The Great Life Truth of the Spiritual World

Sixth Section

In entering the sixth sphere, everything is beautiful, and all seems in perfect harmony. This is the home circle of the unfolded spirit. Earth's children here find their resting place before commencing the final chemical change that is to be wrought out in the seventh; preparing them for the full spiritual body.

Here are playgrounds where the spirits bathe in an atmosphere of glorious light—where are ambrosial fountains, amid grassy lawns and heavenly flowers—sweet songsters adding their hymns of praise from the deep wooded forests, to join the bubbling streams that lave the grassy sides lined with flowers and perfumed mosses, where the wanderer can rest in sweet repose. On these waters are beautiful swans and birds of various hue, that floating, give a living picture of beauty. Here we find the homes of rest and repose for all who have come up through the different spheres, and now find the haven of rest from all care, prepared to be filled with inspiration for their higher calling. Do not think me egotistical if I tell you that here my beloved Washington, his mother and my children, unite to meet our loved ones, and many who are in sympathy with our investigations.

You must know ere this that all cannot 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. You must understand me to mean that all are not given the same capacity to comprehend—hence, there are different grades. 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. We have many here who move so slowly, that it takes ages to realise that they are moving upward to a superior condition. For such, we 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.

The sixth sphere is where we change the garments material for those spiritual, and it would seem that we are here so purely spiritualised that no more change would be needed. Here it is that we receive visitors who can come in harmony from other realms to praise in sweet accord, and who often bring beautiful flowers and bright jewels from their homes. Many visit us who are preparing to welcome us as we ascend to the realms of knowledge. Here are also colleges and schools of art where we arrange all those grand and beautiful pictures and designs that have been given to be perfected in the fifth sphere.

The time will come when earth treasures will be unravelled to prove to the world, that there were inhabitants ages and ages before the Christian era, and prove to all that it is those people who are so advanced in the upper realms of God's eternal world. At present, it is only of the last few thousand years of which we write in the ascension through the different spheres. Every conceivable portion of life on the habitable globe is inherent in those different planes. They vary only in the refinements of matter of which they are composed, as they have risen, like ourselves, from earth's element, thus forming a link, binding all spheres with a silken cord of magnetic and electric force, that holds all together until we reach the God or seventh sphere.

You may truly say that you continue to be Mr Clarke or White, with a material nature, until you pass into the seventh heaven, when you are completely clothed with a spiritual body, yet retaining the true identity and capacity of recognition as an eternal principle of all life. Then the opening heavens will reveal the glories of what man cannot know until he has a key to this superior heaven or unbounded ocean of spirit-life, where you seem launched upon an unfathomable universe of angelic beauty, which outdazzles all former conceptions of the inhabitants of lower spheres.

It is here that we find God or the Infinite, unfolding from this vast and glorious embodiment of all superior life.

Here myriads of angelic hosts are floating in its glorious atmosphere of roseate life, where the music of all things reverberates throughout the univerculum. Here there is meeting of souls who have been purified and are ready to take the star of light as a beacon to guide those whose work is done, except the spontaneous life of some new light which shall burst into their souls in streams of musical rhythm, as light upon light is sent to the spheres below.

So is the intelligence given like the rays of sunlight to earth to warm, enliven and enkindle new aspirations to those who are seeking for new light and life.

This new infrared view of the star formation region Messier 8, often called the Lagoon Nebula, was captured by the VISTA telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. This colour picture was created from images taken through J, H and Ks near-infrared filters, and which were acquired as part of a huge survey of the central parts of the Milky Way—ESO/VVV