Time Not a Factor
Time does not seem to be a factor in the realm of spirits except as related to people and events in the human state with which spirits have connection.
It was, however, a source of continual wonder and surprise to note the changing forms and atmospheres in the surroundings of those with whom I was brought in contact. I saw spirits who, when in Earth life had been in positions of external power—usually considered “exalted”—as of kings or rulers—the result of no “merit” or achievement of their own, but the “incident” or “accident” of birth, who were arrayed in their own thought-robes of power, but closer observation would reveal the poverty and meagerness of their “Robes of Royalty” and they were sometimes seeking somewhat with which to clothe themselves, something to conceal their paucity of raiment and surroundings. Most of those, however, who had held such positions as are the result of “titles,” “rank” and “castes,” seemed endowed with perception enough to know that those external conditions are not perpetuated in spirit states, unless one has become so imbued with the idea that “titles,” “wealth,” and outward “honors” are valuable in themselves. And that the “Divine Right of Kings” is indeed a “right” derived from Heaven.