The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-02-07


not concern themselves with the
worlds material progress, as we are
now assured is the habit Of those who
have gone over to the majority
Every great inventor and invention
Of our time, say the spiritualists, is
the ultimate product Of spiritual CO.
operation. Edison, Tesla, Draper, Far
aday, Morse, the telegraph, the tele-t
phone, the monograph, all the Wonder.
Of microscopy and photography, the
needle gun-in fact, all the hundred
thousand things which we characterize
as up to date, we owe to occult infu-
ences, Of which the Influenced were for
the most part totally unconscious.
Spirits exist upon planes not less
different than those of mortals. In the
lowest one, which lies nearest earth,
and is most easily reached through
mediumistic channels, exist those who
in leaving earth left behind them no
grossness but that Of the body, and
in the spirit world are as untruthful,
as rancorous, as full Of spite and envy
as when they disgraced the mortal
form. ..-..
In the plane above this we find
spirits who aspire to better things
who have Clipped the shell of earthly
habit and begin to feel their wings.
In the third plane, counting upward,
are those spirits who have a great love
Of knowledge for it's own sake, and
greater desire to make such knowledge
Of benefit to their mortal fellows.
Above this third plane the exalted
the great souls and minds Of all ages,
who have reached so great an alti-
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only through spirits Of lower degreee
Hence the necessity for circles, into
which we are told the whole spirit
world is organized. Spirits of the low
er planes band themselves together
to work under the direction Of a Frank
lin, a Morse, a Newton, Keppler, q
Calico, Milton, a Shakespeare. Each
leader perhaps helps to direct countless
separate circles, just as in our world
men prominent in finance, at the law.
or in the government may have a fin
ger in a great many separate pies.
So much by way Of making plain
what follows. 10 particularize, there
Is at present operating in New York
town stock company Of fourteen
members-eleven spirits and three NOR
tails. Two Of the spirits rank among
the exalted, and if I would set their
names down they would be known the
world over. But, used as they are to
celebrity, they shrink from being known
in connection with the company, though
it is not one Of which honest investors
need to have a care. None of the
stock is for sale, you see, though one
of these fine days there may be tidy
fortunes for the mortal shareholders
as the net result Of the spiritual COLA
boration.
The other nine spirits belong to the
third plane, and have each their allot-
ted share in the work in hand. The
exalted ones were electricians, the
most famous of their time. It is their
part to suggest new and marvellous an
pl1cations Of that most subtitle force.
which they say has but barely begun
to be harnessed and set to work. Or
the nine spiritual helpers, one was in
life physician, a second an electrician
whose inventive ideas did not come to
fruit; another was a skillful mechanic
two others practiced the now ex-
tinct art of the daguerrotyping.
sixth was professor of penmanship,
a seventh publisher, who is to have
charge Of making public the COM
pany's progress; an eighth woman,
whose speciality has not been clearly
defined. 1t is barely possible that she
may be the publishers destined as
sistant-that is, If one accepts the view
Of the old minister, Who in course Of
an eastern sermon told his feminine
hearers they need not plume themsel.
yes upon the fact that Christ appeared
first to women-He did it only that the
news might spread the faster.
Above the lady comes the leader,
through whom the commands Of the
two exalted ones reach the rest Work
Is apportioned among them accurately.
according to their several capacities,
Those same capacities are too great to
rest content with this New York enter
prlse-the circle has likewise in hand
the affairs Of an inventor. somewhere
In South America, who Is wrestling
with new telescope, destined to make
Of the heavens a scroll that the way.
faring man may read.
OF the three mortals, one is an inven.