Returning again and often to the bright sphere composed of “those
who love their fellow-beings”; from among them came those whom I
had known--with whom I had, as a humble worker labored for some
cause--_this time_ a few, especially two or three last seen in Earth
life at the Hague Peace Conference (1907). “Ah, how well we then
knew--as well as even now when the conflict rages--that the nations
(44 in number) were not all, indeed but few of them, seeking for
‘peace’; the permanent establishment of a Court of Arbitration for the
world! Each was there to ‘test’ the others; nearly all endeavoring
to gain some concession from the others to aid in their own selfish
future aggressions”! Such was the thought flashed from my friend of
the brilliant mind and noble heart who came with others to greet me.
And the dear lady who took me in her arms and kissed me when we parted
there at the Hague even as she did now, said: “We meet again, and here
there is sweet Peace--but O, the horrors of the war! And _you, you will
return to Earth for further work_.” She gave me her blessing with such
love as her grand soul can give.
The other one, he of the brilliant mind and facile pen, he of the
awakened and illumined spirit, said: “Yes, you will return to Earth
for added work (even after those many, many years of work already
performed), we will aid you, we all _must_ aid those who are working
to enlighten the minds, to awaken the spirits of those immured in the
materialism of Earth. How dense we all are until awakened! Sorrow
smites us, then the fountains of the Soul come forth; our spiritual
Guardians can help us then, and we begin to know. That was my case on
Earth. Now I realize how little I _did_ know, but I am grateful that I
was not an entire stranger to this realm of spirits, and there is all
eternity in which to grow in knowledge.”