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18 January 2024

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 toilonly that of the souland still, all things go on without interruption.

Golden Gleams from the Heavenly Light* 

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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

10 February 2023

What awaits the pilgrim stranger?

Imagine some lovely spot of earth where the undulating scenery and picturesque beauty of mountains and valleys carry the soul out into some fairyland, whose towering mountains are covered with rich verdure and lofty trees, whose leafy branches breathe fragrance and coolness to the soul, while the valleys gentle slope down to the crystal waters of a beautiful river, whose branches are spreading like veins through the surrounding country, with lakes dotted here and there, while a broad expanse of waters like the ocean sparkles and ripples in the distance. 

The hazy sunshine gives a halo to the scene, and the soft notes of sweet singing birds and the little fairy insect world are lending a harmonical chord to lull with the singing waters a weary-worn spirit to rest.

The world of spirits has a variety of scenery so beautiful that it has never entered into the human mind to conceive the glories that await the pilgrim stranger to this fairyland.

Fairyland by Vermeer | Stablecog Generator

23 January 2023

All nature is simple!

All nature is simple! Remember that.

Aerial View of Vorle Waterfall and Tamakoshi River | Nammy Hang Kirat/Wiki Loves Earth 2019 | (CC BY-SA 4.0)

18 February 2014

Individual Experience in the Spirit-world

In Letter Number Sixteen from A Series of Letters from the Spirit of a Well-known Lady, Madam — reads in the mind of the medium about an earthly teacher who adopted a little baby girl and taught her through play or amusement. That is precisely what spirits do in the spirit-world and the way they do it. Everything that a child or youth learns here is placed before it as pleasing amusement or play or something that is delightful and beautiful. Madam — reminds us that we all ought to read the book called Mary Ann Carew, written by herself through Carlyle Petersilea. Mary Ann Carew passed into spirit life when Carlyle was three. She had little children in the spirit world and left two or three on earth. In her book she describes how children are educated—tells of her own and others. The book is an exquisite history of her own experience in the spirit world.

16 December 2013

Ascension on Jupiter

Aristotle describes the ascension of a man and wife on the planet Jupiter – 

When a man and his wife have lived for about a thousand years of earth's time – it is not a thousand years of Jupiter's time – they are ready to make the ascension. Their material bodies have become very attenuated, not shrivelled, or shrunken, but larger and more expansive – lighter, thinner, more like vapour – it is a time of great rejoicing with all their friends; they gather about them with bands of music; they feast and dance for joy; and when the spiritual part of the ascending one has become entirely disengaged from its material body, it slowly ascends in plain sight of the assembled company. The etherial body has again taken on all its youthful beauty, but greatly heightened; it has become heavenly beauty. As these two forms slowly rise, they look down and bless the people assembled; and with sweet and heavenly smiles, they gradually disappear with a group of angels that join, and receive them. Then the company gradually disperse with joy and gladness. One of their number has gone from their midst, and is now with the angels in glorious and heavenly light. The nearest friends gather together the form that is left, and cast it forth with other refuse matter, as of no account; they think of it, only as they do the husks of their grain or fruit, and treat it just the same.

15 December 2013

Do you wish to know how fast an angel can travel?

Now, said Aristotle, we will go and pay a visit to the sun's counterpart; for the sun, like ourselves, is actually but one sun in two forms, male and female; magnetism and electricity. But we will leave our ship behind and travel on rays of light.

And as fast as electricity and light can travel, we journeyed toward the sun's magnetic counterpart; and presently we arrived there. And here we found a great chemical laboratory. For every ray of light and heat which the sun shoots forth, travels directly to this magnetic globe, and is there again resolved into magnetism proper; and then rolls back again in great waves to the sun. This magnetic globe is invisible to man, as all magnetism is; and the electric body of the sun is also invisible to man; it is the result that is visible; it is the light and heat of magnetism and electricity that man sees and feels; for the light and heat of the sun strikes and bathes in glory, all the planets that lie between it and its counterpart; and the great magnetic waves, as they roll towards the sun, strike and bathe, and nourish all the planets that lie between it and the sun. Now as the clothing or form of the soul, is composed, equally of magnetism and electricity, it finds no difficulty in traveling on the wings of either; and if man on earth wishes to know how fast an angel can travel, he has only to watch the lightning's flash, and that truly reveals it to him. Or, an angel can move or glide, as slowly as it pleases, or remain perfectly at rest.

Pure magnetic seas

Do you realise that we are sailing on great magnetic waves of a spiritual sea?

Examine these waves, Herfronzo; examine them well. And I obeyed.

It was a vast ocean of pure amber flame, rolling in great waves all in one direction, and that direction toward the sun, as I could now see.

This is a pure magnetic sea, said Aristotle, devoid of matter; and its destination is the sun. Presently we shall arrive there.

And soon we landed on the sun. Now the sun is not a solid globe like the earth, neither is it inhabited; and it is as black as the blackest night; and is composed of pure matter, devoid of spirit, or in other words, it is pure carbon devoid of magnetism; but as these great magnetic waves strike it, and penetrate it, it continually bursts into golden flame and sends forth its rays of life, and light, and heat. The body of the sun is a dead, primary world, that has yielded up its spirit countless ages ago; and that spirit retains its form, as we retain ours; and it constantly sends back great magnetic waves to the body of the sun, which causes the sun to blaze in golden glory.

