First Experience in Spirit Life

In what condition were you when you entered the Spirit World?

I said before that I was alone—in darkness and solitude, unconscious of the presence of others.

How long were you in that state?

I cannot tell, but I think fifty years may have passed, and during these years I got a glimpse of one here and there, and gradually my eyes opened.

In entering the Spirit World, the good Spirits surround us, though we may be at the time unconscious of it.

In your present sphere or state, are you happier than when on Earth?

I am happy—so happy that I could remain as I am for endless ages. But I must go higher until I reach my Master's House of many mansions.

In what does your happiness consist?

The happiness I experience here is greatly different from that which I had on Earth—that was all confined to my art. Now, I strive to do good to my fellow Spirits, teaching them to rise higher.

Ruisdal's first Experience in Spirit Life

Hafed, Prince of Persia—His Experiences in Earth Life and Spirit Life; being spirit communications received through Mr David Duguid, the Glasgow trance-painting medium; with an appendix, containing communications from the spirit artists, Ruisdal, and Steen. Illustrated by facsimiles of various drawings and writings, the direct work of the spirits; David Duguid, Hay Nisbet; James Burns, London, 1876