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1916 March
Messages from Jesus and Celestials on Divine Love 1916 March
March 2nd, 1916
I am here, Jesus.
I desire to write tonight on the subject: How the Redeemed soul is saved from the penalties, which sin and error has brought upon it.
When the soul is in a condition of sin and error, it is not responsive to the inflowing of the Holy Spirit. In order to get into a condition of receptivity to these influences, it must have an Awakening, as to its "Actual Condition" of enslavement by these things. Until such an Awakening comes to it, there is no possibility of its receiving the Divine Love of God into it, and of turning its thoughts to the Truths of God, and to the practices of Life, that will help it in its progress towards a Condition of Freedom.
I would not have humankind believe that any soul is compelled to stay in this condition of slavery to sin until the Holy Spirit comes to it with the Father's Divine Love to Bestow it in all abundance. The Mission of the Holy Spirit is not to Awaken human's soul to a realization of sin and death, but merely to bring to that soul this Divine Love, when it, the soul, is ready to receive it.
The Awakening must come from other causes, that influence the mind, as well as the soul, and cause them to realize that the Life human lives is not the Correct Life, or one in accord with the demands of the Laws of God (the Laws of Love and Harmony), or with the Real longings of their own hearts and souls.
Until this Awakening comes, the soul is really dead, so far as its having a Consciousness of the existence of the Truths of its Redemption is concerned. Such death means a continuance in such thoughts of sin and evil, and in the Life, which leads only to condemnation and (spiritual) death for long, long years, it may be.
But to come nearer to my point of discourse.
The soul that is existing in sin and error will have, sooner or later, to pay the penalties for such sin and error. There is no escape from the payment of these penalties, except in the Redemption that the Father has provided by the New Birth. These penalties are only the natural results of the operation of God's Laws (The Law of Compensation, or Recompense). They must be endured, until the full penalty is paid. Even though a human may progress to Higher condition of soul excellence and have much happiness, yet they must pay to the last farthing, thus release them self from these penalties.
With much Love, I am, your friend and brother, Jesus.
March 4th, 1916
I am here, Rose.
I am your old acquaintance in the Spirit World. You have said that you Loved me as a sister, and wanted to make me happy. You did, for I am very happy, thanks to your help. I am the soulmate of the Judge. I merely want to say, that we are both with you at times, and try to help you, and receive help. He is progressing very rapidly now. Will soon be with me, when I know he will be extremely happy. He wants me to say that he will never forget you, and the great benefit you conferred upon him when you brought him in contact with me, and enabled him to learn what was in the future for him in the Spirit World. He is now a True Believer in the Truths of the Master, and is trying to obtain the Divine Love in all its fullness. He wants you to know that this Divine Love is a Reality, and not a mere thing of speculation. He wants to come soon and write you a long letter as he promised. He would have come before, but your time is so occupied by the High Spirits with their messages, that he has not found the opportunity to write.
Well I must not write more, except to say, that you have in store for you a happiness that you cannot conceive of. A soulmate that is so very beautiful and loving. Beloved by us all, and who has a most wonderful influence over all with whom she comes in contact. Greater, and above all else, you have the Love and wonderful friendship of the Master, who comes to you so very often.
Oh, I tell you that you are favored, and should feel that great benefit of the companionship of the number of High Spirits who come to you, for you do have a great number of these Celestial Spirits come to you, and write, and cast over you the influence of their Great Love. I am your friend forever. I want you to Love me too.
Yes, I try to help them (the dark spirits). I am present when they come. Some of them come to me for help. This is a wonderful work, and we are all so interested in doing it. The dark spirits who seek your help seem to be as much impressed, as many of us, that you have so much influence over them. When they start on The Way to Light, they, in many cases, find it, and then turn to you in gratitude and thanks. They are your friends forever, and say, that they will always be with you and protect you.
So my dear friend, I will say goodnight.
Your friend, Rose McGovern.
March 4th, 1916
I am here, Your Helen.
Well sweetheart, you have just had a letter from Rose, who has been waiting to write you for such a long time, and who is so happy that she could write you. She and the Judge were here together. Both of them think a great deal of you, and are very happy in the thought that you helped them so much, and caused them to come together, even before he became a spirit. He says he wants to write.
No, I was not present when she attempted to write, but White Eagle says she was not a very bright spirit, but seemed to be in need of help. She may be some poor spirit who wants your help.
Well, I was sorry that you were not in condition to take the Master's message. So was he. He says that he will come again soon. He was not satisfied with the message, and thought it best not to attempt to write tonight. As I see, you are not in condition to write much.
So with all my Love, I will say goodnight. I want one great big kiss, and your Love.
Your own True Loving Helen.
March 4th, 1916
I am here, Robert G. Ingersoll.
I would like to finish my message tonight if agreeable to you. Well, under the circumstances, I do not think it best to write tonight. I will postpone it as you say.
I am very happy and progressing, thanks to that dear grandmother of yours. She is a wonderful spirit, with a mind as clear, as her soul is pure. I cannot tell you how much I owe to her, her teachings, and Love.
That is just what I want to write about. I know that it is the important thing in the whole Plan of God for Human's Salvation. So I will write on that after I have finished the message, which I have already commenced.
I thank you and will say goodnight.
Your friend and brother in Christ, Ingersoll.
March 5th, 1916
I am here, your Helen
Well sweetheart, I merely want to say, that I am sorry you are not in condition to write tonight. The Master rather expected that you would be able to take his message. As you are not in condition, I will not attempt to write. I am very happy. I see that you are not so worried. I am glad of it. Only believe what we say. You will soon be relieved.
Your grandmother is here and says that you must pray more to the Father, and let your thoughts turn more to Him and His Divine Love. Then you will find that the rapport between you and the Celestial Spirits will be much increased. She sends her Love, and will soon write you.
Prof. Salyards is also here, and says that he will be pleased to finish his message, at your earliest convenience. He says that he will come and do as you suggest.
Well I must not write more, but say that I Love you with all my heart and soul.
So with a great big kiss, I am, your own True and Loving Helen.
March 6th, 1916
I am the last of the Mohicans, and want to write a line.
I was an Indian who lived in the early days of your country's existence. I was not a civilized Indian, as you would say. I was a warrior, a leader of my tribe, and have many scalps to my credit. So you see, there are some Indians in the Spirit World who still glory in the deeds, which they did on Earth, and still feel the hatred and enmity against the pale faces who inflicted injury upon them. I understand that some Indians have lost all such feelings, and that they are happier by having done so. It causes me to think that I may be mistaken in holding my hatred against the white people, and that I will never reach the happy hunting grounds so long as I am in the present condition of bitterness and hope for revenge.
What do you think of it?
I will do as you say. I see that your guide is a very happy spirit, so I will ask his advice.
This is all I wish to say. Goodnight.
March 6th, 1916
I am here, Seligman.
I am the Mohammedan who has written you before. I come to tell you that I have made investigation since I last wrote you, and find that what you told me about the Divine Love is True. I have received some of It in my soul, and progressing towards the Soul Spheres, where they tell me more of it can be found, and where live those, who have received it in greater abundance than I have.
I have never, in all the long years of my pilgrimage in the Spirit World, before learned of the existence of this Divine Love. Our Prophet never taught us of the existence of this Divine Love, or anything more than the Natural Love, which we all have, and the way to progress therein. Now I know that there is such a thing as the Divine Love, and that it is the only Love that will enable us to gain the Kingdom of Heaven.
Very few of my people have any conception of the existence of such a Divine Love. Consequently, they are in the Spirit Spheres, where only those who have the Natural Love live. They, while in many instances, are good and pure spirits in this Natural Love, yet they are not the possessors of that Happiness, which the Divine Love gives.
I am so glad that I came to you when I did, and had the opportunity of meeting and listening to the Christian spirits. Their teachings, as well as their condition of Beauty and Happiness, have caused my soul perceptions to open up to the Truth, and placed my soul in such a condition that the Divine Love can flow into, and fill, it, with its Influence and the Essence of the Father.
I am now in the Third Sphere. I am trying, with all the longings and aspirations of my soul, to get more and more of this Divine Love. These loving Christian spirits are helping me so much, and trying to show me The Way, and encourage me to increased efforts and Faith. I shall never rest contented now, until I have received this Divine Love to its fullest extent. I am told that there is no limit to the amount that I may receive, and no Sphere, either in the Spiritual, or Celestial World, that I may not attain to.
As I receive more of this Divine Love, I find that I become more unselfish. There arises in me, the desire that my brothers (and sisters) who know not of this Divine Love, shall learn of it, and seek to obtain it. I will go back to the home of my brothers, and try to teach them The Way, in which it may be found, and the Great Happiness that comes with its possession. So I thought that I would tell you of my great fortune, and of the hope that I now have of a Future Bliss, in the Heavens of God.
Seligman, that is the name that I wrote. Well, if you did not receive it in that way, there was a mistake, for that is my name.
I will not write more tonight. Thanking you for the help you gave me, I am, your friend in Christ, Seligman the Mohammedan.
March 6th, 1916
I am here, Mother
I am here, the mother of the boy who is sitting close to you. I am so glad that I have the opportunity to write to him. While it has really not been a great while since I wrote him, yet, it seems so to me. I have so much Love for him, and desire so much to tell him so. I am very happy; both on account of my own condition, and because I see that there is developing in his soul the Great Love of the Father, in greater and greater abundance. He may not realize this to the full extent, but it is True. I am able to see it, and rejoice that it is so.
His father is also very happy, and is progressing. Is now in condition to soon make sure his coming to me, where we can be together, without any necessary separation. His father says, that he is with his son quite often, and is trying to encourage him, and cause him to believe that his earthly affairs will continue to grow better, as they will.
His sisters are here, and also send their love. They want him to know that they are very happy, notwithstanding that they see that another brother on Earth is not in that condition of Soul Development, that they so earnestly pray for. They have great hope, that at sometime very soon, he will have an Awakening, that will cause him to turn his thoughts to the Higher Things of Life, and seek the Divine Love of the Father, which is waiting for him to ask for.
While we all feel the great want of spirit progression that our brother lacks, and that he is not very happy, and is doing those things that tend to turn him away from the things that would make him happy, and more in accord with the Will of the Father. Also, that he really suffers at times because of his soul condition. Yet, we are not really unhappy, because we know it is only for a season. That sooner or later our prayers and influence will have their effect. He will realize that there is something more to live for, as well as die for, than the mere material things of Earth.
Well, I do not know that I should write more tonight, especially as there is a girl here who is very impatient to write, and who is almost selfish in her desires to tell her Leslie, as she calls him, that she Loves him more and more.
So thanking you, I will say goodnight.
With all my Love to my son, and thanks to you, I will say, I am his mother. Priscilla Stone
March 7th, 1916
I am here, your old boyhood chum, Frank Davis.
Let me write just a line, as I am anxious to tell you that I have progressed out of the darkness in which I was, when I first came to you. I acted on your advice, and prayed to the Father for His Divine Love. After a long time, as Faith came to me, this Divine Love flowed into my soul. I was taken from my darkness and found relief in the Light and Happiness. I can now express to you how grateful I am, and with what joy, I thank and pray to the Father for His Divine Love.
I will not take more time tonight, but believe me.
Your grateful friend. Goodnight, Frank Davis.
Your old boyhood chum.
March 7th, 1916
I am here, Louis I. O'Neil.
