DIVINE LOVE

March 6th, 1915.

I am here, Jesus.

    I want to write tonight on the power of Divine Love to redeem humans from sin and error.  My Father's Divine Love is, as I have written, the only thing in all this Universe that can save humans from their evil natures (the nature of their minds beliefs and attitudes, not the True Nature of their souls as God's Greatest Creatures), and make them At-One with Him.  This Divine Love, I have already explained, when humankind will read my messages and try to understand the meaning of this Divine Love, it will soon become more at peace with itself and with God.  This Divine Love is the One Great Power that moves the Universe.  Without it there would not be that wonderful Harmony that exists in the Celestial Heavens of the spirit world.  Nor would so much happiness exist among the Angels who inhabit these spheres.  This Divine Love is also the influence which makes humans on earth think and do that, which makes for peace and good will among humans.  It is not possessed by all humans.  In fact, by comparatively few.  Yet, its influence is felt over nearly the whole earth.  Even those who have never heard of my teachings, or of my Father, enjoy the benefit of its influence, in some kind of belief, or faith, in an overshadowing Spirit of Great Power and Watchfulness.  I know that this is True, for I have visited all parts of the earth.  Have looked into humans hearts, found in them some elements of belief, which evidenced that this Great Love was influencing these unenlightened people.  So, notwithstanding the fact that my gospel is not preached to every Creature, as I commanded when on earth, yet this Divine Love of the Father is everywhere and all pervading.  Still, it is not received in all that fullness that enables those who feel its influence to realize that God is their Father.  They are His Children, who may become members of His Household in the Celestial Spheres.  No human can receive this Divine Love unless they have Faith in the Father's Willingness to bestow it upon them, and truly and with earnestness prays for it.

    Every human has in them the natural love.  Which will give them great happiness in eternity, as a mere spirit and an inhabitant of the spheres, lower than the Celestial.  Even though they refuse to seek for the Divine Love , that will make them a Divine Angel of the Celestial Heavens.  Only this Divine Love can change the natural human, into a human having the Divine Nature in Divine Love that the Father has.  I do not mean that human, even though they be filled with this Divine Love to the highest degrees, will ever become a god and equal to the Father in any of His Powers or Attributes.  This cannot be.  But this Divine Love will make them like the Father in Love, Happiness and Harmony.  This Divine Love has no counterpart in all Creation.  Comes from the Father Alone.  It changes not.  Nor is ever bestowed on anyone who is unworthy, or refuses to seek for it, in the only way provided by the Father.

    My experience in these Celestial Heavens is; that this Divine Love has the Power to change the most hardened sinner into a True Child of God.  If, only through Faith and prayer such sinner will seek for it.  Let this Divine Love take possession of a human, or spirit, and its Power to purify and change the heart of that human or spirit never fails.

Your brother and friend, Jesus

March 9th, 1915

I am Jesus.

    You are in condition to resume my message tonight.

    I am in a condition of love, that enables me to know that my Father's Divine Love, is the only Love that can redeem humankind and make it At-One with Him.  So you must understand that this Divine Love is a Love that has no counterpart in all the Universe.  Must be received by human in all its fullness, in order for them to attain to the Celestial Spheres, where the Father's Fountainhead of Love exists. So I say, that no human can become a part of God's Divinity until they receive this Divine Love and realizes that they and their Father are One in Love and Purity.

    I will now tell you what this Divine Love means to everyone who has received it.  They are in a condition of Perfect Peace.  Their Happiness is beyond all comparison. They are not willing that anything, or power, shall lead them to those things that are not in accord with the Divine Love and God's Laws of Harmony.  They are not only happy, but are away beyond the lower spirits in intellectual development and Knowledge of the Spiritual Things of the Father.  I know that no human is able to obtain the Great Soul Perceptions, until they have the soul development and are fitted to live in the Celestial Spheres, where only Divine Love and Harmony exist.

    So, do not think if a human merely becomes wonderful in their knowledge in an intellectual sense, they are fitted to live in these Higher Spheres, for they are not.  Only the Great Development of the soul, by obtaining into their soul the Divine Love, will enable them to live there.

    John never said, that by me were all things created that were Created.  That I, as God, came to earth and became an indweller in the flesh.  That is a mistake, an interpolation.  For I never was God.  Neither did I ever create any part of the Universe.  I was only a spirit of God.  Sent by Him to work out Human's Salvation.  Show them the only way to the Heavenly Home, that God has in keeping for those who receive the New Birth.

