Fragments of Spiritual Knowledge Pertaining to the Spiritual World

By Benjamin Franklin Woodcox

Experience the life-changing power of Benjamin Franklin Woodcox with this unforgettable book.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Andura Publishing
• Release date: Oct 30, 2020
• ISBN: 9791220214353

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Fragments of Spiritual Knowledge Pertaining to the Spiritual World

Benjamin Franklin Woodcox

In the mineral kingdom, the struggle for life, and the struggle of life, begin, and guided by an in­telligence that is mathematically accurate in all its ef­forts, this life develops, and spreads, and passes through each of the other kingdoms of nature, and on through the more rarefied kingdoms which are invisible to man.

While life originates in the mineral kingdom, and develops and spreads through all the other kingdoms, and creates and is the beginning of these kingdoms, yet there is left behind in each of these kingdoms an indi­vidual life element which also evolves, and develops, and attains through refinement and vibratory action an immortality that carries the most beautiful and highly developed species of each of these kingdoms into the invisible and spiritual world.

The flowers are not lost to the spiritual kingdoms, nor the plants, nor the minerals, nor even such of the animals as develop and attain a vibratory action that is sufficiently refining and perfecting to carry them over into the invisible and spiritual worlds.

While each individual life, and particular species of life, represented in the coarser materials of nature, can attain to a refinement and immortality that will carry them over into the spiritual world, yet the particular life element in which nature is most interested, and upon which she spends most of her time, is that life element

that passes through all the different species and king­doms of life, and attains to immortality as the final product of all of these comibined or united in one. I refer to that life which has passed through from the mineral to man, and on into the invisible or spiritual world.

Life is the most beautiful thing in the uni­verse. And the more highly a spirit-life is developed, the more beautiful it becomes, until it reaches a point in perfection and beauty that is indescribable and in­comprehensible to man.

We can best describe a highly developed spirit-life by saying that it is a beautiful life that emits a pearly white light which throws a radiance around that is fairly blinding in its brilliancy; and that this light is just as refined and powerful as electricity, though not fatal to human touch.

A spirit-life that is highly developed radiates a great pearly white light that shines around like a heaven­ly body, and lights up all that is near to it. And through this light, that shines from the spirit body of each high­ly developed spirit-life, there appears many shades and colors of light, some of which are unknown to man, and to this physical plane of existence.

Life here and hereafter is the same life, and differs not a particle except in the conditions under which it lives.

The coarser physical body necessary to the spirit- life’s existence in the coarser physical world disappears, as does also its purely physical environment, and these are replaced by spiritual conditions and environments suitable to its spiritual needs. Beyond this there is no change, except as change takes place slowly, gradually, a little at a time—as the life evolves, unfolds, develops and becomes more perfect.

Man represents a life force that has traveled about one-half its journey, and has secured somewhat less than one-half its development. That is, the life that is in man has since the beginning of time traversed all the kingdoms from the mineral to the higher animal kingdom, a distance of about one-half its journey to completion; and has evolved somewhat less than half the vitality and strength necessary to its eternal life.

Those who are of the spiritual world see us, not as we appear to each other, but as we would appear to each other were we able to see each other outside, or through, our physical bodies.

A spirit-life approaching birth in a physical body, approaches upward, from a lower plane in the scale of development, and is usually not a new ar­rival in the human form; but a spirit-life that has in­habited the human form before, and is merely return­ing to continue, or complete, its journey in the physi­cal world.

The completion of a spirit-life’s journey in the phy­sical world depends entirely upon the amount of spiritual vitality attained, and not upon any theory, creed, belief, nor even upon the possession of exact spiritual know­ledge. However, the spirit-life that has attained to a point in its spiritual development where it can grasp, understand, and even on occasions perceive for itself exact spiritual truths, is nearing physical completion, and is about to enter into a new phase, or world, of life.

It is perfectly understood and known, by all who are in position to know anything about the spiritual world and life, that those in human form who have not yet attained a point in their spiritual development where they can know or grasp, or even possess an inkling of this spiritual world and life, are not nearing the end of their journey in human form; have still some physical lives before them in which to develop, to approach nearer to the spiritual world, and in which to obtain more spiritual vitality.

We cannot approach near to the spiritual world and life, in our development, without becoming in some way conscious of such world, and in possession of some exact knowledge concerning it.

A spiritual entity is without weight in a pure­ly physical sense. It knows no law of physical gravita­tion. It finds the spiritual materials of our atmosphere, and the higher atmospheres and space, sufficient to up­hold it, and to maintain it in comfort,