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SOUL SCIENCE 
 
 THE PROOF OF LIFE AFTER DEATH 
 
 BY 
 
 FRANKLIN A. THOMAS 
 
 Author of "How to Hold Circles for Developing 
 
 Mediumship at Home", "An Essay on the Laws of 
 
 Psychic Development", etc. 
 
 BOSTON 
 
 Machine Composition Co. 
 
 1920 
 
Copyright, 1920, by Franklin A. Thomas 
 All Rights Reserved 
 
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 Boston, Mass., U.S.A. 
 
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 FEB 18 1920 
 
SOUL SCIENCE 
 
 Soul Science is a method which demonstrates how 
 the Spirit, while in mortal form, can accomplish its 
 work for Good, which is the Soul. 
 
CONTENTS 
 
 I. Why We Have Written "Soul Sci- 
 ence, the Proof of Life After 
 
 Death" 17 
 
 II. Prayer 25 
 
 III. Our Religion 26 
 
 IV. The Creation 34 
 
 V. God 36 
 
 VI. Creation of Man 52 
 
 VII. Birth 54 
 
 VIII. The Material Body 59 
 
 IX. Material and Spiritual Bodies . . 63 
 X. We Must Be Born Again .... 69 
 
 XI. Spirit 75 
 
 XII. Difference Between Dreams and 
 
 Visions 87 
 
 XIII. Thought 93 
 
 XIV. Two Places 102 
 
 XV. All Evil Is Undeveloped Good . . 107 
 
 XVI. Body, Spirit and Soul 114 
 
 XVII. The God to Worship 117 
 
 XVIII. God's Laws 122 
 
 XIX. Man-made Laws 133 
 
 XX. How to Serve God 138 
 
 XXI. What We Are Here and In the 
 
 Spirit World 144 
 
XXII. Our Work Hebe and In the Spibit 
 
 World 151 
 
 XXIII. Call on the Spirits and Ask fob 
 
 What You Want 160 
 
 XXIV. Who Answers Prayer? . . . .168 
 XXV. What Do Spirits Know? . . . . 172 
 
 XXVI. Clothing and Characteristics of 
 
 Spirits 176 
 
 XXVII. The Difference Between Spirit and 
 
 Thought 183 
 
 XXVIII. Never Describe Nor Give a Sririt 
 
 Message In Public .... 190 
 XXIX. How To Hold Classes and Call On 
 
 and Communicate With Spirits . 197 
 
 XXX. Speak a Word of Cheer .... 206 
 
 XXXI. Now Is the Time To Do Good . . 210 
 
 XXXII. Why "Soul Science, the Proof of 
 
 Life After Death" Should Be In 
 
 Every Home 214 
 
 XXXIII. The Truth 227 
 
 XXXIV. Destiny and Heredity 230 
 
 XXXV. Stop Publishing About Crimes and 
 
 Murders 236 
 
 XXXVI. Liars and Slanderers 244 
 
 XXXVII. Obsession 253 
 
 XXXVIII. Diseases and Treatments .... 256 
 XXXIX. How To Conduct Services . . .266 
 
 XL. Death Is Natural 277 
 
 XLI. The Resurrection Morn . . . .280 
 
 XLII. My World 282 
 
 XLIII. Prayer : .... 284 
 
 Conclusion 286 
 
 A Request 288 
 
PREFACE 
 
 Never in the history of the world was there a time 
 when people more desired information concerning 
 the future life after so-called death than at present. 
 
 In every country and nation, in every tribe and 
 clan of the earth, man has always been groping foj 
 the light of Truth, never satisfied with the form of 
 religion he possessed, but always aspiring to some 
 higher form of expressing his worship of the Deity, 
 or Creator. What is more natural than to inquire 
 into our future state of being? 
 
 Trusting to the Spirit of Truth we shall endeavor 
 to publish a book in plain, simple words, so that any 
 one who can read can understand, and will be able 
 to demonstrate and prove for himself that which no 
 other book teaches or explains ; namely, how to prove 
 that there is no death, and that the so-called dead 
 are all around and about us, and will manifest them- 
 selves to us if we give them an opportunity. 
 
 The author has not written this book with any 
 selfish motive, nor for his own glory; but for the 
 glory and blessing of all mankind. 
 
SPIRIT, SOUL AND BODY 
 
 The body of man is a beautiful home, 
 The Spirit is the tenant therein; 
 The Soul is the work of this tenant fair, 
 The one is three, and three in one are there. 
 
FOREWORD 
 
 We wish to call the reader's attention to the fact 
 that the greatest sceptics we have met were those 
 who did not take time to read or investigate impar- 
 tially that which they condemned or were sceptical 
 about. Had they thoroughly investigated the sub- 
 ject from every viewpoint they would not have been 
 so harsh and narrow minded in their judgment. 
 
 We know these people are so constituted that they 
 cannot perceive the truth, and cannot, or will not, 
 change their opinions on certain subjects, no matter 
 how vivid the evidence may be ; therefore they do not 
 believe what they see and hear with their own eyes 
 and ears. What, then, is the use of trying to make 
 them believe what we see and hear, when they do 
 not want to be convinced that they are in the wrong, 
 no matter how many times the truth may be proved 
 to them? We hope that the readers of "Soul Science, 
 the Proof of Life after Death," are not in this cate- 
 gory, but are willing to listen and endeavor to assim- 
 ilate the truths contained herein for their own 
 benefit. 
 
 We have not wrtten "Soul Science, the Proof of 
 Life after Death" to make any one unhappy, nor to 
 change the ways of tfiose who are happy in their 
 beliefs; but so desire U help those who are unhappy 
 and lead them to the light, by showing them how 
 they can be happy if willing to be, by thinking good 
 thoughts, doing unto others as they would be done 
 by, leading clean, pure liv.s, and trying to help 
 others to do the same. 
 
 We now leave it to you, kind reader, to decide 
 what kind of life you will live here and hereafter. 
 
CREED OF SOUL SCIENTISTS 
 
 THE WORLD 
 
 1. We believe that the World has always ex- 
 isted and always will exist. 
 
 POWER 
 
 2. We believe and know that there is an Om- 
 nipotent Power which men call God, and that 
 this Power controls the World and all things 
 therein. 
 
 GOD 
 
 3. We believe and know that God is not an imag- 
 inary Being, afar off, but He is all around and 
 about us, and within us, and is just what we 
 make Him. 
 
 LIFE 
 
 4. We believe and know that God is Life, and 
 that Life fills the Universe of which we are 
 a part. 
 
 JUST LAWS 
 
 5. We affirm that God's Laws are just to all, and 
 unchangeable, and so cannot be broken nor 
 changed by man. 
 
 HEAVEN 
 
 6. We affirm that Heaven is all around and about 
 us, that we are living in it today as well as 
 are the dead. 
 
 JUDGMENT 
 
 7. We believe and know that we shall be judged 
 in the Hereafter according to our thoughts 
 and deeds while in this life. 
 
PUNISHMENT 
 
 8. We affirm that when we attempt to violate 
 God's laws we punish ourselves; God does not 
 do it. 
 
 SUFFERING 
 
 9. We believe and know that we must suffer 
 either here or in the Spirit World for our 
 wrong-doings here. 
 
 BROTHERS AND SISTERS 
 
 10. We know that we are all Brothers and Sis- 
 ters, and that a wrong done to others is a 
 wrong done to ourselves, and a good conferred 
 on others is a good conferred on ourselves. 
 
 THE SPIRITUAL BODY 
 
 11. We know that at birth the Spirit of Life en- 
 ters our material body, and thus the Spiritual 
 Body is born. 
 
 NO DEATH 
 
 12. | We know that Spirit is Life, and Life is God, ) 
 Land God can never die. 
 
 LIFE BEYOND 
 
 13. We know that at so-called Death we cast aside 
 our material body, and that our Spiritual body 
 continues its Life beyond the Grave. 
 
 HERE AND NOW 
 
 14. We know that we have spiritual bodies and 
 eyes as well as material bodies and eyes, and 
 that our spiritual eyes are given us to use, to 
 see how to protect our spiritual bodies, Here 
 and Now, and if we do not use them we are 
 robbing ourselves of many blessings that are 
 in store for us here, and shall have to pay 
 the penalty for it in the Hereafter. 
 
 OUR SPIRITUAL EYES 
 
 15. We know that we can, if we will, open our 
 Spiritual Eyes, see Spirits, and communicate 
 with them. 
 
SOUL SCIENCE 
 
 THE PROOF OF LIFE AFTER DEATH 
 
 CHAPTER I 
 
 WHY WE HAVE WRITTEN "SOUL SCIENCE, 
 THE PROOF OF LIFE AFTER DEATH." 
 
 We have been impressed to write 
 this book. We can hear voices around 
 calling us to write. The heavens are 
 filled with them, telling us to write a 
 book and to call it "Soul Science, the 
 Proof of Life after Death," and we are 
 sure it will be read all over the world. 
 It will deliver the people from ignor- 
 ance, bondage and superstition, place 
 
18 SOUL SCIENCE 
 
 them in the right and only true way of 
 thinking good thoughts and living pure 
 lives. 
 
 "Soul Science, the Proof of Life after 
 Death," will teach and prove to the 
 world that Judgment comes to people 
 every day. Each person is standing be- 
 fore the Judgment Bar every day of his 
 life, being judged according to his 
 works, whether good or evil. 
 
 It will also prove that there is a God, 
 who He is, where to find Him, and 
 when is the best time to serve, or call 
 on, Him, day or night, either in or out 
 of trouble. It tells how you will, and 
 must, stay right here, after so-called 
 "death," and how you will be happy or 
 suffer here, now, or after "death." 
 
 It also teaches that one cannot love 
 and fear at the same time ; fear drives 
 
REASONS FOR "SOUL SCIENCE" 19 
 
 out love. If each person knew himself, 
 there would be love for all. 
 
 We long believed in a God and prayed 
 to that God, but could not see or get 
 light until we listened to the voice of 
 reason, which told us we were in dark- 
 ness, but that God was even then with- 
 in us. Then we began to investigate, 
 and to seek Him in prayer. We prayed 
 for light and knowledge, and that our 
 eyes might be opened to the light of 
 Truth, and the way thereof; we prayed 
 that we might know Who and where 
 God is, what and where is Heaven. We 
 could hear voices while praying, but, 
 looking around, could see no one. The 
 voices would say "Know Thyself, and 
 thou wilt know Who and Where God is ; 
 know the Earth and thou wilt know 
 where Heaven is !" 
 
20 SOUL SCIENCE 
 
 We have sought, and found that God 
 is within, that Heaven is all around 
 about the Earth, and within us; and 
 now that we have found God and know 
 where Heaven is, we want to tell you 
 all about how and where to find Him 
 and Heaven. We are happy and con- 
 tented, and want you all to be the same. 
 This is our reason for writing this 
 book, "Soul Science, the Proof of Life 
 after Death." 
 
 The book is filled throughout with 
 great spiritual truths which everybody 
 should know, splendid inspirational 
 thoughts which lift the mind to higher 
 ideals of life, and stimulate to nobler 
 action. We speak with authority born 
 of many years of experience and study 
 along these lines. Any one who reads 
 it will know who, and what, he is, and 
 
REASONS FOR "SOUL SCIENCE" 21 
 
 the mystery of his existence in this life, 
 and in the life hereafter. 
 
 Every page contains words of power, 
 words of deep spiritual value, worthy 
 of daily consideration. All is told in 
 simple language, so that whoever can 
 read can understand. Can any one af- 
 ford to neglect the knowledge of his 
 own soul? This book is the answer to 
 many a question, and the clearance of 
 many a doubt. It is an education in it- 
 self, a guide to true Christian perfec- 
 tion. 
 
 "Soul Science" is everything that its 
 name implies, and teaches the true re- 
 ligious philosophy, founded on a new 
 fundamental basis which is entirely 
 different from that of any other sci- 
 ence, philosophy or religion with which 
 the world is familiar. The author does 
 
22 SOUL SCIENCE 
 
 not mention, or try to prove, theories. 
 He deals with facts. The book will 
 prove to each one what no other book 
 does — that death and the grave are not 
 the end of our existence, but that life 
 exists beyond the change called "death," 
 and always will exist. 
 
 All students, young and old, truth- 
 seekers, honest investigators, sceptics, 
 doubters, materialists, agnostics, athe- 
 ists, non-conformists, deists, those who 
 are bereaved by (so-called) death of 
 relatives, and all who are in bondage 
 of superstition and traditional error, 
 should read this book; for every word 
 bears the imprint of truth— scientific, 
 logical, reasonable and convincing — as 
 to the teachings contained in "Soul Sci- 
 ence, the Proof of Life after Death." 
 
 This book will help lift the veil of 
 
REASONS FOR "SOUL SCIENCE" 23 
 
 ignorance from in front of man, and 
 cause the scales of superstition to fall 
 from his eyes, which have prevented 
 him from seeing the light of Truth, and 
 which have kept from him the knowl- 
 edge of Who, what and where is the liv- 
 ing God. All will agree that the pri- 
 mary aspiration of the present day is 
 toward educational truth, leading to- 
 ward this — a new, higher and better 
 religion, which is the crying need of 
 the hour. 
 
 It is not too much to say that this is 
 one of the greatest books ever written ; 
 it is clear and interesting, easily under- 
 stood and applied, and should be in 
 every home. You will add to your effic- 
 iency and progress by the improve- 
 ment that will become evident after you 
 have read it. Whether you are begin- 
 
24 SOUL SCIENCE 
 
 ning or have advanced to some extent 
 along the road of life, it will be well 
 worth your while to stop for a time and 
 absorb the sound maxims you will find 
 in "Soul Science ;" they will guide you 
 to that knowledge by teaching you how 
 to find peace, contentment and happi- 
 ness in the world in which you live, 
 thus leading you to your true goal. 
 
CHAPTER II 
 
 PRAYER 
 
 Great God, the Source of all life and 
 the Ruler of all ! We want to do right; 
 help us to understand Thee! 0, may 
 the veil of ignorance be removed for- 
 ever from our minds, and our eyes be 
 opened to a clear, spiritual, sight; and, 
 as we read this book, may we have a 
 newer and better understanding than 
 ever before, of what Life really is. May 
 it fill us with inspiration, power and 
 love from the many dear ones who have 
 gone before, into the realm of the Spir- 
 it, so that we may know and feel their 
 ever-loving presence around us, helping 
 us all through life to overcome our 
 many obstacles, and guide us all along 
 its pathway. These favors we ask in 
 Thy Name. Amen. 
 
CHAPTER III 
 
 OUR RELIGION 
 
 The object of writing "Soul Science, 
 the Proof of Life after Death" is to ex- 
 plain and prove to the world, if it is 
 ready to accept this proof, that death 
 does not end all, and that life continues 
 after death. We say we shall prove it, 
 if people are ready to receive or accept 
 this proof. The proof does not depend 
 upon us, but upon them ; not what we 
 do but what they do. 
 
 Are you ready now for a test, or 
 proof? We are all ready to try it the 
 moment you are. Have you been seek- 
 ing proof of life hereafter? Here is a 
 
OUR RELIGION 27 
 
 test for you, if you want it, — one that 
 you will remember as long as you live. 
 The more you will think about it the 
 better and happier you will be: 
 
 Stand by the side of a corpse and 
 look upon it ! Is it not the friend with 
 whom you were on the very best of 
 terms? Then, why do you not talk 
 with him, — you, who know him so well? 
 There is not now present the smile 
 which it was your wont to see, but still 
 he lies there in perfect form ! Feel his 
 body ! Ah, it is cold ! It is not warm, 
 as it was! As you have been standing 
 and looking down at the corpse, you 
 have been thinking of all the good he 
 has done, and all the mean things you 
 have ever done to him ; and, away down 
 deep in your heart, you are asking him 
 to forgive you. Although the world did 
 
28 SOUL SCIENCE 
 
 not know anything about it, you would 
 give the world, if you had it to give, had 
 you only done right, but now you real- 
 ize that it is too late ! What makes the 
 body cold? You cannot see that any- 
 thing is gone, but still, when you speak 
 to it, you get no answer. It looks as 
 natural as it ever did; still it will not 
 speak. 
 
 You must admit that something 
 which had control over the body, and 
 caused it to walk and stand and talk, is 
 not now there. Yet you well know that 
 there has been no part taken from the 
 body that would cause it to lie in its 
 present condition. That would be proof 
 enough for you. It was proof enough 
 for me that there had been something 
 else within or without the body that 
 caused it to stand, walk and talk; and 
 
OUR RELIGION 29 
 
 if it be so with one body, it is so with 
 all bodies, for we know they all do the 
 same, always have done, and always 
 will do. 
 
 Therefore, that something must be 
 within us. So we commenced to inves- 
 tigate for ourselves. We found that 
 there is something within us all, call it 
 by what name you choose. We will call 
 it "spirit." The reason we call it 
 "spirit" is because it cannot be seen 
 with the material or natural eyes, and 
 it can penetrate matter — material sub- 
 stance — however thick it may be. With 
 the X-ray we can see and accurately lo- 
 cate broken bones and any foreign sub- 
 stances in our bodies ; this is most won- 
 derful; but, with the spiritual eyes 
 people have been told where they should 
 dig or bore into the bowels of the earth 
 
30 SOUL SCIENCE 
 
 to find oil, coal, or other minerals, 
 which they did find, and have thus 
 proved to the world the existence of 
 spirit eyes. So, if one spirit can see 
 and describe oil, coal or other minerals, 
 all spirits can do so. 
 
 As we all come into the world the 
 same, we are all alike, so far as the 
 spirits controlling our bodies or lives on 
 this earth-plane are concerned. When 
 they bury the body they do not and can- 
 not bury the spirit, for that is Life, and 
 Life is everywhere. When the spirit 
 leaves the body, the body dies, but the 
 spirit lives on, and as it leaves the body 
 it takes on the spiritual form and cloth- 
 ing, and looks just like what the body 
 once did, but it cannot manifest itself 
 strongly enough to be seen with the ma- 
 terial eyes, though it can be seen and 
 
OUR RELIGION 31 
 
 described accurately with the spirit 
 eyes. 
 
 We were once called to the bedside of 
 a dying friend, who, we knew, could see 
 spirits all around him. He knew the 
 place, and what, and whom, he was go- 
 ing to see in his spirit-home in the 
 spirit world, when his spirit should 
 leave his body. We sat by his bedside ; 
 he called each member of the family; 
 shook hands, and said "Good-bye" to 
 each of us, then closed his eyes. We 
 could see his spirit rise from the body, 
 and take on the spirit form and cloth- 
 ing. No tongue can tell, nor pen pic- 
 ture, so beautiful a sight, which we 
 shall remember as long as we live. The 
 person had led a good, clean, pure life. 
 We could see the spirits of his dear 
 father, mother and many friends wait- 
 
32 SOUL SCIENCE 
 
 ing around to welcome him into the 
 spirit world. 
 
 There is great rejoicing in our homes 
 here at the birth of a child, and you call 
 in your neighbors to welcome the babe. 
 Just so, when there is a death and sad- 
 ness here, there is birth and rejoicing 
 among the spirits in the spirit-world. 
 
 Many of our friends in spirit life 
 have manifested themselves to us per- 
 sonally in some way or other; for ex- 
 ample, one whom we had not known to 
 be dead, or had not known where he 
 was living, until he manifested and told 
 us. We wrote and found it was all 
 true, as he had said. 
 
 We have had many such manifesta- 
 tions. In fact there are but few people 
 today who have not received some man- 
 ifestation during their lives, either by 
 
OUR RELIGION 33 
 
 day or night, which proves to us that 
 life continues after the change called 
 "death", and that God is not far away, 
 nor a cruel God, but He is just what we 
 make Him. 
 
 My Religion — Soul Science — teaches 
 how to do right, not wrong; therefore 
 we can stand up and look the world in 
 the face, and fear no man. My Religion 
 is a universal one, for all mankind. Its 
 believers believe in doing right unto 
 themselves and every one else, without 
 fear or trembling. 
 
CHAPTER IV 
 
 THE CREATION 
 
 This world has always existed and 
 always will exist. Some of our great- 
 est astronomers tell us it takes the light 
 from certain stars many millions of 
 years to reach the Earth. They can- 
 not tell us how long those stars have 
 been shining, nor how long the world 
 has been in existence. Time without 
 end, and Space without limit, are two 
 things no human being can possibly 
 comprehend. 
 
 There have been, and always will be, 
 volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, 
 changing the Earth's surface. After 
 
THE CREATION 35 
 
 an earthquake, islands have often been 
 discovered near where the catastrophe 
 occurred, or farther away — the land 
 going down in one place and rising in 
 another. This Earth is always going 
 through changes: it never has been, 
 nor can it be, destroyed. If you will dig 
 down into the bowels of the Earth you 
 will go through stratum after stratum 
 and will find signs of vegetation, as 
 well as of animals and human beings 
 that existed many millions of years 
 ago; which proves that the Earth al- 
 ways exists. 
 
CHAPTER V 
 
 GOD 
 
 The only God there is, the God that 
 rules the Universe, is Spirit, which is 
 Life, and He fills all space. He dwells 
 within every person and wherever 
 there is life. He is the only God there 
 is; nothing can live without Him, for 
 He is the life that is within all, and 
 cannot be changed or made any differ- 
 ent by man to please man. It does not 
 make any difference what . man may 
 have been taught to believe, or how 
 many persons may have lived, suffered 
 and died, man has not changed, and 
 cannot change, that God, or life, or the 
 
GOD 37 
 
 lives that exist in the world today. 
 
 All the good or harm that any one 
 may do unto others or unto themselves 
 they only do unto that God which is 
 within themselves, and they are judged 
 by and according to that God within 
 them. 
 
 Suppose there were a God sitting on 
 a throne in Heaven, and that this 
 throne were right above Boston, so that 
 the people of Boston could look up and 
 call on that God in prayer. Suppose 
 that to be the place to which they would 
 have to go after death to get their re- 
 wards for the good or evil deeds that 
 they did while living in their bodies. If 
 God sits on a throne in Heaven, and 
 that throne and Heaven are right above 
 Boston, then, were the people of Boston 
 to start on a journey around the world, 
 
38 SOUL SCIENCE 
 
 who is it that would keep in motion 
 above them as they travelled around, 
 the throne on which God sits, so that 
 He would always be above them, and so 
 that they could look up to Him, and 
 could call on, and pray to, Him if they 
 were in trouble? We all know that the 
 earth is round, and that if we were to 
 look up into Heaven to worship a God 
 sitting on a throne, and that throne 
 were in the Heaven above Boston, then, 
 when they were to go to China that 
 throne and God would have to be just 
 opposite Boston — Heaven, God and 
 throne ! We know that if God is sitting 
 on a throne in Heaven, that throne can- 
 not, or does not, move around. As there 
 are people all over the world looking up 
 into Heaven, worshipping that same 
 God at that same hour on that same 
 
GOD 39 
 
 throne, how many different Gods and 
 thrones would there have to be for all 
 people to look up to, pray to, call on, and 
 worship ? How could it be ? 
 
