If you had the eye of a camera?

Godly Humor

the funny side of life

Volume 26

Are flowers good for the soul?

Flowers are mirrors of the soul—the reflection to the earth of the astral faces.

How did you feel when your spirit left the body?

Great!

No pain?

No.

—Clifford in Spirit

Brother, are you ready to stand alone and naked for judgment? The answer is breathlessly awaited.

Do not imagine that you live in the physical world.

You only inhabit this world, and that, in an imperfect way. All your senses fail you. You do not catch the sweetest melodies that are wafted to you on the wings of silence, melodies that come to you from each and every separate thing in Nature. Nor do you behold the beauties of Nature that are about you, except imperfectly, and with the eye of the camera, the telescope, the microscope, the x-ray, and various other mechanical contrivances that have been suggested to you, and built for you by those who have followed the suggestions and advice of spiritual entities of the higher spiritual worlds and zones.

If you had the eye of a camera, you might enjoy the beautiful and the various designs of a snowflake or an ice crystal.

And if this eye had the power of the x-ray, you might see through many physical material solids, even as these are seen through by the x-ray, and by those spiritual entities who have attained to the spiritual world.

That is the first time since I have been in hell that I have heard people object to impropriety.

―The Officer

God seeth thee!

Which way to heaven?

O, give me, Father, while below,

A knowledge of Thy holy laws,

That I may ever walk upright,

And gain thereby divine applause!

Teach me, through Thy expanding works,

More of Thy goodness and Thy love,

That I may be prepared to live

In Thy exalted courts above.

Make me contented with the lot

Which Thou hast measured out for me,

And, in each dark and troubled hour,

For consolation turn to Thee!

And may these glorious works of Thine

Invite me on to Heaven above,

Where brighter scenes and beauties shine,

In forms of charity and love!

Make every soul, dear Father, feel

The value of each blessing given,

And unto them each day reveal

The way which leads to Thee and Heaven!

—John Quincy Adams in Spirit

Fragments of Spiritual Knowledge Pertaining to the Spiritual World