Life and labor in the spirit world: Being a description of localities, employments, surroundings, and conditions in the spheres.Longley, Mary T. (Mary Theresa)
Religion
Life and labor in the spirit world: Being a description of localities, employments, surroundings, and conditions in the spheres.
Longley, Mary T. (Mary Theresa)
Spirit writings; Spirits
There are many other branches of reform relating to human interests that
are looked after by wise spirits who are laboring for the advancement of
mankind, and one especially, and an important theme, is that which comes
under the title of Heredity, and which concerns more vitally, perhaps,
than does anything else the health, happiness, and prosperity of the
coming races. Much thought and observation long since taught a large
class of thinking spirits what a few mortals are but just beginning to
learn, viz., that unless man attends to the offspring he rears by
providing them with the very best pre-natal conditions for growth and
development, it will be almost useless for him to attempt to reform them
of gross habits and impure tendencies _after_ they have entered upon the
arena of mortal existence and strife. Not until humanity is educated
concerning the laws of its being, and understands that whatever trait or
characteristic is unduly developed in the individual, whatever taint of
bodily or moral disease is allowed to fester in his system, will surely
transmit its evil results to his children, and that it is his duty to so
study his constitution and habits, and to so regulate his daily life,
that he will be able to entail upon his offspring only those traits of
character, or those elements of physical health, that will produce the
most beautiful and satisfactory results; not until then will the coming
generations show a proper development of physical and moral power that
will regenerate and redeem the world from misery.
The laws of Heredity, or Transmission, work in two directions, and while
they declare “the sins of the fathers shall be visited upon the
children,” they also maintain that the virtues and lovely attributes of
the parents shall descend to their offspring with added power.
Therefore, wise spirits are working for the dissemination of this great
truth among mortals, and they are constantly bringing in a new influx of
thought and the desire to agitate the subject to those few minds on
earth who are ready to receive this knowledge, and who have the courage
to express their convictions for the enlightenment of the many.
AN ORGANIZATION OF SPIRITS FOR THE ELEVATION OF EARTH’S INHABITANTS.
We have a society in the spirit world whose members are all pledged to
the work assigned them. The tasks set before them by the wise and
exalted spirits whose abilities, intelligence, beneficent purposes and
practices, as well as spiritual experiences, qualify them for their
positions as guides, directors, and councilors are not always pleasant
and agreeable to the members, and yet, knowing that these tasks are
designed to work out some lasting blessing for others, they falter not,
but attend faithfully to the accomplishment of what proves to be a
divinely-appointed mission.
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