THE LIFE
AFTER DEATH
EXPERIENCE
IN THE
HEAVENLY REALMS
OF
DR. E. R. LINDSEY
Dedication
These writings are dedicated to the Manifested Sons of God and to the world-wide Body of Christ on Earth, who shall establish peace on Earth in a Kingdom that shall have no end.
Dr. and Mrs. E. R. Lindsey
Written and published in the 1960's and re-typed for recirculating at the command of God, March 2007
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
Introduction by Mrs. Gladys Lindsey 6
The Vision
Chapter One
How the vision came to be 12
Chapter Two
Second departure and visit to
Second Heaven 24
Chapter Three
Time to return to Earth 57
Chapter Four
Seventh Heaven and Portals
to Eternity 60
Chapter Five
The Conclusion; A new life begins 67
INTRODUCTION
This book will no doubt be the center of many discussions because of the fact that it has to do with a realm beyond the comprehension of the mortal man. It came into being, not as a story penned by a writer whose ambition was to become a famous author and have his name inscribed in some Hall of Fame. It is a message from one who has crossed the great divide to behold great wonders of the immortal plane and has returned from that place to describe what he saw. He has returned as an instrument in the hand of God dedicated to reveal to his human family some of the things that are to come upon planet Earth.
Mrs. Gladys Lindsey introduces her husband, Dr. E. R. Lindsey
Dr. Eldon Robert Lindsey is a man who was born and reared in a very orthodox religious home. He was trained for the ministry from an early age. Although he was raised in such an environment, his mind often rebelled against the fantastic concepts of the visible church and it’s teachings about the World of Spirits. The pictures of a Heaven in some far-away place where people walked golden streets in a dreamy haze, wearing golden crowns and strumming harps with ethereal bliss were unreal and unacceptable to him.
The age old concept of a heaven where St Peter stood by gates of pearl with a great ring of keys to open the gates to some and to send others screaming down to an eternal hell did not fit his understanding of the Bible. The story of angels with wings flitting about from cloud to cloud like butterflies never did appeal to this man who has spent his entire lifetime in Biblical and scientific research.
Boyhood Manifestations
From early childhood his life has been filled with strange events which his family chose to ignore as mere figments of imagination. He was told that he was “just day-dreaming”. At the age of 12 he and his younger brother were sitting on the porch reading the Bible and suddenly he stopped and looked intently into the distance. Then he jumped to his feet and said he had just seen a little boy fall into the canal. His father stopped him and said, “Son, you are just dreaming again. The canal is more than six miles from here and you can’t see it anyway because there is a high wire fence on both sides.” But the lad became so frantic that his father took him to the place where the accident was supposed to have happened. When they arrived at the place some thirty minutes later a crowd of people were there and men were dragging the canal.
Eldon Lindsey’s father went over to one of the firemen and told him about his son’s vision and how he had insisted that a little boy had fallen into the water and that he had gone through a hole in the screen at the mouth of the tunnel. The boy then spoke and said he could “see” the little boy holding onto a piece of wood that had lodged against the screen and had been carried through the tunnel with him. Then, with three other men, Eldon and his father went to the other side of the hill where the tunnel emptied into the reservoir about a mile away. Just as they arrived there the drowning boy came floating out, holding onto a piece of board. One of the men plunged into the water and swam back to the shore with the little boy. Had this been 5 minutes later the little boy would have gone down the spillway and he would have been drowned.
Many times before this incident young Eldon Lindsey had told his parents that an angel of the Lord had told him to go to this or that place where someone was sick and praying for God to send someone to help. He could not understand these amazing things himself, but he obeyed the angel of the Lord. He was laughed at so many times that he finally gave up telling anyone about the appearances of the angel. Instead he would slip out quietly and go to the person in need, if he was near enough, or he would go into a private place and pray earnestly for that person.
At the age of 16, Eldon and three other boys about the same age were out camping. They had pitched their camp under a bridge in a dry stream bed that had not had any water in it for more than 2 years. About midnight a strange light covered the camp and it was so bright that it caused the boys to wake up.
“It is the angel of the Lord”, Eldon said. Afterwards he seemed to be listening, and he said, “We must move at once, as there has been a cloudburst way up in the mountains and this bridge is going to be all washed away!” The boys laughed at him, but because of the strange light and the urging of their companion, they got up and moved their camp belongings up the hillside where they found a good spot under a clump of trees. About 30 minutes later their former campsite was a raging torrent and the bridge and it’s abutments gave way to the heavy body of water and debris that slammed into it with the force of a freight train.
The years moved swiftly on and the boy became a man. He married me and we became the parents of twin boys, born in Honolulu. On the night of Nov. 15th, 1941 Dr. Lindsey was ministering to a small group in a prayer meeting in one of his church members homes. A slight breeze seemed to fill the room though all was calm outside the house. Then the lights in the house began to grow dim, as if by a gradual power failure; then finally the lights went out completely. But the room was still light, and the light grew in intensity. We saw Dr. Lindsey standing as if transfixed, his whole being glowing somehow in that white light.
Then in a few moments the bright light dimmed out and we could no longer feel the light breeze or whatever it was. The natural electricity came back on and later it was found out that there had been no power failure anywhere else in the neighborhood.
When everything had apparently returned to normal, Dr. Lindsey told the group that the angel of the Lord had appeared to him and had given him some instructions. He was told to leave Hawaii on the next ship for the States. He was told that Japan would start an undeclared war at the end of the first week in December. Moreover, he was told that the island of Oahu would be the first place that would be struck by this surprise attack.
Dr. Lindsey called Pearl Harbor and Scofield Barracks, as well as Hickam Field, but they treated him like some kind of crank and assured him that there was no chance of war. Even the people at the meeting doubted him, despite the light and wind signs they had all witnessed. A few days later the four of us were aboard a ship on our way back to the United States, and alittle over a week after we had landed in San Francisco, the Japanese struck.
It does seem that the people in this age are the same as they have been in all ages past, even as they were in the time of Noah. They have their prayer meetings, revival services and their teaching courses. They claim to believe in a supernatural God and His angelic beings, yet they keep refusing to believe anyone who claims to have contact with the Spirit side of life!
After ministering the gospel for more than twenty years in America and in many foreign lands, Dr. Lindsey returned to America in 1951 and soon became known as one of the world’s outstanding Bible expositors and teachers. In 1954 he was elected President of the International Evangelistic Association, Inc. In 1959 he was elected as President of the International Association of Evangelists, Inc.
Dr. Lindsey has never been a man given to emotionalism or hallucinations.
He has never settled for anything less than facts. He has always sought the truth; the whole truth. On several occasions Dr. Lindsey has been photographed while ministering. When the films were developed, they have sometimes shown peculiar phenomenon. His body comes out in the prints as if he were almost a spirit being himself, sort of transparent.
I know from much observation that there are many strange things taking place on Earth today, but from what I learn in some of our Holy Spirit manifestations, we will see even stranger things on this planet in the very near future.
Humbly I ask you to pray and open your heart as you read this booklet “The Vision”, and accept the amazing accounts written in these pages, for they are true stories. Then prepare yourself quickly for the greatest events that have ever taken place on the Earth. I am a devoted wife and your friend in Christ Jesus,
Gladys Lindsey.
