Two People in the Afterlife Describe Humanity’s Future

“My dear, I am very happy to be able to talk in this way again. I have been interested in new work, which in time will become part of my life here. So I must write to you about it. From time to time various little groups have endeavored, from this Sphere, to influence men for their good. They, however, had not enough of the necessary spiritual power and inner wisdom, to change, to any great extent, the spiritual history of mankind. But now, certain high spirits, who, because of their lofty natures, cannot enter the gross atmosphere of the earth, are becoming linked up with it through lesser spirits we call the army of ‘Light Bearers.’ They are endeavoring to bear from ‘Out Yonder’ some glint of the rays of true wisdom.

Their task will be long and difficult, and many years must pass before their purpose is accomplished. I am permitted to name that purpose. First, very gradually, will come a spiritual awakening among men. As the mists of dawn before the sun, so will roll away the fog of the last horribly, materialistic century. Man will be compelled to believe, not only in Survival, but in Immortality again. Science will be no longer the enemy, but the friend of the higher Spiritualism.

There will be a ‘Temple of Wisdom,’ which will gather to it the great Mystics, as well as the great intellects. Their study will be both the material and spiritual worlds, and the co-ordination of man’s material and psychic activities. Within this will be fashioned an inner Brotherhood – ‘Knights of the Holy Grail,’ who will set out on a great and noble Quest – the linking up of the Invisible and Visible, the Conquest of death. And the hour will come when these men, though still alive, will be able to pass into their subtle bodies, enter our state, and return again to their earth bodies, retaining all the while full consciousness. Scientists will describe it as passing from your three-dimensional bodies, into our four-dimensional bodies. It will be as if they took ship to our world, and then sailed back to earth, bearing, like travelers, tidings of dear ones who have passed to us.

This passing from the Visible to the Invisible, this journeying from the Known to the Unknown, will not be scoffed at as fraud or myth, it will be recognized in time by men, as now wireless is recognized, and known to be an accomplished fact. This conquest of death will bring about a great change in the outlook of mankind. Material things will at last become secondary to spiritual things, and war will become an incredible legend of an ancient and primitive day.

Then earth is changed into a place of joy and hope. Men lose their narrow arrogance, their belief that they are the ‘Lords of Creation,’ for the earth, to them, is a mere ante-chamber, a confined space, in which to wait patiently for the infinite life beyond the tomb. The new dispensation, the new age, has begun, and before this century closes I believe that man will thus conquer death, through the inner wisdom we hope by degrees to convey to him. Once this wisdom is his, all things will be changed, and there will come the fulfilment of prophesy, the “New Heaven” and the “New Earth.”

I will help in this work with my music; but now it is only at the beginning, and I am still with my dear children, working among them. I will explain this more fully on another occasion.”