LAW OF ATTRACTION

The Spiritual Law of Attraction is that a like quality of mind and soul attracts a like quality of mind and soul. 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.

Law of Attraction

March 29th, 1915
I am here, Helen.

Well, you have received a letter from the Judge. He was so anxious to write that we thought it would do him good to try as it would make him realize more sensibly that he is now a spirit only, and also strengthen him. Well, you may not think so but it is a fact. With many spirits, when their surroundings are good and much spirit help is given them, they can almost, as soon as they leave the body, overcome their functions of mind and do things that you little expect. The Judge was prepared, to some extent, to understand this power of communication. When we all assisted him with our powers, he tried successfully to write to you. He is not yet very strong, but soon will be. Then, I have no doubt he will want to write to you often. Of course we cannot permit him to, because he is not in rapport with our band. He has not very much Spiritual Development. The conditions that surround him are not such as would be in accord with our conditions. Hence, we will have to refuse to let him write very often. He can communicate through some of us.

Well, he is dark in appearance, as he necessarily must be, until he gets more Enlightenment of Soul. He will undoubtedly suffer because of the sins he committed when on Earth, and will pay the penalty, until he finds the True Way to God's Divine Love and Forgiveness. Of course, he has one advantage over many spirits who come over bringing the results of their Life on Earth, and that is that he has some idea as to the Way to Salvation. You and Dr. Stone told him, when on Earth, that he must turn his thoughts to Spiritual Things. While he did not understand just what you meant, yet, such advice had some influence on him and will cause him to try to learn what was meant. Having Rose and the rest of us to enlighten him, he will progress more rapidly to these Higher Things. The more rapid his progress the sooner his suffering will leave him.

He is now commencing to realize that as he sowed, so must he reap. While Rose is with him a great deal, and loves him and tries to help him, all that isn't sufficient to prevent his memory from scourging him because of the Life he led on Earth. We all pray for him and try to show him the Way. He is ready to believe, and is commencing already to pray to the Father. So you see you must all, sooner or later, face this great crises. The better prepared you are to meet it; the less will be your sufferings and the more happiness you will experience.
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Yes, it was Lerna. She is very unhappy. I had never met her before. Your mother said that she had not either. You see in this World family ties do not always bring spirits together. When the relationship is distant, the spirits loose interest in relations merely because they are relations, and find themselves attracted to spirits who have like qualities and relations.

This relationship counts for very little in the Spirit World, of itself. When we meet our loved ones of Earth, before they come over, we stay with them for a while. Then if there are no other attractions than mere relationship, we gradually separate. This is the Law of Attraction. We are compelled to obey it. So that when on Earth, mortals sing of meeting again on the other shore to part no more, they will find that they are mistaken. They will meet, but unless conditions compel it, they will part again and may never meet ever in the Spirit World.

Love is the thing, which determines the relationship, and place of living in this World. I mean similar Loves existing between spirits. No spirit Loves another after a little while merely because that other is a mother, father, wife, or brother, but Loves it because that spirit has a similar Love of the Beautiful and True that it has. So you see relationship after the first meeting and living together a little while determines nothing. Of course, while the child, father, mother, sister, or brother, remains in the Earth Life, the spirit relative will Love them, watch over them, and try to help them in every way. Especially will the mother. Also, ties among son or daughter. This is in accordance with the material Law of Love. When that father, or son, too, becomes a spirit, then the Law of Love, as it were, changes. Like loves like, be there a natural relationship, or not. This, I know, seems contrary to what mortals usually believe and accept as a fact, but it is True.

When my children come over my Love for them will not be the same as it is now. Then they will find that their Love, will probably after a time, turn elsewhere. It will be only another in memory, for our Loves may take entirely different directions. This Love, while for the moment, may take entirely different directions. This Love, while for the moment, may seem unnatural in its workings. Yet it is not. Happiness comes with Love reciprocated. Love comes only reciprocate of its own kind.

We do not think that you will be forever with your children, parents, or any other relative, forever. For that may not be so. If that relative has like Attractions that you have, then you may be together as long as that Attraction lasts. But suppose that you make greater progress in your Spiritual, or even in your natural development, than the other spirit, it cannot be supposed for a moment that you will determine the results of your development in order to stay with that other spirit. No, that would be a violation of the Law of Progress. You could not, and would not, want to delay your upward movement.

