MEDIUMS AND SPIRITS

March 15th, 1917

I am here, John,

    I was with you tonight at the séance and heard what the medium said.  Saw that as she delivered the various messages, she was being dictated to by spirits of a very low order of development.  That they enjoyed very much the deception that they were practicing upon the medium and upon the hearers.  These spirits are not the kind that you should have the association of.  While your band was present and prevented any of these spirits from getting in rapport with you, or from affecting you by their influence, yet it does you no good to mingle with such spirits.

    The medium believes that the spirits who came to her are really the relatives of, or spirits interested in the people in the audience.  As a fact, these spirits are mostly impostors, who have gotten possession of the medium and use her for their own enjoyment.  When she attempted to describe the spirits present, she was not only imposed upon, but the spirits whom she saw, as she said, were not the spirits whom the sitters might suppose them to be.

    There were some of these spirits whom she saw, really were the ones that she described them to be.  Were interested in the people to whom they came.  But they were of the earth plane, having very little development.

    When she attempted to tell you of your condition and want of spiritual development in the Knowledge of the Truth, she was dictated to by some of the fraudulent spirits, who did not know the Truth, who were not in condition themselves to read your condition of spiritual development,(A spirit, either incarnate (humans) or discarnate, cannot percieve the spiritual development of one that has a greater development of their own) took you to be one of the usual visitors at their seances.  Hence, caused the medium to commit the error that she did.  The spirits who she says came to you, were not your grandparents.  For you must know, that none of your spirit band manifested themselves. The ones that she saw and said were interested in you, were some of the spirits who are with her very often, trying to deceive the people.

    The medium has the powers of seeing and hearing the things of the spirit world to some extent.  Is generally honest in her attempts to convey what she receives.  But sometimes she exercises her own thoughts and fabricates the message that she delivers.  It is a pity that such a condition of affairs should exist.  But it is a Truth and will continue so long as these spirits of deception are given the opportunity to manifest themselves.

    I will further say, that while Dr. Stone had around him a number of his spirit friends, yet they did not manifest themselves.  The Indians that the medium described were not in any way connected with the Doctor (Dr Stone).  Of course at these séances there are always a number of Indians present, who delight in manifesting themselves to the medium.  But tonight none of these Indians formed any part of the Doctor's guides, or band.  He must not believe that he has around him these howling Indians.  For there is nothing in common between him and such spirits.  He is too well protected for these spirits to form any rapport with him.  While at times the Doctor may do some good to some of these wandering spirits who attend these seances, yet, as a general thing they are not helped by him.  For the most of the spirits who attend such seances do not come there for assistance, but for enjoyment, or, if they are thoughtful and anxious spirits, to communicate with their friends.  His work does not lie in the séance room, when great numbers of spirits of all kinds and conditions congregate, but in the quiet of his own room, or as he walks the streets, or in the church meetings where Spiritual Truths are taught, and where people of some soul development assemble.  He has around him many of these spirits who are earnestly seeking for light and relief from their sufferings.  If he, in these moments of quietness, or when he is where the spiritual atmosphere prevails, will let his thoughts go out to these spirits of darkness, and his mind formulate and project the advice and knowledge which he has of spiritual things, he will do much good and help many spirits toward progression.

    Of course, the mediums of the kind that you visited tonight, have a work to do.  Notwithstanding all the undesirable conditions that surround them, they do some good, both to spirits and mortals.  They should be encouraged and helped to understand the possibilities that are theirs.  But this does not mean that you and the Doctor, who have often gotten into the association of a very different and higher order of spirits, and having before you a work of a different character from that of these mediums, should not seek such places and encounter the retarding influences that are always present, in order to do the good that you can do.

    I realize that this may seem unkind to these mediums.   What I state is a fact.  Is not stated for the purpose of decrying the work of these mediums, but only to show you that such places for you to frequent, as your work is not there, but is as I have above stated.

    You will comprehend the purport of my message.  It is not necessary to write more upon the subject.  But understand this, that in order to do your work most effectively, it is meant that you go, not where these low and vicious, or merely dark spirits congregate and seek control of the mediums, and of the sitters as well, but on the contrary, demand that these dark spirits shall come to you where the influences are more helpful and seek your help.  You need not fear that they will not come.  For, as a fact, they are with you whenever they get the opportunity, when possible.  Every mortal for their own work and in their own place.