 Again, we will suppose for one min- 
 ute that the only Heaven, God and 
 Throne (where God lives) were right 
 above Boston, and that at death the 
 spirits of people all over the world 
 would be compelled to leave the body, 
 and would have to fly from China and 
 everywhere else to the Heaven and God 
 above Boston, to be judged, (rewarded 
 or punished), according to the degree 
 of good or evil that they have done 
 while living in their bodies. 
 
 Suppose that a person had been very 
 wicked while living, and that at death, 
 just as soon as his spirit were to leave 
 its body, it would meet another spirit 
 
40 SOUL SCIENCE 
 
 which had led an equally wicked life, 
 and the first spirit were to tell the sec- 
 ond how far it (the first spirit) had 
 had to fly to reach Heaven, and all the 
 trouble it had had, to find its way, and 
 how it was punished, and had to suffer, 
 after getting there, for the wrongdo- 
 ings done while living in its body, and 
 suppose the last spirit were to say to 
 the first that it could not, and would 
 not, fly so far, and would not go to 
 Heaven and there suffer, as had been 
 described. Who could compel it to fly 
 so far to reach there, and be punished 
 for all the wickedness done while liv- 
 ing? 
 
 God's laws are just at all times, and 
 when we try to violate them we com- 
 mence to suffer then and there for our 
 transgressions. Prayer or no prayer, 
 
GOD 41 
 
 we cannot and will not be saved from 
 suffering when we do wrong. 
 
 How could a God be a just God that 
 could be changed by prayer today, (in- 
 asmuch as thousands of thousands of 
 years ago He made laws to rule the 
 world and all things therein for all time 
 to come,) just because somebody is in 
 trouble today and calls on Him after 
 having tried to violate His immutable 
 laws? How could men get justice if 
 there were such a God? 
 
 The only God there is is Spirit, or 
 Life, and that God dwells in us, and He 
 is the only God that could or ever will 
 judge us aright : and when you pray to 
 God, or whatever you do, you pray and 
 do it unto that God which is within you. 
 He is the only God there is for you, and 
 
42 SOUL SCIENCE 
 
 you are making Him just what He is 
 today. 
 
 God is not a personal being, who sits 
 on an imaginary throne away up in 
 Heaven, ruling the Universe from on 
 High. God is a name given to the all- 
 ruling Spirit of all that is, was, and is 
 to be. The word "God" is a name 
 coined in the English language to dis- 
 tinguish one of whom we speak, in the 
 same manner as we give a name to a 
 child. 
 
 God not being a personal being, 
 therefore He never has written, and 
 never will write, a book or books to tell 
 people about His work or works in 
 Heaven or on Earth. God never 
 changes time, nor counts the years, nor 
 names the days in the weeks, months or 
 years. Neither does He say that we 
 
GOD 43 
 
 shall worship Him any more on one day 
 than on another, for all days are God's 
 days, and He knows it, and we should 
 serve Him for good at all times. 
 
 God is life, and life is God, and 
 wherever there is God there is life. God 
 has always existed and always will ex- 
 ist. God is all around and about us. He 
 is the life that is within us, and is all- 
 powerful. There is but one God, and 
 that is Life. We are a part of God, and 
 God is a part of us. God is just what we 
 make Him. He knows no creed, race nor 
 color, neither monarch, king nor ruler. 
 He judges every person according to the 
 thoughts, acts and deeds of such person. 
 God's laws are unchangeable, cannot 
 be broken, and if we attempt to violate 
 His laws, which are Nature's laws, we 
 must pay the penalty. God is every- 
 
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 where, in and on the earth, and in the 
 Heavens, in the trees, grasses, flowers, 
 and in every living thing. He fills the 
 Universe and exists in everything, for 
 everything has life. 
 
 God does not rule the Universe from 
 an imaginary throne, looking down on 
 poor mortals and causing them to suf- 
 fer, regardless of the number of lives 
 they may have saved or the good they 
 may have done during their lifetime, 
 and then, at death, leave them in a posi- 
 tion to suffer as long as time lasts be- 
 cause they did not believe the teachings 
 of men to the effect that man can for- 
 give their sins after they have attempt- 
 ed to violate God's laws. 
 
 God's ways are not man's ways. God 
 does not create a spirit in some special 
 place away up in Heaven and then send 
 
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 it down to earth to enter some new-born 
 babe, to live a certain life and meet a 
 certain fate, and then, after death, 
 damn it and send it to Hell, to suffer for 
 ever and ever, merely because a certain 
 man and woman, thousands of thou- 
 sands of years ago may have broken a 
 commandment and paid the penalty. 
 Nor does He, even if there were a 
 breach of a supposititious command- 
 ment, cause all mankind to be born in 
 sin and death, and banished from His 
 presence forever. Nor does He con- 
 demn us all for all eternity if we do not 
 believe in a certain man who was born 
 of woman begat by man, who has lived 
 and died. Nor does He say that all we 
 have to do is to repent for something 
 we did not do, or did not have any con- 
 trol over, or to repent at the eleventh 
 
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 hour, and that if we believe that man 
 can forgive sin, no matter what we 
 have done in the past, all will be for- 
 given without suffering, and we shall 
 be saved! Believing in any one, after 
 a person has done wrong, will never 
 right that wrong, nor pay the penalty 
 for the wrong, in this world, or in the 
 world hereafter. 
 
 No one ever saw a child born a mur- 
 derer or a thief. We are just what we 
 have been taught or have allowed our- 
 selves to think or become. 
 
 God never damns nor sends any one 
 to so-called Hell. We do that ourselves, 
 for we are the only ones who can damn 
 ourselves: and we do damn ourselves 
 when we do wrong. When we suffer 
 for that wrong, that is Hell. God did 
 not send us there, nor make us do the 
 
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 wrong : we did it ourselves, and thus we 
 must pay for our wrong-doing, by suf- 
 fering — which suffering is Hell. 
 
 The fundamental truths of "Soul 
 Science, the Proof of Life after Death," 
 are scientific rather than religious, be- 
 cause based upon what is actually 
 known. It is better to know a truth 
 than to believe an error, no matter how 
 sanctified is the error held up for some 
 one to worship. The persistent popu- 
 lar conception that, in order to be 
 saved, it was necessary to sacrifice hu- 
 man blood, is a gross error. "Soul Sci- 
 ence" has come into the world to do 
 away with such a barbaric conception. 
 We are not bound and tethered to a 
 one-man idea of God, and so we — the 
 believers in "Soul Science" — are the 
 most religious people on earth, because 
 
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 of the genuine desire we have to know 
 the truth. The true Bible is Nature, 
 and he who reads a Bible written by 
 the ever-living God studies Nature. 
 
 "To know God is to know thyself." 
 This should be the aim of all branches 
 of culture, and of Educational Bureaus 
 and Colleges throughout the world, thus 
 creating one true religion or standard 
 for all mankind, which will enable each 
 one to see the light, the right road to 
 happiness, while in this mundane 
 sphere of existence. Now is the time 
 for every living mortal to know what 
 his birth-right is. Every human being 
 born into this world has powers lying 
 dormant within him. All schools of 
 learning should teach how to use those 
 powers within, which, for lack of prop- 
 er education, and by the ignorance and 
 
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 superstition of many centuries, are hid- 
 den. 
 
 Believing in the Why, How, When, 
 Where or Whom, God is, or whom He 
 has sent into the world, will never make 
 us any happier after death. We are 
 our own God, and face the judgment 
 bar of our deeds every time we do good 
 or evil. 
 
 God is not a person, who travels all 
 over the Earth performing miracles in 
 order to make people believe in Him: 
 neither does He teach people how to 
 perform miracles to prove His words, 
 His works, or His power. What is 
 called a miracle would be a violation of 
 the laws of Nature, which are God's 
 laws. A miracle is supposed to be a 
 supernatural event, when in reality the 
 thing supposed to be such is according 
 
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 to the simplest laws of Nature, al- 
 though through the ignorance of man 
 in not understanding those laws, it ap- 
 pears a marvel. 
 
 The native of the equatorial coun- 
 tries thinks it a miracle when you tell 
 him that in the North, in the winter 
 season, the surface of the water hard- 
 ens so that men, and even horses, can 
 walk upon it. Apply warmth to an egg, 
 and in a certain number of days you 
 produce a living chick. Take a pot of 
 earth, weigh it, plant a seed, the seed 
 sprouts, the plant grows : and when the 
 plant matures, if you cut it down, and 
 weigh your pot of earth, you find there 
 is no loss; it weighs the same. Many 
 similar wonders can be produced in the 
 same way, but they seem so miraculous 
 that it is hard for some people to un- 
 
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 derstand and believe in them. Yet they 
 are all natural ; in fact God does not do 
 anything unnatural, nor perform mir- 
 acles, and if we are ignorant of His 
 laws, and do not understand them, it is 
 not His fault but ours, for not learning 
 and understanding His laws. 
 
CHAPTER VI 
 
 CREATION OF MAN 
 
 Man does not know, and cannot tell, 
 how and when he came into the world. 
 He is as old as the world, has always 
 existed, and always will exist. He may 
 change his color, his looks, and the 
 shape and size of his body, by his study 
 and development, but he cannot add to, 
 nor subtract from, any bones of his 
 anatomy that would cause his coming 
 generation to have more, or less, bones 
 in their bodies than he had when he was 
 born. Our forefathers had just a cer- 
 tain number of bones in their anatomy, 
 therefore we must have the same num- 
 
 
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 ber in ours. All the theories and beliefs 
 in the world will never increase nor di- 
 minish the number of bones in our bod- 
 ily structure. 
 
 If one man is born into this world a 
 certain way, all men must be born the 
 same way. We are all created alike. 
 We came forth from God and we will 
 return to Him. Our parents gave birth 
 to us ; then the spirit entered the body 
 and we became like unto God. The 
 spirit causes all the organs to function 
 while in the mortal form, and at death 
 we must return to our God, the Cre- 
 ator of all. 
 
CHAPTER VII 
 
 BIRTH 
 
 No human being can give birth to a 
 spirit. All our parents did was to gen- 
 erate our material bodies, just as the 
 builder furnishes the material and 
 builds the house, to fulfil his contract; 
 he cannot tenant it with the same mate- 
 rial with which he built it. The house 
 has windows, doors, plumbing; it is fin- 
 ished with all modern improvements, 
 all ready to be occupied ; yet he cannot 
 tenant it. Just so with our parents. 
 They fulfilled their contract when they 
 furnished the material, and built our 
 bodies, which they gave to the world. 
 
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 We compared our bodies before birth 
 to a growing tumor which is attached 
 to the body, and on which it lives and 
 grows, and from which it draws its life. 
 It has no life of its own, but it grows, 
 and after an operation is performed 
 and the tumor removed, the patient 
 lives. Just so with our body; it grows 
 and lives where it is connected with 
 our mother. Through the pulsation of 
 the mother, her body and ours live as 
 one and the same, until birth. Then 
 our body is complete, and ready for the 
 spirit to occupy. 
 
 No one can, or will, live in a house 
 until it is completed, neither can, nor 
 will, any spirit live in the body until it 
 is complete, and that is at birth. The 
 moment our body comes into the world, 
 the spirit of life enters into it, and it 
 
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 becomes a living mortal, which it could 
 not be until it was perfect and strong, 
 for all the organs of the body to func- 
 tion properly. 
 
 Then our mother must watch and 
 nourish our little bodies. After we 
 have grown older and stronger we may 
 notice marks on our body that we do not 
 see on any other member of our fam- 
 ily; we may crave certain kinds of 
 fruit, vegetables or meats which we 
 must have or we will be sick ; or it may 
 be that those foods and fruits which 
 others eat may cause us to become ill. 
 Your system may call for certain food, 
 and your not being able to eat and sup- 
 ply a certain acid to your stomach may 
 cause you to become ill. If, before your 
 birth, your mother craved certain kinds 
 of fruit, vegetables or meats, and did 
 
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 not, or could not, get them, you will 
 crave them, but if she got and ate what 
 she wanted, you will be able to eat the 
 same. If she craved and ate too much 
 of them and they made her sick, you 
 will not care to eat them yourself. 
 
 Mothers, by seeing certain things, or 
 thinking certain thoughts, which shock 
 their entire body while in that condi- 
 tion, often mark their unborn children, 
 causing them to be deformed, and to 
 suffer as long as they live. That our 
 mother craved anything she wanted to 
 eat but could not get, is no reason why 
 we, craving the same thing, should eat 
 too much, or become sick. Let us use 
 reason at all times. If we are weak and 
 crave anything, we should endeavor to 
 develop our innate strength, and con- 
 trol our weak points. 
 
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 No woman, while in that condition, 
 should go where there is any excite- 
 ment, or look at anything that is likely 
 to give her a shock. She should think 
 only the purest thoughts, and lead a 
 clean, pure life. In that way she will 
 help her coming generation to bless the 
 world. 
 
CHAPTER VIII 
 
 THE MATERIAL BODY 
 
 Our bodies are like a piano. When 
 the piano was manufactured, the man- 
 ufacturer did not say to it, "You must 
 not allow every person to play on you. 
 You will be in a public place, where 
 every one that comes along will want 
 to play on you. Some will not know 
 how to play, and some will strike your 
 keyboard so hard that it would destroy 
 you, so that you would not be able to 
 produce the sweet and lovely music 
 that is within you ; but if you will take 
 good care of yourself, you will last a 
 long time, and make happy those who 
 can play on you." 
 
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 All our parents did in bringing us 
 into this world was to give birth to our 
 material bodies. They could not say 
 to our body, no matter how dearly they 
 may have loved it, "Do not allow every 
 spirit that comes along to take control 
 of, or impress, you and cause you to say 
 or do things just the way that spirit 
 may want to; for if you do, you will 
 soon be worn out, and your body will 
 not be fit for any good spirit to use, to 
 speak through your organs the mes- 
 sages of love. ,, 
 
 When our body came into this world, 
 it was material, and will exist in the 
 material form as long as the spirit of 
 life is within it. The spirit keeps the 
 body alive. When the spirit leaves the 
 body, the body returns to earth, the 
 mother of all material things. No ma- 
 
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 terial beings can give birth to spirits, 
 because they have not that power, or 
 the spirit within them to transmit to 
 another. If we were to give our life 
 away, so-called "Death" would take 
 place, and they would have to bury our 
 body. 
 
 Our body, which is material, cannot 
 of itself, speak a word, any more than 
 a piano which is also material, can 
 speak. Why is not the piano playing 
 all the time? Because the spirit is not 
 there. Who is the spirit of the piano? 
 Whoever fingers the keys of that piano 
 is the spirit of it. Our body only speaks 
 as the spirit impresses or shows it 
 things. With that same spirit we may 
 see spirits or hear spirit voices, feel, 
 sense, or receive impressions from 
 them, anywhere, day or night 
 
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 When death takes place, they bury 
 the body. If it were the body that 
 spoke, they would never bury it. Look 
 at a corpse. There it lies, just as nat- 
 ural as life. Why doesn't it speak? 
 Why is it not Mr. or Mrs. So-and-So? 
 Because the spirit has left the body! 
 Thus it is the spirit that causes the 
 body to speak. It is the spirit, mani- 
 festing itself through the brain and vo- 
 cal organs of the person. 
 
 
CHAPTER IX 
 
 MATERIAL AND SPIRITUAL BODY 
 
 Every person is born into this world 
 with a material body. At birth, spirit 
 enters into the material body, and be- 
 comes a perfect human being. The ma- 
 terial body is merely a house, or work- 
 shop, in which the spirit works. The 
 body could neither grow, stand, walk, 
 nor talk, nor could its organs function, 
 if it were not for the spirit, which 
 causes it to act and move ; by the spirit 
 manipulating the brain cells and other 
 parts, the body thinks and acts. 
 
 The spirit has absolute control over 
 the body, and can leave it at will, or 
 
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 it can allow other spirits to enter, 
 which may use the vocal organs to 
 speak even in unknown tongues. The 
 person, when speaking, may not know 
 the language he is speaking, nor be 
 able to interpret it. 
 
 If the spiritual cord which connects 
 the body with the spirit is severed, the 
 body dies. One spirit may enter and 
 control the body for a few seconds or 
 minutes, sometimes for hours, days, 
 weeks, months or even years; then 
 leave the body and never return to it. 
 That spirit had a mission to perform, 
 and by entering the body, and over- 
 powering the original spirit, and con- 
 trolling it, could accomplish its mis- 
 sion ; then that spirit after leaving the 
 body, will go on until it can find some 
 other body of which it can take con- 
 
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 trol, to continue the work which it 
 did, or wanted to do, or should have 
 done, while in its own body. 
 
 When one spirit leaves the body, 
 another may enter, and so on until the 
 spiritual cord is broken. Whatever 
 persons think, that is what they talk 
 about, and that kind of spirit has con- 
 trol of them. As they can only think 
 one thought, and speak one word, at a 
 time, only one spirit can control a per- 
 son at one time, even though one spirit 
 may have control one minute, and an- 
 other the next. 
 
 When the spirit that takes posses- 
 sion of our bodies, comes and goes, it 
 often causes lines or may even change 
 our appearance ; for when you are cry- 
 ing, the spirit of a person who used to 
 cry, while living, has possession of 
 
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 you, and causes you to do what he did ; 
 similarly, when you are laughing, or 
 whatever you are doing. When you 
 are crying the wrinkles in your face 
 are different from those that appear 
 when you are laughing. When one is 
 angry, he is angry all over, from the 
 crown of his head to the soles of his 
 feet. He feels like kicking, biting, or 
 striking, all at the same time. An 
 angry spirit has possession of him, and 
 that is what he is at the time. When a 
 person is drunk, a drunken spirit has 
 control of him, and causes him to be as 
 that spirit was, while living here. 
 
 It is just so with whatever a person 
 may be doing; whatever trade or pro- 
 fession he may be working or engaged 
 in, there are spirits that did work, or 
 wanted to work at that same trade or 
 
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 profession, who are trying to impress 
 that person to do as they did while liv- 
 ing. 
 
 All persons should know themselves, 
 and not allow every kind of spirit to en- 
 ter and take possession of them, just 
 because those spirits wish to progress 
 out of certain conditions. It is true, 
 every time a person takes on a condi- 
 tion, or allows the spirit to take control 
 of, or impress, him to do as it wants, it 
 helps that spirit to progress out of that 
 condition, but no person should allow 
 another person, or spirit, to impress gt 
 take control of his body without his 
 consent, if it will injure him or his spir- 
 it in any way — merely to please an- 
 other spirit or person, 
 
 We do not blame spirits for asking, 
 or trying to impress, people to do as 
 
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 they once did while living, but we do 
 blame people for not seeing the spirits 
 which are around them, when their 
 spiritual eyes have been given them 
 for that purpose, and they do not use 
 them. 
 
 Every person should be able to see 
 spirits with his spirit eyes at any and 
 all times, without losing his own indi- 
 viduality. It is not necessary for a per- 
 son to lose his personality, in order to 
 see and communicate with spirits. 
 
 It is the duty of all to develop and 
 open their spiritual eyes, that they may 
 see spiritual things, as well as material 
 things, that are all about them every- 
 where, no matter where they may go or 
 what they may do. We cannot rid our- 
 selves of them, or get away from them, 
 for wherever there is life, there are 
 spirits. 
 
CHAPTER X 
 
 WE MUST BE BORN AGAIN 
 
 We are born with a material, then a 
 spiritual, body. First we are born 
 with a material body; then the spirit 
 enters into it, and it becomes a living 
 body. The first time the spirit of life 
 entered our material bodies we were 
 born, and, each time a spirit takes con- 
 trol of us, we are born again. How, 
 and where, do we get those thoughts we 
 are thinking? Is there some machine 
 in the back of the head, or any other 
 part of the body, grinding them out, 
 and giving or feeding them to the 
 brain? The brain is matter which could 
 
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 not exist of itself or speak a word with- 
 out the spirit; so every thought that 
 impresses the brain must be alive. 
 There is no such thing as dead spirits 
 or dead thoughts. 
 
 Every time a spirit or thought — 
 (call it by what name you choose, it is 
 life, and life is everywhere) — takes 
 possession of us, we are being born 
 again. All these millions and billions 
 of people who have lived on this Earth, 
 and whose thoughts and spirits are still 
 alive and among us, and those who are 
 now living in the material body, are 
 thinking and sending out thoughts and 
 conditions which, in turn, take control 
 of others, who then are being born 
 again. 
 
 When a person does something one 
 minute, and is sorry for it the next, and 
 
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 does not know what caused him to do 
 such a thing, when it was contrary to 
 his will, or way of living or thinking, 
 a spirit has come in, and over-powered, 
 and taken control of, his spirit, causing 
 him to do just the way the spirit did. 
 That was the first time he ever did such 
 a thing ; thus he was born again with a 
 new spirit. That same person can, if 
 he wishes, call on a good spirit to come 
 in and impress, or take control of, his 
 own spirit, which will cause him to say 
 and do something good ; thus he is born 
 again. 
 
 There are two facts in this world: 
 Spirit and Matter. Destroy Matter 
 and Spirit remains. Matter cannot live 
 without Spirit, but Spirit can live with- 
 out matter. You may destroy matter 
 but there is no power that can kill or 
 
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 destroy spirit, for spirit is life, and life 
 is God, and God, or Life, has always ex- 
 isted, and always will exist. So we are 
 a part of God which rules and governs 
 the spirit world. 
 
 Each one of these spirits who were 
 human on the earth-plane had its own 
 characteristics and habits, either good 
 or evil, and that spirit is now what- 
 ever it was then. As spirits have the 
 power of impressing mortals with these 
 same characteristics, they are the cause 
 of mortals doing and thinking just as 
 they, the spirits, did while they were 
 living in the body, and thus these mor- 
 tals are born again. 
 
 Then again, as a person thinks, so 
 he attracts just that kind of spirits to 
 him, and is influenced either for good 
 or evil, and so is born again. Thus these 
 
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 spirits take control of the bodies of 
 mortals, and are rulers of those bodies. 
 As we think, and as our thoughts at- 
 tract to us certain spirits, they take 
 possession of our bodies and use us for 
 their own purposes, and thus we are 
 born again. 
 
 But we can choose the kind of spirit 
 that we wish to rule or guide us, to 
 make either a Heaven or a Hell for our- 
 selves or others. You have chosen your 
 Ruler. He is your God, and He judges 
 you according to your thoughts, acts, 
 and deeds. He is a just God, and the 
 only God that can, and will, judge you 
 rightfully, as you stand each day before 
 the judgment throne, and know you are 
 getting that which belongs to you ; you 
 cannot, and will not, get anything else 
 but what belongs to you. If you did, 
 
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 you would be robbing someone of his 
 reward, which you cannot do before 
 your Judge and your God. Go wher- 
 ever you may, you cannot hide from 
 Him, for He is within you, and so you 
 must be born again. 
 
