The angels' diary and celestion study of man

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COPYRIGHT DEPOSIT.

This book, written by my beloved children, I present to the world with he earnest desire that all who read may receive " the peace that passeth understanding" and the Joy of Knowledge, Health and Wealth of Spirit*

Chapter II. Reception

Anticipation — Childlike Joy — A Ramble Amidst Scenes of Beauty — Dominant Harmony — Everything Satisfying — The Life of Freedom from Envy or Selfishness — Delightful Sensations of Movement — The "Silvery Lake" — "Novel" Experience — Strength Renewed — Purity of Eternal Youth — Family Reunion — "Welcome, Dear Heart" — The Magnificent Voice — Feast of Joy. 3S x Contents,

CHAPTER III. HEAVENLY MANSION. pagb

The Honored Guest — Aural Light or Electric Ether — Spiritual Food Increases Spirituality — Procession of Tiny Angels — "The Grand Picture" in "The Beautiful Grove'— "The Peace of Heaven" — The Palatial Home — Surpassing Grandeur — "The Long Archway" Fountain and Flowers — Moving Pictures — How Produced — Thought or Soul-Pictures — Lesson 41

CHAPTER IV. HEAVENLY MANSION (Continued.)

Gallery of Art — The Masters — Magnificent Paintings — Projected on the Walls of the Palace — "Eternal Judgment" — God's Love — Rainbow Rooms, an Arch of Amethysts Described — Music Hall — Instruments Played Without Hands; How — Wondrous Power of the Spiritual Mind — The Laboratory — Wonders of Science Explained — Problems Worked Out — Like a Beautiful Dream 45

Contents

OHAPTEK V.

KETTTKN TO EAETH.

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Chapter I. Through The Gates Of Paradise

The "Summerland" Where — "The Many Mansions" — Rapturous Music — The Beautiful Gateway — Unimaginable Realities — Scenery of Every Variety — Angel- Activities — Homes in the Eternal World — Palaces, Mansions, Cottages, Children's Homes — Temples of Art and Music — Lecture Halls — Lectures at a Distance — Scenes Transferred from Afar. 76

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Chapter II. Grand Eevibw Of Angels

THE TEMPLE OF LIGHT.

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'Temple of Light" — Magnificent Creation — Immense Concourse of Angels — Multitudes from Everywhere — Gift of the Spirit — Procession in Review — Millions in Small Space — Angelic Choir — Great Masters — Every Angel Receives a Blessing — Grandeur of the Ceremony 82

Chapter III. Paradise Of God

Chosen Inhabitants — Magnificence — Perfect Vision — Connected by Vibrations — Spiritual Ether — Life, the Immortal Divine Principle — Spiral Vibration and Electric Cell United — Divine Laws Lowered — Soul Needs Upliftment — Divine Principle, the Only Force — Deeper Than Body or Brain — Higher Vibrations Not Understood — Divine Principle and Immortal Soul Harmonized — "Children of Men" — Divine Insignia — "Children of God" 88 xiv Contents.

CHAPTER IV. PARADISE OF GOD— (Continued.)

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'Pinnacle of Immortality," "Sphere of Divinity"

— All-Transcendent — Centre of All — Divine Principle, Inexhaustible — Comprehended Only by the Most Highly Developed Spiritual Mind — Method of Divine Activity — Material and Divine Connected — Life, a Chain of Vibrations — Thought, a Material and Spiritual Essence — Vibrations' Twelve Colors — Astro- Spiritual Organism, Electric — Physical Organism, Magnetic. 95

Chapter V. Spiritual Type Of Jesus

A Summer Scene — Angels and Children — Jesus, the Central Figure — The Reflected Light — Deep Spirituality — The Little Child, Like a Doll — Its Mother, the Sin — Soul-Reading — The Pathetic Scene. .... 101

Chapter VI. A Trip To The Sun

Embodied and Disembodied Spirits Can Travel Together — And What Is Seen — Delightful

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Scenes — The Sun and Her Vibrations, Burning Heat Is in the Interior — The Exterior Is Interesting, but We Enter the Interior — What We Find — Sun Spots — The Fountain of Living Water — The Arcana of Light 105

Chapter VII. A Trip Through Space

Beyond Spiritual Ether — New Planetary Systems — Mars and Venus — The Martians — Glass — Stars in the Process of Formation in Some Regions — Aerolites — Comets and Flying Stars — Vacating the Physical — Mercury's Blue Vibrations — Some Planets Have No Light of Their Own Ill

CELESTION STUDY OF MAN.

