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822 ADDITIONAL CORROBORATIVE EVIDENCE1G09. '' I then read it to my wife, and said, ' This is one of the best andmost convincing evidences of tlie intelligence of those invisible agentvs/ andthen I added, '"To E. W. CArRON, Auburn:'God's telegraph has outdone Morse's, altogether/" Yours, truly, A. II. Jarvis.'IGIO. The subjoined opinions of the spirits, taken from the volumeabove mentioned, differ but immaterially from those which I have received;proving that information respecting scriptural morals, when properlysought, w^ill be consistently obtained1611. '' 1. There is one and but one God, an infinite Spirit and the Fatherof spirits. He loves all, and eternally seeks their good by all wise andfitting means.1G12. " 2. All human beings are spirits as to their absolute internal constitution,and soon after death emerge into distinct conscious spiritual identities,having bodies, forms, and peculiarities as obviously cognizable toeach other, and as distinguishable from each other, as here in the flesh.1G13. "'6. All human beings possess certain mental and moral qualities,partly constitutional, partly circumstantial, and partly self-wrought, whichdetermine for the time being eacli individual's real spiritual characterrelative nearness to, or distance from, the divine standard of perfection.that each one is in a certain sphere, and in some circle or degree of thatsphere, as to his spirit, ahva^/s, whether existing in the fleshly body orafter his dissolution. And if a person is spiritually in a certain sphere atdeath, in that sphere he finds himself the moment he resumes his consciousnessin the spirit world, associated with kindred spirits.1614. '^4. There are seven spirit spheres, or circles,* inferior to theheavenly or celestial spheres, and each sphere or circle has several degrees.Man is a being by nature capable of progress, subject to certain fundamentalspiritual and moral laws.andSoIn conformity to these laws, he may nowprogress from lower to higher spheres ; i. c. he may draw nearer and nearerto God ; or, what is the same thing, nearer as a spirit to the divine standardof perfection. But without conformity to these laws, he cannot progress,but obscures and debases himself. Death does not change man'sreal character, nor his proper spirit sphere, nor his capability to make progress,nor the laws of progress. No man is in a morally worse state, allthings considered, by reason of passing into the spirit world. The icorsteven are, if any way aifected, in a better state there than in the flesh.They whose spirit sphere w^^s purer, find themselves proportionally blessed.Many remain very long in the lower spheres, where, though enabled toenjoy existence in the degree possible at such a distance from the divinefocus of blessedness, they are ' spirits in prison,' and wretched in com-[* According to iiiy spirit friends, this earth forms one of them, the first; so that thereore six spirit spheres.]