Fragments of Spiritual Knowledge Pertaining to the Spiritual World E-Book

Benjamin Franklin Woodcox

• Herausgeber: Andura Publishing
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020

Beschreibung

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Fragments of Spiritual Knowledge Pertaining to the Spiritual World

Benjamin Franklin Woodcox

In the mineral kingdom, the struggle for life, and the struggle of life, begin, and guided by an in­telligence that is mathematically accurate in all its ef­forts, this life develops, and spreads, and passes through each of the other kingdoms of nature, and on through the more rarefied kingdoms which are invisible to man.

While life originates in the mineral kingdom, and develops and spreads through all the other kingdoms, and creates and is the beginning of these kingdoms, yet there is left behind in each of these kingdoms an indi­vidual life element which also evolves, and develops, and attains through refinement and vibratory action an immortality that carries the most beautiful and highly developed species of each of these kingdoms into the invisible and spiritual world.

The flowers are not lost to the spiritual kingdoms, nor the plants, nor the minerals, nor even such of the animals as develop and attain a vibratory action that is sufficiently refining and perfecting to carry them over into the invisible and spiritual worlds.

While each individual life, and particular species of life, represented in the coarser materials of nature, can attain to a refinement and immortality that will carry them over into the spiritual world, yet the particular life element in which nature is most interested, and upon which she spends most of her time, is that life element

that passes through all the different species and king­doms of life, and attains to immortality as the final product of all of these comibined or united in one. I refer to that life which has passed through from the mineral to man, and on into the invisible or spiritual world.

Life is the most beautiful thing in the uni­verse. And the more highly a spirit-life is developed, the more beautiful it becomes, until it reaches a point in perfection and beauty that is indescribable and in­comprehensible to man.

We can best describe a highly developed spirit-life by saying that it is a beautiful life that emits a pearly white light which throws a radiance around that is fairly blinding in its brilliancy; and that this light is just as refined and powerful as electricity, though not fatal to human touch.

A spirit-life that is highly developed radiates a great pearly white light that shines around like a heaven­ly body, and lights up all that is near to it. And through this light, that shines from the spirit body of each high­ly developed spirit-life, there appears many shades and colors of light, some of which are unknown to man, and to this physical plane of existence.

Life here and hereafter is the same life, and differs not a particle except in the conditions under which it lives.

The coarser physical body necessary to the spirit- life’s existence in the coarser physical world disappears, as does also its purely physical environment, and these are replaced by spiritual conditions and environments suitable to its spiritual needs. Beyond this there is no change, except as change takes place slowly, gradually, a little at a time—as the life evolves, unfolds, develops and becomes more perfect.

Man represents a life force that has traveled about one-half its journey, and has secured somewhat less than one-half its development. That is, the life that is in man has since the beginning of time traversed all the kingdoms from the mineral to the higher animal kingdom, a distance of about one-half its journey to completion; and has evolved somewhat less than half the vitality and strength necessary to its eternal life.

Those who are of the spiritual world see us, not as we appear to each other, but as we would appear to each other were we able to see each other outside, or through, our physical bodies.

A spirit-life approaching birth in a physical body, approaches upward, from a lower plane in the scale of development, and is usually not a new ar­rival in the human form; but a spirit-life that has in­habited the human form before, and is merely return­ing to continue, or complete, its journey in the physi­cal world.

The completion of a spirit-life’s journey in the phy­sical world depends entirely upon the amount of spiritual vitality attained, and not upon any theory, creed, belief, nor even upon the possession of exact spiritual know­ledge. However, the spirit-life that has attained to a point in its spiritual development where it can grasp, understand, and even on occasions perceive for itself exact spiritual truths, is nearing physical completion, and is about to enter into a new phase, or world, of life.

It is perfectly understood and known, by all who are in position to know anything about the spiritual world and life, that those in human form who have not yet attained a point in their spiritual development where they can know or grasp, or even possess an inkling of this spiritual world and life, are not nearing the end of their journey in human form; have still some physical lives before them in which to develop, to approach nearer to the spiritual world, and in which to obtain more spiritual vitality.

We cannot approach near to the spiritual world and life, in our development, without becoming in some way conscious of such world, and in possession of some exact knowledge concerning it.

