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1917 July - August - September
Messages from Jesus and Celestials on Divine Love 1917 July - August - September
July 1st, 1917
Let me say only a few words, as I am anxious to write and tell you that I was with you tonight on your last visit to the home of my son, (Mr. F.____). I was hoping that the opportunity would present itself for me to write. As you know, I was disappointed. I know that my daughter was also, for she expected, that in the event that you should call at her brother's home, she would be able to get a communication from me.
As I could not write there, I thought, I would accompany you home, in hope that I might write, as I am now doing. For I heard you say that you had received a letter from your wife every night, and if that should happen tonight that I might have the chance to write.
Well, I want my daughter to know that I approve her searching for the Truth, which she may find in Spiritualism, if properly sought for. Notwithstanding, that some of my family do not believe in it, and treat it with indifference, or disbelief. Yet, in it, many Truths may be found. It is a Truth itself. Is waiting for mortals to investigate and learn that it is True. That in it, are those Truths, that will lead them to much greater happiness than they now have on Earth. Infinitely more than they can possibly find, should they come to the Spirit World without a knowledge of these Truths.
As they, I mean my family, know that I was a strict orthodox, and believed in the teachings of the Bible, as the church to which I belonged taught, which I, myself, taught, and died, firmly established in that belief, and came into the Spirit World wholly impregnated with this belief, expecting to meet Jesus and be admitted to the Presence of God. According to my beliefs, I was justified in having such expectation. Alas, how different was my experience when I left the Mortal World. How my expectations shattered in a moment, as it were!
As my spirit left my body, I was fully conscious of the change that was taking place. I knew that I was dying, but was perfectly calm, without a particle of fear. I suffered no pain, or dread of what I should meet, but rather felt a happy expectation in the thought that my troubles of the Earth Life were past, forever, and that soon I would be at rest, and find my home among the chosen children of God, and have Jesus welcome me, and take me in his arms of Love. All the expectations that I possessed before my passing were with me, and much accentuated. No doubt of my realizing the same, for a moment, entered my mind to disturb my hopes. I also expected to meet my Loved ones who had gone before and enjoy the happiness of their presence and purified condition of soul.
Well, I soon found myself a spirit, dissevered from my body, possessed of joy. As mortals say, lighter than air. Figuratively speaking, I seemed to be walking on air, with nothing to interfere with my ascension to the bright realm where I expected to find my beloved ones, and the Christ of my beliefs and Love.
I hardly realized my separation from my body, before some of my Loved ones met me. Welcomed me, with Love and cheer. Told me that they were so happy that I had come over. That I must not be afraid, or doubt that I was then an inhabitant of the Spirit World. I could scarcely tell you how happy I was, and how the memories of the cares and burdens of my Earth Life left me, and how I seemed to be in an atmosphere of Love and heavenly joy. The meeting with them was more than I had anticipated. I thought, how it had not entered into my mind when on Earth, to conceive of the beauty and grandeur of the Spirit Home, which Jesus had said he was in Heaven preparing for all those who believed in him, and in the great sacrifice and atonement that he had come to Earth to make for humans, and which he did make.
Soon, I remembered, that my great expectation was to see Jesus, feel the influence of his Love. Also, get into the Heaven where the Father was, and join with the mighty hosts in singing halleluiahs and songs of thanksgiving. I then asked my angel Loved ones, where Jesus was? When I should enter into the Presence of the Father, and receive His benediction of approval as a faithful and obedient child?
Then, in a Loving way, and in a manner to make my disappointment less intense, they told me that Jesus was in the Celestial Spheres. The Father, they had never seen, that He was a way up in the Celestial Spheres, where no spirit had yet entered, nor had any Spirit seen His Face, or heard His Voice, no matter how exalted and developed that spirit might be. That I was mistaken in my beliefs. That it was only, by the development of my soul in Divine Love, could I possibly ascend to the Celestial Spheres where the Master was. That belief in the blood washing, or in the vicarious atonement, would not fit my soul for the Celestial Spheres. That only the Divine Love in my soul, and the freedom from my erroneous beliefs, would enable me to become a possessor of the "mansions" that Jesus was preparing for those who became in At-Onement with the Father. That what they told me was the Truth. That sometime, Jesus would tell me the same thing. While I could not go to his home, yet he frequently came to the Earth Plane, and endeavored to help and comfort spirits, who had not the Soul Love (Divine Love) that enable them to become Children of the Higher Spheres.