FIRST PART.

Chapter I. Nature Of Man

The Masterpiece — Body and Soul — Possibilities of Soul and Freedom of Powers — Three-Fold Nature of Man — The Material Nature or Body — xvi Contents.

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Its True Significance and Value — The Mental

Nature or Mind — Its Composition and Proper Use — " Conscious Mind" — "Unconscious Mind" — Mode of Discovery — Undreamed of Powers — The "Astral" — Law of Suggestion. H8

Chapter II. Soul Of Man

God's Greatest Work— The Soul— "Spark of Divinity" — Study of Self — Novel But Difficult — Method — Power of Thought — Latent Possibilities — Development of Inner Potencies — No End to Discovery — "Hall of Memory" — Impression- Pictures — Vivid and Lasting — Brain-Force, Magnetic — Soul-Force, Electrical — "The Holy of Holies" 122

Chapter III. Power Of Thought

Brain-Mechanism — Brain-Force — Soul-Power — Soul-Dynamo of Thought — Key to the Problem of Being — Thought-Processes — Method of Discovery — Simple-Sense Impression — Brain-Im-

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pression or Picture — Concentration in "the Si-

lence" — Vision of Interior Being — The Sub- Conscious Mind Known Through the Conscious Mind — Soul-Picture or Impression — Conscious Mind Perishable, Sub-Conscious Mind Eternal The Latter Connected With the Astral Form — Sleep-Walking, a Sub-Conscious Activity.. . . 126

Chapter IV. Development Of Soul-poweks

The Peace of God — Its Marvelous Power — The Key to All Mystery — Thought-Transference, Vibration, Etc. — Astral Experiences — Stages of Development — The Problem of Existence — Life, a School — The SouVs Electrical Wires — Solar Plexus — En Rapport — Spiritual Electricity — How to Live, Etc 132

Chapter V. Wonders Of The Inner Organism

Vistas of Light and Beauty — Reading Cod's Commandments Within — The Aura-Light — Its Colors and Their Significance — Spiritual Electricity xviii Contents.

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— Its Colors and Their Significance — The Body,

the "Temple of the Living God" — Jesus Christ, the Highest Embodiment of Power from Within — the Inner Light and Power — Development — Thought-Force, a Cause of Disease and Sickness — Suggestion to the Sub-Conscious — Life Eternal and Indestructible — The "Spark of Life" from the Universal Whole — The Mystery Solved. 135

SIGNIFICANCE OF COLOR-VIBRATIONS.

Happiness of Realization — Awakened Senses — Necessity of Knowledge — Self -Mastery — Knowledge, Most Desirable — Classification — Color- Vibrations; Their Significance and Utility — Curative Powers — Nature's Forces, Vibratory — Musical Sounds, Vibratory 14 q

Chapter VII. Dualistic Forces Harmonized

Man, a Part of "the Whole" — Dualism of Man — Salvation from Within — Man His Own Savior — Jesus, an Example — The Crucifixion am, In-

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human Act — Man, a Son of God — Social and Reform Problems — Universal Brotherhood the Solution — The Larger Horizon — Man in Sis Infancy — The Outer and Inner Eye — The Former, a Beneficent Instrument — Dualism of Feeling 144

Chapter VIII. Physical And Psychical Non-trans- Mutable

Man a Twofold Embodiment — One Atomic, the Other Non-Atomic — The Former Disintegrative, the Latter Complete and Perfect — Christ's Body — His Immortal Body — Mistakes in the Gospel Record — Materializing Seance — Method or Process— The Electric Circuit — Thought-Command — Flower-Materialization — Temporary Release of the Spirit from the Physical — How Materialized — Death a Natural Law — Duty to Our Physical Body — Knowledge of Chemistry Important 149

Chapter IX. Soul Progressive, Not Retrogress- Ive

The Physical Ever Changing — Spirit-Substance Always the Same — The Spirit-Form Ever Bexx Contents.

