More actual next life stories?

The consequences of evil-doing on the physical plane, which have to be regarded from one point of view as its penalty are worked out on the physical plane again in the next life. 

The intervening period is one the conditions of which ought to reflect the better side of the life just spent rather than its worst. It cannot get up to those higher levels until free of the characteristics, which belong exclusively to the earth life. 

I am still haunting that damned club, bored to death. 

Meanwhile, he went on to tell me that some mysterious person had on one occasion shown him an awful sight, something that looked like a huge pit, and looking down, he saw horrid reptiles, scorpions and great octopuses, and he was told he had had the good luck to escape going down there "by a hair's breadth." 

Ten minutes down there would have knocked me silly. 

In the realms of poverty, it would seem that in more ways than one, on more planes than one, the poor are the most sympathetic and helpful friends of the poor. 

Spiritualistic experience and belief even of the ordinary type is enormously better an introduction to the next world than blank ignorance of the agnostic order or even than the shadowy suggestions of commonplace ecclesiastical teaching.  

The Egyptian explained that his intensely negative attitude of mind in life had created an aura around him that would have kept him in that region for a long time if he had not been helped as above referred to. 

Disgust led S. O. to cry out, For God's sake to be relieved from the ordeal. This was the beginning of relief. 

It was something like a soap bubble in a filmy human shape. Each such appearance seemed to burst and to scatter abroad beautiful sparks of mauve and violet colour that each time had the effect of brightening the scene. S.O. was told by one "very cultured man" whose acquaintance he made that these effects were due to prayers sent up from the earth plane for the repose of the souls of unnamed people. Their substance, so-to-speak, was derived from a far higher plane of Nature. 

 

To judge oneself too severely may be to make a mistake on the right side, but it is a mistake nonetheless. 

If anyone passes over steeped in desires of a kind incompatible with life on any of the higher astral levels, he must wear out those desires, subdue them or realise their worthlessness before he can ascend to the higher levels. 

Where continuous and collective thought is concentrated on the same purpose, such creations may assume a very permanent character, as for example in the Roman Catholic region of the fourth. There the churches and houses and surrounding walls are, so to speak, very solidly built.