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1915 July
Messages from Jesus and Celestials on Divine Love 1915 July
July 5th, 1915
I am here, Saleeba.
Well, I am with you again. I want to tell you that I am so very happy, as I have progressed so much since I wrote you a short time ago.
I am still in the Third Sphere, but I am in a higher Plane, with spirits who have the Soul Development to a very great degree, and in their Love. I am just so happy that I cannot express to you its extent.
Oh, what a wonderful thing the Divine Love is! When I consider the long years that I lived as a spirit without knowing anything about this Divine Love, I can scarcely express my regret at the unfortunate position in which I lived. I know now that Jesus is the True Leader of all the spirits who have this Great Soul Development. That he can show The Way to the Father's Celestial Kingdom, as no other spirit can. Besides, when I come in contact with him, I realize that he has so much of this Divine Love himself, that what he says must be True.
I will soon progress to a Higher Sphere they tell me. I will get Divine Love in more abundance. Then in a little while I shall go to my own people, and tell them of the Wonders and Glories of my new found home. What a blessed, happy time I anticipate among these spirits, who are now in such ignorance of the only thing that brings this Great Happiness.
I am not in condition now to tell you of my residence, or life, on Earth as I promised. Sometime I will keep my promise.
You must think kind thoughts of me. Let your Love come to me, so that I may feel its benefit. I must tell you that the Loving thoughts of a mortal, who knows what this Divine Love is, have a wonderful influence on spirits and their advancement in the Spirit Spheres.
I will not write more tonight.
So with my Love and kindest thoughts, I am, your sister in Christ, Saleeba.
July 5th, 1915
I am your friend and brother in Divine Love, and desire for the Kingdom.
I am the spirit of Henry Ward Beecher.
I live in the Seventh Sphere, where your father now is. Because of having met him there, I come to you tonight to write for a short time. He has told me of you. How easily you receive the communications of the spirits. I want to let you know, that even though I am no longer the same as when on Earth, I still have the desire to make known to humans the thoughts that arise in me concerning God, and the relation of humans to Him and His Kingdom. I am now a believer in Jesus, as I never was on Earth. It may surprise you to know, that when on Earth, no matter what I may have preached to my people, yet, in my heart, I looked on Jesus as a mere man of the Jews. Not very different from others of the great reformers who had lived and taught on Earth, the Moral Truths, which tended to make humans better, and caused them to live more correct and righteous lives.
Since I have been in the Spirit World, and have had the experiences which my Life here has given me, and have found The Way to God's Divine Love and to His Kingdom, I have learned, and now know, that Jesus was more than a mere reformer. He was not only a Good and Just teacher, and lived the Life of such, but he was the True Son of God and His Messenger, in bringing to the World the Truths of Immortality and the Divine Love of the Father, and The Way to obtain it. He was Truly the Way, the Truth and the Life, as no other teacher before him ever was.
I know it is taught, and I believed it when on Earth, that many religions and pagan teachers asserted, and tried to teach to humankind, the immortality of the soul, as humans understood the meaning of the word immortality. These teachings were more or less satisfactory. I now see that their conception of immortality was merely a Continuity of Life after what is called death. How different the meaning, as thus taught, and the True meaning of the word! Immortality means so much more than a mere Continuation of Life. It means; not only a Continuation of Life, but a Life that has in it the Divine Love, or Essence, of the Father, which makes the spirit who has that Divine Love, a Divinity itself, and not the subject of death of any kind. No mere spirit has this Immortality just because it is continuing to live in the Spirit World, and cannot conceive that by any possibility that Continuity of Life can ever be arrested, or ended. No such spirit knows that to be True, because never has it been demonstrated as a fact. Cannot be, until Eternity has come to an end. Such spirit is no different, in its essence and potentialities, from what it was when enfolded in the flesh, and has no greater reason for believing that it is immortal than it had when on Earth.
A speculation and a proven fact are two entirely different things. Yet with some spirits, as well as with humans, speculation becomes almost as much a certainty, as does a fact demonstrated. There is no justification for relying upon conclusions drawn from mere speculation. The spirit, or human, who does, may in the Great Workings of Eternity, find them self, not only mistaken, but surprised beyond all conception at what eventualities such workings may bring forth.
So, I say, that before the coming of Jesus, Immortality had NOTbeen brought to Light, and could not have been. because for humankind it did not exist.
I was as much surprised when I learned the True Meaning of the word, as humans will be who may read this communication, or hear its import. The hope of Socrates, Plato, and Pythagoras was only a hope, fortified by the reasoning's of great minds, supplemented by much development of soul qualities (of Natural Love). When all is said, it was only hope. Knowledge was wanting. Even if they had realized that the spirits of humans departed, did return and communicate to them, that there was no such thing as the death of the spirit, or soul, yet such experiences did not prove to them anything beyond the fact that Life was continuous, for the time being. As change is the Law in the Spirit World, as well as on Earth, they could not, with the Certainty of Knowledge, say there might not be some change in the Spirit World that would break or set aside the Continuity of Existence.
Take the young child, when its intellect has not sufficiently developed to understand that there is such a thing as the death of the physical body. It believes, if it thinks at all, that it will continue to live forever on Earth. So with these philosophers, who had the hope of a Future Continuous Life, and with the spirits, who know that there is a Continuous Life, living after death, they think that, that living must be the fixed state, and must of necessity continue forever.
As I say, it has not been demonstrated that such Life will continue Forever. Yet, on the other hand, it has not been shown that it will not. Hence, no spirit can say that it is immortal, unless it partakes of the Divine Essence. No wise philosopher, or religious teacher, prior to the coming of Jesus, could be said to have brought Immortality to Light. While hope and speculation exist as the children of desire, yet Knowledge is wanting, and certainty is not. The immortality then that humans believed in, and comforted themselves with believing in, was the immortality that hope created, and speculation proved. The experiences of humans, in communicating with the spirits, showed that death had not annihilated the individual. But hope, speculation and experience did not create Knowledge.
When Jesus came, he brought with him, not only hope, but Knowledge of the Truth. Not many humans have comprehended it, or understood the reason, or foundation, for such Knowledge. The reasoning faculties of humans were not sufficient to show the True Reasons of such Knowledge. Strange as it may seem, the students and commentators of the Bible have never disclosed the True Foundation upon which this Knowledge exists.
I confess that in my Life, while a great student of the Bible, I never comprehended the True Meaning of how, or in what way, Jesus brought Immortality to Light. I thought, as many others do now, that his death and resurrection were the things that showed to humankind the reality of immortality. These things showed no more, as I now see, than did the numerous instances recorded in the Old Testament, and in the secular writings of the philosophers, and adepts of India and Egypt, that there was an existence after so-called death.
Many who dispute the fact that Jesus brought Immortality to Light, base their arguments on these other facts. That he was only one of many who had died, and afterwards came to mortals and showed that they still lived as spirits. So I say, and as I believed not while on Earth, the mere fact of Jesus' resurrection does not prove Immortality.
Then what have I learned Immortality to be, since I have been in the Spirit World? My reasoning powers are much greater now than when on Earth. My perceptive faculties have become more keen. My experience, in the Laws of the Spirit World, have given me great knowledge. But all these would not, of themselves, have given me the Knowledge of Immortality, had not Jesus himself explained it to me, and demonstrated it by his own condition, and that of many spirits in the Higher Spheres. Now I am, because of my present Soul Development (in Divine Love), the possessor of that Knowledge.
Only the Father is Immortal. Only those to whom He gives His Attributes of Immortality, can become Immortal, as He Is. Love is the Great Principle of Immortality. By this, I mean the Divine Love of the Father, and not the Natural Love of the Creature. They who possess this Divine Love, become as it were, a part of It, or It becomes a part of them. In Its operations, makes them like unto the Father. In other words, a spirit who possesses this Divine Love becomes a part of Divinity itself. Consequently, Immortal. There is no possibility of their ever becoming deprived of this Element of Divinity.
No spirit is Immortal when there is any possibility of its being deprived of that Immortality. Even God Himself, if He could be deprived of that Great Quality, would not be Immortal. Just as it is impossible to take from the Father this Great Attribute, so is it impossible for the spirit, who has once obtained this Divine Love of the Father, to lose its Immortality.
So you see, Immortality comes to a spirit (or human), only with the possession of the Divine Love. That Divine Love is not bestowed upon every spirit, only on those who seek for it, in The Way shown to humankind by Jesus.
Death does not bring to the mortal, Immortality. Because their spirit survives their (physical) death, it does not follow that Immortality becomes a part of their existence as a spirit.
So I say, that when Jesus brought to the World, the Knowledge of the Bestowal of this Divine Love of the Father upon mortals, under certain conditions, and also showed mortals The Way in which that Great Gift might be obtained, he brought to Light Immortality and Life. Before him, had no human, or spirit, brought these Great Gifts to Light.
I am now a partaker, to a certain extent, of the Divine Love. I have before me the possibility of obtaining It, to its fullest extent, as promised by the Master to all who may seek for It, in Truth and with Faith.
I did not intend to write so long a message at this time, but as I am enthusiastic on this subject, I find that I have trespassed upon your time and kindness longer than I realized.
So thanking you for your patience, I will stop now. I hope that I may have the privilege of coming again at some time and writing.
With my kind regards, I am, very Truly yours, Henry Ward Beecher.
July 6th, 1915
I am here, a stranger, but a spirit interested in the work that you are doing for the Master, and also for many spirits, good and bad.
I am writing by permission of your band. Hence, do not feel that I am intruding. So if you will kindly bear with me, I will say a few words.
I am a spirit in Divine Love, with the efforts that you and your band are making to help the unfortunates who come to you with such pitying tales of suffering and darkness, and ask for help. I was once, when on Earth, a human who suffered much because of my spiritual darkness. Not until late in Life, did I find The Way to my Father's Divine Love through prayer and Faith. Even then I had many erroneous beliefs caused by the interpretations of the Bible, then obtaining in the church of which I was a member.
Since coming to the Spirit Land, I have learned the Truth. I have gotten rid of any old erroneous beliefs. Thank God, I am in The Way that leads to Life Everlasting. I was a teacher when on Earth of what I thought were Bible Truths. I know that some good resulted from my teachings, although they were mixed with errors. I have met many spirits of humans who listened to my teachings, and believed many things that I taught. So you see, that even if the churches do teach many false doctrines in their creeds, yet mixed with these false doctrines are many Truths. These Truths, often find lodgment in the hearts of the hearers, and result in their finding the Light and Love of the Father.
