What is the measure of a soul?

Not all can feel the same impulses or comprehend the same divine power, but only so much as to them seems real can they accept. Hence the need of separate homes. 

To use a homely phrase, souls are like measures, some hold a pint, some a quart, some only a gill. Yet they are all full and can hold no more. 

So it is here, some see the grand, the ennobling power of a glorious Universe, which seems to infill them with its grandeur, but others only see the material condition of everything, which adapts itself to their wants. 

These last are merely vegetations in the land of souls. 

You cannot inspire such to anything higher than they can see, feel or touch—they only climb step by step in sphere life, as they did while on earth, ever holding fast to their condition of the last until fully certain that they are firmly established in the new, and then are only looking for self-preservation, never yielding or feeling willing to rest in the inspiration of a divine power. 

Spirits have many here who move so slowly that it takes ages to realise that they are moving upward to a superior condition.

For such, they have homes and teachers who kindly care for and encourage them. These homes are like asylums where they are nourished and protected with grounds attached where they are strengthened, thereby healed and made happy to go on in the great life truth of the spiritual world.

How to deal with wanting revenge?

Remember that harbouring thoughts of anger, hatred, revenge―or any form of getting even with someone whom you feel has wronged you open your aura to those in the astral world who harbour similar thoughts, who will strive to enter your consciousness over the avenue thus opened and stir up and augment your hatred and urge you to execute a far more terrible form of getting even than you would entertain or even think of by yourself. 

The practice of forgiving others is, therefore, enjoined on all occult and spiritual students, for as long as you hold antagonism toward anyone you bind yourself to that one with a powerful tie, and, also, open yourself to obsessing forces along that line.

Realms of the Living Dead—A Brief Description of Life After Death

What is meaningful play in early childhood?

Letter Sixteen from A Series of Letters from the Spirit of a Well-known Lady, Madam— reads in the mind of the medium about an earthly teacher who adopted a little baby girl and taught her through play or amusement. 

That is precisely what spirits do in the spirit world and the way they do it. 

Everything that a child or youth learns here [in the world of spirits] is placed before it as pleasing amusement or play or something that is delightful and beautiful. 

Madam— reminds us that we all ought to read the book called Mary Ann Carew written by herself through Carlyle Petersilea. 

Mary Ann Carew passed into spirit when Carlyle was three. 

She had little children in the spirit world and left two or three on earth. 

In her book she describes how children are educated—tells of her own and others. 

The book is an exquisite history of her own experience in the spirit world.

Is a mother's love the strongest love?