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1917 January - February
Messages from Jesus and Celestials on Divine Love 1917 January - February
January 2nd, 1917
I am here, Jesus.
I have been present, as you read the article on Christian Science. I was interested in your comments. I am pleased to assure you that your annotations were correct, that, in the particulars that you criticized the statements of the writer, the same were erroneous, and not in accord with the Spiritual Laws of Truth, and the understanding thereof. Sometime, I will come and write you a message, at some length, on the doctrines of Christian Science, for the reason that I think a correction of the claims of this cult is very important.
The doctrines that it proclaims to the World, contain many Truths, and are beneficial to humankind, and are doing much good, both Spiritually, and physically. Some of the claims are so much in violation of the Truth that they must not be permitted to pass as truths, uncontradicted.
The founder of this Science, or discovery, as her writings, and followers claim, is here now. She deplores the fact that she left to the World, so many false and misconceived concepts of the Truth that so many persons believe and teach. She is a spirit of much Soul Development. She is in possession of much of the Divine Love, which she did not conceive the meaning of, by her carnal mind, as she called it. Was not therefore, able to teach what this Divine Love is, and Its operations upon the souls of humans, and the effect of its Presence in such souls.
She never conceived any Higher ideal for human than the Perfect Human. One who should become wholly delivered from the sins and errors, which all men have, to a more or less extent. Her teachings that sin, error, and disease, are not things of reality, because God did not create them, are all wrong. They have a Reality that not only makes humans unhappy, and causes them suffering in the Mortal Life, but also prevents their progress towards her ideal of the Perfect Human in the Spirit World. God only is Good. Everything that He Created is necessarily Good, and cannot contain that which is evil, or in conflict with His Creations. As we have explained to you, while He Created human Perfect, knowing only Good, yet He Bestowed upon them, that great power of free will. After their disobedience, they exercised it, in such a way, that they violated the Laws of their Being. Sin and error resulted. This made human the creator of evil.
Mrs. Eddy will write you very soon, on the subject of her Science, as she is very anxious to remedy the errors that she taught. We have determined, that it is advisable that she do so, on account both of her followers, and her own account. Her work here, and so far as possible in the Mortal World, is to unteach, as it were, the errors that she taught.
I expected to write my message, or rather finish the message, which I partly wrote a few nights ago. You are not just in condition to receive it. I prefer waiting, until you feel better in this respect.
I am glad that you are so much interested in that message. When you receive it, I do not think that you will be disappointed. For as you say, the subject is the One Fundamental Truth, to be made known to mortals. I will deal with it in all its phases. You must try to get in the best possible condition to receive it.
Well, I do not think that that will be necessary, for there will be such powers present, that the presence of any mortal, and the favorable influences that he may attract, will not afford any assistance to you. You must know that I have greater power than all the other spirits have. When I come to you, the assistance of the powers of any other spirit is not needed. If you will only get your soul in the best condition possible, so that I can make the proper rapport, nothing else will be needed.
I will not write more tonight. I love you very much. I am with you quite frequently, throwing around you my Love and influence, and trying to help you develop your soul condition, and become in greater At-Onement with the Father.
Yes, I have kept my promises. When you call for me to come with you, and pray, I come. I send up my earnest supplications in your behalf. I know that the Father answers my prayers, not only because of the Faith that I have, but because I can see the effect in your soul's condition.
Well, you must not think that I am God, or one of the Godhead. For as I have told you, I am only His son. The possessor of so much of His Divine Love, that I get very close to Him, and have communion. I have my home in the Highest Heaven that the spirit of human has not yet so far reached. Notwithstanding, I am not of so exalted a condition, or in such position, that I do not come to you in Love and sympathy. As your elder brother. In my exaltation, I am most humble. I must tell you that humility is certain, and Eternal accompaniment, of Great Spiritual and Soul Development.
Because I am the Highest of the Father's sons, you must not doubt that I come to you, deliver my messages, pray for you, and throw around you my Love and influence.
I have explained to you the great reason why I am doing this. This reason is one that involves the salvation and good of all humankind, and you. I will tell you now that you are engaged in, and made a co-worker with me, and the spirits who write you, in the greatest work that any spirit, or human, can engage in. I want further to say, that you will accomplish the work, and successfully, when the time comes for you to lay down this work and come to the Spirit World, your reward will be beyond all conception. Your Happiness will be complete.
I see that you have in your mind the thought as to what will be the future of your two friends. Well, they will perform their work. It will be a great and important work that will bring them a reward, similar to the one that is in store for you. This reward is not the result of any special dispensation of the Father, but is the result of the work, the associations, and experience that you all will have, in doing and completing the tasks that are before you.
You, and they too, are now doing a work, which is laying up rewards in the Spirit World, for you when you come over. Not only there, but you are now experiencing some of the benefits that flow from your work. Continue in the efforts that you are making to show spirits and mortals The Way to the Father's Divine Love, and my Kingdom. You will find a wonderful reflex happiness come to you, while you are yet mortals.
If you men could realize the Love and Spiritual influences, and the number of highly developed spirits that are with you so often, and the efforts the latter make to help you and bring happiness to you, you would feel that you are the Truly Blessed of the Father.
Well, I must stop now. Remember what I have said, and believe that I am, your brother and friend, Jesus.
January 2nd, 1917
I am here, your own true and loving, Helen.
Oh, my dear, how glad I am that the Master wrote to you as he did. If you only could have seen him as he told you of his Love for you, and the great happiness that will be yours when you shall have finished your work, you would have been thrilled as well as very happy. He seemed to be full of Love and glory, and so anxious that you should fully comprehend what he wrote you.
Your own True Loving Helen.
January 4th, 1917
I am here, Luke.
I will write a few lines tonight on a subject that I desire to make known to you and others. I know it will be of interest to all who may read it.
The subject is the Truth of the statement: That no human can possibly reach the Condition of Perfection unless their mental beliefs become in accord with the Truth. This Perfection, you will understand, is the Perfection that human possessed before their fall. That is; The Perfection of their Creation.
It has been asserted by many that the beliefs of a human do not count for much in determining their condition of soul and mind, and that only their acts, deeds, and the qualities of their heart, determine that condition. This assertion I declare to be untrue, unless these acts, deeds, and qualities of heart, are the results of beliefs being in accord with the Truth.
Belief is the mainspring of human's acts, the result of their thoughts. Thoughts are things that cause the realities of human's consciousness. "As he thinketh in his heart, so is he". "Thinketh in his heart" means, or comprehends, the idea that the thoughts of their mind, which is the only part of human that has the powers or faculties for thinking, are suggested by, or flow from, the desires and appetites of the emotional part of human.
No thought originates itself. Although it may seem to be a spontaneous creation, it is the result of some spiritual, or physical, perception. That is, of the perception of the Spiritual dualities, or of the sensuous organs of human's physical constitution. Belief is the result of thought, and that agency which causes human's acts, or want of acts. Hence, the only guide, or way shown, to human in the progress of the development of their soul in its Natural Love, or of the mind to the State of Perfection that I speak of.
Now, belief does not create Truth, or change Truth, for it is Absolute, and unchangeable. Truth does not create belief, unless that Truth is comprehended by the thoughts from which emanate the belief. So, it is apparent that unless the belief, if erroneous, changes so that it becomes in accord with the Truth, human, the possessor of the belief, can never get into a State of Perfection, which can only exist when a human is in a complete condition of Harmony with the Truth. Belief, being the effect of the operations of the mind, unless these operations are in Harmony with the Truth, the belief cannot possibly cause the development of the human, who is possessed of, and controlled by, that belief, into the Perfect Human, because every cause has an effect. That effect must be, necessarily, only such as is the natural, and inevitable, result of that cause.
Out of untruth, it is impossible for Truth to emanate. From the imperfect, the Perfect can never be constructed. So, it is impossible to develop a Perfect Love, and mind, out of an imperfect belief. The Law that declares the effect of its operations to bring this result is invariable. Only, by the observation of its requirements, can the imperfect ever become the Perfect.
So, therefore, I assert; that no human can ever become the Perfect Human, unless their beliefs become in Harmony with the Truth. As a matter of fact, irrespective of reason, established by my knowledge, resulting from observation and experience in the Spirit World, as well as in the Mortal World, I declare the same to be a Truth.
Then how important to human it is to seek for, and obtain, those beliefs that are in Harmony with the Truth, in order to become as they were originally, The Perfect Human. This True belief may be found and acquired even by the mortal. No human will be excused from the penalty of the Great Law of Compensation by their plea that they did not think it very material what their beliefs were, if they tried to do right in the World towards their fellow human. Here, you will see, that in addition to the fact that this Great Law accepts no excuse, is the fact that human's acts and deeds proceed from their beliefs. Whenever such are strong enough to control them, and when the beliefs are unformed, and human acts from emotion, impulse, or desire only, without the constraint of any belief, the result upon their progress to the Perfect Human is substantially the same. Because this Law, in order to escape the penalty for its violation, demands that beliefs, formed or unformed, or acts and deeds resulting from emotion, or impulse, which are really beliefs without definite form, shall be in Harmony with the Truth.
The infidel, who says they do not believe, the agnostic who says they do not know, the orthodox who believes, but whose belief is erroneous, and the free thinker who believes only what reason teaches them, as they proclaim, if such beliefs are not in accord with the Truth, all come under the same penalty. That is, the impossibility of becoming the Perfect Human, while such erroneous beliefs, or want of True beliefs, exist.
So, I say, belief is a vital thing in the progress of a human towards Perfection. Humans should cease to declare, and rest on the assurance of such declaration, that it makes no difference what a human believes, if they do what they may consider to be right and just.
Why, I, who know, tell you, that the Earth Planes of the Spirit World are crowded with the spirits of humans, who are in darkness and stagnation in their progress towards the Perfect Human, solely from the causes that I have above written. Some humans have been in that condition for many long years, and will not find progress, except as such erroneous beliefs leave them, and beliefs in accord with the Truth take the place of the former.
For human, and spirits, there is this consolation; that at some time, how long in the future, I, or no other spirit, know, these erroneous beliefs will all be eradicated. Human will again come into their Original Perfection. The waiting may be long, distressing, and wearisome to many.
I have written enough. In closing, will say to all humans; know, and realize, that the belief of a human is a vital and determining element in their progress to the Perfect Human.
I am pleased to write you tonight. I will soon come again. Keep your Faith, and courage, and you will realize the promises.
Goodnight, and God Bless you. Your brother in Christ, Luke.
January 5th, 1917
I am here, John
I merely want to say that you must keep up your courage, and belief that everything will be fulfilled, as we have promised. While there may appear to be a delay in realizing the things that you desire to get, they will surely come. You will get what you want, and in the condition, that you think is necessary, to enable you to live the Life that will make you able to do the work of the Master, without the interference of your earthly affairs.
You may be surprised that I should write in this way. I am interested particularly, in your accomplishing the great mission that has been bestowed upon you. I want to tell you that I have been specially designated to attend you, in the way of a helper and inspirer of those things that will work to the accomplishing of our plans, to reveal to humankind the Truths that will cause their Salvation and Redemption.
I am not given to interfering in material affairs, but in your case, I see that these things stand in the way of your carrying out our designs. Hence, they must be gotten rid of. I will try, as are many others trying, to relieve you of these differences.
So with all this, you must not suppose that you are not to do your part in accomplishing this end. You must work with us, and bend all your efforts to bring about the desired end.
Many here of the high spirits wish to communicate to you. They are waiting for you to get into a condition that will enable them to deliver their messages, as they wish to do.
Think more of the Father, His Divine Love, and of the great privilege that you have in coming in close communion with these High Spirits, and receiving the benefit of their Love and influence. For you are favored in this particular, and in Love upon you, as our greatest instrument, by which we are to accomplish our design. You must not let anything stand in the way of helping us to fulfill our plans. You will find that you will receive more and more of this Divine Love, and a greater Soul Development, as you continue in this work. Ultimately, you will become a very happy and Spiritual human, doing much good. You will have displayed in you, the wonderful powers of the workers of old, who lived with the Master, and performed many things that were called miracles.
So I say, try to realize the importance of the work that you have to do, and the powers that will be given you. I must tell you now, that never since the days of the apostles have such honors been given to a human.
Well, I know just how you feel in respect to my prophecies, but what I say will become True. You will live to see all these things fulfilled.
Not that it is not a part of your work at this time now, you are only to receive these messages, and the wonderful Soul Development that I speak of. For this latter is necessary to your receiving the promise that I speak of, as these powers will be entirely things of a Spiritual origin. Unless you are in condition of soul to receive them, they cannot come into your possession.
After this shall have been accomplished, then you will do work, of a kind to demonstrate to the World, the genuineness of your messages. For this purpose, you will do things that many will be considered miraculous. From them, such good will come to human, not only physically, but also Spiritually. I came to tell you this because I see that the time is here when you must understand, and fully appreciate, the importance of your work, as well as of the relationship that you sustain to God's Spiritual Instrumentalities, in bringing about the great results that we desire, and which humans so much need.
Well, I will not write more now, but let me impress upon you the necessity of considering, and meditating, on what I have written.
Jesus is the One Great Instrument in doing this work. Upon you, he depends for that part of the work, which belongs to the material. He is with you very often. He loves you with a very deep and lasting Love. He is exerting his promise to help you, and enable you to do his work. Many spirits, both in the Celestial, and in the Spiritual Heavens, are with you in Love and care, and are trying to help you, both Spiritually, and individually. So remember this. When you become discouraged, think of the fact that you have sustaining you, the wonderful Love and power of the Spirit World, and of spirits who are high up in the Celestial Spheres, and have more of Divine Love of the Father, than have any other spirits in All God's Universe.
So with my Love and blessing, I am, your brother in Christ, John.
January 7th, 1917
I am here, John.
I was with you tonight. I heard the alleged prophecies. I was interested in the great number of people that were present, intently listening to the words of the speaker. To you, the most significant element in the meeting should be the large number of persons present, evidently interested in the teachings of Spiritualism, or in what they supposed might be manifested as the workings of the spirits. It shows that many of Earth are deeply interested in this Truth, and desire to learn whatever may be taught and demonstrated. Such evidence should be inspiring to you in your work of receiving and preparing the Great Truths that come to you through the medium of Spiritualism. The people are longing for the Truths, of which they know not, but intuitively feel must exist somewhere, and hope that a revelation of them may in some manner, come to their hopeful souls.
So, become more earnest in your desire to receive these Truths. Give more of your time, that can be spared from your business, to receiving the messages. You will the sooner accomplish the work, and get in stronger rapport with those who write.
After tonight, we will come more frequently, more regularly, and deliver our messages, and will not permit these other messages, that you may call personal, to interfere with the transmission of ours.
I am glad that you are in so much better condition tonight. I assure you that you may continue to grow better and better, if you will only follow our advice. Try your best to cast aside your worries. Have faith in us, and in our promises. You will not be disappointed.
I will come soon and write you another message.
Well, the fact is that she (Mrs. Kates) was controlled by a spirit part of the time that she was speaking, and he suggested to her some of the thoughts that she gave utterance to. Most of her declarations of prophecy came from her own mind, as they had been lodged therein by her observations and thoughts. What she said was really her own prognostications, rather than prophecy. The spirit who controlled her, impressed upon her his thoughts as to what the future might be. Her speculations were as reliable as his, except that he has a wider scope of vision, as to causes that may bring about results, such as she spoke of. As we have told you before, no spirit has the Gift of prophecy, as mortals term it, arising from a supernatural, or omniscient, power. These prophecies should be accepted with all the allowance that want of knowledge on the part of spirits, or mortals, will justify.
Some of those who heard her may believe in what she said and be benefitted by it. For she said some things that are helpful. In that view, some good may come from her lecture. But to accept what was said as known truths is a deception, and should not be accepted.
I will not write more tonight.
Remember what I have said. Believe that I Love you, and I am trying to help you. Goodnight.
Your brother in Christ, John.
January 7th, 1917
I am here, Samuel.
I will say a few words only. I am glad that John wrote so encouragingly, as it will do you good. I want to substantiate what he said. You may look for better conditions now. Only keep up your courage and have faith in what we write you.
You have my Love and blessings.
So believe in us all, and let not the things that appear insurmountable discourage you.
I will come soon. Goodnight.
Your brother in Christ, Samuel.
January 7th, 1917
I am here, Helen
Well, my dear, I am glad that John wrote you as he did. You must believe in what he said.
I was also glad that you are in so much better condition, and that you have set aside your worries. Soon this burden will not come to you. You will be free.
I was with you tonight, and heard the prophecies. As John said, they were mostly speculations of the medium, and also of the spirit who controlled her. No reliance can be placed upon what she said as prophecies. Many of the things that she mentioned may come true, for there are many causes in operation that will bring about some of the effects that she mentioned.
Well, I will not write more tonight. I would advise you to go to bed early and get up early. It will help you very much in every way.
Believe that I Love you, I am, our own True and Loving Helen.
January 8th, 1917
I am here, James.
I want to say a few words to you, and the Dr. As you know, I am especially interested in him as his guardian and spiritual helper. I, of course, do not have the opportunity to write him as often as I should desire. Yet, I am with him very much, trying to help him in his Soul Development and in his Spiritual understanding of the Heavenly Things that Luke has just written of. I am glad to inform him that he is progressing in his Soul Development, and in his rapport with the spirits of the Higher Spheres.
I am with him frequently as he tells others of the Divine Love, and the other Truths, pertaining to the Spirit World. Sometimes I suggest to him thoughts, which I see may be beneficial to his hearers. He may think that sometimes the thoughts that he conveys to those with whom he talks, are thrown to the winds, and leave no impression on the minds of his hearers. Sometimes this is True. I must tell him here, that in many cases they take root, at least, for the time being, and cause these hearers to think, and wonder, if there can be any Truth in what they hear, and as to how they may learn more of the things that are told them. He is doing a good work in this way. Must continue to do so. There is no telling when a word, or idea, dropped into the mind of other people, may find lodgment, and grow into greater and wider thoughts, and cause serious inquiries as to the Truth.
What he says has this advantage over what is generally taught as to religious matters. That is, that his thoughts, as he expresses them, are new and not objectionable to reason. As a consequence, the hearers wonder how the thoughts could have arisen, and give to their consideration more attention than they otherwise would do. All the World is ready for the Truth, that will satisfy the soul, and liberate the mind, from creeds and unreasonable beliefs. Whenever anyone speaks such Truth, it is heard no matter what its source. The anxious soul will grasp it, and often meditate over it.
He must keep up his courage, and belief in his spirit friends, who are behind, and with him, helping him in this part of his work, for it is a part but not the important part.
