Life in the Spheres?

Not all the archangels can tell

The joys of that holiest place,

Where the Father is pleased to reveal

The light of His heavenly face.

—Wesley

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Angels' Diary—

Life in the Spheres

I did not fail to visit all of my dear ones and returned to the spirit world regretting that the inhabitants of the material plane could not all know of the grand and beautiful life in the beyond. It was such a delight to realise that I could go anywhere that I desired and that I had the privilege to visit any point on earth, in the spirit world or heaven. 

Surely, I thought, the change called death is but a higher birth and a condition very much to be desired.

There were crowds of people journeying to and from the earth—I could see many little children, some so tiny that they had to be borne in the arms of their guardian angels. It was a novelty to the spirit children who could not realise, of course, that they were now dead to the world and were journeying toward a new land where they would grow and unfold in wisdom, knowledge and beauty. 

It was interesting to see the children who had been crippled and blind and who were now able to see and walk for the first time. 

They could scarcely contain themselves, they were so happy. They seemed like little birds who had just found their wings. 

It was not a pleasant sight to come in contact with those who had passed out of the body sinful and wicked. 

I was pleased to see that many of the so-called undeveloped spirits were being taught in the lower spheres and that they were endeavouring to reach the way to progression by helping themselves through the aid of others to a higher plane of understanding.

Upon my return trip, I desired to visit each sphere and to learn the laws by which the Creator's large family were kept in such a state of harmony and goodwill. 

There were many undeveloped spirits wandering about the earth and there were others confined in the dark sphere, but there was hope for all, and as there was no satisfaction to them in such a life, the majority would after a time endeavour to (by their good work and the desire for something higher) reach the first sphere, and after they had learned the lesson of this sphere and could impart the knowledge to some other spirit who was anxious to enter the first sphere, they could then pass up into the second sphere, and so on up through the different spheres. 

I found that each individual occupied his proper place and so in this way harmony prevailed. 

An undeveloped spirit did not dwell in the spheres with those whose desires were purely spiritual. 

In the fourth sphere, a spirit becomes an angel, and with this step he had conquered all material tendencies or selfish characteristics. 

 

The fifth sphere is the sphere of family love. Families wait in this sphere for many years for their loved ones to pass to spirit life. 

 

I liked the sixth sphere—everything there is so bright and beautiful.

My new life had only begun now and I was anxious to take up the duties of such a life. 

I was glad to learn that I could take up any line of study that I desired and could improve and perfect myself in many branches of learning if I would only apply myself. I decided to do this and my life became a very busy one, but this did not prevent me from visiting each day my father, mother, husband and children. 

There seemed to be no limitation of time in that grand and beautiful world. 

Since we did not sleep and there was no night, there was plenty of time for study. I was delighted with my own beautiful home and new pleasures were continually awaiting me. 

I was anxious to perfect myself in music and art and I lost no time in taking these up. 

I was also interested in scientific investigation and very much so in the instructive lectures delivered by learned men in the great hall of science in the celestial sphere.

I was much interested in the children's homes. 

They appeared like great marble palaces and within were thousands of little children being reared and educated under the law of divine love. 

I saw there the tiniest sparks of life who had never opened their eyes to material things, but had been brought here to grow up in knowledge, love and wisdom. 

All infants were able here to walk and move, but not all could ascend and descend—that was a power, which they would all acquire after being there a short time. In the beautiful homes I have mentioned were to be found many guardian angels as well as kind-souled women whose life tendencies were toward the caring for and bringing up of little children. 

It was a very happy thought to realise how well God's children were provided for. 

One sphere many times larger than the earth was called the Sphere of Purity—everything was white in this sphere, the buildings, the ground, the grass, the foliage upon the trees and all the flowers. 

A person might understand from this description that the Sphere of Purity might appear cold and lifeless—such was not the case—it was most beautiful with a soft, rose-coloured light shining over its dazzling beauty.