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Effects of the Holy Spirit and Divine Love. What the Divine Love means to all human souls who have received it through God's Holy Spirit.
Effects of the Holy Spirit and Divine Love
January 20th, 1915
I am here, your old friend G. R.
Yes, it is I. I am glad to be able to write to you again. I told your wife that I desired to write and tell you of my progress in Spiritual matters. As you are kind enough to give me the opportunity, I will try to tell you how my eyes were opened to the things of the spirit, and my heart to the Divine Love of God.
Well, as you know, when I first commenced to write to you, I did not exactly believe in a God, Jesus, or his teachings, except as they related to the moral condition of humans. When you first commenced to talk to me about these Spiritual Things, I thought that you were merely telling me the things that you had learned in your church, or Sunday school, and that they were only intended for men and women of no capacity to think for themselves, and suited only to receive what the preachers might tell them. So, you see, I was not in a very receptive condition of mind to enable me to believe that what you told me had any foundation in fact, or in Truth. Jesus, to me, was just the same as any other human who had received large conceptions of the Truth, but he was only a mere human, in the sense that what he attempted to teach he had learned by study and meditation, or through some worldly source that I did not know of. At any rate, I believed that his teachings were not the result of inspiration, or derived from a source any different from what humankind received other information, as to things of nature, or of spirit. Well, as you continued to tell me that I was mistaken, and that there is a Source from which All Good flows, other than the mere mind, or conscience, of human, I began to think about the matter. When I looked around me and saw that your mother and wife, who claimed that they had received this Divine Love of God, which you insisted was waiting for me to obtain, were so beautiful and happy, while I and my folks were not very beautiful, and not at all happy, I began to inquire the cause. When you told me that their, I mean your mother's and wife's, condition was due to this Divine Love of God, I asked them to tell me about the Nature of this Divine Love, and The Way in which they obtained It. Your mother, bless her soul, took great pains to instruct me in these things.
When I learned that prayer was the only Way to this Divine Love, and saw you praying for me with all your heart, and in great earnestness, I commenced to pray also. I must confess that my prayers were not accompanied with much Faith. I continued to pray. Every night when you prayed for me and for the many others, who were with you praying, I tried to exercise all the Faith possible, and prayed for more Faith. This continued for some time. One day your grandmother, who is a most wonderful spirit in goodness and beauty, came to me, and said that she was your grandmother, and was very much interested in me, on your account, as well as on my own, and commenced to unfold to me the Great Efficacy of Prayer. She assured me that if I would only try to believe, and pray to God to help me believe, He would answer my prayers. I would soon find that with my earnest efforts, Faith would come to me. With Faith, would come this Divine Love into my heart. With this Divine Love would come happiness and joy.
So I listened to her. I tried to believe that what she told me must be True, and that she was interested in me, and desired only my happiness. I continued to pray, as I said. One day after I had received some considerable Faith, I met Jesus. He told me of the Wonderful Things that his Father had prepared for me, if I would only believe, and ask Him (God) to give them to me. Jesus was so very beautiful and Loving, that I could not resist the influence which came over me. Then my Faith increased. I prayed with all my heart and soul.
At last, Light came to me, and with it, such an inflowing of Divine Love as I never dreamed could exist, either in the Earth, or in the Spirit World. But it came to me. I felt as if I were a new spirit. Such happiness came, as I never experienced before. Then that dear mother of yours came and rejoiced with me. Also, your beautiful wife, who had tried so hard to induce me to seek for this Divine Love.
Oh, Padgett, I tell you that in all the Wide Universe of God, there is nothing to compare to this Divine Love of the Father. Let me say; that in all my Life, when only my intellect ruled me, there was nothing to compare with that which came to me with this inflowing of the Divine Love.
I am now in the Third Sphere with many beautiful and happy spirits. Your mother and wife are higher up, and are so beautiful and good, that when I am in their company I feel that I will become a much happier human if I will try to follow them. Your father has progressed too. So has Professor Salyards.