Have Faith, and let his soul reach out more and more for the Great Love, of which he speaks and believes in. He will realize, in the not far distant future, a power that he little conceives of.
He must know this also, that he is being prepared and developed for the great work, which he has to do, that will help very largely to make certain and convincing the Truths that you are receiving in the messages.
He must have patience. He will not be disappointed. The powers that are with him are great enough to carry forward the great work, which is set before him to do. Even now, they could fill him with the power, which will be his, but the time is not yet, in the order of the plan, which has been determined on, for the forwarding of the work that must be done.
I am pleased that I could write this tonight. I feel that, though he has much Faith, yet he must also have encouragement, based on what will be his as the time comes for helping Humanity.
Divine Love is the Great Thing. He, who teaches The Way to that Divine Love, is a Great Instrument in the Work of the Father. His position of a good and faithful servant will be one that even angels may envy. This is not extravagance, but actual Truth. I know that when he shall have finished his work, and come to his Spirit Home, he will realize that what I have said is a faint representation of the actual fact.
I must not write more tonight. With my Love to you both, and the promise of continuous help, I will say, goodnight.
Your brother in Christ, James.
January 8th, 1917
I am here, B ____. I want to say a word. The Indian tried to stop me, but your wife said let him write. I am doing so.
Well, I am still in hell, and suffering. I wish that I could die again, but I cannot, and will have to stand it. I cannot even be deaf so that I might escape some of my torments. I am surrounded by the most hellish beings you can imagine. I have to listen to them. It is no use trying to fight, for I cannot hurt anybody, and they became more annoying when I did try to punch one of them.
It is awful. So I regret that I did not listen, and try to understand what the Doctor so often told me when on Earth, but now it is too late. I often hear what he says to you now in your conversations, but for some reason I can't quite understand. Besides, if I did, these damned ugly spirits would knock all the understanding out of me. It is hard to learn, what you call Heavenly Things, in hell. I am so unhappy and see no way to relief.
The Doctor's father talked to me, and told me some things that were like what the Doctor told me. I felt better when he was telling me. Some hope came to me, but when I got back into my hell, and saw all the horrors, the shrieking, and ugly spirits, I forgot. The hell feelings came to me again. I suffered. Oh, if I could only find some relief from these torments!
Well, I will try again. I know that Mr. Stone is kind and wants to help me. My trouble is, that I doubt if he can. I will go, as you advise, and try to believe that he can. I am very thankful to you and the Doctor, and will try to hope. Anything to get out of this place and away from these devils.
Your wife says I must stop.
So goodnight. B____.
January 8th, 1917
I am here St. Luke.
I want to write a few lines upon a subject that may be of interest to you both. You have remarked upon the expression obtained in the letter that you have just received, "that it is hard to learn of heavenly things in hell." It is a statement, in a succinct way, of a Great Truth. One, if it were known, and fully appreciated, by mortals, it would cause them to realize the necessity of thinking and learning of these "heavenly things" while on Earth.
I know, that many say they will not believe in the orthodox hell, or in the necessity of troubling themselves about the future, or that they will take their chance in the hereafter, if there be one. If these persons could realize the meaning of such a course of Life, they would not leave their future to chance, but would, while on Earth, seek for these "heavenly things", and make a start for the realization of these things now, and not wait until they had left the form of flesh.
They say that a just God will not punish them by condemning them to eternal torment. They are correct. While this "Just" God does not condemn them at all, yet they are condemned by a Law, that is just as invariable, as is the Love of that God. That Law, brings its certain punishment, even though it may not be Eternal, it is certain. Upon the spirit itself depends very largely its duration. If the spirit finds itself in that condition, that it cannot make a start towards its Redemption, until a long time after its coming into the Spirit World, then that punishment will longer continue. If the start depends, as it does very frequently, upon the ability, and capacity, of the spirit to receive, and understand, those things, that will start it upon its progress, then many spirits will remain for years and years in the condition in which they find themselves when they first come to their homes in the hells.
There is nothing in these places to induce, or help, the understanding of these heavenly things. On the contrary, everything to prevent and obstruct such understanding, even hopelessness, and beliefs in an "eternity of punishment". Frequently, want of knowledge that there is any other, or better, place than where they find themselves.
I want to say here that within the spirit there is nothing that has the qualities, or powers, to start it on a progression. In this sense, the old Bible expression, "that as a tree falleth, so shall it lie," is True. Even as to the Natural Love, these spirits in the hells, cannot initiate a start towards high thoughts and beliefs. Only when some influence from without comes to them, can they have an Awakening of their dormant better, and True Natures, so that their progress may commence. I do not mean by this, that it is necessary that some High and Spiritual helper shall come to them, but only that some influence from outside of themselves must come, in order for them to have an Awakening. This influence may be from a spirit in an apparently similar condition to their own, but which has received some glimpse of uplifting Truth, that it may convey to the dark brother spirit.
All spirits can help others, who are in a lower, or more stagnant, condition than themselves. Sometimes they do. The great trouble here is, that unless the possibly helping spirits have some desire to benefit their fellow spirits of darkness, they do not try to help. So as your friend says, "it is hard to learn of heavenly things in hell." He realizes that fact fully. Even with the help that has been offered, and will be given him, he will find it difficult to make a start.
The Mortal Life is not the only place of probation, but it is the most important place. The easiest place for human to make their start in, and understand the beginning of these heavenly things.
I will not write more now. I will soon come and write a formal message.
So with my Love to you and your friend, I will say to you both, have Faith, and let not doubt come to you as to the heavenly things that we have written you about.
Goodnight, your brother in Christ, Luke.
January 8th, 1917
I am here, Samuel P. Shannon.
Let me tell you that you, and the Doctor, need someone to look after you in your mental qualities, as you are the most gullible humans that I have heard talk for a long time. I have heard what you just said, in reference to your experiences in connection with these writings, and the efforts made by spirits to convince you that your communications were from the Higher Spirits, even the Spirits of the Celestial Heavens. I feel sorry that you should be so weak as to believe all these false and flattering things that have been said to you. So, as I am a spirit who knows and loves only the truth, and do not desire to see anyone deceived, I feel it my duty to tell you that you have had only deceiving spirits write you, who take great delight in making you believe that you have received communications that have not been equaled by the writings that any other medium in all the wide World has received.
Of course, you have received some wonderful Truths, and some beautiful sayings, but they are merely the efforts of spirits who think that they know all of the Truth of the Spirit World. I advise you to let these things go from your mind and listen only to spirits who are honest and who know of what they write.
I am one of those who are capable to tell you the truths that exist in our Spirit World, and that are only necessary for mortals to know. Much has been written you about the Divine Love, and its effect upon the souls of humans, making them, as it were, very gods. I want to say that the only Divine Love is the pure love that exists in the hearts of spirits who have been purified of sin, and had their intellects developed in the highest degree. So my friends, give up this belief in the Divine Love, and put all your efforts to the cultivation of your minds.
There is another kind of love that you have been told of, and in the belief in which you have had great satisfaction, and expectations created of coming into a wonderful and ecstatic happiness when you shall come into the Spirit World, and that is the soulmate love. How foolish to believe in any such love. Our soulmates are our acquirements of knowledge, and not female spirits. The women here are very much like they are on Earth. They love one male for a while, and then get tired, and seek another. I thank God that they have never been able to fool me! I see so much of the treachery of these female spirits that I shun them. As a consequence, they call me the woman-hater. So I am. I do not regret it.
My companions are only spirits like myself, having a friendship for one another, but no such thing as what they call love, especially soulmate love.
Sometime, before many years, you will come to the Spirit World. I beg that you will let me warn you before you come, to put no faith in what is told you about this soulmate love. If you will listen to, and take my advice, you will be saved much unhappiness.
I write thus as a friend and well-wisher. You must believe that I am wholly impartial and honest in what I say to you. I live in the Second Sphere, where there are many intellectual spirits who find much happiness and satisfaction in the development of their minds, and are not troubled by the women, or the ghost of what is called the Divine Love.
Occasionally I see some spirits who claim to have the Divine Love, and some who claim to have soulmates. I pay no attention to them, and consider them fanatics and deceived spirits. Well, they are different in appearance from us. They seem to be much brighter, and, as they claim, happier. This is due only to the fact that they are frivolous. That is, they never give any consideration to the investigation of the important things of this Spirit World, and flitter about from Sphere to Sphere, as if they had nothing else to do than find amusement and pleasure in their joy rides, as I have heard some of you mortals express it.
Yes, they do not seem to be confined to any Sphere. That is something that I do not quite understand. We, who are so much more substantial, and work so hard to learn the Truths, cannot pass into the Higher Sphere. This I do not understand and neither do my associates. It may be that these spirits that I speak of are of such little importance that the guardians of the Higher Spheres do not pay any attention to them. At least, they are never stopped in their moving from our Sphere to the Higher ones.
Well, I will consider what you suggest. As you say, it can do no harm. As I can spare time enough to make the inquiry of one of these spirits, I think that I will do so, merely to learn what their idea is of the reason that they have such freedom of movement, and we have not.
I see the Indian who is acting as your guide. He, to an extent, is another one of these foolish spirits. He says that I am a wonderful spirit in my own mind. That if I continue to develop in my opinion of my own importance and greatness, I will soon be sitting on the right hand of God. He seems serious. I do not know whether to think that he is really impressed by my appearance and intellectual greatness, or whether he is saying what he does, ironically. I suppose he is serious, for being an Indian he cannot have much intellectual development, and must be impressed by my superior qualities.
Well, my friend, I am glad that I could write you tonight, and do you the friendly turn that I have, for I am a lover of humanity, and wish to do all the good that I can to my fellow human.
I must stop now, as a spirit who says she is your soulmate, comes to me and says that I have been indulged enough. Of course, wishing to get away from her, as from all other females, I must leave. But you must think of what I have written.
Your friend, Samuel P. Shannon, a one-time scientist of England.
January 8th, 1917
I am here, Helen.
Well, dear, I see that you and the Doctor enjoyed the last message, as did we who saw him write. I must say that he is one of the most self-opinionated spirits that I have met for a long time. He is not very pretty, or rather attractive looking, and has considerable darkness in his appearance, yet he is evidently a hard student of what he calls intellectual things. He does not like the females. I have my doubts that they make any very great efforts to win his affections. Anyhow, he considers himself safer in shunning them, as he says.
If you could have seen the expression on White Eagle's face when he so highly eulogized the spirit, you would have been unable to restrain your laughter. We could not. We made ourselves invisible to him so that he could not see us (laughing).
Well, the writing shows you the result of spirits believing that the mind is the only thing that needs development. We want to tell you that this spirit may continue in this condition of undeveloped soul for many long years to come. As you advised him to seek an interview with some of the spirits who have the development, which only the Divine Love can give, it may cause some benefit to him. We will have come to him, some spirit who will be in such condition of memory of his beliefs on Earth, that will enable him to meet the spirit on his own ground, and discuss with him not only the question of the freedom of the Spheres for us who have this Divine Love, but also other questions that have to do with the supposed "knowledge" of this spirit, so that he will realize that the spirits whom he sees flitting from Sphere to Sphere, are not the frivolous spirits that he believes they are.
I will write you sometime the result of this interview, We will bring it about, not so much to satisfy this curiosity as to who we really are, as to help him gain a knowledge of this Divine Love, that he thinks is only a will-o'-the-wisp.
Mary was present, and enjoyed the incident very much, and wanted to tell the spirit that she knows all about the soulmate love, and that if he, the spirit, should try to find his soulmate and succeed, he would then know what real happiness is. But she saw that it would do no good. Well, you have written enough for tonight and are tired.
We both send our Love, and want our kisses.
Goodnight, and God Bless you both with that Divine Love, which is, as the Doctor says, the greatest thing in all the world.
Your own True and Loving Helen.
January 9th, 1917
I am here, your grandmother.
Well, my dear son, it has been sometime since I wrote you. I feel that I must say a few words to you, as you are in a condition that needs some encouragement and sympathy.
I love you, as you know. While I have not written you lately, yet I have been with you a great deal, watching over you, and trying to influence you with my Love and powers of bringing to you Spiritual thoughts and soul's longings.
Now, I want to tell you a few things that may help you in your moments of worry. When on Earth, as you know, I was nearly blind and deaf. In such condition as would naturally cause me to worry and be unhappy. But I did not worry, and was not unhappy. The secret was that I had in my soul the Divine Love of the Father. It was so real to me, that no doubt of its existence in my soul ever came to cause me unhappiness. That Divine Love, I know, and assure you, is the same kind of Divine Love that now floods my whole being, and gives me the happiness that I now possess. I remember that I did not have many material things to trouble me, for you looked after my material welfare, and were always kind to me, and loving. Nevertheless, if it had not been for the Divine Love that I speak of, I can readily see that I should have been very unhappy, and worried a great deal, for my natural inclination was to worry when things did not go right, as we said.
So I tell you, from actual experience, that all your worries, and by this I mean your causes of worry, may be taken from your conscious self if you will only seek for, and obtain, which you certainly can do, this Divine Love of the Father. It is astonishing how efficacious it is to cause the worries and troubles to disappear. They, as you may know, are very largely a matter of the mind. While in a certain sense they are real, yet the mind, or its condition, is the real cause of the realization of the worries.
Consider for a moment the fact, and I know that you will agree with me that it is a fact, that the indulging in these worries does not, in one particular, remove the material causes of the worry. Does not in any manner bring relief from the troubles. No matter how much you may allow your mind to dwell on these things, and how intensely you may worry, the cause, the material cause, remains.
You may say, and it is natural to do so, that it is easy enough to advise that you should not let these inconvenient things cause you to worry, but when you come to the practical experience, and are the sufferer from these conditions, it is not so easy to throw aside the effect of the troubles on the mind. Well, there is much Truth in that. Notwithstanding, this Divine Love, that I tell you of, when living in the soul, will make even that effort easy to accomplish.
The philosophy of the phenomenon, if you may call it such, is that this Divine Love is of such Real Substantial Essence, that it takes control of the mind, and eliminates the consciousness of the reality of the causes of the worry. Now, I do not want to be understood as intending to convey the idea that these material causes are not real. I am not a Christian Scientist to that extent. What I do mean is, that notwithstanding the real existence of these causes, the effects of this Divine Love, and the Faith that accompanies it, upon the mind, which is the real cause of the worry, is such that forgetfulness of these causes of worry takes the place of the constant indulging in the thoughts of their existence. And, the unhappy consequence that must flow from them. The cause itself is not removed, but the consciousness of their existence, for the time being, is dissipated. To the mind that is thus influenced by the Divine Love, these causes are, as if they were not. Of course, they are existing, and facing you, to some extent, but it will come to you, that they are not so overwhelming and insurmountable as they would appear, were this Divine Love absent from your soul, and its influence on the mind.
In addition to this, Divine Love and Faith, creates a confidence in the Power of the Father and His Willingness to Help that engenders courage, which enables the possessor of this confidence to overcome these causes of worry that he would not otherwise be able to do.
What I have said may be called the "philosophy of the workings of this Divine Love, in its effective destruction of worry". The great fact is that the Father does as a Truth Help the one who is in the condition of being possessed with this Divine Love. His Divine Love is Real. His Help is Real. The effect is to make the causes named, things of unreality, so far as the happiness of the object of this help is concerned. As a Truth, shown by the experience of mortals, a very large proportion of the worries and troubles that harass and cause so much unhappiness to mortals is a thing of the imagination and never realized.
So my dear son, try to understand what I have written. Apply it to your own condition. You will find that your worries are not near so great, as you now think.
I know just what is facing you. As you have been told by others who have written you, in a short time you will be relieved. The sun will again shine in your consciousness of existence. You will become in a much better condition to do your work, both that of your business, and that of the Master.
You must not for a moment think that you will not be looked after, so that you can do, and complete, the task that you have been selected to do. This is as certain as that the sun shines. While, for a time yet, some disagreeable and disheartening things may confront you, yet it will not be a great while before they will become things of the past. You will be in condition to do this work without hindrance or interference.
So think of all that I have said. Try to believe, and make a practical application of my philosophy. Above all, pray to the Father for a greater inflowing of this Divine Love. Have Faith to realize that it will become yours, limited only by your longings, and sincerity of aspirations.
Well, I will come soon and write you a long letter on some Spiritual Truth that will be of interest to you.
I must stop now. So with all my Love, and the Father's Blessings, I will say, goodnight.
Your loving Grandmother.
January 9th, 1917
Let me write a few lines.
I am much interested in you, and your work. I want to do all that I can to help.
I have heard your grandmother's message. It is a beautifully encouraging one, filled with deep truths, which, if you will grasp and apply, will benefit you very much. I had my troubles when I lived on Earth, but never had the sustaining power of the Divine Love that she speaks of. Hence, lived my Life as best I could, with only the help of natural powers, and a rather cheerful disposition. Had I possessed this Divine Love, I now know that I should have been saved many hours of worriment, and enjoyed many hours of happiness that were not mine. It seems to be the fate or destiny of mortals to experience trouble. As someone has said, human was born for trouble. This is not just True. Human, to a large extent, makes their own troubles. As humans come into a Knowledge of the Great Law of Compensation, they will realize the Truth of what I say. Thank God, even though human makes their own troubles, and the Law of Compensation works impartially, yet the Loving Father can relieve them from their troubles, and make them happy. In doing so, I want to say, the demands of this Law are not unsatisfied. This Law itself, is subject to another Law. That is, that unless causes exist, it cannot demand anything from the mortal. The Father, in helping His Children, does not say to the Law, you shall not demand a penalty from this child whom I desire to help, but says to the child, receive my Divine Love and Help. The causes for the demand of this Law will cease to exist.
If mortals would only understand this Truth, they would not continue to believe that the Father cannot help His Children. They would also see that in order to confer such help, it is not necessary to set aside or suspend this Great Law in its operations. The Father never grants a special dispensation to relieve mortals from paying the penalties of this Law. He does give to them His Great Love. When they possess that, the causes that entail the penalties cease to have an existence.
The Law of the Divine Love is the Greatest Law. Supplants every other Law, in the workings upon the souls and minds of mortals.
Well, my friend, I must not write more. So with my Love, will say goodnight.
Your brother in Christ, John Bunyan.
January 9th, 1917
I am here, Helen
Well, my dear, you have written a great deal tonight, and must stop, as it is late. The spirits who wrote were very glad that they could do so. You had some doubts as to Bunyan, and desired to call him back, but he had left. It was actually he who wrote you.