THE VISION
By
Dr. E. R. Lindsey
Chapter One
For many years I had worked without ceasing. My ministry had been successful, until 1957. In that year a tornado struck me down, both literally and physically. It took everything we owned and humbled me, body, mind, and soul.
Our huge gospel tent and all our revival equipment valued at more than $100,000 were completely destroyed by that great storm in southern Georgia. I was critically injured when one of the huge center poles fell on me and knocked me off the platform. My back and kidneys were badly damaged.
Later I found myself in the hospital, unconscious as far as the doctors were concerned, but I could hear every word they were saying. I felt scalpels probing and cutting my flesh but I felt this in a numb sort of way. I understood and felt everything as the doctors examined me, working to determine the extent of the injuries. The vital organs were seriously damaged.
When the operation was over and the gaping wounds neatly closed by the surgeon’s skill with his needles and other instruments, I was removed to a private room. There I saw the furnishings and I heard one of the doctors say to another one, “He doesn’t stand a chance”.
Four days and nights my wife sat by my bedside. I could not open my eyes and I could not speak a word, yet I was entirely conscious and aware of everything that took place in the room around me. It was during this period of four days that the strangest events of my life took place.
On the second day, after they had just given me an intravenous feeding, and while my eyes were still closed in unconsciousness, I suddenly saw a stream of brilliant white light coming through one corner of the room where the ceiling and wall came together. This light grew in intensity until I suddenly felt myself being lifted out of my body and I began to glide slowly up that beam of light.
I said to myself, “This is it. My summons to be forever with the Lord is come!” I felt wonderful. As I began to rise higher I turned my eyes and saw my own body lying there on the bed. I saw that the breathing in that body had stopped. But I was certainly not dead and there was a glorious sense of new freedom. All the pain was gone. In a moment of time I was free. A marvelous feeling of peace and rest stole over me, for I found I still had a body and I was feeling and thinking and rejoicing in it.
Beautiful crystalline lights flashed with the brilliance of a thousand suns as I entered the source of the beam of light that had transported me to this eternal realm. My spirit form was undergoing some kind of complete transformation in this place. Prismatic colors danced around me with the effect of giving me unspeakable joy.
If you can conceive of a million suns shining through a million gigantic prisms, you would understand what I was experiencing. That is the best way I can describe it. The utter beauty of all the colors of the spectrum and many more colors I had never seen before all interlaced in that cosmic light. So brilliant was the sight of it as to put to shame all the grand displays of the Aurora Borealis since time began.
Somehow my mind was gathering from these strange and beautiful lights all the things I had long ago forgotten. A new knowledge filtered through me that I knew consisted of the very essence of creation. I was renewed, awakened, and made completely whole. New thoughts, new powers surged through my being with ecstasy. I heard new and beautiful sounds. I was aware of heavenly fragrances; delightful aromas superseding that of all the exotic flowers on Earth gathered into one grand bouquet. Well, as you can perceive from my efforts to describe these things, I was simply intoxicated in a heavenly and rapturous delight. All the grandeur of uncountable sunsets seemed to fill the skies. I was apparently alone in this grand display of beauty but I had no fear or worry. All was perfect peace; perfect delight.
Then, as if someone had waved a magic wand, I was suddenly surrounded by many angelic beings. None of them had wings! They moved about with the speed of light and I was moving amongst them. Some of them communicated to me by thought transference and they told me I was being taken to look upon three realms of the spirit world. One of the beautiful creatures told me that after I had visited each of these timeless dimensions, I would be returned to the world of time to give a witness.
MY VISIT TO THE FIRST REALM
OF THE SPIRIT WORLD
I was conducted within a spherical-shaped vehicle that looked like a ball of light and we were transported into a dimension which I was told was the biding place of those who had rejected God in their earthly life. It was not a “blazing inferno” with devils and demons roving around dark caverns with pitchforks, goading the dwellers. There were no fumes or burning sulfur in the atmosphere. It was just like the world where we live on planet Earth! The dwellers of this realm were as real as any person in the physical life on Earth.
As our globe of light moved among the dwellers, I asked my angel in charge about the status of these creatures inhabiting this place of semi-gloom. I asked why they seemed to pay no attention to our conveyance, although to me, it was shining so brilliantly and ought to be attracting their attention. He replied that the frequency of our vibration was above their vibrations and therefore we were unseen by them. The angel gave me further understanding of their status when he said, “They have a vibration somewhat above that of the people in the world of time on Earth, and they can therefore look back from whence they came and SEE without being seen, even as we are doing in our vibration above them,” I asked, “Will they be forever in this place?” But even as I asked the question I realized the wonderful truth that Those who desire to reach a better place can do so...
Again the angel revealed to me a wonderful truth. He said, “Not only they who had rejected the Lord Jesus Christ while living on Earth, but also those who had never heard of the plan of salvation were assigned to this first realm”. He said that teachers from the Second Heaven were constantly coming into this realm as missionaries to teach those willing to listen all they needed to know for their progress into the pathways of FULL RESTORATION of man into the likeness and image of God. As the beings in this first realm accept God’s plan of salvation and repent of their wrong doings on Earth they are released from this place and conducted into the Second Heaven. There they would be given further opportunities to increase in spiritual understanding and progress.
GOD’S PLAN OF PROGRESS
The desire to serve God and His purposes gradually raises the vibrations of the dwellers in the First Heaven. They are literally elevated from heaven to heaven by their own steps upward in this gradual attunement with the Creator’s vibrations until they grow into that state of perfection known as the Seventh Realm or Heaven.
However, I grieved as I noticed that there are those who are spending all their time and energy in trying to regain entrance into the physical world on Earth. This they cannot do physically, but some with strong wills can and do enter into the physical bodies of Earth dwellers and they cause much havoc and despair on Earth. Some were just trying to satisfy their “carnal” or animal appetites of one kind or another, but some were evil beyond description. These are the cohorts of Lucifer and his fallen angels, and I saw that they were satanic forces seeking to defeat Christ’s forces. The devil and his angels are creatures who have access to the First Heaven or Realm. They have been consigned to this realm until the consummation of the ages, and when that time comes these satanic forces shall be cast out into outer darkness.
The angel in charge of my visit to the First Heaven told me that those beings of the First Heaven who refused to accept the plan and pattern of God will be made to be as if they had never been. They have to start their lessons from the beginning. Their spirit beings will be separated from any connection with life as we know it on any plane. Once again their spirit forms and knowledge energies of being will be blended with cosmic energy to become magnetic lines of force. The angel said, “All evil and disregard for the law of God will thus be forever wiped out of the universe.”
After that the angel in charge said. “We will now set the frequency to Zero Minus”. As if by magic all the creatures living on Earth seemed to mingle with those dwelling in the First Heaven. I saw millions of people swarmed the Earth. All the beings that had lived on the Earth and had not progressed to the Second or Third Heavens were roaming throughout the Earth and mingling with those living upon the Earth.
When I looked closely, I saw that there was a recognizable difference between those living on Earth and those who had crossed over into the Spirit World. The living wore clothes while those of the realm of Spirit were naked. When I asked the angel in charge why these had no clothes, he told me they had no ability to manufacture anything. He said that they were in a vibration where they could not wear or touch anything of the physical or Earth realm, and that only those of the Second Heaven and the heavens higher had any power to create the things they desired.
HOW DOES THE SPIRIT WORLD
INFLUENCE THE PHYSICAL WORLD?
