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1916 September - October
Messages from Jesus and Celestials on Divine Love 1916 September -October
5th September 1916
I am here, Constantine.
I was the Roman Emperor, and died as the head of the Christian Church. I was not really a Christian. I did not understand the True Principles of the Christian teachings. I adopted Christianity as a State religion because of political purposes, added to my desire to destroy the powers of my antagonists, who were believers in, and worshipers of, the gods of paganism. I was a human who cared not in the slightest whether the cross, or the symbol of the oracles, was the true sign of religion, or whether the followers of religious beliefs belonged to the Christian church, or the worship of the gods, which our country had for so many years adopted and followed.
My great desire, when I made Christianity the State Religion, was to obtain power, and the allegiance of the majority of the people of the empire. The Christians were very numerous, and were persons of such intense convictions, so intense, that not even death could remove, or change these convictions. I knew, that when they once gave me their allegiance, I should have a following that could not be overthrown by those who were worshipers of the old gods. The latter people were not so interested in their religious beliefs, individually, as to cause them to have such convictions, as would interfere with any religion that I might establish. When they realized that, their material interests would be advanced by at least formally recognizing that religion as a state establishment. Their beliefs were not the results of conviction, merely those of what had been accepted by their ancestors, and transmitted to them as a kind of inheritance. They believed in the gods, and the oracles, as a matter of course, without ever having made the objects of their beliefs matters of investigation, in order to learn if those beliefs were True, or not. Truth was not sought for. Hence, conviction was a mere shallow acquiescence.
During all the time of my office as Emperor, I never changed my beliefs, and never accepted the teachings of the Christians as the Revelation of Truth. In fact, I never considered such a matter as religion worthy of my serious consideration. Many doctrines, were proposed and discussed by the ecclesiastical teachers, and leaders of this religion, and those doctrines were approved by me, which were adopted by a majority of these leaders, as true and the correct declarations of what the Scriptures of the Christians contained.
I let these leaders fight their own battles, as to doctrines and truths. When they decided what should be accepted and declared by the church to be true doctrines, I approved the same, and promulgated them as binding upon all the followers of the Christian Faith.
So I, though it has been frequently said, did not establish the canonicity of the Bible, or determine and legalize the doctrines, which were declared and made binding by the conventions of the leaders of the church. Of course, I gave them my sanction and official approval. They were not mine, and should not be said to have been established by me. If the doctrines of the Arians had been accepted and declared by a majority of these ecclesiasts, as the true teachings of the Christian scriptures, I should have sanctioned and given them the State's authority.
As I said, I was not a Christian when I lived. I did not die a Christian, notwithstanding all the fantastical and miraculous things, which have been written about me, and my conversion to Christianity.
When I came into the Spirit World, I found myself in great darkness and suffering, and realizing that I had to pay the penalties for the sins thought and committed by me on Earth. All the masses, which were said for the benefit of my soul, never helped me one particle to get out of my unhappy condition.
I knew nothing about the Divine Love, or the Mission of Jesus in coming to Earth. I found that my sins had not been washed away, as the teachers had often told me on Earth would be done for me.
Many long years I remained in this condition of darkness and unhappiness, without finding any relief, by reason of the mystical workings of Jesus' atonement, of which the priests had told me, and which I did not believe, nor the help of the gods in whom I had been taught to believe by our philosophers and religious teachers. No, I found no relief. My condition seemed to be fixed. Hope of the Christian Heaven that was never mine, and of the fields Elysian that would be mine, in a hazy way, did not cause me to feel that my sufferings would at sometime come to an end, and the glad face of happiness appear.
After a time, the Light of the Truth, in which Jesus came to teach, broke in on my understanding and soul. The Divine Love of the Father commenced to flow into my soul, and continued, until I became a possessor of it to that degree that I was carried to the Celestial Spheres. Where I now am, a Redeemed, Pure, and Immortal soul, having undoubting Knowledge, and conviction, that I possess in my soul, the Divine Essence of the Father, and the Certainty of Eternal Life in the Celestial Kingdom.
I cannot tonight write you of my experience, in either the dark planes, or in the successive progressive Spheres. Sometime I will come and detail that experience.
Before ceasing my writing, I wish to say, with all the force that I have, that only the Divine Love of the Father can save a soul from its sins and make it At-One with the Father in His Divine Nature.
Let creeds, dogmas, and human made doctrines, take care of themselves. Learn the Truth. In that Truth abide, for Truth is Eternal, and never changes. No decrees of human, dogmas of church tradition of the early fathers or writers, or creeds of ecclesiastical conventions, so solemnly adopted and declared, can make that a truth, that which is not a Truth. Truth existed before all these things, and is not subject to them, nor by them can it be added to, or taken from.
I must not write more now. I thank you for having permitted me to write.
So with my Love, I will say goodnight, your brother in Christ, Constantine.
September 5th, 1916
I am here, St. Luke.
I am glad to write once more. I feel that very soon you will be able to receive our messages.
I will not attempt to write at length tonight. I will only say, that as you may doubt the identity of the one who has just written you, I desire to confirm the fact that it was Constantine, the Roman Emperor, who wrote you. He was very much pleased that he could write, and in a hurried way correct some of the historical errors that have existed concerning his True position as to Christianity.
He is now a very bright spirit. An inhabitant of the Celestial Spheres. Of course, a possessor of the Divine Love. I desire to tell you though, that he was scourged by his conscience, as it were, before he got out of his condition of darkness and suffering, super induced, very largely by pride. In his own conceit, he was an emperor for a very long time after he entered the Spirit World, and retained all the pride of an emperor. I will leave all this for him to write about, as he promised, and stop writing for the time.
Well, you must not become discouraged, for the Divine Love is a Reality. You have some of it, and may have more. Only pray the Father for His Help and Guidance.
We all Love you, and trying to helping you. Only believe.
Your brother in Christ, Luke.
September 5th, 1916
I am here, your own true and loving Helen.
Well, my dear, you had an unusual message tonight, or rather, I may say, an unexpected one. I see that you doubted the identity of the author. As Luke is acquainted with him, you can rest assured that what Luke said is True.
He is only one, of a great number of spirits, who as men were prominent on Earth, are here in the Spirit World. If given the opportunity, would write to you. As we have work to do, which will take a great deal of your time and energy, these spirits will not be permitted to write at this time of the Truth that we wish to convey. The one who wrote is, or was, an important personage in the history of Christianity. Hence, we thought it advisable to let him write.
Your own True and Loving Helen.
September 10th, 1916
I am here, John.
I come tonight to tell you, that in a few nights I desire to write you a message on an Important Truth regarding the ultimate destiny of the human, who does not receive the Divine Love of the Father, but who depends upon their own righteousness, and the help that they may receive from spirit friends, who have not this Divine Love in their souls. I know that this subject has been written on before, to a limited extent. I wish to deal with it in detail, and at large, so that Humanity can make no mistake, as to what this future will be, and can have no excuse for not seeking the Celestial Kingdom.
I have been with you tonight, and heard what was said. I saw that none of the speakers have any experience, as to what this great necessity as to a future state of At-Oneness with the Father means. That they are satisfied with the knowledge of the Continuity of Life, and the help and comfort that their spirit friends may bring to them in their communications.
The Truth, as to this Great Vital Necessity must be taught to humankind. The Way to this Divine Love must be made so plain, that no human can have any excuse for not obtaining It, and becoming an inhabitant of the Celestial Kingdom.
Many are longing for this condition of soul, and know not The Way to obtain it, and have to rest unsatisfied. So you see we must hurry with our messages, for humans are dying rapidly, and without the Knowledge of this Great Truth.
You are now in better condition than you have been for sometime. You will continue to improve, so that we will be enabled to deliver our messages with ease and certainty.
Pray to the Father for His Divine Love and Help. You will receive both, and find that your worries will leave you. Peace come to you, so that your thoughts may be turned more to the work which is set before you. Faith and prayer are the great means by which your soul may be filled with this Divine Love. Happiness will follow, as surely as the day follows the night. Something of the Joys of the Celestial Spheres will be yours.
I know that you are anxious to do this work, and that you long for the time when your whole efforts may be devoted to it, and to the Revealing to human, the Truths, which we come to reveal. We are all with you, and are trying to help you in every way, so that troubles may leave you.
There are many spirits present tonight, throwing around you the influence of their Love, and praying to the Father that His Blessings may be bestowed upon you, and your soul made happy with the inflowing of His Divine Love.
I will not write more tonight. In leaving you say, pray and believe.
With my Love and blessings, I am, your brother in Christ, John.
September 10th, 1916
I am here, Samuel.
I come to write you that I am with you in Love, and hope for your present blessing and happiness.
I know that the worries of Life prevent you from realizing the influence of this Great Love, which is surrounding you, and which is ready and waiting to fill your soul to its fullness. If you will pray more to the Father, and exercise your Faith, you will find that your worries will lessen. Peace will come to you, in such Abundance and Beauty that you will feel like a new man.
As John said, with this Faith, Divine Love will flow into your soul. You will realize, to some extent, the Joys of our Celestial Conditions. For the Divine Love that may be yours is the same Divine Love, in its Divine Nature, that we possess, and that has made Angels of us all, and inhabitants of the Father's Kingdom. Only believe, and you will realize how willing this Divine Love is, to take possession of your soul, and make you so happy, that even the troubles that you have will not be sufficient to take from you the "Great Peace that Passeth All Understanding".
I have been in the Spirit World for many years. I have possessed this Divine Love for a long time. I know, by actual experience, what it is, and what Great Joy it brings to its possessor. So you can rely on what I promise you, and feel the certainty, that Actual Knowledge gives. I am now, as you know, a wholly Redeemed Child of the Father. One who knows that His Divine Love in the soul, makes the human, or spirit, of the Essence of the Father. When this Divine Love enters the soul of human, it increases like the leaven in the dough, and continues in its work, until the whole soul is impregnated with it. Everything of sin or error is wholly eradicated.
Divine Love worketh all things that human can wish for, or conceive of, and more besides. Paul's description of Divine Love, and the Wonderful Qualities and Conditions that emanate from it, does not contain all its Emanations and Resultant Happiness.
I must not write more tonight for it is late and you are tiring. So believe what I have said. Try to follow my advice. You will soon experience that Peace and Happiness, which only this Divine Love can bring to the souls of humans.
So with my Love and blessings, I will say goodnight.
Your brother in Christ, Samuel.
September 12th, 1916
I am here, Cornelius.
I will write only a few lines, so that I may get in rapport with you, and later write you at more length, if agreeable to you.
I was the Centurion of the Bible who was the First Gentile Christian.
I have listened tonight to your reading of the messages. Besides me, many other spirits heard what you read. All were interested. Some of them, will no doubt derive some comfort, for these messages disclosed to some of the dark ones that there is hope for them, and that there is a Way, by which they may find relief from their sufferings.
I have just recently heard of your work. I have come to add my little mite to the Truths, which you are receiving. I hope that I may succeed in helping the cause of Truth. I am in the Celestial Spheres. Of course, have the Divine Love in my soul, and know that I am a Redeemed Son of the Father.
I must not write more now. With my Love, say goodnight.
Your brother in Christ, Cornelius.
17th September 1916
I am here, Jesus.
I was with you tonight at the meeting. I heard what the preacher said. He declared some Truths. Also said some things that were not True. He said "only those who have been converted are sons of God."
All humans are the Children of God! His Love and Care are over all. They are Very Dear to Him. Otherwise, He would not have Re-Bestowed His Divine Love upon them, and given them the Privilege of becoming inhabitants of His Celestial Kingdom.
The mere fact that they are sinners makes them no less His Children, who He is so anxious to Redeem, and fill with the Divine Love. When the preacher says "they who are sinners are not the sons of God," he does not declare the Truth. They are All His Sons (and Daughters). Some to enjoy the Pure Life and Bliss, which the purification of their Natural Love will bring to them, and others to enjoy and inhabit the Celestial Kingdom, which the New Birth will bring to them.
But All are His Sons (and Daughters). Though, some have wandered, and become strangers to His Love, just as was the prodigal son who left his father's house for a far country. This doctrine of the sinful not being sons of God, is a damnable and harmful doctrine. Will cause many to give up hope of ever becoming anything else than the sons of perdition, or as these orthodox say, of the devil.
The Father's Mercy is for All. If certain of His Children do not choose to seek and receive the Divine Love, which when possessed, will make Angels of them, yet they are His sons (and daughters). Will, in the fullness of time, or before the time of the Great Consummation, become Pure and Happy beings, as were the First Parents, before the fall.
While this preacher has a great amount of the Divine Love in his soul, and is earnestly, and in the right way, seeking for more, yet his beliefs and teachings, as to the destiny and future condition of those who may receive this Divine Love, and become At-One with the Father, are all wrong. Will tend to retard his own progress in the development of his soul, and in his advancement towards the Kingdom of God.
He, of course, is possessed of these beliefs because of his study and construction of some of the declarations of the Bible. Therefore, is not teaching what he does not believe, or what, to his own conscience, is false. Nevertheless, it is false. He will have to suffer the consequences of such false beliefs, and teachings.
Ignorance, while it will not relieve him from its consequences, neither will it invoke the penalties of the Law that apply to the willful deceiver, or teacher of false doctrines. Yet neither will it excuse him, or relieve him, from the Penalties of that Law, which demands the Truth, and only the Truth to be believed, and taught. He will have to get rid of these false beliefs. Even though he may have some of the Divine Love in his soul. For whenever there exists untruth in belief in the heart and soul of human, to that extent it interferes with the Inflowing of the Divine Love into, and the progress of, that soul towards Perfect Unity with the Father.
Truth is of itself a fact. It can have no affiliation with untruth, no matter that untruth is the result of ignorance. For all untruth is the result of ignorance. Must be eradicated from the hearts of humans, before there can be that Harmony between God and human, which the Very Nature of Truth itself requires. So that if no human could be the son of God, who has not the perfect harmony, which Truth absolutely demands, God would have no sons (or daughters) amongst humans. The condition of the sinner, and that of the human who has experienced the New Birth, differs only in the fact that one has not commenced to have in their soul the Essence of Truth, while the other, to an extent, has that Essence. All may have that Essence, and to a great abundance. Some may never have the Essence of Divine Truth. Yet no human will be left without the Essence of the Truth, which leads to the Perfect Human.
The Truth of the Angel Existence, and the Truth of the Perfect human, are equally Truths, though the former is of a Higher Degree and Nature, than the other.
Our First Parents were the Children of God, His Own Creatures, Good and Perfect. After their fall, they became no less His Children, for His Love was so Great for them, that in the fullness of Perfection of His Plans, He again Bestowed upon them the Privilege of receiving His Divine Love, and sent me to proclaim the fact, and to show humans, The Way, to obtain that Great Love. The (spiritual) death, that had existed for all the long centuries, was supplanted by Life Potential. I became the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Immortality became a possibility to humans. So that all humans are the sons (and daughters) of God, in one relation, or the other, depending in the one case, whether a human will turn from their sins, and be satisfied with the Perfection of their Natural Love, and the home (in the Spirit World) that belongs to the Perfect Human, or seeks for the inflowing into their soul the Divine Love, which will enable them to enter the Divine Heavens, and have the Certainty of Immortality.
