Peter Tan - The Spiritual World

THE SPIRITUAL WORLD

Copyright 2007 by Peter Tan Evangelism.

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VISIONS OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLD

It is not possible to describe the glory and various areas of the Spiritual World in human language without bringing by the use of earth language a percentage of inaccuracy. Neither can anyone who has an encounter or visions of the Spiritual World claim to have visited every aspect of that glorious world. The Spiritual World consists of more varying aspects than all the nations, cultures, civilizations of earth of every known and unknown age and time put together. All these would be less than one atom of a drop of water in an ocean the size of the entire known universe.

There are multiples of creations of God in various dimensions and universes that would take eternities to explore. For this reason many of those who have true spiritual experiences of the Spiritual World, whether for a brief time or through extended encounters, bring only a small microscopic view of the spiritual realm and life after death. It is thus an error for anyone with those experiences to think that their encounter is "all" of what the spiritual world is like and start building doctrines or dogma as to what the true Spiritual World is like.

Having clarified the above points, I have tried to summarize in this book, the aspects of the Spiritual World which were experienced primarily through various spiritual experiences in March 2006, which began during the 40 day partial fast in February 2006 (which I have done annually for thirty years - the fast of February 2006 happened to be my thirtieth annual forty day fast) and continued almost on a daily basis even after the conclusion of the fast. Having done that many fasts before, I was settling into the joy of seeking God not really expecting anything dramatic to take place but just wanting to minister to the Lord and, as always in the annual forty day fast, rededicating my life to the service of God.

The purpose for the writing of this book is to prepare others for the Spiritual World in which every one of us will one day be living when we depart from this earth. The possibilities for spiritual progress while we are still in our earthly body are far greater (by millions of percentage points) than when we physically die and enter the Spiritual World. For those who are walking with God the possibilities for progress in the next world are also as great, if not greater in the sense that it can lead to growth into the fullest dimension of God's Being unhindered by the physical body.

This book is also written for those who have partial encounters in the Spiritual World, lest they develop the wrong dogma as to what the Spiritual World is like from their brief encounter. Please note that it is not possible to put down everything that has been experienced into this one book. It is important to also note that this is only my personal and subjective perspective gained through experiences in the Spiritual World. After the experiences in the Spirit World, I did research on some of those areas shown to me (both spiritual and scientific) and I have mentioned some of the authors whose books I have read (especially scientific ones).

I have also re-examined the Bible in the light of those experiences and critiqued my own experiences from the Scriptures. I have been asked by some as to who else has seen the Spiritual World similar to what I saw I am sure that there are many others but one that I know of, who has a book written of his experiences, is Sadhu Sundar Singh in his book on The Spiritual World. It is important to establish all revelation through the written Word of God but it is comforting to know that one is not alone in these revelations of the Spiritual World.

Please also note that just reading through this book once intellectually does not mean that you might have got the full sense and understanding of what I am attempting to convey. One of the laws of the Spirit is that one can only receive at the level of where one is spiritually; thus, there are some things that you might have missed getting the spiritual understanding of until you re-read this book after receiving some spiritual experiences.

In some places, I have struggled for hours to compose a single descriptive sentence of the Spiritual World in human language, while in others whole paragraphs would just flow. I urge the reader to please read this book carefully and prayerfully. My prayers are that those who read this book would be enabled to progress further in their spiritual development both in this physical world and in the Spiritual World.

Peter Tan

8th March 2007

Age and characteristics

The spiritual body is of a youthful appearance. There is no old age. Children and infants entering the spirit world grow to adult maturity but in a far shorter time then they would in earth time. Spiritual maturity can be discerned in the countenance and light of a spiritual body. The spiritual body can also expand or contract but not in the same sense as it does in the physical world. The maximum size however is limited by the level of advancement in the spiritual spheres.

One is not necessarily the same height as one was in the physical world. Most of the time through spiritual growth (not always true of all aspects of growth - there are myriads of different areas of spiritual growth in the spiritual realm; each producing different radiance with some aspects producing expansion size of the spiritual body capability), one's being is greater in size (height and proportional wise) but one can still take the form of those of the lower spheres at a height or image that is recognisable and visible to those of the lower spheres. There is a translucence of the spiritual body but it is a solidness and lightness of spiritual substance. Light emanates from the spiritual body.

Clothing

All of the spirits in the spiritual realm have garments and clothes covering them but those of the lower and darker spheres appear to be in their naked spiritual body, and those lower still than these dark realms have naked spiritual bodies which are so altered that they appear ugly and do not even look human. The spirits in the highest realms have the brightest garments. The aura or light of these garments emanates from the mind of each spirit being. The aura or light that is emanated forms the spiritual garment for the spirit body.

At physical death, spirits are still dominated by the earthly influences of the mind and thus produce the particular earthly fashions of the spiritual garments that clothe their spirit bodies but as the spirit matures and learns control of their mind and the spiritual forces at their disposal, they gain more control of their spiritual garments. The intensity or radiant brightness of their garments is still governed by their growth into higher spheres. In the spiritual world, there are more colours than we can see in the physical realm - not just seven colours of the rainbow and their intermediate states but thousands of ranges of colours. The character, strengths, weaknesses and development of the spirit being are reflected in the colour and brightness of their garments. In the spirit world, every one manifests in full and clear view to all their spiritual qualities and exact development level of their spiritual life in their spiritual body and in their spiritual clothing.