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Two Years in Heaven,
BY
ROSE THE SUNLIGHT.
published I911, by
DR, C H. CARSON.
KANSAS CITY.
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INTRODUCTION.
Rose the Sunlight recorded her experience of
journeys through the celestial world, God's Kingdom, and the Region of the Blessed for a period of two years, the purpose being that her friends in the
material world might have an outline of her wonderful celestial travels. These heavenly experiences are made so plain and can be so easily comprehended by mortal beings that we resolved when we first read the story, Two Years in Heaven, written by Rose the Sunlight, to publish it in book
form, so that all who might wish to know something about the heavenly worlds could find the desired information in this little volume. Rose the
Sunlight passed to the higher life January 2, 1908.
Many beautiful psychic portraits of her have been
given since then, three of them being in the Psychic
Art Gallery in the Temple of Health in Kansas
City. Thousands of people still remember Mrs.
Carson, who met and greeted them when they first
came to the Temple of Health to receive treatment.

She was the Recording Secretary and Treasurer.
Her constant and faithful services for more than
thirty years aided her husband, Dr. C. H, Carson,
in founding the Temple of Health and the Carson
College of Psychic Serology, a philanthropic educational institution, the basic foundation for the
great Temple of Light which is to be built in
Kansas City in the near future. It can be truthfully said, What mighty things she hath wrought!

It is our wish that every man, woman, and child
in all our land may become familiar with the contents of this sacred little volume. It
will bring
consolation and hope to thousands now in despair.
The barriers between heaven and earth have been
removed, and angels dwell with children of the
earth when they can read and understand Two
Years in Heaven, by Rose the Sunlight.

Two Years in Heaven.

CHAPTER I.

IN THE SPIRITUAL AND CELESTIAL WORLDS,

Two years among the angels S Beloved, I have
been two years in the blest country that knows not
doubt or sin. Oh, strange and wonderful life of the
spirit that I have learned to know so well during a
period of over two years!

It seems to me, as I look back over my life
that, in an unconscious way, perhaps, I was undergoing a preparation that in the course of time
would take me into a realm, of wonderful possibilities, greater than I, even in my period of exalted
vision, could ever picture.

When the great change came to me, I was so
weary and tired of earthly conditions that it seemed
good to relax, to loosen my hold upon material
things, and drift out into the new country where

there was awaiting me just the sort of a life and
conditions that my imprisoned spirit had been
clamoring for in its house of clay. I had not been
willing to go before, however, as it seemed to me
my work was incomplete in a material sense; but
the spirit, which said, Take up your bed and
walk, was stronger than the will, which said,
Tarry a little longer; there is an unfinished work
for you to complete.

But the Great Power which rules and guides the
universe said, Come up higher; there is a larger
work for you to do; come up and join the ranks of
the immortal. I yielded to the call, the great
curtain of death rolled upward, and I took my
place upon the stage of eternity.

A strange and wonderful stage that is, extending
so far out into space that I shall never expect to
join the players ahead of me, who must go on, even
as I go on, to the end of the play, which must always be the prelude to another act in which each
shall be given the opportunity to display to a
greater advantage his capabilities.

From the first I reveled in the glories and beauties of my new life, but the main incentive which

seemed to spur me on toward the greatest effort of
my life was this prayer: Q Mighty Powers, give
me the strength and the ability to impart to those
who need it the good that I myself derive from my
pilgrimage to the Summer Land.

No longer burdened with the weakness of the
flesh, I was young and vigorous and in the bloom
of young womanhood. Those associated with me
said, Never before was the name, Rose' so appropriate to you as it is now, for you are indeed like
a rose in full bloom ,, I was glad indeed, for I
wanted to be helpful to all with whom I came in
contact, whether they were of the flesh or of the
spirit.

I found myself outlining in my mind a set of
maxims or rules to guide me in my new and wonderful life. I learned in the beginning that one
entering that life could choose his own way of
living. He would not be permitted, of course, to
do wrong or degenerate in a spiritual sense, but, if
he cared simply for the pleasures of higher life, he
need not expect to progress or pass up to the
higher realms of being as time went on.

To one who found pleasure in the beautiful
things of life, as I had always done heretofore, I
knew the temptation would be strong to linger
with the throng of beauty and pleasure, loving
beings who were to be found everywhere in that
grand and wonderful life.

After studying the possibilities of my new life, I
came to this conclusion: I would enter the different avenues open to me, and with my experience
I would gain something that I could make use of
in my higher development and unfoldment, something that I could impart to those receptive to me,
either in the spirit or the flesh.

CHAPTER II.

IN THE SPIRITUAL AND CELESTIAL WORLDS.

I liked the perfect system I found on that other
side of life. I made up my mind to study the conditions from the lowest to the highest,

At first it was delightful to visit with my friends
and to go about to the places of interest I found in
that other world, but with every experience the
thought was uppermost in my mind that I must be
about the work for which I had been called to the
higher life. I must go daily to the dear husband I
had left with a double burden to carry. ' I must
reach him with my love and my encouragement,
and, by the influence I was able to exert over him,
I must help him to overcome the lonely feeling occasioned by the absence of my material presence.

Although the life was new and wonderful to me,
I felt perfectly at home, my mind was clearer than it
had ever been before, and I found it easy and interesting to plan out the details for my future.

I had been assigned to a beautiful home, with
spiritual furnishings rich and elaborate, but I realized from the beginning that only a small part of
my time would be spent in that home. My entire
being vibrated with actively. I was fond of my
friends and the dear ones I found on that other
side, and it was delightful to be with them, but I
was eager to take up my work.

I felt so strong and well that it seemed to me I
was filled with a new and wonderful form of vitality, I was thankful for every past experience of
my life, but it seemed to me I had just begun to
live. No time was wasted in unnecessary work, no
hours spent in sleep, and the days were so long and
delightful, with no darkness to intervene. When

night had settled upon the earth, it was bright
and beautiful in the celestial spheres, and both out
of doors and within the homes the inhabitants of
the higher life were passing the time in the pursuit
of instruction or of pleasure.

I was rarely alone, except in my journey in as to
and from the earth, and even then I was frequently
accompanied by my husband's first wedded companion and her two dear children, or by some of
the numerous guides or helpers of my husband, far
away upon the earth, in whom we were all so interested, and from whose side I had so recently departed . Only a few of my own immediate family
were left upon the earth, and each day as it passed
found me spending some time in their presence^
but there were only two with whom I could come
in touch: a husband and a sister. And it was a
wonderful privilege to me to be told that I would be
permitted to communicate with them and tell them
that all was well with me, and that the greatest
change of my life had found me prepared to accept
what the higher powers had outlined for me.

The inspiring presence and the loving counsel of
the One whom I had learned to love and revere as
the true Son of God was worth more to me than
ever before. Standing in His presence and looking into His wonderful far, reaching eyes, I was
conscious of an awakened strength in my own
being that I had never known before.

I do not know that others have experienced the
same feeling that I did when standing first in the
spiritual presence of the beloved Jesus. To me it
was not only wonderful, but peculiar, the vibrations emanating from Him were so
wonderful that
they seemed to permeate every part of my being,
and I stood forth cleansed and purified, as though I
had been touched with immortal fire.

I stood within the presence
Of God's immortal Son,
I felt the mighty power
Of that pure and holy One.

The eyes were deep and tender,
The brow was broad and fair,

Framed in a haloed glory

And a wealth of chestnut hair.

And the form was tall and stately,
With such a kingly air,
And the presence, pure and holy,
Filled the soul with thoughts of prayer.
And I thought of the ancient story
Of the people of Bible times,
Who came in throngs to the Saviors side,
To be strengthened and purified.

How grand to stand in His presence,
Far up in the realms of light,
To behold in a circle about Him
That wonderful halo so bright!
To depart from His royal presence
All strengthened and purified.
And to feel, through that Mighty Power,
That the soul has been glorified!

CHAPTER III.

IN THE SPIRITUAL AND CELESTIAL WORLDS.
In reviewing my life and experiences during the
two years I have spent in the heavenly land, I find
that I have unfolded more in a spiritual sense than
daring my entire life upon the material plane.
In the first place, the true meaning and purpose
of my existence have been made clear to me, I
realize that material life was for me a preparation
for a larger sphere of influence in spiritual realms.
I know that I shall go on and on, throughout all
eternity, growing and expanding in knowledge and
attaining a more nearly perfect realization.
The consciousness that I have attained tells me
this great truth: The soul aspiring for progress
never retrogrades; it goes on and on, throughout all eternity, toward greater achievements and
higher realizations.

I shall always recall with the greatest interest a
gathering of gifted beings who have been inhabitants of the higher regions for millions and millions of years. They were magnificent in appearance, but they possessed the stature of men and
women. They were wise beyond my powers of
understanding, and the spiritual power that vibrated from them was marvelous. From my observation of them I realized more than ever before
that man was the Creator's masterpiece; for he retains the higher part of his individuality and the
same general appearance, though he may pass
through ages of time.

My first great plan, after I had settled into my
new method of life, was to systematize the line of
work I had been given to carry out. I had been
given privilege to impart certain knowledge gained
by me to those of earth who knew and loved me
and who wished to know of the life beyond the
grave. The knowledge I gained and the efforts I
made to apply it to a good and true purpose pertained to my progress, and as I unfolded and developed in greater knowledge I would be given
work that would take me far up into higher realms
of space. The knowledge I would gain there
could not help but prove invaluable to me and

to those with whom I would be associated, both on
the earth and in heaven.

It was interesting to me, the thought of my great
work; I was enthusiastic over the prospect before
me, and determined to put the best energy of my
being into the work. The indications pointed to
a busy life for me. In a comparatively short time
I had learned to fit into my new T life as though I
had always been a part of it.

The first meetings with friends and loved ones
were delightful and interesting, and conversation
flowed as freely as when carried on between material beings. We talked of those left upon the
earth, and commented on the wonderful change for
the better that spiritual life had brought to each
of us. There were new loved ones to meet, and
friends I had never known in earthly life with
whom to be brought in contact.

There were wonderful lessons for me to learn,
and the teachers were glorious beings. I treasure
highly the knowledge gained from the hours spent
with them and trust it will serve me a good purpose
as I progress in higher life. It seemed necessary

that I should learn of many things if I would be a
teacher of others.

I remember I had been in spirit life but a few
weeks when, in company with several scientific
teachers ? I took a trip through space. Such a
wonderful panorama of light and color as greeted
my vision! The magnitude of creation almost appalled me. The power of my vision was wonderful indeed. I could see far away, many miles into
space, and as far as I could see the system of suns,
stars, moons, and planets continued its movements. I knew that beyond the picture presented
to my vision there were other starry systems more, through space. There was not one sun, but
many, and from each central sun the one nearest it
derived its heat, light, and power.

It would take weeks to describe the wonderful
solar system as I saw it. The earth seemed but a
dot compared to the countless bodies suspended in
space. Floating far up through the starry ether I
moved until I was in the very heart of the starry
systems.

Such a blaze of light and color had never before
been flashed upon my vision, but, being a spiritual person, I was able to endure it without injury.
The gases and the heat thrown off from celestial
bodies would annihilate a physical being, did he
possess the power to attain that great height in
space.

No words that I could frame in my mind were
sufficiently strong to express the wonder of the
creations that I saw about me. The thought came
to me that perhaps, as time went on and I grew in
spiritual power, that which seemed of such magnitude now would be superseded by visions of still
greater magnitude, still higher in space.

The idea of the plan of creation, as it appealed
to me then, was that the Supreme Cause of all
created things came from so many degrees above
that it would be impossible to trace it; but the
one great cause that produced visible formation
must have been a nucleus of positive and negative force united together, from which more force
was generated, until, by the law of cohesion and
attraction, the universe continued to expand and
grow into multitudinous forms and creations.

A very learned teacher who accompanied me
must have divined my thoughts, for he said:

You have the correct idea on a small scale.
Some time, when you are ready for it, I will give you
a lesson on the science of creative law that it would
be impossible for your understanding to grasp at
the present time. You are now taking your first
lesson in the higher science of the spirit, These
expressions of creative law, which seem now of
such magnitude to you, will, after you have had a
few lessons, resolve themselves into something that
fits into your understanding. They will not grow
any larger or smaller in size, but your understanding and apprehensions will grow; consequently
the time will come when you will not be satisfied
with what you see about you now. You will realize that all this great exhibition of mighty creative
law is simply an emanation from a still greater
degree of power, and as you continue to move
higher in space you understanding will grow
stronger.

Even now you can ascend so high in space that
it seems to you that you can almost touch Creative
Cause; but, with this great possibility, you are limited; for there are reams so high in space that if
you could enter them now, you would pass into a

condition where, for a time, you would seem to
lose yourself. Your comprehension would be so
inadequate to grasp the situation that it would be
like going into the quintessence, or the Universal, a Ś the Brahmin^ believe. Those great Hindu
teachers do not understand the idea perfectly.
Their teachings imply that the greatest blessing
or reward that can tome to the immortal soul of
man is to become absorbed in the Universal and
there find perfect rest.

We have a higher understanding of the plan
than that. We know that the God principle of the
immortal soul can never lose its identity or its
power for higher unfoldment as the time goes on.
For instance, if you should continue to move on
higher and higher into space without a guide in
your present degree of unfoldment, you, no doubt,
would find yourself in a real, where the power was
so great that your spiritual vision, your spiritual
sight and in understanding, would not be powerful
enough to realize anything at first. If you remained in such a realm of space, you would have
to dissolve and unfold for some little time before
you would be able to see or hear anything at all;

but gradually your powers would unfold and, by
a peculiar law of the highly developed and unfolded soul, you would take your place there and
find your life, work in those higher realms

I may say to you, in all truth, that not one
spiritual being in a thousand could take the trip
that you have into these higher realms after being
in spirit life for the short length of time that you
have. We do not advise spiritual beings to take
these trips into space unless we know that they
possess unusual spiritual power, As I have said before, the elements of space
ca hot harm the spirit, but he must be able to
comprehend his experiences to a certain extent, or
he becomes as I told you that you would be in
still higher realms than these. You do not realize
it, but the composition of your spiritual body has
been changed since you passed up into the eight
hundred and fifty, third degree in space. According to our estimate, two million miles constitute
one degree, so you see you are far from earth; although, if you wished to return there now, you
could make the trip in less than ten minutes.
And, in the course of time, as you grow in power,

you will be able to reach the earth plane in less
time than that.

The vibration of your body is not so rapid as it
is in your spiritual home. Upon this trip you will
not be able to behold the beings who guard these
realms, although they are all about you now and of
greater number than you can estimate. They are
spiritual in their composition and of the same form
as you, but more powerful, as they never lived in
physical form.

