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AfterworU Effects 
 
Afterworld Effects 
 
 A Psychic Manuscript Obtained by 
 
 KARL M. LEUTE 
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 CLYDE S. RICKER 
 
 AFTERWORLD SERIES 
 PART I. 
 
 'Tne Ckristopker Publishing House 
 Boston, U. S. A. 
 
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 Copyright 1922 
 By The Christopher Publishing House 
 
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 DEDICATED TO 
 <A Mother HERE and a Mother THERE 
 
This work was evolved from a spiritual outlook 
 and is based on surviving Divine Principles of ethical 
 import. 
 
 It was transmitted in finite terms of portrayal con- 
 cerning Afterworld Effects in their natural termination 
 through various reconstructive phases upon spheric 
 planes of intrinsic evolutionary value which converge 
 in ultimate issues. 
 
 These effects are seen on all ascending planes 
 through which intelligence must pass to unfold reason 
 in all its opportunity. 
 
 H. 
 
PREFACE 
 
 Two young men occupied themselves during the 
 summer of 1920 with psychic writing, first as an amuse- 
 ment, subsequently as an interesting study and finally 
 with a definite intent. 
 
 One of them was gifted with the psychic phase of 
 automatic writing; the other was possessed of the fac- 
 ulty of inspirational writing. Neither had hitherto seri- 
 ously regarded his ability, nor had either ever subjected 
 himself to any of the established regimes for develop- 
 ment of general or particular psychic manifestations. 
 Both were casually conversant with some of the various 
 communicative and physically demonstrated evidence 
 of afterworld phenomena, but neither had at any time 
 become heedlessly enmeshed in its theories or facts — 
 an immunity naturally resulting from normal social and 
 commercial interests, together with a healthy disdain 
 of the psychological excesses and incidental debilities, 
 mental and physical, attending intemperate indulgence 
 with real and fancied exhibitions of discarnate exist- 
 ence. 
 
 He who wrote automatically was first aware of his 
 gift shortly after demobilization of the United States 
 forces in the Great War in which he held a commission 
 as an aviator detailed to "stunt instruction" at a west- 
 ern flying field. It may well be that the cumulative 
 effect of the six hundred odd hours actual time elapsed 
 in air performing the hazardous feats of his duty tended 
 to temper normal mortal communicative receptivity to 
 a degree where conventional modes of psychic develop- 
 ment became unnecessary and the phase was sponta- 
 neously evolved in an inexperienced form. 
 
 A peculiar irrelevance occasionally disordered his 
 ordinary business correspondence manifesting as un- 
 witting intrusions of inexplicable detached phrases 
 foreign to the subject matter. 
 
8 PREFACE 
 
 This irregularity was at first regarded by him in 
 the light of a humorous embarrassment and harmless 
 aberration, possibly attributable to nervous exhaustion 
 incurred in the service. Then, one day while cynically 
 experimenting with an Ouija board which he mean- 
 while discovered he could singly operate with remark- 
 able dexterity though little satisfaction, he was moved 
 to inquire whether he might not be able to write auto- 
 matically. Being assured of the certainty, he doubt- 
 fully essayed the feat and was astonished to instantly 
 write matter of an unfamiliar and novel nature under 
 a mental impress and indirect physical propulsion ap- 
 parently not of this world. 
 
 Enlivening spare moments by exercising the re- 
 cently acquired faculty, sufficient coherence was soon 
 detected to compel serious attention. Familiarity with 
 psychic phenomena and some degree of expectancy 
 precluded alarm when a positive test indentification of 
 a discarnate entity was secured. This was shortly fol- 
 lowed by further conclusive evidence of external men- 
 tal guidance when writing whereby it appeared that 
 intelligent discarnate expressions were propelled across 
 existence phase differences and psychicly impressed 
 on a receptive, physically embodied mind from which 
 the permanent written record was produced bv sub- 
 conscious muscular conformity. 
 
 Not deeply impressed with his phenomena, it was 
 then utilized for little more than the diversion of friends 
 by whom it was received in diverse favor, ranging from 
 superstitious awe to ribald amusement. There none- 
 theless remained an underlying persistent urge from 
 the two responsible entities then manifesting, demand- 
 ing that he devote time to perfecting precision in the 
 relation as there was a mission personally obligatory 
 on both sides to fulfill. 
 
 The writing of that time was erratic and irrespon- 
 sible from intrusions by ignorant and otherwise unde- 
 sirable psychic entities who were often guilty of per- 
 petrating discreditable impositions which were inco- 
 herent, silly and worse. This undisciplined condition 
 
PREFACE 9 
 
 continued until its detrimental effects were clearly per- 
 ceived. There were also active periods of personal 
 thought interference. Then, counseled by a friend 
 who later collaborated with him in attaining the follow- 
 ing chapters and whose acquaintance was made at that 
 time, a constructive program was instituted and even- 
 tually consummated with complete success. 
 
 Ejection of the undesirables and their permanent 
 exclusion was stringently enforced and rigidly main- 
 tained until necessity for guard against such an evil was 
 found to be obviated and the precaution was discon- 
 tinued. One entity of an aggressive and unscrupulous 
 disposition was particularly difficult to dislodge and the 
 insults and unrestrained profanity defiling his last com- 
 municative efforts well exposed an intense chagrin at 
 expulsion. Close attention to subconscious imperson- 
 ation was strictly adhered to until the writers were 
 convinced that that possibility too was practically elimi- 
 nated, though ever remaining watchful for its reap- 
 pearance. 
 
 Rectifying early misfortunes with irresponsible 
 controls and improving precision by practice, an agree- 
 able status evolved wherein only the two really respon- 
 sible communicating entities continued to manifest. 
 Both evinced personal interest in and love tie to the 
 writer, one being his mother, the other, H., of whom 
 more presently. 
 
 The writer's performance was then and now is 
 far from spectacular and aside from a composed pre- 
 occupation presents no other characteristics than those 
 displayed by any person engaged in ordinary writing. 
 Interruptions disturbing the sensitive's attention, while 
 stopping the writing, do not prevent its ready con- 
 tinuation from the word where it ceased. Incidental 
 fatigue varies according to the preceding mental 
 state of the writer. Preceding physical fatigue, if 
 anything, tends to promote precision and clarity of 
 expression. 
 
 The psychological aspect of the writer's phenom- 
 
10 PREFACE 
 
 ena involves consideration of complex and subtle dis- 
 tinctions. It must be noted that in psychic nomencla- 
 ture, purely automatic writing is defined as an inde- 
 pendent physical control by discarnate mentality 
 through a localized trance effect upon the operative's 
 hand and wrist, sometimes including the forearm as 
 far as the elbow, and, on occasion, even extending the 
 affected area to the shoulder. The record then pro- 
 duced is assumed to be entirely apart from the con- 
 sciousness of the writer who is unaware of the import 
 of the communication until he reads it. In actual prac- 
 tice, reading is generally deferred as a matter of sub- 
 sequent interest, since it is commonly found to be im- 
 possible to read the words during inscription without 
 incidentally deranging, where not wholly preventing, 
 rendition. 
 
 In the present example, a slight variant was de- 
 tected. The upper arm, elbow, , forearm, wrist and 
 hand were alike completely free from any characteris- 
 tic trance rigidity, and tests failed to discover the least 
 supernormal insensibility to external sensory stimu- 
 lation. The pencil was held in a normal writing posi- 
 tion; the cramped grasp of the true automatist was 
 never observed. At no time was there any perceptible 
 resistance to independent muscular flexion by the writ- 
 er, though in performance there was ever, within rea- 
 sonable limit, a persistent urge to continue rendition. 
 
 While like true automatists the operator never 
 knew in advance by so much as a single syllable what 
 the next word might be, contrariwise, he experienced 
 no difficulty in keeping abreast of the communication 
 by reading the words as they were inscribed. Careful 
 tests indicated that this attention did not inject irregu- 
 larities into the superconscious interpretation of the 
 psychicly impressed thought-forms. Memory, however, 
 was effective only for about ten words back, where it 
 became vague, failing wholly (after approximately 
 thirty words. On the other hand, there was the char- 
 acteristic coupling of all words which practically elim- 
 inated punctuation, although grammar and construe- 
 
PREFACE 11 
 
 tion were reasonably accurate. There was also the re- 
 traced circle, performed with incredible rapidity and 
 reversed in direction as confirmation, affirmation, or 
 dissent was thus implied. Likewise, the literary style 
 and the vocabulary were indubitably distinct from the 
 writer's ordinary modes of expression. 
 
 The communicative impression and the correlated 
 rendition were apparently simultaneous, with the hand 
 movement apart from conscious volition. The com- 
 plete operation at the finite communicative terminal 
 was believed to be a five-phase process: 1st, the psy- 
 chic impression, (this by superconscious receptivity) ; 
 2nd, the interpretation into common expression, (this 
 by mental harmonics) ; 3rd, the subconscious muscular 
 conformity, (this by physical harmonics) ; 4th, the con- 
 current perusal of the written record, (this by normal 
 sensory perception) ; and 5th, the ephemeral consider- 
 ation of the import, (this last by evanescent though 
 otherwise normal thought phenomena). 
 
 All these salient features seem to warrant classify- 
 ing the phenomena as automatism, and it is here so 
 termed. 
 
 The second of the two, he who wrote inspiration- 
 ally, has never positively identified the communicant 
 whom he is assured through other channels directs his 
 thought in psychic activity. The impressing entity 
 chooses to remain unnamed — a reticence apparently 
 not affecting results in the slightest degree. H. oc- 
 casionally alleged his own communicative impress 
 when certain similarities of vocabulary and diction 
 appeared to warrant that supposition and tended to 
 confirm the statement. 
 
 Inspirational writing as here practiced was radi- 
 cally apart from any suggestion of external physical 
 control or subconscious muscular conformity, all move- 
 ment of the hands being entirely voluntary under the 
 writer's fully conscious independent direction. The 
 phenomena obtained could be momentarily forced to 
 the automatic state, but the obvious irregularities 
 which then frequently intruded made it advisable to 
 
12 PREFACE 
 
 discountenance that phase except for test confirma- 
 tions of questioned points, and with results always un- 
 der strict observation. 
 
 Advance knowledge of the subject-matter dur- 
 ing rendition seldom exceeded four or five grammat- 
 ically co-ordinated words. Attempts to independent- 
 ly construct the intuitively sensed communicative 
 thought-form instantly dissipated it, with an attending 
 abrupt termination of the rapport — an inhibition often 
 lasting for several days. 
 
 A novelty existed in that successful performance 
 was apparently restricted to operating upon a certain 
 typewriter, with total inability to accomplish anything 
 whatsoever upon other machines, or by either pen or 
 pencil. Far from believing that this feature was due to 
 "magnetizing" the machine in question, it was pre- 
 ferred to attribute the seeming restriction to a personal 
 idiosyncracy having no psychic import. Inability with 
 pen or pencil was referred to the sensitive's prejudice 
 against personally indulging in any phase involving sub- 
 mission to physical communicative control. The auto- 
 matic state with the typewriter was an expedient re- 
 sorted to only in extremities. 
 
 The psychic nature of the phenomena thus ob- 
 tained was thought to be evidenced by the rapidity in 
 continuous flow of the communications, but the peculi- 
 arities of rendition not related to ordinary typing, by 
 the remarkable celerity with which the communicated 
 matter vanished from memory instantly after being re- 
 corded, by assertions advanced which were frequently 
 at variance with the preconceived conceptions of both 
 writers, by the general agreement with the collabora- 
 ting writer's separate obtainment on identical topics, 
 and by the radically different individuality of the com- 
 municant as revealed in literary style, mode of obser- 
 vation, contemplative methods, and generally superior 
 intellectual and ethical attainment, compared with that 
 of his finite sensitive. 
 
 Inspirational writing is at best an illusive quantity 
 and the possibility of more or less psychological irregu- 
 
PREFACE 13 
 
 larity is too probable to admit any broad claim of 
 special ability based on that phase. Its technique 
 is too indefinite for any precise description and it can 
 only be regarded as a peculiar individual proclivity 
 which may or may not partake of the supernormal. 
 The writer merely asserts sincerity in the belief that it 
 is not of himself and operates in harmony with that 
 conviction, yet ever keeping an open mind, ready to 
 lend an ear to latest facts and willing to change his 
 theory when it no longer commands his respect. 
 Further, he is inclined to believe that personal sub- 
 conscious irregularities present greater intricacy of 
 technique and are fully as wonderful as purely dis- 
 carnate psychic communication. Both objectives are 
 fertile fields for investigation. 
 
 Comity of interest being established between the 
 two sensitives, it was recommended from both sides 
 of existence that they undeitake a co-ordinated exposi- 
 tion of the psychic matter procured and extend its 
 scope as might seem advisable. While gratified by 
 the assurance of a mission in disseminating the knowl- 
 edge imparted to them, they adopt a more conserva- 
 tive attitude concerning the circumstances of their 
 selection for that purpose. 
 
 The tribulations of the young men in securing 
 precision in transmission, accuracy in rendition, immu- 
 nity from subconscious intrusion incidental to self- 
 hypnosis by their constantly changing personal theories, 
 and orderly collaboration are immaterial here, but may 
 be said to have been typical of all sane and responsible 
 psychic efforts by mortals. 
 
 All matter in the finished state is ascribed to H. 
 since any variants from his discourse procured from 
 the other available source were submitted to him for 
 explanation, correction or rejection. The writers were 
 exceptionally gratified to ascertain that little revision 
 was necessary, disparities in separate, original rendi- 
 
14 PREFACE 
 
 tions usually resolving into differences of discarnate 
 temperament, viewpoint and fund of knowledge. All 
 matter finally included, where not directly quoted 
 from H. was accepted by him as authoritative and is 
 frequently his collaborative elaboration or elucidation. 
 
 Attempts to regulate and harmonize the informa- 
 tion procured by reference to current psychic publi- 
 cations were unsatisfactory as the statements and de- 
 scriptions communicated rarely followed as expected. 
 It hardly needed a few caustic comments by H. on the 
 subject of faith and loyalty to plainly show the inex- 
 pediency of such a restriction and it was soon aban- 
 doned, the writers relying solely on their discarnate in- 
 formants. 
 
 Parallel comparisons and annotations displaying 
 the occasional discrepancies between the two prelimi- 
 nary writings are not included in the work as finally 
 presented as they would only interest psychologists 
 and psychic experts. 
 
 There is no effort to disguise or compose the 
 two distinct literary styles which may be readily de- 
 tected. That feature is the natural consequence of em- 
 bodying and directly quoting different sources of 
 afterworld information imparted through a channel 
 of a nature far other than that Jacob saw. The differ- 
 ences in style are noteworthy only from their general 
 conformity to a single observational attitude from 
 which are derived the conclusions and descriptions 
 related. 
 
 Instead of being compelled to expand the selected 
 matter finally utilized for the sake of a substantial 
 product, it was necessary to discard approximately 
 double its volume. Intricate scientific argument on 
 physical vibrational structure, criticisms on current 
 psychic investigation, speculative comment on higher 
 discarnate conditions beyond the informant's present 
 scope of perception, personal recommendations for 
 further phase development, allegorical expressions 
 and philosophical propositions, together with unique 
 information not germane to the general subjects are 
 
PREFACE 15 
 
 all excluded. It was likewise decided that heavy 
 academic reasoning and sharply defined differences 
 with forecasts by iconoclastic science would encumber 
 the design and clog its lucidity. 
 
 A certain familiarity with psychic nomenclature 
 and practice was presumed rather than essay a lengthy 
 technical description of the vicissitudes experienced by 
 the sensitives in perfecting their phases, with an ex- 
 hibit of examples. Early test and corrective experi- 
 ments are thus not included. Personal communica- 
 tions possessing purely private interest are, of course, 
 utterly foreign. 
 
 A peculiarity of the work is that ready compre- 
 hension of its import is seemingly more than difficult 
 for many at first reading. This may or may not be 
 the effect of instinctive antagonism to psychic inno- 
 vations and expositions of the supernormal. It should 
 not be prejudged and should be read in entirety. A 
 second and, if necessary, a third reading will excite 
 astonishment that mental depression or confusion were 
 ever induced by it. 
 
 The work is intended to be a rational exposition 
 of common sense expectation of the hereafter and exis- 
 tence in its environment and scrupulously avoids all 
 mysticism and the gruesome element commonly asso- 
 ciated with that condition. It may quiet cringing souls 
 by dispelling former dreads and terrors and may illu- 
 minate a few of the shadows of things to come. It 
 does not pretend to be a revelation of marvels, merely 
 essaying a concise flow of comment and information 
 concerning Afterworld Effects and stating a few of 
 the natural laws underlying future individual existence 
 and the continuity of life after termination of its mor- 
 tal phase by physical death. 
 
 Ethical formularies and detailed directions for 
 psychic development by mortals are eschewed as in- 
 compatible with a modern discarnate message of ab- 
 sorbing appeal to all minds. 
 
 The facts set forth will enlarge the present fund 
 of psychic knowledge and may inspire renewed activ- 
 
16 PREFACE 
 
 ity by those who investigate its possibilities. The 
 assurance of future existence and the persistence of 
 individuality after physical death will interest many, 
 confirm preconceived ideas cherished by others and 
 console still more. Vital truth does not transcend 
 the power of discovery nor defy analysis. 
 
 The psychic entity, H., presents every indication 
 of nobility of thought and power of precise relation, 
 together with a unique and permeating personality 
 which compels respectful attention. 
 
 There is information of the salient features of his 
 earthly existence which is withheld by his express de- 
 sire. Some of his statements in that respect have not 
 been positively verified, and, considering his indiffer- 
 ence to the question and believing with him that it is 
 of little significance, the writers have neglected to en- 
 ergetically prosecute the search. It may be said to 
 those who place an exaggerated value on such things 
 that, when physically embodied, he was a scholarly 
 English gentleman of the early Victorian period. Need- 
 less to say, he is now sufficiently detached from former 
 earth influences to make his one time finite status of 
 small consequence. 
 
 His communicative associates have come to 
 cherish a sentimental attachment to him and are solely 
 concerned in his present kindly benevolence and per- 
 sonal interest in them, his sagacity and purity of pur- 
 pose, scope of afterworld knowledge and astute obser- 
 vations, together with the engaging personality inciden- 
 tally revealed. They are convinced of his sincerity and 
 respect his simple, unaffected dignity, holding them- 
 selves exceptionally honored by the relation and pre- 
 fer to leave their minds at rest rather than further at- 
 tempt to discredit what to them has become verity. 
 
 The authority of H.'s statements reduces to a mat- 
 ter of private taste and intuitive preference, since his 
 ordinary remoteness makes inquiry into his competency 
 
PREFACE 17 
 
 impossible. The writers are of one mind in believing 
 that mortals cannot afford to dispute with him in claims 
 of psychic knowledge as he obviously has means of 
 knowing things they do not. They also believe that it 
 is a perfect instance of the occasional benefit of credu- 
 lity instead of antagonistic thinking. 
 
 This is, of course, merely their personal attitude 
 which they do not take over-seriously. In fact, they 
 candidly admit that of themselves, they know nothing 
 about it. H. merely professes knowledge of conditions 
 to which he has personally penetrated. As to the 
 ultimates, who knows? 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 Chapter Page 
 
 Preface 7 
 
 I Spiritual Origins 23 
 
 II Etherial Conceptions 35 
 
 III Communicative Irregularities 46 
 
 IV Communicative Impulsion 54 
 
 V The Spheres 61 
 
 VI Discarnate Advancement 70 
 
 VII Spiritual Matter 80 
 
 VIII Communicative Technique 91 
 
 IX Determinative Inception 1 04 
 
 X Determinative Aspiration 112 
 
 XI Inceptive Adjustment 119 
 
 XII Evolutionary Alignment 127 
 
TABLES AND SCHEDULES. 
 
 The spheres; vertical extent and distance from 
 
 the earth; 1st to 7th 63 
 
 The spheric square of spiritual values; 1st to 10th 64 
 
 Relative impulse and communicative facility of 
 
 the spheres with the earth; 1st to 1 1 th . . . . 66 
 
 Relative impulse and interspheric communicative 
 
 facility; 2nd to 1 5th 66 
 
 Spheric placement of mortals succeeding death; 
 
 1st to 6th 71 
 
 Dominant evolutionary emotions natural to the 
 
 spheres; 1st to 8th 71 
 
 Condensed evolutionary effect of dominant emo- 
 tions in the spheres; 1st to 8th 73 
 
 Comparative vibrational values of harmonic mat- 
 ter in the spheres; 1st to 10th 81 
 
 Matter by volume utilized in the spheres for har- 
 monic effects; 1st to 10th 82 
 
Afterworld Effects 
 
 CHAPTER I 
 SPIRITUAL ORIGINS 
 
 Deific Creation, either by infinitely resource- 
 ful compulsion or by watchful vigilance that natural, 
 elemental influences shall ever possess inherent power 
 to harmoniously accumulate fundamental foundations, 
 is a postulate unquestioned in the hereafter. There, 
 appreciative minds, awed by its immensity and gran- 
 deur while astonished and marveling at the ingenious 
 correlation of its basic subdivisions, are content to in 
 psrt measure the undetermined cause by the breadth 
 of subsequent unfoldment. 
 
 Original creative motives and methods inevitably 
 attract the inquiring discarnate mind. The eager en- 
 tity earnestly searches for definite facts supplementing 
 its intuitive, earthly conviction of ultimate salvation. 
 Translated into new elements of continuity, environ- 
 ment, purpose and method, the entity, should desire 
 gravitate that way, seeks to adjust mortal opinion with 
 ascertainable facts. Unhampered by physical handi- 
 caps, accorded knowledge limited only as persistent- 
 ly sought and with movement restricted only by the 
 bounds of intelligent penetration, the quest for the 
 creative "word" influence nonetheless wanders into 
 vague conjecture. The mystery of the first molec- 
 ular integration upon its basic vibrational frame is 
 shrouded by inconclusive theories among the highest 
 entities mortals may come in contact with through 
 psychic communication as are the hypotheses of finite 
 scientists. These high entities in turn, striving to reach 
 authoritative information by a method analogous to 
 
24 AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 
 
 earthly communication and penetrating through a 
 much greater range, regretfully conclude that the elu- 
 cidation sought is one of inscrutable simplicity forever 
 veiled. Manifestation of the unfathomed creative 
 energy is known in the hereafter as "the first essence." 
 
 One psychic entity, delving deep into every op- 
 portunity open to altruistic seekers after truth, holds 
 the opinion that infinity was evolved aeons prior to 
 any record or communicative memory he can gain ac- 
 cess to, and proceeded from original vibrational ele- 
 ments attracted together in sufficient volume to per- 
 mit qualitative functioning of the nucleus under nat- 
 ural law. 
 
 Natural law applied to elemental vibration ap- 
 pears most manifest in resonant co-ordination of inher- 
 ent attraction through number, aggregation and co- 
 hesion of harmonious electronic rate phases. Maxi- 
 mum capacities of power and correspondence are thus 
 liberated for molecular superstructure and constitute 
 primeval matter-substance as distinguished from ethe- 
 rial-substance of the timeless etheric composite. Ether 
 is believed by discarnates to be a rigid though highly 
 sensitive, infra-elemental substance, all-permeating, 
 indestructible and infinitely divisible into vibrational 
 rate ranges and modes of expression or facilitations, 
 some of which are now known to mortals and others 
 may yet be calibrated as perception is attuned to their 
 frequencies. 
 
 An ensuing assumption was that material-sub- 
 stance rates in time brought forth through natural 
 selections toward perfection that which mortals now 
 sense through the five sensory organs, together with 
 such sense extensions as mechanical ingenuity has and 
 may yet devise. Orders and rates of material-sub- 
 stance now unknown but not of etherial-substance are 
 in the latter class. The higher etherial-substance, how- 
 ever, after a proper comparative interval, produced in- 
 telligent inhabitants peculiarly fitted to exist under 
 conditions then not so divergent as to justify the dis- 
 tinction now drawn between matter and spirit. This 
 
AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 25 
 
 people, close to their creation and sustained by direct 
 contact with vital essences and elemental rates, par- 
 took largely of the character and stature of discarnates 
 in the upper spheres not now entirely out of earthly 
 rapport. 
 
 Familiarity with etherial-substance rates imparted 
 power over both phases of the sub-etheric composite 
 until its alienation resulted from debilitating association 
 with the lower rated material-substance. This was an 
 excess bringing the normal penalty — dependence on 
 the enervating attraction with all its incidental de- 
 basement. In the course of time, maintainance other 
 than by material-substance phases became relatively 
 unknown. This ignorant, though possibly innocent 
 devolution, accomplished in entirety only after ages of 
 increasing misery, was the "Fall of Man" from spirit- 
 ual estate, a descent bewailed in religious legends of 
 all time. 
 
 This degeneration was nearly absolute at a period 
 approximately 60,000 years ago, a dating positively 
 placed by intersphere communication in the hereafter. 
 In effect, the devitalizing influences had by intersper- 
 sion of lower rates caused vibrational spreads within 
 the etherial-substance, so that fractional elements even 
 slightly discordant were sloughed off. These evicted 
 elements or analogies were thus forced to rely on sub- 
 stitute material-substance in the measure of divorce 
 from their native vitalizing rates. The foreign tone in 
 time became the standard of existence. Memory alone 
 in the lower orders and secret practices among higher 
 castes perpetuated a few of the benefits of the Golden 
 Age. 
 
 The 10,000 years next following served to em- 
 phasize the tribulation this people had come to endure. 
 Its worst forms, however, did not approach the chas- 
 tening of present day afflictions, and the loss in gradual 
 decline was principally recognized in laudation of the 
 glorious past. 
 
