Spiritual Communications; Presenting a Revelation of the Future Life, and Illustrating and Confirming the Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Faith (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1879 Excerpt: ... V. SPIRITS IN THE LOWER SPHERES. T/ieir Sufferings, Repentance, and Conversion. "As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live."--Ezekiel xxxiii. 11. "Christ also suffered for sins once; a just person for unjust persons, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit: in which he also went and preached unto the spirits in prison."--1 Peter iii. 18, 19. Perhaps, the most remarkable phase of the experiences recorded in this book is that which refers to communications received from spirits of the lower grade, or grades, --sometimes called " unprogressed spirits." The revelation comprised in these communications presents, however, spirits in various states, or degrees of progression, but all properly coming under the general designation of spirits in the lower spheres, or suffering spirits. Probably, the diversities of character and condition among the spirits of the departed, like those of human nature on earth, are infinite; so that it is impossible perfectly to classify the spirits, or discriminate the spheres in such a way as to show, in separate and distinct categories, the exact characteristics of any considerable number of these " dark spirits." The editor does not feel inclined to theorize, but to narrate facts, from which the reader may draw his own conclusions. That the remarkable fact of spirit progression in the "dark world" may be clearly seen, as it has been shown in these experiences, the communications from these spirits will be severally presented, but all in the order of time, so that the amelioration in the state of each may be understood, in connection with the other phenomena presented. I. Among the first communication...