93- Is the spirit per se without a covering, or as some insist, is it surrounded by some kind of substance?
“The spirit is surrounded by a substance that might look vaporous to you but which is still quite dense to us. Nevertheless, it is sufficiently vaporous to be able to raise itself up into the air and travel to wherever it wants to go.”
As a fruit seed is surrounded by the perisperm, the spirit per se is surrounded by an envelope, which, by comparison, may be called the perispirit.
94- Where does a spirit get this semi-material envelope?
“From each globe’s own universal fluid. That is why the perispirit is not the same on all worlds. In passing from one world to another, spirits change their envelope just as you change your clothes.”
– Then when spirits from more highly evolved worlds come to ours, do they take on a denser perispirit?
“They must clothe themselves with your matter, as we have already said.”
95- Does the spirit’s semi-material envelope have a specific form, and can it be seen?
“Yes, a form according to the spirit’s volition, and that is how it sometimes appears to you in dreams or in the waking state and how it may take on a visible or even tangible form.”
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