Spirit Teachings - William Stainton Moses

SECTION XXVIII [Feb. 26th, 1874.—At one of our circles we had had a piece of direct writing of which we could make nothing. It was written in curious hieroglyphics. I inquired about it.]

The writing, though unintelligible to you, was the work of a high intelligence, who on earth was incarnated amongst the nation who was then most spiritual, the great nation of the Egyptians. They had a more real belief in the existence and intervention of spiritual agencies than you now have. They cherished a firmer belief in immortality of the human spirit, and of the indestructibility of all spirits, than your wise men have yet attained to.

Their civilization you yourself know to be vast; their erudition such that they were the depository of the knowledge of their age.

Aye, verily; and they had knowledge which a material age has lost; knowledge which illumined the souls of Pythagoras and Plato, and which has filtered down to you only through their teachings. The ancient Egyptians were wise and erudite philosophers, and our friend may well teach you much of which you are ignorant. After and interval of three thousand years and over, who in his earth-life knew of God and the hereafter, comes to witness to the abiding nature of his faith. The time—so long in its seeming to your contracted vision—during which our friend has been a denizen of spirit-land, has served to open new vistas of truth, to remove old errors, to throw light on old speculations, but it has served also to deepen and confirm faith in the Supreme and in the immortal destiny of man's spirit.

[I suggested that I still did not see why he should write unintelligible hieroglyphics; and asked his name.]

You shall know him; but his earth identity is long lost, and you would know it no more than you know his signs on the paper. He knew even in the body that bodily life was but the first short stage of perpetuated existence; and he has gone onwards, as he believed, upwards to Ra, the source of light, to whom his gaze was turned.

[I inquired if he believed in absorption into the Godhead after a course of progress.]

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