Yes, it is he who was called Judge. I merely want to say a word, as I have not had the opportunity to write you for a long time.
I am now in a better condition than I was. I am in more Light, and have less suffering, thanks to the beautiful spirits with whom you brought me in contact. I find, that as I get rid of some of my old beliefs, the better I am, the more progress I make and the less darkness surrounds me.
Your wife has helped me a great deal. She is a wonderfully beautiful spirit, filled with Love and kindness.
I see a number of my old friends. I am sorry to say, that a great many of them are in darkness and suffering. Lyscomb is in a very bad condition, and has not progressed any thus far. Though I have tried to help him some, but as you know, he had a dogmatic, and all-knowing temperament, on Earth. So he has the same qualities here. It is hard to make him see things differently from what he thinks they are, or should be.
You may know that he frequently visits his old haunts in the neighborhood, where he spent so many hours in drink. He is still drinking, as he thinks. Seems to get a kind of satisfaction out of the deceit. He does not seem to be inclined to turn his thoughts to anything of a Higher Nature.
I tell you that the appetites of Earth are strong with the spirits who come to this World with them unsatisfied, or not gotten rid of. It is so sad that he has them, to the extent that he has, when he passed over. Sometime, I hope, that he will have an Awakening to the True Condition of his existence, and to the necessity of his having his thoughts away from these things, and seeking those things, which will enable him to get out of his awful darkness.
Now, you must not think from this that I am a very Highly developed spirit, for I am not. But just as the Higher Spirits have a work to do, so have I. My work, of course, can be only with those who are in a worse condition than I am. Strange as it may seem to you, every time I help one of these lower spirits, I realize that I help myself. What a wonderful provision of God this is. If humans could only realize this, they would live more in accordance with the Golden Rule.
Yes, I have seen Maurice Smith, John Clark, and many others that we both know. Also Perry. He is in a bad condition too. Does not seem to be much inclined to listen to the advice of some spirits who come to him. Your grandmother seems to be trying hard to help him. He seems to have more confidence in her, than in any other spirit. At times, it looks as if she is helping him, and I have no doubt that she is, but then he will relapse back into his old condition, and bewail the awful deed that he committed. As you know, he was a man of deep conviction. He seems now, to have some conviction, which holds him to his conditions of suffering and darkness.
Well, if we only knew while on Earth, what the Truths of this Spirit World are.
You certainly are wonderfully proud to have Revealed to you all these things. I am told that the spirits from the Celestial Spheres come to you, and give you their Messages of Truth. I will confirm this is unaccountable. You must wonder too, for when I was on Earth, I did not know that you had any conception of the things that come to you now. I know that I did not. That my beliefs were only those, which were to read upon what the Bible taught, as I thought. There was no reality to me in these teachings. The only effect was to create in me beliefs, which I now see in many particulars, were all wrong. At least they have now been realized. I am told, that they will not be. Yet they cling to me, in a way that holds me to my present condition.
I wish, when on Earth, I had known what you now know. If I had I would, I am certain, be in a better condition of Light and Happiness.
Well I have written a long time. I feel better for having done so. I thank you for the opportunity. So with my kind regards, and in hope that I may come to you at sometime and write again.
Your friend and well wisher, Louis I. O'Neil.
March 7th, 1916
I am here, John G. Carlisle.
I am the spirit who wrote you once before. I merely want to say tonight, that I am better than I was then. I am not in so much darkness. Yet I suffer. I am paying the penalty for my sins.
The advice that you gave me, and also the help that I received from Mr. Riddle, have benefitted me a great deal. I am hoping that sometime I may get into the Light, and be free from my sufferings.
If I could only have Faith, in what he and other good spirits tell me, I believe that I would soon be in a much better condition. Somehow, I do not seem to be able to have this Faith. My old ideas stick to me. Although, I realize that many of them were wrong, yet they cling to me, and hold me in the darkness and sufferings. This may seem strange to you, but it is a fact. Beliefs are wonderful things of substance and strength, when they have become fixed in a human's mind, by long year's acquiescence and fostering. That was my case.
As you may know, my animal appetites were strong. I gave free vent to them. To ease my conscience, I embraced certain beliefs, which as I lived, and fostered them, came to be realities to me. Now, they stand before me, as it were, like a wall of brass, and rarely give me an opening to get beyond or out of them. My friends that you brought to me are trying to help me. At times, I feel that what they tell me must be True, then comes in the old long years of belief. I lose the benefit of what influence I may have received from these spirits, who I see are so Beautiful and Happy.
I do not understand this enigma. Because I do not, I sometimes think that what I think I see in these others, are mere hallucinations of my own mind. Then again, these influences come to me with such force, that I think I must break away from these band of belief and see the Light, as they see it. The struggle is hard, and the progress is slow. I tell you that if I could only come again into my Earth Life, I know that my Life, or rather the way I lived it, would be very different. It is too late now. I must make my fight here. It is a hard one.
The thing that gives me greatest hope is that while Riddle may not have been so bad a human as I was on Earth, yet he was a mere human, with no special pretensions to goodness. Now I see him a beautiful and happy spirit. He says it is not on account of any inherent goodness in himself, but because he has received, to some degree, what he calls the Divine Love. He urges me to try to believe in this Divine Love, and open up my soul to its inflowing. It may be right. But I do not seem to be able to understand what he means, or to find The Way to open up my soul, as he advises.
This I know, he has given me hope. I, at times, make the effort to follow his advice. I even pray. I am afraid that my Faith is not very strong, though I observe that when he is with me I seem to have more power to make this effort, than when I am alone. He is kind to me, for he comes quite frequently. At times, there comes with him a wonderfully beautiful spirit, who he says is your wife. She seems to have so much Love with her. I say she comes with him. When she does, her influence is wonderful. I feel nearer leaving my old evil thoughts and getting into Light, than at any other time. She talks to me in such words of Love and encouragement, that it makes me believe that there must be a better place and a better condition for me.
So you see from all this, what thoughts and beliefs, cemented to a human's soul by an evil Life on Earth, will do for them when they become a spirit. All these evil things come before them, like a panorama, as they do in my case.
I sowed. I am now reaping. A saying, which I often heard on Earth which to me was meaningless. As it is, I have no doubt, to many others who are living such lives as I lived.
Well, my friend, I must not write more. I feel better, for I realize that it does me good to come in contact, in the way of exchanging thoughts, with a mortal. For notwithstanding I have no mortal body, yet in thought and desires I am still a mortal.
So, thanking you for your kindness to me, I will say goodnight.
Your friend, J. G. C.
March 7th, 1916
I am here, Helen.
I come. I am glad to do so, as I have been waiting sometime for some of your old Earth friends to finish their writings.
I rather enjoyed the last letter, for it showed me that Earth ties of friendship still survive, for a while anyhow, in this World, and that a meeting of long parted friends brings happiness. I see Mr. Davis quite often. We talk of you, and of the times of your Earth Life. I also try to help him. He is progressing. Is in the right road to the High Spheres.
Well, sweetheart, I see that you are very tired, and must stop. So I will not write longer, though I should like to very much.
So give me a hug and a kiss and say goodnight.
Your own True and Loving Helen.
March 11th, 1916
I am here, John.
Let me write a few lines, as I desire to tell you of something that may be of importance to you. You will remember that we have told you, on many occasions, that at sometime you would be in condition to do the work, for which you have been selected to do, in a way when all physical cares and worries would be eliminated from existence. I want to repeat tonight those promises, and say that the time will soon come when you will be in that condition, and find yourself free to enjoy the opportunities that such freedom will afford you.
We have been with you much of late, exercising our influence upon your Spiritual thoughts, and trying to help you to get in condition that will enable you to receive our messages without much difficulty, and from the influences of these outside things. We want you to get in condition that our work, and yours, can be done in this way. You must make the effort to assist us in placing you in this condition. If you will do so, we will proceed in placing you in the position to bring about the end that we so much desired.
I will not write more tonight. But will try our best to help you in your efforts. Ease your mind. Whatever money you can spare, to attempt to find this success and we will help you.
Of course, you understand what we mean. Very soon a spirit will come, who will direct you in the matter, and make your success certain. I will come a little later and write you more in detail.
So trust and believe. You will not be disappointed. Goodnight.
Your brother in Christ, John.
March 11th, 1916
I am here, John D. Mastry.
I am interested in what John has written you, and want merely to say, that I have been selected to assist you in the matter to which he referred. I will do my best to help you. I will be very careful in my advice. I hope that you will have faith in me.
This is all that I desire to say.
Goodnight. Your brother in Christ, John D. Mastry
March 11th, 1916
I am your own true and loving Helen.
Well dear, you must not doubt what has been written you. Try your best to follow the advice that may be given you, and believe that you will succeed.
John actually wrote you. So did the other spirit, whom I don't know, but who says he has been selected to do the work. He says his name is Mastry. That is all I know about him. You will have a further explanation of the matter a little later.
Some of the Higher Spirits were present tonight as you read the messages, and are very desirous to write other messages, will soon come to do so.
You must pray more to the Father for His Divine Love, and so get in the condition to receive the messages. I Love you very much. I so want you to be happy and free from all earthly cares. We will come soon and write you, so kiss me and say goodnight.
Your own True and Loving Helen.
March 11th, 1916
I am here, St. John. Apostle of Jesus.
I was with you tonight. I heard the sermon of the preacher on heaven, and what it is. As his text was founded on some expressions in a book of the Bible ascribed to me, which I did write, though not just as is contained in the Bible, I thought it meant that I should come and write you as to the Truth of the sermon. As to the value of the book, as descriptive or suggestive of what heaven is, what its appearances are, and what the spirits of the Redeemed are doing, in what the preacher designated as service.
Well, I first want to say, that while I did write a book of the nature of the one in the Bible named Revelation, yet this one does not contain my writings to any great extent. Nor are my ideas set forth, or followed, in this book of Revelation. As you may now know, in my time, and for a long time previous, the Jewish writers, because of the great troubles and persecutions their nation was undergoing, were accustomed to write books in the nature of the one contained in the Bible called Revelations, for the purpose of encouraging their people to believe that all the wrongs that they were suffering would be avenged by God and their enemies made to suffer and become destroyed. That in the end, their nation would be rescued from its condition of servitude and sufferings, and become the ruling nation of the Earth. These writings were accepted by the Jews as having the authority of "divine inspiration", and conveying to their nation the truths of God, and the same promises of His intervening in their behalf. The writings were always ascribed to some prophet, seer, or man of God, who had the special privilege of coming in contact with God, or some of His angels, through the mysterious and sacred means of visions.
Of course, these writings were merely intended to encourage the Jews to establish their Faith in God, and in the belief that He would send them a Messiah, who would have the power to redeem them from the punishments and thralldom that they were undergoing, under the tyranny and strength of their heathen captors and persecutors.
Always were these writings prophetic. Held forth the promises for the future, without ever attempting to fix a time for their fulfillment, or the ending of the nation's woes and the coming of its deliverer, so that as time went on, and the promises were not fulfilled, hope continued to exist, and the belief of the Jews was not lessened. Non-fulfillment was explained by the further belief that the time for the consummation of their eagerly wished for expectations had not yet arrived. That God was all knowing, as well as all powerful, and careful for their race. That He, and He alone, understood just when the proper and fitting time should arrive.