 
CHAPTER XI 
 
 SPIRIT 
 
 Every person can see spirits and ma- 
 terial things with the spiritual eyes, 
 but does not give his spirit the credit 
 for it. Every patent that, was ever in- 
 vented was seen with the spiritual eyes 
 before it was worked out with the 
 hands. Whenever any one starts any- 
 thing he sees with his spiritual eyes 
 what there is to be done, and, before 
 he has commenced work on it, can de- 
 scribe and tell, just how it will look. 
 The farmer can see, describe and tell 
 all about his crops before they are 
 planted. The architect and carpenter 
 
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 can describe a house, and, before they 
 build it, can show you how it will look. 
 The storekeeper can tell what his store 
 windows will look like, before he has 
 placed any goods in them ; and the mil- 
 liner and dressmaker can see and de- 
 scribe just how a certain hat or dress 
 will look on you before showing it. They 
 all see with their spiritual eyes, but do 
 not give their spiritual eyes the credit 
 for it. 
 
 Or it may be that a person will read 
 about a collision of two trains which 
 are many miles away, can almost hear 
 the crash as they collide, and can spirit- 
 ually see the destruction and death of 
 the people aboard, as the trains meet, 
 can see the people crawling from them ; 
 can see the wreck burning, and people 
 trying to extinguish the fire. They see 
 
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 it with their spiritual eyes, just as 
 though they were there, yet are uncon- 
 scious of the fact. Everything that we 
 read~ is pictured before us, and we see 
 it with our spirit eyes, just as 
 though we were standing before it and 
 were looking at it with our material 
 eyes; thus we read it with the spirit 
 eyes as it is pictured to us. 
 
 We have material and spiritual bod- 
 ies. Material and spiritual eyes are 
 given to us to see material and spiritual 
 things, and to see how to protect our 
 material and spiritual bodies. Our 
 spiritual bodies need protection, and 
 should be protected, as well as our ma- 
 terial bodies. 
 
 We all have spiritual eyes, which 
 should be developed, so that we may use 
 them to see how to protect our spiritual 
 
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 bodies. God, or Spirit, — call Him or It 
 by what name you choose — has no fav- 
 orites. He has given all of us these 
 eyes to use, and if we do not use them 
 we are robbing ourselves of blessings 
 that are ours ; we are blinded to truth, 
 and are hindering our spiritual unfold- 
 ment and progression here and in the 
 spirit world! The only way we can, 
 or ever will, progress, or unfold our 
 spirtiual selves, is by using the spirit 
 that is within us ; so, when we say and 
 take for granted that believing is all 
 that is required of us, we are only de- 
 ceiving ourselves. 
 
 It is your works that will save you, 
 not what you believe. By your fruits 
 shall you be known. 
 
 For years the author has been able to 
 see, spiritually, animals and human 
 
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 forms, some of which were around peo- 
 ple. Some looked as if they were going 
 on errands, carrying something, others 
 seemed to be traveling. We could see 
 some of them in a form of light, others 
 more like shadows; the mists or shad- 
 ows were not all the same tint or shade ; 
 we did not know that these mists or 
 shadows were disembodied mortals 
 trying to manifest themselves to us in 
 that way. We were not taught to be- 
 lieve in such things, and knew nothing 
 about spirits. We paid no attention to 
 them, thinking everyone could see them 
 the same as we. 
 
 We also saw various forms of ani- 
 mals different from any we had ever 
 seen alive, going to and fro, walking or 
 crawling on the earth. This went on 
 until we commenced to investigate for 
 
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 ourselves by welcoming and speaking 
 to the mists, shadows and forms as 
 though they were human beings. 
 
 Finally, now and then, some spirit 
 form of a human being would come so 
 close that we could see its lips move 
 and hear them speak; and sometimes 
 when we would go to speak to or call 
 on a friend, a form would manifest it- 
 self, of someone who had been dead 
 probably for a number of years, whom 
 we would describe to the person we 
 were talking to, explaining how and 
 why the spirit was around him, and in 
 nine out of ten cases, the person would 
 recognize the spirit and message at 
 once, seeming to give the spirit great 
 pleasure and satisfaction; and we 
 found that every time a spirit mani- 
 fested itself and was described and rec- 
 
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 ognized, it gained in strength, and it 
 was easier for it to manifest again; 
 so that every time that we saw it and 
 spoke to it, it would come closer to us. 
 
 Now we can see spirits all around us 
 and around everyone else, with our 
 spiritual eyes, and think no more of 
 talking to and with the spirits than we 
 do with mortal friends. They look and 
 are as natural in spirit life as they 
 were in mortal life. We love to talk 
 to them, and have them around us; 
 equally do they love to talk to, and be 
 with, us. It is a great blessing, to see 
 and know that our dear loved ones in 
 spirit are around us watching over us, 
 and trying to impress, advise and pro- 
 tect us, the same as they did while they 
 were living in their bodies. 
 
 We have told you in other chapters 
 
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 that our body is material and that no 
 material body can speak or exist with- 
 out life, that life is spirit, and that, 
 when we speak, it is not our body that 
 speaks, for the body is material, but it 
 is the spirit that dwells within us 
 which speaks, by manipulating certain 
 organs, and thus we can see, hear and 
 understand one another. 
 
 Our material body could not, and 
 would not, see or hear anything if it 
 were not for the spirit that is within 
 the body, which is the life of the body. 
 Therefore every time that we speak it 
 is the spirit that is within us speaking 
 to the other person's spirit; so, to 
 whomever we speak, we are speaking 
 to the spirit of that person; in other 
 words, it is the spirit speaking to an- 
 other spirit, for spirit is the only thing 
 
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 that can speak. Therefore every time 
 we speak we are in communication 
 with a spirit, and are speaking to that 
 spirit, whether we recognize it or not. 
 
 Spirits can and do manifest to peo- 
 ple, and can show themselves to any 
 person whose spirit eyes are opened. 
 The only way that you will ever see 
 spirits is with your spirit eyes. If a 
 spirit were to materialize before you, 
 you could not, and would not, see the 
 spirit; you would only see the material 
 form that the spirit has assumed in 
 order that it can be seen with the mate- 
 rial eyes. The spirit would be within 
 the materialized form the same as the 
 spirit of a person living which dwells 
 within the body of flesh. That spirit 
 can leave that materialized form when- 
 
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 ever it so desires, and may never ap- 
 pear that way again. 
 
 Invisibility does not prove non-ex- 
 istence. Many things occur to us as to 
 which we doubt and waver, simply be- 
 cause of our spiritual feebleness; we 
 cannot understand them. If we were 
 to develop and use our spirit eyes they 
 would get stronger, and we could then 
 understand all things. 
 
 If all had their spirit eyes opened, 
 they would see spirits which they can- 
 not see with their material eyes; they 
 would be able to see spirits with their 
 spirit eyes around each person, and 
 would know how the spirits take con- 
 trol of people the way they do. 
 
 We assure you that if every man 
 could see spiritually what was around 
 him, he would drive the evil spirits 
 
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 away, and not allow such spirits and 
 conditions to remain and take posses- 
 sion of him; he would then, with his 
 spiritual eyes opened, attract the good 
 spirits, and thus be happier himself 
 and make others happier. He would 
 also enjoy life's blessings which are all 
 around him now, because he could then 
 see the good spirits and could call for, 
 and would receive, their help. 
 
 The Creator has given us all spirit- 
 ual eyes to use, and He expects us to 
 use them here and now, and see the 
 spirits who are all about us, and know 
 what is going on in the spirit world, so 
 we will know how to be happy here by 
 seeing and talking with those who are 
 already there, who will advise us if we 
 will only ask for their help. We should 
 all lead clean, pure lives, and call on the 
 
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 good spirits to come and manifest them- 
 selves to us, showing and guiding us in 
 the way that they would have us to go 
 all through life, which will lead us to 
 happiness and light. 
 
 Faith has nothing to do with what 
 you read or practise. You do not need 
 to have Faith to see and talk with a per- 
 son. Neither do you have to have Faith 
 to see or talk to a spirit if your spirit 
 eyes are open, for you will see the spirit 
 and know to whom you are talking. 
 
 It used to be said that we had five 
 senses. Now Science claims we have 
 eight. So, any person having use of all 
 his senses should be able, by following 
 the teachings of "Soul Science, the 
 Proof of Life after Death", to open his 
 spirit eyes, and thus see, discern, and 
 receive impressions from, the spirit 
 forces that are all around. 
 
CHAPTER XII 
 
 DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DREAMS AND 
 VISIONS 
 
 There is a difference between a 
 Dream and a Vision, yet both take 
 place when your muscles are thorough- 
 ly relaxed, or when you are asleep, and 
 you call them all dreams. Dreams are 
 caused either by a person lying on his 
 back, with the back of his head (which 
 is the base of the brain) resting on the 
 pillow, thus cutting off the circulation 
 — stopping the flow of blood to the 
 brain — and affecting the brain at that 
 time, or by a person eating too much 
 just before retiring at night, which will 
 also affect the flow of blood to the brain, 
 
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 thus causing the brain to cease its 
 proper functioning. In other words, 
 causing the mind to ramble causes you 
 to dream, which fact you may or may 
 not remember in the morning. 
 
 Just after an operation, when a per- 
 son is reviving from the effects of the 
 anaesthetic that has been administered 
 to him, he may commence to talk and 
 keep on talking while in that condition, 
 which is caused by the effect which the 
 anaesthetic has on the brain, and flow 
 of the blood to the brain, for the time 
 being. All this may be called dream- 
 ing. 
 
 You may retire at night the same as 
 usual, and, while asleep, see some per- 
 son who is living, whom you may not 
 have seen or heard from for months or 
 years, or you may see the spirit of some 
 
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 one who may have been dead for years. 
 In the morning you may remember all 
 you have seen in your dream, and may 
 tell some one, what a vivid and wonder- 
 ful dream you had last night. If you 
 will remember you were not lying on 
 your back with your head pressing 
 hard on the pillow, the same as you 
 were when you were dreaming. Hence, 
 this was not a dream but a vision. 
 
 People have always had dreams and 
 visions, and always will have them. 
 Sometimes it is very difficult to distin- 
 guish the difference between the two. 
 Before a person can, or will, go to sleep, 
 he must relax, (that is, become pas- 
 sive,) in every muscle of his anatomy, 
 and the minute he relaxes he will go to 
 sleep at once: he cannot keep awake. 
 While in that relaxed condition his 
 
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 spirit may let in another spirit to take 
 control of his body, (as we have ex- 
 plained more fully in other chapters,) 
 and his own spirit may leave its body 
 and travel many miles and see many 
 things, or other spirits may come to his 
 bedside and visit his spirit at night, and 
 in the morning he may remember it all, 
 and may talk about it for days, saying 
 what a wonderful dream he had had, 
 when really it was not a dream, but a 
 vision. As he has not had it explained 
 to him, he did not know the difference 
 between a dream and a vision. 
 
 The author has traveled extensively, 
 but never has been in a place that he 
 had not seen in spirit, months, or even 
 years, before he visited it. We know 
 that our spirit has left our body at 
 night while we were asleep, and has 
 
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 traveled, and showed us different 
 places, and when we would go, or write, 
 to those places and ask if such-and- 
 such were the case, the answer would 
 be, "It was just as you say in your let- 
 ter." 
 
 We have learned how to become re- 
 laxed while we are in the waking state, 
 so that our spirit can and does leave 
 our body and go to any part of the 
 world it chooses, to see what it wishes, 
 then return to our body. While in the 
 waking state we can see it and feel it 
 go and come, therefore, we do not have 
 to wait to retire for the night in order 
 to become relaxed, so that our spirit 
 may leave our body, before we can see 
 other spirits, and know that our spirit 
 has been out of our body. 
 
 When you are thoroughly relaxed, 
 
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 you are then in a passive condition, and 
 it is much easier for your spirit to leave 
 your body or for other spirits to come 
 and reveal to you what they desire, 
 than when you are in a positive condi- 
 tion. 
 
CHAPTER XIII 
 
 THOUGHT 
 
 Every person attracts to himself 
 spirits according to the thoughts he 
 thinks. Thoughts are things, and every 
 thought has its color, and every color 
 has its vibrations. The very walls of 
 our home are pictured with our 
 thoughts. Oh, could we picture the 
 power of thought before you, so that 
 you would never forget it and the effect 
 it has upon your happiness in this life 
 and in the spirit world, it would cause 
 you to change your thoughts and your 
 entire life. 
 
 Go where we may, do what we will, 
 
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 we cannot help but think, and as we 
 think we leave a trail of thought be- 
 hind us. Other people following in our 
 footsteps gather up the thoughts that 
 we leave behind us, which may cause 
 them to do the things we were doing or 
 thinking of doing. By thinking evil 
 thoughts we are sowing seeds of evil, 
 and sooner or later they come home to 
 us as fruit, because they are ours, and 
 we will reap our harvest either in the 
 flesh or in the spirit realm. 
 
 We are all architects and builders, 
 and are planning and building and 
 sending into the spirit-world material 
 thoughts, words, and deeds of which 
 our home in the spirit-world is being 
 built. 
 
 Everyone must go to his own home : 
 you cannot go to ours, neither can we 
 
THOUGHT 95 
 
 go to yours, and we will tell you now, 
 dear brother and sister, your home in 
 the spirit-world depends upon your 
 thoughts, which are the kind of mate- 
 rial you send there, and if you are not 
 sending any sunshine, you will never 
 find love or happiness there waiting 
 for you. 
 
 When we are born into the world we 
 know nothing. The spirit takes control 
 of our body, and we begin to develop it 
 accordingly. We go to school to learn, 
 and learn only that which others know, 
 and to do what they do. How and where 
 do we keep all that which we learn and 
 see while in and out of school? 
 
 Have we a record of everything in 
 our lives? Is there a record of our 
 thoughts, words and deeds, or whatever 
 we see, hear, or feel, — and the impres- 
 
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 sions we receive? Are they recorded 
 or stored away somewhere in, or on, 
 our brain? If so, how about the man 
 who saw a tiny drop of water? If 
 that was recorded with a dot and dash, 
 or other imprint, somewhere on his 
 brain, would it not stand to reason, 
 that if the same man saw an ocean of 
 water and traveled across it, there 
 would be a larger dot, dash or imprint 
 somewhere on his brain. Or, if a man 
 were to see an ant-hill, and it were re- 
 corded on the brain, there must be an 
 imprint different in size from the im- 
 print that would be recorded if he 
 should see the Rocky Mountains. The 
 Scientists and the Doctors have never 
 been able, with their most powerful 
 magnifying glasses, to find any dots or 
 
THOUGHT 97 
 
 dashes, marks or impressions, on the 
 brain. 
 
 The only difference they see between 
 the brain of a child and that of an 
 adult, is a little more water in the 
 child's than in an older person's brain. 
 If that be true, how do we remember 
 what we see or hear during our mate- 
 rial life in traveling around the world? 
 How do we remember the appearance 
 of many places, lands, animals and 
 people that we see? We see them with 
 our spiritual eyes! If everything we 
 see were recorded on the brain, we 
 know there would be a limit to the 
 brain's capacity. 
 
 When the man who has never been 
 outside of his county is seeing and 
 talking all the time about the things he 
 sees around him ; if his brain is covered 
 
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 with what he sees, how about the man 
 who has traveled all over the world? 
 How would his brain have space enough 
 to record all he sees and hears during 
 his entire life? — No! Our brains are 
 free from dots, dashes or other im- 
 prints. 
 
 You describe your old home when 
 you are many miles away from it; you 
 give a minute description of the house, 
 barn, all the out-buildings, cow-yard, 
 meadow, trees, farm-land and road in 
 and around the barn and house. How 
 do you see them? Is there any impres- 
 sion in or on your brain? No! You 
 see them with your spiritual eyes. 
 
 Everything that you describe in that 
 way you see with the spiritual eyes; 
 there is nothing too close, or too far, or 
 too small, but that it can be seen with 
 
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 the spiritual eyes. If you have ever 
 lived in California and are living in 
 Boston, sitting in your apartment, 
 and someone were to ask you to describe 
 your old home in California, you would 
 see it instantly with your spiritual eyes 
 and could give a full description of the 
 same. 
 
 Your spirit does not wait for you or 
 someone to open the door so it can go 
 out, down this or that railroad or wag- 
 on road, through this or that valley, 
 tunnel, or over this or that mountain. 
 The moment the spirit leaves you, it 
 goes right through the walls of your 
 room, through buildings and mountains 
 direct to your old home, sees the home, 
 and then you describe it as you see it 
 with the spirit eye. There is not any- 
 thing too high or too low, or too thick, 
 
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 that spirit or spirit forces cannot pene- 
 trate, see and describe to us. 
 
 As we have told you before, our bod- 
 ies are material and cannot see any- 
 thing if the spirit does not show it to 
 us. The spirit is the life that is in our 
 bodies, and if it were not for that life 
 we could not see anything with our ma- 
 terial eyes. You cannot show or de- 
 scribe "Nothing," because it does not 
 exist. We ask you to read a book; if 
 you did not have the book before you, 
 you could not see it ; if you did not see 
 it, you could not read it nor describe it. 
 If you describe a book with your mate- 
 rial or spiritual eyes the book must be 
 there or you could not see it, and not 
 seeing it with either your material or 
 spiritual eyes you could not describe it. 
 
 We see and describe according to our 
 
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 thoughts, for thoughts are things. Ac- 
 cording as we think, we attract that 
 class of spirits to us, and that is what 
 we are. 
 
CHAPTER XIV 
 
 TWO PLACES 
 
 There are only two places. These 
 are: Heaven (or the ether which sur- 
 rounds us) and the "Earth." If we are 
 not inside of the Earth, we must be on 
 its surface, or in Heaven. 
 
 In the countless ages of the past, 
 when people died, where did their spir- 
 its go when they left their bodies, if 
 they did not stay here in the atmo- 
 sphere which surrounds the Earth? 
 There is no other place for them to go 
 to, for we are in Heaven today as much 
 as we ever will be. The earth and air 
 about us are teeming with all kinds of 
 
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 life, while we in the midst of it, are as 
 ignorant of it as if it did not exist. 
 
 All the millions and millions of spir- 
 its of people who have lived on this 
 earth-plane are among us today. This 
 is their Heaven as well as ours, the only 
 Heaven there is, and the only difference 
 between us and them is, that they have 
 left their bodies of flesh and taken on 
 spiritual bodies. If our spiritual eyes 
 were opened, we could see those spirits, 
 the same as they see us. They are all 
 around and among us today in spirit, 
 as much as if we, who are in the flesh, 
 had laid aside our material bodies and 
 become as they, spirits also, for we are 
 spirit clothed with flesh. 
 
 When a person laughs, he does not 
 have to go to any certain place to laugh, 
 but he laughs right where he is; or, 
 
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 when a person is happy or sad or suf- 
 fering, these spirits are all right here 
 with him and they may be within a few 
 feet of one another. Just so in the spirit 
 world, or Heaven. Whether we do right 
 or wrong, we all stay right here on this 
 earth-plane, and at our so-called 
 "death" we change form and enter our 
 Heaven, or the spirit world, and will 
 either be happy or sad according to our 
 life's work. 
 
 Hell is not a place — either below the 
 Earth, or in the bowels of the Earth — 
 to which all who attempt to violate 
 God's laws must go for punishment. 
 Hell is a condition, and is independent 
 of place. There is no chance for people 
 to escape punishment for wrong-doing. 
 They must pay the penalty for the 
 wrong until they progress out of that 
 
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 condition that men call Hell. 
 
 Just think how pure and innocent 
 every child was when it was born, al- 
 though its parents may not have been 
 good. That child cannot be held re- 
 sponsible for what some one else has 
 done or may do through life. It makes 
 no difference how innocent a person 
 was when born, he has said or done 
 something in life he was sorry for lat- 
 er. When he was sorry for doing wrong, 
 he was suffering remorse for it, which 
 suffering is hell, and that is the only 
 hell there is. 
 
 Man is making his own hell and liv- 
 ing in it, when he attempts to violate 
 God's laws and does wrong; he brings 
 upon himself his own punishment; he 
 must suffer, and that is hell. We need 
 not wait until after death, to find, or 
 
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 go to, hell to suffer, for it is within us 
 when we do wrong. As man lives within 
 himself, so is he living in Heaven or 
 hell, but after he has paid the penalty 
 for wrong-doing, he does not suffer any 
 more, and has no more hell within him. 
 He can think and do good and can live 
 and have Heaven within him. All per- 
 sons make their own selection of their 
 abiding-place, by their thoughts and 
 deeds. The only hell there is, is just 
 what they make for themselves, which 
 is the condition within themselves. 
 
CHAPTER XV 
 
 ALL EVIL IS UNDEVELOPED GOOD 
 
 Everything that grows is good. Al- 
 though we may not like the taste of it, 
 or it may not agree with us, or be fit 
 for food, still it may be good for some 
 other purpose, and just because we may 
 not be able to eat it, or like the taste of 
 it, or do not know its use, we should not 
 condemn it. Some one else may like it, 
 or it may be very useful in curing some 
 disease; while if we ate it, it might 
 poison us or cause us to become ill. 
 
 You never saw or heard of anything 
 growing and decaying at the same 
 time. If it decayed, it could not grow. 
 
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 If the fruit is not picked when ripe on 
 the tree, it will fall to the ground, be- 
 come bruised, decay and must return to 
 the earth from which it came. Should 
 we say it is the fault of the fruit, and 
 that it is evil, and no good? Not so! 
 All evil is undeveloped good ! If the de- 
 cayed fruit which is lying on the 
 ground had been picked from the tree 
 and used, it would not have decayed. 
 
 While the fruit is on the tree it 
 draws its life from the tree, the tree 
 draws its life from the earth ; then the 
 fruit comes from the earth, and it must 
 return to it in some form or other, 
 sooner or later ; but because it does, that 
 is no sign that the tree is evil and 
 should be cut down and destroyed. 
 
 Our parents are the tree ; we are the 
 fruit; our parents were good, why 
 
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 should we be evil? They left good here 
 for us, why will we do wrong when 
 there is good all around us? If we 
 could only see the good in everything 
 and use it, and know how to attract 
 good to us, and have it within ourselves 
 as part of our being, then we could give 
 out or impart it to others. 
 
 We can only give out that which we 
 have within us. If there is evil within 
 us, we are undeveloped. If we were 
 developed we could see the good and 
 would drive the evil away, and attract 
 the good to us, and would do good to 
 those with whom we come in contact. 
 