    Well, I was there, because, as I have told you, I am your especially appointed guardian to direct in your soul development.  It is not a waste of time, or a descending to places that you may think I should not attend, to do this work of looking after you, and accompanying you in your visitations to séances, or churches, or wherever you may happen to be.  You are the instrument that we are using to do our great and vital work for the Salvation of Humankind. I can do greater work to help and protect that instrument. Because I come to the earth plane and engage in this work, I am no less the John of the Celestial Heavens.

    What I have said in reference to you, applies to the Doctor.  For James was with him, protecting and looking after him.  Doing the work that, as the Doctor's special guardian, he takes delight in doing.

    We are Celestial Spirits of the highest order.  That fact does not prevent us from realizing the necessity of the Salvation of Humans.  Even though we have to come to earth to bring about this Salvation, in work and association with spirits of the earth plane, yet it is a labor of love.   Humility is the touchstone that brings to us happiness in our work.

    No, we are with you often and in close association.  We would not be fellow workers with the Master, if for one moment we should have the feeling, that because of our high estate, we should not come into rapport and helpful association of sinful mortals.  So long as the Father requires His Great Truths to be taught, and humans's souls to be Saved from the effects of the great fall and made Angels of Divinity, our work will continue.

    Sometime our work on earth, as well as in the spirit spheres, will cease.  Then our homes in the Celestial Heavens will be our only places of labor and love.  The (Celestial) Kingdom will be completed.  The doors of the Heavenly Kingdom closed.  The Angelic Hosts be separated from the Spiritual and Perfect Human.  Such is the decree.

    As the Father desires all humans to become One with Him in His Divinity of Love, we must work until the day of the Great Consummation Of the Kingdom arrives.  The spirits who have not on the wedding garment shall suffer the doom of the second death.

    When Jesus said, "work while it is day for the night cometh when no man can work", he meant that while the (Celestial) Kingdom is open for humans to enter, we must work.  For when its doors shall be closed, the work of the angelic laborers must cease.  Human and spirits be left to an eternity in the Spiritual Spheres.  As we work, and so you must work, until the time of the separation.  As the Master said, the wheat and the tares must be permitted to grow together until the great time of the harvest, so must the soul with only the natural love and that with the Divine Love, be permitted to mingle together until the reaping of the harvest shall take place.  Until then, we must mingle,  work and pray without ceasing.

    Well, my brother, I have written enough for tonight and will stop.  Do not misunderstand what I have said in reference to the mediums of the séances. They have work to do.  They must do it, and not be discouraged.  You have a work to do, and you must do it in the way that we have pointed out.  The work that you can do, they cannot. Hence, you must do your assigned work, and that alone.

So with my love, and the Blessings of the Father, I will say goodnight.

Your brother in Christ, John

July 8th, 1915

I am here, your grandmother.

    I want to tell you tonight of my experience in my new home among the redeemed spirits who have entered that Kingdom.  I am living, as I told you, in the second Celestial Sphere, and am surrounded by everything that makes me happy and in unison with the Father.  I am also in close attachment with the Master, although he lives in a sphere much higher in the Celestial Heavens.  Which, he tells me, is close to the Fountainhead of God's Love.

    I have with me a great number of spirits who have received the Great Love of the Father in great abundance. Who are so good and beautiful that they are as of the Father.  Here I must tell you that all angels in His Kingdom, which is ruled over by Jesus, are the spirits of mortals who once lived on earth.  Not what the Old Testament called angels are.  I am informed there are beings who never had the experience of living in the flesh.  I have never seen any of these angels and I don't know where they live, but Jesus says they are a distinct class of God's Creation and that they live in spheres that are separated from the heavens that he rules in.  I have often wished to see some of these angels, but it does not appear that they ever come to our Celestial Heavens.

    So when you hear us speak of Angels we mean only those who were mortals, who have been redeemed by the Divine Love of the Father, and who are living in the higher spheres of our own Celestial Heavens.

    Of course I don't know whether these other angels will ever know anything about our Heavens or not.  But if they ever should, I doubt that they will ever realize the full meaning of a soul redeemed, because only those who have gone through the experience of living in the flesh and having all the sorrows of mortals and the Redemption from their condition of sin and error by the Divine Love of the Father, can ever fully understand what Redemption means.

    So I believe that no angel without this experience can ever enjoy the Happiness that we who become inhabitants of Christ's Kingdom, enjoy.  I may be mistaken in this, but this is my belief.