So the idea that when we meet in the Spirit World we meet to part no more, is not correct, and is contrary to the Laws that determine the condition and place of habitation of spirits.

I know this of my own experience. My parents are in a lower sphere than I am, and have much less Spiritual Development. While I visit them sometimes, yet they have not the Attraction for me that other spirits to whom I have no relationship. Why is this? Not because I do not care for my parents as such, but because the objects and extent of their Loves are different from mine.

The main fact that they are my parents does not cause me to want to be with them all the time. I could not so desire, if, as you might say, I wanted to. Love is the Attraction. Love must demand a likeness in a Spiritual sense of the objects of its Love.

The time may come when I will never again see my parents, and may forget that they ever had an existence. I say may, but I hope not, for I desire that sometime they will progress so that they may be a similar condition to my own in Spiritual Development. Then, of course, we will live in the same place. Necessity will meet and enjoy one another's company. Not because we are parents and daughter, but because our Loves are similar and our Attractions are like.

This is a matter that few mortals understand. It may well be that they do not, because the Love existing between many relative is a beautiful thing, and one that causes much happiness and self-preservation. There is nothing on Earth like the Mother's Love. No provision of God's Blessings for mortals, equals this great gift of Mother's Love, and so with the other Natural Loves, to a lesser degree. As Jesus said, "He that doeth the Will of my Father is my mother, brother, and sister". So you must realize that what you and the Natural Love of relations is only for the Earth Life, and a short time afterwards. Each individual is in, and of, themselves, a complete unit, depending not on relationship to others. As such must find their place in the Great Eternity, which must be determined by the development and progress of their own soul, in expectation of what may become of the souls of their Earth relations. They are Attracted only by souls of similar development, and will find their home, in the company of such souls, irrespective of the question of natural relationship.

I have written enough for tonight and must stop. So with all my Love, I am, your own True and Loving, Helen.

Law of Attraction

November 13th, 1915
I am here, Helen.

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Yes, I was there and enjoyed the show. The pictures contain a very important Truth that all women should understand and appreciate. For so many refuse to become mothers and perform the duties that God intends them to perform. I have no doubt that the pictures will have a good effect on many of them and make them think before resorting to that means of getting rid of the unborn babies.

In my investigation of the subject of babies who have come to the Spirit World as a result of abortion, I do not find that they ever go back to their Earth mothers for any purpose whatever. There are spirits who are specially designated to take care of babies. In cases where the natural mothers have succeeded in cutting short the lives of these babies, these spirits who have charge of these babies in the Spirit World never permit these babies to come in contact with their unnatural mothers, or visit them. This because the Mother's Love is not there to receive these poor little waifs. Where there is no Mother's Love, there is no Attraction existing that will cause the return of the babies when they have once left their mothers.

But in the case of babies who prematurely die, or of those who die very young, these babies do return to their mothers, under the guidance of their guardian spirits, and receive from their mothers their Love and feelings which are going forth to these babies.
The Law of Attraction operates here, as well as in other matters. This is the Law of Attraction in reference to babies who die early. When there is existing a Mother's Love, the baby will return and receive this Love and help from coming in contact with such mother. When there is no Mother's Love, there is no Attraction. The baby may never know its mother. In many cases, the baby, before the mother comes to the Spirit World, finds other Attractions. Hence, there is no feeling of Love or sympathy between the baby and its mother. It frequently happens that when the mother comes into the Spirit World, she finds the spirit of the unborn baby and in a way has a uniting, but rarely is this Love strong enough to keep them together. The Law of Attraction separates them. Then each goes their own way.
I will not write more. Your own True and Loving, Helen.

Law of Attraction

December 17th, 1915.

Let me write a few lines, as I desire to write you some Truths about what you and your friend were discussing. Namely, are there any such hells as are described in the messages contained in the book that you have been reading tonight.