I am still teaching mortals, whenever it is possible to do. I find that my task is a difficult one, because there are so few mediums who are capable of receiving the Truths of the Higher Things of Life. The impressions that I make on mortals by the exercise of suggestions are not very encouraging to them, or to me. Sometimes the impressions are received, and understood, but very often they have no effect.
If we could have more writing mediums, such as yourself, who are interested in these Higher Truths, and would believe that we could communicate such Truths to them, the Salvation of Humankind would become much more rapid. As Jesus said; "the harvest is ripe, and the laborers are few".
You have a mission, which is greatly to be envied. I mean in the best sense, because you, by the exercise of your duties, become the medium between the Master and human. I want to tell you that such a mission is a glorious one. Will bring to you untold Blessings. Because you have now, and will have with increasing power, the influences of the Higher World of Spirits and Angels.
The one great spirit, I mean the Master, is with you very often, and seems to Love you so much. His Love and power are beyond comprehension. He is your friend and brother. The association with such a one will give you much Spiritual Excellence and power, which humans have not often possessed.
At the same time that this mission holds forth so much glory and power, it also brings with it a great responsibility. One which will demand of you the exercise of all your Love, Faith and energy. So you see with the great favor, comes responsibility.
I have written rather longer than I intended to when I commenced. I will now stop.
I live in the second Celestial Sphere where your grandmother, mother, and wife live.
Well, I did not have the Love and Faith that they had. My progress was very slow. Hence, they have overtaken me in my Spiritual Progress. They are wonderful spirits, and have so much of the Father's Divine Love in their souls.
I was a preacher, and lived the Life of one, after I separated from the church in which I had been taught the doctrines. My name was Martin Luther. ?? Yes, Martin Luther, the Monk.
I now see that my teaching of justification by Faith, is not, of itself, sufficient for human's salvation. The True Doctrine is that of the New Birth. I mean, that with Faith, must come the inflowing of the Divine Love of the Father into the souls of humans. Merely having Faith will not suffice. Without this Divine Love, Faith is futile. Except, as it may help to bring the Divine Love.
So you see, that while I was, in my teachings an improvement on what I had been taught, yet I did not preach the Great Essential of the New Birth, in the sense in which Jesus taught it. Which should be understood by humankind.
Faith without works is not sufficient. Works without Faith will not bring about the great results desired. Both Faith and works without the New Birth, or the acquiring of the Divine Love of the Father, are not sufficient to bring Salvation to humankind.
Love is the Fulfilling of the Law. Divine Love is the Essence of the Father, which, when possessed by humans makes them One with Him. Let all humans know, that of all Divine Things, Divine Love is the Divinest, and makes human part of Divinity Itself.
Well, I have regretted so very much that my followers, believing in my teachings, worship Jesus as God. Oh, the great error of this belief, and how much injury it has done, and is now doing, to humans, and spirits!
Thank God, I see the Truth breaking into the consciences and minds of many of my followers. I hope the time is not far distant when this great heresy will no longer be believed.
The other false doctrine, which is common to all the orthodox churches, has caused much unhappiness, infidelity and disappointment both in the Mortal World, and in the Spirit World. That is that Jesus' blood saves from sin, or that he made a vicarious sacrifice to appease the wrath of an angry God, and thereby removed from humans the penalties and burdens of their sins. This false doctrine has caused more humans to lose their Soul Development, and rest secure in a false belief, that they were saved from sin and immune from punishment, than has any dogma taught by the churches.
No blood, no death on the cross, and no vicarious atonement saves a human from their sins, and the resultant expiations. Love, the Divine Love of the Father, which Jesus brought to the World, and declared The Way in which it might be obtained, and that it is free for All the Father's Children, saves from sin both on Earth and the Spirit World.
I must stop now. I will come to you again if agreeable.
No, I am not. To me All humans are the Children of God. I have long since forgotten any distinction between the Germans, and the other races of humankind.
War is cruel, unholy, and without valid excuse, and should never arise. With the Love of a brother, who wants all humans to seek the Light. I am the former monk and reformer.
Martin Luther.
July 6th, 1915
I am here, Jesus.
I merely want to say that you are better in your spiritual condition, also physically. You must not forget to pray to the Father, and have Faith. I am with you, and will help you in all your undertakings, and in your soul development, as I promised. So believe what I say. Try to throw off all worries from now onward to the time when the occasion for the same will cease. Yes, the message of Mr. Beecher was written by him. It contains the Truth, with reference to Immortality, as I have explained to you before. He is a strong and logical reasoner. I am glad that he wrote on the subject. It may be used in connection with my writings, and will have its effect with a number of persons who thought much of him when on Earth. I want him to be a regular contributor to my cause.
So my dear brother, let your Faith in me increase. Give all your Love to the Father.
I will soon write a message, as I suggested last night.
With all my Love, I am, your friend and brother, Jesus.
July 6th, 1915
I am here, Your Grandmother.
I come tonight to tell you that I am very happy to see that you are in such good condition, and so free from your worries and cares. So you must try to keep your mind and thoughts free until you have no occasion for worry.
I want to tell you of my beautiful home in the Second Celestial Sphere. What happiness we have in enjoying its beauties and grandeur. It is not possible for me to describe its appearance. Only to say that its beauty is beyond any conception that you may have, or any ability I may have to describe it.
Everything that the heart may wish for is contained in it. Everything that you can conceive of as being necessary to make a home beautiful is there. I am in a great degree of happiness, and have so many bright and beautiful spirits for companions. I never get tired of listening to the grand and angelic music.
We, I mean your mother, wife and myself, are with one another very frequently, although our homes are different and not very close together. Of course, my home is in a higher plane in that Sphere, than those of your mother or wife, but there is nothing to prevent our having constant intercourse and companionship.
He (grandfather) is in the Fifth Sphere still, although he is progressing, and is so very anxious to get with me, but he has not Divine Love and Faith sufficient to be with me in my home. I know that you are anxious that we be together, and that you pray for such a consummation of our desires. Your prayers will be answered before a great while, for my faith is so strong, that I know that my prayers will soon be answered by the Father.
Yes, I will go to the Third Celestial Sphere, where many bright spirits are. Spirits who have the Divine Love of God in their souls, to an extent that fits them for such a Life.
You are right; there are no purely intellectual Spheres in the Celestial Heavens. All the Spheres are Soul Spheres, where the Divine Love of the Father, is possessed by all the spirit inhabitants, to such an extent that intellectual development is merely a secondary condition. How I would like to write you a long letter tonight on Spiritual matters. I do not think that you are quite in condition to take such a message. I will postpone it until a later time.
Your wife is here, and after a little she will write to you, and tell you of her happiness and peace in the Father's Divine Love.
So I will not write more tonight, but will only repeat, that I Love you with all my heart and soul.
Your grandmother. (Ann Rollins)
July 8th, 1915
I am here, Socrates, the Greek.
I knew that you thought of me. I was attracted by your thought.
If such spirit is in rapport with you, or has a similar soul quality, the soul condition is the great medium of attraction.
I have been with you before. There is a rapport growing out of your soul qualities. I am now a believer in the Christian doctrine of the soul's Immortality, and in the teachings of Jesus, as to The Way to obtain the Divine Love of the Father, as you are. Hence, our qualities of soul are similar.
I am now a follower of the Master, and believe in his Divine Mission on Earth, although he had not come to Earth when I lived. After I became a spirit, I realized my belief in the Continuity of Life after death, and lived in the Spirit World a great many years after Jesus came, before I learned and believed his larger Truth of Immortality.
Of course, when I taught, I had only a hope, which was almost a certainty that I should continue to live through All Eternity. I had no other foundation for that belief than the deductions from my reasoning powers and the observations of the workings of Nature.
I had heard of the visitations of the spirits of the departed, but had never had any personal experiences in that direction. I readily believed it to be True.
My conviction of the Truth of a Future Continuance was so strong that it amounted to a certainty. Hence, when I died, I comforted Plato, and my other friends and disciples, by telling them that they must not say that Socrates will die, but rather that his body will die. His soul will live forever in Fields Elysian. They believed me. Plato afterwards enlarged on my belief.
Socrates did not die, but as soon as his breath left the body, which was not very painful, even though the fatal hemlock did its work sure and quickly, he went into the Spirit World a Living Entity, full of the happiness that the realizations of his beliefs gave him.
My entrance into the Spirit World was not a dark one, but full of light and happiness. I was met by some of my disciples who had passed over before me and who had progressed very much in the intellectual development. I then thought that my place of reception was the heaven of good spirits, for there were good spirits to meet me and carry me to my home. I was then possessed of what I thought, that I was in the home of the blessed. I continued there for many years and enjoyed the exchange of minds, and the feasts of reason.
As I continued to live, I progressed, until at last, I entered the Highest Intellectual Sphere, and became a beautiful and bright spirit, so they told me. I taught the things of a mind developed.
I met many minds of great power of thought and beauty. My happiness was beyond my conception when on Earth. Many of my old friends and disciples came over. Our reunions were always joyous. Plato came, and Cato, and others.
The ages went by. I continued in my Life of intellectual enjoyment and profit, with many spirits developed in their minds and powers of thought, until our existence was a continuous feast of bright and momentous thoughts interchanged.
I traversed the Spheres in search of knowledge and information without limitation. I found the Principles of many Laws of the Spirit World.
I found in many Spheres, spirits, who said they were the old Hebrew prophets and teachers. They were still teaching of their Hebrew God, whom they claimed was the only God of the Universe, and who had made of their nation his favorite people. I did not find that they were much different from the rest of us. I mean, what they called, the spirits of the pagan nations. They were not superior to us in intellect. They lived in no higher spheres than we lived in. I could not learn that their morality was any more exalted than was ours. They insisted that they were God's favorite people. Were, in their own estimation, superior to the rest of us, and lived in a community all to themselves. I did not know just what the conditions of their souls were, but, as I observed, the condition of the soul determines the appearances of the spirit. I did not perceive that their appearances were any more beautiful or godlike than were ours. I concluded that their God was no better, or greater, than was ours.
No one, that I could find, had seen any God. I had not. So who, or what, God was became merely a matter of speculation. I preferred to have the God of my own conception, to the one that they claimed to have.
