Spirits are not allowed to tell too much about their condition, as the following question and answer show:—
“Ques.—Can't you tell us what makes it pleasanter,—describe so we can understand?
“Ans.—You'll find out as I did—'gainst the rules here to tell.... Just be patient—it's all easy enough when you learn how. I was puzzled, but it all seems straight enough now.”—Id., p. 115.
They teach the pre-existence of souls, and the old pagan doctrines of the reincarnation of souls, and the final absorption of all into Nirvana. A spirit having answered that all had been asserted in some other form, questions and answers followed from which we quote:—
“Q.—Is that statement an intimation of the truth of reincarnation?
“A.—Souls of all who have preceded you are centered in you in spite of your childish protests. Ask not of those [pg 121] predecessors; for they yet live in you, and you in them.... Long ago you and I went over the ground under eminent names.... Were not we together when Socrates and Aspasia talked?”—Id., pp. 151, 152.
“Q.—Can you tell us, at least, whether spirit, as a whole or in its individual atoms, exists eternally?
“A.—Yes; spirit as a whole is eternal—exists—did exist—by force of Powers you cannot understand. But you as individual, self-conscious, atomistic particles of spirit wholeness, are not eternal, and must return to the Primal Source.”—Id., p. 133.