 The era between 50,000 and 20,000 years ago 
 exposed a state of affairs descending from bad to 
 
26 AFTERWORLD EFECTS 
 
 worse. Then the concerted efforts of those who had 
 passed on were first felt in an earnest endeavor to re- 
 vive a spiritualized system of conduct at least partially 
 allied with etherial-substance and its beneficient influ- 
 ences. The anonymous, altruistic program fell short 
 of its splendid goal only in that the eager operators 
 were unfortunately not possessed of adequate knowl- 
 edge with which to handle the complicated task of 
 readjusting material and etherial-substances so as to 
 eliminate the sharp cleavage separating the two essen- 
 tials whereby mutual utility had degenerated into in- 
 ductive antagonism. Success was attained though in 
 that degree antiquarians vaguely recognize as the At- 
 lantean millenium, an epoch of thought which colored 
 philosophy until the beginning of current mortal rec- 
 ords. 
 
 This spiritual renaissance held sway over the des- 
 tiny of those affected by it for some 5,000 years during 
 which advancement, subsequently unparalleled, was 
 achieved. Mortals were again blessed with inherent 
 spiritual characteristics exalted beyond any comparison 
 with the highest vital refinements of civilized wisdom 
 of the present day. But again, intemperate indulgence 
 with the passive, ever inviting, lower rated material- 
 substance rates and influences intruded its enervating 
 and devitalizing result on the erring race. This set- 
 back was final and, hastened by geologic cataclysms, 
 the ruined civilization, definitely severed from its ethe- 
 rial-substance source and mainstay, and overwhelmed 
 by material-substance surges of an elemental violence 
 they could no longer control, dispersed in terror and 
 dismay. The shattered remnants and outposts, de- 
 prived of any manageable elemental substances and 
 despairing of future alleviation, soon sank to that level 
 where they met and found in common with mortal 
 forms lately risen with sluggish inertia out of the 
 depths of material-substance substrata. Even as the 
 broken people had superimposed matter on mind, 
 so the new type had hesitantly but inversely begun to 
 enlarge on a mind coupled to matter. Of the two 
 
AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 27 
 
 models, hope for the future merged race seemingly 
 rested in the lower example which shortly became the 
 single standard. 
 
 Through all the ensuing turmoil of internecine 
 strife, opposing national ambitions, ruthless dispoilings 
 and conquests, there remained that holy purpose of 
 the afterworld master minds to again restore the an- 
 cient condition of spiritual purity from which mortals 
 had so far departed. The former method of uplift 
 by impersonal direction of subconscious racial aspira- 
 tion resulting in a sustained tendency of tremendous 
 momentum and vigor was ended with the lapse of 
 monotheistic appreciation. The prevalence of idol- 
 atry with its attending spiritual restraints and barriers 
 to religious meditation by the individual, also pre- 
 vented impressing intuitive concepts on the race at 
 large. 
 
 Then, when the rule of force seemed firmly en- 
 grafted on finite customs, came the first direct mes- 
 sage, personally embodied in a chosen instrument who 
 assumed the mantle of mortality from which to voice 
 his mission. This discarnate pioneer was followed by 
 others whenever the opportunity and need combined 
 to invite a descent in glory through the spheres to the 
 earth plane by a divinely guided entity qualified 
 to correctly teach the doctrine adapted to the call 
 that particular master's temperament and personality 
 peculiarly fitted him. The exalted examples of ethical 
 instruction, compassionate supervision, miraculously 
 demonstrated power and revelation of spiritual possi- 
 bilities generally served as the keystones of more or 
 less enduring religions. The secret longings of privi- 
 leged minds were encouraged into public profession 
 and adherence together with other seekers after the 
 hidden springs of intuitive apprehension. 
 
 The boundless love and devoted intent of these 
 eminent way-showers can only be comparatively esti- 
 mated by the terrible ordeal endured in voluntarily 
 submitting themselves to an evolutionary phase illim- 
 itably removed from their status in congenial, uncon- 
 
28 AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 
 
 taminated etherial-substance spheres. Unrelieved ex- 
 cept for the blissful certainty that their mission was 
 triumphant, or through foresight confident that dis- 
 ciples would successfully disseminate the revelation to 
 its utmost fulfillments, their temporary martyrdoms are 
 the few cases of real spiritual suffering. Whatever the 
 doctrine propounded, these holy ones merit worldwide 
 respect and appreciation of their pure aims which in 
 higher spheres are held sacred from reproach, what- 
 ever subsequent defilement came to their teachings. 
 
 Improved facilities in present day communication 
 expedite any individual's contribution to religious 
 thought and with the recent thought convergence on 
 psychic relations, it may be that an invitation subcon- 
 sciously extended has been accepted and an etherially 
 stimulated influence will be manifest in a broad racial 
 impulse urging revival of the ancient communion with 
 and dependence on etherial-substances and inspiration. 
 
 Tracing non-intelligent material-substance forma- 
 tions down through molecular compounds to the 
 characteristic atom until yesterday believed to be the 
 ultimate refinement in elemental analysis, there is yet 
 the electron in further subdivision, the latter appearing 
 as an electronic vibrational constituent in undetermined 
 number in each atom. The electrons are only one 
 rate range removed from material-substance, the fun- 
 damental matter source, which in turn is once removed 
 from the infra-ether. Of the last three elemental 
 phases, the electrons and material-substance are within 
 the scope of mechanical, finite classification, but the 
 infra-etheric base too closely approaches the rate re- 
 finements of spiritual, creative energy to be amenable 
 to either mortal sense or instrument. 
 
 The adequately instructed soul alone can direct 
 the tremendous potentials inherent within the final 
 subdivision of matter, apart from its functioning under 
 natural law. The soul's inability to fully demonstrate 
 
AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 29 
 
 such control is the inverse ratio of its subjection to 
 what it should have unconstrained command over. The 
 souls earthly supremacy under natural law is consum- 
 mated in that phase where, immeasurably refined 
 through strict adherence to etherial principles and de- 
 pendence on etherial-substance, its normal functioning 
 in thought and action requires a nobler mantle than the 
 mortal body pushed to the limit of vibrational culture 
 can possibly attain. Then, the body is laid aside for 
 the last time with all reverence as the sole remaining 
 vestige of clinging material-substance, and, volunta- 
 rily released, the unhindered soul departs to penetrate 
 yet higher spheres in its destined path. 
 
 Continuing, it could not be better than to here 
 quote at length from the conclusions of the psychic 
 entity, H. 
 
 The one universal mystery of the world to this 
 day, possibly approached in various wa3's and diverse 
 paths by different minds, is the mystery of the human 
 mind's inability to grasp the knowledge at the dis- 
 posal of the spiritually educated soul. The mind 
 speculates on its origin, existence and future, all seem- 
 ingly an absolute blank, even when animated by 
 mortal efforts toward completion in the varying modes 
 dictated by individual inclination. The fund of knowl- 
 edge, short of hypotheses, is that the soul exists; be- 
 yond this, man does not now understand. 
 
 This is not remarkable, were you able to appre- 
 ciate the difficulties even we here experience attempt- 
 ing co acquire correct information concerning the soul. 
 All I can offer are those hypotheses we adhere to and 
 even those vary widely amongst us. 
 
 The candid truth is that we do not know. 
 
 One scholarly branch claims that a soul is created 
 from the merged vibrations of two souls which have 
 raised together in blended rates to where creative en- 
 ergy is emitted, resulting in a new soul. I am not one 
 
30 AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 
 
 of those believing this way; there are too many adverse 
 instances cited against the theory for its acceptance. 
 I lean to the fact or theory held here that the soul is 
 the product of a higher life element attracted into the 
 newly formed human body by a mysterious influence 
 we know little about. It is more than difficult to in- 
 telligently discuss the subject with you when we are at 
 such a loss concerning the soul's inception ourselves. 
 
 We are certain, however, that the new soul con- 
 sists of spiritual or etherial-substance recognizable here 
 much as material-substance forms are perceptible to 
 mortal sense. When viewed, it has a form closely 
 resembling that of the human body, though this sem- 
 blance may be and often is changed. Its texture is 
 that of a filtered light ray with the inharmonious com- 
 ponents excluded. In color it presents shades rang- 
 ing through and beyond the visible finite spectrum 
 scale, although variations in the attracting foetus cause 
 certain tones to predominate, thus revealing such slight 
 temperament as the soul can possess at this early stage. 
 These soul rays are inherent and are more solid than 
 undulatory and its radiance is internal as well as ex- 
 ternal, so that far from being merely an outward glow, 
 it is a characteristic state capable of analysis, by those 
 inspecting its phenomena. 
 
 We are ignorant of the source of the new, earth- 
 bound soul, except that is descends from some higher 
 sphere down through our spheres to the attracting mor- 
 tal body awaiting its impress. Neither can I explain 
 the nature of the mysterious attraction coupling the 
 new soul to its receptive finite envelop; it may be a 
 draft on the original soul elements with the soul ac- 
 quiring individuality through subsequent experiences. 
 Whether such a soul has had prior existence, I am not 
 positive, but everything indicates the contrary. Ob- 
 serving multitudes of them, I have yet to see on one 
 the earmarks of sorrow or the errors of self-develop- 
 ment. We readily recognize the new soul on its de- 
 scent to the earth plane by its exquisite fineness and 
 
AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 31 
 
 color. Its rare purity precludes the possibility of any 
 likely prior existence. 
 
 It is true that a new born babe's soul consists large- 
 ly of harmonious blendings duplicating the rates of the 
 parents. Those here holding that the soul is produced 
 through fertile and energized soul rates of the parents 
 properly merged, base their contention on this fact. 
 Nonetheless, I am of the school believing that with the 
 advent of the soul into the unborn babe, the new soul, 
 extremely susceptible in its foreign surroundings to 
 dominant influences, readily absorbs the nature and 
 rates of both parents. I am inclined to believe this 
 theory the correct one. 
 
 The advent of the soul occurs early in the third 
 month of the gestative period, earlier under refined 
 conditions of life, later where animal tendencies and 
 coarse influences handicap a mortal implanting. The 
 physical body then begins to assume outward features 
 harmonious with it. Approximately three weeks after 
 its coming, the soul exerts sufficient power to perform 
 a reflection of its natural rate by a physical sex distinc- 
 tion on its mortal body. Under broad application, 
 a finely attuned soul of high vibration will evolve fem- 
 inine physical qualities, while lower rated souls would 
 declare themselves in masculine peculiarities. It is 
 a known fact that an unharmonious mother can uncon- 
 sciously so upset the natural sex tendency of her unborn 
 child by depressing its normal soul rate as to make male 
 what should have been female, with an ensuing weak- 
 ened physique throughout life. Physical debility is 
 here due to the inability of the soul to impart sustaining 
 rates it is not possessed of. Nature is not denied in 
 the end of things, and at death this sex perversion 
 reverts to normal and all is well again. It should 
 never be forgotten that with the soul itself as with our- 
 selves here, sex is a temperamental inclination in no 
 way related to physical sex distinctions except as the 
 latter are a reflection of the former. 
 
 The parents of the unborn babe directly stamp it 
 materially as animated animal substance and little less 
 
32 AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 
 
 than directly mold its mentality through the singular 
 susceptibility of its soul, not alone by their thoughts 
 toward it, but of themselves and toward others. 
 
 Instances are fairly common where no soul adher- 
 ed to the purely animal foetus when the proper mo- 
 ment came, and, though life continued after a fashion 
 according to material laws, when the babe was forced 
 into independent existence, lacking a sustaining soul, 
 it instantly expired and was still-born. 
 
 Minds, the parent's, family friend's, mankind at 
 large and even, on occasion, discarnate supervision for 
 some exalted destiny, affect the new soul in marked 
 degree. Impressions so acquired may or may not 
 wear off, according to future environment. The only 
 other influences it comes in contact with are those of 
 attraction during independent life. 
 
 A finely constituted soul may mingle with unre- 
 fined and debased influences and be none the worse 
 for it. Some term such immunity "moral strength", 
 but in fact it is an active, not a renunciatory process, 
 the soul counteracting the delibitating rates by build- 
 ing up the breakdown accomplished on the material 
 or spiritual structure. When this is done in excess of 
 an even balance, intense aversion ensues. The mis- 
 sionary in the slums is a typical example; high-minded 
 and refined in soul rate, his future tone and color is 
 determined by whether he sustains his thoughts at nor- 
 mal level, uncontaminated by adverse vibratory attack. 
 
 As before stated, at one time the soul took cogni- 
 zance of spiritual impressions much as we do here, but 
 in the present mortal body, this faculty has become 
 blunted. Only by intuition does it sense when physi- 
 cally embodied what we perceive in a pure manner. 
 The original etherial sensitiveness is dulled by associa- 
 tion with the parents in common, although, where the 
 mother is denied contact with the father in any way, a 
 child is found without any of the paternal characteris- 
 tics except as the mother's sentimental memories and 
 longings for her mate's physical companionship implant 
 
AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 33 
 
 a few. Living together, the man's soul exerts an influ- 
 ence much as a sound wave carries. 
 
 Attempts at prenatal influence before the advent 
 of the soul merely result in more perfect physical 
 transmissions. Determination and conclusions of ul- 
 timate sex through methods analogous to stock-breed- 
 ing rules do not apply in the least as sex is not manifest 
 until the soul affects the foetus when it is removed 
 from the animal category into human status. True, 
 when animal propensities intrude their detrimental ef- 
 fects, material sex determination applies to a certain 
 extent with attending mental impediments. Also, 
 when adverse influences alter the rate of the newly 
 embodied soul, it may evolve physical sex opposed to 
 its true spiritual nature. 
 
 Few realize what a wonderful prenatal help the 
 parents could be to their children. Inharmonious 
 family strife and turmoil inevitably results in fractious, 
 ill-tempered children with many worse traits. The 
 few months prenatal influence received by the soul 
 impress it more than fifty years of average indepen- 
 dent life. Some souls are so coarsened in their plastic 
 condition that they are held down through years of 
 both your life and ours as well. 
 
 After birth most of the soul's direct susceptibility 
 is eliminated and there arises a gradual knowledge of 
 the life into which it is expelled, so that with the passage 
 of time it develops mentality. All through the life 
 span the soul is constantly changing exactly as molded 
 by good or bad persuasive rates. 
 
 There is little I can say of the soul's journey 
 through life; you already know some of it and will ex- 
 perience the rest in due time; it is really simple — as one 
 lives, so his soul is tempered. Refining thoughts, 
 acts and surroundings purify it; the reverse pollutes it. 
 
 Think of your soul as your life before you permit 
 it to be prevailed on by improper vibratory attractions. 
 The soul is neither evil nor exalted except as you allow 
 and guide. You govern all this, not we. 
 
34 AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 
 
 Our concern begins again with the reappearance 
 of the soul on spiritual planes. Its severance from the 
 material envelop occurs when it becomes unable to 
 etherially sustain itself in a proper vibratory state and 
 incidentally maintain its dependent physical body with 
 vital, material rates. This generally results from 
 
 bodily degeneration in such degree that too heavy 
 drafts are made on the enfeebled soul and the latter 
 naturally gravitates free. This is death. Sudden, 
 violent demise is no different; the body is so broken 
 the soul cannot reconstruct in time to maintain the 
 normal affinity. In old age the transformation is due 
 to general debility wherein foreign vibratory rates have 
 seeped in to such an extent the soul is unable to make 
 up the deficiency and re-establish a harmonious bal- 
 ance. 
 
 The silver thread said to be seen by vision attun- 
 ed to its vibratory fineness and discerned at moment 
 of death, is nothing more than the last vestige of the 
 soul impulse withdrawing from the physical envelop. 
 
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 CHAPTER II 
 ETHERIAL CONCEPTIONS 
 
 Comprehensive description of the first spiritual 
 impressions gained by the entity passing from finite 
 existence into the hereafter is beset by difficulties. To 
 treat of individual reactions would be to discuss all 
 the contingencies of harmonic affiliation and antago- 
 nistic repulsion by the unadjusted soul newly located in 
 psychic realms under etherial stimulus. Eternity 
 would not suffice for fitting definition or adequate 
 narration. Infinity affords no greater range than the 
 mental conduct of dissimilar minds and no two souls 
 were ever precisely alike in either thought or action so 
 that detailed explanation would be endless, while se- 
 lected cases offered as typical could not possibly be 
 such. Generalities usually omit high-lights deemed 
 essential from some viewpoint and invite attack as in- 
 conclusive. 
 
 Apparently considering the failure of words as 
 convincing and accurate symbols of the conditions 
 described and fully realizing that interpretation of spir- 
 itual conceptions into intelligent modes of finite ex- 
 pression is at best tedious where not impossible, H. con- 
 fined his discourse to a brief summary with such inci- 
 dental comment as could not be well avoided. 
 
 The arrival here of a new soul is nothing startling 
 and is seldom recognized except by the spirit affinities 
 forming a personal band of the voyager who tenderly 
 attend and guide him. The momentum acquired in 
 the transition which is an instantaneous conversion in 
 point of finite time and distance, constitutes an infin- 
 
36 AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 
 
 itesimal component of an elemental force of no mean 
 proportions which distributes its burden through wide 
 ranges. The impact of the new subject's lodgement 
 in equitable spheric strata does not create a ripple on 
 the vibrational mass of that particular evolutionary de- 
 gree. Placement is immutably fixed by the psychic 
 status of the individual at moment of earthly demise. 
 Spheric location of the subject is a logical consequence, 
 not predestined nor autocratic punishment; he naturally 
 gravitates to that phase where he can function in a 
 conscious state harmonious with new environment. 
 
 Though bidding its mortal mantle farewell, the 
 soul is not immediately freed from earthly restraints 
 which attach as material vibratory rate effects. Where 
 death is brought about with slight disturbance and the 
 mind reconciled to physical severance, the soul drifts 
 apart fairly free and any adhering rates are attenuated 
 and feeble. Violent or comparatively sudden demise 
 with physical disruptions or agonizing symptoms heavi- 
 ly encumbers the departure. 
 
 The soul rarely hovers in the vicinity of its resu- 
 dual body longer than is necessary to shake off such 
 clinging material rates as may be then discarded. Once 
 completely withdrawn, a passage sometimes of days 
 duration, it becomes oblivious to all sensation and is 
 automatically caught up in the transitional current 
 and borne to its new abode. The interval between 
 arrival and awakening is regulated by the volume of 
 attached material rates hindering etherial cognition. 
 Tranquilly liberated, the soul wakens approximately 
 six hours later; released after a rending struggle, the 
 awakening is postponed — two days is not uncommon, 
 though three days delay would be remarkable. Ex- 
 ceptions energetically discharge the clogging rates and 
 exhibit an alertness not otherwise found. 
 
 Relief from depressing rates does not magically 
 bestow knowledge of nor experience in the soul's 
 transformed existence. Self-consciousness is sensed 
 at once; realization through intelligent discernment 
 of its altered status and the etherial conditions of which 
 
AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 37 
 
 it is a minute portion is deferred. Realization is mani- 
 fested as rational reactions of increasing sensitiveness 
 to etherial influences, a perception often suppressed as 
 long as three weeks, a delay imposed by the 
 state of being, innate refinement, intellectual enlighten- 
 ment and psychic potentiality found after all material 
 rates not inseparable contaminations are dislodged. 
 This centralizing process is a primary education super- 
 vised by friends until the subject's introduction to his 
 new-found home is complete. Then, emerging from 
 bewilderment and fully conscious, all new subjects 
 should without further lapse of time enter upon the 
 activities, labors, accomplishments and compensations 
 of this life, fully equipped to assume and discharge per- 
 sonal responsibilities securely ingrained by the nature 
 of life lead on earth which determines the status and 
 level of spiritual condition after transition. The sub- 
 ject, generally speaking, is neither better nor worse 
 off as a result of the transition alone and takes up 
 evolutionary life exactly where leaving it on the earth 
 plane. Opportunities for evolutionary development 
 obtain in the hereafter as well as on earth with added 
 emphasis. 
 
 Permit digression here to briefly comment on cer- 
 tain phases of spiritual existence. 
 
 Our sense of life is through mental constructs 
 similar to your own and it can be truly said that we live 
 mentally. All sensory reactions are in that phase and 
 are derived from rate causes and effects of such rapid- 
 ity that inspected from a finite standpoint, the latter 
 are also mental, that is, materially intangible. 
 
 We do not function through our senses, spiritual- 
 ized as they are. Action incidental to attaining our proj- 
 ects is performed by effecting forceful applications 
 mentally directed which have an inductive potency 
 equivalent to the operative skill brought to bear by the 
 energizing intelligence. 
 
38 AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 
 
 Spiritual sight by the soul might be termed an 
 amplified and extended sense of touch. We "see" 
 aim, design, a-piration, endeavor and other related 
 purposes; likewise their opposites. The etherial 
 
 equivalents of all mortal organic perception are thus 
 merged but do not constitute our only means of sen- 
 sation. 
 
 Interesting descriptions and references to spirit 
 houses, temples, landscape, furnishings and sustenance 
 are sincere but misleading psychic statements occasion- 
 ed by mortal errors in translating symbols of spiritual 
 conditions and vibratory states of energy and repose. 
 With us, all material accessories to promote material 
 aims are eliminated; instead we have vibrational facil- 
 ities to further intent and purpose which are conserved 
 and valued much as finite comforts and possessions are 
 by mortals. 
 
 A spiritually embodied soul has an etherial frame 
 or form composed of spiritual-matter rates, or rather, 
 low rated etherial-substance. Here, as with you, in- 
 telligence depends on coarser formations as a medium 
 of expression and manifestation. In general outline 
 our bodies, so called, are similar to yours, though the 
 radiating magnetic forces of the individual terminate 
 in a globular envelop which flexes toward or flinches 
 from any vibratory impression as the rate may be wel- 
 comed or rejected. 
 
 I am aware that many psychic communications 
 have described the discarnate as clothed in manner 
 and styles at some time current on earth. These are 
 pleasing fictions designed to console those left behind 
 who tremble in the half-formed notion of a naked soul 
 shivering in the absolute zero of outer darkness, little 
 realizing that even that limbo is tropical compared 
 with the chill of spiritual despair. Now and again 
 they are incidental to identification in some one of the 
 many phases of psychic communication and are merely 
 memory transferences. Again, they are errors in 
 transmission of the message whereby differences in 
 method and substance forms are not properly dis- 
 
AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 39 
 
 tinguished at one end or the other of the communica- 
 tive channel and the symbolized vision either incor- 
 rectly presented or inaccurately interpreted. The most 
 accurate description not smothered in language would 
 be to say that we are clothed in our auras. The classic 
 garb of conventional spirit manifestation in the materi- 
 alizing seance room is adopted for two reasons; because 
 it is the nearest finite analogy to our outer bodily stra- 
 tums and because it is easy to manufacture; it is also 
 symbolic. We are surrounded more by a light gossa- 
 mer cloud than anything conforming to raiment as you 
 know it. 
 
 There is no division here into hours, days, seasons 
 or years. Neither are there weights or measures in 
 a finite sense. A succession of centuries is meaning- 
 less to us except as definite lapse of time is required 
 to achieve noble ends. We recognize duration ot 
 time as the period of utility before improved methods 
 substitute superior proficiency. Accomplishment is 
 our relative measurement in more than time as it is also 
 our opportunity unhampered by limitation. This is 
 why psychic communications are vague in estimate of 
 precise finite time or distance. The communicant is 
 out of rapport with logical application of relative finite 
 degrees. 
 
 I desire to here emphasize and you should always 
 remember that mortal perception cannot sense spiritual 
 conditions, material rate conflicts distort them and even 
 the keenest clairvoyant only discerns an earthly anal- 
 ogy of psychic states, somewhat as the materialized 
 spirit form is merely a tenuous, subtle gathering of high 
 rated material-substance deposited on a spiritually ani- 
 mated frame by the cabinet chemist. There are no spir- 
 itual objects to be mortally seen as such. What is seen in 
 any of the numerous phases, where not gatherings of 
 material-substance to conform to intended representa- 
 tions for mortal recognition, are thought-transferences 
 of a higher though similar nature; both are finite con- 
 ceptions of spiritual matter. You can comprehend noth- 
 ing else when physically embodied; neither could you 
 
40 AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 
 
 understand true spiritual presentations as they would 
 be strange and foreign and there is no nomenclature 
 with which to even intelligently discuss them. It is 
 your language and understanding with the limitations 
 of both. 
 
 Psychic colors and lights are low rated, harmonic 
 etherial effects approximating vibrational intents and 
 influences, and register on attuned mortal vision as 
 symbols, often inaccurately discerned, of motives and 
 purposeful equivalents revealed to you as appearances. 
 Even so, attuned mortal comparative perception is 
 dazzled and bewildered by massed effects and is in- 
 capable of analyzing the finer shadings composing the 
 broad rate range. 
 
 V/e here, are inversely restricted in earthly vision 
 to the significance of mortal formations and the cu- 
 mulative effect psychologically manifested. We per- 
 ceive the emanation of the human mind as a vibration 
 and are guided by that phase. The physical body is 
 sensed or felt, as you wish, as a much lower rate. The 
 refinement of both mind and body is inductively regis- 
 tered and estimated by us akin to the method of a 
 radio wave meter. Errors in judging mortal _rates are 
 as frequent with us as are misconceptions of spiritual 
 conditions by you and are caused by attempting to 
 function in a foreign element. 
 
 The occupation of the new subject is a natural 
 selection of mental employment commensurate with 
 ability and adaptability. Pursuits are voluntary with 
 tasks assigned. Arrivals in the lower spheres do not 
 seek employment until its benefits are perceived; 
 meanwhile they lead helter-skelter lives much as you 
 do. Once definitely engaged with any fixity of pur- 
 pose, their proven proficiency in the chosen line is at 
 the disposal of any justified demand for it and invari- 
 ably is not only willingly but eagerly given. Restraint, 
 courtesy and appreciation in such instances rule in the 
 
AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 41 
 
 higher spheres to an extent unheard of on earth or in 
 the lower spheres where unrefined temperaments in- 
 dulge in irritable jangling and discord. Higher on, 
 true love and mutual interest is dominant and we have 
 none of those vexations. 
 
