“‘My dear child,’ he said, ‘the two worlds are not so far apart as people in the earth life think. Their souls really do not leave the earth at all, but only seek more favored regions.
“‘Heaven is all about them if they only knew it, in the ethereal blue above the clouds, in the rosy glow of sunrise and sunset, in the cool quiet depths of the sea, in the luxuriant shades of the tropics, on mountain tops and amid silent woods.
“‘The disembodied soul has to obey no material laws, so it flies at will from mountain peak to ocean depth like the spark of thought of the mortal mind or like the message flashed by wireless telegraphy across seas or by the cable under seas.
“‘You see more beauty in heaven because you have finer senses to perceive it.
“‘In the earthly life you are made up of many personalities. There is the childself that you first grow into, then youth and maturity, all more or less an animal life. The soul life slumbers and awakens and grows slowly, but this survives when the other life withers and dies like the butterfly emerging from the worm.
“‘To a few like you is given the privilege of hearing messages between the two worlds—because your soul life is more fully developed.’
“I do not pretend to understand all this, for I am only a schoolgirl. But from what I have read in psychology I suppose it is my second self that leaves my body at times and strays off into a distant or different existence.