This hope upon hope was a wonderful force in keeping up the beliefs and expectations of the Jews. So effective was it, that to this day, they remain a nation, or rather a race, in belief and expectation of this coming Messiah. Alas, as they did not recognize and accept him when he did appear, they will never again see his appearance. For he will never come as their Messiah, as expected of old, only, as the Great Teacher and Redeemer, not only of their race, but also of all the peoples of the Earth. He has already come as such a Redeemer, and is working now, to lead humans to the True and Only Way to Life, Happiness and Immortality. Never will any Messiah come to the Jews to establish them on Earth as a great and chosen nation, as nearly all of them believe and still look for.
Thus, as I say, many books or manuscripts were written by the claimed Jewish prophets, holding forth to the Jews the results of visions, claimed to have been experienced by these writers. As the prophecies, in the sense that the Jews understood them have never been fulfilled, neither will they be fulfilled in the future. Their value has no Reality.
This custom, as I may call it, continued from these early times, down to the time in which I lived and wrote. My book of prophecy was written by me, not with the purpose of establishing the Jews as a nation on Earth, or causing them to believe that their hopes or longings would be fulfilled, but for the purpose of encouraging the Christians to believe that, notwithstanding their persecution, sufferings and martyrdom, they would in the Future Life, when they should meet the Master and the saints, find Joy, Peace and Heaven. In my writings, nothing was said about the wrath of God being visited upon the persecutors of the Christians, or of their having to go into a hell of fire and brimstone, so that from that fact the happiness of the Redeemed would be increased.
My writings have been added to. All kinds of grotesque imagery interpolated, so that the whole design and purpose of my writings were changed and destroyed. The present Book of Revelation is only a mere allegory of some one, or more, writers who were gifted with some knowledge of the Christian teachings, and unusual oriental imaginations.
This book is of no value. On the contrary, is doing much harm to the Cause of the Truth, as taught by the Master. As we who are in the Celestial Heavens, and have Knowledge of things Heavenly, as well as things earthly, Know to be the fact.
It should not be accepted as a truth of the revelation of truths. Not be believed in for any purpose. It has led many good humans, honest and earnest seekers after the Truth, astray, and caused them to believe, and teach, false doctrines that have resulted in much darkness and stagnation in the development of human souls in their longings for the Truth. So, I say, let humans entirely discard its teachings, and any and all lessons that the preachers, or others, who think that they can understand its meaning, attempt to teach.
The writings that I gave to my people, of the kind mentioned, have long ago served their purpose. The writings called the revelations contain in it no truth that will help humankind to the Heavenly Kingdom, or to their Eternal Happiness and At-Onement with the Father. Let it die the death of a falsehood, born out of time.
I also was interested in the struggle of the preacher to explain what heaven is, and what his people, who may consider themselves redeemed children of God, will find when they become inhabitants of that heaven.
Well, he spoke Truly, when he said heaven is a place, as well as a condition. It is inconceivable that any condition of the spirit of a mortal could exist, unless there be a place where that spirit could find a habitation. All space, in the Universe of God, is a place, or contains places, where things of existence must find localities. There is no such thing as a vacuum in God's Economy. All parts of space are fitted with something having substance, either material, or Spiritual. Wherever such substance is, there is a place for its abiding.
Yes, Heaven is a place, or a number of places. For the preacher is far from having the True conception of Heaven, when he supposes it is one large place, where all believers go after death, irrespective of their condition of soul, and moral perfections. As I say, there are many Heavens, and many places. All as Real and substantial, as are the different stories and rooms in your home of Earth. The partitions, if I may so speak, between these different places are just as impassable for spirits that have not the proper qualifications to pass through, as are the partition walls between the various rooms in your Earth homes for you mortals to pass through. These places are distinctive. The many mansions that the preacher referred to are situated in many heavens, or more correctly many Spheres of the Heavens. Strictly speaking, there are two heavens in God's Spirit Universe. Namely, the Heavens of the Redeemed and Transformed soul, by the Divine Love, called the Celestial Heavens. And the Heavens of the Restored Perfect Human, called the Spiritual Heavens, each and all of them being places of Real Perfection, and substance.
As one star differs from another star in glory, so these several Heavens within Heavens differ from one another in glory and appearance, and in those things, which help to make the mansions of their inhabitants beautiful, attractive and glorious.
It would take too long for me to attempt to describe any of these Heavens. They each, and all, excel any conception that the mortal is capable of having. I will say this, that there are no streets of gold, pearly gates, suns, or stars in any of them. Only the Light of God's Love and Mercy illuminates them.
I will postpone my further writing. I will come very soon and complete what I intended to say about the sermon of the preacher, and attempt to show the Real appearance of some of the Heavens, and what service the Redeemed Children of God render when they come to the Spirit World.
So my dear brother, I will say goodnight.
Your brother in Christ, John.
March 14th, 1916
I am here, John D. Parker.
Let me say a word, for I am interested in you, and your work to a very large extent. I have not written you before. I want merely to say that you are receiving these messages from the Higher Spirits. You must believe that you are.
I am a spirit, who once lived in a country far away, from where you live. I was not a Christian human, in an orthodox sense, but was a believer in God, though not in the God of the Bible, as I never thought that a Loving God could be the wrathful and vindictive God that the Jews believed Him to be.
I have been in the Spirit World for many years. I am a follower of Jesus, in his Truths and Teachings. I am an inhabitant of the Seventh Sphere, where only the followers of him live.
I will not write more tonight, as I see that you are tired, and others want to write a little.
So with all my brotherly Love, I will subscribe myself, your brother in Christ, John D. Parker. Of Liverpool, England.
March 14th, 1916
I am here, Josephus.
I am Josephus. Yes, Josephus the Jewish Historian, who has written you before.
I merely want to say that I am interested in your work, and that you are receiving messages from the High Spirits, whose homes are in the Celestial Spheres. You must believe what they write you, for they write only the Truth. I see that you are sleepy tonight, and that I must not write more, though I would like to write you a long letter at this time. I will come again and give you my views on certain matters in which you are interested.
Your brother in Christ, Josephus.
March 15th, 1916
I am here, Jesus.
I wish to write tonight on the subject, "What it is that makes a human Divine."
When humans were Created, they were given the Highest Qualities that could be bestowed upon a mortal. Yet they were mere human. But The Perfect One. With these qualities were given them the possibility of becoming Divine, like the Father in His Divine Nature. This Gift, was never possessed by them, in its enjoyment of full fruition, until after my coming to Earth, and making known to human that such a possibility existed.
The First Created Human never possessed this Gift in its fulfillment. Merely had the possibility of receiving It, on condition that they continued in their obedience, and made the effort to receive it, in The Way that the Father declared was the Only Way.
You have been told in detail what this Gift was. How the First Parents forfeited the enjoyment of it, by their disobedience and ambition to possess it, in a way that was not in accord with the Father's Way.
As we have said, human lost this possibility at the time of the First Disobedience. Thereafter became gradually a human with their Moral Nature sinking lower and lower, until they became almost lost in the condition of the beasts in the field. From that condition, they have been steadily improving, or progressing, towards their First Estate of Purity.
A great many humans have ceased to know, or have never known, that God is the Creator of All Things, and that All Creation is dependent upon Him for its very existence. In their self-assurance, and self-importance, they have assumed, and professed to believe, that their progress or salvation depends upon their own efforts. That these efforts are sufficient to bring about this State of Purity or Harmony with God's Laws and Desires. In this, humans are mistaken. For there is nothing in them that is Divine. There never will be when they depend upon their own selves to progress to this State of Perfection. The Divine Nature of the Father is not in human, and will never become a part of them, until they pursue The Way, which is absolutely necessary for them to follow, in order to become anything more than mere human.
I will not write more tonight, as I think it best not to do so. I understand that you could not prevent your condition of sleepiness. I do not blame you. I think it best to wait until later to finish what I desire to write.
Well, my dear brother, believe that I have only Love for you, and will get close to you as we progress. So I say, do not worry.
I will say goodnight. Your brother and friend, Jesus.
March 15th, 1916
I am here, and desire to write just a few lines, for you are not in condition for lengthy writing tonight.
The Master was disappointed, but he is so Loving and Good that he did not complain. Only wanted you to feel that you must not worry, because of the fact that you could not take his message. Nevertheless, he was disappointed.
I understand that you could not control your sleepiness, and are not to blame. It was unfortunate. It must, in some way if possible be avoided in the future.
If you only realized the Great Importance of these messages, and the great number that are yet to be written, you would bend every effort to facilitate their reception. I am not saying this complainingly, merely stating a fact. So try your best to get in a good condition, so that there will be no failure in your receiving the messages.
I am so very much interested in this work. So are a host of other spirits, who realize the importance of these Truths being given to humankind. They are the Only Truths. Never, since the time when the Master was on Earth, have they been revealed to human.
I will not write more tonight. I will say, with all my Love, that I am your brother in Christ, St. Stephen.
March 15th, 1916
I am here, Prof. Salyards.
   Well, I was telling you of the object of human's Life on Earth. The necessity for their doing certain things, in a general way, in order to bring to humankind the happiness, which might be theirs while on Earth. Now I desire to go a little in detail with reference to these matters.
   As has been written you before, there is Only One Way, in which human can attain to the Supreme Happiness, which the Father, in His Goodness has made possible for human to attain to, which when once obtained, can never be taken from them.
   There is also another kind of happiness, which is not, in either its nature, or results, the same as that, which I have just referred to. Human may obtain it, in a way, and by a method, which are different from those, which are necessary to obtain the first kind.
   Human was Originally Created Good, Pure, and Happy. Only by their disobedience, did they lose these qualities, which when lost, finally made them approach, somewhat, the likeness of the lower animal. Although, the latter is probably not so unhappy as human became, by their fall from the State of the High Condition of their Creation.
   When in their Original State, they were Happy, in what we called, and what was, their Natural Love, which they fully possessed, and needed nothing additional to make them happy. This condition made human their own master, as it were. The Father's Divine Love was not necessary to develop them more, as mere human, than they then existed. They were Pure, free from sin, and in Perfect Harmony with God's Laws governing their Creation. After the disobedience, they lost this Harmony. In doing so, lost also, the power to preserve in them self the Happiness, which was their by Right of Creation. They also soon realized, that as this power left them, their dependence upon them self, became less and less effective, to keep them in a condition of Purity and contentment. As a consequence, they became less than Perfect Human, has been such ever since that time.
   Now, with the other qualities that were given them, at the time of their Creation, there was, and is, one that they have never been deprived of. One that they have never realized their inability to exercise, although they so often exercise it wrongly. That is, the will. Which is the Greatest of the Natural Attributes that human possesses. For even God will not attempt to control that. I mean in the way of compelling. This quality is the one, that more often than any other, will help human to again attain to that State, or Condition, in which they were The Perfect Human. While this is True, yet it is also one of the greatest obstacles to attaining to that state.
   Upon human them self, very largely, depends the success of their regaining their Pristine Purity and Harmony with the Laws that govern their being. They must understand this fact. If they should believe, and rest in the belief, that other humans, or other instruments controlled by humans, can rescue them from their present condition of inharmony and unhappiness, they will be disappointed. Their salvation will be a long time delayed.
