This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ...of which extends to other millions of the innocent friends of these inmates of the insane asylums. Reasoning farther, we must look for these mental perverts on the earth side of life. Who are the obsessing spirits, to be, in the future? How many of them are you acquainted with, kind reader? Do you know ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ...of which extends to other millions of the innocent friends of these inmates of the insane asylums. Reasoning farther, we must look for these mental perverts on the earth side of life. Who are the obsessing spirits, to be, in the future? How many of them are you acquainted with, kind reader? Do you know one who is low and mean enough to become an obsessing spirit when he crosses the river of death? If so, and that one is sufficiently depraved to do it when he reaches spirit-life, has he sufficient strength of character and personal perseverance to keep up persistently such deviltry as would be required for all the years of some poor victim's life? If one such person is known, what proportion of the human race is afilicted with such depravity and has all the self-sacrificing qualities necessary to carry out the plan until the terrible end is reached in each case? Good Spirits. There are untold numbers of good spirits for every so-called evil spirit; and if the horrible delusion denominated obsession were true, the beautiful spiritual philosophy provides a preventative of its being carried out. The philosophy of Modern Spiritualism teaches and proves that the spirit world is a natural world governed by natural law; that Nature's laws prevail and must be obeyed; that good is eternal and evil is ephemeral or only temporary. It teaches that people enter the spirit world just as they leave this one, and they are the same on their arrival there as they were when they left here; therefore they are good and not good, wise and unwise, spiritual and unspiritual, and their passing to spirit life does not make saints nor sinners of them. They are just people the same as we are people. The spirit world being a natural world, governed by-natural...
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