As we watched the creatures of the First Heaven, it was obvious that they constantly invaded the minds of the people in the physical realm. I saw that now and then two different thought patterns would apparently merge and the physical creature of Earth would begin to act on the new thought or understanding which he had accepted from the spirit being. My angel companion was giving me ample time to study this matter. We moved about from place to place and I watched the evil spirits at work.
A boy of ten was reading a comic book filled with murder and crime. I saw a spirit who had been executed for murder and rape move to the boy’s side. The evil spirit seemed to do something to the little boy’s mind. He put his book aside and with a vacant stare on his face, stood up and walked out the door. Across the street children were playing and the boy went up to a little girl and said something to her that made her laugh. Then I heard him tell her that she could have one of his mother’s big dolls if she would go with him to the basement to get it. I saw a good spirit try to warn the little girl, but she brushed the good spirit aside and followed the boy and the evil spirit down into the basement. I was appalled as I saw the misguided boy as the little girl to look into a big trunk. And when she did look, I saw that he crushed her skull with a hammer, shoved her into the trunk and closed the lid. He then walked off with a blank look, returned to his book and continued to read as if nothing had happened.
As we continued to move from place to place I was shown many examples of how the evil spirit world influences people on Earth. I saw again and again how the spirits of men and women in the First Heaven worked with the fallen angels of Satan to harass the minds of mankind and to lead them astray from the Christ Way of Life.
Then we entered the United Nations building where some leaders of the world systems were gathered in an effort to avoid destructive wars, while still seeking to have their own wills done on Earth. I saw that every individual gathered there was accompanied by both good and evil spirits, and it seemed to me that the evil spirits were a thousand to one against the men of Earth. I was thankful to see that many of the men were praying for the guidance of God and His holy angels, but others had no thought of God or of His will or the help that He could give them. So I perceived that the minions of darkness were able to prevail over most of those at the assemblage, filling their minds with hatred and distrust.
As I looked at some of those evil thought instructors I was sure I saw Adolph Hitler and Joseph Stalin. There were so many evil ones that I turned to the angel in charge and asked for more enlightenment. “They are Luciferian leaders”, he told me. “They are among the most violent men who have ever lived on Earth, desperately working for the ways of evil. Among them are some of the rulers of ancient Egypt, Rome, Greece and other nations of the days when they thrived on murder and the rape of whole countries. Yes, you are seeing Attila the Hun; over there is the one known as Alexander the Great. Standing by the speaker are Nero, Genghis Khan and Adolph Hitler—three of the most evil men who ever lived, for seeing men writhe and die is their greatest thrill. They have made a pact with the Devil and they sit in on all his councils of death and destruction.”
From the UN tour we circled over the Earth, carefully noting how evil thoughts were planted and nurtured in the minds of men and women. I did see how many good thoughts were also being planted by the spirits of God, but the evil spirits seemed to outnumber the good spirits and this troubled me greatly. “Why, O why? I asked the angel beside me. “Why do men pay attention to these evil thoughts implanted in their minds?” The angel said, “It is because they have rejected the only power that can shield them and overcome the power of evil. They have the responsibility of choice as to which spirits they shall hearken to. They who are God’s children are given the power to invoke God’s help, if they choose to hear Him and follow His guidance.”
So I plainly saw that conditions on Earth today are exactly as the Bible prophesied. As in the days of Noah, so it is today. Men have neglected or refused to ask God for help and they have tried to rely upon their own laws to curb the corruptions within and without. I saw that the powers of evil are greater than the powers of man, until man accepts the powers of God as his armor of protection.
More than ever before I realized what the Lord Jesus Christ had done for me. He made available to humanity the power of the Holy Spirit by which we can have power over every evil force than Satan could send against us. Christ said unto those who would heed His teachings, “You shall have power after that the Holy Spirit has come upon you”, and at another time He said, “Greater is the power that is IN you than the power that is in the world.” At another time Jesus said, “Behold I give you power over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.” I thought sadly that we church members have often failed to teach these truths and act upon them. I was seeing on this journey into the spirit world some of the results of the failure to teach the truth of God. Thousands and thousands of men have lost all desire to know God and obey His ways of Life. The thoughts of many minds are what the Bible described as being “evil continually”. More than ever I longed to see an answer to mankind’s sad decline, and I felt that the answer must be an awakening by the manifestation of the Sons of God.
As we watched further, we beheld a large gathering of Lucifer’s fallen angels—a large group called “thought invaders” and “thought instructors”. These were directed by Lucifer himself to step up their activities and cause new and bigger wars to break out all over the Earth. When their meeting was concluded, the evil minions moved out with the speed of light into all directions on the planet.
Again the angel spoke and said, “Lucifer knows that he has but a short time, for even now God is raising up a new people on Earth. They are being prepared by the Most High God with full knowledge of His divine purpose and plan for the restoration of all things. These, including yourself, will play an important role in the greatest drama of the ages. God is raising up His everlasting people who will overcome death and all evil corruption. This people shall obtain life immortal while still on the Earth, and they shall never see death.”
With this announcement the angel lifted his hand and the whole scene changed into the beautiful prismatic colors I had seen at my entrance into this glorious realm. Once more my whole being was filled with wonder. Below me I could see my physical body lying on the hospital bed. There sat my dear little wife, holding my inert hand and praying earnestly. I moved down beside her swiftly in the powerful beam of light and although it was painful, my spirit body entered and blended again with my damaged physical body. The doctor felt my pulse and placed his stethoscope over my rib cage. Then he stood up with amazement on his face. My eyes were still closed but I felt his astonishment and surprise, as if he wondered what was going on. He turned to the nurse and said to watch the patient carefully and to let him know immediately if there was any change. I was resting easy now and I felt new life surging through my body, taking away all the pain. Then I fell into a deep sleep which lasted for about 12 hours.
CHAPTER TWO
The Second Departure
And
Visit in the Second Heaven
On the third day I awoke in the hospital completely rested. There was no pain in my body despite the fact that I had been given no medication during the night. The only discomfort I felt at the time was a tight feeling around my side where I had been sown up, and I was still unable to open my eyes, speak or move any part of my body.
I heard a conversation going on out in the hallway and another one in the next room. I found that it was quite easy to tune in on either conversation if I wished to do so. My wife was sitting in a chair near the bed and I could tell by her steady breathing that she had fallen off into a fatigued sleep.
Rapturous delight flooded my soul as once again I entered the place of the dancing prism lights. New and wondrous knowledge filtered into my mind. New joys, sounds, perfume and colors brought a deep sense of peace and happiness to my soul. Compared with this heavenly place, all my earthly experiences were as nothing.
The galaxies of stars were turning like giant pinwheels at a July 4th celebration. The whole universe seemed alive with the Creator’s sons of God. Worlds without end joined in a mighty chorus that sounded to me like Eternity’s grand refrain; the music of the spheres. All was in unity and harmony, except for one note I could hear that was in a minor key of sadness. I looked with the power of my new vision and the planet Earth in place far below was apparently the only planet in all of creation that was all out of tune. Where I now found myself, the beautiful prismatic colors were gradually blending into one soft radiant blue.
It was then that I realized that I was again inside a ball of light similar to the one I had rode in before, except for one detail. This transportation vehicle was different in color of the light, which was now a radiant flowing blue. The same angels who were with me before were in charge now, and they were all dressed in a soft silken material which was the same shade of color as the beautiful light surrounding us. I noticed that my garment was like that of the angels and I had a wonderful sense of fellowship with them.