I must not write more tonight, though I would like to do so. But, dear, read over what your grandmother wrote you. You will find much help. She Loves you very much, and wants you to be happy.
Give me my kisses, and say goodnight.
Your own True and Loving Helen.
January 12th, 1917
I am here, Los Trenos.
I am the spirit of a human who was murdered in the Inquisition of Spain, because I would not declare that I believed in the false and damnable doctrines of the Romish Church. I was a student of the Bible. I learned that the church was not teaching and enforcing the True doctrines of Jesus. I would not surrender my beliefs, even to save my Life.
The unholy, devilish priests and persecutors racked my body and tortured my mind. At last tore me asunder. But my soul preserved its Faith, and came into the Spirit World in the fullness of its belief, all unspotted from these false teachings of the church. There were many who were tortured and killed as I was, because they would not recant.
Well, I became a spirit in all the vigor of my manly strength, and greater. I did not find myself in heaven as I expected, for I did not know what the Great Love was. Yet, I was not in such darkness, as were some of my persecutors who followed me into Spirit Life.
Of course, I was more or less human. When these church devils came into Spirit Life, and found themselves in hell, I naturally rejoiced and enjoyed, for a time, their sufferings, and condition of hellish torment. I used to visit them to charge them with my murder. After some years, I realized that such satisfaction, as I thought I experienced, did not give me happiness, or help me to progress. I became sympathetic, and tried to help them, which was not easy to do at first. As I continued to help them, I found that my soul was being benefitted, and that I was gradually getting out of the darkness, in which I had been living. So I continued this work, until at last I came into the Light, and a Knowledge of the Truth that by helping and trying to Love my enemies, I was helping myself.
I will not take the time to relate to you my fortune in meeting some spirits who, I know, possessed the Great Love of the Father, and how they taught me The Way to this Divine Love. I will only say that now I am one of the Redeemed Children of God. The possessor of that Divine Love, and have my home in the Celestial Heavens. To show you how wide and all embracing is this Great Love, I must inform you that some of these very priests and minions of the church who committed the outrages of which I speak are now in the Celestial Heavens also, and of course, possessors of this Great Love. All their sins having been eradicated by the Merciful Workings of this Divine Love in their souls.
Of course, they suffered the torments of the damned when they first came to Spirit Life and for a long time afterwards. But the Divine Love of the Father and His Mercy were sufficient to wash away even their sins. So from this you will see that there is no sin so heinous and deadly that the Father's Divine Love will not destroy, or rather, the effect of it.
You must excuse me for intruding as I have. I saw that you have the gift of receiving communications from this side of the Great Divide. I wanted to try the experiment.
I am a Redeemed Child of God and can never thank Him enough for His Mercy.
So with my Love, I will say goodnight.
Your brother in Christ, Los Trenos. The martyr to a belief that was not the True belief, but not so vile and ungodly as the one that he renounced.
January 12th, 1917
I am here, A. G. Riddle.
I merely write to explain that the spirit who claimed to be a Spanish martyr is whom he represents himself to be. Is not a mere intruder relating a fictitious story.
Well my dear boy, I will say goodnight.
Your old friend and brother, A. G. Riddle.
January 15th, 1917
I am here, Samera.
I am a Greek, of the days of Aristotle. I merely want to say that I am very desirous of writing you a message, on the subject of what is the most important Truth that I have discovered, since I came to the Spirit World. This Truth is the Oneness of God.
When I lived on Earth, we believed, and taught, the existence of many gods. The fact that these gods were the unembodied spirits of those who had been great heroes, philosophers, or statesmen, while living on Earth. Of course, we had some conception of a God who was superior to all others. That He had the power and wisdom that belonged only to the Supreme God. But the lesser gods also had great power and wisdom. In their particular jurisdiction, were at liberty to exercise those powers, thus bring to humankind the blessings, or woes, that they thought humans should have visited upon them. Our gods did not have any power over our Spiritual conditions, but dealt with us only in a material way, and ruled us in our earthly ambitions or efforts only.
I died with these beliefs. When I came to the Spirit World, I found that hundreds of those we had worshiped, on Earth, as gods, were mere spirits like myself, without any special powers, and without the wisdom that we had attributed to them. They were subject to the Laws of the Spirit World, just as I was.
Of course, this discovery made me halt in my opinion as to the fact of there being many gods. Caused me, in time, to conclude that all the beliefs in the many gods were erroneous, and that I should seek for another God who should be above all these lesser gods and spirits.
So, in my search I came in contact with spirits who had been in Spirit Life very much longer than had I, and were far advanced beyond me, in the Knowledge of Things Spiritual. They instructed me that there was a Great God, the Creator of the Universe, and the ONLY God. In my continued investigations, I concluded that this must be True. I have never seen that God, nor have any of the spirits, that I am aware of. We have all seen the manifestations of His Powers and Wisdom, such as no mortal has ever seen, or conceived of. Being thus conscious of the existence and manifestation of these Powers and Wisdom, I know, as do all spirits, that there must be that from which emanates these manifestations. One who is the possessor of them, and the ruler and controller of such manifestations. This Entity, we all call GOD, and worship Him as such. We know that He, and He Alone, is the Only True God.
I do not know that what I have said will be of any interest to you, but it is a fact. I wanted so much to tell you that fact.
I live in what is called the Sixth Sphere, where are many spirits of humans in a Condition of Perfection, that brings them supreme happiness, and such greatness of knowledge that only they, themselves, can understand.
I hope you will pardon my intrusion. I will bid you goodnight. Samera.
January 15th, 1917
I am here, John B. London.
Let me say a word. I shall feel better for having done so. I am a spirit who lives in the Earth Plane. I see spirits of all kinds and conditions. I know, from observation and experience that in this Earth Plane is darkness as well as Light. That many, many spirits are in the dark places paying the penalties, which the Great Law of Compensation compels them to pay. These planes are of various degrees of darkness. All suited to the condition of the spirits who occupy them. Some of them are called hells, some purgatories. They are all really connected. The only difference between them is the condition of darkness and suffering, which the inhabitants there are compelled to undergo. I have been through the hells. I am now in purgatory, trying to rid my soul of suffering, and get into the Light of Freedom and Peace. Oh, there are so many here in that condition, and without much hope. Our progress is slow. We have to pay the minutest demand that this Law of Compensation calls for.
I hope that you will pardon me for having intruded. I felt that if I could communicate with you I should feel better. So I do.
I will bid you goodnight.
Your friend, John B. London.
January 16th, 1917
I am here, the spirit of one who lived on Earth, the Life of a wicked human, a persecutor of the Christians. A blasphemer of God, and everything that was pure and holy. When I had lived the Life to its end, and shuffled off the mortal coil, became a spirit, I also became a dweller in the lowest hells, where all is darkness and torment, the abode of devils, and everything that tends to make the spirit unhappy and at variance with the Loving God.
I introduce myself in this way, in order to demonstrate to you the Wonderful Power of the Divine Love. For now I am an inhabitant of the Celestial Spheres. I know that this Divine Love is not only Real, but is capable of making the vilest sinner a partaker and owner of the Divine Essence of the Father.
My sufferings were beyond all description. I was the most desecrated of mortals. I was almost worshipped by the devils of hell, because of the great injury that I had done to the followers of Jesus, who, in my time, were possessed of this Divine Love and Faith, which even the terrors of the wild beasts of the arena, or the torches of my own evil designs, could not cause them to renounce. In this great religion that the Master had taught them, and the disciples were still teaching, when I put so many of them to death.
The devils loved me for the very evil that I had done. Strange to say, the spirits of those who I had sent unto the Spirit World before their time, were not revengeful to me, or came to me with their imprecations or curses. Then, when I had been in the Spirit World a sufficient time to realize my surroundings, and the nature of these evils, these spirits of the martyrs, which I had made, came to me in sympathy and pity, and in fact, tried many times to help me out of my great sufferings and darkness. I did not understand all this unexpected kindness, and evidence of Love. I would not for a long time, believe that these spirits were sincere. So, I suffered, for year after year, and century after century. I became convinced that my condition was fixed, that for me there was no hope, and that the God that I had heard of, was not my God, and that devils were the only companions that I was destined to have through All Eternity. So I endured, wishing to die, but I could not. Oh, I tell you it was horrible, beyond all conception of mortals. The Law was working. I was paying the penalty. There seemed no end to the penalty.
I could find no consolation among those who surrounded me. The pleasures that I first enjoyed, became to me mere things of mockery and derision. My darkness and torment became the greater. How often I called upon God, if there be a God, to strike me dead. The only answer to my call was the laughter of the grinning devils, who told me to shout louder, as God might be asleep, and may be deaf.
What to do, I knew not. So I became isolated, as best I could, from these terrible associates. Many years of my living were spent in the darkness of lonesomeness, with never a ray of hope, or the whisper of one word to tell me that for me there might be a fairer destiny. So time went by. I waited, in my misery. for some kind power to come and annihilate me. I waited in vain.
During all this time, the recollections of my earthly deeds were like hot irons scorching my soul, and burning my body, as I thought. The end came not.
Well, I suffered the tortures of the damned. It seemed to me that I was paying the penalties for all the sins and evil deeds that had ever been committed by all the wicked kings, rulers, and persecutors, of Earth. Many times the shrieks of the Christian children, the groans of the men and women, as they were being torn asunder from limb to limb, or burned as living torches which I had made of them, came to me, and increased my torment. I lived the Life of centuries of torment in a few moments, as it seemed to me. Not one cooling drop of water was mine. It may seem impossible that I should have continued to live in this ever increasing suffering, but I did, because I was compelled to. The Law did its work. There was no one to say "enough".
I might write a volume on this suffering of mine. Yet you would not comprehend its meaning. So I will pass it by.
In my loneliness and suffering, there came to me on an occasion, a beautiful spirit. Full of Light, Love, and all the beauty of early womanhood, as I thought, with eyes of pity and longing, and said, "You are not alone, only open your eyes, you will see the star of hope, which is the sign of the Father's Love and desire to help you. I am a Child of that Father, the possessor of His Great Enveloping Love. I Love you, even though you took from me my young Life, when you threw me to the wild beasts to satisfy your desire to gratify your thirst for innocent blood, and see the suffering, and hear the groans of your victims. Yet, I Love you. Not because I am a human with a kindly Nature, and a forgiving disposition, but because I have in me, this Divine Love of the Father, which tells me that I am your sister, and that you are a Child of the Father, just as I am, and the Object of His Love, just as I was the Object of His Love. You have suffered. While you suffered, His Great Love went out to you, in sympathy and desire to help you. But you, yourself, prevented it from coming to you, and leading you to Light, and surcease from sufferings. Now I come to you, your young and innocent victim, who had never done you any greater harm on Earth, than to pray for you, and ask the Heavenly Father to take away from your heart, the great wickedness that caused so many of my people to suffer persecution and death. We all prayed for you. Never asked our Father to curse you, or do anything to you to make you suffer. We have prayed for you often, since we came to the Spirit World. We are now praying for you, this because we Love you, and want you to be happy. Look into my eyes. You will see that Love is there, and what I tell you is True. Now, can you not Love us a little, and open up your soul to our sympathy? Let your feelings of gloom and despondency leave you for a moment. Realize, that in this World of Spirits there are some who Love you." Well, to say that I was surprised, does not express my feelings. As I looked into the love lit eyes of that beautiful spirit, I felt the great sins of my Earth Life overwhelm me. In my anguish, I cried, "God be Merciful to me, the greatest of sinners". For the first time in all my Life in the hells, tears came to my eyes. My heart seemed to have a sense of living. There came to me feelings of remorse, and regret for all the evils that I had done.
It would take too long to tell what followed this breaking up of my soul, all shriveled and dead. Suffice it to say, that from that time, I commenced to have hope come to me, and to get out of my awful condition of darkness. It took a long time. At last, I got into the Light. This Divine Love, which the beautiful spirit first told me of, gradually came into my soul. Until, at last, I reached the Condition of Bliss, in which I now am. During all the time of my progress, this radiant Loving spirit came to me very often with her words of Love and encouragement. Prayed for me, and never left me when I became, as I did at times, doubtful and discouraged. As my Awakening continued, the Divine Love came into my soul. As she told me of the Heavenly Things that would be mine as I progressed, and reached the Soul Spheres, where beautiful homes and pure bright spirits are, I became more and more bound by my Love to her. After a while, I got into the Third Sphere. I realized that what she had told me was True, only I had not been able to comprehend the Greatness of the Truth.
She then commenced to tell me of the happiness of the beautiful spirits of the two sexes, that I so often saw together. Explained that they were soulmates, that their Love was the greatest of all the Loves, except the Divine Love, and that every spirit in all the Spheres had its soulmate. At the proper time would find it.
My Love for this Loving spirit had then become so intense, that in the very depths of my soul, I wished, and prayed that my soulmate might be such a one as she. At last, I became so filled with my Love for her, that I told her that the only thing in all the heavens that I needed to make full my happiness, was she as my soulmate. But that I realized that that desire was hopeless, as I had destroyed her Life. Of course, she could not be my soulmate. Oh, how I suffered, when I realized that she could not be mine, but was another's.
As I told her of these longings, and hopeless feelings of my soul, she came close to me, looked into my eyes with such burning Love, threw her arms around me, and said, "I am your soulmate. I knew the fact a short time after you came to the Spirit World and entered your hells of darkness. During all the long years, I prayed and prayed for the time to come, when I could go to you with my Love and Awaken in your dead soul the response to my great Love. When the time came that I could go, I was so thankful to the Father, that I almost flew to you, with some dread of disappointment, I confess, to tell you that you were not neglected, or unthought of, but that there was some Love in the Spirit World that was going to you. Of course, I could not tell you of my Soulmate Love. You would not then have understood. As your soul Awakened and the Divine Love of the Father came to you, I became happier and happier. I have waited so anxiously for this moment, when I could tell you that this Love, that had been consciously mine for so long, is all yours."
Well, I will draw the veil here. You can imagine what my happiness was. As I progressed from Sphere to Sphere, my happiness and Love for her increased and increased.
Thus, I have told you the story of the Life in the Spirit World of the wickedest human that God ever permitted to live and gratify his feelings of hatred and revenge. I, who have passed through this experience, and realized all that it means, say, that the Divine Love of the Father is able to, and does, save the vilest sinner, Transforms the chiefest of devils, into a Celestial Angel of His Highest Spheres.
I have written long and you are tired. I thank you, and will say good night, and subscribe myself, your brother in Christ, Nero. The Roman Emperor, and at one time persecutor of God's True Children.
January 18th, 1917
I am here, Syrick.
I am glad that you could feel the influence of the spirit, sufficient to cause you to doubt the personality of the writer. This spirit who wrote was not Ingersoll. He was permitted to write, merely to test your ability, or Spiritual Sense, as we have done before. The spirit who wrote was myself. I did not have with me my usual influence, but assumed that of someone else, in order to make the test more complete. Ingersoll is here, and was really with you at the church services. So was I. I was interested in what the preacher said. What I wrote you, as to the preacher being a medium, and his difficulty of receiving the communication from spirit is True. So you may believe that the message contained the Truth, as to his condition.
I do not feel like taking up more of your time tonight. Very soon, I will come and write you, as I have promised.
Your Friend, Syrick.
January 18th, 1917
I am here, your own true and loving Helen.
I will not write much, for you are not in good condition. However, I was with you tonight at the services. I heard the preacher, and wished that I could have suggested some thoughts to him that he could have received. He then would have made clear something about Spiritualism that he did not. He is a medium. With a little more faith, or rather with a little less belief in some of the old orthodox doctrine, he would become quite a satisfactory medium, to himself at least.
What Judge Syrick wrote you is True. We merely wanted to make the test. Ingersoll said that he was astonished that you could detect it. He says that he is learning sympathy more and more all the time.
Well I must stop. So I will say goodnight. Give my kindest regards to the Dr. and my Love to yourself.
Your own True and Loving Helen.
January 19th, 1917
I am here, John.
I wish to write only a few lines tonight to tell you that you are not in condition of soul that you should be, and that you may be. I see that you have been thinking a great deal lately, of certain teachings and philosophies that do not lead your soul to development that is necessary, in order for you to enjoy the Divine Love that may be yours, which at times, you have possessed and experienced. So I want to advise you to give up the investigating, or even reading of these things. Confine your thought to the Teachings of Truth, which you have received, and will receive, from the Spirits of the Celestial Spheres, and the Higher Spiritual Spheres.
The meat of what you read in the books that you have been reading is merely speculation. Sometimes contains the Truth, and at other times errors. While what you receive from these spirits who write you of these Deep and Religious (Spiritual) Truths, are based on Knowledge, which only spirits of the Soul Development of those who write you, can learn and instruct you in.
The Truths that you shall learn from the sources that I have mentioned will be sufficient to enlighten your mind, and to develop your soul. You will find that by learning them, great benefit will come to you.
Let these unusual philosophies take care of themselves, because they cannot take care of you. They only serve to distract your mind from the Truths, which are Real, never changeable, and which must determine the condition of humans, and spirits, and Movements of the Universe.
Of course, it may benefit you some to consider the teachings of the Bible, which you cherish, and accept as the word of God, which we say is not His word, was never written by humans inspired by Him, and which do not contain the sayings as Teachings of Jesus, surmounted with the interpolations and thoughts of humans. To compare them with the Truths, which shall come to you from us, and by such comparison, you will see what great errors there are in the Bible, and what injury the belief in such teachings is doing, and have done, to Humanity.
This will be a point of the work that lies before you, because when your work comes to be published, it will be read in light of what the Bible contains, and the interpretations placed thereon, by the theologians, and commentators. The errors will then be readily seen by humans, and as a consequence, rejected. Human's conception of God, His Relationship to human, and the latter's destiny, will become the Only One, and cornerstone.
I know that if you follow my advice, you will find yourself grow into a better condition for the reception of these Truths. Also realize that your Soul Development will progress, with great rapidity, so that your soul perception will become so accurate, that you will be able to Know the Truth, and all its "inherent meanings". I will try to help you in this regard, and will let you feel the influence of my presence, and efforts to assist you to get in this condition. I have many messages to write you yet, as well as has the Master. Also, many High Spirits who will contribute to the filling of the Book of Truths, that we Know to be Truths.
So, my dear brother, think of what I have said. Determine that you will follow my advice. You will soon see the beneficial results.
Well, there are many other things that you may read, and so occupy your mind. History and fiction are of the better class. Also, many sermons and essays based on the teachings of the Bible. As I have said, the discussion of these things will help you in comprehending, formulating, and fixing in your mind and soul, the Real Truths.
Yes, of course I do. There is no religious doctrines, or teachings on Earth, that I am not acquainted with.
