LAW OF ATTRACTION

February 16th, 1916

I am here, Luke.

    Well do you think you can take my message tonight?  It looks like you may, at any rate we will try.

    As I was saying, "In what way is a human to obtain this development of the soul, in its natural love?"

    In the first place, they must recognize the fact that they do not live to themselves, alone.  That what they conceive to be the workings of their own mind and will, are not always the result of thoughts and desires that originate in them, but are largely the products of the influences of the workings of the minds of spirits, who are around them trying to impress them with their desires and wills.  Consequently, you will understand that it is very important to humans, as to what kind of spirit influences they have surrounding and working upon them.  If these influences are good, the better it is for their progress in the development of this natural love.  If they are evil influences, then, of course, such development is retarded.

    Consequently, the first thing for a human to do is to attempt to attract to themselves influences of the higher nature.  They can do so by trying to cultivate good thoughts and to indulge in good and moral acts.

    The great Law of Attraction, that we have written about, applies and works in such cases as this, as it does in every other relation of God's Universe.  If a human's thoughts are evil, there will always be attracted to them spirits (or humans) of similar thoughts.  When they come to them, they attempt to and succeed in intensifying these evil thoughts of theirs, which attract them, to them.

    It must emphatically be understood in this regard, that human may and often does originate their own thoughts and desires.  It is not necessary that any influence of these evil spirits should be present and operate upon their brain, or affections, in order that these evil thoughts and desires should come into existence.  Again, humans have a will power that is susceptible of being exercised, free from the wills of these evil spirits.  You will see how true this is, when you remember that they can exercise that will power, free and independent from the Will of God Himself.  So I say that these thoughts and desires may and do originate in human, free and independent of the wills, or influences, of these evil spirits.  As a fact, these spirits are attracted to them only when these thoughts that they have originated are evil.

    Now, if human would have this progress that I speak of, they should endeavor to have good, pure thoughts and desires.  Then they will attract to them spirits (and humans) who are good and pure.  Their influences will help them to a wonderful degree, in strengthening and increasing these thoughts.  Make it less and less likely that evil thoughts will arise in their brain, or evil desires in their affections.  As a consequence, their will power will be exercised in doing those things which are good and moral.

   Now, while human may originate these thoughts and desires, they must also know as a Truth, that this progress is not dependent upon themselves alone.  For when they are in that condition to attract the good spirits (or humans), they will invariably come to them and render their help.  It will prove to be a wonderful and never failing help.

    Now, human's thoughts and desires are not always, as may be supposed, the result of something that may be hidden within themselves.  Of which, they may not know its existence.  I mean, not in all cases and probably in only a minority of cases.  For most frequently, are these thoughts and desires, are the children of an objective influence, that come to them by reason of objects becoming sensible to their ordinary senses, which create, or suggest these thoughts, or desires.  Without going into details you will understand what I mean, but as a mere illustration:  a glass of whiskey may and does suggest to a human who likes whiskey, the thought and desire that they should take a drink.  Thereby, bring into operation their will, which is followed by the act of drinking.  So with many other objects which a human meets in the course of their daily life.  These thoughts and desires arise not only from seeing objects, but also from feeling and tasting them.

    Again, these objective suggestions, causing these thoughts and desires, arise and exist not only from the real object sensed, but also from words and thoughts which are expressed by other human beings in course of conversations, or in books and literature (or movies).  When they come in this way, they are frequently more effective than in any other.  Hence, as these objective words and thoughts enter the mind of human, they create similar thoughts.  Which frequently intensify and attract the evil spirits of like thoughts, with their degenerating influences.  Hence, the importance of a human avoiding companionship where such communications take place and the books and literature where these evil suggestions are made.

    It has been well said, that evil communications corrupt good manners.  I may add that such communications corrupt good thoughts, produce evil desires and retard the progress of the soul in its natural love.  For it must be remembered that this love is pure and free from all evil, or taint of defilement, when it is fully developed. Anything that tends to defile it, retards the progression of the soul in this particular.