Aristotle (Archangel) to Herfronzo (Angel)

The eternal motive power

It is our spirit which pulses and magnetism or spiritual flame is the motive power. And so our hearts beat and will keep on beating while the eternal ages roll.

We are now getting at the great pulsing heart of all things – the eternal motive power; and the motive power is the little invisible flame called magnetism. Now magnetism is a pure, invisible, spiritual flame, or in other words, the vast ocean of spirit and matter are counterparts. Each little flame of magnetism attracts and holds an equal proportion of matter; which makes a perfect atom. The little flame is the central point, or nucleus of the atom; and the coalescing of the two principles, matter and magnetism, generate heat, or the little magnetic flame within the atom heats the atom to a white heat; therefore heat is the coalescing of magnetism and matter; and thus worlds are formed. But atoms, nor worlds, never cease in their motion, they forever obey the great law of magnetic attraction; and the magnetic body within a man, which animates the electric body and forever hides within it; is the secret cause of the pulsing heart. 

Galen (Angel)

We bear an immortal spirit within our material bodies

Now, said Aristotle to the scribe, write out my proof, which is pure reason that man bears an immortal spirit within his material body.

When you look at a man you see nothing before you but a man composed of skin, or, epidermis; and if you trusted to nothing but your eyes, without reason, you could not say that man was composed of anything but skin. Now there is the perfect form of a man composed of skin. Underneath the epidermis is the true skin, which is to the sight invisible. So there is another perfect form of man, composed of true skin. Underneath the true skin is another perfect form, composed of veins. Take away all else, and there stands the man of veins.

Next, there is the perfect arterial man. Next, there stands the perfect form of man, composed of nerves. Now, we have the perfect form of man, composed of muscles. Then there stands the perfect form of man, composed of bone – per se – a skeleton.

Now all this is matter, or material substance, which would be inert, or dead, if it were not for an animating principle that permeated every particle of this complex structure; and that animating principle is the perfect spiritual man; and this spiritual man is composed of magnetism and electricity.

Now there is a perfect form composed of magnetism and another one composed of electricity; and these two are the immortal, imperishable form of man; they are united, and go hand in hand. One cannot exist without the other. Now there is a third principle, which we will call the soul of man; and the magnetic form, and the electric form, bear the soul within them. The soul is the guiding principle of the spiritual body; and it clothes itself with magnetism and electricity; that is, it holds it together in the perfect form of man. Now, when the soul leaves the material body of man, it takes the magnetic and electric body with it; for these three bodies are inseparable. Magnetism, as all know, is invisible, except under certain conditions; and electricity is also an invisible substance, except under certain conditions and the soul is an invisible substance, except under certain conditions; and if man did not have a magnetic and an electric body, there would be no heat within him; for it is the uniting of magnetism and electricity that causes all light and heat. When the soul leaves the material body of a man, and has taken with it all the magnetism and electricity, the material body falls apart or decays; for its animating principle has left it – all that could think, hear, feel, or see, has left it.

Now this that has left the material body, we call the spiritual body; and it is triune in its nature – the intelligent body, the magnetic body, and the electric body – and this body has lost nothing but a gross covering of matter, which it no longer needs. All that thinks, hears, sees or feels, it retains; for these are of the soul and not of the material body; for if they were, the material body would still continue to think, hear, feel and see, just the same when the soul had fled. Now the soul has an electric and magnetic body; and the magnetic and the electric body are perfectly and evenly balanced; they are in exact equilibrium; they are the clothing and the vehicles of the soul; and these three bodies in one, are all invisible to the material sight of man, because composed of invisible substance, for all know that electricity is invisible, and magnetism is invisible, and the soul is invisible, but this body may be visible under certain conditions. Now the soul is the intelligent, or animating principle of the magnetic and electric body; and it can move its electric body with the swiftness of electricity, or it can gently float, or remain quiescent; and the magnetic body attracts and holds together the electric body; for the magnetic body permeates the electric body, and the intelligent soul permeates and guides the whole; and the God that man talks so much about, sits enthroned within his own body for God and the soul of man are one and the same person; and the soul of man first exists as an invisible germ within a little invisible magnetic and electric globe; male and female in one. Therefore, God is both male and female, equally balanced, and co-existent.

Aristotle (Archangel)

I thought I should like to visit Jupiter

I thought I should like to visit a world that was inhabited; also, one that was in advance of earth, and Jupiter was the one which I selected.

Now, said Aristotle, I have visited Jupiter many times; Voncelora has been there once or twice, and it will take us many days, as time is counted on earth, to go to Jupiter and return; for it is, even to an angel, a long distance, and the planet is very large, many times larger than earth, and we shall be obliged to rest on our way thither.

