What is the definition of faith?

Faith is like a raindrop that knows a river but dreams of an ocean.

—Unknown

What do you often fail to recognize?

You often fail to recognize the prominent part that small things play in the affairs of the world, but they all have their uses and their niche in the work of evolution.

What is the nature of the soul and the afterlife?

When the soul leaves the body, it remains exactly the same as when it was in the body—the soul, which is the only real self and which uses the mind and body as its instruments, no longer has the use or the need of the body. 

But it retains the mind, knowledge, experience, the habits of thought, the inclinations—they remain exactly as they were.

What does 70 sets of 7 mean in the Bible?

This answer is an excerpt from the book The Soul of Things. Discover all 52 mysteries here.

What is the immortality of human experience?

Our spirit is a receptacle, a vast storehouse, and not the slightest thing goes to waste. Our soul makes use of everything, which is stored within it, for not even an atom can be lost within the great whole, not a thought or an incident fades, disappears or is lost.

Is the afterlife a continuation of personal growth and evolution?

All true life develops slowly and gradually.

How absurd, in the light of experience, seems the old belief that when a spirit has passed the article of death, immediately he attains all knowledge, all power, and all experience. Although his knowledge is marvellously increased, it is still limited and his powers, yet in their childhood.

"I Awoke!" Conditions of Life on the Other Side

How do you enter into the joy of the Lord?

God is my portion!

God is my portion?

God in heaven is my portion!

There was a poor man whose pious parents left him no heritage, save an honest name and a good, God-loving heart―

Now, although in this, he had riches without measure, the world accounted him poor.

It went well with him at first, but by degrees, he tasted trouble. He lost the small fortune he had succeeded in saving by dint of work.

And the people pointed to him saying—Poor wretch! No, not poor, he said, God is my portion!

But misfortune pursued him. Most of his so-called friends turned their back on him, and those whom he had trusted most proved faithless.

He was deceived, calumniated, misjudged. And people shook their heads saying—How wretched and miserable you are to be sure!

No, he said, though his voice trembled, not wretched, for God is my portion! But the greatest trouble of all now laid him low―He lost his loving wife, and soon after, his only child.

The suffering man stood alone in a heartless world.

Again, the people said, shrugging their shoulders—Surely now, you will own yourself miserable and wretched, a very butt of trouble! No, he cried, repressing the welling tears, God is yet my portion!

And the people turned from him, saying he was singular and strange, and nicknaming him John Comfort, in virtue of his peculiarity.

But he, truly, was not wretched, nor indeed forsaken. The last words he was heard to speak on earth were—

God in heaven is my portion! And he entered into the joy of his Lord.

Letters from Hell

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What is the spiritual soul?

It seemed to me that I had never looked on such beautiful flowers, as were growing everywhere. I could see the fruit trees on one side, pink and white with blossoms, and on the other side, many varieties of fruit all on one variety of tree. The grapes seemed so odd to me—many of them no smaller than good-sized apples, but possessing neither outside skin, nor seed, of any kind. 

People on the material plane might ask how they held together without skin or seed. 

They would not wonder at such a thing if they could understand the Laws and Forces by which spiritual elements are governed. 

I shall never forget the picture that greeted my eyes, as I stood on what seemed to be a boundary line between the material universe and the world of angels and spirits. 

I could see the mighty Universe pass before me, not like a panorama, for it did not pass out of my sight for an instant. There I could see the sun in all its heat and magnitude, a great sphere of blazing light, larger than anything I had ever imagined. Then the planets, and the millions and millions of stars, in more colours and tints than it is possible for the material mind to comprehend. They certainly did look very beautiful. 

I thought the moon a very queer-looking place with its hollow volcanic mountains and its peculiar wind blowing continually. 

I thought the picture of the Universe, the stars and the constellations, the comets and flashes of light, meteorites, and many other sights lost to the material eye, the most beautiful and wonderful sight it had ever been my lot to witness.