_Ans._ Yes.
583. (28.) Do the last-mentioned circles present an aspect less
agreeable than that of our sphere?
_Ans._ Yes.
584. (29.) At what point does the scenery become superior to any in our
world?
_Ans._ In the third sphere.
585. (30.) What designates the boundaries of the spheres, so as to make
spirits perceive when they are passing through the partition between
one and another?
_Ans._ Diversity of impression made upon the spirit.
586. (31.) What confines a spirit to his proper level, so that none can
mount above it into a sphere to which he does not belong?
_Ans._ A moral specific gravity, in which the weight is inversely as
the merit, prevents the spirit from rising above his proper level.
587. (32.) Are spirits of different densities rarer or more refined in
constitution as they are higher in rank?
_Ans._ Yes.
588. (33.) Has the most dense or most undeveloped spirit any weight? if
not, how are they denser than those who have progressed farther?
_Ans._ They are in the spheres heavy as compared with other spirits,
but their weight would not influence a scale-beam in this mundane
sphere.
589. (34.) If the lowest have no weight, wherefore are they more
competent to give physical manifestations by moving ponderable bodies?
_Ans._ They do not act by weight, but all spirits, under favourable
conditions and with certain means, possess, in a minute degree, a
portion of that power possessed to an infinite extent by the Deity, of
annulling gravitation and vis inertiæ; and though they cannot exercise
such powers without the aid of a medium, the medium is to them as an
implement in the hands of a human being.
590. (35.) How are such movements produced consistently with the law
that action and reaction are equal and contrary?
_Ans._ Gravity and vis inertiæ being neutralized, the physical law of
action and reaction does not prevail against the spirit volition.