How to explain eternal life?

 

Life! What is it? Eternity! Why and how? Could you put answers to these questions in words?

We fail! Could you succeed? We are out in what is to you the great unknown. 

How shall we put that unknown into words?

Time by human reckoning is no more! 

The present—fair, joyous beyond description. 

The future—a happy anticipation! 

Terms of feeling—you say? Yes—that is true. For the concrete, the occupations, the activities, we scarcely have language to describe. 

Remember—when you are asking of our occupations that you are asking for descriptions of activities, of materials, of joys unknown to earth. 

Activities? Can you conceive of spirit movement faster than light? 

Materials? The use of substance, which in your language is not material, but in ours more solid and enduring than the earth itself? 

So how can we bring our activities to your conception? 

Science on earth is peering into the unseen—into electron, atom, ether, energy—yet has scarcely learned the first letter of the alphabet—has scarcely touched the outer rim of our world.