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superior beings, and unite themselves with societies in space, participating in their works and enjoying the
harmonies of the infinite.
Thought creates, will constructs. The source of all joys and sorrows is in the mind. That is why we will
find in the Beyond the creatures of our dreams and the realization of our hopes. But the memory of the
unfinished task, together with the heart’s affections, lead most spirits back to visit earth again. Each soul finds
the place where its desires lead, and united to the beings it loves, lies with them in a world of dreams. In the
ecstasy of their thoughts and the ardor of their faith, the adepts of every religion create images which they
believe to be Paradise. But little by little they discover that theses images are only creations of their thoughts,
like vast panoramas painted on canvas, or immense frescoes. They learn to detach themselves from these
pictures, and to attain to the high realities.
In our present form, and with our narrow limit of faculties, we cannot comprehend the ravishing joys
of the superior spirits. Beauty is everywhere, with varying aspects, following the degree of evolution and
refinement of being. The advanced spirit possesses sources of sensations and perceptions infinitely more
extended and intense than those of earthly man. In the clairvoyants, knowledge of the future co-exists in the
indefinable synthesis which constitutes ‘the central mystery of life’, as Myers calls it. Speaking of those
faculties, he says: ‘The spirit, without being limited by time or space, has a partial knowledge of both. It can
set forth and find a living person and follow him at will. It is capable of seeing in the present things which
appear to us as situated in the past, and others which are situated in the future. The spirit is conscious of the
thoughts and emotions of his friends who surround him.’
If such is the power of the entranced spirit still in earth life, we can understand how much more
complete must be the life and power of the spirit when it is fully detached from the body by death. We can
comprehend how the memories of its past must become an intense source of joy and sorrow. Alone, in
presence of its past, the soul sees all its acts and their consequences reappear, and it becomes its own judge.
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