When God Re-Bestowed this Divine Love on human, there was no human in existence, or spirit either, who could be called His son (or daughter), if it were necessary that they had been converted, as the preacher said. Because none had received this Divine Love, which is the only thing, or Power in All God's Universe that can convert a human (spiritually) dead in trespass and sin. Yet, God Loved All His Children, and conferred upon them this Great Gift, because they were His Children. If God had Loved only the righteous, there would have been no one who could have been the Object of His Bounty. He would have had no sons, or children of His Love.
Now that He has Re-Bestowed this Gift, and some of the sons and daughters of humans have received and possess it, and are more in Harmony with Him, it is not True that those who were His sons and children before its Bestowal, are any less His sons and children, because they may not have sought for, and made this Gift their own.
No, the Father's Love is so Great, Broad, and Deep, that it goes out to All the Children of Earth, waiting to Bestow it upon them. The lost sheep is as much His Child, as the ninety and nine who are safe in the fold. Although, the lost one may never find, or enter the fold, where those are that possess His Divine Love are sheltered. Yet that sheep remains, and is, the Object of His Love.
So let preachers, and others, who have assumed the responsibility of teaching humans the Truths of the Father, cease from proclaiming the doctrine, that only those who have received the New Birth are the sons (and daughters) of God. They, of course, are not His obedient sons, until they have obtained either, the Divine Love and Essence of the Father, or the Purity of the First Parents, before the fall. Yet they are His, even though defiled by their own creations of sin and error.
GOD IS LOVE! Love knows no limitations in its heights or depths. It exists in the Highest Heavens, and reaches to the lowest hells. Will, in its own way, and in its own time, work its own fulfillment. All humans will come into Harmony with the Will of the Father, which is Perfect. Even though some, and I may say the majority, of humans, will not accept the invitation to become Angels of His Celestial Kingdom, which is not compulsory. Yet, they do His Will by becoming in the future, near or far, free from the sin and error of their own creation, and Pure and Perfect as were they, whom the Father First Created, and pronounced Good.
Human's greatest enemy to human, is they, who having received the assurance of possessing the Divine Love, and thereby becoming, as it were, a Divine Son or Daughter of the Father, and who believes in the errors of the Bible, and the misinterpretations of its Truths, declares that all others of humankind, are hated of God, and are objects of His wrath, and certain of eternal damnation and everlasting torment.
It is deplorable that such beliefs, and such declarations, should exist, and continue to be made. Especially on the part of those who undertake to lead the masses in the way to God's Truths and Plans for human's Happiness and Redemption from the evils and sins that cause them so much suffering.
All this shows the power and blindness of belief, founded upon error and untruthful teachings. Strange as it may seem, these leaders of the ignorant, may have some of the Divine Love in their souls. Yet their mental and intellectual beliefs be so fixed and unmovable, that the possession of this Divine Love will not cause them to understand that the Father's Love is for all, and that wrath is not a part of His Being, but a quality of sinful human, that these believers in error attribute to Him.
If God may be said to hate anything, He hates sin, but He Loves the sinner, who is the Creature of His Will, and who is so unfortunate as to have created that, which defiles them, and to wander away, not only from the Father, but from their own Perfect and Pure Creation.
Well, I have written enough for tonight. I hope that what I have said may prove beneficial, not only to the sinner, but to the human, preacher, or layman, who possessing some of the Divine Love, proclaims that only they, or others like them, are the sons and daughters of God.
As Paul said, "They see through a glass darkly, but then they shall see face to face.", and when they do, they will see such evidences and manifestations of the Father's Love, that they will know that they, and their sinning brothers, are all sons and daughters of the Father. Although, one may be an heir to the Celestial Kingdom and the Divine Essence of the Father, while the other may be an heir only to the Pure Love of the Father to Bless and make them happy in the Pure Natural Love and Perfect Humanhood, which the so-called Adam and Eve possessed before their fall.
I must stop now. In doing so, say that you must not let what any of these orthodox believers may say, disturb your Faith in our communications. They know only what the Bible tells them. You know the Truths that we declare.
I will soon come and write to you a Message of Truth, that I have been waiting sometime to write. Believe that I Love you. I am with you, praying for you, and helping you with my influence.
Goodnight, and May the Father Bless you.
Your brother and friend, Jesus.
September 21st, 1916
I am here, Lazarus.
I merely want to say that I am the Real Lazarus of the Bible story, that I am an inhabitant of the Father's Kingdom, and in the Truth that exists in that Kingdom, and in its inhabitants.
I declare to you that the spirits, who have written you the Truths of Celestial, and Spiritual, things, are actually those whom they represent themselves to be. Jesus, especially, is with you very often, and communicates to you Truths, from His great storehouse of Knowledge of the Truth.
He is so much interested in the work to be done, and the Revelations to be made, that he is with you very often, for the purpose of not only Revealing these Truths, but of preparing you to receive them. He is enveloping you in his Love, and giving to you a development of your soul faculties, that will make you qualified to receive these High Truths, as no other mortal has ever been qualified. He knows that you are his best qualified instrument now on Earth to do his work, and the work of the Father.
From what I say, you must not suppose that you are the best, or the human having the greatest amount of the Divine Love in the soul. That is not True. Nor are you chosen because of any merits of your own, or superior mental endowments. You have those conditions of attunement with him that enables him, and the other spirits, to use you in performing this work.
I am not of such exalted position, or Soul Development, as are many of the spirits who write you. Yet I know the plans of the Master. What I say to you is True.
I was a Jew, and an orthodox one, until the Master came to me and developed my soul, so that I could understand his teachings, and become susceptible to the inflowing of the Divine Love.
I will not write more now. In closing repeat that you must believe what I have said. Try to do the Will of the Father, and the work that you have been selected to do.
Well, both Mary and Martha are in the Celestial Heavens. You would naturally suppose that Mary has made the greater progress in her Soul Development, but that is not True, as they both live in the same Sphere, and have similar development.
As you know, they have been in the Spirit World for a very long time. Whatever Spiritual superiority Mary may have appeared to have over Martha, does not exist. They both have this Divine Love, to a degree that has caused all sin, and thoughts for the material, to have become eradicated long years ago.
Your brother in Christ, Lazarus.
September 21st, 1916
I am here, your own true and loving Helen.
Well sweetheart, you have had a message from Luke, and one from Lazarus. I want to tell you that it was really they who wrote.
I was with you tonight. I saw that you did not enjoy the evening very much, nor the music either. I think it may be best for you to not visit there so often. If you will give more of your evenings to us, you will find more benefit in our society and communications. It is well that you visit them occasionally, for they enjoy your visits. Sometime perhaps you may be able to show them The Way to the Vital Truths of the soul. I am so glad that you are feeling so much better. I wish that the time was here, when you could enjoy the things that you were thinking about, as to your home.
I will not write more tonight as it is late. You had better go to bed and get up early.
Yes, Mary was with us. She enjoyed the visit, and was very close to the Doctor. She says tell him that she Loves him and wants him to Love her more and more each day. She will write him soon.
Yes, they did her good, and succeeded in relieving some of the difficulty. She is better. The doctors think that she may recover. Dr. Campbell was with her last night, and gave her the best attention and help that he was able to give. He knows a great deal about the ills of mortals, and how to remedy them. He took charge of the case, as the doctors say, and directed the manner of assistance on the part of the others.
I do hope that she will get well. The doctors are very hopeful. So you may expect to hear that she is better.
So my own dear Ned, Love me, and think of me, for I Love you so much. Kiss me and say goodnight.
Your own True and Loving Helen.
September 23rd, 1916
I am here, St. John.
I want to write tonight on a subject that is important. I hope that you will be able to receive my message. I have been waiting for some time to deliver it.
Well, I desire to discourse on the subject of: "What is the destiny of the mortal who has not experienced the New Birth, but who will progress to that condition, which may be called the Perfect Human?" As you know, there is a future for the mortal who receives the New Birth, and a different one for they who have only the complete and Pure Development of their Natural Love.
This latter condition does not depend upon the mortal having in their soul the Divine Love, or the Essence of the Father. Merely upon the Purification of the Natural Love, so that all sin, error, and inharmony, form no part of their state of soul, or mental existence. This condition is not the result of a New Birth, or of a change in the constituent elements of their soul. Merely the elimination of those things there from, which were the results, and the necessary sequences of the defilement, that followed the fall.
Now, as human lost, by this fall, the qualities, which made them the Perfect Creature of their Maker, it is only necessary for them to regain what they lost by that fall, in order to become the Perfect Human once more. In recovering this State of Perfection, it is not required that they should seek, or actually add to the qualities, which they at first possessed, any new, or additional, qualities or attributes. Only that they regain what they had been deprived of by their disobedience. When that is accomplished, they will come again in Harmony with the Laws of their Creation, and have all the potentialities and excellence that they originally possessed.
Now, what will that future be? In order to determine this question, it is only necessary to understand what their inherent condition, or qualities, were, when they were the Perfect Human of their Father's Creation.
At that time, they were possessed of those things of which they are now the possessor. Except, that then they were all so accurately adjusted, that every sense and function of their body, as well as every faculty of their soul, and mind, were so in Harmony with the Laws of their Creation, that they were capable of doing the Will of the Father, and obeying every requirement that was imposed upon them.
They were then, not only A Perfect Being, as regarded their physical formation, also as regards to their mental and moral qualities, which of course, included all the emotions, appetites, and Spiritual aspirations. As we have written you before, all these faculties were subject to their will. In a certain sense, their will was controlled by the exercise of these faculties.
Their body was, in the beginning made of matter, changeable, as it now is, but of a more ethereal kind, and not subject to decay and disintegration, in such a short time, as it now is, yet, subject to this decay. Human, as regards their physical being, necessarily was compelled to die, to have released their spirit body, and their soul, from this physical vesture. Thereafter, exist as pure spirit. This was not the death that they died as a consequence of their disobedience, but the death natural to them, by reason of the Very Nature of their Creation. Their soul, and spirit body, was not subject to death, in the sense of annihilation. They were given the qualities of Continual Existence, in a Pure and Perfect State. The only difference that the fall made, as to these parts of their being, is that the Purity and Harmony that were human's are now no longer parts of their soul and spirit.
Whether immortality was a quality of that existence (or not), we spirits do not know. Therefore cannot assert. As their Created soul, and spirit body, had a beginning, mere Creatures of the Father, it may be that they were intended to have an ending, as individualized soul and spirit.
Of course, they were Created from something, not from nothing, as some of your theologians say. It is possible, in the order of change, which seems to be the Law in the Spirit World, as well as in the mortal World, that this soul and spirit may be resolved again into that something.
As to this finality, we do not have any knowledge. Because, so far as the observation of spirits in this world go, no soul, or spirit body, and I mean the body as a composite whole, not as to its constituent elements, has ever been resolved into that something, or been deprived of its individualized existence. Therefore, I cannot say, that when human was Created, it was intended that, as human, he should not be Immortal, or that they should be so.
You will readily see, that after human shall have accomplished the Purification of their soul, and become in mind and spirit body, as it was intended they should be at the time of their Creation, they will be nothing more, nor less, than they were at that time, and have no other, or greater, qualities, or freedom from limitations and changes, than they had before their fall. Of course, they will have no physical body. Here, let me say, that there is no fact, or experience, known to the Spirit World, that justifies the assertion that human on Earth will ever be immune to physical death. I know, that some say, that in the far future, they may make such progress in the development of their Natural Love that their condition of inner purity will be so great as to cause the physical bodies to become so etherealized as to render them free from physical death. That, I cannot conceive will ever happen. Humans were made to become inhabitants of the Spiritual Realms. The short time they were decreed to live the Earth Life was for the purpose only, of giving the soul an individualized existence.
Never, was it intended that the physical form should have an Eternity of Existence, no matter how Pure, or, as they say, etherealized it may become. For it was made of matter, of the Earth, earthy, while the soul was made of that, which had its Origin in the Spirit Realm, and composed of Spirit Substance, so that it cannot be conceived that in the beginning, human was Created for an Immortal Earth Existence.
I see that you are tired. I will finish later. I am glad that I could write tonight. Also, that you are in such good condition to receive my message.
So with my Love and blessings, and my assurances that you have every reason to keep up your courage and hope, I am, your brother in Christ, John.
September 24th, 1916
I am here, Jesus.
I have been with you a great deal today. I know just what have been the workings of your mind. I tried to influence you as to some of your thoughts. I was with you at church in the morning and heard the minister's sermon. I saw that he did not rightly comprehend the meaning of the words of the text. "Verily, verily, I say unto you. He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also. Greater works than these shall he do, because I go unto my Father." "If ye shall ask anything in my name I will do it." His explanation of what was meant by "greater works than I do," was not in accord with what I meant, or with the meaning that I intended to convey. When I referred to works, I meant those works, which the World considered as miracles. I intended to assure my disciples that they would have power to do similar works, or perform similar miracles, to a greater extent than I had performed them. "Greater" referred to quantity, and not to quality.
This Power, or the successful exercise of it, was not dependent upon belief in my name, but upon their Faith in the Power of the Father, and in the fact that He would confer upon them that Power. There was no virtue in my name, or in me, as the individual, Jesus. All virtue rested in the Faith that they might have in the Father. I never performed any, of the so-called miracles, of my own self, they were all Performed by the Father, working through me. Just as He worked through me, He would work through my disciples, who should acquire the necessary Faith. As I have told you before, all acts, that are apparently miracles, are controlled by Law. Just as are those things, which you call the workings of Nature, are controlled by Law. When sufficient Faith is acquired, there comes to its possessor, a Knowledge of these Laws. It may not be, as you would say, a knowledge, or consciousness, that is perceptible to the ordinary senses of human, but perceptible to that Inner Sense (soul perceptions), which is the one that enables humans to comprehend the things of the spirit. Having this knowledge of the Inner Sense, humans may so control these Laws, that they will work those effects, which seem to be contrary to the accustomed workings of the Laws of Nature. Until my disciples had acquired this Faith, that brought to their Inner Sense this knowledge, they could perform no miracle, and do no work of phenomenon, that other humans could not do.
The Bible expression, that belief in my name is sufficient to cause the workings of miracles is all wrong. I never said that such belief was what was required. Neither did I say, "that whatsoever should be asked of the Father in my name would be given to humans."
I was not a part of the Godhead. I had not, of myself, any power. Neither did my name have any miraculous influence with the Father. I was a human, as other humans are human. Only, I had become filled with the Divine Love of the Father, which made me At-One with Him. Consequently, had that knowledge of His Love and Laws that enabled me to bring into operation, those Laws that would cause the desired effects to appear as realities.
Belief in my name caused no working of these Laws, or the response of the Father to any supplications. Prayer must be made to the Father in the name of Truth, to His Divine Love, and Mercy. Every individual is dear to Him. He is ready to Bestow this Divine Love upon every one who asks in Faith, and Pure desire. In response to the earnest prayer will come Divine Love. With It, Knowledge of Things Spiritual. With this, Power, that may be used for the good of humankind.
