The tree loses nothing by the seeds, which naturally fall—they are merely excesses of its own vitality.  So you may suppose the great I AM loses nothing of force—or possibilities—or power—by endowing us—His spiritual children—continually being born into the world—with this Will Force—or by constantly perpetuating the Cosmos Force, which He has caused. Leaflets of Truth or Light from the Shadow Land ..read more

He is the Will of the Universe, as He is the Light of the World—that which can create—that which works over all—through all—in all.  For were any not possessed of the spiritual essence of the Creator, there would be no life in them. The light—the warmth—the electricity—the life of the world—are the emanations from that which creates and perpetuates.  This spiritual essence is the Intelligent Will of the Universe—that from which all life comes. Leaflets of Truth or Light from the Shadow Land ..read more

The earth has the power of drawing and holding to itself all material things. The spiritual world has the same power of drawing and holding to itself all spiritual things. One attracts heavy—or coarse matter, the other—fine, sublimated matter, and the attraction of gravitation of the one is far more powerful than the other. The spiritual realm is far more powerful than the coarser and heavier earth and attracts and holds countless billions of tons of attenuated matter every day— Every blade of grass—every leaf of vegetation—tree and shrub—every stream, river, pond—all l ..read more

Put your thoughts to the test—try them in the light of your highest wisdom and reason—and if they stand the test, then are they true ..read more

Never run in an eternal treadmill of old thoughts. Try to get fresh—new ones—and if you try you will find an eternal supply ever ready to be received, and eager to be put to the best use possible ..read more

  Crumble a dried leaf and see.  Simply ashes.  Cremate the body of a man and what do you have?  Ashes.  The real―the substantial―the enduring has left and gone up higher.  The ashes are left behind―the real and tangible has arisen―the form has gone up―the colour has gone up―the ego, spirit and soul have gone up―all that was real and tangible has departed and finds a spiritual world containing all the living entities that he had known on earth―or those like them―that had preceded him. ―Spirit Herr Franz  ..read more

Are you not filled with something more than vacancy if myriads of insects inhabit every leaf and every drop of water is filled with animalcules ..read more

In the spirit-land objects on the horizon do not vanish in the same way as surface features do on earth (the earth and sky meeting as one).  Instead the sky is seen as a vast canopy overhead, and the circles above seem like plateaux resting on mountain tops.  On reaching those mountains and seeing the new country spread out, there is always on its horizon again more mountains and fresh lands lying higher―a succession of terraces, each leading to a lower (and less beautiful) one until the earth-plane is seen surrounding the earth itself, and then beyond that again lie anoth ..read more

Spirit Franchezzo now sees before him these powerful leaders engaged in a struggle worse than deadly, since no death comes to end the contest, which they renew over and over again―or until the satiety of mind of one―or other makes him long for some nobler form of contest―some higher triumph of the soul than is won over these miserable beings in battles―where victory gives only a fresh right to torture and oppress the vanquished.  The same instincts and natural gifts, which are now perverted to personal ambition and the lust for cruelty and dominion as their only aim will when ..read more

Can anyone hear of it and not shudder to think what the bitter weariness and discontent of life and a reckless desire to be free of it at any cost may plunge the soul into. If those on earth would be truly merciful to the suicide they would cremate his body―not bury it―that the soul may―by the speedy dispersal of the particles―be the sooner freed from such a prison. The soul of a suicide is not ready to leave the body― It is like an unripe fruit and does not fall readily from the material tree, which is nourishing it. A great shock has cast it forth, but it still remains attached un ..read more