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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...they love and reverence, will here enter into the very presence of their Lord. The concept of the Divine which was formed by their mind when on earth here meets them in the radiant glory of devachanic matter, fairer, diviner, than their wildest dreams. The Divine One limits Himself to meet the intellectual limits of His worshipper, and in whatever form the worshipper has loved and worshipped Him, in that form He reveals Himself to his longing eyes, and pours out on him the sweetness of His answering love.... Such souls grow in purity and in devotion under the sun of this communion, and return to earth with these qualities much intensified. l All the noblest and purest part of our nature is thus cultivated and intensified in the heaven-world. As in the astral world, we are limited to the activities that have been initiated in earth-life, but not one of those fails to bring about its full result, and thus it is that the bliss of the heaven-world has always been said to be beyond our power to describe or even to conceive. If we think of ourselves when we are at our very best, when some tale of heroism has stirred our souls and roused our enthusiasm, when some sight of sorrow has drawn out our tenderest love and sympathy, when some grand symphony, some exquisite painting has stirred to activity our noblest and purest emotions, or when in the ecstasy of devotion we have laid ourselves at the feet of the Lord, and 1 Ancient Wisdom, A. Besant, pp. 196, 197. have felt His presence lifting us above all the petty concerns of life, filling us with deepest adoration and aspiration and surrounding us with an atmosphere of intense bliss, then we have but the faintest reflection of the joys of the heaven-world. For our best moments here are always marred...

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