 Every person wishes to do right. 
 Why, then, do they do evil? There 
 never was a person who was born a 
 thief or murderer; when he was born 
 he was innocent, and knew no evil. 
 
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 Then, why are there so many thieves or 
 murderers in the world today? Because 
 men do not know how to protect them- 
 selves from the evil spirits of those who 
 did evil deeds while they were here in 
 the body, and who try to impress mor- 
 tals to do the same as they did. 
 
 Those who commit crimes do as they 
 are impressed, never stopping to con- 
 sider the consequences. If they under- 
 stood how to control themselves they 
 would not allow the evil conditions and 
 impressions of these spirits to take pos- 
 session of them. Therefore, that which 
 has possession of us makes us what we 
 are. If one could see, spiritually, that 
 which causes one to do evil, he would 
 turn from his evil ways and lead a good 
 life. 
 
 There are spirits everywhere, all 
 
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 around and among us, who do, and are 
 impressing us to do, what they did or 
 wanted to do while living in their bod- 
 ies. If a man has worked at the carpen- 
 ter's trade for the greater part of his 
 life and should go to England and work 
 for a living, he would naturally work at 
 his trade, for that is all he knows how 
 to do. If you know nothing here in this 
 life, you will not know anything in the 
 spirit life; but you will, and must, learn 
 in the spirit life. 
 
 If you lived here all these years on 
 earth in ignorance when there were so 
 many different ways for you to have 
 learned while here, then, when you pass 
 into spirit life, you will see how you 
 have robbed the good spirits that would 
 have come in and impressed you; then 
 you would have been happier and 
 
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 would have enjoyed life's blessings, 
 which would have made the spirit hap- 
 pier too ; but you robbed the spirit of its 
 chance to do that work. 
 
 Ignorance is no excuse in spirit life. 
 Because of not learning here, your spir- 
 it will have to learn there, in the spirit 
 world, and while your spirit is learning 
 what you should have learned while it 
 was in your body, it will be compelled 
 to remain in one place until it has 
 learned its lesson. The spirit cannot, 
 or will not, have a chance to go about, 
 enjoying the blessing it should have, 
 had it done its work while in the flesh. 
 
 It will not make any difference what 
 excuse you may think you have for not 
 doing your duty, while in your body. 
 You will find that excuses do not count 
 in the spirit world. It does not make 
 
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 any difference what your belief may be, 
 or what you have been taught to be- 
 lieve, or of what race or color you are, 
 or whether you be nobleman, ruler, or 
 king; if you have done wrong instead 
 of right, and have not already paid for 
 it in the flesh, not in dollars and cents, 
 but in suffering, you must pay, then, in 
 the spirit world. 
 
 The laws that cause you to suffer or 
 to be happy were not made by or for, 
 man, to please man, but are natural 
 laws. According to those laws we our- 
 selves write our life's history, and are 
 judged by those laws, which no man 
 can change or erase. Man-made laws 
 are changeable. God's Laws are not ! 
 
CHAPTER XVI 
 
 BODY, SPIRIT, AND SOUL 
 
 The body is the house, the Spirit is 
 the Life, and the Soul is the Good which 
 the spirit creates and accomplishes, 
 through the body. The body is the house 
 in which the spirit lives and does its 
 work, and the spirit is the life of the 
 body. The body could not exist without 
 the spirit, which manipulates the 
 brain and causes the body to think, 
 talk, and perform its various functions. 
 While the spirit is causing the body to 
 do and act as it does, the good that is 
 accomplished by the spirit, in its work, 
 is the Soul. 
 
BODY, SPIRIT AND SOUL H5 
 
 Our bodies are like an organ in the 
 house. The person who fingers the 
 keys of that organ is not the organ, but 
 is the life or the spirit of the organ, for 
 when he fingers the keys of the organ 
 and causes it to play, he is then the spir- 
 it of that organ. The organ could not 
 have played of itself, without the spir- 
 it. The music which the spirit causes 
 to be played by the organ is the Soul of 
 the organ. The organ could not have 
 produced the sounds of music of its own 
 accord, but must have the assistance of 
 the spirit of Life, as the organ is mate- 
 rial and has no life of its own ; neither 
 could the spirit produce music of itself, 
 as it must have material through which 
 to produce results. Thus, spirit and 
 matter are necessary to produce the 
 music which is the soul of the organ. 
 
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 For completeness there must be 
 Body, Spirit and Soul, three in one ; for 
 the body is not complete without the 
 spirit of life, therefore it has no power 
 of its own, neither can it accomplish 
 anything. Spirit is always active, 
 working through material means to 
 achieve its mission, and the good which 
 it produces is the Soul. Neither Body 
 nor Soul can exist without Spirit, which 
 is Life. 
 
CHAPTER XVII 
 
 THE GOD TO WORSHIP 
 
 The God we (Soul Scientists) wor- 
 ship is not an imaginary, man-made 
 God, sitting upon a great throne, some- 
 where away up in the skies, but He is 
 always right here with us. We know 
 our body is material, and we know that 
 of itself, it cannot speak a word. When 
 God, who is the Spirit which has con- 
 trol of our body, leaves it, then the body 
 dies. 
 
 There is something within the body 
 that makes it talk, walk, and move 
 about. We know that something is 
 alive within us, and that life makes us 
 
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 feel, act, and do just as we do, with our 
 bodies; our body could not exist in its 
 present form, without that life. 
 
 When we hear anything in answer to 
 our desire, it is the spirit that is within 
 us, talking to us ; it has control over our 
 body and may cause us to laugh, and 
 change the expression and shape of the 
 face for that moment; we could not 
 have laughed had it not been for the 
 spirit within us, because we live, think, 
 act, (whistle, sing, or cry,) according 
 to the spirit that is within us; then it 
 is the spirit within us that causes us 
 to be happy or sad. We know when we 
 do right or do wrong, because we feel 
 either happy or sad. We do not have 
 to ask anyone how we feel, for no one 
 can tell us. It is the spirit that is with- 
 in us that tells us when we do right or 
 
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 do wrong, without our asking it. 
 
 That Spirit is our God. It is within 
 us and controls us, at all times. The 
 Spirit of Life is the only God to wor- 
 ship, and when you pray, pray to Him. 
 He is the only One who can, or will, 
 hear and answer prayer for you; and 
 do not forget it. You do not have to 
 get on the house-top, or erect large 
 buildings, which may cost thousands or 
 hundreds of thousands of dollars, in 
 which to pray aloud, so that He will 
 be able to hear you pray; neither is He 
 far away, sitting upon a great, imagin- 
 ary throne, ruling the world from on 
 high ; nor is He in some foreign, or un- 
 known, land where He saves, elects or 
 selects only a few to worship Him. He 
 is today sitting on the throne in every 
 person's heart. 
 
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 We know when we feel happy or sad, 
 and we know what we were doing or 
 thinking about when we were feeling 
 that way. We know what caused us to 
 feel happy or unhappy, and what was 
 within us, which caused those feelings. 
 Then why not choose to worship the 
 good spirit within us? Our body is 
 dead, so far as speaking of its own ac- 
 cord, without the spirit that is within 
 it causing it to stand, walk, talk and 
 exist in its present form. 
 
 The God to worship is the God of 
 Love. He will drive out all fear, hat- 
 red, and jealousy from our hearts, and 
 will set up a temple of Love that will 
 so radiate all around us, that all will 
 see, and know, and feel that spirit of 
 love which will live on and on, and con- 
 tinue to make others happy who come 
 
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 in contact with it. The God of Love is 
 the only God to worship and our heart 
 should be His abiding-place. 
 
CHAPTER XVIII 
 
 god's laws 
 
 God's Laws in the Material and Spir- 
 it World no man, nor man-made Laws, 
 can change. Men may put a man in a 
 place where he will suffer, but he can 
 suffer only a certain amount of pain, 
 then he becomes unconscious, and suf- 
 fers no more. While he is in that con- 
 dition, no matter how much more they 
 try to force upon him, he is dead to the 
 sense of pain. 
 
 People can suffer only a certain 
 amount of pain, no matter what may 
 have caused it, before they pass into 
 that unconscious condition in which 
 
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 they will suffer no more. Or they may 
 pass out of life while in that condition, 
 or they may recover and live for a num- 
 ber of years, and never suffer any more 
 such pain. 
 
 God's laws do not recognize differ- 
 ences of either race or color, bond-man 
 or king, neither do they recognize 
 man's laws. God's laws are immutable, 
 and just, at all times, everywhere, both 
 here and in the spirit world. The mo- 
 ment we do right, or do wrong, we shall 
 be happy or unhappy, not according to 
 man's but God's laws, no matter what 
 man may say or do. 
 
 Man may execute, or destroy, the 
 body. God pays no attention to that, 
 for the spirit of man belongs to God, 
 and that is what is judged. Hanging, 
 shooting, electrocuting, may cause the 
 
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 body to suffer for just a few seconds, 
 and the body is dead ; then it is the spir- 
 it that suffers. 
 
 God's laws rule the spirit as well in, 
 as out of the body. He gives us the 
 spirit to use in our bodies, and tells us 
 to use it. He does not tell us, how, 
 when, or where, or what spirit to 
 choose, but He has given us brains to 
 use, and expects us to use them and to 
 distinguish right from wrong. 
 
 Do we ever stop to consider which is 
 right, or which is wrong, or ask Him, 
 or pray to Him, for advice, or to show 
 us the light, or to lead us aright? No! 
 We usually go right on, just as though 
 we owned and controlled Heaven and 
 Earth. Just wait! Some bright 
 morning we may not awaken; our 
 spirit may find itself in some strange 
 
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 land, or we may not know just what is 
 the matter with us. It will only be a 
 matter of time, before we shall find 
 out where we are, — no matter how 
 much we may love our home, and how 
 many dear loved ones we may have on 
 Earth depending on us, and no matter 
 who we are, or what we have done, or 
 what our mission in life is. Then we 
 shall come under God's laws. 
 
 Do not try to excuse yourself when 
 you get there! You know better than 
 any one else what you have done or 
 left undone. But would you say you 
 did not do much? Oh, yes, of course 
 you never did anything wrong! It 
 was always the other fellow who did 
 everything! Of course you are inno- 
 cent! But listen; you have attempted 
 to violate God's laws! Remember, 
 
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 God's laws are immutable and there- 
 fore they cannot be violated nor broken 
 by man, and when we say man vio- 
 lates God's laws, we mean man has at- 
 tempted to violate His laws, by doing 
 wrong, but has only injured himself, 
 not the laws. God did not compel you 
 to do wrong; you did it of your own 
 free will, and now you are suffering for 
 it, according to God's laws. Today is 
 the day of judgment and of salvation, 
 and you are receiving yours. 
 
 God's law is like a giant oak-tree. 
 No matter how the thunder may roll 
 and the lightning flash, or the hurri- 
 cane roar, the oak still stands. The 
 oak is alongside of every one's path- 
 way of life. You do not have to run up 
 against the oak, but if you do, you do 
 not hurt the tree; you only hurt your- 
 
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 self. Just so with God's laws. You do 
 not hurt God's laws by running against 
 or attempting to violate them ; you only 
 hurt yourself, and you are the only 
 one that will suffer for it. You punish 
 yourself; the law does not do it. That 
 is why God's laws are just — the rich 
 and the poor, the great and small, the 
 king and peasant are alike when 
 judged. 
 
 We all punish ourselves when we at- 
 tempt to violate God's laws, and we all 
 come into this world according to God's 
 laws; and while we live on the Earth, 
 and when we pass out of this mortal 
 body into the spirit world, we will still 
 come under God's laws. 
 
 If it were possible for us to show a 
 
 record of the source of God's existence, 
 or of our own, or of the origin of our 
 
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 first parents, would that make you a 
 happier or better person? Would it 
 change the color of your skin, or when 
 it came your time to die, would this 
 knowledge save you? No! When we 
 do what is right, we will reap the re- 
 ward of happiness, and if we do wrong, 
 we must pay the penalty, here. If we 
 die before we have paid the penalty, 
 we will suffer in the other life until it 
 is paid; after which we will progress 
 from that condition. 
 
 All the people who have ever lived, or 
 ever will live, in this world, cannot 
 atone for our transgressions, nor suf- 
 fer for us, when we defy God's, or Na- 
 ture's laws. It may be that we have 
 been forced to follow those who have 
 power over us, which has caused us to 
 suffer, and to do the things we are do- 
 
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 ing or have done ; yet we must pay the 
 penalty for what we do. 
 
 If every person had his rights at all 
 times, he would not, in order to please 
 his master, be forced to do the things 
 that cause him to suffer. But ignor- 
 ance is no excuse, in law, and there is 
 no excuse for ignorance if we will use 
 our thinking faculties, w r hich were 
 given to us for that purpose. 
 
 Everything in this world is for us to 
 use, and if we do not use it aright we 
 shall suffer. Ignorance of God's, or 
 Nature's, laws will not keep us from 
 suffering when we do wrong, day or 
 night, alone, in secret, or in company 
 with other people. It does not make 
 any difference who you are, or how, 
 when, or where you attempt to violate 
 God's law, you will have to pay the pen- 
 
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 alty either here or in the next life. All 
 persons are held responsible for the 
 thoughts, acts, and deeds which they do 
 while living, and are judged by them, 
 here and hereafter. 
 
 God's laws do not judge a man for 
 just the good he may do on Sunday 
 alone, but for the good he does every 
 day in the week. 
 
 God does not change his laws, neither 
 can man change them. God's laws will 
 never wear out, nor can they be broken 
 or destroyed by man; and whenever 
 man does wrong he will be corrected 
 for his wrong doing, whether it be Sun- 
 day or Monday, day or night, — it 
 makes no difference to God, what man 
 may say or do. God's ways are nat- 
 ural ways, God does not change His 
 
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 laws to please man; neither can they 
 be broken or changed by man. 
 
 God's laws rule all men, and it is true 
 that some men can stand more pain 
 and do more work than others, yet all 
 come under His laws. If fire will burn 
 and destroy one body, it will burn and 
 destroy all bodies that come in contact 
 with it, and if cold will freeze the flesh 
 of one, it will freeze all flesh that is 
 exposed to it. 
 
 God's laws do not judge men accord- 
 ing to the way some men think man 
 should be judged, but it judges man ac- 
 cording to the laws of God, and those 
 laws no man or men can alter. Those 
 laws recognize neither color nor race. 
 You get your reward according to your 
 thoughts, words, and deeds while living 
 in the body, and no man can hinder 
 
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 you from getting your just deserts, or 
 can change God's laws. No matter 
 what you may believe, you will be 
 judged aright in the spirit world, ac- 
 cording to God's laws. 
 
CHAPTER XIX 
 
 MAN-MADE LAWS 
 
 Men have made laws to govern man, 
 and have taken life — destroyed his 
 body and tried to cast his spirit into 
 darkness. They have tried to build a 
 wall around Heaven, and lock its gates, 
 and said that only a few — whom they 
 select — can get into Heaven. If a 
 man, while living, has done wrong, and 
 is angry and full of vengeance, and his 
 spirit is cast into the spirit world in 
 that condition, it will do great harm in 
 the spirit world, which is all around 
 this Earth-plane (where all people are 
 living who have not had their spirit 
 
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 eyes opened, so as to be able to see what 
 spirits are around), by impressing and 
 causing them to do the way such spir- 
 its did before leaving their mortal 
 bodies. 
 
 Men make laws and send such spir- 
 its into the spirit world full of wrath, 
 when they will be in a position to do 
 more harm to the innocent, and to those 
 who do not understand the spiritual 
 laws, than they would have been in had 
 they continued to live on the Earth, 
 suffered, and paid the penalty, before 
 passing into the spirit world. 
 
 If the man was guilty of the crime, 
 and had been allowed to live his allot- 
 ted time in the flesh, and had suffered 
 and paid the penalty for the crime, 
 then, when he did pass into spirit life 
 he would not have been a revengeful 
 
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 spirit, and would not then have tried 
 to impress others to do wrong. 
 
 This is an unnatural world. Man 
 can do wrong, and if he is fined for it, 
 and has money, the money atones for it, 
 and he goes free. Man tries to make 
 laws to rule Heaven the same as he 
 does to rule Earth. Some rulers gather 
 mighty armies together to destroy 
 other nations and lives, in order that 
 they themselves may rule those na- 
 tions, and acquire their wealth, and 
 conquer the world; then those rulers 
 place themselves on an equality with 
 God! 
 
 Man-made laws are material, and all 
 material laws are broken and violated. 
 Man-made laws say that you are in- 
 nocent, no matter what crime you may 
 have committed, until you are proved 
 
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 guilty. They destroy the body, but 
 they cannot destroy the spirit or soul 
 of man. 
 
 All the books that ever have been, or 
 ever will be, written, were written and 
 will be written, by man. Some of those 
 men claim that their books are the only 
 true books that were ever written by 
 God, and handed down to man, yet 
 those books, and all things therein, have 
 been written by man, for man, to please 
 man. They have made their God, and 
 have told men that all must believe in, 
 and worship, Him, after they have 
 branded Him such a cruel God. They 
 have also told what God would do to 
 those who did not believe in their teach- 
 ings, and in their man-made God. In 
 those books they say God is sitting on a 
 throne in Heaven, where, according to 
 
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 them, the spirits of all must go after 
 death, to get their reward or punish- 
 ment according to their man-made law, 
 which, we say, is not according to God's 
 law. They will really be judged accord- 
 ing to the kind of life that they had 
 lived while in the body. 
 
CHAPTER XX 
 
 HOW TO SERVE GOD 
 
 There is only one way that you can 
 serve God, and you are serving Him 
 that way every day of your life. You 
 cannot help yourself, you are compelled 
 to serve Him ; you could not, or would 
 not, live, if you did not, or could not, 
 serve Him. He is all there is of you. 
 He has control of you, night and day; 
 no matter what you are doing, you are 
 serving Him. Whether you are doing 
 right or wrong, you are serving Him. 
 
 The only God you serve and are serv- 
 ing is the God within you, and that God 
 is Life. We cannot live without Him, 
 
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 and as we serve Him we are either sad 
 or happy, and He makes us feel that 
 way for serving Him the way we do. 
 
 The best way to serve God is to love 
 that God who is within you with all 
 your heart, soul, body, and strength, 
 day and night, not in a selfish way, but 
 always doing right for right's sake and 
 doing all the good you can to others. 
 When you do this you feel happy, for 
 you please the God within you, the only 
 God there is. 
 
 There is a world within every one of 
 us, and we are living in that world, and 
 our God is also living in that world. No 
 person can live in any other world but 
 the one that is within him. Therefore, if 
 we are obedient to that God, and listen 
 to, and obey, Him and serve Him to the 
 letter, that God is true, and will give us 
 
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 justice according to our works. 
 
 We should serve God in prayer and 
 song in our daily walks of life, and He 
 should be the only one to whom we 
 should look up. If we will love Him as 
 we should, we will also love other peo- 
 ple, and other people will love us. The 
 more love we receive, the more love we 
 can impart to others, and the more we 
 can serve God. 
 
 We do not, nor can we, every time 
 we pray, worship a God who is far off, 
 for the God who is within us is the only 
 God that can, or will, ever answer 
 prayer. He knows our wants better 
 than any one else. 
 
 We should bless ourselves and every 
 mouthful of food or drink we take, and 
 be thankful for our health and strength 
 in mind and body, and for the use of 
 
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 them. We should serve Him, and be 
 very thankful for all these and the 
 many other blessings that are bestowed 
 on us all through life. 
 
 We should serve Him by doing all 
 the good we can, both night and day, 
 the year through, all over the world. 
 We should serve Him on arising in the 
 morning, at the breakfast, dinner and 
 supper tables, and on retiring at night, 
 in prayers like these or somewhat 
 similar : 
 
 Morning Prayer: "We do thank 
 Thee, dear Spirit Friend, for the health 
 and strength of the night that is past, 
 for this beautiful hour, that our lives 
 have been spared and that we are per- 
 mitted to go forth into the world an- 
 other day. Help us and give us 
 strength, so that we may do our work 
 
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 faithfully, and impress and help us to 
 do the right, and to Thee will we give 
 praise. Amen." 
 
 Prayer at the breakfast table: "We 
 thank Thee, dear Spirit Friend, for the 
 many blessings we have enjoyed in the 
 past, and the health and strength of 
 this hour. We thank Thee for this food 
 that is before us and the good that it 
 will do us. Lead us aright. This we 
 ask in the name of Truth. Amen." 
 
 Prayer at the dinner table : "Angels 
 of Love, we do thank You for all the 
 many blessings we have enjoyed in the 
 past and the health and strength of this 
 hour. We thank You for this food before 
 us. Watch over us all through our com- 
 ing days. These favors we ask. Amen." 
 
 Prayer at the supper table: "Dear 
 loved Ones from the spirit world, we 
 
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 thank You that we were able to do our 
 day's work and that we are enjoying 
 the best of health. We thank You for 
 this food that is before us; may it do 
 us all good, and give us strength. Lead, 
 teach and direct us as You would have 
 us go. These we ask in the name of 
 loved ones. Amen." 
 
 Prayer on retiring at night: "We do 
 thank You, dear Spirit Friends, that 
 we have been able to finish our day's 
 work, and for the health and strength 
 that we have enjoyed. Be with us and 
 protect us this night and help us, so 
 that we may arise to enjoy the bless- 
 ings of health and strength and the use 
 of the whole body while in this sphere 
 of living. Fill us with Love and guide us 
 all through this life. All this we ask in 
 the name of the Spirit World, Amen," 
 
CHAPTER XXI 
 
 WHAT WE ARE HERE AND IN THE 
 SPIRIT WORLD 
 
 Our body, at birth, is like a new 
 house, which is all complete, ready to 
 be occupied, and the door wide open. 
 The first one to take possession of the 
 body, or house, is the spirit of the per- 
 son who is to have control of, and re- 
 side in, it. At birth, the spirit of life 
 takes possession of the body and is con- 
 nected by a spiritual cord. When this 
 cord is severed the spirit leaves the 
 body ; then so-called death takes place. 
 
 There may be many other spirits 
 who temporarily take possession of, or 
 impress, the body during this time. 
 
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 either with or without the consent of 
 the spirit of life, who is its ego or per- 
 sonality. As the persons think, they 
 attract that class of spirits around 
 them, who impress them to do as they 
 did or wanted to do while living; and 
 we shall either do good to all we come 
 in contact with, or we shall become a 
 curse. 
 
 If we are angry and see evil in 
 everyone, and everything always goes 
 wrong with us, and we are always look- 
 ing for trouble, and wishing we and 
 everyone else were dead, we should get 
 rid of that condition by driving away 
 that spirit of evil and welcoming a good 
 spirit. You do not have to take on that 
 evil condition, neither is it necessary to 
 allow that evil spirit to control you and 
 cause you to be unhappy. 
 