Well, you can imagine my astonishment and disappointment. How the nakedness of my beliefs appeared to me. As I thought of the long Life that I had given to the cultivation and establishment of these beliefs, and expectations in my own mind, and that I had no other knowledge, or hope of Salvation, I became doubtful of everything that was told me. My God became no God. Jesus, as my saviour, became no longer my saviour. But a human, who had deceived me during all the long years of my Life. I became resentful, and hardened. Refused to believe in anything. For I thought, that while on Earth, I was honest with myself, and honest with God. That when the Bible had been certified to me as God's true revelation, with the certain and only plan of human's salvation, and I had devoutly believed in its plan, and endeavored to live the life that entitled me to salvation. Thus, as I say, I thought of these things. The realization of my deception made me rebellious. I almost hated spirits, and God.
For a while, I was permitted to indulge in these thoughts, without interruption. Then my friends told me that these thoughts were very harmful. Would prevent me from learning the True Way to Salvation and Happiness. That the longer I indulged in my feelings of resentment, and thoughts of having been deceived, the greater would be my stagnation in my progress. The darker would become my surroundings.
Very soon, they told me that all things in the Spirit World were controlled by the unchangeable Laws of God. That these Laws, required that I should go to the place that my soul's condition fitted me for, and that they would have to leave me, for the time being. They said further, that all the beliefs in all the World, will not determine the place in which a newly arrived spirit will have to find its home, unless those beliefs be True. That the beliefs that I had, and on which I depended for my salvation, were not True.
Well, I found my place. With it, darkness. In which I remained for a long time, refusing to believe what was told me, as to the True Way to Light and Happiness. Just here, I want to say, that it is not an easy thing to lay aside, or get rid of, the beliefs of a Lifetime on Earth, even though the surroundings and disappointment of the spirit, show that such beliefs must be false. That belief, a merely intellectual belief, is a very important factor in determining the temporary destiny of the soul.
I have written a long time. I will not relate, in detail, how I learned the Truth, and found the Light, and was started on my progress to the Higher Spheres, or how Jesus came to me, showered on me his Love, and told me of the things that would be mine, if I would only follow his advice.
He said that the great stumbling block to the progress of a spirit in its search for the Truth, and the mansions in the Higher Spheres, is this erroneous and damning belief in his vicarious atonement etc. Which so many spirits who come to the Spirit World, bring with them.
I am now very happy. I am in the Fifth Sphere, where there are beauty and Happiness beyond all conception. If the opportunity was mine tonight, I would endeavor to give you some faint idea of my home, its surroundings, and of the beautiful spirits who are my associates.
Some day, I know this home will be hers. She will not have the burdens of the beliefs that I had to overcome. Just here, I must say, that as she knows how very dear she is to me, and how much I, who have so much of this Great Love of the Father in my soul, must Love her. She must also know, that I would not deceive her for all the World. Knowing this, must take my advice and seek for this Great Divine Love of God, which made such a happy spirit of her father. Let these old orthodox beliefs, as to the plan of salvation, leave her. Pray direct to the Father for His Love. She will receive, all that is necessary, for a great earthly happiness and for a joy unspeakable in the Spirit World.
I am with her very often in her earthly troubles. Try to help and console her. Sometimes I do succeed a little. She must remember that these trials are only for a moment. Then will leave her forever. That the Love and influence, which her father is throwing around her, will never leave her. That in that moment, which mortals dread the most, I mean of death, her father, and other loved ones, will be with her, and take her in their arms of Love. She will have never a fear, or dread, as to where she is. For Love will be so great, that her soul will respond in such a way that all else will be forgotten. So tell my daughter to try to not let her troubles and cares worry her so that she will neglect the presence of the consolation, which we try to bring to her.
Well, I have written as much as I feel that I am justified in doing, as your time is needed for others as well. Your wife, who is so good, says that I must not fear that I have consumed too much. She is always interested, in the making known to mortals, those things that will make them happy on Earth, and certain of heaven. I should like to say something to my wife, but I see that she is not in condition to receive my message. She is suffering, as I suffered, unconsciously, in the dogmatic beliefs of her church. Oh, if I could only come to her in my appearance of Earth, and tell her of the errors of her beliefs, and of the Truths that have made me free, and a True Child of the Father, I would do so with the rapidity of Light. With the hope that my Love for her would give me. I never Loved her on Earth, as I do now. When she comes to the Spirit World, she will not come a stranger. For a Greater Love than she has ever conceived of, will meet her. She will know the Lover.