Well, you must know that in the Spirit Planes, hell is a place, as well as a condition. That as a place, it has all the accompaniments that make it a reality to the spirits who inhabit it. Of course, the conditions of the spirits who are in these hells are determined by their recollections worked upon by their consciences.

Notwithstanding that these recollections, are the things that cause their sufferings. Yet, the appearances of the locations in which they live are due to something more than these mere recollections. For as you have been informed, all these spirits are in darkness. The degree of the darkness in which they live being determined by their recollections. I mean that when the spirit has recollections of deeds done, or not done, which are not so bad as the recollections of another, the former spirit is in a place where there is less darkness than the latter. These places have their own fixed condition of darkness and of gloom, and many other attachments, which increase the sufferings that spirits have to endure. There are, of course, no fires and brimstone lakes, and devils with pitchforks adding to the sufferings of the spirits. Yet, there are certain conditions and appearances which are outside of the spirits themselves, which causes their recollections to become more acute and to work in a manner to produce a greater degree of suffering.

These hells may be places of caverns, rocks, barren wastes, dark holes and other such things as have been written about. Mortals must know that evil spirits do not live in pleasant places. Suffer only from the punishments which their recollections bring to them.
While the hells of the orthodox are, in their descriptions greatly exaggerated, yet there is some Truth in the ideas, which these descriptions convey, as to the fact that the hells are places in which are darkness. And many accompanying appearances that add to the tortures of the spirits of evil.

I tell you this because I see you want to know the Truth. For the further reason that you do not believe that there are such distinctive places as the hells. And, that the darkness which the spirits in their communications to you speak of, is, in your opinion, produced by the conditions of the minds and souls of the spirits who write. Such opinion is not altogether correct. It is best for humans to know, that the mere recollections do not include all of what the hells are.
You say you have your hells on Earth. Sometimes, that is True, to a limited extent. Many humans suffer very much from their consciences and remorse. But when they come into the Spirit World, if they have not gotten out of the condition which these recollections and remorse place them in, they will find that there is waiting them that place, or location, which will add to their sufferings that arise from the recollections of evil deeds committed while on Earth. These evil spirits live in communities. For the Law of Attraction operates in these dark and lower planes, just as it does in the Higher Spheres. Causes spirits of like, or similar, conditions to congregate together and find consolation, or what they may at times think to be consolation, in one another's company.

These hells are on the planes nearest the Earth. These spirits are not confined all the time to any particular hell. They have the privilege of moving at will along this plane. But wherever they go, they find that they are in these hells. They cannot escape from them. Unless, they accept the help from spirits who can instruct them what they must do.
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Well, when they come to you to write they are not very far from these hells, because the plane in which they live is a part of the plane in which the inhabitants of Earth live. Of course, I don't mean to say that, that portion of the Earth Plane that surrounds your Earth is composed entirely of these hells. For that is not True. As the Earth Sphere has in it considerable light and some happiness. You must further remember that there are many planes in this Earth Plane.

These spirits, while their habitations are in these hells, have the privilege of leaving these particular localities and wandering for a short time in, and over, other parts of this Earth Plane. This is only for a short time. They have to return to the places where they have been placed. Which this Law of Attraction that I speak of draws them to.

Well, there are thousands of millions of evil spirits. There is never a time when some of them, thousands of them, are not surrounding and trying to use their bad influences on mortals. We do not know why this is permitted; only know that it is so. Here again the Great Law of Attraction operates. For many mortals are in similar conditions of development and evil thoughts to what these evil spirits are. Naturally, these evil spirits are drawn to them and do come to them. Frequently it happens that while visiting these mortals of similar conditions to their own, they attempt to influence mortals who are in a better state of moral and spiritual condition. Sometimes succeed in doing them harm. The great fact is; that these evil spirits have a place of living, where they have to remain, until by the operation of the Law of Compensation they are relieved from some of their evil tendencies and desires, when they are permitted to progress.

My principal reason in writing you is to have you know that there are hells of places as well as of conditions. That these places, by reason of what they contain and their appearances, add to the suffering of the spirits.
As I have written a long time I will stop, and say that I am a Christian and an inhabitant of the Celestial Spheres. One of the spirit band that is helping you in your great work of the Master.