For long years my Life went on in this way, until in my wanderings, I found that there was a Sphere I could not enter. I commenced to make inquiries, and was told that it was one of the Soul Spheres, in which the great ruler, or Master, was a spirit called Jesus. Who had, since my coming to the Spirit World, established a New Kingdom, was the Chosen Son of God, in whom he lived and had his being. That only those who had received the Divine Love of this God could enter this Sphere, or become inhabitants thereof. I then sought for more information. Continuing my search, I learned that this Divine Love had been given to humans, and spirits, at the time of the birth of Jesus on Earth. That it was free for all who might seek It, in The Way taught by Jesus. That he was the Greatest True Son of this God. That in no other Way, than the one shown by this son could this Divine Love be obtained, or the Soul Spheres entered.
I thereafter thought of this New Revelation, and let many years go by before I became convinced that I might learn something, and become benefitted by seeking this Way, and this Divine Love. After awhile, I began to seek. You must know, that I, and spirits like me, who lived in the Spheres where the mind furnished our pursuits and enjoyments, could not enter what was called this Soul Sphere, yet the inhabitants of that Soul Sphere could come into our sphere without let, or hindrance.
I sometimes met and conversed with some of these inhabitants. On one occasion I met one called John, who was a most beautiful and luminous spirit. In our conversation, he told me of this Divine Love of his God, and of the Great Love and Mission of Jesus. Showed me some of the Truths taught by Jesus, and The Way to obtain this Divine Love, and urged me to seek for it.
Strange to me, there were not any of the intellectual qualities required to be exercised in seeking for this Divine Love, only the longings and aspirations of my soul, and the exercise of my will. It seemed so simple, so easy, that I commenced to doubt whether there was any Reality in what I was told. I hesitated to follow the advice of this spirit, John. He was so loving, and his countenance was so wonderful, that I concluded to try. I commenced to pray to this God, and tried to exercise Faith, as I was told. After a while, most surprising of all things to me, I commenced to have new and unaccountable sensations, and with them, a feeling of Happiness that I had never experienced before, which made me think that there must be some Truth in what I was told. I continued to pray the harder, and believe with more surety. I continued to make these efforts, until, at last, the Great Awakening came, that I had in me a Love that never before was in my soul. A Happiness that all my intellectual pursuits had never been able to supply.
Well, it is not necessary to tell you further, in detail, my experience in getting and developing this Divine Love. I became filled with it, and at last entered the Soul Sphere. What I saw is beyond description.
I met Jesus, and had no conception that there could be such a glorious, magnificent and Loving spirit. He was so gracious, and seemed to be so much interested in my welfare and progress in the Truths that he taught.
Can you wonder that I am a Christian and follower of him? Thereafter, I learned what True Immortality is, and that I am a part of that Immortality. I see how far short my conception and teaching of immortality were. Only this Divine Love can give to spirits Immortality. Anything less is but the shadow of a hope, such as I had.
I am now in a Sphere that is not numbered. It is high in the Celestial Heavens, and not far from some of the Spheres where the disciples of the Master live. I am still progressing. That is the beauty and glory of the Soul Development, where there is no limit, while my intellectual development was limited.
I must stop now, as I have written more than I should have done. I will come to you sometime in the not distant future and tell you of some of the Truths which I have learned.
Your friend and brother, Socrates, the one time Greek Philosopher, but now a Christian.
July 8th, 1915
I am here, St. John.
I felt your call, and came. I will tell you of Love, as that is what you called me for.
The Love that I taught when on Earth, is the Divine Love, that the Father has prepared for All His Children, who might seek it. All that is required is that they seek with earnestness and Faith. They will receive it. I know that this Divine Love is frequently confounded with the Natural Love that God gave to humans at their Creation. But the two are different and distinct. Every human has this Natural Love, to a more or less extent. It is a Great Gift, and makes human what they are. But not so many have this other Love, because it is bestowed only in answer to prayer, and the Real Longings of the heart and soul. This is the Divine Love. This is the Love that makes human a part of the Divinity of the Father, consequently, Immortal.
God is Love! This is the Great Truth of His Being. His Divine Love, while free for all, yet is not bestowed without the desire of the mortal to receive it. I wish that I had time tonight to more fully explain this Great Love, but I have not. I came to you only because you called me.
No, not tonight. I will come sometime and write you a long letter on these subjects.
I am Supremely Happy. I am working for Humanity. So directly does the Master. I do more for the advancement of the spirits after they have commenced to enjoy the Divine Love of the Father in their souls.
Well, Jesus is the ruling spirit in our Kingdom. His power is supreme. It is, of course, the Kingdom of God. This Kingdom is being formed by the Master. To him is given the supreme ruling power. We are all his followers. He rules by Love and ministrations. Not by the hard lines of force and coercion.
Yes, he has many with him in the Celestial Spheres, but they are all subordinate to, and obey him. It is hard to make you understand this. This obedience is the result of Love. The word does not convey the exact meaning intended.
Well, that was a request made by us in our desire to become of importance, but we did not then understand what His Kingdom would be. We are equal here provided; we have the same amount of Love, the Divine Love. That alone determines our place and position.
Jesus is the greatest of all, because he has more of this Divine Love than any other spirit, and because he is nearer the Father, and knows more of Him and of His Attributes. No distinction is made in this Kingdom because of any relationship, or personal greatness, only because of more or less of Divine Love in the soul of the spirit.
I will come to you at times, and write you of my Knowledge of the Truths of the Father. I hope that they may do you and the World some good.
I was not an educated human at that time when on Earth, and never was, so far as languages are concerned. I had no knowledge of the philosophy of the great thinkers and writers of that time. All the Knowledge I possessed of Spiritual matters came to me from the teachings of Jesus, and the promptings of the Holy Spirit. I was not a learned human in the earthly sense.
You have my blessings and my Love. I hope that the Holy Spirit may soon fill your soul with the Divine Love of the Father in greater abundance, and keep you in its care and keeping.
I will say goodnight. St. 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 Celestial Kingdom.
I am living, as I told you, in the Second Celestial Sphere. I 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". I do not know where they live. Jesus says they are a distinct class of God's Creation. That they live in Spheres that are separated from the Celestial Heavens that he rules in. I have often wished to see some of these "angels". 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, and 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 do not know whether these other "angels" will ever know anything about our Heavens, or not. 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, 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, 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. I want for nothing that is necessary to make me realize that God is my Father of Divine Love and Mercy. Yet I desire the progression that will take me to the Higher Spheres. 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. 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. Have passed beyond the Second Death, as it is written. Our Divine 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. 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 humans, 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 (progressing in Divine Love), 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 Divine 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 (Holy Spirit) 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, retard the soul's progress, and 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 Divine 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. 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. Human's longings for Light and Happiness will demand that the True Gospel be preached. 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, 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. You must rest awhile before you continue to write.
Your Loving Grandmother. (Ann Rollins)
July 8th 1915
I am here Jesus.
I want to add a little to what your grandmother said, on the efforts of the Spirit World to show humans the Truths of the Father.
I know that it will be difficult to make humans believe in communications that may come through mediums. That the churches will antagonize the reception of such communications. I want to tell you that there will be such power exerted by the Spirits of the Celestial Heavens, that no efforts on the part of humans, or churches, will be able to withstand these efforts of the spirits. Just as soon as mortals get in condition to receive these Truths, they will be given all the powers necessary. The Truths will come with such force, and exactness, that the erroneous beliefs will have to give way and let the Truths that I speak of take their places.
I know that it will be difficult to get men and women in the proper condition to receive these communications. It will be accomplished, and that, before a great while.
Humanity is NOW longing for the Truths of the Father. Their longings must be satisfied. No longer will form and ceremony, the mere declarations of the churches, as to what God has Provided for His Children, and what the churches have provided, be sufficient to satisfy.
The mind, as well as the credulity of humans, must be considered. When the teachings of the churches are against reason, and the Knowledge of Spiritual Laws, which humans may learn, these souls, which hunger and thirst for God's Divine Love, and The Way to obtain it must be satisfied!
I know that my kingdom will be established on Earth, in a fuller, and more Truthful way than ever. Humans will believe in me with a greater confidence than they ever have, not as a god to be worshipped, but as a brother and friend, who is able to show them The Way to the Divine Love of the Father, and to their own Salvation, and Immortality.
So, you see the importance of getting good and righteous mediums to convey these Great Truths. Mere physical phenomena do not Enlighten the soul very much, as to its destiny, and what road it shall travel to reach God's Divine Love. Such phenomena will henceforth become of less importance in bringing humans to a Knowledge of what awaits them in the Spirit Life.
I will try to influence many mortals to get into this psychic condition, so that they may receive these Truths, thus do the Great Work that is necessary for the Redemption of Humans, to a greater degree than in the past.
So, you must be constant in your work, and Faith. After a little while, many will engage in the same work.
I must stop now.
Your brother and friend, Jesus.
July 8th 1915
I am here, your own True and Loving Helen.
Well Sweetheart, you have had some wonderful messages tonight, and should feel that you are highly favored in having received such wonderful writings. The message from Socrates may have been a surprise to you and caused you to wonder at the Truths, and description that he gave of his conversion.
You are certainly a wonderful medium. You must consider yourself blessed in having such High Spirits write to you.
Have faith in the Master, and his promises. That is sufficient.
Your own True and Loving Helen.
July 16th, 1915
I am here, Jesus.
I see your condition. I will help you, if you will only continue to believe in me. I know that everything looks very dark and no Light seems to shine ahead, but it is coming.
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Yes, I know. It will come in time. You will be relieved, if you will only trust me. So do not be so downhearted, but look to the Father for His Help.
I am the Jesus who writes to you, and no other. I came today because you are so downhearted.
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Well, he will find his mistake someday, for no other spirit writes to you in my name. You must believe. Let him alone in his belief. As I have told you, a spirit from the dead, should it appear to him in the form of an angel, would not convince him. So do not let what he may say disturb you. Cheer up. You will triumph, and will soon see the Light breaking.
He (Dr. Leslie Stone) is on The Way, and will soon receive the Divine Love to a very large degree. He is a very Spiritual man, and is progressing in his Soul Development.
So believe that I am with you. Pray to the Father.
Your own True brother and friend, Jesus.
July 17th, 1915
I am your friend and brother in Christ and His Divine Love, St. Andrew.
I came because I am interested in the work, which you are called upon to do, and because we all Love you and want to see you progress in your Soul Development, and in your capacity for receiving the messages of the Master, which he has selected you, as his disciple, to receive and transmit to the World.
