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‘The idea that man ceases at death is a contradiction in itself. For what is the living man but a portion of the essence [of Universal Consciousness]?’
The sublime, unquenchable human sensibilities, unaddressed and thwarted in this world, offer evidence of another in which they shall enjoy expression.
The following is channeled information via the mediumship of William W. Aber, the Psychic Research Society, as reported in “The Rending Of The Veil” (1898), compiled by J.H. Nixon. Testimonies were offered by numerous spirit-persons by means of full-form visible materialization. The speaker is spirit Dr. Reed:
"We teach that the spirit of man is a refined material element, an ever-active essence of immortal existence, and that it is an emanation from the active principle of life… Dark, cheerless, and more than brutish idea to think that man ceases at death. To entertain this idea is to rob man of all his noble aspirations in life and to make his end one of misery and regret. Why should man aspire to be good and noble, if there be no life after he has passed through the scenes of strife in your world? …
Editor’s note: Yes, why not? - as the knavish are wont to believe, if there is no life beyond this mortal sphere of suffering, why not live it up now, why not oppress others, push to the head of the line, why not grab for as much power and pleasure as one can get away with? This shallow materialistic philosophy becomes the guiding star of every brutish and deceptive force in the world. There is no next world, they assure themselves, there’ll be no accounting for my atrocities, I won't be found out. This self-delusion leads today’s greatest criminals, the totalitarians, the big sloppy grins on tv, posing as benefactors as they cloak the rapacious monster-heart. And this is why they're so angry when, upon transition, they stumble upon the shores of - for them - dark detention. It's not how they'd planned their legacy.
"Why should you have no other world than yours to develop the refined germs within you? The idea that man ceases at death is a contradiction in itself. For what is the living man but a portion of the essence? If so, how can that portion be destroyed? Does not everything in the universe have a befitting place for the soul of man? It [this refinement and expression of inner potential] cannot be in your world: for there man's soul is imprisoned, restricted, and thwarted in its aspirations and thirstings after righteousness. Where, then, can his soul bask in the sunlight of unrestricted freedom, unthwarted in its various tendencies, if there be no other realm but the one you live in?
"Yes, friends, there is another life after yours on earth. The Divine Soul within you scatters abroad its seeds of love, truth, justice, charity, and sympathy in the world; but you find it difficult to cultivate them and bring them to maturity. You pass the shades of death, which is only a transition from your world to another of greater beauty and perfection; where all your pure and noble affections and desires will become realized and perfected. Your virtues and noble principles will buoy you up beyond the earth's attraction, so that you will not be held to it longer than you choose."
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