 Usefulness is neither desired nor sought by the 
 inhabitants of the lower spheres until they come into 
 that state where aspiration to better things presages en- 
 deavor to acquire them through rational and sustained 
 evolution. This inclination only occurs after the at- 
 traction of earthly vices, remorse, ignorance and in- 
 tolerance has begun to pall on the afflicted soul or 
 wanes under the inspiration of eminent example. This 
 dawn may come at once or not until eras have merged 
 with eternity, but it does eventually come if only 
 through exhausting the patience of those above when 
 attention is so centered upon it that nothing remains 
 except to comply with the command that it amend 
 its evil ways and omissions, and progress. This is 
 the nearest approach to Deific intervention I have ob- 
 served here and is probably symbolic at that. 
 
 Finite influences are felt on the first three 
 spheres greatly in excess of those from the fourth 
 sphere upfard. This is caused by similiarities of rate 
 inducements between the earth and the lower spheres; 
 also by the difficulties endured in crossing the Line of 
 Demarcation separating lowest pure spiritual rates first 
 detected in the fourth sphere and the highest semi-ma- 
 terial rate impulses discovered in the third sphere. 
 Forceful purpose of entities and vibrational precision of 
 rates are often disrupted when crossing this abyss so 
 that their original potency is not intact when brought to 
 bear in actual operation. Considered solely from a 
 vibrational standpoint, the earth is a substratum of the 
 three lower spheres; fortunately, its influence does not 
 penetrate with any marked potency above the Line of 
 Demarcation. 
 
 The natural laws governing evolutionary advance- 
 ment are as equitably just and impartial as the vast 
 majority of man-made statutes, but are infinitely more 
 
42 AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 
 
 inexorable when violated. Though retribution may- 
 seem to be foiled or evaded, it is nonetheless certain 
 in the end and is the negative principle of spiritual ad- 
 vancement. 
 
 Illustrating what is generally experienced by a 
 certain class of new subjects passing into the hereafter, 
 let us take an example, casually chosen and not to be 
 regarded as typical. Let us further name the entity, 
 A. 
 
 A., then, while physically embodied was addicted 
 to most vices known to and practiced by mortals. 
 Selfish and with little consideration for others, ignorant 
 and disdainful of worldly laws and refined customs, 
 never experiencing the joys of true love and having 
 an intelligence only slightly developed, having no 
 knowledge of religious ethics and teachings and lit- 
 tle reverence for any thought relating to that emanating 
 from a higher plane, either spiritual or material, A. is 
 suddenly overtaken by death. On arrival here, he is 
 no different mentally than when an earthly inhabitant, 
 with the additional handicap that he has scant ability 
 to satisify cravings he still retains and is inherently 
 disinclined to learn more than a few meager facts per- 
 taining to his new environment. A. rummages around 
 on his own account, and, while ferreting out many 
 novel and exciting rate outgrowths, does not under- 
 stand them and usually gets into trouble like a re- 
 bellious schoolboy impatient with methodical instruc- 
 tion who plays truant and scampers about the country- 
 side. 
 
 This soul has two channels through which to gain 
 refinement and advancement. One is from the earth, 
 the other from above, and while it may sound contra- 
 dictory, my personal observations suggest that he 
 could gain greater help from you than from us. The 
 inhabitants of the lower spheres habitually adopt an 
 
AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 43 
 
 antagonistic attitude toward educational attempts a- 
 mong them by more elevated intelligences and are re- 
 sentful much as most mortals regard advice proffered 
 by a prudent elder ripe in benevolence and the wis- 
 dom of years. Bitter experience is a good teacher 
 here also, and goes far toward instilling respectful 
 attention and self-discipline into the ungrateful en- 
 tity. 
 
 A. is earth-bound in every sense of the word and 
 as such comes in contact with mortals and their, in- 
 ductive rates more frequently than with ours. We 
 are obliged to make advances, whereas A. and his 
 kind seek out the earth plane from a variety of motives, 
 some good, others bad, the association being one of 
 attraction and correspondence. 
 
 If mortals would only dispatch a constant volume 
 of purifying and uplifting thought intelligently emit- 
 ted and directed, A. and those under like bonds would 
 soon be influenced to refine themselves preparatory 
 for a higher life. This fact explains much in religion. 
 Though unrecognized by mortals, no small part of the 
 Savior's mission as a physically embodied wayshower 
 was due to this need. His power in solitary prayer 
 for that purpose was equal to that of a thousand train- 
 ed minds acting in unison. Prayers for the dead are 
 made for this purpose, though misdirected; they should 
 be addressed to the departed one in person. Occasion- 
 ally ritualistic prayer is helpful; more often it is wasted. 
 I put in some years of missionary work among those 
 here more unfortunate than myself. It was one phase 
 of my spiritual progression. I do not claim special 
 merit; it was an altruistic impulse evolved at a certain 
 stage of advancement and would have been note- 
 worthy only by its absence. I combated inability and 
 disinclination; sometimes both were aligned in resis- 
 tance to my designs. Now and then I was humiliated 
 by failure; again, elated by success. It is all a part of 
 evolution. 
 
 Souls either failing to heed matured help or un- 
 willing to profit by it, are years in reaching any state 
 
44 AFTIZRWORLD EFFECTS 
 
 of true development. This opposition does not con- 
 tinue beyond the third sphere, as in the fourth and 
 thence on the wish to help each other is supreme and 
 properly appreciated. 
 
 Above the Line of Demarcation, our lives are 
 chiefly composed of two things — Happiness and the 
 Thirst for Knowledge and Advancement. 
 
 We are almost as ignorant of our surroundings as 
 you are, that is, of our laws, the reason for them and 
 their functional expression, so that minds seeking for 
 truth find wide fields for study, scientific investigation 
 and research, with an unlimited number of experiments 
 to be made. We are ever striving to decipher nature 
 and are, of course, obliged by necessity to commence 
 here with that which we know of earth, its formations 
 and influences, and from these fundamentals work up. 
 That is why higher discarnates can explain many things 
 in finite existence unsolved by mortals. As far as uni- 
 versal or elemental vibratory rates and their govern- 
 ment and application by mortal and discarnate intelli- 
 gencies is concerned, we have much to learn and many 
 mysteries to resolve. 
 
 We do know and often have occasion to demon- 
 strate in practice that mental purpose insures vibratory 
 action harmonious with the animating motive and that 
 creative intent continues beyond the evolution of either 
 spiritual or material matter; also, that the fluid state 
 of the ephemeral rates compels progress on the up- 
 ward path and that truth is absolute, not dogmatic or 
 conditional. 
 
 Present day mortal scientists have detected the 
 causes and elucidated the operation of nearly all the 
 vibratory foundations which have brought finite civili- 
 zation to its seeming high degree. They are now en- 
 gaged in hesitatingly exploring the outer fringes of 
 forces and rate impulses compared to which electricity 
 is as nothing in volume or potency. The reservoirs of 
 
AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 45 
 
 elemental energy are inexhaustible when tapped by 
 either mortal or discarnate for any legitimate purpose 
 and application merely extends the evolutionary scope 
 of the tremendous potentials. 
 
 Knowledge of these forces is one of our most cher- 
 ished possessions and will be cheerfully shared with 
 mortals. That it has not been imparted ere now is due 
 to the fact that ethical formularies have had prece- 
 dence, also, that it has not been consistently sought 
 through psychic channels. Technical psychic formu- 
 laries so far revealed have dealt exclusively with pene- 
 tration of psychic realms by the finite intelligence under 
 restraint of physical embodiment and have disregarded 
 the possibility of scientifically duplicating certain bene- 
 ficial psychic conditions through ingenious mechanical 
 devices. 
 
 Knowledge on any subject, finite or psychic, is 
 never denied to the mind properly prepared for its 
 intelligent reception and assimilation. 
 
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 CHAPTER III 
 
 COMMUNICATIVE IRREGULARITIES 
 
 Discarnate advice and admpnition on the general 
 subject of psychic communication reveals a singular 
 antipathy against discussing other systems than that 
 in which the communicant specializes. This tendency 
 extends to comment on variant methods of his own 
 phase and in some instances amounts to open aversion, 
 though seldom displaying intolerant prejudice. Reti- 
 cence to the point of blank silence is encountered from 
 reliable entities who are otherwise unreserved in candid 
 observation within the limits of their knowledge. 
 
 H. is innately disinclined to debate faulty methods, 
 irregularities and impositions discovered in psychic 
 investigation. This restraint comes in part from 
 wholesome disgust with the occasional outright frauds 
 uncovered, from disdain of communicative incompe- 
 tence and from a characteristic modesty which prevents 
 posing as an authority. His incidental observations 
 during utterance on other subjects are, however, suffi- 
 ciently interesting and comprehensive to warrant as- 
 suming these hypotheses being among his personal con- 
 clusions. 
 
 Broadly speaking, communicative relation be- 
 tween the finite and the hereafter is an intermediate 
 application of that general law whereby animate and 
 inanimate are held in temporary unison. The proc- 
 ess necessitates performance through and across all 
 those vibratory ranges which lie between the intensest 
 physical activity of the atomic-etheric state and the 
 slowest mental activity of the world of mind. Peculiar 
 
AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 47 
 
 difficulties are associated with all attempts to commu- 
 nicate with mortals and result from the only available 
 means wherein at least one of the intelligences partici- 
 pating functions out of natural environment. It is 
 an abnormal condition of both mortal sensitive and 
 controlling discarnate transmitters and one in which 
 embarrassment occurs to one or the others, separately 
 and in common. In effect, this impediment ranges 
 from complete prevention through temporary hinder- 
 ance irrelevant perplexities and disturbances to the 
 infrequent examples of well nigh perfect, continuous 
 transmission. 
 
 Purely mental psychic intercourse, manifesting 
 as conversation by projected thought, should properly 
 attempt presentation of unusual information of selective 
 character until its genuineness is conclusively establish- 
 ed with gratified adherents and unbiased investigators. 
 The ideal arrangement is where both sensitive and 
 transmitting control retain full, separate clarity of in- 
 tellect with no trace of single or mutual subjection 
 other than merely courteous receptivity to harmonious 
 thought contact. That attitude and condition pre- 
 cludes the appearance of obscure recollections animat- 
 ed by a sincere conviction of psychic ability on the part 
 of either sensitive or controls. Many perplexing an- 
 noyances are avoided by recognizing and rejecting 
 hallucinations involving identity and mentality which 
 frequently occur to inexperienced controls when in the 
 transmitting state. 
 
 Communication is necessarily affected by any 
 erratic mental phase through which it passes and is 
 correspondingly modified into purposeless and im- 
 material, where not totally erroneous statements. 
 Leading suggestions and inferences should be rigor- 
 ously excluded at all points whenever incapacity, 
 weakness, confusion or contradiction intrude and dis- 
 turb the normal serenity of intercourse. A distracted 
 control too often readjusts rapport by unwittingly har- 
 monizing with these illusive mental intimations. 
 
48 AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 
 
 Certain types of variant phase controls, magneti- 
 cally powerful in the grosser physical phenomena but 
 inexperienced in and unqualified to practice the more 
 refined phase of mental impression, seek elevation to 
 the dignity of telepathic communication. This am- 
 bition is gratified by imposing on the susceptibility to 
 obsessive influences of some dependent and subjective 
 mortal nature which then develops a depression com- 
 monly mistaken for higher psychic sensitiveness. The 
 relation is a pernicious one soon producing dire results. 
 The control is usually a self-styled psychic expert avow- 
 ing himself possessed of an unlimited fund of wisdom, 
 though it is later given him in the course of advance- 
 ment to apprehend that most of his pretentions were 
 unsound even in theory. Meanwhile, ludicrous expedi- 
 ents are resorted to in an inefficient attempt to con- 
 summate something. Deceptive psychic appearances 
 induce reckless self-delusion through the distortions of 
 the subconscious then unloosed and the only wonder 
 is that either sensitive or control retain adequate reason 
 with which to register or impress anything capable of 
 commanding the respect of sane mortal minds. 
 
 The process is further complicated at times by the 
 intrusion of the sensitive's subconscious which does not 
 scruple to impersonate suggested or desired com- 
 municants. This erratic, though dexterous meddler 
 will run the gamut of human emotions during its imper- 
 sonations, masquerading with equal facility and effront- 
 ery now as an innocent child, again as a remorseful en- 
 tity seeking means of reparation. It delights in endless 
 discourse conveying no message. It mischievously 
 mocks the credulity of naive finite minds by gravely 
 asserting that their personal circle of psychic guides in- 
 clude departed great ones of earth and is unabashed 
 to name in that role Israelite prophets, Roman emper- 
 ors, philosophers of all ages and military commanders. 
 It does not overlook Christian disciples, saints and 
 martyrs, and irrespectively selects even from the ro- 
 mantically infamous of all periods of history. Normal 
 consciousness when lucidly active in either psychic or 
 
AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 49 
 
 finite phases is responsible; the subconscious wherever 
 found is never so. 
 
 A moment's reflection by the eager dupes should 
 convince them that a shabby pretence of hypocritical 
 interest, a scant assurance of future psychic grace and 
 the promise of an immediate unfoldment of miraculous 
 psychic ability, without further comity of interest than 
 that engendered by a mysterious manifestation assum- 
 ing a high sounding name, cannot be other than an ar- 
 rant imposture or an example of the lucubrations of 
 the sensitives or control's subconscious. Little con- 
 sequence is attributed to the fact than "an ancient of 
 old'' should have progressed so far during the interim 
 as to place such an entity completely out of rapport 
 with finite attractions. While there are rare instances of 
 exceptionally protracted earth bonds fettering dis- 
 carnates of otherwise superior attainments, that very 
 fact is a weakness which labels them undesirable psy- 
 chic familiars. 
 
 Viewed from either world, it is dreadful to suffer 
 and pitiful to behold an obsession by either subcon- 
 scious finite hallucination or reckless discarnate com- 
 municative imposture in which the victim asserts gui- 
 dance by such intellects as the authors of Scriptual 
 "Revelation," "Paradise Lost" and the "Divine Com- 
 edy." Affinity is often claimed by mortals with ele- 
 vated intellects which have expounded laws of terres- 
 tial gravitation and solar rotation, and with contempla- 
 tive intellects which have founded schools of sound 
 philosophy. 
 
 Psychic entities of past high finite mentality who 
 profess present attraction and attachment to the 
 average finite individual are animated solely by selfish 
 motives, expecting to gain advancement at the expense 
 of their mistreated victim. Truly exalted entities find 
 nothing needful to their evolution on the earth plane 
 and will not interfere with its processes nor enter its 
 influence except on high missions of general applica- 
 tion which do not include gratifying the psychic vanity 
 of some aspiring mortal. 
 
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 The detriments of obsession and ignorant psychic 
 control are viewed by intelligent discarnates not per- 
 sonally attached to the victim from the standpoint of 
 greatly increased difficulty in securing correct and 
 responsible rapport with the finite objective. There 
 is alarm and dismay on the part of those normally at- 
 tached entities whose intent is materially intangible 
 ministration by loving service that is disrupted by ob- 
 trusive influences of a different character. Individual 
 tendencies evolved under such adverse influences are 
 somewhat out of the general ken of disinterested dis- 
 carnates except as psychologically manifested, though 
 those entities personally interested are at all stages 
 keenly aware of the pernicious consequences. The 
 latter lament the disaster and strive to offset the dire 
 effects, restore the original immunity of the victim and 
 prevent relapse into subjection. 
 
 Psychic phenomena of all types commonly exhibit- 
 ed among mortals is usually an incongruous mixture of 
 religion and science in which use and custom hide the 
 absurd in much which passes for important and serious. 
 Brilliant finite minds who would disdain to converse 
 with their unenlightened fellow men are often spell- 
 bound by the mystic nature of psychic communication 
 and unhesitatingly accept for well nigh divine utter- 
 ance irregularities and pretensions as trivial and ridic- 
 ulous as anything ever referred to an idiotic ghost. 
 Other equally capable finite minds unqualifiedly reject 
 any and all psychic phenomena because of the lamen- 
 table showing of some such inferior presentation. 
 
 Criticism from either world of phenomena finite- 
 ly presented is resented by the average sensitive as 
 desecrating a divine gift and the insulted sensitive as- 
 sumes an attitude of assurance with its accompanying 
 state of consolation which is impossible to move or 
 correct from either side of existence. A fully developed 
 sensitive exhibits psychic ability compatible with his 
 highest mental qualifications; thus, unable to recognize 
 or respect any phase more elevated or correct than his 
 own phenomena, he is quite content with that which 
 
AFTHERWORLD EFFECTS 51 
 
 he has. Sheltered behind this shield, ignorant and in- 
 capable controls, as well as those of worse types, exact 
 respect for their foolish dignities, play havoc with the 
 sensitive's mentality and generally do as they please. 
 
 Mental intercourse with enterprising, experienced 
 and composed discarnates through controls of resolute 
 character and determined loyalty to principles of sound 
 practice imposes neither dependence, subjection nor 
 obsession on the sensitive. There is then complete 
 freedom from capricious mystification, simulations, 
 audacious impersonation, trivial nuisances, turbulent 
 cross currents, unguarded effects and psychic reversals. 
 There is then success proportional to the extent of mu- 
 tual effort, uniform and constant. 
 
 A self-respecting control will not wrench facts to 
 fit incompetent theories, but will rigidly adhere to a 
 scrupulous degree of accuracy which often compels ad- 
 mission of ignorance on particular subjects. He will 
 eliminate speculative criticism and resolve psychic 
 idioms for conveying thought into clear expressions en- 
 riching finite minds. Extravagant conceptions of the 
 hereafter will be discouraged while the laws underlying 
 its finite seeming will be clearly defined and interpreted 
 whenever practical. 
 
 Some controls prudently suppress all communica- 
 tive attempts directed through their sensitive for which 
 they do not act as the transmitting intermediary. Un- 
 der that condition the controls reproject the message on 
 behalf of the communicating entity. It now and then 
 happens that a cautious control will impersonate rather 
 than even momentarily surrender his authority. A sin- 
 cere impersonation for this reason is, however, excep- 
 tional and the phase is generally defined in advance 
 by the controls. 
 
 Restricting the transmitting operation to a single 
 control, or at most, two, tends to invest the operators 
 with amplified freedom in style and extent of intelli- 
 
52 AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 
 
 gent observations on conditions finitely and psychicly 
 discerned. Erratic tendencies by irresponsible con- 
 trols are thus always under observation. Weakness and 
 temporary inability of a responsible control can be in- 
 stantly detected from the first faint indication and al- 
 lowances made, with adjournment until better condi- 
 tions allow improvement. Restriction in the number of 
 transmitting controls permits the favored entities to de- 
 velop assurance and ease, and their freedom from inter- 
 ference insures that practice which makes for perfection. 
 On the other hand, an exclusive obsession by an 
 irresponsible, psychicly intemperate entity is a ter- 
 rible misfortune. He sees to it that he is the sole ten- 
 ant, though his various aspects may appear legion. Dis- 
 lodging the wary intruder who tenaciously clings to his 
 occupancy and is always elaborately entrenched in the 
 mentality of his victim, requires forceful application of 
 psychic means of ejection which are seldom at the com- 
 mand of individual mortals. Victory is only assured 
 through the combined efforts of well disposed, person- 
 ally interested entities, the victim's persistent resistance 
 and, when available, such high aid of elevated charac- 
 ter as may be enlisted from that attracted by some in- 
 teresting phase of the struggle. However, assistance 
 from high entities should not be counted on as they are 
 inclined to regard the endeavor as incidental to individ- 
 ual evolution and thus of a private nature, and, when 
 present, are rarely more than casual observers. 
 
 Energy consumption in personal counsel by 
 psychic entities greatly exceeds that expended in im- 
 personal discourse and is the upshot of the transmitting 
 entity not only performing a communicative feat, but, 
 established in its finite mode, further harmonizing and 
 composing the intellect so as to formulate intelligent 
 judgment of current mortal affairs, inclinations and 
 possibilities. Psychic prophesy ranging from vaguest 
 generalities to definite prediction is little more than a 
 
AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 53 
 
 more or less accurate estimate of the radiated vigor of 
 enthusiastic ambition, aspiration and related aims. Mor- 
 bid depression from fear, aversion and other disinclina- 
 tions are likewise rated by comparative effects at some 
 time experienced by the predicting entity. 
 
 Discarnates are sufficiently out of rapport with 
 natural elements and environments as to be sympathet- 
 ically susceptible to a degree which warps sound judg- 
 ment in counseling mortals. The effort to come in com- 
 municative contact colors transmission, and the entity, 
 unless alertly guarding against such an effect, assumes 
 temperamental characteristics of the sensitive and to a 
 minor degree of the recipient of the message, an irreg- 
 ularity which affords opportunity for a triple derange- 
 ment. 
 
 Perfected transmission is unattainable even by the 
 most experienced psychic specialists in that phase un- 
 less the communication is restricted to subject-matter 
 incidental to the high entity's finite mission. Venturing 
 into other fields, however momentarily attractive, high- 
 er discarnates soon realize or unmistakably reveal in- 
 ability to successfully harmonize though possibly in rap- 
 port with that in discussion. A higher sphere control 
 operates on a sharply attuned vibrational rate which is 
 harmonically related to the ethical intent of his mis- 
 sion. General communicative effort too often estab- 
 lishes rapport with counter influences which unbalance 
 when not disrupting the narrow attunement range of 
 transmitting rapport which is primarily adjusted for 
 maximum efficiency in delivery of that embodying com- 
 municative purpose. 
 
54 AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 
 
 CHAPTER IV 
 
 COMMUNICATIVE IMPULSION 
 
 Attacking the subject of mental psychic communi- 
 cation with some diffidence, H. cautioned anew of the 
 difficulties experienced in interpreting psychic states of 
 being and environment into intelligent modes of finite 
 expression. He prudently introduced his discourse by 
 outlining the inception of communicative impulsion in 
 the hereafter. 
 
 It must be remembered that the transition to 
 psychic environment compelled by finite physical death 
 is a nerve-racking process in the sense that the rates of 
 the soul are temporarily deranged to the point where 
 the new inhabitant is not even positive of his own iden- 
 tity. This is the normal consequence of sudden sever- 
 ance from the former system of sensory cognition. All 
 thought functioning is numbed; memory is practically 
 suppressed and new conceptions are postponed. 
 
 The first conscious and quite natural mental effort 
 by the new entity is a groping attempt to gather the 
 loose ends and high lights of his preceding existence 
 from a disturbed and hazy memory. Reanimating 
 memory, he regains a fairly clear conception of unal- 
 tered identity coupled with an obscure sorrow, akin to 
 a foreboding of imminent evil, though unable to per- 
 ceive immediate cause for the disheartening depression. 
 This influence is, however, soon apprehended to be a 
 subconscious reminiscence of the dismay excited by 
 mortal dissolution, and is realized to be a lingering dis- 
 quietude from terrors past and not a presentiment of 
 those present or in the near future. Banishing this de- 
 
AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 55 
 
 pression imparts courage and fortitude with some de- 
 gree of self-assurance. 
 
 The sensation is analogous to reviving from an 
 exhausting physical coma with a similar inability to im- 
 mediately recall specific facts and figures. This post- 
 coma condition is relieved in the measure of higher 
 spheric lodgement until transition is accomplished by 
 properly prepared individuals with practically unim- 
 pared consciousness. Correlated incompetency is also 
 from similar qualifications converted into potential 
 competency. 
 
 While it is true there is instant ministration to the 
 newcomer by attracted and personally attached enti- 
 ties, little more is then attempted or can be attained in 
 the lower spheres than to tranquilize his disturbed state 
 and compose his bewildered intellect. These atten- 
 dants are generally of the sphere where the new entity 
 finds himself as may be logically expected when the 
 personal band of guides were originally attached to him 
 through harmonic correspondence in temperament and 
 intellectual capacity. This is what is meant by the aph- 
 orism, "The soul is met by those it knows." It thus 
 follows that primary instruction by first attendants im- 
 parts little knowledge and merely develops latent ca- 
 pacities of the pupil. This is not true of higher planes 
 where spheric divisions broadly overlap and in any giv- 
 en plane there may be found entities temporarily de- 
 tained or voluntarily abiding for the fulfillment of some 
 individual intent, though otherwise qualified for ad- 
 vancement. In such instances, the newcomer is offered 
 instruction amounting to more than a general introduc- 
 tion to novel environment. 
 
 Lodging in whatever sphere finite evolution en- 
 titles an entity to, his first impressions are colored by 
 the opinions of those he counsels with; often disdaining 
 friendly advice and relying solely on his own percep- 
 tions, his conclusions are further distorted. An entity 
 lodging in any sphere soon observes effects resulting 
 from the laws governing that condition, though he does 
 
56 AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 
 
 not at once comprehend their principles nor understand 
 their application. 
 
 When it is remembered that nearly all physical 
 phenomena and most mental communication available 
 to mortals is from the lower spheres, meaning here the 
 first and second, not forgetting the universal ignorance 
 prevailing there, the cause of varying psychic reports 
 describing states of being, together with the innumer- 
 able theories advanced on this and that, is readily un- 
 derstood. The alleged facts are merely opinions issu- 
 ing from erroneous hypotheses. How the inept prac- 
 tice of these lower entities affects finite sensitives and 
 those others who are addicted to credulous reception 
 of whatever may be imparted from that source, may be 
 readily imagined. 
 