Well, my soul is one now that is filled with this Divine Love. My mind is elevated in its thoughts. Not inclined to think of those things that are merely intellectual. For I tell you that while Knowledge of All God's Laws, and Nature's apparent mysteries, is desirable, yet a Knowledge of this Divine Love of God is far and above compare, and not only more necessary, also more desirable. I would not give the feelings that come to me, from the possession of this Divine Love, for all the sensations of delight that might arise from the discovery of the most stupendous and important Law of the Workings of Nature.
Let this Divine Love come first, and then the other acquirements will only help to show the spirit that God, is a God of Wisdom and Power, as well as of Love. As you have read, "Love is the fulfilling of the Law", nothing else is. The human who has all the knowledge and wisdom, without this Divine Love, is poor indeed.
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Jesus is the most wonderful of all the spirits, in both Divine Love, and the Knowledge of the Father's Attributes. He is the greatest, and knows that the Father's Plans to save and redeem humankind are as he teaches. So you must listen to him and believe.
I am going to try to learn more of his teachings. When I do, you shall know what I learn. Jesus appears to me the one altogether lovely. He has no competitor. No one who sees him, if they have any of this Divine Love in their soul, can fail to know that he is the True Jesus of the Bible. The Most Perfect son of his Father. I realized this only after this Divine Love came to me. It seems that spirits who have not this Divine Love, do not realize who Jesus is, or how wonderful and glorious he is. This may seem strange to you, but it is a fact. Only when the spirit has an Awakening of their soul's Love for God, does Jesus appear as their great brother and teacher of this Great Divine Love of the Father.
You must not let the things of the Material Life lead you to think that you must wait until you come to the Spirit World to get this Great Love. For I tell you that the human whose soul is opened to the inflowing of this Divine Love while on Earth, is a much more fortunate human than they who waits until their Earthly Life ends. If I had only become conscious of this Divine Love when on Earth, I would have been saved many hours of suffering and unhappiness after I became a spirit. My own experience is so True to what so many undergo, and will undergo, that if I could proclaim to every human on Earth, the necessity of becoming possessed of this Divine Love while on Earth, I would do so with all my might and strength.
I can tell you of my experience in passing over. I do not think it best to do so tonight, as it would take too long, and require more strength than you have tonight. Sometime soon, I will do so in detail. I am so glad that I have been Redeemed by this Great Love, the teachings of Jesus, and the help of your spirit relatives, also by the help of your prayers, that I cannot express the extent of my gladness. Nothing in all Heaven, or Earth, can compare with the feelings of joy that come to a soul when it realizes that it is At-One with the Father in Divine Love and power.
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Yes, they know, and are with you every night as you pray. They do not seem to quite understand though, that you can help them in any way. Still they, in a manner, feel some peculiar sensation as you pray and the others pray with you. Do not stop praying for them.
I tell you that you are a wonderfully blessed man in having such a Loving Christian mother and grandmother to pray with and watch over you all your Life. If all humans had Christian parents to teach, and show, them the Way to this Divine Love of God, as they grow from childhood to humanhood, many a time of suffering and unhappiness would be avoided. Many a spirit would come into this Life with many less sins to atone for.
Your old friend, G. R. (Albert Riddle)
Effects of the Holy Spirit and Divine Love
March 3rd, 1915
I am here, Helen.
Well, was not that a wonderful message of the Master? It was so full of things that should make humans think, and work to get this Divine Love that he spoke of.
I am happy to say that I have It now to a considerable degree. The more I get of It, the happier I am. I thought that I was happy when I entered the Third Sphere, and more so in the Fifth, and then supremely so in the Seventh. But, really, I did not know what happiness was, until I got into my present home in the Celestial Heavens. I suppose, as I go higher, the Happiness of each succeeding progressive sphere will be so much greater than that from which I progressed.
