The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1855-12-22
Is This Heaven.

Is This HeaVen. ~"
/ Prof. Hare, in his late lecture in New
York, thus defines new Religion: !.
Spiritualism inaugurates a new religion.
faith. 1t unfolds to view the nystereie.
the. Hereafter. Other forms of religion
have failed to have effect because their vo
taries fail to have any distinct or positive
idea of the locality ofHell or Heaven. The
materialist derides the religious man be-
cause he mas no foundation for his faith, no
proof Of that in which he believes. The
| Spirituaist hol ds TO faith which he knows,
by the revelations which ne has received,
that there are Seuen spheres. This world is
the first. The six remaining spheres are
concentrtt eGG.ds surrounding the earth, COM
m encing sixty miles above this earth and
reaching for one hundred and twenty miles.
The lower half of the sphere is inhabited
by men of euiI propensities. AS these un-
happy people become conscious of their sin,
they are promoted to higher sphere. There
are two mo dos of making this ascent One
is by purity and innocence, and infants al
ways 60 direct; the bther is by wisdom, and
great men go by that way. One spirit has
has now spent two years in that world, and
has reached the fifth sphere. Another,
some years gone from earth, remains below
among the inferior spirits. DIR. Hare asked
him why he stopped there. He replied
that he was waiting till he had earned his as
cent Avarice keeps man down in the lower
spheres. A man gets no better treatment
because he has made money, his idol here,
it is looked upon as decidedly inferior, Cat
which sentiment the audience becomes face
tious.) -.r.... ..-....f ...... ........ .....
Each sphere is divided in sir sub diris-
ons, In the whole six spheres there are
accordingly, hirty-sir diuisions. A man
who leaves the world, here bad at heart, is
not looked upon vindctively in the spheres;
he has, on the contrary fair chance Of ris-
ing to the highest sphere. No hypocrites
can mask themselves there. Even in the
society Of the bad people, men there know
each other as they are. Presently there
comes an aspiration for something better
The instant this feeling imbues the spirit, it
ascends. 1t becomes happier. 1t leaves
the vulgar. 1t seeks the pure. No one is
punished for punishment's sake. No one is
pardoned. The only way to be pardonen is TO
not be sinful. Men who owe to bad birth, bad
education bad examples, and bad associations,
all the evil that is IN them, are charitably
looked upon, and their case, however hope
less in the eyes Of men here, in the eye OF
of the spirit is very promising. ., III
A Superhdl Sphere stretches away far,
very far above. In it God reigns, and his
angels minister-to him. 1t is not every. bo.
dy who gains access, q it. Even Washing
ton is not there--but the Doctor declared
that to be in the same sphere with the Gen.
eral would be joy enough for him. He
would ask no more
THE DocToRs HEREAFTER - And when
the Doctor reaches these spheres, he ex-
poets to have great deal of sport, Gas he
expresses it,) with those who have denounc-
ed and ridiculed him and the Spiritual beliee-
ers here. ), g.a E.lt Ia .f.als-f r.
In TIE HIGHF RT SPHERE.--There is to
be oil that is beautiful--love, social joy,
music, science, literature, poetry, every
thing that q high-minded man aspires to-
Love increases, and hate dies away. a#
ODtc FoRcE-WHAT is IT?--Odic force
--ozone-- mysteries Of magnetism, were
settled questions il tho Doctors mind ...,a \
There is an etherial medium surrounding
this earth, the undulations of which produce
light--the vipration of which produces heat
the pola lization Of which produces cleo
tricity. h. staa. ra4t,.1 N s9f sessgs
So, too, there is an ETHEREAL medium pc.
culiar to the spirit world, the undulations,
vibrations and polarization of which pro.
duce their light, and heat, and electricity.
Spirits have double existence, a mundane
and a spiritual Spiritual oxygen enters into
the constitution Of their vital air. 1t is
ponderable oxygen, like that which the cold
blooded fish, requires, that the spirits
breathe. As8 ~ d 4 s9 II