In each Sphere there is a spiritual fountain. It is built by spirits from a higher sphere.
The spiritual fountain represents the sacred life that every soul carries within itself, which becomes more and more conscious and beautiful as it goes higher.
A spiritual fountain is surrounded by beautiful flowers, birds and fruits.
-A little further on he saw something he had already encountered in many places, namely a spiritual fountain, which a spirit was busy sculpturing from a large block of coloured marble.
–The fountain symbolized their life; not until they had entered the third sphere would they receive this gift. They would then join an order and only pass over into in the fourth sphere.
-Artists from a higher sphere had descended to help their sisters and brothers, whom they enabled by their high level of their art, to see and feel that it was possible to ascend.
A view into the Hereafter p.575,576
–When they had got a little closer, he saw that the temple was situated on a vast plateau and had been erected in coloured marble.
-It glowed as if it were lit up by invisible powers. The building was open on all sides, just as every spiritual dwelling was, and he saw flowers, life and happiness.
-The first object he perceived and recognized as he entered
(3e Sphere), was the spiritual fountain which they possessed in all the spheres.
-Every being bore this fountain deep within; it was God’s holy Power. It was surrounded by flowers and fruits, birds and greenery; these all served to decorate the fountain. In- side the temple, the birds sang their songs too and lived together with the being that dwelt here and tuned in to even higher spheres.
A view into the Hereafter p.581
Source: Quotations from the books of Jozef Rulof