And this is Heaven!

And this is Heaven!

The leaving of the mortal body and the entrance into Spirit life may be said to be a new birth—a child from mother Earth taking on immortality, and just as the child wakes up into the consciousness of its surroundings in the Earth life, so many of those who pass away from Earth awake in the Spirit World, or, as the tiny insect, which lies torpid during the long hours of winter rises up into summer life in newness of form and faculty and seeks its provender from flower to flower, so there are some who, freed from the material shell, rise up with newness of life and power into the celestial region of light and love and beauty.

—Hafed, Prince of Persia

Honey bee (Apis mellifera) on the fen ragwort (Senecio paludosus), Niitvälja bog, Northwestern Estonia | Ivar Leidus | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International