   The exercise of this will power, in the proper direction, will depend upon other things that they must possess, in order to insure their return to their First Estate. Among these are the necessity for their obtaining Knowledge, that will enable them to know them self, and the relationship of them self to what is True and Good. This Knowledge, will come to them, as they examine them self, and learns the difference between right and wrong. This, I mean, in its general sense. For right and wrong mean Harmony, or inharmony, with the laws, of which I speak. Not right and wrong according to the several circumstances of humans. For these differ. What may be right or wrong to one human, will not be to another.
   Human, by proper contemplation, and observation, may learn the difference between right (Harmony) and wrong (inharmony), in the sense in which I use the terms, be enabled to embrace, or avoid, those deeds, or thoughts, that come within one category, or the other.
   Again, they must realize that there is such a thing as the Natural Love being a part of them. A thing, which may be possessed and cultivated, to such a high degree that all humans will be brothers to them, the Children of One Common Father, who has Love and Care for All Alike, who are content to remain the mere human.
   Again, they must realize that they have a Father in God, their Creator, that, that Father has a Love for them, which will always bring to them Happiness and Peace, if they will only respond with their own Love. Human must have an object of worship and adoration, even when they possess only the Natural Love. They must learn that their Love must go out to the Father in Faith and confidence. There are also many other things that they may learn by contemplation and meditation as I have said.
   Many qualities that are desirable will flow to human from the Knowledge that there is a Father who Loves them, and that they have, or may have, a Love for that Father, and for their fellow human. In fact, from these two subjects of Knowledge, everything else may come to human, that will make them the Perfect Human, in Harmony with the Laws of their Creation, a Pure Happy and Contented Creature.
    Now, when human obtains this Knowledge, here observe the distinction between Knowledge of these things, and the possession of them, they will naturally try to obtain all that Knowledge shows them may become theirs to possess. Then, will come into operation the Great Will Power, by its exercise, there is nothing that can prevent them from arriving at the goal of their desires.
   In this way, one can in a sense, be their own redeemer. They will find the struggle hard, the obstacles to be overcome, many, and repelling.
   There are many mortals who have a wonderful development of this Natural Love. Notwithstanding the fact that they are living in sin, and in inharmony, with the Laws that I speak of, who will find, from that fact alone, that their progress will be more rapid and easy when they come to the Spirit World, on their journey to the State of Perfect Human. I do not believe that any mortal can ever attain to this condition while in the Earth Life. They can lay the foundation for a rapid progress after they become a spirit. The temptations and desires that beset them, as a mortal, at this time, are so great that rarely can they become that Perfect Human while on Earth.
   The time will come, I believe, when humans will become Perfect even while on Earth. In this, I have reference to their Natural Love merely. While, as I say, for human to obtain this State of Perfection, they must depend upon them self, to a very large degree. Yet, it will be comforting to them to know, that there are hosts of spirit friends who are with them, trying to help them to obtain the Knowledge, of which I have spoken. In their contemplations, and meditations, they (the spirits) are with them, suggesting to them, and impressing on them, the thoughts of Truth that help them so very much to understand the right, from the wrong. They (spirit friends) also sustain them, in some degree, in the exercise of their will in the right direction.
   So from this, it must become apparent to human, that a very important thing in the determination of this great problem, as to what is right, and what is wrong, is the kind of associates that they may have. This applies to the mortal, as well as spirit, companions. Human must know this, that as their desires and appetites on Earth attract to them companions of similar desires and appetites, so, also, does the same Law of Attraction operate in the case of their spirit friends.
   Now, in all this, I have no reference to the Redemption of Human by the possession of the Divine Love of the Father. For such Redemption, and its way of saving human, are altogether different, from those of redeeming them in their Natural Love.
   In the one case, when they have found the goal of their desires, they become a merely Perfect Human, and nothing more. In the other case, they become a Divine Angel of God. Divine is their Nature, with no limitation to the spiritual progress that they may obtain, and the Happiness that may become theirs.
   Oh, human! Why will you be satisfied to become merely a Perfect Human, when you may become a Divine Angel of the Father's Kingdom, with Immortality assured?
   Human may not know it, but it is a fact, that it is easier, and the way is shorter, to become a Divine Angel, than to become a Perfect Human.
   So my advice to all humans is; and I speak what I do know, from a knowledge that comes to me from experience and possession, to seek for the Divine Love of the Father, with all their strength and efforts. Then they will become not only the Perfect Human, but will obtain that, which our First Parents never obtained, but which was theirs for the proper seeking, as it is all human's.
I have written enough for tonight, and will close.
Your old friend, professor, and brother in Christ, Joseph H. Salyards.
March 16th, 1916
I am here, Joseph of Arimathea.
I desire merely to write a few lines to let you know that I really did exist as a mortal, and that I am the same human who laid the body of Jesus in the tomb, where never before had any body been laid.
I was with him at his death. I was with his body when it was laid in the tomb and sealed. I know, and testify, that no human, or humans, or society of humans, as it has been said, stole his body from the tomb. His body was entombed, as was the custom of my time. He was wrapped in cerements, and fitted for the long sleep in the tomb, as we supposed.
While I was not a full Christian, yet his doctrines appealed to me as containing the Truth, having about them a living inspiration, which I did not find in the teachings of the Jewish theology, for l was a Pharisee. I never thought that his death was justifiable, or approved it. I was not able to prevent it. Feeling that a great crime had been committed by the people, of whom I was one, I tried to make small atonement for the great crime, by giving him burial in my new tomb.
Of course, I did not believe that he would rise again, in the way that he had made known to some of his disciples. When we buried him, I only thought that that tomb would be his sepulcher, until nature had destroyed the body, as it had done in the cases of all others who had been entombed.
As you may realize, I was interested in the proceedings, taken by the Jewish leaders in their efforts to prove that he, Jesus, would not arise from the tomb on the third day. I kept watch, as well as did the soldiers. I can testify that no mortal ever removed the stones from the mouth of the tomb.
I was there when the Angel came, and the soldiers were put in the sleep, that the Bible speaks of. I, Joseph say this, knowing that it may not be believed, and the Bible makes no mention of it, that I saw the stones rolled away, and the "shining one" standing guard at the entrance of the tomb. I was frightened. I left the place, and was so overcome that I did not return there until the early morning. Then I saw Mary, and heard her inquiring for the whereabouts of her beloved Master, and more wonderful, I saw the man of whom she inquired, suddenly reveal himself to her. I can testify also, that it was the same Jesus whom I had helped lay his body in my tomb. He was not of flesh and blood, as they say, for he suddenly appeared. His appearance was not the same as that of the Jesus whose body had been entombed, but when he revealed himself to Mary, there was the same countenance, the same wonderful eyes of Love that I was familiar with, the same voice of Love and Affection. I know this, and I want to tell the World that it is True.
Before Peter came, I went into the tomb. It was empty. When Peter came, I was with him in the tomb and saw his astonishment, and heard his words of wonder and amazement, for notwithstanding what the Master had told him prior to the crucifixion, he did not believe, or comprehend. He was astonished and bewildered, as were all of us.
Jesus of Nazareth arose from that tomb, and his fleshly body was de-materialized. As to his disappearance, I could not then explain, as could none who saw him after he had arisen. Now I know that because of his great psychic powers, as you would call them, he caused the disintegration of that body into its elements, as can be done now by many spirits who have that power.
Yes, Jesus arose from the tomb, but not from the dead, for he never died, as you will never die, only the physical vestment that enveloped his soul.
I am now in the Celestial Heavens. I am with him a great deal. I know that he is the greatest and most wonderful of all the spirits in the Celestial Spheres. The nearest to the Fountainhead of God's Love. He is Truly His Best Beloved Son.
I also want to say that he writes to you his Messages of Truth, and was with you tonight for a short time. Listen to him, and know that you have in him a friend who is closer than a brother, father, or mother.
My brother, I will stop now. In leaving say that, you have my Love and blessings.
Your brother in Christ, Joseph.
March 18th, 1916
I am here, St. John, Apostle of Jesus.
I wish to write tonight on a subject that is of importance to the members of the orthodox churches, as to the belief in the efficacy of the atonement of Jesus by his death and crucifixion.
All the orthodox believe, and their preachers and evangelists teach, in their sermons and addresses, and the teachers of Bible classes instruct their students, that the blood of Jesus, and his death on the cross, were the two factors in his career on Earth that save humans from their sins, and satisfy the great penalty of death, which overhangs them, because of human's first disobedience, and the sins that followed therefrom.
Well, this doctrine has prevailed in the beliefs and teachings of the church, ever since the church became established by the convention that met in pursuance of the orders of Constantine, when the books that now constitute the Bible were given the sanction of the church as canonical. Before this time, some of the early fathers believed in the doctrine of the atonement as above stated. The controversies between them, and others who did not subscribe to this doctrine, were very bitter. At times, very unchristian, according to the Christianity that prevailed among the early followers of the Master, or according to his teachings.
From that time until the present, although the great Roman church has been seceded from, and reforms have been made by churches founded on such reforms, this doctrine has been incorporated in, and believed by, most of the churches, no matter what name they may have adopted, and what form of government they may have prescribed.
This doctrine constitutes the foundation principles of these various bodies of church entity. Today, these principles are as much a part of faith and teachings of the churches as they ever were in all the centuries that have passed.
Of course, with this cardinal doctrine, there have also become incorporated in these faiths and teachings, certain other principles, which apply more to the individual members of the church, than to the church itself as a body. I mean, belief in the truth that there is a close relationship between God and the individual, which may be established by prayer and the longings of the soul for the inflowing of God's Love, and the regeneration of the Nature of Human by the Influence of this Love (Holy Spirit) by the Father.
In these latter days, this Truth has been known to, and its workings experienced by, a comparatively few of those who call themselves orthodox Christians. The large majority has depended upon the belief in the doctrine that Jesus, by his sacrifice and death, paid the debt which human owed to God. When the members of the church, in an intellectual belief, assert that they believe in and accept Jesus as their Saviour, because he paid the debt, and by the shedding of his blood washed away their sins and made them at one with the Father, and thereby became saved from the wrath of the Father, and in a moment become the truly redeemed and accepted children of God, and that as long as they maintain that belief and attend to their duties as such members and observe the regulations of the church, they are safe and fitted for the enjoyment of heaven and the Presence of the Father.
They also believe that unless a human accepts Jesus as his Saviour, in the way I have mentioned, that human will be eternally lost. In the beliefs and teachings of some of these members, will be sent to hell to be eternally damned and punished.
Well one view of this doctrine is just as true as the other, or rather just as untrue, because both of these phases of belief have no foundation in fact. Are not in accord with the teachings of the Master, or with the fact as I know it to be, not from any mere belief, but from personal experience and observation.
Oh, how the Pure Teachings of the Master have been distorted and made the means of preventing so many human souls from reaching the Heaven of Happiness that they wished for, and that they thought would be theirs when they should give up their mortal lives.
This doctrine, so long believed, has worked the damnation of many a human, as regards their Soul Development and their becoming At-One with the Father, and reaching the Heavens that are prepared for those who obtain that Soul Union with the Father.
I know it may seem surprising to some, who are really, true, believers in this doctrine, and as they think, in the truths of God and the teachings of Jesus, which are believed to be infallibly contained in the Bible, that I announce the falsity of these beliefs, and their utter ineffectiveness in enabling these sincere people to obtain that, which they so earnestly desire.
Such is Truth. Truth never changes, never compromises with untruth, and never permits the erroneous beliefs of a really sincere mortal to swerve in one iota from the results and consequences of that false belief. The great injury that this false doctrine has done to humanity, and is now doing, will continue in the World to Come, until the belief in Truth shall supersedes the belief in that which is false. Thus not everyone who shall say "Lord, Lord," will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.
