What is the Cave of Song?

One spot in the spirit-spheres is held as a great retreat by explorers and visitors. 

It is called the Cave of Song, from the flute-like notes that reverberate through its subterranean archways. 

Sometimes, solemn and pathetic―at others, joyous and enchanting in its symphony. 

At times, the spirit-life feels that it is enchanted ground by the musical voices that come from it―at other times, silent chambers whose gorgeous beauty is unrivalled by outward life.

Here are wonderful domes hung with jewels of stalactites, which flash and quiver in the reflected light through interstices, reflecting on the water beneath in cascades and waterfalls, giving it a grand and romantic picture. 

Here the spirit-life can wander through wondrous apartments, giving an opportunity for study. 

Here are archways with fluted pillars of alabaster, which tower to an immense height, leading to domes and galleries, where statuary of the most wonderful conception of every living thing is embodied and at rest in its appropriate place, true to the material of outward life. 

Gems of great brilliancy flash in their gorgeousness, giving a life and warmth to this enchanting cave of Summer-land.

When you wander through grand old castles that are here, whose consecrated domes have towered above for so many ages of your life, then you will wonder at the gorgeous grandeur of those tessellated and crystal floors, whose domes and arches are surrounded with the wonderful in art and science―where there are living pictures of past greatness in form and expression of the notable of all time and spheres―living, sheeny faces whose life-like appearance thrills the soul with wonder and admiration.

When you pass from sphere to sphere, you float at will to every conceivable place, and yet you  have corridors of beauteous surroundings, which wind through the starlit canopy where you may rest and view the glorious scenery below. 

As you pass to Vesta, wonders on wonders meet your view. 

Here you find beautiful grottoes―lovely little nooks―with every luxury that the soul can conceive of to allay its desire. 

Beautiful bright spirit-lives who attend, and as you approach, sing and chant their melodious songs, which thrill you with delight. 

They are a beautiful race―so small―so perfect in their organisations that they are wonderful in their magnetic life―so perfect, happy and joyous in their natures. 

None have ever been seen on earth. 

Vesta is a beautiful planet, which shines in its orbit―or soul-lit canopy with great beauty, and its inhabitants partake of its genial life. 

There are a few of the inhabitants who come to attend you to their home where you may enjoy for a while the beauties of their glorious life.

Tongue can never express―or mind conceive of the glories, which surround the different spheres―or belts of atmospherical light and the millions of happy spirit-livess who inhabit them.

The Social Life of Heavenly Spheres