Of course, the Master has been the Great Teacher, whose Love and power have helped me more than all the others. He is so wonderful in Love and wisdom that I almost adore him. Although, he says, that I must worship only God. I follow his directions.
My experiences here are so wonderful that I hardly realize what it all means. My time in the Spirit World has been so short. Yet, the wonderful Knowledge of Spiritual Truths and the Great Happiness that I have received, cause me to wonder in amazement that such things could be.
You have had a long writing tonight. I think I had better stop, so goodnight. Your Loving wife, Helen.
Effects of the Holy Spirit and Divine Love
March 9th, 1915
I am Jesus.
You are in condition to resume my message tonight.
I am in a condition of Divine Love that enables me to know that my Father's Divine Love is the only Love that can Redeem humankind and make them At-One with Him. So you must understand that this Divine Love is a Love that has no counterpart in all the Universe, and 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 any thing, 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 is 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 this Soul Development, and is 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, and 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, and 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 (Christ Spirit), 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.
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Yes, Paul is. 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.
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. I will be with you when you are in doubt, or trouble. I will keep you from relapsing into a state of unbelief, or of carelessness.
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If, as you say, they that 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 (Law of Compensation), as applied to the Natural human, as well as to everything else in Nature. But 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 for, 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.
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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.
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Yes, most assuredly, and 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.
Effects of the Holy Spirit and Divine Love
April 1st, 1915
I am here, Jesus.
I have been with you very much today, trying to cheer you with my Love and influence. You are much better than you were yesterday, or a few days past. Your soul is in a condition of development and Love that it has not been in for a long time. The Divine Love of the Father is with you, filling your soul to an extent that you can hardly realize, for It is a Love that knows no limitation, and is without bound or cessation. I am glad that you are experiencing this great inflowing of this Divine Love of The Father. With it will come a Faith that will make the Father seem very near to you.
Try to realize the Presence of this Great Love more and more. You will find a happiness that you have never before felt. A Great Peace will come to you that will make your worries disappear and leave you a free human. So my dear brother, let this confidence in The Father take possession of you. Believe that there is nothing that can separate you from this Great Love and Happiness.
I wanted to write this to you, so that you may know that the feelings and thoughts which you have are not the mere imaginings of your own mind, but the Real, True, and Substantial things that I tell you of.
Keep praying to the Father. His Divine Love will come to you in increasing abundance. With this Divine Love will come a wonderful Faith that will make Real, all the longings and aspirations of your soul, so that you will know that the Father has the Personality that I wrote you of a few nights ago.
I am pleased with you, and with your efforts to become a True Child of the Father and in Unison with Him, a recipient of His Favor and Mercy. Go not in the way of the wicked, nor associate with those whose thoughts are given to the evils of the Material Life, or to those things which are not approved of by the Father, or by His Higher Spirits who so often now come to you. I am with you. You have all my Love and help to enable you to become pure in heart, as you so often now pray you may become. Keep praying. You will find that this condition of soul will be yours. With it will come a realization that you have been Regenerated, and are At-One with the Father and His Divine Love. Your Blessings will be great. The Happiness that will come to you will be beyond all conception that you may now have of what happiness may be.
I must not write more now, but will say, only believe in me, and trust to the Father. All things that may be needful will be added unto you. You will not be forsaken, or left to your troubles, alone. I will be with you tonight and will try to write you another message, after you have received the messages from the dark spirits, who will come to you for help.
So with all my Love, and the blessings of an elder brother, I will say goodbye for the present. Your brother and friend, Jesus.
Effects of the Holy Spirit and Divine Love
August 29th, 1915
I am here, Jesus.
I was with you tonight. My spirit was in your heart to an extent that made you feel its presence, and caused you to suffer somewhat physically, but it was there to tell you that I was present and that my Love was helping you to get nearer the Father and His Divine Love.
