Show I KS It Wilcox THE BEAUTIFUL CITY I BEYOND By Ella Wheeler Wilcox 7 n r There comes to tD me from one in whom I iu belIeve a Story of clear sceIn seeing a a k- k vision Islon of Qt a wonderful city of another l plane outside of ot the earth rth realm A city with beautiful streets and fine architecture and fair statuary and alive with action peopled with beings like and yet yet- yet unlike unlike the denizens 0 of earth The friend frIen who saw v these things nothing of or me not even cen belief Re he is one ono who has studied the psychic questions of or the day Ilay for roC many years from a purely critical and antl scientific and he goes about his dally daily avocations like any other practical and sensible And human being and Is not seeking for money or glory or a following fol fol- lowing of devotees He says little In In- In deed to any one Ono of what he has been beon enabled to learn of matters called su su supernormal supernormal su- su or sill spiritual ritual And only by byan byan byun an un accident of ot similar tastes and Interests Interests Interests Inter Inter- ests and aspirations the tho information I of ot his latest and most Interesting Interesting- exl experience ex ox- l f came to me 1 f Hundreds of my good friends will wUl smile smile smile-at at my credulity for believing this mans man's vision to bo be more than the tho re ref result re- re f I sUIt sult of a disordered brain or excited imagination Hundreds of tho the friends of or Cyrus Field pitied those few tew deluded people r 1 who believed in his hla vision vIsion of an ocean cable Hundreds Hundred of or the friends of or Morse I i f As AB we speed out of or youths youth's sunny station The track seems to eli oli ne nc rr ne me I light But Dut It suddenly shoots over chasms Or sinks Into tunnels of oC And the hearts that w were re brave In the tho morning Are filled with and fears As they pause at the City CHY Q ut m row Or pass pas through the tho Valley Valle of Tears But the tho road rOHl of this perilous journey hand of or tho the lie Master Ia has made With nil all its discomforts and dangers W We e need ned not be sad or afraid 11 jl Pat Paths leading leading- from light fight Into darkness Ways plunging g firm gloom to despair Wind out through h the tun l q i of midnight To fields that are blooming and fair tall and n and Marconi and Edison of or have hallucinations been sorry f for tor r the poor victims Y yet t all these friends have havo lived to acknowledge their own wn mistake or of f Judgment And A r i i so 30 why Y I y not all my ray doubtIng doubting doubt- doubt Ing f friends r if Jr f fey they live long Ions enough bo be forced to vor cid a acknowledge knowledge hero here on ono earth their own lack of jUdgment In the reports o ot of f the advance guards alonG the spiritual picket line Une to be delusions It la is a curious phase of f the mortal min mind n y Which cihi Causes it to so 80 vehemently oppose beliefs which are of ot the utmost ut ut- moat most Importance to o human happiness and human development There Is no geographical fact fact no no l I. l If It you OU pause In the City of Trouble Or wait walt In tho the Valley of Tears Toara Be patient the tho tta train n will move onward And rush down the tra tm tm-k tm k It of at the tho years ear Wh Whatever the place Is you seek Whatever your game pame or your our quest You shall come at last wI wl I h rejoicing To 10 the beautiful City Ity of ot Rest You Tou shad shall store all nIl jour your of or worries You Tou shall hall i feel perfect perret pence peace In this realm You hall shall sail with old on fair w waters terN With joy and delight at the helm You Tou shall wander in cool fr gardens I With those who ho have loved you the best beet And the hones that were lost In dies life's j Journey urney You You shall find In the City of Rest possible discovery of any other continent continent conti conti- nent on earth of earth of such sach vast Import to humanity as the tho proof of realms be beyond beyond beyond be- be yond or outside of of this earth plane piano lane Should the discovery of ot a a. wonderful wonderful i and fertile continent at the North Pole b b be made reads it could only interest us for fora I I Ia a limited period of time one hundred I years from now no one of ot us would remain remain to enjoy Its products or be entertained en en- by Its Us sights But Dut the tho absolute knowledge and and convincing convincing convincing con con- proof that other continents exIsted ex ex- isted beyond bayonet the earth and the tho ability to see seo them with will spiritual vision whenever when when- ever we so desired would render timo Impotent and take the sting tic S' S Indeed from death I l Personally I r do not imagine m my friend saw heaven for Cor I dp not believe believe be be- I lieve in any one locality In the further lands which bears that name But I behove be- be hove o In lOIn m my mX Fathers Father's house are aro many mansions and in my Fathers unI verse erse are man many continents continent and cities S And I think my friend saw one ono of ot the many I have no doubt do It was a a. spiritual spir city Inhabited by spiritual beIngs beings beings be be- ings and that Innumerable others exist in space space cities cities beautiful and unbeautiful unbeautiful on higher and lower planes according according ac ne- ac- ac cording to the tho spiritual workmanship of ot the Inhabitants I b believe you ou and I today and oven every ovary hour of the day uro helping helping to build one ono of t those cities clUes and just as 5 w weS we S I 1 build so shall our structure bo be when we leave leav this particular chemical to fo nation n- n atlon ln which our spirits now dwell and pass on to new realms And when wo we reach that new dwelling we shall find for nel neighbors those who have thought similar l thoughts held hold similar ambitions and committed similar ac ac- dons tlona while on this sphere The Tho on- on world has decided that Thought will select Is Energy This energy our pl place ce of habitation In the life beyond beyond be be- yond ond and ond therefore It behooves both you and me to direct our thought en energy on- on ergy to good and beautiful purposes It If we wish a desirable location In one of the many cities not built by hands but b by thoughts There Thero Is something wonderfully stimulatinG stimulating stimulating to tho the human mind In the vcr very vaguest dream of such auch a city It gives n w n Impetus to worthy orthY ac action action action ac- ac tion new crew wings to hope new comfort to sorrow new now solace to disappointment disappoint disappoint- ment and failure It makes everything good seem enduring and everything that is not good trivial and of small small email import It makes tho hurried tram transit of time in this little Ilfe If seem of loss Importance and arouses the heart from SA sad reveries over broken brokon earthly ties tics tiesto tiesto to a n consciousness of or renewed friendshIps friendships friendships friend friend- ships and affections In beyond May 30 our eyes receive tho the Inner Innee vision Islon to behold them them while we are nrc yet InU Inthe in inthe U the e temporal bod body upon this plane |