The last theory is correct, and the spirit world is really several billions of miles from earth; yet the suppositions are true (in a certain sense), for the inhabitants of the spirit world are migratory, and there are many millions of them living within the earth’s atmosphere, drawn thither on errands of pleasure and duty.
But there is a spiritual earth revolving around its spiritual sun, just as this earth revolves around its sun.
It has shape and form like this planet, and is indeed the spiritual body of the earth.
It existed before the creation of man on this globe, and was ready for the reception of the soul or spirit of the first human being who perished on earth.
As a spirit’s body is constructed from the spiritual emanations of man, so the spiritual globe is formed of the magnetic emanations of the earth. The refined gases which were thrown off during the process of the formation of the material globe which man now inhabits, form the basis of the spirit earth.
Each planet in the vast universe has its correspondent spirit world, and invisible magnetic rays are constantly exchanging between the spirit planet and its earth.
These magnetic currents or rays, like waves of silver light, constantly transmit thoughts from the spirit world to this.
All spirit is matter.
The spirit globe, being primarily composed of gases, in revolving around its central sun ultimates in a substance which is similar to the soil of your earth.
The same system which marks the development of the material world also is displayed in the development of the spiritual world.