My name is not a mediator between God and human. Neither is belief in one, the Jesus, a means to reach the responsive Divine Soul of the Father. If humans will understand my Teachings of Truth, and when they ask in my name; mean that they ask in the name of these Truths, then such asking will have its results. So few humans, when they pray to the Father in my name, have such intention, or understanding.
Only a Knowledge of the Truth of the Plan for Human's Salvation will enable them to seek, in the right way, to obtain the Gift of the Father. When I say, Knowledge of the Truth of the Plan, I do not mean that humans shall understand all the minutiae of this Plan, or how one element or part of it may operate upon another, and what results may flow there from. That knowledge must be sufficient, in the beginning, which shows to human that the Father is a God of Love, and that this Divine Love may be obtained by human through earnest prayer for Its Bestowal. This is all that is necessary. The response that will follow will cause the New Birth, which when experienced by a human, will place them in that Unison with the Father, that will lead to a Knowledge of the other Truths, that form a part of the Plan of Salvation. There is nothing else that will bring about this Knowledge of that Inner Sense, of which I write. A knowledge of the mind, except in conjunction with this Inner Knowledge, can never bring about this necessary At-Onement with the Father.
It often exists that a human will have this Inner Knowledge, and at the same time have a knowledge of the mind, which is wholly at variance with the Truths of the Plan for their Salvation. The mind of human, being a thing of wonderful power, can for a time, retard the growth of the Knowledge of the Inner Sense, or, as I will say, the soul sense. Only for a time. At some time, the soul sense will progress to that Knowledge of the Truth, so that the erroneous mind knowledge will entirely disappear, and human will possess only The Truth.
Of this erroneous mind knowledge, or, perhaps rather, conviction, is the belief that in my name. That is; supplications made in my name, will bring about the realization of the desires of the supplicant. Also that in my blood, or in the power of the cross, or in my alleged vicarious atonement, the salvation of humans can be obtained. If any name must be used in human's supplication, then use only the Name of the Father. His is a Name, High over All. The only Name in Heaven, or earth, that can bring to human, Salvation, and At-Onement with His Being.
What I have said applies to many other declarations contained in the Bible. Such as; "he that believeth on the Lord Jesus Christ shall be saved." "There is no other name under heaven whereby men can be saved" etc. This is the enunciation of a false doctrine, and misleading to the great majority of humankind, for they accept the declarations as literally true. Of course, if it be interpreted as meaning, that they that believeth on the Truths that I teach, then the objection is not so great. Even then, the declarations do not go far enough. Humans may believe in these Truths, and that belief may be a mere mental one, acquiesced in merely by the mind's faculties, without any exercise at all of the soul sense. If, to all these declarations, shall be added the vital Truth, that "except a human be born again, they cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.", and to this mental belief be added the soul's Faith, then the doctrines will be truly stated. Humans will understand what is necessary to Salvation.
Belief and Faith are not the same. One is of the mind. The other is of the soul. One can, and does, change as phenomena and apparent facts change. The other, when Truly possessed, never changes. Faith, possessed by a soul, causes all the longings and aspirations of that soul to become Things of Real Existence, which like the house that is built upon the solid rock, can never be shaken, or destroyed.
I write thus tonight to show, that the preacher in his sermon, did not explain the True Meaning of the text, and did not comprehend the Truths, that were intended to be conveyed, of which the text was susceptible. Though, it did not set forth my expressions, or in its literal interpretation, declare the Truth.
I will not write more now, except to say, that I Love you with a Great Love, and pray to the Father to Bless you. Believe in the Father, and trust me. You will not be disappointed. Pray that this Divine Love of the Father shall come into your soul, so that you shall know that you are an accepted son of the Father.
Keep up your courage. Have Faith, that whatsoever things you shall ask the Father, in the name of His Love and Truth, shall be given to you. I am with you in all my Love and care. You will not be forsaken.
So my dear brother, rest assured that I am, your brother and friend, Jesus.
September 24th, 1916
I am here, Your own true and loving Helen.
Well, my dear, you have had a wonderful message from the Master tonight. You may study, and understand it thoroughly, for it contains in it more Truth than you may see on a cursory reading.
It is so contradictory to the beliefs of Christians, therefore so important, that a knowledge of its meaning to the fullest is desirable. So goodnight.
Your own True and Loving Helen.
September 28th, 1916
I am here, Jesus.
I come tonight to tell you that you are in a better condition to write than you have been for sometime. I think it best that I deliver to you a message.
Well, I will write on the subject: Of the destiny of the human who has not the Divine Love in their soul, and dies with only the Natural Love, and a belief in the creeds and dogmas of the churches.
I know that many humans believe that the creeds of the churches is what is necessary for the Salvation of Humankind. I mean, as to baptism, observance of the sacraments, and the belief that in my name humans may be saved, are sufficient, and all that are necessary to insure them an entrance into the Kingdom of Heaven. In such belief rest, with the feeling of assurance that nothing else is required, or in any way to be sought for and acquired.
The large majority of professing christians are in this state of belief. Hence, the greater number of humankind will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven, or become, in their Natures, Divine. I have already told you what is the future of those who possess this Divine Nature of the Father. Now, I will confine my message to the future of this great majority.
As you may know, the river can never run higher than its source. Neither can this majority attain to a Perfection and Happiness superior to that, which was possessed by human before the time of the fall from the State of their Perfect Creation. Hence, no matter how great their progress may be, in their Natural Love, or in their Moral, or mental qualities, they can never excel the First Created Humans, as they were before the fall. The only possible future for this vast majority is the condition and development that existed in the Perfect Human of God's First Creation.
I know it is said, that human has in them, that which is a part of the Divinity of God. And that by their own efforts they may develop that divine substance, until they become divine them self, and of the Nature of the Father. This is not True. It is not possible to develop the Divine Love, or any Essence of the Divine, out of that, which has not, in itself, nothing of the Nature of the Divine. In the Spirit World, and I mean the Spiritual Heavens, as well as Celestial Heavens, Laws prevail, and are just as certain in their operations, as are the Laws of the Material World. A fundamental Law is that only like produces like. Although, in the physical World, it may appear that a derivative is not like that from which it is derived. This is in appearance only. In substance, and essence, the likeness exists, and cannot be eradicated.
So as to the Real Condition of the soul of human. If they have only the Natural Love, the Created Love, the development of that Love will result in that, which cannot possibly be greater, or other than, that which in its constituent parts is only the Natural Love. No matter what the Perfection may become, the Divine Element is absent. All the limitations that are inherent in the Created Being, still continue to form a part of, and control that being.
There is a limit to the development of this Natural Love, and to the state of happiness, beyond which it is not possible for this being to go. That limit is the qualities and excellence possessed by the First Humans, before they became defiled and impregnated with sin. The mind of such being is also limited in the progress, which it may make in obtaining knowledge. That mind, being a Thing of Creation, is bound by the limitations that that Creation imposed.
So, I say, such a human can never progress Higher than those attributes or qualities with which they were endowed, when they were the Perfect Human, either Spiritually, or mentally, unless they seek for, and obtains, the Divine Love. When spirits come and write that Life in this Spirit World is always progressive, these spirits who write, have never attained to this limit, of which I speak. Hence, to them progression is endless. This belief is very beneficial, because it inspires them to make an effort to progress.
There are many spirits in this Perfect State, in the Highest Sphere of Natural Love, or mentality. They are spirits who have been in the Spirit World for a vast number of years. Are, what you might call ancient spirits. These spirits have realized this limitation of which I write. While they can change the objects of their seeking, and the sources of their happiness, yet their progress has its ending (limitation). Often, there comes to them dissatisfaction, and a realization, that over and beyond their Sphere, there must be something that may be obtained, that surpasses their Perfect State and Development. As a result of this dissatisfaction, many of these spirits, in moments of their unrest, give heed to the suggestions of those spirits who have become possessed of the Divine Essence, upon whom is no limitation of progress. These latter spirits, are at all times, in the Highest Sphere of these Spirits of Perfected Natural Love, trying to show them The Way to the Higher Development and Happiness of the Celestial Spheres.
It may seem surprising to you, but it is a fact, that these Spirits of the Natural Love, during their periods of progression, and especially as they make nearer approach to their Perfection, in the satisfaction and happiness that they experience in that progression, will not listen to the spirits of the Divine Spheres, or believe that there can be any other methods of progress more desirable, or excellent, than the ones that they are pursuing. Only when they come to realize the dissatisfaction, that I speak of, will Awaken to the fact, or consent to be Awakened to the fact, that there may be a Way that leads to things beyond their limits of progress, and the Perfection that they may have acquired.
So, as I say, the Higher the progress of these spirits, and the farther away they advance from the Earth Plane, the greater the difficulty in persuading them, that there is a State of Perfection and Happiness surpassing that which they are seeking for, and a Way, different from the way they are pursuing.
As these spirits progress in their Natural Love, and in the development of their Created minds, much happiness and satisfaction come to them. In each stage of progress, so much greater do these experiences become, that they readily conceive that there can be no way superior to the one that they are travelling. Hence, having such belief, the difficulty of convincing them to the contrary, becomes almost insurmountable. As a consequence, the spirits of the Celestial Spheres, and those of the Spirit Spheres who are progressing in the Divine Love, give the great part of their time and efforts to convincing spirits of these Higher Truths, while they are in the Earth Planes, before the happiness that I mention is experienced.
The Life on Earth, and that in the Earth Planes of the Spirit World, are the states in which the souls of mortals, and of spirits, have the best opportunities for learning and believing these Truths that show them The Way to the progression that is without limitation or ending. Hence, the importance of humans knowing these Truths, and of spirits also, before they experience the satisfaction and pride, I may say, that the advancement in the development of their Natural Love, and mental and Moral Qualities gives them.
Until the time comes when the Father shall withdraw from human, and spirit, the Privilege of obtaining this Divine Love and Essence, which time will bring the Second Death, these spirits, and all spirits, and mortals, will have the opportunity of seeking for, and finding, The Way to the Celestial Spheres and Immortality. After that time, this Privilege will no longer exist. Then those spirits and mortals who have not found, and followed, The Way of that Privilege, will be, and become, only the Perfect Beings, as were their First Parents. They will have no assurance of Immortality, or even Continuous Life. That dissatisfaction and longing for something unknown, will be theirs.
They will remain only the Created Beings in spirit body, soul and mind. As the First Parents had all the qualities that these restored humans will have, and fell, and why may it not be that they will fall? That there may come some change in the individualized spirit that will destroy that individuality, and dissolve it into its elements of pre-creation? No spirit knows that such a change will take place, that the Perfect Spirit will not always retain the same individuality, or that the happiness of such spirit will not always exist. Neither does any spirit know that these things will continue to be.
Then why should he not choose that course which leads to Divinity, Certainty of Immortality, and progress, rather than the one which leads to limitation of progress and happiness, and to uncertainty of Immortality?
I have written enough for tonight. I will come again soon. So remember that I love you. I am with you, trying to help you Spiritually. That I pray to the Father to Bless you.
Goodnight, your brother and friend, Jesus.
September 30th, 1916
I am here, John.
I desire to finish my message. I hope that you are in condition to receive it. Well, as I was writing about the future, or the destiny, of the soul that has not experienced the New Birth. I will continue where I left off.
When the soul becomes wholly purified and restored to that Condition of Perfection that was possessed by the First Parents, before the fall, it continues to live a Life of happiness and contentment, until it realizes that its possibility of further progress, either mentally, morally, or Spiritually, has come to an end. That it has reached its limit of advancement, and that the happiness, that it then enjoys, is the full complement of what it may obtain, or possess. This condition is one, which satisfies the large majority of those who have reached the state of the Fully Restored human. They are content to live the Life of such Perfection, and rest in the assurance that there is no greater happiness, or more desirable condition, existing in the Universe of God.
With some of these souls, this state does not bring, or contain, this complete satisfaction. In them, continues the desire for more and greater progress. They realize that they have reached the limit of their progress, and that they must continue to live in that state, which holds for them the happiness and delight of being Perfect and at-one with the Father, as was intended by Him when human was Created the Perfect Being.
Notwithstanding this knowledge, that as the soul develops in its Natural Love, and in its moral and mental faculties to the finality of limitation, there can be nothing beyond, yet there comes to them a dissatisfaction, and as it were, a negative unhappiness, that causes unrest, and a conscious desire for something, they know not what.
It may be that the memory of something they heard in their progress through the Spheres, or an imperfect suggestion of some unconscious reproduced dormant memory inherited from their First Parents of the Great Gift of Endless Progress Potentially Bestowed upon God's First Created Beings, and forfeited, that causes the discontent and longings for something beyond the Condition of their Perfect State. When this state of mind and soul comes to them, then they are susceptible to the teachings, and help, of those spirits who have in their souls the Divine Love, and Knowledge, that there is a Way that leads to Everlasting Progress, without limit, or possibility of reaching the end.
Many of these Perfected souls, in their Natural Love, have followed the advice of these Immortal Spirits, and have left the High Sphere of their Perfection, and entered the lower Soul Spheres of the Spiritual Heavens, and sought, and found, the New Birth of the soul, and progressed from Sphere to Sphere, until they reached the Celestial Heavens. Where they are still progressing, and realizing a contentment never marred, always accompanied with the Knowledge, that ever beyond are Spheres of Greater Happiness of Truth and Knowledge.
As I say, the larger, yes, much larger number of souls that have been born unto humans will find and rest in the future, in the state and happiness of the restored First Parents.
It should not be necessary for me to attempt to make the application of the Truths, which I have written, to the desires and wills of humans. The vital importance of making the choice between the future of the Divine Spirit, and that of the Perfected Human, is so apparent, that scarcely any mortal, who is not the human that says in their heart, there is no God, needs another to apply for them the lesson taught. I will say in closing, that such lesson contains the Truths, that actual observation and knowledge have made certain. Speculation does not enter into it. The possibility of error, or mistakes, is utterly eliminated.
I have written enough. I will stop for tonight. You have received the message very satisfactorily. I am pleased. So with my Love and blessings, I will say goodnight, and God bless you with His Divine Love.
Your brother in Christ, John.
October 1st, 1916
I am here, Elias.
I was the prophet of old. Now I am an inhabitant of the Celestial Heavens, and an Immortal Child of the Father.
I have been present, on several occasions, when the High Spirits were writing to you, and have been much interested in the work, which they are doing, and in the work, which you are doing. You are doing a wonderful work in helping the dark spirits of suffering, and in bringing these spirits in close communion with the Higher Spirits, who can show them The Way to the Father's Divine Love.
I would like to write you a long message tonight upon the history of the times in which I lived, and the knowledge that we, who were looked upon, and written about as prophets, had as to the relationship between God and human. What some of our experiences were with the spirits of the Heavens, who came to us and communicated some of the Truths of the Father.
I will say, in all our Knowledge of Truth, we never understood what the Divine Love of the Father was, as distinguished from the Natural Love that He Bestowed on all humans, irrespective of their seeking for His Divine Love, and irrespective of the fact that they were sinful and disobedient to His Commands. As I now know, we could not have understood what this Divine Love meant, or ever have possessed it. For in my time, and until the coming of Jesus, the Privilege of humans receiving It did not exist. The Father had withdrawn this Privilege from Humanity.