And so when we were fully refreshed, we three started; but we had not gone very far on our way, when we were joined by many other angels, for many new angels were eager to go, as was myself; and many archangels were delighted to take them, for they joyed in teaching wisdom. By the time we arrived on the planet Jupiter, we were a large company, and I have not yet discovered that angels visit a planet alone. We found Jupiter far in advance of earth in all things, more perfect in every way. We settled directly down upon the planet, and were met by a great concourse of the people there; for they are so far on in the scale of progress, they can perceive spirits and angels with their natural sight. Their material bodies are very light, ethereal, and intensely refined; they are very nearly in a spiritual condition. When I describe the planet Jupiter, and its inhabitants, it will show what Earth and its inhabitants are to be some day.

The surface of the planet was gently undulating; there were no volcanoes; there was no fire upon the planet of any kind; fires had long since ceased to exist, and consequently the need of fire. Water had become so light and airy, it did not have the power of drowning anything, although it lay in beautiful lakes and small seas all over the planet, but it was not very deep anywhere, for the reason that the planet has lost its inequalities; all its surface has become smoothly undulating. It is never cold, it is never hot; it is so far removed from the sun, and its atmosphere is so rare, and so many miles in thickness, that the rays of the sun are greatly scattered and modified. It is never cold there, because the air is so many miles in thickness, and because it does not rush rapidly and create great vacuums. Consequently there are no storms of any kind, except occasionally, soft gentle rain. There is no snow, there is no ice, for it is never cold enough to freeze. There are gentle breezes, but no high winds; there is occasionally a little thunder and lightning.

From Jupiter's surface his moons look very nearly as bright as the sun, and give him almost as much light; he has no extremely dark nights, his darkest hours are not much darker than earth's twilight; therefore, he needs no artificial lights, and if he did he could not have any, for fire has ceased to be with him. Go where one will, upon his surface, there are always three large planets visible in his heavens, giving him light, besides the stars, and the stars appear much larger to him than they do to the earth, because of his rare and extensive atmosphere, and for the same reason the sun and Jupiter's four moons appear much larger and their light is more diffusive. When the sun is visible there are also two moons shining, and his moons are much larger than earth's moon. When the sun sets there are three moons visible; one near the zenith, one in the north, and one in the south, and the sun has left a pathway of golden light behind it that does not disappear until it is about time for it to rise again in the east, and long before it rises it is heralded in the same way by a broad pathway of beautifully coloured light. The people eat no flesh; that has long since been a thing of the past, and their record calls it the barbarous age, or the age of death. No animal is ever killed there, and if such a thing were to occur it would be considered murder in the first degree. Many animals that are known to earth have long since disappeared from off the face of Jupiter.

Cereals, fruit and vegetables are all the food they have, and all they want or require; but their cereals and vegetables are not like those of earth, for cooking is not known on the planet Jupiter. Their vegetables are more in the form of large sweet ground nuts that do not require cooking. Their fruits are more like large apples, bananas, oranges, coconuts and sweet bread fruit. Their cereals are all very different from those of earth. They have corn, but it is very large, sweet, soft and milky, and they merely eat it one kernel at a time. They have oats, but they grow very large and sweet; none but the animals eat them. There is wheat and various other small grains, but only the birds and animals eat these; they are not needed by man on the planet Jupiter. The most brilliant and beautiful flowers grow in all available places. There are no very steep or high mountains, there are no pine trees, there are no serpents. None of the lower animals exist there now; they have long since had their day.

The age of man on the planet Jupiter is a thousand of earth's years; and he does not die as man on earth does; he at length becomes so ethereal that he ascends into the heavens in plain sight of the inhabitants, merely shaking off as it were, a little of the material body that is too heavy to ascend. The people on the planet Jupiter are very large; they are born in pairs, male and female, and there is no death either by disease or accident; that has long ceased to be with them. The male and female are one from their birth, man and wife, and remain so until their ascension.

The planet Jupiter has long since ceased to multiply in numbers, they merely hold their own, and the man and wife never have but two children which are born at the same time and are the future man and wife to be. The inhabitants of Jupiter are very far on their road to perfection; they are extremely wise and God-like. Although they are very large, yet they are extremely light and very beautiful. When the children are born they know very nearly as much as the wisest man does on earth, and in three days from their birth they walk and talk and appear somewhat as your boys and girls do at twelve years of age. Very little clothing is needed on the planet Jupiter, and very little is worn. One soft flowing garment is all they wear; it is always made in the same style, but they have many of various colours. They perform but very little labour, and very little is needed. They have no very large crowded cities or towns, and the population is quite evenly dispersed over the face of the globe. They do not buy, or sell, or barter in any way. Land is neither bought nor sold; and all their congregations meet in the open air. They have no winters, and the land produces all the year round. Their houses are all made out of a light material, something like bamboo, which grows extremely light and large, Their houses are built in two apartments; that is all, and all that is needed, a parlour and sleeping apartment. They do not need barns or outhouses, for they can gather their food as they wish to eat it, at all times, and do not need to store it.

