something spiritual. The difference is like the difference between some-
thing on a prior level and something on a subsequent level—there is no
finite ratio between them. The prior level is present in the subsequent
level the way a cause is present in an effect; and something on a subse-
quent level is the result of something on a prior level the way an effect is
the result of a cause. This is why the one does not appear to the other.”
The wise person’s response to that was, “I have meditated a great deal
on this difference, but so far without results. I wish I could learn about
the difference!”
I said, “Not only are you going to learn about the difference between
what is spiritual and what is earthly; you will even see it for yourself.”
Then I said, “You are in a spiritual state when you are with your peo-
ple, but in an earthly state when you are with me. You talk to your people
in a spiritual language that is shared by every spirit and angel, but you
talk to me in my own vernacular. When any spirits or angels communi-
cate with a person, they speak the person’s language. With a French per-
son, they speak French. With a Greek, they speak Greek. With an Arab
they speak Arabic, and so on.
[ 3 ] “To see the difference between spiritual and earthly language, do
this. Go over to your own group and say something to them. Hold on
to the words, return with them in your memory, and pronounce them
to me.”
He did it. He returned to me with the words on his lips and pro-
nounced them. They were totally foreign and bizarre words that do not
exist in any language in the physical world. By repeating this experiment
several times, it became obvious that all who are in the spiritual world
have a spiritual language that has nothing in common with any earthly
language, and that we all acquire that spiritual language spontaneously
after we die. (On another occasion I learned that the very sound of spiri-
tual language is so different from the sound of earthly language that no
matter how loud it is, spiritual sound is completely inaudible to an
earthly person, and so is earthly sound to a spiritual person.)
[ 4 ] Later on I asked the sage and the people around him to go back
to their homes, write some sentence on a piece of paper, and then bring
the piece of paper back to me and read it. They did so and came back
with the piece of paper in hand; but when they tried to read it they could
not, because the writing consisted of nothing but some letters of the
alphabet with curved marks over them, each of which meant some aspect
of the topic. (Because every letter of the alphabet has a meaning there,
you can see why the Lord is called the Alpha and the Omega.)
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