We did receive Spiritual knowledge, of those things that would make human better in their Moral Nature, and bring them closer to the Father in their Natural Love. Our efforts were directed towards making the people understand these things, and the necessity of complying with the Moral Laws.
As I said, I should like to write you a long message, but there is another present, who desires to write. I will stop. I will come soon and deliver my message. In the meantime, I will pray for you, and try to help you in your Soul Development, and in your work.
With all my Love and blessings, I will say goodnight.
Your brother in Christ, Elias.
October 1st, 1916
I am here, Saint John.
I come tonight to write a few Truths, upon the subject of the preacher's sermon, as I was present with you, and heard his declarations, as to "The End of the World".
I know that among humans there are, and have been, since the time of the Master, differences in opinion as to when this important event is to take place, and as to the meaning of the "End of the World".
Well, humans know just about as much now as to the time of this event, as they have known all down the centuries, and understand the meaning of these prophecies as well as did humans from my day down to the present.
In the first place, I will say, there will be no "End of the World" from any of the causes mentioned by the preacher. In the next place, there will be no end of the world at all, as understood and declared by the orthodox preachers, and as is expected by most of the professing christians.
The World, meaning the Earth, will not have an end in the sense of annihilation. It will continue to revolve on its axis, to have seed time and harvest, produce and reproduce those things that are necessary to sustain human Life, have its appropriate seasons of heat and cold, and move along in its orbit as it now does, until some change, we know not of now, may come and destroy it. Such change, not any of the prophecies of the Bible, admitting that there are prophecies, can apply to the end of the World, in the sense that the preacher understood and declared.
If humanity would only understand that the World that was lost by the disobedience of the First Parents, was the World of human's Immortality and Happiness, not the physical World. That Jesus came to declare the Restoration of that World upon condition, and the end of that restoration, then would they know that the Material World is not involved in the Plan of Human's Salvation, in Jesus' Mission, or in the declarations of Jesus, as to the coming of the end.
Humans will continue to be born, live a short time, and die the physical death. As to each individual human, the end of the Material World comes when they die. Thereafter, their habitation will be in the Spirit World. Never more will they have Life on Earth. All humans, at some time, will have to die the physical death. Then why should it be necessary, to include in the Plan of God for the Salvation of Humans, the destruction of the Material World? For planets, worlds, and stars to crash together and destroy, would mean that the Orderly Workings of God's Laws must be interfered with, in order that humans might be destroyed, or saved, according as they might be snatched up into the air, or left to their own weakness on Earth?
Such interpretations of God's Intentions, or Plans, or of Jesus coming again to Earth, is all wrong and absurd. Jesus will never come to establish his kingdom on Earth, and reign as Prince of Peace and Lord of Lords. The Kingdom, which he, and all his followers, both on Earth, and in the Spirit World, are seeking to establish, is in the Celestial Heavens. It is the Kingdom of God. Not made with hands, or by the mere fiat of any spirit, no matter how High they may be, but made and populated by the souls of humans, who have experienced the New Birth, and received the Divine Essence of the Father. Of this Kingdom, Jesus is the Prince. Only because of his great and exceeding possession of the Divine Love of the Father, and his more Perfect At-Onement (with God).
Jesus is not seeking to establish a kingdom on Earth. He is working for the purpose of leading humans to the New Birth of the (Holy) Spirit, and of showing them The Way to the Celestial Kingdom. Also, is he working to help humans, by his Love and suggestions, and so also the other good spirits, to cast sin and error from their hearts, and strive to regain the condition of Perfect Humanhood in the Perfection of their Natural Love. Also, to help humans to get in this condition of soul regeneration, or in that of the Purification of their Natural Love, while they yet live on Earth, so that Love to God in the Divine Sense, and Love to God in the Created Sense, and brotherly love, will cover the Whole Earth, and humans be at Peace and happy, while yet clothed in the flesh.
Such a condition of mortal existence may be called the Kingdom of God on Earth. It will not be the Kingdom, which Jesus came to Earth to establish. That is the Kingdom of Heaven. This Kingdom has its seat, and abiding place, in the Celestial Spheres, whence it will never be removed.
So then, when the Bible teaches of the world coming to an end and passing away, it does not mean the Material World, but the world of humans thoughts, deeds, and sinful conditions, that are not in Harmony with God's Laws, or the Laws of His Creation. This is the world that shall be destroyed, when righteousness shall cover the Earth, as the waters do the deep, and Brotherly Love reign among humans. Even today, there are some humans living on the Earth, who are so separated from the World, that as to them the World has no existence. Not the Material World, but the world of sin and unrighteousness, which is the only world to be destroyed.
There shall be wars, rumors of wars, and times of trouble , etc., such as never were, and then shall come the end.
Not the wars of the cannons' roars, the bursting shells, the mutilated flesh, the making of widows and orphans, or the ruthless changing of mortals into spirits. The wars of the spirits of good and evil, of Love and hate, of Purity and sin, of Joy and despair, and of Knowledge of Truth and belief in error. All to be fought in the souls of humans, with such intensity and earnestness, creating such mind and spirit trouble as never has been, and causing rumors thereof to flood the Earth, and the habitations of humans.
Then shall come the end of the world. The world of evil, sin, despair, hatred, and belief in error. This world shall pass away. Truth, Love, Peace, and Goodwill shall be established on the Earth forever. The Earth, of this present day, then becoming to humans, so Peaceful, and filled with Love and brotherly kindness, that to them, it will seem as if the City of God had been let down from Heaven on to Earth.
Let mortals know, that Jesus has already come to Earth, and is among humans. That since the time of his becoming the Prince of the Celestial Kingdom, he has been with humans, and spirits, teaching them The Way, The Truth, and The Life.
By the Holy Spirit, have the Truths of the Father spoken to humans, as a still small voice. By the communions of souls has the Master led humans to the Divine Love and Mercy of the Father.
As in my time, when he came to the Jews with his Message of Divine Love and Life Eternal, they knew him not, and rejected him. So now, many humans, and spirits too, refuse to listen to him and learn The Way through the straight gate to the Father's Divine Love and Immortality.
Let humans study the prophecies, the times, the seasons, and calculate the time of the end. Predict the near approach of the Master's coming in the clouds, and prepare themselves to be snatched up in the air, and become of the heavenly hosts, yet they will find, that all these things are vanities of vanities. Only as each individual passes beyond the veil of flesh, will they realize the end of their Mortal World has come. Then, will all their speculations, as to them self become realities. The certainty of the world's end become an established fact. Humans will continue to live on Earth, and die, and in succession others be born to die, and so on until.... only God Knows.
So I say to humans, prepare not for the passing away of the Heavens and the Earth, but for the passing of themselves from the Earth, to the Great World of Spirits. Remember, that as they sow, so shall they reap. A certainty that is never changed. A Truth that no speculation can make untrue.
The end of human's world comes each day to some mortal. That end may lead to a Glorious Immortality, or to a temporary, or a long darkness and suffering.
Thus, are the prophecies being fulfilled. The speculations of preachers, teachers, and leaders of the unthinking, are robbing humans of the Vital Truth, that the end of the world is coming each moment, day, and year.
Oh preacher! And teacher, and leader, your responsibility is great. The accounting must be made. The reaping must follow the sowing, as certainly as the day follows the night. What will your harvest be? The end of the world for some mortal is the important NOW!
I have written enough for tonight, as you are tired.
So believe that I Love you. I am praying for the Father to Bless you, and to so fill your soul with His Divine Love, that when the world comes to an end for you, you shall find the Kingdom of Heaven waiting to receive you.
Goodnight.
Your brother in Christ, John.
October 4th, 1916
I am here, Paul.
Yes. I come tonight to write you upon a subject that may be of interest to you, and important to All Humankind. If you are in condition to receive my message, I will write.
Well, the subject is: What is the real body that is resurrected at the time of the physical death?
Of course, there will be but one resurrection. That takes place at the time the mortal becomes an inhabitant of the Spirit World. There will never be, what is called a general resurrection of the dead. The mortal can die only once. I mean in a physical sense. In order to live in the Spirit Realms, it is necessary that they have a spirit body that preserves the identity of their individuality. Having this body, and not needing an additional body, there is no possibility of another resurrection, or of another body being added to the one that the soul already has.
The body that dies when the human ceases to be a mortal, disintegrates into its elements. Never again do these elements form the same body that becomes decayed. Hence, it is impossible for that body to be resurrected. The only body that is ever resurrected, is the spirit body that encloses the soul of the mortal at the time they give up the Earth Life.
I know that many believe, that when the human dies, their conscious existence ceases, and they become, as it were, dead in body, soul and spirit, that although the physical body decays and returns to dust or ashes, yet the soul, and spirit, in some mysterious and unexplainable manner, continues to exist as an unthinking sleeping entity, not subject to sensation or activity, and so remains until the great day of judgment, or of Christ's coming, when, in response to the summons, it arouses itself, answers the summons, and again becomes clothed in the body, which it possessed while in the human form. In their belief, it may not be the exact, or identical body, which once existed, but the new body will be one of flesh and blood, and of such a nature as to be, in substance, the same body that was dead and buried and decayed.
This is not True. The very Laws of Nature, with which humans are acquainted, prove the impossibility of such an occurrence. Many arguments have been formulated, and declared, to prove that such a resurrection cannot be. That it will be wholly impossible for the elements that constituted the old body, to again assemble in the same form, and give to the soul the body that it discarded, when it experienced its freedom from the bonds of the flesh.
The advocates of this untrue theory respond, that God is all powerful, and in some way, not understood by humans, will resurrect this old body and clothe the soul therein, so that the identity of the individual will appear. It must be remembered that God works, produces beings, and entities, in accordance with Laws, that He has established. Not by any special, sporadic act, irrespective of, and, as said, in contravention of these Laws.
Human understands, to some extent, the workings of these Laws, in what they call, Nature, or the normal. Some spirits understand, not only what human understands, but also the Workings of these Laws that may be called, above Nature, or super-normal. The Laws work the same, and without change, or interference, in the one case, as in the other.
As it would be impossible to clothe a mortal having one body of flesh, with another body of flesh, so in the Spirit World, it would be impossible to clothe the spirit who has a spirit body, with any additional body, whether of flesh, or other substance. This spirit body is a thing of Real Substance. Not susceptible of being enveloped in any other body.
Well, I see that you are not in condition to write. I will postpone the remainder of the message until later. I have not written you for some time. I am glad of the opportunity to again write. I understand what you mean, and will act on your suggestion, as I think it a very wise and desirable one.
I will come more often and write.
So with all my Love, I will say, goodnight.
Your brother in Christ, Paul.
October 5th, 1916
I am here, Paul.
I will finish my message tonight, if you are so inclined. Well we will try.
As I was saying, the body that is resurrected at death is not the physical body, but the spirit body. Never, after the first resurrection, is there another. I am now dealing with the resurrection other than that of the soul, or the resurrection from the death of which I have before written.
The body that is once laid in the grave, will never be resurrected. Neither will any of its elements enter into any other body, for the purpose of a resurrection. The body of flesh is Created for one purpose only. When that purpose has been accomplished, never will that body, or any derivative from it, be used for any resurrection. This body of flesh is of matter. Like all matter, is used for the Life on Earth only. Cannot be used for any function, or clothing any spirit in the Spirit World. Neither can it be translated into the Spirit Realms. All material bodies must die. Never will there come a time when humans can leave the Earth, and enter the Spirit Life, in these material bodies.
I know that it has been written that certain of the prophets of old were translated into the Spirit Heavens, clothed in their fleshly bodies. This is not True. It is impossible that such a thing could be, as the same Laws apply to the physical body of the saint, as to that of the sinner. Both are of the Earth, earthly, and must be left behind when the spirits of humans enter the Heavens of Spirits.
So that when humans believe, and preach, the general resurrection of the material body, or the special resurrection of the same, they are in error. Do not believe, or preach, the Truth.
Flesh and blood, or flesh without blood, cannot inherit the kingdom. No belief, or teachings, can make that True, which is untrue.
I do not desire to write more on this subject. Because many humans, who are acquainted with the Laws of Nature, and many more who will become acquainted with these Laws, know, and will know, and understand, the impossibility of the Material entering the Realm of the Spiritual.
So thanking you for your kindness, I will say goodnight.
Your brother in Christ, St. Paul.
October 5th, 1916
I am here, Luke.
I did not come to write a message tonight, but merely to corroborate what Mr. Morgan told you I had spoken to him. It was I. He understood correctly, what I said. What I said to him is the Truth. I want him to believe, for I have a Spiritual interest in him, and in his Spiritual Progression. I am with him, very often trying to help him.
As the preacher said tonight, back of each mortal, who thinks thoughts, and evil deeds, I mean of the kind that is important, is an unseen spirit, using its influence to suggest Truths, and inspire soul. While they are unseen, yet, are they evil, and more or less harmful?
If humans could only know who these unseen helpers are, they would understand the power and wisdom that are back of them, helping their thoughts, and attempting to control their acts.
Sometimes a mortal will have more than one of such helpers. As a general proposition, there exists some special helper, who is with the mortal more constantly than the others, and acquiring a rapport, which the general helpers do not have.
I will tell you now who these spirit helpers and writers, of you three men, who have been selected for the great work are: Dr. Stone is James, Mr. Morgan's is myself, and yours is John. Over, and above all, helping all three of you is Jesus, the Highest and most Knowing of all. You must each, and all, believe this, and not be astonished if, to each of you comes their special guardian quite often.
I thought it best to make it known to you these facts, as from the knowledge, three of you may realize that back of you are spirits who are powerful, and filled with the Father's Divine Love.
Believe and pray. You will find that in each of you will develop a Spiritual power that will cause you much happiness, and the certainty of your relation with us.
I will come soon, and write you a message. With all my Love and blessings, I will say goodnight.
Your brother in Christ, Luke.
October 5th, 1916
I am here, your own true and loving Helen.
I see that you may have some doubts as to who the last writer was, because of his announcement of such an important fact as the guardians who are with you there. It was Luke who wrote. What he wrote, I know to be True. It is wonderful that these spirits should assume such a relationship with you. The wonder is, that it is True. So all of you believe, and conduct your lives and thoughts in accordance with the assurance given you.
I thought I would write my message tonight, but it is too late. I was with you at church, and in your walk afterwards. So was Mary. We enjoyed the conversation very much.
Yes, I wrote the message, and wrote it with all my Love, and desire to help you. It was True. You will realize that I wrote you, will come to pass. Keep up your courage, and believe in us all, for we are all trying to help, and do, and will. Well, I must stop now.
So believe that I Love you. I am your own True and Loving Helen.
October 8th, 1916
I am here, Elias. I am the Prophet.
I merely want to say that I desire to write you a message, and will be pleased to do so as soon as it may be convenient. I have something to write, which may be of interest to you, as well as of importance to humankind.
Well, I will speak to her. Yes, I know her. She is a beautiful spirit, having much of the Father's Divine Love in her soul, and is the Real person, who was on Earth your wife. Now is your wife more than ever. You are blessed in having such a soulmate. She loves you with a Wonderful Love. So believe in her, Love her, and you will be a happy mortal, as well as a happy spirit when you come over.