They eat but once in their long day, and then at the noon-tide. Their table is spread beneath the branches of a great tree which bears, all the year round, a delicious bread-fruit; it is their principal food and would sustain them if they ate nothing else. They plant one of these trees whenever their children are born, and the life and bearing of the tree is about the length or the life of the man. They do not travel much and they have no cars, but there are very large animals there, something after the style of a camel, and when they travel they ride upon his back. This animal's gait is very swift and easy; great love exists between these animals and their owners. These animals are capable of talking in monosyllables, as for instance, yes and no; and many other monosyllabic words. They also have the power of smiling; they need no shelter and usually remain near the residences of their masters; they are not bought or sold, and very rarely produce more than two or three of their kind, but they are born singly.

The people do not have ships or vessels of any kind, for it is not needful, but there are very large birds, in form, something like a duck, that both fly and swim, and the inhabitants ride on the backs of these birds, and as no animal has any fear of man, but only love, they all delight to serve him, and one of the inhabitants of Jupiter looks as natural on the back of one of these birds as man on earth does on a horse, and the bird flies, or swims at its pleasure and to please the rider. The riders use motions and words in order to guide the birds, this is all that is necessary. There is no large ocean on the planet Jupiter, and there are no tides. The waters are never lashed into fury by storms or hurricanes. There are no cyclones or water-spouts. The planet has an abundance of water, but it is more evenly distributed than it is on the earth, owing to the planet's comparatively smooth and even surface; it has small seas and lakes with now and then a very broad and gently flowing river.

There are no kings, queens, or presidents upon the planet, for none are needed. The people have become so perfect that each one is a law unto himself; and there are no laws, or by-laws. Their music is beyond anything that I ever heard on the earth, and they often form into large bands, and their music is most heavenly. Their musical instruments I cannot describe, for they are not like those of earth, they have been improved, until they bear no resemblance to earthly ones They call the angels that visit them from the spheres of earth, fairies,or a word that means the same thing, little men. Their language is not like that of earth. The language which they speak has been simplified until there are but comparatively few words in it, and the same language is used all over the planet. There are no schools on the planet Jupiter, none are needed; the parents teach their two children all they themselves know; and they can know but very little more than they do, until they become entirely spiritualised. Angels from other planets are constantly visiting them and teaching them all they know. There is a great deal of uniformity on the planet, but it is of so high an order that one does not tire of it.

The belts of Jupiter are not visible to its inhabitants, they are hundreds of miles distant from its surface and beyond its atmosphere; they are composed of the worthless, or worn out atoms that constantly arise from the planet and are pushed up by its atmosphere, and as the ages roll on, they will be again revivified by a large comet, and at length become another moon.

Why is it, I asked, that they have no ships or vessels of any kind, on the planet Jupiter? And why do they not have carriages, cars and locomotives, the same as they do on earth?

My son, answered Aristotle, no planets or peoples have anything which they do not need. Jupiter was once in the same stage of progress that the earth is now, and then he had cars, carriages, locomotives and vessels of all kinds, but he has no need of those things at the present time; his commerce has long since ceased; the hurly burly and hurry of traffic is forever over with him; his inhabitants have all become even, one with another, their wants are so few and so easily supplied that he needs nothing which you did not find upon his surface. No kind of tree grows there heavier than the bamboo of earth; there is not a rock throughout the whole vast globe, and his weight is only about that of cork of the same size. The men on the planet Jupiter are large and light in accordance with the planet, as are also the animals and birds. As crowds and traffic are no longer a feature of the planet, of course cars, carriages, locomotives and ships would be superfluous. The people never travel very far at any time, and as the globe and the people are very uniform, there are no sights to see different from those which they see at home. The need of long journeys is over, therefore, their animals and birds are all they want. Cooking is a thing of the past, and all that labour with its appurtenances is over, and there is now no labour upon the planet, except to build a small bamboo house in which to retreat when they have those gentle rains and in which they sleep. Their only method of cutting the bamboo is by a long and sharp knife, which they make from the breast-bone of a bird; they do not kill the birds in order to make the knives, but only take the bones after the birds die a natural death. Each family have about half a dozen knives of various sizes, one with which they cut their fruit, and one, or two, with which to build their houses. They could not have anything made of iron, for that ore has long since disappeared from the planet. Their musical instruments are made chiefly from the intestines of their dead animals and bamboo. They make a kind of reed instrument, upon which they perform most wonderful music. Their garments are made from the skins of animals and birds; and their method of preparing the skins is this – When an animal dies, they carefully remove the skin, stretch and pin it to the earth, and then scrape it very thin and clean; they then allow it to remain in the sun until it is perfectly dry; they then rub it between their hands until it is very pliable and soft; it is then stretched again and colouring applied to it; and they have as many beautiful dyes as the rainbow, which they make by stirring together juices of various plants. They have no pottery, or crockery of any kind; they could not make it if they would, for the planet has long since ceased to furnish material; but gourds grow plentifully, and their few utensils are made out of gourds, and some of them are extremely beautiful, for they are painted and decorated in the most elegant manner. And now my son, said the great philosopher, we will turn our attention to other wonderful things in nature.