So in leaving you I will subscribe myself, your brother in Christ, Swedenborg the Seer.

Law of Attraction

January 3rd, 1916
I am here, Jesus.

I am with you tonight to warn you against letting any doubt enter your mind, or heart, as to our actually writing to you. For we, and none other, are actually in communication with you.

The book that you read is a snare and a lie. There are no angels who have become devils, as the author of that book declares. Never were there any angels, who through ambition or any other reason, revolted against the power of government of God, and thereby lost their estate as angels. Never was there any Lucifer. Never were there any angels who were thrown from the battlements of heaven into hell, as it has been written. As I told you before, there are no devils, and no satan, considered as real persons and fallen angels.

The only spirits in the Spirit World are those who at one time were mortals and who lived lives on Earth, shorter or longer. Whenever angels are mentioned in the Bible, or rather in the New Testament, in places, which contain my sayings, or those of the apostles, I mean those sayings, which were actually said, the word angel always refers to the spirit of some mortal who had passed the line between Life and death, as commonly understood.

I desire to tell you of these things at large very soon. To instruct you as to who were the Angels of God that are supposed to have had an existence prior to the Creation of human, and of the World. Who the inhabitants of Heaven were before the Spirit of God entered into human and caused them to become a living soul, as the Bible says. The time is not yet ripe for me to instruct you in these matters, because there are so many more Important Truths to be first taught you. Divine Truths, which are vital to humans salvation and happiness to those on Earth, and in the Spirit World.

This you must believe that no devils ever write you, or in any manner manifest to, or through, any of the numerous mediums who are used to show the existence of spirits of humans in the Spirit World. No matter whether these mediums be good, or evil.

There are spirits of all kinds, just as there are mortals of all kinds, having all the traits and characteristics of mortals. Some of these spirits may be justly called wicked or evil spirits, even devils. They are nothing more, or less, than spirits such as I describe.

I know that the belief of the majority of humankind is that there are such things as devils, and that they are independent creations of God, made by Him to tempt and inflict all kind of trouble and unhappiness on mortals. Because of the great number of years that these beliefs have existed, and the fact that many of the churches still teach that such devils do exist, and are at all times trying to tempt and injure humans; it is hard, and will be difficult, to induce humans to believe that there are no such things as devils. Which is the Truth.
I know that the Bible, in many places, speaks of my casting devils out of humans, and of humans being possessed of devils. Of the apostles casting out devils, and of their not being able to cast out some of these devils. I tell you now that the Bible is all wrong in this regard. The writers and translators of the Bible never understood what the word devil, as used in these various instances, meant, or was intended to mean. As I have told you, there was never any devil, or devils, in the sense mentioned and taught by the churches. Consequently, they never could have possessed mortals nor have been cast out of them.

It is True, that by the workings of the Law of Attraction, and the susceptibility of mortals to the influence of spirit powers, mortals may become obsessed by the spirits of evil. That is, evil spirits of humans who once lived on Earth. This obsession may become so complete and powerful, that the living mortal may lose all power to resist this influence of the evil spirits, and may be compelled to do things that the mortal will not desire to do, and to show all the evidence of a distorted mind. Present appearances of a lost will power, as well as of the ability to exercise the ordinary powers given them by their Natural Creation.

In these instances referred to, of casting out devils, wherever they occurred, and they did occur in some of the instances mentioned, the only devils that existed were the evil spirits who had possessed these mortals.
This obsession obtains today, just as it did then. For the same Laws are in operation now, as were in existence then. Many a human is in a condition of evil Life and disturbed mind from the obsession of these evil spirits. If there were any humans of today in that condition of Soul Development and belief that my disciples were in, they could cast out these so called devils, just as the disciples cast them out in the Bible days. Humans have not this Faith. Though, there are many who have been blessed with the inflowing of the Holy Spirit. They have not the belief that such work as the disciples performed can be performed by them now. In fact, the most of them believe that it would be contrary to God's Will to attempt to exercise such powers. Hence, they never attempt to do such work. When humans learn, that in all ages, God is the same. That His Laws work the same way. That humankind is the same, so far as the soul's possibilities are concerned. That the Faith, which God made possible for human to attain to, may be possessed by them now, just as it was possessed by my disciples, then they will attempt this work of beneficence, and will succeed. The sick will be healed. The devils cast out. The blind made to see, and the deaf to hear. The so-called miracles will be performed as they were in my days on Earth.

