You have to earn every step?

You have to earn every step of advancement. 

It is of God, and God is unlimited?

In the Father's mind, there are many mansions—many, many mansions—and what awaits those who have fought, and tried to conquer, no words, no language can express because it is of God, and God is Unlimited.

What is the Symbol of the Flame of the Soul?

I should be glad to see the ever-burning lamp swung in our churches, and in every home, symbol of the aspiring flame of the soul, and the light, which continually streams from the Father, who covereth himself with light as with a garment.

—Katherine B. Caine, Light on the Hidden Way, 1886, Ticknor and Company, Boston, 28

What is Heaven?

Heaven is a land of peaceful rest,

A home of bliss and purity,

Where, with the ransomed and the blest,

The soul will dwell eternally.

Heaven gives freedom to the soul?

Heaven gives freedom to the soul.

Progression is written on every soul?

Progression is written on every soul—

You are destined to walk in the freedom of a more glorious condition and in the light of a nobler and purer spirituality.

What is your gift to God?

What you are is God's gift to you. What you become is your gift to God.

―Eleanor Powell

How to keep a calm mind?

Purge your mind of fearful thoughts.

What reveals your true feelings?

Your thoughts reveal your true feelings and intentions. Remember that.

How may you conquer the world?

With virtue and quietness, one may conquer the world. Silence is a source of great strength.

―Lao Tzu

As a babe is born into earth?

How to walk in the power of God?

Look up at the sky?

Awe exists anywhere you’re willing to look. And that’s the key—You must look.

—Cody Delistraty

Look up?

Look up at the sky?

Is heaven a spiritual realm?

Is heaven an earthly reality?

One's true place?

Is there a higher plane of existence?

Is there a higher plane of existence?

All things pertaining to the heavenly spheres have a relative connection with humanity, and until you reach the seventh sphere, you are more or less under their influence. Martha Washington buoys us with these words of inspirit—

The great ocean of universal life is supplied from all sources of inspirational and natural emanations, which fill and revivify with their enlivening and God-given principles. 

From the seventh, you become changed to a superior condition, and no spirit after this progression can again enter earthly atmosphere.

The sixth sphere is full of spiritual atmospheric vibrations, like aeolian harps, which like waves, swell the inspiration and vibrate the language of angels from the higher life that are caught and retained as telegraphic dispatches to earth's people. Thus, the angelic hosts are mingling their love and sympathy by the symphonies and vibrations of the air in musical cadences.

It is not possible for a spirit of angelic order from the higher spheres to inhabit any sphere below the seventh, but sometimes they are permitted to visit so near earth as to impress, through mediumistic power, the desires and wishes of those in the higher realms, in the capacity of a saviour. 

Yes, each sphere has a saviour or leader to whom they direct their desires, and this choice is assisted by a full harmonious choir of those interested in behalf of the welfare of all.

Oh, what joy, what peace pervaded my soul as I realised the true condition of that most wonderful land of spiritual glory. Beatific is not the word—glorified, heavenly, divine.

As I wondered and marvelled at the glorious scenes around me and saw the angelic hosts that seemed floating in azure light and glory, I burst out in strains of unknown joy, for surely these were really beings and not a fairy vision. Soon the misty veil was removed and I saw my own loved ones who had passed on, and found that they, too, had been received here to be changed for a superior flight to realms beyond.

Here your garments are adapted to the atmospheric condition, which you have power to remove when you wish to descend to the spheres below.

All material dross has been removed on entering this sphere and the body rendered so pure and sensitive as to perceive the least innovation of this truly spiritual realm that none, but the purely angelic can remain.

At certain portions of this sphere, a few visitors are permitted to enter, but are guarded by a spiritual band who act as guides to certain localities. But the inner circle is never approached. It is the Fountain of Life. Its essence pervades the universal atmosphere.

Here is where the scientific, the true soul, retires from its researches to find rest and bathe in the charmed atmosphere of infinite life, embalming them with new strength to continue their research through the planetary worlds, returning from time to time to transmit their investigations to the recorders in the scientific spheres, thence to be brought to earth. 

Thus, you find all elements used and nothing lost in the grand unfolding of the limitless worlds.

As every planet has its spheres and spiritual inhabitants, they must have profound knowledge, which from time to time touches the lower planes of life, as a spark of light kindles and enlivens with its illuminating influence.

