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on their own part. Nay, more, the “satisfaction” is never really satisfying—
there is always the consciousness that there is something missing, something
lacking.
True love consists in giving, rather than in getting. And, is not this true in
the matter of communication with those loved ones on “the other side?” Is
it not a higher and nobler thing to send them loving thoughts and sympathy,
cheering and encouraging them in the unfoldment on the higher planes,
than to endeavor to drag them back to the lower plane of materiality for
the sake of hearing them say that they are happy and that all is all right
with them, and, perhaps, to mumble some semi-coherent platitudes in the
manner of a somnambulist? And is it not more worthy of ourselves, who are
dwelling in the bonds of the flesh, to raise the plane of our communion with
those on the other side to their own higher plane of being, and to commune
with them along the lines of spiritual understanding and rapport—in the
silence and without spoken words—on the plane where soul may speak to
soul without the medium of words, and without the necessity of physical
presence? Think over these things, and let your soul speak the truth to you
from its inmost heart—be assured that the answer will be one with the truths
of the highest authorities.