I know that the people who were worshipping me were not doing what I approve of, or like, but their hearts were turned to God. While they were making me the object of their worship, yet the Holy Spirit of God was with them. The workings of the Holy Spirit were in the hearts of very many of them, showing them the Divine Love of the Father and the Divine Truth of His Salvation.
They, of course, are mistaken, when they talk about being saved by my blood, for my blood has nothing to do with their salvation. As they have been taught this, I cannot expect that they will know the Real Salvation, which the Father has provided for them. Sometime they will know that only the Divine Love of the Father saves from sin and error. That not any blood of mine, or death on the cross, can save them.
Notwithstanding this false belief, these people, in their prayers, actually aspire for the Divine Love of God. He knows the longings of their hearts and sends the Holy Spirit to fill them with this Divine Love, which makes them become very close to the Father, and makes them happy.
So, while, as I say, I don't like the worship of me, yet the Truth of God's Divine Love enters into their souls. They become At-One with Him, to the extent that such Divine Love enters their souls.
I know that to you, with your enlightenment, it appears that they are making a great mistake in worshipping me and believing that my blood saves them. Yet, you must understand, that while they make such mistakes, yet they are receiving the Divine Love and that it is working to Redeem them from their sins and evil lives. So let not this error in their belief make you think that I am not with them, or rather that the Christ Spirit is not with them, teaching them The Way to the Divine Love of the Father and to the Great Happiness which that Divine Love brings to them.
I know that the meeting did you great good and opened up your soul to the inflowing of this Divine Love, and consequently to a renewed Faith and trust, and renewed Love for the Father, and belief in me.
Let this Divine Love in you increase. Pray to the Father for more Faith in His Promises, and for a greater inflowing of His Divine Love. Very soon you will realize His Actual Presence in your soul to an extent that will make you know that you are One with Him in Divine Love, and in the possession of the Divine Essence, that will cause all doubt to leave you and give you a Faith in which no doubt will appear.
I am glad you went to this meeting tonight. I hope you will go again, for the influences attending it were helpful to you. Were from Above.
Soon, I will write again as I desire, if you will only pray more and trust more. You are thinking right. I will pray the Father for you. If you will only persist in your desires, and try to act in accordance with our prayers, you will succeed. The Father will hear your prayers and will help you to the fullest. In addition, I will be with you and help you with my power and Love. So do as I say, above all have Faith in the Father, and trust me.
I will not write more tonight, but will say that I will be with you during the week and will help you in your Spiritual efforts.
So with all my Love, I am, your friend and brother, Jesus.
Effects of the Holy Spirit and Divine Love
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. 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 Divine 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.
When the Divine Love enters into it (the soul by the Holy Spirit), and it (the soul) 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, 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 human's 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 Divine Love and Purity, and 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 and comes according to the susceptibility of the soul to receive this Divine Love, of which I speak. But 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, and 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.
Effects of the Holy Spirit and Divine Love
November 10th, 1916
Iam here, Jesus.
I come tonight to tell you that you are in a better condition than you were last night, and 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, and 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 longings. I mean prayer and longings for the Divine Love Itself. Not prayers in general, for the material benefits that human 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. But 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 (the soul), 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, and 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. But 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, and partakes of its very Nature and Substance, a being of Divinity.
When once this Divine Love enters, and Truly possesses the soul, and 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 Divine 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. Human is 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 Divine 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 themselves, 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 human's intellectual thinking, and 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 and 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. 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. The soul, which is the human, can never be separated from themselves. 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 human 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, and 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 (by God). The lost soul became again the object of human's recovery. Now they have that Privilege, as did the First Parents before the fall. But 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. But in this they are all wrong. For, while human was the Highest Creation of God, and the Most Perfect, and 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 human's 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 tonight. 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.
Effects of the Holy Spirit and Divine Love
January 9th, 1917
I am here, your grandmother.
Well, my dear son, it has been sometime since I wrote you. I feel that I must say a few words to you, as you are in a condition that needs some encouragement and sympathy.