There was a Magnificent One who seemed to be the spokesman of the group. He lifted his right hand and made a peculiar sign. Immediately the ball of light became transparent and I felt a strange and wonderful flood of new knowledge filling my mind.
Here at last I realized the answer to what men have called flying saucers. This vehicle of light in which I was being transported was a flying saucer! I now studied it more carefully. It had three floors and was about fifty feet in diameter. It was approximately thirty five feet in depth. In the center of the middle floor a great seven sided crystal prism lightly hummed a song of power. It’s colorful rays filled the whole vehicle with rainbow hues. The floors were resilient, somewhat like sheets of foam rubber, and the texture was that of fine velvet. The furnishings were somehow appearing according to the individual’s desire and needs. I thought of a certain lavishly upholstered easy chair I had seen on Earth at a furniture show, and a chair like that appeared before me as if by magic. I sat down in wonderment and tried to fathom these mysteries.
My angel companion said, “Did you never stop to think that all things are created by the mind? On Earth men have conceived first the thought of such a chair, and have then assembled it from materials which in turn were created by the mind of God for mankind to shape into different forms for his use and enjoyment. In the vibration of this Heaven where we are now traveling, all the slow process from raw materials to finished product are eliminated. Your mind causes cosmic forces to form the counterpart of the thoughts of your mind. As Jesus said, “As a man thinketh in his mind, so is he”. So here also, as a man thinketh a thing, so shall it be!”
The angel saw that I had questions in my mind and he patiently continued to teach me, saying “Men on the mortal plane of Earth have robbed themselves of this great power God gave them. Through disobedience to the law of God mankind has lowered his vibrations into a slowness of molecular motion that deprives him of his rightful powers of creativity. The spaceship we are riding in is a creation of the mind of God. While we are in it, Time and Space cease to exist. It can appear or disappear according to our will. We who have not lost our power of creation by thought have often caused the spaceships to appear unto men down through the ages when it has served the great purposes of God. But many times men have failed to comprehend what these vehicles are, because Satan and his thought instructors filled them with fear, hate, and suspicion.”
The truth of these revelations was beginning to dawn upon me and I sought to know the answers to more of my questions. Without needing to hear me, the angel continued. “Ezekiel saw our great ships that cross the regions of vast space. He described them to the best of his ability but he was not given the privilege of being transported to the realms of light at that time.”
Looking out through the walls I beheld a world so beautiful that words could never express it’s grandeur. The land was peopled by beautiful beings all wearing the same soft loose-fitting silken garments. Somehow this color intrigued me as being more than a color. It was a pale blue, yet it scintillated with a brightness as of a living thing. When I asked the angel as to it’s fabric, he informed me that it was a thought creation. He said, “ Here everyone is of one mind and textures and colors are harmonious to all according to whatever the occasion seems to warrant.”
Without telling me in so many words I understood what he meant by “occasion”, for Time as we know it on Earth does not exist on this heavenly plane of life. There is no night in Heaven. It was the same as on Earth, with the same land surfaces, but was entirely different in that all was clean, orderly, and beautiful.
THERE ARE SEVEN CYCLES
The “occasions” mentioned were known as cycles, of which there are seven. The First Cycle lasted an hour of Earth time. The second one lasted two hours, the third was three hours, the fourth was four hours, the fifth was five hours, the sixth was six hours and the seventh cycle lasted seven hours.
The first hour was spent in what Earth dwellers would call an auditorium, yet it was like nothing which mortal man has ever seen. I observed that it’s architecture was that of a mass of gigantic glass or crystal globe. It measured seven hundred feet across and was suspended by magnetic lines of force right in the center of the great Celestial City.
As we entered through the large opening in the bottom of this gigantic globe, we were lifted by no visible means I could see, and we were placed in one of the hundreds of thousands of seats that completely filled this globe clear up to the equator or center line of the auditorium.
The Power of the Seven Sided Prism
In a matter of moments the great auditorium was filled. A tremendous seven sided prism seemed to be suspended in the very middle of the globe. Beautiful music such as has never been heard on the mortal plane now filled the atmosphere. This seven sided prism began to turn, slowly at first, casting it’s rainbow hues upon every creature within the confines of the great auditorium. Then it turned faster and faster until the whole atmosphere was charged with color and music that blended into a symphony of divine love and mighty power.
New knowledge and the wisdom of the ages filtered into my mind in that wonderful atmosphere. I became aware of the cause and purpose of the universe. I learned and understood in part the plan of God for His eternal children. The patterns of God were set according to the vibratory factors of each being!
I recognized that in this Second Heaven everyone was receiving schooling and vibratory preparation for the Third Heaven. I learned much as I watched the people there. Some of the people seemed content and satisfied to remain in this place of celestial beauty while others were eager to progress onward; not content until they could reach higher realms of eternal perfection.
“How long do the inhabitants of this realm remain here?” I asked the angel, and he replied, “It takes many cycles for some of them to conceive and assimilate and use the knowledge that there is anything higher or more wonderful than what they have here. This is especially true with regard to those who had few comforts and conveniences in their earthly lives. But little by little they come into the knowledge of higher attainments, and they prepare themselves for the Third Heaven.”
The mind is a strange creation, I learned. In answer to my queries I found that all men are created equal in capability, but circumstances and environments of man and his ancestors play a part in shaping his desires and progress. In many places on Earth the people born in poverty and ignorance of better ways of life have no desire for higher things because of their lack of knowledge of such things. Those whose privilege it was to be born with the finer things of life were able to progress more rapidly, if they desired to do so. So it was that some stay in the Second Heaven for hundreds of cycles, while others go on to the Third Heaven in as few as seven cycles.
My wise and gracious angel put it this way, “The desire to be found again in the likeness and image of God determines whether one’s advancement is rapid or slow. But ALWAYS the end result is the same. When one comes to the knowledge of the fullness of truth and light he advances quickly and is elevated to the Third Heaven. Since the day of creation few have been privileged to see the sights and to know the mysteries that you are now privileged to see and to know. But the day of consummation and restoration of all things is at hand, and many shall experience these wonders even as you, for you and other teachers are being prepared by precept and experience in readiness for that day to come soon. You will undergo experiences that will give you greater spiritual understanding and skills that would require many lifetimes of learning on Earth. This preparation is to equip you for new work and the completion of your mission on Earth.”
The Second Hour:
A Period of Silent Meditation
At the conclusion of the first hour or school session, the multiplied thousands of the spirit beings walked among the gardens of flowering trees and plant life and there, for a period of about two hours of Earth time, they walked in silent meditation. The only sound to be heard was the heavenly music that pulsated from every living thing in that peaceful place. The sound of the violet was as gentle as it’s perfume. The lilac and the rose sang their own lovely songs. The sweetpeas and carnations gave forth notes in harmony with their colors. The trees and the multiplied thousands of plants and flowers of all colors joined together in a grand chorus and I could perceive that the chorus was singing about God’s infinite love! The melody was as soft as the petal of a rose. Every note was as clear as the chime of tiny silver bells. Such glorious harmony no symphony on Earth has ever known.