One may consider this very strange conversation
for two spiritual beings on a trip through space.
Strange as it may seem, it was exceedingly interesting to me, and I returned to my home in the
heavenly realms more enlightened than before on
abstruse subjects. This was the first of many
trips through space that were always filled with absorbing interest to me. Since that first trip I have
gone up over one million degrees, and have gained
such knowledge that I can never expect to impart
to material minds, but I have a class in spiritual
research, the members of which meet in my home
and are fitting themselves to explore the realms of
space.

Some people will ask, Of what value can it be
to a spiritual being to learn of the wonders of
space ? I say it is of inestimable value in many
ways, not only to the inhabitants of the eternal
world, but to the people of earth as well.

Progressive beings of the spiritual, heavenly, and
celestial worlds are always on the lookout for receptive minds, to whom they may be able to impart the knowledge they have gained . Every great
achievement worked out upon the earth has been
impressed on some material mind that has been
prepared to receive it by higher powers.

This great truth is not known by the majority of
people, but it is none the less a fact that if it were
not for the information vibrated to material minds
by spiritual beings, the earth plane would be much
slower in its progress than it has been and is to, day.

Questions of vital interest to the people of the
material and spiritual planes interested me exceedingly. I wanted to live in such a way that I
could be helpful to others less fortunate than myself. Particularly was I desirous of reaching one
on the earth plane whom I had been selected to
assist in a certain great work. This thought was

In my mind constantly in the midst of my work
and the many different experiences that meant so
much to me in many different ways.

My friends told me they never realized before
that I was so ambitious. I did not call it ambition;
it was simply the desire in my soul to make the
best of the wonderful privileges that had been given
to me in my new and glorious life. I did not need
to be told that great honors awaited me if I would
perform a certain great work. The pleasure that
I derived from gaining knowledge and in realizing
that I could be helpful to others was an incentive
sufficient to make me continually desire to accomplish more and more as time went on. How happy
I was when the way opened up for me to communicate with the one of earth who had journeyed
by my side for many years and who felt keenly the
absence of my material presence day by day.

Every moment of the time I spent in spirit life
was occupied with something helpful and instructive. I cared not to spend the time in mere
pleasure, or even to enjoy something particularly
beautiful, unless I knew that the good I was to
derive from it would aid me in my progress, or

furnish me with some helpful idea that I could
impart to others to aid them in their progress toward higher, grander, and better things. I did
not make undue mention of my plans in this direction, although I found much satisfaction in the reflection of it in my deeper consciousness,

I enjoyed the companionship of my friends and
loved ones very much, and I came in contact with
wonderfully interesting people, people who had
accomplished something in the heavenly life, and
who would accomplish still more as they moved onward toward higher progression.

It was interesting to me to meet the gifted men
and women of the heavenly life who had figured in
the intellectual life of the material world. Later
on, in describing my experiences, I shall devote a
chapter to interviews with distinguished people.

As I recall the experiences of two years, it seems
as though I had been an inhabitant of the better
country at least fifteen years. Such wonderful and
varied experiences as I have had in the different
realms of space, from spiritual travels about the
earth to realms above the earth, the spiritual and
angelic worlds surrounding the sphere of earth,

and the mighty realms above the celestial, known
in spirit life as God's Kingdom ,, The Kingdom of the Blessed, The Realm of Peace and
Bliss, and The God Center of Creation ,' Truly,
I have been blessed in the privileges given unto
me.

This was
page 26.

CHAPTER IV.

IN THE SPIRITUAL AND CELESTIAL WORLDS.

Two years in heaven! The memory and experience seem sweet to me, and, even though I pass
through new experiences daily, I like to recall the
joys and the surprises that have come to me from
time to time since I joined the angel band above.

When I first passed to the Summer Land the idea
occurred to me that it might be interesting to keep a
record from time to time of the experiences and
events that took place in my life, and, to my surprise, I learned that for every soul who passed
the spiritual life there was One appointed to keep
a record of that life. It seemed to me that, if I
carried out all that I planned to do, it would keep
someone pretty busy making a record of it. I soon
learned that I could transfer my thoughts to pages
that I could prepare myself from the leaves of
spiritual plants. I was glad of this, for I knew my
experiences would certainly be very interesting,

(Since that time I have spent many pleasant hours
reading the thoughts that first came to me as a
spiritual being. On the cover of the journal of my
experiences I made this inscription:

Rose Leaves. By a Rose that bloomed and
faded on earth to be regenerated and quickened
to a fuller and more beautiful bloom in a garden of
the Summer Land.

The following are some of my thoughts as I read
them now:

I have been told that it has been five days
since I closed my eyes upon earthly things to open
them in heaven. I have not learned, as yet, to distinguish the passage of time in this new and wonderful life, where the darkness of night never fails
and the atmosphere is always bathed in a soft and
beautiful glow, sometimes of delicate rose, then
again of blue, pale green, bright gold, or brilliant
purple.

My mind is filled with plans of what I hope to
do. How glorious it will be to enter into active
work and to realize that whatever I set out to do I
shall be able to accomplish through the efforts I
make! It seems good to be alive; to feel so well

and strong that one's whole being vibrates with new
and wonderful life.

And how glad I feel to know that I can still be
in touch with the world I left so recently! not because I am so fond of the gray, shadowy earth, but
rather because it has been the scene of many life
experiences, and because it holds for me a few
persons that I love very dearly, I think they
would rejoice if they could see me now, and I believe they would not care to call me back. I know
there is one who would not. I believe, however, if
he could join me here in this beautiful summer
garden, he too would wish to remain and never
return to earthly work and duties.

It was so wonderful, the journey from the earth
to the spirit world. When I looked upon my new
body, in the strength and bloom of young womanhood, it seemed as though I must in some way
have quaffed of the fount of eternal youth. With
my new powers of vision I could see myself from
head to foot, externally and internally. My hair
was long and abundant, my eyes were bright, my
cheeks well rounded, with a delicate flush upon
them. The new skin of my body was not flesh; it

was spiritual tissue and more wonderful and beautiful than anything I had ever seen in the flesh or skin
of the physical body, I thought of the words of St.
Paul, where he says, 'There is a natural body and
there is a spiritual body, I think the people of
earth speculate a great deal in relation to whether
the new spiritual body shall be formed of flesh,
blood, bones, and physical organs, or of some new
and wonderful material which differs from the
earthly bodies as the unfolded lily differs from the
brown bulb whence it sprung.

I am glad that my new spiritual body resembles
the old one, although on an improved scale. If
the change were so marked as St. Paul seems to
infer, how would we recognize each other her ; ? It
would seem as though we had lost our individuality
if we bore no resemblance to our former selves. It
seems to me that all persons like to feel that they
will retain their former identity sufficiently to be
recognized by those who have known and loved
them in material life.

Although I have been but so short a time in
spirit life, it seems a long time to me; perhaps it is
because so much had been crowded into my five

days in heaven. Here I am among friends and
loved ones, who are with me often and are so delighted to have me where they can be with me.
This home is grander than anything I ever knew
before. I marvel continually about the wonder of
its furnishings and the wonderful discoveries I am
continually making in relation to the rooms.
Every room is furnished and decorated in a different color. Some are in colors I never saw
before, I particularly like the circular room,
which is like a conservatory with its flowering
plants and vines and the fountain in the center in
the form of an angel, bearing aloft a basket of
flowers ^ from which sprays of rainbow, colored
water are sent up.

I am glad for the beauty of this life, but I am
thankful that for those who desire it,
it is a life of
service and usefulness. I do not think I could be
satisfied to realize that throughout all eternity my
time would be simply spent in enjoying the life of
the spirit, yet there are many bright and beautiful
beings in this life who spend the time in going from
place to place, meeting with friends, enjoying the

music, the art, and many other interesting and
fascinating expressions of this wonderful life.

There is no sadness here, no regret. If inhabitants of this life have such feelings when they visit
their friends on the earth, they must lay them aside
when they pass through the heavenly gate. I have
been to the earth and have viewed the cold and
silent form that formerly enclosed my spiritual
body. I will say that I had feelings akin to sadness, not for myself, but for those who could not
understand the perfect meaning of that which the
world calls 'death.' To me a new meaning had
come with the mystic secret of death, and that
is life.

I never knew before the perfect fullness and
abundance of life as I know it now. I am a
woman in years, but my spirit is young and joyous,
and the realization shines forth through my eyes
in such an unmistakable way that my friends comment upon it and rejoice to think that mine own
has come to me. 'Mine own' refers to my lifework, which I am eager to take up. I am not impatient; how could one be impatient or restless in
such a life as this r But a short time ago it was

winter to me, and I was passing through the great
change which men term 'death. It is summer
now. I am seated beneath the trees surrounding
my home. I catch the fragrance of flowers and
the melody of angelic music floating upon the
breeze, Two dear sisters who passed to the higher
life years ago are with me, and one whom I never
knew in earth, life, but who calls herself my guardian angel. I like the idea of guardian angels. It
is beautiful to think that when we come into life
we are given a beautiful being to watch over us and
guide us through life. How they must grieve for
us at times, when we are wicked and rebellious and
hard to influence in the right way!

During the short time I have known her I have
learned to love the dear one who has watched over
me. I know that she must have been sorely tried
many times during the years she has watched over
me, I am sure I shall try to repay her for her
kindness to me throughout the years by learning
from her all she has to impart in the higher lessons
of truth, love, and wisdom.

How strange it is that the words appear, as
they take shape in my mind., upon the page before

me, without the use of my hands to transcribe my
thoughts!

My spiritual vision is wonderful. It seems I
can see for miles and miles, buildings, trees,
bodies of water, or mountains cut no figure, for I
can see right through them. One would naturally
think, with such a power as that, it would distract
my thoughts and keep my mind from becoming
concentrated, but it does not. I can carry on a
conversation with the dear ones about me here
with my mind and behold what is happening, near
and afar, without being confused.

Now and then I see a message in the air transcribed to me by the power of mind. Sometimes it
is vibrated consciously by the sender, and then
again it comes without the senders being aware of
the fact that I have received a message. The unconscious ones usually come from those I have
known and loved on the earth, who have no idea
that a thought sent by them can reach me. As I
revel in the beauty of my surroundings I catch the
flash of this message:

Rose the Sunlight, we await your coming in
the temple of supreme power. Prepare to receive
the power of the spirit.

'Jose Illuminia,
Master of Power.

This message means that I must go at once to
the place mentioned, I have never been there, but
I have no fear but what I shall he able to reach the
place, even though I go without a guide. Immediately I catch the flash of another message:

Your friends may accompany you. Accept
the vibration of Divine Power as it is flashed to
you.

In less than a minute I am conscious of a wonderful power, which seems to pass through every
part of my being until I am aglow with the most
wonderful life, force I have ever known. It seems
to me I have power enough to do almost anything
I make up my mind to carry out. Of course, I do
not understand the perfect meaning of this new
power. Probably I shall understand it better
after I have passed though the wonderful experiences now awaiting me. Everything is so wonderful and new to me that I find myself using the
expression.

CHAPTER 5,

IN THE SPIRITUAL AND CELESTIAL WORLDS.

Gradually the great aim and purpose of my life
became apparent to me and I was happy in the
realization, for it furnished me with something
good and helpful for every second of existence.
How exceedingly small and narrow seemed the
condition of material life in comparison to the
works found in spiritual and celestial life!

With this thought in mind, how important It
seemed that we of the better life should reach down
to humanity and help material life to grow wiser,
stronger, broader, and better! What a wonderful
satisfaction to the soul to know that it has helped
even one child of humanity to find the light that
leads to immortality and truth )

I found pleasure and satisfaction in every detail
of my new and wonderful existence. The life
seemed new and old to me at the same time, I
fitted into everything so well that came up before
me that it was as though I had in some peculiar
way been always a part of the spiritual life; and
then it seemed new because there was always being
brought up before me something new, wonderful,
and fascinating. The soul seemed to be continually preparing itself to assimilate some great truth,
some new wonder that could not be comprehended
unless the understanding had been prepared to
receive it,

I compared my soul knowledge to the growth,
development, and unfoldment of a rosebud, and
when I had grown, unfolded, and developed and
blossomed into some sublime and wonderful conception of the higher life, there was a new rosebud
forming that would reveal some greater truth in its
blossoming. It was wonderful to think of, and yet
how perfectly natural that it should be so in a world
where the very air was fragrant with the power of
progress. Receptive souls breathed in power as
they mingled freely in the life of the spirit.

The souls in the great life of the beyond were
in number as mighty as the sands of the ocean,
and comprehended only by the Infinite Powers of
Creation.

I longed to bring a small part of heaven down to
the earth to the loved ones and the friends who had
known and loved me when I wore the garments of
the flesh, and so I was given the privilege and the
power to bear a message to earth, a message telling
humanity of the, wonderful life beyond the grave
that God, power had prepared for the reception of
the soul after its period of probation on the earth
plane; and so, as a message, bearer and mediator
between those I knew on the earth and the powers
of the higher life, I was appointed to carry out a
great work between heaven and earth,

I was expected to explore all parts of the earth,
visit all planetary systems c f space and learn the
nature of life and conditions found up< n them. I
was to inform myself on all matters pertaining to
my own plane of existence, and, as I gained a
thorough understanding of spiritual conditions in
general, I was informed that I must prepare myself
to penetrate those mysterious realms where only
gods of power and angelic beings of high degree
reigned.

The honor was one that no progressive soul
could refuse, and the thought was born anew in

my heart that I should make myself worthy such
an honor by doing much good work and by making
myself a higher manifestation of goodness, truth,
Love, intelligence, and spirituality than ever before.

And so, with this thought in my mind, I entered
into every duty brought up before me with great
enthusiasm.

If ever a person loved his work, I loved mine. I
loved to feel that with all the blessings that had
come into my life I was to be given the power to
help someone to enjoy them with me and to gain
wisdom that would be helpful to them in their
own progress toward higher things. I spent considerable time on the earth influencing and impressing certain ones that I had been given charge
over. I never felt impatient in relation to any
plan that I desired to accomplish, for I knew that
whatsoever the God, powers had appointed me to
carry out would be brought about, sooner or later.

I belonged to no less than twenty, five classes
for the study and understanding of physical, spiritual, and celestial conditions. Each of these
classes was under the supervision of an artist in his
particular line. One class was devoted to the

study and understanding of the human body, One
part of each day was devoted to hospital work and
reviewing the interior of the physical system in its
many peculiar conditions. This was necessary,
since I would be at some time in the future a
guardian angel, and would be called upon to assist
the spiritual form from the body. I found that by
exercising one faculty of my being I could look
within a physical body and behold the spiritual,
mental, and physical system, I could see a great
deal which even the dissecting, knife could not
reveal to the eye of the physician or the student
who viewed the interior remains. I realized how
inadequate was the physician's art in discovering
many causes of disease or in harmony of the body.
I was dismayed when I realized to what extent the
physician experiments upon the human body.
Mad I been in touch with an earthly physician
who prescribes strong drugs and the frequent use
of the surgeon's knife, I would have endeavored to
point out the fallacy of such a form of treatment in
the cure of inharmony of the body.