 Discarnates and mortals alike are obliged to for- 
 mulate mental conceptions and representations of real- 
 ity from reactions resulting from intelligent contact. 
 Finite mental constructs are modified by the interven- 
 ing physical sensory system. In the hereafter, the phys- 
 ical sense barrier is eliminated and the mind comes in 
 contact with the vibrational structure of things. This 
 tends to impart a first hand information of cause in- 
 stead of effect. Finite intuitional conceptions of mass 
 are identical with discarnate mental contact with lower 
 vibrational effects. 
 
 A new inhabitant of the lower spheres, after 
 learning to discriminate between these very real differ- 
 ences in finite and psychic cognition, dimly discerns the 
 action of a basic spiritual law. It is his first conscious 
 contact with the governing influences of his new abode 
 and is perception of the fact that spiritual matter in a 
 free state is subject to mental control, exactly the re- 
 verse of the finite rule where physical matter influences 
 mental constructs and governs them to a certain extent. 
 
 Discernment of this fundamental psychic fact is 
 first experienced by discarnates when confronted with 
 or submerged in thought creations which are the out- 
 growth of mental processes. Mental exercise from here 
 on begins to accomplish results. 
 
AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 57 
 
 Subsequent personal confirmation of the law is es- 
 tablished when restored memory impels an intense and 
 weird loneliness for previous associates and environ- 
 ment which transports an entity into close rapport with 
 them. Impelling thought is ever a propelling force for 
 accomplishment. 
 
 After a few failures to tangibly participate in fi- 
 nite activities, the chagrined wanderer apprehends that 
 he is a thing apart. It is then natural and normal for 
 him to crave communication with those mortals who 
 may attract him. 
 
 The reason elevated discarnates are comparative- 
 ly few amid the clustering throng of lower psychic be- 
 ings hovering about finite environment is that the for- 
 mer come into it only on definite missions or in re- 
 sponse to particular attractions, while the latter natu- 
 rally gravitate there in quest of a mental outlet, aside 
 from specific harmonies and individual attractions. 
 
 The return is comparatively simple for those of 
 the lower spheres and is due to the fact that their rates 
 readily harmonize with finite rates, induct with greater 
 volume and energy, and blend with stabilizing effect. 
 For similar reasons, the occupants of the lower spheres 
 manifest with a power and vigor lacking in the finite 
 phenomena produced by higher entities. The superior 
 knowledge of the latter is not equivalent in practice to 
 the automatic efficiency with which the magnetic rates 
 of the lower entities attract forceful essences of a high 
 finite order necessary for physical manifestation of va- 
 ried phases. This is not true, however, of mental phas- 
 es of communication. No inhabitant of the first spheric 
 ranges can hope to achieve the clarity and precision in 
 finite communication by thought transmission exercised 
 by an entity of the fifth sphere upward. Volume, per- 
 sonal interest and emphasis of address must not be 
 here confused with intellectual merit and ethical pur- 
 pose. 
 
 Apart from finite harmonic allurements, there is, 
 of course, anxiety and concern over those mortals the 
 lower entities leave behind. Not that this solicitude is 
 
58 AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 
 
 greater at the moment, for it remains with discarnates 
 as long as there are mortal affinities of relationship and 
 love motives actuating it. Augmented knowledge al- 
 lows discarnates to temper that anxiety until it be- 
 comes more of a tender love than a constant worry. 
 This attitude endures even though the mortal loved one 
 undergoes affliction or experiences the most distressing 
 adversity, as psychic progression clearly reveals that 
 finite trouble is of little ultimate consequence. While 
 there is ever a keen interest in and desire for the mate- 
 rial and spiritual welfare of the attracting mortal, the 
 attachment does not in higher spheres border on the 
 tragic. The passage of time coupled with loving ser- 
 vice from both planes of existence eventually corrects 
 all earthly ills. 
 
 Established in rapport with communicative possi- 
 bilities, there are numberless motives animating an en- 
 tity's desire to deliver messages or otherwise manifest. 
 It may be anxiety over wrongs which he feels should 
 be personally righted; it may be merely an attempt to 
 salve conscience without further corrective effort. It 
 may be intolerant meddling in opposed interests; it 
 may be an unskillful attempt to lighten individual's 
 burdens from purely unselfish endeavor. It may also 
 be inefficient efforts to console grieving relatives and 
 dear ones. On the other hand, it may be an outlet for 
 vainglory of many phases; it may be from vengance, 
 hatred, suspicion or jealousy. It may be a means to glut 
 lingering physical cravings and vices which can be sat- 
 isfied in no other way than by intimate thought con- 
 tact with mortals similarly addicted, or it may be any 
 manifestation characteristic of an entity which is im- 
 practicable in psychic environment. Only a few presen- 
 tations are required to clearly indicate the spiritual de- 
 gree of merit possessed by the manifesting entity. 
 
 It is only a short step in evolution to the psychic 
 state where knowledge that amends must be made in 
 
AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 59 
 
 some form impels frantic efforts to effect finite re- 
 adjustment of restraints hindering advancement. 
 
 Enlightenment in universal love and tenderness 
 brings direful repentance to discarnates who have of- 
 fended its finite requirements. The penitents strive 
 with every available means of reparation to make 
 amends for their transgressions. They constantly quail 
 before the dreadful specter of their own naked souls 
 viewed in that light and incessantly endeavor to rid 
 their consciousness of the horrible spectacle. 
 
 Little more can be done than to impress the in- 
 jured mortal with knowledge of this repentance and so 
 generally secure the benefit of his forgiveness. It is piti- 
 ful to witness the despair of a penitent disappointed in 
 this struggle. Remission is sometimes only attained 
 through forgetfulness where continued mortal aversion 
 is dispelled by new resentments. This is only a nega- 
 tive absolution not conferring full benefit and the entity 
 is impelled to the alternative of impersonal service in 
 working out his salvation. 
 
 The opportunity occurs at this point for mission- 
 ary action by more elevated discarnates. Consoling 
 guidance and higher instruction are offered the griev- 
 ing lower sphere inhabitant which gradually mitigate 
 his anguish. Increased knowledge directs his efforts 
 into more fruitful channels and he is placed in the path 
 of advancement. 
 
 Distress of this nature is simple to relieve com- 
 pared with liberating an entity from the fetters of lin- 
 gering hatred, vengeance and jealousy. There is slight 
 prospect of successfully combating these blights until 
 the involved entity perceives his impotency to finitely 
 consummate his fierce and violent intents. It often hap- 
 pens that the trend of finite events departs from the 
 circumstances once participated in by the malignant 
 entit}' - and which instigated his enmity. Then, con- 
 fronted with different psychological effects with which 
 his prey are in rapport and he is not, it comes to pass 
 that his private feud is relegated into the background 
 and even his memory disdained where he is not forgot- 
 
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 ten. The state is then soon reached where he com- 
 pletely looses rapport with the mortals he so com- 
 lessly pursued and nothing remains of his malignity ex- 
 cept its personal reaction. He does not endure this re- 
 tribution long before becoming receptive to reason. 
 
 Ascending the spheres, the higher the plane, the 
 more impersonal the tendency of communication, un- 
 til from the fifth sphere upward even the closest kins- 
 man will seldom interrupt the flow with personal com- 
 ment or advice other than of the most general charac- 
 ter. Not that love is lacking, but that it partakes more 
 of an altruistic nature and aspires to more lofty results 
 than the satisfactions of personal thought contact how- 
 ever tender. 
 
 Over and above the correspondence between 
 mortals and lower discarnates there is the higher at- 
 traction impelling indirect ministration to both by in- 
 habitants of more elevated planes. When needful or 
 advantageous, the latter will essay indirect finite com- 
 munication where the attracting individual is not a 
 psychic sensitive, though they generally rely on intui- 
 tional impression for guiding mortals. 
 
 The moral range of effective communication is 
 wide, ranging through good, bad and indifferent; 
 sometimes it is of importunate worth; again, of little 
 consequence. There is enduring communicative en- 
 deavor, direct and indirect, from all spheres up to and 
 including the eighth, which mortals are seldom aware 
 of and rarely comprehend. Its permanent merit is pro- 
 portional to the elevation and morality of its source. 
 
AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 61 
 
 CHAPTER V 
 THE SPHERES 
 
 Marshalling his subject with enthusiasm and where 
 practicable interpreting variant psychic conditions into 
 terms of relative emotion, H. evinced a lively interest 
 in describing the spheres as he personally knows them. 
 
 Admittedly not a "master," his conceptions are 
 tempered with commendable restraint and presented 
 as observational comment. The states of discarnate 
 being defined are briefly enumerated with concise ex- 
 positions of their salient features. Direct address en- 
 livens his decisive statements which well indicate active 
 participation in and not merely abstract contemplation 
 of the afterworld effects and environment dealt with. 
 
 Defining the spheres, they may properly be 
 termed distinct ascending states of discarnate being 
 facilitating the soul's fundamental search for evolu- 
 tionary happiness. 
 
 It is impracticable for me to positively state the 
 number of spheres as I neither know nor could possibly 
 now verify even the conclusions I have formulated on 
 that question. However, I offer what I believe on credit- 
 able information to be the fact that there are between 
 thirty-three and thirty-seven distinct ascending condi- 
 tions of spheric existence. 
 
 Distinguishing between the spheres, I enumerate 
 them according to their spiritual-material substance 
 rate divisions which are distinct, whereas the spiritual- 
 mental influences broadly overlap. When desired, any 
 entity may mold for himself through creative power of 
 thought a thousand and one idealized subdivisions 
 
62 AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 
 
 within any sphere even unto the seventh division seven 
 fold, but they would all be spiritual variations compat- 
 ible with the material-substance structure of the one 
 sphere he inhabits and more often than not would be 
 distinctions without a difference. 
 
 There is no definite name among discarnates for 
 any sphere and they are described by thought terms 
 when referred to, not as mortals speak of localities, but 
 as states of being. The numerical system of designa- 
 tion has gradually arisen in finite psychic communica- 
 tion as a ready means of approximating discarnate spir- 
 itual qualifications and relativity. 
 
 Personally, I am only acquainted with sphere life 
 up to and including part of my own plane which is the 
 sixth. Beyond this, my knowledge consists merely of 
 communicative fragments I have culled here and there 
 by methods analogous to communication between mor- 
 tals and discarnates who can harmonize with the earth 
 plane for that purpose. For similar reasons, I, in turn, 
 ponder on the descriptive accuracy of such representa- 
 tions. Needless to say, I am at a complete loss how to 
 impart any of my suppositions in the matter since even 
 the midrange is more foreign and vague to me than my 
 phase is to you. 
 
 Regarding the last half-dozen spheres, my mind 
 simply ceases to function and I cannot even conjecture 
 the distinctions regulating their division. Whether there 
 are finalities of existence beyond and above the last 
 sphere, I will not venture so much as a gues3. 
 
 Location of the spheres relative to the earth's sur- 
 face is the object of incurable mortal speculation, 
 though, as a matter of fact, it is of little significance 
 since the spiritual gravity which regulates their distance 
 and spacing has no effect on finite material conditions. 
 
 The lower spheres I am familiar with are located 
 surrounding and parallel with the earth's surface. While 
 their influences blend and overlap, their fundamental 
 
AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 63 
 
 matter structure is sufficiently distinct to constitute each 
 an entirely separate locality in space. Radical refine- 
 ment differences in the vibratory rates of the matter- 
 substance of each sphere compel strict localization. 
 Variations in the rate of matter-substance for two ad- 
 jacent spheres is not sufficient to allow independent 
 functioning within the same volume of space. Spheric 
 stratum locations are thus not conditioned by fourth- 
 dimensional matter interpenetrations. 
 
 The substratum limits of the first sphere are nearly 
 twenty miles above the earth. That it is not closer in, 
 is due to the disruptive effects of inbound finite mate- 
 rial rates entering their objective and the backlash of 
 the surplus. Equilibrium between the two conflicting 
 states of matter-substance facilitations is not estab- 
 lished in a convenient form under that distance. Per- 
 sonally, I think it largely a matter of habit. 
 
 Presuming on the scant fund of knowledge I now 
 possess concerning the higher spheres, I have diffident- 
 ly computed the indefinite upper limit of the last 
 sphere and believe it to be in the neighborhood of two 
 hundred miles above the rate foundations of the first 
 sphere. This is, of course, tentative. 
 
 Enumerating the lower spheres with regard to 
 their vertical extent and distance from the earth, we 
 have: 
 
 1st; extent: 
 
 1 1 miles; 20 i 
 
 miles to 3 1 m 
 
 2nd; " 
 
 10 " ;31 
 
 •« •• 4i 
 
 3rd; " 
 
 10 " ;41 
 
 44 44 51 
 
 4th; 
 
 9 *' ; 51 
 
 44 44 60 
 
 5th; 
 
 7 " ; 60 
 
 44 44 67 
 
 6th; 
 
 -7 " ;67 
 
 44 44 74 
 
 7th; " 
 
 6|/ 2 " ;74 
 
 44 44 soy 2 
 
 and so on, remembering that the higher the degree of 
 spiritual enlightenment and the finer matter is corre- 
 spondingly keyed, so are the planes more compact and 
 thinner as relative strata. 
 
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 Let no one be unduly alarmed believing that these 
 limits so restrict discarnate activity as to render dis- 
 carnate existence intolerable to all but lympathic na- 
 tures. A momentary reflection will remind that aside 
 from compact city housings and commercial structures, 
 underground occupations and aerial ascensions, the 
 average mortal seldom has occasion to penetrate ten 
 feet below the earth's surface nor ascend forty feet 
 above it. 
 
 I have no idea what the spheric population is, 
 either in the whole or separately. Wherever I have 
 had occasion to penetrate, it is evenly distributed with 
 a density corresponding to finite city life, but with the 
 gregarious instinct modified by comity of interest. 
 No vast open ranges are required here for the produc- 
 tion of sustenance necessities and distance means noth- 
 ing in lapse of time for transportation so that inclina- 
 tion and harmonic convenience practically govern dom- 
 icile. 
 
 •T* •** *T* •** 
 
 Concisely, if broadly stated, the comparative 
 values of spheric vibrational acceleration are greater 
 than one compounded and approach the ratio of the 
 square, thus: 
 
 1st 
 
 1 
 
 ; 6th 
 
 36 
 
 2nd 
 
 4 
 
 ; 7th 
 
 49 
 
 3rd 
 
 9 
 
 ; 8th 
 
 64 
 
 4th 
 
 16 
 
 9th 
 
 81 
 
 5 th 
 
 25; 
 
 10th 
 
 100 
 
 etc. 
 
 All spheres preserve a natural proportion between 
 spiritual thought activity and native matter-substance 
 inseparable from the plane where the latter harmonizes 
 with mental exercise as a reduced frequency vehicle 
 for expression of intellectual concepts. 
 
 So far as I can now ascertain and my intellect can 
 comprehend, there is always the corresponding mate- 
 rial to the spiritual in each sphere. 
 
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 However, it must be remembered that a sequence 
 of only a few spheres in the upper ranges is required 
 to so widely separate comparative values of vibratory 
 fineness by relative ratios of the square that it is not 
 entirely beyond comprehension where the natural pro- 
 portion between spirit and matter in elevated spheres 
 is so adjusted that the latter becomes practically equiv- 
 alent in refinement though, of course, ever inert except 
 under stimulus of intelligent excitation. 
 
 It awes the mind to deliberate on the certainty of 
 a state of being wherein the very material foundations 
 are so refined in rate purity and rapidity as to almost 
 merge with thought frequencies. When this condition 
 of relativity exists, finite or interspheric communica- 
 tion ceases as nothing whatsoever remains in common 
 and all channels of transmission become unresponsive 
 where not inert. 
 
 Reprojection by thought relays occasionally reach 
 the sixth sphere from lofty spiritual levels, but I have 
 not even allegorical expression with which to interpret 
 the messages to you. Furthermore, while I have faith 
 in the integrity and accuracy of the relaying agents who 
 have prodigious prestige among discarnates availing of 
 the service, the method is open to question as its opera- 
 tion is susceptible to some of the irregularities derang- 
 ing precision in finite-psychic communication. Person- 
 ally convinced and respectfully attentive, I am con- 
 servative here on your behalf. 
 
 Discarnates cannot ascend higher than their own 
 harmonic sphere level, but can descend at will to lower 
 planes. However, such descent and lucid functioning 
 requisite for tangible manifestation when co-ordinated 
 with vibratory conditions incongruous with normal 
 existence are two different things. 
 
 There are natural limits of interspheric and finite 
 psychic communication which are rarely exceeded ex- 
 cept in momentous emergencies by exalted entities of 
 extraordinary attainments. 
 
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 The scope of communicative facilities between dis- 
 carnate phases and the earth plane may be approxi- 
 mately compared as: 
 
 1st, 2nd and 3rd spheres; general; inherently 
 
 harmonic with finite influences. 
 4th and 5th; frequent; impelled by evolution- 
 ary and love motives. 
 6th; occasional; missionary and educational in- 
 tents. 
 7th; unusual; ethical instruction. 
 8th; exceptional; altruistic endeavor. 
 9th; extraordinary; observational. 
 10th; unique; peculiar missions. 
 11th; unparalleled and to all intents and pur- 
 poses impossible. 
 
 The tangible manifestation range is closer, while purely 
 observational possibilities are not so confined. 
 
 Practicable penetration between the spheres in 
 descent which 1 have observed and otherwise believe 
 customary may be readily scheduled in maximums as: 
 
 9th sphere to the 2nd; 
 
 10th ' 4th; 
 
 13th " " " 6th; 
 
 15th " " " 10th. 
 
 These are averages which do not contemplate the ulti- 
 mate extensions scheduled in the preceding table. Be- 
 yond the thirteenth, I am informed that matter has 
 been so refined it is extremely difficult for an inhabitant 
 from those lofty planes to function, much less manifest, 
 even on the sixth where I now abide. 
 
 Mortal thought penetration into the afterworld is 
 so rare that I have never personally detected the neg- 
 ative thought presence of one in this world. It re- 
 quires a peculiarly elastic temperament and practically 
 a lifelong training for a mortal to harmonize at will 
 with discarnate conditions and I am inclined to believe 
 
AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 67 
 
 that most instances of that nature are spiritual thought 
 stimulations in descent and not spiritual matter con- 
 tacts in ascent. The former operation, all things con- 
 sidered, tends to perceptive accuracy. 
 
 Many bizarre and weird descriptions have been 
 reported to mortals purporting to be derived from per- 
 sonal observations by entities penetrating the upper 
 spheres. These interpretations often represent natural 
 psychic conditions as stupendous magnetic vortexes 
 of illimitable bounds, bewildering massed effects of 
 kaleidoscopic colors of unbelievable intensity and bril- 
 liancy, stupefying sounds of cataclysmic volume, and 
 numbing pressures ranging from the seeming weight 
 of a universe to absolute vacuum. 
 
 Credulous minds in both worlds are attracted to 
 these fantastic conceptions as expressing their own 
 vaguely formulated notions of Deific grandeur and 
 power striving with rampant elemental substances. 
 The miraculous should never attract when a simple ex- 
 planation will suffice. 
 
 When an adventurous entity or a temporary dis- 
 embodied mortal mind oversteps the upward bounds 
 of his natural abode, he encounters elemental essences 
 and vibratory rates which he cannot rationally function 
 in and does well to escape back to his own environment 
 without the infliction of more or less enduring injury. 
 His subsequent attempts to report what he discovered 
 take the form of describing his discordant perceptive 
 reactions. Unable to lucidly cognize the rates which 
 affected and overwhelmed him by their inharmonious 
 volume, he sensed the effects on himself according to 
 preconceived idealized concepts. The explorer or 
 straggler as may be, simply "got a bump", "heard 
 things" or "saw stars" as might be expected. 
 
 There is nothing radical about discarnate exist- 
 ence. Everything is quite commonplace. Above the 
 first two spheres it is more orderly than average finite 
 social adjustments and is founded on similar ontologi- 
 cal principles. It is spiritually depressing to receive 
 morbid descriptions of a glorious evolutionary oppor- 
 
68 AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 
 
 tunity and it is only when some lower sphere communi- 
 cating entity allows imagination to run riot with reason 
 that mortals are imposed on with such exaggerated 
 accounts of this world. Disembodied mortal descrip- 
 tive errors can hardly be held responsible, they are so 
 obviously out of phase. 
 
 The afterworld travel lanes are primarily down- 
 ward and higher spheres need no sentinels to guard 
 against an influx of unqualified lower entities. All 
 intruders are automatically repulsed through the re- 
 pellent force instituted by fundamental vibratory re- 
 sistance against merging inharmonious constituents. 
 This is just as well because a horde of inquisitive, 
 blundering or meddlesome lower entities would be an 
 infernal nuisance in any sphere. They have their 
 own ranges and evolutionary mandates keep them 
 there. 
 
 Individuals so widely alter cases, the period of 
 normal sojourn in each of the spheres can only be 
 vaguely stated. Discarnates may dwell from two to 
 three years up to five hundred in each of the first three, 
 and some entities appear permanently lodged there ex- 
 cept for the untoward contingency of the earth dis- 
 integrating and other objects then engrossing and in- 
 fluencing their thoughts. The fourth to seventh in- 
 clusive imply a sojourn of from ten to thirty years in 
 each unless an entity paticularly strives for advance- 
 ment. Higher on, it again becomes a much longer 
 span, though ever in cycles. There is no set rule for 
 evolutionary advancement in the afterworld as there 
 is in educational development on earth by public in- 
 struction. 
 
 Existence in the first three spheres, aside from the 
 disembodied feature, is analogous to finite modes and 
 the plane facilitations are necessarily so adapted 
 as to naturally harbor discarnates of equivalent intel- 
 lectual capacity. Advancing higher, there is a corre- 
 
AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 69 
 
 sponding gain in spiritual discernment and consequently 
 less dependence on material sense correlatives in which 
 an entity exerts continually increased demands on the 
 spiritual perceptions, until in the tenth sphere the mate- 
 rial, as mortals know and manipulate that elemental 
 phase, has become little more than the shell of exist- 
 ence and purely spiritual rates are substituted for the 
 soul's functional expression. 
 
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 CHAPTER VI 
 DISCARNATE ADVANCEMENT 
 H. continued: 
 
 *j* *t* rp *t+ 
 
 Once intuitively convinced of continuity of exist- 
 ence succeeding that phase of life terminated by phys- 
 ical dissolution, mortals persistently seek authoritative 
 knowledge of its spiritual standards, ethical principles 
 and evolutionary possibilities. 
 
 It is fundamental in the afterworld that all spheric 
 existence be based on relative harmony and intellectual 
 concord. To that end, the elemental potentials are so 
 adjusted as to relentlessly reduce fractious constituents 
 to a common level compatible with the governing 
 spiritual standard. Ensuing spheric location of entities 
 at finite demise thus reverts to a question of inherent 
 fitness for specific occupancy. 
 
 Subsequent adjustment is regulated by the cumu- 
 lative effect derived from constant association with 
 and response to the general harmonic rapport of any 
 paticular sphere. That influence is the factor which 
 primarily molds discarnate character and degree of 
 expression. 
 
 Although desire directly compels progress, desire 
 for advantageous spheric location and harmonious asso- 
 ciation are distinct phases. Where an entity may well 
 crave participation in the beneficient influences and 
 salutory environment stimulating those of spiritual at- 
 tainments superior to his own, he, himself, may be of 
 such intellectual and moral composition as to hardly 
 expect general satisfaction with his intrusion, and sub- 
 mitting to evolutionary mandate, naturally gravitates 
 
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 71 
 
 to that phase of being with which he harmonizes in per- 
 fect unison. 
 
 There is no personal latitude in ethical regulation. 
 Spiritual regeneration is essential before the soul can 
 attain higher estate. This may appear unjust to mor- 
 tals who contemplate the numerous examples where 
 various aggressive ambitions force individuals into in- 
 harmonious settings, but such unbalanced states cannot 
 endure in the afterworld as the mere passive resistance 
 of higher rates against incongruous amalgamation soon 
 discourages that ambition in unqualified entities. 
 
 Broadly distinguished, the average spheric location 
 of entities of all finite races immediately following 
 death is: 40 per cent, to the 1st; 20 per cent, to the 
 2nd; 20 per cent, to the 3rd; 15 per cent, to the 4th; 
 5 per cent, to the 5 th; and a few rare exceptions to 
 the 6th. 
 
 This assignment is not the result of spiritual en- 
 lightenment and mortality alone but is also the measure 
 of how purely finite matter was utilized for the accom- 
 modation of these attributes. Innumerable discarnates 
 are spiritually qualified to abstractly function in higher 
 spheres than those in which they can successfully co- 
 ordinate native matter as a vehicle for expression of ab- 
 stract concepts. The latter are temporarily, of course, 
 their natural domicile. 
 
