Did God create a perfect world?

Life, in the next world, could I make you fully realise it, would seem strange to you. It is like, and yet unlike, an earthly life. 

 

For instance, spirits eat a simple sort of food provided for them by magic whenever they feel hungry. 

If they are in a great hurry to go anywhere, their wills seem to carry them there with the speed almost of thought. 

As for sleep, they can spend long intervals without feeling its need―or again, they can lie and sleep for weeks at a time, sometimes semi-conscious of all that has passed, at others, in complete slumber. 

Another strange thing is their dress, which never seems to wear out and renews itself in some mysterious fashion. 

They do not count time by days or weeks, but only as advance is made in the development of each spirit―

When a lesson has been learned, the spirit advances to a higher branch of the subject studied. 

Hope is eternal. As spirits, they have all eternity before them, and can stand still or go on as they please―or they may remain where they are until they are ready for the next step, and so on.

There is no hurrying anyone faster than he chooses to go―

No interference with their liberty to live on in the same state of undevelopment if they wish, so long as they interfere with the liberty of no one else and conform to the simple rule of freedom and sympathy for all.

None is urged to learn and none is kept back from doing so―it is all voluntary, and they are free to go where they would―

The doors are closed to none, either in going or returning, and none ever seeks to reproach another with his faults or shortcomings, for each feels the full depth of his own.

Those who have a strong and powerful motive to rise make rapid progress.