Tell my daughter to read what I have written to her mother. Even though her mother will not believe, yet some of the things that I have said will find a lodgment in her memory, which will come with her to the Spirit World, and help her in her disappointment, in not having her expectations realized.
What I have said to you, my daughter, I say to my sons, and urge them to think of these things that are so vital to them as mortals, as well as when they become spirits.
Sometime, with your permission, I will come again and write to my folks. So thanking you, and with my Love to all my dear ones, I will say, goodnight, your brother in Christ, F_____.
July 3rd, 1917
I am here, Paul.
Let me write a few lines, as I desire to say a word about the condition of the man to whom you were talking a short time ago, on matters connected with your work, and the messages that you are receiving. I mean the Methodist preacher.
As you may judge from his conversation, his mind is open to the reception of the Truth. His beliefs in the dogmas of the Bible teachings, are not such as to cause him to be unduly biased. So that, if the Truth be presented to him with any degree of reasonable force, he will give consideration to the same. Of course, he is an orthodox, in the way of believing in the plan of salvation provided by God, as recognized and enunciated by the creeds of the churches. To him, Jesus is God. His sacrifice and vicarious atonement are truths vital to the salvation of humankind. That the human who does not believe in these necessary prerequisites cannot possibly become reconciled to God or be at-one with Him. To him, Jesus is God, the only saviour of humans, and without Him (Jesus in this sense) it is not possible for human to escape the great condemnation.
Now, while all this is True as regards the preacher's belief, yet he does not believe positively that the human who dies in their sins, as the churchmen term it, will be condemned to a separation from God for All Eternity. His belief, on this question, is not fixed. His Love for humankind creates in him a hope that this may not be so, and that some means will be provided, by which such an awful condemnation will not be imposed on humans.
He has in his soul, much of the Divine Love, without having the consciousness that this is a separate and distinct Love from the Natural Love, that has been to some extent purified. In fact, he has no conception of any Love of God, other than the Love that was given to humans at the time of the Creation of the First Parents, and which every human being born since that time has received, although it has become defiled by sin, error, and the willfulness of human. He believes that human, by the operation of the Holy Spirit, is cleansed of this defilement of the Love with which they were endowed, and by the atonement of Jesus, is brought into a state of reconciliation with the Father, and no other or different love is necessary for the redemption of the fallen human. That Jesus, by his sacrifice, is all that is required. When a mortal, by his belief and acceptance of that sacrifice, receives Jesus into his life and nature, he becomes a redeemed child of God.
Of course, he cannot fully understand just the method by which this change is brought about. He believes that there is something mysterious connected with the manner in which the resultant condition of goodness and purification, and the change of the vile human into an angel, which flows from the sacrifice, and acceptance and belief, yet the human is so changed, and the manner thereof is known to God, and it is not necessary for human to understand. This is a path, which does not demand knowledge, a mystery of God which need not be inquired into; only "believe on the Lord, Jesus Christ, and ye shall be saved." I say that this belief is his, is sufficient for him, and in it he rests securely.
Well, he is comparatively happy in his belief, and is willing to retain it. As he sometimes thinks, if he renounces it, where, and unto what, shall he go? He can see nothing to take its place. He is wise not to give it up. For in Jesus is salvation, when Jesus is correctly understood, and as the preacher turns his thoughts to Jesus, and sends forth his soul's longings to the Master, and what he represents, his soul at times catches a True Conception of the very Jesus. Although, this conception does not agree with, and is not the same thing, as his intellectual comprehension of the Jesus of the Bible, as interpreted by the creeds.
I am glad that you had the conversation with him. I believe that as he listens to the unfoldment of the Truths, as contained in the messages, his mind will take on a new, and True Conception of the Truth. His soul open up to a greater inflowing of the Divine Love that will make him At-One with the Father, and Transform that soul into the Very Substance of the Father's Divinity in Divine Love.