One subject that interested me greatly was the
law of union between the sexes and family. I
always believed there was no marrying or giving in
marriage on the other side of life, I found there
was a higher expression of the law of union.
Every soul in that life found his soul, companion
and together they would go on throughout all
eternity, progressing higher through ages of time.
The soul, companionship was beautiful and inspiring and intense in its spirituality. Sometimes ceremonies were held when two soul, mates
came together, or when two were united that had
been properly mated on the earth. A higher law
than the marriage law brought souls intended for
each other together, the law which made them one
in the sight of God. I have attended many grand
soul, unions where the beloved JoséŁ presided and
the Divine Ruler of the Spheres, O my earthly
friends, think of receiving the spiritual blessing of
these grand beings in the presence of the one to
whom you have been united in the sight of God!
Such an experience would be of sufficient power to
inspire two souls with the realization that they had
indeed been blessed for all time. I could think of
nothing grander than to have either of these great
personages present at some future day when the
one of earth from whose side I had departed joined
me in the Summer Land.

Sweet was the companionship that I enjoyed
with the first wedded comp anions of the one to
whom I had also been a wife. From her and the
two dear children, the fruits of the union, I gained
many sweet and inspiring lessons, and some of the
time we dwelt in a home together. This dear one,
whom angels called Emma the Starbeam, had
been in the higher life for many years. She had
watched her two spiritual blossoms develop and
unfold before her very eyes. It was interesting to
me to learn of the experiences of her life.

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CHAPTER 6.

IN THE SPIRITUAL AND CELESTIAL WORLDS,

I was impressed from the beginning with the
social conditions and forms of employment in the
spiritual and heavenly worlds. The drudgery and
manual labor of the material world were done
away with there, although all people passing into
that life clung for a while to the form of employment
they had liked while in the physical body. H the
form of employment in which they had engaged
did not exist in the spiritual world, they sought
someone of the earth engaged in their line of work
and endeavored to work through them, in some
cases by way of impression and in others by taking possession of the physical form. Some work
carried on in this way was exceedingly important
and greatly benefited the material world and its
inhabitants. Those who had been physicians,
lawyers, financiers in material life took up the
study of their work from a higher viewpoint, in order that they might help those engaged in a similar
work upon the physical plane,

I was delighted with the systematic order and
harmony of spiritual existence. From the first
sphere up everyone occupied the place for which he
was fitted. Many who had been unrecognized
upon the earth plane were bright and shining lights
in the higher life, and many who had been millionaires or kings on earth were spiritual paupers in the
world of higher law and justice.

It would seem as though there were great problems to be solved in the lower spheres, where
wicked and undeveloped spiritual beings were daily received, Rebellious and wicked these spirits
were at first and exceedingly hard to manage, frequently returning to the earth to torment or torture some weak physical body. What a labor of
love for God and His unfortunate children was
being rendered daily by large, souled men and
women who worked and taught in the lower
spheres, endeavoring to show the sinful spirits the
way of the truth and the light that would lead them
up to a higher realization of the duty they owed
themselves and their fellow, men.

Some spiritual beings were slow in their progress
and some moved forward rapidly. Some were
thousands of years passing through one sphere,
while others progressed through several spheres in
ten or twelve months.

In endeavoring to reform the criminal in spirit,
particular attention is given to the cause that made
him a criminal before he passed from his physical
body. If he has been born a criminal, it is harder
to do anything with him at the start than with the
one who has brought criminality upon himself, as it
were. In the first place he has committed crime
because he could not help it, but in the second place
he has sinned to satisfy some demand of his physical or mental nature. In the first place the desire to
do wrong has been born in the soul, but in the second place the soul takes no part in the wrong, doing
and frequently grieves to realize that its power is
unrecognized and unheeded by the prevailing
nature of the one who sins for his ambitions or for
possessions. There are no helpless cases, however,
in spirit life; not even those who must be confined
in the dark sphere and surrounded by a circle of
fire to keep them from doing wrong are hopeless.

All may be led to higher consciousness and realization by the light of Divine Love.

The lower spheres are interesting because of the
great work that is going on in their midst. They
are, perhaps, of greater interest to those who are
interested in reform movements and the improvement of the race in a spiritual, moral, and intellectual sense. The lower spheres I found very
much like the earth. The inhabitants were not
yet spiritualized, consequently their tendencies
were still somewhat physical. Some of them were
peaceable, others were rebellious at the sudden
change that had brought them into a life where
every act and the motive that prompted it were
known to those who dwelt there. It was poor satisfaction to go to the earth to deceive, steal, or take
life, and in tire majority of cases those who had
spent their lives in committing sin began to realize
ere long that there was more comfort and happiness in living good and noble lives. Every encouragement was given them by those who sought
to bring about their reformation. At first they did
not care to mingle with the angelic beings who
came from the higher spheres to help them. The

contrast between spirit and angel was so marked
that it created in harmony in the mind of the undeveloped one. But gradually he came to realize

that only good was intended, and at last the spirit
of kindliness prevailed and the worked one was
made tractable to the kindly ministrations of the
child of God who had attained a state of angelhood.

Angelic beings and spirits could not dwell together in the same sphere, as it would cause in harmony; but the former could come from their
beautiful homes in the heavenly land to the spheres
where dwelt the wicked and undeveloped of God's
children. They could tell the latter of the possibilities they might attain if they would repent and
be good, and they could even invite them to their
beautiful homes above and thereby give them an
incentive to make something out of their Lives that
would help them to be stronger, wiser, purer, and
better.

When I first passed to the higher life and learned
of the wonderful possibilities, I felt the desire to
know what manner of work those who had figured
in the world's progress were performing from time
to time. It has been my pleasure many times since

to visit famous people in their homes and to mingle
freely with them until I have learned to know them
very well, I have found them interesting and
charming. I have heard them express themselves
in relation to all movements affecting the progress
of humanity as well as those that retard it. Although they have passed beyond the pale of physical life, they are as much interested as though
they were still of the earth. Many of them, in one
sense, are still of the earth, for they go daily to the
earth plane to seek out those who are endeavoring
to take up the work where they themselves left
it off.

I had a most delightful interview with Frances
A, Will art! at her beautiful home in the Seventh
Sphere. I found her to be a powerful spirit in reform movements of earth and the spirit world.
She was just as earnest and positive in her work as
she had ever been when an inhabitant of the earth
plane. Still determined to wipe out the curse of
the liquor question, she informed me that she visited the earth plane daily, influencing and impressing those who were carrying on the work of
Prohibition. At night, upon the astral plane, she

lectured to leaders of the temperance movement,
whose bodies were in a condition of sleep. The

impressions produced on the mind of the spirit by
this powerful woman here in many cases worked
out for good in the reform movements of the
world.

Two mighty movements for the world's good that
Frances A. Willard has been endeavoring to bring
about since she passed to the higher life are the
temperance cause and the higher progress of
women. The time will come ,' she declared emphatically, when the people of the world will be
forced to acknowledge that liquor possesses no
food value and that its use as a medicine has done
more harm than good, and that thousands of helpless beings, who have been cursed from creation
and birthlowe the inheritance they possess to a state
of intoxication in one or both parents.

To those who pass to spirit life with the curse of
liquor upon them Frances A. Willard acts as a
ministering angel. She watches over them and endeavors to help them overcome the taste which a
lifetime in an intemperate body has brought about.
She has helped to raise in the first three spheres of

the spiritual world institutions where intemperate
spirits may be helped to overcome their undeveloped condition, due in many cases to the curse
of intemperance. Honors that have been bestowed upon this noble woman by the God, powers
of the higher world have only served to make
stronger her character, and in the present day she is
instrumental in bringing about much that is good
and helpful to the world.

CHAPTER 7.

IN THE SPIRITUAL AND CELESTIAL WORLDS.

I think this thought always comes to those who
have been interested in the world's noted people
who have passed on to higher life: I wonder
what manner of work they are carrying on in the
new sphere of existence

It has been my pleasure and privilege, during
the two years I have been in higher life, to interview many of the world's noted people of both
sexes. I will speak of a few who have impressed
me with more than an ordinary interest.

The homes of these people I have always found
open to the interested. The public receptions held
frequently are open to all inhabitants of the Fifth
Sphere and up. Those below the Fifth can only
come by special invitation and they must always be
accompanied by the one who invites them. They
must return to their own sphere after the reception,
and not be permitted to linger In the realm of the

angels, since they are spiritual beings and have not
attained the developed state of those dwelling in
the higher spheres.

Grand receptions and public affairs are not
confined solely to those who have figured in the
world's higher work, for there are wonderfully
gifted souls who have been reared in heavenly life.
Among them are poets, artists, sculptors, musicians, inventors, scientists, public speakers, lecturers, singers, and those endowed with peculiar
gifts that the world knows not of.

One reception that impressed me particularly
with its wonderful charm was held at White Villa,
the beautiful home of an operatic singer, a star
performer in Wagner's cast of players in the celestial sphere. This grand being and his charming
companion had developed and unfolded from infancy in the celestial life. They had never been to
the earth plane, so they knew nothing that was unpleasant or inharmonious. The name of the singer
was Carmello and that of his companion Florentine. they both wore the long, flowing, white spiritual robes of the celestial, and they were both
beautiful beyond expression. He was tall and fair,
with a wealth of tawny gold hair. She was small,
with nut, brown hair and eyes > and had a most engaging personality, White Villa was a magnificent estate, several miles in extent, which seemed

of transparent crystal. There were hanging gardens of rare flowers, beautiful fountains tossing up
rainbow spray, and birds of brilliant plumage,
making the air melodious with song.

All attending the receptions at White Villa were
invariably clothed in white, the white sparkling
raiment, of the celestials. If they had not yet attained a state of angelhood, they were celestials
for the time and as such they wore white raiment,
in accordance with the higher law of the spirit.

The two charming beings, Carmello and Florentina, received the guests, giving each and every
one a personal welcome. There were no formal
introductions, but each one made himself acquainted with the others, and, as a result the time
passed very pleasantly indeed.

There we met such artists as Munkaczy, Rosa
Bonheur, Rubens, Da Vinci, Titian, Murillo, Van
Dyke, and others. Famous writers were there:
Shakespeare, Dickens, Longfellow, Tennyson, Emerson, Thackeray, Holmes, Harriet Beecher Stowe,
Kate Field, and others too numerous to mention.
The great scientists, Zollner, Faraday, and Thales,
were there; and master musicians: Wagner, Beethoven, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Liszt,
Chopin, and Handel; also magnificent singers:
Jenny Lind, Emma Abbott, Parepa, Rosa, and
Carrerio.

Each of these great people gave freely of their
powers. They knew what the people wanted, and,
as their time was not limited, they sang, played,
recited, and talked again and again.

While the entertainment was going on in one
part of the great building, in other parts the guests
were passing the time in a social way. No small
talk or gossip was indulged in; there was no place
for it and no desire for it among these gifted people and their friends. What would the people of
earth think, I wonder, to know that they could
stand face to face, with the gentle Longfellow and
hear him recite his latest poem, or listen to Emma
Abbott sing some of the old, time favorites as well
as the new operatic selections of heaven ?
I had the pleasure of listening to Wagner upon
this occasion. He talked of his latest achievement
in grand opera, and wanted all those present to
attend the first performance in his grand opera
hall His latest work was founded upon a recent
order of the higher kingdom and was known as
Leonardo, the Knight of the Golden Key., '
Camelot and Florentina, our host and hostess,
were to sing the leading parts.

With what an absorbing interest the hours went
by! After the gifted people had entertained the
vast audience, the host and hostess invited their
guests to pass through the many beautiful rooms
and the buildings connected with their villa, which
were dedicated to a number of the higher arts and
sciences. There was a magnificent gallery of art,
containing wonderful treasures in the way of sculpture and pictures. There was a fine laboratory,
where we were invited to witness some electrical
tests by Thales and Faraday.

Upon this occasion I met many distinguished
people, who invited me to their beautiful homes.
Before the time came for the guests to depart, the
gifted Carmello presented each one with a beautiful little gift as a souvenir of the occasion. These
gifts were miniature reproductions of White Villa,
set with splendid jewels.

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CHAPTER VIII.

IN THE SPIRITUAL AND CELESTIAL WORLDS.

It is pleasant to recall the experiences that have
come to me during my two years in the land of the
angels. There has been no confusion so far in my
life in heaven, no disappointed hopes or ambitions, I have had plans for those of earth who
were dear to me that have not materialized as I
would like to have had them. I know this, however: that all that has been planned for those
dear to me by the higher powers must be brought
out to the complete satisfaction of all parties
concerned.

And so, as the days go by, I am hopeful and
happy, for I know that the near future contains
much concerning plans that are of interest to me,

I had been but a short time in spirit life when
an organization of influential people of the other
life was perfected arid called The Temple Society. Many of the most gifted and powerful

beings from the different spheres of immortal life
were at the head of this organization, I learned
that the Society extended far up into kingdoms
beyond the celestial sphere, and, while visiting
God's Kingdom and the Kingdom of the Blessed,
I had the pleasure of attending the conventions of
this Society. Each time that I was called to these
higher realms of being I was made the honored
guest of The Temple Society.

The object of the organization was the building
of The Temple of Light on the earth, Every
branch of the Society appointed angelic and spiritual beings to organize Temple Societies on the
earth in different communities. The work carried
on would be entirely spiritual in its nature until its
influence had grown to the extent that material
minds were conscious of some great plan at work
concerning the building of a mighty temple.

It was not so much the question of the world's
knowing the plan, , the acceptance of the plan by
the people of certain communities was the desired
point to be gained. And so the development of the
idea was noted with interest by the leaders of the
organization. The spiritual Temple Societies sent

to work in different parts of the world made their
annual reports to the organization in the higher
world. Progress in a material sense was not
rapid, but those appointed to carry out such a work
understood the law, and they knew that they
would, no doubt, be obliged to exercise much patience and persistence before the minds of the people could be made receptive to the building of a
Temple of Light on the earth.

The progress of the work of Temple representatives on the earth was carefully noted by the organizers above, and it was shown just what parts of the
country would be favorable to the idea of erecting
a Temple of Light. It was shown that, with the
proper material leaders, certain towns and cities
of the United States would accept the idea and
plan the work of erecting such a structure when
the idea was made known in a material sense.
Other communities, it was shown, would be very
slow in taking up the idea and would never lend
their aid in the carrying out of such an enterprise
until the others had taken the initiative and had
proved it to be a practicable idea.
The idea was that, in the beginnings there should
be one organizer or leader upon the earth; then,
as the work grew and unfolded, there would be
material representatives to carry on the work in the
United States and in foreign countries. The plan
was perfected in every detail in a spiritual sense.
It was expected, however, that it would require
time to perfect it in a material sense; but never
once did those chosen to represent the spiritual
Temple Society abandon the idea of the ultimate
success of their work upon the earth plane.