    Well, I live in all spheres, but my home is in a sphere that is very close to the Fountainhead of God's Love.  It has no name or number.  With me in the Celestial Spheres, are all those who have received this Divine Love, to such an extent that they have become entirely purified and At-One with the Father.  Many are progressing towards that home and will, sooner or later, get there.

    Those who fully received this Divine Love, through Faith and Prayer, are in the Celestial Spheres.  Those who have not yet obtained this Divine Love, to the degree mentioned, are not.  Yes, Paul is, and so are Peter, John, James and several others.

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    I meant that I would go to the Celestial Spheres where I now am and prepare these mansions, which I have now done.  It rests with spirits and mortals only to become inhabitants thereof.

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    Some are, and some are not.  The mere fact that these ancient prophets and seers were the mere instruments of God in declaring His Purposes and Laws, does not mean that they necessarily received this Great Love, so that they are now inhabitants of the Celestial Spheres.  Moses and Elias are in the Celestial Spheres and so is John the Baptist. But many great teachers of spiritual things, or of future existence are not, because they have not obtained the New Birth.

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    Well, it will depend on whether you live and believe in such a way as to get this Great Love.  If you do, you will not have to wait long years to be with me in the Celestial Spheres.  You are now in the right way.  If you will only persevere, let your Faith increase and get the Divine Love in sufficient abundance in your soul, you will be.  This remember, that I am your special friend and helper.  Will be with you when you are in doubt, or trouble.  Will keep you from relapsing into a state of unbelief, or of carelessness.

    If, as you say, they will seek that Divine Love and pray to the Father in Faith and believe that the Father will bestow it upon them, they will receive it.  When they receive it in sufficient abundance, all sin that they may have committed will be blotted out.  No further will they have to pay the penalties of their deeds of sin and error.  This is what I came principally to teach humankind.  When I said, "as you sow, so shall you reap", I meant this to be the Law of God, as applied to the natural human, as well as to everything else in nature.  That Law is subject to be set aside, so far as its operations on the souls of humans are concerned, by the soul of human receiving in sufficient abundance the Divine Love.  When the Great Love of the Father is sought and received by the soul of human, in sufficient abundance, the Law of Compensation is made non-effective.  The Law of Divine Love becomes supreme. Human is relieved from the penalties of their sins.  Yes, I know how humans reason about this matter.  That is the great stumbling block that prevents them from receiving this Divine Love and believing that it is efficacious in saving them from paying the penalties of their sins.

    Well, you now see what I am trying to do.  I am so well satisfied that you will make a success of your work, that I feel more than ever certain that my messages will be understood and given to the world.  So keep up your courage.  In a short time, all will be in such condition that there will be nothing to interfere with your doing the work as you desire.

    Yes, most assuredly.  When you get into the work with all your earnestness and Faith, you will see that you will be able to receive the messages just as I intend, that you shall receive them.

Let us stop now, your own true brother in spirit, Jesus

June 19th, 1916

I am here, John.

    I come tonight to tell you that you are in a better condition than you were last night.  That I desire to write a short message if you think that you can receive it.

    Well, I will not write very long.  What I shall say will have to do with "the condition of the soul when and after the Divine Love flows into it."

    As you know, the soul in the condition in which human possesses it before the entrance of the Divine Love, is not in accord with the Love of God.  Nor is it a part of the Great Oversoul.  It is only a Special Creation, made in the image of the Father.  Having in it the natural love, which was conferred upon human at the time of their Creation.  Not having in it any part of the Essence of the Father.  Or, any quality that makes it of the Divine Nature of the Father.  Or, necessarily Immortal.

    But when the Divine Love enters into it, and it becomes permeated, as it were, with the Divine Essence, then it takes on the Divine Nature of the Father.  To the extent that it receives and possesses this Divine Love, it becomes At-One with God, ceases to be a mere image, and becomes transformed into the Substance.  The soul in this condition is altogether a different entity from the soul in the condition in which it was Created.  No longer is subject to the dominion of either the mind, or of the animal appetites and desires. Hence, the spirit possessing such a soul, is, in essence, a part of the Father.  Or as Jesus said, is in the Father and the Father in it.

    Now, do not understand that such a soul is the soul that human originally possessed, with increased development of purity and goodness, or freedom from sin.  Because such is not the case.  Such soul, by such transformation, becomes a new thing.  Never again can it relapse into the soul of humans origin.  Because of the qualities that it then possesses, it becomes Immortal.  Such Immortal Nature can never be taken from it.  It is now a thing of love and purity.  Consciousness of its true condition is always with the spirit that has such soul.  This transformation is gradual. Humans must not think that by the mere act of conversion from their state of death, they at once become possessed of the Nature of the Divine, for such is not the fact.

