In his wanderings, Spirit Franchezzo describes his arrival at a vast range of mountains whose bleak summits tower into the night sky overhead. There are no regular pathways at the foot… Read More

 Oh, horror! they were my own past misdeeds―my own evil thoughts and desires, which had been prompted by this very man beside me, and which nestling in my heart had formed t… Read More

Closer and closer they gathered―a moving mass of evil personified. As Spirit Franchezzo stood watching the crowd, his attention was drawn to a group of spirits who were pointing ov… Read More

Spirit Franchezzo now sees before him these powerful leaders engaged in a struggle worse than deadly, since no death comes to end the contest, which they renew over and over again̵… Read More

Spirit Franchezzo is speculating what his next adventure will be when a couple of spirit-lives hurry to him.  They ask if he is not a member of the Brotherhood of Hope since―… Read More

Spirit Franchezzo continues to recount Benedetto's story― From time to time, Benedetto would lapse into unconsciousness, and from these states of merciful oblivion, he would awaken… Read More

A spirit-life’s journey to the Land of Remorse is undertaken voluntarily and shortens the pathway of progression.In the Land of Remorse, the true nature of your earthly-life and i… Read More

Spirit Franchezzo's wandering now brings him to an immense forest whose weird fantastic trees are like what one sees in some awful nightmare. The leafless branches seem like living arms… Read More

Away before him stretched a narrow path.  Curious to see where it led, Spirit Franchezzo followed it―sure that it would somehow lead him to those whom he could help. Af… Read More

In another scene from the Land of Horrors, Spirit Franchezzo stops at the door of a large square building, arrested by the cries and shouts, which come from it.Its grated windows looked lik… Read More

The Valley of the Phantom Mists lay between two precipitous hills. Great wreaths of grey vapour crept up its hillsides, shaping themselves into mysterious phantom forms. These h… Read More

Away from the raging fiends, Spirit Franchezzo and his companion are borne away to a short distance.  They look back, and see through the walls, which have become transparent to t… Read More

Never for one moment can your past errors and mistakes cease to dog your footsteps and clog your wings while you live and after the life of the body is ended until one-by-one you have atone… Read More

Faithful Friend now proposes to Spirit Franchezzo that they should visit one more city in this strange land so that he might see the man whose fate might have been his own but for the const… Read More

Seated on the parapet of one of the smaller bridges, Spirit Franchezzo finds a man wearing the dress of the Brothers of Hope―a dark grey robe such as he had himself worn in the earlie… Read More

On the outskirts of the town, Spirit Franchezzo comes to a magnificent palace, strangely familiar and yet unfamiliar to his eyes.  In wandering through this city, he is so reminde… Read More

The effects on the soul of your mutual love and hate are great and lasting, and they cling to you long after your earthly life is past. —Spirit Franchezzo Read More

When Spirit Franchezzo has—at last—learned the lesson of self-conquest, he turns to the study of the spirit-land and its conditions with renewed interest. He visits his frie… Read More

Franchezzo sees the circling belt of the great earth plane, its magnetic currents like the ebb and flow of an ocean tide, bearing countless spirits. He sees all the strange elementa… Read More

In A wanderer in the spirit lands,* spirit author, Franchezzo, tells that the spirit world is full of lonely souls, all eager to return and show that they still live, still think of th… Read More

If the after consequences of a life spent in dissipation and selfishness are often terrible even during the earth-life, they are doubly so in the world of spirits, where all disguise is stri… Read More

During a part of his present journey, Franchezzo sees the city he is about to visit―He climbs to the top of a tall tower, which appears to be built of black rocks. He is surrounde… Read More

The Kingdom of Hell And now I beheld afar off great masses of inky black smoke, which seemed to hang like a pall of gloom over the land to which we were approaching. As we still floated… Read More

States of HellThe Land of Ice and Snow—The Frozen LandAll those who have been cold and selfishly calculating in their earthly lives live in the Land of Ice and Snow—the Frozen La… Read More