Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XVII A Soul's Message Peace be unto you! Peace! The peace which passeth all understanding I bring from that eternal world where love and wisdom reign. For, though a humble soul, one not given to vaunting itself, I have access to a superior realm, and one would be unfaithful in the extreme who should keep silence when his lips have learned, at least haltingly, to speak with the spiritual tongue. I live, as do you also, in two worlds. I am, as you are, two selves. With one tongue I might address you concerning the weather, the latest fashion, or the stock market, and you could give back surface for surface. But if I address you with the tongue of an angel shall you not as readily respond? Do you realise how many occasions we let pass when we might speak as only angels speak, were it not for pride or timidity, or base servility to custom? It is written that once angels talked with men on earth, and we believe it--historically. But nowadays many are ashamed to utter the best that is in them, and some are grown cold and barren. It is rumoured, too, that every man and woman of us came as an angel from heaven, --pure, innocent, and true, --but that the world corrupted us. We are told that we must again become as little children. We believe this also--theoretically. There are many who know the way, but walk not therein. Yet each of us is an angel in heaven now. Nothing has ever separated us from the divine love and wisdom. Nothing has corrupted us, nothing can corrupt the soul. Once pure, always pure; the soul is ever an angel of God. The heart never loves less truly because the body ages and life grows complicated. Behind the illusions of the mind's fond conceits and fancies the faith of the soul is as firm as ever. The inner man is as.