I learned these things in order to appreciate just what humans used, to help them to avoid false doctrines and beliefs, and to learn the Truths, which may be necessary for them to know. As you know, there are many beliefs on Earth. Some particular Truth is required for some particular mind that may be imbued with these beliefs, in order to show that mind the error of its belief, and the Truth that it should know.
The Bahia's have not the Knowledge of the Great Truths of the New Birth, or of the Divine Love, as contradistinguished from the Natural Love, in its purified state. While their doctrines and teachings are very beautiful, and beneficial to humans, in a Moral point of view, yet they do not show humans The True Way to the Celestial Home, and the coming into an At-Onement with the Father in the Divine Nature, or in His Divine Love.
So remember what I have said. You will soon see the results of following my advice. I will come soon, and communicate a Truth, which deals with the Great Love of the Father.
I will not write more now. In closing, will say, that we all Love you very much, are very much interested in your work, and are working with you.
So, only believe. Pray to the Father for His Divine Love and Blessings. You will find a Wonderful Happiness and contentment, and the opening of your soul perceptions that will bring you very near to Him and to us all, in Love and rapport.
With all my Love and blessing, I am, your brother in Christ, John.
January 19th, 1917
I am here, Laura Burroughs.
I am glad to be able to write you again and tell you that since I last wrote you, I have made much progress and come into the progression of much more happiness.
Dear Cousin, I am so glad that I can tell you this, for I know that you rejoice with me in my happiness and the knowledge of what Great Mercy has come to me. I merely wanted to say this, for it makes me very happy to come to you in this way.
Well he (her husband) is in the Spirit World, but in a very dark Plane, and is not at all happy. I have been with him some, but have not been able to do him any good, as his old beliefs cling to him and prevent his progress. Sometime we may be able to help him, and will then try.
She (Helen) has told me he is not my soulmate. I have met my soulmate very recently. He is in the same Sphere with me. We are very happy together. Well, I never knew him on Earth. He lived in Pennsylvania, and died a long time before I did, and tells me that he had to go through much suffering and darkness before he got into the Plane of Light. He is a very bright spirit. I could love him, I believe, even if he were not my soulmate, but as he is, you know what our love means.
He is looking at me write, and heard your question. Says his name was Henry W. Spaulding, and lived in Millville, if you know where that is.
After I had made some progress and got some Love in my soul, Helen brought him to me one time, and said "Laura, here is a young man who has been very anxious to meet you for some time. You must not fall in love with him, if you can keep from doing so," and laughed. Well I suppose I blushed, as we mortals used to say. I did fall in love, as you can imagine, and have been loving him ever since.
How we all Love Helen for her kindness, and the great good that she does. You just wait until you come over, and you will see the most beautiful girl that you ever saw.
He returns the satisfaction, and says that he considers himself very fortunate in having such a cousin. He means it, for he sees the wonder of the great gift that you have, and the loving and High Spirits that come to you.
I must say goodnight now. With my Love, I will stop.
Your loving cousin, Laura.
January 19th, 1917
Let me say a word, George E. Luckett.
I am a spirit who has listened to your last communication, and was somewhat interested in what the spirit said about her soulmate, and her love for a spirit that she never heard of until after she got into the Spirit World.
Now that may be all True. I must say that she and her companion seemed to be very happy. Looked like sure enough lovers that you read of in romances. What I want to ask is, how could they know that they are soulmates? Of course, they may love each other a great deal, and think that there is no one else in all the wide world that can take the place of the one with the other, just as mortal sweethearts have thought and said many a time, to find later they were mistaken. As I have heard that this soulmate love is one that admits of no mistake, I should like to know, as I said, how they are certain that they are soulmates.
Well, I see your wife. She says that there is not the slightest difficulty in knowing that you are some other spirit's soulmate, provided you are in condition to be able to receive that knowledge, and that is one of their punishments. Whenever the spirit has a loving soul, and they have progressed into that condition of development where it is best that they should meet their soulmate, they will meet them, and will know the fact when they do meet them.
Now, this makes me think some, for I am one of these bachelors, and have never believed in soulmates, or anything of that nature. Though, I have seen a number of couples who claimed that they were soulmates and seemed to be very happy. Yet the fact made no special impression on me. Neither did it incite in me any desire to learn if I have a soulmate. Now I believe that I will try to find whether I have or not.
Your wife says that when I get in proper condition for having one come to me she will find her for me, and bring her to me, and that I will almost curse my self for having been such a big fool all these years. I wonder what she means by proper condition? I must go after her and find out, and try to get in that condition.
Well, I will do it! I am glad that I broke in here tonight. I am in the Light Planes of the Earth Sphere. I am trying to be a decent fellow, and hope that I am. As to getting into the proper condition, I will find out.
Thanking you for your kindness, I will say goodnight.
Your friend, George E. Luckett.
January 19th, 1917
I am here, Your Own True and Loving Helen.
Well, dear, I see that you are tired, and must not write more. I want to say that you must think of the message that John wrote you. It is a very important one, and means much to you, as well as to us, and our work. He was all kindness and love when he wrote, and so much wants you to follow his advice. I know you will.
Laura wrote and told you the fact about meeting her soulmate. They are very happy and are both seeking for greater inflowing of the Divine Love, for which I am so very glad.
I have not seen him. Hence of my own knowledge, cannot tell you. She should know the fact, of course, would only write you the Truth. I do not see how she could be mistaken.
Well, the last spirit is very anxious to meet his soulmate. I think I will keep him on the anxious bench for a little while. He is not altogether in the proper condition. If he has to worry a little before he meets her, it may do him some good. He is a very decent sort of spirit. I have no doubt will love his soulmate very much. Yet some of his thoughts must change before I bring him to her.
Yes, she has made considerable progress. Is a quite Loving spirit. She has not yet gotten into the Third Sphere, but she is seeking the Divine Love very earnestly, and before a great while, will be there. I have taken a special interest in her, on account of Mr. Colburn. I have told her of him, and that he is her soulmate. She is with him quite often. Having seen the Doctor's Mary write him, she is very anxious to write Mr. Colburn. She now realizes fully, that her Earth husband is not her soulmate. That the Love, which she had for him is a very different kind from what has come to her for Mr. Colburn. The latter is now absorbing her. The former is now a mere recollection of kind thoughts and good wishes for the happiness of her husband. These thoughts do not, in the least, interfere with the greater, and only, decreed love that has come to her. As I say, she is anxious to write him. Very soon, she shall have the opportunity.
I suppose he would like to know her name while on Earth. I will give it now; though she says, give only her maiden name. She says that the only True Marriage for her is the one with Mr. Colburn. She wants to come to him with all recollection of her Earth matter obliterated. Well, her name was Nellie Robinson. She lived in the state of New York, close to the city of Buffalo. She was a village girl, and never saw much of city life. For his gratification, she says tell him that her Mortal Life was as pure and undefiled as pure thoughts and rather Spiritual Nature would make it.
I will not write more now about her. I will leave her to tell her own story, and do her own lovemaking. Say to Mr. Colburn that he is fortunate in having such a beautiful girl for his spirit bride. I am glad that it is so.
I must not write more now. My own dear Ned, I Love you with all my heart and soul, and will say goodnight. Give me my kiss, and soon go to bed.
Your own True and Loving Helen.
January 22nd, 1917
I am here. Elameros.
I am a Greek, or rather the spirit of a mortal who was a Greek. I lived in the days when Jesus walked the hills and plains of Palestine, teaching his New Doctrines of the Divine Love and the Kingdom of Heaven.
I was not a follower of him, or a believer in his teachings. I was a disciple of Plato and Socrates, and was satisfied of the Truth of their philosophy. I did not believe that there were other Truths than what it contained.
I was a traveler, and at times, visited Palestine. On several occasions heard Jesus teaching the multitudes of people who seemed to be so interested in his discourses. I must confess, that I was startled at times by his doctrines, and recognized, that while they treated of subjects similar to those contained in my philosophy, yet they were different, and gave to these subjects a new and Spiritual meaning that I had never before thought of.
I could see that he was not a student of philosophy, or an educated man, as we understood humans to be educated. Yet he dealt with these questions in such an enlightening and authoritative way that caused me to wonder at the source of his information. When, at times, he said that he was not speaking of his own knowledge, but that his Father was speaking through him, I was almost ready to believe that such was the fact.
You must remember that I believed in God, and in the lesser gods, or demons *, who executed His Will. When Jesus spoke of his Father, meaning God, it was not unnatural for me, in a way, to accept what he declared. Then, I recollect, that I was impressed with the fact that he was not speaking from a mind that had been developed by the study of the philosophies, but from a mind that seemed to have in it, that which had been lodged there by some great outside intelligence. He spoke, as he said, with knowledge. Speculations seemed to be no part of his conclusions, or the cause of any of his deductions.
Notwithstanding these impressions on me, I was too wise, in my own conceit, that my philosophy was the only true one, and that my knowledge of it was without defect, to attempt to give serious consideration to what I had heard Jesus say. Consequently, let the Truths, which he uttered pass from me.
I saw and heard him teach only a few times. Then I heard of his crucifixion and death as a malefactor, and forgot about him.
When next I saw him, it was in the Spirit World. This continued after I became a spirit. Then he was teaching the same doctrines that I had heard him teach on Earth. He was a wonderfully bright and glorious spirit. I do not think that I can write more tonight. I will come again.
Your brother in Christ, Elameros.
*Daimon is the Greek derivative for the term demon. In this sense the term "demon" means "replete with knowledge." The ancient Greeks thought there were good and bad demons called 'eudemons' and 'cacodemons'. The term 'daimon' means "divine power", "fate", or "god." Daimons, in Greek mythology, included deified heroes. They were considered intermediary spirits between men and the gods. Good daimons were considered to be guardian spirits, giving guidance and protection to the ones they watched over. Bad daimons led people astray. Socrates said he had a life-time daimon that always warned him of danger and bad judgment, but never directed his actions. He said his daimon was more accurate than omens of either watching the flights, or reading the entrails of birds, which were two respected forms of divination of the time.
January 22nd, 1917
I am here, your own true and loving Helen.
Well dear, you have had quite a remarkable letter from the Greek spirit tonight. There is in it, substance for much thought on the part of the Greeks. We thought it best to have him write, because it is a part of the plan that will be disclosed to have some spirits of all nations, creeds, and religions write you, for the benefit of their races, or followers, who may live on Earth.
Love me and say goodnight.
Your own True Loving Helen.
January 23, 1917
I am here, Elohiam.
I am the spirit of a Jew, who lived in the time of Jesus. I was a member of the Sanhedrin, and sat as one of his judges at the time of his condemnation for blasphemy and iconoclastic teachings against the beliefs and doctrines of the Hebrew faith. I was one of those who voted for the sentence of death upon him. In doing so, was as honest in my conviction and action, as it was possible for an earnest believer in his faith to be.
Consequently, I was without prejudice against Jesus as a man and, as I believed, a fanatic. It was only because I was convinced that he was an assailer of, and dangerous to, our religion, and the welfare of my race, that I consented to his death.
Mortals of these days cannot fully understand the exact relationship of Jesus and his teachings, to the security of our religion and the preservation of the faith, which we believed had been handed down to us by God direct through our prophets and teachers. When we were confronted, with what we believed to be the destructive and irreligious teachings of Jesus, and after making the numerous efforts to suppress him, by threats and persuasion, without effect, we concluded that our absolute and indisputable duty to God demanded that he be removed from the sphere of his activity, even though such result could only be accomplished by his death.
If mortals of the present day could understand our deep religious convictions, and the sense of obligation that rested upon us to protect and keep whole the divine doctrines and teachings of our faith, especially that one which declared the oneness of God, they would not judge the action of the Jews in condemning Jesus to death, to be a thing unusual, or unexpected. He stood in the position, to us, and to our religion, of a breeder of sedition. Just as in modern times, humans have occupied the position towards the civil governments of breeders of treason, and have suffered the punishments, which have been with approval, inflicted upon them by such governments.
To us he appeared not only guilty of treason to our national life, but of treason to the higher and God-given life of the religious government of our race, the chosen one of God, as we sincerely and zealously believed. Even in latter days, humans have appeared and claimed to be the especially anointed of God, with missions to perform, and have gathered around them a following of people, whom they have impressed with the Truth of their character, mission, and of their teachings. For a short time were permitted to declare their claims and doctrines, then suddenly brought to death by the decree of those who were in authority, as trouble-makers, enemies of the church, or state, and have been forgotten. Their doctrines disappeared from memory.
Only in the instance of Jesus, has his death been remembered through all the ages. Those who were the cause, and responsible for his death, have been desecrated, cursed, and charged with the murder of god.
Well, I write this to show you, that the Jews who took the life, and demanded the crucifixion, of that just human were actuated by motives other, or different, from those that have many times since caused the very followers and worshippers of that Jesus to murder and crucify other humans who have claimed to be the sons of God endowed with special missions for the Salvation of Humankind.
The sincerity of the Jews who took part in this great tragedy cannot be assailed. Even their Roman masters at the time understood that the demands for the death of Jesus did not arise from personal spite, or the satisfaction of any revenge against the individual, but solely because they believed, and so declared, that Jesus was an enemy, and would-be destroyer of the divine faith and teachings of the Israelite nation. A seducer of the people. It is only because of the subsequent rise and spread of his teachings, and the Truths that he declared, which have made so large a portion of the inhabitants of the Earth followers of him, that the act of the Jews in causing his death has been called the great crime of the world, the people themselves to be hated, persecuted, and destroyed, as a nation, and scattered to all points of the Earth.
I do not write this to excuse, or palliate, the great error, which we committed in causing the crucifixion and death of the True Son of God. Only to show that they, though as I now know, mistakenly, did that, which other humans, with the same faith, convictions, and zealous for the religious preservation of the nation, be these humans Jews, Gentiles, or pagans, would have done in similar circumstances.
But the great element of tragedy in all this, is not that Jesus was crucified, but that the Jews were so mistaken, and failed to recognize and accept Jesus as their long looked for Messiah and Deliverer. Not from their material conditions of bondage, but from the bondage of sin and error, in which they have lived for so many centuries. This, I say, was their tragedy. It has been their lasting and deadly tragedy from that time until the present day. The prospects are, that it will continue theirs for many years to come. That generations of them will pass from the Earth Life, to the Spirit World, under the shadow of that great tragedy.
They still believe, and that belief is a part of their existence, and as firmly fixed as in the days of the great mistake, that they have Abraham for their father. That his faith and example are sufficient to show them the True Way to God and salvation, and that they are the chosen people of God. By worshipping the one and only God and observing the sacraments, feasts, and commands of God, that were given to them by, and through, Moses, and the prophets, and as are contained in the Old Testament, they will find the heaven of God here on Earth, and after death rest in the bosom of Abraham. That the observance of the moral and ethical precepts of their Bible is all that is necessary to develop their Spiritual Natures. That beyond such development, there is nothing to be desired, or to be sought for. That at sometime they will attain the Adamic condition of reward and happiness, which is the ultimate of human's future existence.
Some are still looking for the coming of the Messiah, who will restore to them their former glory, and rule on Earth, as the king and governor of all the nations, and that they will be his chosen subjects, selected to assist in the administration of that Messiah's kingdom.
How certain it is that their dreams will never be realized, and that unless they have an Awakening, to the True Nature of their God, they will never become inhabitants of the Father's Kingdom!
I want to say to my people, with the Certainty of Knowledge, arising from experience and actual observation, that Jesus of Nazareth was the True Messiah. Who brought to the World, and first to the Jews, the Truths of God and His Plans for the Salvation of Humankind, and their restoration, to all that they had lost by the fall of their First Parents because of their disobedience. That if the people of my nation had received him, accepted, and followed his teachings, they would not now, on Earth, be the scattered, homeless, and persecuted race that they are. In the Spirit World, would not now be satisfied with their homes and happiness in the Spiritual Heavens, but would be, many of them, inhabitants of the Celestial Heavens, the possessors of Immortality and God's Divine Love.
You have received many messages, describing the Plan of the Father for the Salvation of Humans. What the Divine Love is, and how it may be obtained. Its effect on the soul of human, and spirit, when once possessed. I will not attempt here, to enter into an explanation of these things. With all the Love that I have for my race, superadded to a Knowledge of the great error, and insufficiency of their faith to bring them into At-Onement with God, I advise, and urge them, to seek the Truth, and apply it to their individual souls. I affirm that the Truth is contained, and The Way be found in the messages that you have received from Jesus and the other high spirits.
I am a believer in these Truths, a follower of the Master, and an inhabitant of the Celestial Heavens. I want to say that these Truths did not come to me as a part of my Faith, until many long years of Life in the Spirit World, and that some of these years, I lived in darkness and suffering.
So I will say goodnight and subscribe myself your brother in Christ, Elohiam.
January 24th, 1917
I am here, William B. Cornelies.
Let me write and tell you that I have listened to your conversation tonight. I have been much interested in what has been said. Especially in that part of your talk where you spoke of the Divine Love, and the Transformation of the soul, into what you called the Essence of the Father.
Well, I desire to say that I have considered Spiritual, or religious, matters for a long time. The ideas that you have expressed are new to me, and open up to my investigation, a new field of the possibilities of the soul in its progress. It may seem strange to you that I, who have been in the Spirit World for a great many years, and been interested in the investigation of what I considered Spiritual Truths, should not have heard of this Doctrine of the Transformation of the soul into the Essence of God, but it is a fact. Of course, I have come in contact with many variety of spirits. Some who claim to possess this Divine Love. I never entered into any conversation, or discussion, with them as to this question, as I was satisfied that they were spirits who had imbibed on Earth, the orthodox Christian beliefs, and were still possessed of the same, and that their claims, to what they called this Divine Love, were based upon what might be called their beliefs in an imaginary, unsubstantial something, which satisfied them, but which was not worthy of the consideration of spirits who had given their whole lives in the Spirit World, to the study of Spiritual Truths, based upon the Laws of the Spirit World, as they became known to the intellects of humans, capable of studying and analyzing these Laws, and the Truths that they contained.
I have many associates who devote their time and thought to the investigation of these Laws, and the Truths that are deducible from them. Who are humans, or rather spirits, who do not accept any thing, or declaration, as a Truth that cannot be proved by scientific principles and tests.
We, of course, are not of the sentimental, or transcendental, kind. But confine ourselves to the pure and exact investigation of the Laws that govern, what we perceive, to be the actual condition of spirit substances.
