88- Do spirits have a specific, limited and constant form?
“To your eyes, no; to ours, yes. You might say they resemble a flame, a glow or an ethereal spark.”
– Does this flame or spark have a color?
“To you, it varies from the color of a dark ruby to a brilliant one, depending on the degree of the individual spirit’s purity.”
Spirit beings are ordinarily represented with a flame or a star on their brow; it is an allegory, which alludes to the essential nature of spirits. The flame or star is placed there because that is the seat of intelligence.
89- Do spirits take any amount of time to travel across space?
“Yes, but they are as fast as thought itself.”
– Isn’t thought the soul itself moving from one place to another?
“When the thought is in a place, the soul is there too, since it is the soul that does the thinking. Thought is one of its attributes.”
90- Is a spirit who moves from one place to another conscious of the distance it travels and the space it crosses, or is it suddenly at the place to which it wanted to go?
“Either way. If it wants to, a spirit can be perfectly aware of the distance it crosses, or such distance may seem to disappear completely. It all depends on the spirit’s will and the degree to which its nature is purified.”
91- Is matter an obstacle to spirits?
“No, they can pass through anything: the air, the earth, water, and even fire are all equally accessible to them.”
92- Do spirits have the gift of ubiquity? In other words, can one and the same spirit divide itself up or be at various points all at the same time?
“A spirit cannot be divided up; however, each is a center radiating in different directions and that is why it appears to be in many places all at the same time. Look at the sun. The sun is only one body, yet it radiates all around and sends its rays to great distances; nevertheless, it does not divide itself up.”
– Do all spirits radiate with the same power?
“Far from it; it depends on their degree of purity.”
Each spirit is an indivisible unit, but each one can extend its thought in different directions without dividing itself up. We should understand the gift of ubiquity attributed to spirits only in this sense. A spirit is like a spark which projects its light far off, and which can be perceived from all points of the horizon; or like an individual who, without changing places or dividing him or herself up, can transmit orders, signals, and movement to different points.
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