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 You are the spirit of life which in- 
 habits this house, or this body of clay, 
 which these spirits, either good or evil, 
 are impressing and using. Why will 
 you allow this evil spirit to remain? 
 Drive it out ! Call on the good spirits ! 
 Think only good thoughts, and you will 
 attract the good to you ; lead clean, pure 
 lives, so that you will attract the very 
 best of conditions and spirits to you. 
 Pray more, and as you pray, ask for, 
 and call on, the good spirits to come 
 and help you lead a good life, and guide 
 you aright, and manifest themselves to 
 you. 
 
 Remember, dear Reader, if you do 
 not know what Heaven is, and if you 
 do not live in it here, you will not know 
 what it is in the spirit world. You may 
 be there a long time before you will 
 
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 have advanced or progressed out of 
 that condition you were in, when you 
 passed over there, or be able to find 
 Heaven, or the sphere of good. For we 
 are here what we shall be there, and 
 there, what we are here. There is al- 
 ways room for progression here in this 
 life, and in the spirit world. No one 
 is perfect, here or there. Though we 
 may do good today, still we may and 
 can do more tomorrow, and the more 
 good we do, the more we shall progress 
 here and in the spirit world. 
 
 There are many blessings here and 
 in the spirit world for us if we desire 
 them. We are placed in this world as 
 our own free moral agent. Even 
 though we be bound to others in a spir- 
 itual sense, still we are free to think. 
 
 We were not consulted about our 
 
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 coming here, but if we have grown old 
 enough to think, and to be responsible 
 for our acts, we should think for our- 
 selves. 
 
 Not only have we a material, but 
 we have a spiritual body to care for 
 while we are living in this world, and 
 we shall be held responsible for the use 
 or abuse of both of them. They are 
 left in our care. We must give an ac- 
 count of our material body and not al- 
 low it to be wrongly used, or allow spir- 
 its or anything else, to injure or de- 
 stroy it, before its own spirit has a 
 chance to accomplish its own work, 
 which it should do while living here. 
 
 People take their own lives just be- 
 cause they have done wrong, or are 
 sick, or tired of living; this will not 
 keep them from suffering, or paying 
 
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 the penalty of their wrong-doing when 
 they pass into the spirit world. They 
 will be held accountable for destroying 
 their bodies and taking the life which 
 did not belong to them but to the Giver 
 of all life. 
 
 God's laws are just, and your flesh 
 will be compelled to bear only just so 
 much pain; then you will become un- 
 conscious and not suffer any more 
 while in that condition. If a person 
 had suffered all the pain that he could 
 have borne before taking his own life, 
 he would have been in such a condition 
 that he could not have taken it. A per- 
 son who takes his own life because he 
 does not want to suffer, is a coward 
 and a murderer. If he had suffered all 
 he could bear while in the flesh, on pass- 
 
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 ing into the spirit world he would have 
 been happy. 
 
 The only way that anyone will re- 
 ceive a blessing here, or in the spirit 
 world, is to do good at all times. There 
 are many blessings here waiting for 
 those who are doing good. After any- 
 one has done all the good he can, he does 
 not need to seek blessings, for they are 
 his, and are waiting for him. He will 
 get them in due time, and no one can 
 take his reward from him. 
 
CHAPTER XXII 
 
 OUR WORK HERE AND IN THE SPIRIT 
 WORLD 
 
 The body, in which the spirit lives 
 and works, is material. Everything we 
 see in this material world with our ma- 
 terial eyes, is material. We work with 
 our material hands to protect our ma- 
 terial bodies, and when our material 
 bodies go through the change called 
 "death," our spirits will go on work- 
 ing just the same in the spirit world; 
 but, instead of working with material 
 things, as they used to work while in 
 our material bodies, they will now work 
 with spiritual things, and will do or try 
 to do for the Spiritual body, the same 
 
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 as they did before for the material 
 body, and will try to find some one, who 
 is still living, whom they can impress 
 to do the same as they did while living. 
 We reap in spirit life what we sow in 
 the material world. 
 
 There is no such thing as dead life; 
 life cannot die. Whenever there is life, 
 there is motion ; and wherever there is 
 motion, there is action. Wherever there 
 is life, there is something produced. As 
 soon as the spirit leaves the body, it 
 keeps on working just the same in the 
 spirit world as though it were living in 
 the body. 
 
 If, while living, we were doing good 
 and that was all we knew, then, when 
 we pass into the spirit world we take 
 good with us, and we continue to do 
 good by going to those who are living, 
 
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 trying to help them, and impressing 
 them to do good. Just so, if we did evil 
 and that was all we knew while living ; 
 then evil is all we can take into the 
 spirit world, and that is what we will 
 try to impress upon whomever we can, 
 to do just what we did while we were 
 living. 
 
 Mark you, our spirit is alive, and it 
 will have to do something, and that 
 something will be just what it knew 
 and did while it was in the body, 
 whether good, bad, or indifferent. 
 
 All of this comes under the same law, 
 and if one comes under this law, all 
 must. Whether we are free or not, while 
 living, we do either good or evil. We 
 are making our choice ; although it may 
 be contrary to our will, still it is our 
 choice. We lead our own lives. 
 
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 It will make no difference after we 
 pass out whether we could have lived 
 any differently or not, because our life 
 is spent; we have run our race. We 
 cannot choose, then, the life we should 
 have lived, for it is too late. 
 
 Our spirit will, and must, go where 
 it belongs; it cannot help it, for as it 
 sowed, it will reap its own harvest. Do 
 not ask what your harvest will be, for 
 you certainly know what you are sow- 
 ing while here. You will go into the 
 spirit world whether it is against your 
 will or not ; you must go there, and will 
 work at the same work there that you 
 did while living here. 
 
 If a person who violates the laws of 
 your city is arrested, and confesses his 
 guilt and is sent for ten years to prison, 
 — when he has served his term, the 
 
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 gates of the prison are opened to him 
 and he walks out a free man. That 
 same judge is not waiting to sentence 
 him again, neither is the one-time pris- 
 oner compelled to commit another 
 crime and be sent back to prison — there 
 is no law that will so compel him. He 
 walks out as free as any other man, 
 and can lead a clean, pure life, and be 
 a good citizen. 
 
 Just so, after we have attempted to 
 violate God's law, if we have not suf- 
 fered for it here, although the world 
 may not know anything about it, we 
 will have to suffer for it there, and 
 after paying the penalty for it in the 
 spirit world, we will be free and our 
 spirit will progress out of that condi- 
 tion. 
 
 When that spirit went into the spirit 
 
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 world, it carried such a condition that 
 when it came in contact with people on 
 the earth-plane, it impressed them to 
 do the same evil deeds that it did be- 
 cause of that condition ; it was the only 
 way that spirit could do, but it soon 
 began to realize that it must pay the 
 penalty, and that it did not have the 
 same privileges as the other spirits. It 
 could see that it had done wrong, and 
 commenced to do right, and as it grad- 
 ually progressed out of its evil condi- 
 tion, the evil was changed to good, and 
 the hatred to love; and now it would 
 impress others to do the same. Love 
 and truth will prevail, in spite of all 
 obstacles. 
 
 While in this life we are working 
 with things made of material sub- 
 stance; in spirit life we are working 
 
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 with things made of spiritual sub- 
 stance. Whatever we are working at 
 or long to do while living here, just as 
 soon as we have passed into the spirit 
 world, we will try to find some spirit 
 there; or some one living here, whom 
 we can impress to work at or do the 
 same thing we did, or longed to do, 
 while we were living. 
 
 What did we know while living? 
 Only a certain kind of work, and in 
 the spirit world we will only know just 
 what we have learned or done while 
 here. If we desire to progress here, 
 we will progress there. If anyone is 
 forced here to work at something he 
 did not like to do, then, when his spirit 
 leaves the body, it will go and do the 
 work it longed to do while living. 
 Therefore, our work in the spirit world 
 
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 depends upon our work here, and if we 
 have not attempted to violate God's 
 laws while living, we can change our 
 work there. If we have, we will be 
 compelled to go and stay at certain 
 work until we have paid for our wrong 
 doing ; then we can progress. 
 
 When a little babe passes into the 
 spirit world, of course it has had no 
 time or chance to learn here. We have 
 told you in other chapters that spirits 
 are working, helping other spirits that 
 are in need of help in the spirit world, 
 or trying to impress mortals to do just 
 what they did while they were living. 
 So, in the spirit world, the babes are 
 nursed, watched over and cared for by 
 spirit nurses. Then they grow up and 
 are educated, the same as mortal chil- 
 dren. All this time, the nurse, or some 
 
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 other spirit, takes and shows them who 
 their parents are, and when they are 
 old enough and have finished their edu- 
 cation, they go on and do the work they 
 want to do; helping other spirits or 
 mortals, and filling their mission of 
 love. 
 
 Remember, each spirit is doing some- 
 thing in the spirit world. Life is al- 
 ways active, always moving, always 
 progressing, never standing still, 
 neither on the earth plane nor in the 
 spirit world. Every day you are a day 
 older, and your body is changing, and 
 you are younger today than you ever 
 will be again. You cannot stop the 
 progression of life; neither can you 
 stop working. And as you are work- 
 ing here for either good or evil, just so 
 you will work in the spirit world. 
 
CHAPTER XXIII 
 
 CALL ON THE SPIRIT AND ASK FOR 
 WHAT YOU WANT 
 
 Call on the Spirit, and ask for what 
 you want; do not think or expect that 
 it will come and do your work while you 
 sit around with your arms folded. The 
 spirit forces will not bother themselves 
 enough about you to wait on you, or 
 tell you your wants, or what you should 
 have, or ask for. They have enough 
 other things to attend to, helping other 
 people who know what they want and 
 are willing to ask for it ; it is your place 
 to ask for yourself. You have a mouth 
 and can speak; then why do you not 
 ask and call for what you want? 
 
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 If you, yourself, do not know what 
 you want, pray tell me, how can you 
 expect any spirit to tell you, or, what 
 do you expect to get or have come to 
 you? If you only knew what you want- 
 ed, it might probably be right near you 
 now, and if you called for it and asked 
 for it, it might help you. It is an old 
 saying, but it is true today, that "any- 
 thing that is not worth asking for is 
 not worth having." 
 
 There are many blessings waiting in 
 store for people if they live aright and 
 ask for them in the right way. There 
 is no one to come to you to ask what 
 you want; neither is there any law to 
 force you to ask ; that is your privilege, 
 as we have told you in other chapters. 
 
 It is not the faith nor belief you may 
 have, which will make you a happier 
 
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 or better person, but the good works 
 you do. Then why not call and ask for 
 the very best that will make you feel 
 happier and better? You should call 
 on the loved ones in spirit, who are 
 ever ready to help you through your 
 trials, the same as they did when liv- 
 ing in their bodies. 
 
 Our life here and in the hereafter 
 depends only upon ourselves. We are 
 placed in this world as our own free 
 moral agent, and to choose what we 
 will. There is everything that is good 
 in this world for us, and we have the 
 right to ask for, or choose, it. If we 
 do not ask, how can we expect to re- 
 ceive? 
 
 The world we are in is a great store- 
 house of knowledge; we are the keep- 
 ers of the same, and we must be care- 
 
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 ful that we ask for, and take, some- 
 thing good, that we can use, for it will 
 be charged to us in the hereafter, and 
 we must give an accounting of it; for 
 more precious than anything money 
 can buy is the love, joy and happiness 
 that we create by the use of it, which 
 will be in the hereafter awaiting us. 
 
 We are the only ones that can lead 
 our own lives. It is not what we be- 
 lieve that will make us, but that which 
 we do, and accomplish. When we do 
 right, we are happy; when we do 
 wrong, we are sad. Our acts make 
 us feel happy, or sad, according to 
 their fruits, and our deeds are 
 they which will judge us. So it 
 will be seen plainly, that we are the 
 makers of our own happiness and des- 
 tinies. If I speak a word of good cheer 
 
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 to some sorrowing one, and thus lighten 
 his burden, I am laying up joy for my- 
 self hereafter. I tell him how beauti- 
 ful this world is, and what a grand 
 place it is to live in. If we would only 
 seek the good in everything, we would 
 be happy ; if we had not been thinking 
 good thoughts, we could not have given 
 this word of cheer to him, thus making 
 both happier, by doing good. 
 
 We can impart only the thought that 
 is within us, and the only way that we 
 will, or can, ever get any good thoughts 
 within us, is to seek them. By think- 
 ing the best of thoughts, we attract, 
 and make the best condition for, the 
 best of spirits to come in and take con- 
 trol of our bodies. Mark you, there is 
 some kind of spirit within you all the 
 time; you do not have to ask anyone 
 
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 what kind of spirit that is. You know 
 yourself better than anyone else does. 
 You know just how you feel when you 
 have done wrong or allowed yourself 
 to take on some one else's condition, 
 who used to feel sad ; and if you will al- 
 low yourself to take on a condition that 
 causes you to be sad, that is your weak- 
 ness; you are doing wrong, when you 
 could just as well feel happy. You think 
 as you feel, and feel as you think; you 
 attract to you, and as you attract, that 
 spirit takes possession of you and that 
 is just what you are. You can either 
 laugh or sing, or cry, it is for you to 
 choose ; they are all around, you. Then, 
 why not call on the good spirits and ask 
 for what you want? 
 
 How glorious this beautiful world is, 
 after all? We can look about us with 
 
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 our natural eyes, and see what Mother 
 Earth is producing, and the wonderful 
 work of nature. Then, without mov- 
 ing out of our way, we can see, with 
 our spiritual eyes — if we have them 
 open — the dear ones who passed into 
 the spirit world, who are all around us ; 
 and yet, you say this world is not 
 worth living in! 
 
 Oh, if you could only remove the 
 scales of ignorance from your material 
 eyes, and remove that thin veil in front 
 of your spiritual eyes, that hinders you 
 from seeing and knowing all about this 
 beautiful world that you are living in, 
 you would not have to acquire faith or 
 belief in anything, but you would see 
 and know, and be able to talk to those 
 in spirit-life, and get all the informa- 
 tion that you want for yourself. You 
 
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 would know then, that your life de- 
 pends upon what you do, that you are 
 responsible for it; ignorance or no ig- 
 norance, or whatever your plea may be, 
 you will get your, reward, good or ill, 
 according to your works whils living 
 in the material body, whether you have 
 used your spirit eyes or not. They have 
 been given to you to use, but no one can 
 compel you to use them ; that is for you 
 to choose. You can be either happy or 
 sad; it is your choice. You are either 
 one or the other ; it is a one-sided ques- 
 tion. If you do not use your spirit 
 right, and are not happy here in this 
 life, you will not be happy in the next. 
 By calling on the good spirits and ask- 
 ing for what you want, they will teach 
 you the way. 
 
CHAPTER XXIV 
 
 WHO ANSWERS PRAYER 
 
 We answer our own prayer, for when 
 we pray for good we attract good to us. 
 Good takes control of us, and we are 
 good through and through. 
 
 When you are hungry you pray for 
 something to eat. You do not sit down 
 and wait for an angel to bring you the 
 food, but you will seek it; and when 
 you find it, you will not pray for some 
 one to put it in your mouth but you will 
 do that yourself. 
 
 Who sought, found, and ate the food? 
 You did ! Who answered your prayer? 
 You did! We are the only ones that 
 
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 can answer our prayers; we are the 
 only ones that can eat, live or die for 
 ourselves. 
 
 Every person who wants to do right 
 should keep it in his mind ; that should 
 be his prayer, day and night; that 
 should be the one thought in his mind 
 and the one word on his lips. "I want 
 to do right; help me, dear Spirit, I pray 
 Thee." During the day, and when you 
 retire at night, if your prayer is: "I 
 want to do right," so long as you keep 
 that thought in your mind, there is no 
 room for evil, for right and good have 
 control of you. 
 
 One's life here should be a life of 
 prayer, because our life and happiness, 
 here and in the spirit world, depend on 
 it. A life of prayer is the only kind of 
 life worth living. It is true, we can 
 
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 pray to do right one minute and can do 
 wrong the next, but if we keep the 
 thought of "right" on our minds con- 
 tinually, we cannot do wrong, for right 
 will be with us as long as we call for it. 
 
 If we would pray and bless every- 
 thing, and do right, instead of being 
 cross and complaining about this or 
 that — having poor health or experienc- 
 ing financial losses — all the time look- 
 ing on the dark side of life and wishing 
 we and everybody else were dead, — if, 
 as we have said, we would pray for 
 light and help, we would receive them. 
 We should always bless the good, and 
 pray, and be thankful that our lot is no 
 worse than it is. 
 
 Bless everything you eat, and keep 
 your mind on it; and do not sit down 
 to the table to eat when you are angry, 
 
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 for you will not take time to properly 
 masticate your food. You will eat too 
 fast. Then after awhile you will have 
 trouble with your stomach and wonder 
 what is the matter with you ; that is not 
 your stomach's fault, but yours, for 
 abusing it. Pray for, and seek, only 
 the good that is in everything; and the 
 spirit forces will help and bless you. 
 The spirit forces desire that you pray 
 for their help, not only on Sunday, but 
 on every day in the week. 
 
CHAPTER XXV 
 
 WHAT DO SPIRITS KNOW? 
 
 There is no one living who knows all 
 that is going on in his own city. He 
 may read the newspapers, or receive 
 letters and telegrams, still he does not 
 know it all, for people are working, and 
 they have no time to go from house to 
 house to find out what others are do- 
 ing. It is true, they will talk with those 
 with whom they are working, and if 
 these feel like it, they may tell about 
 themselves. Then they know only just 
 what they, and those they are working 
 with, are doing. It is just so with the 
 spirits in the spirit world ; everyone has 
 
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 his work to do, and has no time to go 
 around and see what is going on. 
 
 As we have told you in other chap- 
 ters, there are messengers in the spirit 
 world, and when a messenger is wanted 
 to take a message from one part of that 
 world to another, one of these takes the 
 message and delivers it. That is the 
 way spirits get the news they give to 
 mortals, unless it is something right in 
 and around where the spirits are work- 
 ing, then they can receive the message 
 themselves, without sending a messen- 
 ger. Therefore, all that spirits know is 
 what they themselves see, or receive 
 from the other spirits that are around 
 them. 
 
 The spirit that gives the message 
 may be truthful, but it may not know 
 anything about the spirit from whom it 
 
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 receives it. It takes for granted that 
 the other spirit is telling the truth ; or 
 it may be that the spirit messenger was 
 misinformed, that the message it re- 
 ceived and delivered was not true. But 
 other spirits should not be blamed ; any 
 more than you should be blamed for re- 
 peating something you might have 
 heard and told as truth, which, when 
 investigated, was proven false. 
 
 Every time a spirit comes to you 
 with a message, or tries to manifest to 
 you, do not drive the spirit away, but 
 try to prove its message and see wheth- 
 er it is true or not. If it is not true do 
 not bother with that spirit, nor believe 
 it, until you have proven that the mes- 
 sage or manifestation is true ; then wel- 
 come it. 
 
 You cannot tell by the looks of a 
 
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 spirit whether he is stating the truth or 
 not, until you have received, tried, and 
 proven the truth of his message. When 
 you receive a telegram from any part 
 of the country, you do not ask or care 
 who the messenger is, or what his past 
 life has been, or what he looks like, or 
 whether he can tell the truth or not, so 
 long as he brings the message; or, if 
 you are in need, you do not care who the 
 person is, or how he looks, that helps 
 you, provided you receive the help ; that 
 is all you ask. Therefore, there is no 
 one living here, nor in the spirit world, 
 who knows all ; neither is there any one 
 perfect here, or there. 
 
CHAPTER XXVI 
 
 CLOTHING AND CHARACTERISTICS 
 OF SPIRITS 
 
 It makes no difference whether you 
 are standing upright, or are ill in bed, 
 or unconscious, or with all your rela- 
 tives and friends around you, either 
 day or night, the moment so-called 
 Death takes place, your spirit will leave 
 its "earthly house, ,, which is your body, 
 at which time it will be clothed with its 
 spiritual clothing, which you have al- 
 ways carried with you. The appear- 
 ance of your spiritual clothing will de- 
 pend very much upon the kind of life 
 you have lived; whether it was clean, 
 pure, beautiful and full of good deeds, 
 
CLOTHING AND CHARACTERISTICS 177. 
 
 or was clouded by evil deeds and 
 thoughts. Also, the appearance of it 
 will be marked by the color and style of 
 clothing you formerly wore, and the 
 colors that were your favorites, as these 
 will be the means your spirit will use to 
 show your individuality, and by which 
 you may be recognized by your earthly 
 friends. 
 
 After your spirit has assumed the 
 clothing which you have provided for 
 it while you were living, although you 
 may see other spirits with brighter and 
 more beautiful raiment than yours, you 
 cannot change the appearance of yours, 
 for that is the result of your past life, 
 and there is no one who can exchange 
 with you, for all must wear the raiment 
 which they have provided for them- 
 selves, 
 
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 When you go into the spirit world, 
 you will go to your own home, which 
 you have builded by your thoughts, acts 
 and deeds, while living in your earthly 
 house or body. Your spirit also will 
 seek the companionship of those who 
 thought, and did, the same as you, 
 either good or evil, and will remain in 
 that condition until it has progressed 
 to a higher one. If your spirit, while 
 in that condition, is able to communi- 
 cate with mortals, it will try to impress 
 them to do the same deeds as you did 
 while living. These conditions are nat- 
 ural and cannot be broken, as they are 
 God's lav/; namely: "That as a man 
 sows, so must he reap." 
 
 If, while in earth-life, a person has 
 done that which was right, doing unto 
 others as he would that they should do 
 
CLOTHING AND CHARACTERISTICS 179 
 
 unto him, and has done all the good he 
 knew how to do, to his fellow-creatures, 
 both temporally and spiritually, that is 
 all that God requires of any one, and 
 he has fulfilled his life's mission. Then, 
 when he passes into the spirit world, he 
 will be free to go wherever he wishes, 
 and will not be compelled to remain in 
 the company of any certain class of 
 spirits ; nor with those who had led un- 
 clean lives, who will have to stay in a 
 certain place, under certain conditions, 
 until they have progressed beyond their 
 evil deeds, and are fit to mingle with 
 those of higher conditions, when they 
 too, will be free to go where they will. 
 If a person, while living, did evil deeds, 
 his spirit will seek those in the earth- 
 life who do such deeds, and will seek 
 to impress, and be a guide to, such per- 
 
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 sons, thus satisfying the spirit's evil 
 desires. 
 
 Like attracts like, and as a man 
 thinks, so is he, and that is the kind of 
 spirits he attracts to himself, and that 
 is what his life will be. If a person, 
 while in the flesh, did only evil deeds, it 
 would not be natural for him, when he 
 became a spirit, to desire the company 
 of those mortals who were living clean, 
 pure lives; rather will he desire to be 
 with those who are evil, that he may 
 impress, and use, them, and cause them 
 to do as he did or desired to do while 
 living. 
 