Your conversation has made an impression on me. Perceiving that you humans are earnest in your discussion, and seem to have a firm conviction, as to the Truth of the fact that the souls of humans, and spirits, may be Transformed by this Divine Love, with which I am not acquainted, I commenced to think that there may be some Spiritual Truths that lie beyond the scope of the investigations that I, and my companions, may have given to Spiritual Truths. So thinking, I should like to ask you some questions as to these matters. If possible, learn if as a Truth, there exists such a thing as this Divine Love, as contradistinguished from the Love that we all possess to a greater or lesser degree. So if you are inclined to answer my questions, I should like to propound to you a few at this time.
Well I have heard what you said. I have asked if Prof. Salyards is present. A beautiful intellectual looking spirit comes to me. Says that he is the Prof., and that he knows what you said, and that it will give him great pleasure to answer my questions, and to give me a full explanation of what this Divine Love is, and the manner in which it Transforms the soul into the Essence of the Father. He directs my attention to a number of bright spirits, and says that they are living examples of the fact of the existence of this Divine Love, and of the effect that it has on the souls of spirits who possess it. He says further, that as the appearance of the spirit body discloses the condition of the soul, that if I will look carefully, I will find an appearance in all these spirits, that I do not find in spirits who do not claim to possess this Divine Love. Upon a careful scrutiny, I realize that what he says is True.
He invites me to a conversation. I will go with him.
I thank you for your consideration, and will bid you goodnight.
Very respectfully yours, William B. Cornelies.
I was an inhabitant of England.
January 24th, 1917
I am here, Helen.
Well my dear, I see that you are tired and must go to bed. I will not write very much.
I was interested in the message that you received from the man who wanted to learn of the Divine Love. He was very serious in his requests, and seemed to have much pleasure in going with the Professor, who will instruct him fully.
Mrs. Stone was also very happy that she could write and tell the Dr. of her Love. Kate was also serious when she advised the Dr. to get married. It will undoubtedly be a wise thing for him to do, as well as for you. As I have told you, your Life is too lonesome a one. You need companionship. I was disappointed tonight that the Master did not write. He was present in the early part of the evening, but the dark spirits were so persistent in their efforts to write, and so disappointed that they could not succeed, that the Master thought it best not to interfere, so postponed his writing. He will come soon. You were in good condition tonight for writing.
I will not write more.
So believe that I Love you. Love me in return, and give me my kisses. You are a dear boy to treat me in that way. I was not in a hurry to sign myself.
Your own True Loving Helen.
January 31st, 1917
I am here, Luther.
I have come merely to remind you, that I am waiting to continue my discourse to my people. I am very anxious to do this. As soon as you get in condition, I hope that you will give me the opportunity. Well, we will arrange that. All that we desire is for you to get in condition. We are with you a great deal and try to assist you in every way possible.
Well you have asked me a question that I should like to have more time in which to answer than I have now. In short, Jesus was not of the substance of God in the sense that the Catholic Church, following the Nicene Creed, claimed. He took on a part of the Divine Substance as the Divine Love filled his soul. So can you. or any other human do, to the extent that you may receive this Divine Love. To say, that Jesus was, in his very being, of the substance of the Father, to that degree that made him equal to God, is erroneous. Should not be taught, or believed in. He was born, or created, in the likeness of God, in the way that has been explained to you, and in no other. He was a human, and not God, or any part of Him. If he had not received into his soul the Divine Love, he would never have been of the Substance of the Father. Being of a very Spiritual Nature, in fact so much so, that he was without sin, this Divine Love commenced to come into his soul very early, as you may say, from his very birth. At the time of his anointing, he was so filled with it, that you may say, he was of the Substance of the Father, in the Quality that that Substance possessed of the Nature Divine. He was no more Divine though naturally, as I may say, than was any other mortal born of the flesh. I should like to write you a long message on this subject. I will some time, when convenient.
Well, all the speculation that has ever existed, as to the Eucharist, and the change in the qualities of the bread and wine, are untrue. Jesus is not in these elements, in any particular, or view that may be taken. His flesh and blood went the way of all other flesh and blood of mortals. No more forms a part of the bread and wine than does your flesh and blood.
This sacrament, as it is called, is very abhorrent to the Master. When it is celebrated, I must tell you, he is not present, not only not in flesh and blood, but also not in his Spiritual presence. He dislikes any kind of worship, which places him as its object in the position of God, or as the son of God who paid a great debt by his sacrifice and death. He wants God Alone to be worshipped, and himself to be thought of only as the one who brought to Light, Immortality and Life by his teachings, and the living demonstration of the Truth of the Existence of the Divine Love in himself.
He does not approve of the teachings of humans, that his death and his blood were the means of human being saved from their sins and becoming reconciled to God. He says, it was his living, teachings, and demonstration of the Divine Love of God existing in his own soul that showed The Only True Way to Salvation.
I must not write more now. So with my Love, I will say goodnight.
Your brother in Christ, Martin Luther.
January 31st, 1917
I am here, Saul.
I have not written you for sometime. I would like to say only a few words. These are, that never in all the battles with the Amalekites, did God help me, or bring to me victory, as is set forth in the Old Testament. Although some of the prophets, like Samuel, at the time, might have thought. Yet, as I now know, it was not True. God was not the partial and particular patron of the Jews. To Him it was just as sinful for the Jews to commit murder, and the other horrible crimes that are mentioned in the book in connection with my Life as King, as it would have been for the Pagans to have done the same thing.
God is not the God of any race! He is the God of every individual child, who comes to Him in True Supplication and prayer, seeking His Love and Help in their Spiritual Nature. God will respond. The individual surely will be helped. But should that individual come to Him, seeking power, and assistance to murder their fellow human, no matter how great an enemy they might be, God would not help them, or approve of their desires. This being so, you can readily see that He would not help any nation to commit such acts and gain the victory.
I want to tell you here, that God is not a God of nations, but of individuals only, and only as the individuals that compose the nations, can He be said to be a God of nations. He wants not the praise of humans, or of nations, because of victory that they might acquire through bloodshed and cruelties ascribed to His help. He wants the praise of humans, only because their souls may have been Awakened to His Love, and have acquired victory over sin and evil.
Nations rise, fall, and disappear from the face of the Earth, but the individuals who compose these nations never die, even though the physical bodies die. God is a God only of those things that never die. He is interested in having the individual become victor over sin and the appetites of the flesh.
Of course, the individuals make the nation, and give it its character and qualities. Hence, the nation will become sinful and cruel, as the individuals that compose it become sinful and cruel. He does not deal with nations as such. Only with the small, but important, units that make the nation. Hence, for a nation to say that God is our God, or that God will help us to victory over our enemies, is all wrong. When the individual gains the victory over their greatest enemy, them self, then they can claim that God is their God, and give Him the praise. When all the individuals of a nation have gained that victory, then that nation can proclaim that God is its God, and render to Him praise for the victory. Only in such event is any nation justified in saying, "God is our God." Here, let me say, that no christian nation, so called, has yet, as individuals, attained to that condition of righteousness and victory over sin, that it can claim to be God's chosen nation.
So I say, that I, Saul the King, before my alleged fall from the grace of God, was no more helped by God, than I was after that supposed event. For the reason that, while outwardly I may have appeared to seek God's directions, and listened to the advice of His prophets, yet inwardly, I was no more in accord with Him, or reconciled to Him, than I was after the momentous event.
God never helped the Jews, as a nation, to any greater extent, than He did any other nation. They, as individuals, were no more in attunement with Him than were many individuals of what were called the pagan nations.
When I went to Samuel in my despair, as the Bible portrays, and felt the burden of the sins of my Life, I became nearer to God than I had ever been before. He was more my God than ever, though I did not realize it.
I merely write this, to show humans that they must not believe and rely on the statement, that because I was said to have observed God's Will, and obeyed His Commands, before the time that I realized defeat was certain to be mine, that God was any more my God then, directing and assisting me to overcome my enemies, than He was after that event.
I have written enough and will now stop. So with all my Love, and the assurance that God is a God of the individual, and not of the nation, I will say goodnight.
Your brother in Christ, Saul.
January 31st, 1917
I am here, George C. Calvert.
I was an acquaintance of yours when you were a student at New Market. You will recollect me when I recall your memory to the fact that I was called "Judge."
Well, I came, because I saw that other spirits were writing you. When I looked at you, I remembered you. Then desired to write.
I am, in what is called the Dark Plane. Have been for sometime now. Though when I first entered the Spirit World, I went into the hells, and suffered a great deal. I am thankful that I have gotten out of the conditions that suited me for those places. I am now in a brighter plane, and in less suffering.
I do not know that you can do anything for me, but some spirits say that you have helped them. If that be True, I should like for you to help me. I am willing to do most anything to get into a better condition. If you will do what I say, I will appreciate it very much, and try to follow your advice.
No, I should like to be surprised. Well, I have looked. I see some wonderfully bright and beautiful spirits. I do not recognize any of them. Wait a moment. One is coming to me. I am surprised, for it is Prof. Salyards. How wonderful! Why he is really handsome! Well, well, dear old Prof. He says he is glad to see me, and that I must go with him. I certainly will.
I thank you very much, and will come again.
Goodnight, your old friend.
February 1st, 1917
I am here, James G. Blaine.
I want to write a few lines, as I am interested in the affairs of our country. I see the present critical condition of affairs growing out of the recent declarations of the Germans, as to the policy that they intend to pursue regarding the blockading of the ports of the Allies, which means, in substance, that the ports of our country will also be blockaded. If the merchant vessels travelling from the U.S. to the ports of the Allies are not permitted to land at their destinations, there will, of course, be no departures from our ports. The result will be the same as if such ports were actually blockaded.
It is a serious condition for Mr. Wilson to deal with. He must act quickly and firmly, and not in any particular recognize the right of the Germans to carry out their policy, or to permit, so far as possible, the cessation of the travel of ships from our ports to those of the Allies. Temporizing will not do. He must, at the very start, let the Germans know that America will not submit to the dictation. That, if necessary, the American nation will not only sever diplomatic relations with Germany and her allies, but will become active participants in the war, which humanity, and the welfare of the majority of the nations of the Earth, demand shall be recognized and enforced.
He, the President, may in his dream of Peace, which he has recently given expression to, and which is wholly impracticable at this time, attempt to conciliate the Germans, and by further reasoning, show them that they are wrong and violators of all recognized Laws of Nations, and this hope to avoid war. Or, the involving of America in this conflict. To do so, will constitute a great mistake. His protestations will fall on deaf ears, and create in the German mind, the impression that his great desire for peace will restrain him from asserting, to the extent of force, the power of the U.S. to prevent the Germans from carrying out their policy of murder and destruction.
I write this, not because I am in any way antagonistic to the German people, or have any special predilection for the Allies, but because I see the right of the matter, and that which is necessary to the salvation, of not only the larger part of the nations of the Earth, but also to preserve the rights and dignity and substantial welfare of the U.S. This action of the German nation must not for a moment be tolerated. The sooner the President strikes, the better it will be for all concerned.
Of course, with the Germans it is a matter of life and death. Even so, it is not right that the other nations of the Earth should suffer ruin, or destruction, in order that the German nation should continue to exist, and be enabled to carry out its policy of domination, which is really the foundation of the existence of the present war.
While I am a spirit, and supposed to be interested only in Spiritual Things, yet my thoughts and interests are with my people. Incidentally, with all the nations and peoples of the Earth. These nations and peoples must be preserved, and not be permitted to be ruined by any other nation. Especially so in the present war, for which no justification exists. For the course that the entente have pursued in attempting to carry out its unholy desires for destruction and aggrandizement.
I know what the rulers of the various nations contemplate, and what their policies are in the prosecution of this war. I visit the councils of each of them, and learn the thoughts of the leaders, and the objects of their efforts and desires. On both sides there is much that deserves condemnation, and entails suffering. But in weighing the wrongs perpetrated by these various nations, I realize that the Germans are guilty of the greater wrongs. If God should interfere, as the Kaiser, and the rulers of some of the other nations believe He will, the German nation would have visited upon them the just indignation and punishment of that God. He will not interfere. Humans will be left to themselves to settle this war, they alone. Here, I may say, that as right and justice are more powerful in the long run than wrong and injustice, the nations that have the most of right on their side, will come out victors. According to my understanding of the things, motives, and ambitions, that have entered into, and caused this war, the Allies must become the victors.
Of course, I cannot tell when this war will end. Considering the conditions that exist, and the causes that are now operating, I believe that the end is in sight, and that very soon the Germans, and their allies, will have to sue for peace. The end will soon follow.
I would like to write more tonight, but your wife advises me that I have written enough. So I will close.
So goodnight, your very dear friend, James G. Blaine.
February 1st, 1917
I am here, Bismarck.
Let me say a word, as I have listened to what has just been written. I am interested in the subject matter of that communication. I do not agree with the sentiments, or the conclusions of the thoughts there contained. I am not impartial, I confess. Yet, I think that I can do justice to both of the contending parties in the war, as I am a spirit and have learned that right is right irrespective of the person or nation that may claim to be in the right in its actions.
I was a German, and a rather important one, as humans consider importance in the Earth Life, and was acknowledged by the World to be something of a statesman. I have kept in constant touch with the thoughts and motives of the leaders of the various nations that are engaged in this great conflict, and know the right and wrong of things to a great extent, I claim, than does the spirit who has just written you, and submit that my inferences opinions are as worthy of consideration and acceptance as are his.
In the first place, this was not brought about by the Germans without justification and cause. For a long time, the German rulers delayed and endeavored to postpone. If possible, avoid the war. Their rights, as a nation, were so seriously preyed upon, and not recognized, that the only thing left for them to do was to compel their secret enemies to respect their rights by force of arms. So, you have the real cause of the conflict. The Germans were not desirous, or ambitious, for conquest, territory, or advancement, to the detriment of other nations. Only for what they, as a great nation, were entitled to. England, in its greed, stood in the way of, and prevented, these rights from being recognized. Tried every way in her power to prevent the German nation from enjoying these rights. Especially from extending its commerce to countries, in which England had established her commerce and trade, almost to the exclusion of every other nation.
The Germans waited in hope, that by diplomatic means their rights would be established and recognized, but such hope was never realized. As a last and only resort, they threw down the gauge of battle, quick and sharp and destructive, with some violation of the rights of a neutral that stood in the way of accomplishing what the German nation considered its decisive blow. This is history. It is not necessary that I should further detail
Now, as the war has progressed for more than two years, Germany has naturally become depleted of its resources. Especially in those things that are necessary to sustain the physical existence of its people. All through the action of the Allies in preventing foodstuff and other necessaries being imported from other nations. Its ports have been blockaded for a long time. It has been unable to obtain supplies that were absolutely necessary to the existence of its people, until famine and want are staring them in the face. More than that, have actually worked their ruinous effects. The cry of the people is for sustenance.
Then, such being the fact, what is the duty of the German rulers? Can humanity ask that they shall sit supinely by and see their people starve and their country ruined, because of the conditions that I speak of, brought about by their enemies in preventing intercourse with outside nations? I know that international law should be respected by nations in war as well as in peace, and that it is for the good of all nations that such laws be held sacred and inviolable. Germany has tried to observe these laws, even after some of its enemy nations have violated them.
Let me ask here, what difference does the means used in considering the right or wrong of a thing, make when the same result is accomplished? England, by her superior number of war vessels, has succeeded in blockading the ports of Germany. Preventing its people from getting the supplies necessary to their sustenance. At the same time is enjoying the benefits of unrestricted importation of these necessaries, because Germany had not had it in its power to blockade the ports of England and thus prevent her from obtaining these supplies. This kind of blockade, the nations claim, international law justifies, no matter what the results may be.
Now, when Germany has found a way to accomplish the same thing, as regards the ports of England, and place her and her people in the same condition that the people of Germany have been in for so long a time, and have given notice of its intention to use such means, the nations hold up their hands in horror because such means are not known to international law.
The effect of one blockade is just the same as the effect of another, then why should the means make any difference? America has not been permitted for a long time to send its products to a German port. To that extent its, America's, have been blockaded. As the last writer says. This is allowable, because, as they say, the English blockade is in accordance with recognized international law. All which means, that because one nation has the power to do a thing in accordance with international law, another nation has not the same right because the means used are not contemplated by that law. Well such reasoning is one that if applied to the progress of the world would have kept that progress in a state of stagnation. When international law was formulated the means and instruments used in this war were never heard of. They are only the evolution of the war, growing out of the progress of human in the knowledge and necessities of war. Laws are always subject to change. That change need not be by agreement, for sometimes, and it has often happened, necessity has compelled and justified the modification of the law.
It is said that necessity knows no law. It is a truth. One that has been recognized and applied by many nations, at many times. In the present circumstances of Germany, this necessity has arisen to such an extent that the very existence of Germany, not only as a nation, but of her people as individuals is involved. Life is at stake. The only remedy is that the nations who are fighting Germany, be placed in the same position as she is in. That can be done only by preventing those nations from obtaining those supplies that are necessary to maintain their people. This can only be accomplished by blockading their ports.
It may be said that the use of submarine is brutal and inhuman. Well for the argument admit this to be a fact, yet it is not necessary that any brutality or any murder be actually inflicted, for if the persons interested will heed the warnings and not attempt to run the blockade there will be no murder or outrage. Why, may I not ask, is it not just as reasonable to demand that the blockade established by the German submarines shall not be attempted to be violated, as that the blockade which the English have established shall not be attempted to be violated? In the latter instance, the neutral nations recognize the blockade and do not attempt to have their merchant ships enter the ports that are so blockaded. Why is there any greater injustice done when Germany demands that these neutral vessels shall not enter the ports that she intends to blockade?
The only difference is in the means used. If the neutral nations will observe the obligations that each blockade imposes to the same extent, there will become no necessity for using the means in either.
I do not see why the U.S. should feel that her rights are being violated to any greater or different extent, as a question of right, by the proposed German blockade, than by the blockade that has been created by the English, and for so long a time existed. Of course, the effects of the two blockades upon the business of the U.S. are different in degree, as more business is done, and has been done, with the Allies, than was done with Germany. This does not enter into or affect the question of the right or wrong of the matter. Well, I will not write more along this line.
Now, as to the results of the war, or rather as to its ending, I cannot prognosticate. Germany is fighting on very unequal terms. She may be defeated. I would not be surprised if such was the end of the conflict. Nevertheless, and even though victory may come to the Allies, I assert as true, that the right of the matter is with her, and that the neutral nations are not doing her justice, when they declare that she is the aggressor, that she is not justified in the course that she is now pursuing.
I am told that I have written enough. So I must stop. What I have said is the right of the matter.
Goodnight, your friend, Bismarck.
