Each spirit in space has its vocation, and pursues it with facilities unknown on earth. Each one finds its place in this superb field of action in this vast, universal laboratory. Everywhere subjects for study and travel, with means of education and participation in divine work, offer themselves to the industrious soul. Heaven is not the cold void of the place of inactive contemplation believed in by some. It is a living universe, animated, luminous, filled with intelligent beings on the way to continual evolution. The higher these spiritual beings ascend, the more accentuated are their tasks, the more important become their missions. In time they take rank among the messenger souls who go and carry to the limits of time and space the will and force of the Infinite One; for the most inferior spirit, as for the most eminent, the domain of life is without limit. Whatever the height to which we attain, there is ever a superior plane to reach. For every soul, however low in the scale, a great future is prepared. Each generous thought, every living impulse, every effort toward a better life, is a vibration and an appeal from the higher world which will eventually receive all souls. Each burst of enthusiasm, each act of abnegation, helps us up the ladder of our destiny. In the measure that a soul detaches itself from inferior spheres, it perceives the high manifestations of intelligence, justice and goodness: and its life becomes more beautiful and divine. The confused murmurs, the discordant noises of the human centers, grow fainter, and finally are silent. At the same time, the harmonious echoes of celestial societies become perceptible. It is the clear call of happy regions where reign eternal light, serenity, and peace, and from whence come all things fresh and pure from the hands of God. The profound difference which exists between terrestrial life and life in space resides in the sentiment of deliverance and of absolute liberty enjoyed by purified spirits. The material cords are broken, and the pure souls takes its flight to the high regions. In a life exempt from physical necessities, it feels its faculties grow, and acquires a penetration into the veiled splendors of the infinite realms. The language of the spiritual world is the language of pictures and symbols rapid as thought. That is why our invisible guides use symbols by preference in warning dreams of approaching danger. Ether, supple and luminous, takes with extreme facility the forms which they will to produce. Spirits communicate with one another by processes which make the greatest human eloquence seem but dull babbling. The intelligent pupils perceive and realize without effort the most marvelous conceptions of art and genius. But these conceptions cannot be literally transmitted to man. Even in the most perfect mediumistic manifestations, the spirits have to submit to the physical laws of our world, and are but vague reflections or weak echoes of celestial spheres - broken notes of the eternal symphony which they would have reach even to us. All is grand in the spiritual life; the etheric body becomes more and more transparent and diaphanous, and leaves a free passage for the radiations of the soul. With a greater aptitude to enjoy and understand the infinite splendors, and a more extended memory of the past, an increasing familiarization with things in superior planes, so the soul in its progression attains the supreme altitudes. Arrived at these heights, the spirit has conquered all passion, all evil tendencies; it is free for ever from the material yoke and the law of re-birth. It is the definite entrance into divine kingdoms from which it will no more descend in the circle of generations, save voluntarily, and to accomplish sacred missions. Upon these summits existence is a perpetual fête of the intellect and the heart. It is the communion of love between those who have pursued the same cycle of reincarnations and trials. Add to it the constant vision of eternal beauty, a profound penetration of the holy mysteries and the universal laws, and you will have a feeble idea of the joys reserved for those who, by their efforts and their merits, have arrived at the higher heavens. 60
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