 Usually the spirits of those who in 
 their earth-life were good, noble, and 
 pure, do not seek to impress mortals 
 who, unlike themselves, are given to 
 deeds of darkness, but they may mani- 
 
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 f est to such, if they wish, and feel that 
 it is their duty to do so, and desire to 
 lift such mortals from the evil of their 
 ways. It is much easier for those 
 higher spirits to manifest themselves 
 to mortals who are living unclean, evil 
 lives, than it is for those spirits of evil- 
 doers to manifest to mortals of clean, 
 pure lives ; because the pure, good and 
 noble spirits have learned, while living, 
 to overcome temptation and have pro- 
 gressed spiritually ; whereas the evil or 
 ignorant spirits, while on earth, cared 
 nothing for the things of the spirit life, 
 or if they did know about them, wil- 
 fully sinned. So when they have taken 
 their places in the spirit world, they 
 must suffer, and pay the penalty of 
 their wrong-doing. Thus they are more 
 
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 easily attracted to those like themselves 
 in the earth-life. 
 
 Therefore, it can easily be seen, that 
 if mortals would only cultivate and use 
 their spirit-eyes, they could see these 
 impure spirits who are all around 
 them, and who, when these mortals are 
 thinking or doing evil deeds, are drawn 
 to them and further impress them to 
 continue in evil. If they would use their 
 spirit-eyes they could see the dark, evil 
 appearance of these spirits and thus 
 avoid, and protect themselves from, 
 ihem, through life. 
 
CHAPTER XXVII 
 
 THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SPIRIT AND 
 THOUGHT 
 
 A person may be walking along the 
 street or sitting in his home when sud- 
 denly the thought of some one who is 
 living may impress itself upon his mind 
 so that he seems to perceive his pres- 
 ence. Possibly he may not have seen 
 or heard from that individual for a 
 long time, yet as he keeps on walking, 
 or whatever else he may be doing, soon 
 he will come face to face with him, or 
 the person may call to see him unexpec- 
 tedly at his home. 
 
 People think ; they cannot help them- 
 selves ; but they are not obliged to take 
 
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 on any particular thought. If they 
 take on some one else's thought or con- 
 dition they can throw that off. They 
 send out their thought wherever they 
 go, and whoever may come in touch 
 with that thought, it will either picture 
 itself on the person's mind, so that he 
 will see the other party as though he 
 were standing in front of him, or it will 
 impress that person in some way or 
 other, which may cause him to do or say 
 things he would not have said or done 
 had he not come in line or in contact 
 with that thought. 
 
 When you make up your mind to go 
 to a place, you think about that place, 
 and, as you think, you send out a 
 thought. The thought goes ahead of 
 you, — directly to the place to which you 
 had been thinking of going. It does not 
 
SPIRIT AND THOUGHT 185 
 
 jump over this or that house, down this 
 or that alley or street, but it will go 
 directly to the place to which you were 
 thinking of going; and if any one you 
 know should happen to be on the street 
 in direct line with your thought, it 
 would picture itself so on his mind that 
 he would see you and think about you. 
 
 So, inasmuch as thoughts are things, 
 whenever you send out a thought you 
 send out that part of yourself which 
 has force, power and strength, and can 
 be seen by the sensitive; if not, people 
 could not or would not see and think 
 about one another the way they do be- 
 fore they meet them face to face with- 
 out an appointment. 
 
 When a Doctor has a very sick pa- 
 tient, he will not allow any one to come 
 into the sick room to talk to or see the 
 
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 patient. Why? Because it would make 
 the patient weaker, as it takes away so 
 much of his strength to talk. There- 
 fore, whenever any one speaks, he is 
 sending out and giving away his 
 strength, which is part of himself. 
 
 Around every person are thoughts of 
 the living and the dead, since every per- 
 son is thinking about some one else. 
 Every person, while living, thinks and 
 sends forth thoughts. These thoughts 
 live on after the death of the person, 
 remain here, and, becoming manifest to 
 the sensitive, are often seen around 
 people who sometimes describe them as 
 "spirits." The more a person thinks 
 about you, the more thoughts he is 
 sending out; and also the more 
 thoughts of different people that are 
 around you, and the stronger the con- 
 
SPIRIT AND THOUGHT 187 
 
 ditions, the easier it is for those who 
 are sensitive, to take on, or see and de- 
 scribe the conditions, or what they call 
 "spirits" around you, though in reality, 
 they do not see a "spirit." What they 
 do see is the thoughts, which are a part 
 of the living, and thus take on the ap- 
 pearance and condition of the living, 
 and of those who were thinking such 
 thoughts, had sent them forth, and, as 
 the sensitive see it, they "sense" and 
 see something which they call "spirit." 
 Instead of the "spirit" it is the thought 
 pictured before them that they see. 
 
 Thoughts are things, and things can 
 be seen. So if one thought will picture 
 itself so strongly on one's mind that 
 when he walks along the street with- 
 out a thought of any certain person, 
 that person's thought is pictured on his 
 
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 mind as plainly as though he were in 
 front of him, how much easier must it 
 be to see the thoughts — or pictures — 
 around several persons when in their 
 company ! 
 
 By the sensitive not understanding 
 the spiritual laws, and because of their 
 not having their spirit eyes opened, or 
 if their spiritual eyes were open, even 
 then, it is very difficult to tell the differ- 
 ence between the spirit of one who did 
 not know anything about the spiritual 
 laws before he passed out of life (as 
 we have explained in other chapters) 
 and the thoughts which take shape and 
 form and can be seen around people by 
 a sensitive person. Because the out- 
 lines or forms of such spirits are too 
 weak to be revealed plainly, it is very 
 difficult to distinguish the difference 
 
SPIRIT AND THOUGHT 189 
 
 between the thoughts of people which 
 are pictured on our minds and the spir- 
 its that we see around people. This is 
 one reason why we have written the 
 chapter, "Never Describe or Give 
 Spirit Messages in Public." 
 
CHAPTER XXVIII 
 
 NEVER DESCRIBE OR GIVE A SPIRIT MES- 
 SAGE IN PUBLIC 
 
 Never describe, or give a spirit mes- 
 sage, or try to give out what you see 
 around people spiritually, in a public 
 meeting ; because you will not be under- 
 stood, and there will be those present 
 who will hear you, but will not under- 
 stand how, or why, you are able to see 
 and describe what you see around them, 
 when they themselves cannot do so. 
 Why ? Because they have not had these 
 spiritual laws explained to them. Re- 
 member, it is for you to teach the people 
 how to live aright, and to read, study 
 and practice "Soul Science, the Proof of 
 
MESSAGES IN PUBLIC 191 
 
 Life after Death." Then they will 
 themselves be able to see and receive 
 the proof of life after death. 
 
 The main object of "Soul Science, the 
 Proof of Life after Death" is to teach 
 the people how to open their spirit 
 eyes, which God has given them to use, 
 so that they can see the spirits and will 
 know how to attract the good spirits 
 to and around them; which will make 
 them happier here, and in the spirit 
 world. The giving out, to any one, 
 of what you see, or the spirit message 
 you receive from some spirit in the 
 spirit world, will never teach him how 
 to live aright and be a better person, or 
 how to open his spirit eyes to see and 
 know what spirits are around him. 
 
 It is true you may receive a spirit 
 message from a loved one in the spirit 
 
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 world, which may make you feel very 
 happy for the time being. But, at the 
 same time, if that same person, who de- 
 livered to you the message, were to ex- 
 plain to you how you can open your 
 spirit eyes and see for yourself, and 
 assure you that you can and would be 
 able to see spirits and receive messages 
 from them at any or all times, would 
 you not be a happier person? When 
 your spirit eyes are open, such opening 
 will prove the continuity of life, thus 
 making you happier and better here, 
 and in the spirit world. 
 
 You will remember that we have 
 told you in other chapters that our life 
 and happiness in the spirit world do 
 not depend upon what some one else 
 may say or do, nor on what we believe, 
 but upon what we ourselves do. There- 
 
MESSAGES IN PUBLIC 193 
 
 fore all the messages we may receive in 
 this world will never teach us how to be 
 happy, nor make us any happier here, 
 or in the spirit world. 
 
 As we can only think one thought, 
 and speak one word, at a time, instead 
 of giving a message or describing what 
 we see around people at the meetings, 
 the time would be better spent in tell- 
 ing and explaining to them how they 
 can see the same as we can if they un- 
 derstand the spiritual laws. Life is so 
 short, and time so precious, we should 
 direct all our thoughts and words 
 where they will do the most good. So 
 by telling and explaining to them how 
 to live and how to think and do right, 
 and how to open their spirit eyes to see 
 for themselves, you teach them how 
 they may live happier lives, 
 
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 Suppose you were in a meeting of a 
 thousand persons, and you were to give 
 one of those persons a spirit message 
 which that person would recognize at 
 once ; no doubt that individual would be 
 pleased, but none of the other nine hun- 
 dred and ninety nine persons present 
 would know whether the message given 
 was true or false, neither would they 
 understand the message. By giving 
 one person the message, you have made 
 that one person happy, whereas had you 
 spent that same amount of time ex- 
 plaining to the entire thousand persons 
 how they could all see spirits with their 
 spirit eyes, if they had them opened, 
 you would then have made the one thou- 
 sand persons happy all through life in- 
 stead of one person pleased for a short 
 while. 
 
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 No one can use your spirit eyes but 
 you. They are given for your use ex- 
 clusively, and if you do not use them 
 you cannot, or will not, be happy here 
 or in the spirit world. Because you 
 do not use these eyes that are given to 
 you to use every day of your life in your 
 business, your home, and your family 
 circle, either day or night, you are rob- 
 bing yourself. 
 
 Still you must carry those eyes 
 around with you, whether you use them 
 or not. They are yours, and belong to 
 you, and if you do not use them you are 
 not protecting your spiritual body, and 
 will have to pay the penalty for not 
 having accomplished your life's mis- 
 sion, which is, to use that which you 
 have, and to help to do all the good you 
 can to those who need your assistance. 
 
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 The only way that you can accomplish 
 this, your work of service to mankind, 
 is to use your spirit eyes. Then you 
 will be able to see what spirits are 
 {•round you, and around those whom 
 jju meet; then you will be so happy 
 that you will be unable to keep it to 
 yourself, and will tell it to the world, 
 thus making others happy. 
 
 You will also see and know where 
 the spirit world is, and who and where 
 God is; you will do more and better 
 Jeeds, will love, and be loved by, all, 
 and will realize how precious and sweet 
 life is to you, and should be to all. 
 
CHAPTER XXIX 
 
 HOW TO HOLD CLASSES AND CALL ON 
 AND COMMUNICATE WITH SPIRITS 
 
 Classes should be held in every home 
 for the development of the spiritual 
 sight, and that would make the home a 
 haven of rest. After "Soul Science, the 
 Proof of Life after Death" has been 
 thoroughly read, explained and under- 
 stood in the home, as to how the spirits 
 are around people, how we can, and 
 why every person should be able to, see 
 spirits with the spirit eyes, then class- 
 es should be formed; after which they 
 will be ready and able to understand 
 whatever the spirit is trying to mani- 
 fest to them. 
 
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 When a person who has met with an 
 accident and has lost a limb, passes into 
 spirit life, he will have the use of the 
 limb in the spirit world that he lost in 
 earth life, but when he appears to his 
 mortal friends in spirit he will appear 
 just as he did when he last saw them, 
 that is, without the limb. 
 
 Just so when a babe passes out of this 
 life, it grows to the same height, 
 weight, color of hair, and complexion 
 it would have had, had it lived and 
 grown to maturity on the earth plane, 
 but when it appears to its mother, years 
 afterward, it will appear as a babe, so 
 that its mother can, and will, recognize 
 it as she last saw it, a babe. If it were 
 to appear as an adult, the mother could 
 not, and would not, recognize her own 
 child. 
 
HOW TO HOLD CLASSES 199 
 
 The spirits cannot, or will not, mani- 
 fest in the home, unless you make the 
 conditions right for them ; therefore the 
 manifestation depends upon your- 
 selves, not the spirits. The spirits can- 
 not, or will not, manifest to you or any- 
 one else under adverse conditions. Re- 
 member, spirits do not have to mani- 
 fest to you just because you want them 
 to do so, or think they should. 
 
 When you sit in the class to develop, 
 you should dress neatly, and not have 
 any strong odor of tobacco or anything 
 else on your clothing. You would not 
 want anyone to visit you in that way, 
 neither do the spirits want, or expect, 
 you to call on them that way, for they 
 are very sensitive, and are unable to 
 manifest to you under such conditions. 
 The best is none too good for you, or the 
 
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 spirits, and by your dressing neatly, 
 and by your thinking good thoughts, 
 and taking the very best thoughts with 
 you, you are helping the spirits to man- 
 ifest to you and to others in the class. 
 
 Do not go to the class, or sit in the 
 class, just to see what kind of spirit 
 message you will receive, or how the 
 spirits will manifest there. If that is 
 all you go for, stay at home; for you 
 will take with you, and establish, such 
 a condition that the others will not be 
 able to get good results. 
 
 If there are good conditions in the 
 class, each person should be able to see 
 and communicate with spirits in the 
 spirit world, not only in the class room, 
 but at all times, by spiritual under- 
 standing, if he will take time to read 
 and understand this book, "Soul Sci- 
 
HOW TO HOLD CLASSES 201 
 
 ence, the Proof of Life after Death." 
 Therefore, you do not have to go to an- 
 other person to receive communications 
 from your loved ones, for they are all 
 around you, as explained in other chap- 
 ters, doing all they can to manifest to 
 you. If you do not or cannot, receive a 
 communication from your loved ones, 
 it is because you are ignorant of the 
 spiritual laws. You have spiritual eyes, 
 and if you do not use them, you 
 will suffer for it. God has given those 
 eyes to you for your use, and unless you 
 use them you are robbing your spirit, 
 hindering its progress, and preventing 
 the fulfillment of its mission here. 
 
 Make up your mind in advance as to 
 the time when you want to call on the 
 spirit you wish to see or communicate 
 with; and keep thinking about that 
 
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 spirit that you desire to manifest to 
 you ; that will help to attract that spirit 
 to you, and will help to open your spirit 
 eyes, that you may have a better spirit- 
 ual understanding. 
 
 After "Soul Science, the Proof of 
 Life after Death" has been thoroughly 
 read and understood, as already stated, 
 classes should be held in homes, once a 
 week, calling on the "Good Spirits" to 
 come and help you all to see spiritual- 
 ly. While you are all sitting in the 
 class, do not talk about the work of 
 every day, but keep your mind on the 
 "Good Spirits." You should all soon 
 begin to see, hear, "sense," or receive, 
 some impression, while sitting in the 
 class, which should prove to you all, 
 that the spirits are around, trying to 
 
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 impress you and communicate with 
 you. 
 
 As soon as you commence to sit in the 
 class, you should all sing and pray, as 
 directed in Chapter XXXIX of "Soul 
 Science," then sit quietly, and if any- 
 one speaks, he should speak only about 
 spirits or what he is receiving from the 
 spirit forces. If the spirits were not 
 there, you could not have thought or 
 talked about them. Every time you 
 think about a spirit, the spirit must be 
 there, or you could not have thought or 
 talked about it. Everything you talk 
 or think about must exist; if not, you 
 could not talk about it. 
 
 Whenever you think about a spirit, 
 speak to that spirit as though you were 
 speaking to a friend, and you will get 
 some impression in response to your 
 
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 question. That is the way some spir- 
 its will answer you; others may want 
 you to write, so they will impress you 
 to get a pencil and paper, and will con- 
 trol your hand so that you will write 
 whatever they impress you to do. Try 
 sitting that way several times, and see 
 if it is not what they want you to do. If 
 it is, continue to follow that impression. 
 Before anyone sits in a class, he 
 should read this book "Soul Science, the 
 Proof of Life after Death," through 
 and through, and understand it thor- 
 oughly, so that he will understand and 
 know just how spirits can and do man- 
 ifest to us every day, and why each 
 person should develop and use his spir- 
 itual eyes so as to see how to protect the 
 spiritual body, as the Creator intended 
 he should do. Had it not been so in- 
 
HOW TO HOLD CLASSES 205 
 
 tended, they never would have been 
 given to him. 
 
 God never makes a mistake. He 
 knows that spirits are everywhere, and 
 He also knows what will happen to 
 those who do not use their spiritual 
 eyes. Every person should have his 
 spiritual eyes open, so as to be able to 
 see spirits, the same as he has his mate- 
 rial eyes open to see material things. 
 
 Developing means understanding; if 
 you understand, you can see and can 
 develop. Remember, the Truth is found 
 in proving whether things be right or 
 wrong. 
 
CHAPTER XXX 
 
 SPEAK A WORD OF CHEER 
 
 When you go to call on a friend, you 
 should go with the intention of cheer- 
 ing him up, or helping him in any and 
 every way you can, but instead of help- 
 ing him some people often make him 
 feel worse, by having called on him. 
 
 When you call on the sick, do not tell 
 them they look so ill; you will only 
 make them feel worse. If they do not 
 know they are sick, do not tell them 
 they look so ill, for you may do them 
 more harm than good. It may be they 
 have been sick for a long time and have 
 given up hope of getting well; your 
 
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 telling them that they are looking poor- 
 ly, might be the cause of their abandon- 
 ing hope, and passing out. 
 
 On the other hand, had you told them 
 that they were going to get well, or 
 had you given them a cheerful word, 
 they might have been encouraged and 
 made a greater effort to live, and lived 
 on for a number of years more ; just by 
 a word of cheer. If you cannot do that, 
 do not go near them, as you will only 
 make them worse, when they do not ask, 
 or have not asked, you to tell them how 
 they feel, or how they look. Should 
 you not have seen them for months, you 
 would be in no position to tell them 
 anything anyway. 
 
 When you talk to them, speak of 
 some subject that will please them; but 
 do not continue the talk until the sick 
 
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 person is all worn out or getting nerv- 
 ous. Do not stay too long at a time, but 
 go often and then make your visit 
 pleasant. After you have left the sick 
 person, he will think for days to come 
 of everything you have said to him, and 
 it may run through his mind several 
 times a day. The more he thinks about 
 it, the deeper the impression will be, 
 until he believes every word of it, 
 whether it is true or not. 
 
 When people are ill and in a relaxed 
 condition, they will believe what is told 
 them at that time, though they would 
 not pay any attention to it if they were 
 well ; in fact you will tell them things 
 then that you would not have talked 
 about if they were well. 
 
 Do all the good you can to help them, 
 speak a word of cheer, and if they pass 
 
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 out of life, you will be glad that you 
 called on them when they were in need, 
 and did all you could do ; you can glad- 
 den their hearts, and they will die hap- 
 pier by knowing that their neighbors 
 thought something of them, and that 
 all was done that could be done to help 
 them and make them feel happy as 
 their end drew near. 
 
CHAPTER XXXI 
 
 NOW IS THE TIME TO DO GOOD 
 
 Now is the time to give to the sick 
 and needy. Do not wait until they have 
 passed into the spirit world to go and 
 place flowers on their graves. If you 
 have any smiles or roses to give to 
 friends, give them while they are liv- 
 ing, so they will appreciate them, and 
 do not wait until they are dead to place 
 them on the cold, cold grave, for the 
 roses and smiles will then do them no 
 good. What they need is encourage- 
 ment and cheer, while here. 
 
 Now is the time to give, for today is 
 the day of salvation. When persons are 
 
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 hungry and starving, feed them now, 
 when the food is what they want. It 
 will save their lives ; they cannot eat it 
 after they are dead. It would never 
 do them any good then, nor make them 
 feel any happier in the spirit world. If 
 you want to be happy, or if you want to 
 give and help to carry out your mission 
 here in this life, give now, for you may 
 never have another opportunity to help 
 others, like to now. 
 
 Your waiting until you think you 
 will find some one else more worthy of 
 help will be no excuse. Remember, the 
 more you do here in this life the hap- 
 pier you will be in spirit life. There is 
 no excuse for shirking your duty, and 
 excuses cannot make you happy in spir- 
 it life. It is not what you think, or be- 
 lieve, that will make you happy there, 
 
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 but it is what good you do while living 
 here; so give some of your love and 
 g,)od deeds here, and you will be happy 
 there. Not only will persons be hap- 
 pier in spirit life, but when they do 
 good here they know they have done the 
 right; consequently they are happier 
 here. No matter what others may say 
 or do, they have their reward for doing 
 good unto others. 
 
 Every person we meet is our brother 
 or sister, and it is our duty to do good 
 and give a helping hand to all who are 
 in need, to help them over the rough 
 and painful places in this life. There 
 are many spirits in the spirit realm 
 who would be much happier than they 
 are if they had only obeyed their good 
 impulses and given more assistance to 
 others, while on the earth-plane. Do 
 
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 not wait or defer your good deeds to a 
 future date, for if you do not make 
 others happy or help to lighten their 
 burdens here, you will not find happi- 
 ness awaiting you in the spirit realm. 
 Do all the good you can to your fellow- 
 man here, and you will be happier in 
 fulfilling your mission in this life and 
 be blessed in the spirit world. 
 
CHAPTER XXXII 
 
 WHY "SOUL SCIENCE, THE PROOF OF 
 
 LIFE AFTER DEATH" gHOULD BE 
 
 IN EVERY HOME 
 
 Why should "Soul Science, the Proof 
 of Life after Death," be read in every 
 home? Because it teaches how to open 
 the spirit eyes, to see spiritually the 
 different spirits that are around mor- 
 tals, so that those who live according to 
 its teachings will know, in advance, 
 just where they will go, whom they will 
 meet, and what they will do, when they 
 pass into the other life. Without this 
 knowledge, when they pass into spirit 
 life, their spirits will hover for some 
 time around the graves that hold their 
 
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 bodies, unless some spirit comes and 
 tells them they are in the spirit world, 
 or shows them how to progress in the 
 spirit world. 
 
 As we have told you in other chap- 
 ters, if you do not know anything here, 
 you will not know anything in the spir- 
 it world. Therefore, if you are ignor- 
 ant while living here in your body, in 
 regard to seeing spirits, and in regard 
 to the spiritual laws of the spirit world, 
 you will have to learn those spiritual 
 laws there, before you will ever be able 
 to progress, and see and know whom 
 and where you are, in order to be able 
 to send a message or manifest your- 
 self to some loved one who is still liv- 
 ing. 
 
 If persons can see spiritually, and 
 would go to the graveyard, they would 
 
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 be able to see spirits wandering about, 
 waiting for an angel to come and take 
 them to Heaven, as they were taught 
 they would be when they should die. 
 Since death, they have not been able to 
 find an angel waiting to show them the 
 way, and oh, how sad and disappointed 
 they seem to be! When we talk to 
 them, they do not seem to understand, 
 and yet they realize something is 
 wrong, and are amazed at the condition 
 in which they find themselves. They 
 see other spirits going about, each do- 
 ing his work. Some are happy, others 
 sad, according to the life they lived 
 while in their bodies. 
 