Page. coming More Ethereal and Beautiful — Distinctive Individuality Intact — First Stage of Progress Electrical — Second Named "Argaon" — Seeming Reincarnation — "Carrie" and "Mary" — Men Responsible — Evil, Resultant of Ignorance — The "Contaminated Soul" — Sin or Crime, Not in the Spirit-World, Only on the Earth-Plane — Reward 155

CHAPTER X. SOUL PROGRESSIVE, NOT RETROGRESS- IVE— ( Continued)

Microscopic Germ or Principle of Being — Problem of Life — The Individual Life-Cerm Quickened from the God-Centre — The Soul Is of God — The Physical, Man's Own Creation — The Latter Sustained by Air-Elements — The Former Supplied from the God-Centre — Spirit-Return Proven — Reincarnation Not Proven — "Karma" — The Spiritualistic Idea and the Theosophical Compared — The Creator 160

Chapter XI. Immortality Of The Soul

No Death to the Soul in the World Beyond — Body, Nothing — Life from God — Soul, an Electrical

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Composite of Vibratory Life-Cells — No Death

Record in the Spirit-World — "The Soul That Sinneth, It Shall Die" — Death, a Symbol of Sleep — An Entranced and Dead Body — Soul- Death Unreasonable — Spirit-Body Beautiful — Man's Creative Power — Death, Chemical Action 165.

CHAPTER XII. IMMOETALITY OF THE SOUL— (Continued)

Mighty Faculties in Embryo — The Unfolding "Lilac Twig" — The Soul, the Miniature of Perfection — Development and Unfoldment — Death, a Necessity — Soul, Permeating the Body — Finger- Tip-Brain — Location of Positive and Negative Forces — Vibrations, Electric and Magnetic — Soul Part of the Whole 170

COMMUNICATIONS ON THE HEAVENLY

LIFE.

SECOND PAET.

Chapter I. Wonders Of The Celestial World

Spirit-World Transcendent — No Space-Limits — Millions of Spirits in Small Space — Reality of xxii Contents.

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Life — Wondrous Compass of Spiritual Seeing —

Religion of Love and Understanding — Education of Children — The Christ — Opportunity for All — Temple of God — Wonderful Creations — Symbol-Language — Creative Processes 176

OHAPTEK II.

BOOKS AND THEIR WRITERS.

( The Light of Eternity/' Author, T. H. Burgoyne — The Higher Spiritual Laws — How Writing Is Made in Heaven — Spiritual Books, What Made of and How — Comments Upon "The Light of Eternity" — Power of Desire — Attainment Through Intense Spirituality — Solitude of Nature, Suited to Unfoldment — Jesus' Habit 182

CHAPTER III. BOOKS AND THEIR WRITERS— (Continued)

Astral Experience Not Unbalanced Mentality — "Losing One's Self" Not Insanity— Peace and Harmony of Nature Conducive to Spirituality — California — In the Advanced Stages Desire Is

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Power — Selfishness the Barrier — The Higher Vibrations, Pure and Unselfish — Prentice Mulford — The Higher Self in Unfoldment — Nathaniel Hawthorne — "Hilda" 186

Chapter IV. Music

God's Voice Materialized — Soul-Power — Inner Harmonies — Retirement — Dwelling in "The Subliminal" — Ecstasy of the Great Masters — Power to Awaken Dormant Faculties — Songs of Nature — Exquisite Harmonies — Power to Work Reform — Food for the Soul — Different Effects — Higher Music for the Unfolded Soul 190

Chapter V. Inspiration

Attunement to Angelic Vibrations — Soulful Eloquence — Soul, Like a Harp — Divine Gift — The Gifted Artist — Angelic Guidance and Communion — "In Tune With the Infinite" — Illumination Within — Soul-Cultivation, Necessary — Receptivity to Angelic Influence — Advanced Ideas — Edison — Astral Discovery — Suggestion — Science — Edward Bellamy 195 xxiv Contents.