I am the True Andrew of the Bible, and no other. You must believe that I am. I know that you may have doubts, as to so many of the disciples of the Master coming to you to write. You must not be surprised at that fact, for who are more interested in the Great Work that you are to do, than the disciples of the Master, who know that his teachings are the Truth, and that humankind needs them at this time, more than at any time in the history of the World.
So let all your doubts disappear. Believe that we are with you in all our Love, and desire that you may be happy, and may have that Soul Development that will make you One with us and with the Father, the Creator and Preserver of us all.
Well, you must believe in what we say. I know of no way in which you can become more convinced than by our writing to you. Let no human turn away your faith from us. As no human can Truthfully say that we are not writing to you. Hence, the testimony of such a human is not of that character, as to overcome the positive testimony that you receive from us, and all your band, that the Master is actually writing to you. No spirit will be permitted to impersonate the Master, or any of us. We are of that Higher Order of Spirits that are all powerful. If any spirit should attempt to impose upon you, we would soon compel such spirit to cease its attempt to deceive you, and to leave you, in your efforts to seek and learn the Truth.
Yes, sooner or later they will disclose their cloven feet.
Well, we expect that you will doubt at times. We know, that after a while, your Faith will be so firm, that no doubt will ever enter your mind.
Jesus selected you! Because you are not worthy, that must not cause you to doubt that he has made such selection. He knows just what is best, and what your qualifications and possibilities are. It is not for you to say that you are not worthy, or not fitted to the work. Let Faith in him, in his Love, and in his promise, be established beyond doubt, or questioning.
Yes, you certainly are favored. You should appreciate that fact to its highest conception. I tell you that you are as much favored in being selected for this work, as were any of us when he selected us for his disciples. I may say, to a greater degree. Because you are the only one in all the Universe that he has chosen to do this Great Work. You will find, after awhile, that it is a work of stupendous importance, and involves much labor and exhaustion of both body and mind.
Well, I have written a long letter for my first appearance. I must stop. I say, as the most important thing to tell you now, believe. You shall see the Glory of the Father, and your own salvation.
I will say, with all my heart, that I am your True friend and brother, and will pray for you with all my Love and Faith.
So goodnight, your True brother and friend, St. Andrew. The Apostle
July 17th, 1915
I am here, St. Peter.
I come for the same reasons that Andrew came. I want to add my testimony to his, that you are the True selection of the Master to do his work, and that he is with you very often, writing to you, and bestowing upon you his Love and blessings. You must believe. Let not doubt enter your mind, or keep you from fully believing that the Master is your friend and brother, and is with you in your times of worry and gloom.
I am a spirit, who once, when on Earth, had great doubts as to the Master's Sacred Mission, and as to his being the True Son of the Father. These doubts left me when I saw the greatness of his person, and the Wonderful Love of the Father, which possessed him. You will remember that I even denied him. That is; that I knew him as a mere human. What anguish and suffering that denial gave me. So you must not doubt, or deny him.
I know now beyond all question of doubt, that he is the True Master, and the True Son of God. The only one in all God's Universe that has the Divine Love of the Father to such an extent as makes him almost like the Father in Goodness and Wisdom. He is your friend and saviour. Even more, he is your brother and companion in this Great Work, which he is doing for the Salvation of Humankind.
I, Peter, tell you this. I tell you it with all the authority and Faith, and more Knowledge than I had when I declared him to be the Only and True Divine Son of God. You must believe what I say.
So let no more doubt, or fear, that you are not the Master's instrument, selected by him and confirmed by his Love and grace to do this Great Work. I, Peter, declare it. I know what I declare, and say it with all the authority that Knowledge gives me.
All the followers of the Master are interested in this work, and in you. We are now forming our band, which shall guide and instruct you in all these Truths, which only we of the Higher Heavens Know.
I do not mean that we will supersede your present band, but we will work in conjunction with them. You will receive many messages from us as time goes on. You will believe that we write them to you.
You have more power of the Spirit World being exercised on your behalf, than has any other mortal. With the exercise of this power, there will come to you a power that no mortal has ever had, since the days when we lived on Earth.
So you must have more Faith. To get it, you must pray to the Father more and more.
I have written enough for tonight and must stop.
Let me again insist that you pray to the Father and ask for more Faith.
I am, your brother and friend, St. Peter.
July 17th, 1915
I am here, St. John your friend and brother, and At-One with God, and a follower of the Master.
So you must believe what the Master promised you, for he will not fail you.
I must not write more tonight, but will stop, and say that you have my Love and best wishes for your success.
So believe in what we write. You will realize the results of our promises.
So with my Love and blessings, I am, your friend and brother, John the Apostle.
July 17th, 1915
Let me add my testimony to what the others have written.
I am also a follower of the Master. I was with him in his travels through Palestine, was with him when he was crucified on the cross. I saw the great manifestations of God and the doom of evil. The principalities of the air, as St. Paul describes them. I was a True Follower of the Master on Earth, and a True one in the Spirit World. He is now the Prince of Peace, in its Truest Sense. His Love for Humanity is so great, that we, even though we are his True lovers, and very close to him, cannot comprehend it.
So you must believe in him, and in the fact that he has chosen you to do his Great Work. Believe and work. You will see the Salvation of the Father, manifest itself as never before.
You have working with you all the powers of the Kingdom of Jesus. Nothing will be able to withstand such powers. Love, the Divine Love of the Father, will enter into many a soul, and make it an inhabitant of the Kingdom through this Great Work.
I will not write more tonight. As Peter said; he will be with you often in Love and sympathy, and will write you of the Truths of the Heavenly Kingdom.
So with all my Love and blessings, I am, your own True brother and friend, St. James, an Apostle of Jesus.
July 17th, 1915
I am also a brother spirit. I want to tell you that the wonderful messages that you have received tonight are True. Were written by the spirits professing to write them. You must not doubt. So, believe. You will receive the Greatest of All Blessings, the Divine Love of the Father.
I will not write more at this time. I will come again, and tell you of things no mortal has ever heard of, or conceived.
I am your brother and friend, St. Jerome, the writer and commentator of the Bible.
July 17th, 1915
I am your brother and friend in Christ, and in the Divine Love of the Father. I am a human who was a follower of the Master when on Earth. I am a follower of him in the Spirit World. I mean in the Heavenly Kingdom. I am a Lover of God, and a part of His Divinity.
I was not one of his apostles, but I Loved him, believed in him, and died in his cause. I am now receiving my reward. I am now, as I say, an inhabitant of his Heavenly Kingdom. Immortality is mine, as it will be yours, if you continue to believe in him and get the Divine Love of the Father in increased abundance.
So, let me tell you; that not every human has bestowed upon them the Great Favor, which the Master has bestowed upon you. No other mortal, at this time, has that great blessing of love, and selection that he has given to, and made of you.
The others have told you of this Wonderful Divine Love, Power and Blessings that have been, and will be, bestowed upon you.
So I will stop now, and say that I am, your brother and friend, St. Anthony, as the World calls me.
July 17th, 1915
I am here, Helen.
Well, sweetheart, you have received tonight, wonderful messages, from wonderful spirits. I hardly know what to say.
It almost overwhelms me to see the great spirits of the Kingdom of Jesus come to you and write such messages. It seems to me that they are all interested in your work, to such an extent that they feel that every one of them must come to you and bring the Great Love and power, which they possess, and give it to you.
It is so wonderful and astonishing that I can scarcely conceive that it is True. I did not think that you would ever be so favored in your Life on Earth. Now, I see that you will have a work to do that no other mortal has ever had. To think, that you are my Ned, and a mere human.
So, I thank God for His Great Goodness to you. Also the Master for having chosen you as his disciple to do this great work. We are praising God, and thanking Him for His Mercy towards you.
I cannot write more tonight, as I want to think of it all. Only believe. You will see what a wonderful spirit the Master is, and how much he Loves you.
So sweetheart, I will say goodnight.
Your own True Loving Helen.
July 18th, 1915
I am here, St. Stephen.
I am the martyr. I came to you to tell you that you must believe in us, as spirits who once lived on Earth, and taught the Truths of Jesus to humans, and who were followers of him and Lovers of the Father, and are now inhabitants of His Celestial Kingdom, and Immortal.
I died the death portrayed in the Bible. Saul, who was my most pernicious persecutor, is the same person who afterwards became Paul the Christian. I merely state this fact to identify myself with you. To show you that I am the same spirit who once died for the Faith. So while I am now a happy spirit and an inhabitant of the Heavenly Kingdom, yet once, I was a mortal engaged in teaching the Truths of the Master, and suffered the pains and torments which such teachings, and such Faith, brought to many of Jesus' disciples.
Those times are past. Now, these Truths may be preached. There is none to make afraid. Yet opposition will come from the churches, and the ecclesiastical brethren, who are bound by their beliefs in the creeds of the churches.
Nevertheless, the Truths must be taught. The Master has chosen you to receive them, so that they will be given to the World. While your task is a glorious one, yet you will find much responsibility and antagonism, and maybe persecution in your private Life, because of such teachings. Be firm, and stick to these Truths. In the end, they will prevail. Humankind will be benefitted and will turn to the Divine Love of the Father and pursue The Way that the Master will show.
So let not your courage falter, or your efforts cease. You will find a recompense, not only in the Spirit World, but in the World of mortals as well.
I will be one of your band that St. Peter spoke of. You will find that your power for good will develop wonderfully, and in a way that will make the world take heed to the Truths that you shall transmit. You are the chosen one, and have with you the powers of the Celestial Kingdom. The World will not prevail against you, or your efforts to show humankind The Way to Salvation.
So put your trust in the Master, and in the Father's Divine Love. You will not be forsaken.
I will come to you again, and give you some Truths of the Father's Celestial Kingdom that will show the Real Truths of God's Will.
My teachings will be supplemented to those of the Master, and in Unison with them.
So I must stop now.
I am your brother and friend, St. Stephen, the martyr.
July 18th, 1915
Let your mind be open to the conviction, that I, and all the others of the disciples of Jesus, have, and can, write to you in testimony of your selection to do the Great Work that you have been called to do. Never was mortal so favored by the greatest man and most wonderful and powerful spirit that ever lived. I, an apostle, do not see how you could have been selected, and not so great a Lover of God as we might expect the mortal to be who should be called to this work. The Master has chosen you. He knows what is best. We have no right to pass judgment on his choice. No matter whether you are worthy or not, you have been chosen. You must do the work.