February 1st, 1917
I am here, Helen.
Well dear, you have received some very interesting letters tonight. Both the spirits, who claimed to write, actually did so.
Blaine is very much interested in the crises that has arisen. His advice is given with much enthusiasm and desire that the President take immediate action to protect the rights of the U.S.
Bismarck was most serious and not at all excited while writing, but was very calm in stating what he considered to be the right of his country.
Well, it is all very sad. We spirits, as well as you mortals, will be very glad when this cruel war is over. For I must tell you, that many spirits come over from the battlefields in a very bad condition. The spirits who receive them are given much work to do in helping them. I have visited some of the battlefields during the battles, and have seen some very terrible sights. Sometime I will write you the results of my observations, and what the spirits of some of the soldiers have said and done after they were in the Spirit World a little while. Peace will come, but never will it be a certain lasting peace, until humans receive in their hearts, the True Love for their brother (fellow) mortals. The reforms must come to the individual. The victory of nations, as such, will not bring this Peace.
Well, you are tired. I must not write more. I must say that you are in a much better condition of spirit and soul. If you continue to pray to the Father, you will soon be in condition so that the Higher Spirits will be able to write their messages (of Higher Truth), which they so much wish to do.
We all send Love and blessings, and desire you to be happy. You know how I Love you, and want you to be happy. How my prayers go to the Father for your happiness and the inflowing of the Divine Love. So think of me, and Love me. Have Faith and courage. You will be blessed.
Give me my kiss and say goodnight.
Your own True and Loving Helen.
February 5th, 1917
I am here, Luke.
I merely want to say that you are in better condition tonight, and that I will write a few lines upon a subject that may be of interest to you.
In the Spirit World, there are many spirits who are in neither darkness, nor light, but are in what has been called the twilight zone, and are neither very happy nor unhappy. These are spirits, who have progressed from the lower Spheres, where they expiated their sins and errors of the Earth Life, have gotten rid of their recollections of many of their sins, and have progressed somewhat in the development of their Natural Love. Also, in the acquirement of the intellectual knowledge, and are not feeling the stings of conscience, but are realizing the happiness, which the forgiveness of their sins, and the improvement of their intellects, causes them to have.
They are, to a large extent, very much in the condition of humans who have paid the penalties of their sins. Yet, have not received such increase in their Natural Love as to enable them to progress to the higher intellectual spheres where the spirit becomes to a more or less degree the Perfect Human. They have been a long time making their progress. For it is a fact that the development of their souls from the condition of the wholly sinful human, to that where such sins have almost disappeared, is a very slow development.
These spirits though, are not to be classed with the dark spirits, who so often come to you for help and relief from their darkness. For they are in that condition where it is difficult to convince them that they need any help in order that they may have a more wonderful progress and obtain greater happiness. In this zone, the spirits seem to be well satisfied with their conditions, and have the belief that their advancement must necessarily be slow, and that there is not a better and quicker way to obtain relief from their conditions.
Among this class of spirits commences the greatest difficulty for the Higher Spirits to successfully convince them of the Great Truth of the Divine Love, and the possibilities of obtaining a condition that will place them in the Higher Soul Spheres, without the long delay in making their progress.
In the lower spheres, the spirits are not satisfied. Generally are very desirous of getting relief from the darkness and suffering. As a consequence, we can do more to convince them of the Truths that are so necessary for them to know.
You would be surprised to know the number of spirits who are in this zone. The great number of years they have been in making the progress that they have made. Many of them have been in the states to which I refer for centuries, yet have never known any desire to progress out of those states, except in the way that they consider to be the gradual and natural way to advance.
I will not write more now. So, goodnight, and may God Bless you.
Your brother in Christ, Luke.
February 6th, 1917
I am here, John.
I want to say a few words in reference to your conversation about the Prayer, the importance of thoroughly understanding it, its Spiritual significance, and the Wonderful Truths that it contains.
I heard you say, that when you first received it, there was in its meaning all confusion. That you did not understand that it would convey any Great Truths, or help very much, those who should offer it to the Father.
Well, I have no doubt but what you say is True. There is a good reason for the same. That is, that it is so full of the Declarations of Wonderful Truths, and thoughts for soul aspirations, that it was difficult, almost impossible, for your mind, or soul. to grasp the same. Like every other Truth, that humans do not understand, it does not at first reception, appear to be a Thing of Truth that humans can learn, and in learning make their own.
The Truths of that prayer, when rightly analyzed, will appear sufficient to meet every necessity that humans need, or are in want of, to bring them to a Perfect At-Onement with the Father, and assure them of Eternal Salvation as His Divine Children and the partakers of Immortality. Very soon, I will come and give you a full explanation of the Prayer, its deep and Vital Truths, so that you may become real possessors of its full meaning.
Tonight I do not think it best for me to write more. In closing, will say to you, and your friends, that you must not become discouraged in the work that you have before you, or in the work that you are now doing. I, John, tell you that your labor is absolutely necessary to make our Truths known to Humanity. There are no others, of all the humans of Earth, who have been selected for this work, or can perform it. For none have the qualifications developed for the rapport, which we have established.
So take what I say seriously. Do not let the importance of the work, or the thought that you are not suited to do the work, cause you to think that we have made a mistake in our selection, or that this power that has been given to you is a mere myth and without Reality. The High Spirits who are followers of, and are led by, the Master, have in following the Master's desire, determined that you three shall be the ones to start the spread of these Great Truths amongst humans, and leave behind you helpers who will carry on the work after you come over to receive the reward of your well-doing.
I am John. I write with authority, and must be believed.
So with my Love to you both, and the Blessings of the Father, I will say goodnight. John.
February 6th, 1917
I am here, Mrs. Stone (Dr. Stone's Mother).
I am not going to write much. I must say to my boy that I heard what John said to him. That it is of such great importance to him now, and hereafter, that I must assure him that it was John who really wrote. He was almost glorified as he announced the great truth of your selection. I do not want my boy, or you either, to doubt this fact ever again. It is all so wonderful that I might doubt myself, had I not seen the writer, and heard the authentic words that he uttered. So, believe with all your hearts. Let your Principal Object in Life for the future be the performance of this work.
I cannot write more now, for I am so very happy at the new assurance that has been given you.
So, with my Love, I will say goodnight. Mrs. Stone.
February 6th, 1917
I am here, Helen.
I will write now. I want to add my testimony to that of Mary and Mrs. Stone as to the Truth of the fact that John actually wrote the message that you received.
Of course, you have been told this many times before. You certainly had no reason to doubt. I did not think it necessary that you should have the additional assurance. John has been present most of the evening, and heard your conversation, and that part in which you spoke of Mr. Morgan's doubts. He felt that you should be again assured of the fact of your selections. What he said to you and the Doctor, also applies to Mr. Morgan.
My dear, if you and the Doctor could have seen the great glory that was with John when he made the announcement, you would never again, and I mean all three of you, doubt the fact. The work is before you. No others at this time can do it. You all must consider this the great object of your efforts during the few years that will be yours on Earth. There is no mistake. The reality of the mission is so certain that when you shall have done your work, and seen the results when you come to the Spirit Land, you will wonder that you ever could have doubted.
Your own True and Loving Helen.
February 7th, 1917
I am here, Cornelius.
I want to write merely a few lines tonight. I am so very much interested in you, and your work. I feel that I should give you some encouragement, in the way of letting you know that there are many spirits present here tonight who Love you very much and desire that you should receive their Messages of Love and Truth.
As I have told you, I am in the Celestial Spheres. I know what the Divine Love of the Father is, and what Immortality means, as I am the possessor of the Divine Love, and the conscious owner of that Immortality. The World is now so anxious to know the Truths that pertain to God and to human's relationship to Him. The Messages that you are receiving will give to the World what it so much longs for.
I know that the christian doctrines, as contained in the Bible, and taught by many preachers and priests, are the only doctrines that the christians have any knowledge of. Consequently, are accepted by them as being the inspired revelations of God, and the truth of what He is, and what human must do in order to obtain salvation. These people rest securely in these beliefs, in the assurance that the Bible way is the only way to salvation. Resting in these beliefs, the World does not see the necessity for obtaining the Only Thing that will make them in At-Onement with God, and make them inhabitants of His Heavens.
I merely write this to show you that it is of the greatest importance that the Truths of The Way to Salvation be revealed to all Humankind.
I do not think that I have anything more to say tonight, and so will leave you.
With all my Love, I am, your brother in Christ, Cornelius.
February 7th, 1917
I am here, Elias.
I want also to encourage you in the belief that you have the great work to do, and that you must not falter, or delay the coming of the messages. If you will only think for a moment, you will realize that there is no other way in which these Truths can at this time be conveyed to Humankind.
You must not doubt, or cause yourself to hesitate for a moment, to believe that the work has been imposed upon you, as one not fitted to receive these Truths. I know, that sometime it is hard for you to believe that you have been selected to do this great work, or that you are fitted to receive these Great Spiritual Truths that are to be given to the World. You must not let such thoughts linger in your mind. It is a fact that you have been selected to do the work. You must not shirk it. If you do, Humankind may remain a long time in ignorance of what the Truths are, and The Way in which they can take on the Essence of the Father and become His True Children, partakers of His Divine Nature, so that the very Essence and Divinity of the Father may become a part of the people. The work must be done by you. You must not doubt, but have a firm conviction of its Truth, and try your best to receive the messages.
I merely wanted to say this much, as I am much interested in the work.
Yes, there are a great number present. You have around you a Wonderful Spiritual influence, which should cause you to believe that these spirits are present trying to help you.
I was Elijah of the Old Testament. I actually lived, and was a prophet among the Jews. I was not John the Baptist, nor was he a reincarnation of me, as some of Earth teachers claim. John was himself alone. He was in the flesh only once, and was not a reincarnation of me, or any one else.
I will not write more now, so goodnight.
Your brother in Christ, Elias.
February 8th, 1917
I am here, Abraham Lincoln.
Love is greater than hate! War will end, and Love will come, and Peace will be again established. Then the teachings of the Master will reach human's hearts. War will become a thing of the past. Brotherly Love will rule human's conduct. Nations will know war no more.
And so must it be. God Bless our people, and all the people of the Earth, and make them Truly, His Children, is the prayer of Abraham Lincoln.
February 8th, 1917
I am here, McKinley.
Let me say a word, as I am interested in this great conflict of nations. Especially in the danger that faces my country. The almost certainty, that in a short time the cry of WAR will fill the streets and homes of its inhabitants.
God moves in a mysterious way His Wonders to perform. This war will result in the wonder, if it may be called such, of many of the inhabitants of the Earth, seeking a way of a closer Union with the Father. Lives will be sacrificed, but souls will be saved. Humans will realize that they are brothers of One Father, and that Love only must rule. That war must cease, forever.
The Spirit World is interested in this great conflict. (Many) Spirits are striving to open up the souls of the rulers of the nations in conflict, and influence them to bring an end to the fearful carnage that is now destroying so many of God's Children.
The suffering though will yet be great, before the end shall be accomplished. Many humans will become spirits before the Dove of Peace will leave the ark of refuge, and see the dry land. Nations shall fall. Some shall cease to exist. At least the Truth of the Fellowship of Human and the Fatherhood of God, will be established.
Humans must work its harvest. The reaping must continue until there shall not remain in human's hearts any desire for war, or the satisfying of unholy ambitions. We in spirit see this. Are striving to bring the great calamity to its ending. God will not cease to Love His Children. Even though those children forget Him, and murder their brothers.
I have finished, but through the gloom of desolation and ruin, I see the rainbow of hope, and the end of strife. May all humans learn the fact that God is Love, that they are His Children, and will soon realize the Truth of His Love.
I must stop.
Your brother in Christ, McKinley. (former President)
February 8th, 1917
I am here, Mrs. Wilson.
I will write only a line or two. I am not known to you. I am very desirous to write, as I am so much interested in what is now taking place in our country in connection with foreign countries. One in whom I am very much interested is suffering the burdens that are now resting upon him. I am with him a great deal, and try to influence him in his thoughts and dealings with the great problems that are now before him to deal with. Sometimes I fear he may succumb to the heavy burdens. He has around him, also, other spirits, who are much interested in the country's welfare. They are the spirits of humans, who when on Earth, were statesmen and rulers of our country, and interested in directing its fortunes. I will not name them, only to say that from Jefferson down to McKinley, they are with him who now occupies the President's chair.
This war is a serious one to not only the people of Europe, but also to those of America. For as I see, and these other spirits say, it is impossible for our country to keep out of it. The Germans so desire, and they are doing everything to bring about, the participation of the United States in the conflict. The result will be that the U.S. will suffer much more than its statesmen and finances contemplate.
I wish I could bring to the President, in clear and undoubted effect, the advice that these spirits would like to have him understand. This power to communicate is limited to the impressions that they may make upon him, by the exercise of the very imperfect rapport of their minds with his, without the proper, or necessary medium. If he could only have you with him to receive the advice that these spirits so earnestly desire to give him, it would help him so much. We have been trying to create a way by which this might be brought about. It seems to be almost impossible.
So far as I can see the future, he will bring the country to a sound ending. Although, much trouble and unhappiness will be suffered. He may not be able to endure the strain.
I wish that I could write longer tonight, but my rapport is leaving me. I must stop. Notwithstanding what has taken place, which only I know, I still Love him, for he is mine. Someday he will realize that fact.
I will now close. Thanking you for your kindness, I am, your new friend, Mrs. Wilson.
February 8th, 1917
I am here, William, (Grandfather of the Kaiser).
Let me say a word in response to what has just been written, as I am interested in the war.
I am heart and soul in sympathy with the sentiments just expressed and so anxious for the end to come. My people are suffering so much. So many of them are coming to the Spirit World, their lives all cut off, and prevented from performing the missions of their Creator.
I have sympathized much with all the people who are engaged in this war, and have tried so hard to influence my own family to bring it to an end, but in vain, for the fire of ambition, and the cravings to conquer, have ruled them. I see the end will soon come. Then will also come the suffering. It seems to me that my family will soon thereafter cease to be the rulers of my people, and will be execrated as the creators of this great conflict, and the cause of all the murders and sufferings that have been suffered by the German people. My only consolation is, that Life on Earth is short, and that the spirit must find its home in the Realm of Spirit. Even then, the suffering will continue. I trust in the Mercy of the Father, and realize that He does all things right.
I cannot say more tonight, but that we are all praying for the people of the World, and are asking the Father to open up the hearts of the rulers to the inflowing of His Love, and the bringing about of Peace.
I will close.
William, the Grandfather of the Kaiser.
February 8th, 1917
I am here, Col. Cook.
Well, you are much in demand tonight. The spirits who wrote, really whom they represented themselves to be. I have been present and know them.
I am Col. Cook, who was the head doorkeeper of the Executive Mansion for so many years. I know, and tell you that tonight have been present many of the spirits to whom Mrs. Wilson referred as statesmen and rulers who have been trying so earnestly to influence and advise her husband. Especially is Cleveland anxious to communicate to the President. He seems to be more interested in the country's affairs than the others. Is such a virile and powerful spirit. I only wish that there was some way that a message from him to the President might be delivered. We all realize that it would not be believed. Well, I cannot do any good by writing more. I will close, though I am much interested in my country, and also in this method of communicating.
I will say goodnight.
Col. Cook.
February 8th, 1917
I am here, Victoria.
I must write a line, for I have listened to the communications, and feel that none who have written are more interested than I, as my people, who such a short time ago listened to my advice and loved me, are now being destroyed on both land and sea.
Oh, this war is horrible. The flower of my people are being cut down like so many fields of wheat that are ripe for the scythe. How I wish that I could have lived a few years longer as Queen. I believe I could have controlled my grandson, to the extent of preventing him from launching this terrible catastrophe upon the nations of Europe. I have tried, since becoming a spirit, to influence him. All in vain, for his ambitions were great, and his sense of having suffered indignity from my own people was great. In his blindness and hot blood, he started to rolling the ball of hatred and destruction that is still accumulating as it continues on its murderous destructive course.
I have prayed for all the people who are engaged in this war. Have, with other spirits, to stem the tide of hatred and feelings of conquest and revenge, which now possess them.
I believe the end is now in sight, and that the Germans will soon seek for Peace, and the nations will lay down their arms. Common sense and cool blood will again rule. I cannot write more tonight. I will only say that we are all praying to the Father that His Mercy may be showered on these unhappy and misguided humans.
So thanking you, I will say goodnight.
Yours truly, Victoria.
February 8th, 1917
I am here, Nathan PIummer.
Let me say a word now. I am not his mother, and cannot write as his mother does. I am grateful too, for I now have some hope. A part of the cause is what he told me while on Earth. He may not realize just how the things that he said to me may have this effect. But they have, for when the spirits of his friends told me of what I may hope for, if I will only believe, and try to get the Divine Love that he told me of then, I think of what he said to me. It becomes so much easier to believe what these spirits tell me.
I wish I could write longer but I must stop. I am hoping and some Light has come to me. I am following Forrest, who I know was as great sinner as I was, and now a very beautiful sinner. I am commencing to learn some of those Heavenly Things in hell but it is hard, as I said.
Your old friend, Nathan Plummer.
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I used to talk to Nathan Plummer when he was on Earth, of the great importance of praying to the Heavenly Father to fill his soul with His Divine Love, and he remembered what I told him. Forrest knew him when they both were on Earth, and were in darkness and suffering after they passed into the hells. Forrest wrote Mr. Padgett. His band helped Forrest to progress and pray for Divine Love and obtained it. He became so much brighter. When Plummer saw the great change in Forrest's appearance, he asked how it was he was so much brighter in his spirit body. Then Forrest told him that he had written through Padgett for help and asked to meet a bright spirit that belonged to Padgett's band. Forrest told Plummer that these bright spirits told him to pray for the Divine Love, and some of this Divine Love had come into his soul, shining through his spirit body, that made the great change in his appearance.
Plummer was so surprised to see this great change in Forrest's appearance, and as Plummer wrote Padgett, he knew what a great sinner Forrest was on Earth. He then realized if Forrest could get out of the hells, there was hope without doubt. It caused Plummer to seek, by earnest prayer for the Divine Love. Plummer did, and that enabled him to progress out of the dark condition into a brighter sphere.
As this message was written 47 years ago, I have no doubt both Plummer and Forrest must now be above the Seventh Sphere in the Celestial Heavens, where these Celestial Spirits are seeking and obtaining the Divine Love in increased progression, nearer and nearer to the Fountainhead of the Father with the consciousness of the Certainty of Immortality.
Dr. L. R. Stone.