PEESENT DAY PEOBLEMS AND OTHER

SUBJECTS.

THIED PAET.

CHAPTEK I.

"NEW THOUGHT MOVEMENT."

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Power of Thought, Mighty and Unlimited — In "The Beyond" Thought-Power Creative — Love and Knowledge of Law, Most Effective — Shame of Ignorance — Marvelous Thought-Power of the Spiritual Mind — Projection of Pictures and Writing in the Air — Projection of the Spiritual Body Out of the Physical — Power of Thought Upon the Elements — Knowledge of Chemistry Necessary 201

CHAPTEK II.

NEW THOUGHT MOVEMENT (Continued).

Location of Thought-Elements — Forces of Different Kinds Located — How to Center One's Self — Wisdom and Caution- — The Two Natures Unbalanced — Spiritual Attributes Located — Unfathomable Depth Within — Primary Stages Learned

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First — Advance of Centuries — Telegraph or Telephone Not Needed — The Power WitMn, the All-Conqueror and All-Powerful Worker 204

CHAPTER III.

TRINITY.

Fatherhood of God — Universal Power — Every Man a Part — Everything a Divine Spark — Universal Life-Principle — The "Son" — Highest Spiritual Type of Man — Example, How to Live — Soul, Third Part — Connecting Vibrations — Spirit of God Manifest in the Soul 208

CHAPTER IV.

HOLY GHOST.

God in the Soul — Known by Divine Vibrations — Visit From the Divine Guest Not Recognized — Two Principles at Work — Indescribable Effects of Spiritual Vibrations — The Silent Force — Wonders Through the Development of This Divine Force — Sin of Ignorance — Why "Reason" Is Given Us — The Bible and Reason — "The Gentle Jesus" — Man the Abiding Place of God. 210 xxvi Contents.

CHAPTEK V.

A TKEATISE ON MOLECULES.

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Force Is Life — From Union Grow Results — Flee-

trical and Magnetical — Three-fold Nature in Human — Mind Force of Attraction — Circle Within a Circle — Evolving Force Positive — Organism — Healthful — Essential — The Minute Individual — What the Human System Does— Nature's Matter Grows — The Condition Called Death — The Effect of a Cause — The Law of Inheritance — What the People of Today Sow 216

A CHRISTMAS SERMON TO HUMANITY. 220

ANGELS' DIARY.

FIEST PART.

Chapter I. Transition

The Contrast — Reminiscences — "The Beautiful Country" — Sensations at "Death" — Spiritual Embodiment — Floating, Buoyancy, Health — Angel-Throng — The Barren Section — The World of Beauty — Two Roads — Heaven's Gateway—The Spheres— e No Night There"— The Home and "Dear Brother"— -How Boohs Are Made.

It must have been last night that I passed from earth and now to-day I am in this strange and wonderful place, that charms me with its harmony, peace and beauty. In the world where I dwelt but yesterday, it was cold and cloudy and the ground was carpeted thickly with snow. To-day is summer, flowers are blooming everywhere, the air is sweet with fragrance and countless numbers of birds are flitting from tree to tree singing their songs of gladness. How strange it all seems. Shall I wake up presently and find that I have been dreaming ? I hope not. I think of the dear ones that I left behind — are they grieving for me, I wonder. Oh! if they could but know of the beautiful country that is now my abode.