I know that you will have sustaining you all the power and wisdom of the Spirit World that is ruled over by Jesus. That will be sufficient to insure, not only success in your work, but also your own Soul's Development and Salvation.
I wish that I might tell you what a privileged human you are. I cannot tonight, as I must stop now, and let another write.
I am your brother and friend, St. Thomas, the doubter.
(Mr. Padgett asked a question. Answer was given as follows:)
Because my Faith was failing, as it did when I was told that the Master had risen from the dead.
Oh the curse of unbelief! I say to you above all things: Believe, believe, and believe. St. Thomas.
July 18th, 1915
Let me supplement what St. Stephen wrote. I am an Apostle of the Master. I was called Barnabas, the partner of Paul in much of his ministry in extending and making known the Truths of the Master throughout Asia, and Judea. I was not only the collaborator with Paul at Jerusalem, but among the circumcised Jews who embraced the faith of Christianity. I am now working with the Apostles, in trying to help humans, and spirits, understand and believe in these Great Truths.
You must believe that I am trying to help you in the great work which the Master has decreed and declared you shall perform. We are all with you, and will exert all our power and Love to forward the cause of Righteousness, and The Redemption of humans.
You must acquire the Faith, which is so necessary to your success. I mean the Faith, which leaves no room for doubt, that the Master has called you, and has, and will, give you power and Spiritual Development, that you may do his work, as he desires you to do it. Be a True Believer. You will not fail.
I will not write more tonight. I will say, may God prosper you, and make you like unto Himself in soul qualities and in goodness. I am your brother and friend.
St. Barnabas, the Apostle, and a Lover of the Master.
July 18th, 1915
Let me supplement what St. Stephen wrote. I am an apostle of the Master, and was called Barnabas, the partner of Paul in much of his ministry, in extending and making known the Truths of the Master throughout Asia, also Judea. I was not only the collaborator with Paul at Jerusalem, but among the circumcised Jews who embraced the Faith of Christianity. I am now working with the apostles in trying to help humans, and spirits, understand and believe in these Great Truths.
So you must believe that I am trying to help you in the great work, which the Master has decreed, and declared, you shall perform. We are all with you, and will exert all our power and Love to forward the cause of righteousness, and the Redemption of Humans.
You must acquire the Faith, which is so necessary to your success. I mean the Faith, which leaves no room for doubt that the Master has called you, and has, and will give you power and Spiritual Development, that you may do his work as he desires you to do it. Be a True believer, and you will not fail.
I will not write more tonight, and will say, may God prosper you, and make you like unto Himself in soul qualities, and in goodness.
I am your brother and friend, St. Barnabas, the apostle, and a Lover of the Master.
July 18th, 1915
Let me add my testimony also. You will soon see that any doubt is more than foolishness.
I am St. Luke, the writer of the Third Gospel, as it is called. Here let me tell you that, in that writing are things that I never wrote, and never believed to have any existence. I know that my gospel is considered one of the most authentic of the four, but in it, as it is contained in the Bible, are many errors, and impossible declarations of the truth, as taught by the Master. You must eradicate the errors, and retain the Truths. This you will be able to do when you have received the messages from the Master, and the Epistles that we the apostles and disciples may write.
Your labor will not be an easy one. You will be given strength, understanding and wisdom sufficient to make your work of showing the Truth to humankind, a correct and unimpeachable one. I will help you in this particular work with all my Love and powers of depicting the True Meaning of what may be written you. I will be with you continually, when you get ready to compile these messages, and other writings, which will come to you from the Master, and many others of us.
In order to become perfect in this great work, you must acquire abundant Faith, and a large degree of Soul Development. These qualifications are very necessary, because Spiritual Things conveyed must be Spiritually received. This we all know now. We tell it to you, for you must know it too.
I must not write more now, and so will say goodnight.
Your brother and friend, St. Luke, sometimes called the Doctor, and sometimes the learned disciple of the Master.
July 18th, 1915
I am here, a man who lived in the Faith of the Christ, and who was a True follower of him, and Lover of the Father.
I hesitate to write at the same time with these great spirits who have written you. Yet, I want to give my testimony also, to the fact that I have heard the Master say that he has chosen you for the work of delivering his Truths to the World.
My dear brother, believe this great fact, with all your mind and soul, for it is a Truth. One, which prefers you before any other mortal. Jesus, the greatest of all spirits, and the one nearest the Fountainhead of the Father's Love, has declared to us, who are close to him, and working to accomplish his great desire for Human's Salvation, that you he has selected, and that you will do the work, and will not fail, if you will only have Faith.
So make your start in trying to get this Faith. Pray to the Father for more of it. It will be given to you in great abundance. Only the Father can give the Faith that will remove mountains and overcome all obstacles.
I must not write more, say goodnight, and sign myself your True brother, and co-worker in the cause, John Wesley. The methodist preacher.
July 18th, 1915
I am here, your old partner.
Why, Padgett, such testimony as that would have established in court any fact that you or I might have asserted. Just think a moment. Here are witnesses of the highest character, with the Knowledge, and opportunity for Knowledge that cannot be disputed. One identifying the other and all testifying in the most positive way, as to that one particular fact.
Who can say that there can be any possibility of mistake? Never in the World, has a fact been more conclusively proved. If you doubt that you have been selected for this great work, I cannot understand the operations of your mind.
Well, my dear boy, to think, that in the latter years of your Life, this great work has come to you! A work that I am informed has never been successfully given to mortal before to do. You certainly are blessed. I am so thankful that it is so, and that you and I were friends on Earth. God moves in Mysterious Ways, His Wonders to perform.
So my dear friend, let me congratulate you, as you are worthy of congratulations. I will write soon, and tell you more of my opinion of this great surprise when I think more of it.
With all my Love, I am your old partner, and now your brother in Christ. A. G. Riddle.
July 18th, 1915
I am your grandmother. I feel that I must write to you before you stop, for I am so amazed at the great assurances that you have received, as to your being called to the great work of the Master, that I cannot let you retire without telling you what a blessed man you are.
I, of course, knew that the Master had chosen you, and the writings that you have received do not add one bit to my Knowledge. The thing that surprises me, is that all these exalted spirits should come, one after another, and declare to you the fact that you had been chosen.
Certainly, you cannot doubt, in view of what this multitude of witnesses have said. I don't quite understand why so many should have come to give you this assurance, unless it be that they wanted you to start into this great work with a Faith that admits of no doubt. To ensure that Faith, they saw to be necessary, that this great and cumulative testimony should be given you.
My dear son, I feel that you have been blessed above other humans now living, and that the great favor which has been bestowed on you is one that very few mortals have received.
So I tell you that we all Thank God and Praise His Goodness for what He has done for you. You must not think that He had nothing to do with this selection, for He is the Great Father, and Jesus the great Son consulted Him, as has been told me.
Jesus is himself, all powerful, wise and good, but also humble and loving. He is very close to the Father, and seeks His Advice and Guidance, as when on Earth.
So you see that our Master, while supreme in this Celestial Kingdom where the Redeemed live, yet he realizes that he needs the help of His Father. This is True, and will be True, during all Eternity.
Well, you are right, but you must not think of your own unworthiness.
So believe. I think that it will be the most wonderful band of spirits that has ever existed, except that band which watched over and protected Jesus from his birth to his death.
So my dear son, I must stop now. I will say that I am your own True Loving Grandmother, Ann Rollins.
July 18th, 1915
I am here, Helen.
Oh, my darling Ned, I cannot tell you how happy I am that all these great spirits should have come to you and testified that you are the chosen of the Master.
Of course, I knew it, and you knew it before, but to remove all doubt that you might have, they came, and in such certain terms declared the fact. I know that you will have the power and Love of many spirits to sustain you in your work. To think of the wonderful messages that you will receive, first those of the Master, which will excel all others, and then those of his various apostles and disciples. You will certainly be blessed with Wonderful Knowledge of the Celestial World.
You must not write more tonight.
Well, the power that will be exerted by that band will surpass any power that has been exerted before. You will have the protection and sustaining power of spirits that will not permit any undesirable spirits, or mortals, to interfere with your work.
I am your own True and Loving Helen.
20th July 1915
I am here, Thomas Paine.
When I died, I did not believe in Jesus as the son of God, or as his messenger sent to show the World that, the Father had bestowed upon it, His Divine Love and Immortality and the Way to obtain it. Now I believe to the fullest these Truths. I am a follower of Jesus, and the possessor of the Divine Love.
How different would my condition now be, if that erroneous and damning doctrine taught by the churches, that there is no Redemption beyond the grave were True. I never thought that there was any necessity for Redemption, either while on Earth, or after I should become a spirit. I thought that if there was a God, He would deal justly with me and bestow upon me happiness and enjoyment of the Future Life, according to my idea of His Love and Mercy. I must tell you that I was mistaken, in some particulars. God is Love. He is Merciful, but His Love and Mercy are exercised only in accordance with His Fixed and Unchangeable Laws, Laws that apply impartially to all humans, which in their operation make no exceptions. What a human sows, so shall they reap, is as True as that the sun shines for you on Earth.
I found the Truth of this Great Law in my own experience. I paid the penalties of my sins. Jesus could not do this for me. He never pretended that he could. He could, and does, show The Way, by which the operations of the Laws, which produce these penalties, may be superseded by the operation of other Laws, which, as it were, remove the penalties from the individual spirit. This does not change the Law, but changes the condition of the spirit, which invokes these penalties. If humans would only learn this Way, they would not remain in darkness and sin. Because they believe and assert that God's Laws never change. If they would only understand that while the Laws do not change, yet the condition of the spirit, which calls for the operation of these Laws, does change, and new Laws are brought into operation.
I have not time tonight to more fully explain these Principles, but should I, in the future, have the opportunity, I will be glad to do so.
Christ was, and is the Way, the Truth and the Life.
I am in the First Celestial Sphere. My name was Thomas Payne, the so called infidel. I believed in God, but only One God. Jesus was never God to me, and is not now. He does not claim to be God now. So you see even the so called infidel could come into the Truth and Love of the Father, even after he left the Material Plane and became an inhabitant of the Spirit World.
So, my dear brother, I will say, goodnight, and God be with you, Thomas Paine.
July 20th, 1915
John, Apostle of Jesus.