There is not, and never was, such a thing as a miracle, in the sense of having an effect produced by a cause which was not the result of the ordinary workings of God's Laws. For these Laws, in their workings, never vary. When the same Law is called into operation, upon the same condition of facts, the same results will always be produced.

So, let a mortal have in their soul the same amount of God's Divine Love, which the Bible writers meant, or should have meant, when they spoke of being endowed by the Holy Ghost. Let them have the necessary Faith, that when they pray to God, He will give them the power to exercise this Divine Love, in a sufficient degree, to produce the desired results. Then try to exercise the power of casting out devils, or healing, etc. They will find that success will attend their efforts. God is the same, at all times, and under all circumstances. Only mortals vary in their conceptions and conditions.

So I say, there are no devils as independent creatures of God, in contradistinction to the spirits of humans who once lived on Earth. You must believe that there are not.
I tell you now, that the teachers of such false doctrines will have to pay the penalties for their false teachings when they come to the Spirit World, and see the result of these false teachings. No relief will be granted until they have paid the last farthing. To believe such doctrines entails results that are bad enough for any spirit to endure, but to teach others these beliefs, and convince them of their truth, entails upon the teacher, whether they actually believe them, or not, sufferings, and duration of sufferings, of which humans have no conception.

I will not write more tonight. I will in closing, say that you have my Love and blessings. My promises I will fulfill, so that you will realize your expectations and be in condition to perform the work that you have been selected to do.
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Well, you let doubt come into your mind. As a consequence your soul does not respond, although, strange as it may seem, the Divine Love is there. When this mental doubt exists, it is as if it were a covering, which prevents the existence of the Divine Love in the soul to shine forth and produce the great feeling of happiness and joy, which otherwise you might experience. The mental condition of the mortal, undoubtedly, has a great influence on the consciousness of the human, as to their possession of this Soul Development, and the Divine Love. Consequently, there will have to be this continuous fight, as long as Life lasts on Earth, between the mental conditions and the soul's consciousness. As the mental beliefs are brought into Harmony with the soul's condition, more and more the fight will grow weaker and less frequent. It is possible that they will cease altogether. The mental beliefs become entirely and absolutely subordinated, or rather absorbed, in the soul's consciousness of its being possessed of this Divine Love of the Father.

So my dear brother, I will say goodnight. Your brother and friend, Jesus.

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 human 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 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, human has 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 who are good and pure. Their influences will help them to a wonderful degree, in strengthening and increasing these thoughts, and 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, 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, and 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 comes 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. 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. And 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 (and movies, etc). 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, literature, and movies 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 Natural Love is Pure, 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 (the soul). 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 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. 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 and 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, and 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 Natural Love, of course, becomes purer and sweeter, and brings human nearer to their State of Perfection (as Created).

Again, the meditation upon Spiritual Things, the outflowing of this Natural 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, and the Perfecting of this Natural Love in its Natural Pure State. With which, He endowed them at their Creation. Upon their will, and aspirations, depend the nature of the help, which the Father gives to them. Always He gives His Help and Blessings, and to the fullest. His Great Desire is; that human shall become Perfect in that Natural 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, and 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.

Law of Attraction

March 15th, 1916
I am here, Prof. Salyards.

Well, I was telling you of the object of human's Life on Earth, and the necessity for their doing certain things, in a general way, in order to bring to Humankind the happiness, which might be theirs, while on Earth. Now I desire to go a little in detail with reference to these matters.

As has been written you before there is only One Way in which human can attain to the Supreme Happiness, which the Father in His Goodness has made possible for human to attain to. Which, when once obtained, can never be taken from them.