What strange sensations were mine as I was passing from my physical body. It seemed as though I was being gradually lifted out of a case in which I had been placed and all the while it was as though I was passing under the influence of some anaesthetic. Then the next thing I knew, I felt something snap and I stood outside of my material body that was now dead to the world. I was clothed in soft white garments and my long black hair fell far over my robe. There was a sense of buoyancy in my limbs that I had not felt since I was a little child. This was certainly interesting and I longed to investigate what was before me. I was soon floating away to where I knew not. I only knew that I felt strong, well and happy to be freed from pain. I could see many strange and beautiful sights as I floated through the air. One beautiful being that aecompanied me told me that she was my guardian spirit and had been with me ever since I came into the world. The air seemed to be filled with angels and spirits; some were going to the earth upon various missions, others were returning to the heavenly and spiritual world. The atmosphere was filled with flowers, trees and various forms of vegetation, the spiritual parts of flowers, trees and foliage of the material plane. I wanted to stop and examine everything that I saw, but as this would require too long a time, I interested myself in taking glimpses of the things that we passed.

I could not measure the time, for to spiritual eyes there was no darkness, except once, and that was when we passed through the section that divides the spiritual from the material world. For a while there was nothing, absolutely nothing, and then we emerged into a beautiful region. The scenery was the most beautiful that I ever beheld, quite different from anything I had ever seen in material life. Presently we came to a region where the road branched off in two directions. I then learned that one road led to the spiritual world and the other to the heavenly regions. That which led to the heavenly realms was the more beautiful of the two; but no soul upon his first journey to the spiritual realms could pass over the path that leads to heaven; that was reserved for those who had progressed, developed and unfolded to the state of angelhood. Over its entrance gleamed a beautiful gateway that seemed to be inlaid or studded with different colored stars, and overhead in letters of fire gleamed these words, "Lay down your burdens, ye who enter here/'

How interesting it was to watch the people who pcssed on their way to the spirit world — such a stream of them, men, women and children, and all seemed to be so strong and well. The country over which I passed was very fertile. Flowers and foliage seemed to grow in abundance. The first sphere was much like the earth, only more highly spiritualized, and those who dwell in this sphere had not outgrown their material desires; therefore, this first sphere has been created in a way to produce harmony. Those who live there must be taught and helped to progress, after they had learned the lessons of the first sphere and were desirous of improvement, they could pass into the second sphere. I found as I journeyed on, objects and conditions seemed to improve; things became more beautiful, the climate was milder and more perfect. In the lower sphere there was some de-

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gree of heat and cold and some darkness, but these conditions gradually passed away; in the fourth sphere there was a perfect climate. The fifth sphere was my destination. I found a beautiful heme awaiting me there, more beautiful than anything I had ever dreamed of, while upon this material plane.

I longed to investigate this new and wonderful life, and as I look out from the home to which I came only last evening, my thoughts are filled with wonder and delight. The dear little brother who passed to spirit life before I was born, I have met. He has grown into a fine, manly fellow. I think how proud his mother would be if she could see him. I believe that I shall spend many pleasant hours with him. Conditions seemed so wonderful and strange, I can but marvel at the wisdom of the Creator in designing such a grand and beautiful world for His children after their trials upon the material plane. It seemed odd, but I have as yet seen no darkness in this beautiful sphere; everything seems tinted in soft lights, yet there are no sun, moon or stars.

My spiritual home is formed of spiritual material and is a brownish pink in color. It is large and imposing, set in the midst of tall trees, terraced banks and beautiful flower-gardens. The interior is in keeping with the grandeur of the exterior. The rooms contain many new and wonderful things that I never saw or dreamed of before. I have discovered that in this world we do not sleep and never oecome weary or tired.

As I sit here in this wonderful home my mind turns to the dear ones I have left on earth. What would they think, I wonder, could they see me here ? I think that they would be surprised.

I must go soon to the earth plane to see my little children. They will not realize that I have left them. They are hardly old enough as yet.