    So the plain lesson to be drawn from all this is that human must, in the first place, make the effort to have only good, pure thoughts and desires from their inner self.  Next, they must avoid those objects and associations that tend to cause, to arise in them these evil thoughts.  Thirdly, they must learn the Truth, that when they have these evil thoughts, they attract to themselves spirits (or humans) of evil, who by their influence, can and do intensify these evil thoughts and desires.  I know, as regards this last mentioned Truth, that the majority of humans, have no knowledge of its existence.  But it is time that they should learn that such a danger to their soul's progression does exist and is always imminent.

    They should learn this other fact, that when their thoughts are pure and free from defilement, they have surrounding them the influence of good spirits, who work to increase and make permanent their good thoughts.  As these good thoughts continue, the natural love develops towards its pristine condition of Purity.  Human comes nearer to their designed condition of existence.

    So you will see from this, that as human's thoughts and desires become freed from these things that tend to defile them, they naturally progress toward that condition which is necessary, in order for them to have this development of the soul, in its natural love.

    Again, the development may be helped very much by human thinking and doing acts of charity, kindness and observing the Golden Rule.  For every act of charity, kindness and self sacrifice for the sake of others, has its reflex action in their own condition of love and soul.  Helps their development.

    In short, the observance by human of all the Moral Laws, which are many and varied, tends to bring about the development of the natural love.  This must be remembered, that as this development proceeds, the tendency to indulge in the perverted appetites of the flesh, as they are called, will disappear.  As it disappears, this love, of course, becomes purer, sweeter and brings human nearer to their State of Perfection.

    Again, the meditation upon spiritual things and the outflowing of this love towards the Father, will cause the progression.  For while all humans, as we have said, do not seek for the Divine Love, yet as all humans are Children of God.  He helps them to the full extent of their desires, towards happiness, the Perfecting of this love in its natural pure state.  With which, He endowed them at their Creation.  Upon their will and aspirations, depends the nature of the help which the Father gives to them.  Always He gives His Help and Blessings to the fullest.  His Great Desire is that human shall become Perfect, in that love which they possess and which they seek for.  The natural love, in its qualities, may become as Perfect in human, as may the Divine Love in its Qualities.  Each is just as much in Harmony with God's Universe, in its respective qualities, as is the other.

    So I say, human is helped, more than in any other way, by their meditations of the higher things of their being and by prayer and aspirations to the Father, who hears the prayers of the human who has only this natural love and answers them, just as He does the prayers of the human who has the Divine Love in their soul.

    Ultimately all sin and evil will be eradicated from the Universe.  Human, in their mere natural love, will become pure, Perfected and happy.

    I have tried in my inefficient way to show humans how they may progress in the development of their natural love. If they will follow my advice, they will succeed.  For as human, by the indulging of these perverted appetites of the flesh and the exercise of their will power, fell to a low degree of degeneracy, so they can, by ceasing to indulge in these perverted appetites and the exercise of that same will power, rise again to their condition of purity in their natural love.

    Besides, they have the help of the Father and the good angels in their efforts to recover.  Also, the experience of the result of their fall, which they may not be conscious of, but which in their inner self, has an existence and is continually working.

    Well my dear brother I must stop.  I feel that you have taken my message very successfully.  Read it over and correct errors of construction.  I will come soon and write again.

Your brother in Christ, Luke

November 26th, 1918

I am here, your own true and loving Helen:

    After I passed over, I saw that I must seek a way to communicate with you in my spirit existence.  You may not know, but it is a fact, that I was with you when you visited the mediums who informed you that you were a medium, being possessed of the gift of automatic writing.  I, having learned this fact from some of your spirit relatives, principally your father, impressed these mediums to tell you of the fact of your mediumship.  When, at last, you made the experiment, I was present with you and exerted all my powers, and had the help of other spirits, in making your experiment a success.  When you commenced to receive the messages, I cannot tell you how happy I was.  Thankful that the way was opened up that enabled me to tell you what, above everything else, I was so anxious to tell you.  If you will think for a moment of the nature of my communications, you will remember that the burden of all my messages was my love for you.  No matter how important other portions of the messages might be, yet in them was the continuous assurance that I loved you with all my heart and soul.