All worlds or planets are basking in atmospheric light.

Beautiful drapery is woven around them, like a mist of glory, enveloping in beauty and intelligence of the great power of eternal love.

Oh! my dear friends of earth, how little you comprehend this wonderful and glorious home.

Mortals I know are surrounded by physical conditions, which must debar them from entering into this grand and sublime knowledge of God's eternal love, but all in the eternity of years will cast their outer garments and be brought into the Universal Circle of Infinite Wisdom and Power of this soul-wrapt world.

We have passed to the seventh plane of spiritual existence and yet find much to learn.

Many are coming here as visitors, but cannot remain as they are not fully embalmed with the Light of Knowledge sufficient to advance to realms beyond. 

In passing out of this atmosphere, you perceive a peculiar sensation, which produces drowsiness, and you seem to lose yourself and float on an unbounded, infinite and unfathomable space—where you are being carried, you have no knowledge, but are told by a peculiar sound, which comes to you as a lullaby to rest in peace for the good angels who are near the Great Inner Sphere of Eternal Life and Beauty are keeping and will care for you until you are restored and find yourself within the domain of the great city of life where the gates of jasper are open, and the angels welcome you to the temple of souls where one eternal song of praise is going up from purified spirits. 

Yes, you have such a home in the final purification where all know and understand each other, where joy unspeakable and full of glory is realised by all. Here labour ceases.

This is a home for universal rest and enjoyment without care, where a free, full, unbounded love awakens all to its glorious realities. 

Here all can bathe in the true enjoyment of their souls, where each is attracted to their spiritual enjoyment, where variety and harmony is a perpetual feast, each one filling their spheres of action, varying in plans of enjoyment according to their aspirations, yet all in perfect harmony, like the flowers of the field blending their beautiful hues.

This sphere has been but seldom spoken of, for it is the Central Sun of Souls far remote from the ascending spheres where souls prepared are taken to this city of jasper and pearls radiant with settings of diamonds and all manner of precious stones. 

This is the great city seen by the prophets of old and spoken of as the New Jerusalem. 

To them it was but a momentary vision, which they could not clearly define as to location. 

Here is where the heavenly music is symphonised in one joyful harmonious strain.

This is where all the inhabitants of different planets come after their sojourn through spheres of each planetary belt—the Univerculum or Sun Centre of all unfolded spirits who have become perfected, and the rising star of recognition placed upon their foreheads, who at intervals are permitted to visit others to observe their conditions—also, to assist in preparing them for this vast and eternal home, far remote from all other planetary worlds—this being the highest and holiest where all refined particles from other spheres have been drawn, making this the Crystal or Purified Sphere of the Infinite Mind.

Here are the spiritualised palaces and gorgeous minarets where vespers are chanted by the sylvan glades whose musical and language flowers bloom, sending out a perfume not comprehended by mortals.

My dear earth friend—I have taken this medium beyond the known spheres belonging to this earth and through vast space beyond any planet yet seen by mortal eye. Yet to a home that is eternal, a planet whose eternal beauty cannot be conceived, and which language fails to portray, but it is there, and God, the Universal Father, but not embodied, save through the souls of the purified who centralise the highest and purest of all created power.

Here the Infinite Mind is centralised, and from this Centre radiates all intelligence to other planets or worlds where guides are ever controlling and blending the forces of truth and knowledge and spreading it through the different planets.

When we think of what the world calls death, we feel at once thrilled with a desire to awaken them to their true condition, and to arouse them to a true knowledge of their glorious future.

This soul realm is out of the magnetic circle of all planets revolving in an atmosphere, which fills and surrounds it. It is also sustained by the magnetic and electric belts of all planets as they throw off their refined aura. While spirits are passing from planets to this soul realm, they are sustained by currents of magnetic life, like a gulf stream flowing direct to this central realm of eternal life. 

Once within this current, the spirit is carried so softly, and lulled by sweet strains of music, taking away all anxiety regarding the strangeness and distance from other climes.

Attendants are also sent to guide the spirit until finally brought to the Most Holy of Holies where dazzling beauty and grandeur starts the soul with awe and wonder at the enchanted scenery, and you feel like prostrating in adoration before the shining angels of perfected life who invite you to rest amid the anthems and love of angelic beings who love and care for you so tenderly. And here I will rest.