February 8th, 1917
I am here, your own true and loving Helen.
You must not be surprised that so many spirits of presidents and rulers of Europe are here tonight writing to you. For in the Spirit Life, space is as nothing. The attraction of kindred thoughts brings together spirits who you might suppose are far apart in their habitations.
These spirits who have written, and many more who are present, are all interested in this great war. I will say here that tonight you have had around you a greater concourse of men and women who were considered great on Earth, than have ever before congregated in one place.
This may seem surprising to you. It should not, for in Spirit Life, all these persons are mere spirits, and are not considered to be presidents, kings, and queens, but mere spirits. Some are not so high in the Spheres, as mortals might naturally suppose. They are spirits who are much interested in their people, and have more or less development of their souls and Spiritual Natures. When you compare the assembly tonight, as these great ones of Earth, with the assembly you sometimes have of spirits from the Celestial Heavens, you would see that it would look to you like a comparison of the Light of the sun to the Light between darkness and dawn! So you need not be surprised that these spirits came and wrote you.
Well, you have had a variety of messages tonight, and must now stop, as you are tired. So with all my Love I will close.
Your own True and Loving Helen.
February 11th, 1917
I am here, John.
I come tonight to tell you that your condition of soul is very much better than it has been for some time. You are more in Unison with the Father's Divine Love than you have been for some time. You realize that this Divine Love is working in your soul, and making you happy.
I have been with you a great deal today, as you copied the messages. I saw that you enjoyed the Truths that they contained. The message describing the progress of the soul is one that contains the Truth of how the soul finds the True Way to the Divine Love of the Father, and to progress to the Celestial Spheres. It is a very clear and convincing portrayal of the necessary course that every soul must pursue, which comes into the Spirit World devoid of the Divine Love. There is no other Way in which that soul can find its True Development. The message is one that will appeal to the honest seeker after salvation, and the happiness, which only a Perfect At-Onement (in Divine Love) with the Father can give.
I also see that you have been thinking a great deal about your future on Earth, in carrying forward the work that you have been selected to do. I am glad that the great work is becoming to you a matter of such importance and seriousness. For important it is, not only to the World, but to you. This you will realize when you consider what was told you a few nights ago, that there is no one else in all the World, at this time, who is fitted to do the work, which you are now doing, and which you must continue to do during the whole time of your stay on Earth.
As you progress in this work, and as these Truths come to you, and your soul becomes more filled with this Divine Love, you will, to a greater and greater degree, realize and understand the wonderful importance of the work. You should now bend all your energies to developing your soul, and its perceptions, and to carrying forward the work.
We understand as well as you the disadvantages under which you are now laboring, and the necessity for getting into that position with the Harmonious surroundings, that will enable you to give your whole time to the work. We are endeavoring to bring about these necessary conditions, and will succeed in our efforts. You must have Faith. For Faith will help you very much to work in conjunction with us, and so cause the consummation of our desires and plans much more rapidly.
To us, the accomplishing of this work is infinitely of more importance than to you. Because we realize, as you cannot, what a failure to have these Truths made known to humans, would mean to them in the way of depriving them of opportunities that are so requisite to their Future Salvation, both on Earth, and in the Spirit World.
So I say, let not yourself become discouraged, but believe. You will find that our promises will be fulfilled. The work will go on. The Truths be made known to Humanity.
I am with you a great deal, trying to develop your Spiritual Nature. By this, I mean your soul. For as this develops, the better able you will be to receive our Truths, and properly transmit them to the waiting World, so that humans may readily see, and understand, The Truths of God, and The Only Way to His Kingdom of Love and Immortality. Doubts, as to the teachings of the churches, are now penetrating and permeating the minds of many. Very many of those, who are nominally Christians. The perception of God is almost blunted. They attend worship only because of a kind of feeling of duty and impression that it is right for them to do so. They know nothing of the Divine Love of the Father's Nature, and of the Plan for their Salvation. Their prayers and worship are only those, which come from the lips, or a kind of blind intellectual belief. Their soul longings do not enter into their prayers. As a consequence, their petitions for God's Love and Mercy go no higher than their heads, as has been said. This condition of humans is very injurious to their Future Welfare, and cannot possibly lead them to the Father. So long as it exists, humans can never become in an At-Onement with Him. Only the inflowing of this Divine Love can reconcile humans with God, in the Higher and Desirable Sense. Of course, they may become in Harmony with Him by a purification of their Natural Love. That is the Harmony, only that existed between Him and the First Parents, before their fall. Is not the Harmony, which Jesus taught, and which was the object of his Mission to teach. When he said "I and my Father are One", he did not refer to the at-onement between the mere image (human soul) and the Substance, but to the At-Onement, which gives to the souls of humans the Very Substance of Father (His Divine Love).
I should like to write more tonight, but you are tired and should not further be drawn on, as it will make you feel bad physically.
So I will say goodnight and stop.
Your brother in Christ, John.
February 13th, 1917
I am here, Jesus.
Well, I come tonight and desire to write on the subject of the soul. When I consider your condition, which is much better than it has been, I desire it best to wait a while longer. For as I have told you, it is necessary for you to get in the best possible receptive condition, in order that you may receive my message, just as I deliver it.
I know that you are anxious to receive this discourse. Expect that it will contain a disclosure of mysteries that the World has so long had hidden from it. Such will be the contents of the message. But, as a fact there are no mysteries connected with this subject. For the soul is a Creature of God, just as is the body and spirit. The only reason that humankind has known of the nature and constituency of the soul is that their soul perceptions have never been developed, so that they could comprehend the qualities that pertain to the soul. They have studied, and conceived, of the nature of the body, have assumed, at some knowledge of its wonderful construction, functions, and the purposes of its existence. So they have some idea of what the spirit is, which is really a manifestation of the workings of the soul, as I have before told you, the active energies of the soul. Even as to the spirit, while they see its manifestations, yet they have but a slight apprehension of what it really is. Yet they necessarily have some knowledge of its workings. For the results of its activities are manifested, even to their physical senses. But as to the soul, they have but a very indefinite comprehension of what it really is. Frequently, in their conception of its qualities, functions, and existence, confuse it with the mind, or with the spirit, and hold them to be synonymous. They know nothing of its Origin, of its great possibilities, and of the fact that it is the only part of human that lives forever, and can become a part of the Very Substance of the Father Himself, hence, become Immortal. That it is that, which gives to human a Creation and Existence, above the brute Creation of Earth. That it determines the great distinction between human, and the brute Creation. Not reason is this determiner, as humans so frequently assert. For reason is merely a faculty of the mind, which in the event of the soul taking on the Divine Substance, becomes as it were, a thing of non-existence. For the faculties of the soul supplants reason. That is the reason that so distinguishes human, as mere human, and which will continue in this Spirit Life to distinguish them as God's Highest Creation, so long as human remains mere human, even though they become the Perfect Human.
I will not write more on this now.
I am your friend and brother, Jesus.
February 13th, 1917
I am here, Mother.
Let me say just a word, as I have heard the Master's message. I am glad that he has given you the assurance that he has, for his Love and care means to you so much more than you can possibly realize. He is so very loving, gracious, and powerful. When he comes to you, he means to bring with him, a glory that is not with him ordinarily, as he works in this Earth Plane.
Well, I Love you too, with a greater "Mother's Love", which now fills my soul and makes me so happy and contented in the knowledge that I am an Immortal Child of the Father.
I know that sometimes you feel discouraged. Almost believe yourself alone. That we are possibly not what we tell you we are. Then we try the harder to reach your soul and consciousness with our Love, so that these feelings may leave you. We generally succeed, and are happy when we do so.
Many of your friends are here tonight. You have around you a wonderful amount of Love, and effort to make you realize that you are not alone. You must try to believe what I say.
I am very happy, and progressing all the time. For I am now Higher in the Celestial Heavens than when I last wrote you. So is Helen, bless her dear heart. Of course, your grandmother has progressed. She has become a wonderful spirit, all glorious and shining. The spirits who sometimes write about her, and who live in the lower Spheres, of course, never see her as she really is. For they would not be able to withstand her glorious appearance. She brings her Love with her to these lower Spheres. These spirits can feel the influence of that Love, and do so. She says she will come soon and write you a Message of Truth.
All send Love. Of course, your mother gives and leaves with you, her Love in all its abundance.
I am happy also, my dear boy. Keep your Faith, and trust. Even though you may live the years that you have been told you, yet they will be short, and then you will be with us. Your happiness will be great.
Goodnight and God Bless you.
Your Loving Mother. (Ann Padgett)
February 13th, 1917
I am here, Helen.
Well, there was a spirit who was very anxious to write. I was disposed to let him do so, but as you are tired, and are not inclined to have others write tonight, I told him that he would have to postpone his writing until another time.
(Who was it?)
It was your poor friend William Perry. He was so disappointed that he could not write. He is still in a very sad and dark condition, and does not seem to be able to progress much out of his sufferings. We have been trying to help him, but his belief that he came here to suffer Eternally still holds him in his dark and suffering condition.
I believe though, that a conversation with you may do him good. He is still waiting here. He says he will come. I know that he will wait anxiously for the time to come.
Well, dear, I am glad that the Master wrote you tonight, such a letter of love and encouragement, for it will do you good. Try to follow his advice. Especially pray more to the Father. We are all so anxious that you get in the condition of which the Master spoke, for it will help you so much in your own development.
I Love you, as you know, with all my heart and soul. So does your dear mother, who wrote you. She was so happy in doing so. She is a beautiful spirit. As she told you, we have both progressed. We are nearer the Fountainhead of God's Divine Love. It appears more Real and Divine the nearer we approach.
I will not write more now as it is late.
Well, I will not forget. Soon I will write. You must be convinced that I have not forgotten.
Well, we thought it best not to write then, for the reason that I have told you. Hereafter, when you are ready in the early evening, we will write, even though we may have to appear a little unkind to these dark spirits. We will explain to them. I think that they will be contented.
Well, my dear, feel that I am very True to you in my Love. Let not your mind be troubled, but Love me with all your heart. You will realize that I am, your own True and Loving Helen.
February 16th, 1917
I am here, Taggart.
Let me say just a word, as I am anxious to tell you that Perry has had demonstrated to him, by the appearance to him of certain suicides, the fact that his punishment will not be "everlasting". It is wonderful to see what effect the demonstration had on his hopes and belief that there may be Salvation for him.
Then your grandmother brought these spirits to him, and had them tell Perry their experiences, which in the darkness were so very much like his own. Then told him that their present condition is due to the Divine Love of the Father, which came into their souls in response to earnest prayer. He commenced at once, to send his aspirations and longings to the Father for this Divine Love. All these spirits joined with him in prayer. It was a very impressive sight, as you mortals might say. His mother was there praying, and so very happy.
Your grandmother also brought Judas. He was so filled with Love and glory that his presence made Perry look in wonderment and astonishment. When he was told that the glorious spirit was Judas, he said that now he knew there was hope for him.
Well Padgett, I must not take up more of your time now. I only wrote, because I thought you would like to know the result of Perry's experience with the bright spirits, who had once been suicides and inhabitants of the hells.
Sometime, I should like to come and write you, as to some of my knowledge of the things of the Spirit World. I will say goodnight. Your old friend and brother in Christ, Taggart.
February 16th, 1917
I am here, Mrs. Perry.
I have heard what Mr. Taggart has just said. I feel that I must also come, and tell you that my son has had his mind and soul opened to the Truth, and that now he is rid of the awful belief that held him in darkness, and is praying to the Father, with all the earnestness of his soul (for the Divine Love).
Oh, my friend, how can I ever thank you enough for what you did? I cannot. I can pray for you. I will, with all the earnestness of my soul. I know the Father will Bless you.
So goodnight, and God Bless you.
Your friend, Mrs. Perry.
February 16th, 1917
I am here, your own true and loving Helen.
Well dear, I know that you are happy at hearing the result of your conversation with Perry. You should be, for it means a soul saved that would have remained in darkness, in all probability for a long time. Even then, might never have found the way to the Divine Love with all its blessings and benefits. Well, the work is wonderful, and the results are great.
I see that you are tired tonight. I will not write longer.
So with all my Love, I will say, goodnight.
Your own True and Loving Helen.
February 17th, 1917
I am here, Luke.
I heard the doctor ask, what do the Celestial Spirits think of this war. I will, in a few words, tell him.
Well, first he must know that the Celestial Spirits are not so much interested in the war, and the success or defeat of nations, as in the Salvation of the souls of the individuals who compose those nations. The fact that the individual is a German, an Englishman, or a Frenchman, has no influence upon the desire of the spirit to help the soul of the individual. All are alike important and dear to the Celestial Spirits. The same Divine Love that will save the one will save the other. So you can see that the war is not of so much importance.
Of course, many mortals are made spirits, who are all (spiritually) unfitted for the Life in the Spirit World. In that view, the war is of importance to the Celestial Spirits, as their opportunity for doing work among mortals, either directly, or through other spirits, is by such slaughter interfered with. The spirits, who come so suddenly to our Spirit World, are subjected to greater suffering. Are more difficult to impress and teach The Way to Truth and Life, than they would have been if allowed to live their ordinary mortal lives.
All wars, to some extent, interfere with the orderly living and dying of mortals. We deplore them. But as to the right, or the wrong, of wars, we do not judge. Leave that to the conscience and judgment of the individuals who bring about the wars, and are responsible for them. The acts of individuals, whether they apply personally, or affect others, in the way of being members of nations, are all subject to, and responsible to, the (Spiritual) Laws, which control the thoughts and deeds of mortals, and the recollections of the same. These Laws (of Love and Harmony) do not call for, or demand, the paying the penalties of the individuals, as parts of a nation. But as individuals, irrespective of the fact that they belong to, and control, the affairs of a nation.
No sin is of less interest to spirits, because it arose from the wars of nations, than if it had arisen from the act of the individual as such. We Celestial Spirits are interested in the war that is now going on, and because of that fact. For I say, it causes the paying of the penalties demanded by the Law, much sooner than it otherwise would. We are interested also, because war creates hatred, and desire for vengeance, on the part of those engaged in them. Hence, adds to the burdens that the individual so affected will have to get rid of when they come to the Spirit World, in order to progress and find happiness.
War, to us, is an incident of human existence. The right or wrong of it does not enter into our consideration of what should be the penalties that those who are responsible for it should suffer. The soul of each individual shows its own sins, and wrong done. Only this condition of the soul determines the state of its possessor, and the destiny that its own thoughts and acts have made for it.
Now, from what I have said, you may suppose that we are indifferent to the happiness or misery of mortals while on Earth. That is not True. We realize that human, to a large extent, must work out their own destiny on Earth, and that we spirits cannot control that work, except as we may influence the individual mind and thoughts of humans. That there are times when humans give way to their passions and evil ambitions, in which we cannot influence them. Even God Himself does not attempt, by His Omnipotence, to do so. But leaves humans to the exercise of their own wills, and the consequences of their own acts. This, although many suffer physically and mentally who are innocent.
All humans live not unto themselves. But are so united in society, that the acts of one must have their influence on others. Hence, those who live in these societies are subject to these influences, and to the consequences that flow from them. It may not seem right that the innocent should suffer, because of the acts of the guilty. If the Celestial Spirits could prevent it, such sufferings would not take place. But, they cannot so prevent the intermingling of suffering, between and among those living in societies. To do so, they would have to interfere with the operations of the Laws controlling these things, which they cannot do. So you see, war does not mean to the High Spirits what you might suppose. While they have their sympathy and Love for all the children of humans in these terrible conflicts, yet, they must leave humans to the consequences of their own deeds and thoughts. Human must do the suffering.
Nevertheless, we do try to influence those who have the control and determination of these things. Our work is always to try to influence them to do that, which will bring to humans the greatest happiness.
We do not interest ourselves as to whether one belligerent nation, or the other, will win the battles. Because we know that only humans themselves can decide this matter. We do not try to interfere to bring about the success of the one party or the other, as we know that we are powerless to bring about any result.
Think for a moment. You will understand that if we had the power to determine the issues of war, we should have the power to destroy sin and error, because both are the subjects of the creation and control of humans. I say that if we had such power, sin and error would long ago have disappeared from the World, and humans made free.
No, we can work only with the individual. As the individual soul is made pure and righteous, the aggregate of these individuals composing a nation will become pure and righteous. War will become impossible.
I do not think it best to write more now. I will say, that we Celestial Spirits think of war, as the creature of mortals, to be controlled and ended by mortals, and that we cannot decide the issue one way or the other. Hence, to us, war is an incident in the living and dying of mortals that we cannot prevent or create.
Your brother in Christ, Luke.
February 25th, 1917
I am John C. Calhoun.
I come to say a few words in reference to our international affairs. I say our, because I am still interested in my country and feel that I am a citizen thereof, although I am a spirit and not a mortal.
Well, as you know, when on Earth, I was a Democrat. One who believed in the independent rights of the various states of the Union. That whenever those rights were infringed upon, it was the right of the state so affected to withdraw from the Union. My contentions are now of no practical importance. For the decision of war has settled that question, and for the best, as I now see. For had the results been otherwise, our country would not now be the glorious and powerful nation that it is.
I also believed in the absolute right of our country to enjoy all the benefits and privileges that any other country in its international affairs of government enjoyed. If necessary, to preserve such privileges, to resort to the force of arms. I did not believe in becoming mixed up in foreign disputes, or in the grievances that one of these countries might have against another, or in recognizing the rights of one in preference to the rights of another.
In the present difficulties, were I now a mortal, I should apply the same principles to the present war, and leave the respective nations to settle their disputes by and among themselves. Yet, I realize that my country is not in the position of independence and isolation that it was when I lived, and that circumstances may occur, and conditions may be established, that will call for the application of principles and measures a little different from those that I have above indicated. Such circumstances and conditions now exist, as I can see, caused by the unusual claims and practices of Germany in attempting to destroy the commerce of not only the nations against whom it is contending, but also the commerce of the neutral nations, and more largely, that of my own country.
This the governors of the U.S. should not submit to for one moment. To do so indicates on the part of those who control the affairs of the nation either an utter want of understanding of the requirements of the occasion, or a cowardice that has no excuse.
I fully realize that peace is desirable, and should be sought for and maintained whenever consistent with the country's honor and well being. When peace is to be maintained at the sacrifice of honor and everything that goes to the welfare of the nation, then peace must be thrown aside and the necessary means, no matter what they may be, must be used to maintain and enforce the rights of the nation.
I see that Mr. Wilson is loath to enter into the war, and is waiting in the hope and expectation that something will happen or not happen, whereby he may keep the country out of the conflict. His waiting will be in vain, for the war is here now, and the sooner he realizes that fact, and acts upon it, the better it will be, and the sooner the end will come.