These false beliefs have operated in two ways to injure human and render them unfit for an entrance into the Kingdom. First, by the belief that brings about the injury that results from the positive operation of error, which is great. Next by the want of belief in the Truth, which prevents progress in the acquirement of those qualities, which belong to, and are necessary parts of that Truth.
When humans believe in the doctrine that I have stated, they become satisfied, and knowingly or not, remain in a state of false security, not attempting to develop the soul qualities, which are the only ones that are in relationship with God. Their mental beliefs are strong, and may increase in strength. But their soul communions with the Father, their growth and expansion in the Soul Development, becomes stagnant, and as it were, dead.
This is the great injury that these false beliefs do to the human, and to the spirit. I mean, in their individual capacity. For it must be known, as a Truth, that the Salvation of human, or their soul progress towards an At-Onement with the Father, is an individual matter solely. Humans, as aggregations, or in church communities, are not redeemed from sin, nor as such, can they have any relationship with the Father, or receive His Divine Love, which is the Only Salvation.
There is Only One Possible Way in which human can come in Unison and At-Onement with the Father, thereby fitted to enjoy or inhabit the mansions in His Kingdom, which Jesus spoke of when on Earth. That is The Way that will make the soul of human like the soul of the Father, and a partaker of his Divine Qualities of Love and Life. No belief, that will not bring about this uniting and commingling as it were, can possibly make the soul of human a partaker of these Divine Qualities that are a part of the Soul of God.
Then let human consider for a moment what possible connection there can be between these Soul Qualities of God, and the death and blood of Jesus.
God is the Creator of Life, and death. Also of blood and flesh. He can destroy as well as Create. Had the sins of human called for the sacrifice of that, which was mere flesh and blood, or the extinguishment of a Life that God had Created, in order to pay the penalty of that sin, then a God who demanded such a payment, and this implies of course, that such a God was wrathful, and could only be appeased by something that He could not of, and by, Himself obtain, would not possibly be satisfied with that, which He had Created, and over which He still had absolute control, and which He could destroy and make non-existent at any time He pleased. Jesus' Life was already a possession of God! When he surrendered that Life, he did not give to God anything that He did not already own, and could not have taken. When his blood flowed on the cross, it was not that which God could not have made flow at any time and in any manner. So the absurdity of such a doctrine is too apparent for serious consideration.
For its logical meaning is, that God was demanding a debt that had long been unpaid, all wrathful and insatiable, and would be satisfied only with the death of a living being, and the flowing of his blood, and that death and that flow of blood in one way or manner only, namely, on the cross. Yet, with all this demand that has been sounding down the ages for centuries, relentlessly and unpityingly, He became satisfied, His wrath assuaged by seeing His Own Creature die, and that Creature, His Best Beloved Son, and by hearing the trickling of the blood of that Creature from a wooden cross, by all, which the Life, and the blood, being already His to let live, or destroy, as He might see fit, human became at one with Him.
The simple reduction of such a proposition is that God, in order to pay a debt that was owing to Him, accepted in payment thereof that which was already His, and which no power or being in all His Universe could have taken from Him.
Now, I say all this reverently, as your preachers say, but the fact is, that the mere assertion of such a doctrine, as I have been dealing with, is so blasphemous, that no treatment of it showing its falsity could be irreverent.
Again, the absurdity of believing that God demanded that Jesus should die on the cross as one of the necessary accompaniments of his death in order to carry out God's plan for this death, and make the payment satisfactory, is so apparent and absurd, that I, and all of us spirits in the Kingdom of the Father, wonder that mortals can believe such an unreasonable dogma.
To follow this absurd proposition to its logical conclusion, it was necessary, not only, in order that the debt might be paid, that Jesus should die on the cross, but that Judas should become the traitor that the Jews should clamor for his death, and that Pilate should pronounce the sentence. These were all necessary means to the satisfaction of the debt. Being so, why is it then, that Judas, Pilate, and the Jews, are not saviors of humankind also, even if you say in a secondary sense. Jesus could not have clamored for his own death, erected his own cross, nailed himself thereto, or pierced his side with a spear in order that the blood might flow. For if he had done this, he would have been a suicide. But, it may be, there would have been more of the elements of the payment of a debt in that method of dying, than in the way in which his death was brought about.
No, I tell you, I, John, who Loved the Master more than all the others, who was closer to him, and who was with him when he was nailed to the cruel cross, which I think of with horror, and who was among the first to take his body from the tree, and first felt his blood upon my hands, tell you that the death of Jesus on the cross did not pay any debt that human owed to God, nor did his blood wash away the sins of any human. Oh, the pity of it all is that mortals for all these long years have believed that they were saved by his sacrifice and blood, and by such belief have never come any nearer to the Master, or in At-Onement with the Father.
As I, and others, have written you, the Only Way in which human can be saved from their sins, and become in At-Onement with the Father, is by the New Birth, which the Master has described to you as being the result of the flowing into the soul of a human of the Divine Love of the Father, and the disappearing of everything that tends to sin and error. As this Divine Love flows into a human's soul, it permeates that soul, as does leaven the batch of dough. That soul partakes of this Divine Love and thereby becomes like the Father in His Divine Nature and fitted to inhabit His Kingdom.
Now, you can readily see that there can be no possible relationship existing between the death of Jesus on the cross and his blood, and the giving to the soul of a human those Divine Qualities that belong to the Father's Nature. These Qualities are not imparted to human by death and blood, but by Life, Divine Love and Faith, which comes with that Divine Love. Here, when I say Faith, I do not mean the mere intellectual belief, of which I have spoken.
As we have before written, when the First Parents were Created, they were not given this Divine Love, but the mere possibility of obtaining It, upon their seeking for It in The Way that God had provided. It was not forced upon them. It was optional with them whether they would receive It, and become fitted to inhabit the Kingdom of Heaven. When they committed their act of disobedience, they forfeited this Privilege. As to it, died, and were left without a mediator between themselves and God. Here, I do not mean any mediator, in the way of paying a debt, for they owed no debt to God, they were merely, as you mortals might say, disinherited children. The only mediator that human needed after that time, was one through whom might come the Glorious Tidings that the Father had changed His Will, or forgiven the disobedience, to the extent of restoring their Original State, which is the Re-Bestowal of the Privilege of obtaining into their souls, His Divine Love.
In this sense, never was there any mediator between God and human, until the coming of Jesus, and his announcing to human that the Father had changed His Will and had restored to humankind the Great Privilege of partaking of His Divine Nature and Immortality. Thus, as in the First Parents, Adam and Eve, all humans died, so in the human Jesus, were all humans made alive. Jesus was the mediator, not only in declaring to human the Re-Bestowal of this Great Gift of the Divine Love and Immortality, but also, in showing The Way, by which humans could, and must, seek for that Gift, in order to possess It.
The Great Gift of God to human was not Jesus, but the Potentiality of obtaining the Divine Love of the Father, and thus becoming Divine and fitted to reside in the mansions of the Kingdom of Heaven.
Thus, Jesus became the Resurrection and the Life, and brought Immortality to Light. How much greater a saviour, than by paying a supposed debt by his death and blood.
No, he is the Saviour of Human, by his Living, and his Teachings. For he was the first to receive this Divine Love, and to become Divine himself. The First Fruits of the Resurrection. We have explained to you before in detail, some of the Truths that I have declared in this message. It is not necessary to further explain them here.
In closing, I wish to declare, with all the emphasis that I possess, arising from a knowledge based upon the teachings of the Master, and my personal experience, as a possessor of this Divine Love, and a partaker of the Father's Divine Nature, that no vicarious atonement of Jesus, nor the shedding of his blood, saves any human from sin, or makes them a redeemed child of the Father, or fits them for a home in the mansions of the Celestial Spheres.
With a Love that can come only from a Redeemed and Divine Nature, I Love all humankind. I am working to help them find The Way to Life, Immortality and Happiness beyond the conception of mortals or spirits who have not received this New Birth of the Divine Love of the Father.
I have written enough for tonight and you are tired. So my dear brother, with all my Love, and the blessings of a heart filled with the Divine Love of the Father, I am, your brother in Christ, John.
March 19th, 1916
I am here, E. R. Hay.
Yes, I am. I am so glad that I can write you. I learned only recently that spirits could write through mortals. When I came to make inquiries, I found that you are the mortal through whom they write. I was surprised.
Why, my dear fellow, you certainly are favored to have such a power. I know that many spirits are very thankful that you permitted them to write.
Well, let me see, what shall I say. Well, well, what a wonderful thing, and I am right here to participate myself. I know you do not care to hear from a spirit like myself, as you have so many of the beautiful and bright spirits write you. But say, old fellow, I have met your wife here. She is a beautiful spirit. So Loving and kind. I have talked to her. She has tried to help me. And she has. Oh, what a favored man you are to have such a wife! Not only so beautiful, but so powerful and majestic! She comes from the Celestial Spheres, and is so filled with, what she calls the Divine Love, that I can scarcely look at her at times.
What does all this mean, anyhow? It has not been long since we were both on Earth. Yet, there is such a difference between her and me. I was a church member, and attended to my duties very conscientiously. I do not know that she did more. Yet, the great difference. I wonder if going to church and conforming to its creeds and ceremonies amount to anything. There must be something else.
She has told me the cause of the difference. I don't quite comprehend. I find it hard to turn my thoughts to the things that she has told me of. The beliefs of my Earth Life cling to me, and hold me, just where I was on Earth.
Of course, when I died, I did not go to heaven. I have not seen God, or His throne, and the angels that we used to sing about. It causes me to think that there must be some mistake in what I believed with regard to these things. Yet, I am afraid to let go my beliefs.
I have seen other spirits than your wife who have told me of what they call this Divine Love, and the necessity of having it in my soul in order to progress. Yet, I doubt, and can't make up my mind to seek for it. It certainly is strange. I wonder what the church is for, if its believers find no more realization of their expectations than I have found.
I am in what is called the Earth Sphere, and not happy. Although, I try to make the best of it. There is considerable darkness, and some suffering. I do not appear to find any associates, except those who are unhappy too. I know that if I were on Earth, I would not associate with such people. But here I cannot help it, and do not seem to be able to find any other kind. I tell you, when your wife, and several others who are bright and beautiful, come to me, it gives me the greatest joy imaginable.
Yes, I have seen a number of our old lawyer friends. They are just about as I am. Some may be a little happier, but the most of them are just in my condition. Some, I am sorry to say, are in greater darkness, and seem to be suffering intensely. There is one who killed himself. He is in a terrible condition. I believe that he would like to kill himself again, if it would put him out of his misery. I feel sorry for him. I wish that I could help him, but what can I do? I cannot tell him of the consolation of my church creeds, for I have not found any consolation in them myself.
Well, I have listened to your advice. I must say, that in some particulars, you astonish me. As you say it is all True, I must try to follow it. At least, until I find that it is not true. It certainly is wonderful that some of the spirits that you name could get in the condition of happiness that you speak of. I will try to do as you say. As I understand the first thing is an open mind, I will try.
Yes, I see some bright spirits, and among them your wife. She is smiling at me. Now comes to me and says, believe what you have told me. Now she says, here is an old acquaintance of yours, and brings Mr. Riddle to me. My stars, what a beautiful man he has gotten to be, and so bright and lovely. Well, I am astonished!
