The Astral World—Higher Occult Powers: Clairvoyance, Spiritism, Mediumship, and Spirit-Healing Fully ExplainedTiffany, Joel
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The Astral World—Higher Occult Powers: Clairvoyance, Spiritism, Mediumship, and Spirit-Healing Fully Explained
Tiffany, Joel
Spiritualism
If that individual Spirit changes his character there, it must
evidently be by some law operating upon character. We know perfectly
well that if you were to bring an individual into New York who has
been given to a certain kind of pleasure, unless he can find the same
channel of pleasure here, he would feel miserable. Let any one of you
get in the habit of going night after night to the theater, and you
will by-and-by acquire such a habit that you will be perfectly wretched
unless you can go there. You make resolutions to break up the habit;
but often break your resolutions, and will feel miserable until some
other love takes the place of your love for theatrical amusements. The
poor drunkard often, in the midst of his dissipation, resolves to put
away his cup; but when again he comes in the presence of the bottles
and decanters, his mouth begins to feel thus and so, and he can not
help drinking. The habit is so fixed upon him that he can not break it
up, unless something can implant a stronger love within him.
As is our condition in this world, so is our state in the Spiritual
world. How often does an individual feel that there would be no source
of enjoyment for him in the Spiritual world if he could not find
certain pleasures there. The beef-eater will continue to have a desire
for beef, unless some other gratification can come in to supply its
place. So it is in reference to every means of gratification. Upon the
same law that the good desire the good and true, would the individual
who has been a pleasure-seeker in this life seek in the Spiritual world
for his accustomed gratification.
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