of the world beyond that has been created 
 for the ending of human life. From the beginning of 
 life this invisible world has been in existence to receive 
 the multitudes of human beings that develops here, and 
 enters there to continue on with the same fulfillment of 
 life's mission. Why — should God, wish to keep humanity 
 in ignorance of what has been created for our future life. ? 
 Is it not reasonable to believe that by knowing the truth, 
 God's people would work with more vigor to reach the 
 great beautiful realms of sunlight, and contentment? Is 
 
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it not absolutely reverse to the law of progression under 
 which life is created? Is it not nature to build for what 
 we expect to receive later in life? How few of us would 
 struggle and slave for expected happiness and pleasure if 
 we could not see in advance what our efforts would 
 produce? 
 
 Today, under the present fearful depressed and ig- 
 norant condition of the human race, we know very little 
 about our future place of existence. We live in darkness 
 beyond a few words taken from ancient history which 
 tell us very little, what we do know is written in such a 
 mysterious way that every person can interpret the words 
 to suit their own desires, disputes and contradictions are 
 useless. One is as reasonable as the other! 
 
 The only real knowledge that the human race can 
 obtain from ancient history is: We can do about as we 
 please in this life, death buries the body in the ground, and 
 then something happens, what it is, very few have the 
 least conception. The general belief being that the soul, 
 (and how many knows what comprises the spiritual com- 
 position of a soul) — has but four conditions: Hell for all 
 eternity; Purgatory for an indefinite period; asleep in the 
 grave for thousands of years, and Heaven with pearly 
 gates and golden wings. Is this not a mysterious con- 
 bination for human beings to swallow when it is ourselves 
 that must enter those four states of future life? Is it 
 any wonder that the world of religion requires great 
 revivals throughout the land to bring human beings 
 together to force them to believe such trash and nonsense? 
 Is it any wonder that the sins of the people are multiplying 
 day after day, — when we have nothing more to live for 
 than the four conditions mentioned : Heaven, the greatest 
 of the four, has never been described in a manner from 
 which human minds could extract much scientific know- 
 ledge, so today, after many thousands of years of human 
 
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life, we as a race of human beings simply look into the 
 future with a blank stare, — and the more we look, the 
 less we understand. Now, is that logic? Has God, Al- 
 mighty created the human race to follow such measily 
 conceptions? Has He, the supreme power created life, — 
 and created the most wonderful developed force in 
 nature — placed us here on earth to stumble through this 
 world in blank darkness concerning our future state of 
 existence: Emphatically NO! The human race has 
 created their own downfall ! They have listened to unwise 
 men who started the ball rolling way back in the dark 
 ages, and us poor fool mortals keep on kicking the ball, 
 and in the end go to the very unnatural grave we prepare 
 for ourselves. Will the wisdom of the world never be 
 developed as it should have been developed hundreds of 
 years in the past? Will humanity continue suffering for 
 the sins of their own making? Will humanity never 
 wake up to good common sense, — and build the pro- 
 gression that has been designed for the uplift of the 
 human family? Never will humanity move out of the 
 filthy rut of ignorance until bigotry, and skepticism is 
 replaced by sound logic, then, and only then will we 
 spiritually progress as God devised for us. 
 
 When we all die ,we will enter a world of wonders. A 
 world so mysterious that if we enter in ignorance, no 
 matter how well we have kept the ten commandments, 
 we are not permitted to enter the high spiritual realms, 
 no more than a perfect child three years old can enter one 
 of our earth's colleges. 
 
 The next world is not a free and easy world, but a com- 
 plex, systematical progressive state of progression. Every 
 soul, (no distinction being made) must pass through a 
 severe soul culture, passing from the first plane they 
 enter to the higher degrees, one by one, and not one soul 
 can leave the plane in which the soul is forced to enter 
 
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until the soul can pass a thorough examination before 
 a jury of severe judges. Then, — and only then, can a 
 soul depart from that plane. 
 
 When a new soul is born in the invisible world, — they 
 positively have debts to pay that covers their entire 
 life on earth. These debts are composed of everything 
 that is not perfect, it makes no difference who the person 
 is, or the position — all must abide by this great divine 
 law. If a man shouts glory all his life, and committed 
 some shameful act even in his mature age, down he goes 
 in spirit to pay that debt, for not one single soul can 
 enter the presence of another soul who has been purified 
 through soul culture. So it is widsom for the reader to 
 fully understand that there is no such a thing in existence 
 as forgiveness of sins. The spirits Above in goodness 
 cannot forgive you because the soul cannot see spirits 
 above their own plane, consequently cannot be forgiven. 
 That is, unless it happens to be the soul of some man or 
 woman whom you cheated, or defrauded back on earth; 
 under this circumstance, the lowest spirit must pray for 
 forgiveness from the spirit in the higher planes, even 
 when forgiven for the sin committed against the soul 
 above, the act must be cleansed through soul culture, 
 thereby causing the poor deluded suffering spirit to work 
 out the debt of wickedness. 
 
 The quicker humanity gets it out of their system that 
 heaven is free, the quicker people will save a terrible 
 punishment in the invisible world. 
 
 In order to explain the progressive conditions in the 
 invisible world which we all must experience, sooner or 
 later, I will describe it by illustrating the spirit world as 
 a massive college; a building forty nine stories high, 
 divided into forty nine degrees of spirit education, 
 utilizing the first floor as the lowest form of spiritual 
 growth. This floor illustrates the hell the world under- 
 lie) 
 
stands as a state of fearful punishment, which is the 
 truth, but fire and brimstone is a myth. The only fire, 
 if you wish to class it under that name, is the burning 
 distress of shame, and spirit suffering caused by remorse 
 for sins, and wickedness on earth. 
 
