What are the first views of the spirit world?

Here is presented to the astonished gaze a most superb view of the countryside, a vast territory, extending far away into the distance. Did you ever see anything like it or even remotely approaching it in beauty?

Gracious heavens―those two words are a complete description if ever there was one.

You can see many people interspersed about the countryside, some close at hand, others at a distance―some in small groups, others in larger, and individuals either seated or walking alone. 

Of absolute, positive idling, I do not think you will find a trace because no one―no one ever feels the slightest inclination to do nothing simply by virtue of an indolent nature. There are no indolent natures here. 

Spirits are always occupied in some way, but that does not mean that this is a life of eternal work, as opposed to the old and still current idea of eternal rest. They all, every one of them, have their time off, and no one will come and tell them it is time to start work again in the earthly sense. They have all the recreation they need and desire, and they come and go as they please. There are millions of spirits here, with no overcrowding either, that even as there is plenty to do, there are plenty of people to do it. 

Everything in the way of knowledge is to be found somewhere there, and a thousand accomplishments can be gained there.