What is a typical day of spirit-life?

Do you want me to give you details of a typical day of my life?

You know there is no time here―that is only a limitation of the earth-plane―so I will make it a day by your calculations―

Suppose I begin at midnight, for that is when I come for you.

You know how when your body sleeps your soul comes over here and we spend hours together―

You have sometimes dimly remembered things that happened as in a dream.

Thousands of people come over in this way every night and are more awake and alive while here than on earth in their mortal bodies. 

To do this, people must be spiritually-evolved to a certain degree. 

Well―you and I go together to various places―sometimes, we work on the third sphere among those who have just wakened in the spirit world and are bewildered and puzzled and strange in their new surroundings. We explain to them where they are and bring their friends to see them.

You see you are the halfway house, as it were, for along that little cord that connects your soul and body are travelling thoughts and desires of the world in which you live.

You are, therefore, more in touch with the earth and bring its atmosphere with you and so feel more familiar to one who has just come over. You are still controlled and limited by your earth-body while connected with it.

The meetings and reconciliations here are wonderful and touching―you and I often hug each other for very joy and sympathy.

On other occasions, I take you to see one of the beautiful scenes in the higher spheres, which I have described to you. We have been together to the Blue country where there are a series of wonderful mountains, which impress one by their curiously calm grandeur―no rugged rocks, nor jagged outlines―the heights are majestic, but smooth and rounded and surround one on every side. As far as eye can see, the colour everywhere is blue of varying shades from almost grey on the mountain-tops to purple in the valleys and every intermediate shade wonderfully blended in between.

Colour has wonderful properties.

In this case, each colour is confined to a certain particular locality. For a few miles away, everything is varied in the normal manner.

There is also a Pink country and a Yellow one.

You get these effects on earth sometimes for a few minutes in the glow of a sunset.

Blue is a spiritual colour―pink a love condition―yellow an intellectual one.

These colour-effects help spirits, not by giving, but by stimulating the perception of those particular qualities.

As you know, here in the Summerland spirits are still learning and progressing but are very far from perfection.

Many come over here well-developed mentally but lacking in spirituality―others are very spiritual, but require that mental quality, which is necessary if their spirituality is to be more than a Divine ecstasy, while some have neglected to cultivate along with these good gifts enough of that love and charity, which is essential to those who are willing to bear each other's burdens and so fulfill that law of Christ, which is the true way of progress.

When it is time for you to return, I take you back and then go home for a rest.

I bathe in the lake. and refreshed go either to earth again to help on the battlefield―or if I am not required for that, I go on with my study of psychic laws. After this, it would now be your afternoon, I have some recreation and amuse myself―later, I go to look up friends on earth. On other days, I listen to music, which is beautiful here beyond description―it thrills one.

Tell Daddy when he plays the piano in the evenings I see his music in colours all the time.

Nearly all major keys are like primary colours―C and G specially look red and yellow―E not so decidedly―D, F and A are secondary colours such as mauve and green and certain shades of violet. B is white. The sharps and flats are varieties of these―they tinge of blended colours. The colours vary in relation to the other notes played, for instance, C sharp, though actually the same note on the piano, is different when used as D flat.

Occasionally, I talk to most interesting people―men who were noted on earth and left their mark there as great statesmen, scholars, poets, musicians, teachers, and so on.

There, of course, I should never have known them―differences of age, wealth, position, and so on, would have made it impossible, but here there are no artificial barriers and a community of interest is a sufficient bond of friendship.

Life is very happy here and full of interest―even the grief and pain of those you love and have left behind does not affect one in the old way, for one can see beyond the trouble of the day and know it is only for a little while.

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