    The transformation is gradual.  Comes according to the susceptibility of the the souls to receive this Divine Love of which I speak.  When once the inflowing of the Divine Love commences, it continues eternally.  Although, there may be times of stagnation and apparent loss of this Divine Essence, yet always is the transformation taking place.  At certain stages in its progress, the possession of this Divine Love will be so great, that the original soul, or its original qualities, will entirely disappear and leave only the new qualities which the Divine Love has implanted in it.  The leaven when once deposited never ceases to work, until the whole shall become leavened.

    I will not write more tonight.  But only further say, that this condition of transformation may be obtained by all humans, if they will only seek for it in the proper way and with Faith.

    I will soon write you again.  In leaving you, I give you my love and blessings.  The assurance that I am helping you in your efforts to carry forward the work and in accomplishing all the promises.

So my dear brother, goodnight.  Your brother in Christ, John 

November 10th, 1916

I am here, Jesus

    I come to-night to tell you that you are in a better condition than you were last night.  In fact, have been for some nights past.  I desire to write you a message on the question of "How the soul of a mortal receives the Divine Love, what its effect is, even though subsequently their mind may indulge in those beliefs that may tend to prevent the growth of the soul. What is a lost soul?"

    As you know, the inflowing of this Divine Love is caused by its bestowal by the Holy Spirit, in response to sincere prayer and (soul) longings.  I mean prayer and longings for the Divine Love Itself.  Not prayers in general, for the material benefits that humans more often and more naturally, as they believe, ask for, and desire.  The prayers of mortals for these things that may tend to make them successful and happy in their natural love, are answered also, if it be best that they should be.  These are not the prayers that bring the Divine Love, or cause the Holy Spirit to work with humans.

    As the prayers of the sincere, earnest soul ascend to the Father, that soul becomes opened up to the inflowing of this Divine Love.  The soul's perceptions enlarge and come more in rapport with the conditions, or influence that always accompanies the Presence of this Divine Love. Consequently, its entrance into the soul becomes easier and its reception more perceptible to the soul sense.  The more earnest the prayer and sincere the longings, the sooner Faith comes.  With this Faith, the realization that the Divine Love is permeating the soul.

    When once the Divine Love finds a lodgment in the soul, it, to the extent that it receives the Divine Love, becomes as it were, a changed substance.  Partaking of the Essence of the Divine Love.  As water may become colored by an ingredient foreign to itself, which changes not only its appearance but its qualities, so this Divine Love changes the appearance and qualities of the soul.  This change of qualities continues ever thereafter.  The natural qualities of the soul and the Essence of the Divine Love become one and united.  The soul is made altogether different in its constituency, from what it was before the inflowing of the Divine Love.  This only to the extent of the Divine Love received.  As this Divine Love increases in quantity, the change and transformation becomes correspondingly greater.  Until, at last the Transformation, may and will become so great, that the whole soul becomes a thing of this Divine Essence.  Partakes of Its very Nature and Substance, a being of Divinity.

    When once this Divine Love enters and truly possesses the soul, works the change mentioned, It, the Divine Love, never leaves, nor disassociates Itself from the soul.  Its character of Divine Essence never changes to that of the mere natural love.  So far as It is present, sin and error have no existence.  Because, it is just as impossible for this Essence, and sin and error, to occupy the same parts of the soul at the same time, as it is for two material objects to occupy the same space at the same time, as your philosophers say.

    Divinity never gives place to that which is not of the Divine.  Humans are working towards the attainment of the Divine, when they pursue the way provided, for obtaining the Divine Nature.  As they advance and obtain a portion of this Divine Love, no matter how small, they can never retrace their steps, to the extent of ridding themselves of this Transforming Essence and again become without its presence.

    This does not mean that a human may not lose the consciousness of the existence of this Essence within their soul, for they frequently do.  The indulgence of their carnal appetites and evil desires, will place them in the condition that they may cease to have a consciousness of the existence of the Divine Love in their soul.  To themself, they will be as if they had never had any experience of the change that I speak of.

    While this Divine Love can never be eradicated by the evils that human may indulge in, or by the mental beliefs that they may acquire, yet the progress of this Divine Love in their soul, may be checked and become stagnant, as if the Divine Love were not.  Sin and error may appear to be the only dominant elements of their life and being.  Yet, when once possessed, the Divine Love cannot be crowded out of their soul by sin and error, no matter how deep and intense they may be.  I know that this may seem strange and impossible to humans intellectual thinking, that it is not in accordance with what has been attributed to me as teaching that a soul may be lost.  Nevertheless, a soul that has once received this Divine Essence cannot be lost. Though, its want of realization of the presence of this Divine Love and its awakening from its dormant condition, caused by sin, error and its misdirected beliefs, may delay its manifestation of life and existence, for a long time.  Much suffering and darkness may have to be endured by the soul that is in such condition.

