DIVINE ANGELS

May 28th, 1916

I am here, Your Grandmother,

    I will tell you to-night of a Truth that may be of interest to you.  I know that it is of importance to all who may long for happiness in the future life.

    As you know, I am now in the Celestial Spheres, in a place higher than the third Celestial Sphere.  Where are no special lines of demarcation separating it, from what you may call, the Higher Planes.  In my plane, the inhabitants are those who have received the Divine Love in their souls, to an extent that makes them Know, that they are of a nature that is Divine and in At-Onement with that of The Father.  Of course, those who have entered the first Celestial Sphere, have the Knowledge of having partaken of the Divine Nature.  But they are not so filled with this Divine Love, as we are who live in the sphere that I am in.  It is not possible for me to tell you of the extent of our happiness.  Because you have no words in your language that can possibly convey a faint conception of this happiness.  I will not attempt to describe it.

    If you will combine all the emotions of joy and happiness which you have received, or experienced, in all the years of your life, you would not be able to realize the meaning of our happiness, in the faintest degree.  I merely recite this Truth, to show to you and all humankind what is possible for you and them to obtain, if you will only pursue the course that The Father has provided and the Master has pointed out in his messages to you.

    The Great Instrument that causes this Great Happiness is Love.  By this I mean the Divine Love.  Of which, we have so often written.  Without which, it is impossible for a soul to obtain this condition, or to become a dweller in the Celestial Heavens.

   Humans, as you have been instructed, were not Created with this Divine Love.  Could only obtain it by their own longings and aspirations, being exercised in the way that The Father had provided.  In no other way could these desires for this Divine Love be realized.  The great pity is, that the first of the human race declined, or rather refused, to pursue this way.  Thought that they were wise enough to know a better way.  In attempting to pursue this way, brought about their own fall and the loss of the privilege of obtaining this Divine Love.  In all the long years until the coming of Jesus, no human, after the First Created, had the privilege.  Hence, it was not possible for them to find any greater happiness, than that which might come from their natural love.

    At the coming of Jesus, humans, again had bestowed upon them this Great Privilege.  A possibility of the Knowledge, of the way in which the privilege could be exercised.  This was not declared to all humans.  For the territory in which Jesus taught and proclaimed this Important Truth was very limited.  The great majority of humans died without knowing that this gift had been rebestowed.  But God, in His Goodness and Love, did not restrict the bestowal of this Divine Love to those who might be fortunate enough to learn of it from Jesus and his apostles.  But sent His Holy Spirit to implant it in the souls of all humans, who might be in such condition of soul aspiration and longing, as to permit this Divine Love to enter their souls.

    When spirits became possessed of this Knowledge, they commenced the work, of trying to influence humans, in such a way, that there arose in them a longing for a closer Unity with God and an opening up of the soul perceptions. As a result, many humans, in various parts of the world, received this Divine Love in their souls, without knowing that it was this Divine Love.  But it was.  When these humans, in their spirit forms, entered the spirit world, they soon found, that to some extent, they were possessed of this Divine Love.  It was not difficult for them to listen to the explanations and teachings of of those spirits who had received it, as to the Truth of its existence.

    Now all this may not appear to be of much importance to present human and hardly worth attention.  But my great object in writing in this manner, is to show that God had no special, or particular people.  That it was not even necessary that all peoples should learn from Jesus, the fact of this Gift.  For in such a case, the great majority of humankind, could not possibly have heard of this Divine Love, while they were yet mortals.  No, this was not a necessity.  But the Knowledge, which came to mortals through Jesus, enabled them who possessed it and believed, to more readily pursue the way to obtaining this Divine Love.

    Many spirits had received the benefit of the Rebestowal of this Divine Love.  Or, rather the privilege of seeking for and obtaining it, before Jesus came to the spirit world.  Yet they understood, that the greater extent of the possession of this Divine Love was in Jesus.  No spirit now possesses it to the degree that he does.  But whether the souls of mortals, or spirits, received the Knowledge of this Truth from Jesus, or from the workings of the Holy Spirit in its ministrations, they all know that the seeking for and getting this Divine Love are the only means by which the soul may become an inhabitant of the Celestial Heavens.