    There are various kinds of love existing between humans, also between spirits and humans.  Each having its source in different conditions of fact and in varying causes.  Of all these loves, only one is, or can, be the true and eternal one.  The love of husband and wife is a beautiful thing.  May exist during the life on earth and bring much happiness to its possessors, even though that love is temporary.  In the workings of the Law of Attraction in the spirit life, may entirely cease its existence and become forgotten.  So, I may state, will be the destiny of the paternal, maternal, brotherly and sisterly love.  All these are based upon causes, or conditions, that are merely temporary.  That is, may last during time and for a more or less longer period in eternity, but finally must end.

    These loves, as I understand, are provisions of God which are necessary to enable humankind to work out their progress through the human life, in the way that will produce the greatest Harmony and happiness among mortals, as they contend with the difficulties, cares and disappointments of the earth life.  In the spirit world there is no need for these loves, for a greater bond of affection is provided.  Is created, or brought into operation, by the Great Law of Attraction, which causes the merely personal relationship that may have existed between spirits when inhabiting the earthly forms, to cease, to be forgotten.  This Law of Attraction is based upon the condition of the soul, whether that soul possesses the development created by the Divine Love, or only that created by the purification of the natural love.

    In the early stages in the spirit life the conditions of the earth life may remain for a time.  Because the spirit's state of soul, desires and affections may continue to be as they were when on earth.  But as stagnation is not a quality of the soul in spirit life.  These things which may have bound the humans together in the relationship mentioned, do not long continue as they were, as there is no way of avoiding the workings of this Law and its results.  In order for this state to continue any great length of time, it would be necessary that all the spirits bound by these affections, or conditions, should remain without change in their souls.  That rarely happens.  For in our world the individual becomes the individual in fact.  The real is apparent.  Spirits see one another face to face.  Pretense, or effort to hide the true condition of love or affection, or want of the same, becomes futile.  So that, as is the real state (and condition) of the spirit, so is their relationship to other spirits.

    Again, this Law of Attraction operates in other directions than that of determining the mere affections.  For humans (spirits) mental conditions and aspirations are determining factors in establishing relationships among themselves.  When humans become spirits, they are at the time of transition, and for a longer or shorter period afterwards, the possessors of the same knowledge and aspirations as they were immediately preceding their passage.  With this difference:  that to a more or less extent, this knowledge and these aspirations, when in spirit life, are made apparent to others.  Not necessarily in words and professions, but by the power of seeing.  Which all but the very depraved spirits possess.  So that, pretense and dissembling being absent, or of no avail, these spirits, under the Law, attract those affections arising from their human relationships cease to bind these several spirits.  They obey the Law.  The temporary love has fulfilled its mission and object.  To continue to exist under the circumstances mentioned, would work injury and retardation to the progress of these spirits.  No matter what may be the nature, or cause, of that progress.

    Now, while what I have said is all true, yet there is another provision of the Father's Law, designed for the happiness of humans while mortals, that causes the love arising from the human relationship to continue with the spirit so long as the object of that love continues in the flesh.  No matter what the progress of that spirit may be, or what its attractions are, yet it continues to love the mortal during their earthly career.  To watch over and help them.  All this, even though this love, which once existed for other mortals in the same relationship, and who have passed to spirit life, may have ended and been forgotten.  This human love is subject to change and death.  Those of earth life who console themselves with the thought that when they pass to spirit life, they will meet their loved ones who have gone before, never to part again, will be disappointed.  But not long distressed.  For they will soon thereafter learn and experience the workings of the Great Law of Attraction.  In that experience will be happy.