The Discovered Country

Detail of Jupiter's atmosphere, as imaged by Voyager 1 – NASA, Caltech / JPL

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)

The true law of the sexes

I do not yet comprehend the law of soul mates, or counterparts; although already united to my counterpart and consequently a completed angel; yet I am still ignorant of the law which governs it.

Socrates, said Galen, will you explain to our brother Herfronzo, the great law of counterparts?

Herfronzo, said Socrates, let us examine one of these spiritual germs before it has ever been breathed in by man, and we shall soon discover the law which regulates soul counterparts. Saying this, he waved his hands toward me in a gentle manner. Immediately my sight expanded and I saw innumerable small pellucid transparent globes floating here, there and everywhere. I took one of them in my hand and examined it closely. I found it was an indestructible spiritual germ, in the form of an egg, and within it were two perfect forms, the man and woman to be; the male and female in one; the future angel. The forms were perfect, but the eyes were closed; they were not yet self-conscious, or intelligent. Consciousness and intelligence were yet in store for them.

How is it, I asked, that children are born singly, not in pairs as this germ would indicate?

These globes which you now see, are perfect germs, they have never yet been breathed into the lungs of living man; that is reserved for them, answered Socrates. When these perfect germs are breathed in by man, the positive or male half germinates, or develops first; the female half or negative is thrown back into the atmosphere in the form of an oblong globe, for they must be separated in order to be born male and female; for if this were not so the law of propagation would be at an end. This latter globe, being oblong, never rises above the dense atmosphere, and the lungs of man have a far greater attraction for it than they did when it was a perfect globe; therefore, it almost immediately becomes incarnated. And now I have explained to you the true law of the sexes, for they are born into life in equal numbers. Now after these germs have expanded and become intelligent men and women, or otherwise, and then leave their bodies or die, they are again united and form one completed Angel. Yourself, dear Herfronzo and Helene, once existed within one of these perfect globes or germs, as one; from thence you became man and woman, performed your work on earth, becoming conscious and intelligent; from thence you have become again united and are now a perfected Angel, far on your road toward heavenly wisdom. Which would you prefer to be, Herfronzo, an Angel, or the undeveloped germ of an Angel? for many people say, they wish they had never been born.

There is but one answer to this question, I said. It is as much better to be an Angel than a germ, as it would be if there were a hell, to be in heaven instead of hell, for now I can examine all things with intelligent eyes and be wise as a God. I can now enjoy the happiness of eternal love; truly, love and wisdom are the everlasting hand-maidens of God. 

The Discovered Country 

The Nazarene

And it was Jesus, formerly of Nazareth.

This, then, was Jesus; that on earth was called the Christ. I should now understand it all. Power and majesty lay all around him, but it was simply the power of great love and wisdom evenly balanced. It is needless for me to say that there were two forms, male and female, which constituted the one Angel; and this was so of all that were present, for there were no spirits at this table. Jesus was a beautiful, bright and shining angel as were all the others. I was eager to talk with this son of Nazareth, and was not at all afraid of him. He gazed at me with his loving eyes, saying: 

Welcome, Herfronzo, to the land of redeemed souls.  

Redeemed, Redeemed? Now I should have a contest with Jesus. I glanced around the table, and every eye was turned upon this man of Nazareth and myself, but the eyes were all deeply loving, deeply wise. I found my tongue at last, and my old earth love of argument returned upon me hot and heavy.

Redeemed? I said at last. Am I to understand by this, that you consider yourself the redeemer of mankind?

Yes, he answered mildly, I am a redeemer of mankind. I hope, dear Herfronzo, that you will also become a redeemer of mankind.

Am I then to understand there is a hell from which the spirits and angels of this life have been redeemed?

Yes, he answered more mildly than before, there is a hell from which all human souls are constantly being redeemed; but the proper name of this hell is error and ignorance, and I am constantly doing my best to redeem man from this hell. All other angels are redeemers as well as myself.

Were you begotten by the Holy Ghost? well, on earth it is understood to mean God?

That is right, he said. God and the Holy Ghost are one. I was begotten by God, which is the Holy Ghost.

Then you mean to tell me that Mary was your mother, and God was your father?

Yes, he replied, Mary was my mother and God was my father.

Your assertion sounds very strange, coming as it does from the lips of a pure white Angel as you certainly appear to be.

I and my father are one; he repeated, and if I and my father are one, then I am the father of myself.

His wise and loving eyes held mine in a magnetic grip.

The father of yourself, I said, a derisive smile curling my lips, for I had always cherished a slight prejudice against Jesus, and I believe I could have faced Hades and its reputed master, rather than allow such nonsense to go unchallenged. I glanced at Voncelora, for he was my father, and I, at least, had not been begotten by the Holy Ghost. I laid my hand on Voncelora s arm, and as I did so, Jesus did the same to one that sat by his side.

This is my father, I said. Do you claim that you had no earthly father?

I and my father are one, he again repeated, I am the father of myself, and so are all other beings.

If I had not been an Angel and in heaven, I should have been angry; but a solemn gentle stillness reigned over all the assembled company. No derisive smile was on any face but my own. Helene sat with bowed head. Jesus hand rested on the arm of the angel that sat by him.