Since I was connected with the leader of this
great plan, I was given the appointment of spiritual recorder of the work carried on by the spiritual
and angelic representatives.

This was but one of the many duties of my life.
I found the work pleasant and interesting and not
at all conflicting with the other lines of duty that,
by special appointment, were mint. It seemed
that every duty and pleasure of my life had its own
particular place and was carried out by a more
perfect system than I had ever known in material
life. I felt so well, so strong and happy that it was

a pleasure to live and partake of the wonderful
privileges that the Creator had given to me,

I had evidently been created for a busy life, for I
wanted to be busy in the midst of pleasure, and
found my greatest happiness in helping others to be
happy, and in planning out something that would
be helpful to the companion by whose side I had
journeyed for many years, I liked to feel that for
his sake I had gone on to the higher life that I
might be able to help him in his great work, so that
many, seeking for higher truth, might be led to
the light.

CHAPTER IX.

IN THE SPIRITUAL AND CELESTIAL WORLDS.

Great minds of the higher life have paid tribute
to the sublime character whom the world knows as
The Christ. They have found no subject more
beautiful and inspiring for their characters in
music, art, song, or story, One may spend weeks
in exploring the galleries of art in the heavenly
world and he finds the subject of The Christ
the favorite of painters and sculptors, Michael
Angelo has delighted to picture Him in over a
thousand attitudes; every great artist, in fact, has
created his most sublime works with The Christ
as the leading character,

A female artist, bearing the name of Celeste Vincenta, has produced some of the most marvelous
conceptions in sculpture and painting of Christ,
known in heaven as The Divine Josef, There
are galleries of art containing the conceptions of
this gifted artist, and every picture or statue occupying the place as central figure of a group is that
of the sublime Son of God.

We see this beloved One in the grand review of
angels, conferring blessings upon the people,
clothed in His robes of purple, gold, and white.
Again we see Him giving into the arms of a mother
the child she thought she had destroyed, never believing that it would live to confront her on the
other side of life. We see this gentle One ascending through the ether to the higher kingdoms,
bathed in a wonderful glowing light. We see Him
blessing the little children and standing before
those who were bond in material life. No words
can depict the wonder that beams upon their faces
as they look upon the Divine One in all the glory
of His mighty power. Again we see Him depicted

counseling with one who has passed into the spirtworld doubting the existence of spiritual life after
death. We see Him raising His hands toward the
multitude, while vibrations of divine power emanate from Him and find expression in the forms
of those present.

One sublime conception by Da Vinci is entitled
When the Comforter Comes. It shows the be

loved One moving through the dark sphere, and
wherever He moves the darkness and the shadows
flee away and in their place shines a wondrous
light. The expressions upon the countenances of
those who behold Film can hardly be described.
There is something wonderful about it.

CHAPTER X,

IN THE SPIRITUAL AND CELESTIAL WORLDS.

In the sacred verse of the spiritual and heavenly
worlds the character of the Divine Jose stands out
in bold relief.

The poet Tennyson has taken the life of the inspired One from mortality to immortality and
formed from it a sacred and sublime work. It is
considered a masterpiece by higher critics.

The great music master Wagner has given to
heaven a grand conception also portraying the
character of the Divine Joy. It is entitled, A
Master of Power.

During my two years of life in the heavenly world
it had been my pleasure and privilege to look upon
the masterpieces of sacred art of which I have made
mention. I have also listened to and witnessed
the musical and dramatic compositions that have
for their theme the immortal Jos.

More inspiring to me, however, have been my
personal experiences with this glorious character,

I have gained from Him knowledge of higher spiritual laws that have been helpful to me in my
progress to higher consciousness. This Divine
Teacher has opened up the way for me to attainments that I have longed for during many, years of
my life. I may say that I have sat at the feet of
the Master and gathered the jewels of thought and
wisdom that have flowed from His divinely inspired soul. That He is the true son of the reigning God of the earth, the spiritual, celestial, and
higher worlds, I know to be a fact; that He is a
reigning God himself is another great truth of
which I have knowledge.

My experience has taught me many things that
no longer require faith to substantiate them. I
know that there are many believers in spiritual
truth dwelling in physical bodies who would do
away with the belief of the existence of the One the
earth calls The Christ, ', From my point of view,
to do this would be to take away the foundation
upon which religion rests.

Many inspired teachers, whose work and mission
have been to help humanity to attain a higher
standard, have been given to the world. They

have passed on to higher fields of action, and by
their example many have learned to look heavenward. None other, however, has given to the
world such a sublime and wonderful example of
inspired life as that of the One who is the subject of
my present writing.

Tall, stately, and majestic, His glorious figure
emitting a halo of light, he moves among the people
of the higher life, speaking a helpful word to one,
blessing another, and proving in more ways than
can be mentioned that He is a master of mighty
power in the great world of the spirit. How often
have I looked upon Him, floating upward through
the celestial ether toward higher realms of being,
His majestic figure aglow with brilliant light. I
have watched Him after He has attained a height
of many thousands of miles and He was as plainly
visible as He had been when moving among the
people in the celestial world.

An artist of the celestial world has depicted this
Divine One far up in the celestial atmosphere, descending toward the people with arms outstretched,
as in the attitude of blessing. This masterly conception of the Divine in art is entitled The King
of Heaven.

I make mention of this character because He
seems to belong so essentially to all people of the
mortal and immortal worlds. His Father, who, at
the time of my passing, was the Supreme Divine
Ruler of the Spheres, was a being of such magnitude and power that but few could comprehend
Him, They could hear Him speak and now and
then could see Him, but only those who were very
enlightened could put themselves in sufficient
touch with Him to overcome the feeling of awe that
His personal presence brought forth.

My experience has taught me that in higher life we
must grow toward higher things before we can
grasp their meaning or learn to assimilate the
lessons they teach. We may be brought before
some wonderful character or divine manifestation
and be unable to see it and yet have the inner consciousness that it exists before us. The lesson
such experiences impart is this: We must unfold the higher consciousness to the degree that
puts us in unity with that particular being or

manifestation of higher power of which we would
have knowledge.

One peculiarity of the spiritual vision and understanding is that it is capable of so many degrees of
development and unfoldment. It would seem to
the material conception that all persons of the
higher life, from the spiritual to the celestial worlds,
must possess that rate of vision that enables them
to see alike whatsoever is brought before them, I
have been in the presence of beings of mighty
power that mine eyes could not behold, but there
were others in my company who have been able to
see and describe the appearance of those mighty
ones, whom I have afterwards beheld with the
power of a higher unfoldment of consciousness.

This is one of the mysteries of the spiritual consciousness that is so difficult for the human mind to
fathom,

I have been far up in God's Kingdom and The
Kingdom of the Blessed. I have looked upon
marvelous manifestations and magnificent beings,
while at the same time I was blind to other beings
and demonstrations that were going on all about
me. Later on my vision was unfolded sufficiently

to behold them. Truly, it is a grand thought to
contemplate and reflect upon, the unfoldment of
the higher consciousness of the immortal mind.
It is a subject that can never be exhausted, for
there is always more to it than can be grasped at
any one time, no matter to what mighty degree the
consciousness has found attainment.

CHAPTER XI.

IN THE SPIRITUAL AND CELESTIAL WORLDS.

What constitutes true religion in spiritual Life is
a question that comes up continually in the minds
of a thinking people who are broad enough in their
ideas to realize that not any one religion held by the
people of earth can be sufficient to hold the multitude of spiritual beings who are passing to higher
life day by day.

This question of religious belief was another
subject of absorbing interest to me, and so I made
it a point to interview people of all spheres, from
the lower to the higher. I found some of the most
devoutly religious people I have ever known inhabitants of the lower spheres. I found that what the
world terms religion was not always goodness
or purity, that it was sometimes a cloak for traits
of character not at all desirable. I found that
many who believed themselves to be God's chosen
people, because they had been religious, were spiritual paupers in the Life beyond the grave. They
were spiritual paupers for two reasons: In the
first place, they had lived a life of mere form, and
had not cultivated the broader spirit of progress
which must always have a higher motive than that
of negative goodness, a motive which builds for
character and for helpfulness to humanity. In the
second place, they were bigoted and refused to accept the true religion as it was imparted to them
by refined and educated spiritual teachers.

Some will say that it is perfectly natural that a
devout, religious person, imbued with his own ideas .as to what constitutes true faith, should refuse
to accept ideas that are new to him in relation to
religious belief. When I state, however, that the
spiritual beings sent to teach the truth to these
religious bigots were persons of superior power
and inspiring personality, it would seem that those
who were to receive the instruction ought to be
amenable to such high influence. Some do accept
the truth, but the majority hold to their own belief
and refuse to be influenced by any other ideas.
This is very bad for them, of course, and holds
them back from the path of progress until such a

time when they decide to learn the way of the
truth and the light from those sent to instruct them.
I found Catholics, Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, and those holding to other
forms of belief in the first to the fourth spheres.
After the fourth sphere there was but one religious
belief held by all beings of the higher life. They
had attained the stage of development that gave
them knowledge of the truth, and it was not necessary that it be imparted to them by teachers appointed for that especial purpose, They had the
knowledge of eternal progression and the mighty
truth that every being called to the other life must
work out his own salvation. By this time they
had learned that church form, as it is carried out
in the churches of earth, counts for nothing as far
as the salvation of the soul is concerned. Religious belief in the higher life is founded upon
knowledge and, does not require faith, although
faith does figure in relation to the great truths
carried out in God's Kingdom and realms beyond.

CHAPTER XII,

IN THE SPIRITUAL AND CELESTIAL WORLDS.

The family life was beautiful in the heavenly
world. Some of the most pleasant hours of my life
have been spent in the loving companionship of
friends and loved ones of that life, Had I not been
ambitious to perform much good work for the cause
of humanity, it would have been almost a temptation to spend the larger part of my time in my own
beautiful home and in enjoying the affairs of interest that were taking place continually in different parts of the heavenly kingdom.

It seemed that the knowledge I gained in relation
to higher things was to be modified and applied to
those of my earthly friends who were prepared to
receive it. Gradually, as I unfolded and progressed in higher knowledge and understanding, I
was brought into a deeper line of study and work.
I prepared myself for each step ahead of me in
such a way that the knowledge I gained was well

grounded in my understanding and I was capable
of imparting it to those ready to receive it.

My life was divided into three parts: the gaining of spiritual and heavenly knowledge during the
hours spent away from the earth; the hours of
pleasure spent with those I cared for during what is
termed the astral travel ; and the hours I spent
writing my views and experiences through a scribe
selected for such work.

It was a pleasant thought to me to realize that I
could make my spiritual experience practicable in a
material way. The other dear ones, with whom I
was associated in a spiritual way, were as interested
as myself to tell of the wonderful life and revelations of the great beyond.

In a sense> I learned to live in two worlds at the
same time. The plan of life, as I beheld it from my
new viewpoint, seemed marvelous indeed. The
knowledge of eternal progression, the great ocean
of space, where worlds existed beyond worlds, and
worlds surmounted worlds, until it was impossible
to find a beginning or an ending, interested me
greatly. I wondered if I would ever progress sufficiently or perform enough good work to enter

realms of power existing beyond the celestial
world.

From those higher realms, it seemed, emanated
creative power that gave life and action to the
spheres below. What went on in those higher
realms was a sealed book to those in the realms
below, unless it was especially ordained that certain information would be given.

Those who really desired to progress to a point of
understanding where they would be able to enter
the higher kingdom and gain a knowledge of a
higher expression of creative power were given the
opportunity to prepare themselves, but they must
be passed upon by the powers up to the Three
Hundred and Fiftieth Degree. One desiring such
attainment must make no mention of it, but the
desire in the mind would be known by the god
of the Three Hundred and Fiftieth Degree. He
would consult with the god of the Three Hundred
and Forty, ninth Degree, and each ruling god of
the degree below must manifest his approval until
it was known and desired by the mighty ones of the
higher regions that a certain one was qualified to

pass up into those sublime realms where Godpower was so intense in its manifestation,

I must confess that I was surprised when it was
revealed to me that I had been selected as one to
enter God's Kingdom and be brought into communion with the higher powers there. Through a
newly awakened power in my oversoul, I was asked
to set apart a certain time every forty, eight hours,
during which I would be brought into spiritual
contact with some of the mighty powers far away
in infinite space. In order to do this, I must enter
the sacred shrine of my celestial home and there
bring myself en rapport with those who were to
sanctify and prepare me to enter a region where
only the grand, the elevated in thought and the
pure and unselfish in action were permitted to
enter, I must learn some powerful lessons before
I would be qualified, and even then I would be
obliged to pass through some great ordeals after

I had passed up into the higher realms, of which I
had no conception. I was told to reflect well upon
the great step I proposed to take. Some had taken
the step, but had not acted exactly as they had been
instructed after returning to the celestial world

and they had been recalled to the higher regions
to remain there for all time; never again would
they be permitted to mingle with their former
friends and loved ones of the celestial world. It
would have been a mighty trial to have had anything like that happen to me, so I was quite determined to accept the honor and at the same time
carry out without faltering the obligations and responsibilities I was supposed to assume.

The hours of preparation I spent in my own
sacred shrine, with the light of great God, powers
illumining and flooding my spirit and quickening
it for a larger work, filled me with a new realization that I had not known before. A new sense
was unfolding within me, which perhaps would not
have been quickened under any other condition.

These were my most sacred moments, and> for
the time being, I was so uplifted in my realizations
that I seemed to enter into a new sphere of being.
How vain and unsatisfying seemed the life and
conditions of the material world in comparison,
and yet I could go from this sublime state of exaltation to my friends of earth and participate in

their interests and pleasures with a great deal of
enthusiasm.

When mingling in the life of the spirit, life was
all harmonious and beautiful; but when commingling with my friends of earth, I could experience
many of the feelings and emotions that I had while
an inmate of the physical body.

In this way I was enabled to enjoy all conditions
that came into my life, and I was happy, very
happy indeed; but at times I experienced feelings
of indignation at the actions or different people of
earth, whose movements hindered the carrying out
of plans that would have been helpful to a good
cause.

After I had undergone for a period the special
preparation, the time came for me to pass up into
God's Kingdom. I was not permitted to know
beforehand what awaited me there. With great
anticipation, however, I awaited the summons
that would take me up into those mighty realms.

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PART 2.

CHAPTER I.

IN god's kingdom.

One day, in company with the Beloved Jose, I
was summoned to God's Kingdom.