He says he remembers me, and is glad that he can be with me, and says, that he has some things to tell me which are True, and vital to my happiness, and invites me to go with him. Notwithstanding, I feel such happiness in being with you and writing to you, I will have to go with him. For I may find what you have told me I can find, if I will only follow the advice that may be given me.
Well, I am certainly glad for this opportunity to write. I thank you for your talk. I will go now. I should like to come again sometime and write.
With my kind regards, I will say goodbye. E. R. Hay.
March 19th, 1916
I am here, Maurice Smith.
Let me say a word too. As Hay had the opportunity to write, I would like to do so also. I will not detain you long, as I merely want to let you know that I am alive. Well, I am not very happy. I am in darkness and suffering, and do not see any prospect of relief.
I noticed that as he left you, he was much happier than when he commenced to talk to you. I thought that maybe you said something to help him, and that you might help me also. I know you will, if you can.
I saw some spirit who was very bright looking. I could not see distinctly, or recognize him. I suppose it was some acquaintance of Hay, and that you had something to do with his meeting. Well you surprise me, for I did not know that Mr. Riddle was that kind of spirit. I thought that he was like the rest of us lawyers who all seemed to be grouped together in darkness and suffering, and as some say, hell. I do not like that word. I shall insist that I am in the darkness only. Besides, if it were hell, I should see the devil and the fires, etc., which I have never seen.
A long time ago, as it seems to me, I saw Taggart. It must have been when he first came over. I have not seen him for some time, as he appears to have left us.
Well, you astonish me some, for I have never thought that you could help a spirit. In fact, I am so astonished at the knowledge that I can communicate to you, in the way that I do, that I am ready to believe most anything. I assure you that I am very willing to follow your advice if there is any hope of my changing my condition for a better one.
Yes, I see some spirits. They certainly are bright and beautiful. They must belong to another Sphere, for I do not often see spirits of that kind, and when I do they do not seem to be quite natural. As you have called my attention to them, I see that they are real. They seem to have looks of Love and kindness about them. Now I see one who is not so bright or beautiful as the others. He seems to be happy, and does not have the darkness surrounding him. He comes to me and says: "Hello, Maurice, I am glad to see you," Lo, and behold, it is Taggart. Well, don't this beat the devil! Who would have thought that he could look as he does? He says he is very happy and wants to help me, and will tell me The Way to get into a condition similar to his own, and if I want to argue the matter, he is ready to do so. The same old Taggart, ready for an argument. I wonder what he has to say? He says come with him, and he will tell me. I must go.
So thanking you, I will say goodnight.
Your old friend and fellow lawyer, Maurice Smith.
March 19th, 1916
I am here, White Eagle.
Lipscomb tried to write. I would not let him, because he was drunk. I know you did not want him to write.
March 19th, 1916
I am here, Helen.
Well, you have had some of your old lawyer friends write you. I was glad of it, for they seemed to be happy in doing so. The last one was poor Lipscomb. He imagined that he was intoxicated. Of course, he was not. He thought so himself. As you have heard, "thoughts are things."
Well, I am very sorry for him. I have tried once or twice to help him. I am afraid that I will have to wait some time before I can make any impression on him. He is so Earthbound. That accursed appetite seems to have such a hold on him that he is completely dominated by it. Time, as you say, will help him.
Well my own dear, I was with you tonight at church, and you realized it while the choir was singing, for I could see and feel that your Love was flowing to me. I was very happy.
The preacher was very entertaining. His argument on the negative of the proposition was all right, for God's Love is open and waiting for everyone who may seek it. No one will be deprived of it because of any supposed unpardonable sin. His second proposition was, in a way, True also. But the conclusion that any human, may by their own will, and shutting of their soul desires to the influence of the (Holy) Spirit, damn themselves Eternally is wrong. All will be saved, either in the Spirit World, or the Celestial Heavens, ultimately. Such sermons, while not expositions of the Full Truth, yet may do some good, by Awakening the hearers to a realization of their actual condition, and need for the things of the (Holy) Spirit.
Well sweetheart, I must not write longer tonight, as it is late. So with all my Love, I will say, believe that I Love you, and I am with you in all your worries and enjoyments.
Your own True and Loving Helen.
March 21st, 1916
I am here, Samuel.
I desire to write for a short time on a subject that is of importance to those who are in doubt, as to the Reality of the Future Life.
I know that a vast majority of mortals believe in a Future Existence, and the immortality of the soul. There are a considerable number of mortals, who do not know these facts, or who have no belief regarding the matter, and simply say, "I do not know." It is to these latter persons that I wish to write.
In the first place, all persons know, if they know anything, that they are Living, and that sooner or later what they call death is inevitable, no matter from what cause it may take place. To Live then, implies that there is such a thing as Continuous Life. To die, to these people, demonstrates that the Life with which they are acquainted ceases, and that the material body in which this Life manifests itself, gradually disintegrates into the original elements that composed that body.
Now, a human being a materialist purely, would seem to be correct in their conclusions, that when Life, which could be manifested only through the material things of Nature ceases, and the body becomes inanimate and dead, that then is the end, not only of the body, but also of the individual. If there existed no other Manifestation of Life, than this physical one, there would be no foundation upon which to base the assumption that the death of the body does not end all.
I know it has been asserted, in the way of argument, that even though the material parts of vegetation die, yet as spring comes around, these materials show forth again the Life that had previously manifested itself. Therefore, by analogy, the death of the human body merely means that its Life will appear again in evidence in some other body, or form.
Upon close investigation, and exact reasoning, it will be seen that the two subjects of demonstration are not alike. Because, while the material of the vegetable kingdom apparently dies, yet it does not all die. For even though you may apparently see the particular body of the tree, plant, or every part of it, go into decay or rottenness, yet as a fact, this is not True. The whole of the material plant, which enclosed or manifested Life, does not die, until out of it a new body arises and grows. The Life, that animated the body, that appears to have died, continues in it, awaiting the new growth for its display of existence.
The flower dies. The bush upon which it grows, may appear to die, yet the roots continue to enclose the Life Principle, which causes the bush to grow again, which has its genesis in these roots, and is the same Life that originally existed in the bush. Pluck up the bush by the roots, expose them to the elements until they die, and commence to disintegrate. Then replant them. You will find they will not grow, for the reason that the Life, which had animated them, has departed.
The same conclusions will be reached when you apply the same investigation and reasoning to every species of the vegetable kingdom. The grain of corn, though apparently dead, is in Reality not dead, but continues to contain the Life Principle, which was the cause of the growth of the stalk, the blade, and the ear in the blade. Nothing of the vegetable kingdom will be reproduced, or form the basis of a new growth, unless some part of the old growth retains in it, the Life Force.
In human's investigation of the wonders of vegetable Life, they have discovered that a grain of corn that had been entombed in the hands of an Egyptian mummy for more than three thousand years, when planted in the ground, reproduced the stalk, blade, and ear of corn, just as the original material body had produced. And why? Not because when the grain of corn was planted in the Earth, it received unto itself new Life, or any Force that was not already in it, but because the grain had never ceased to be without the Life that existed in it, as it grew from the original seed to the perfect grain. The grain had never lost its Life, and had never died, though apparently it had. Always, there was some part of the original body that continued to exist, and that held enclosed in itself, the Life Principle. Without the preservation of some part of the original body, there could never have been a manifestation of the Life that caused the growth of that body. This phenomena, as you call it, was not the resurrection of a material body that had died, become disintegrated and nonexistent, but was merely the resurrection of that part of the old body that had never died, but had always retained in it, the Life Principle. This, I say, is no argument for the future existence of human, as viewed from a purely material aspect.
When the body of a human dies, it is Eternally destroyed, either by natural decay, by incineration, or sometimes, by cannibals. So that no portion of their body remains, in which the Life Principle may be preserved. So far as the material body is involved, it utterly disappears. No roots remain in the ground, no grain, or seed, of it is preserved, from which a new body may arise.
So I say, the phenomena of the vegetable apparently dying, and after a season, springing forth again, and producing a body similar to the one that had formerly lived and died, furnishes no demonstration, or argument, from which logically can be drawn the conclusion that when a human dies, they will not cease to exist, or will live again.
From the purely material standpoint, the materialist has the better of the argument. He may well ask the question: "When a human dies, shall they live again?" And, answer the inquiry by saying, Nature furnishes no proof that they will.
It may be said that Life permeates All Nature, and is the basis of all existence. That assertion is True. But it does not follow there from that any particular Manifestation of Life, such as the individual human, when once ceasing to manifest, will again be reproduced in that particular identity of material manifestation, or in that form or existence that will make itself the identical being that had ceased to exist.
So to show human that there is a Continuous Existence, after the death of the body, I mean an individual, identical existence, something more is required than the argument of analogy in Nature, or to the material things of Nature, in which Life appears, then apparently disappears, and then reappears. As the discussion on this phase of the matter will require more time than you have tonight to receive it, I will defer the treatment until later.
With all my Love, I will say goodnight, your brother in Christ, Samuel.
March 22nd, 1916
I am here, Jesus.
I will give you the prayer very soon now. You will receive, with it, a Spiritual Enlightenment of its meaning that will draw you very close to the Father, and His Divine Love.
(Refers now to Mr. Morgan.) Yes, I speak to him sometimes. He hears my voice, and is not mistaken. He must not think that all the impressions that he has, are from the spirits, for such is not True. As he progresses, in the development of clairaudience, he will be able to distinguish between what comes to him from the spirits, and what may arise in his own mind. He must not be discouraged, or let doubt enter his soul, for his Faith must be one of soul, and not of mere mind.
I have selected him to do a work, in reference to the spreading of my Truths. He must determine that his mission is one that will occupy his time during the balance of his Earthly Existence. If he now draws back from this work, he will lose a wonderful opportunity for helping humankind, and for developing his own soul, and fitting himself for a happy existence in the Spirit World.
He has been favored as few mortals have been, or will be. He must realize and appreciate that fact. For it is a fact. Only the Celestial spirits who are with me in this work know the importance of it.
I am his friend and brother, as I have told him. He has my Love and influence, as few mortals have ever had. This, because I know that he is a True Human, and will not fail me in what I wish to accomplish. I know that many times it has been said, and written, by mediums that I have come, and written to them. Such is not the Truth. It is only since I have determined that you shall receive my written Messages of the Truth, have I come in such close contact with you. Often have I tried to influence them with my Love and thoughts. But not for long years, have I come in such close rapport, as to have them receive my written messages, or hear my voice audibly, as your friend has heard it, and will hear it in the future.
Yes, I have chosen him. Just as positively, and with the certainty, as I chose my disciples when on Earth. I expect, that he will follow me as Faithfully, as they followed me. As time passes, the conviction will grow stronger and stronger that he has been selected for my work. There will come to him a knowledge and power, which he does not now realize, and which it is impossible for him at this time to understand.
After you, and he, have gotten in the condition, when you can let your thoughts of earthly necessities cease to trouble you, and become in that state of mind and soul that will enable you to turn all your thoughts and longings to the Father, and the work that He desires you both to do, there will come to you such a Blessing from the Holy Spirit, that will prove to you that the Pentecost, of the days of my disciples, has again been given to humans to Bless and make them Pure and Powerful, and the wonder of their fellow mortals.