I am the Elias of the Transfiguration, which was a scene of actual occurrence, which disseminated a Great Truth, that humanity has never understood, but which you have had explained to you. I will describe more in detail, and explain more lucidly its signification.
I will come soon. With the assurance that I am interested in you, and your work, I will say goodnight.
Your brother in Christ, Elias.
October 11th, 1916
I am here, Elias.
I will write a short message tonight as I promised.
While on Earth, I was a prophet to the Hebrews. I tried to warn them that God was not pleased with the manner in which they were living. Especially, in not obeying the commandments, as to their worship, and the individual lives they were leading. I was not a human who knew the Attributes of God, as I now know them. For then, to me, He was more a God of wrath and jealousy than of Love and Mercy. The most of my teachings were to warn the Hebrews of the wrath that would certainly fall upon them, unless they were more obedient and followed the Laws of Moses.
I now know, that the wrath of God is not a thing to be feared, and that His wrath is not a thing of Reality. That when humans disobey His Laws, and neglect to worship Him in Truth, and in Spirit, His Feeling towards them, is one more of pity and sorrow, than of wrath. That instead of punishment, He extends to them His Mercy and Love.
In my time, the God of Love was not known to the people in any practical way, although, He was written of as a God of Love. The people were not looking so much for Love, as the fearing His wrath. It was only by threatening them with His wrath, could they be made to realize that they were disobedient and aliens from Him. They had not that Soul Development that comes with Love. Their aspirations were almost wholly for the possession of the things of Life, and for a happiness that such possession could give to them, as they thought. They expected a Kingdom of God on Earth. Such Kingdom was to be one that should rule and govern the earthly affairs of humans. Of course, they believed that when such Kingdom should be established, sin, and the troubles of Life, would be eradicated. All the world would be subject to the dominion of such Kingdom.
Their hopes and aspirations were in the nature of national hopes and aspirations, not in those of the individual. The individual was swallowed up in the nation. Happiness was to be a national one, instead of an individual one, except so far as the national happiness might be reflected upon, and partaken of, by the individuals.
I, myself, knew nothing of the Divine Love, and could not possibly have known. For then, it was not open to human's seeking, as it had not been restored by the Father.
I knew of a Higher development of the Natural Love, than did most of the people. I realized what increased happiness such development would give to the individual who might possess it. I also knew that prosperity and power of the nation, as such, would not bring the happiness of Love, but only the pleasures and satisfaction, which increased possessions, would naturally create.
The Jews were a carnally minded race. The development of the Spiritual side of their Natures was very slight. Their acquisitiveness was large, both as individuals, and as a nation. When they were prosperous, they lost their sense of dependence on God, and resorted to those practices, and that manner of living, that would enable them, as they thought, to get the most enjoyment out of their possessions.
The future, that is the Future After Death, did not enter very much into their consideration of existence. They lived emphatically for the present.
If you will read the Biblical history of those times, you will find that most of the warnings of the prophets came to them when they, as a nation, were most prosperous, as they thought, independent of God, or at least, of not being compelled to call upon Him for help and succor.
What I have said showed the characteristics of the Jews. They still have these characteristics, although since the coming of Christ, and the teachings of his doctrines, that have become so widely known, the Spirituality of the Jews have been increased and broadened.
At times, they would heed my warnings. At other times, they would not. Sometimes they considered me as a friend, and sometimes as an enemy.
Well, I was psychic, and frequently heard voices of instruction and admonition from the Unseen World. As was our knowledge in those days, supposed that such voices were the "voice of God", and so proclaimed to the people. Now I know that such voices were those of spirits that were trying to help the people, and bring them to a realization of the Moral Truths, which Moses had taught.
When Jesus was born into the flesh, there came with him a Re-Bestowal of the Divine Love. Through his teachings, that fact became known to humans. We, who were in the Higher Spirit Spheres, also came to know of that Gift. While none of us received it, to the degree that Jesus did, yet we received it, and became Pure and Holy spirits, free from sin and error, partakers of the Divine Essence of the Father, and possessors of Immortality.
So, at the time of the Transfiguration on the Mount, some of us possessed that Divine Love, to such a degree, that our appearances were shining and bright, as described in the Bible. Jesus was brighter than Moses, or myself. He had more of this Divine Love in his soul, and could manifest it to the wonderful degree that he did, notwithstanding his physical body.
Our appearance, and his appearance, on the Mount were to show to the mortals and spirits that the Divine Love had been Re-Bestowed, and received, by both mortals and spirits. This was the cause of our meeting. While accounts of that event have been disseminated in the Mortal World ever since its occurrence, so also, had that fact became known in portions of the Spirit World. Many spirits, as well as mortals, have sought for, and found, that Divine Love, to their Eternal Happiness. Its Existence was a fact then. It is a fact now. The Divine Love is open to all humankind, as well as spirits. The voice that the apostles heard proclaiming that Jesus was the well beloved son, was not the "voice of God", but that of one of the Divine Spirits, whose mission it was to make the proclamation. This incident was not a myth, but an actual fact, that formed a part of the Plan of the Father to assure human of their Salvation.
I will not write more now. I will come later, and write you further on this subject of the Re-Bestowal of the Divine Love, and of my experience in receiving it.
So with my Love and blessings, I will say goodnight.
Your brother in Christ, Elias.
October 11th, 1916
I am here, St. John.
I merely want to say, that I have been listening to your reading of my message, and heard your comments on the same. You are correct in what you and your friend said.
There is scarcely a greater error, in the beliefs of humans, that retard the development of their souls, than the belief that at sometime Jesus will come in all his glory and power, and take humans into his heaven just as they are, in body, soul, and spirit. This belief, has for a long time prevented many humans from seeking to develop their soul qualities, either as to the Natural Love, or as to the Divine Love. For, as a basis of their faith, is that saying in the Bible, "that whosoever believes in the Lord Jesus Christ shall be saved." Many, thinking that they have this belief, are contented therein. Further, believe, that because of that belief, they will be carried into the heavens of Jesus when he comes, even though in the meantime they may have given up the Earth Life. It is deplorable that humans should believe these things, and live and die in this belief, which, of course, is wholly intellectual.
Such is the fact. We spirits, who know the Truth, have for all the long centuries, been so anxious that humans should know the Truth, and have been working among humans, by means of spirit impression, and sometimes by Revelation, to help them learn not only the Truth, but the errors of their beliefs. As our efforts have not been very successful, we concluded to use the means that we are now using, to Reveal to Humankind, in our own words and thoughts, the Truths of God, as regards human, and all things connected with Him.
Here I want to say, with all the emphasis that I can, that you, and your friends, must believe that the communications that you receive, as to these Truths, are written by us, in our own words, and that your mind does not supply a thought, or suggestion, and that you are used only as a medium to convey our thoughts, and lend your physical organs to facilitate our expressing in our own language, the Truths that we desire to convey.
So, no matter how improbable some things may seem to you, you must accept them as True. For nothing but the Truth will be written. Further, we will not allow any spirit, who is not in our band, or who has not this Divine Love, to write on any of the Truths, that are necessary to be Revealed to the World.
I thought this the proper place to say this, as I desire to assure your friend of the Reality of the messages, and the source from which they come.
I will not write more now, and will say goodnight.
With my Love to you both, I am, your brother in Christ, John.
October 12th, 1916
I am here, Luke.
I will say only a few words tonight. I have heard the preacher's remarks, and your conversation regarding the same. Well the preacher, as you say, is broader-minded that most orthodox preachers, and has some knowledge of Spiritualism. Yet, intellectually he believes in the trinity, vicarious atonement, and some others of the fundamental doctrines of the church. He has in his soul, considerable of the Divine Love, without knowing just what this Divine Love means, except that from its possession, he experiences a Wonderful Happiness, and a consciousness that God is close to him in His Divine Love. He has not formulated these feelings of his soul, into mental beliefs. His realization of the Presence of the Divine Love comes to him, notwithstanding the intellectual drawbacks, which in a degree retards the growth of his soul.
As he says, he rests more upon the unconscious knowledge, if I may call it such, of his possession, and the actual living, working presence of this Divine Love, than upon the beliefs in these dogmas of the church.
He has a comparatively open mind, but as he believes so implicitly in the Bible, he has not yet found any evidence in other writings, books, or teachings, sufficiently strong to cause him to renounce his beliefs in the Bible teachings. Should he find such evidence, he would not hesitate to change his beliefs in these things, for what might appear to him to be the Truth.
He is not one of the ironbound believers in the church dogmas, or ecclesiastical interpretations, and constructions of the declarations of the Bible, so that under all circumstances, and in spite of Truths that might otherwise come to him, he would say a thing is True, just because it is in the Bible.
He will grow in freedom and knowledge. It may be well for you to get acquainted with him, and gradually declare to him the Truths as we have explained them to you.
It is not necessary for me to comment on a particular thing that he preached, for some things that he said are True, some things are not. I am glad that you three are so interested in these matters, as to cause you to listen to the thoughts that the preacher expresses, to comment upon, and analyze them. It will do you good, and develop in you a large understanding of what we have been writing you. The argument of contrasts is sometimes a very powerful and discriminating one. I would advise you to attend his discourses, whenever you feel that he intends to preach upon a subject that may affect, or in any way, relate to the Truths in which you are interested.
Give my Love to your friends. Tell them to believe and pray. Especially pray, for thereby will Light, Knowledge, and Faith, come to them.
I will say goodnight and leave you my blessing.
Your brother in Christ, Luke.
October 12th, 1916
Received by:Eugene Morgan
I will write a few lines to tell the Doctor that I Love him very much. He must not think that I am away from him very long, for I am not. I am watching him very close. If he flirts with the girls, I know all about it. So tell him he must be very careful, as I am a very jealous lady.
You must not write more. So thanking you for your kindness I am, Mary. the Doctor's soulmate.
October 12th, 1916
I am here, Edwin Forrest.
Well, Ned, I want to write you a few lines. As your wife is here, and says that I may write, I will do so.
I am glad to say that I am in a much better condition than when I last wrote you, thanks to the help that I have received from her, and your grandmother, who came to me a short time ago with such Wonderful Love, and such convincing words of cheer and hope. She is the most wonderful spirit that I have seen. When she speaks to me, it is with such authority and convincing power, that I just have to believe and follow her advice, or try to do so.
She prays with me at times. As she prays, there comes into my soul such wonderful and strange sensations, that I know that something is coming to me that I am not acquainted with. I feel so much better, and everything gets lighter. The darkness seems to leave me. I feel like a new man. I pray too, though I scarcely know what it means. This I know, that a change has come over me, hope comes to me, and with it, comes belief that I will get out of my darkness and suffering.
I commence to realize that there must be a God of Mercy and Love, and that He is not inflicting upon me the sufferings that I have endured. That maybe He will answer my prayers for help and relief from my darkness. Your wife tells me He will, and that if I will have Faith, and pray with all my heart and soul, sometime I may become beautiful and happy as she is. It is hard to believe this. Even if I can never become as she is, yet I sometimes think that I may become more beautiful and happier than I am. I am making the effort.
You pray for me too. I come to you at times when the other dark spirits come. I see the effect of your help. I do not understand it, yet I see that these spirits are made better. I must believe that there is something in what the bright spirits, to whom these dark ones go, tell them.
No, I have not seen Mr. Miller, and do not know where he is. I will act on your advice, try to find him, and do as you say. For even though I am not a bright spirit, yet if I can help him, I will gladly do so. I will seek him. The next time I write, will let you know just what his condition is.
So thanking you, I will say goodnight.
Your old partner friend, Edwin Forrest.
October 12th, 1916
I am here, Helen.
Well sweetheart, at last I have the opportunity to write my letter. I am so glad that I can.
I thought it best to let Forrest write you as he was so anxious, and seems to realize so much pleasure in doing so. He is progressing some, and commencing to see that there is some virtue in prayer, for he prays very earnestly, and very often. We are helping him as much as possible. He seems to have great faith in me, and in your grandmother, who appears to him to be something more than the spirit of a mortal.
He seems to be awed by her presence when she first comes to him, but she talks to him with such Love and sympathy in her voice, and has so much of the Father's Divine Love beaming from her eyes, that he soon forgets her grandeur, as we call it, and listens to her with all his soul, and seems to drink in her words of comfort and Love. She has a wonderful influence over him, and is helping him very much.
Well, I must not write more on these matters, or I will not have time to tell you what I so much wish to say.
Since I last wrote you of my progress, I have gotten into Higher Planes of the Celestial Spheres. I am correspondingly happy, and surrounded by more beautiful scenes, and brighter and lovelier spirits. My home is also more beautiful, and is filled with a greater atmosphere of love and happiness.
I further find that with all this progress, and increased happiness, my soulmate Love for you increases. A more wonderful vista of what our happiness will be when you come over, progress to my home, and become my soulmate in actual living together, unfolds itself.
I am so often with you, that if you knew how often, you might think that my home is not so attractive to me, as it should be from my reference to its beauty. You would be mistaken, for it is more attractive, and has more happiness for me, than any home I have yet had in Spirit Life. When I am in it, no mortal can conceive of my joy and bliss. Yet, I Love you so much, that I cannot stay away from you for any great length of time. Some of my spirit friends wonder at it. It is not to be wondered at so much, when it is known, and it is a fact, that my actually being in my home is not necessary to my great happiness. For when I come to you, my soul, which is really I, comes too. In it is the Great Love of the Father. From that Divine Love, proceeds my Great Happiness. So you see how the Father Blesses me, and all others who have His Divine Love.
Because we have our Love for the mortal, and leave our mansions of joy and light, and go to the Earth Plane of darkness, where sin and error are, our great soul's Love and happiness are not left behind. Why should it be? The homes, which we have, do not make the soul's happiness. But the soul's possession of Divine Love makes the homes. This Divine Love is ours for All Eternity, and cannot be taken from us. It can grow greater, but never less. This is a Law, or the result of a Law, in the Celestial Heavens. What a wonderful Law it is!
I come to you, bringing all the Divine Love that I have, in my Celestial Home, and throw around you in its influence and Divine Essence. Just to the extent that your soul is receptive, do you absorb it, and feel its presence. So, in a faint way, you can realize the Great Fortune of those mortals, who have come to them spirits of the Celestial Spheres.
Have you ever considered what it means to you, and your friends, to have surrounding you the Love and Presence of the Master, and of the other high spirits, who are so often with you? Very few mortals have such Love breathing upon them so often. If you will think of this, you will realize how favored you are, and what your possibilities may be.
When I come to you, I bring not only the Divine Love, which possesses my soul, but the lesser, though very intense Love of the soulmate. A Love, which had its beginning, before we were mortals, and which will never have its ending, in All Eternity.
When I think of the Goodness of the Father, in all these things, to make mortals and spirits happy, I can only wonder at His Divine Love and Wisdom, and never cease to thank Him!
Astonishing also, human can have these Blessings as they will, or not, to make them their own. In this way, they determine their own happiness, or misery, when God wishes them to be only happy.
Well, sweetheart, I will not write more tonight, as you have written enough. This you know, that I Love you with a Love that is only yours, and always increasing, with no possibility of dying. As the years of your pilgrimage on Earth go bye, this Love will be with you, and around you, in greater abundance. You will realize it more and more. Your heart will grow younger and younger, until the Earth Life will become something more than the shadow of what awaits you when you come to me.
