kindred feelings are unknown. These roots were all
destroyed by the fire at the beginning of the Millennium. No one can
imagine how enrapturing life is in the absence of stings of malice and
thorns of envy.

5. The social and spiritual relationships are all harmoniously blended.
No one feels himself beneath or above another, and no one feels
embarrassed in the presence of a superior human intelligence.

6. Thus it follows that the fellowship is inexpressibly sweet. You can
only imagine the dignity and glory one must feel as he mingles with the
righteous dead of all ages, and gathers from them a glimpse of the
trials and triumphs of ten thousand years under the old reign.

7. Some of the spirits are employed in dressing and keeping the gardens
in which grow the luxurious food on which redeemed creatures subsist:
not cereals, fruits, or nuts, but the kind that creates the most
heavenly sensations as it wastes away in perfume at the will of the
user. The nearest imitation of this food ever known on earth was eaten
by Christ's spirit when Mary broke the alabaster box of ointment on his
head.

8. Some spirits of this Millennial life seemed to be more rapturously
happy than the others. I learned that they had passed through the
darkness of continual disappointments or suffered under the mis-mating
of matrimonial union. Others fought through the fires of persecution and
torture, and still others passed through martyrdom for their Master's
sake. All of these patiently endured all hardships leading down to the
end of their mortal days.

9. The affinity between sexes is clearly marked. No love but pure love
burns on the altar of any soul, and any one who wishes may stop to
kindle the fires or warm himself thereat. There is no bodily contact, no
decay, no weakening. This love is enrapturing, uplifting, ever drawing
the lover and the loved nearer to the fountain.

In language most intelligible to us, I would say that the intercourse
between sexes is one of refined telepathy, soul-connection by thought
transmission, a thousand-fold more charming than the low plane of
intercourse in the flesh life, with none of its attendant weakening
results. This strange felicity is as indescribable as it is glorious.
Each nature seeks its real complement, and enjoys the most absolute
liberty, for there is not a single barrier to prevent it, as no one
desires to do wrong.

This most inviting life had its charms for me, but I well knew that