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.

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.

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)

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)

Each soul is a law unto itself!

Our works follow us.  We must not expect to transgress one law of the moral or physical world and escape the recoil on our souls. Any abuse, any excesses, any inclination to degrade drags the soul down. There can be no effectual repentance except through suffering, worked out by slow degrees and even then the scar is left! Life is ever-existent and the two properties – good and evil – are capable of growth but the growth of one is at the expense of the other. Unbridled passions, impure lives are the outgrowth of old conditions but, because tolerated, they cause their victims long hours of darkness and despair.

Samuel Bowles (Spirit)

I find that every hour my spiritual vision awakens to new beauties

I find that every hour my spiritual vision awakens to new beauties.

Samuel Bowles (Spirit)

You wrote of cool shade trees. Do you have hot and cold weather there?

You wrote of cool shade trees. Do you have hot and cold weather there?

I wrote of cool shade, not so much because there is exceeding heat to flee from, as that the green shade is pleasant after the glare of light that exists. Though we have neither very hot nor very cold weather, there is still a variety which makes it pleasant for all. What would be agreeable for one might not be for another and, therefore, climates are so well chosen and arranged that all may be satisfied.

Samuel Bowles (Spirit)

What is your house made of and who made it?

What is your house made of and who made it?

You ask what is my house made of? To a mind surrounded by the material, this is very hard to make plain. For ages on the earth plane there have been mansions built and houses of less pretentious appearance but after doing good service there, they rot and crumble away. This is because the subtle essence, which held the material together has departed and, as matter is ever existent, the finest part, instead of settling into the earth, must rise.

Therefore, that essence as well as that which comes from buildings destroyed by fire is fashioned by the All Creative Power into our homes. And thus our homes are made which cannot fail in their variety to please the most critical taste. No spirit in a material sense builds his home; still as the spirit expands and his love for the beautiful is increased, the home he lives in will assume more beauty and be capable of changes until the spirit passes to a higher sphere.

Experiences of Samuel Bowles

O! Love

O! Love, thou art all of life worth living for, and all of immortality, because thou art infinite!

Samuel Bowles (Spirit)