Improvements in the Spirit World.
Signs of progress reach us from the upper spheres. We learn that the spirits are establishing insane asylums in the spirit world. There is undoubted necessity for such institutions there; but the wonder is what spirits are sane enough to erect and take charge of them. Now if all the spirits of that region, at least those of which we have any knowledge so far as it has come to us from any communications they have given us, would vote themselves inmates for the entire term of their spiritual life, and cease troubling the dwellers in this mundane sphere, it would be better still. The Banner of Light, of July 8, 1871, contains the following record of a conversation with a spirit:— “Ques. Can the intelligence tell us how many spheres there are in the future state of existence?
“Ans. Just as many as there are different states of mind requiring different spheres; indeed, they are numberless.
“Q. I heard it stated last night that there were asylums—insane hospitals in the spirit world.
“A. It is so.
“Q. Why do they have to have them there?
“A. Because there is a necessity for them.” Now we are puzzled again. Those asylums must be very close structures to retain the subtile spirits which are to be confined therein. And of what material can they possibly be composed? Cannot we have some information in regard to the spiritual wood, brick, mortar, glass, stone, and iron that is to compose these living tombs for crazy spirits?