I noticed then that the garment I was wearing was undergoing a marvelous change. From the beautiful blue it had been during the first period it was now changing rapidly to rainbow hues that matched the color and song of the heavenly gardens. The colors changed like those in a gorgeous sunset. They rippled like the crest of a wave and the motions were in tune with the melody of the flowers and trees. The very threads of my garment sang like the strings of a delicate harp being plucked by unseen fingers of love. These songs of the heaven I was visiting blended with the song of the stars. The pen of mortal man could never convey to the human mind what glory was revealed to me in this paradise.
This period of meditation attuned my soul for the ecstasy of things to come. It opened my understanding and created in me a holy desire for more and more of the wondrous things that would be revealed as I progressed onward.
The Third Cycle
is a
Lesson in Divine Perfection
The Second Cycle ended and the Third Cycle began with a hunger for truth and righteousness like I had never known before. This was not like the hunger of the natural body for that which satisfies not. This was a holy hunger to be again in the likeness and image of God.
The supreme silence of the Second Cycle was broken by my angel companion and he spoke the profound words of Jesus, saying, “MAN SHALL NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE BUT BY EVERY WORD THAT COMES FORTH FROM THE MOUTH OF GOD. Man has been so blind in his search for life. The Lord Jesus Christ clearly taught that He was The Bread that cometh down from Heaven and that He was The Word Made Flesh and that any man that would partake of Him would not see death”.
The hunger in my soul increased with each word the angel spoke until my whole being was consumed with desire to be again in the likeness and image of God. “How long, O Lord, How long will it be until the hunger of my soul is satisfied? The angel replied to me, “Walk with God. Obey the voice of the Holy Spirit and soon you shall partake of His eternal Substance and be made one with Him.
Mankind has walked in disobedience to the will of God in all ages past, not always because he wanted to be disobedient, but because the visible church priesthood and their organizations would not take the time and honest effort to search the word of God for it’s true teachings. There is created in everyone a deep desire for God and His ways of life, but the satanic desire for earthly gain, and the erroneous teachings mankind receives in spiritual things makes the innate desire for God to fade and die.
God has raised up many prophets throughout the centuries and He has endowed them with great wisdom and spiritual gifts. Their words were heeded by a FEW who’s desire for new and greater spiritual understanding was stirred into action. The enlightenment took hold of their beings for a time, but often—because of some former teaching and their sense of loyalty to tradition, they became afraid to pursue the truth and then live by it!
Now the time has come on planet Earth for a great spiritual awakening. There is no longer any doubt about the gravity of the situation. For if mankind is allowed to continue on with the mad pursuit of carnal folly, every living thing will be destroyed. The desire for selfish, carnal minded gain creates greed. This greed gives birth to fear, distrust and hatred. And these vices create wars which bring death.
The desire for unselfish, spiritual-minded things creates love, trust, and understanding, which in turn creates peace, health and the heavenly virtues.
The mind of man controls his entire physical body. Every vital organ and it’s function are directly connected by the nervous system to the brain of man. When fear, hatred, and greed fill the mind there is a direct cause and effect reaction in the functions of the vital organs of the body causing sickness, pain, distress, insanity, and death.
The whole world can and will live in perfection when mankind has learned to walk in harmony with the law of God.”
All these truths were flooding through my mind and heart as the angel and I walked among the delightful gardens of this marvelous place. I felt as though the flowers and the trees were speaking directly to me through their sweet songs of love. They seemed to say, “We toil not, neither do we spin, but we live in the beauty and perfection of eternal life. On Earth your flowers fade and die, the grass withers and it is gone, man fells the trees to build a shelter and both man and shelter return to the dust. But in the heavenly Kingdom of God it is not so! We sing our songs of eternal life eternally. Here we flowers and trees never fade, and the grass does not wither and die. On Earth the night comes and enfolds all creation in darkness. The light of your sun is hidden from view while death and destruction walk in the darkness. But hear our word of truth: the day will soon come on Earth when all shall live in the eternal light and eternal life, and Death shall no longer be known!”
Throughout the entire Third Cycle I questioned my angel companion about everything I saw. Why are the colors so vivid? Why is the aroma of Nature so much sweeter here than on Earth? Why is everything here such a perfection of sound and beauty?
He replied, “It is because the VALUES of beauty and life are different on the two planes. Earth dwellers give little or no thought to the beauty and perfection of a rose, a sunrise, a valley or a mountain. Mankind gives scant thought to the origin or extent of the varied perfumes of the flowers and trees because the minds are so filled with the things of man’s creation instead of the things which God has created for him to enjoy. The perfumes and colors cannot reach the mind because of THOUGHTLESSNESS and because of the noxious odors of man-made things.....car exhaust, filth of homes and clothing, staleness of foods, atmosphere and surroundings. The nostrils have been offended by these things and have lost most of their sensitivity for the lovely things.”
“Your thoughts became imperfect”, the angel said. “Therefore you desired imperfect things. Here where we are now, you have seen that all thoughts are pure. They are GOOD, and TRUE and BEAUTIFUL, even as the thoughts in the mind of God that has brought them into being.”
What is True Beauty?
“True love of beauty is essential to spiritual growth! Love of perfection along any line is a sure sign of spiritual growth, while greed is the opposite of Love. It breeds selfishness, and the appreciation for true beauty is lost in the mad desire for things of the natural.
“The young want things they do not know how to obtain, because they have never been taught how to weigh true values or the true meaning of beauty. The young girl in her crude attempt to become mature and beautiful paints her face, dyes her hair, and becomes a slave of man-made styles and fashions. In her fierce determination to live life according to the pattern laid down by man, she soon finds herself old and forgotten. The flood of pent up energy she had known in her youth is soon gone—spent in the mad pursuit of carnal pleasures. Beauty always seemed to float ahead of her like a mystic bubble until one day it vanished from sight completely. The mad chase was over and there was no beauty in it. The truly beautiful things of life had been missed. The mind had sought for reality in that which was unreal, while all about her were those things that bring ETERNAL BEAUTY and unending pleasure. She had accepted a counterfeit and found it unsatisfying, for when payday came it did not buy real happiness, contentment, or peace of mind.
When one comes to realize the true meaning of life and the relationship between all living things, there comes sweet and wonderful peace that passes all understanding. One’s very existence is changed from the drab, meager, and disappointing struggle for the vanishing dreams of contentment and happiness to that of a glorious radiance of Divine Love and Perfection. This has power to transform the most ordinary life into one of radiant health and beauty.
Man uses all his cleverness to create objects of art in his quest for beauty. He builds his gigantic buildings, spans the rivers with structures of concrete and steel, builds parks and highways, constructs homes and plants flower gardens, creates means of rapid transportation on Earth and in the seas and skies, then he becomes a slave to his own creations! For the truth is that what man creates does decay, rust and returns to the dust of Earth again.
But the day is coming when man will learn that he was created to create—not with tools and machines of his own making, nor with the material substances of Earth—but with the creative power of the mind of God. He will create things out of the substance of the Cosmos from which all things came into being.” The angel took me by the hand and said, “Come, there are yet many things you must see and learn.”
The Fourth Cycle
Life is in the Light
The Third Cycle ended and the Fourth Cycle began with an intense brightness filling the whole heavens. My clothing radiated like a noon day sun. A voice filled the whole atmosphere. Everything and every creature in the heavens throbbed with the life and power in the Light as the voice penetrated every atom of this grand domain.