My mind, of course, was filled with the anticipations of what awaited me. The spiritual mind
knows not fear, and so I feared not, although I had
reason to believe that I would be obliged to pass
through an experience, an experience similar to
the one we call death, before I could enter
those higher realms of being. I trusted and placed
my spirit m care of the divine Son of God. One
could not fear with such a being for a guide.

In passing through the First Degree of spiritual
regeneration the atoms of my spiritual body were
disintegrated and only the God, center of my being
was apparent; but in a few seconds I stood forth
again in a new body of a much higher grade than

my spiritual form, I was dazed for a few moments, but realization soon came to me, and then I
understood that for each higher degree of being we
must pass through an experience which selves to
clothe the God, principle of the being with a new
regenerated body. I had been a celestial being
before but now I was a super, celestial, and I had
passed through the spiritual death.

My vision previous to this time had enabled me
to behold myself in all my parts; but with my new
form of vision L could see that I possessed parts
that had not been revealed to me before. Of
course I had possessed these parts before, but they
had not unfolded. I compared myself before to
a partly opened flower. Now I was the unfolded
blossom; and, no doubt, as I continued, there
would still be a higher unfoldment for me, of which
I was not conscious at this stage of my unfoldment.

And so we traveled on through higher space, the
Beloved Jose and I, and the atmosphere through
which we passed was filled with vibrations of
power. There was no vacuum in that atmosphere, which was in a continual state of vibration.

The sensations of power that were sent down
from the higher realms toward the celestial regions
were modified somewhat before they reached the
celestial sphere, I could experience them in the
fullness of their power, as my new attainment of
understanding and my regenerated body were
capable of receiving such emanations of power.
As a celestial being, I would not have been capable
of entering these regions.

Spheres of active life, power, hundreds of times
larger than the spheres of the earth, were formed
about each other. We moved rapidly, and the vibrations of the atmosphere produced a force that
was equal to millions of degrees per second.

I beheld a great deal that was so unlike anything I had ever looked upon before in a material,
spiritual, or celestial sense that I could find no
words to describe them to those who had not
passed through the great change which ushers the
human body into a state of spirituality and higher
understanding.

As a rule, we are only able to comprehend that
which can be measured by the state of understanding to which we have attained; and so I knew that

I passed through many wonderful experiences
while sojourning in God's Kingdom that I could
never describe to my friends on the earth, for I
should be writing a collection of words that would
have no meaning in a spiritual or physical sense.

Upon arriving at the metropolis of God's Kingdom I was brought into contact with beings the
most marvelously grand and beautiful that I had
ever looked upon. These beings had never lived
in human form, but had been created by God,,
power in a perfect form. They were neither flesh,
blood, nor spirit; they were a higher degree than
spirit, yet they were in the form of men and
women, but of such a high degree that they manifested the perfected sex, which needed no other
half to complete it. These people had attained
such a high degree of perfection and knowledge
that it would have been impossible for me to mingle with them with any degree of understanding
had I not undergone a special preparation under
the Divine Jose. They were called The Immortals of God ,' and were of mighty power and
understanding. They seemed to know of me and
of all matters in connection with my life, for they
revealed to me a great deal that had transpired in
n, y life.

CHAPTER II.

IN GOD'S KINGDOM
My close association with the Divine Jose in the
journey to the higher realms of space gave me
strength and power from the higher sources of
being. The experiences through which I passed
were, equally interesting and far more wonderful
to me than those through which I passed in the
transition from material to spiritual life. The
revelation came to me for the first time that the
spiritual man is capable of many regenerations,
and when I say regeneration I do not mean reincarnation, for the spiritual ego of the man or the
woman never changes or loses its identity. You
may say, How about a very wicked person, how
can he become purified and spiritual and still retain the individuality he field while in the physical
body ? How can an apparently stupid person appear like himself after his faculties have been developed and unfolded through higher influence
and teaching ?

I can only say, in answering the foregoing questions, that the wicked and stupid characteristics of
the class of people mentioned were not a part of
the real individuality. The higher and better part
of the nature, that prevails after the person has
emerged from his prison, house of clay, constitutes
the real personality or individuality of the being.
The fact that a stupid man can become an intelligent being and a wicked man become an angel of
light is proof in itself that there was good material
from the beginning in these apparently undesirable offspring's of humanity. It only required
the proper development to bring forth the good,
just as the cold and apparently lifeless marble requires the peculiar touch of a hand responsive to a
master's bidding to bring forth the imprisoned
angel of the stone, We know that fine, toned instruments are discordant and inharmonious when
touched by unresponsive hands.

I may say that I passed through a spiritual regeneration each time that I passed into a higher
sphere of being. It was absolutely necessary that
I do this in order to enter these kingdoms, as
neither flesh nor blood can enter the kingdoms of

heaven, Neither can the celestial body enter
God's Kingdom until its ego has emerged and
taken on the next higher form of manifestation.
After the change has taken place the only difference
that is apparent is a more ethereal appearance, a
more beautiful and powerful aura of light vibrating
from the body and a greater degree of power manifested by the personality.

A celestial being must resume his former appearance after returning from God's Kingdom to
the celestial realms, but there always remain with
him certain peculiar signs which enable the observant person to always tell that a certain person
has entered the Kingdom of God t>r the Kingdom
of the Blessed.

If the harmony had been exquisite in the celestial world, it was even more so in God's Kingdom. It was grand to be alive in the celestial
world, but it was glorious to be alive in God's
Kingdom. Every moment was filled with rapture, a rapture so exquisite that a celestial, spiritual> or material being would not be able to hold
itself together under the intensity of the cosmic
vibrations.

The highly gifted beings of God's Kingdom received the power sent from The Kingdom of the
Blessed and by their own marvelous power manifested it through the cosmic ether to the celestial
kingdom. Each kingdom of being received its
power from the one next higher and, in turn, manifested power to the inhabitants of the kingdom
below,

I found that one part of God's Kingdom was
given over to temples, temples more marvelous in
construction than anything of which I had ever
dreamed; temples that people in different parts
of the universe were constructing day by day, by
the acts, motives, and experiences of their lives
without being aware of it.

I entered temples wherein I beheld the world's
work for thousands of years to come. I visited
temples dedicated to the different suns, moons, and
planets, and I learned in a more perfect way than
ever before of the God, principle sent out from
these higher regions to the planetary bodies suspended in space.

My understanding of creation, as I looked upon
it from my new viewpoint, showed me that no

form of expression occupying space is ever lost.
If it were possible for one atom of cosmic or intercosmic ether to become lost, then would it be possible for the universe, under certain conditions, to be
plunged at any time into a chaos of discord and
disaster.

Since man himself is made up of highly, charged
atoms of cosmic power> it would be possible for his
spirit to lose its identity and he be plunged into the
universal, if the immutable law of creation permitted any expression or life possessing spiritual individuality to change its form and become
absorbed into liquid ether or disintegrated into
nothing.

High up in those Kingdoms of God I found
myself, not in the presence of one God, but of
many. I realized that the mind that accepts one
God or no God at all is limited in its conception.
When we come to realize life from a larger viewpoint and we behold with the spiritual vision the
magnitude of the universe, then do we realize the
wisdom of the plan that gives to the universe many
gods of power, many rulers and many teachers.

The power of the ruling gods of the universe
combined forms one great Universal Mind that
radiates throughout all forms of expression in
Nature and is one in harmony and understanding.

My first trip to God's Kingdom gave me this
revelation, and on each succeeding trip I gained a
more comprehensive understanding of the great
internal plan> although I realized that it would be
impossible for me to grasp the plan in its entirety,
even throughout eternity.

It was not often that beings from the lower kingdoms came into the higher realms of space, and so I
was received with a great deal of ovation, and
wherever I went in that great world of being my
condition was known and anticipated beforehand.
I was upon one occasion the honored guest of
twenty, five ruling gods. What my experiences
were in the presence of those mighty beings can
never be told in words that could be comprehended
by the material mind. Special power was exerted
over me until I beheld myself as I will be in one
hundred years from now.

Not many celestial beings would have been
pleased with the idea of taking on such high conditions, knowing that they would be obliged to lay
them aside on returning to their former condition.
It was exceedingly helpful to me, however, to be so
privileged. It furnished me with an incentive to
more rapid progress.

CHAPTER III.

in god's kingdom.

In God's Kingdom I found myself possessed of a
higher expression of the faculties than had been
mine while in a celestial state of being. My powers of understanding were capable of higher action
and were much more intense. My vision could
penetrate and rise above objects within a radius of
thousands of miles. I was capable of hearing
quite distinctly sounds thousands of miles distant.

Everything with which I came in contact seemed
to have attained such a supreme state of development that the life and conditions seemed to be the
acme of perfection. But it had seemed to be the
same in the celestial regions, and by this time I was
led to believe that in the still higher realms above
there were degrees of perfection not known in
God's Kingdom. Never before had I listened to
such wisdom as emanated from the person of the
ruling God of those higher regions. He spoke,

not with his voice, but with his being; and I did
not catch the wisdom with my organs of hearing,
but with my being, and with this wisdom a strange
consciousness came to me.

Always before, the spheres of being in which I
lived, developed, and unfolded seemed larger than
my conception of them, I had been then but one
small part of the conception of Creative Law; but
now my understanding swept the panorama of
material and celestial being, until I was larger
myself than the material universe or anything in it;
but I was smaller than the state of being into which
I had entered, and I would continue to be so until I
had attained that degree of unfoldment that lifted
me up into a conception of the life and conditions
of realms of being still higher above. I realized
that the time would come when I should know that
there was no such thing as distance. My comprehension would be so acute that the different
spheres of being would appear as degrees, leading
from one to the other; and I would be able to stand
at a given point and with one sweep of my hand I
would be able to touch the realms of the material,
the spiritual, the celestial, the godly, the blessed,

the superlatively spiritual, the superlatively celestial, etc.

I realized that as we grow in wisdom we get
away from the limited conceptions that make conditions seem what they are not. It was a wonderful thought to me, and I was as one grasping a
telescope focused on the earth, the spiritual and
the celestial worlds, in which I saw revealed the
magnitude of creation, a thousand times larger
than any material conception grasps it, and I
myself was larger than anything I looked at; not
larger in appearance, for that was not necessary in
the new light of my understanding. My powers of
imagination were not enlarged, for that was not
necessary in order that I behold from a broader
viewpoint and with a stronger grasp of the understanding relating to life up to my present
attainment.

My vision was so clear below me and beyond to a
certain point that there were no obstacles in my
way; but I knew that, in order to penetrate still
farther beyond, I must grow toward such a state
of being, just as I had grown toward my present
state of attainment.

As I rehested upon the growth and development
of my life from its material conception up to the

present time, it was clearly revealed that the purpose and plan of my existence had been most peculiar. Even in this state of my being, my mission
seemed to be to enter into different spheres of
action. I learned that not many were called
during the period of one or two years to these
higher regions, and, usually, if they were called,
they remained here to carry out a particular work
of this region; but here was I (not a great while
ago an inhabitant of the physical plane) in these
higher regions for the purpose of gaining light upon
the marvelous conceptions of creation that I might
hand the information down to those who were
ready to receive it, either on the earth, in the spirit
world, or in heaven. Surely, my. mission was a
peculiar one. I had been called upon to take on
conditions, through the influence of higher powers,
that others might have been years in reaching, since
it would be the plan that they work out their own
higher conditions without any special dispensation
from the higher powers. Already I had been regenerated through spiritual death a number of

times, and to return to my former condition the
particles of my regenerated body would be disintegrated again and readjusted until I was in the
proper condition to become an inmate of a celestial
body.

How absurd! you will say, and the question
may arise as to why it should be necessary when
one was in such close touch with the higher powers.
Why could I not be called up into the higher
realms without having to pass through these
strange conditions? My reply is, that the immutable law of higher being makes it essential
that the process described be gone through with.
Before experiencing it, I was filled with wonder,
but not fearful, since previous experience had
taught me to be fearless.

Each time Ł passed through the experience of regeneration the conditions were different, but each
time they were of absorbing interest to me. I did
did not wish to lose my identity nor become absorbed in the universal, and when assured by my
beloved teacher and guide that such an idea was
simply a conception of man's mind, I was ready and

eager for any experience that the higher powers

saw fit to send me.

While in God's Kingdom and The Kingdom of
the Blessed the experiences that came to me were
so far, reaching and wonderful that, viewed from a
material conception of time, it would have seemed
that I had passed through the experiences of
thousands of years. During the period which
would only mark about two weeks of material time,
the wisdom that I gained made me feel as though I
were many years older, not in appearance, but
in the realization of things. I had ideas of Godpower and Creative Law that a lifetime of material
or even celestial life could not have brought to me,

I did not need a brain in that higher state of
being, whereby I might convey my realization to
my own consciousness and to those with whom I
would converse. I possessed the Divine Element,
of which my brain had been a manifestation while
clothed in the garment of the flesh. My celestial
mind had not been brain either, but a higher manifestation of brain element, nearer perfect and
capable of greater power.

Upon returning to my celestial condition, my
mind would take on the peculiar element it had
possessed before. I had been regenerated, and
some very wonderful and sublime experiences I
had known in the kingdoms above would pass from
my comprehension entirely and I would have no
memory of them whatever. After visiting God's
Kingdom twice, the process of regeneration would
scarcely be perceptible to me, and what I saw and
experienced would be ever after retained in my
memory; so, after two years and four months in
heaven, every experience I have known and every
thing I have seen, from the spiritual world to the
Supreme Realms of God, is clearly pictured in my
mind.

Frequently I say to myself, I am a thousand
years young; I have had experiences many have
not had who have lived a thousand years, and yet I
am young and fair in appearance. My soul is alive
and vibrant with plans for the future, and I am
happy and more glad of life as each day passes,
not for myself alone, but for those who are to follow after me and whom my influence is to lead
heavenward ,'

And this is what the experience men call death
has brought to me: It has brought to me a higher
and deeper conception of life than I ever knew before; it has given back to me my youth, my health,
and the realization of greater achievements for the
future; it has shown me a picture of the years to
come, when I shall have attained the standard of
power that will enable me to help others triumph
over material obstacles, thereby helping them to
attain their ends and their ambitions.

Two years and more in heaven have shown me
the wonders which God in His love and wisdom
has prepared for His earthly children. They have
restored me to those who left me for a little while
to pass on to the realms of the Summer Land.

Surely God is good; His mercy is everlasting and
His love endured forever.

PART 3.