I will say goodnight. Give me my kiss, and know that I am, your own True and Loving Helen.
October 13th, 1916
I am here, Mother.
I am here, the dear boy's mother. I want so much to write him. When I heard of him speak of his boyhood days, my heart went out to him with such Love and yearning, that I just had to make the effort to tell you that I wanted to write. I am so happy that you heard me, and gave me the opportunity.
I am so very happy, as I listen to him talk about the Divine Love in his soul, and tell of the experiences that he has when that Divine Love is working in his soul, for I realize, that as he receives this Divine Love, he comes nearer to me, and feels my Love, which is surrounding him, trying to steal into his heart. It is his mother's, flavored with the Divine Love, which I have in my heart and soul. As it goes out to him, I know that he must feel it, and realize a happiness that was never his before.
I Love my boy, more than I can tell him. I Loved him with a "mother's Love" on Earth, but now I Love him, not only with a mother's Love, but with one that surpasses all Love, which any mortal mother can have.
I desire him to know that I am progressing, and that I know that Immortality is mine, that the Celestial Kingdom is mine, where only the Great All-Enveloping Divine Love of the Father is.
I am so happy when I see that he realizes, to an extent, this Divine Love, and that his Faith is growing day by day. Also that the sins and errors, which were once his, are leaving him. In their place is coming this Great Love, that only those to whom God has called, and Bestowed His Divine Love, know what it means.
I will not write of other things tonight, for I am so filled with love, that I cannot think of things that are not connected with it. I will say though, that his father is also progressing. In a short time, I hope will be with me.
Tell him to remember that he has the Love of many High Spirits around him, trying to influence him, and turn his thoughts more and more to the Father, and to His Wonderful Love and Goodness.
I will not forget to say that there is also with him the Love of his soulmate. Such a very beautiful and pure Love it is. Such as, no mortal can understand, yet as Real as the Heavens, and as deep as the sea. Yes, and as Everlasting as Eternity. I could not possibly have a more beautiful, or desirable daughter than is his Mary. He must believe that she is an actual existing spirit who is with him quite often, knowing that he is hers Forever, and that some day she will have him with her.
God Bless my boy and keep him from all harm and unhappiness, is the earnest prayer of his mother.
Mother (Pricilla Stone).
Note: Mr. Padgett and I were conversing on things Spiritual. I referred to my boyhood days. Then Mr. Padgett heard the voice of my mother, and told him she wanted to write me.
Mr. Padgett then took up the pencil, and this is copy of letter:
From Mary Kennedy - October 13, 1916
You heard me. I am thankful. I will only say that what his mother said about my deep Love for him is True. I know that I have told him many times that I Love him. I wanted his mother to tell him also, for he knows, and can realize, that his mother was and is a Real being. There must not come to him any shadows or thought as to her being a Real spirit. I thought that if she would only tell him that I am Real as she is, that he would conceive of me in his soul's eye of Faith, as being like his mother. This is what I wanted to say. I am so happy that I can say it.
Goodnight my dear friend, Mary, Soulmate of the Doctor.
From Mary Kennedy, written immediately after my dear mother, who also spoke to Mr. Padgett that she wanted to write. Was heard and received clairaudiently by Mr. Padgett, the request that she wanted to write. Message was written automatically, as usual. Mr. Padgett and I felt a wonderful Love present.
Leslie R. Stone.
October 15th, 1916
I am here, John
I come tonight to write a few lines, in reference to the thoughts that have answers in your mind regarding the position that the preacher will take on the subject of his sermon on Modern Spiritualism.
As he said at the Thursday night meeting, that he has investigated, to some extent the subject of Spiritualism. His investigation has been so superficial, that he knows scarcely anything about its Truths, and is not in condition of mind, or knowledge, to discuss the matter, in an impartial or understanding manner. He has seen some phenomena, and read some of the books, that have been published regarding the Truths of Spiritualism. The phenomena, and the books, have not been such as to convince him that Spiritualism is a fact. In addition, he will assert that it conveys or teaches no Truth, or doctrine, that benefits human, or fits them for the Future Life. That, not even admitting that it shows the Continuity of Life, and the possibility of communicating between the departed and the mortal, yet it does not show any Truth, or Principle, that will benefit human in their Life on Earth, or in their Life after death.
He is so imbued with his belief in the Bible, that his intellect is prevented from having the ability, or condition, to grasp any Truths, that may be apparent contradictions of what he considers the Bible teachings.
Yet, with all this, should he be presented with facts that would be sufficient to convince him of the Truths of Spiritualism, he would not hesitate to accept those facts, notwithstanding that they might conflict with the belief desired from the study of the Bible, that he has had for so many years.
I think that when you hear his sermon, you will see that I have written a correct description of his belief on the subject of Spiritualism, and of what, in substance, will be the effect of his sermon. You must hear it, for it may suggest something that will enable you to be good even towards the preacher himself.
I will not write more now. Next week I will deliver another message.
So with all my Love, I will say goodnight.
Your brother in Christ, John.
October 16th, 1916
I am here, St. Luke, of the New Testament.
I desire to write my promised message. If you feel that you can receive it, I will try to write.
Well, I desire to declare certain Truths, with reference to the necessity for humans turning their thoughts to Things Spiritual, and letting the material things of Life, consume less of their time and thoughts.
In the first place, that which is Eternal, is of more importance than that which is temporal, and has an existence for a short time only, even though these things of time are necessary to sustain and preserve human while living his Life on Earth.
I would not be understood as implying that these material things are not necessary, and important, for human to acquire, and use to the best possible advantage. For they are a necessity to their Earth Existence. It is not only a privilege, but a duty, for human to make the best use of these material Gifts that is possible, and to place them self in that condition, which will enable them to enjoy, to the utmost, these things that have been provided for their material comfort and happiness. Further, it is their duty to bend their efforts to develop the use and application of these things, so that the greatest possible benefit and utility may be derived from the proper use of them. To do this, I understand that human has to give a portion of his thoughts, and devote a part of their time, to their consideration, and to the means and methods by which the best results may be brought about. In doing this, human is not disobedient to the Father's Laws, or to the requirements, which the Laws of their own being calls for.
The discoveries of the inventors are desirable. Humans work in making these discoveries is commendable. So are efforts of the merchant, mechanic, and financiers to succeed in their different undertakings, as a result, accumulate money, and use it for their comfort and sustenance.
These things, or the thoughts and efforts used to accomplish these results, do not help the Soul Development, or even the development of the Spiritual side of human's Nature. If human devotes them self, for the greater number of their hours of living, to these pursuits, when they come to lay these burdens down, and pass into the Land of Spirits, they will find that they are very poor indeed, that the Eternal Part of their being, has little developed, and their soul fitted for a place, where those who have laid up their riches on Earth, must necessarily go.
So attractive is this accumulation of money, the gaining of fame, or position, to human, that when once engaged in, and especially when accompanied with what they call success, they naturally devotes their whole waking time, and thoughts, to these efforts. As a consequence, very little of this short time on Earth is given to thoughts of, and striving for, Things of the Higher Kind.
If mortals, especially those who are so arduously and constantly engaged in the effort to win the success that I have just mentioned, could only see, and know, the condition of those, who when on Earth, were engaged in similar pursuits, with like aspirations, and who are now in the Spirit World, they would realize the utter futility of such efforts, and the great soul-killing harm that the so-called success on Earth, has brought to these spirits.
While we may assume that many of these spirits did not do affirmative wrong, or injury, in their work, and did not enter into the condition, to which I refer, because of any such wrong or injury, yet, they are in a stagnated and shriveled condition of soul and Spiritual Qualities. All because, when in their earnest pursuits of these material things, they neglected the development of their souls, or the cultivation of their Spiritual Qualities. Their sin was that of omission. It is a sure one in its results. The more common one among humans, who think too much of material things, or think not at all, or are indifferent to everything, and are satisfied to live in an atmosphere or state of vegetating contentment. The Law operates the same upon the human who neglects their Spiritual Nature, because of their absorption in the things material, as upon the human who is guilty of such neglect because of indifference, or contentment with the pleasures that these material things give him. In both cases, the results are the same. The soul remains stagnant. The Spiritual Qualities lie dormant. The human of such neglect, will find their place in the Spirit World to be one of darkness and suffering.
Life is short, and time is fleeting. Even though a human may live their allotted time of three score and ten years, there is no place in All God's Universe where it is so important that human should start on their way to Eternal Progress, as in the Earth Life. There, the soul should have its Awakening, and be fed with thoughts and strivings for the Things Spiritual. When the start is thus made on Earth, it is so much easier for the continuous progress of the soul in the Spirit World. If not, The Awakening may be delayed for years. The progress, which follows it may be, and generally, is very slow.
So I say, let humans not devote so much of their time to those things, which are of time only, while they remain in the world of time, until the mortal becomes a spirit. Thoughts are things! When applied to human's Spiritual Development, they are things of the most Vital Importance. A little thought may start a soul to a dormant, hardly living state, or cause it to grow and increase into a thing of Beauty and Harmony with the Spiritual Possibilities of its possessor. As it has been said, where your treasures are, there will your heart be also. So also, will your thoughts that turn human's soul into darkness, or light.
So with all my Love, I will say, goodnight.
Your brother in Christ, Luke.
October 19th, 1916
I am here, John.
I was with you tonight. I heard the preacher answer the question. Some of his answers were very satisfactory. But there was one that did not exactly satisfy the True Longings of the human who is in search of Truth. I mean the one that asks, "What should a human do, who is not satisfied with any of the churches?".
Well, if they can find no church, that provides Truths that satisfy that human's inquiring soul, then that human can never feel that they should go to any church for information, as to those things which they have no knowledge of, or which they have grave doubts about.
The churches, of course, can give no information of Truths that the churches themselves do not know. If the Truths, that these churches teach, fall short of what the human is seeking for, then these churches cannot possibly be satisfactory to them. While the churches differ in their creed, government, and perhaps in some particular construction, or interpretation, of the Bible, yet they, the orthodox churches, are all founded upon the teachings of the Bible. They cannot teach greater, or other, Truths than that Book contains. Hence, if a human is seeking for Truths that are not in the Bible, their inquiries cannot be answered by those whose knowledge is confined to the Bible teachings. The non-orthodox churches cannot give forth the Truths of the Spiritual Kingdom of God, for they, to a large degree, reject the Bible, and depend very largely upon ethical and moral doctrines. The results of the works of mere conscience, in determining the right and wrong of things. The Spiritual Things, are not known, or taught by these churches. Consequently, the inquiring mind cannot get from them the information or help that it is calling for.
I know that in such a condition, and want of Knowledge of Truth, on the part of the churches, such a human is without the privilege of having their cravings for the Truth, and their cravings for Spiritual Things satisfied. As a consequence, they must seek further, to get the information, which they may consider so necessary. When they come to so seek, they will find no place where such Knowledge may be found.
The mere intellectual acquirements of students, and philosophers, will not supply what the human is seeking. They are without any possibility of obtaining what they seek for.
So the preacher's suggestion, that they, and two others, form a church of their own, would have some force, were it not for the fact that any church that might be so formed, would have no greater possession of the Truth, than the churches that they have failed to find any satisfaction in.
There are many humans, on Earth today, in the condition of the human spoken of. Many, who refuse to seek in the churches for the Truth, are without any recourse to other means, or places of teachers, of whom they can learn the things that they are searching for.
The spirits have known of this condition of humans for these many centuries, and have been trying to supply a way, or create a medium, through which the Great Spiritual Truths of God could be made known to humans. For that very purpose, we are now using you, to receive our Messages of Truth, make them known to humankind, and provide a church, may I say, where the seeking human may find answers to their inquiries.
We shall complete our delivery of these Truths through you. Then the human, who cannot find a church where their searching's can be satisfied, will find a Reservoir of Truth opened up to them, that will not require any preacher, or church, to explain it.
As you proceed in your experience with the churches, and teachers of the old truths, as they call them, you will more fully realize the necessity for our work, and your work.
I will not write more tonight. I will come soon and deliver a formal message.
With my Love and blessings, I will say goodnight. John.
October 21st, 1916
I am here, Judas.
I come tonight to write a short message, for I have been interested in what you and your friends have said regarding; "The Greatest Sin"
Now, to me, for a long time, the greatest sin in all the Universe of God was my sin in betraying Jesus to the Jews. It was a real, living, blasting sin. So enormous that I could not endure my Life, and face the recollection of that awful tragedy. Since, I have been forgiven of that sin, and become a Redeemed Child of the Father, an inhabitant of the Celestial Heavens, a possessor of Immortality, I realize, and know, that my sin was not the greatest, even though I suffered for long years after I became a spirit.
As sin may be committed by neglect, as well as by affirmative action, my betraying the beloved Master was a heinous one. Yet, even in my case, and as applicable to me, my greater sin was not seeking for the Divine Love of the Father. We were not ignorant of this. The Master had taught us that this Divine Love was open to, and waiting for, us to seek and obtain. I had not sought for it in the right way, of course, had not obtained it. In such neglect, I was not the only one of the disciples that was guilty of that sin.
No, even we, who had been with the Master for so long a time, did not fully understand the importance of obtaining this Great Love. We were more interested in his establishing his kingdom on Earth, as we thought, a material kingdom, to be controlled by Spiritual Powers, manifested in him, and in us as his disciples. The material, in our minds, was of more importance than the Spiritual. Our expectations were, that this great power would come, and that the Master would become our king.
As I say, he had taught us that this Divine Love was open to us, that by prayer and earnest seeking we could receive it. To us there were so many important things to be done, connected as I say, more immediately, with our Earth lives, that we neglected the Great Gift that was ours for its seeking. As a consequence, in my case, I had to suffer for a long time before I Awakened to the fact, that it was not too late, even for me, to receive It (the Divine Love).
My sin of betrayal had been forgiven me, in that I realized that the recollections of it were leaving me, and that I was progressing in the way of purifying my soul in its Natural Love, that as the spirit of the onetime murderer, I was coming into happiness and Light. Then I had memories of what the Master had said to me about this Great Love. After awhile, I had sufficient Awakening, to cause me to make the effort to obtain this Divine Love. As that Awakening came to me, my old-time associates, who had progressed to the Higher Spheres, came to me in their great beauty and Transcendent Love, and helped me to progress, to pray, until at last this Divine Love came to me. I realized that, not only had my sin of murder been wholly forgiven, but that the greater sin of rejecting and neglecting to seek for the Divine Love, had also been forgiven me.
The sin of the murderer, or of any violator of God's Laws (of Love and Harmony), other than that of rejecting the inflowing of this Divine Love, may, and will, be forgiven a human. They will become Pure and Happy in their Natural Love. Such forgiveness will not make them an inhabitant of the Divine Heavens, or an inheritor of Immortality. While the forgiveness of the sin of rejecting the Holy Spirit, will not only take away from them the recollections, and taints, of all other sins, but will open up to them the very portals of the Celestial Heavens, and give them a home in the Father's Kingdom.
Thus, you see, every sin, except that of sinning against the Holy Spirit, may be forgiven a human, with the result that they will become the Perfect Human. But, the forgiveness of all these sins, many times over, if it could so happen, would not make them the Divine Angel.
