Can a Spirit Have Flesh and Blood?
I answer, “No.” For a spirit is nothing but a shadow – either of a belief or a substance. If a person knows anything, the shadow of the thing known is a spirit; so if we call ourselves a substance, the shadow is a spirit – not a substance. Truth is a solid and makes no shadow. Wisdom never makes a shadow; but ignorance is simply a shadow of something that exists as a belief. Life is a solid, not a shadow; and as it is attached to a belief (or matter), our life seems to act in the matter; but in life there is no matter, except as we admit it. We do admit it; therefore, all things are based on this belief. Our senses are our life, and therefore are solid. As man is known to himself in his belief (or matter), he has no idea of himself outside of matter; so that he can be in but one place at a time, according to his belief. Therefore, if I am talking to a person, I monopolize him for a time. Now this is a false idea. The person to whom I am talking may be present at as many places as his w