Now, Herfronzo, I know my talk sounds as paradoxical to you, as Voncelora's did when he told you that you were not a married man; and that you never were married. But I believe he proved to you the truth of his statement; and I also hope to prove to you that I existed before my father, or, at least, was co-existent with him. And as you say that Voncelora was your father; so in the same manner, this Angel that sits by me was my father.

But I understood you to say that you were begotten by the Holy Ghost; and that Angel is not God, or the Holy Ghost, and must have once been a man, like as we all were.

Yes, he replied, and we were all begotten by God, or the Holy Ghost.

I began to feel a little ashamed of my anger.

Oh! I said, I begin to understand you. Then you do not claim that you were begotten any differently from the rest of us?

No, he answered, and I never did intend to claim, when I was on the earth, that my earthly parentage was any different from that of other men. My words were misunderstood by men, the same as you have misunderstood them now; but I meant to be understood spiritually instead of literally. I meant that my earthly father was not the first or primal cause of my being; that I was co-existent with God, or the Holy Ghost; and I was right. I said, I and my father are one; and I meant by this that I was God, and God was I, as all other men and angels are God, as all things that exist are God, as the great whole constitutes God, and God or the Holy Ghost dwells within all things.

Are you willing now to admit that I and my father are one, and that I was begotten by the Holy Ghost? Are you also willing to admit that I am a redeemer.

But the churches on the earth teach that you are the only redeemer, or Saviour.

Herfronzo, will you be one with me to help redeem the Churches from error and ignorance on this point? The Angels within this sphere are all redeemers, and are at work as I am at work.

Well, I said, before I can work with you, I must be thoroughly enlightened on many points.

True; he replied, and that is why you have been invited to this supper; to you it is the Lord's Supper.

Again I felt nettled. I am not willing to own you for my Lord and Master; in fact, I think I like Voncelora much better.

He that loves father or mother, brother or sister more than me is not worthy of me.

Then I am not worthy of you, I answered, for I love Helene and Katrina, Aristotle and Voncelora, better than I do you.

Again his eyes held my own with their sweet magnetism.

Is it their personality which you love, or the love and wisdom which shines through that personality? And when I said, he that loved father or mother, brother or sister more than me, was not worthy of me, I merely meant the love and wisdom that was higher than myself, or any other personality; the love and wisdom which shone through the personality.

You have not yet made it clear to me how you can be co-existent with God, or the Holy Ghost.

In order to make this perfectly plain to you, I will introduce Galen and Harvey. Two angels arose as Jesus spoke, and gently inclined their heads toward me and again seated themselves.

Herfronzo, said Galen, you are willing to admit that spirit and matter are forever and eternal, they had no beginning, they can never have an end; that spirit and matter is God, the great father and mother of all things, or in other words, of all form that exists. That the blending, or union of spirit and matter produces, or brings forth form, and all forms are the children of spirit and matter?

Yes, I answered, this is to me most reasonable.

Then the germs of all things reside within the never-ending ocean of spirit and matter?

 Yes, this view of it seems grand truth to me.

And it is truth, he answered, as all wise angels know. Then, if the never-ending ocean of spirit and matter is God, father and mother in one, and their blending brings forth form, and the germs of all things reside within this eternal fount, and they never had a beginning and consequently can never have an end, was not Jesus right when he said, I and my father are one, and by the Holy Ghost was I begotten? And now I will explain this matter to you a little. Jesus was a despised Nazarene. Could any good thing come out of Nazareth? This was the way the people talked and it was to teach them that it did not matter who his parents were, or from what town he came; all this was unimportant, he was a son of God, or Wisdom; and existed long before his earthly father had taken on a form, and was co-existent with God. But the most of the people, in those days, had smaller brains than Jesus; he was a man ahead of the times in which he lived, and therefore became a martyr, as thousands of others have, to truth.

I now looked at Jesus more complacently. I was being reconciled to Jesus; but in a different way from which it is commonly understood by man.

You say, we were all co-existent with God, or rather, that we all existed within the ocean of spirit and matter as germs. This interests me greatly. Will you not go on and tell me more?

With pleasure, answered Galen. When I lived on the earthly plane, I was a physician, as perhaps, you well know; and I studied deeply into all things pertaining to the life of man. Man, know thyself. This thought was continually within my mind, and I was greatly desirous of understanding the law of propagation, and for many reasons which I will not now mention, I became convinced that if a man had a spirit or soul, it was not propagated down through generations of men, and boys had not the power of propagation. I came to the conclusion that man's soul was put into his body in some mysterious way after birth. This was as far as I could go when in the earth-life. As soon as I became an angel my mind again reverted to this subject, and I soon learned the truth. I found that man existed as a germ with in the everlasting ocean of spirit and matter. That these germs were breathed into the lungs of men. That man being the positive force, attracted and held them. From the lungs they passed into the blood, and there became clothed with material substance; and after they had been nourished and fed by the mother, they were born into the earth-life as human beings. Therefore, man is co-existent with God – is a part of God – and as Jesus said, is the father of himself.

Harvey, said Galen, will you tell Herfronzo what you discovered?