But there is also another kind of happiness, which is not, in either its nature, or results, the same as that which I have just referred to. Human may obtain it, in a way, and by a method, which are different from those which are necessary to obtain the first kind.
Human was originally Created Good, Pure and Happy. Only by their disobedience did they lose these qualities. Which when lost, finally made them approach, somewhat, the likeness of the lower animal. Although, the latter is probably not as unhappy as human became by their fall from the state of the High Condition of their Creation. When in their Original State they were happy, in what we call, and what was, their Natural Love, and which they fully possessed, and needed nothing additional to make them happy. This condition made humans their own master, as it were. The Father's Divine Love was not necessary to develop them more, as mere human, than they then existed. They were Pure, free from sin, and in Perfect Harmony with God's Laws governing their Creation. After the disobedience, they lost this Harmony. In doing so lost also the power to preserve in themselves, the happiness which was theirs by Right of Creation. They also soon realized that as this power left them, their dependence upon themselves became less and less effective to keep them in a condition of purity and contentment. As a consequence, they became less than Perfect Human. Has been such, ever since that time.

Now with the other qualities that were given them at the time of their Creation, there was, and is, one that they have never been deprived of. One that they have never realized. Their inability to exercise, although they so often exercise it wrongly. That is; the will. Which is the greatest of the natural attributes that human possesses. For even God will not attempt to control that. I mean in the way of compelling. This quality is the one, that more often than any other, will help human to again attain to that state, or condition, in which they were the Perfect Human. While this is True, yet it is also one of the greatest obstacles to attaining to that state. Upon human themselves, very largely, depends the success of their regaining their Pristine Purity and Harmony with the Laws that govern their Being. They must understand this fact. For if they should believe, and rest in the belief, that other humans, or other instruments controlled by humans, can rescue them from their present condition of inharmony and unhappiness, they will be disappointed. Their salvation will be a long time delayed. The exercise of this will power, in the proper direction, will depend upon other things that they must possess, in order to insure their return to their First Estate. Among these, are the necessity for their obtaining knowledge that will enable them to know themselves, and the relationship of themselves, to what is True and Good. This knowledge will come to them as they examine themselves and learn the difference between right and wrong. This I mean in its general sense. For right and wrong mean Harmony, or inharmony, with the Laws of which I speak. Not right and wrong according to the several circumstances of humans. For these differ. What may be right, or wrong, to one human, will not be to another. Human, by proper contemplation and observation, may learn the difference between right and wrong, in the sense in which I use the terms. Be enabled to embrace, or avoid, those deeds, or thoughts, that come within one category or the other.

Again, they must realize that there is such a thing as the Natural Love being a part of them. A thing, which may be possessed and cultivated, to such a High Degree, that all humans will be brothers to them. The Children of One Common Father, who has Love and Care for all alike, who are content to remain the mere human.
Again, they must realize that they have a Father in God their Creator, and that, that Father has a Love for them, which will always bring to them happiness and peace, if they will only respond with their own Love. For human must have an object of worship and adoration, even when they possess only the Natural Love. They must learn that their Love must go out to the Father, in Faith and confidence. There are many other things that they may learn by contemplation and meditation, as I have said.

Many qualities that are desirable will flow to human from the knowledge that there is a Father who Loves them, and that they have, or may have, a Love for that Father, and also for their fellow humans. In fact, from these two subjects of Knowledge, everything else may come to human that will make them the Perfect Human, in Harmony with the Laws of their Creation, a Pure, happy and contented Creature.

Now, when human obtains this Knowledge, and here observe the distinction between Knowledge of these things, and the possession of them, they will naturally try to obtain all that Knowledge shows them, may become theirs to possess. Then will come into operation the great will power. By its exercise, there is nothing that can prevent them from arriving at the goal of their desires. In this way, one can, in a sense, be their own redeemer. They will find the struggle hard, and the obstacles to be overcome, many and repelling.