A PILGRIMAGE TO THE INFINITE
LAND,

And It Hath Been Decreed,

That the angelic being known as Rose, the
Sunlight I, is to be called upon to take up a higher work;

That for this purpose she is to be taken up into

The Kingdom of the Blessed, there to appear before Ovanon, Supreme Divine Ruler of the Two
Hundred and Fifty, third Kingdom of The Infinite,
known as The Kingdom of the Blessed ;

That there shall he sent forth the elect of this
kingdom to welcome the daughter of light to the
courts of the Most High ;

That this shall be an occasion of advancement
for all those who perform a noble work in the name
God, From the Sacred Books of The Kingdom of
the Blessed.

CHAPTER I,

A PILGRIMAGE TO THE INFINITE LAND.

There were four of us, and we were bound for
the mighty realms of The Infinite. One of our
party was the greatest spiritual teacher the world
has ever known, and the other three were earnest,
sincere souls, who had been especially honored by
the higher powers and chosen to make this remarkable pilgrimage to the higher realms of The
Infinite.

Two of the party were to visit God's Kingdom
and the third, who had already been twice to that
far region in space, had now been called to a still
higher realm of The Infinite, known as The
Kingdom of the Blessed.

Leaving the celestial sphere and the angelic
friends who bade us God speed, we moved far
up in spiritual space, In attempting to comprehend space, one should consider that it consists of
two parts, or strata, the outer being material and
the inner spiritual space. It may then be understood by this that while we were at a distance as
far away from the earth as the farthest visible
planets, we were still not passing through the
regions where the planetary bodies exist. Sometimes we floated or glided through space, and
then again we made use of our spiritual limbs and
feet and walked through it.

We were filled with anticipation of what awaited
us in the great realms beyond, I being the third soul
of our company, before mentioned, to whom had
been given the honor of visiting The Kingdom of
the Blessed.

Upon my last trip to the region of God's Kingdom my vision had not been opened to all that
transpired there, but I had been given to understand that upon my third trip to this kingdom I
would be enabled to see and comprehend more
than upon the two previous occasions.

We moved rapidly through space and seemed to
travel over a pathway of our own, as, for a great
distance, we beheld no celestial beings traveling in
our direction,

The beloved Counselor and Guide who accompanied our little party gave forth words of cheer and encouragement as we moved through space.
No doubt His spiritually illumined soul turned
frequently toward the anticipation of the great
honor to be conferred upon Him when He should
be crowned Supreme Divine Ruler of the Spheres.

It was a wonderful truth to contemplate that we
three souls, who had never accomplished any grand
work for the cause of humanity, should be moving
through space with this being, the being honored
and worshiped by gods, saints, spirits, and men as
the immortal Son of God.

The electricity and magnetic power of the atmosphere through which we were passing was
something marvelous; the vibrations per second
could not be estimated in numbers. We were conscious of such a mighty power vibrating through
our spiritual beings that we felt it was grand,
glorious, and wonderful to live, especially when we
could behold the evidences of God's mighty wisdom
and love in the created expressions of the universe,

I beheld many things in the enchanted region
through which we were passing that I had not been
privileged to behold in my previous trips to God's
Kingdom. This was certainly a realm of temples,
whose grandeur mere words could never picture.
Some of the temples we beheld appeared to move.
We could cover quite a distance in space and still
buildings that seemed quite near to us in the beginning of our trip were to be reached.

We planned to pass through all the temples and
other buildings where we would be permitted to
enter. There were thousands or them, independent of the individual temples, belonging to the
people of the earth plane, who had built them
through the acts of their lives and the motives that
prompted them.

Some of the people appeared as though enveloped in a mist; others were bright and dazzling
in appearance. Many were in the course of construction, and I could tell by their appearance
whether their creators were making a good or a
poor use of the powers the Creator had given them.

We did not stop in our flight through these great
realms of space until we had reached a point which
we learned was termed the circumference of evolution. In a perfectly round stratum of atmosphere, of over a hundred different colors, appeared
a temple which must have been over a thousand
stories in height. This was the Temple of Evolution, representing the progress of creation throughout ages of time. The building was perfectly
round and was formed of electric atoms, whose
vibrations increased in rate from the lowest story
to the highest.

We were ushered into the council, room of this
building by our guide and teacher, the Beloved
Jose, This room was filled with the most powerful violet light that we had ever seen, and in all directions could be seen spheres of very intense
light, resembling miniature suns, In the center of
the building was a circle of light more powerful
than any of the others, and the rays from the
spheres of light all radiated toward the great
central light.

We did not realize at first that these lights were
the immortal God, centers of great beings, whose
spiritual parts had been disintegrated for the time
being, The great central light, toward which the
others vibrated, was the God, center of the Supreme
Divine Ruler of the Spheres. This must he the
state, I thought, that I had heard the Buddhists
term Karma or going into the quintessence.

Behold, as I looked I saw the spiritual form of
our great Guide and Teacher separate in the atmosphere and as it separated I beheld a great light
appear and form a circle about the great central
light; and these words seemed to vibrate through
the atmosphere: Worship thou my Son, for He
is my representative and is the light which emanates from me. Presently this light moved
about six inches from the central light and a circle
of pale, delicate light appeared between the Beloved Jose and the Great Ruler,

The three souls who stood there watching this
curious phenomenon received this interpretation in
their souls: This One, who has not yet attained

human form, shall some day act between two great
powers, first between material and spiritual power, then between spiritual and celestial power, and
so on through different degrees of power, throughout ail eternity.

Suddenly, without any apparent warning, the
two remaining members of our party and myself
were conscious of that Great Central Power vibrating toward us, and the next instant our spiritual
forms became disintegrated. I had passed through

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this experience on previous occasions, so it was not
new to me, as it was to the two other dear souls
who had wondered not a little regarding this experience, through which, they had been told, they
would pass in their trip to God's Kingdom, The
experience seemed more wonderful to me, however,
than upon previous occasions. My mind attained
a consciousness of my own possibilities and powers
and of future conditions for the world, which I am
unable to realize as clearly since being restored to
my normal spiritual condition.

While in a state of spiritual disintegration on
previous occasions, I was unable to realize but
twelve senses, but now I was enabled to realize at
least twenty, five, I realized no limitations while in
this state, and could look forward to my own unfoldment for thousands of years to come.

I had previously believed that the condition
termed spiritual was the highest term that
could be applied to a man or a woman through the
eternal stages of progression throughout ages of
time, but upon this occasion I learned there were
conditions as far beyond the spiritual as The Kingdom of the Blessed was beyond the earth,

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While in the condition of disintegration before
mentioned, I was able to foresee the possibilities
and attainments of others in whom I was interested. This peculiar power of disintegration lasted
for only a few moments, and, almost before we
realized it, we were restored to our former condition. With the restoration we felt ourselves to be
wonderfully invigorated and strengthened.

We were now in the presence of mighty rulers
and great personages, of whom a number were of
such high order and of such great power that they
were only partly visible to us. Some were so
bright and dazzling in appearance that they seemed
to be in a perfect blaze of light. We beheld a
number who were, at least, fifteen feet tall. They
had very large heads and faces and the most wonderful eyes I had ever beheld. They were as large
as silver dollars, very luminous and deep, and not
at all out of proportion to their faces,

A very imposing, looking personage, whom we
afterward learned was King Solomon, came forth
through a curtain of light and conducted us into
an inner sanctuary, where unnumbered hosts of celestial beings of both sexes had assembled. They

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(were all clothed in light, and I learned that they
belonged to the Order of Sun Angels, We three
travelers from the Celestial sphere were to be
taken into this order. We learned that the number
taken in during a year never exceeds four, so it
would seem again that we were especially honored,
One would naturally suppose that we would be embarrassed in the midst of such company, but we
appeared to be perfectly self, possessed.

A very bright being, whom we learned was a
character of history, and who bore the name of
Hypatia, seemed to be at the head of the Order.
She spoke to us and hade us welcome. Daughters of the Celestial realm, she said, we welcome

you to our courts of light. Komma the Starbeam,
Rose the Sunlight, and Grace the Vestal, you shall
henceforth be ready at any time to respond to a call
from these regions to take part in our ceremonies
twice during a year, and to go forth, whenever
bidden to do so, upon errands of mercy to the
earth. The names by which you will be known
in these higher realms are 'Rose the Counselor,
'Emma the Responder and, Grace the Messenger.

The ceremony which made us members of the
Order of Sun Angels was very beautiful indeed.
Of course, we felt honored, as anyone would upon
whom such blessings were bestowed. We were
clothed in garments of light, with wreaths of
golden roses about our heads. After the close of
the ceremony we were made the guests of honor
of the order. During this ceremony we met many
wonderful beings that time will not permit me to
mention now.

Our next experience was to be a very interesting
one, for we were to pass entirely through the

Temple of Evolution. The beloved Guide and
Teacher, before mentioned, would accompany us
and explain conditions which we might not understand, even though we had recently passed
through experiences that had quickened our powers of understanding. We passed upward from
the compartment where we had been taken into the
Order of Sun Angels, and, entering a large dome shaped part of the building, we saw an apparently
living representation of Creation in the process of
evolution. We saw that power came first from
above to quicken into life and action the first plane
of earth. I say the first plane', of earth, because
there have been a great many earth planes; as the
higher realms of The Infinite have continued to
move, so have the lower realms of the finite world
moved on.

The process has been so gradual that material
people have not been able to realize it, but the
angel world, from time immemorial, have been
watching the process of evolution. They know
that what is now the first sphere of the spirit
world was once the earth; they know that when
the first sphere of the spiritual world moves up to
form the second, that which is now the earth will
have become the first sphere of the spiritual world.
They know that a new earth is gradually being
formed within the present earth, and that the time
will come when this earth goes on and the earth
plane now being formed will take Its place; but the
change will be so gradual that only angels and very
wise people will be able to tell that such a process
has taken place.

In the process of evolution we beheld many angelic beings who had been made proficient in
chemical law, sent out into the atmosphere beneath
the spiritual world to work with other vibrations
and their spiritual batteries upon the forces of
atoms that were being evolved by certain planets
as they moved in their orbits. We saw the earth
plane, throughout ages of time, increasing in size
and becoming more fit for the habitation of material man. We saw the spiritual process, manifested by angelic beings through the power of God,
by which the highest work of the Creator was made
manifest.

While we were watching the process of evolution
on the different parts of the great temple, we for
the time being were living in the age represented,
so real did the representation appear to be. Of
course, it was all very interesting and fascinating.
We thought of a dear one on earth, whom we
wished might be able to view the different scenes
with us. We felt wonderfully buoyant and
strong, and no thought of weariness or fatigue was
anticipated by our little party,

We never did believe that man sprung from animals, but that he was a distinct individual entity,
and, after passing through the Temple of Evolution, we were more than ever convinced of man's
distinct individuality.

The upper part of this wonderful building was
devoted to the present age and what is to he accomplished before the dawn of an other century.
We saw the process by which revelations that pave
been developing and unfolding for ages of time in
realms far beyond The Kingdom of the Blessed
were to be handed down to the earth plane.
Pictures of these higher realms and of the beings
who inhabit them will be given by great artists to
the Celestial world, and from there they will he
handed clown to the earth plane in a most marvelous and beautiful manner. Events taking place in
those higher realms, and positive information regarding those who have passed on to higher fields
of action, will be given in a clear and convincing
way.

We were anxious to explore our own temples
and that of one connected with us who was of
the earth, but, as we had many points of interest
to visit in God's Kingdom, we decided to leave the
exploration of these temples until the last. In this
way it would give us something to anticipate while
we were at the same time enjoying the other interesting points. I had visited a great many of
the temples before on previous trips, but, of course,
intended to explore them again, I believed certain marvelous facts in connection with these great
temples. There were the temples of the sun,
moon, stars, and earthy God's Temple, the Temple
of Divinity, the Temple of Chemistry, the Temple
of Geology, and others too numerous to mention.
There was the palace of John the Baptist, the castle
of Swedenborg, and the abiding, places of many
gifted people, who had lived in ages past and gone.

In this vast domain a great many of the inhabitants remained, never going to the celestial, spiritual, or material worlds. They were so very wise,
however, that it was unnecessary, as their powers
were sufficient to put them in touch with these
places while their spiritual forms remained in
God's Kingdom.

Oh, strange and wonderful scenes and experiences through which these spiritual travelers were
privileged to pass! Time could never remove the
indelible impressions produced upon the plastic
structures of their spiritual minds. God's Kingdom was indeed a strange place, but wonderfully fascinating. There was an exclusiveness about
everything there that had not been realized in any
previous plane of existence. The wisdom of the
people there was something extraordinary. The
inhabitants of that region had attained that stage
of unfoldment which made them desire to be busy
continually with something that fed the mind and
caused the higher senses to expand. They had
great plans to work upon and carry out, for they
must be in touch with the inhabitants of the realm
above that they might receive ideas from them to be
given to the celestial and spiritual worlds and to the
earth plane.

The celestial travelers seemed to catch the spirit
of the place, and, while they were eager to behold
all its marvels, they still desired to put some good
and wise purpose into every experience. Everything they beheld seemed interesting to them.
They would hand down to the earth a great deal
of the information gained in these experiences.
They well knew that not all who bad the opportunity to receive the knowledge would accept it. as
literal truth, but if there was occasionally a mind
fitted to receive it, the efforts they made to give the
information to the people of earth would not be in
vain.

They never stopped to rest from the beginning
of the trip to the end, for rest was entirely unnecessary to beings who felt such a continuous exhilaration as they did; and, as they had to take in a
great deal during a comparatively short time, they
must make every moment count.

The Temple of the Earth, a strange, gray structure, was an object of interest to them for several
reasons. One reason was that a certain being for
whom they cared dwelt there, and it had been
made clear to them that for a number of years yet
they would be given a most important work to
carry out on the earth. The Temple of Earth and
the Temple of Konvolution were similar in what they
revealed, but. the latter went more into details over
the extraordinary progress of humanity than did
the former.

The member of the little party who had visited
God's Kingdom upon two previous occasions had
been shown two Sun Temples, but upon this occasion three Sun Temples were revealed, the Sun
Temple of the material world and the Temples of
the Great Central Sun and its Sun. They were
formed about each other according to the manner
in which they move in space. The spiritual traveler last mentioned was led to believe that upon
her next trip to God's Kingdom her spiritual vision
would unfold to the degree that would enable her
to behold still another Sun Temple.

The Temple of Godly Power, a creation from
which emanated white light of such magnitude and
power that a celestial being before entering its domain must undergo a transformation by the chemists of the temple, was a point of great interest to
the celestial travelers. In this place they were
enabled to behold scenes taking place for at least
six heavens above God's Kingdom. They could
not grasp the perfect meaning of alt that was shown
to them, but by the aid of the beloved Guide and
Teacher who accompanied them, they beheld
much that seemed to them very wonderful indeed.