With pleasure, answered Harvey.

I suppose, my dear Herfronzo, you are aware that I was the first to discover the circulation of the blood; and while I was making minute examinations, I discovered within the product of man's blood, germinal points. Since my time on earth, other physicians have, under the microscope, discovered and analyzed these germinal points, and many are convinced that these germs are breathed in from out the atmosphere by man, and this is true. In the form of spiritual germs we had no beginning; in the form of progressed angels we can have no end; we are eternal, and co-existent with God, which meaneth all things that are, or ever shall be.

I do not yet comprehend the law of soul mates, or counterparts; although already united to my counterpart and consequently a completed angel; yet I am still ignorant of the law which governs it.

Socrates, said Galen, will you explain to our brother Herfronzo, the great law of counterparts?

Herfronzo, said Socrates, let us examine one of these spiritual germs before it has ever been breathed in by man, and we shall soon discover the law which regulates soul counterparts. Saying this, he waved his hands toward me in a gentle manner. Immediately my sight expanded and I saw innumerable small pellucid transparent globes floating here, there and everywhere. I took one of them in my hand and examined it closely. I found it was an indestructible spiritual germ, in the form of an egg, and within it were two perfect forms, the man and woman to be; the male and female in one; the future angel. The forms were perfect, but the eyes were closed; they were not yet self-conscious, or intelligent. Consciousness and intelligence were yet in store for them.

How is it, I asked, that children are born singly, not in pairs as this germ would indicate?

These globes which you now see, are perfect germs, they have never yet been breathed into the lungs of living man; that is reserved for them, answered Socrates. When these perfect germs are breathed in by man, the positive or male half germinates, or develops first; the female half or negative is thrown back into the atmosphere in the form of an oblong globe, for they must be separated in order to be born male and female; for if this were not so the law of propagation would be at an end. This latter globe, being oblong, never rises above the dense atmosphere, and the lungs of man have a far greater attraction for it than they did when it was a perfect globe; therefore, it almost immediately becomes incarnated. And now I have explained to you the true law of the sexes, for they are born into life in equal numbers. Now after these germs have expanded and become intelligent men and women, or otherwise, and then leave their bodies or die, they are again united and form one completed Angel. Yourself, dear Herfronzo and Helene, once existed within one of these perfect globes or germs, as one; from thence you became man and woman, performed your work on earth, becoming conscious and intelligent; from thence you have become again united and are now a perfected Angel, far on your road toward heavenly wisdom. Which would you prefer to be, Herfronzo, an Angel, or the undeveloped germ of an Angel? for many people say, they wish they had never been born.

There is but one answer to this question, I said. It is as much better to be an Angel than a germ, as it would be if there were a hell, to be in heaven instead of hell, for now I can examine all things with intelligent eyes and be wise as a God. I can now enjoy the happiness of eternal love; truly, love and wisdom are the everlasting hand-maidens of God.

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 immortality of the soul

Immortal truth – 

Oh; this is rest; this is peace; this is joy; this is life eternal; this is the heaven long sought for and obtained. This the never-ending joy; this the everlasting peace; this the eternal heaven.

Lower Consolation Lake in Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada – Chuck Szmurlo (CC-by-3.0)

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)

Testimonies of Light

A cry; a prayer ascended up to us from one who dwelt on earth where we were born. The cry came from a soul in agony, a lonely desolate soul; one too weak to fight the battle of life alone. The cry was for help; help from on high. We heard that prayer, we hastened to answer it, we gave to that soul, struggling in the bondage of error, light, knowledge, truth in its various forms. We aided the soul to cast off its bondage of darkness and it became light, bright, happy and strong and able to aid other souls that were brought in contact with it, to cast off the bondage of error in which they were struggling and to become free and happy in the light of truth.

We heard a sob; a sigh; we hastened to see from whence it came. It was from the soul of a little child. One suffering under cruelty, injustice and wrong. Its little spirit struggled hard to be released. We found a kind soul that needed that child; we augmented and increased the desire of that one to take that child and care for it kindly and then breathed into the child a spirit of love and peace.

We heard the cry of a strong man, and he said. All is darkness. The life on earth is but a bubble and the death of the body the end. Life is not worth living. The struggle for existence is too great I almost have a mind to end it and lay my weary body down in the grave, where all is darkness, oblivion and rest. I stand on the cold mountain heights alone. No one loves me or if they seem to it is not for myself but for what I may be able to do for them. No one understands me or has any sympathy in common with me. The constant cry is, give; give; give; but where am I to receive strength that I may be able to give? for light and hope do not dwell within my soul. And we went and found one who could answer every cry which the strong man sent forth and his soul was lightened of its burdens and he found within that other soul all he needed and the path of Eternal Life was made clear to him, and his cry for unselfish love met with its fulfillment and he became strong, hopeful and happy and able to meet the great demands made on him.

