Oh, if one could coin new words, or new understandings, in order better to express that which one knows when set free from Earthly environment! Yes, the _New Understanding_; that is the great need; and that must really be _attained_ by _unfoldment_, growth from within, the pervading all illuminating power of the spirit. Those in the spirit states who were reproducing the familiar scenes of their recent Earth conditions were satisfied and even very happy--especially when the scenes so reproduced were of a nature that had brought comparative happiness in Earth life--in their ability to make things seem “exactly as they did in Earth life,” not even knowing that this similitude was the result of their own thought-forms instead of being _inherent_ or _organic_ in the “spirit land.” Interesting and absorbing as were these lessons of observing, the process of weaving their thoughts into the forms most desired or needed by the spirits producing them, there were many whose reproductions were of the shadowed kind and were not voluntary, but results of the deep impress that the shadows of Earth-experiences had made upon their minds. No _one_ illustration could serve--but all states and conditions that I could realize were shown. TIME NOT A FACTOR _Time_ does not seem to be a factor in the realm of spirits except as related to people and events in the human state with which spirits have connection. It was, however, a source of continual wonder and surprise to note the changing forms and _atmospheres_ in the surroundings of those with whom I was brought in contact. I saw spirits who, when in Earth life had been in positions of external power--usually considered “exalted”--as of kings or rulers--the result of no “merit” or achievement of their own, but the “incident” or “accident” of birth, who were arrayed in their _own thought-robes_ of power, but closer observation would reveal the poverty and meagerness of their “Robes of Royalty” and they were sometimes seeking somewhat with which to clothe themselves, something to _conceal_ their paucity of raiment and surroundings. Most of those, however, who had held such positions as are the result of “titles,” “rank” and “castes,” seemed endowed with perception enough to know that those external conditions are not perpetuated in spirit states, unless one has become so imbued with the _idea_ that “titles,” “wealth,” and outward “honors” are _valuable_ in _themselves_. And that the “Divine Right of Kings” is indeed a “right” derived from Heaven. THE TRULY GREAT ARE HUMBLE I saw many of those who had been poor in worldly possessions, even despised and scorned among men or put to death because of their advocacy of an unpopular “cause” now radiant in their own spiritual brightness, unconsciously “Wearing their sunbright thoughts For Robes of Royalty.”