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Word Gems
exploring self-realization, sacred personhood, and full humanity
Soulmate, Myself:
Prometheus Denied
Epigraph
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"Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire." Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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“If only I could tell you what it is like. I just haven’t
the words to tell you how marvelous it is — the sense
of beauty, the sense of freedom, the sense of love.”
“In my garden, the flowers I love bloom and birds sing; the same birds
that flutter about your gardens; the same butterflies also come into
my garden that light on your trellises; the same bees make honey
here that contribute to your table… the same grass that you have in
your lawns, and the [same] trees abound. There is nothing unnatural
here. Little toads hop along my path; and frogs leap and bound here
in the pools about the garden; grasshoppers fly about and daddylong-
legs attract little children as they did on Earth... I knew that I
had seen my home before [a replica of his Earth-home]. Here I found
several of my favorite books; a friend had placed them there. Shortly
after my home-coming, a number came in for a friendly chat; nothing
seemed strange or unnatural.”
“It is not so much what you will find when you come to this side of life
as what you will bring with you... [on Earth] you are the apprentice
to your own soul. Here you are the promoted individual... Bring all
of your soul treasures – you will need them, your culture, your love
of art, of music – all this you will use... Every want shall be satisfied.
Material possessions you will not need... We are undisguised, for on
our foreheads is the insignia of whatever we have gained in culture,
love for humanity, charity, selflessness, energy and force, ambitions
for the sake of others – all this is here waiting for us when we are
given ... our Price, our Wage, whatever we have earned during our
years of apprenticeship.”
Professor Frederic W. H. Myers, in the afterlife, Summerland,
speaking via Juliet Goodenow and Geraldine Cummins
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