July 1892 - The Emma Hardinge Britten Archive

174 Extracts from the Second Volume of" Ghostlmtd."
suns, planets, and systems of material worlds, interpenetrated
and encircled with graded spheres of soul worlds.
Then, again, just as there is a soul in these our carnal
bodies, and a soul world within and around this material
earth, so there is a soul part to every object on this earth;
and just as the soul part of man never dies, so those of
minerals, plants, and animals never die, but move onwards
and upwards through a long succession of births, lives,
and deaths, to the apex and completion of this planet's
highest form-man. In the disintegration of material
forms, also, the magnetic or life principle of every form
is taken up by the soul world, and goes to fashion the
scenes, substance, objects, and uses of the soul world.
Thus, the spheres to which the spirits of animated beings
gravitate after death have been forming, furnishing, and
growing progressively with the material world. The
soul, or Spiritual part of things, being as much fairer and
finer than the material objects in which they grew, as the
blossom is fairer than the root from which it sprang, so
are the realms of soul life infinitely more beautiful than
the transitory realms of matter. And thus, too, all that
ever has been on earth is not only preserved in the
Spiritual realms, but the Spiritual principle of all things
leaves its impress behind upon the earth. This is in part
proved by that singular power called psychometry, showing
that there is a soul of things which can be felt as
well as being discerned by clairvoyance. Now, dear sir,
as I have told you that the soul of the world in different
stages of sublimation stretches away to the soul worlds of
other planets, suns, and stars, and is called thence • astral
light,' so thie;; 'astral light." filling up every portion of the
soul world from the highest to the lowest depths of being,
receives and retains for ever the impression of every thing,
form, object, and being that has ever existed.
" The astral light or rarified ether filling all space corres-