    I realize, that what I have written, conflicts with the orthodox belief that it is only through the death and blood of Jesus that humans can be saved from their sins and become Children of God and at one with Him.  If this belief were true, then by Jesus' sacrifice all humans would be saved, irrespective of their obtaining this Divine Love.  Or, only those would be saved who had heard of Jesus and accepted him as their saviour.  Neither of these propositions is true. For without this Divine Love entering into the soul of a human, it would be impossible for them to partake of the Divine Nature of the Father and become fitted to occupy a home in the Celestial Spheres.  This Divine Love in the soul, whether it is a result of the workings of God's Ministering Spirits, causing a real soul longing, in conjunction with the Holy Spirit, makes the human, of a Nature Divine.  A Redeemed Child of God.

    Now from what I have said, it must not be inferred that the Mission of Jesus, his work on earth and in the spirit world, are not the great things connected with humans Redemption.  For they are.  It was not until Jesus' coming, that this Great Gift was Rebestowed.  It was not until his declaring this fact and teaching the Great Truth of the New Birth, could either mortals, or spirits, receive this privilege. The ministering spirits could not influence the souls of humans to seek for the inflowing of this Divine Love, until they had first received it themselves and understood its existence.  Here let me declare a fact, that when Jesus preached to mortals on earth, the necessity for the Second Birth, myriads of spirit beings heard these teachings and became possessed of this Knowledge.

    Today, humans are attended by hosts of spirits, of all kinds.  The sayings and teachings of humans, are heard by more spirits, than humans.  The influence of such teachings has its effect upon spirits, as upon humans.  For the spirits of humans, which are existing in the earth planes, are the same spirits, substantially, that they were when on earth. An earthly friend, frequently, has more influence upon them, than do other spirits, no matter how high their condition may be.

    I am so happy to be able to write you again and let you know that I have not forsaken you.  I am with you quite often and am trying to help you.  Pray more to the Father.  Exercise more Faith and you will grow in soul development and happiness.  I will not write more now.

    So with all my love and blessings, I am Your Grandmother Ann Rollins

November 13th, 1918.

I am here, Stephen, the Apostle.

    Let me write a few words tonight, as I am one of the spirits whom your wife wrote of last night, who would come tonight with the desire to write.  My subject is: "What is the meaning of the Divine Nature, which the soul of human partakes of, upon the Transformation of that soul by the inflowing and possession of the Divine Love?"

    This, as you may perceive, will be somewhat difficult to explain.  Principally because humans have no very definite conception of what is comprehended by the term "Divine." They, of course, associate this word with God.  To them, God is a being whose Nature and Qualities are above their finite conceptions and as a result of their thoughts, is that which is over and above everything that is called, or supposed to be understood, as natural.  To some, God is a being of Personality.  To others, a kind of nebulous existence, included in and composing all the various manifestations, which are transcendently above what they conceive to be the merely natural, or human.

    I will not attempt to discuss Who, or What God is, except as to one of His Qualities, or Attributes.  That the greatest. For you must know that all the Qualities of God are not of equal greatness, or degree of importance, in the workings of His Essence of Substance.  All, of course, partake of His Divine Being.  But, as you might say, there is a difference in the workings and scope of their operations.

    You have been told that the Divine, is that which has in it, to a sufficient degree, the very Substance and Essence of God, Himself.  This is True.  For Divinity belongs to God Alone.  Can be possessed by others, spirits, or mortals, only when He has transfused into, or bestowed upon, the souls of humans, a portion of this Divinity.  To the extent thereof, made them a part of Himself.  There is nothing in all His Universe that is Divine, or partakes of the Divine, except that which is of the soul.  For all else is of the material.  This even when it has the form, or appearance, of the spiritual.  Even the soul, as Created, is not Divine.  Cannot become such, until it is Transformed into the Divine by the transfusion into it, of that which in its very substance is Divine.  Many souls in the spirit world, although pure and in exact Harmony with their Created Condition, are not Divine and never will become such.  This, only because these souls will not desire and seek to become Divine, in the only way provided by the Father.

    It is a mistake for humans to believe that because God has Created this, or that, object or thing, it is necessarily Divine.  For His Creations are no more a part of Himself, than are the creations of humans a part of themselves. Thus you will see, that in all God's Creation there is nothing Divine, except what has been privileged by His Grace to partake of His Divinity.  Hence the stars, worlds, trees,  animals, rocks and humans themselves, as Created, are not Divine.

