 | Adin Ballou - Spiritualism - 1852 - 264 pages
...nearer to God ; or what is the same thing, nearer as a spirit to the divine standard of perfection. But without conformity to these laws, he cannot progress,...those in the paradisaical spheres. Their existence is a blessing to them even while thus low, and there is no such place or state as a HELL of unmitigated,... | |
 | Robert Hare - Bible and spiritualism - 1855 - 556 pages
...to God ; or,, what is the same thing, nearer as a spirit to the divine standard of perfection. But without conformity to these laws, he cannot progress,...blessedness, they are 'spirits in prison,' and wretched in com[t Aceording to my spirit friends, this earth forms one of them, the first ; so that there nro six... | |
 | Robert Hare - Christian ethics - 1856 - 508 pages
...nearer to God ; or, what is the same thing, nearer as a spirit to the divine standard of perfection. But without conformity to these laws, he cannot progress,...those in the paradisaical spheres. Their existence is a blessing to them even while thus low, and there is no such place or state as a HELL of unmitigated,... | |
 | William Robert Gordon - Spiritualism - 1856 - 436 pages
...things considered, by reason of passing into the spirit-world. The worst even are, if any way aflected, in a better state there than in the flesh. They whose...spheres, where, though enabled to enjoy existence in the degee possible at such a distance from the divine focus of blesedness, they are ' spirits in prison,'... | |
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God ; or, what is the same thing, nearer as a spirit to the divine standard of perfection. But without conformity to these laws, he cannot progress, but obscures and debases himself. Death does not change man's real character, nor his proper spirit sphere,... 