There are many mortals who have a wonderful development of this Natural Love, notwithstanding the fact that they are living in sin and in inharmony with the Laws that I speak of. Who will find, from that fact alone, that their progress will be more rapid and easy when they come to the Spirit World, on their journey to the State of Perfect Human. I do not believe that any mortal can ever attain to this condition while in the Earth Life. But they can lay the foundation for a rapid progress after they become a spirit. The temptations and desires that beset them as a mortal, at this time, are so great, that rarely can they become again, that Perfect Human while on Earth. The time will come, I believe, when humans will become Perfect, even while on Earth. In this I have reference to their Natural Love merely, while, as I say, for human to obtain this State of Perfection, they must depend upon themselves to a very large degree. Yet, it will be comforting to them to know, that there are hosts of spirit friends who are with them, trying to help them to obtain the Knowledge of which I have spoken. In their contemplations and meditations, they are with them. Suggesting to them, and impressing on them, the thoughts of Truth, that help them very much to understand the right from the wrong. They also sustain them, in some degree, in the exercise of their will in the right direction.

So from this, it must become apparent to humans, that a very important thing in the determination of this great problem, as to what is right and what is wrong, is the kind of associates that they may have. This applies to the mortal, as well as spirit companions. Human must know this; that as their desires and appetites on Earth, attract to them companions of similar desires and appetites. So also, does the same Law of Attraction operate in the case of their spirit friends.

Now, in all this, I have no reference to the Redemption of Human by the possession of the Divine Love of the Father. For such Redemption, and its Way of saving human, are altogether different, from those of redeeming them in their Natural Love. In the one case, when they have found the goal of their desires, they become a merely Perfect Human, and nothing more. In the other case, they become an Angel of God, Divine is their Nature, with no limitation to the progress that they may obtain, and the Happiness that may become their.
Oh, human! Why will you be satisfied to become merely a Perfect Human, when you may become a Divine Angel of the Father's Kingdom, with Immortality assured?
Humans may not know it, but it is a fact, that it is easier, and The Way is shorter, to become a Divine Angel, than to become a Perfect Human.

So my advice to all humans is; and I speak what I do know, from a Knowledge that comes to me from experience and possession: To seek for the Divine Love of the Father with all their strength and efforts. Then they will become not only the Perfect Human, but will obtain that which our First Parents never obtained, but which was theirs for the proper seeking, as it is all humans.

I have written enough for tonight, and will close.Your old friend, professor, and brother in Christ, Joseph H. Salyards.

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December 10th, 1917
I am here, his mother, Priscilla Stone

I am here, the mother of Leslie R. Stone. I very much desire to write a few lines, as I feel that he would like to hear from me and receive an expression of my Love.
Well, in the first place, I desire to tell him that I am progressing. I am in a sphere that is so beautiful and full of the Father's Divine Love that for me to attempt to describe it, would result only in failure. But when I tell him that my happiness is so very great, that even I, at a very recent time, when in what I thought was the acme of happiness, had no conception of what happiness meant as compared to what I now possess.

All this is so wonderful to me, that it is difficult, even for a soul that is filled with this Divine Love, to conceive what the Divine Love of the Father in its fullness can be. The great thing of wonderment is that as we progress we realize that it is impossible to comprehend the heights and depths of this Great Love.

When on Earth, and I read that "God is Love", I had not a faint idea even of what the expression meant. For, as you must know, my conception of Love was based largely on what I knew, or thought, the Human Love was, such as, my Love for my children, which was, to me, the greatest expression of Love. As I say, this Love is not even a faint shadow of what the Divine Love of the Father is. The great beauty of it all is; that while this Divine Love is always the same, yet in Seeking and obtaining It, I find that more and more is waiting for me. We know of no cessation of progress, and are never satisfied. Yet never unhappy, because we realize that we are not the possessor of it in all its fullness. No, our Happiness is in proportion to the amount of Divine Love that we possess, for the time, that Divine Love is sufficient for our complete happiness. I do not know that mortals can fully understand this. Because, as you may know, when mortals are seeking the Natural Love of another, and desire more and more of it, and they are happy in its possession, yet at the same time they have some pain, or unhappiness, because they do not have all the Love that their desires ask for.

