There was a perception of great _Light_, a consciousness of
Illumination, an awakening to the _vastness_, the _unlimitation_ of
this Realm of Spirit.
O how often, when in “dreams” or “visions” I had been permitted and
aided by my Guides to visit the Spirit States, this inner and higher
Realm, I had longed to remain! But ever willing to answer the call of
duty, of added work to be performed by me, I would return to fill my
place at the appointed time. NOW; NOW?--
All else was swallowed up--eclipsed by the wonderful experiences that
came--the Beloved Presences--the vistas of luminous Spirits! This
was a state of _Super_-Consciousness; the awakening of faculties
and perceptions before unknown, of _being aware_, almost without
limitation: of KNOWING. Whatever _is_ the nature and state of the _real
Ego_ this seemed as near to the _Absolute_ as one could well conceive!
There was so _much_ of me! There was so _little_ of me! There were so
many and such surpassing Spirits! How one shrinks in the presence of
the mighty ones! How one expands in the Knowledge of the Infinite: His
Image!
Often in approaching a transcendent Light there would appear an
atmosphere of ensphering tints--there would also seem to be a sphere
of sound, of surpassing music. On being admitted to that sphere it
would prove to be a group of spirits who thus in accord _are Light_
and _Harmony_. Where one can enter such an “atmosphere” communing with
such a group it is because one has _need_ of and is in harmony with the
spirits of that group.