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clothe their nakedness, for modesty does not cease with dissolution. Do they require food?
Why not? Their digestive organs were not destroyed in making the change. True the process
is in a great measure refined so that they take the essence instead of the substance, as mortals
do. In dissolution, do those addicted to opiates, liquors, or tobacco, lose the desire, is another
question. No; in earth life, it was not the flesh tissue that craved opiates, but the nervous
system, the etheric body, and there being no change in the etheric body, the craving continues
and must ultimately be overcome. The physical cannot enter the etheric kingdom of God. Are
the so-called dead homeless in going into the next life? A very natural query. Some people I
am told have lived such degenerate lives that they find nothing waiting in the great beyond. A
home may have been constructed by those who have preceded them, but they may be unable
to reach it for years to come.
However, those in the afterlife ordinarily work and labor to create a home and make it ready
for those whom they love to enter at once when the great change comes, just as preparation is
made when the new-born child is expected into this world of men.
52
I know something of the difficulty of comprehending that the invisible can possibly contain
anything real and tangible. We are in the habit of thinking, generally speaking, that nothing
outside the visible exists; one has never seen that substance of which life is composed; one
has never seen life because such substance is beyond our vision. We ordinarily cannot see the
very great or the very small, only matter where movement is between certain fixed points, and
we know little of what lies above or below. With the microscope and a drop of water it was
first possible to discover minute matter; with the telescope we have discerned millions of stars
and constellations, composing the family of the Universe, which move with perfect order and
precision. The possibilities have not been exhausted, and all the secrets of the Universe will
not be discovered by the inhabitants of this plane of consciousness. All discoveries, and all
progress are the result of research for knowledge, and are gained by effort.
When I was first told that those in the afterlife were real people and lived in a world as
tangible as this, the subject was beyond my mental grasp, for I had been taught that the world
of spirit was intangible, and existed in space, with no suggestion that what we call matter
existed beyond the visible; and I never could grasp its reality until I was taught that in this,
our present plane of existence, we realize matter only in a certain mode of motion when it
may be said to have three dimensions - length, breadth, and thickness. If others must undergo
the process which I have needed, they should adopt the same method, and not attempt to grasp
conditions prevailing in the afterlife until by research and deductive reasoning they have come
to comprehend matter in its higher and more refined forms and in its different modes of
motion. After reaching that point they will not find it difficult to appreciate a condition,
beyond this crude plane in which people, once inhabitants of this world, live similar lives,
with similar environment. Having cast off the slow vibrating flesh garment called the body
they find everything as material as before. I am trying to explain this subject in a simple
manner, so that any mind capable of reasoning and thinking may understand. I find it even
then difficult, for the proposition is entirely new in physics. When this fact is finally accepted,
thinking minds will work it out in detail and present it in a thousand provable ways of which I
have not thought, and then people will wonder that the facts were never worked out before. In
time all will come to know that this, like all other natural changes, is extremely simple.
Knowledge of the environment of the next plane, and of the conditions there prevailing can
only come from those who are there, and it is from such that I have obtained my information.
Let those who challenge the statement that I have had speech with the inhabitants of the
afterlife remember this fact-that on an average of once a week for 20 years, under scientific
conditions, I have done that identical thing and have had speech with thousands of different
individuals who have proved their identity. Any one who would deny that fact should have
had equal experience, in order to be qualified to speak on the subject. So far as I know no man
has ever had the opportunity or received the information as to the actual conditions prevailing
in the afterlife to a greater extent than I have.
It is a fact to be noted, that the information as to the conditions prevailing in the afterlife, [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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clothe their nakedness, for modesty does not cease with dissolution. Do they require food?
Why not? Their digestive organs were not destroyed in making the change. True the process
is in a great measure refined so that they take the essence instead of the substance, as mortals
do. In dissolution, do those addicted to opiates, liquors, or tobacco, lose the desire, is another
question. No; in earth life, it was not the flesh tissue that craved opiates, but the nervous
system, the etheric body, and there being no change in the etheric body, the craving continues
and must ultimately be overcome. The physical cannot enter the etheric kingdom of God. Are
the so-called dead homeless in going into the next life? A very natural query. Some people I
am told have lived such degenerate lives that they find nothing waiting in the great beyond. A
home may have been constructed by those who have preceded them, but they may be unable
to reach it for years to come.
However, those in the afterlife ordinarily work and labor to create a home and make it ready
for those whom they love to enter at once when the great change comes, just as preparation is
made when the new-born child is expected into this world of men.
52
I know something of the difficulty of comprehending that the invisible can possibly contain
anything real and tangible. We are in the habit of thinking, generally speaking, that nothing
outside the visible exists; one has never seen that substance of which life is composed; one
has never seen life because such substance is beyond our vision. We ordinarily cannot see the
very great or the very small, only matter where movement is between certain fixed points, and
we know little of what lies above or below. With the microscope and a drop of water it was
first possible to discover minute matter; with the telescope we have discerned millions of stars
and constellations, composing the family of the Universe, which move with perfect order and
precision. The possibilities have not been exhausted, and all the secrets of the Universe will
not be discovered by the inhabitants of this plane of consciousness. All discoveries, and all
progress are the result of research for knowledge, and are gained by effort.
When I was first told that those in the afterlife were real people and lived in a world as
tangible as this, the subject was beyond my mental grasp, for I had been taught that the world
of spirit was intangible, and existed in space, with no suggestion that what we call matter
existed beyond the visible; and I never could grasp its reality until I was taught that in this,
our present plane of existence, we realize matter only in a certain mode of motion when it
may be said to have three dimensions - length, breadth, and thickness. If others must undergo
the process which I have needed, they should adopt the same method, and not attempt to grasp
conditions prevailing in the afterlife until by research and deductive reasoning they have come
to comprehend matter in its higher and more refined forms and in its different modes of
motion. After reaching that point they will not find it difficult to appreciate a condition,
beyond this crude plane in which people, once inhabitants of this world, live similar lives,
with similar environment. Having cast off the slow vibrating flesh garment called the body
they find everything as material as before. I am trying to explain this subject in a simple
manner, so that any mind capable of reasoning and thinking may understand. I find it even
then difficult, for the proposition is entirely new in physics. When this fact is finally accepted,
thinking minds will work it out in detail and present it in a thousand provable ways of which I
have not thought, and then people will wonder that the facts were never worked out before. In
time all will come to know that this, like all other natural changes, is extremely simple.
Knowledge of the environment of the next plane, and of the conditions there prevailing can
only come from those who are there, and it is from such that I have obtained my information.
Let those who challenge the statement that I have had speech with the inhabitants of the
afterlife remember this fact-that on an average of once a week for 20 years, under scientific
conditions, I have done that identical thing and have had speech with thousands of different
individuals who have proved their identity. Any one who would deny that fact should have
had equal experience, in order to be qualified to speak on the subject. So far as I know no man
has ever had the opportunity or received the information as to the actual conditions prevailing
in the afterlife to a greater extent than I have.
It is a fact to be noted, that the information as to the conditions prevailing in the afterlife, [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]