At our last sitting, Jan Stem, in speaking of sleep, termed it the Spirit's Holiday. Is it the case that the spirit of man retires from the body in sleep and enters into another conscious state of existence?
Yes, such is the case. That question, and others of the same nature, formed the subject of my study in leisure hours when on earth. It is one worth studying. Look at a man in deep sleep. Half an hour before, he was a strong, active man, one you would not willingly encounter as an enemy.
Stretched on his bed in sleep, what is he?
While sleeping, you have no fear of him though he were your greatest foe, he has now no power to harm you, his strength is gone, his limbs are as powerless as are a babe's, his powers of reasoning, thinking—or acting have vanished.
The body rests. But the spirit sleeps not.
After the day's toil, say he is a hard-working man (and that may be either in bodily or mental labour), worn out by fatigue, the spirit, as well as the body, must have rest else he could not go on with his daily duties. So, when the body is laid to rest, exhausted by the labours of the day, and the joints being dried up and needing a fresh supply of oil, the spirit is also tired and weary, but it requires nothing of that rest, which the body needs—it goes forth into spirit life, that is, its rest.
Observe the effects of change of scene in your own earth experience—both body and mind receive that relaxation so needful to the well-being of every human being. Even so with the spirit.—Hafed, Prince of Persia
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