Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-06
THE SPIRIT HEAVENS.
Marvellous Things Told in a New
Book Devoted to SpoOk Lore.
TELEGRAPHING FROM THE SKIES.
The Realms of Ghosts Are Real and There
Are Is or More of Them.
OF COURSE THE SEVENTH IS THE BEST
WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH. !

WRITTEN FOR THE DIsPATcH.1
The knocks and tippings in the old house
of the Fox family, not many years ago,
were the ushers Of the new faith of spirit
the upsetting of tables. and knocking about
of things ''sre produced by spirits through
a medium" who utters only what the ''con-
trol' dictates The revelation of the spirit
world by means of spirits, is, as presented
in late book, something that will tax
the credulity of even Spiritualists. 1t
makes claim to such knowledge Of the here
after as will make the world turn up its
eyes and stand agog.
How this revelation came down from
heaven is a story as marvellous as the find
ing of the golden plates of Mormonism. The
author of the book claims to have been in
daily communication for eight years with
two reslly-good-and-tr Indian spirits.
These have exclusive control of a medium
named Kenney, whom he pronounces s'a
truthful, honest man. and a reliable and
gifted medium" In addition to the Indian
spirits, the author also had communications
daily from his deceased father, and from
Robert Dale Owen and other spirit friends
concerning the spirit world and its affairs
The author assures his readers that ne has
tested these parties on many occasions as to
their identity, and with always satisfactory
results.
Comes From Katie Kings Victim.
Just before passing the boundaries of an
other world Owen had promised the author
that he would communicate with him as soon
as possible through his medium, and that he
would assist him in his labors by his knowl-
edge of matters and things on the other
side. From this it may be inferred that
''The Spirit World: Its Inhabitants, Nature
| and Philosophy is work mainly inspired
by the spirit Of Robert Dale Owen, who
some wears ago was so egregiously imposed
| upon by that wicked little fraud, Katie
King.
The seances where the writer got all his
information he describes thus: "My spirit
friends being present and seated in chairs
SO that I shall face them, the principal
Indian controller takes possession Of the
medium: then the second Indian psychol-
ICES the first and thus insures state of
insensibility and passivity. Thus the chan
mel of communication between the two
worlds is kept open and the spirits can
talk all they want to by, as it were, a
spiritual telephone"
To outsiders it would seem somewhat
strange and perhaps suspicious that since
Mr.. Owen had begun to come as spirit %
earthly friend was permitted to be present
at any of those remarkable seances. This,
Owen assured the author of the book, was
by imperative order from the higher powers
though he gave no reason for such strict
and arbitrary rule.
Spirits Fly Through Windows
According. then, to this knowledge brought
down from heaven by the spirits, death is
the birth of the spirit. The entire spiritual
person energies from the head of the body,
when the great change comes. The moment
spirit has left the body a window should
be opened to facilitate its departure.
Upon this point Mr.. Owen gave the opin-
ion that new born spirits cannot as a rule,
even when conscious, Immediately pass
through solid walls, and their spirit friends
convey them TO their spirit homes He
urges that in all cases window should be
opened.
The spirit, as we are told, is born naked,
but ministering spirits-save in cases of
sudden death, are always present provided
with garments for the emancip pated spirits.
Where sudden death occurs, there are
spirits especially assigned, who Immediately
provide what orthodoxy believes to be
"robes of virgin white"
The question as to shall we know each
other there" is answered in this book by the
statement that at the first meeting in the
New Jerusalem, the spirit friends and rela-
tives have power at will to show themselves
as they appeared upon earth so that they
shall be recognized, but soon after they re-
Ii
This means that if man had a wooden leg,
or bumped back, upon earth, or woman
had a waist pinched in bv corset, or had
lost the proportions of Venus by any de-
formity, they could at will for short time
resume such appearance to- friends newly
arrived.
Devotion to the Dead.
Another piece of information may come
handy for some people, which is that spirits
are gratifed with every mark of love and
affection on the part of their earth friends,
and many times feel wounded and hurt when
such sentiments are not manifested. But
only weak. vain, frivolous spirits approve of
lavish expenditure upon tombs or monu-
ments to their memory, and sensible spirits
grieve when the friends they left behind
show themselves to be silly and e1trava-
CANT. A wife, for instance, in the spirit
land, will feel grieved when her husband
weighs his hat down with Grape and figura-
lively exists in state of sack cloth and
ashes for while, and then goes ceurting
inside three months. If these
tales Of the spirits be true.
then mothers in the ''great beyond"
will sorrow over the griefs of their children
when subjected to the cold mercies of step
mother; parents will be grieved over the
misfortunes of their children, and sweet an
gelic spirits will mourn over the hard-heart-
edness and stubborn-mindedness of their
earthly friends in not accepting rappings,
slate-writings, materialized ghosts, and all
such mysteries as proofs of their immor-
tality and the truth of Spiritualism.
In this book-founded upon information
from the spirits-the location of the spirit
world has been definitely ascertained by the
author. SIT is series of heavens-one
above the other-encircIing the earth-par-
about 600 or 700 north and south of the
latter
Even the Seventh Heaven Located.
The first heaven is distant from the earth
$50 miles The second is distant from the
first 100 miles. Above that-certainly as
high as the eighteenth heaven-the distance
between each is 80 miles. The seventh
heaven which everyone knows is a
''mighty nice place." is therefore within
200 miles of this wicked world. Robert
Dale Owen when on earth was capable
newspaper man, so it is doubtless owing to
his investigations that the author is in
debted for the facts in the case. An inquiry
as to the temperature of the heavens above
resulted, after careful observations by the