I Love you, as you know. While I have not written you lately, yet, I have been with you a great deal, watching over you, trying to influence you with my Love, and powers of bringing to you Spiritual thoughts and soul's longings.
Now, I want to tell you a few things that may help you in your moments of worry.
When on Earth, as you know, I was nearly blind and deaf. In such condition as would naturally cause me to worry and be unhappy. But I did not worry, and was not unhappy. The secret was that I had in my soul the Divine Love of the Father. It was so real to me that no doubt of its existence in my soul ever came to cause me unhappiness. That Divine Love, I know, and assure you, is the same kind of Divine Love that now floods my whole being, and gives me the Happiness that I now possess. I remember that I did not have many material things to trouble me, for you looked after my material welfare and were always kind to me, and Loving. Nevertheless, if it had not been for the Divine Love that I speak of, I can readily see that I should have been very unhappy and worried a great deal, for my natural inclination was to worry when things did not go right, as we said.
So I tell you from actual experience, that all your worries, and by this I mean your causes of worry, may be taken from your conscious self, if you will only seek for, and obtain, which you certainly can do, this Divine Love of the Father. It is astonishing how efficacious it is to cause the worries and troubles to disappear. They, as you may know, are very largely a matter of the mind.While in a certain sense they are real, yet the mind, or its condition, is the real cause of the realization of the worries.
Consider for a moment the fact, and I know that you will agree with me that it is a fact, that the indulging in these worries does not in one particular remove the material causes of the worry, and does not in any manner bring relief from the troubles. No matter how much you may allow your mind to dwell on these things, and how intensely you may worry, the cause, the material cause, remains.
You may say, and it is natural to do so, that it is easy enough to advise that you should not let these inconvenient things cause you to worry, but when you come to the practical experience and are the sufferer from these conditions, it is not so easy to throw aside the effect of the troubles on the mind. Well, there is much Truth in that, but notwithstanding, this Divine Love that I tell you of, when Living in the soul, will make even that effort easy to accomplish.
The philosophy of the phenomenon, if you may call it such, is that this Divine Love is of such Real Substantial Essence (of God), that it takes control of the mind and eliminates the consciousness of the reality of the causes of the worry. Now I do not want to be understood as intending to convey the idea that these material causes are not real. I am not a Christian Scientist to that extent. What I do mean, is notwithstanding the real existence of these causes, the effects of this Divine Love, and the Faith that accompanies it, upon the mind, which is the real cause of the worry, is such, that forgetfulness of these causes of worry takes the place of the constant indulging in the thoughts of their existence, and the unhappy consequence that must flow from them. The cause itself is not removed, but the consciousness of their existence, for the time being, is dissipated. To the mind that is thus influenced by the Divine Love, these causes, are as if they were not. Of course, they are existing and facing you to some extent, but it will come to you that they are not so overwhelming and insurmountable as they would appear, were this Divine Love absent from the soul and its influence from the mind. In addition to this, Divine Love and Faith creates a confidence in the Power of the Father and His Willingness to Help, that engenders courage, which enables the possessor of this confidence to overcome these causes of worry that they would not otherwise be able to do.
What I have said may be called: The Philosophy of the Workings of this Divine Love in its effective destruction of worry. But the great fact is that the Father does, as a Truth, Help the one who is in the condition of being possessed with this Divine Love. His Divine Love is Real, and His Help is Real. The effect is to make the causes named, things of unreality, so far as the happiness of the object of this Help is concerned. As a Truth, shown by the experience of mortals, a very large proportion of the worries and troubles that harass and cause so much unhappiness to mortals is a thing of the imagination and never realized.
So my dear son, try to understand what I have written and apply it to your own condition. You will find that your worries are not near so great as you now think.
I know just what is facing you. But as you have been told by others who have written you, in a short time you will be relieved. The sun will again shine in your consciousness of existence. You will become in a much better condition to do your work, both that of your business, and that of the Master.
