One cannot mutilate the etheric body, and it remains
always intact. The first words uttered by a returning spirit in
the recent experience of Dr. Abraham Wallace were "I have got my
left arm again." The same applies to all birth marks,
deformities, blindness, and other imperfections. None of them
are permanent, and all will vanish in that happier life that
awaits us. Such is the teaching from the beyond--that a perfect
body waits for each.
"But," says the critic, "what then of the clairvoyant
descriptions, or the visions where the aged father is seen, clad
in the old-fashioned garments of another age, or the grandmother
with crinoline and chignon? Are these the habiliments of
heaven?" Such visions are not spirits, but they are pictures
which are built up before us or shot by spirits into our brains
or those of the seer for the purposes of recognition. Hence the
grey hair and hence the ancient garb. When a real spirit is
indeed seen it comes in another form to this, where the flowing
robe, such as has always been traditionally ascribed to the
angels, is a vital thing which, by its very colour and
texture, proclaims the spiritual condition of the wearer, and is
probably a condensation of that aura which surrounds us upon
earth.
It is a world of sympathy. Only those who have this tie
foregather. The sullen husband, the flighty wife, is no longer
there to plague the innocent spouse.
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