22Then was brought unto him one possessed with a devil, blind, and dumb: and he healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb both spake and saw. -Matthew 12:22 Bible, King James Version
The devils in the Spirit World are evil spirits from mankind on this earth who are in between their embodiments.
The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ by Levi H. Dowling
CHAPTER 8.
The Master Elihu’s lessons in Egypt to Joseph, Mary and Elizabeth:
1Again Elihu met his pupils in the sacred grove and said... 17Men seek salvation from an evil that they deem a living monster of the nether world; and they have gods that are but demons in disguise; all powerful, yet full of jealousy and hate and lust; 18Whose favors must be bought with costly sacrifice of fruits, and of the lives of birds, and animals, and human kind. 19And yet these gods possess no... power to save 20This evil is a myth... 21The only devil from which men must be redeemed is self, the lower self. If man would find his devil he must look within; his name is self. 22If man would find his savior he must look within; and when the demon self has been dethroned the savior, Love, will be exalted to the throne of power.
Heaven and its Wonders and Hell From Things Heard and Seen by Emanuel Swedenborg.
311. XXXV. HEAVEN AND HELL ARE FROM THE HUMAN RACE.
In the Christian world it is wholly unknown that heaven and hell are from the human race... But since such ignorance prevails they rejoice in heart that it has pleased the Lord to reveal to mankind at this time many things about heaven and about hell, thereby dispelling as far as possible the darkness that has been daily increasing... They wish for this reason that I should declare from their lips that... all, both in heaven and in hell, are from the human race; in heaven those who lived in the world in heavenly love and belief, in hell those who lived in infernal love and belief, also that it is hell taken as a whole that is called the Devil and Satan... −the name Devil being given to the hell that is behind... and the name Satan being given to the hell that is in front, where those are that are called evil spirits... The angels said that the Christian world had gathered such a belief about those in heaven and those in hell from some passages in the Word understood according to the mere sense of the letter not illustrated and explained by genuine doctrine from the Word; although the sense of the letter of the Word until illuminated by genuine doctrine, draws the mind in different directions, and this begets ignorance, heresies, and errors...
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