A little child had passed through the Gates Eternal and was lying happy and content in the arms of an angel. We heard the mother's wail of grief and hastened to comfort her. She was kneeling by the grave of her baby, desolate and heart-broken; to her the child was dead – she would never see it again – the heaven she believed in was too far off, too indefinite; she felt that her baby was lost to her forever. We whispered words of hope and comfort to that sorrowing heart, placed the spirit-form of the babe within her arms and then with gentle magnetic touches we opened the mother's spiritual sight and she saw the babe within her arms, she felt its little hands caress her face, its little lips as they were pressed to hers, she looked into its beautiful spiritual eyes and her tears were dried. My baby! oh my baby! You are not dead but here with me.

The Discovered Country 

13 December 2013

All things toil together to bring about intelligent, imperishable angels

All things toil together to bring forth intelligent, imperishable angels; therefore, your earth must yield up its spirit. But the earth having brought forth man, he was eventually to become an intelligent angel; and as you now see, for you are dwelling within it, all things on your earth yield up their spirit, and it goes to make the spiritual and heavenly realms in which the spirit and angel may dwell.

Aristotle (Spirit)

No man can be wise without love

No man can be wise without love and no woman can truly love and not be wise, they must go hand in hand together.

Each angel is in two forms, male and female, making the one angel; each one strictly and evenly balanced; not as they are on earth, mismatched, mismated, one small, the other large, one desiring one thing, the other something else, one understanding a thing one way, the other another way; they are inseparable and work in unison together. They never part unless separated for a very short time to carry out some work which they have in common.

Now, as these angels appeared, they fitted each other; and yet, they were very distinctly marked, male and female; but no blue-eyed male, was mated to a dark-eyed female; both had blue eyes, or both had dark eyes and in size they were the same. They perceived truth alike and had one mind in all things. It was impossible for them to disagree in anything. They were loving inseparable souls, forever journeying on together in the paths of wisdom and love, scattering bright truth around them.

10 December 2013

A school in heaven

A school in heaven –    

This is not much like the schools of earth. What is your method of instruction?

We have no particular method; these little ones play the most of the time and they learn about all they need to know in their play.

That is a very singular way of teaching children – it differs very much from the way in which I have been accustomed to see them taught. Do you not have any strict discipline?

No, I merely grant their wishes; that is all.

Do you live in this cottage by yourself, with no other company except the children?

Yes, but interested persons visit us continually; and the nearest relatives these children have, usually place them here and then visit them almost every day.

Why do not these children live with there relatives?

Because it is better that in the spiritual world they should all live in little schools by themselves; and there are thousands of these schools here, all graded to suit their age. The children of this school are from three, to five years of age when they are placed here, and they leave this school at the age of ten.

Do I understand you to say, the only way they are taught, is, by granting their wishes? How very strange! Suppose they should wish for things that were harmful, would you grant those wishes?

They cannot wish for anything that is harmful.

Suppose, for instance, they wanted to sail out on that lake, alone, and all get drowned, would not that be harmful?

They do sail on the lake, alone, or together, just as they please. You forget that they cannot drown under any circumstances; and they learn as much while they are sailing as at any other time.

Well, suppose they wanted, one, or all of them, to roam into that dark forest, yonder, and get lost, or torn by wild beasts; for I see wild beasts exist here in the spiritual world ?

They can neither be lost, nor torn by wild beasts. Wild beasts here, do not tear or kill anything. It is an impossibility; and if a child is lost, which is not often the case, all we have to do is to earnestly desire its return. It can neither starve, nor perish with cold nor hunger and whenever it wishes to return the wish fetches it to us. Occasionally a child wanders off and enters some other school, but it always returns again.

Do they ever quarrel among themselves?

No, for if one child desires something that another has, the wish or desire creates the same thing for itself. Wishing for a thing here creates it; for all thoughts become objects to be enjoyed by the thinkers and others.

But suppose they had bad or wicked desires, how would it be then?

They cannot have bad, or wicked desires.What bad, or wicked desire do you think they could have?

Well really! I must think. Suppose they hated something.

What can they hate?

Not you certainly; but suppose they hated each other?

They cannot hate each other; there is nothing within them to be hated.

Then the idea of natural depravity is not correct?

It is not. 

Well, don't these children cry and annoy you?

They never cry, except as you hear them now, shouting joyously as they play.

I looked out of the window at them as they played on the green lawn.

Why, what are they doing? for they were running in and out of a little village of play houses.

Oh, they are building a village.They create with their thoughts all kinds of playthings. They reproduce, or imitate, everything which they have ever seen or heard of and my work with them is to attend and guide them. For instance, when they get tired of playing about this house and wish to see anything that is new, or wonderful to them, they all flock about me and ask me to take them. Then we all float off joyously together. We visit something new and interesting almost every day. We sail on the lake. We have all kinds of pleasure and happiness and when we are weary, we return to this little home, or school. We often visit earth together; but, if not together, perhaps some one of the children that has lately come from earth and left parents, brothers and sisters, desires to go back oftener than the others; and then I take that one, or two, or three, together, just as it pleases us, They are now imitating in their play, as nearly as they can; a village that we visited yesterday. It is an Indian Village and it pleased the children very much. We carried presents to the Indians and the Indians gave us all, presents. If you look at their little playhouses closely, you will see that they are Indian wigwams.