ANSWERSTOEVER-RECURRING QUESTIONS
FROM THE PEOPLE
(A Sequel to The Penetralia.)
BY ANDREW JACKSON DAVIS
AUTHOR OF THE HARMONIAL PHILOSOPHY“Each man is capable of rendering high service to humanity; but whether humanity gets it from him, or the reverse, will ever remain for the world to decide. Now here I am acting faithfully in accordance with my personalities and its boundaries. If you know how to use me, as my nature prescribes, I shall then yieldyou a permanent benefit; but, if in your ignorance of yourself, (and, therefore, of me), you do not put me to the best service, you will soon feel the penalty.”— ThePenetralia, p. 16.BOSTON:WILLIAM WHITE & COMPANY,158 WASHINGTON STEEET. NEW YORK:BANNER OF LIGHT BANCH OFFICE, 544 BROADWAY.(1868)
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PREFACE
It may interest the reader, before entering upon an examination of thisvolume, to know what brought it into existence.About six years ago, I published a book entitled “The Penetralia.” It wasfilled with replies to questions put by investigators who have been developed andmultiplied, to an unexampled extent, by that extraordinary and influentialmovement of modern days, commonly denominated “Spiritual.” In that volume isthe following language. “The author does not presume to believe that his replieswill be either final or gratifying to those who occupy different positions in regard tothe several subjects considered; and yet his Spirit is animated with the hope that, tosuch minds, the following pages may suggest, even more than they express, highthoughts and saving principles.”That the “replies” communicated in that book were neither final nor sufficientin variety to meet the ever-rising necessities of man’s immortal mind, is proved bythe appearance of this volume. Here are presented newly awakened “Answers” tonewly arisen “Questions,” which have been freely and frequently put to the author during the last three years. The following interrogatories, which have not beenreplied to in any previous volume, are selected from a formidable pile of correspondence. Hundreds of questions have reached the author from persons whohave not read anything on the subject. To such, the
Answers
hereby imparted willcome like a revelation from a new world of Truth; while to those who have readand investigated, the following pages will seem “familiar as household words.”But the thinking, progressive public will find in this volume many new,curious, useful, and interesting truths touching the great facts of Future Existence.These truths are to men’s minds what airy lights and
moisture
are to grains, grasses,flowers and fruit — the means of fertility and expansion. Sometimes a singlesentence will illuminate the uneducated and unhappy mind, as a single flash of lightning will light up a dark and dreary forest.I have not written with the
fear
of public opinion before my eyes, but haveapproached the “Questions” with the conviction that “the withholding of largetruths from the world may be a betrayal of the greatest trust.”That this sequel to the
“Penetralia”
may bring new light into the world, and be the means of spiritual growth and happiness to mankind, is my very earnest prayer.A. J. Davis.
New York, October, 1862
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ANSWERSTOEVER-RECURRING QUESTIONSFROM THE PEOPLE
Mission of the True Spiritualist.
I. — Question: “What is the position of the true Spiritualist? Is itpossible for him to remain indifferent to the welfare of mankind? Does notsuch a faith tend to render its recipients wiser, happier, and more useful?”
Answer: Light is pouring in from the eternal Spheres. It flings its radiance onevery passing eye. The weary, benighted traveler beholds it afar off. Nature, withan impartial hand, scatters her truths everywhere; the same at the poles as beneaththe equator; and thus the whole globe is abundantly filled with their beauty andfragrance. Unhappy, indeed, is that mind which can neither see their proportionsnor enjoy their hallowed magnetic principles. Those immortal truths which
“—heal, and soothe, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of man, like flowers.”
Do they not deserve universal attention? They are gentle in their lovingness,delightful in their fragrance, magical in their tender touches of wisdom, sublime intheir mountainous grandeur, holy in their significant teachings, and God-like intheir boundless magnificence and eternal power. In such truths we perceive the“breath of Nature, and behold her endless bloom.” She unbosoms her every graceto the truth-worshipper. Her disclosures are to those only who love her wisely; tothe uncertain child, the ruthless man, “her face is veiled” both day and night. But toher devoted lovers. Nature is lavish and tender forever, and she is also just in all her requirements.To the true Spiritualist (using the term in its largest sense) are vouchsafedthose immortal principles of Truth, which exalt humanity and enrich eternity. The positive radiance of individual immortality, breaking with infinite light and luster upon this unhappy world, reveals our manifold imperfections. Antiquated errors,and time-cemented systems of injustice and wrong, betray their hideous proportions. The abundance of good light exhibits the darkness of evil in every place and nation. That mind which has stricken off the shackles of mental slavery,and which, with new-born gladness, realizes the eternal dignity and birthright of individual life, is certain to sing the songs of Freedom and of boundless Reform.Hence, it is the undoubted province of the true Spiritualist to reverence the principles of Progression, and, at the same time, to stand like a mountain of adamant against the regressive waves of superstition. Perforce of his powerfulconvictions, and in consequence of the incessant urgings to righteous conductemanating from his best guardians in the Spirit Land, the believer is, of necessity,
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