It seems so strange to see my thoughts produce themselves in indelible form upon sheets of spiritual paper, formed from flowers. Just to think that by the action of my own thought, I can produce a book. Well, there are many strange and wonderful things before me. I long to know more of this wonderful life. The dear brother is coming presently to take me to a beautiful affair that is going on somewhere in this grand world. I am so enraptured with the thought and am so anxious.

"In my Father's house are many mansions."

Jesus.

"I stand in Eternity,

I lave in the Ocean of Truth, And bask in the Golden Sunshine

Of Endless Love and Youth."

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Chapter II. Keceptiok

Anticipation — Childlike Joy — A Ramble Amidst Scenes of Beauty — Dominant Harmony — Everything Satisfying — The Life of Freedom from Envy or Selfishness — Delightful Sensations of Movement— The "Silvery Lake"— "Novel" Experience — Strength Renewed — Purity of Eternal Youth — Family Reunion — "Welcome, Dear Heart" — The Magnificent Voice — Feast of Joy.

How beautiful life seemed. My soul was filled with gladness as I waited for my darling brother to come to me. I was glad to see his happy, smiling face, and soon we were walking together through the beautiful country that abounds in such new and wonderful scenery. I thought to myself, "It is winter upon the material plane and I have been transported suddenly into a Summer-land." My soul was filled with joyful anticipation of what was to come. I was like a little child who knows no sorrow.

As we wandered along listening to the strains of delightful music which seemed to come from every direction, we met groups of white-robed angels talking with one another beneath the trees. Every one seemed to have caught the harmony that predominates in the beautiful Summer-land. I was so happy and interested in all that I saw about me that I did not even ask my darling brother where it was that we were going. I felt content to wander on and on for any length of time amid such glorious scenes as I saw about me. Occasionally the thought occurred to me, "Am I dreaming, and shall I suddenly wake up to the old life far away upon the earth ?" Everything seemed to be so satisfying. It was beautiful to think of, to see every one provided for and no thought of envy or selfishness in any soul. We seemed to glide over the ground, our feet never touching it. Sometimes we appeared to be floating in the air, then again we were four or five inches above the ground. It was a very delightful sensation to move in this way, quite unlike walking in the material world.

I was surprised as we came to a clear, silvery lake with small flower-boats gliding over the surface to find myself walking upon the water. This was another new experience and seemed quite novel to me. After walking half way across the lake my darling brother said, "Now we will walk through the water/' and behold we were upon the bed of the lake below. We could look up and see the scenery above the surface of the water, and it seemed to me that in passing through this water I gained new spiritual strength, for when we emerged as dry as though we had only walked upon the land I was conscious of an improvement in my spiritual condition, and was reminded of the words, "Drink of the fountain of everlasting life and ye shall be white as snow." Occasionally we saw beautiful little summer houses or pagodas, covered with flowering vines, and then we would enter and view for a while the surrounding scenery. Nature certainly did look very beautiful bathed in the soft light that was sometimes rose color, sometimes blue, and then, again, the most brilliant, beautiful green that I had ever seen. We paid no heed to the lapse of time; indeed, there was no time in this beautiful world. Everybody was young and there was eternity to live in.

Presently we came to a beautiful grove, where great numbers of people were assembled. The trees seemed to be hung with festoons of brilliant flowers, and roses of different colors seemed to form a carpet for the feet. I wondered what kind of a gathering or fete it might be, and presently three beautiful angels came forward bearing in their arms a robe formed of delicate pink roses. As they came near they threw the robe over me, saying, Welcome, dear heart, and then I learned that the relatives of my father and mother for several generations back had gathered here in a reunion to celebrate the advent of a new member to the heavenly land. I was the new member and the guest of honor upon this occasion. I thought of my darling mother and wished that she might have seen me in that pink flower-robe with my long black hair falling nearly to my feet. (My spiritual hair is much longer and more abundant than the hair that had adorned my head in material life.) Surely, I thought, it would make anybody wish to pass to this higher life could they know how wonderful it is.

