REALMS OF THE LIVING DEAD
Does the personality survive death?
Is communication possible? Is there a safe and legitimate method?
This book gives a clear, scientific, satisfying and comforting explanation of all after-death conditions. A rational, scientific, all-inclusive philosophy, not a mere mediumistic report. Wastes no time with elaborate proofs of life after death. Written for those who already know it to be a fact and desire authoritative instruction as to the details. Explains all methods of communication with the invisible. You will find all your questions answered in this volume.
Contents
- Scientific Proofs
- Rivers of Life and Death
- The Seven Realms
- Realm of Reflection
- The Astral Double
- The After-Death Sleep
- The Awakening of the Aged
- After Battle
- Astral Helpers
- Indians as Guides
- Earth-bound Spirits
- The Law of Thought and Desire
- Diseases due to Reflex Psychic Conditions
- Clothing, Houses, Amusements, Public Places
- The Method of Materialization
- Souls Seeking Incarnation
- Conditions around the Prospective Mother
- The Hall of Lethe, Why We Forget the Higher Realms at Birth
- Law of Manifestation
- The Outer Darkness, Weeping and Wailing and Gnashing of Teeth
- Masses of Color, Perfumes, Sounds, How the Flowers Are Colored
- Thought and Thought forms
- Forms and Inventions, the Pattern Museum
- Aeroplane Models and Other Inventions to Come
- Obsessing Entities, Psychic Cause of Drunkenness, Examples and the Cure
- Crimes of Irresistible Impulse
- Lustful Temptations
- Control of Sex Desires
- Dual and Multiple Personalities
- Loving Friends and Helpers
- Paul’s Injunction to Try the Spirits
- So-called Lost Souls
- The Dweller on the Threshold
- Sad Fate of the Suicide
- Elementals, the Fairies, Nature Sprites, Their Messages and Prophecies
- How Gold is Formed
- Psychic Realms
- Diagrams of the Astral World
- Death of the Astral Body
- Spirits who Progress to Higher Spheres
- The Hall of Learning and the Great Schools
- The Great White Lodge
- Work of Madame Blavatsky Continues
- Independent Methods of Communion
- Telepathy, Clairvoyance, Clairaudience, Clairsentience
- Intuition, Inspiration, Theophany
- Avesha
- Difference between Independent and Subjective Methods
- Spirit Control, Subjective versus Ecstatic Trance
- Materialization
- Trumpet Speaking
- The Ouija Board, Examples of Its Deceptions and Dangers
- Sir Oliver Lodge’s Warning as to Automatic Writing
- The Telepathic Method
- Bible Examples, St. Paul’s Directions to All Christians
- The Astral Chill versus the Spiritual Fire, Chill or Thrill
- Protecting Powers
- Negative versus Positive States
- Enoch and the Doctrine of Translation
- Akashic Records

THE GARDEN OP PRAYERS
In the fair Fields of Asphodel prayers grow like flowers. Some are prayers of anguish from hearts that are breaking. And, oh, they are crimson red! Yet out of the centre of each a golden stamen points upward, bringing down the Divine Radiance into the very heart of passion or sorrow, stilling them.
There are the prayers that are lisped by baby lips, “God bless mama and papa” These are tiny violets and daisies, so sweet and pure and beautiful, nodding their little heads in hundreds of thousands all over the grass.
Then there are stately lilies, so pure and white. They are the prayers of the saints whose hearts have been purified from all earth desires. There are beautiful roses too. These are the prayers of those passionate lovers who have learned to know and to dwell in beautiful love. They pour out their hearts in adoration like the perfume of the rose. Oh! How beautiful are these fields!
Prayers for success are grand and stately flowers with long stalks standing up straight and high, with flowers all down the sides, many, many flowers. Some are white with golden centres. And some are purple and blue and crimson according to their ideal. But the most beautiful are those that have within their hearts little golden stamens. And every time the Winds of Heaven blow the bright dust of their golden pollen showers down upon mankind. Why, you ask? Because these are the prayers that have asked success and blessing for all the world. So, the showers of golden dust fall upon all. And where’er they fall and find lodgement they bring happiness and success.
Selfish prayers for mere worldly success are not allowed to grow in these fields. We call them weeds. We go out and pull them up and cast them back to earth and say to the children of earth: “Take back your prayers, they are not worthy of place in this Garden. They come back to you to be readjusted. Gather them up. They belong only in the soil of earth. Readjust them.” For only when so readjusted can such prayers grow into beautiful flowers in the Fields of Asphodel.
Sometimes selfish prayers force success, like hothouse flowers of untimely bloom. These the angels pluck and throw back to earth. Such success as may thus be gained is but of the earth and only for the moment: only while the flowers thus plucked endure. They have no root in heaven.
The prayers that demand and demand and insist upon their fulfilment without saying, “Not my will, but thine be done,” are also weeds, bitter weeds and rank. Their answer seems to come because they grow a little, but their flowers soon fall and give place to bitter fruit which often purges those who planted and must eat.
The prayers that the Great Gardener loves are those which create the beautiful Flowers of Immortality. They are prayers of gratitude and thankfulness; the recognition of what you really are; the accepting of all your blessings with joy. Those are the greatest prayers of all, the prayers of thankfulness and joy; when you accept your blessings and realize how your Father loves you and how glad he is to see that you understand and permit him to help you.
Take then your blessings and laugh back into His face like glad flowers nodding joyously back to the sun. Say, “O my Father! I am so happy because you love me and give me that which you know is best for me, except when I demand for self alone.”
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