The Glorious Prophecy
“The light and the life of men are one” the voice declared. “The light in which you now dwell shall soon be loosed upon the realm of mortal men, and the Spirit of God shall cover all the Earth and it’s inhabitants. The kings and great men shall come and bow down before those who are transformed by this Light. And the true teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ shall be revealed to those who walk therein.
Light is substance. But it’s vibration factors are so high that man’s only means of contacting it is by reflection on the nerve centers of the brain through the eye and the sense of feeling.
The Day will come when there shall arise out of the sea of humanity a divine people who shall know the Divine Light and understand it’s content, even as they know and understand the waters of Earth’s seas. They shall feel it as a garment of silk and consume it as food for the soul. They shall bathe in it’s rays and they shall drink it as nectar. Then shall they know that this Light is the life of men!
The Lord Jesus Christ was the materialization of all truth and light, and those who accept Him who is the Way, the Truth and the Life and Light of men, and who follow His teachings will walk in eternal light and never see death.
The day will shortly come on the physical Earth when mortals shall put on immortality and the corruptible body shall become incorruptible for those who walk in the Light.”
The Fourth Cycle continued with testimonies of those who had come from the First Heaven, and it was wonderful. As each individual finished giving his or her testimony, the entire assemblage sang a new song of rejoicing. I asked, “How do they know so many new songs?” The angel smiled and replied to me, “It is the song of each individual soul that has been redeemed from darkness. And all heaven rejoices in the song of that individual soul. The ecstasy of their redemption has given each of them a new song and a new life, and everybody rejoices with them. Such songs as these Earth has never known since the day it was created. To those who dwell in this realm the music and songs of Earth, even the loveliest, are all in the minor keys. They sing the songs of their souls, but to us it is as though they sang funeral songs, for the thoughts of the open graves, darkness and oblivion are in their songs; Alas... But you shall sing a new song of the greatness of God and of the power of His manifested sons displayed in all the universe soon!
As I turned once more toward the angel he stretched forth his hand and partook of the fruit of the tree of life under which we were standing. He began to eat without offering me so much as a bite! “What is that fruit you are eating?’ I asked, hoping he would offer some to me. He answered, “It is the fruit of the tree of life. It is the same which grew in the Garden of Eden in the day that Adam and Even sinned.” He went on to say in a compassionate voice, “You may not yet partake of this fruit, for in the time to come you will know that the Lord Jesus Christ has Himself provided another way for those who will heed the teachings He gave when He dwelt on Earth”.
I beheld the garment I wore and it was shimmering with the glow of spun silver intermingled with threads of yellow gold. There was a quiet hush slowly settling over everything and I thought for a moment that perhaps evening had come and that soon the beautiful light would fade and darkness would enshroud this world of exotic splendor. But again, the angel perceived my thought and said, “Remember, it is written, There shall be no night there, and sorrow and sighing shall be no more. There will soon come a time when mortals will prove this wonderful truth and they shall put on their immortality while in the physical plane, for thus it was intended for man in the beginning. It would be so on Earth now, had Adam and Eve listened to the voice of God and obeyed His commandments.
For centuries mortal man has read but not understood. He has read with a sort of conscious dumbness to the truth. And Satan has caused the majority of Earth people who have access to the Word to believe that only the feeble minded could accept the Bible as God’s law of fact for the human race.”
Illumination in the Hall of Wisdom
I must confess here that I did not understand at the time what the angel meant. But in gentleness and love he told me that my understanding would soon be opened to the fullness of all truth. Taking my hand again, he led me toward a towering building that shimmered like a giant opal in the sunlight. We stood at it’s entrance for a few moments as he spoke...
“I have brought you to the Hall of Divine Wisdom and Knowledge. Here, within the great light you shall enter, all knowledge of the universe is vibrating. You shall not be able to absorb the fullness and completeness of the Divine Rays that shall flood your mind, but you will absorb enough to enable you to increase your understanding, and we shall spend a short time here while you may eliminate many of your pre-conceived ideas about heaven, thus opening your mind to the true laws of God.”
As we entered the dazzling beams of light I felt some of the glorious liberty as I had known when I entered the brilliant display of prismatic colors when I had left my body the first time. I had become a part of the light itself. I was one with the harmony of the beautiful song of eternity. My body seemed to be constructed of patterns of light. There was fragrance in it’s rainbow hues like incense before the throne of God. My mind had some kind of God comprehension that encompassed the whole world of the universe somehow.
In the glory of this sphere of life I was engulfed in such an overwhelming understanding that I recognized all the lies of the past that I had accepted as truth from many teachers on Earth. These errors and misconceptions seemed to be plucked from my mind with a slow but strong pull, and in their place flowed the whole truth of God. It filled me with unspeakable joy. It was as though God’s eternal truth came into me direct from the divine mind of the Lord Jesus Christ. I shall never forget it.
Without knowing when we had departed from the Palace of magnificent splendor I found myself outside with my angel companion. I felt somehow as if we had spent an eternity in the very presence of God, yet it was as if we had walked into this sphere of light and out of it again. “How long were we in there?” I asked and the angel told me the cycle lasted four hours according to the plan. Then he said, “You will not fully realize the extent of what you have learned until you return to the Earth plane again. Much truth has been planted within you here, and you shall recall all of it.
We walked slowly among the others. We joined in many conversations, all of which involved the new knowledge we had come to possess in the Fourth Cycle. It was a sight to remember. As far as one could see, a vast multitude of souls filled the area, and they were all glowing with an intense white light that seemed to emanate from our beings. I asked, “What is this glowing white light that everyone is radiating with?” The angel replied, “It is the true light of knowledge and understanding. It is that which you have all received during this cycle. It will fade to some degree as to it’s visibility in the bodies, but it is being absorbed deeply into the individual minds. You do not seem to have noticed your own body since we left the Hall of Wisdom and Knowledge. It is shining within and without as if the sun of your Earth plane was incorporated in it. Now you will be able to understand better what is before us. You will be using this new insight to evaluate more properly everything to be encountered on the Earth plane as you complete your mission there. Your spiritual eyes have been opened. You can now comprehend more fully all the teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ. Whenever you open your Bible to read, you will read it with the enlightenment you received here. Never again will it’s true meaning be hidden from your understanding. You will write many books, and the revelations of God’s wisdom and knowledge will flow from the words you shall write.
The Fifth Cycle
Mirrors of Memory
The light became less bright as the Fourth Cycle ended. My angel host moved toward another great hall. As we entered the magnificent structure my memory mind recalled a day long ago when in my youth I had visited a “fun house” at a carnival where the walls were lined with oddly shaped mirrors that contorted our reflections. I smiled at recognitions of mirth in those days. With a knowing smile the angel took me by the hand and said, “This shall be much different as you shall see!”
We entered a great hall that seemed endless. My host said, “Look, and you will note that each individual has reclined into a comfortable position before a mirror that bears his own name. His reclining chair fits the form perfectly as it is a creation of each individual’s thoughts.” I looked around closely and saw that the only furnishings in this great hall were the amazing mirrors and the gorgeously upholstered chairs before each mirror. We halted before a mirror without a name, but inscribed on the frame were these words.... “SEEK AND YOU SHALL FIND; KNOCK AND IT SHALL BE OPENED TO YOU; ASK AND YOU SHALL RECEIVE”.