    All ministering angels, are spirits who once inhabited the physical body.  Only such, it seems to me, can have that sympathy and love which fits them to understand and be able to sympathize with the sufferings of humanity.  Why, if you will think a moment, you will remember that even Jesus was not fitted to perform his Great Mission and to declare the Divine Love of the Father, until he had entered into the physical body so that he could understand fully all the frailties and sufferings and longings of mortals.

    At any rate, no angel that comes to mortal to minister is other than the spirit of one who has passed through these sufferings and sins of the mortal.

    Well, as I have said, I am surrounded by many of these beautiful Redeemed Spirits.  They are all happy beyond conception by you who live on earth.

    I am in a state of Perfect Happiness myself.  Want for nothing that is necessary to make me realize that God is my Father of Love and mercy.  Yet I desire the progression that will take me to the higher spheres, but not on account of any discontent on my part, but because I am told that there are homes awaiting me and my companions in these Higher Spheres that are so much more beautiful than those which we now have.  Besides, the Law of Progression is constantly working here.  Never are we permitted to cease our longing for the Higher Life and the greater abundance of the Divine Love that our Father promises us will be ours, if we desire and seek for it.  But you must never forget that while we strive to progress, we are never dissatisfied with what Our Father has provided for us and what we possess.

    My home here is a part of the Celestial Kingdom.  We who live in this sphere are all Immortal, in the sense that that word has been explained to you.  We are greater in our attributes and qualities than were the First Parents, at the time of their creation.  We can never die again and have passed beyond the second death, as it is written.  For our Love is now so abundant that we are all partakers of the Father's Divinity to such an extent that it can never be taken from us.  No, not in all Eternity.  Yet, with all this Knowledge and consolation that it brings to us, we still have our love for those who live on earth, who have not yet acquired this Great Gift of the Father.  Our work in trying to help mortals is a joy to us and never anything but a labor of love.

    I will not tell you at this time how much our interests center in the work that the Master is doing for the Salvation of humankind.  Only say, that his love for human and his desire for their Redemption are greater than they were when he was on earth.  All his followers, all who are in the Celestial Heavens, as well as those who are in the spirit spheres, are working in unison with him to accomplish this great work to its fullest extent.

    Many mortals are inspired by him and by his spirit followers, to assist in this work and make known to humankind the Truths of his teachings and the Wonderful Love of the Father, which passeth all understanding.

    So while the dogmas and teachings of many of the churches are not in accord with the Truth, yet the teachings of the Spiritual Truths of Christ's Mission, and of the Gifts of the Father, are now being bestowed upon humankind.  Are the causes of many a soul being turned to God's Divine Love, thereby securing their own salvation.

    False beliefs and false doctrines as taught in most of the churches do much harm and retard the soul's progress.  Keep many souls from the Light while on earth, as well as in the spirit world.  Yet, with all these false teachings are mingled some Truths of the soul's qualities for progress, and of the way in which it may find the entrance of God's Divine Love into the soul and into His Kingdom.

    I know that many humans die with these false beliefs.  Retain them for a more or less longer time after they become spirits.  Yet the fact that they have as a part of their beliefs the Faith in God's Love and in Jesus' teachings, will help them to grasp the Real Truth and to progress more rapidly after they have gotten rid of these false beliefs.

    So while you must pity the followers of most of these orthodox churches, because they are living in the security, as they think, of these false ideas, yet you would not be justified in attempting to do anything to abolish these churches in toto.  Because there is nothing to supply their places, and the Truths which they teach would be destroyed and nothing left to serve the soul's interests.

    I tell you that the time is coming when the churches will teach the Real Truths of God's Divine Love and of Jesus' mission and the way to Human's Salvation.  Then humanity will be happier.  The Kingdom of Heaven will exist on earth as it does in our Celestial Heavens.  The time is now ripe for these churches to receive these Truths.  Humans longings for light and happiness will demand that the True Gospel be preached.  And it will be.

    So my dear son, you see the necessity for providing the means by which these Great Truths may be conveyed to mortals.  The Bible is losing its hold on many.  Not only the students, but the common people as well.  The Truths which were intended that that book should contain must be brought to the knowledge and consciousness of men and women.

    For many years the powers of the spirit world have been making efforts to have these Truths communicated to humans, but with very indifferent success.  Now I believe that I can see before me, as a vision, that many good men and women will develop their psychic powers, to such an extent that they can be used as mediums of communication. They will be so honest and earnest in their work, that humans will believe the communications and learn the Real Truths that the Master is striving to teach.

    I must stop now, as I have written a long time and you must rest awhile before you continue to write.

Your loving grandmother, Ann Rollins