I desire to write a little while, and tell you of the wonderful Love that the Master has for you, in your selection to do his work. So I say, he Loves you, not only because you are his choice for doing his work, but because he wants you to become a very Spiritual man, having a large Soul Development, and becoming fitted to enter his Kingdom, and becoming one of his near and dear followers and brothers in the Divine Love of the Father.
I do not know of any mortal who has been so blessed in his Earth Life. Even we, who were called by him when on Earth, were not so Blessed, until we received the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, as you are now doing. You will receive this Great Gift in greater abundance in a short time. Then you will realize what the Gift of the Divine Love means to your soul, and to your Happiness on Earth.
So, you are now my brother, and a new apostle of the Master. I know your work will be greater in extent than was the work of any of us when we were trying to spread his teachings while on Earth. I hope that God will Bless you abundantly, and keep you free from all sin and error.
I am with you, very frequently, trying to help you to obtain the Divine Love of the Father.
Well, you will receive it. When you do, as you say, all other things will come to you. I mean all things necessary to carry on the work that has been assigned to you. So with all my Love and blessings, and the assurance that you will soon receive the Divine Love in increased abundance, and do this Great Work with a Faith that will not falter.
I am your brother and friend, St. John.
July 20th, 1915
I am here, another apostle of the Master.
I came because I am a participant in the great work, which the Master is now doing for humankind. I want to assure you, that in all your efforts to carry out this work, I will give you my Love, and exert my power to make you successful. I too, will be of your band. You will have a band that will be so powerful, that no opposition will be able to withstand it.
So you must have Faith, with that will come the Divine Love, and power to do these things, which will help you work beyond your conception.
I will not write more tonight, but in the future you will receive many messages from me.
Your friend and brother, St. Matthew.
July 21st, 1915
Daniel, the prophet of God, of the Old Testament.
I am with you tonight because you have reason to believe that you have been selected to do the work of Jesus, in transmitting his messages to humankind. I want to add my testimony to that of the others who have preceded me.
I am a follower of the Master, although I lived on Earth many years before he came to announce the Re-Bestowal of the Great Divine Love of the Father, and show The Way, by which every human whom so desires may obtain it.
I never knew what this Divine Love was, until Jesus came and declared it to human, and to spirits, as he did. When he came to the Spirit World, after his crucifixion, he preached to us who were in the Spiritual Spheres, the Great Doctrine of God's Plan of Salvation.
Humans must not think that mortals are the only recipients of this Divine Love, or that they are the only ones that had the privilege of learning The Way to this Divine Love. For as I tell you, Jesus came to the spirits who lived in the Spiritual Heavens, and made known this Great Plan, and taught The Way to Immortality.
I was, before his coming, a spirit who enjoyed the favor of the Father, to the extent that my Natural Love was developed to the Highest Degree. In that Natural Love, I was comparatively happy. I also possessed great intellectual development, but as to the Divine Love, which I now possess, I knew nothing of, nor did any spirit then living.
This may seem strange to you, because from my history as contained in the Old Testament, you would naturally suppose that I was in High Favor with God. And so I was. That favor extended no further than in receiving from Him a very great amount of the Natural Love, which He had bestowed on all humankind, and in knowing by my Spiritual Perceptions, and the power of a psychic nature, which I possessed, that God was Caring for me, and using me to convince the heathen nations that there was Only One God, and that He Alone should be worshiped.
Never did I know the Reality of what the Divine Love was, or that I was not in position other than I might have been, had not that (the potential for receiving the) Divine Love been taken from humankind when our Great Earthly Father and Mother committed their fatal act of disobedience. No spirit, in those times before the coming of Jesus, could possibly progress higher than the Sphere where this Natural Love, and intellectual development, existed in their greatest degree of Perfection.
So you see, I was never a spirit possessed of this Divine Nature, until after the coming of the Master. You will find, nowhere in the Old Testament, any declaration or promise that human should possess this Divine Nature. We, who lived in the days of my Earthly Life, were satisfied with, and expected only, the Favors and Gifts of God, as they might affect our Earthly prosperity and happiness.
I was a prophet, as it is written. God spoke to me through His Spirits the things, which I declared to the people. Also enabled me to foretell many things, which would, and did, happen. But this Great Favor and Gift, did not bring to me the possession of the Divine Love, or Divine Nature of the Father. When I came to die, I passed to the Spirit World a sprit possessed only of the Natural Love, and the great moral development, which my communications from my associations, which with the spirits of the Father had given me.
So humans must not think that we of the Old Testament, no matter whether prophet, seer, or the specially favored by God, ever had this Divine Essence of His while we lived on Earth, or while we existed as spirits, before the coming of Jesus.
Abraham, Moses, or Elias never possessed this Divine Nature. Although, they were the Specially Chosen of God to do His Work in the particulars in which they were chosen. They never understood that their lives after death were to be anything more than a mere existence in the Spirit World as spirits, or, as it was expressed, they were gathered to the home of their fathers. "Rest" was then understood as the great condition of the good humans of God. This "Rest" meant to them, a relief from all earthly troubles, and a happiness that would result from such freedom.
So that, when the Master came into the Spirit World, and preached the Great Truth of the Re-Bestowal of the Divine Love, the spirits were as much surprised, as were mortals. There was just as much unbelief among them, as among mortals.
The Jews still believe in their doctrines, which had been their Rule of Faith when in the flesh. The Laws of Moses, and the declarations of the prophets, control them as spirits, just as they had controlled them on Earth. Of course, after they became spirits, they learned many things, which pertain to the Spirit World of which they had no knowledge as mortals. Among the Laws, which they learned as spirits, was the Great Law of Recompense. Of course, Moses, had in a way, taught the Principles of this Law, as instanced in his decree of "an eye for and eye, and a tooth for a tooth." This was merely a shadow of what the Law of Recompense means in the Spirit World.
This Law, was then in existence, just as much as it is now. Then spirits had only the Natural Love to help them get out of their condition of suffering and darkness. In many cases, it required centuries and centuries for this Natural Love to work out their salvation. I must tell you also, that when this Natural Love had done its work, the spirit came into a condition of happiness and satisfaction. So much so, that many of them remain contented. Some, who lived on Earth when I lived, and became spirits when I became a spirit, are still in that condition of happiness, which this Natural Love, in a pure state, gives them. They did not awaken to the Great Truth that the Divine Love had been offered them at the time of Jesus' coming to Earth, just as many, yes, as the large majority of humans, have never awakened to this fact.
So you see, while God, in His Goodness and Mercy, has provided A Way, by which all may become partakers of His Divine Nature, and of the corresponding Great and never dying Happiness, yet, He has also provided a Natural Love, which may become free from all sin and earthly grossness. When so purified, enables the spirit to enjoy a happiness far beyond what mortals may conceive of. This latter condition does not bring Immortality. No spirit, with only this Natural Love, has any assurance thatthey areimmortal.
Well, I have written very much, and must stop for this time.
Well, at the time Moses and Elias met Jesus in the Mount of Transfiguration, they had received a portion of this Divine Love, because they had learned, previous to that date, of its Re-Bestowal on humankind. As they were Very Spiritual Beings, in the sense that they had developed their Natural Love to its Supreme Excellence, and were very near the Father in their soul development, so they were ready recipients of this Divine Love when it came again to human and spirits. They were so filled with it then, as many spirits who were mortals in your time are now.
As I understand the meaning of the Transfiguration, it was to show to the disciples of the Master, that while Jesus was the possessor and embodiment of this Divine Love in the Mortal World, so Moses and Elias were the possessors of it in the Spirit World. In other words, Jesus' appearance showed that it had been bestowed on Mortal human, and the appearance of Moses and Elias showed that it had also been bestowed on the spirits.
Sometime, I will come and relate to you my experience in finding this Divine Love, and in becoming convinced of the Real Mission and Truth of Jesus' Teaching, and how this Divine Love came into my soul and resulted in my becoming a Christian. The Sphere in which I live has no number. It is High in the Celestial Heavens, but not so High as that in which the apostles live. They have wonderful Soul Development, which means the possession of this Divine Love to a great degree, which determines their place of living.
Well, I am grateful that I could write to you tonight. I feel that by having done so, I am opening the way to my being able to do good to mortals. We are now forming an army, as you would say, to make a great and successful onslaught on the powers of evil and darkness, as they now exist in the Mortal World. Jesus will be the leader of this army. He is the greatest spirit in all God's Universe. We, who are his followers, realize that fact and follow him without question. So, my friend, I must stop.
With the Love of a brother, who to you may seem ancient, but is very young, I will say, goodnight, Daniel.
July 21st, 1915
Samuel, the Prophet of God of the Old Testament.
I am the same Samuel whom the woman of Endor called from the Spirit World to show Saul his doom. As I come to you tonight, I came to her at that time, only my purpose is not the same. I am not now the same spirit in my qualifications. I am now a Christian, and know what the Divine Love of the Father means. While then, I did not. I was a spirit living in comparative happiness, and existing in the consciousness that I had done my work on Earth, and was then enjoying the repose of the righteous. As we understood that word then, in both the mortal and Spirit Worlds, I was a "righteous human".
I come to you tonight, because I see that you have been chosen to do the Great Work of the Master in His efforts to Redeem humankind from their lives of sin and error, and to show them The Way, by which they may partake of the Divine Nature of the Father and obtain Immortality.
How much more humankind, and spirits too, are blessed now, than they were when I was a mortal, and for a long time after I became a spirit. My God then and your God now, are the same. But His Great Gift of Divine Love was not in existence then, as It is now. So you, and all other mortals, should realize the Great Privilege you have, because of this Great Gift, and the gift of Jesus to explain and show The Way by which that Divine Love may be obtained, and that freely, without mental exercise of a high order. Merely by the longings and aspirations of the soul in its desires to become a part of the Father's Divinity.
I tell you that the Ways of God are Wonderful and Mysterious. His Plans, while to us may seem to be working slowly, yet they are working surely, and will be accomplished in His Own fullness of time.
I never knew, when on Earth that God was such a God of Love and Mercy. He was our Jehovah and Ruler. He was a God of anger, wrath, and a jealous God, as l thought, ever ready to punish those whom He thought to be His enemies, with massacre and death. I obeyed Him and performed His Work, as I understood I should, more through fear than Love. In fact, Love was never with me a weapon or instrument to be used in bringing the disobedient Jew to a compliance with what we thought was the Will of God. In such a method of procuring obedience, the soul was never developed. Love was a minor factor in making the Jews obedient to the Father's Requirements.