My companion said, “Here rest for your period of the Fifth Cycle. You shall see as we see. You shall know as we know, for it is written that you shall know even as you are known. The mirrors move and reveal what you wish to see on the Earth plane, according to your will. Think of any scene on the physical plane that you desire to see, then look into the center of the mirror and the scene will materialize on the surface of the mirror.”
I first thought of the little town where I was born where I had spent my early childhood. As the scene came into view on the mirror I laughed out loud. It was Sunday morning and the people were gathering into the little church I had attended as a child. The old building was the same except for the fact that it was old and weather-beaten and much in need of paint. The people were very solemn. They were doing the same old things they had done in my childhood days. They all wore a mask of piety and their actions were saintly. They were fooling one another but not the mirror. The mirror revealed their thoughts.
As the people sang the old hymn “Take the whole world but give me Jesus” I was astonished to see what was really in their minds while they sang. One lady was planning how to get money from her husband to purchase a new coat she had tried on the day before, and she was planning to spill bleach on her old coat for an excuse.
One of the church deacons was a real estate man, and I saw that he was planning how to camouflage a house that was all but eaten up by termites so he could dispose of it to some unsuspecting customer. His mind was far from God. His only reason for being in church was to make business contacts and attain social prestige.
An automobile salesman was red with embarrassment because he was sitting next to a newcomer in town to whom he had sold a very misrepresented car, and it had broken down in front of the church and had to be pushed off the street by the members of the church. So when the offering baskets were passed, this man placed a $5 in the container to ease his conscience alittle.
A young man trembled with fear as a young woman and her husband went to the pastor at the close of the service, and the mirror revealed that he was afraid she was going to confess her disloyalty to her husband. He arose and quietly slipped out the door and I saw his intention in the mirror. He was going to go and meet another man’s wife.
I turned from the mirror in disgust, then focused the mirror on the hospital room where my body lay. There was a lot of commotion in the room and my wife was standing by the bed with a tear stained face. The doctor shook his head as if to say the end had come. With all the power of will at my command, I spoke to my wife and with a startled smile she reached out and touched my hand. Somehow I had managed to make her know that all was well. For a moment my only desire was to return to her side, but my angel companion spoke words of comfort to my troubled soul and said, “Do not worry. Time has no meaning here. Though you stay a thousand cycles, you may return the moment you left.”
So, with this assurance I again turned to the mirror, where I saw a distant scene as if taking a view through a powerful telescope. The angel asked if I would like to see this scene from a closer view and I replied that I would like very much to do that. He lifted his hand above the mirror and in a moment of time we were gliding down the beam of light that brought the scene to the mirror. No longer were we looking at Earth and it’s complexities of life. We were now ON Earth, walking among these creatures of Earth’s time, yet unseen by their mortal eyes.
Comedies and Tragedies of Earth Life
The drama of Earth life continued as we walked among it’s inhabitants. We traveled through cities and towns, in parks and in open meadows of the countryside. We watched men and women go through various maneuvers as they tried to convince one another of their loyalty and their love, while in their minds some of them were planning with evil cunning to escape detection for their unfaithfulness. We beheld young women selling their virtue for the price of an exciting evening, and others hid their passions from the one they loved in order to accept advances of loathsome people in return for material gains and social advantages.
The mirror thus revealed a ghastly, queer, immoral, impossible world. Nothing ever presented on the comedy stage could have been more comical than some of the things people were doing, especially when observed from the dimensions of life from which we were watching. We saw the situations as they really are.
No horror story ever presented on radio, TV, or on a theater screen could be more horrible than the terrible things we saw that were going on in the minds of humans, as revealed by these amazing mirrors of memory and inter-dimensional sight.
A man we saw made a pretense of going on a business trip, packing his bag in his room, while in his mind we knew he was preparing to meet another man’s wife at a mountain lodge somewhere and yet on his lips were words telling his wife how much he loved her and would miss her. She in turn was mentally making similar plans, while speaking of loneliness. She was wishing he would hurry away! We saw that they both planned to go to the same popular lodge with their mutual infidelity. What an embarrassing situation it would be when all four of them showed up at the same resort, each having the other’s mate!
From place to place we traveled. We watched men and women cheating and stealing, committing murder, rape and robberies. We heard them lying and cursing. I am thankful to report that we saw noble people also, and we witnessed bravery, self sacrifice and love.
One of the things I remember was a man on a big platform who was raising money for an orphanage, telling of the sad plight of unfortunate children with sentimental eloquence, while in his mind he was planning how to abscond with all the money. In the audience we saw two men plotting to rob the false preacher after his lecture, and there was also a young woman with an older man in attendance who were planning to blackmail the speaker with obscene photographs they had previously taken. It was painful to see all these evils.
Next to the wall in the back we saw two treasury men ready to nab the speaker when he left the platform, for he was a con man who had worked this racket repeatedly. Four detectives had their eyes on the young men who were planning the robbery. Other policemen were watching a young woman with an elderly man, on information provided by the speaker’s wife who said her husband was going to run away with this young woman after the service.
What a sordid picture we had to look upon as part of this experience. I apologize for the necessity to report such things to you! The whole world seemed to be filled with the horrible drama of deceit and death, outweighing the good that was in men’s hearts. We saw the thoughts and intents of men’s and women’s hearts laid bare to the eyes of spiritual powers. Nothing was hidden; all things were open and revealed, whether good or evil!
Planet Earth is in a Serious Predicament
Solemnly must this report be given. Let the reader know the pitiful state of conditions on planet Earth today! And may the wise reader look for God’s deliverance. My angel companion was giving me a comprehensive view of a world that is a stench in the nostrils of God. We saw that even the good which men did was backed and financed by those with evil purposes. This was clearly revealed. But the angel encouraged me by laying his hand upon me and saying, “The day is coming soon on Earth when the manifesting Sons of God will see as you now see, and they shall see without the use of such mirrors.”
I continued to examine the things revealed through the mirror. I shifted my thoughts from scene to scene, calling up many things I wished to look into. I perceived beyond a doubt that mortals are living in a peculiar world. The things that amazed me most were the bigotry and self-importance of so many people, as if the whole world order depended on them! I observed that these same people, when they were alone in seeming privacy were really frustrated individuals trying to hide inferiority complexes.
Eventually the whole world was living a lie. Now and then the scene on the mirror would encompass a person with real integrity, but even they were shown to be somewhat comical in their small attempts to make godly changes in the trends of Earth.
I realized that in their inner hearts the human race wanted to live a life of truth, but I saw a paramount need for them to know how they could accomplish this great feat of doing God’s will, by first knowing the whole truth themselves!
The Sixth Cycle
Revelations of Creation
The Fifth Cycle came to a close all too soon and the great hall was empty again. The light in the mirror was removed and a new cycle was beginning. The Sixth Cycle began with a wonderful song about creation. It was a narrative song and it told the story of how all things came into being. It told how the Divine Mind used the tools of vibration and magnetism to form the entire universe and it’s contents. The song revealed how the immortal Sons of God on Earth would once again be in the likeness and image of God, and how these Sons of God would create whatever material things they desired when they were perfectly in tune with God’s purposes. They would use the same methods by which God had created all things. This was an amazing revelation and I rejoiced in it. No longer would men have to slave in mines, factories and sweat shops. No longer would people be forced to work endless hours for survival. No longer would there be sickness, pain and death plaguing the human race and hindering development. In that day it would be literally true what the Bible promises in Isaiah 11:3 “ they shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain, for the Earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea...” The knowledge of God would fill the Earth through a Divine Church composed of all nationalities and the Eternal City not built with hands would stand forever. The Kingdom of God on Earth....as it is in the heavens!
