"Some cannot advance further than the borderland--such as never
thought of spirit life and have lived entirely for the
earth, its cares and pleasures--even clever men and women, who
have lived simply intellectual lives without spirituality. There
are many who have misused their opportunities, and are now
longing for the time misspent and wishing to recall the earth-
life. They will learn that on this side the time can be
redeemed, though at much cost. The borderland has many among the
restless money-getters of earth, who still haunt the places where
they had their hopes and joys. These are often the longest to
remain . . . many are not unhappy. They feel the relief to be
sufficient to be without their earth bodies. All pass through
the borderland, but some hardly perceive it. It is so immediate,
and there is no resting there for them. They pass on at once to
the refreshment place of which we tell you." The anonymous
author, after recording this spirit message, mentions the
interesting fact that there is a Christian inscription in the
Catacombs which runs: NICEFORUS ANIMA DULCIS IN REFRIGERIO,
"Nicephorus, a sweet soul in the refreshment place." One more
scrap of evidence that the early Christian scheme of things
was very like that of the modern psychic.
So much for the borderland, the intermediate condition. The
present Christian dogma has no name for it, unless it be that
nebulous limbo which is occasionally mentioned, and is usually
defined as the place where the souls of the just who died before
Christ were detained.
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