The beings of those higher regions had evidently
gone far beyond spirituality, if one could judge
anything by their appearance. There was no
word in their language strong enough to touch
their wonderful ethereal forms and the glorious
light that emanated from their soft, deep eyes.
The celestial travelers were curious to know the
state of being they possessed in those far regions.
Did they possess feelings and emotions ? Could
they enjoy the pleasures of existence, or had they
attained that state of quintessence which some
thinkers claim does not partake of the nature of
any sense that even celestial beings take cognizance of?

The celestial travelers were wonderfully fascinated by what they learned regarding these
higher stages of being. The following are some of
the statements made by the beloved Teacher who
accompanied them:

The life of those glorious beings you see transmitted upon your vision is a rapture so glorious
that it transcends even the celestial conception of
joy, bliss, happiness, etc. The idea of peace being
the highest attainment of man's superior being is
hardly correct, for perfect peace would mean the
end of aspiration and the fulfillment of progression,
I say to you, You love a certain expression of godly
power; it may be a person of the opposite sex; it
may be some gift of the soul, such as art, music, or
poetry. Is it not a grander thought to believe that
when you have attained degrees of sense twenty-five times higher than you now possess, your nature
will have unfolded to the state that it will enjoy the
very expressions that you now love in a more perfect degree of realization ? If the affection is centered upon those who have not attained your degree
of realization f you possess the power to behold
those persons as they will be when they have attained the same standard of unfoldment that you
now have. This is not imagination; it is enlarged
vision, magnifying what really exists.

Sex is eternal with the individual and is not
purely physical. Thus, spiritual sex is a higher
expression of this great law than physical sex.
Celestial sex is higher than spiritual sex and divine
sex is higher than the others mentioned. Do away
with sex and you do away with the individuality of
the person. If a being who has unfolded the tenth
sense could imagine for one moment the full extent
of the rapture of existence to those who have attained the twenty, fifth sense, he could not endure
its intensity, but would be plunged at once into the
Universal, Instead of moving on toward peace in

the eternal plan of things, life becomes broader,
freer, fuller, and more creative. When you analyze this fact, you realize that some forms of
religious belief leave out that which is conducive
to the greatest joy, the greatest happiness.

The forms of the celestial travelers were many
degrees more ethereal than they had been before
the transformation or disintegration took place,
Their garments seemed to be woven of delicate
threads of light, and wherever they moved they left
a glow of light of their particular color. One
was a gold light, vibrating with rose color and
delicate blue; another was violet, and the other
rose color and white. These celestial travelers
thought often of one very dear to them, far away
upon the earth plane, and they were given the
power to behold that person whenever they desired
to do so.

In the council, hall of this Temple of Godly
Power the celestial travelers beheld many things
that were marvelous and beyond power of description. In a crystal circle one thousand feet in
circumference they beheld a representation of the

created work of twenty, five ruling Gods. As they
were quite unlike anything of the earth, the spiritual or celestial worlds in shape, size, or color, it
would be impossible to describe them to anyone
who had never been privileged to look upon anything similar.

In one part of this temple, as guardians of the
circle of the Sixty, fifth Degree of the Order of
Light, were one hundred beings, created by one
hundred ruling Gods, These beings had never
lived in earthly form, and from one degree of understanding they were absolutely perfect; still they
were not perfect as compared with beings in higher
realms. When these beings realized this fact, it
worked upon the creative powers of their own
beings and caused them to desire still greater perfection. This truth was a living demonstration of.
the fact that one may go on throughout all eternity
acquiring still greater degrees of perfection, but
never reaching the ultimatum of perfected being.

CHAPTER 2.

A PILGRIMAGE TO THE INFINITE LAND.

The spiritual temples were, of course, objects of
great interest, and the celestial travelers would
have been glad to have remained longer in each of
them than the time alloted to it, but they had a
great work ahead of them and felt a great satisfaction in the thought that their time was to be so
well occupied.

The Temple of God was a building larger than
Kansas City. Now, it is impossible for the physical organs of vision, or the mind of the physical, to form a perfect mental picture of Kansas
City; but the celestial eye or mind is capable of
vision of so much greater magnitude that, when it
forms comparisons in relation to size or dimensions,
it sees whatever it describes in its complete size.

In the physical body some people are enabled to
behold more perfect expressions of size than others.
The size of the eye has nothing to do with this. It
all lies in the development of the optic nerve.

The minds of very few people have ever been
awakened to the fact that by practice they can enlarge the scope of their vision so as to bring objects
that are four blocks away to as perfect a range

with their sight as those but one block away.
When one can analyze this fact> he is enabled to
form some idea as to how the powers of vision may
be hundreds of times greater in a celestial being
than in a physical one; consequently, to be enabled
to cast the vision over a range of country the size of
Kansas City is not such a difficult feat, after all, to
a celestial being; nor is a temple of the size mentioned anything extraordinary to those who dwell
in the regions of the Most High.

The Temple of Godly Power contained sublime
conceptions of the Gods of Power, many realms
higher than those through which the celestial travelers were now passing. How weirdly fascinating
things were, and in sonic cases almost incomprehensible! Yet these celestial travelers realized
that as they evolved in higher consciousness they
would be enabled to behold mighty conceptions of
the Godly Powers to which they were as those
blind at this particular time; for, after they had

belleld the mighty works of twelve different Gods
and passed up into the thirteenth circle of Godly
Power, they could sense something more wonderful than anything with which they had yet come
in contact, but they could not behold it. It seemed as though in less than a moment they had been
transplanted to realms so exalted that they were
too sacred for anything but the touch or the presence of the Divine, They had experienced often
that peace which passed understanding, but never in the wonderful way of which they were conscious at this time.

Now did they see, not with their eyes, their
minds, or their sixth sense alone, but with a new
vision, which seemed deeper than any of which
they had before been conscious. They were apparently in this Temple of Godly Power, yet at the
same time they stood face to face with Gods and
Rulers who were at that time in their own realms
from one to fifteen degrees higher than .God's
Kingdom, the realms through which they were now
passing. And they were in perfect touch with
these beings, who were of glorious and exalted
form, and I may say of different form from any
upon which the celestial travelers had ever before
looked. They themselves seemed to have been
changed during the period when the wonderfully
exalted feeling came over them; for, behold, as
they looked at one another and at themselves, they
realized that they had forms more glorious and
beautiful than anything they had ever imagined;
and they communed with one another and with the
exalted ones mentioned, not with the celestial voice,
not with the unfolded mind, nor the senses, but
with a new consciousness which had never before
been awakened, the same consciousness with
which they beheld Gods and Rulers of the Fifteen nth Kingdom.

The beloved Guide and Teacher> who was ever
near these celestial travelers to assist and teach
them, revealed to them that, through a special
dispensation from beings very exalted, they had
been taken through an experience never before
given to one who had been in the immortal world
for less than two hundred years.

A great and mighty power had been exercised
over them, and parts of their beings had been
quickened and unfolded until they stood forth in

the forms they would wear in the far distant future,
hundreds or perhaps thousands of years to come.
They communicated in a new Language that was
wonderfully sweet and musical. In the new language their names were Alo, Vena, and Kmane this being the translation as near as can
be given in English words. They were not so
changed, however, that they ceased to think of the
one to whom they were to first impart the news of
their remarkable trip.

The Temple of Godly Power was formed of a
substance resembling amethyst stone; it was not
stone, however, hut a form of electric crystals of a
different nature from anything on earth or in
heaven. Beautiful plants and flowers grew in the
air, and there were flower, gardens around on the
outside of the building at intervals. Flowers resembling gold and white orchids were festooned
about the pillars of the building, adding beauty to
the grandeur of the perfect scene. The atmosphere was charged with a peculiar element of force
that gave forth the sound of delicate tinkling bells,

At length the celestial travelers found themselves
in a large hall in the part of the Temple of Godly
Power known as The Supreme Arch of Parah.
Parah was the god of the region known as The
Kingdom of the Blessed but this particular part
of The Kingdom of Godly Power represented him
and his work. The ceilings and walls of this great
hall sparkled as though literally encrusted with
jewels. The jewels were etherealiy>ed globules of
the highest form of electricity. A light which
changed color rapidly filled the great room or auditorium, and in the course oi^ a lew moments it
was flooded with a golden light so powerful that
even the beings assembled there, who were used
to marvelous demonstrations, could not face the
brightness and the power manifested. At the
same instant, every sphere in the Infinite World
was suddenly made radiant with a light whose
magnitude had never been demonstrated in such a
powerful way. The time had come for each Ruler
of every sphere and kingdom of the Infinite World
to become a leader of a realm still higher than the
one in which he was then reigning. The hour had
come for the Beloved Jose and the Divine Ruler of
the Spheres to receive new degrees and to become

Rulers of realms higher than those over which they
were then reigning.

The ceremony which would exalt ten Rulers
would be held first in this Temple of Godly Power
and then in each realm above God's Kingdom up
to the tenth. The celestial traveler known as
Rose the Sunlight would behold this wonderful
ceremony twice, as she was to pass up into The
Kingdom of the Blessed to behold still greater
wonders than she had yet witnessed.

Suddenly the great auditorium of the temple
seemed to become enlarged. Its magnitude was
stupendous before, but nothing compared to its
present dimensions. It was still so brilliant with
powerful light that it was impossible to see what
was unfolding or developing beyond the area of
the light. Now there was a hush, as though the
Supreme Powers of the universe were conferring
together, and then there burst upon the vision a
scene of magnificence that hath never been revealed to spiritual or physical eyes alone. The
fact that it was a real scene and not a representation
or spectacular entertainment made it seem even
more grand and beautiful than it would otherwise

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have been to behold great numbers of Rulers and
gods clothed in a light so powerful that chemists
of mighty wisdom had to stand between them and
the celestial travelers to keep the latter from being
absorbed in the universal, so great was the power
of attraction between the atoms.

Think of it, you who read this article, a gathering of the Gods who, in a spiritual sense, have
dominion over the terrestrial and celestial worlds.

As these great beings assembled there together,
with the light of a still higher power shining on
them and radiating from them, the strains of creation's mighty hymn were heard to vibrate from the
distance, and then in a burst of rapturous, glorious
music flood the great hall with melody that was
certainly ht for Gods to listen to.

There was no evidence of the source whence the
music came, although it was understood by those
present to have been vibrated there by great powers
of mightier magnitude than those who had assembled to bestow power as well as to accept it; for the
ruling God of a certain universe, a kingdom, or of
united spheres, would bestow his power upon the
reigning God below him, while he in turn would be

taken up into the next degree of power by the God
above him.

These great beings stood about four feet above a
circle of blue, white, and red light.

The celestial travelers felt more than honored to
think they had been privileged to witness such a
scene, They were particularly interested, however, in five of the company who were to advance
higher to realms of realization and power. One
of the celestial travelers had met them upon a
previous trip to God's Kingdom. These five beings were the Beloved Jose, the Supreme Divine
Ruler of the Spheres, Sauewin, the Great Ols en,
and the Godlike Geohavanna.

As these great personages stood forth in all their
grandeur, with the radiance from powers still
greater shining upon them, the three celestial spectators gazed upon the scene with consciousness uplifted as never before. The radiance seemed to
grow more intense and powerful until the mighty
enclosure was seen to be in a perfect blaze of light,
a light not to be compared with any these spectators
had ever witnessed in realms below.

Again there was silence for a moment, and it
seemed as though these great beings were receiving
a benediction from on high, for they bowed their
forms while a shower of still more powerful electric
vibrations played over them; then a great voice in
the mighty avalanche of sound spoke these words
in the language of realms still farther removed
in space:

Sons of Eternal Power, Gods of Force, Expressions of The Infinite, whom it hath pleased your
Creators to honor upon this auspicious occasion,
lift up the glory of your countenances and the consciousness of your exalted beings, for the combined
strength of all powers of the Infinite World rests
upon you in this, the hour of your supreme transfiguration.

The Powers of the Infinite World enjoin you,
O triumphant ones, to receive the exaltation meted
out to you in its perfect fullness, Gods of Eternity
proclaim the righteousness and wisdom of Infinitude's great work unto all beings amenable to your
mighty power. Look over, beyond, and upward
toward those star, crowned heights, where pulsate
the eternal springs of Almighty Power and Infinite

Grace. Hearken unto the call, ye watchful ones;
drink in the power until your beings throb and
quicken with the realization of your own godliness
and with the wonder of your triumphant beings.
Oh, the glory that shall encompass you around in
the expression of all your works! Oh, the power
that shall go forth, even unto the smallest corner of
the earth I Humanity shall learn to say, 'Life is
strong and the mercy of God endureth forever,
even unto the day which no eye hath yet seen; for
the glory and triumph of great wisdom shall become revealed in the manifestation of its works,

Rise up, ye Gods of men and Eternity ! Behold
the torch of flame which lights the way, even unto
the darkened souls of them who walk in the
shadow of ungodliness and whose feet are torn by
the thorns of ignorance and unrighteousness.
Rise up in all your power; the day is one of glory,
and the sun sets not for him who is encompassed
round about with the Everlasting Arms of Infinite
God, power.

O you exalted ones! More glorious and farreaching shall be your reigns since you have felt the
kindling glow of the Gods who have called you to

arise and cast the foci of your visions far out over
the endless sweep of Creation's realms. Hearken
unto the voice which saith unto you> 'Come up
higher. There is a grander work, a broader expanse in the great Sea of Infinitude, 3I

The voice ceased to vibrate, and there played
over these great personages a wonderful display of
light and color. Their forms seemed to grow
more ethereal, and the power that vibrated from
every part of their beings was sufficient to thrill
with wonder the celestial travelers who were privileged to witness the glory of it, Never had they
beheld anything to compare with it in point of
grandeur or solemnity,

After the great voice had ceased to vibrate, each
great personage came forth and stood under an
arch of golden light to receive individually the
blessings of the higher powers and to have conferred upon him the honors which until now had
belonged to tVe one above him in power, How
gloriously beautiful and how mighty appeared the
Divine Jose in His garments of light while receiving His degrees of power from the Supreme Divine
Ruler of the Spheres! He requested the celestial

traveler known as Rose the Sunlight to stand
beside Him while this great ceremony was going
on. Words would be inadequate to express the
feeling that came over her. Events that had transpired in her life that she had before tried in vain to
solve were made clear to her now. She saw herself as she had been, as she was then, and as she
would be at a time not far distant in the future.
She saw herself stand beside the One who was
about to be made Supreme Divine Ruler of the
Spheres, and she was clothed in garments of light
and a crown of light appeared upon her head.
She saw the new body that bad been given her, and
was conscious of the great magnitude of power by
which she was surrounded. For a moment she
was conscious of the power of Gods beyond those
she could see with her newly, awakened vision;
then she was again standing with the two celestial
companions who had traveled with her to God's
Kingdom.

