The observer on any posthumous plane of our seven-fold world, sees that plane merging into the one above, or the one below, provided that he be located on the upper, or else the lower boundary of his plane.

This fact makes understandable and valid the report from the other side of life that, immediately after discarding the physical body, one often sees that body, and all surrounding persons and things, as clearly as when he was in the flesh; in fact so clearly that he wonders why he can no longer communicate with his friends either by word or action. If such an one be not wholly earth-bound, his view of persons and things terrestrial undergoes a change corresponding with his rise to higher planes.

Because such a being would at no time realize his altered perception of all behind, he would argue that still he sees the world as when he left it; whereas, he sees only the more and more interior and ideal; in other words, the more and more real and abiding.

The viewpoint of the discarnate should be familiar to those who receive communications from the life beyond. They should know understandingly that their loved ones have outgrown our circumscribed ideas of the sorrows and miseries of the world, and now, from the vantage point of higher planes, behold Divine Justice appointing the experiences which are essential to the upbuilding of the community, the nation, and the world.

That the ordinary discarnate being seldom can predict the exact time or nature of any future earthly happening is evident for at least two reasons: Every plane of the seven has its standard of time which is determined chiefly by the rate of vibration peculiar to that plane. Therefore, the almost inconceivably rapid vibrations of the higher planes there cause the centuries to pass almost as do the years with us. Of all the discarnate multitudes, only those who has learned to adjust time differences, can determine the date of an earthly event. Furthermore, into all earthly events, save those pre-determined by the Overruling Powers, there enters an inscrutable element of human free-will, and that free-will usually modifies or accentuates the outcome.

M.