CHAPTER V.
OUR SURROUNDINGS HEREAFTER.
WITH affections there must be something to love; with ideas and thoughts there must be objects to investigate. With a spiritual body, substantial and real, there must be ground to stand upon; air to breathe; a world to see and feel; other spirits to come in contact with; associations and organizations arising from such contact; and in fine, an external spiritual universe more or less resembling the natural universe we now live in.
Where is this spiritual world? How is it created? What are its laws and its phenomena? What stupendous interests revolve around the replies to these questions! What light their truthful answers would cast upon the great mysteries of life and death!
How singularly averse is the popular mind, under the tuition of the passing dispensation, to think of heaven as a real and substantial state of existence.