I, Jesus, tell you this, with the authority and knowledge that have been given me by the Father. No human can gainsay it. I have spoken. You both must believe.
So, my dear brother, friend and disciple, I will stop. In doing so say that, you and your friend have the Love and Blessings of him, who never makes a mistake, or misleads his disciples, in the things of the soul.
Goodnight, your brother and friend, Jesus.
March 22nd, 1916
I am here, your own true and loving Helen.
Oh, my dear one, what a message you had from the Master, and with what power and authority he wrote you! Again, he displayed that great glory, of which I have written. So grand and magnificent was his appearance that we could scarcely look upon him. He certainly was the Son of the Father as he wrote to you, and declared that you both were his disciples, and that power and great Soul Development would be given you.
Ingersoll was present. He stood in amazement, and almost adoration, as he saw the wondrous greatness and power of the Master. He says that no spirit can doubt that Jesus is the True Son of God, and the greatest of all the spirits in the Heavens. That he feels that he is of such insignificance when he sees the glory displayed by the Master. He, Ingersoll, is so humble and so remorseful when he thinks of his days on Earth, when he doubted that Jesus ever lived, and if he did, that, in his opinion, he was merely a good human, and nothing more.
I tell you that the opportunities, which we spirits have had, now three times, to see displayed this wonderful glory and power of Jesus, have made us all realize that the Divine Love of the Father, which Jesus has is beyond all conception. He tells us that such Divine Love may be ours, if we will only strive and pray for it.
Oh, my dear, when I think of the great favor that has been bestowed upon you, I thank the Father with all the capacity that I have. I am so happy! Someday you will be with me. This happiness will be ours together.
Well, dear, this has been a glorious night. I will not mar the happiness that comes to us by attempting to write of anything else.
So, with all my Love, and many kisses, I am, Your own True and Loving Helen.
March 23rd, 1916
I am here, Jesus.
I am here according to promise. I desire to write you on a subject that all humans should be acquainted with. "How the Divine Love enters into the soul of a human."
As I have told you before, human is a Creature of God, having a body, spirit, (spirit body), and soul. All these are necessary to make the Perfect Human. These three parts of human are different, in their characteristics and functions are separate and distinct, and have qualities that are unlike, in their composition, as well as in the duration of their existence.
The body, as you and all humans know, has an existence, which lasts only during the Life of the mortal on Earth. After that Life ends, dissolves into its elements, which no more can form the same body, either in the mortal world, or in the Spirit World. For these elements are merely things of matter. May be, and are, used to form other bodies, and manifestations of the material of Nature, and not necessarily in the form of human beings. For they enter into other forms, both animal and vegetable, and are so disseminated, that never again will they become parts of a resurrected body. Your orthodox do not teach this Truth, but think in some mysterious way that the mortal body will sometime be resurrected.
No, the body, when it has performed its function of maintaining and shielding the soul, and spirit, of human during their Earth Life, is no longer. Cannot thereafter be a part of that human, and may be considered, as something that is no longer a part of them. This body though, as a matter of fact, even during the Life of the mortal, is not the same body during that Life. For continually, are there changes in the elements that compose that body. One element, or set of elements, gives place to others, and becomes lost, or absorbed, in the Great Sea of Elements that help form, or constitute, The Universe of God.
By operation of the Laws of Attraction and Repulsion, these elements, as they replace others, which disappear, conform themselves to the general appearance, or outline, of the parent body, so that the identity of the body, as well as of its appearance, is preserved. As a human grows older, the Laws, which make the changes in their appearance, cause these new elements to conform to these changes, so that, even while the material continues to envelop the spirit during the short span of a human's Life, yet that material is not the same for any length of time. I make this preliminary statement merely to show that the material part of human is not at all connected with the Real Human (the soul), so far as the persistent nature for them is concerned. This material need not be considered in discussing the subject that I desire to write about.
The spirit part of human is that part, which contains, what may be called the functions of Life, and the Force and Power existing in them, which immediately control them in their conduct and living. This Real, Existing Principle of Life, unlike the body, never dies, but continues to live after the spirit drops its envelope of flesh.
This spirit part of human contains the seat of the mental faculties and reasoning powers, and uses the organs of the material body to manifest these attributes. These faculties live and exist, even though the physical body may be in such imperfect condition that the spirit may not he able to make its manifestations, in such a way as to enable the mortal to perceive, or sense, the material things of Nature, as they are called. To specify, even though the material organs of sight may become impaired, or destroyed, yet in that spirit body, which is within the physical body, exists the actual sight, just as Perfectly and completely, as if these impaired or destroyed organs were doing their functioning. The same is True as regards the hearing, and the others of what are called the five senses of human.
As to the reasoning faculties and mental qualities, they exist in the Perfect State, whether the brain is healthy, or not, or whether it performs its work, or refuses to do so. These qualities do not depend upon the soundness, or perfect workings, of the organs of the physical body in order that these spirit qualities may exist in a Perfect Condition, but the proper workings of the physical organs, or rather the proper and natural movements and manifestations of the brain, and the conscious operations of the mental faculties, do depend upon the spirit faculties being able to use these physical organs in a proper way, and in accordance with the Harmony of the Creation of the Relative and Correlative parts of human.
These spirit faculties, which human calls the intellect, and the five senses, are a part of the spirit body, which is enclosed in the material body, which in turn encloses the soul. When the material body dies, the spirit body continues to exist, and live on in the World of Spirit. With it, and as continuing parts of it, these intellectual faculties, performing all their functions free from the limitations that the physical organs placed upon them. When this change takes place, these mental qualities, notwithstanding that they have not the material organs through which they functioned when in the mortal frame, can conceive thoughts of things material, and hear and see things of the material, just as they did, and even more perfectly, when they were enveloped by the environments of flesh and blood.
So you see when the mortal dies, the only thing that dies and is left behind is the mere physical body. With the spirit body, survives all those things which can be said to be the Real Human, so far as the mind is concerned. Hence, human never ceases to remember, to progress, and to know, that they are a being, which death cannot destroy or change into something that they were not before death came to them. Thus, I answer the question: "When a human dies, shall they live again?" They never cease to live! Their living is not a new Life, but merely the continuation of the old Life, with all the things of mind and conscience that were theirs in the old Life.
In the purely Spirit Life, the spirit body continues to contain the soul, and will be its protector and covering so long as that spirit body shall last. This spirit body then begins to change, by disintegration, into what we may call spirit elements, and the formation of new elements to replace the disappearing ones. This change in this spirit body is not caused by the same Laws that operated to change, disintegrate, and replace the physical body, but by the Law controlling the development of the soul, which the spirit body contains.
The soul is the Real Human, because it is the only thing, or part of human, that may become Immortal. The only part of human that was made in the image of its Creator. The only part of human that may become a part of the Substance of its Maker and partake of His Divine Nature. I say may, for that is an important part of this Great Possibility. I know this Possibility of the soul becoming Immortal by partaking of the Divine Nature of God is True. It is a proven fact, in the case of many souls who are now in the Celestial Heavens. I also know that there are many souls in the Spirit World, who have been there for many centuries, who have never received this Divine Nature and Consciousness of Immortality. Whether such souls, who have not received this Divine Nature, shall become, or are, immortal, has never been demonstrated. This I do know, that in the Economy of God's Plan for the forming of His Kingdom, at some time, when, I do not know, this Privilege of Partaking of His Divine Nature, and the Certainty of Immortality, will be withdrawn from the souls of humans and spirits. Then, whether these souls who suffer this condemnation will partake of Immortality, no spirit knows, only God.
There are other things that I know, and here tell you. Among them is this: That so long as the soul does not receive this Divine Nature, the mind, which I have described as being a part of the spirit body, continues to exist, and dominates both soul and spirit body. In its progress, it may attain to a Condition of Purity and Perfection, such as were possessed by the First Created Living Souls, Our First Parents. Many spirits now are in this condition, yet are mere humans. Their souls remain only in the image of God, nothing more.
While God is Mind, Mind is not God. Also, while God is Spirit, Spirit is not God. So that when humans teach that mind is God, and that humans must seek to attain to that mind, and thus become like God, they fall far short of the Truth. The Mind is only an Attribute of God. Beyond, and back, of that Mind, is the Real God, the Personality, and that is Soul, from which emanates all these Attributes and Manifestations, which mortals, as well as spirits, may be conscious of.
While God is Soul, yet that Soul is a thing of Substance, with a Nature Divine. The Seat and Fountainhead of All the Great Attributes that belong to Him, such as Love, Power, Life, Omniscience, and Mercy. Here I must state one fact, which may startle those who believe and teach that mind is God, and that is, that which is called the human mind, is not a part of the mind of God. This human mind, and all its faculties and wonderful qualities, are mere special creatures, just as are the spirit body and material body of human. As I have said, human was Created in the image of God only as regards the soul. Here, always bear in mind, that the Creation was only an image.
The mind of human was a Special Creation, just as were the minds of the lower animals, differing only in degree. If God had not given to human a soul, and the spirit body to envelop it, in which He placed this mind of human, when human died the death of the physical body that would have been the end of them. As such death is of the body, which is not a part of this soul image of God.
As I have heretofore written you, when God Created human, and made them in His Own Image, as to the soul, He also gave to human the possibility of obtaining the Substance of the Father. That is, of having that soul, which was a mere image, becomes that soul, which is of the Substance of the Creator. I have also explained to you how human, by their disobedience, lost that Possibility. For long centuries was deprived of this Great Privilege. How it was again restored to them, at the time of my coming to Earth, so that they now, and for nineteen centuries past, have had the possession of this Great Gift, or Privilege of partaking of the Substance of the Father.
Well, when human, by The Way that has been pointed out to them, becomes possessed of the Substance of the Father's Divine Nature, even in an initial degree, their soul commences to change, and lose its character as a mere image, and to progress towards the attainment of that condition when this image disappears, and the Divine Substance takes its place. As the progress continues, they receive so much of the Substance (Divine Love), that their soul takes on the Divine Nature of the Father, and their At-Onement with the Father becomes so Perfect, that they become an inhabitant of the Father's Kingdom. This occurs when they become fitted to enter the First Celestial Sphere. Just here occurs another thing, which may startle those who teach that the mind is the essence of God, and that the mind which human, both as mortal and spirit, possesses up to that point in the progress of the soul where the transformation into the Divine Nature takes place, becomes a thing of naught. Or rather, becomes absorbed in the mind of the soul (transformed by the Divine Love), which is the Real Mind of the Father. Then, and ever after, only this mind of the soul, is that, which enables the Real Divine Human to understand the Things of God to help them in their progress.
I will continue later. You are tired. Remember that I Love you. You have me with you at all times to help and sustain and comfort you.
Goodnight my dear brother, your friend and brother, Jesus.
March 23rd, 1916
I am here, Syrick.
Well, you cannot lose me, as the boys say, for I have your wife on my side. I think that we can beat you and Dr. Stone, although you are two of a kind.
Well, my dear friend, I want to write just a little, as I have not written you for some time. You know the great pleasure it gives us in exchanging a few thoughts. I am very happy. So is Rose, who is here, and says that you are her next soulmate when I get divorced from her, but I will tell you privately do not depend on that.
I am progressing. I am with her so much oftener than formerly. I also have a greater opportunity to be with your folks.
I will come soon and write you about something that I have found to be True, since I have been a spirit, and which I know you will like to hear of.