Well, this is not the condition of us who have and seek this Divine Love. For It, of Itself, seems to have the Quality of causing Complete Perfect Happiness, without taking from us the desire and longings for more. I doubt that any of your philosophers can explain this apparent inconsistency, because they have nothing on Earth to which they can make a comparison. A mortal who is satisfied with the Natural Love that they may have on Earth, has not the longings for more. When they have the longings, they are not wholly happy in the enjoyment of that which they possess. The same Principle applies to the possession and longings of mortals for everything else of the natural, or Material. Ambitions for fame, power, position, the accumulation of wealth, and the Love of a woman, or man, are all subject to this Law of the accompaniment of pain and unhappiness. So you may, in a short way, understand what Great Qualities the Divine Love has in its operations. How it differs from the mere Natural Love.

Well, my boy will think I am somewhat of a philosopher and have changed from my course of thought while on Earth. So I have. He (Dr. Stone) must not be surprised to know, that as I receive the Great Love in my soul in increased abundance, there comes with it a Knowledge of Law, Principles, and the Relationship, of things that I have never studied, or attempted to acquire by study. This is one of the surprising results of the obtaining of this Divine Love. It seems to have in it, as a part of Its Qualities; Knowledge, Wisdom, and Understanding that is not dependent upon the mind, or intellect, of the natural human. Which is a part of the mind of the soul, that is developed, as the soul is developed in Divine Love. I thought I would write in this way tonight, that Leslie may, in a faint way, comprehend what the progress of his mother means and comprehend. With Love there can be no ignorance, for Love is, of itself, wisdom, knowledge, and understanding. From all this you will see that the mortals, whose ambition is, that when they get into the Spirit World they will have the opportunity to pursue the studies which they Loved on Earth, and that during all the long Eternity, there will be no cessation of opportunity to gratify their ambition. I say, you will see that these mortals will find themselves very poor indeed, as compared with those whose ambition is to obtain the Divine Love, which brings with it all these things, and others, greater, and beyond conception of knowledge that these mortals can possibly have.

Well, I will not write further on this subject tonight, but sometime, if it pleases you, I will come and write my boy a regular thesis upon some Spiritual Truth that may interest him very much.

I heard him tell of his experience of a few nights ago, in going out of his body, and wondering if it were really True. Well, it was True. He left his body. He may be a little surprised to know that the great desire of that young spirit to have him come to her and tell her again of some of the things that he had told her on Earth, was the cause of his leaving his body. Her desires were so great that they actually drew his spirit to her. What he saw, he saw with his spirit eyes. The persons who appeared to him were actually present. The young spirit heard his conversation, and in it found some relief. She brought with her to the Spirit World some of the thoughts that he had conveyed to her during her Earth Life. Having the experience of not finding what she had been taught when on Earth, that she would find in the Spirit World, she became disappointed and doubtful. Then recalled what Leslie had told her. With these memories came the desire that he should come and repeat to her these explanations that he had made to her of the Truths and condition of the Spirit World. She is now very much better, is seeking for the Truth. Or, rather a corroboration of the Truth that she learned from him.

I was present, as he thought. When he left her, I went with her and took her in my care, and have been trying to help her into the Light and to a longing for this Divine Love. She is so young and her soul so susceptible to the Influence of Love, without being bound very much by erroneous beliefs that were taught her. She will, I know, soon become convinced of the True Way to Happiness and Redemption. Her grandmother, who Loves this young spirit so much, was with her, and heard what Leslie said. Of course, was shocked and grieved that he should try to teach the child such blasphemous things. She shed tears and was very unhappy, and wanted her child to go with her and not listen to what he said, or was saying. Just here we interfered to a certain extent, and caused them to separate, and induced the grandmother to leave the child for a while, though she did not want to do so.

When Leslie said that he assisted her to a lower plane, he actually did so, for while she is a woman of a kindly nature, and a somewhat christian character, as she understands, yet she is not fitted for the plane on which the scene related took place. Here let me say that the young spirit and her grandmother because of the Great Law of Attraction are not suited to the same plane. This grieves the grandmother very much, also the child. But the regeneration of the child will, no doubt, have a great effect upon the grandmother. When the time comes, that is, after the child has learned the Truth and received some of the Divine Love, and goes to her grandmother to show her beauty, and tell of her experience, we will go to the grandmother also, and attempt to explain to her these Truths, and the error of her belief.

Well, I have written enough. Your wife says that I had better stop now. So with my Love I will say goodnight, his mother, Priscilla Stone.

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