What is the whole riddle of life and death?

You must know that like calls to like―

Sympathy of thought and aspiration dominates both the spiritual and physical worlds. 

And so it is that sometimes you can be helped more easily by those who have passed out of physical life―

In that last sentence, you get the key to the whole so-called riddle of life and death―of physical and spiritual experience. 

If―

In your mind―

There is a desire for holy things―

There is that love and admiration for those who have got a little nearer towards the Christ-ideal than you yourself have been able to reach―

Then―

Because those thoughts are in your mind―

Instinctively―

Without any barrier in between―

Those who are the most experienced in the Land of Light love to gather to your side as friends―as companions―not as dictators, not as directors in the earthly sense, but as companions, as most understanding friends―

They come to you―

They abide with you―

As long as the need and the desire remain.