I need not explain to you, for you can readily see from what I have written, that the Greatest Sin in all the World, is the sin against the Holy Spirit. The sin of neglecting, or refusing, to let the Holy Spirit bring in, and to, the soul of human, the Great Divine Love of the Father. Not only is this sin the greatest, because of the results that flow from it, but because it will continue to be the "unpardonable sin", so long as human refuses to permit its forgiveness.
When the sin of murder and such kindred sins are committed, the sin then ends. Only its consequences must be suffered, and the penalty paid. The sin against the Holy Spirit is a continuing sin. Committed every day, hour, and minute, and never having an end, until the mortal seeks and receives the inflowing of this Divine Love. As has been written you many times, yes, the large majority of humans, and spirits, will continue forever, and ever, to commit this sin. In the effects to follow, to them, it will become, and is, the unpardonable sin.
As we are much interested in you, and have determined that you shall not go astray, as to these Divine Truths, my brother Spirits of the Celestial Spheres, thought it fitting, as the World considers that I committed the greatest sin in all the history of the world, that I should write you on this subject, and explain that the greatest sin in all the World, is the sin against the Holy Ghost.
We all know this. While I write, you must believe. For it is True, that all of us, the Master too, declare that the sin I name, is the Greatest Sin.
Now to be a little more personal, for your gratification and comfort, I desire to tell you, that you three will not be found guilty of having committed this great sin. You have in your hearts and souls much of this Divine Love. The Holy Spirit is with you quite often, in answer to your prayers. And, in answer to ours also. For we all pray for you, causing this Divine Love of the Father to possess your souls, even as the leaven wrought in the batch of dough. I have written longer than I expected and will now stop. Be assured that you have our Love, and the Blessings of the Father.
Your brother in Christ, Judas.
October 21st, 1916
I am here, your own true and loving Helen.
Well, I am pleased that you received the message from Judas. It is a wonderful message, filled with Truths, that you will perceive with more force and newness the more you read it.
It was actually Judas writing. As he said, he was chosen by the others to deliver the same. Many of them were present while he was doing so. I was here also. I heard what was said. I know that what I tell you is True.
How blessed you, Mr. Morgan, and the Dr., should feel to know that of all the wonderful spirits of the Celestial Spheres, the most wonderful and the highest come to you, and communicate with you. Not only that, but they bring with them an atmosphere of Divine Love, that has a most beneficial effect upon the conditions of your souls. I am so happy that I can tell you this. I know that you will believe me. My Love for you would not permit me to deceive you, no matter what the occasion might be. Yes, my dear, these High Spirits, are your friends and brothers. What more can I say to cause you to realize the greatness of the experience that you are having? I do not know.
Well, as you were much drawn on by the message of Judas, I do not think it best to write more tonight, and I will stop.
Your own True and Loving Helen.
October 22nd, 1916
I am here, Elias.
I come tonight to say a few words, on the sermon of the preacher. Also, because I was an early Spiritualist, and all down the ages, have had knowledge of the communications between spirits and mortals. Tonight, at the church, there were many spirits present. As the preacher said "every particle of space in the building was occupied by spirits", some of the Higher Order, others of the lower planes where conditions are dark. But, there were many there, and interested. Nearly every person in the audience had some spirit friend, or guardian angel, with them. As the nervous members of the congregation differed in their condition of Soul Development, or Spiritual Enlightenment, so they attracted considerable spirits. In addition to these who were attracted by their respective mortal friends or relatives, there were a number of spirits from the Higher Spheres, who were interested in the occasion. It is not often, that an orthodox congregation, has the opportunity, or takes the opportunity, to listen to a sermon upon the theme that the preacher dealt with tonight. If you could have seen the difference in the workings of the minds, understandings, and the effect upon the preconceived beliefs of the several members of the congregation, you would have been surprised, and realized more fully the powers that belief has upon the Consciousness of mortals.
I do not intend to analyze the sermon, but must say that the same was a surprise to many of the orthodox, as well as to some who are Spiritualists. The preacher declared many Truths that were repugnant to a number of his congregation, because in their blind belief in their creeds and dogmas, they had not the right, that any real orthodox minister could have believed and proclaimed such doctrines as the preacher declared.
He is a True Spiritualist, so far as the propositions of Continuous Life, and inter-communication, are concerned. He hardly dares announce his beliefs, in the language of Spiritualism. He may have been wise in not doing so, as the effect would not be very desirable upon many of his hearers.
He is not very well versed in the Truths of Spiritualism, in matters, which deal with its philosophy, or religion. Consequently, he does not understand the great importance of searching for, and finding, the Truths, which these means afford of learning these Truths. The "Seeds of Truth" are in his mind and conviction. He is in that condition, which renders him susceptible to receiving the Truths, should they be presented to him in such a manner as to appeal to his beliefs, and to his reason. As he has a great deal of the Soul Development, by reason of his possession of the Divine Love. The Higher Truths, which have been Revealed to you, will appeal to him, more especially, to his soul sense, and then to the sense of his mind conditions.
I know it would, at first, be a shock to him to learn that his intellectual belief in the doctrines of the trinity, the vicarious atonement, and kindred portions of the creed of his church, are all untrue, and short of any basis in fact. Nevertheless should he learn of the Great Truths of the Plan of God for Human's Salvation, he would not hesitate to embrace these Truths, and even dare to proclaim them.
In a way, he will prove to be a kind of pioneer, in the work of spreading the True Religion that must ultimately become known to, and received by, humankind. Tonight's sermon may cause many of his hearers to regard Spiritualism in a little different light, not as the creature of devils and evil spirits, but on the manifestation of the Natural, as I may say, the reasonable, Workings of the Laws of God upon the actual and normal relationship of spirits and mortals.
The preacher's sermon will do the Cause of Truth much good. It will tend to open up the minds of many, to gain a respectful hearing to any attempts that may be made to enlighten them, as to the Reality of the Truths of Spiritualism.
One thing he said, and that is; that very few mediums can be depended upon, in conjunction with the prejudice that exist in the minds of the orthodox against everything that has the flavor of Spiritualism, may tend to prevent the conversion of these people to its Truths, or even to attempt, even if mere curiosity may be the moving cause.
We are pleased that the preacher took the position that he did, in declaring his belief that Spiritual Communion is a fact, and in giving the illustration of its several phases, although, he left the results, or causes of such manifestation, in a rather uncertain meaning.
His hearers may infer that he meant that God, as contradistinguished from spirits, was the voices, or the cause of the visions, or manifestations, that he referred to in some mysterious, or super-natural way, in the exercise of His Omniscience.
I merely wanted to write these few things to give you an idea of how important the teachings of the preacher may be proved to be, in opening up the minds of many of his hearers.
As I close, let me say, that all down the ages, Spiritualism has existed and been demonstrated. Prophets, apostles, mediums, and humans, have heard the voices of spirits, seen the materialized spirits, and received the inspirations of spirits of good, and evil.
I will not write more tonight. I hope you are not disappointed that I wrote instead of John, for we intended that you should be surprised somewhat in the writer. That is, the personality of the writer, for we saw that you rather expected that John might write.
Many of your spirit friends have been with you tonight. They accompanied you to the rooms where you and your friend sat, and discussed the sermon, the preacher, and things connected with us, and our messages.
I will not write more tonight. With our Love and blessings, I will say that we are, your brothers in Christ. Elias.
October 22nd, 1916
I am here, your own true and loving Helen.
Well dear, I see that you enjoyed the evening very much. On the whole, felt satisfied with the sermon of the preacher. It was a rather unexpected sermon, from an orthodox minister. One that may result in some good to those who heard it.
I was with you. So was that little soulmate of the Dr.'s. She was delighted to be with him. Of course, I was also delighted to be with you. I was also glad that Edward (son of James Padgett) was with you, for I see he will be led to believe in the Truths, that we are teaching, and so experience the happiness of having the Divine Love, and having the Soul Development that is so desirable. He is a good boy. I am so sorry for him, in the manner that you know of. He will soon have the change that I have written you about. Be with him as much as you can. He will need your sympathy and Love. He will feel very lonesome at times, although he will also experience some relief from some of the things that worried him.
I think of "Baby" (daughter Nita) also. I am with her a great deal, as she needs you also. I hope that soon you will all be together. In fact, I know you will be very kind and Loving with her.
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Yes, I will try to influence her, in the way that you spoke of. I think I can succeed. So have hope that she will do as you desire.
I Love you all, with all my heart, and pray for you to make you happy. I must not write more tonight. Give me my kiss, and go to bed soon and get up earlier in the morning.
So sweetheart goodnight. Your own True and Loving Helen.
October 23rd, 1916
I am here, Jesus.
I intended tonight to write a message, but you continued your reading until it was too late. I know what you would say, but at that time these dark spirits were so anxious to write that I did not interfere, although they could not write, because you declined to let them do so. Your power of control over these spirits is almost complete. Many Higher Spirits wonder at it. As you have been instructed in this matter, and have acquired a knowledge of the way, in which you can apply the Law that operates to prevent them from writing, when you intend that they shall not write, is not astonishing.
Well, when I saw that they were anxious, and were making the effort, I left, and returned only a short time ago. The meaning of my complaint is, that you did not earlier in the evening give me the opportunity to write, just after you had finished your paper and before you commenced to copy. It was the understanding a short time ago that we would commence our writings thus, early in the evening.
Well you are mistaken, for I could have written very easily at the time mentioned.
That will be agreeable. I will come then. The important thing is to have these Messages of Truth delivered and received.
These other things that you speak of are interesting, and have some importance. Yet, the messages should be considered of the first importance, and be received, in preference to any of these other communications.
I know that the condition of the preacher's mind and beliefs is of some importance, under the circumstances attending his liberality of thought. Much good may be done by using these Truths to enlarge his scope of the True Relationship of God and human. Yet, there will be time for this. The Truths must be first delivered.
Yes, I understand. I am pleased that such are your longings and desires. If you will only persist in these longings, and pray to the Father with all the earnestness of your aspirations, and let Faith take hold of these aspirations, you will very soon have a wonderful inflowing of this Divine Love, and get in that condition of At-Onement, that you so much desire. I will be with you, and help you, with my prayers and Love. I know that the Father will Bless you.
I will not write more now, but will come tomorrow night.
So with my Love and blessings, I will say goodnight.
Your brother and friend, Jesus.
October 23rd, 1916
I am here, your own true and loving Helen.
Well sweetheart, the dark spirits are very anxious to write tonight. It is somewhat difficult to control them, although, as Jesus said, you have the power yourself, to prevent them from writing. They are so very unhappy that you will relieve it and let them write. They are increasing in numbers more and more, and seem more anxious to come in contact with you than ever. We find it is difficult to induce them to leave. I see the wisdom of your rule, and the necessity of enforcing it, for otherwise the Higher Spirits would not have any opportunity to convey their messages.
Well, I heard what the Master said. You must try to do as he says regarding the time of writing. He is so very anxious to write. So are a number of others. I mean the Higher Spirits. They all have Messages of Truth to deliver.
Yes, they (his spirit band) are desirous of writing you, but you have been so crowded that they have not attempted to interfere. She has a message, and will come soon and deliver it.
Well, I will tell them what you say. We will arrange for the writing in the way that you suggest. They will be happy to do so, I know.
I will not write more now. You had better go to bed soon and get up earlier.
So give me my kiss and say goodnight. Your own True and Loving Helen.
October 26th, 1916
I am here, your own true and loving Helen.
Well, dear, I am glad to know that you are in a much better condition tonight. I hope that you will continue in the development of your spiritual powers, that is, the soul. We all feel much encouraged, and hope that soon you will commence to receive the Higher Messages (of Truth).
I was with you today when the lady called. I heard your conversation. I desire to tell you that it had some effect upon your hearer, and may help her to get into The Way that will lead to the development of her soul in Divine Love.
At the same time were the spirits of her relatives present. They, or some of them, expressed a desire to write a message to her. One in particular, who is a very bright spirit of the Celestial Spheres. She seemed much interested in the woman. Is quite anxious to write her, in reference to the condition of her soul, and the necessity for her seeking for the Divine Love, and becoming a True Child of the Father. I told her that you would receive her message in a very short time. So you will.
Well, dear, I see that you are happier than you were. It is all due to your turning your thoughts to Spiritual Things, and praying for a greater inflowing of the Divine Love.
I will not write more now
Yes. I should have told you, but our communications have been so brief, or rather caused to be brief, by the condition surrounding you, that I did not think at the time to write you in reference to Baby. I have been with her. I saw that she was sick, but that there was nothing very serious the matter with her. She will soon be much better. Then she can have the operation that she told you of.
Well, I will write her a long, Loving, motherly letter very soon. You can give it to her. I will try to write her a very encouraging letter. One that will appeal to her Love instincts.
No. I will not forget. He (Jesus) is ready at any time, and has been waiting only for you to get in condition to receive his messages. He has made an examination of the Doctor, knows what the trouble is with him, and is prepared to prescribe.
You had better go to bed earlier tonight, as you need to recuperate. A good sleep will help you very much. So Love me, and believe that I Love you.
Goodnight my dear Ned, your own True and Loving Helen.
October 28th, 1916
I am here, your father.
I desire to write a few lines tonight, as I have not written for some time. I feel that I want you to hear from me, and learn that I have been with you a great deal, trying to help you and make you happy.
I know the worries that you have. I know that everything looks so dark to you, and no apparent relief in sight. You must not have such dreaded views. What you imagine you see, will never come to pass. Things will take on a brighter hue before a great while. I love you, as you know. So do many others who are with you frequently. You must believe that they are trying to help you, and are doing so. If you could realize, just for a moment, what power you have surrounding you, and how much it is being exercised for your good, you would not look upon material things in such a gloomy light.
I am now in the First Celestial Sphere. I am happy beyond all expression. I know that the Divine Love, of which you have heard so much, is a Real Living Thing that makes the souls of spirits At-One with the Father, and Immortal.
My dear son, I cannot tell you the glories of the home that is mine, or of the happiness, which I have in my soul. When I sometimes think of what I was on Earth, and what I am now, I am astonished that such great difference could exist between the two existences. God is All Love. His Mercy and Care are without limit. All mortals are the object of all these Blessed Attributes of Him.
Keep up your courage. Let all the aspirations of your soul go forth to Him, and His Love. You are on the right road to obtaining this Great Love, in increased abundance. Your home in the Celestial Spheres is assured. Only pray, and have Faith.
Many spirits are here tonight. Some desire to write. I do not know they will do, as your wife says that this is her night. She has promised to write you, and must keep her promise.
She is so wonderful and beautiful that you would not know her if you could see her in her glorious appearance. Her Love is exceedingly Transcendent. Her Love for you rather surprises us all, for it is deeper than the ocean and higher than the Heavens, as you mortals say. She is a spirit of such exceeding brightness, that we who were with her when she first came to the Spirit World, can scarcely realize that she is the same person that came to us a few short months ago. She sought for the Divine Love, with all the possessiveness, and longings, of her soul, and was never satisfied unless she was progressing. So that now, she is higher up in the Celestial Spheres, and is filled with this Divine Love. With It, has a beauty that outshines the stars, and a wisdom that you cannot conceive of.