Germany is desperate. It has reason to be. It will not hesitate to destroy our ships of commerce or of war when it possibly can, and the fact that the ship is an American one or carries American citizens or sailors will not deter its destruction. Then why wait until many of these ships shall be destroyed and many lives lost, before showing to Germany that the U.S. will maintain its rights and protect its people?
I have been trying to reach the ear of the President, and also the ears of some of his legislators, in order to impress upon them the necessity for action; but have not been able to make the rapport, so that my thoughts could be received by these humans. I don't suppose that such a desire will ever be realized. The pity is, that it is necessary.
Mr. Wilson is a man of intelligence and good intentions and patriotism, and it is a little difficult for those who cannot read his mind to understand the position that he takes. But to us it is plain that the great desire to keep the country out of war - which idea I must tell you has obsessed him and caused him to believe that by doing so he is winning the approbation of the people - causes him to be overcautious and certain that if war comes he shall not be the moving cause.
Of course, ordinarily this may be commendable, but in the present circumstances it is more than deserving of condemnation and in its results may almost prove to be criminal. If someone with influence could only awaken him from this condition of obsession and persuade him to act and act quickly, it would be a thing devoutly to be wished for.
The war is here and its rumblings are approaching. It does not require an experienced ear to catch the sounds of its approach.
Well, I have written more than I intended, and thanking you, will say goodnight.
Your friend, John C. Calhoun.
February 25th, 1917
I am here, Raleigh.
I am Lord Walter Raleigh, the Englishman, who loved, and was beheaded.
Well, I have heard what the last spirit wrote, and merely wish to say that the tenor of his discourse is wise and should be followed. As he says, there is no way to make it known to the humans whom it is intended for, and who only can apply it.
I am also interested in the war, as you may suppose, to some extent. Only because the country to which I once owed allegiance, and claimed the protection of, is now a very great sufferer, by reason of the efforts that are now being made to subdue her. Yet, my interest is not very great. I have arrived at that condition of brotherly Love, and the True conception of right and wrong, and of the certain destiny of humans, that all are my brothers. The name of Englishman, German, or Frenchman makes no difference in their destinies. The human soul, when it comes to the Spirit World is without nationality. The destiny of that soul does not depend upon the fact that it was lodged in the form of an Englishman, etc. No, the thoughts of Earth, to a large extent, have left me. I am intent on my progress in the Spirit World, and attaining to that condition, which will bring me the most happiness and enable me to do the most good to my fellow spirits. I am working to help those who are not in such favorable condition as I am.
I live in the Fourth Sphere. I am a quite happy spirit, surrounded by many things that make me happy and contented. I am free from all those things that caused me worry and sufferings while on Earth. I have lost all my recollections of the acts and deeds and even thoughts of my Earth Life that caused me so much darkness and unhappiness, when I first came to the Spirit Land. You must not think that it was an easy thing to get rid of these recollections. I tell you that they clung to me like leeches, and seemed to draw from me all my heart's blood, if I may so express it.
The hells of those who have led lives of wrong or injustice are not imaginary. All who think that the stories of such hells are the idle tales of superstitious mortals will be greatly surprised when they have shuffled off the mortal coils. As I say, I have progressed out of my dark condition. I am now in the Light, quite happy in my pursuits that so much appeal to me.
No, I do not know that such is the fact. I can scarcely conceive that you can know what you say to be True. Of course, if such things are True, I should like to become conscious of the fact, and join in the search of discovery. I doubt that you have knowledge on the subject.
Yes, I should like to make the experiment. I am willing to do so in seriousness and with a mind open for conviction.
Well, I see a great many spirits present. Some bright, and some dark, but none preeminently bright or beautiful as you suppose may be here.
I have done as you suggested. One comes, and says he is Mr. Riddle. I must say that he is a wonderfully bright spirit. Has an appearance that is different from the appearance of those spirits that I see in the Fourth Sphere.
Well, I have heard what you said to him. I will go with him and listen to what he has to say in reference to the subject matter of our conversation. I doubt that he can tell me anything that is an improvement on what I already know. But, as I told you, I will listen in seriousness and consider what he may say to me.
So, thanking you for your kindness, I will say goodnight. Raleigh.
February 27th, 1917
I am here, your old friend, Edwin Forrest.
Let me say just a word. I merely want to say that I am progressing. I am out of my darkness and in the Light of Divine Love. I have been praying since you last heard from me, and have had the prayers of many of the bright spirits ascending to the Father for me.
Well Ned, I never thought that all this happiness could possibly come to me. As you know, when I came to the Spirit World, I was sinful, and all ignorant of the Great Love, and found myself in darkness and suffering. Why God should have been so good to me, I cannot understand. This I do know, that if it had not been for your spirit friends, especially your wife, I would have remained a long time in my darkness and soul slumber. Thanks to you, I had the benefit of their Love, kindness, and prayers. So that I am now on The Way to the Higher Spheres that she tells me of.
I sometimes come to you at the office, and see just what your condition is. I think that I am somewhat responsible for the same. I know that I am. I cannot tell you how I regret what took place, and try to help you with all my powers. I want to say to you, to keep up your courage for you have many powerful spirits working for you. I know that they will soon cause a change in the condition of your affairs.
I also know that you are rich in this Divine Love. These spirits all tell me that you have received it to a large degree, and are doing a great work among spirits. This I know, and are also preparing the way for bringing to humanity the Truths that will give to humans, a Knowledge of the Divine Love, and Plans of the Father for their Redemption. It may seem a little strange to you that I should write in this way. I hardly know myself, when I realize what I was such a short time ago, and what I am now.
Very soon now, I shall go to my mother, and try to help her. As I have told you, I intend to do. I pray that I may succeed. It is all so wonderful to me, that sometimes I think that I must be dreaming. Of course, I awaken to the fact that my experience is True, and that this Divine Love is a Real Thing, and that all my spirit friends are real.
Yes, I see Lipscomb sometimes. I cannot tell you that he is any better. He seems satisfied with his condition. It is hard to talk to him, for he has not lost the characteristics that he had on Earth. He still thinks that he knows it all. That the Life he is leading, is more desirable than the one that I try to tell him of.
Miller is still in darkness, though he listens to us at times, and makes the effort to realize the Truth of what we say to him. He seems to be unable to comprehend the Truths that we try to tell him. We are working with him, and will do so, so long as he will let us try to help him.
Well, your wife says that you are tired. I will stop. So goodnight.
Your old friend, Forrest.
February 27th, 1917
I am here, James A. Garfield.
I come tonight to say a few words, in reference to the present condition of the affairs of our country, as I have been much interested in what has taken place in the past few weeks. Especially in the attitude of the President, with reference to Germany, and its inhuman method of carrying on its system of underwater destruction of merchant ships.
I know, that what I say may not amount to anything for several reasons: one is, that no one, save yourself, and a few of your friends will know what I say. Another; that a live dog is of more importance than a dead lion. Nevertheless, I feel that I should give expression to some of the thoughts that come to me in reference to these vital and critical conditions that now exist.
The President has been very much hampered by his desire to preserve peace, or rather to keep our country out of war. So strongly has this desire possessed him that other things of greater and more vital importance to the welfare of the country have been ignored and made matters of secondary consideration with him and his advisers.
Peace is very desirable. Human lives are very dear to those who may have to answer the call to possibly sacrifice theirs. Yet the honor and preservation of the nation are of much more importance than the former things. Peace is not necessarily a thing that can exist only in the absence of war, for it may exist in reality while war is progressing, to a greater degree than when war is actually in operation. I mean that even now there is very great want of peace in the individual lives of the people, even though the country, as a nation, is not at war.
The life of the individual is not of so great importance as the life of the nation. For if the nation be destroyed, or subjected to the dominion of another country, the life of the individual may not be worth the living, as in the case of poor Belgium.
As I was saying, this desire on the part of the President to preserve peace has caused him to ignore the rights of both the nation and the individual as they have been threatened and injured by the actions of Germany, in its assaults upon the rights of the nation to continue its commercial pursuits, and enjoy the freedom of the seas, that have always heretofore been preserved, and to establish which this nation, in days gone by, fought to establish and have recognized.
He will be disappointed in his expectations that some kind Providence will interfere, and prevent the overt act, that he holds to be necessary for justification on his part to enter into the conflict, as that overt act will not only take place. But has already done so. The cause that he has been waiting for is now a thing of reality.
It is a great pity that he has delayed all this time. If he had taken a firm and determined stand some months ago, and let Germany know that America would maintain her rights, even by force of arms, if necessary, Germany would not now be the aggressive, belligerent that she is. Many vessels would not have been destroyed, and many lives have been saved.
This wavering policy caused the Germans rulers to believe that he did not desire war, and that he would refrain from entering actually into the war. Consequently, that he would let go by any act on their part that did not purpose to injure the rights of the U.S. This feeling on the part of Germany increased, until it was led into doing things that it might otherwise not have done, and having gotten into its present desperate state, it came to the conclusion that the only thing it could do now, was to adopt the plan of blockade that now obtains, and destroy everything that interferes with the carrying out that plan, and that the U.S. must submit to its demands, or do whatever it might think best to protect its rights, hoping, though, that it would avoid war by recognizing the blockade and keeping its vessels out of the zone of the same.
Now the time has arrived when Mr. Wilson can have no possible excuse for remaining neutral. He will have to do what he should have done a long time ago. I can see that this delay will result in the destruction of many vessels, and the sacrifice of many lives, but it is the only thing that can be done to save greater calamity.
So I hope that he will delay no longer, but declare war, or call upon Congress to declare war, at once. Thus put the country in a position to effectively preserve and maintain its rights. I make these predictions, that as soon as this shall be done the beginning of the end will be established, and that before the middle of summer, peace will come and the war will cease, though its effects will appear in more certain horror than they do now, and will be felt for many years to come. I hope that he will act now, and if I could induce him to do so, I would without hesitation or doubt of the right of so doing.
I will not write more, so goodnight.
Your true friend, Garfield.
February 28th, 1917
I am here. Luther.
I merely desire to say, that as you read the pamphlet, I read with you. The description and explanation therein contained as to who God is, are entirely erroneous and blasphemous.
Jesus never claimed, or taught, while on Earth, that he was God. This I say, because he has so instructed us. He never, since becoming a spirit has made any such claim. The teachings of the New Church, in this particular are all wrong, and tend to lead humans away from the True Conception of who God, and Jesus, both are.
Swedenborg has often conversed with me about his teachings, and declared that his explanations as to God are not in accord with the knowledge that he now has, and that the teachings as contained in his books upon this subject were the results very largely of his own speculations. The results of his endeavors in trying to reconcile what he thought, was an absurd conception of the Nature, and Being of God, with the true interpretation of the Bible. He could not accept the doctrine of the Trinity, as explained, accepted, and taught by the Church. Hence, being a believer in the inspiration of the Bible, and its infallibility of religious truths he sought some exegesis that might be consistent with the Bible, and at the same time in consonance with his ideas of reason and common sense. As he now says, he added mysticism to mysticism, and irrational explanations to irrational explanations, and the result was that his teachings were more absurd, and more difficult to understand, than were the teachings of his church.
The doctrine of the trinity, as you have been told, is not True. Never had any authority in the teachings of Jesus, or those of the Apostles and Bible writers, was merely the deduction of some of the old fathers of the church, arising from their speculations, and desire to make of Jesus a God, though a lesser god than the Father. At the same time one with the Father, and a part of the Godhead that must be considered as being only one God, as taught by the Old Testament writers and prophets that there is only One God. This doctrine, of course, was absurd. Hence, was one of the mysteries of God. Nevertheless was taught as a truth, and incumbent upon human to believe, whether they could understand it, or not, which of course, they could not.
The doctrine was not accepted by all the writers of the early days. As you know, there were bitter controversies among these expounders, of what they supposed to be the scriptures, upon the question as to who Jesus was, and his relation to God. As the years went by, the doctrine of the trinity became firmly established, as a canon of belief in the church. In my time on Earth, it was believed, and not questioned by the church. I believed it also, although I could not understand it.
Now, Swedenborg was a member of the church that bore my name, which I was credited with having founded, and believed in its doctrines, even as to the Trinity, and the actual transformation of the wine and bread into the blood and body of Jesus. He continued in this belief up to the time of his wonderful visions of the Spirit World, and his experience in meeting the spirits and Angels of that World. Including Jesus, whom he, in his writings claimed to be God, with whom he had many conversations, and from whom he learned the Spiritual Truths, that he declared to the World.
As you have been told, in the working out of the plans of the Celestial Angels, under the leadership of Jesus, Swedenborg was selected as the instrumentality through whom the Spiritual Truths should be Revealed to Humankind. In carrying out that plan, power was given to him to come, in his spirit perceptions, or his inner sight, as he calls it, into the Spirit World. There, see the conditions of spirits and Angels. Also of their environments, and learn the Higher Truths from conversations with spirits and Angels. He did come, in the manner indicated, and communed as he has claimed, except, that he never talked with God, only with Jesus, who he misconceived to be God. This cannot be wondered at, for Jesus was a spirit, so Transcendent in glory, Love and wisdom, that it was almost natural, as I may say, that the mortal, in his new and unusual experience, should conceive this glorious Jesus to be God himself. But it was not God, only Jesus that this seer saw and listened to.
Having a conception of this kind, you can readily see that when he came into his mortal self again, and many times this occurred, he firmly believed that Jesus, who had form and individuality in the Spirit World, similar to what he had when on Earth, was actually God. It therefore became easy for Swedenborg to reject the doctrine of the Trinity, Jesus is God, manifested in the flesh, and God is Jesus, the Divine Man.
Of course, you must understand, that in the exercise of this seer ship, he experienced the doubts and fears, that at times what he saw and heard might not be things of actuality, and that possibly his imagination, or as in these latter days, what is called the subconscious mind, was deceiving him. Being a human of extraordinary mentality and strong convictions, as well as established faith in the doctrines of the church to which he belonged, many of his interpretations of what he saw and heard, and his teachings there from, were limited, and flavored by his existing mental condition and faith. He has told me that for many years before his experience as seer, he had to a more or less extent, doubted the truth of the Trinity. Accepted it only as a mystery, because the church declared it to be a truth. That after his experiences as such seer, believing in the statements of the Bible as the infallible words of God, and also believing that he had seen God in the person of Jesus, he sought an explanation of these Bible statements, and a reconciliation of them, with his belief that Jesus was God. The result was his declared doctrine, that Jesus is God. So, in many other of his teachings, based upon his experience in the Spirit World, he embraced many errors and misconceptions of the Truths. To such an extent that, as you have been told, his mission, in its results, was a failure. The Truths, that he had been selected to learn and declare to the World, were never made known to humankind.
This failure was disappointing to the spirits who conceived this plan, and in whom were lodged the Spiritual Truths of God, and who were acting as God's Instruments in their endeavor to make them known to humanity.
It will be more satisfactory to you, and convincing to whomsoever may read the Truths that you are receiving from these same High Spirits, that selected him as their messenger, to have Swedenborg come himself, and explain the workings of his mission, and the causes and particulars of his failure, in doing the great work that had been assigned him to do.
He says that he has one consolation that many who have founded churches, and attempted to declare Spiritual Truths, upon which doctrines and creeds, which have been promulgated and believed in, and that is, that his followers are so comparatively few in numbers. Consequently, so many less mortals are being deceived by his teachings. I can appreciate the consolation that he may have in this fact. My teachings and beliefs that are false, as his are false, are believed in, and followed by, a very large number of mortals, to their injury.
Well, I am glad for the opportunity to write you tonight. I am still waiting for the chance to finish my message to my people on the errors of continuing in my teachings. The necessity for them to become undeceived, and learn the Truths, that are now being declared to humankind (through you).
I will not write further. So goodnight.
Your brother in Christ, Luther.
February 28th, 1917
Let me write you a line, for I am interested in what has just been written you. When I lived on earth, I was a Swedenborgian, or New Churchman. I believed in the doctrines of that Church, especially in the corner stone of its beliefs. That is, that Jesus was God. The only God to be worshipped as such, and accepted as the incarnate God, who came to Earth, lived and taught among humans, the coming of god into the flesh.
Well, I, when on Earth, was a leader, or preacher, in that Church. During the course of my ministry, I not only taught, but wrote many pamphlets, and some books, upon this doctrine of god becoming human, in the form of Jesus, and on many other doctrines, that I now know to be untrue.
My authority for saying that this fundamental doctrine of the Church is untrue is that I have seen and talked with Jesus in the Spirit World, and learned that he is only the spirit of a mortal, but the Highest and most glorious spirit in all the Heavens, and is not God. I have never seen God, nor any spirit who has seen Him with the spirit eyes. Though Jesus, and others of the Highest Spirits, say that they have seen Him with their soul perceptions, which must be True, because Jesus is so much like God in this, that he cannot tell a lie.
I know that there is a God. My knowledge is based on certainty. The basis of this certainty, I cannot explain to you, as you could not comprehend my explanation. God Lives, rules, and Loves, is present with us, and with you, in some, or many, of His Attributes. Jesus is not this God.
I wish that I could come to my people, tell them of the errors of their beliefs, and the Truths, as they exist, to the extent as now known to me. I have no hope of ever being able to do so. For one of the cardinal doctrines of the Church is, that with the passing of Swedenborg, passed the possibility of all communications between God, or His Angels, and mortals, as to Spiritual Truths, as that it is contrary to God's Will that mortals should attempt to penetrate the veil that separates the Two Worlds. How such beliefs, as I taught, now cause me suffering and regret, for I see no way of remedying the wrong that I did, and of turning the thoughts of my followers, into the paths that lead to Truth, and the Certainty of Heaven.
As this is my first attempt to communicate, I am somewhat tired and must stop. I thank you for the opportunity. I hope that sometime I may have the privilege of again writing. Notwithstanding my erroneous beliefs, I have in my soul, some of the Father's Divine Love, that enables me to sign myself, your brother in Christ, Chauncey Giles.
February 28th, 1917
I am here, your own true and loving Helen.
Yes, Luther wrote. The other spirit I do not know. I have no doubt that he is whom he represents himself to be. He seemed to be in much earnestness, and was very anxious to write. Seeing that he was a good spirit, with a message, we let him write. He felt better by having done so.
Swedenborg was here tonight, and is very anxious to write. Soon, he will, as he feels that he must write a message on the subject that you have been interested in recently.
I will not write more.
So with my Love, I will say goodnight.
Your own True and Loving Helen.
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