" It's a place of peace and quiet where earthly care and struggle, earthly suffering and misery, have no meaning. It is a land of lovely hills and valleys, of splendid golden cities and smiling faces.
The light there is not the glaring sunlight that we know. Rather, it seems to come from everywhere. It's more like a kind of glow or radiance emanating from everyone and everything.
The air is filled with curious sounds - with music unlike anything ever composed by a human being. It is the music of nature, speaking in a voice intelligible to all.
We have heard, of course, of the basic 'harmony of nature.' Now, there you can actually apprehend it, as a glorious music. Laughter and warmth radiate everywhere. There is no envy and no struggle for existence, since everyone has what he, or she, had been striving for. Time does not obtain there in our conception of it, only the everlasting and eternal witness of the power of love.
An essential part of the human substance is imperishable.. We call it the soul. Death separates the immortal soul from the body to bring it to the higher spheres where it really belongs.
If these higher spheres really exist, I cannot see why dying should be the only way of reaching them. All that is needed is a tremendous desire and intensity of spirit. And the power of the spirit is unimaginable.
In the world of peace, which lies in wait for all of us, we have the possibility of creating a state of being susceptible, to a certain extent, to being fashioned by our own wishes. There we receive guidance and help in reaching the spiritual goals for which we long. A composer may create a kind of music in the hereafter beyond his scope on earth. A painter may be able to paint in a way beyond his previous reach.
In time all souls are progressively perfected. They become able to recognize truths inaccessible to them on a lower level of consciousness.
A person whose life has been directed toward advancing the welfare of his fellow men, rather than solely toward egotistic goals, on the other side will have a better point of departure on the road to ful-fillment. He will have a head start, so to speak, on a person who has confined himself to cheating, betraying, or perhaps destroying others.
The supernatural world, exactly like the one on earth, is the way we make it. There no negative influences are found, of course. Encouragement, inspiration, and wisdom can be absolutely counted on. In other words, there's nothing to lose, everything to gain."
The three scraps of paper pasted into my scrapbook, contents reproduced above, have no title, no author, no source, no date. I probably snipped them out of a magazine,sometime in the late 1970's, and failed to record the information.
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