    There is another and differing love.  Not of the temporal, but of the everlasting in its nature.  All humans have it.  Though probably unaware of the fact.  But which at some period, and this may be for some time, in eternity they will become conscious of.  Then never deprived of.  For it is the perfect fulfillment of this Law of Attraction.  I mean the soulmate love, of which I have written you so often.  It was born before any human appeared in the flesh.  Was a part of their very soul's Creation.  Of which they could never be deprived.  Though, so often, does it lie dormant in the souls and consciousness of humans.  I and others have written you as to how when the souls of humans were Created by the Father.  These souls were made male and female, though constituting only the one soul, two in one, the Perfect one.  With their Creation, was bestowed upon them a love, not two loves, but only one.  Which was possessed equally by each part of the complete soul.  Which will always remain one in its complete workings.  Although these two parts of the soul have to be, and are, separated in their incarnation in the human body.  Which incarnation is for the purpose of giving the male and the female parts of the one soul, a separate individuality.  Without severing, or disuniting, this love, which through all eternity binds together these two parts as one.

    The love, of which I have first spoken, is the love for time only.  The soulmate love is the love for all eternity.  This great love, which requires that at some stage in eternity these two parts of the one soul shall become one again, should be one of the most convincing proofs that all humans, sooner or later, will come into Harmony with the Will of the Father, and with the Laws Creating such souls.  The fundamental Law of the Universe is that all things shall come into Harmony with the Will of the Father.  As the hells and all that they comprehend are out of such Harmony, humans may believe that in the ultimate working out of this Law.  No soul will remain in the hells, or in the condition or state of existence that primarily makes the hells.  But that all souls, in their perfected union, will become inhabitants of either the Spiritual, or the Celestial heavens.  Further, I must say, as you have been told before, that this soulmate love is the only love that can have a separate and individual existence in the Celestial Heavens, where the Divine Love exists to the exclusion of every other love, save the soulmate love.  The more the spirits, the united two in one, possess the Divine Love, the greater will be their possession of this soulmate love.

    As you know, I am your soulmate and come to you so often in my love.  You realize the fact and respond.  At times are very happy.  You have experienced, on several occasions, the depth and yearnings of my love, to such an extent that your soul has come to me in my spirit world and enjoyed moments of unspeakable bliss.  As you may not know, left me with protestations against its return to your mortal body.  If my love had not been wise, as well as intense and wonderfully absorbing, your protests would have been heeded and you would have remained with me to enjoy the happiness which can be yours only when you come to the spirit world to find your home everlasting.

    It has been said that the human in love is a fool.  That may be true in regard to the merely human love.  But as to this soulmate love, the more of it we possess the wiser we become and correspondingly happy.

    I cannot tell you the depth, height and wonders of my love.  Only say that it fulfills, to the uttermost, the Great Law of Attraction.  There is nothing, save the Divine Love, in all the Universe of being that can excel it, or take its place, or make two souls so united that even death cannot sever it.

    I will be with you as long as you continue to live on earth, in all the fullness of my love.  When the time of your passing comes, I will be present.  So much love will be around you, that you will forget the dying and the awakening.  Know only that your soulmate is with you, telling you of love, happiness and the beauties of the life that will be yours.  Showing you, to a large degree, how splendid and heavenly this love can make a spirit that possesses the Divine Love also.

    Well dear, "Baby" is here and says she has read what I have written and is so glad that you have me for your soulmate.  She is very happy and is growing all the time in beauty and in the possession of the Father's Divine Love.  So wants you to seek more and more for this Divine Love.  Says, "How rich Daddy is to have the soulmate love of my beautiful mother and the certainty of the Great Love of the Father, if he will only seek for it.  In addition, which may not count for much, he has the love of his own Baby, who is now so happy."

    And Mary says that I must not neglect to say that she is here also, and has read my message with great pleasure.  Wants me to tell the Dr. that if he will only substitute himself in your place, and her in my place, and read the letter, he will know something of her love for him.  That he is her soulmate and can never be another's.  She is with him so very often trying to impress him with her presence and love.

Well dear, you have written a great deal and I will stop.  I am so glad that I could write.

Good night, my dear Ned.

Your own true and loving, Helen