A spiritual entity is without weight in a pure­ly physical sense. It knows no law of physical gravita­tion. It finds the spiritual materials of our atmosphere, and the higher atmospheres and space, sufficient to up­hold it, and to maintain it in comfort, with all the con­veniences of a superior world life.

In order to fully understand spirit-life and the spirit­ual universe, it is necessary for us to fully grasp the difference between invisible spiritual material and the coarser physical material.

All material, or matter, is fundamentally invisible. We can no more see a single atom of physical material than we can see an atom of spiritual material. In fact, it is from the invisible materials of the invisible universe that all visible—and therefore physical material things— are made. And the only difference between the invisible physical materials and the invisible spiritual materials, of which the two different worlds are composed, is a difference in the fineness of the particles of material se­lected for the construction of these two different worlds.

The physical worlds are constructed from the coars­er particles of the invisible materials of space, and the spiritual universe is built out of the finer, or the re­fined particles of the invisible materials obtained from the same source.

The spirit body, or the body in which the spirit-life dwells, is more akin to a liquid, or a gas, than to any more solid material substance. It is a great white light that is vibrating at a rate of more than seven hundred and sixty-four trillion times per second, and is therefore not visible except to clairvoyant vision, or to an eye attuned to a higher rate of vibration than that of which the physical eye is capable.

The spirit body is composed of spiritual material which, compared to physical material, is like the finest piece of silk compared to a piece of gunny sack, or any other coarsely woven material.

The spirit body differs in the fineness of the par­ticles of which it is composed, in the quality of these par­ticles, and in the workmanship and skill with which these particles have been woven together.

The spirit body is connected to the physical body near the lower end of the spinal cord, and this connection is never broken except at death. Yet the spirit-life can, and often does for brief periods of time, leave its spirit body behind, and go forth into the phy­sical and spiritual world alone. This life has the ability to convey for any conceivable distance, and at a speed of one hundred and eighty-three thousand miles a second, an electro thought form or impression of itself. It can maintain this thought form in any position or lo­cality for a brief period of time, by continuous reproduc­tion, or by sending one thought form after another.

The spirit body is not a counterpart or dupli­cate of the physical body, as some assume; else the spirit body of an elderly man would be somewhat crooked and unpleasant to look upon. There are no such spirit bodies in the spiritual world.

The spirit body, like the physical body, is subject to the law of “change,” “unfoldment,” “growth” and “de­velopment,” and to the law of “vibratory correspon­dence.” It grows not old as does the physical body be­cause the spirit-life is still in its infancy, and is trans­planted to the spiritual world before it has reached ma­turity. There in the spiritual world it continues to evolve; to vibrate in harmony with its surroundings, and to become more and more refined and beautiful.

If the departed spirit-life of an elderly man desired to appear to us, who are still in the physical world, it would remodel and assemble its spirit body sufficiently for us to identify it, and would then assume its rightful and natural shape. However, most spirit-lives who appear to us do not make use of their spirit body, but assemble, and use for that purpose, some of the in­visible elements of the invisible universe with which we are continually surrounded.

The spirit body with which we depart this earth life    and enter the first spiritual zone, continues to evolve and to undergo changes, and to become more re­fined and beautiful as it attains to the second and each of the succeeding spiritual zones.

The spirit body grows more beautiful through refinement and culture and vibratory activity, and may attain to a beauty that is super-human while still in­cased in a human form. It may attain to a beauty that is super-human while the physical body in which it is incased grows not more beautiful, but less beautiful with each succeeding day. All depends upon vibratory re­finement and culture, and toward what end, or life, this refinement and culture is directed.

The thinking of beautiful thoughts, and the keeping of the mind clean, and directed toward the ideal, has much to do with the formation and beauty of both the physical and spiritual body, and with the life within.

The beauty of the spirit body increases with its growth, maturity and completion, and that spirit-life which is the most highly developed spiritually, possesses the most beautiful spirit body.

The spiritual eye is the most beautiful organ of the spirit body. But no words can describe its beauty because the beauty is not in the eye, but in the life that looks out at you through the eye, of which you catch a glimpse now and then as you cast a swift glance at the spiritual eye.

The spiritual eye is usually of the lighter shades of blue and gray, and is usually surrounded by a field of the purest white. It is large and round, and emits rays of light that are of a pearly or silvery white. This or­gan has immense magnetic power.

The darker shades and colors which we know on this earth plane are very rare in the spiritual world, and do not extend beyond the first spiritual zone.