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.Also we have the knowledgeand full sight of the results of these earlier acts, and they donot bring happiness; but after that state is passed and wecan bring all these things into proper perspective and forma table of work, which will gradually and continually beworking out results and troubles we have caused, then wecan each one settle down to live here in freedom.The form of life differs here enormously according totemperament, personality, and the The Blue Islandinfluence of earth life.People vary in strange contrast toone another.Many of us carry on with our same work ason earth.Here we have no need to work in order to obtaindaily livelihood, we work here solely for spiritualrefinement and progress; at the same time we keep in touchwith our earth interests as a form of recreation.We are not always, without any break, in one house oranother studying this, that and the other; we have a certainprogram to go through but it has many breaks, and in this"off duty" time we come back to our dear people on earth,and either out of interest and love, or from the desire to beuseful, we try our utmost to help them in their material andmental difficulties.We have every form of recreation here, as I have alreadytold you when dealing with the Blue Island.Any habit orhobby formed on earth can be indulged in here, alwaysproviding it is progressive.From this you can understand that life after death is avery normal and natural affair.We have still our affections,and those which last are still strongly binding links.Between families and friends we have the same affectionsand yet not the same, because sometimes on The Blue Islandearth there are differences which cause a silence betweenmembers of a family, and perhaps over here that family willonce more be very united the earth differences beingbased solely upon material things once remove thematerial and physical and underneath the love oftenremains.One great change which death brings is a much broaderpoint of view and a much larger mind.A deeperunderstanding, a keener intuition, clears away immediatelymany former difficulties and misunderstandings.Once onthis Real World, and once past the first initiation andpayment of debts, we are free to do as we wish, but wehave to progress or we ourselves curtail our liberties.It isnot an enforced progress, we can take our own time abouteverything, but we must not allow any of earth's instinctsto increase in their power over us.We have to learn the newconditions and live for them entirely.Once free, we can travel at will over our own world andover yours.So great is our speed and method of travel thatwe can be in two places almost simultaneously.Everywhere we go we are conscious of the general lovefor one another.It is much more evident than on earth, andthat great affection is the direct cause of the generalbrightness The Blue Islandand radiance of this world.I do mean that it gives off raysof light, but rather that the general atmosphere is light inquality and very invigorating and strength-giving.Life here is a grander thing a bolder thing, and a happierthing for all those who have led reasonable lives on earth,but for the unreasonable there are many troubles anddifficulties and sorrows to be encountered.There is a greattruth in the saying that "as ye sow, so shall ye reap."CHAPTER XIIIGENERAL RESULTSCHAPTER XIIII HAVE been away from my earth life now a number ofyears, and although I have been in constant and unbrokentouch with my old conditions and affections, I have never,since leaving the Blue Island, had any desire to return to theearth for habitation.There have been many occasions when I have very badlywanted a tongue for a few hours.With my extra sight I haveknown the right treatment when seeing certain situationsbeing mishandled.At such times I have very badly wantedto return to earth for an hour, in order to be the means ofbringing about great improvements beyond these passingdesires I have had no wish ever to take up residence onearth; my travels and my works and studies on this side ofthe grave have been of such vital interest.Since being here Ihave acquired greater knowledge, and have been able to passto earth people some of that knowledge, at different times.137 The Blue IslandEver since my leaving the world, your world, I have beenkeenly interested in its development, and very live to all itsinternal and external difficulties.Patriotism still holds withme, as with most of us, and will continue to hold so long asI have personal ties upon earth.When there are no longerany of these personal ties remaining my interests willgradually and naturally turn more exclusively to this sideamong my own people, and my place will be filled byanother and so the race goes on always moving forward,progressing and evolving.Looking back on it all since I first came to the Blue Isle Ihave great satisfaction in seeing the advance I have made.Coming here was quite a shock to me.I had no idea that mydeath was so near when that particular year began, and Icertainly had no desire that it should be soon.I had anoverwhelming number of important things on my hands.Some of these have been able to finish since, and I havefollowed the progress of many others.Soon after arrival, Ihad grown acclimatized to the new conditions, the newappearance of everything, the new power of locomotionand communication.We do not talk to each other verymuch here, we have a more expressive and intimate waythan that [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]