 Dominant characteristics of average discarnate 
 types inhabitating the first eight spheres may be readi- 
 ly summarized as follows: 
 
 First; 
 
 Second; 
 
 Third, 
 
 violence 
 
 rapacity 
 
 defiance 
 
 rancor 
 
 bigotry 
 
 arrogance 
 
 hypocricy 
 
 perfidy 
 
 turbulence 
 
 covetuousness 
 
 obstinacy 
 
 bitterness 
 
 intolerance 
 
 insolence 
 
 vanity 
 
 duplicity 
 
 contention 
 negligence 
 fear 
 go*«ir> 
 
 self-pity 
 incredulity 
 conceit 
 instability 
 
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 First 
 
 Second 
 
 Third 
 
 envy 
 
 cruelty 
 
 malignity 
 
 lust 
 
 vengeance 
 
 selfishness 
 
 despair 
 
 stupidity 
 
 jealousy 
 remorse 
 moroseness 
 
 discontent 
 sorrow- 
 perturbation 
 
 suspicion 
 
 denunciation 
 
 ingratitude 
 
 despondency 
 
 ignorance 
 
 indiscretion 
 negative virtues 
 indulgence 
 dejection 
 experience 
 
 darkness 
 
 glooin 
 
 shadow- 
 
 spiritual 
 negation; 
 
 spiritual 
 apathy; 
 
 spiritual 
 inability; 
 
 Fourth ; 
 
 Fifth; 
 
 Sixth ; 
 
 co-operation 
 
 instruction 
 
 enterprise 
 
 friendship 
 
 charity 
 
 tranquillity 
 
 courtesy 
 
 faith 
 
 duty 
 
 restraint 
 
 compassion 
 
 gentleness 
 
 patience 
 
 poise 
 
 sympathy 
 
 humility 
 
 integrity 
 
 simplicity 
 
 honesty 
 
 redemption 
 
 rectitude 
 
 address 
 
 zeal 
 
 tenacity 
 
 gratitude 
 
 protection 
 
 logic 
 
 relief 
 
 fortitude 
 
 aspiration 
 
 courage 
 
 energy 
 
 endeavor 
 
 humor ' 
 
 inspiration 
 
 resolution 
 
 discernment 
 
 accuracy 
 
 talent 
 
 inception of love 
 
 piety 
 
 devotion 
 
 hope 
 
 loyalty 
 
 harmony 
 
 intelligence 
 
 conviction 
 
 truth 
 
 dawn 
 
 illumination 
 
 light 
 
 spiritual 
 
 spiritual 
 
 spiritual 
 
 yearning; 
 
 perception; 
 
 application; 
 
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 73 
 
 Seventh; 
 
 serenity- 
 mercy 
 symmetry 
 power 
 efficiency 
 purity 
 acumen 
 precision 
 love 
 knowledge 
 
 radiance 
 
 spiritual 
 
 success ; 
 
 Eighth; 
 
 freedom 
 
 justice 
 
 unison 
 
 authority 
 
 genius 
 
 beatification 
 
 grandeur 
 
 peace 
 
 rapture 
 
 wisdom 
 
 effulgence 
 
 spiritual 
 
 comprehension. 
 
 Condensed, the evolutionary effect amounts to; 
 
 First, 
 
 Selfishness; 
 
 Second, 
 
 Remorse ; 
 
 Third, 
 
 Perplexity; 
 
 Fourth, 
 
 Desire to Advance 
 
 Fifth, 
 
 Advancement; 
 
 Sixth, 
 
 Assiduity; 
 
 Seventh, 
 
 Accomplishment ; 
 
 Eighth, 
 
 Achievement. 
 
 It is here shown that advancement in the first 
 three spheres consists of renunciation ensuing from 
 surfeit of the propensities detailed. Advancement 
 from the third sphere and on consists of attainment 
 wherein the products of evolution are the common- 
 places of the next higher state of being. A great gulf 
 of spiritual transmutation separates these two evo- 
 lutionary cycles and the Line of Demarcation marks 
 the neutralizing point where renunciation is converted 
 into endeavor. 
 
74 AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 
 
 There is no prescribed order for either renun- 
 ciation or attainment of the emotional maximums natu- 
 r ll in any sphere. Characteristic temperamental se- 
 lectivity and sex predilections, together with individual 
 circumstances regulate the mode of attack. Probably 
 no two entities ever went about it in precisely the same 
 manner. 
 
 The dominant emotions natural in any phase in 
 no wise preclude entertaining and demonstrating rel- 
 ative virtues from higher levels. In fact, possession 
 of one or more such stimulations tends to reveal his 
 comparative subjection to an entity and incites efforts 
 to unfetter and extricate himself preparatory for en- 
 trance into more elevated realms. 
 
 Hindrances are conquered in the sphere where 
 they are natural effects and negative spiritual maxi- 
 mums. The distractions or inabilities of any lower 
 sphere thus do not disturb the equanimity of those 
 further on, although individuals from the latter may 
 and do aid unfortunates in the former. Though pos- 
 sessed of a majority of the virtues of a higher spiritual 
 level, if restrained by so much as a single bond or 
 unattained virtue of a lower state, an entity necessari- 
 ly rids himself of the hindrance or fulfills the require- 
 ment in its natural environment. Above the Line, 
 advancement is positive and final, never conditional, 
 and, while it may be and often is indefinitely in o"bey- 
 ance, there are no opportunities for relapse. 
 
 It must be remembered that all this is from the 
 viewpoint of the sixth sphere whose qualities do not 
 include omniscience. Where I assign practically ulti- 
 mate spiritual perfection to merely the eighth it is be- 
 cause the ratio values of the spheric square for these 
 two levels imply that it is possessed of nearly twice the 
 rate refinement of the sixth which is no mean spiritual 
 estate. As a matter of fact, this seeming limitation 
 suggests the bounds of relative finite terminology and 
 the extent of my present comprehension. 
 
 There is much I cannot satisfactorily here explain 
 which induces me to believe that there is a second 
 
AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 75 
 
 Line of Demarcation not higher than the tenth sphere 
 where spiritual rates as known to mortals and dis- 
 carnates below that division enter into and assume 
 some of the attributes of a new order of things in the 
 spiral progression of evolutionary cycles. I am in- 
 clined to this belief by the fact that although it is pos- 
 sible to enter the influence of ultimate perfection, di- 
 rect contact with the source is never achieved since per- 
 fection ever recedes. 
 
 The ambition or indolence of the entity is the de- 
 termining time factor of his spiritual attainments. 
 Discarnates are governed in mental accomplishment 
 by education derived from the practice of ethics by 
 devotion to highest aspirations and instruction which 
 bears on spheric existence. All spheres have individ- 
 ual peculiarities, but all exhibit that condition wherein 
 their inhabitants limit their environment by the height 
 of their efficient mental activities. As would, of 
 course, follow, higher concepts are necessary for ad- 
 vancement. 
 
 This is where discarnate missionary endeavor 
 supervenes by striving to stimulate loftier thoughts 
 since permanent advancement only results from spirit- 
 ual enrichment and the incentive of a heavenly here- 
 after as represented in finite theological promise with 
 which to spur on the laggards is impossible. Many 
 individuals cannot be fooled more than once or rather, 
 consider that they cannot. That is why evolution e- 
 quivalent to spiritual progress through the lower 
 spheres is more readily accomplished on the earth 
 plane than in the afterworld since in the former, mor- 
 tals are familiar with the outgrowths of material con- 
 ditions they have to cope with and guard against en- 
 suing detrimental effects. Inexperienced discarnates 
 need education to be aware of the pitfalls which are 
 apt to hinder their progress. 
 
 The reason innocent and pure minded mortal 
 
76 AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 
 
 children do not ascend to levels commensurate with 
 their spiritual potentiality is this very lack of experience 
 with the psychological outgrowths of finite matter 
 facilitations. They universally lodge in the third and 
 fourth spheres where an education analogous to finite 
 experience is supervised. It is a necessary phase in 
 evolution which inherent purity does not abolish. 
 
 The Line of Demarcation between the third and 
 fourth spheres marks a radical cleavage in evolution. 
 It is here that spirit first consummates complete separa- 
 tion from relative matter and dependence on its effects. 
 It is here that matter first assumes radical refinements 
 commensurate with the natural vibratory proportion 
 to its related spiritual rates as is well indicated by the 
 increased ratio values of the spheric square. 
 
 At this stage there unfolds an intuitive compre- 
 hension of purely spiritual existence resulting from 
 activity of all the faculties which imparts clarity of 
 vision and understanding of truths and supplies means 
 for the subjugation of emotional intemperance. The 
 Line defines the stage where, through an intense yearn- 
 ing amounting to prayer, ethical imaginings become 
 known facts and the soul enters into higher estate. 
 It is here that the lessons of experience have been so 
 bitterly learned by both advancing discarnates and 
 mortal arrivals that there occurs an expansion of mind 
 which admits of superior supervision. 
 
 Below the Line there is a marked tendency to de- 
 nounce Divine supervision and guidance. It is true 
 that discarnates detect no more evidence of direct 
 Deific intervention than do mortals, yet this antagonis- 
 tic attitude is incongruous with matter refinement and 
 intolerable in spiritual evolution. 
 
 This proclivity is exceedingly difficult to combat 
 when encountered in either the human or spirit mind, 
 and especially so in the latter where opposition is 
 aggravated by chagrin and dismay at the failure of 
 
AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 77 
 
 ordinary finite religious assurances. Heaven and Hell 
 have been so drummed into the human mind that the 
 finding of neither leaves lower entities unfeeling 
 where not contemptuous of either, and a period of 
 atheism results. When this occurs, higher entities are 
 at a complete loss for convincing arguments with which 
 to exhort the unbelievers. The doctrinal logic and 
 promises imparted to the unfortunate entities on earth 
 will hardly do since they have apparently just per- 
 ceived its fallacy. The proper principles were finitely 
 inculcated but with erroneous interpretations, so that 
 to correct an unbeliever's resultant mode of inter- 
 preting these principles is no small task. 
 
 Higher discarnates apprehend God in Supreme 
 Impulses of Deific Attributes which regulate all funda- 
 mental elements and rates, permit their dynamic 
 effects, and direct their creative powers. They fur- 
 ther believe that a proper attitude of devotional re- 
 spect is to sedulously preserve the effects of His handi- 
 work and maintain the standard of His existence. 
 
 Enlightened discarnates do not presume to com- 
 prehend God. Ordinary intelligence concedes that 
 such presumption merely confesses limitation of 
 thought. 
 
 I thank God for nothing, neither blame Him for 
 anything, but respect Him and honor, love and obey 
 His laws for that greater understanding no man nor 
 spirit can comprehend; and for the existence of a high- 
 er order of intelligence I am unfamiliar with and as 
 yet unable to achieve contact with, which ever has a 
 wonderfully refining, sweetening and elevating influ- 
 ence on my existence. I am not humble; simply ex- 
 periencing the kindly love one feels when the recipient 
 of a greater love than man can comprehend. 
 
 The idea of spheric overlords possessed of su- 
 preme authority and unlimited elemental power is one 
 
78 AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 
 
 I have never verified and is repugnant to my concept 
 of monetheism. Such personifications of the natural 
 operations of immutable laws are merely modern elab- 
 orations on pagansim. 
 
 Probably, in the untoward and quite improbable 
 event of radical rate disturbances in any sphere evolv- 
 ing distractions beyond the power of its inhabitants to 
 subdue and correct, some properly qualified entity 
 capable of impersonally assuming high authority would 
 descend from superior realms to restore equilibrium, 
 and, his mission fulfilled, would depart to his own. 
 
 Permanent, personal supervision is incompatible 
 with the design of evolution which operates through 
 the unrestricted play of individual propensities. The 
 various spheres are all phases of the democracy of the 
 universal in which there is no administrative usurpation. 
 
 It is true that there are elder counselors who ad- 
 monish and commend discarnate action and who pave 
 and guide into opportunities for advancement, but 
 they do not function in an administrative capacity. 
 They are always the more advanced of the sphere 
 which they benefit. 
 
 The governing factors of the afterworld are the 
 tangible effects of principles of existence, precisely as 
 on earth natural laws mold the trend of events. There 
 is this difference; above the Line, discarnates appre- 
 ciate ontological significance and modify their conduct 
 so as to intelligently conform to its vibratory mandates. 
 This voluntary conformity is largely due to the fact 
 that they do not attempt to explain fundamentals by 
 every imaginary idea occuring to them. 
 
 Advancement is refinement to the point where 
 harmony decrees association with more congenial en- 
 vironment. 
 
 Ethically, it is the varying phases of realization 
 by individual entities of supreme natural benevolence 
 and an earnest endeavor to further spiritual standards. 
 This is effected through love of God's perfection and 
 fellow-man, together with sufficient energy animating 
 the emotions to make that love accomplishment. 
 
AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 79 
 
 Practically, it is fulfillment, effected by the prac- 
 tice of existence based on an understanding of the laws 
 governing a temporary condition. 
 
 Technically, spheric transition is not so simply ex- 
 plained. The preliminary spiritual refinement is a 
 gradual preparatory process involving infinitesimal 
 regenerations. The spiritual acceleration is independ- 
 ent of its correlated matter facitity, but compensates 
 the latter with a commensurate correction until the 
 material rate range of any particular sphere is ex- 
 ceeded. Then, the continued progression of the spirit- 
 ual necessitating an equivalent matter facility, the de- 
 ficiency creates a material spheric which harmonizes 
 with the next higher plane and the transition is accom- 
 plished. 
 
AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 
 
 CHAPTER VII 
 
 SPIRITUAL MATTER 
 
 Observations on and comparative spheric tables 
 of elemental spiritual matter facilitating evolutionary 
 advancement concluded H.'s discourse on fundamental 
 afterworld effects. 
 
 Spiritual matter is the correlated material accom- 
 paniment of successively higher stages of accomplish- 
 ment. 
 
 The spiritual matter fundamentals comprehended 
 by discarnates are difficult to define in a manner ena- 
 bling mortals to understand their application. They 
 may be briefly summed up in the general statement 
 that mind is ever the determining factor in the ad- 
 ministering of action on what in the afterworld per- 
 tains to analogous finite matter. 
 
 Spiritual matter is, of course, secondary to spirit- 
 ual life and subject to it. It is fundamental that being 
 able to be governed, such government must be exerted 
 in a spiritual manner and this can only be so through 
 control by thought impulses. 
 
 Further, for spiritual life to control either spirit- 
 ual matter or high rated finite matter, it is necessary 
 that a law governing this relation exist. This being 
 true, discarnates follow the line of least resistance with 
 free thought exerting creative power on affinitized 
 free spiritual matter under laws governing its function- 
 ing. 
 
 Repeating, intelligence ever requires coarser for- 
 mations for its tangible manifestation; granted this, 
 action incidental to spiritual matter attainment is per- 
 formed by effecting forceful applications mentally di- 
 
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 81 
 
 rected which have an inductive potency equivalent to 
 the operative skill brought to bear by the energizing 
 intelligence. 
 
 Having gained a practical apprehension of com- 
 parative spheric spiritual vibratory values from pre- 
 ceding tables and schedules, it is logical to inquire 
 concerning correlated spiritual matter values in the 
 various spheres. 
 
 It is most difficult to even approximately tabulate 
 such values as they can only be rated against another 
 approximate table, the latter being that of spiritual 
 vibratory values as disclosed by the spheric square. 
 All practicable tables of afterworld effects are of 
 necessity so condensed as not to admit of any scru- 
 pulous degree of accuracy. 
 
 This being understood and condoned, I will essay 
 evaluating average free spiritual matter spheric effects. 
 
 Number of 
 
 Spiritual 
 
 Reduction 
 
 Practical 
 
 sphere 
 
 value 
 
 by 
 
 fraction 
 
 decimals ; 
 
 
 spheric 
 
 to mate- 
 
 material 
 
 
 square 
 
 rial value 
 
 value. 
 
 1st 
 
 1 
 
 
 1-10 
 
 .9 
 
 2nd 
 
 4 
 
 
 1-30 
 
 3.866 
 
 3rd 
 
 9 
 
 
 1-60 
 
 8.85 
 
 4th 
 
 16 
 
 
 1-120 
 
 15.866 
 
 5 th 
 
 25 
 
 
 1-250 
 
 24.9 
 
 6th 
 
 36 
 
 
 1-600 
 
 35.94 
 
 7th 
 
 49 
 
 
 1-1300 
 
 48.962 
 
 8th 
 
 64 
 
 
 1-3000 
 
 63.978 
 
 9th 
 
 81 
 
 
 1-8000 
 
 80.989 
 
 10th 
 
 100 
 
 
 1-20000 
 
 99.995 
 
 The first column of this table gives the ascending 
 numerical order of the spheres; the second column, the 
 comparative spiritual rate ratios of each against the 
 unit value of the first sphere; the third column, the 
 fractional reduction from spiritual rate values to af- 
 finitized and harmonically responsive spiritual matter 
 
82 AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 
 
 in each sphere; while the fourth column is practical 
 decimal extensions based on the preceding column and 
 gives the material unit values for ready comparison 
 with those disclosed by the spheric square. 
 
 Understanding this relative equilibrium, it is not 
 amiss to consider the comparative volumes of spirit- 
 ual matter involved in the production of correspond- 
 ing effects in the several spheres listed. This is most 
 readily set forth in terms of average per centages of 
 affinitized matter actually utilized under compulsion 
 of intelligent mental functioning. 
 
 Evaluation here proceeds on the supposition that 
 both spiritual and matter effects in the afterworld may 
 be regarded as elemental quantities, a viewpoint per- 
 fectly comprehensible to enlightened discarnates. 
 
 Sphere. 
 
 1st 
 2nd 
 3rd 
 4th 
 5 th 
 6th 
 7th 
 8th 
 9th 
 10th 
 
 In other words, the total volume of any given ef- 
 fect in the first sphere is composed of 25 per cent 
 spiritual matter and 75 per cent pure thought activity, 
 both by volume of correlated spheric vibrational ef- 
 fects; and with the detailed matter volume reductions 
 and the energizing thought volume increases for each 
 successive sphere in ascent. 
 
 Critical scrutiny of these two tables will at once 
 reveal that the values computed do not follow a regu- 
 lar arithmetic progression; neither do they conform in 
 
 Matter 
 
 Matter proportion 
 
 Taction. 
 
 in per centages. 
 
 1-4 
 
 25.00 per cent 
 
 1-16 
 
 6.25 " " 
 
 1-38 
 
 2.63 M M 
 
 1-55 
 
 1.82 M " 
 
 1-120 
 
 .83 of one per cent 
 
 1-280 
 
 .36 " 
 
 1-370 
 
 .27 44 " " " 
 
 1-490 
 
 .20 " " " " 
 
 1-640 
 
 .16 " ' 
 
 1-820 
 
 .12 " *' " ,4 
 
AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 83 
 
 that sense to each other. As a matter of fact, they are 
 based on critical observation of comparative spheric 
 vibrational effects induced by the dominant emotions 
 peculiar to particular spheres. If such presumption 
 could be tolerated, they may be regarded as mathe- 
 matical appraisal of evolutionary psychology. 
 
 Purely metaphysical afterworld information is 
 rarely transmitted except through an adolescent and 
 naive mind which, more than often, is overwhelmed 
 by its intricacy. Precise elucidation of spheric con- 
 ditions must attempt incontrovertible statements a- 
 daptable to descriptive sentences that can be proven 
 by finite logic in spiritual terms admissible to the sub- 
 ject matter under discussion and thus obtained. 
 
 These two tables well indicate the fact that the 
 ratios between spirit and matter rates became so fine 
 that they practically cease to exist after the tenth 
 sphere. There is a gradual lessening of the cleavage 
 separating the two essentials until they practically 
 merge into an indivisible essence where I conclude 
 that man becomes more than man and enters into a 
 new order of things, a cycle marked by the second line 
 of demarcation elsewhere referred to. 
 
 Just where that second evolutionary cleavage 
 occurs is difficult to determine in any calculation com- 
 prehensible to mortals as I am not enumerating original 
 afterworld values sufficiently close to distinguish the 
 higher variations and the actual merging is beyond 
 scope of observation. In point of fact from anything 
 that I can lucidly impart, it may be regarded as little 
 more than a personal hypothesis based on information 
 and belief. Where such difficulty is experienced in 
 interpreting fundamental conditions in spheres capable 
 of communicative rapport with the earth plane, it will 
 be understood to be impossible to more than barely 
 suggest the certainty of subsequent evolutionary cycles. 
 It is not exactly forbidden wisdom so much as inacces- 
 sible knowledge. 
 
 Exceptions may be properly taken to any of the 
 tables I have prepared and will be found warranted 
 
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 by certain phenomena encountered in isolated instances 
 which should not be advanced as a basis for general 
 computation of fundamental phases of existence. 
 That is why I do not attempt to relate even a few of 
 the innumerable individual applications which are both 
 admissible and feasible. . It is merely asserted that a 
 casual apprehension of general spheric relativity is of 
 marked assistance in working out afterworld evolution 
 from a preliminary finite foundation. 
 
 To attune the mind into an harmonic ethical un- 
 derstanding of the tables of plane rates, it is quite nec- 
 essary to believe that mind is ever free and subservient 
 to no condition of temporarily correlated matter. An 
 intelligently functioning mind is over all that it can 
 comprehend — indivisible, superseding, governing and 
 leading the thought forces in their effort to consum- 
 mate the ultimate issues of spiritual import. 
 
 Distinction of qualities, inception of conditions 
 and value of totals will fit the purpose in filling in the 
 gaps necessary to round out the formulae pertaining to 
 meaning of expressions and rate values in the tables. 
 This will tend to correct any errors due to my inability 
 to explain discrepancies higher on. 
 
 All in all, I believe that sufficient details have 
 been set forth to justify the logical induction that dis- 
 carnates live mentally and tend to a tangible and per- 
 manent revulsion from finite materialism. 
 
 It is impossible to intelligently expound vibration- 
 al relativity where the matter compared comprises dif- 
 ferent elemental substances harmonic to radically dif- 
 ferent phases of existence. 
 
 It is thus impracticable to positively assign an 
 earth plane unit in either spiritual or matter rates from 
 which to develop comparative spheric values. Widely 
 divergent finite emotional states can utilize finite mat- 
 ter facilities with equal ability. It is more than diffi- 
 cult to mathematically average finite emotions which 
 
AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 85 
 
 range in evolutionary degree from the dominant char- 
 acteristics of the first sphere to some of those natural 
 in the sixth. 
 
 Finite matter is not harmonically affinitized with 
 definite evolutionary states of being. Neither is it re- 
 sponsive to mental control, though its irregularities sup- 
 porting disturbed mental compositions may be and 
 often are so regulated where not entirely corrected. 
 
 The proportion of matter by volume utilized in 
 finite effects is remarkably flexible and not restricted 
 by sharply defined cleavages as in the spheres. 
 
 Finite matter is so coarse in particle it is inert to 
 the entry and unresponsive to the evolutionary urge of 
 elemental forces which cause vibrational uplift equal 
 to nature's design for physical issues. Mortals must 
 either refine these coarse particles during earth life or 
 cast them off through physical dissolution before spirit- 
 ual influences begin to assist their affinitized material 
 functioning ever so low as the first sphere. Corre- 
 lated material substance wherever found is always di- 
 visible though never departing from matter characteris- 
 tics until eventual refinement nullifies its harmonic ef- 
 fects through practically merging into spirit. Matter 
 may then be averred to have been successfully obliter- 
 ated. 
 
 Mortals have little to do toward attaining spirit- 
 ual matter compensations incidental to finite evolution 
 other than opening and clearing the physical channel 
 to psychic expressions and benefits. Only through 
 spiritual perception can even a vague idea be acquired 
 of the comparisons between finest finite matter and 
 lowest rated spiritual vibrations. Once distinguished, 
 mortals begin to earn their spiritual reward as the 
 cleavage for man occurs here. 
 
 Finite matter in spiritual experimental composi- 
 tion is sharply defined by those who have attained a 
 working knowledge of harmonic application of laws 
 necessary for permanent progress. It is an inade- 
 quate foil for high rated impulsion and its waning phys- 
 
86 AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 
 
 ical attraction increases spiritual power in the long con- 
 tested warfare of mind to govern. 
 
 Ignoring the most debased propensities and neg- 
 lecting the exalted possibilities of mortal existence, the 
 average finite spiritual rate value plotted against the 
 spheric square would fall between those assigned to 
 the second and third spheres, while its correlated matter 
 rate could be broadly stated as approximately one- 
 tenth the degree of fineness of that of the first sphere. 
 This radical divergence in harmonic ratios precludes 
 any practicable comparison with the vibrational values 
 indicated by the spheric tables. 
 
 Afterworld sustenance and replenishment is a 
 subject that deeply concerns mortal minds not compre- 
 hending natural harmonic adjustment and replacement 
 through vibrational affinity and the fact that such nour- 
 ishment is greatly facilitated by the comparative narrow 
 ratios between correlated afterworld spiritual and ma- 
 terial effects. The process is best explained by stating 
 that discarnates attract the proper readjustments to 
 their astral or spirit bodies. This may be illustrated by 
 certain higher finite material phenomena such as color 
 which though not regarded as a solid substance, yet 
 assumes material characteristics. 
 
 Purely spiritual essences sustaining the individual 
 soul rates in the several spheres and distinguished 
 from lower stimulations affecting affinitized matter are 
 not of higher values than their attraction, but may be 
 said to be strengthening rather than more refined in 
 nature. 
 
 Finite matter possesses tangible inherent energy 
 which mortal scientists have recently detected in epoch 
 marking discoveries. This is one reason why it is un- 
 responsive to mortal mental direction, an immobility 
 effected by the resistance of its independent elemental 
 power which is inharmonious to finite mental rates. 
 Many finite spiritual effects with some reaction on re- 
 
AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 87 
 
 motely related finite matter are in reality the response 
 of spiritual matter to creative mortal thought power. 
 This, however, is a science in itself which I will not al- 
 lude to further than to assert that discriminative ap- 
 plication of even a few of its principles is of untold 
 benefit. 
 
 Spiritual matter is devoid of inherent energy and 
 is thus remarkably plastic to mental manipulation, and 
 mortals can achieve some proficiency in intelligent con- 
 trol of its lower phases. 
 