 We will class the ground floor of this mighty college 
 as the hell plane. In this plane, or floor, every spirit who 
 enters, — the soul is black, and dirty with earth's vul- 
 garity, and they carry no spirit light to brighten their 
 own power of existence. If you could open the door to 
 this filthy schoolroom, and see and hear the anguish, 
 and despair that the spirits are experiencing, no person 
 on earth would dare commit one sin against another 
 person. This plane is inhabited by mostly victims created 
 by the tainted money devil, because the majority sold 
 their souls for immoral and selfish purposes. This is the 
 school room all must enter who forgets their God, and 
 abuses the spiritual senses. Every soul can get out of 
 this prison after they work out many of the knots they 
 wove in their spirit soul. 
 
 After graduating out of room number one, the spirit 
 can enter room number two, In this plane the spirits are 
 more cheerful, and the spirit light has grown somewhat 
 brighter — but only with sufficient light to grope around 
 and faintly see the spirit forms of their companions in 
 misery. If by chance, a spirit entered this plane from 
 below, they would not even be spiritually prepared to 
 live in this uncouth plane. Each soul must reside in 
 each plane without shame. In order to accomplish 
 this, each school room contains spirits of the same degree 
 of wickedness. After extended degrees of culture, spirits 
 leave this plane for the one above. 
 
 School room number three, or plane three, is a much 
 brighter and happier plane than the plane below; yet, 
 the spirits are not contented and happy. They have 
 
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more liberty to roam from one condition to the other, and 
 as nearly all has passed through the lower rooms, they 
 are appointed missionaries to assist the poor spirits below, 
 thereby performing a true act of charity that helps to 
 erase some of the black spots that still remains on the 
 soul. This mode of progressing is followed through the 
 entire forty nine planes, and cycles. 
 
 As it will require the space of an entire book to only 
 partially explain the wonders of the invisible world, I 
 am forced to make this writing very concise, but I believe 
 I have written sufficient to enlighten the average intel- 
 ligent mind, — that something is wrong in the present day 
 religious teachings. 
 
 I wish to take this opportunity right here to explain 
 to the world of investigating skeptics the actual cause, — 
 and reason why so many conflicting messages are received 
 from the invisible world at the present time. The main 
 reason is because human beings have not developed 
 within themselves sufficient spiritual power to personally 
 associate with spirits above the first plane, or first school 
 room. The law of attraction applies between mortals 
 the same as between spirits. A mortal magnet, — who is 
 not attuned in the finer elements of the higher planes, 
 cannot attract or hold direct association with any plane 
 above their own plane. If a medium, would enter the 
 first plane at deai'h that medium can only secure bands 
 of spirit helpers from that plane: Unfortunately, the 
 very largest majority of mediums, or instruments that 
 are closely associated with th>e spirit world, have not per- 
 sonally developed above the first or second plane, and we 
 draw all our messages from the two planes of uneducated 
 spirits who are liable to enjoy a certain amount of pleasure 
 out of our frail understanding of the true source for 
 reliable communication. 
 
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Spirits from the brighter planes are loath to enter the 
 first plane, and mingle with uncouth spirits, and that is 
 what they are compelled to do if they personally send a 
 message through our many half developed mediums of 
 today, and under those conditions very few highly 
 developed spirits will condecent to take the fearful ordeal : 
 They prefer to trust the message through relays, from 
 their own plane through each lower plane until it reaches 
 the controlling spirit who personally acts as guide or 
 control for the medium present. Thousands of controlling 
 spirits are people who were selfish, and deceitful, and they 
 oftentimes repeat the messages to suit their own con- 
 venience, usually for mercenary purposes to fill the 
 pockets of the medium, thereby feathering his, or her 
 controlling power over the mortal instrument. This is the 
 true state of affairs as it now exists, and a greater change 
 will not take place until our mediums are more spiritually 
 developed. Communication between the invisible world, 
 and this earth, is as true as the sun shines on God's 
 green earth, and it is our relatives, and friends who are 
 trying to reach us through undeveloped sources. A 
 great change is coming in this one particular, and in time, 
 the law will be understood, and communication with our 
 departed friends will be as common as to meet them and 
 converse in this life. Let it be understood that Satan 
 and his imps is only a wicked fable. The only invisible 
 souls in all the lower planes, all the middle cycles, all the 
 realms, and in the heavenly zones are the souls of men, 
 women and children from this world. 
 
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IN CONCLUSION 
 
 We all have but one chance in this life to escape from 
 entering the plane called hell. We must live right, and 
 think right. What you do not understand, it is your 
 duty to investigate and find the TRUTH. If you have 
 broken any of the Commandments up to this day, you 
 are the sole looser, and must pay the debt in the next 
 world. If you begin from this day trying to be good, 
 you will enter a new era of progression and your soul 
 will rejoice for what you accomplish, your past will go 
 with you to soul culture, and that one debt you must pay. 
 
 You can overcome some black scars by seeking the 
 person whom you wTonged and ask forgiveness. The 
 more you accomplish, the less will be the debts to pay 
 in the school room of spirit progression. This is the only 
 possible way to eliminate some of the sins of the people, 
 and the person is WISE who follows this advise. 
 
 THE END. 
 
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