You can do that now.

If the world of the spirit has been so close to me, with its wondrous and glorious conditions of illumination, how was it that sadness came so close, even though faith persisted?

I want you to get this truth into your understanding—

Life upon earth―useful to a degree that you cannot comprehend until you come here―is―in its entirety―nothing, but a reflection―a shadow―of the real things, which are going on underneath—

The growth of the spirit, desire, the gaining of experience, and that putting forth of the branches of power.

Do not let yourself dwell on physical things, and the material conditions, which surround your daily life—

Do not let your thoughts dwell on them―

Master them and control them so far as you are able—

Remember always that they are but shadows of the real.

Ponder upon the things of the dpirit―upon those conditions in which you will find yourself, for I tell you, in the most emphatic way I can, that when you emerge from the twilight of the earth's experience into the noonday of God's Promised Land, you will find this—

Permeating everything—controlling—overwhelming all that has been built up, either in the worlds of the spirit or upon earth—

You will find Love and Charity holding the reins of government on every side.

You see what is in front of you. 

You see the lessons that have to be learnt—relearned—and those things which have to be forgotten. 

You will come here with your thoughts of each—the memories of the physical mind persist for a while—and you will come face-to-face with Love in such an awe-inspiring way that those thoughts will wither up. 

And you—with a cleansed heart and mind—will take up your task anew—take it up in this sense—that what has been, you will turn over, and start again. 

You will go back over the past, for what a man sows that shall he also reap, and you will remould that which you created in ignorance—

You will remould it nearer to the ideal, and God and His angels will be there to help you, and to show you how to do it.

Bear in mind that you are sufficiently prepared to take in this great truth—

You can say to yourself—

Here and now I start afresh—

Here and now I go back on the past and make good that which with a larger vision I see is faulty. 

You can do that now. 

And then, when you step free from the physical into the Land where sorrow is unknown, you will find that all the time those bonds, which seemed to bind you while in the flesh, that they existed in imagination only because you had knocked at the door of spiritual understanding—and Christ had opened it and let you in.

—The spirit of Archdeacon Basil Wilberforce