 Spiritual matter structure is never more than a 
 transitory effect, evolved from the available affinitized 
 free matter mass by creative thought power, energized 
 by utility, maintained by spiritual purpose and invaria- 
 bly reverts to and is assimilated by dormant elemental 
 substance when these impulses are withdrawn, leaving 
 no cumbersome residual debris. Correlated spiritual 
 matter formations are thus ever conditional and their 
 impermanence is what prevents any authoritative de- 
 scription of afterworld material environment. Few dis- 
 carnates have the courage to inform their mortal com- 
 municants that spheric environment is an evolutionary 
 flux consisting of the outgrowth of emotional propen- 
 sities then and there active, manifesting as objectified 
 thought forms of transitory character. Such a state- 
 ment should not disconcert any mortal apprehending 
 even a few of the advantages of such an existence. 
 However, apart from commendable discretion, the al- 
 most universal tendency is to essay finite interpretive 
 analogies. 
 
 Discarnate activity is governed by the laws it is 
 allowed under, by an understanding of those laws and 
 by the ability to make practical application of them. 
 Generally speaking, it may be said that while less power 
 is required in the afterworld than on earth to consum- 
 mate any given effect, there is not much difference in 
 personal exertion. Natural regulation of the expendi- 
 
88 AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 
 
 ture of energy exists in the afterworld as well as on 
 earth but with the dissimilarity that exhaustion in the 
 former is restricted to mental activity, while on earth 
 it also extends to material disintegration. 
 
 Successful utilization of spiritual matter effects by 
 discarnates existing in their natural environment is 
 largely a matter of practice in attuning to the precise 
 effect employed to accomplish the desired end. Just 
 how far an entity can depart from natural balance and 
 maintain intelligent control of the power applied de- 
 pends on several factors involving complexities of oper- 
 ation, some of which are peculiar to each sphere. 
 
 While distance is negligible in point of accomplish- 
 ment, it is directly related to energy consumption and 
 there is always the desire to accomplish any intent with 
 as little trouble and disturbance as possible. Distance 
 in the sense of intervening spheres in descent reduces 
 the faculty of automatically attracting harmonic power 
 and thus weakens and diverts the propulsion animating 
 manifestation and tangible production in foreign en- 
 vironment. 
 
 The power of attraction governs the directing of 
 elemental rates. It is only a conscious effort when 
 overstepping natural bounds. Susceptibility to certain 
 detrimental effects is then incurred through a reduction 
 of frequency for lower functioning. 
 
 The existence or mental rate, meaning here the 
 combined soul and matter responsive activity of any 
 mortal or discarnate individual, is never precisely the 
 same and where discarnates invariably deal with per- 
 sonal thought reactions, this greatly facilitates guidance 
 and delivery of more than communicative impulses. 
 Efficiently operated, the effect is that of a selective, 
 harmonic attraction, single or mutual, wherein elemen- 
 tal or individual rates, or both, are attuned to each 
 other for maximum production and exclusion of all 
 conflicting influences. 
 
 Social and constructive intercourse between dis- 
 carnates is, of course, by mental communication. Lack- 
 ing the means to produce lower rated vibrational 
 
AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 89 
 
 agitations analogous to articulated sound which could 
 be reinterpreted into intelligent conceptions, discar- 
 nates necessarily communicate in the material of 
 thought itself which is never impressed in separate 
 word forms. Individual harmonic reactions distin- 
 guish the impression from ordinary thought. 
 
 Practice facilitates the emission and reception 
 of thought impulses. Its fundamentals operate much 
 in accord with the experience of mortal sensitives. In- 
 timates become very proficient at distances and through 
 intervening spheric rate ranges where they are suffi- 
 ciently harmonious to accurately attune communication, 
 but generally speaking, it is necessary to be in actual 
 contact with recipient entities to properly convey 
 thoughts. In point of time, this restriction counts for 
 nothing since instantaneous transportation secures effi- 
 cient proximity with no delay. 
 
 It is impossible to concisely depict general spheric 
 living conditions. Rather than essay it at all, it is bet- 
 ter to recommend a conception based on my observa- 
 tions, together with what may be reasonably expected 
 of afterworld evolutionary necessity. There is noth- 
 ing eccentric in nature and never a radical vicissitude 
 in habit or mode of existence though it may and does 
 present many variant phases. 
 
 To illustrate: While there is neither day nor night 
 here, there are, as with mortals, moments and periods 
 of rest and recuperation, not by rote but by inclination. 
 There is no such thing as sleep here; for that matter, 
 discarnates regard mortal sleep as merely a period 
 when the soul and body cease to function in unison. 
 
 In similar manner, there is no light here in the 
 sense of a regularly recurrent illumination of environ- 
 ment. It is no deprivation. Why should it be? Fi- 
 nite sunlight is merely a vibratory condition to which 
 mortals' sensory organism is responsive, the material 
 nature having become accustomed and attuned to its 
 
90 AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 
 
 effects. Yet of itself it does not reveal the evolution- 
 ary urge and rewards which concern the mind in its 
 effort to progress. That is accomplished on earth by 
 observation and fulfillment under the illumination of 
 intelligence, and as it is there, so is it here. 
 
 Disregarding the confusion incidental to essaying 
 an exposition of a finitely intangible state of being and 
 condoning the reasons for not attempting to develop 
 individual applications and circumstances, it is admis- 
 sible to state that for all I can impart, spheric life is 
 very commonplace. This by no means implies that 
 it is eventless or monotonous. 
 
 If mortals would subdue the propensity to see 
 mystery where there is none and would realize that 
 natural evolution never entails erratic vicissitudes but 
 ever advances in systematic strides, they would appre- 
 hend that life in the afterworld is not so terrible a 
 change as they generally believe. If it were, nature 
 and its immutable laws would be denied their univer- 
 sal mode of expression and discarnates would look up- 
 on the future of their existence with less security than 
 they cherish at present. 
 
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 CHAPTER VIII 
 COMMUNICATIVE TECHNIQUE 
 
 Persistent importunity alone induced. H. to re- 
 luctantly consent to divulge his communicative tech- 
 nique. It would appear that he experienced consider- 
 able doubt as to his ability to formulate an intelligible 
 elucidation which did not rely on veiled allegory and 
 psychic idiom. He was further embarrassed in limiting 
 descriptions so as to avoid tedious exposition of intan- 
 gible states and facilities which would be meaningless 
 to all but scientific minds. 
 
 Intuitive inhibitions against disclosures which in 
 the established order of things might best remain un- 
 known actively interfered with his discourse and he was 
 dissatisfied with the result of the brief treatment ac- 
 corded the subject. Accurate rendition was most diffi- 
 cult and the matter secured was repeatedly corrected 
 before all participants were convinced that every irreg- 
 ularity had been eliminated. That disturbance was 
 expected in more or less degree as incidental to an ef- 
 fort to reduce psychic technique to finite expressions. 
 
 The result is more an outline of accomplishment 
 than of preliminary effort, which is, perhaps, as well, 
 since the means to an understood psychic end are, with 
 certain exceptions, as immaterial as they are individual. 
 
 I hesitate to interpret my personal method of 
 mental communication with the earth plane and expect 
 to accomplish little more than a rudimentary explana- 
 tion of the phenomena I participate in. A satisfac- 
 tory definition of any precise process should be tech- 
 nically expressed and from the very nature of the ele- 
 
92 AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 
 
 ments involved in this instance, that I cannot do. The 
 entire process is not yet explicable in finite scientific 
 terms and its technique thus appears more formidable 
 than the facts warrant. Mortals have only vague and 
 general expressions defining phases presenting widely 
 varient features which must be precisely distinguished 
 for successful operation. 
 
 The subject is usually dismissed with the simple 
 assurance of its supernormal origin and the intimation 
 that nothing could be gained while much might be 
 lost by imparting an exact knowledge of its perform- 
 ance. Where something more extended than crude 
 speculation is essayed, it takes the form of mystic pre- 
 paratory recommendations which, when fulfilled, leave 
 the devotee with opportunities which he does not un- 
 derstand but correctly regards as surcharged with infi- 
 nite possibility. This expectation is often unhappily dis- 
 appointed as further effort labors in the midst of mys- 
 terious complications. Needless to say, the entire 
 matter is one best carefully controlled in the interests 
 of peace of mind. 
 
 Psychic mental communication involves some- 
 thing more than the operation of finite telepathic 
 principles. This results from the phase differences of 
 the communicants and the difficulties of adjusting radi- 
 cally dissimilar thought terminal conditions. A tech- 
 nical explanation affording something tangible con- 
 cerning an intangible performance which does not rely 
 on psychological analogy and philosophic conclusions 
 is practically impossible. Details of psychic impression 
 can only be rendered under the restrictions of finite 
 terminology and subject to potential irregularities in 
 mortal receptivity. 
 
 Precisely as a thought is a complete, wordless 
 mental conception, so there is no psychic tongue or 
 spiritual speech for direct, mental communication be- 
 tween discamantes and mortals. An entity of any 
 
AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 93 
 
 finite nationality only familiar with his own vernacular, 
 experiences no restraints other than of an intellectual 
 and harmonic nature when attempting mental impres- 
 sion on a finite foreigner; that is, presuming transmit- 
 ting and receptive ability on the part of the communi- 
 cants. Nationality and race, apart from characteristic 
 intelligence, temperament and affinity, counts for noth- 
 ing here or between the spheres and the earth. 
 
 Enunciation is eliminated in direct impression and 
 thought form interchange is the universal afterworld 
 language. Its finite correlative is telepathy irrespec- 
 tive of racial divisions which is the practical application 
 of the Scriptual gift of tongues. 
 
 Any discarnate can project such thought concep- 
 tions as he can lucidly co-ordinate while in rapport with 
 any -mortal. That is an afterworld fundamental. 
 However, intelligent and even intuitive finite reception 
 is another matter. 
 
 Except in states of effective psychic rapport, ma- 
 terial predominates mental among mortals. In other 
 words, physical rates and elemental essences of a vital 
 magnetic nature are so potently energized through 
 proximity to their sources and vibrational levels that 
 the attenuated effect of all but the purest and most 
 sharply attuned psychic impressions are submerged 
 where not completely absorbed in the wide, lower rate 
 ranges. 
 
 This is not an unmitigated handicap viewed from 
 either world as the disintegrating potential excludes 
 incredibly more evils than it hinders benefits. Impulses 
 and impressions vitalized with improper intents are so 
 reduced in frequency, sharpness and purity as to be sus- 
 ceptible to magnetic absorption through the narrow vi- 
 brational range between the two states. A transmitting 
 controls inability to produce efficient volume within 
 narrow tone limits evolves a broad, confuted com- 
 municative rate likely to be swept up and succumb to 
 the first magnetic swirl it encounters. Ignorance, how- 
 
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 ever sincere the aspiration, makes for inefficiency in at- 
 tuning the transmitting circuit. 
 
 Integrity and efficiency of transmission, though 
 professed in theory is far from being consistently per- 
 formed in practice. 
 
 It is pre-requisite in orderly communication that 
 precise presentation of thought forms and concepts 
 must have sufficient vitality and cohesion to finitely 
 register as impressions with all the nature of sensory 
 verities except external reality or suggestion. A trans- 
 mitting control then succeeds in eliciting a sensory 
 representation of the communicated thought which re- 
 sults in varying external interpretations. The specific 
 form of transmission is determined by the sense through 
 which it is finitely expressed. 
 
 The intellectual quality of the sensitive's interpre- 
 tation is determined by the available effective volume 
 of his cumulative subconscious registration of past 
 educational benefits, independent observation, and 
 general enlightenment. There are no subconscious 
 memory lapses as such, except as new methods of 
 thought substitute different receptive modes of impres- 
 sion with resultant divergence in responsive reactions. 
 Then, antecedent subconscious memory effects are 
 practically nullified where not completely effaced by 
 the registering details of the subsequent receptivity. 
 
 The irefinement of the outward specific presenta- 
 tion is harmonic with the finite customs of the sensitive. 
 The maximum ethical possibilities of interpretation are 
 restricted to the maximum of the sensitive's harmonic 
 spiritual culture. 
 
 This is why many brilliant discarnate minds have 
 suffered disrepute when manifesting through inferior 
 finite intellects. The psychicly communicated thought- 
 substance forms were completely transmitted and cor- 
 rectly impressed upon the sensitive's receptive con- 
 
AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 95 
 
 sciousness; but the ensuing interpretation was defective 
 in some one or all of many requirements. 
 
 Mental adjustment must be sharply attuned at 
 both terminals to be efficient. One law of practice 
 is that where it can be accomplished at all, stimulation 
 of a sensitive's mental rates to a spiritual magnetic 
 state does not produce varying degrees of intensity. 
 That is why, once correctly established, the channel is 
 constant and dependable. 
 
 Physical encroachments can be counteracted by 
 either bringing the physical rates into quiescent har- 
 mony with those of a mental status or by stimulating the 
 mental rates to a state where they assume spiritual mag- 
 netic properties having such marked affinity for similar 
 influences that the process of attuning and purifying 
 thought projections is much simplified. A sharp, pure 
 and properly energized projection responding to a 
 high mental magnetic attraction will cleanly puncture 
 any attending physical magnetic insulation and pene- 
 trate to the receptive consciousness with practically 
 undiminished efficiency. 
 
 Transmission should not be encumbered with 
 comparatively low rated magnetic energy further than 
 to insure sharp attunement and receptive clarity. A 
 broad, powerful impulse of wide transmitting range 
 permitting diverse entities to operate through the chan- 
 nel sacrifices clarity and scope of selective information. 
 There is a ratio between intellectual worth and indis- 
 criminate, garrulous comment of little moment; the 
 one is at the expense of the other. 
 
 There is no restriction apart from harmonics on 
 the character of thoughts which may be impressed, ex- 
 cept that improper matter and inept practice produce 
 mental and moral depressions on the sensitive. Purity 
 of rapport is then lost, though it may still be sharply 
 attuned. However, lacking purity, both in unconflict- 
 ing impressions and moral standard, the circuit is soon 
 
96 AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 
 
 impaired for operating on any given rate or evolution- 
 ary level and admits intrusion by undesirable entities 
 and influences. 
 
 Even these few technical difficulties are not at 
 once detected by newcomers here and the inhabitants 
 of the lower spheres. Unable to understand their in- 
 ability to communicate with any degree of facility under 
 advanced laws, consolation is sought through redou- 
 bled efforts in lower rated physical phases of psychic 
 manifestation. 
 
 Here, the incompetent entities are more successful. 
 
 Although incapable of intelligently adjusting con- 
 flicting mental and physical finite states they are in- 
 nately qualified to control the latter in the highest phas- 
 es of material-substance. Forces existing between and 
 overlapping the earth and lower spheres are brought 
 into play. The phenomena produced are not a medium 
 for intelligent communication except as personally oc- 
 cupied and animated by the directing entity. This ap- 
 plies to materialization, full and partial trance effects 
 and allied tangible phenomena independent of finite 
 mentality. It should be here remembered that all 
 these manifestations have their own peculiar technique 
 and complicating irregularities. There are intermedi- 
 ate phases evolving increased intelligence and pro- 
 portionally reduced physical display and vigor as the 
 controlling discarnate withdraws from direct contact 
 into states approaching purely mental rapport. 
 
 Phases presented for finite physical perception 
 utilize highest rated material-substance and essences, 
 together with lowest spiritual matter. The available 
 mass is plastic to the operator's will through wide exer- 
 cise and admits of tangible demonstrations of extensive 
 scope. There are many compromises in functioning 
 here by entities of different evolutionary attainment 
 involving reduction of frequency for lower functioning 
 and the harmonious utilization of spiritual matter. 
 
 Controlling all physical phenomena are silent su- 
 pervisors from higher spheres who specialize in govern- 
 ing such manifestations. Except for their restraining 
 
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 presence and influences, the event would run riot with 
 conflicting forces and effects to the detriment and often 
 serious injury of both mortals and discarnates partic- 
 ipating. 
 
 There are many erroneous mortal conceptions of 
 communicative transmission. Scant attention is given 
 to the technical performance and once the phenomena 
 are secured with a fair certainty of facile duplication, 
 that element is neglected. Whimsical conceits are 
 formulated and advanced with solemn gravity. 
 
 A sensitive can seldom explain how he receives 
 and registers psychic thought impressions, much less 
 define variant examples of his own phase. He rarely 
 knows in detail all that goes on in his own activity. A 
 large majority are even ignorant of the fact that the 
 impressions may be altogether derived from their own 
 subconscious and ardently defend their presentation 
 against revision or question. The remaining minority 
 with few exceptions reject that possibility and resent 
 its suggestion as sacrilege, pointing to the psychic nature 
 of their phenomena as conclusive evidence of infalli- 
 bility. Questioning the competency, morality, intellect 
 or elevation of their controls is deemed unthinkable 
 and the investigator is regarded as something more ob- 
 noxious than an atheist. 
 
 Mortal receptivity is no indication of intelligence 
 or refinement. Those attributes constitute the harmon- 
 ic which governs the general evolutionary quality of 
 discarnate thought attracted. 
 
 Current mortal belief is of the opinion that the 
 conveying channel or transmitting means is a one way 
 funnel effect with the small end terminating within the 
 sensitive's receptive consciousness on finite rate levels 
 and with the large, flaring end located somewhere in 
 
98 AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 
 
 psychic realms and responsive to broad rate range im- 
 pressions precipitated into it in the form of discarnate 
 thought conceptions. 
 
 Contrary to this notion, there is a thin, vital con- 
 ductive thread existing in a complete, closed circuit 
 between finite receptive and psychic transmitting ter- 
 minals or foci. This circuit consists of two distinct 
 rate levels, the higher vibrating in thought rate effects 
 and the lower vibrating in high physical magnetic or 
 analogous low spiritual matter rate effects. Effecting 
 rapport establishes a circuit. 
 
 Thought impulse excitation may occur at either 
 terminal of the circuit, though in actual practice it is 
 usually impressed at the psychic end. Sustaining mag- 
 netic power impulses are generally impressed in the re- 
 ceptive quarter but are universally regulated at the 
 psychic terminal. The impulse course may be in either 
 direction on either level of the circuit, though at any 
 parallel points, the vibrational flow is opposite to that 
 of its affinitized level. 
 
 The impressing entity or transmitting control first 
 generates, then objectifies and finally projects a posi- 
 tive thought conception concentrated upon one mortal 
 receptive condition. He need not be and in fact is 
 seldom in the finite presence of the sensitive. Rapport 
 and distance have no psychic ratio as creative personal 
 thought implies instant transportation. 
 
 The controls positive thought projection auto- 
 matically effects a negative attraction to the magnetic 
 influences conveyed on the lower rated circuit level. 
 This is an essential feature which balances the psychic 
 terminal and imparts vigor to its functioning. 
 
 Inversely, a finite sensitive, expectantly attentive 
 and registering a positive thought projection on the 
 high rate basis, is negatively attuned or receptive on the 
 upper level of the circuit. This state automatically 
 induces the positive, physical magnetic emission bal- 
 ancing his quarter. Excessive drafts on the sensitive 
 through this unwitting abstraction produces that ex- 
 haustion in practice commonly mistaken for mental 
 
AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 99 
 
 fatigue incurred by registering and intuitively inter- 
 preting high rated psychic thought impressions 
 
 It is fundamental that a positive, mental exertion 
 is attended by a negative, magnetic receptivity, and 
 inversely, that a negative mental receptivity induces a 
 positive magnetic emission. This is true of both mor- 
 tals and discarnates while in communicative rapport. 
 It is also true, though in less degree, of either mortals 
 or discarnates mentally communicating with their kind 
 in similar phases of existence. The operation of this 
 fundamental is of great aid in securing rapport and 
 more active effects. 
 
 Difference of rates on the upper and lower levels 
 of the transmitting circuit should not be confusing 
 when it is understood that the energizing, magnetic 
 impulses are merely impressed as a power supply to in- 
 vigorate the thought facilitation which then vibrates 
 at an independent rate determined by the ratios of its 
 necessary constituents. The transmitting effort by a 
 control in proper rapport transforms the magnetic in- 
 fluences so that they may be harmoniously utilized 
 as a power resource. The magnetic balances obtained 
 tend to release mental tension and quiet any unruly 
 finite urgence. 
 
 Power impressed from a naturally harmonic 
 source such as the affinitized physical of the active men- 
 tal is readily convertible and greatly exceeds the effi- 
 ciency of that procured from a foreign source. The 
 process will not tolerate combined mortal magnetic 
 effects. Mental phenomena is thus independent of the 
 massed battery effects required in physical phenomena. 
 
 To what extent the control personally descends 
 through intervening ranges to effect operating har- 
 monics is a selective adjustment depending on how far 
 he is inclined to compromise transmitting efficiency 
 when located in natural environment with contingent 
 inability in that state to stimulate the sensitive's re- 
 ceptivity to higher impressions; also, the quantity and 
 quality of magnetic influences available. He rarely 
 descends further than the point of minimum efficient 
 
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 proximity. The governing factor is reason and a sense 
 of proportion. The control's assurance, "I am here," 
 is of more significance than the mere words convey. 
 
 Knowledge of technical performance by a sensi- 
 tive who will not encumber the operation with heavily 
 energized magnetic swirls in well meant though dis- 
 ruptive attempts to facilitate matters is of invaluable 
 assistance. The control then need not constantly calm 
 the sensitive's natural resistance to psychic effects from 
 external mental effort and magnetic absorption. 
 
 There are rare instances where a sensitive spe- 
 cially trained in that phase projects his consciousness 
 into psychic realms and independently perceives or re- 
 ceives direct impressions in the normal environment of 
 the afterworld inhabitants. Just how lucidly and accur- 
 ately he can subsequently interpret his conceptions 
 when finitely reestablished is a question. There are few 
 tangible satisfactions gained and many lost. It is 
 more than difficult to intelligently communicate where 
 the control once existed in the sensitive's natural state 
 without the latter essaying invasion of conditions he 
 never before experienced. While practice of that 
 method is unique, still it is possible and Orientals some- 
 times successfully achieve it. 
 
 The communicative phase of this method reverses 
 the circuit current flow directions. Discarnates are 
 then to all practical purposes mentally negative and 
 magnetically positive while the finite visitor is mentally 
 positive and magnetically negative. 
 
 An intense mortal calling effort directed toward 
 some particular discarnate or a sensitive's question 
 addressed to a control in transmitting rapport with him 
 effects this reversed condition so that a mortal then 
 impresses a discarnate. The latter when alertly re- 
 sponsive is brought into reversed rapport by mentally 
 harmonizing with the cause of his unwitting magnetic 
 
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 emission and thus recognizes the source of the ab- 
 straction. 
 
 While all this is admittedly incomplete and applies 
 to my personal methods, the statements are derived 
 from something more than hypothesis and experimental 
 efforts, and may be taken as characteristic of and con- 
 forming to standard afterworld practice. 
 
 The system explained is not peculiar to the condi- 
 tions with which I now deal and is not one to which I 
 am compelled by present necessities. True, in no other 
 state do individuals so widely alter cases. Tempera- 
 mental characteristics and intellectual level at both ter- 
 minals have direct bearing which must be harmonized 
 in actual operation, if not by one means, then by an- 
 other. However, the instant conditions present noth- 
 ing which compels deviation from standard practice. 
 
 How to attain facility in the method is another 
 matter and one I am disinclined to discuss with the lay- 
 man. No standard exists there and I will not assume 
 the moral responsibility of recommending preparatory 
 procedure which might prove wholely unsuited to the 
 occasion. 
 
 Indicative of some of the more intricate psychic 
 aspects discussed and of the collateral points consid- 
 ered as the writers sought exact elucidations of com- 
 municative technique, the following single exhibit is 
 representative of the searching nature of their inquiry 
 and of the explicitness of the responses. 
 
 It is doubly interesting in that H. deferred to An- 
 other, whose treatment was somewhat different from 
 what H. might have been expected to render. Also, 
 in that the exhibit is an example of inspirational writ- 
 ing, exactly as rendered by the sensitive, unabridged, 
 and uncorrected except for punctuation and paragraph- 
 ing. 
 
102 AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 
 
 The question was not prepared in advance, being 
 really an objection in conference to the communicants 
 not referring certain psychic phenomena to super-di- 
 mensional functioning by competent mortals. From a 
 possibly collateral aspect, the point immediately as- 
 sumed major proportions with unique possibilities. 
 
 Reply was instant and continuous. While in some 
 respects the answer was incommensurate, it was other- 
 wise satisfactory, yielding matter for profound thought. 
 Further development of the subject elicited strange, 
 fourth-dimensional expositions outside the scope of 
 this work, and thus not included in this exhibit. 
 
 Q. What of clairvoyance, past and future, as a 
 fourth dimensional, angular perspective on time? 
 
 A. What is a fourth-dimensional description but 
 a subdivided abbreviation of a terminal supposition 
 portrayed to allure scientific tendency to a fixed pop- 
 ularity which trips up the investigator in his hopeless 
 first-hand effort to get somewhere from nowhere? 
 
 Space cannot be dimensioned, nor can clairvoy- 
 ance be measured by any appreciable finite means. 
 
 Time is subservient to no fixed law as yet keenly 
 observant in its meaning in the past or future tense, 
 though there is much to be interpreted from the theme 
 wherein man comes to appreciate the potential relation 
 of what past, present and future has been, is now and 
 will eternally be without any finite intervention of cal- 
 culus other than the radial consciousness comprehen- 
 sively unfolds in time and space, dimensionally reach- 
 ing out into perspective relativity to individual per- 
 sonality. Thus alone shall individuals comprehend the 
 dimensional status of fourth-dimensional space, to- 
 gether with much than ever heretofore attempted re- 
 garding what really constitutes natural clairvoyance. 
 
 There has been much inflated supposition given 
 out enlarging upon what is a simple law easily imbibed 
 by any ordinary intellect. Who cares aught for the 
 
AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 103 
 
 place in space he is by a natural law of being to occupy 
 in the time set forth by creative spiritual substance and 
 there to endure? 
 
