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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 103
QUESTION No. 49.
Are there any seasons and times, ages and epochs, in the
other world?
Answer: Xo. We might say that there it is all one long
day. There is no time, for that which makes time here is
the rotation of the earth upon its axis and its orbital
revolution around the sun. These motions make day and
night, summer and winter, heat and cold, etc., because
the earth's opaque and solid composition renders it imper-
vious to the rays of light and heat emitted by the sun, so
that one-half of the earth is always cold and dark. But
in that other world nothing is opaque nor solid, hence,
there is neither heat nor cold, there is neither summer nor
winter, there is no light, there is no night,
long bright day.
but it is one
Therefore, we often find that those who have passed
out by death, while fully remembering their past earth
life, will have no sense of time since passing out, and
may sometimes ask the question as to the length of time
which has elapsed since that event.
There is only one method there of gauging time, and this
is used by the trained clairvoyant in fixing events when
he is reading in the memory of nature, namely, by astrol-
ogy, by noting the positions of the stars. Of course, if the
event he is looking for is something which happened in historical
times, he may readily fix the year of the occurrence
by noting some historical event which happened at the same
time, but where he has to go back for many thousands of
years, as, for instance, when he wishes to determine the
time of the Atlantean floods, he uses particularly the