 After your loved ones have passed 
 into the spirit world, do not wear crape, 
 or mourning, or weep over their graves, 
 for that only holds their bodies; nor 
 
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 wish they were living, for you are only 
 hindering their progress in the spirit 
 world, and keeping them from being 
 happy and from doing their work 
 there. We assure you that you do not 
 want to go and help anybody that is 
 sad and crying all the time ; you do not 
 even want to be near them, because it 
 makes you feel sad just as they do. 
 
 Just so with your loved ones in the 
 spirit world. They do not want you to 
 mourn, and feel sad and weep for them, 
 because they have passed into the spirit 
 world. They are free from pain and are 
 happier than you are here. They do 
 not care to be near or around you, nor 
 any one else who is sad or crying, for 
 they suffered enough while living, and 
 now want to rest and be happy, and 
 want you to think good thoughts, lead 
 
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 good lives and be happy, so that their 
 spirits can come in to help you, and try 
 to repay you for the good you did in 
 helping them, while they were living 
 and suffering. You can, and do, help 
 your loved ones here and in the spirit 
 world, for they think and feel just as 
 you do. We pray you, do all the good 
 you can while living. That will make 
 every one happy here and in the spirit 
 world. 
 
 A knowledge of the teaching of "Soul 
 Science, the Proof of Life after Death," 
 will have a profound influence on chil- 
 dren. Parents often mark their chil- 
 dren's minds by thinking and talking 
 along certain lines. The home is the 
 place where they raise and teach their 
 children, who will remember, as long 
 as they live, just how they were raised 
 
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 and what they were taught to believe, 
 in their homes. 
 
 When the little one is playing on the 
 floor, if the parents were to give it 
 something sharp, or throw something 
 sharp near it on the floor, the little one 
 would be likely to pick it up, and hurt 
 itself. They could not blame the child, 
 nor should they punish it for being 
 hurt. They are the ones that should be 
 blamed and punished ; not the child. It 
 is just so with children. They are in- 
 fluenced by your life and conduct. 
 
 Parents, talk to your children. 
 Mothers, talk to your daughters. Take 
 them into your confidence and tell them 
 the secrets of life, so they will know 
 how to take care of, and protect, their 
 bodies ; and if anything appears wrong 
 to them, they will tell you, and in that 
 
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 way you may be the cause of saving 
 them much suffering, or even death. If 
 you do not tell them at home, they may 
 learn in a perverted fashion, away 
 from home, and it may be too late then 
 to save them. Just so, fathers, tell your 
 sons all about themselves. Teach them 
 not to smoke, chew, drink, or gamble. 
 Tell them that these are only evil hab- 
 its, which they can live without; that 
 if God intended that boys or men should 
 smoke, He would have created them 
 with a smoke-stack on their heads. Ask 
 them how they would like to see their 
 father with an old pipe in his mouth, 
 or tobacco-juice running down his chin. 
 Tell them not to drink any kind of liq- 
 uor, that it is not the last glass that 
 makes a person drunk, as you will hear 
 it said, but it is the first one ; for if they 
 
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 never take the first glass they will 
 never get drunk. 
 
 When a young man has taken his 
 first glass, others will begin to treat 
 him, and the first thing he knows, he 
 will get into a fight — it may be with 
 his best friend— be brought home 
 drunk, and thus disgrace his parents 
 and may be the cause of his becoming 
 a drunkard. And they will remember 
 it as long as they live. 
 
 Parents blame their children for be- 
 ing mean. We do not blame the chil- 
 dren so much as we do the parents, for 
 when those children were born, they 
 were poor little innocent babes, could 
 do no harm, and were not then bad 
 children. You raise your children at 
 home, and if they are bad, you must 
 
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 have raised them that way yourselves, 
 and did not train them right. 
 
 Speak only the truth to your chil- 
 dren, and they will respect you and 
 your word, and be a credit to you. You 
 may try to think you are deceiving your 
 children, but they are watching you, 
 and their minds are very active. They 
 will see you doing wrong, and although 
 they may not say anything to you about 
 it, they will be sure to follow your ex- 
 ample. They are all the time watching 
 and waiting for the time to come when 
 they can deceive you. Parents should 
 tell their children the truth if they ex- 
 pect the children to tell them the same, 
 and the best place to do that is in the 
 home. 
 
 Children are not bad if not made so. 
 Parents, you are teaching your chil- 
 
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 dren every day, by your lives. When 
 you do teach, or tell them, the truth, you 
 are drawing in, and around, yourselves 
 and children, that class of spirits and 
 conditions that will impress or cause 
 the children to do right. When you do 
 wrong, you are teaching your children, 
 and are drawing in and around them 
 and yourself, such conditions as will 
 encourage them to do wrong, the same 
 as you are doing, and when your chil- 
 dren do wrong, as a general thing, you 
 will blame some one else for teaching 
 them to do wrong, when really the 
 cause is in their own homes. 
 
 Parents, teach your children that 
 whenever they do wrong, though they 
 may not tell any one, or may try to 
 hide it or keep it from you, they will 
 suffer for it, whether they tell you or 
 
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 not, and they will not have to wait un- 
 til it is found out, or wait until they 
 are dead and then commence to suffer, 
 but that when they tell the truth and 
 do right, they are going to feel happy, 
 and other children will see that they 
 are happy, and will want to know the 
 cause, — and of course, they will tell 
 them all about it. They cannot keep it 
 to themselves. They will "give it 
 away". Just so, when they think they 
 can do wrong, without its being known 
 or found out, they will appear guilty, 
 and will talk the way they feel, — will 
 tell on themselves. They cannot help 
 it, or keep it to themselves. 
 
 "Soul Science, the Proof of Life after 
 Death" teaches how to get, and have, 
 more confidence in self, and in home, 
 and how to make this home a paradise. 
 
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 It will show every one the way to have 
 confidence, and drive out all fear, hat- 
 red and jealousy, and how to help im- 
 plant love in the hearts of all humanity. 
 It will rob the grave of victory, and 
 death of its sting. All who read it, and 
 observe its precepts, need not fear the 
 grave or death, — a fear which has 
 caused so much mental suffering 
 throughout all the ages past. The 
 grave is only a place in which to bury 
 the material body. Why should they 
 fear it? Death only means that their 
 life work is finished ! 
 
 After any one has worked hard and 
 faithfully for a day of ten hours, he is 
 glad his day's work is done, so that he 
 can go home and rest. He is not afraid 
 to go home, for he knows where he is 
 going, and what he will do, and whom 
 
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 he will see, when he gets there. The 
 home belongs to him and his. They 
 have made it just what it is. They do 
 not fear or dread to go to their home. 
 Why, we repeat, should people fear 
 death, when it only means that they are 
 going to their home in the spirit world, 
 to rest and enjoy that which they have 
 worked for? They have worked long, 
 and are tired ; why should they fear go- 
 ing to their home, which they built for 
 themselves according to the plans, and 
 with the material, they have provided 
 for it. There is something wrong; it 
 is useless to ask what it is. They say 
 they are good people. Then why will 
 they fear death? 
 
CHAPTER XXXIII 
 
 THE TRUTH 
 
 The Truth is the most simple thing 
 in the world to speak. Any one who 
 can speak can tell the Truth, for it is 
 natural, even with a little child. If you 
 will respect the Truth you can respect 
 your neighbor, your neighbor will re- 
 spect you, he will look up to you, and 
 you will respect yourself ; it may be the 
 cause of your making something out of 
 yourself, building up a good business, 
 and of your becoming loved and re- 
 spected by every one. 
 
 Living the Truth is the only kind of 
 life that will make you happy here and 
 
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 hereafter. The Truth is respected by 
 rich and poor, low and high, king and 
 ruler — all alike. The Truth makes peo- 
 ple free to think, act and do. The Truth 
 will rob jealousy of its fruit. Woe to 
 him who cannot stand up and face the 
 Truth. Some people are doing all they 
 can today to keep out of the way of 
 Truth. The Truth will lead the on- 
 ward march through life. 
 
 One does not have to stop and think 
 to tell the Truth, for it is perfectly nat- 
 ural to tell it. Yet there are those who 
 are going to great expense and doing 
 a l l they can to keep the Truth from the 
 people, and keep them in ignorance ; for 
 by so doing they can make them their 
 slaves and keep them from progressing. 
 
 Truth and Freedom go hand in hand, 
 even as slavery and suffering are the 
 
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 fruits of ignorance. If every person 
 only knew the Truth and what it meant 
 to him, this would be a happier and 
 better world. 
 
CHAPTER XXXIV 
 
 DESTINY AND HEREDITY 
 
 Man has been taught to believe in 
 Destiny and Heredity, which teaching 
 has caused some to pass out of life long 
 before they would pass had they not 
 been taught that way. It has caused 
 men to go through much unnecessary 
 suffering because they had been taught 
 to believe that God had destined every 
 person to a certain death by disease or 
 accident. 
 
 Those who teach such beliefs have 
 taken away the power God has given to 
 man, and have thus helped to destroy 
 the use of his body and limbs and to 
 
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 make him as helpless as a babe. He is 
 taught that he cannot avoid accidents, 
 that his days are numbered, and that 
 the time is appointed when he is to die 
 by a certain accident or disease. Thus 
 he does not try to avoid accidents nor 
 take better care of his health. When 
 he gets into a place where he sees there 
 is danger, he thinks he knows what his 
 fate is, and instead of trying to avoid 
 this accident, he will stand there and be 
 killed; whereas, if he had not been 
 taught that way, he could and would 
 have avoided the danger and not been 
 killed. 
 
 Because a man knows that there have 
 been certain members of his family for 
 the last ten generations who have 
 abused or misused their bodies, con- 
 tracted colds which have settled on 
 
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 their lungs, and caused them to pass 
 out of life with tuberculosis or other 
 trouble, he thinks that he must inherit 
 the same disease; and, just as soon as 
 he contracts a cold by not taking proper 
 care of himself, he commences to 
 cough, as he believes he has inherited 
 consumption, and must die that death. 
 He thinks that all the treatments and 
 medicines in the world will not cure 
 him of his malady. Of course, he gives 
 up all hope, and dies the way he pre- 
 dicted he would. By his thinking such 
 thoughts, he is attracting the spirits of 
 people who passed into the spirit world 
 with the same disease, and those spirits 
 are around him, and make him feel just 
 as they did before they passed out of 
 life. 
 
 Those who believe in destiny and 
 
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 heredity, and advocate that belief, are 
 the cause of sending many people into 
 the spirit world before they should. Be- 
 lieving that way, and not trying to live 
 rightly, cause much suffering in the 
 world to-day. 
 
 The cause of many diseases and 
 much suffering, as is explained more 
 fully in the chapter under the head of 
 "Diseases and Treatments", is that 
 people do not take care of themselves 
 as they should ; for example, they may 
 either eat too much, or not the proper 
 food. Heredity has nothing to do with 
 what you eat, how you dress, or take 
 care of your health ; there is something 
 within all people that tells them when 
 their hunger is satisfied. If they obey 
 this inward monitor and eat just 
 enough to be satisfied, they will never 
 
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 eat too much, will not be ill from over- 
 taxing their digestion, and will live 
 longer. 
 
 Heredity has nothing to do with a 
 person's over-eating, and thus causing 
 him to have a stroke of apoplexy, and 
 dying from it. If, after eating certain 
 food, you find that it does not agree 
 with you, do not eat it again ; or, if you 
 like certain food, do not over-eat of it; 
 do not make yourself sick with it and 
 then blame your parents or some one 
 else, or destiny or heredity, for it, or 
 the spirit forces for allowing such con- 
 ditions around you. Use your reason 
 and common sense at all times. Use 
 your spirit eyes to see what is around 
 you, spiritually ; drive away what you 
 do not want, and welcome the good. You 
 
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 make your own Destiny and Heredity 
 yourself, by your way of living and 
 thinking here. 
 
CHAPTER XXXV 
 
 STOP PUBLISHING ABOUT CRIMES AND 
 MURDERS 
 
 If all the evil deeds and crimes that 
 are committed were not published, 
 there would not be nearly so much 
 crime of all kinds going on in the world 
 as there is today. Every time we read 
 about a crime we are thinking about it, 
 and as we think, we attract that class 
 of spirits to us. Not only do we at- 
 tract them to us, but as we read, sug- 
 gestions come to us which are very 
 harmful, and may cause us to do evil. 
 
 There are all kinds of people think- 
 ing all kinds of thoughts, and when a 
 person who has been thinking of mur- 
 
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 dering some one, reads just how, when 
 and where, a certain crime was com- 
 mitted, given in full detail, and pub- 
 lished in the paper, it suggests some- 
 thing to that person, and, through that 
 suggestion it may cause him to commit 
 a crime that he never would have 
 thought of had he not read it in the 
 paper. Just as long as the details of 
 these awful crimes are allowed to be 
 published, just so long will people read 
 them, and the greater will be the num- 
 ber of crimes suggested and committed. 
 Whatever you are reading about, you 
 are attracting that class of spirits to 
 you, and the more that class of spirits 
 is around you, the more they are im- 
 pressing you to do what they did, or 
 wanted to do while they were living in 
 their bodies. How many times do boys 
 
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 run away from home after reading 
 some cheap novel, or attending cheap 
 moving pictures that show the killing 
 of Indians, etc. They were good boys, 
 had good parents, and were raised all 
 right. Or maybe some neighbors' boys 
 were telling them what they had read, 
 heard or seen, and that was enough. 
 Such exciting stories or pictures are 
 very apt to impress boys to steal money, 
 buy a revolver, and run away in search 
 of just the excitement they read of, 
 heard, or saw on the screen. Probably 
 you could not have hired those boys to 
 steal, or run away, before they read 
 about the Indians. 
 
 People have committed all sorts of 
 crimes after reading about them. When 
 you read something funny, it causes 
 you to laugh, and you would not have 
 
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 laughed at that time if you had not been 
 reading about it. If one thing you read 
 in the newspaper will cause you to 
 laugh, another thing will cause you to 
 cry, and thus act according to what you 
 read. As you read, so will you think, 
 and as you think, so are you. 
 
 Your life here and in the hereafter 
 depends upon what you read, your 
 thoughts, acts and deeds. Therefore, 
 as newspapers and books are the 
 thoughts of men made manifest, and as 
 those thoughts have power to mold the 
 minds of those who read them, they 
 may be the means of causing the eleva- 
 tion and purifying, or the degradation 
 and downfall, of the readers. Books or 
 papers detailing murder and crime 
 should be prohibited and not allowed 
 publication, 
 
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 Thought is all-powerful, and in time 
 of war we have a very good illustration 
 of its power. For many a century, cer- 
 tain peoples have had it impressed upon 
 their minds, by those in authority, and 
 by some writers and authors, that 
 Might makes Right, and as their rulers 
 had allowed greed and the desire for 
 conquest to take possession of them, 
 thus drawing around them spirits of 
 those who had oppressed and made war 
 upon fellow-beings in past ages, they 
 had become obsessed by those evil spir- 
 its, and impressed by them to do the 
 atrocious deeds of which they have been 
 guilty — deeds that have never been 
 equalled for cruelty. 
 
 In recent years war has become an 
 institution of barbaric cruelty, some 
 modern wars never having been 
 
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 equalled in ferocity by any of the un- 
 civilized nations of the past. In these 
 wars, crimes have been committed such 
 as were unknown in the dark ages, 
 crimes against humanity; the ethics of 
 war and of honorable warfare and civ- 
 ilization have been outraged by those 
 who have proved themselves worse than 
 barbarians. 
 
 Such have been the results of so- 
 called "modern" warfare. Some of 
 those people have become so evil in 
 their thoughts that even their religion 
 has been distorted into a self -worship, 
 and a worship of a god of their own 
 evil imaginations, a god of war, de- 
 lighting in the slaughter of innocent 
 women and children; they call upon 
 this god to help them to do these deeds 
 of evil. Thus, they call around them 
 
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 the powers of evil, who are then taking 
 the place of the true God, and leading 
 them and their poor, benighted people, 
 to the verge of destruction. Those are 
 the fruits of so-called modern warfare, 
 that has been waged upon humanity. 
 
 As surely as a man thinketh in his 
 heart, so is he; and his thoughts will 
 bear fruit, either for good or evil. If 
 more books were written telling us how 
 to live aright and serve the true God, 
 the Spirit of Life, whose dwelling-place 
 is within our hearts, teaching us that 
 the God of Life is not a cruel God, who 
 delights in war and murder, but that 
 He is a God of Love, who desires all 
 His creatures to live in love and har- 
 mony with one another as brethren; 
 then love would be the ruling power and 
 we would have neither prisons nor elec- 
 
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 trie chairs. Then would men progress 
 toward true civilization, and each man 
 would know where Heaven is, and what 
 his life will be after so-called "Death." 
 
CHAPTER XXXVI 
 
 LIARS AND SLANDERERS 
 
 It takes a smart man to be a good 
 liar ; he has to keep thinking, and keep 
 his mind on the alert at all times, in 
 order that people may not catch him in 
 his lies, and he will stay awake many 
 an hour, and put in many sleepless 
 nights, trying to think and formulate 
 another lie to offset the last lie he told 
 the same person. He will not only lie 
 to one person, but he will lie to every 
 one, and he will lie when the truth 
 would answer the best purpose. 
 
 Those people are in all walks of life. 
 Lying becomes a disease, and often 
 
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 causes the person to become obsessed. 
 Why will people talk to try to hurt one 
 another, when there is no one that is 
 perfect? Every person has his faults; 
 some may have greater faults than oth- 
 ers, some may not show their faults, yet 
 they may have greater faults than 
 those they are talking about. 
 
 As a general thing, people talk about 
 others on account of envy or jealousy; 
 and yet if all who talk about others, 
 either through jealousy or otherwise, 
 only knew that when they are talking 
 about others, they are talking about, 
 and hurting, themselves, they would 
 cease to do so. Just go home, and look 
 over your past life, and see what you 
 are doing; just think for one minute, if 
 you please, that there are other people 
 in this world. Say to yourself, "Well, 
 
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 who and what am I, and am I doing 
 unto others as I would have them do 
 unto me?" 
 
 Never mind your neighbors' busi- 
 ness, but pay strict attention to your 
 own. Think of your past life. You 
 know it better than any one else does. 
 See if you have not, yourself, done 
 more and worse things than you know 
 or have heard about the person of whom 
 you are talking. Yet you will never 
 talk about the mean things you have 
 done, or were thinking of doing. Never 
 mind your neighbor; you are the one 
 you want to watch and to care for. You 
 cannot live or die for others; you can 
 only live and die for yourself. 
 
 You should do only the very best 
 deeds to all, and think the very best 
 thoughts of all. For the thoughts that 
 
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 you are sending to a brother, good or 
 evil, will certainly return to the sender. 
 You do not understand that we are all 
 brothers and sisters, and that whatever 
 you say and do unto others, you say 
 and do unto yourself; not only that, 
 but whatever you are saying about oth- 
 ers, you are attracting the same 
 thing to yourself, and are bringing 
 yourself on the same level with those 
 about whom you are talking. 
 
 Usually people talk about those who 
 are better and higher in life than they 
 are themselves, for they are not afraid 
 of those beneath them ; they know that 
 they cannot hurt them by talking about 
 them. Instead of talking about, and 
 trying to disgrace, or degrade, one an- 
 other, when all are low enough at the 
 best, without making them any lower 
 
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 or worse than they are, if they would 
 first sweep their own dooryard, and at- 
 tend to their own business before they 
 attempt to take care of their neighbors' 
 business, they would have all they could 
 do, and would be better off ; and we as- 
 sure you that their neighbors also 
 would be. If they would do that way, 
 and speak a kind word, instead of a 
 cross one, to every person, what a bless- 
 ing they would bestow upon themselves 
 and their community ! How they would 
 be loved by every one ! 
 
 You do not like people to talk about 
 you all the time, neither do they like 
 you to talk about them all the time. 
 The people that talk about you are will- 
 ing to go half way if you are willing 
 to go the other half; that is, you stop 
 talking about them, and see if you will 
 
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 not notice a great change in yourself 
 and in your neighbors. 
 
 No one can love you if you have no 
 love within you, for if you had, you 
 would not, or could not, talk about 
 people the way you do. If you will 
 keep on talking about every one, after 
 a while you will begin to talk about and 
 hate yourself, and will spend the lat- 
 ter part of your days in the mad-house. 
 If you do not believe this, just keep on 
 the way you are going; you have a good 
 start, for you are on the right road to 
 that place. If you were not, you could 
 not and would not talk the way you are 
 doing now. 
 
 People do not like to have anything 
 to do with a person who is always talk- 
 ing about his relatives or neighbors, 
 because they are afraid he will start to 
 
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 talk about them next. A person that 
 is talking about this one or that one, 
 never seeing the good in any one, is a 
 slanderer; he is a person that must be 
 watched ; he cannot be trusted. 
 
 Slanderers are like robbers, who rob 
 people of their character and reputa- 
 tion, by talking, and lowering those 
 whom they talk about; people who have 
 worked hard all their lives, to build 
 themselves up honorably. Men are 
 murderers who murder their victims 
 by degrees, by taking away their char- 
 acter, the most precious thing they 
 nave ; they cause people to become mur- 
 derers. When a person will take his 
 own life, after he has been talked about 
 and slandered, he commits murder. 
 
 We could honor a thief in preference 
 to a liar and a slanderer, because we 
 
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 can lock our doors and hide from a 
 thief, but we cannot lock ourselves up 
 or hide from a lying or a slanderous 
 tongue. People who do those things 
 have not developed their spirituality. 
 If they had, they would, or could, not 
 talk about one another. The best rem- 
 edy for lying and slandering is to open 
 the spiritual eyes, so that one may be 
 able to drive away lying spirits, and 
 speak the truth at all times, and pray 
 for the "Good Spirits" to give light to 
 the liars and slanderers, and to show 
 them the way to the Truth. 
 
 Remember, that according to God's 
 laws, if a person has talked about an- 
 other, and has injured him, or tried to 
 do so in any way, while living, and if 
 he has not already asked that person 
 to forgive him for all wrongs and mean 
 
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 things he has said about him, he will 
 have to do so as soon as he passes into 
 the spirit world, before he will ever be 
 able to progress there. 
 
 How much easier it is for a person 
 while living to go direct to the home of 
 those whom he has tried to injure, or 
 who have tried to injure him, by back- 
 biting and slandering, and ask their 
 forgiveness, than to wait until he or 
 they have passed into spirit life. You 
 must forgive and be forgiven, either 
 while living here, or after passing into 
 the spirit world, before you can pro- 
 gress and be happy either here or there. 
 