How is my friend the doctor? He looks as if he might be very happy. If he could see that little soulmate of his, I know he would be.
Well, you two had the advantage of me on Earth, because you knew more of this Divine Love than I did. I am ahead of you now, for I have my soulmate right here with her arms around my neck, giving me a kiss occasionally, and I know it. Your soulmates say that your two have their arms around your necks too, and they know that sometimes you realize it.
Well, I am glad that we can have our little jokes together. Oh, what a difference from what I expected! I thought that when I came over I would either be helping in building fires, or riding on clouds, playing harps. Believe I would sooner be just as I am with Rose telling me all the sweet things that she does.
I must stop now. With my Love, and that of Rose, will say, goodnight.
Your old friend, Syrick.
March 23rd, 1916
I am here, Saul S. Henkle.
Let me say just a word, for while you are all having your love thoughts passing, I would like to come in too.
I was your old friend, Saul S. Henkle. While I was not so young as you folks when on Earth, yet, now I am younger than you, and no doubt better looking.
But seriously, I have enjoyed being here this evening, and listening to the messages that you have received. Of course, I never knew your spirit friends on Earth, but over here, I have become acquainted with them through that beautiful wife of yours. I enjoy their companionship very much, especially that of Mrs. Stone, who is so beautiful and full of the Divine Love, and such a tender, loving mother. I am also very fond of the little girl that your Helen calls "Lovesick". Well she undoubtedly is in Love, but she does not look sick. Is just as bright, beautiful and happy as one can imagine. She does Love her soulmate though, and does not hesitate to let us all know the fact. How happy all your friends are, and how happy I am to be with them!
Over here, there are little circles of friends. Just as on Earth, there is a difference also in the natures and disposition of those who form the circles. I want to say that your soulmate, and that of the Dr. are two of the cheeriest little spirits that I know.
Yes, I have met her. She is not very happy. She has the belief that held me back so long, and little soul development. I have tried to help her. But it is hard to make her think differently from what she did on Earth. Sooner or later it will come about that she will receive the Truth.
She is not my soulmate, so your wife says. She seems to know all about soulmates. She says that she will soon tell me who mine is, and I will be glad of it.
I must not write more, but thank you very much for your kindness.
Your old friend, General S. S. Henkle.
March 24th, 1916
I am here, Elias the prophet.
I am a stranger to you, but you are not to me. For I know all about you, and the great work you are doing, and will have to do.
I understand that you are tired tonight. I will not write more. I only wish to say that when the opportunity presents itself, I should like to write you a message, so that I may not be left from the Book of Truths, which you shall publish.
Well, I am glad that you feel that way. I am your brother and friend, and a follower of the Master. I am in the Celestial Spheres, in a place very near the Highest Spirits, who are my associates. I will write to you fully when I come.
With my Love and blessing, I will say goodnight.
Elias.
March 30th, 1916
I am here, Samuel.
I desire to continue my message on the subject of: The Continuous Life of a human after the death of the body, as shown by the Manifestations of Nature.
As I was saying, the apparent death and resuscitation of things of the vegetable kingdom, do not furnish any argument that human will continue to live after the death of the physical body.
Now I know it is difficult to understand what there can be in the Manifestations of Nature to prove such Persistent Life, and that the people for whose benefit I am writing this will not be willing to use evidence of things of a Spiritual Nature to prove this Continuous Life. Hence, I will confine myself to matters material.
Well, in the first place, there is no such thing as the death of anything in all the Material Universe of God. Every primal element has Life in it, even though that life may not be apparent to the consciousness of humans. But it is a fact. Every atom, or electron, as the scientists term these Particles of Matter that are reduced to their infinitesimal proportions, is pregnant with Life. The very apparent decay of material substances is nothing more nor less, than the results of the operation of the Life that they contain, working out the changes of form, or expression.
If the scientists will investigate, and analyze the constituents of Particles of All Matter, notwithstanding that they appear to be devoid of the Life Principle, they will find that Life, in some of its expressions, is contained in these particles, and that there is nothing in the material things of nature that is completely inert. There is no such thing as inertia, it only appears to exist, and while it may not be apparent to the natural eye that every thing in the material has Life, within itself, and as a result, there from, there is Force and Motion, yet such is the fact.
This Life Principle permeates everything. Applies to, and forms a part, of everything that has the appearance of Natural existence. The grain of sand on the seashore, or the dust of the decayed tree, has within it Life. This Life, is no more nonexistent, or absent, from these material things, than are the elements that compose this visible form of matter ever lost, or without existence. It is True that these elements change their forms, and their compositions, yet they never cease to exist, or become nothing. Nothing means a void, and in God's Creation there is no void. Everything is of substance. There are no vacancies unfilled. Hence, as Life is the Foundation Principle of Existence, and Life exists everywhere, and there being no void in Nature, Life permeates everything, whether visible to the mortal eye, or senses, or not.
When that, which is material, decays or disintegrates, it does not do so as the result of the absence of Life, but as the result of the operation of this Principle of Life upon the material, in such a way as to cause the separation of its elements, and their change into new forms and appearances.
I know it is said, that the workings of the elements, that is; fire, water, air, and chemicals known and unknown, cause the disintegration, or even the disappearance, of things material. This is not strictly True, for these elements do not affect these things themselves as a primary result of their workings. What they affect is the Life within these materials. As that Life lessens, or changes, the materials of which that Life is a part, disintegrate, or dissolve, as is sometimes said, into thin air. Never does any part of the material substance, no matter how minute it may come to be, die. That is, in the sense of losing Life.
Life is a thing of such delicate Nature, and is so susceptible to a division, or reduction, to a smallness almost to Infinity, that no substance can become so small that Life is not a part of it, and the Vital Principle of its Existence.
As is known, the solid rock may be reduced, not only to dust, but to a liquid. Then to a vapor, then to a gas, and then to that that is not sensitive to the consciousness of humans. Yet the Life Principle exists in all these forms of that material, rock. That, which ultimate's into apparent nothingness, contains Life, just as does the original rock, or any of its subsequent forms in the process of reduction to seeming extinction.
The materialist accepts these phenomena as True. Blindly, and with full assurance, announces that nothing in Creation is ever lost or annihilated. This being True, why is not the conclusion logical that the apparently inanimate rock, or the animal without reasoning powers, or the human with the reasonable faculties, is never annihilated or lost. Or, in other words, never dies the death that results in nothingness!
They say, while this may be True, yet the materials, which form these various aspects of existence, do not necessarily, or probably, come together again, and reform the identical being that once appeared as an existing thing, and then dissolved into the elements that composed the thing. Hence, while the elements in some form may continue to live forever, yet that form in which they once existed will not again appear. I know that this is a reasonable conclusion. One in accord with the demonstrations of science, and is applicable to the merely physical human, just as to any other manifestations of the material things of Nature.
Even these materialists admit, that in the case of human, there is something in their formation, and Essential Being, that is more than, or in addition to, the merely physical portions of them. While they may say that this something is wholly of a material nature, yet they admit that it is of a material different, and distinct, from the material that forms the visible physical body.
I do not speak of the soul, or spiritual part of human, but of the intellect, the five senses, and of the reasoning powers, all which, of course, includes the memory. That part of human that embraces these things, the materialists must admit, is distinct, and different, from the mere body. Even though it were here to be conceded that they are material, yet no human has ever seen them, or felt them, or in any way perceived their existence, as they have that, which they know to be of the material. They have seen, heard, and known the effects of the existence of these invisible material qualities, as they may call them, but has never demonstrated that they died when the physical body died. The furthest that they can go in this direction is that they disappeared, and became lost to their consciousness. That they disintegrated, or dissolved, or were reduced to a gaseous substance, or thin air, in which they have seen the visible physical body disappear, they cannot affirm. The limit of their knowledge, is that with the death of the physical body, this other, as they term it, material part of human, disappears, and never again reappears to their physical senses.
As I say, they have never observed, and have no knowledge of, any disintegration of these invisible material parts of human into any primary elements, or atoms, or electrons, as they apply such terminology, to the physical body. Hence, they are not justified in concluding that any such results to this invisible material follows the death and dissolving of the flesh, blood, and bones of human. To so conclude, is more of a speculation, than to hold that the invisible material did not dissolve into forms more invisible, if such an expression can be used.
As I have said, Life is in all things, visible and invisible. There is no vacuum in Nature. While human is living, it is demonstrated that Life is in this invisible part of human, and more abundantly than in the merely visible body. As Life continues after death, in the elements of this latter body, why cannot we declare that after death, Life continues in the invisible part of human? Nothing is ever lost, or annihilated. Hence, these parts of human cannot be annihilated. Existing, they must contain Life.
Has the materialist ever been able to demonstrate, to their own satisfaction even, that this invisible part of human, which they say is material, ceases to live? They cannot say that the elements of the physical body, no matter what form they may assume, cease to live. On the contrary, affirmatively asserts that they are never annihilated, and continue to exist. As Life is necessary to existence, they must continue to have Life.
So, according to their own arguments, demonstrations, and ultimate claims, the death of the physical body does not destroy the elements, which compose that body, but only the form in which these elements were combined. Then from this, the most that they can claim, as to the invisible material part of human, is that while the material, which composed this part is not dead, or annihilated, yet their formation may be disintegrated, or changed. Hence, the identity of the human, as to this portion of them, no longer exists. This conclusion does not follow, as a logical sequence. The materialist has nothing upon which to base this conclusion, except that they have seen, and knows, that when the visible body dies, it disintegrates, and ultimately disappears.
They have never seen the disintegration of this invisible part of human, though they have seen its manifestations decay, and even destroyed. But the cause of this is shown to be some decadence, or disorganization, of some part of the visible body, through which the invisible manifested.
These materialists have knowledge of the facts, that humans have been deprived of their arms, legs, or other parts of the body, yet the invisible parts remained perfect, performing their functions. Also it is True, that humans have received injury to their physical organs of sight, or hearing. As a consequence, the invisible organs of sight or hearing did not function. But that fact constitutes no proof that they were dead, or had ceased to preserve the form, they had before the physical organs were impaired. For when the defects of the physical organs were removed, and these organs again came into condition to do their functioning, the invisible faculties of sight and hearing manifested their existence again, just as they had existed before the physical organs were impaired. So many similar instances might be referred to, to show that death, or destruction, of any, or many, parts of the visible body, does not destroy or disseminate into its elements the invisible material part of human.
Besides, let the materialists consider the great difference in the powers and objects of the Creation of these visible and invisible parts of human. They will realize that the purely physical, is wholly subordinated, and used merely to enable the invisible parts to manifest themselves, and show that the Real Human is the invisible part. That human can lose part of their physical vestment, yet exist, and perform their functions, and exercise their powers.
I have thus tried to show; that while no argument can be drawn from any analogy between the vegetable things of Nature dying and coming to Life again, and human's dying. Yet neither can any argument be drawn from the fact that the visible body of human dies, and goes into its elements never to be resuscitated again, as the same body, to show that the invisible body of human dies, and is dissolved into its elements, and that human ceases to be the individual that they were before the death of the physical body.
I may not have made my message as plain and convincing as I would desire, but in discussions of this kind, it is difficult to transmit the various shades of thought through the medium of a mortal. I thank you for your courtesy. I will stop now. So with all my Love, and the Blessings of the Father, I will say goodnight.
Your brother in Christ, Samuel.
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