The Inner Life
THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | APRIL 1933
it all back so clearly. It is but an indication of what lies ahead.
The beautiful girl that you saw was really the purified soul body reflecting the perfect soul that it housed. What you saw was that soul shining through and which made it so wondrous lovely. And do you know, what that soul saw was your own beautiful soul, and of course she loved you at once and willingly yielded herself to you, so that you could carry her through and over the threshold into the Spirit. That is a blessed work and a real privilege for one still in the flesh. If you felt the evil forces in what seemed to be cages, you were mercifully shown them in this form. That shimmering white cloak you mentioned is given one as a protection when going out to serve thus in the soul realms.
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We have published this experience in order to show what is possible for certain types of souls, those who are naturally psychic. Those of a mental type will be denied such, but they will have others of a different nature that will fully compensate.
You will note how deeply desirous was that friend to serve, which is the only reason such experience was permitted her. She had had many other experiences of being out of her body conscious, but they had always come without her volition and understanding of their purpose; and she was anxious to be able to “work consciously.” So she prayed daily that she might thus serve.
When her mind was not interested in or distracted by her surroundings and she held before it always the object of her mission, she was quickly brought to the performance of it. This was one of the simple but loving acts of
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