You have met persons who seemed to radiate sunshine, whose very presence in a room made you happier. Have you asked yourself why? The true answer would be that by their lovely disposition they attracted round them a “cloud of witnesses” as to the joy and the beauty of life. I have myself often basked in the warm rays of a certain loving heart I know upon the earth. I have heard spirits say to one another as they crowded round that person, “It is good to be here.” Do you think that any evil thing could happen to him? A score of loving and sympathetic spirits would strive to give him warning should any evil threaten. Then, too, a joyous heart attracts joyous events. Simplicity, also, and sweet humility, are very attractive to gentle disembodied souls. “Except ye be as little children, ye cannot enter in.” Have you not often seen a child enjoying himself with unseen playfellows? You would call them imaginary playfellows. Perhaps they were, perhaps they were not imaginary. To imagine may be to create, or it may be to attract things already created. I have seen the Beautiful Being itself, more than once, hovering in ecstasy above an earthly creature who was happy. A song of joy, when it comes from a thrilling heart, may attract a host of invisible beings who enjoy it with the singer; for, as I have told you, sound carries from one world to another. Never weep--unless you must, to restore lost equilibrium. The weeping spirits, however, are rather harmless because they are weak. Sometimes a storm of tears, when it is past, clears the soul’s atmosphere; but while the weeping is in progress, the atmosphere is thick with weeping spirits. One could almost hear the drip of their tears through the veil of ether--if the sobbing earthly one did not make so much noise with his grief. “Laugh and the world laughs with you,” may be true enough; but when you weep, you do _not_ weep alone. LETTER XLIV THE KINGDOM WITHIN THERE is one obscure point which I want to make clear, even though I may be accused of “mysticism” by those to whom mysticism means only obscurity. I have said that the life of man is both subjective and objective, but principally objective; and that the life of “spirits” dwelling in subtle matter is both subjective and objective, but principally subjective. Yet I have spoken of going alone or with others to heaven, as a place. I want to explain this. You remember the saying, “The kingdom of heaven is within you,” that is, subjective. Also, “Where two or three are gathered together in My name, there will I be in the midst of them.” Now, those places in this subtle realm which I have called the Christian heavens are places where two or three, or two or three thousand, as the case may be, are gathered together in His name, to enjoy the _kingdom of heaven within them_.