CHAPTER XXXVII 
 
 OBSESSION 
 
 Any person is liable to be obsessed at 
 any time. The best way to avoid it is 
 to lead a clean, pure life and make up 
 your mind that you will not allow any 
 one to lead you in the wrong direction. 
 Know yourself, and pray to the Good 
 Spirit forces to lead you aright. If all 
 would, or could, see spiritually what is 
 around them, and drive the evil away, 
 there would not be so much obsession 
 as there is today. 
 
 What would you think of a young 
 lady who would go to a strange city 
 and accept the invitation of the first 
 
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 man she met to go with him to view the 
 city? She would go without knowing 
 the first thing about him, although hav- 
 ing friends in that city who would have 
 been glad to go with her, had she called 
 on them. You certainly would not have 
 a very high opinion of her. What opin- 
 ion can we have of you, when you are 
 being led all over the city and every 
 other place by some one you do not or 
 cannot see with your material eyes; 
 they are spirits that you cannot or do 
 not see ; they are strangers to you and 
 may or may not lead you aright. 
 
 You have friends in the spirit world 
 (which world is right around you) who 
 would be glad to come at your call, and 
 help and lead you aright, if you were 
 to call on them. You should use your 
 spirit eyes, inasmuch as the great Cre- 
 
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 ator has given them to you for use, to 
 see how to guide and protect your spir- 
 itual body against evil spirits, so there 
 would be no danger of your becoming 
 obsessed. 
 
CHAPTER XXXVIII 
 
 DISEASES AND TREATMENTS 
 
 As there are different diseases in the 
 world today, so there are different 
 methods of treating them. No doubt 
 these different treatments are all do- 
 ing good, some more than others. 
 
 There is one certain kind of treat- 
 ment, which is a natural and universal 
 treatment, which is as old as the human 
 race, and will continue to be practised 
 as long as time lasts. Everybody prac- 
 tises it, even the animals, and if man 
 were to practise it more, or as much as 
 the animals, he would not be complain- 
 ing so much and would have better 
 
DISEASES AND TREATMENTS 257 
 
 health and live longer than he does. 
 
 Anyone can practise it, even a little 
 child, for it does not require the knowl- 
 edge of a professor to use it. In fact, 
 it is being practised today all over the 
 world, among all classes of people, and 
 it has the largest number of patients, 
 more than all the other methods of 
 treatment, combined. 
 
 To those who believe in other treat- 
 ments, when emergency arises, this, we 
 would say, is so easy to give and apply 
 to one's self, at any time of the day or 
 night, that one does not have to go to 
 the hospital to take the treatment, but 
 it can be given in any place. It has 
 been applied to, and it has cured. Loco- 
 motor Ataxia, Paralysis, acute or 
 chronic Rheumatism, Sciatica, Lum- 
 bago, Nervousness, Obesity and many 
 
258 SOUL SCIENCE 
 
 other troubles, after all other treat- 
 ments and known remedies have failed. 
 It does not make any difference who 
 the persons are; they can apply this 
 natural treatment, first and last. 
 
 When a little child falls down, any 
 one would think from the noise it made, 
 and from the sound of the bump, that 
 the little one had cracked its head. 
 What is the first thing its mother will 
 do? Will she run for a doctor or a 
 bottle of medicine? Neither. She will 
 run and pick up the child, rub its head, 
 or wherever it is hurt, and in a minute 
 or two, the child is playing again! 
 When you bump your forehead until it 
 seems as though you saw a million 
 stars, the first thing you do is to rub 
 the place with your hand, which re- 
 stores the circulation, and thus eases 
 
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DISEASES AND TREATMENTS 259 
 
 the pain quicker than any amount of 
 medicine could. When you whip a cat 
 or dog, just as soon as the animal gets 
 away from you, it will lick the place or 
 rub it with its paw. 
 
 The first instinct with all, whenever 
 they injure themselves, is to put a hand 
 to the place injured, and rub it at once. 
 In other words, the first impression one 
 receives, on being hurt, is to rub or 
 manipulate the injured place, and if 
 that impression is followed, they are 
 relieved of their pain. The blow causes 
 the blood to stop circulating, which con- 
 tracts the muscles and wherever there 
 is contraction, when that part of the 
 body is moved, it causes pain. By rub- 
 bing and massaging the part where the 
 contraction is, thus causing the blood to 
 
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 circulate and the muscles to relax, the 
 pain ceases. 
 
 The general cause of all pain is con- 
 traction of the muscles, and nothing 
 will remove contraction sooner than 
 manipulation. Because this form of 
 treatment is ancient, it is none the less 
 valuable as a remedial measure. Even 
 when used with little skill, it fre- 
 quently does much good, and that it sel- 
 dom works harm is evident from the 
 vast numbers who apply this art indis- 
 criminately ! 
 
 People do not need to have faith in 
 order to have their bodies massaged, to 
 break up contraction of the muscles in 
 order that the blood may circulate ; be- 
 cause the blood is circulating both day 
 and night. Faith has nothing to do 
 with it. If your body is properly mas- 
 
 
DISEASES AND TREATMENTS 261 
 
 saged your blood will circulate, and by 
 keeping up proper circulation, the im- 
 purities of the blood are carried off 
 through the liver and natural channels 
 of the body. The blood keeps the body 
 warm, and when there is proper circu- 
 lation, the heart can beat regularly. 
 Anyone can rub the body, which will 
 cause circulation, and thus break up 
 the contraction of the muscles. If they 
 understand massaging scientifically, 
 much more benefit will be derived. 
 
 While the art of Massage is best 
 learned by personal instruction, yet 
 with some knowledge of anatomy and 
 physiology, good sense, and a general 
 understanding of the effects aimed at, 
 anyone can accomplish much good by 
 this means of treatment. If everyone 
 who gives massage treatments would 
 
262 SOUL SCIENCE 
 
 live clean, pure lives, their treatments 
 would have a better effect on their pa- 
 tients and that would help their busi- 
 ness. 
 
 The Creator has given us our hands 
 to use, to keep our bodies well, so that 
 tne spirit can carry out its mission 
 while on Earth. All should use their 
 hands to relieve the body of pain. 
 Schools should teach how to apply this 
 natural treatment, scientifically, so as 
 to get better results, and thus remove 
 the cause and effect of many diseases. 
 Ill every form of massage, one must not 
 be so strenuous as to do harm. The 
 patient will usually inform the oper- 
 ator if he is being made uncomfortable 
 by the treatment, and the feelings of 
 tne patient are a reliable guide. 
 
 Preliminary to giving massage, the 
 
DISEASES AND TREATMENTS 263 
 
 patient should be placed in a comfort- 
 able, relaxed position. As the giving 
 of massage, especially general massage, 
 requires not a little strength on the 
 part of the operator, one who is not 
 possessed of considerable muscular 
 force and endurance should not at- 
 tempt to specialize in this art, for signs 
 of fatigue on the part of the operator 
 will have a depressing effect upon the 
 patient. 
 
 There are millions of pores in the 
 human skin which act as suction-valves 
 and draw into the body many kinds of 
 diseases. We may carry the germs 
 around with us, which we have ab- 
 sorbed through the pores of our skin, 
 for years; after awhile, through im- 
 proper circulation of the blood and by 
 reason of our system being in a passive 
 
264 SOUL SCIENCE 
 
 condition, we become ill with a certain 
 disease, which we may have carried 
 around with us for years. Then we 
 wonder where we have been to contract 
 such a disease, as there is no one 
 around us who has had it, and we may 
 be the first one in years to have it in 
 the neighborhood. That is how many 
 diseases are carried around and spread 
 broadcast over parts of the country 
 where they were never known before. 
 
 There are many causes of disease. 
 People continually complain of being 
 ill, when they bring much of their sick- 
 ness upon themselves, by improper food 
 and poor circulation of the blood, 
 which, in turn, affects the heart and 
 every other part of the body. Sunstroke 
 cannot be called a disease, but it is 
 caused by excessive heat affecting the 
 
DISEASES AND TREATMENTS 265 
 
 circulation. If persons have improper 
 circulation, they will have trouble with 
 their liver, bowels and stomach, also 
 constipation, fever and resultant head- 
 aches. If people will think good 
 thoughts, eat what agrees with them, 
 have proper circulation and live ac- 
 cording to the teachings of "Soul Sci- 
 ence, the Proof of Life after Death," 
 they will live long and enjoy the best of 
 health. 
 
CHAPTER XXXIX 
 
 HOW TO CONDUCT SERVICES 
 
 Open the meeting by singing one or 
 more appropriate hymns or songs in 
 harmony with our teachings, then read 
 a prose selection or a poem suitable for 
 the occasion. All should then join in 
 reading our Creed, after which an in- 
 vocation along our line of teaching 
 should be given, something similar to 
 this: 
 
 "Thou great Source of all Life, we 
 have gathered here this day in Thy 
 Name, praying that something may be 
 said or done that will make us happier 
 and better people by coming here, and 
 
HOW TO CONDUCT SERVICES 267 
 
 that we will have a better understand- 
 ing and realization of what life is. Help 
 us to realize that we and Thee are one, 
 and that we are all brothers and sisters, 
 and whatever we do unto one another 
 we do only unto ourselves and Thee. 
 Help us to understand and realize that 
 we are all Gods, that the Kingdom of 
 God is within us, that all of us are 
 standing before the great Judgment 
 Bar every moment of our lives; that 
 whether we do right or wrong the God 
 that is within us is judging us accord- 
 ing to our thoughts and deeds, and that 
 our punishment or reward commences 
 right here on earth, according to what 
 we do while we are living in the flesh. 
 Help us to realize this, we pray Thee — 
 that we are all building our home in 
 Heaven every day of our lives by our 
 
268 SOUL SCIENCE 
 
 thoughts and deeds, and some day, soon- 
 er or later, we shall go and can only go 
 to our own home — the home which we 
 have built for ourselves in Heaven. If 
 we create no sunshine in our lives here, 
 we will not have it there. Help and 
 give us strength, we pray Thee, to over- 
 come all our many weaknesses. This 
 we ask in the name of all. Amen !" 
 
 The leader should know in advance 
 what chapter he is going to read, ex- 
 plain or preach from, in "Soul Science, 
 the Proof of Life after Death," and 
 should sing songs and read a poem or a 
 prose selection in harmony with the 
 subject chosen, which will help to ex- 
 plain his teaching. It would be well to 
 announce the subject and make a few 
 remarks before reading the poem and 
 singing, and it would be well if these 
 
HOW TO CONDUCT SERVICES 269 
 
 were all along the same line of thought, 
 as it would help to impress on the minds 
 of his hearers the subject for the day. 
 
 Do not talk until you or your hearers 
 are all tired out; limit your talk to a 
 half of three quarters of an hour. Al- 
 ways open the meeting at the time you 
 have announced, and do not try at one 
 meeting to tell all you know about 
 "Soul Science, the Proof of Life after 
 Death;" but enough to make the audi- 
 ence want to learn more by coming 
 to hear you again. Never get into a 
 heated debate with any one at your 
 Sunday services, as it will hurt you, 
 and may cause unnecessary criticism of 
 your meetings. If you cannot convert 
 a person or cause him to think the same 
 as you do, by your preaching to him in 
 your own way, do not try to argue with 
 
270 SOUL SCIENCE 
 
 him to change his mind, for you will 
 never convert a person against his own 
 will. You will only lose time, and per- 
 haps cause trouble. If he wants to re- 
 main in darkness, let him do so. When 
 you have done all you can, you fulfil 
 your mission. If any one wants to 
 argue or debate, let him select some 
 other night. Always close the meeting 
 standing, singing, and offering the clos- 
 ing prayer, either the following or one 
 similar: 
 
 "We do thank Thee, Most Holy and 
 Divine Intelligence, for this Hour ; may 
 it be one that will be long remembered 
 for the words that have been spoken to 
 us, and may they sink deep into our 
 hearts, and bring forth much good; 
 and as we leave this church we ask for 
 the blessing of the Spirit world to go 
 
HOW TO CONDUCT SERVICES 271 
 
 with us, and to be and abide with us, 
 now and forever more. Amen." 
 
 There should be a midweek meeting 
 once a week, conducted about the same 
 as the Sunday meeting, with song, 
 reading of our Creed, and offering a 
 Prayer, either the following, or one 
 similar : 
 
 "Great, Infinite Source of all Life, 
 Thou over-ruling Soul of the Universe, 
 we do thank Thee that our lives have 
 been spared and that we are again per- 
 mitted to meet here in Thy name, pray- 
 ing that Thou wouldst help us to re- 
 move the veil of ignorance from our 
 spiritual eyes, so that we may see more 
 clearly, and have a better and clearer 
 insight as to what life is ; that we may 
 be able to go forth into this world and 
 fulfil our life mission, and, while here, 
 
272 SOUL SCIENCE 
 
 be able to lead and show others who are 
 in darkness the true way to life and 
 light. Help and inspire us with Thy 
 Love and we will give Thee the praise, 
 evermore. Amen !" 
 
 Explain the subject to your audience, 
 and let the meeting be an open one, to 
 give all a chance to talk on whatever 
 subject has been chosen for that meet- 
 ing, and to give their experiences. 
 Never allow any one to take up the en- 
 tire time speaking or giving experi- 
 ences, at the midweek meeting. If 
 much has to be said, it can be finished 
 at the next midweek meeting. You can 
 have the same subject for discussion as 
 many times as you please, if it be agree- 
 able to the majority present. It would 
 be well to announce at the Sunday ser- 
 vice the subject for your midweek 
 
HOW TO CONDUCT SERVICES 273 
 
 meeting. It will advertise all your 
 meetings. Close with song, and a 
 prayer, either the following or one sim- 
 ilar: 
 
 "We do thank you, dear Spirit 
 Friends, for the many blessings we 
 have enjoyed in the past, and the health 
 and strength of this hour; and as we 
 leave we ask that the blessing of the 
 Spirit world may go with and help us 
 to be better men and women. These 
 favors we would ask you. Amen." 
 
 Classes should be, and can be, held in 
 homes. Open such classes with song, 
 reading of our Creed, and offering a 
 Prayer, either the following or one sim- 
 ilar: : :> ] 
 
 "Thou great God, the Source of all 
 Life, we do thank Thee for the many 
 blessings we have had, and are still en- 
 
274 SOUL SCIENCE 
 
 joying at the present hour. We pray 
 that we may all continue to enjoy the 
 same blessings, and we ask Thee to help 
 us do right. Inspire us, and fill us with 
 knowledge, that we may understand 
 ourselves, so that we may be able to 
 know how to live aright, be better peo- 
 ple, and know how to enjoy the bless- 
 ings that are in store for us, and are 
 even now all around us. Help us to 
 open our spiritual eyes, and to have a 
 better spiritual understanding than we 
 have ever had. We want to do right, 
 and we ask Thee to give us strength 
 and guide our footsteps in the right 
 way, that we may live a better life in 
 the future. These favors we ask in the 
 name of all that is good, pure and up- 
 right. Amen !" 
 
 If you are living in a town where 
 
HOW TO CONDUCT SERVICES 275 
 
 public services according to "Soul Sci- 
 ence" teachings are held on Sunday and 
 in midweek, all should attend, and you 
 should hold your home meeting, or 
 class, on some other evening through 
 the week. In towns and country places 
 where no public meetings are held, hold 
 one in your own home, and invite your 
 friends once a week to read and prac- 
 tise from "Soul Science, the Proof of 
 Life after Death," as it teaches you. 
 Close the class meeting with song and 
 prayer, either the following, or one sim- 
 ilar: 
 
 "Angels of Love, we do thank you for 
 this hour, and that we have been able 
 to feel and know that our loved ones 
 from the Spirit realm have been near 
 to us tonight, trying to impress and 
 manifest themselves to us. Oh, may 
 
276 SOUL SCIENCE 
 
 we ever live such pure lives that our 
 loved ones will be able to manifest in 
 such way that we can see them. This 
 we ask in the name of our loved ones. 
 Amen !" 
 
CHAPTER XL 
 
 DEATH IS NATURAL 
 
 Death is as natural as birth, then 
 why should we fear it? It is as essen- 
 tial as growth. If it were not for 
 growth, there could or would be no 
 birth; and, if it were not for birth, 
 there would be no spirit or life. Life 
 is not complete until death. Death is 
 but the change of one form, and birth 
 the beginning of another. 
 
 Death is not a punishment; it is only 
 the fulfilment of God's laws. Our lives 
 and life histories, which all are writing 
 by their thoughts, acts and deeds, are 
 not complete until death takes place. 
 
278 SOUL SCIENCE 
 
 No excuse will be accepted then ; for all 
 have made and kept their own records, 
 and have their own life-histories with 
 them, just according to the way they 
 have themselves written them, and will 
 have to read them themselves in their 
 spirit home, to get their reward, for 
 either good or evil. 
 
 No one should ever worry about 
 death. It only takes a few seconds to 
 die, while it takes many years to live 
 here. If anyone is going to worry at 
 all, he should worry about how to live 
 rightly, for they who live right lives 
 will die rightly. Put in all the time you 
 have in thinking and living rightly. 
 Never mind death ; it will use you justly 
 when it comes and will take you to your 
 home in the spirit world where you 
 belong. 
 
DEATH IS NATURAL 279 
 
 Oh, how beautiful is Death to those 
 who have had their spirit eyes opened, 
 and can see and know what is around 
 them, spiritually, and what their life 
 will be in the spirit world, — who have 
 lived clean, pure, just lives, and have 
 overcome evil by good ! 
 
CHAPTER XLI 
 
 THE RESURRECTION MORN 
 
 The Resurrection morning will come, 
 but there never will be a day when all 
 the billions and billions of people that 
 have lived in this world will arise in 
 their material bodies and be known or 
 judged for the good or evil deeds done 
 while in the body. That would be ut- 
 terly impossible. 
 
 Take for instance, men who have 
 been working in and around rail-mills, 
 who have fallen into large vats of hot 
 iron, so hot when their bodies struck 
 the vats, that they were instantly de- 
 stroyed, and became as part of the 
 
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 iron. No one knows what railroad 
 tracks those rails are laid on. Again, 
 when people have been blown all to 
 pieces, or when different fishes have 
 devoured the same body that was 
 drowned at sea, or when persons had 
 their bodies cremated and the ashes 
 scattered to the four winds on land or 
 sea, pray tell me, how could those pieces 
 of bodies all get together on a Resur- 
 rection day? 
 
 The only world that there is, is the 
 world that we are living in, and that is 
 within us, and at death our material 
 world has come to an end ; we lay aside 
 our material bodies. That is our Res- 
 urrection day, for immediately we re- 
 ceive our spiritual body. Every per- 
 son that lives must die; so at death it 
 does not make any difference where we 
 may be at that time; there and then 
 will be our Resurrection Morn. 
 
CHAPTER XLII 
 
 MY WORLD 
 
 This body of mine is a house of mine, 
 
 It is all the world for me; 
 
 It is shared by my good and my evil 
 
 thoughts 
 Who live in my world with me. 
 
 I have built this world within myself, 
 It is day and night with me ; 
 The good and evil I have ever done 
 Live in my world with me. 
 
 No matter what you or others may say, 
 My Spirit dwells in there with me; 
 And my treasures are my golden deeds 
 And are in this world with me. 
 
MY WORLD 283 
 
 This world of mine holds all I possess ; 
 It is specially made for me, 
 To hold all the good and evil deeds 
 That are in this world with me. 
 
 While living in this world of mine 
 I have friends who stand by me; 
 But none can do the work of mine 
 That is in this world for me. 
 
 When I cast aside this house of clay 
 For the spirit realm, with glee, 
 Reward awaits me for the deeds 
 That shared this world with me. 
 
 If my deeds have been good, my reward 
 
 will be great, 
 Good spirits will flock to me ; 
 They will welcome me there, for the 
 
 good done here, 
 To that Spirit World which is for me. 
 
CHAPTER XLIII 
 
 PRAYER 
 
 "Thou Great Jehovah, the All-ruling 
 Soul of the Universe, whom men call 
 God, Good or Infinite Intelligence, call 
 Him or It by what name we choose, we 
 realize and know that Thou art the God 
 that causeth this mortal flesh to walk, 
 talk, and exist in its present form. We 
 ask and pray Thee, to help us to have 
 a better understanding from this hour, 
 of what life is, and Whom Thou art. 
 Fill us with Love and Kindness, inspire 
 us always to do right, help us to walk 
 in the right road; which will make us 
 happier and better people while living 
 
PRAYER 285 
 
 on this mortal plane of existence, so 
 that when our life work is finished, it 
 may be said of us, that we have made 
 many homes happier and brighter by 
 our having lived, and set a good exam- 
 ple before the world. To Thee we will 
 give the honor and praise. Amen. 
 Amen." 
 
CONCLUSION 
 
 The Author of "Soul Science, the 
 Proof of Life after Death" could have 
 written volumes on the different sub- 
 jects contained in this book ; but instead 
 of so doing, he has endeavored to place 
 these thoughts before his readers in 
 such a plain, concise and condensed 
 form that all who may read it with an 
 unbiased, liberal, mind, looking for the 
 Truth, will find herein the true way to 
 light and happiness. We beg our read- 
 ers not to allow prejudice or hearsay to 
 bias their judgment of this book, but to 
 prove the thoughts and teachings here- 
 in contained, and apply them to their 
 own lives; then they will be in a posi- 
 
CONCLUSION 287 
 
 tion to judge of its truth and worth. We 
 know that the happiness of our lives, 
 here and hereafter, does not depend 
 upon the amount of matter and num- 
 ber of volumes which we may have 
 read, but upon what we understand, di- 
 gest and practise in our daily life. 
 
A REQUEST 
 
 It is the desire of the author of "Soul Science, 
 the Proof of Life after Death" to further strengthen 
 the Truth contained therein, and at the same time as- 
 sist those who may wish to hold meetings, or organ- 
 ize Societies and Churches in the interest of the Cause, 
 by formulating a Manual to be used by all Ministers, 
 Speakers and Teachers thereof. He will be glad if all 
 readers of "Soul Science, the Proof of Life after 
 Death" will be good enough to send him their names 
 and addresses, so that he may keep in close touch with 
 all who may read the book; thus he will be enabled 
 to send them literature or other matter from time to 
 time in regard to the same, that will be helpful to the 
 work. 
 
 The author desires, as a special favor, that any 
 one who may have songs or poems original or selected, 
 in harmony with the teachings of "Soul Science, the 
 Proof of Life after Death" will send them to him, to 
 be used in formulating such a Manual, or Song book. 
 Any suggestions in regard to the same that readers 
 may care to make will be gratefully received. 
 
 Thanking all in advance, the author remains, 
 
 Fraternally, 
 
 FRANKLIN A. THOMAS 
 
 20 Bickerstaff Street, 
 Boston, Mass. 
 
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