How do you like it?

You often hear say―

You can know so very little about a future life. 

You hardly know—really cannot know—much about a future state. 

This is an error.

Do not fall into the error of saying I do not know—I do not know—

Go immediately and try to find out. 

Uncover. Discover. Find out. 

If at first, you do not succeed, try, try, try again, and forever quit saying I do not know―I do not know.

Are there homes of the spirit and angels—

Homes so beautiful that you could scarcely look upon them—

Homes of the spirits and homes of angels—elegant halls and institutions of learning. 

Do not think that spirit-lives and angels are all insane when they tell you that they have homes, halls, institutions of learning.

Do not think them untruthful when they tell you that these homes, temples, halls, and so on, appear to be composed of marble, granite, alabaster, mother of pearl, diamonds, gold, silver, and precious stones, for they certainly look like such things, and yet far more beautiful―

Neither does a spirit-life simply imagine a thing that is not. 

Matter exists―as sure as you exist―as sure as the earths, suns and planets exist. 

Spirit-lives exists―as sure as that you have a living principle with―or within you―for all life is spirit. 

Soul exists―as sure as that you are yourself—or ego—I am—the great I am—that is what the old philosophers called it—the you in your head. 

Now all existent things are composed of spirit and matter, and yet another principle―soul―or force. 

When you drop the material you only drop its coarser—its heavy cumbrous part, and enter the celestial realm―or the more sublimated part of matter, for the celestial world is composed of sublimated matter, which is infiltered with its corresponding spirit―also, its corresponding soul—or entity―ego—I am―each― that I am―

This means a tree is a tree―a flower is a flower―an animal is an animal―you are a human being.

Whoever thinks that you alone have a soul is in error. 

Each thing in existence has its own corresponding soul―or ego―or individuality. 

Now when a soul or ego enters the world of sublimated matter, it immediately clothes itself with that matter—

Everything is clothed according to its kind, for it is the ego, which draws to itself its own clothing―covers itself.

All natural things that arise up from the earth clothe themselves―or take on sublimated matter, and appear as formerly, except more intensely beautiful―

All works of art, which are created within the soul must be recreated in the world of spirits, and clothed upon with sublimated matter. 

When you on earth build a house composed of marble, granite, wood or stone―or other material, you do not say that the house does not exist except in the imagination, but you say that you have clothed your house, which existed within your mind, with marble, brick, stone or wood—

It is real—an object to be enjoyed.

What are the composites of marble, brick, wood, stone, and so forth? 

They are of chemical composition, chemically combined. 

What is granite? 

A hard, chemical combination of what at first was sublimated matter. 

Suppose then you enter a world where all matter is in a sublimated condition? 

Now a soul says—

I want a beautiful home. 

I would like a marble palace―

The soul—being more powerful than the sublimated or chemical properties of marble—gathers—by the force of its more powerful will—the sublimated chemicals of marble about it—fashions the house to suit its mind―or the pattern existing within the mind. 

Now this palace is built of real sublimated marble―as real to the spirit or soul as marble is to you. 

The sublimated marble corresponds to the ethereal, as the hard material marble corresponds to the material—so of all works of art.

Now a spirit-child does not play with an imaginary cat―or any other imaginary pet animal. 

The Indian does not ride an imaginary pony. 

The child plays with a real spirit cat. 

It would not know how to imagine a cat if it had never seen one. 

The Indian would not be at all satisfied with an imaginary pony, for the Indian is about as material as he can be, but his pony is the spirit of a real pony. 

A child must be taught from real objects—not imaginary ones—

No, the child must have its real doll―its real cat—or dog―or bird―or book―or blocks of figures―or the alphabet—

It must be clothed in real clothing else it would be entirely naked― 

The clothing of a spirit-life is also manufactured from chemical affinitisation—

Drawn together by the will of the spirit-life—

Fashioned according to the pattern within the mind. 

It is the mind working on sublimated matter that causes it to coalesce into the shapes desired so that it becomes real and objective to all―

All natural objects exist as they do on earth, and draw to themselves their own covering of sublimated matter. 

All matter is chemical in its nature and can readily be made invisible to your sight.

The sun is doing this every instant of time—dissolving all material things as rapidly as possible, and drawing them upward into the celestial world.

Not only are they thus drawn upward―outward―

All material things whatever first existed as elementary or chemical properties within the never-ending ether.

In spirit-life, you have simply gotten a new coat, that is all. 

 

How do you like it?