To mourn the friend as utterly “gone” who has only dropped the outer garments of the dust is to close, for the time, the avenue of communication or ministration. Long must the spirit helpers work and wait for people to be ready to receive their response to the call for aid. So many did I see who could not reach the recognition of their loved ones that I wished _over_ and _over_ again _that there were more real_ “_Message bearers_,” more to give comfort to those that mourn! And then the Presence answered: “Not all are ready to whom the Messages now are given, nor are those protected adequately who are the chosen Instruments for Message bearing, but the seed is being sown and will take root in thousands of lives.” THOUGHT-FORMS I was shown those who existed in the _thought-forms_ and scenes of their recent human states: Such as these were surrounded with the “things” (forms of things) familiar to them on Earth, and apparently necessary to their happiness even in the new state of existence. These scenes illustrated that our lives even in the human state, consist largely of “_states of mind_,” that we see the things we are accustomed to see, or have trained our minds or wishes to see omitting many and sometimes _most_ of the things of beauty and of import that we _might_ see. The spirit states that are “exactly like the scenes of Earth” are composed of the thought-forms of the spirits’ imaging or reproduction, and _are_ the _reality_ to them. I recalled the weaving of a web that I had once seen an industrious spider perfect and he was afterward caught in his own web. I wondered if we are not often in human life--and the states that immediately follow the weavers of many such “cobwebs”? These thought-webs seemed to proceed from the minds of the spirits fashioning them and in which the spirits seemed to be ensphered, sometimes enshadowed. Before my questionings had _taken form in my mind_ the answer came from the Presence: “No, they are not enmeshed _by_ the thought-forms; their creation is the result of the present _condition_; remove the power to produce thought-forms, _i.e._, to create ones own environment and you remove all activity of mind. As the Spirit unfolds the thought-forms change and then disappear as _perception_ takes the place of limitation by the senses.” With the almost axiomatic proposition that “our world of life is what we make it” our spirit-surroundings and conditions the result of our states of unfoldment, it became less difficult even when returning to the limitations of human organism to understand the conditions of existence in the “next stage” of personal experience beyond the “transition” misnamed “death.” _Spirit states are as varied as are the personal states of those composing them; the knowledge--or lack of it--possessed by the person_ IS _the spirit state_, i.e., _knowledge of spiritual principles_.