 Satisfactorily answered in terms of finite time and 
 relativity, this inquiry would evolve a possibility where- 
 in man could, to quite an extent, elongate or shorten 
 his feasible chance of living an allotted span by selec- 
 tive mental adjustment in time which is finite, and in 
 space which is spiritual. 
 
 A fully developed elucidation of these terms in- 
 volves a complete exposition of what kindly instructors 
 over here long to now introduce, in the belief that it 
 is now time for mortals to learn of time and space 
 through a clear clairvoyance. 
 
 Do you comprehend that the angle fulfills what 
 the dimension indicates in a suppositional division of a 
 true purpose to place in space all that relates to a state 
 of spirit radius alone? 
 
 Reaching out along the dimensional chart for a 
 purposeful understanding in furtherance of man's nat- 
 ural place in space, requires a full appreciation of what 
 the past has proven by fulfillment in the present as it 
 points to a future that shall confirm a substantial and 
 permanent foothold in the eternal etheric as one finds 
 it subdivided into required space to be utilized for 
 repetition again and again, adapting itself to an un- 
 changeable purpose. 
 
104 AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 
 
 CHAPTER IX 
 DETERMINATIVE INCEPTION 
 
 Although asserting that he had merely scratched 
 the subject's surface, H. had done with fundamental 
 means and past to afterworld ethical considerations, 
 or, as he expressed it — the effect of effects. 
 
 There was also the intimation that from here on 
 the matter transmitted would tend to involve opinions 
 and teaching colored by personality manifestly not al- 
 together his own. 
 
 This candid avowal possibly anticipated instant 
 detection of recurrent differences in communicative 
 address and temperamental treatment not explainable 
 as augmented transmitting ability when delivering pure- 
 ly ethical discourse. 
 
 Stepping backward to the embarkation upon an 
 effort to elucidate a few of the fundamentals of etherial 
 life through mathematical calculation and comparison 
 of the progress of nature's intent to develop the high- 
 est in all its workings, the subliminal extent of nature's 
 ethical events is difficult to grasp. Yet, from man of 
 lowest propensities forward to the demands of highest 
 intellectual desire, there has been found no situation 
 so impoverished that it could not be resuscitated into 
 glowing vigor of body or soul as might be required, 
 even though the inception of the process may be a 
 lonely imputus since truth is nowhere attained through 
 the easy path of revelation. 
 
 Pondering the calculations of spheric operation 
 in close conjunction with the coarser but natural work- 
 ings of laws governing finite phases of harmonic asso- 
 ciation of correlated material with an infinite mental 
 
AFTEEWORLD EFFECTS 105 
 
 attitude, precipitates the germ of intuition into that 
 comprehension which ultimately evolves final effects 
 in conclusive rewards. 
 
 These pages are etherially evolved in tender, be- 
 nignant purpose for finite exposition with no thought 
 of reward other than to assist nature which has so a- 
 bundantly assisted us in its handicapped endeavor to 
 unfold and bestow innate blessings of instructive and 
 refining benefits obtainable by mortals during earth 
 residence. 
 
 Enlarging upon but not seeking to color or claim 
 aught that has not been a personal experience in my 
 own advancement, I now gratefully accept and trans- 
 mit additional information of an ethical character 
 gleaned from afterworld associates who are devoted to 
 the highest aspirations of the common purpose for 
 which I am the intermediary and sponsor in this in- 
 stance. 
 
 The identity of my associates in this impersonal 
 purpose is immaterial since mere names count for noth- 
 ing here. For that matter, I am not known here under 
 the finite name you address me by. Afterworld per- 
 sonal designation changes according to the spiritual 
 qualifications of the recipient so that an entity's name 
 in one sphere is not his in another. There is marked 
 significance in finite Christian names though they are 
 universally applied by whimsical caprice. 
 
 No mere personal choice ever influences the com- 
 municative operation of finite plans by scholars and 
 teachers here for the good of mortals. We seek and 
 secure rapport through harmonious channels alone as 
 we cast about for responsible means to accomplish any 
 given intent. Prearranged discussions here are often 
 the source of accumulative material ready to transmit 
 to earth depots when suitable negative channels are 
 ripe for its reception. However, sex does at times re- 
 ceive consideration in the fibre and use of materials to 
 be woven into the product, the female often being more 
 receptive to love and sympathetic subjects just as the 
 male, being more positive, imparts quality and stabili- 
 
106 AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 
 
 ty to the heavier subjects. Barring a few, seldom are 
 our endeavors misdirected; the law of attraction is 
 such a potent governing factor it would otherwise be 
 practically impossible. 
 
 Parrying the doubts and fears incident to the 
 hereditary gloom and darkness of the further shore in 
 its seeming far-away inception, we would encourage 
 and invigorate the trend of present day mortal thought 
 into a clearer and more healthy channel wherein indi- 
 viduals may apprehend possibilities of knowledge why 
 they first manifested upon the earth plane with all its 
 temptations in their alluring colors and phases. 
 
 We aim to leave with those who can assimilate the 
 substance and import of our effort a sensible and di- 
 gestive impulsion to individually, though impersonally, 
 prove the truth of facts and problems unfailing since 
 the earth's formation. Aspiring to that end, we de- 
 voutly trust that we may have helped in small measure 
 to energize both the etherial and finite sides of activity 
 to its most needed impulse to seek and find the chan- 
 nels of possibility in their dearest import. 
 
 Let all be sanely adjured of the worthiness of 
 resolutely living in such manner that they need not 
 fear to undertake the change to all outward seeming, 
 and inwardly experience only a finer result of life by 
 thought projection into purely soul impulsion to happy 
 effects in man's search after the intent and purposes of 
 the creative instinct to survive all that is worth preserv- 
 ing. 
 
 Be assured that all which is imparted through the 
 intuitive process, and all is intuitive which comes 
 through an unseen channel, is because the time has 
 come to use it to some purpose in the great first plan 
 for man and his progress toward completion of soul 
 and body interest on earth and thereafter. 
 
 Positive and authoritative support and ethical 
 stimulus in all attempts to educate and uplift mortal 
 
AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 107 
 
 mentality comes from the spiritually active forces of 
 those on the earth plane and in the spirit, co-operating 
 in delicately interwoven thoughts. 
 
 Nature never created an improvished thought nor 
 opened a channel that could not be supplied, neither 
 developed a circumstance or condition that could not 
 be remedied, overccme or cast out. Man, harboring 
 the undesirable, hugging close the tatters of mental 
 stagnation, creates a quagmire clogging the footsteps 
 of progress and resultant benefit. 
 
 Criticism, doubt and discrepancy will assail mind 
 just so long as thought is active, for were mind to dis- 
 close all there could be to thought, mind would be de- 
 throned even as the planets would collapse were all 
 their components disclosed and acted on. Life is the 
 issue of unseen and yet unknown realities to be di- 
 vulged only as finite man can with safety to humanity 
 use and profit thereby. Misapplied wisdom in unscru- 
 pulous hands could devastate the Universe. 
 
 We attribute discouragement and failure to a sub- 
 tle inharmony in elemental effects which mentally 
 chokes out efforts of good pursuit just as the hateful 
 weeds which life nourishes have ever fought the battle 
 of the survival of the fittest with the rose and lily 
 which charm the eye, soothe the heart and comfort the 
 sorrowing. 
 
 This principle evolves abortive thoughts, not 
 strong enough of themselves in the positive resistance 
 element to withstand the batter of assault by changing 
 beliefs brought into disruptive mental attack on the 
 delicate source of information. Elemental causation 
 and spiritual effect are so similar as to entangle the 
 groping mind in a mesh of ambiguous conclusions 
 which prick the conscience already on the pathway of 
 spiritual belief like brambles gather wool from an un- 
 
 Denizens of the near earth gravitation are from 
 all classes of existence, obsessed in the having or not 
 
103 AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 
 
 having the required balance to rise higher into the clari- 
 fied vibrations of a permanent foundation where gain 
 is constantly added to. 
 
 Every situation or circumstance not well balanced 
 by experience and profit finds here a remedial supply in 
 whatsoever required. No attempt is made to oppose 
 natural lodgement by transplanting an entity to evolu- 
 tionary environment in which he would be lost. He is 
 left in the midst of such effects as will supply present 
 requirements and no immediate anxiety expressed over 
 him. It is too well known that his desires are the 
 governing factor of his condition and that his inceptive 
 spheric location is a mere evolutionary episode not 
 necessarily of permanent impression on himself or 
 others. No matter how disgraceful his condition, it 
 should not permanently befoul an immortal state. 
 
 Nothing is ever lost and nothing can be overlook- 
 ed nor left undone as one attempts to ascend in the 
 rate vibrations of evolution beginning with enduring 
 order born of the confusions of finite life and death. 
 
 Every good thought and worthy deed is an affini- 
 ty to a thought or deed worthier and once this is im- 
 bued deep within the receptive forces, an entity be- 
 gins to slough off cumbersome flesh attributes and re- 
 ceives a sense of uplift and clearness. Then, looking 
 about, he perceives that the spheres are merely evolu- 
 tionary conditions where attraction calls to mind in 
 spiritual expressions never before understood and ful- 
 fills its promise by merging into higher states of being. 
 
 Here, mind and its attributes alone figure in vibra- 
 tional evolution, silently and unerringly opening up the 
 possibility of an entity gravitating from plane to plane 
 in the unobserved manner of a flower's unfoldment. 
 The light disclosing the new and rare conditions is as 
 unfathomable to the particular concerned entity as 
 original creation is to mortals. 
 
 Is not the thought comforting that advancement 
 from sphere to sphere is not a painful process but a 
 divine pleasure? There is an ethical formulary 
 though seldom have I witnessed it, whereby an entity 
 
AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 109 
 
 has experienced the fifth sphere from a sense of the 
 second, unaware of the intermediate rate ranges. How- 
 ever, this occurs only to those whose finite existence has 
 preeminently prepared achievement of the possibility. 
 True, it is natural, but nevertheless as rare as the most 
 exquisite exotics of earth and requires an equivalent 
 preparatory provision in an atmosphere of vibrational 
 unfoldment. It implies only a single retardation har- 
 monic with the lower sphere. 
 
 Man, gravitating shoreward in the natural process 
 of finite life termination, should have had all necessary 
 ethical preparation, but this has seldom been the case. 
 The analytic conclusions of the majority have been so 
 warped in the available woof of ethical constructive 
 purpose that only a primary mapping of the structure of 
 eternal life has been obtained while occupying the 
 earth abode. 
 
 Man labors and lives without any design of infi- 
 nite building aside from the objective of attaining 
 Heaven and escaping Hell on the best terms possible. 
 His omissions in that policy necessitate retracing his 
 way and at advanced time beginning again as a child 
 with a broader plan. 
 
 The ethical laws of nature bestow whether it is ac- 
 cepted or not, and, as nothing is ever lost in the Divine 
 scheme of things, when an entity begins to perceive the 
 spiritual import of their operation, there has accrued 
 a compounded interest or bestowal. 
 
 The laws of nature never cease their recurrent 
 activity, never older, never younger, immutable and 
 formulated by the Universal Law that brought into 
 operation the possibility of man's evolutionary privi- 
 lege. 
 
 Some of the natural subdivisions of Universal Law 
 are evolutionary fundamentals as — Unselfishness, in 
 its eagerness to prove spiritual laws and their unshak- 
 able foundation; Harmonic Unity with proper things 
 
110 AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 
 
 at all stages; Thrift, which propagates plenty and to 
 spare; the Law of Charity, universal love of all Crea- 
 tion with tenderness for the least of these, His Crea- 
 tion; and Truth, so beautiful in its results, a blessing 
 in its utterance, penetrating unto the very depths of 
 the most hapless condition. 
 
 Immutable laws governing spheric evolution di- 
 rectly affect us no more than the, change of seasons 
 affects you of earth. Entities turn from folly here 
 through acquired understanding, not from surfeit. 
 The desire to advance here is the same emotion as de- 
 sire to advance in a finite direction, but not so hin- 
 dered; no price is set on advancement except worthi- 
 ness. 
 
 Church and creed have no value here. Individ- 
 ual proclivities perverting their better teachings in 
 tendencies which make bigotry more gloomy and give 
 fanaticism the mastery over prudence have an allotted 
 place and the dismal influence does not extend above 
 it. All that counts is spiritual value and that consists 
 of a purity of purpose toward every creative inception 
 as one comprehends and puts it to use in co-operation 
 of intent, the love of all mankind, seeking the spirit of 
 life and forgetting the letter. 
 
 Constructive happiness is the end of religion — 
 the dream of the wretched, the quest of the whole 
 world. If your heart is full of love and your hand 
 full of service, there need be no gloomy forebodings 
 for you have solved the primary riddle of the Universe. 
 
 No garbled account, no decripit proselyting of 
 facts, no dogmatized creed, no obsessed conditions 
 or abortive plans can alter the proof that spirit can 
 manifest on earth or can better the pattern of the 
 simple and direct proof made possible by the Way- 
 shower to Life Eternal. 
 
 Mental diabolism can retard but never destroy 
 the Creator's plans to impart the benefits of His ex- 
 
AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 111 
 
 alted ideas to the inhabitants of earth. There is no 
 doubt of Love's ability to clear the channel of all ref- 
 use since nature so ably supports man in his clumsy 
 efforts to acquire spiritual information derived from 
 the suffering years of the Christ on earth. 
 
 Surely man is not an angel conceived in a physi- 
 cal womb; therefore being in part a physical pro- 
 duction, he cannot at once handle purely spiritual 
 concepts. The all-wise Creator comprehended the 
 fitting requirements of every condition and it was His 
 solicitous intent that man should live in harmony with 
 nature on every plane, enjoying to the utmost the 
 fruits of labor and love, ripening in wisdom as he 
 passes happily gravitating in unerring succession of 
 changes of mind and body to the finish of every in- 
 tention in the sublime plan with which man finds no 
 fault in any quarter except in man himself. 
 
112 AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 
 
 CHAPTER X 
 DETERMINATIVE ASPIRATION 
 Extending his discourse, H. continued: 
 
 V V V V 
 
 No graphic outbursts, no slimy details, no highly- 
 colored portrayals are necessary to unfold the history 
 of life from its infancy to what is termed its old age. 
 Cataclysms of emotional irritation are unnecessary to 
 render a worthy and wholely acceptable narrative 
 which shall uplift all it reaches. 
 
 The inception of life's fulfillment, both finite and 
 subsequent, proceeds from prayerful yearning and ear- 
 nest application in service. This is the wedge that shall 
 widen the channel of opportunity flooded with re- 
 sults bearing fruits to every aspiring mind, loving heart 
 and ready hand. 
 
 Life withholds no good thing once it has been 
 earned. Every walk in life, every mental condition, 
 all environment possesses the opportunity to initiate 
 progression from its inspiration, though the lowest 
 in effect often reaches the highest result and the grand- 
 est promise sometimes brings the least reward. The 
 motive which sets the desire into action alone forces 
 the final conclusion in all problems, physical, mental 
 and spiritual. 
 
 A myriad impulses move man in the quest of the 
 morsel which shall stimulate evolutionary desire from 
 which proceeds fulfillment satisfying the original 
 hunger. 
 
 Impulse and desire are widely divergent and 
 must not be confused when defined in terms of finite 
 effort. Will and impulse are flames which consume 
 and whose ashes are scattered to the four winds; but 
 
AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 113 
 
 desire is the outgrowth of soul stimulations engrafted 
 upon the tree of life by the Creator in the divine plan 
 to draw out the highest faculties that they may com- 
 plete the greater plan of existence. 
 
 Desire rightly directed yields no dead sea fruit, 
 for desire is the spiritual outgrowth of fruitless efforts 
 sown in folly, disappointment of cherished hopes and 
 sentiments. When these have worn away the abut- 
 ments of inherited fallacies and trickeries, man ap- 
 prehends that destiny is a word of misunderstanding 
 misused and is made to think of things which never 
 had place in mind before. 
 
 Triumphant over a few victories, the soul is heart- 
 ened to a measure where courage meets further in- 
 spiration and cheerfully advances to the struggle of 
 disabusing the mind of a belief of lack and inability to 
 accomplish the cherished undertakings supplying the 
 ethical craving for food adequate to sustain intelli- 
 gence in times of darkest stress. 
 
 Nature's storehouses are flush with ability to 
 supply every demand of mind, every deficiency of 
 body in the elements necessary to construct and main- 
 tain every phenomena of existence. 
 
 Nature gives its creations all necessary food to 
 develop every faculty to its utmost inspiration, to 
 broaden and lengthen the positive and negative quali- 
 ties in diversified experience regardless of conditions 
 of time, place or racial effects. No ban is imposed 
 on the inexhaustible supply, no tax levied on the par- 
 taker to justify any fault laid at the door of the one 
 great intention whereby man may acquire wisdom to 
 become the judge of his own conscience, the dictator 
 of his own acts, the counselor of his own mind, and thus 
 responsible for his own salvation. 
 
 The great creative Intelligence produced every 
 product of Its functioning without aid of laboratory or 
 chemical prescription. For Intelligence to know, was 
 to be. Creation was the manifestation of Omniscience 
 in a conscious conviction of the truth of life. Ontol- 
 
114 AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 
 
 ogy supplies the channel, intuition furnishes inspira- 
 tion and man demonstrates the law. 
 
 Natural law enforces the demonstration prompted 
 by a love of humanity and results in increased har- 
 mony, evolving a distinctly visible calm which nurtures 
 and multiplies the life principles in every established 
 force and faculty, germinating new life, new order 
 and higher attainment along all ethical avenues. 
 
 Man is the highest, most wonderful and finally 
 convincing proof of God's intention towards his crea- 
 tures, pointing so forcefully to His command — live, 
 love and multiply the earth in opportunities of sow- 
 ing and reaping, giving and receiving, learning and 
 teaching Universal Truth. 
 
 When man has attained a rate of understanding 
 commensurate with the principles involved and com- 
 patible with his receptive forces and faculties, he has 
 reached the ethical balance that should insure an ar- 
 rangement in meaning, production, utility and finish 
 creditable with the normal need of any student who 
 aspires to know nature in its mysterious revelations, 
 activities and results. 
 
 No mystery was ever so deeply hidden but truth 
 solved it, no gloom so dark that the sunlight of music 
 and mirth has not dispelled it and no crime so revolt- 
 ing that the Christ coming has not cleansed and restor- 
 ed the misdirected effort. Sorrow and distress are 
 the mental chemicals that purify the dross and paint 
 the product in harmonious effects alluring attention 
 and stimulating appetite. 
 
 It seems necessary that man must travel dreary 
 wastes until worn weary of the battles of finite visions 
 in mirages which never satisfy, until he is glutted by 
 lusts of the eye, tortures of mind and fatigues from 
 pastimes which once helped him forget the personal 
 moral responsibility that would eventually demand the 
 
AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 115 
 
 debt in delinquent operation be paid to the last far- 
 thing. 
 
 An early transplantation of mind from the materi- 
 al outlook upon all activity in the physical ream per se, 
 into a retentive comprehension of the positive and 
 reliable assurance of spiritual impulse behind every 
 form of life from the lowest to the highest strata, con- 
 verts conjecture into certainty and gives the intelli- 
 gent mind a substantial foundation to work from. 
 
 Modern finite law is for the protection of civil 
 and social concerns and the physical liberty of free- 
 dom and growth, tending ever upward toward the 
 higher qualities necessary to eventually unfold into a 
 graduation out of material into spiritual existence. 
 
 To carry another's burdens, to shoulder another's 
 responsibility, to countenance weakness and over- 
 look shortcomings, to accept flimsy excuses, to con- 
 done neglect and to extend promiscuous charity is 
 to become a criminal in the great court of nature. 
 One thus becomes a contributor and an accessory to 
 a brother's failure to meet the opportunity for con- 
 tributing his share to the evolution of God's ideas. 
 
 Selfishness has no part in spiritual education. 
 Despite the mists of physical concepts, there are ave- 
 nues to exercise comfort, sacrificing self, even as we 
 have been blest. Expressing such activity tends to 
 woo the weary stranger from, his lonely vigils of re- 
 morse and heart hunger after the flesh pots to the 
 open door of the House of Mansions. 
 
 To further nature's purpose, come out of the 
 hives of discontent into the sunlight of faith, the free- 
 dom of hope, the power to do, the purpose to get 
 and the ability to keep the pure gold molded into 
 links of eternal progress through the endurance and 
 steady calm found in the assurance that no good ef- 
 fort can ever be lost, but constantly draws into its own 
 personality the attractiveness so essential to the passage 
 of years as nature intended them to pass. 
 
116 AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 
 
 The years do not go from us; quite the contrary, 
 we go from them, stepping out from the passing year 
 as from a discarded garment no longer suitable for our 
 needs, no longer serviceable on our journey. As the 
 gaze is turned backward, there stand the years, each 
 in its own place on guard over all that has been dis- 
 carded or left in trust. 
 
 In these years of trust shall be found our child- 
 hood, our youth, our maturity — our hopes, our joys 
 and blessings, our grief and sorrows. No bribe nor 
 prayer can return these years so full of labor overdone, 
 opinions relinquished, cares which have successors and 
 follies outgrown. The only resurrection is in memory. 
 All change during the accumulation of years is 
 the outcome of mental activity in a natural effort to 
 nourish the seed, nuture the bloom, gather the fra- 
 grance, preserve the essence and restore the soil to 
 the elements of time in its successive attempt to chem- 
 icalize the world. 
 
 Silence the outward clamor of material thought 
 and enter the closet of the soul with composure and 
 faith fully equipped with a motive of simplicity and 
 honesty toward the real object of evolutionary quest. 
 Then the ever-restless soul, waiting, striving and yearn- 
 ing to gather home the harvest so long delayed in the 
 journey of sense upward and onward, will come into 
 its own. 
 
 Benign influences are ever waiting to invigorate 
 and restore despairing efforts by all who turn to the un- 
 failing source of spiritual inspiration which knows 
 neither fluctuation nor shadow of change. 
 
 Spiritual thoughts bring spiritual manna from 
 spiritual sources. Every line of constructive mental 
 activity is an education out of a belief of finite limi- 
 tations of experience. 
 
 Prove the leaven of now by discerning the spirit- 
 ual facts of what the physical senses perceive. Or- 
 
AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 117 
 
 ganic senses take no cognizance of spirit — even when 
 steeped in them, it is of necessity shut out, though ma- 
 terial affects spirit little except to hinder. Both finite 
 and spiritual matter forms are merely the effect of the 
 conscious acting upon the unconscious membranes 
 which balance in the ether, the rational against the 
 irrational, which devoid of intelligent supervision 
 would throw the universe into oblivion. 
 
 Mental activity when spiritually inclined, should 
 be the constant supervisor that tills the ground, waters, 
 cultivates and harvests the result of increased under- 
 standing. To rightly till the ground is to express in- 
 telligence and manifest courage, perseverance and 
 patience, with spiritual qualities in hope and faith. 
 
 Attempts to modify the demands evolved by 
 the call of the soul only dull the mental implements of 
 the positive and negative forces always employed in 
 building the character structure of man's habitation 
 wherever he may be found. 
 
 Abstraction to the duties imposed by Creative 
 Intelligence on man as his unavoidable obligation, 
 simply transplants opportunity into foreign environ- 
 ment and handicaps efforts to satisfy nature's law of 
 giving and receiving. 
 
 Who that has lived through the yesterday would 
 change the beautiful today, warm with its blessings, 
 for the coming of tomorrow? Except for fulfillment 
 today, what certainty can there be of tomorrow? 
 
 It behooves every individual to be alert to the 
 signs of the times so clearly revealed by the trend of 
 literature, the attitude of thinkers and the voiced as- 
 pirations of multitudes, together with the infinite ef- 
 fects of the present span of mortal life. 
 
 Question the mind, sound the heart and compare 
 the past with the present to what the hand of time 
 points in the destiny of the universe. 
 
 Is it retrogression or progression? 
 
118 AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 
 
 Is mind becoming a clear channel for nature's de>- 
 sire to fulfill the Law? 
 
 Shall the fear of transition into the comparatively 
 unknown stifle the impulse to look deeper into the 
 heart of all causation and find impossibility to withhold 
 the power of ebb and tide in all mortal affairs? Shall 
 that fear nullify definite influences which cheer the 
 spirit, feed the soul and comfort the mind, and impart 
 confidence to the happy undertaking to know all? 
 
 May not the mind know the source of being in 
 all its tranquilizing effects to feed the forces and facul- 
 ties with such spiritual influx that physical hobgoblins 
 of dread, lack, limitation and doubt fly afar? 
 
 Blessings of gifts unused and paralyzed from 
 stagnation of effort unfold in the sunlight of opportu- 
 nity. Fulfillment germinates in the bulb of hope 
 restored, and, nourished by faith, bears the fruits of 
 travail in the new birth of man as his Creator intended 
 him to be — a producer of good in all that pertains to 
 home, love, friendship, health and holiness, a living 
 example of all that is beautiful and grand, thus to 
 prove that man is a spiritual being, now and evermore. 
 
AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 119 
 
 CHAPTER XI 
 INCEPTIVE ADJUSTMENT 
 
 Having discussed various determinative influences 
 in ethical impulsion, H. dealt with adjustment phases 
 ensuing mortal demise and suggested the possibility 
 under exceptional circumstances of total individual 
 extinction through a negative recession into elemental 
 essences. 
 
 He also dwelt reassuringly on the infinite resource- 
 fulness of nature to compensate the least evolutionary 
 effort in any state of being and set forth the tendency 
 of preferred occupational fulfillment in afterworld ac- 
 tivity. 
 
