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Spirit Identity – William Stainton Moses

THE GATES BEING AJAR A MOTLEY CROWD RUSHES IN

The world from which disembodied spirit returns to us is very much like our own.  The denizens of it are of varying degrees of progression; and those unfortunately for us, who are least progressive, least developed, least spiritual and most ‘material and earthly’ hover around the confines and rush in when the gates are ajar.

We have small reason to complain of this.  It is our own option to seek intercourse with the world of spirit and we are certainly doing our best to keep up the supply of unprogressed and undeveloped spirits who are perpetually passing from our state to that with which we voluntarily open communication.  Of course, we reap what we have sown, that is an eternal law….

They who have lived the life of incarnation without progress; - they who have hoarded their treasure here, and have no home elsewhere; - they who are tied to earth by any of the bonds that chain down the spirit; - they for whom heaven has no meaning, and who would find their highest gratification on the earth that they should have quitted for ever; - those in short, whom we, by our vicious civilisation, by all the methods whereby worldly wealth and power preys on and degrades those who are the ministers of its lusts and material cravings and necessities; - those whom we have reduced to the level of mere physical machines and robbed of the precious birthright of spiritual progress and true life; - these find the gates ajar and vex us.