Our principal desires were for the success of our earthly undertakings. When these were accomplished, we had no further use for our God, except to keep Him in reserve for occasions that might arise, when as we thought, we might need His Assistance.
I know that Moses commanded the Jews to Love God with all their souls, mind and strength. Many of them thought that they were doing so. In reality, their Love was limited, by the extent of their desires for Worldly gain. This I know, for when they had succeeded in obtaining what they wanted, they forgot to Love God. Hence, we prophets were so often required to instruct them, and so frequently did call them to a recollection of God, and the danger they ran in forgetting Him and His Laws. We seldom attempted to have them call back in their recollections of Him through Love, but nearly always through threatening and the portrayal of dire punishments that would be inflicted upon them should they continue to forget Him.
Thus it was that Saul sought my help and advice. He thought, that not only had God forsaken him, but that he had forsaken God. He expected the punishment that he thought would result from such neglect to serve and obey God. He thought, that as I was in the Spirit World, and probably very close to God, I would exercise some influence and have the great threatened calamity arrested. He did not seek me through Love of God, but through fear of his enemies, and dread that God would direct His wrath upon him.
So you see, fear was the ruling sentiment that actuated the Jews in my time in their dealings with God. When that fear was allayed, or forgotten, God was forgotten. Only again remembered when danger appeared. Of course, there were many exceptions to this class of Jews. There were some who Really Loved God and that in a way that no fear of wrath, anger on His Part formed a part of their Love.
So, you will see that the Laws of Moses were not so much intended to regulate the Spiritual, or soul part of the Jews, but to control them in their dealings with one another in the practical affairs of Life, and in their dealings with the heathens and strangers.
The Moral Laws, thus taught, were taught for the purpose of making them righteous as between themselves. Then, as a consequence, so they thought, they would be righteous towards God. But the Great Essential to make them One with God by obtaining the Divine Love was missing, never sought for, and could not then be found. For it did not then exist for humankind. I am now a Christian, and Know that the Divine Love is a Reality. That All Humans may have it, if they will only seek for it.
Well, the woman of Endor was not a witch, and did not practice the black art. She was a good woman, possessed of powers to call up the dead, as they were called. She did not engage in practices of doing harm to mortals, such as putting spells upon them, or using charms. She was a True medium, and while not possessed of much spirituality, yet she was a woman of good morals, and had around her many spirits of the Higher Order, whose only desires were to do good to mortals. She was the one who was careful to have no evil spirits come and communicate. Her powers with the Higher Ones were very great. Had she been, of what you call, the lower class of mediums, I would never have responded to her call. She was in rapport with humans, and other spirits, whose thoughts were turned to the Higher Things (Spiritual) of the Spirit World. Hence, she had no difficulty in having us appear, when she desired it, for the consolation of help to mortals.
Saul, I had instructed and advised when alive. Naturally, after I became a spirit, and he needed help, he would seek my advice.
In those days mediums were more numerous than most people suppose. Because of their being so common, and of such different kinds, and the most of them engaged in necromancy and evil arts, there were passed strict Laws against them pursuing their calling, or engaging in the practice of consulting spirits. Not all were bad. Many of them did good in the World. Among these was the woman of Endor. Notwithstanding that, she has been so vilified and abused, by the churches and preachers. You may be surprised when I tell you that she is now living high up in the Celestial Heavens, and a Redeemed Spirit, enjoying the Divine Love of God.
Well, I must stop. I will come again sometime and tell you of the things that I know in reference to these Higher Spheres.
I will say goodnight, your friend and brother, Samuel.
July 21st, 1915
I am here, Helen.
Well, sweetheart you must stop for tonight. You are tired, and it will do you harm to write more.
They are powerful spirits, and look as young as do the spirits of those who died recently, and were very young. I mean they looked like young men, and really are. They are very highly developed in their souls and intellects. Daniel is especially beautiful, also very powerful.
With all my Love, I am, your own True and Loving Helen.
July 22nd, 1915
I am here, St. Sebastian.
I am the spirit of a man who lived on the Earth a few hundred years after the death of Jesus. I was a bishop of the church of Christ, and was crucified because of my Faith, and teaching of the Truths of Jesus.
I was not a very great Christian, in the sense of having a large degree of Soul Development. I had the intellectual faith, which caused me to pursue with energy and zeal, the callings to which I had given my Life.
I was not known to the world as a great disciple of the Master, but in the limited territory in which I lived and worked, I was known as a zealous follower of the Master, and a propagandist of his Truths.
I am now in the Celestial Spheres. I am possessed of the Divine Love of the Father, and am Happy beyond description. I am interested in the work, which you are now performing. I want to assure you of my cooperation in making known to the World, the Great Truths, which Jesus came to Earth to teach and make known to humanity.
So, I will be of those who will sustain and help you to transmit these Truths to humankind. I will occasionally write you, as opportunity presents itself.
I lived in Italy, and died there a martyr to my Faith. So you see, I was like the disciples in this particular.
I will not write more tonight, but will say that, I am, your brother in Christ, St. Sebastian.
July 22nd, 1915
I am a spirit who when on Earth, was known as the man who conquered and destroyed Jerusalem. I am Vespasian, the Roman Emperor.
I became a Christian even before my death. I never was more than a Christian in name. I knew nothing of the True Doctrines of Christianity, or of the Divine Love, which the early Christians professed to possess, as such Divine Love was taught by Jesus. My espousing Christianity was a matter of political expediency, and was not the result of any fixed faith in the Truths of that religion. Since I became a spirit, I have become a True Christian. I am now a follower of, and believe in the Truths of the Master. I live in the Celestial Spheres. I am a Redeemed spirit and have the happiness which such condition ensures. You must not think that because I was once Emperor of the great Roman nation, that therefore I am a person of more importance than are those who were of less importance on Earth. That fact does not enter into the determination of what place I shall occupy in the Celestial Spheres. Only the Soul Development determines that question.
I am a high spirit, nevertheless. I want to tell you that I am interested in your work among humans, and the unfortunate spirits. So believe me when I tell you that I am in sympathy with your work, and will aid you to the best of my ability.
I know that you have your doubts as to my writing to you. I can hardly blame you, for it is not natural to suppose that the spirit of one who passed over such a long time ago would have the interest in you, or in humanity, to cause them to come to the Earth Sphere again, and attempt to write to you, or to help mortals. It is a fact, nevertheless. You must believe me.
Well, we do not stand still in our Spirit Life. We have learned many languages since we became spirits, knowing sometime ago that mortals would be called upon to do the work of assisting in the Redemption of humans, we have prepared ourselves, so that we can understand and write most of the languages of Earth. In the case of the English language, we saw that the greatest number of mediums come from the race speaking that language. Hence, we paid particular attention to the learning of the English tongue.
We can learn so much more readily the various languages since we became spirits. Humans must not think that spirits do not progress in their knowledge of nearly every kind of learning. I am not now the one-sided person that I was on Earth. The whole universe is open to me, to learn whatever it contains. I have studied, with great interest and assiduity, ever since I became a spirit.
Well, I must stop, but will come again and tell you of many things that my studies have brought to my knowledge.
So, with the best and kindest of feelings, I am, your brother in Christ, Vespasian, The Roman Emperor.
July 22nd, 1915
I am here, St. Chrysostom.
I come because I want to tell you that you have entered upon a work that will bring much happiness to humankind, and much Glory to the cause of the Master.
When alive, I was a teacher of the Truths of the Master. I lived a great many years among a people who believed with their intellects, but who knew very little of the Soul Religion. I, myself, was not a great believer in the Truths having reference to the Soul Development. I taught those Truths, which appealed more to my intellect, and which were of a character suited more to instill merely Moral Principles, than to cause humans to receive and understand the Real Spirit and Real Meaning of these teachings. Yet such teachings accomplished some good among the people of those times. I was a great student of the Bible, as it was then written. My studies enabled me to teach and explain these Truths in an intellectual way.
It seems strange to me now, but it is a fact, that I never understood the Inner Depths of these Truths. When I came to die, I had not the consolation of knowing that the Divine Love was the Great Desideratum, in order for humans to become At-One with the Father, and to become a partaker of His Divinity.
I learned these Great Soul Truths after I became a spirit, and met those spirits who had received this Great Love, and showed by their wonderful appearances and happiness that they possessed it. So you see that while I was sainted for what I was supposed to have done, for the good of the church, and for humankind, I was not a saint at all, but a very great sinner, without the essentials to make me a saint.
Many a saint of the church was, when on Earth, anything but a saint. The church, in making such person a saint, only does what a nation may do in making its prominent warriors and statesmen heroes in marble or bronze.
We, who were saints of the church, only as we were believers in the Christ. We were not saints, as to the perfection of our soul condition. In my time on Earth, I sought to correct abuses in conduct among those people, who outwardly, as clergymen, were carrying on the work of Jesus yet, in character, were lax in obtaining from modes of conduct, which were contrary to the Laws of God as proclaimed in the writings of Moses, and preached by the Master.
So no church can make a human a saint, by merely declaring and recognizing him as such. On Earth, the sins and evil deeds of humans may be hidden by the glamour, which the church casts over and around them. In the Spirit World, these sins and blemishes appear in all the nakedness, which the glare of the noonday sun may develop.
Character cannot be hidden, and defects cannot be hidden. Unless the soul of a spirit is pure and spotless, it will have to occupy that place, and take that station, which its soul development determines are suited for it. So how futile are all these canonizing and worshipping of humans as saints, when there is nothing of the saint about them. The poorest peasant may be more of a saint in the Spirit World, than the greatest and most exalted saint according to the creation of the churches.
I do not remember if Vespasian was a Christian at the time. He is a Christian now, and an inhabitant of the Father's Celestial Kingdom. So you must not let the doubts that you may have about his writing to you cause you to disbelieve what he said. I saw him write. I know it was he and no other.
With the Love of a brother, I will say goodnight.
Your brother and friend, (John) Chrysostom.
July 22nd, 1915
I am here, St. George (of the Dragon).
I was a warrior, and not a saint. I was an enthusiast in the cause of the Christians against the Turks. I fought and suffered and died. As to my being a saint, I never was one, more than was any other warrior who was stirred by the great cause, which urged us to rescue the Holy Land from the infidels.
While I was never a saint, yet I was of a religious turn of mind. Spiritual things appealed to my Higher Nature. At times my soul felt the influence of the workings of the Spirit World.