    I must not be understood by this, as meaning that a soul cannot be lost, for it can.  Many have been and will be, and many will realize the fact when too late.

    Now, what is a lost soul?  Not one that a human may actually lose in the sense of being deprived of it, separated from it, actually, or even as regards their consciousness of not having a soul.  For while, at times, they may believe that they have lost their soul, in the sense of not having any, yet they are mistaken.  For the soul, which is the human, can never be separated from themself.  As long as they live in the physical body, or in the spiritual body, their soul will be with them.  Yet they may have a soul, consciously, or not, and at the same time have lost it.  This may seem a paradox to the mortal intellect, or to the intellect of spirit, but it is true.

    Then what is a lost soul?  When God gave to humans a soul, that soul was made in the image, but not in the Substance of its Maker.  At the same time there was bestowed on them the privilege of having that soul become of the Substance of the Father.  To an extent, Divine.   Entitled to and capable of living in the Celestial Kingdom of the Father, where everything is of the Divine Essence and Nature.

    When the First Parents, by their act of disobedience, forfeited that privilege, their souls lost the possibility of becoming of the Divine Nature and At-One with the Father in His Kingdom.  They thereby lost, not the natural soul which was a part of their Creation, but the soul having the possibility of obtaining the Essence of Divinity and Immortality, as the Father has Immortality.

    As I have said heretofore, with my coming, this great privilege was restored to humankind.  The lost soul became again the object of humans recovery.  Now they have that privilege, as did the First Parents before the fall.  Also humans may lose it, as did they.  As with them, their souls were lost until they received into it, the Divine Essence of the Father.  So with humans now.  Their souls are lost, until and unless, they receive this Divine Essence therein.  As the First Parents, by their disobedience and refusal, forfeited their privilege of having their souls become a living, Divine Substance, so now, humans by their disobedience and refusal, will forfeit their privilege to save their souls from separation from the Divine Unity with the Father.  The lost soul is as real as the verities of the Father's Immutable Laws.  Only by the operation of the Divine Love, can the soul lost, become the soul found.

    Humans may believe and teach, that within them is a part of the Divine that will cause their souls to progress and develop until it reaches the condition of Divinity, that will make it a part of the Divinity of the Father.  In this they are all wrong.  For, while human was the Highest Creation of God and the most Perfect, made in His image.  Yet in human, is no part of the Divine.  Having no part of the Divine, it is wholly impossible for them to progress to the possession of the Divine.  They, of themselves, no matter what their development may be, can never become greater, or more perfect, or of a higher nature, than they were at their Creation.  The Divine comes from above. When once planted in a humans soul, there can be no limit to its expansion and development, even in the Celestial Heavens.  Let all humans seek this Divine Love and there will be no lost souls.  But alas, many will not do so.  The spiritual heavens will be filled with lost souls, not having the Divine Essence of the Father.

    I have written enough for to-night.  I am pleased at the way in which you received my message.  Continue to pray to the Father for more and more of His Divine Love.  Your prayers will be answered.  You will realize, with the certainty of conscious possession of the Divine Essence, that your soul is not lost and never will be.

So with my love and blessings, I will say goodnight and God bless you.  Your brother and friend, Jesus

Angelic Revelations of Divine Truth, Vol. I, pg. 132, 133

May 13th, 1915.

I am here, your Grandmother.

    I am happier than I can tell you.  I am living in my home, of which I told you a few nights ago (2nd Celestial Sphere).  It is a beautiful home beyond the possibility of description.

    Tonight, I want to tell you of my experience in seeking the Divine Love of God.  In realizing that He is my Father, who loves me with a Love, that knows no shadow of wavering, or cessation.  

    I was not always filled with Faith or believed so implicitly in prayer.  But in my early married life, I received the conviction, that if I would be happy in life and fitted to receive the Blessings, which the Bible promised to those who should seek the Lord and His Love, I must see the necessity of seeking.  I, with all the earnestness of my nature, commenced seeking for the Father's Love.  As a result I found it.  With it a Great Happiness and Peace.

    You know what my spiritual condition was in my later years on earth.  How my Faith was such, that although I was nearly deaf and blind, yet I was happy and joyful.  Well, when I came to the spirit world, I brought that Faith and love with me.  I found that it was just as real here, as it had been on earth.  Of course, in some of my beliefs I was mistaken.  Such as, my belief that Jesus was God and that his death and blood saved, or could save me from sin and damnation.  But notwithstanding my mistakes in these particulars, my love for the Father was not interfered with.  I continued to live in that love and was happy.