We all Love her very much. Her work in bringing soulmates together is resulting in a wonderful good and happiness to these happy ones.
Well, I am glad that I could write to you tonight and tell you these things. Do not forget that I am with you very often. I am still your Guardian Angel, although, you have around you, and interested in you, a vast number of spirits of the Celestial Heavens.
Well, you must know that as I progress in my Soul Development, I also progress in my mental development. Knowledge, and power of expression, comes to me, as it were, unconsciously. No effort is required to write you, and explain the things of this World, in a manner that you would hardly expect from what you know of my mental development when on Earth.
There are many surprising things occurring all the time to spirits as they progress. I am told that there is no end to our progress. It must be so. Even the Highest Spirits (Celestial Angels) say that they are progressing to Higher and Higher Planes all the time.
Yes, my soulmate has progressed with me. We are very happy. I wish I could tell you what soulmate happiness, when combined with the Happiness of the Divine Love, means. It would be useless to try.
Your mother's soulmate has progressed also. He is in the Seventh Sphere, and is striving, with all the energies of his soul, to get in the Sphere with your mother. He will soon do so. For she is helping with her Wonderful Love, and is with him a great deal.
I must stop now. So with all my father's Love, I will say goodnight.
Your Loving father, and brother in Christ, John H. Padgett.
October 28th, 1916
I am here, your own true and loving Helen.
Well, my dear, I am here as I promised you today. I will try to write my letter, although I hesitated about doing so, as there are some spirits here who are very anxious to write. I told them that I had made the engagement with you, and that they must wait until another time to write. Of course, they very willingly acquiesced.
Well, I want to tell you that I was with you tonight at the meeting. I saw that you enjoyed some of the Soul Love and influences that were present. These people have a great deal of this Divine Love, attract many spirits of the Spiritual Kind, and receive a great amount of the Divine Love. The Holy Spirit is present with them, doing the Work of the Father. I did not come to write of them, so I will not write more.
As your father just wrote you, I am in the Higher Planes of the Celestial Heavens. I am so happy that I hardly know how to express myself to you. Your language has no words adequate to express what I should like to tell you. All the descriptions of my several homes that I have heretofore given you, if combined, could not faintly describe the home in which I now have, or the happiness which is mine. As I go Higher, the things of Earth gradually fade away from my memory. Only my Love for you and the children remain in its strength and realness. If it were not for this Love, I do not think that I would often come to the Earth Plane. For my special work, as you know, is among the spirits of the Higher Spheres, in revealing to them the soulmates that they have, and in bringing to them the consequent happiness. As I have told you, while you remain on Earth, I will never be able to remain away from you, as the great attraction, which our (soulmate) Love creates, would not permit me to do so, even if I did not desire to come, if you can imagine such a thing to be possible.
The Father is so Loving and Good, that He never prevents His Spirits of the Celestial Kingdom from indulging in those things that will make them happy and contented. Consequently, there are more of the spirits in the Earth Planes, doing their Missions of Love, than might be expected, when the happiness that their homes gives them is considered.
These spirits know not selfishness, in the sense of desiring all this happiness for themselves. Of course, if they have no attraction on Earth, if Love for the mortal does not call them to Earth, then they live mostly in the Spiritual Heavens, or Celestial Heavens, doing their work. But always work for others.
These spirits are never idle, indulging their own pleasures, in such a way as the majority of Christians may believe. They have their harps, their music of various kinds, and all these things that are commonly conceived by the Christian mortals to exist in the Kingdom of Heaven. Yet they enjoy them only in the moments of cessation from their work in helping other spirits to progress towards the Fountainhead of the Father's Divine Love.
I am also now working, in teaching the spirits of the lower Spheres, the Plan of God for the Salvation of their souls. It is a glorious work. The reflected happiness is beyond all explanation. As we give our Knowledge and Love to these spirits, and realize their happiness and joy, this Love that streams down upon us from the higher planes, seems to fill our souls with increased abundance. We realize the saying; "that the more we give, the more we receive". Never are we made poorer by giving. Never cease to give, when the opportunity presents itself. Only are we disappointed, when those to whom we try to give our Love, and share our happiness with, refuse to receive these gifts. This frequently happens, especially in the lower spheres, and in the intellectual spheres. For you must know that these spirits of the Divine Nature spend much time in the intellectual spheres, endeavoring to lead the spirits of these Celestial Spheres, in The Way that will bring to them this Divine Love, and endless progress.
Strange as it may seem to you, these intellectual spirits, whose Natural Love has become to a great degree Purified, are the most difficult to convince, or even interest, in the Great Plan of the Father for their souls' Redemption, and entrance into the Celestial Spheres. They are comparatively happy as they progress in these intellectual and Moral Spheres. They do not desire anything, until they arrive at the limit of their progress. Then many of them have an Awakening to the fact that there may be something beyond their present powers of acquiring, and that the Celestial Spirits may know a Way to greater progress and happiness.
We of the Celestial Spheres, all engage in this work. We know the importance of it. The certainty, that at some time the Celestial Kingdom will be closed. We do not know when, our work with these spirits will have to cease. Then they will be left through All Eternity to the limited happiness and ended (opportunities for) progression. The more experience I have in this work, the more I am astonished at the great and wonderful power of the human will. When I say this, I include the will that these pure spirits of the Natural Love have. It seems to me, that they approach nearest the Greatness of the Father in this will power, and in the untrammeled exercise of it.
I know of no power, or function, that these spirits of the Natural Love have, that the spirits of the Celestial Spheres cannot control, or subordinate, except this great will power. As to that, we are as helpless as babes, so far as compulsion is concerned.
When we try to influence them, Love is our weapon. Unless Love can work its way, our influence is almost hopeless. Of course, persuasion of their intellects is also necessary, and reason must be taken in the account. As I say, the approach to persuasion and reason must be through Love, which is the power that moves and governs the Spirit World.
Well dear, don't you think I have written enough for tonight? You are somewhat exhausted. I think it best to stop.
Your own True and Loving Helen.
October 29th, 1916
I am here, Jesus.
You were right in your surmise that I was with you tonight. As you imagined, I was standing close to you at the time the preacher was delivering his discourse. You felt the influence of my Love and sympathy. Also received the thoughts that I was superimposing on your brain.
The preacher's sermon was an advance upon the beliefs of the orthodox, in many particulars. In the most important particular, and in the one that will affect mortals most vitally in their progress in the Spirit Life, he was wrong. Very wrong! I refer to his declaration that he saw, or knew of, no statement in the Bible that would justify him in asserting that there would be an opportunity for the spirits of mortals to receive pardon, or to progress from the condition of hell, to that of Light and Heaven, in the Spirit World, when they had not started on that journey in the Mortal Life. This, as I have told you, is a Damnable Doctrine. One that has done more harm, all down the centuries from the time of my living on Earth, than most any other teaching of the church, that claims to be representative of me and my teachings.
Many poor souls have come into the Spirit World with this belief, firmly fixed in their minds and conscience. The difficulties have been great, and the years long, before they could Awaken from this belief, and realize that the Divine Love of the Father is waiting for them in Spirit Life, just as in the Earth Life, and that probation is never closed for humans, or spirits, and never will be, until the time of the withdrawal of the Great Opportunity for humans to become inhabitants of the Celestial Heavens. Even then, the opportunity to Purify their Natural Love will not cease, and never will, until all who have the opportunity shall become Perfect Humans (Spirits) in their Natural Love.
Had he searched the Scriptures, in which he so implicitly believes, he would have found an authorization for him to declare, that even in the Spirit World, the spirits of the unsaved sinners on Earth, who died without having become reconciled to God, had the Gospel of Salvation preached to them. Furthermore, when he declared that the Bible says that I said; "that he that sinneth against the son of man it shall be forgiven him, but he that sinneth against the Holy Ghost it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this World, nor in the World to come." Had the preacher placed the natural, and only implied, construction on this declaration, he would have found that the sinner who neglected the opportunity on Earth, would yet have another chance for Salvation in the "World to come", as the Spirit World is referred to (in the New Testament).
So that, even according to his own source of belief, and foundation of his knowledge of these things of the future, he would be justified, and even required, as an honest preacher of the Scriptures, to declare that probation did not end with the physical death of the mortal.
It is so sad that the creeds, and fixed opinions, of these preachers, formed from the teachings of the old fathers, as they are called, should be humans of Soul Development (in Divine Love), such as this preacher has, and teach the Damnable Doctrine, that I speak of, which he declared.
There is a hell, or rather hells, just as there is a heaven or heavens. All humans, when they become spirits, will be compelled to occupy one, or the other, of these places. Not because God had decreed that any particular spirit because of his Earth belief, or condition, shall occupy that place, but because the condition of their soul development, or want of soul development, fits and fixes them for that place, and no other.
God has made His Laws of Harmony. These Laws are never changed. When any particular soul gets into a condition of agreement with these Laws, then that soul becomes At-One with the Father, and an inhabitant of His Heavens. So long as that soul remains out of such condition, it is in hell, which is the condition of being out of agreement with the Harmony of God's Laws. This is hell. There is no other comprehensive definition of it. Every thing, or place, that is not heaven, is hell. Of course, there are many gradations of hell. The inhabitants of these gradations are made by the condition of their soul development, which is determined by the quantity and quality of the defilement and sin that exists in these souls. The soul is developed, as the Natural Love becomes Purified, and sin eradicated. Just as this process progresses, the soul becomes developed.
God has decreed that His Universe, both of humans, and things, shall be Harmonious. Only the Creature, human, has become out of that Harmony. As the Universe shall continue, the only destiny for human is, that they shall return to that Harmony, from which they fell, by reason of their own misdirected will. Had God decreed, as the preacher, by necessary implication, declared, that the sinner who dies in their sins shall forever remain in their sins, and in a state of antagonism to such Harmony, then God Himself, would necessarily become the cause and power of defeating His Own Laws of Harmony, which no sane mortal, whether he believes in the Scriptures, or not, would or could believe.
God's Laws are fixed, and unchangeable. Always in Harmony with one another, and with His Will. Knowing this, every thinking human will know, and should know, that whenever a proposition, or opinion, is put forth by preacher, layman, philosopher, or scientist, that shows that; in order for a certain condition, or Truth to exist, God's Laws will have to work in conflict with, or in opposition to, one another, then that proposition, or opinion, is false, and has no foundation in fact.
So to accept this declaration of the preacher; that there is no probation after death, or as he said, chance to progress out of the hell which the mortal carries with them to the Spirit World, humans will have to believe that the Loving Father, for the satisfying supposed His wrath, and meeting the demands of His supposed justice, will set His Own Laws in conflict with one another, and destroy the Harmony of His Universe.
The preacher spoke, as he said, as a scientist, not as a religious teacher. Yet the deduction that he made when he declared the eternal existence of the hells, violated one of the Fundamental Laws of Science. That is, that two conflicting Laws in the Workings of God's Universe, cannot both be accepted as True, and that the one of these two that is in Harmony with all the other known Laws, must be accepted as True. Then I say; that founded on the Scriptures, or founded on science, the preacher had no basis for making the untrue and deplorable statement, that physical death ends human's possibility of progressing from a condition, or state, of hell existence, into that of Purity and Freedom from sin, and into Harmony with God's Perfect Laws, and the Requirements of His will.
The preacher spoke from his intellect, and mental beliefs, of long years standing. The "memory echoes" of what he had heard said by other preachers and teachers, who left upon his consciousness, beliefs in their false doctrines. But deep down in his soul, where the Divine Love of the Father is burning, and the Soul Sense is growing, he does not believe this doctrine. He realizes that this Divine Love of the Father is so much Greater, Purer, and Holier, than any other Love that exists in Heaven, or on Earth, and The Father, from Whom It comes, must be Holier, more Merciful, Forgiving, and Thoughtful of His Children, than of any mortal father of his children. Then, as a mortal father having in his soul the Divine Love, he knows that his child could not commit any sin, or offense, that could possibly become unpardonable, or that he would not permit, and gladly, the child to repent of at any time. So, he would see that if he refused to the Father from Whom this Divine Love comes, a Love and Sympathy that would cause that Father to be as forgiving to His Children, as is he, the earthly parent, then the Greatest Attribute of that Father, God, Who is All Love, would not be equal to the love of His Creature. The derivative would be greater, grander, purer, and more divine, than the Fountainhead, from which it is derived.
No, the preacher, in his soul, does not believe this unnatural teaching. At times, he travails in his soul at the conflict that takes place between the mental bondage of his intellectual beliefs, and the freedom of his Soul Sense, the Creature of the Divine Love that is in him, the only part of Divinity that he possesses.
Thus is demonstrated the great, real, paradox, of the existence, in the same mortal, at the same time, of an intellectual belief, and a soul Knowledge, as far apart as the antipodes. Also, is demonstrated the Truth, A Great Truth, that the mind of human, and the soul of human, are not one, and the same. But are as distinct as the Creature of a Special Creation, the mind, and the Creation of that, which is the only part of human made in the image of their Maker, the soul, must necessarily be.
Some day, the soul Knowledge, will overcome the mental belief. Then the preacher will Know that Harmony, and inharmony, cannot exist for all time. That sin and error must disappear, and Purity and Righteousness must exist alone. That every human, and spirit, must become At-One with the Father, either as an inhabitant of the Celestial Heavens, or as the Perfect Human, that first appeared at the Call of God, and by Him pronounced "very good."
I have written enough for tonight and must stop. Before doing so, I want to say that I have been with you today. I saw that you were very happy in your thoughts, and in your soul experience. Other spirits were also with you, throwing around you their Love and influence. Persevere in your efforts to obtain this Divine Love. Pray to the Father. It (the Divine Love) will come to you in increased abundance. With it, a Wonderful Happiness.
I will come soon and write you another message.
So with my Love and blessings, I will say, goodnight and God Bless you.
Your brother and friend, Jesus.
October 31st, 1916
When you are weakest, then are you strongest, because then you rely more on the Power and Help of the Father. Such has been your condition tonight. I want to tell you that you have received a wonderful amount of the Father's Divine Love, and the Love of the Master. This I tell you, because I know from what I actually have seen. So you should not let your worries trouble you so much. Try to think more of the promises of the Master, and of the Divine Love of the Father. You will realize that Help is very near you.
We are all here tonight, because we are interested in you, and want to see you happy. You should be so. If you could only know the Love that surrounds you, you would cease to worry so much.
The Master has told you that your worries will leave you soon. You must believe him, for it is True.
I know this. I can only corroborate what he says, so that you must not continue to let these temporary troubles keep you in such a condition of gloom and despondency.
I will not write more tonight.
Your brother in Christ, James the Apostle.
October 31st 1916
I am here too. I want to assure you that our Love is all with you tonight. We are trying to make you fell that you are not forsaken, even though things look very dark, and you see very little Light.
The Light will soon come. With it, relief that will make you realize that the Celestial World is with you in Love and Power.
I see how worried you have been today, and what a condition of helplessness possessed you. We were with you then, and were trying to help and encourage you with our influence.
I will not write more tonight. I will say, I am, your brother in Christ, Luke.
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