I was never a real possessor of the Father's Divine Love, as I now am. Since my coming into the Spirit World, I have received this Great Love. I am now a follower of the Master in my belief in his teachings, and in my efforts to work for the good of humanity.
I now know what the Divine Love of the Father means. How the possession of It, fills the soul with Happiness and Immortality. I live in the Celestial Spheres. I am a member of the Kingdom of Jesus.
So, I merely came to add one more testimony to the fact that through you, the Master is working to save humankind from their sins, and to extend his Kingdom of Divine Love and Happiness to all parts of the Earth.
I will not write more now. So I will say goodnight.
Your brother in the cause, St. George.
July 22nd, 1915
I am here, Jesus.
I am here to tell you that you have had a cloud of witnesses, as to your being selected to do my work. You have wondered why so many of my disciples, apostles, and those called saints should come to you in such close succession, and all testify as to that one fact. Well, I caused them to come, as I wished to establish your Faith, as to my being the True Jesus of the Bible, and as to your mission in regard to my work.
So now let all doubt leave you. Let your Faith grow, until you will never hesitate to believe, no matter what surprising communication may come to you.
I am glad that you are feeling better tonight. If you will only believe in my promises, you will have cause to feel very much better in the near future.
I do not intend to write more tonight. Soon will give you another message.
Yes, they were the persons they represented themselves to be. We will not permit any imposters to write. Yes, that is True, they were actually the old prophets. They were much interested in your ability to write. They will come again.
I must stop now.
Goodnight, your Loving Brother and Friend, Jesus.
July 22nd, 1915
I am here, Anaxylabis.
Let me tell you about the great pyramid of Gizeh. I want to do so in detail, as I was its designer. I built it under the direction of the great Egyptian king, Monyabasis the Great, who lived many centuries ago, before Rameses, who is credited with its construction. I know that humankind has no records, which tell of the reign of this monarch. Such records did exist, and in them was contained the history and the description of the occasion, which called for the building of this great pyramid.
These records were destroyed long before the present extant histories of the World were written. Long before the Book of the Dead was written, and long before any of the present kingdoms of the Earth had their beginnings. Centuries and centuries have passed since that time. No human has knowledge of what was then the condition of the human race, or, as I should say, speaking for myself, of the race that inhabited the region of what you call the Lower Nile. We were a race of a great intelligence. Of what you would now describe as a wonderful civilization. Many of our arts and sciences disappeared from Earth, and have never been rediscovered. May never be, for that race no longer has communication with the present race.
I came tonight because I saw pass me by wonderful spirits of Light and Beauty, evidently bent on some great mission. I followed them, and found myself with you. Listening to the communications, which they gave you, I found that there came to me a desire to write also. Well, as I listened, I soon saw that the communications were written in a language different from my own, and that you understood only that languagem and that I must write in that language to make myself understood, So I commenced at once to learn it. I learned it in the short space of time that I listened to them in their communications. This may seem impossible to you, but I can read the thoughts of spirits, and humans, without difficulty, and as all thoughts in the Spirit World require no language, such as you understand. I soon found that I could clothe my thoughts in your words, as I am doing now.
Well, I know it may not be very satisfactory to you, but it is True. I cannot more clearly explain it, so that you may comprehend it. Well, I have diverged or digressed from my intention of telling you what the design of the great pyramid was. I find that I have written too long to attempt it now, as this is my first effort at writing. So I will postpone it until later. I will come and give you the explanation.
I do not know in years, but when the Egyptian Book of the Dead was written, I had lived as a spirit many thousands of years. I must stop now and say goodnight.
Anaxylabis.
July 22nd, 1915
I am here, Anabalixis.
I lived on the lost continent of Atlantis. I was a ruler of the people who lived on this submerged continent. I come to tell you of its history, but your wife says that you are too tired to write more tonight. I will come again some time and tell you the wonders of that unfortunate land.
So goodnight, Anabalixis.
July 22nd, 1915
I am here, Helen.
Well you have had some wonderful communications tonight. I know that you are somewhat mystified, and have some doubts as to the genuineness of the writers. They were the spirits who wrote the communications. They said that they are, just who they represented themselves to be.
The last two looked like very ancient spirits and had wonderful intelligent countenances. They are not spirits of Light and Love, which the Divine Love gives to spirits. I suppose that they live in some of the Planes of the Sixth Sphere.
You must not write more.
So with all my Love, I am, your own True and Loving Helen.
July 22nd, 1915
I am here, Franklin H. Mackey.
I must write just a line to tell you that you are my friend and helper in my darkness and sufferings.
I have been much benefitted by your advice, and the help which your band has given me. I am commencing to see the Light and to know what the Divine Love of the Father means to a poor benighted soul who has been in a state of torment.
I will not write longer, but say that I am so grateful and will never forget your kindness and sympathy. May God Bless you and keep you in His Care.
Your old friend and brother lawyer that was, Franklin H. Mackey.
July 22nd, 1915
I am here, Hugh Taggart.
As Mackey said, I am grateful for what you have done for me. The Great Light that has come to me, by reason of your advice, and the teachings and help of your band, especially the deep sympathy and sisterly Love of that beautiful wife of yours. Why, Padgett, I want to tell you that the most fortunate things of my whole existence were my acquaintance with you, and the wonderful results that flowed from it. I sometimes wonder how all of this could have come about.
Where on Earth, while I knew that you believed in Spiritualism, yet I never realized what your belief and experience meant to you, and what a great help it would be to me, when the time came for me to become a spirit.
I will never forget our first argument, after I became a spirit, on this great question of how I might be rescued from my awful condition of suffering and darkness, and with what earnestness you maintained the position that you took, and tried to show me that there was a Way, by which I could get Light and Happiness, and relief from my torments. Mackey and I often talk about it. We wonder that you could have had such knowledge of these Spiritual matters, and such Faith to maintain the Truth of their existence.
You were right, and your Faith was not misplaced.
Old friend, I thank you again. God bless you! I am now in a condition of Light, suffer very little and realize to a great extent that there is such a thing as the Divine Love of the Father, and that it may be mine.
I pray. My Faith is becoming stronger all the time. The great proof to me, aside from what I see in the condition of other spirits who claim to have this Divine Love, is my own change in soul happiness, and in desire to progress to the Higher Spheres, which your band tells me exists, and that I may find my home there, if I will only pray more to the Father, and let my Faith enlarge.
To me this Divine Love and Faith is a new revelation. Of course, when on Earth, I heard of God's Love, and of Faith. To me they meant nothing more than the rhapsodies of the enthusiastic religionists, whose emotions had overcome their normal reasoning powers, a will' o the wisp, as it were.
Now I know the Reality of these things. I find that the emotions are in things pertaining to the soul more certain leaders than are the reasoning faculties. I am quite happy at times. I hope to make such progress in my Soul Development as to be happy all the time.
You are my True friend. I Love you as a brother now.
Well, they are still in darkness, but have progressed some little. The great disappointment, which Harvey experienced when he came over, seems to have such a baleful influence on him that it is almost impossible, at this time, for him to reach out and try to grasp the Truth of the existence of this Divine Love. But we are trying to help him. He is commencing to wonder at our improved appearance and to think that maybe we know what we tell him to be the cause of the change.
Mac is still in darkness. It seems hard for him to awaken to the fact, that there can be any other condition that he may have. He is very hard to reason with, and does not seem to have much desire to have his condition change. Well, I will not write more tonight.
I saw some spirits writing to you, but did not know them, except Jesus. I know him. I could never forget him, for there are none like him in grandeur, beauty and Love.
So my dear friend, let me again express my gratitude, and say with all my heart, that I am, your grateful, Hugh T. Taggart.
July 22nd, 1915
I am here, George W. Harvey.
Wait a while until I say something. I want to tell you that Mackey and Taggart have changed so much, that I wonder why they have, and I have not. They tell me that it is because they have received the Divine Love of God in their souls, and Faith in what the beautiful spirits of your band tell them.
I hardly know what to think. I want to ask what you think is the cause. I am a doubting Thomas. Well, I have heard what you said. I will try to do as you say. I will do so. I want to express to you my gratitude for the interest you have taken in me.
Your friend, George W. Harvey.
July 30th, 1915
A master in Israel, yet I did not understand this New Birth. How few understood it then. How few now.
Oh, the long years that have gone by since Jesus told me that I must be Born Again to inherit Eternal Life. How comparatively seldom this Great Truth is taught by the churches, and the teachers of religious matters.
This Truth, is at the Very Foundation of Humankind's Redemption. Until a human receives this New Birth, they cannot possibly enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. Humans may claim to have Faith in God, believe on Jesus' name, conform to all the essentials and sacraments of the churches, yet, unless they have this New Birth, their faith and works as Christians are vain.
This I know from my own experience, as well as from the teachings of the Master. I desire to emphasize, with all the powers that I have, that it is the only important requirement to Immortality. The New Birth means the flowing into the soul of a human, the Divine Love of the Father, so that, that human becomes, as it were, a part of the Father in His Divinity and Immortality.
When this Truth comes to a human, they commence to take on them self the Divine Nature of the Father. All that part of them, that may be called the Natural Nature, commences to leave them. As the Divine Love continues to grow and fill their soul, the Natural Love, and affections for things of the Earth, will disappear. As a result, they will become At-One with the Father and Immortal.
Why do not those, who profess to be teachers of Jesus' Truths, which are the Truths of the Father, and all followers of him, pay more attention to this Vital Truth?
When you shall have received the Messages from the Master, I think you will find this Truth of the New Birth to be the one thing that Jesus will emphasize and reiterate most. It is the Most Important Thing for humans, not only to hear about, and acquiesce in their intellectual beliefs, but also to Actually Experience.
I wish that I had understood it when on Earth, as I do now. He meant; as no human could see the wind, or tell from whence it came, or whither it was going, so no human, who received this New Birth could see the operations of the Holy Spirit, or know whence it came. This latter expression must be modified, because we all Know, it comes from the Father. Just how, we do not know. The Holy Spirit is as invisible as the wind. Yet it is just as Real and Existing. Humans need not trouble their intellects to know exactly what this Great Power is, for it is sufficient to Know, that which causes the New Birth is the Divine Love of the Father coming into the souls of humans.
I must stop, as I have written enough for tonight. So let me subscribe myself a brother who has received the New Birth, and a Lover and follower of the Master. Nicodemus.
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