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spiritual spheres. These are all concentric zones or circles of exceedingly fine matter
encompassing the earth like belts or girdles, each separated from the other and regulated by
fixed laws. They are not shapeless chimeras or mental projections, but absolute entities, just
as tangible as the planets of the solar system or the earth upon which you reside. They have
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latitude and longitude, and an atmosphere of peculiarly vitalized air. The undulating currents,
soft and balmy, are invigorating and pleasurable."
"How does the landscape appear to you?" I asked.
He answered: "The surface of the zone is diversified. There is a great variety of landscape,
some of it most picturesque. We, like you, have lofty mountain ranges, valleys, rivers, lakes,
forests, and the internal correspondence of all the vegetable life that exists upon your earth.
Trees and shrubbery covered with most beautiful foliage, and flowers of every color and
character known to you, and many that you know not give forth their perfume. The physical
economy of each zone differs from every other. New and striking scenes of grandeur are
presented to us, increasing in beauty and sublimity as we progress."
"Do the seven concentric rings, or spheres, move with the earth as the earth moves?" I asked.
"Although the spheres revolve," he said, "with the earth on a common axis, forming the same
angle with the plane of the ecliptic, and move with it about your sun, they are not dependent
upon that sun for either light or heat; they receive not a perceptible ray from that ponderable
source."
"From what source do you receive your light?" I then asked.
"We receive our light emanations," he said, "wholly from an etheric sun, concentric with your
sun, from which central luminary there comes uninterrupted splendor, baffling description.
We have, therefore, no division of time into days, weeks, months, or years, nor alterations of
season caused by the earth's annual revolution, for the reason that we have no changing
season as you have, caused by the action of the sun of your solar system. We, like you, are
constantly progressing from day to day, but our ideas of time and seasons differ widely from
yours. With you, it is time. With us, it is eternity. In your sphere your thoughts, necessarily
bounded by time and space, are limited, but with us thoughts are extended in proportion as we
get rid of those restrictions, and our perception of truth becomes more accurate."
"How do you use matter, change its form and condition?" I asked.
"Matter," he said, "with us is only tangible as the mind concentrates upon the object. Then the
force of the mind or thought sends its vibration around the object, holding it in a measure
tangible. Of course, this is something very different from what you call tangibility. Without
this mental concentration the vibration pulses indifferently. That is the natural condition of
matter in our zone. It requires the thought to change its form and condition. The vibrating
action of matter is measured by the space necessary for the volume."
"How can this material condition in which you live be demonstrated?" I asked.
"One cannot prove," he said, "to a child that steam, that pretty fascinating substance, is
harmful until the finger is burned; neither can one instill the truth into an older mind until it is
not only opened but has the capacity to comprehend. That all is material in different states of
vibration is easily grasped by the thinker. It is impossible to prove by your laws, to actually
demonstrate the existence of matter in the higher vibrations in which we live so that men may
comprehend. When you deal with matter in the physical, you apply physical laws. When you
deal in matter spiritual, you apply spiritual laws, practically unknown among men. The best
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possible evidence is the vision of the clairvoyant together with deductive reasoning, which, as
we have said, is really the highest order of proof.
"Have you ever thought," he said, "that the result of every physical demonstration reaches the
consciousness through the avenue of reason?
The mentality in a higher state of development comprehends a fact in Nature without physical
proof."
"Tell us something of your social life, your scientific research, and religious teaching in the
plane in which you reside," I asked.
"With regard to the social constitution of the 'spheres' each is divided into six circles, or
societies, in which kindred and congenial spirits are united and subsist together under the law
of affinity. Although the members of each society unite as near as may be on the same plane,
agreeing in the most prominent moral and intellectual features; yet it will be found on careful
analysis, that the varieties of character in each society are almost infinite, being as numerous
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