Creative Force is Activated
in the Sons of God
We sat beneath a beautiful willow tree beholding the marvelous creative forces being activated by these heavenly beings, for this Sixth Cycle was devoted to the creation and construction of useful things, and each was a thing of beauty.
A man who had been a builder on Earth was busy constructing a beautiful home. Every artistic ability he formerly had was magnified manyfold here. He seemed to be in no hurry. As he gazed at the place where the house was to be, a trench for the foundation seemed to be digging itself, yet there was no mess of machinery or dirt to be hauled away. His thought patterns were directing unseen forces to create beautiful foundation stones of a marble like substance, and to place the stones in the trench. Thus in moments he accomplished what would take a crew of ten several weeks to accomplish at Earth’s present vibration. There was not a single flaw in his finished foundation structure.
This Sixth Cycle creativity was fascinating to watch. We saw very beautiful materials conceived and brought forth into substance to make walls and partitions. Roofs came into being as if by magic. My angel companion took me by the arm and led me into the interior part of a building where we beheld the most magnificent sight. There were walls like living things. A living room was really a room to live in here. Colors were songs of harmony. Floors were like velvet to the touch of our bare feet. We used a winding staircase that functioned like an escalator, yet the steps never moved! All the walls emitted fragrance in keeping with their colors, and corresponding harmonies of sound filled the atmosphere with sweet and lovely songs appropriate to everything else.
Eating and Drinking in the Sixth Cycle
The dining room was elegance itself. Friends and neighbors gathered around a table that was completely bare except for floral arrangements. We sat down to eat. My angel companion sat next to me and produced a glass made of crystal clear substance that was almost weightless. As I took it in my hand it began to glow with the color of a pink rose. I looked around me and saw that everyone held a glass exactly like mine. Turning my gaze again to my glass, I realized that it was filled with a sparkling clear pink liquid. As if by a common impulse we drank our pink liquid in one accord. The liquid was not only delightful to the taste, but every atom of my being seemed to rejoice as if new life was flowing through my veins with everlasting power.
Large bowls of fruit and nuts now appeared on the table before us. Everyone ate and talked somewhat as people do on festive occasions on Earth, but here the talk was on themes of creation. We discussed homes, furnishings, materials, colors, and sound effects. As we talked various paintings and other art objects were presented to the host for his new home, and all the gifts were created by the givers using Sixth Cycle power.
The entire period or cycle was spent in discussion and exemplification of the creative power and it’s functions in the great overall purposes of God. As one individual would speak of some lovely object of art, that object would begin to take form out of invisible elements. The demonstrations follow the conversation. For instance, the host spoke of a scene on Earth that he had enjoyed so much in his childhood. A place where he spent many hours by a cool stream that wandered through meadows where soft breezes rustled the leaves of willow trees along the banks, and where an old covered bridge was a quiet nesting place for the swallows. The host’s thoughts began to create a large painting on the wall. So perfect was the scene that it was as if one was looking out of a picture window at the very place itself.
A strange sense of reality and unreality was brought to my attention as I studied the painting on the wall. “What is real and what is unreal?” I thought. For my closer look at the scene in the painting revealed to me that it depicted Earth as the host was recalling it from his Earth days, and compared with the beauty and perfection of his Sixth Cycle home, the scene was cold, lifeless and drab. Dead limbs could be seen among the greens of the foliage. Decaying of grass and flowers were visible. Plants were dying and flower petals had fallen to the ground. It was a sharp contrast with the scenery of the Sixth Cycle.
My attention dwelt on this comparison and what I learned was etched in my memory. The scene before us in our host’s painting on the wall was a replica in detail of his childhood Earth scene, and it plainly revealed the hard truth of planet Earth in the throes of death.
“Let us recreate the scene as it should be on Earth”, said our host eagerly. All of us responded in harmony with his wish. Every mind went to work, focusing concepts of beauty and restoration. What an experience to see heavenly beings at work!
Every trace of decay disappeared. Trees, grass and flowers glowed with life and color. The stream lost it’s murky hues and became crystal clear. The old covered bridge was taken away and in it’s place was created an exquisite structure of golden substance spanning the waters of the stream. Birds flitted among the trees and fish frolicked in the waters. The clouds disappeared from the picture on the wall and the whole scene took on a new dimension against a background of azure blue sky. The scene began to sing a song like no stereo music on Earth. It was a song of that particular Earth area now redeemed from darkness and death. The flowers smiled in the eternal light and the trees clapped their leafy hands in perfect harmony with the song of eternal life.
The Sixth cycle was nearing it’s close as we strolled out of this beautiful home where we had dined. We walked awhile in a fabulous garden where loving thoughts had created mosaic walkways winding among the flowers. We enjoyed the unusual trees and the great sparkling fountains.
I said to my angel companion, “How does it happen that all this heaven has not become one solid structure of buildings?” I was thinking that surely the endless centuries and multitudes of visitors to this place would have filled the entire area with their creative experiments by now. Seemingly there was no end to the creation of new homes, buildings, streets, parks and gardens. The angel smiled at my naive questions. He explained that the home we had just left was the creation of the mind of it’s creator, our host. And when our host completes his cycle in this Second Heaven, he will depart for the Third Heaven and it’s cycles. Then all his creations of this place would return to the elements and be no more.
There were buildings that would remain, I was told. They are the ones created by the eternal Most High God and they shall remain until the time of the consummation. Then, along with all His creations in the Third, Fourth and Fifth Heavens they will take form in the new heaven on the new Earth. That which mankind has made in his upward climb will be no more, for man’s knowledge and wisdom will increase to the extent that all this beauty will be as much low in his concept of grandeur as my concept was as yet far below the capacity and understanding of my angel companion.
The angel then said, “You will get a glimpse of what shall come to pass when we visit the Seventh Heaven, the place God has created for man’s dwelling place. Man would have now been in the perfect likeness and image of God had he not fallen through disobedience in the original testing place, the Garden of Eden. However, the great mercy of God has provided for everything in the nurture and growth of His own. Through the patient process of the six heavens man is given the opportunity to progress again in the restored state of his being even though he might be unable to attain unto his spiritual perfection while still in the mortal planes of Earth.
Mankind can obtain immortality through the teachings of the three processes taught by the Lord Jesus Christ while walking among men on Earth. The Lord went to mortal man and opened the way whereby mankind is able to put on immortality as he learns and puts into faithful practice all the teachings of Jesus.
In man’s greed for the physical and material things and his lust for the sensations of the flesh he has missed God’s perfect way of life, the way for obtaining immortality, and he must go through all the processes of the six heavens and their many cycles before attaining his complete redemption into the likeness and image of God.
There will be a chosen church group, the Body of Christ on Earth, whose members will attain immortality while still on Earth. Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things will be added unto you. This is a true saying and you shall act upon it’s truth.” the angel said.
The Seventh Cycle
Period of Graduation
Filled with the blessings and revelations of the Sixth Cycle, we joined great multitudes making their way to a colossal amphitheater. The time had come for graduation. Every seventh period was devoted to receiving those who had accepted all teachings of Jesus in the First Heaven, and these were