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64 MODERN SPIRITISM
nor any other creature can bar us from
the hearth
'
fires of the universe. '
We leave the reader to choose between the bathos
of this appalling misquotation and the true conclusion
of St. Paul "can separate us from the love
of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." Strange
and piteous that the gifted author of that wonderful
poem "St. Paul" should have had so little respect
to its subject, and should have so lowered his own
great fame when in the other world, where, at any
rate, we expect some spiritual advance!*
Seven Spheres of Theosophy
After death, we are told,
there are seven stages of
progress through the seven revolving spheres of
Raymond, who himself is in the third of these.
When we turn to Mr. A. P. Sinnett, the well-known
Theosophist, we find this, and much more, is Theosophy,
pure and simple. He says: "In the next
world people seem in Spiritism mainly desirous of
reaffirming the familiar truth, that to be happy hereafter,
we must be decently well-behaved in this
life a warning which, as a rule, makes no deep
impression on the hearers."
Speaking of the "seven planes," he says: "There
are the astral and manasic and other planes, the
ultimate being Karma.
"The astral region is a huge hollow sphere (not a
ring) surrounding the physical globe, like the atmosphere,
and revolving with it round the sun.
"A great part of the spheres is submerged
* Such a bathos is surely enough to any who knew F. W. H.
Myers to show the words were none of his !