What is the psychic state?

And then the ship

Complete at last—loosed from its earthly bonds,

Glides from its birthplace to the sea—

Which yielding—yet supporting—bears it on,

Out from the landlocked harbour to the deep.

Cumbrous before, it lay upon the stocks

Like some dead thing, neither of earth nor air—

But now it lives, and guided by the winds

Leaves earth behind it and sails onward to the sun.

Only by degrees. quicker—or slower, according to past life and present powers are you able to work and act with the soul, instead of with the body. 

Instead of the hands building your house, your trained will builds it. 

If you need anything and will it, it stands complete before you, but such power is not attained all at once—it is gradual. 

The desires—the reason—the affections must be in harmony and then you can do your work. 

Imagine yourself then here on the other side with your first psychic sleep over, the early stages of repentance and faith past and you now ready to be a citizen of the new Jerusalem.

Hitherto, your wants have been supplied by others—

Now, let us say, you wish to make for yourself a home where you may wait for the loved ones to join you. 

If this is best for you, you can then think out what you want. 

Perhaps your thought will be broken—incomplete—what rises before your psychic vision may be faulty and incongruous. 

You will then dissolve it again into the unseen, but real elements and try again.

You have no money, of course, to buy from others what they may possess, but if you need anything, it will be gladly and freely given you, only in return, you must give something—gratitude, sympathy—or some other soul gift.

Having got rid of so much that is physical, you have lost two things that make much of the discomfort of earth—dirt and decay. 

In this world, the repulsive form, which decay takes is owing to the very slow way in which dead—or dying matter disintegrates, but on the other side, all change of that sort is more rapid—

The life escapes easily from its psychic form to reappear in others and there is dissolution, but not decay.

At first, you will need food, more—or less frequently, but as time goes on, this food will be less and less necessary and the senses will be satisfied in other ways—the perfume—the beauty of the fruit will be sufficient. 

Spiritual food has a close relationship to ours, but is strictly vegetable and simple, that is, you eat the seed—or the fruit as it grows, without changing—or combining such fruit, you can cultivate for yourself—or receive from others if you should be engaged in other forms of work.

The clothing—or outward form in which you appear to others grows on you, so-to-speak, and is the outcome of your true state, more—or less affording pleasure to those who see you, as it is more—or less harmonious and the reflex of a true and earnest spirit.

Sleep falls upon you as the mind needs rest. 

If your new powers are overtaxed, then a period of rest, longer—or shorter comes upon you,  for the psyche can tire as the mind—or brain tires upon the earth.

Then as to occupation, the soul naturally turns to some occupation most closely resembling that to which it has been accustomed, but it is not permitted to remain in it too long. 

The nature all-round has to be cultivated and as no wisdom is gained apart from learning and experience, so it is necessary that the Spirit who in his past life has yielded to others and been ruled by them should learn to advise, control and help—that the Spirit who has lived apart from nature in the world of books—or of the imagination should now sow, reap and understand the beauty of the new earth into which it has passed. 

Or again, the one who has lived entirely in the outward must learn to withdraw into itself—or study the wisdom of those who have climbed the steps of knowledge before it.

The great difference, however, between the old and the new is the absolute freedom of the new. 

No one can either hinder—or compel another in any way, and no one wishes to do so.

Faults there are and imperfections, mistakes and weaknesses, but a great spirit of love and unselfishness is the very atmosphere of the place and none would cast the smallest stumbling block in the way of his brother or sister.