You must not for a moment think, that you will not be looked after, so that you can do, and complete the task that you have been selected to do. This is as certain as that the sun shines. While for a time yet, some disagreeable and disheartening things may confront you, yet it will not be a great while before they will become things of the past. You will be in condition to do this work without hindrance or interference.
So think of all that I have said. Try to believe and make a practical application of my philosophy. Above all pray to the Father for a greater inflowing of this Divine Love. Have Faith, to realize that it will become yours, limited only by your longings and sincerity of aspirations.
Well, I will come soon and write you a long letter on some Spiritual Truth that will be of interest to you.
I must stop now.So with all my Love, and the Father's Blessings, I will say goodnight, your loving Grandmother.
Effects of the Holy Spirit and Divine Love
January 6th, 1918
I am here, Jesus.
Well my brother, I am glad to tell you that your communion with the Father tonight has been responded to. His Divine Love has inflowed into your soul in great abundance. His Holy Spirit has been bringing the Divine Love in wonderful abundance. Your soul is now filled with it. The influence of this Great Love is working in your soul. You realize its Presence. If you will meditate, long for, and pray to the Father, as you have tonight, your soul will soon be so filled with this Divine Love that you will receive the Knowledge, that you have a near At-Onement with Him. You will be conscious of the possession of a part of His Divinity, of which we have written you. The Pentecostal Shower will come to you, as it did to my disciples in the days that followed my departing from them. I will be with you also, just as I was with them. Power and Essence Divine will be bestowed upon you, so that you will be able to display the marvelous Presence of this Divine Love, just as they were able. So you must pray and long.
Your experience tonight has given you some foretaste of what will come to you. There is nothing, in all the World, that can take the place of this Divine Love, in Its Power to draw you near to, and make you in At-Onement with the Father. All beliefs and faiths, in any and every other thing, will not suffice. Sacrifice and sorrow on account of sin, vicarious sufferings, and mediators, will not work the Transformation. Because it is solely a conjunction between this Divine Love and your soul that is capable of bringing you into this relationship to the Father, and the resultant consciousness that you have partaken of, and possess, to some extent, His Divine Nature in Divine Love.
Now you are in condition that makes my rapport with you complete. I have that possession of your brain that enables me to write as I may desire. I know that I could convey a (formal) message to you tonight in a most satisfactory way, but I will not do so. I think it best to permit the rapport to become a little more intense, and thus enable me to write a long message without the probability of tiring you. For as you know, these messages of Deep Divine Truths, such as the ones on the "Soul" and "God", necessarily cause me to draw very intensely on your brain power.
But soon now, I will come and commence to deliver my messages, and continue to do so if our rapport can be maintained. It can be, if you will only meditate and pray as you have done tonight. I have been with you very much today, entering into your thoughts and endeavoring to influence the longings of your soul. I was with you at the Spiritualist's meeting. Sometime I will write you in reference to the claims of the speaker, and the real facts, as to how much of what she said was inspired, or as she claims, was spoken through her by a controlling spirit.
I now want you to think more than ever of the importance of your work, and of the necessity for you putting all your energies and desires into the work. No one can conceive of what it means. Above all, you must realize its great importance, and the place that you occupy in carrying it to a successful issue.
I will be with you very often. I know that you will feel my presence and influence. As you do, turn all your thoughts to the Father's Divine Love, and let all your longings go to Him.
Tonight, I will not write more, but will soon write, as I have said. Have Faith, and know that you have been selected to do the work, and that upon you rests the responsibility that is upon no other human.
With my Love and the Father's Blessings, I will say goodnight. Your brother and friend, Jesus.
Effects of the Holy Spirit and Divine Love
November 13th, 1918
I am here, St. Stephen.
Let me write a few words tonight as I am one of the spirits whom your wife wrote of last night 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. 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. 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. 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. 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 human 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, and 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 (including Jesus). 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 Divine Nature with the Father, and 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 St. Stephen.
Effects of the Holy Spirit and Divine Love
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