The Teaching of Modern Spiritualism
A WRITER in the Golden Gate of the 9th instant, in speaking of "our nearest neighbors in spirit life," says of those who people the first sphere:— "The first sphere knows not the first word of harmony, and is the prison of spirits in whose hearts reign only the vilest passions. This sphere must of necessity remain what it is at the present, until the earth from which it is born, becomes the home of people who have become a law unto themselves, and have removed from their midst the dismal den of felons, when it will take the appearance of a waiting-room." What a hope is this! When men "become a law unto themselves," then we shall see evil eliminated! But that is just what brings evil. Just as long as man has no higher standard than himself the tendency is downward. His aspirations will be no higher than his own imaginations; his gods will but reflect his own image. Nothing in all this world produces discord, vileness, wickedness, and every other evil, equal to such a law as this. A law unto one's self means as a result the works of the flesh. Gal. 5:19-21. This is the teaching of modern Spiritualism.