Then appeared the Mighty Ovanon, a being of
majesty and power, the Supreme Divine Ruler of
the Kingdom of the Blessed and Master of the Two
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of His garments and the power that emanated from
Him showed Him to be a Supreme Master of
Power. He was fair in complexion, with a glorious
head crowned with a profusion of white wavy
hair, hair not gray, but naturally white. His
eyes were like deep purple stars, and as He spoke it
was as though His voice vibrated from far, distant
realms in space. He was Master of Ceremonies,
and conferred the Two Hundred and Fifty, fourth
Degree upon the Supreme Divine Ruler of the
Spheres. Streams of pale gold and silver light
radiated from His hands and person and vibrated
toward the Great Ruler; the Great Ruler held out
His hands toward the Beloved Jose and the Beloved Jose vibrated His power toward the Great '
Sauewin; thus the power was radiated around until it had reached every God and Ruler present, after which it was vibrated to the celestial travelers.
The great wave of light that had separated them
parted on each side, and, without being conscious
of any movement, the celestial beings found themselves in the midst of Gods and Rulers, Perfect harmony reigned, and these mighty personages were as cordial and as kindly in manner
to the travelers from the celestial sphere as though
they were all of the same rank in power. Then
were the celestial travelers made the guests of
honor of these Gods, while a brilliant panoramic
scene of splendor continued for six hours. A
thousand beautiful beings, representing the Order
of the Purple Star, appeared in the symbolic
movements of the different degrees. The ceremonies and movements were also very beautiful in the Order of the White Iris. This Order was represented by twelve of the most spiritually developed
beings from the Isle of Harmonia, God's Kingdom,
the Kingdom of the Blessed, the Sphere of Supreme
Content, the Sphere of Light and Wisdom, the
Arcana of Power, and the Realm of Glory.

Then came the passing of the Gods of Power, a
scene that outrivaled in splendor anything the
celestial travelers had before beheld.

CHAPTER 3.

A PILGRIMAGE TO THE INFINITE LAND,

It seemed to these celestial travelers that existence would hereafter be even a greater blessing
than before, for they had been made more conscious than ever of the mighty creative power of
The Infinite. At the close of these great festivities, the Mighty Ovanon gave forth this message
to the celestial travelers:

Daughters of Light, say to the one of earth,
known as 'Hiram the Karth Battery, when you
commingle with him upon the astral, that he shall
yet triumph; that his faith is now being tested, and,
while there are still some discouragements for him
to face, hem ust push himself through them . The
goal of his efforts shall be great success, although I
say the task he hath been called upon to complete
shall not be an easy one; yet it will be worth the
while, for the ultimatum shall be for the upliftment
and betterment of humanity, and great shall be
the reward; and the joy and peace which followeth

after shall be greater than mortal mind hath yet
been able to comprehend. Say to the loved one of
earth, 'Push on, for while the pathway holds obstructions now, yet a little further beyond the way
is clear and the vista reveals a realm of wondrous
beauty ,'

The celestial travelers passed from this scene of
great splendor, feeling as though they had lived a
great many years since passing up into those
mighty realms, and there were still many temples
to be explored and points of interest to visit. Before passing into the Temple of God they took on
their former celestial condition. Their next point
of interest was the individual temples, which two of
them were to see for the first time. The fact that
they were to behold these temples together made
the privilege doubly interesting. As they passed
out into the atmosphere of God's Kingdom they
were greeted on all sides with words of welcome by
the inhabitants of that region, who evidently knew
that three people from the celestial world were visiting their country. It would seem, from the hospitality they showed and the marked degree of interest manifested, that they considered these three
people personages of importance.

In the Grove of Promethea, a wonderfully beautiful spot, an affair was to be held in honor of these
travelers. They accepted the invitation to be
present, and found themselves in a great bower of
floral beauty. The trees and shubbery, whose
foliage was of many different kinds and colors,
were made more beautiful by festoons of roseblossoms. It was delightful, of course, the gathering in this beautiful grove, where the very air
was an inspiration of something sublime. The
grandeur of scenes through which they had just
passed and the sudden change to seems of pastoral beauty formed a picture upon the consciousness of the travelers that was marvelously
beautiful .

The people gathered in the Grove of Promethea
were marvelously intellectual. There were no ordinary ones among them, and the language that
flowed from them was like liquid music. They
were very tall and of fine proportions and they
looked very beautiful. The female beings wore
illuminated draperies of various colors that seemed

as delicately beautiful as mist. About tbe heads
and forms of some of them were halos, circles of
stars or characters of light, indicative of some rank
or honor that had been bestowed upon them.
Their faces were marvelously beautiful and their
eyes wonderfully clear windows of the soul. The
eyes of celestial beings are wonderfully brilliant
and beautiful in expression, but they cannot be
compared to the eyes of the inhabitants of God's
Kingdom.

The time glided by m a joyous and happy manner; strains of sweet music seemed to float from
every direction, and there was a wondrous charm
in everything. Every being in that beautiful
grove was a representative of great work, and,
while all appeared to give themselves up to the
pleasures of the hour, they were at the same time
directing great movements in different parts of the
universe by the power of mind. The minds of
these people were so powerful that they could be
used in many different directions at the same time
without any indication of absent, mindedness.

The celestial travelers had been in that realm
but a short time to have passed through the wonderful experiences which are here related, hut to one of them there came still more wonderful experiences in The Kingdom of the Blessed, still
farther beyond in the realms of space.

At length the travelers found themselves on their
way toward the temples which they had created by
the acts and motives of their own lives. They had
now reached a part of God's Temple where they
met but few people. The travelers had developed
so much wisdom since passing up into these regions
that they were considered competent to act as their
own guides. As one had been over the road before, there need he no fear but what they would
find the way safely. I may say, however, that the
spiritual mind in an unfolded state possesses no
degree of fear, and can move to difficult points in
space with perfect safety and with a surety that
the point desired will be reached.

The five temples could he seen for some time hefore they were reached. To the one who had been
there before they seemed larger than on previous
occasions. This was true, of course, since everything is revealed in its true light in those mighty
realms of space. There was the temple of golden
brown, the one of white, the pink temple, and the
two of pale silver and gold. This was to be one of
the most Interesting experiences of the entire trip
on account of its personal nature.

It was decided that each traveler should visit her
own temple first, then they would all enter the
temple of the one who had played such an important part in the lives of each of them. The temples all seemed considerably larger than they had
on the previous visit, and they apparently were
growing rapidly, for as their builders stood and
looked at them they could see the upper parts,
which looked at first like smoke, gradually take on
the form of the lower parts of the buildings, and as
they took on form they became luminous, an appearance not manifested in the parts below.

Although these individual temples were some
distance from each other, there was a pathway
which looked like a broad silver ribbon connecting
one with the other and extending far up in the
ether. It had not occurred to them at first to walk
over that pathway, but they did so finally, and the
sensation they experienced was wonderfully pleasant and invigorating.

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Upon the previous visit of Rose the Sunlight to
these temples she had noticed a number of very
interesting manifestations whose meanings had
not been revealed to her, but she had been told
that on her third trip these things would be revealed
unto her. Emma the Starbeam and Grace the
Messenger went on to their temples, and Rose the
Sunlight entered hers. On her previous visit the
latter had made up her mind that she would build
her temple grander and more beautiful than ever
before by the motives and acts of her life, and now,
as she stood within the structure of her own life,
she realized that she had builded well.

On her previous visit she had been shown two
crystal balls, one blue and one white. The meaning of the blue ball had been revealed to her, but
the white one she had been unable to read. Now
there was neither blue nor white ball, but a large
golden circle, within which the beholder saw herself and the work she would accomplish during the
next thousand years. It was a marvelous picture,
one calculated to fill her mind with joy, for the good
she realized she was to accomplish was well worth
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grow toward higher accomplishments and broader
realizations. She saw herself with a great work to
accomplish in at least twenty, five different realms
of space, the first four of them being the Earth, the
Celestial World, God's Kingdom, and The Kingdom of the Blessed. The others were still farther
beyond in space. She saw that before the thousand years had expired one would work with her
who was still of the earth, and also that through
their work and influence millions of people upon
the earth would find the way to the light of progression. She saw herself far up on the region
known as The Realm of Power as the Supreme
Leader of the people of that particular portion of
the Infinite World. She knew she would have to
climb some to reach that point, but as it was so
indicated, she would evidently attain it.

It seemed very interesting, the thought of what
an earnest woman could accomplish by being
brave enough to make the effort to climb toward
lofty heights and to carry with her as she went the
name of humanity. She saw herself with the one
who was to act with her in the years to come in
different parts of the universe, terrestrial, celestial, and ethereal. They seemed to be greatly interested in their work, hut they had times in which
they gave themselves up to the recreations and
pleasures of the higher world . The picture seemed
very absorbing and fascinating to Rose the Sunlight, and she felt conscious of a stronger desire
than ever before to make her work a worthy one.

In one part of her temple Rose the Sunlight
could behold the earth and could bring to her
vision at once anyone she desired to see. She saw
the one with whom she was working on the earth
and vibrated a message to him. It seemed that
she moved about for a long time through her
temple, studying some indications that she saw and
gaining new lessons in the realization of infinite
love, power, and wisdom.

By this time the other travelers had explored
their temples, and they met on the outer branch of
the pathway leading to the temple of Hiram the
Earth Battery. This temple appeared more brilliant in appearance than it had on previous occasions. Upon a previous trip to this temple four
compartments had been shown, each veiling a
mystery which would be made clear upon the third

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trip to God's Kingdom. The time was now at

hand for these mysteries to be revealed. The
rose, colored box, the four symbols, the case, and
the golden dish were all symbols of experiences
that would influence the life of the builder of this
temple, They indicated struggle and discouragements, but through these discouragements a plan
would he evolved that would result in the establishment of great good for the cause of humanity.
The symbols showed a period in the life of this
builder where he would be strongly influenced by
members of the Masonic Brotherhood who had
passed on to broader fields of action; he would be
strongly influenced during two very important
periods of his life. The first time would be when
he prepared a book on Masonry; the second time
would be in his building and establishing the
Temple or Light, for the Masonic Brotherhood,
from the spiritual side of life, would have a part to
play in the building of this great temple.

The dark case with the three stars was very peculiar. It represented a time when it would seem
to this builder that he was moving blindly in the
effort to put into operation his plans and ambitions. The three silver stars were symbolic of the
loving interest that three angelic beings would
manifest toward this life. The stars were also indicative of hope shining through darkness. The
case at first was very dark and indicated that there
would come a time in the life of this builder when
he would almost abandon certain very important things which had been planned to shape his
life. Later on this case grew very bright and led
out to a very beautiful scene where two people
could be seen who would play a very important
part in the life of this builder. The fourth symbol, a large, covered dish of gold, was shown now
without the cover. It revealed the crowning period
of life, the building of a mighty temple, ultimate
wealth, great honor, and the loving companionship
of those near and dear to him. A large compartment was taking shape near the top of the building. It was veiled in purple and silver light.
What it contained would not be revealed until the
next visit to God's Kingdom.

The three celestial travelers were now met by
Jose, Supreme Divine Ruler of the Spheres and
God's Kingdom, and Jehovah, Supreme Divine

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Ruler of The Kingdom of the Blessed and Master
of the Two Hundred and Fifty, third Degree,

The Beloved Jose would accompany Emma the
Starbeam and Grace Celestia upon their return
trip, while Rose the Sunlight would journey to The
Kingdom of the Blessed to pass through another
weird and fascinating experience.

CHAPTER IV.

A PILGRIMAGE TO THE INFINITE LAND.
IN THE KINGDOM OF THE BLESSED.

In company with the Supreme Divine Ruler of
God\s Kingdom, the Great Ovanon, and a retinue
of beings of such intense brightness that her vision
could not penetrate the powerful light, the celestial traveler known as Rose the Sunlight passed
onward and upward through realms of space so
far beyond the earth that there were no figures
in material language large enough to estimate the
height. The space through which she passed was
not like earthly atmosphere or ethereal space. As
far as she could see the Infinite Universe was aglow
with the most intense light. It was as though she
moved through a sea of wonderful glowing light.
Never had she felt so uplifted, and the peace of
God which passed understanding was more perfect than it had been in God's Kingdom.

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This traveler was no larger in appearance than
she had been before, but her consciousness had expanded in such a powerful way that she was at
least fifty degrees higher in realization, vision, and
understanding than she had been before. How
glorious, how marvelous life and creation appeared to her, and what a blessing to be alive! She
was drawing still closer to the great heart of The
Infinite, where the God, power was apparent in
every atom space. It was a strange thought to
contemplate, a being who not a great while ago
was of the earth, now in the company of the Gods
of the universe.

In order for this being to enter these realms she
was obliged to pass through a most peculiar experience, an experience quite unlike any of previous
occasions. Before this time she had been unable
to penetrate the aura of light by which the beings were surrounded who accompanied her. She
could see them quite distinctly now, however, and
beheld in them beings marvelously grand and beautiful. There were twenty, five of them, and they
represented the perfected sex. From the different
strata of light through which they passed vibrations of wonderful electric elements were passing
downward toward God's Kingdom. This power
was not called electricity there, however; it was
called divine electione, or supreme principle of
creative power. This was the power which,
modified, produced life in its many forms. It was
wonderful to contemplate, and yet not wonderful
after all, when considering the boundless powers
of The Infinite, which made all mighty expressions
the manifestation of natural law.

For miles and miles in extent appeared a great
white structure resembling a palace. This was my
Father's house with its many mansions, and here
dwelt the inhabitants of this sublime realm. Everything to be seen here was either pure white or
pale flame color. The beings of that region wore
garments of white or the yellow of flame color.
At length there appeared to view a mighty temple
of flame color and white, it was on a more magnificent scale than any that had yet been seen. This
was the Temple of Light in The Kingdom of the
Blessed, and here the ceremony would take place
which would take Ovanon, the former Supreme
Divine Ruler, up into the next higher realm of The
Infinite, while Jehovah would be crowned Supreme
Divine Ruler of the Blessed Kingdom.

No words are strong enough to picture the magnificence and grandeur of all that took place in that
blissful region. Everything was in the form of
ceremony. The minds of these beings had attained such a rare unfoldment that the inhabitants
found their supreme happiness to consist in the
evolving and carrying out of great plans.

By this time the Divine Ruler of God's Kingdom
had returned to join the brilliant coterie of Gods
and to behold his Father made Supreme Divine
Ruler of The Kingdom of the Blessed. This ceremony was grander than anything the celestial traveler had yet witnessed. Thousands of beings from
the blissful regions were present and great numbers
of Rulers from realms still farther advanced in
space. Assembled there in their garments of light,
they made a picture that was beautiful, grand, and
sublime.

The celestial traveler was delighted beyond
measure, and, as she prepared to make a return
trip from the Courts of Light to the earth plane,
there to reveal to the world truths never before
given to mortal man, she felt she had indeed been
blessed.

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