 Rudimental logic precipitated the facts of the 
 continuity of life in the visions, inspirations, revela- 
 tions and prophecies of the ancient lawgivers but the 
 dense portrayals and crude symbols utilized to expound 
 the principles have subsequently be so dogmatized 
 by conflicting creeds that the few directly stated facts 
 are now not clear enough to adequately impress and 
 satisfy the evolutionary stride of man's progressive 
 intelligence. Only fragments of the original prophe- 
 cies remain to point the source of the channel from 
 which man first builded hope of activity beyond the 
 grave. 
 
 Everything has a source, a beginning and an ob- 
 ject. Conceived in mystery, developed in darkness, 
 born into light, and ascending into brilliancy, nature 
 nourishes man all along his way until the finite labors 
 cease. Then man resolves into the bringing forth 
 of latent sensory organs in the birth of spiritual oper- 
 
120 AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 
 
 ation of future opportunities accruing into a possible 
 effulgence. 
 
 Death is simply a phase of nature's demarcation, 
 finishing one and beginning another phase of activity. 
 
 Discordant conditions immediately encountered 
 arise solely through man's willful intention caused by 
 a lack of spiritual development or by mental inertia in 
 unfolding his receptivity to progressive opportunity. 
 
 Nature so willingly assists the least attempt to re- 
 fute homicidal tendencies of all calumny designed to 
 mislead or disrupt natural effort to manifest the beauti- 
 ful through deductional and intelligent operation of 
 all life in spiritual origin. That purpose is elementally 
 fashioned so that nature's greatest channel, man's 
 spiritual intelligence, shall have the inherent soul im- 
 pulse to lay aside the cumbersome habits which bind 
 his efforts to earth and all its illusions and for a short 
 space of time prepare a defense for just such trials as 
 will be encountered on his initial visit into an atmos- 
 phere of unassimilated succor and untried results. 
 
 There are strata of sensible detention in the 
 spheres where under certain conditions entities experi- 
 encing the post-translation coma are detained until 
 unsatisfied dependences according to nature's inex- 
 orable constructive demands are relieved or corrected. 
 This determinative state is caused by the undischarged 
 finite overload. 
 
 The most sorrowful construction to be placed up- 
 on this fixed phase of nature by the ethical student 
 evolves many relays of conjecture. 
 
 It is here that individual destiny is compelled 
 sooner or later according to sensible co-operation, to 
 adjust the numbing mental effect of abnormal disclo- 
 sures and abortive happenings attending termination of 
 finite activity. 
 
 Here is where the word "damned" finds place in 
 the afterworld. Inversely, here is where the full and 
 most effective power of love can accomplish its most 
 cleansing and appreciative work, softening, transform- 
 ing, encouraging and sustaining the hazy, bewildered 
 
AFTERWOELD EFFECTS 121 
 
 memory attempting to place the confused circum- 
 stance that changed and transplanted all sensory ef- 
 fects from what was natural into what appears incom- 
 prehensible and beyond any inherent power to handle. 
 
 Here also, the metaphysical meaning of the law 
 breaks in on the confusion to see the way, for it is in- 
 herent in intelligence to strive to comprehend all that 
 is possible relating to existence and the basic principles 
 upon which rests its fulfillment. 
 
 Not until intelligence is softened into a state of 
 willing comprehension and spiritual desire to find a 
 channel of expression for the life which must persist, 
 does man seek to break the chains of circumstance he 
 recognizes have placed him in the midst of conscious 
 operation where he anticipated merely unconscious 
 effect. 
 
 Wonder is appalled and vigor is dulled for a time 
 until dawning apprehension realizes the opportunity 
 to revive prostration that shuts off the bright hopes of 
 adjustment equal to advancement. It is then under- 
 stood with forceful logic that all the universe with its 
 perennial manifestations including man is governed and 
 watched over by a wisdom equal to every demand. 
 
 It would seem sacrilegious to the majority, irration- 
 al to many and scientific to only a few to state that 
 there are great minds here who watch over and attend 
 propulsion through inceptive adjustment of the birth 
 of perceptive intelligence into spheric existence. 
 
 Normal delivery is almost universal but there are 
 occasional abnormal presentations in widely diversified 
 cases. Among the latter are the blind, crippled, dumb 
 and incompetent in spiritual forces, faculties and pow- 
 ers. Mental operations are performed on these where- 
 by the grotesque, the abnormal or deformed spirit 
 foetus (slumbering spiritual intelligence) is watched 
 over and properly delivered into a vibrational atmos- 
 phere where the right requirements are found that 
 
122 AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 
 
 shall nourish its weakness, correct its deformities and 
 adjust its balance. 
 
 Contemplation of the metaphysical side of nature 
 should impress the advanced intellect of the wise pro- 
 vision in caring for irregular deliveries into spiritual 
 activities as well as into finite existence where all such 
 is accepted as necessary and generally unremarked. 
 The contingency that a naked foetus of slumbering 
 spiritual intelligence delivered into spheric existence 
 might need to be received, nourished, clothed and har- 
 bored in order to assist nature's efforts to preserve its 
 family, is a remote thought to all but the initiated 
 of earth. 
 
 Profession in the afterworld simply means ade- 
 quately worthy, so there are surgeons who attend the 
 mind which exhibits symptoms of congenital malfor- 
 mations induced by mental accidents which deprived 
 the spiritual senses of analogous limb and substance. 
 There are also physicians who must attend the mind 
 under the cloud of insanity; there are those who must 
 correct irregularities in perceptive sensation. 
 
 Lack of facility to readily take up spiritual pro- 
 gress is due to a failure to understand that all future 
 operation must of necessity assume a different phase 
 of activity. Deprived of the grosser instincts of utili- 
 ty and only possessing a vague intuition that thought 
 power must consummate all constructive purpose, con- 
 ditions arise which engage the attention of noble and 
 most able graduates who substitute a mental semblance 
 of analogous bodily members thus insuring that peace 
 of mind demanded for permanent adjustment. 
 
 All this is temporary as all progressive intent here 
 has no need of the accouterments of earth habits of 
 dependence to see, hear, feel and express. 
 
 During the post-translation coma, the gossamer 
 filaments enshrouding the soul essence slowly gather 
 power to assemble the undulating vibrations and chem- 
 ical fumes into a shape resembling a cone or pyramid- 
 ical extension from which misty draperies float afar. 
 Out of this spirit foetus emerges the full-fledged soul. 
 
AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 123 
 
 Exceptional cases are known where an entity of 
 a sluggish, vagabond temperament and spiritually inert, 
 indefinitely delayed to exert the force necessary to cast 
 off the protective shroud in a natural way — and this 
 exertion must be from within as in the manner of the 
 chick freeing itself from the shell, and atrophy with sub- 
 sequent disintegration resulted. Congested with un- 
 utilized power, the outer coverings first hardened and 
 lost transparency, dulled to a gray monotone and 
 shrank into an unresponsive elemental mass; the slum- 
 bering intelligence within became numb and any re- 
 maining inherent energy was diverted to elemental at- 
 tractions. 
 
 This was the end and the over-soul was drawn 
 into the invigorating essence of some grand issue. 
 Even a law of reincarnation could not utilize such an 
 imperfect opportunity. 
 
 We do not have and never refer to the transpira- 
 tion of effect caused by broken vibrations as an ac- 
 cident. Discarnates very soon understand that 
 everything works to a sensible, given purpose. Never- 
 theless, the kaleidoscopic vibrations and seemingly 
 ruthless performance of the massed emotional rupture 
 effecting harmonic environment impresses the onlook- 
 er much as finite tornadoes awe mortals. This is seen 
 in a more or less eruptive manner on each plane in the 
 sense of clarifying and purifying evolution. 
 
 The storms of adversity put into circulation 
 chemicalizing ingredients that disseminate the warmth 
 and vigor so necessary to impart purpose and energy 
 to the waning endeavor of growing intellect as its 
 vision peers out into space, staring with the eyes of the 
 mind into unborn time. 
 
 Stript of all companionship and forced to embark 
 in loneliness upon a most uninviting journey into a 
 country as yet never fully described by man returned in 
 the possession of all information, who can fail to feel 
 the heart-rent sensation of the mind in its agonized 
 strain to yet retain a little of earth. 
 
124 AFTERWORLD EFFFECTS 
 
 Successful spheric delivery amalgamates the crude 
 mental appliances essential to encourage, sustain and 
 defend the plastic substance that shall vibrate to the 
 succession of changes evolving spiritual qualifications 
 necessary to a living soul dismembered of all rude and 
 primitive activity and now governed by a law of nature 
 sublime in its beauty and brilliant concentration for 
 the good in all. 
 
 In the full knowledge of all this means, why doubt 
 of a wise and loving provision in nature supplying ten- 
 der reception to the disrupted mind and body sem- 
 blance and assisting the childlike situation to a bewil- 
 dered yet fully appeased state of comfort and peace? 
 
 The intrinsic good in all is the motive power be- 
 hind intelligent creative love, the all-inclusive animat- 
 ing source of redemption. The love that Jesus en- 
 joined upon mankind can never be experienced 
 through the physical senses. 
 
 Words never create ideas but thought does since 
 thoughts evolve things. Grasping the generalities, 
 man apprehends fundamental purpose in all. 
 
 All deductions not supported by nature's inde- 
 pendent law are radical and ephemeral. 
 
 Vagabond conclusions never lodge in the promis- 
 ing afterworld. Intelligent mental functioning here 
 tends to develop the power to think open-mindedly 
 upon the fact that all spirit is founded upon the un- 
 changeable principle of the perennial side of nature in 
 which the abstract never preceded the concrete. The 
 non-perishable realities come first and the abstract 
 phenomena later with all which its symbols imply. 
 
 Where self-induced mesmeric situations intrude 
 distractive effects of transient satisfaction and meta- 
 physical indications seemingly fail, prayer in its best 
 sense is efficacious until in the balance of wisdom, man 
 acquires the capacity that strengthens and upholds 
 every department of his being. 
 
AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 125 
 
 Working in the unknown thought that presents no 
 solution gained from borrowed theories in chasing 
 succession of nowhere, mortals must emerge from 
 darkened past history into the known of today with 
 its hourly precepts being fulfilled in man's understand- 
 ing. 
 
 Past experience should be referred to only in com- 
 parison with larger attainments. No task is hopeless, 
 no hope fruitless, no fruit bitter to him who is willing 
 to accept his cross by shouldering all self-imposed 
 responsibilities. 
 
 Every intelligence in the afterworld works indi- 
 vidually and all groups act collectively. The pass- 
 ing of an individual intelligence into a finer state of 
 occupation is often cause for marked joy by those who 
 hope to soon follow and a state of good cheer obtains. 
 
 A direct message rarely returns to those remain- 
 ing, but translations in passage-descent of messages 
 entransport to loved ones of earth, tell of accumulated 
 experience and happy results. 
 
 If every mortal could cultivate a contented love 
 for his labor, it would be of great future benefit since 
 here everyone must love his occupation in order to 
 successfully fulfill it and pass on. 
 
 Occupation can be inclination with us, but inclina- 
 tion comes not by laziness, rather through a polished 
 worthiness of accruement by efforts well expended 
 whereby each finds himself just where he longed to be. 
 
 Germinating within the kernel of intelligence, 
 nature has enfolded all the sustenance necessary to 
 supply emotional utility to animate any and every de- 
 sire the embryonic soul may aspire to in the most lofty 
 and far-away fulfillment. 
 
 Intuitive accomplishment by the soul consists of 
 an overlapping, ever sustaining influence that initiates 
 the faculties into unfolding and developing the dream- 
 like intentions which direct the thoughts into new en- 
 deavors wherein forgetfulness is forgotten and visions 
 become realities. 
 
126 AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 
 
 Mystery cannot subserve the end of natural good 
 made manifest by that sweet peace which is rest for 
 those who crave something more native than the be- 
 lief in evil. 
 
 Belief is the seed time, thought the fertilizer, 
 wisdom the harvest, concentration the sheaves en- 
 folding the kernel that opportunity converts into raw 
 material the craftsman can shape into an ably equipped 
 vehicle for the soul's necessary transportation from 
 material to spritual effects. 
 
AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 127 
 
 CHAPTER XII 
 
 EVOLUTIONARY ALIGNMENT 
 
 H. briefly declared the purpose impelling his 
 communicative endeavors: 
 
 In my endeavor to elucidate the effect vibration 
 has upon all evolutionary activity right up to the mo- 
 ment of dissolution in finite existence and leading over 
 into a continued interest in the infinite duties of the dis- 
 embodied, I have stated the primary workings of what 
 mortals must expect to encounter in the afterworld. 
 
 A report thus restricted necessarily sets forth oc- 
 curances similar to analogous finite effects and the 
 relativity revealed should stimulate the mind into a 
 wholesome trend of thought toward evolutionary align- 
 ment. 
 
 Elucidating the essential features and fundamen- 
 tals of various and contrasting effects governed by 
 phases of natural law inexorable in its demands, I have 
 consistently endeavored to infuse a living stimulus 
 into the many needs induced by the anguished desire 
 experienced by innumerable minds exercising the legit- 
 imate and perfectly natural right to reach out for that 
 which will supply a hungering spiritual cry for some 
 channel that shall answer as a frail hope to embark their 
 love upon in its riven affection after those who have 
 gone from physical sight and touch. 
 
 Except for the strictly ethical aspect admitting 
 of no interference by any conclusions emanating from 
 conscious intelligence entering into or passing through 
 the phases outlined, I have essayed to set forth what I 
 inferred could be readily assimilated by the student 
 mind in its quest for the primary situation in its closer 
 
128 AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 
 
 semblance to finite effects. I thereby hope to pre- 
 pare that mind for a more metaphysical research in 
 those truths which are not communicated with any 
 semblance of finite procedure but which shall lead into 
 contemplative thought that in due time will reach the 
 sublime in operation and result. 
 
 I have not written as I aspire to write, but in a 
 part suiting the need of the hour which is speaking for 
 the approaching crisis when the earth will be prepared 
 for the stronger and more perfected teaching of the 
 purest and best over here. 
 
 Man is a child at best and as such must ever un- 
 fold not from the infinite back to the finite but from the 
 finite with its lower elements up to the infinite in all 
 that the latter promises to fulfill as man is prepared to 
 receive. 
 
 An Unnamed, though not unknown, communi- 
 cant amplified H.'s declaration of purpose and inti- 
 mated somewhat of its associated intent and far-reach- 
 ing nature: 
 
 A divine subliminal intent is evolving whereby the 
 attraction of the three-dimensional attitude of the non- 
 etherial shall merge into etherial understanding and 
 co-operative usefulness gradually ensue. 
 
 These pages are merely an inceptive elucidation 
 and deal primarily with leading fundamentals so vital 
 in their import to adjust and set into vibrational blend 
 activity affecting every impulse of finite daily life in 
 its individual effort to intuitively conform to nature's 
 constructive principle as revealed by primitive yet ab- 
 solute laws. 
 
 Needless to say, H. has taken into consideration 
 the mental reciprocity of this work in the variant men- 
 tal channels it must traverse to reach modern mortal 
 intelligence which demands and seeks for a rational 
 
AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 129 
 
 exposition upon every matter of such great and grave 
 importance as herein set forth — that if a man die, does 
 he live again. 
 
 He has not attempted to reach any individual 
 mind or established phase of thought but has dedicated 
 our combined experience of spiritual effects to humani- 
 ty in general. It was deemed expedient in this exposi- 
 tion of afterworld effects to first inform the native in- 
 telligence of the channels through which may be found 
 all the requirements necessary to fully equip and set 
 into pulsing operation the forces which of themselves 
 then unfold and open the way to most satisfying and 
 observant results. 
 
 Obviating tedious formularies and setting aside 
 the larger metaphysical speech of the graduate of 
 spiritual investigation, he has painstakingly expounded 
 a primary working design in simple though precise 
 terms which shall find an abiding place in the mind 
 and hearts of those who need and are looking for the 
 first requisite instruction imparted through comprehen- 
 sible expression. 
 
 We are fully conscious through intuitive rapport 
 of the far-reaching and unwearied search for spiritual 
 information that can be proven by scientific summary 
 of finite effects in their best evolutionary trend. An- 
 ticipating that recently immeasurably intensified de- 
 mand, mental preparatory schools are very active here 
 as no time must be lost in the unavoidably slow proc- 
 ess of obtaining proficient teachers for the consum- 
 mation of the purpose who are willing to undertake 
 the looking backward method of guiding forward the 
 aspiring mortal mind. 
 
 We are happily confident that H.'s exposition 
 affirms no impossible outcome and no painful under- 
 taking, but does intimate and occasionally specifically 
 recommended a healthy and natural manner of co- 
 operating with nature to perfect every department of 
 its creation. 
 
130 AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 
 
 H. reassumed the transmitting burden and con- 
 cluded his discourses with a purely ethical appeal to 
 align spiritual tendencies with natural evolutionary 
 principles: 
 
 No false attitude, no hypocritical tendencies can 
 gloss over nor unduly intrude on the undimming, far- 
 reaching search-light of the all-knowing, inscrutable 
 working of unseen issues of life and so-called death. 
 
 Familiarizing the mind with the inherent tendency 
 of kindly nature in its untiring efforts to support and 
 maintain the wasting faculties of emotional man in his 
 mad race after visions of fleeting opportunity in di- 
 verse and despotic allurements of frothy transparency, 
 soon disillusions the real senses in their discerning 
 ability over the true and the false. 
 
 To rise superior to every impulse that may be 
 unaccountable when compared with the natural order 
 of man's true purpose in the possession of his inherit- 
 ance of all faculties and powers equal to every justi- 
 fiable emergency, is the requirement of a just Creator 
 in His all-wise and beneficient division of Earth and 
 Heaven as conditions, not place. 
 
 Every condition beneath man as God's supreme 
 creation is subservient to man. Everything above man 
 which includes the ethical calculus in purpose and ex- 
 pression, belongs to and is subservient to God or di- 
 vine, superior wisdom and man must refine and subdue 
 all his grosser inclinations in order to come under this 
 jurisdiction. 
 
 Man enters into earth without choice of parentage, 
 race or country. He has no choice of physical suste- 
 nance until he can to some extent acquire a portion of 
 the savage habits of the survival of the fittest. Thence 
 on, he strives with frenzied might and main in the en- 
 deavor to grasp his share of physical requirements to 
 feed, cloth and shelter himself in what he presumes is 
 duty to self first and God afterward. 
 
AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 131 
 
 In the mad race to hold in his feeble clutch the 
 glittering baubles of mere habits, he invites disease 
 and decrepitude through disuse of powers and facul- 
 ties so ennobling in their willing and potent ability to 
 bless and prolong enjoyment of the superior attain- 
 ments in all beneficial progress. He ignores, where 
 not denying, influences which stretch out the span of 
 years upon earth, easing the journey out of all dreams 
 of possession and acquirement of the fleeting and un- 
 real into the bright light of youth in extended years and 
 multiplied proficiency of the real and eternal benefits 
 of journeying through matter or the clay portion of 
 life where the potter fashions as he will. 
 
 The seed is sown in the earth plane and the sprout 
 takes root for good or evil as the mind inclines, the 
 pattern shapes. The angles may be crude and warped 
 or straight and symmetrical, pointing up to the clear, 
 nourishing winds of spiritual chemicalization where the 
 leaven of unselfish desire, the instinctive preservation 
 of all unto the least instead of brutal force, opens the 
 way for entry into full enjoyment of the finer arts of 
 storing up the fragrance of truth and the fruits of the 
 brotherhood of all men. 
 
 Provident nature created every individual a twin 
 existence in the first impulse of being so that he would 
 be properly equipped to comfortably exist in any evolu- 
 tionary environment that might come to be his lot on 
 the path of progress. 
 
 Befogged by tales of limitation in the ever-whirl- 
 ing circle of cramming all he can of earth experience, 
 no time is seeming where man can rest, even under his 
 own fig tree, to listen, to wonder, to praise and to share 
 in the ever-present affluence to be acquired through 
 the almost unknown possession of his spiritual senses. 
 These senses, identical in number, corresponding in 
 useful activity and outnumbering in their developed 
 ability but handicapped by the clog of earth depres- 
 sion, are doomed to bide the time when the chrysalis of 
 spirit can open and the soul be heard in its plea to the 
 
132 AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 
 
 heart in happenings in the rush for growth, the horror 
 of disappointment and the unholy desire to end it all. 
 
 The earth is full of symbols to guide man. On 
 the physical plane the seasons come and go, teaching 
 the awakening of the foetus in the womb of darkness 
 where phenemona of all finer intelligence, beauty and 
 activity have their first stir. Every recurrent form of ac- 
 tivity not put into temporary motion is governed by 
 spirit and is dark with mystery to the physical senses 
 but fully apprehended by the spiritual senses. Through 
 these selfsame senses is man separated from man, the 
 outer covering finally rending itself asunder and leav- 
 ing the spirit in all its nakedness to face the unknown 
 charity of foreign conditions. 
 
 What shall nourish the ignorant fledgling whose 
 lost opportunity shall engulf him in an environment 
 of depraved lusts never encountered in earth life? 
 Where shall he go, whom seek for information that 
 shall cheer the bewildered mind and dim vision dwell- 
 ing in nebulous space yet peopled with beings and 
 activities where his powers of feeble comprehension 
 seem to avail him little? 
 
 Right here man realizes that he is dead but that 
 release from the activities of earth was not effected 
 when the mantle of flesh was dropped and the naked 
 soul was forced out or down into other and unknown 
 surroundings where a resuscitating experience would 
 ensue and man finds himself in the possession of a ve- 
 hicle of usefulness he does not know how to utilize. 
 
 He knows not whether to walk or fly; he dare not 
 attempt either for fear of the space which his bewilder- 
 ed senses cannot comprehend in their groping effort to 
 utilize strange effects for safety, so he essays to call 
 aloud: but no voice answers. Then he tries to think 
 and some faint echo of sounds once familiar float in up- 
 on his senses inducing a renewed and enlarged effort 
 to comprehend and avail of some initial support from 
 whence to make a struggle to wake from the sleep 
 which seems a dream and to enter again into the only 
 reality as yet ever experienced. 
 
AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 133 
 
 The struggle of the soul to come into its own 
 after reviving from the post-translation coma varies 
 with differing mentalities. Sometimes this dreamlike 
 state in which the soul drifts in space is of months 
 duration; sometimes it numbers years as recorded by- 
 finite calendars. It all depends on the forcefulness of 
 the spiritual inclination to break the chrysalis of in- 
 difference which was the major part of earth existence 
 stultifying what should have been an individual privi- 
 lege to acquire from diligence of personally developed 
 thoughts instead of subsisting upon the tardy beliefs of 
 another's labors. 
 
 There is a principle of creative justice enjoined on 
 every normal being as "man's inalienable rights". 
 Though seldom recognized, this includes "man's in- 
 alienable duties" to instil into his life to the fullest com- 
 prehension the meaning and working out of Equity, 
 Justice and Right. 
 
 When man seriously busies himself in trying to 
 comprehend and utilize all that these three examples 
 unfold, he begins to nourish the spirit and from a germ 
 enshrouded in darkness he starts to gently emerge into 
 warmth of action and beauty of service, next, to see 
 ahead a hope of reward by the fulfillment of cherished 
 desires through the unfoldment of higher ambitions. 
 
 When the spirit has unfolded to where superman 
 speaks to mere man, then shall the kingdom be reveal- 
 ed, the seal to higher knowledge be unloosed and the 
 habits of mental stagnation through dogmatized stupi- 
 faction of faculties drop away. Then shall hope rise 
 higher, vision clear, strength renew and power en- 
 force. Then also shall man prepare for the entry and 
 abiding in the home not built by hands, for in spirit man 
 neither fruitlessly toils with hands nor labors with mind, 
 having qualified himself through opportunity to learn 
 of wisdom's example in the pulsing activity manifest on 
 earth in the birds of the air and beasts of the field — 
 
134 AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 
 
 they labor not, yet in freedom do they exist, fed by the 
 product of the seasons in time and space. 
 
 Man in his most ignorant state acknowledges 
 this, yet fears to trust himself, the Creator's noblest 
 achievement, to the same laws that unstintingly sus- 
 tain this lower creation. 
 
 Nature speaks from the four squares of the earth 
 in mysterious whispers — "Come back to me, thou 
 children of my womb. Ye went forth in great travail. 
 Hearken to the voice of loving admonition. Live by 
 precept and not by practice. Nearing the cross-road, 
 ye can no longer choose but enter into the darkness of 
 a second birth and this shall be the transition from the 
 superanimal into the first stage of what if ye will may 
 become the superman." 
 
 Man of earth, awake! 
 
 Seize the opportunity of the present enlarged 
 channel directed toward finite affairs to acquaint mor- 
 tals with the great importance of living a life which 
 shall clear away the mists of superstition and fear. 
 
 Look duty and obligation squarely in the face. 
 
 Live, do not merely exist! 
 
 Evolve unto thyself a law sufficiently spiritual 
 to give peace and tranquility to consciousness in all 
 the finer meanings of what it is to really live, to acquire 
 and to successfully utilize. 
 
 To be satisfied with the earth school, graduate in 
 the best it has to give you as an individual. 
 
 Acquire sufficient working knowledge of what is 
 expected of mind in co-operation with spirit so that 
 when the moment occurs for transition to the shores 
 of eternity, you will make the passage in the full sense 
 of security which denotes the desire to be equipped and 
 ready for renewed activities in alertness and aware- 
 ness that no time of darkness shall settle as a pall of 
 partial extinction upon all that is left of mortal man to 
 whom was promised eternal life. 
 
AFTERWORLD EFFECTS 135 
 
 Man's life cannot be extinguished like the snuffing 
 of a candle. 
 
 He who created all supplied enough facts of 
 perpetual activity visible to finite sense to encourage 
 mortal intelligence into a budding hope of life's con- 
 tinuity and eternal usefulness, merging into perfect 
 happiness for all eternity. 
 
 That hope is a living reality, now and forever? 
 
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