    I had not been in the spirit world a great while, before spirits of a higher order than myself, came to me and told me many wonderful things of the Father's Kingdom.  That my progress to the Higher Spheres would depend upon my receiving more of this Divine Love in my soul and becoming more At-One with the Father.

    The first time I saw Jesus, was after I had been in the third sphere a short while.  When I met him, he impressed me as being the most beautiful and loving spirit that I had ever seen.  When he told me that he was Jesus, I, of course, was somewhat surprised, because I had believed that he was sitting in the heavens on the right hand of God, as I had been taught on earth to believe.  When he saw my surprise, he looked on me with a wonderful love and said that I must not further believe that he was God, or even a part of Him, or that he was in the High Heavens accepting the worship of humans.  For he was only a spirit, as I was.  Was still working among mortals, as well as spirits, to lead them into the Light and The Way to the Father's Divine Love.  At first, I confess, it was difficult for me to believe this.  I had my doubts.  But his manner of talking to me and the wonderful love that he displayed, not only for me, but for all humankind, soon convinced me that he was the true Jesus, not an imposter.  Afterwards, I met many spirits who knew him and had been his followers for many years.  They told me that he was the Jesus of the Bible.  I could not do anything else but believe.  Now, after my long years of association with him and feeling his ministrations of love and the influence of his greatness, I know that he is the true Jesus.  Who by his teachings and overwhelming love saves humans from their sins, by showing them The Way to the Father's Kingdom.  So my dear son, do not doubt what I tell you now, in reference to this matter, or what I have already told you.

    Well, it is somewhat difficult to describe his appearance, but I will try.  He is of a commanding figure, as you say on earth.  His features are regular.  His eyes are of a deep blue, almost a purple blue.  With such depths of Divine Love in them, that under its influence, you almost forget to note the color of his eyes.  The hair is a beautiful brown, worn long and parted in the middle, so that it falls over his shoulders.  His nose is straight and somewhat long, with nostrils very refined and showing the artistic elements in his nature.  His other features are in keeping with those I have described.  He wears a beard quite long and very silky and brown like his hair.  His manner is grace itself and modesty personified.  Yet in him is the intensity of feeling which can show itself in just indignation, when the occasion requires. Yet, with all the great beauty of his person and the greater love of his soul showing itself, he is very humble.  More so, than any spirit I have seen.  I have given you a bare outline of his appearance.  You will never fully realize in your mind's eye just what his appearance is.  Only when you come over and meet him will you fully understand the appearance of the most wonderful, beautiful and loving spirit in all God's Universe.  Some day this will happen.  You will not have the doubts that I had.  Your heart will go out to him, from the first moment of your meeting.  My dear son, it is a greater privilege than you can appreciate, to be thus prepared, to meet your friend and teacher.  For he is your friend, to a degree that is beyond what I thought he would ever be while you are on earth.  So you see, my experience was a somewhat exceptional one.  One secret of its being so, is that I received very Great Faith and the Divine Love of my Father, while on earth.

    While the teachings of many preachers are; that the earth is the only place of probation.  That teaching is not correct.  Yet if it were believed more and humankind should prepare their future, in view of that belief, many a human, when they become a spirit, would avoid experiences that are very unpleasant and retard their progress in the spirit world.  Of course, such a belief (that the earth is the only place of probation), when the mortal fails to make the preparation, will work them great injury after they become a spirit.  Because such a belief is difficult to get rid of.  As long as it lasts, the spirit is very apt to believe that their status is fixed forever.  Hence, they will not progress until they accept the Truth.  So you see after all, the only good belief, is a belief in the Truth, which never changes.

    Probation is not confined to the earth life, but is with humans and spirits alike.  In fact it never ends.  For each preceding condition of a spirit, is nothing more than a probationary condition to what follows.  The great probationary condition, undoubtedly, is that which exists for the mortal while on earth.  If that probation is accepted and made the most of, the spirit of human gains an advantage, which is beyond my ability to describe.  Sometimes humans do not attempt to take all the advantage of this probation on earth and come to the spirit world, in all their material thoughts and sins, with their souls dead, as Jesus said.  Find that in such condition, as spirits, they have a more difficult time to awaken from such condition and progress.  I am informed that some spirits have been in this world for many many years and have not yet had an awakening.  So you must see the importance of taking advantage of the earth probation.

    Well dear son, I have written a great deal and must stop now.  Though I should like to write you a much longer time.

So with all my love, I will close and sign myself, your loving Grandmother, Ann Rollins