The festivities that followed were beautiful indeed, and there were many things that were entirely beyond the comprehension of a material

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mind. One beautiful angel whose name I learned to be Alice Samson, sang most beautifully. 1 never in my years of life had heard such a magnificent voice. The memory erf those tones will linger in my mind throughout all time. As she sang the listeners threw beautiful flowers at her, forming a brilliant-hued platform about her. It was very beautiful and inspiring, and filled me with a delight that I had never experienced. In the center of the grove upon a table formed of white roses, was spread all sorts of spiritual food in the way of fruit, and deep flower-cups held the spiritual liquid.

"Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him. But God hath revealed them unto us by His Spirit."

St. Paul.

Chapter III. Heavenly Mansion

The Honored Guest — Aural Light or Electric Ether — Spiritual Food Increases Spirituality — Procession of Tiny Angels — "The Grand Picture" in "The Beautiful Grove"— The Peace of Heaven" — The Palatial Home — Surpassing Grandeur — "The Long Archway" Fountain and Flowers — Moving Pictures — How Produced — Thought or Soul-Pictures — Lesso?i.

It was certainly very delightful to be the honored guest in such beautiful company. It seemed to me that I had never been quite so happy.

The liquid and fruit that I tasted filled me with a new sensation that I had never experienced before.

I was continually wondering what new surprise awaited me. I could see a soft and beautiful lisrht emanating from the persons about me. I learned that it was the electric ether showing the spirituality of the individuals, the light surrounding some being more than that of others. The spiritual food I learned did not build up any portion of the spiritual body; it only helped to increase the higher vibrations, making the individual more spiritual.

A procession composed of tiny angels wearing flower-robes and bearing festoons of flowers was very pretty indeed. I thought of the mothers whose little children had been taken to this beautiful world, and it seemed to me that if they only knew they would not grieve so much for their little ones.

There in the beautiful grove I took in the grand picture before me — the white-robed angels in their flowing hair and white, cloud-like garments; the little children floating, gliding through the air and showering down their armf uls of fragrant flowers ; then the soft-tinted light that shone upon " the scene, changing continually to the most beautiful colors, many of which I had never beheld before. Such peace, such harmony seemed to abound, and the dear brother whispered to me, " Sister, you have heard of 'that peace that passeth understandbig* — it is that which you experience now; it is the peace of heaven which the world cannot give." It seemed so delightful to be in the midst of such beautiful scenery and pleasant company, and feel that time was not passing and one would not have to think of some duty that might call him away.

After delightful music, vocal and instrumental, and several interesting talks by different members of the company, all were invited to meet in the palatial home of Joseph Samson. This was a palace of grandeur, a short distance from the grove where the festivities had been held. The building itself appeared to be formed of white crystal with soft light over it like the colors of an opal. There were no doors to the building, but it was a very easy matter to glide in through the walls. The interior of the mansion exceeded my brightest dreams or imaginings of palatial grandeur. Down the center of the building was a longarchway about fifty feet wide, and a marble fountain in the form of an angel throwing up sprays of fragrant colored water. Eed lotos flowers were growing in the basin of the fountain, and gorgeoushued butterflies and birds of brilliant plumage were fluttering about like flashes of brilliant light.

The long archway itself seemed to be formed of electricity. I learned that the occupants of this delightful mansion were ancestors of my father and had been many years in the heavenly world and were very highly spiritualized individuals. Upon either side of the archway just mentioned were pictures upon the crystal walls, many of which I could not understand. They did not appear to be paintings, for they kept changing to different scenes. As I was trying to fathom the mystery, a scholarly-looking angel in a white tunic belted at the waist said to me, "Think of something that you would like to see reproduced." I thought at once of the dear mother far away upon the earth plane, and lo, her picture in life size appeared upon the crystal walls. This was something very novel and new to me, and for quite awhile I interested myself in producing pictures.

As I said before, I saw pictures that I could not understand; they were the thoughts and soul-pictures of the spiritual beings who passed through this place, many of whom had been developing and unfolding for thousands of years. It occurred to me that one should be very careful of his thoughts and train himself to high and lofty ideas.