Böcker av William Stainton Moses

More Spirit Teachings,firstpublished in 1892, follows on from Spirit Teachingsexpounding wisdom and truths from Imperator and his group of discarnate communicators. Subjects discussed include Christ's purpose for incarnating on Earth, spirit influence, reincarnation, capital punishment, the hierarchy of communication, the nature of God, truth and fallacy in the Bible, divine judgement versus self judgement and much more. During one communicationon capital punishment they explained: "Under no circumstances should it be allowed. The soul, suddenly severed from the body is thrown back and becomes grievously dangerous to humanity. The guardians cannot draw near and great difficulties are set in the way of its progress. It is only those who have passed away that know what evils follow from this rude and barbarous punishment. "To punish by the withdrawal of what you call life is an act of senseless folly. … Reform or seclude the criminal but never kill the body, as you sever from a body a spirit that has not fulfilled its time in your sphere of being." * * * * * "Your Bible contains within it many gems of truth but if man is to benefit from it, he must learn discrimination." ~ Imperator "In the Man Christ Jesus the spiritual principle was most fully evoked, and fitly was He called the 'Son of God' in the language of Eastern hyperbole. The Son of God He was in the sense of being the most godlike of any who have walked this earth."~ Imperator

William Stainton Moses, an Anglican priest, authoredSpirit Teachingsin 1883, nine years before his passing. It is now considered a classic in the Spiritualist genre. Initially, Moses was antagonistic toward spirit communication, calling the mediumship of D. D. Home "the dreariest twaddle". However, in 1872 he attended a séance for the first time and five months later became aware he had psychic abilities which eventually manifested as automatic writing. Later that same year, a communicator writing through his hand introduced himself as Imperator Servus Dei, claiming he was the leader of a band of 49 spirits communicating from the seventh sphere - their purpose, to work out the will of the Almighty. Much of the communication came via a spirit named Rector, who claimed to reside in a lower sphere than Imperator's team, one closer to our physical vibration, which enabled dialogue. Imperator and the other communicators answered many questions Moses put to them such as the nature of reality, life after physical life, spirit influence, skepticism, Jesus, the Second Coming, prayer, disposal of the body and much more. Moses found his Christian dogma constantly challenged by what came through his hand. During one sitting, Imperator explained, "Friend, you must discriminate between God's truths and man's glosses". Stainton Moses' writings have become essential reading for truth seekers with an interest in life and death and despite the nineteenth century vernacular, the messages of wisdom are timeless and appeal to reason.

From the author's Preface.THIS volume has grown out of a paper originally read at a discussion meeting of the British National Association of Spiritualists, held at their rooms, 38 Great Russell Street, London, on the evening of December 16, 1878.In that paper I presented certain evidence for the identity of spirits who have from time to time communicated with me; and I founded an argument upon the evidence produced.Confined within narrow limits by the exigencies of the occasion, I dealt with one phase of the subject only, and my treatment of it was cursory. I have, however, considered it best to print the paper as it originally was delivered, with some few additional facts, and to supplement its imperfections and omissions, to some extent, in other parts of the book, especially in the Introduction.I have also reprinted from the Spiritualist certain papers bearing on the general subject of this work; and I have added in another Appendix cases of identity before published...

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