There is rest for the weary.

Oh! what a strange world this is!―no cooking, yet we are furnished food—no dressmaking, yet we are clothed in beautiful garments—no hard toil―only that of the soul―and still, all things go on without interruption.

Golden Gleams from the Heavenly Light* 

*Golden Gleams from the Heavenly Light (published before 1923 and now in the public domain) written through the mediumship of Carrie E. S. Twing, Star Publishing Company, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1898

Onward and upward, around and around, is the great eternal, natural law

Onward and upward, around and around, is the great eternal, natural law.

Vernal Fall is a large waterfall on the Merced River just downstream of Nevada Fall in Yosemite National Park, USA – God of War (CC-by-SA-3.0)

What kind of music do you hear in the great trees?

Me sing you sweet song the trees sing to me. And this is the song she sung, the silvery voice imitating the winds and swaying branches. She commenced with a low, soft, sighing sound; her lovely hands and arms moving slowly and gracefully above and around her swaying head. Then the leaves on all the trees began to flutter, her little fingers quivering and fluttering as did her voice. Her motions and voice changed rapidly as she represented the leaves of the different trees of the forest; the trembling flutter of the poplar; her little fingers would straighten out like the needles of the pine, and her voice would sing a mournful hush; then the beach, the oak, the maple, the cotton-wood, all were represented. Then the wind would blow with greater power, and the gale would become so strong that her arms and body swayed in all directions, until she would nearly touch the floor at every motion; her voice exactly imitating the sighing, rushing, roaring wind, Gust after gust, now would strike the trees; then all at once she stood motionless, her eyes flashing, her breast heaving. Then the scream of an eagle broke the silence, her arms waving majestically as he soared aloft. Then all the little frightened birds began to chirp and flutter; some flying to their nests, others with little screams of fright, scurrying before the wind. Suddenly she drew a glittering sword from her girdle, that had hitherto been concealed by the folds of her crimson skirt, and flashed it with such rapidity in all directions, that it nearly blinded us; then amid her gustful swayings, the low thunder muttered; then more screaming of frightened birds; then with a swish, swash, swish, the rain came down in floods. Again and again the rain came down in torrents. Again and again the lightning flashed, the rain beat and poured, the trees waved and swayed madly in the gale, the thunder muttered, bellowed, roared and crashed; suddenly she appeared as if broken at the waist; her head fell to the floor, her long black hair lying in a wide circle all about it and she made a noise like the splitting and breaking of a tree in the wind; then righting herself she represented the wind as blowing with great fury; then again the lightning flashed with blinding force; rip! split! split! rip! A tree had been struck and torn to pieces.

The Discovered Country 

Happiness is heaven and heaven is happiness

Happiness is heaven and heaven is happiness; ignorance and suffering is all the hell there is or ever will be.

Gaura lindheimeri (Whirling Butterflies) – J. J. Harrison (jjharrison89@facebook.com) (CC-by-SA-3.0)

Nothing more than to wish and to will

As we desire and will, we find ourselves moving with great velocity and we soon find ourselves where our desires take us.

Love and wisdom is the great lever that moves all spiritual life

Love and wisdom, equally balanced, is the great lever that moves all heavenly and spiritual life.

God delights in the happiness of His creatures

God delights in the happiness of His creatures.

I cannot move! I am faint with joy! This is rapture. This is the real heaven, the immortal life! I feel as though I must go back and tell all my friends, on the dark and unhappy earth, of the glorious reality; the surety of a future life, and how vast and beautiful this heavenly country is.

The Discovered Country

Plain unvarnished truths

The actual soul does not age permanently, though it carries the impress of the body when it first comes over. By degrees, freed from material cares, the signs of age disappear and the spirit-body looks like that of an adult in the prime of life and in perfect health.

Before I came to this life, I had thought, if there was a life, at all, after the death of the body, that each remained at the same age they were when they died. That a child remained as a child, and a man, a man; and an old person, still old.

When we leave the earth-life, we appear, for a short time, much as we did when we left it; but the moment we commence to learn heavenly wisdom, that moment we commence to grow young and beautiful; we do not go back to childhood in our appearance, neither, do we ever again have the same appearance that we had in the earth-life; but as we throw off error after error, and take on wisdom, love and truth, we become perfect and beautiful in our outward appearance; and every mark that time leaves upon us, is one of perfection and beauty.

Some of the angels here, are so bright and glorious, that even we, that have been here many years, cannot behold them; and those that come here as children, grow in love and wisdom, until they appear as full grown men and women, and then they go on like the rest.

The Discovered Country 

Every creature that lives will attain great joy and happiness

Great joy and happiness is the only life to which we can look forward to, as there is no other for the soul of man and as time rolls on every creature that lives will attain it.

No act of kindness is ever forgotten by an immortal soul

No act of kindness is ever forgotten by an immortal soul and if the one that confers the favour does not receive his reward on earth, he is sure to meet with it in the heavens.

The law of attraction decrees where the soul will abide

The soul comes enclosed in its spirit body with the spirit’s entry into the spirit world. The spirit body does not have, of itself, the power to determine its own location or destiny as regards a place, for the law of attraction that operates on the soul determines its condition and location. As the spirit body is the soul's covering, it must go where this law of attraction decrees the soul will abide.

A case of wires being down

It is a constant study on this side to find out the hindrances to spirit communion.

Samuel Bowles (Spirit)

An incompatible thought power

The gain of one man through the labour of others establishes a thought power incompatible with the true idea of national equality.

Co-operation would have made hundreds of homes happy

Co-operation would have made hundreds of homes happy.

True prayer is that which sets in action the love-force of spirits on this side

True prayer is that which sets in action the love-force of spirits on this side, which acts in accordance with law for the betterment of the supplicant.

Samuel Bowles

An honest man must criticise himself!

An honest man must criticise himself!

The life principle in all things is beyond the hand of the destroyer

The recuperative power of all things here is so great that nothing can be destroyed – the life principle in all things is beyond the hand of the destroyer.

Samuel Bowles (Spirit)

We are free to go as we will

We are free to go as we will.

Choose which shall be your master – Right or Wrong

Choose which shall be your master – Right or Wrong.

Samuel Bowles (Spirit)

God, who will render to every man according to his deeds

My heart is sad to think, if the old Book is followed in some things, why people do not take more closely to heart that passage which says, God, who will render to every man according to his deeds. That would avert much of the disappointment, for then they would know, even though they hope they are forgiven, that the old stains must be wiped out by earnest work here.

Samuel Bowles (Spirit)