Borgia, A. Life in the World Unseen

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when they beheld themselves for the first time as they really were.
But oft-times greatness of earthly position goes hand in hand with
greatness of soul, and thus spiritual progression an development continue without
intermission from the moment of dissolution.
XIII. ORGANISATION
YOU will have gathered that the spirit world is a vast place, and, with the earth world
in mind, you may conclude that it possesses an administrative organization in all respects
proportionate to its demands. You would be right, for it does. But our needs are not as yours.
With you in your corruptible world it is constant war with material decay and degeneration.
With us in our incorruptible world we have neither the one nor the other. Ours is a state far
beyond Utopian in quality. But it is a state where thought is its basic element.
I have recounted to you how, when I first saw my own spirit garden, I
marveled at its orderliness and excellent preservation, and I wondered just bow it was
maintained thus, and who was responsible for it. Edwin told mc that it would require
practically no effort in its upkeep. By that he meant, as I have since learnt, that provided my
wish remained constant for the garden to continue unaltered, and provided that I had
affection for the flowers and grass and trees, the garden would respond to my thoughts and
flourish under them. If I desired to alter the arrangement of the flower beds, and so on, I
could easily ask some expert to come to my help and he would be only too happy to do so.
So much for the upkeep of my garden.
My house is provided for under the same law. And so it is with all gardens
and houses belonging to other folk in this realm. These, however, are what you would call
more or less private concerns. They are so in one respect, but the fact that I can find an
expert gardener who can make radical changes in my house and garden; indeed, who can
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build me an entirely new and different home, with surrounding gardens wholly different
from what I have now, shows that organization of some sort and a very considerable one
must exist somewhere.
The united thoughts of the inhabitants of the whole realm will sustain all
that grows within it, the flowers, and the trees and the grass, and the water, too, whether of
lake, river, or sea for water is fully alive in the spirit world. It is when we come into the
city and travel through the halls of learning that the organization becomes outwardly mare
observable.
In the hall of music, for example, we find many students busy at work
upon their lessons and studies. We find others engaged upon musical research, and delving
into ancient music books; others will be arranging the music for some concert, consulting the
shelves for suitable works, and sometimes discussing those works with their composers.
There are many teachers, in able people ready to assist us in our inquiries or our difficult and
they are all able to provide a solution to our problems because the staff of this hall as of all
others are themselves experts.
Nominally, the ruler of the realm is the principal of all halls, and all major
decisions would, of course, he referred him. But he appoints competent people to the staffs
of halls, and extends to them a free hand in all their
undertakings.
Each hall will have its own direct head, but it must not be thought that this
official is an unapproachable, detached personage, hidden away from all sight, and only
seen on relatively rare occasions. He is just the opposite. He is always to be about the hall,
and he welcomes, personally, anyone who comes there, either as a learner, or as a mere
lover of music, or to carry out musical researches.
I have recounted to you how we continue with our work just that period
during which we derive pleasure or profit from it. The moment we feel the need for a change
of work or other diversion, we cease our work for the time being, and turn to whatever else
we wish. The staffs of all the halls of learning are no different from others in this respect.
They most certainly need change and recreation, and so we find that the alternate in their
personnel as occasion demands. As some retire others take their places. It is the most natural
thing in the world and the most practical. We need never fear that when we to see some
particular expert we shall be disappointed because he is not there. We shall be able to have
all the help we need and if it is vitally necessary to consult the absent one, either an
instantaneous thought will answer our question, or with e rapidity we can visit his home. We
need have no misgivings about our intruding upon him.
Now, when I tell you that the service in all these halls is going on
unremittingly simply because we have perpetual day in I realms, I think you will appreciate
that our conception organization begins to assume its right proportions.
Many of the people attached to the halls of learning been there a great
number of years as you reckon time So devoted are they to their work that although they
have progressed and virtually belong to a higher sphere, they prefer to remain where they are
for some considerable period yet. They will retire, from time to time, to their own realm, and
return to take up their labors anew. The moment will eventually arrive when they will
relinquish their position altogether to reside permanently in their own sphere, and then
others, equally capable, will take their place. And so it goes on, and has gone on for
countless centuries. And this rule applies to all the various halls of learning. The work of the
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spirit world functions unceasingly; the workers rest and change about, but the work never
stops. The pressure of work may fluctuate, as it does with you upon earth. When we have our
great celebrations and festivals, during which we are honored by the presence of visitants
from the higher realms, it follows that large numbers of people will be present in the temple
or elsewhere, and during that time there will be an appreciable diminution of some activities.
We are naturally desirous of holding our festivals in company with one another, and we do
so. But the services never suffer on that account. It so happens that the inhabitants in these
realms are always considerate of .others, and will never ask of others that which would entail
a disappointment for them, such as would be the case if one insisted upon some attention in
one of the halls when we were all, as it were, on holiday. This concerns the various halls in
the city where any temporary cessation of work would be of no great consequence.
In the halls of rest, however, the doctors and nurses are always in
attendance whatever else may be taking place in other parts of the sphere. Their devotion to
duty is always instantly rewarded, for during the general celebrations of the realm, the
illustrious visitors from the upper realms make a special journey to the rest homes where
they personally greet every one of the staff. The latter can afterwards arrange amicably for
their own family and friendly festivities.
All this administration belongs to the spirit world proper, so to speak, and
concerns the spirit world alone. There are other services that concern the two worlds
together, ours and yours. Such, for example, as the arrival, or the approaching arrival, of a
soul into spirit lands. The rule is that all souls passing to here shall have some measure of
attention. It depends upon themselves how much attention they shall have. Some are sunken
so spiritually low as to preclude any approach to them that would be effective. We will not [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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