Apocryphal Revelations; The Way, the Light and the Truth (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1916. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... THE TRUE L IFE. The true, real life is not that of the mortal but that of the spirit, not the life one leads on the mortal plane, mid suffering and discord, but the life one leads when free from the mortal body by sleep, trance or death. Could a spirit recall, on mortal plane, the peace and the happiness in the real life, the mortal plane, as a school, would be valueless. It would be impossible to advance, as neither mental or physical suffering would be beneficial. Hence to all but the especially illumined, the real life is ever, more or less, unreal and visionary. The purpose of the mortal plane is to train the real brain and body, to fit it to continue development in the spirit world. And, as it can only be developed on the mortal plane for this purpose, it is connected with a mortal body and through it receives it development. The spirit is in the real body in the real life, and merely impresses his material form when bound or attached to it. When, in the real life bound to the mortal, he is magnetized into insensibility, and only conscious with the material brain and senses on the material plane. If one cannot understand the material in the interstices of the real body, he must cognize as best he can, that the spirit, the real ego, is ever with the mortal body when it is awake and active, and apart from it when it is asleep, and his mortal body in charge of his guardian Angel. The spirit is always detached when in a sound, dreamless sleep ever absent from the body, receiving instruction, mingling with friends and family, etc. When the body needs him, if a dozen times a night, he is attached to it by those in charge. When wakeful or ill, as these conditions are necessary, he is rarely detached, although conscious when body is asleep, of. the real life. To un...