    Humans have claimed that in human there is a spark of the Divine.  A part, as they say of the "Oversoul".  That it needs only the proper development to make the soul of human wholly Divine.  This theory is based upon the idea that this development can be accomplished by the exercise of the mind, or the moral qualities, guided by the conscience, which they assert, is of itself Divine.  Especially when dominated by reason.  Which has been so often worshiped by philosophers and others as Divine.  They have attempted to differentiate human and the lower animals. Attributed to the former the qualities of Divinity, because they are endowed with reason and the lower animals are not.  Have substituted degrees in the order and objects of Creation, in the place of differentiation between the Divine and non-divine.

    God is wholly Divine.  Every Part and Attribute of Him is Divine.  While they are parts of the whole, yet they may be separated in their workings and bestowals.  The human, or soul, that is the recipient of the bestowal of one of these Qualities, or Attributes, is not necessarily the recipient of the others.  Omnipotence and Omniscience are those Attributes of God's Divinity, which He never bestows upon the souls of humans, or spirits.  As to them, He is the Exclusive Possessor.  Although, in all His Attributes, there are Powers and Knowledge.  They accompany the bestowal of all Attributes of which they are parts.  One of these Divine Attributes may be bestowed upon human.  Yet human not become Deity.  There is, and can be, only One God.  Although, He may give of His Essence and Very Substance, so that a human can become as He is, in that Essence and Substance, to the extent that it is bestowed.

    As regards human and their salvation and happiness, the Greatest of God's Qualities, or Attributes, is His Divine Love.  Which is the only one that can bring the souls of humans into A Oneness and Nature with the Father.  Which has in it the Quality of Immortality.  This Divine Love has a transforming power.  Can make that, which is of a quality foreign to, and different from, Itself, of the same Essence as Itself.  More than this, can eliminate from that thing, those constituents which naturally and necessarily are its components, without injuring, or destroying, the thing itself.

Well we must stop here.  I will finish later.  I am Stephen

May 21st, 1918.

I am here, Helen:

    Well dear, I see that you have been much benefitted by the reading of the messages to-night.  I am so glad that you read them in the manner that you did.  The Truths which you read, in reference to the spirit world in the book of Dr. Peebles, are very beautiful.  Also edifying and helpful, to the extent that they affect the conditions of the souls of humans.  But, as you know, they do not reach the vital point, or tell of the Great Truth, which is necessary for humans to know in order to obtain the condition of the Divine Angel and the home in the Celestial Heavens.

    Of course, the writer (Dr. Peebles), or any of those whom he quotes, could not speak of this Higher Truth.  For they did not understand the same.  They could comprehend only the Great Moral Teachings of Jesus.  These teachings are also of great importance to humankind.  For the understanding and observance of them, in thought and deed, will certainly lead humans to a purification of their souls.  To a coming in at-onement with the Father, in accordance with the Perfectness of Human in their Creation. As we have written you, the large majority of humans will exist in the Great Eternity only as Perfect Humans.  Enjoying the happiness which that condition brings to them.  Hence, it is of great importance that humans should be taught these Mortal Truths.  But of greater importance is the Knowledge of the Truth which will show humans the way to become Divine Angels and At-One with God in His Very Substance and Essence of Divine Love.  This was the great mission of the Master on earth.  But humans failed to understand and realize that fact.  Instead, were possessed only of the Knowledge of the Moral Truths and a belief that such Truths, or rather the results of the practicing and living the same, would lead them to Immortality and Perfect Happiness.

    Well, you understand all this.  I will not say more on the subject.  But I wish to emphasize to you the importance of your fully realizing, deep down in your soul, that the Truths of the Divine are not understood by humans.  Hence, cause you to appreciate more, the great importance of the work which you are to perform.  Oh, my dear, I hope that you will consider and meditate upon this and try your best to get in such condition that the rapport may be made and these (Divine) Truths delivered to you.  You know the way, the only way.  You must follow that way.  Pray to the Father with all the longings of your soul.  Meditate more on spiritual things, such as the (Divine) Truths which the Master and the others have revealed to you.  I know that you are desirous of receiving the messages.  But, you are not willing, as it seems, to make the effort to get in the soul condition, which will not come from the existence of the mere desire to receive the messages.

    Well, I did not write earlier in the evening for you were not just in condition.  I thought that if you did not hear from me, you might possibly read some of the messages, thus get in a better soul condition to receive my message, as you have done.

    It is too late to write more tonight, but I feel quite hopeful that I will be able to do so very soon.  So sweetheart, pray to the Father and let your faith increase.  Think more of these Truths, and what they mean.  I will not write more now.  Will only further say, love me with all your heart and think more of me, and you will be much happier.

Good night, my dear husband.  Your own true and loving, Helen