I would advise you to present these Truths to him. He is an important factor in the Work of Human's Salvation. When it is considered, that one soul is of more worth than the whole World. He has the opportunity to show The Way to Salvation to many souls by the preaching of the Truth. Any personal sacrifice, which may come to him, as a result of learning and believing the Truths, is not to be considered. While his material happiness on Earth is to be considered, and not thrown away, whenever it is possible to retain it in connection with the Teachings of the Truth, yet his soul's happiness, and that of many other souls, are of more importance than the mere material happiness that arises from ignorance of the Truth, or the living in that ignorance. So I say, let him know the Truth, no matter what the consequences may be. In the end, happiness will come to him, even on Earth, as well as in the Great Eternity.
I will not write more now. So, with my Love, I will say goodnight, and God Bless you, and the preacher. I am interested in him, and in the future may possibly sustain a closer relation to him than is now possible, by reason of his false beliefs, and the want of the necessary rapport with him.
Your brother in Christ, Paul.
July 3rd, 1917
Let me say just a word.
I am interested in the message that has just been written you more than you may imagine. I am the mother of the dear boy whom Paul refers to as, the preacher. (Dr Mitchell) I know that what Paul has said is True. During the years that I have been in the Spirit World, I have been with my son so very often. As you may be surprised to know, in contradictory conditions of mind and belief, and also influence that I tried to exercise upon him.
When I lived on Earth, I believed as my son now believes. To me Jesus was God and saviour and the redeemer of my soul by his blood and sacrifice and vicarious atonement. When I first entered the Spirit World, and for some years thereafter, I believed as I did when on Earth. As a consequence, I visited my son in his study, in the churches as he preached, and tried to impress upon him the truth of this belief. Also, endeavored to inspire him in his soul, as he proclaimed these truths to his hearers. I was comparatively happy in these beliefs. So, as I saw, was my son. I thought that he was doing a great work for the Master. I often prayed for him and gave thanks to God, that I had on Earth, a boy who was doing so great a work for the salvation of men and the glory of the Father.
Now, you may wonder that I continued in these beliefs any great while after I entered the Spirit World, and infer that I must soon have realized that I was not in the arms of Jesus and singing praises around the throne of God, as our church teachers sometime assured us would be our experience when we passed to Spirit Life. Well, I will confess, that I had that expectation, and was disappointed, upon arriving in the Spirit World to find no arms of Jesus to receive me, and in not going into the presence of the Father. But I loved Jesus, and I loved God, and had in my soul a great deal of the Divine Love, though then I did not realize just what that Divine Love is. Consequently, after I arrived in the Spirit World, I found myself in a beautiful Plane of Light and Love, and glorious spirits, having homes such as I had not conceived of on Earth, even though I had thought of the many mansions that Jesus had spoken of. I was happy, very happy, and retained my belief, that at the proper time I would go to where Jesus was sitting on the right of the Father. That there was some reason, personal to me, why I was not admitted into his presence, and that when he saw that I was fitted in my soul, I would be called to him. I continued to believe in this hope. Prayed to him, and rested in the assurance that he had reconciled God to me, and that there was no doubt, that at the proper time, I would realize the expectations of my belief, and live with Jesus in his home forever.
Well I have not time to tell you how I was Awakened from these false beliefs, and learned the Truth. That while Jesus was my savior, yet he was not my God. Nor did his sacrifice and vicarious sufferings reconcile the Father to me. I learned what a glorious and Loving spirit Jesus is, the Prince of the Celestial Heavens, and the Most Beloved of the Father. Yet the humblest. For he is still working among the lowly and contrite, to show them The Way to the Father and Immortality.
I also learned the Great and Vital Truth, that only by the New Birth, the flowing of the Divine Love into the soul of a human, or spirit, can they become reconciled to the Father, and take upon them self a part of that Father's Divinity, and inhabitant of the Celestial Spheres. Where Jesus is now forming the Kingdom of Heaven, in which those only who have taken on the Divine Nature, can possibly live. Here let me tell my son, for I know he will rejoice in the fact, that I am an inhabitant of that Celestial Kingdom. I know that I am Immortal. Never to die, or to lose the Divine Essence, that is a part of my soul.
Well, to hurry. When this Great Knowledge and Transformation came to me, I did not cease to be with my son, as he worked for the salvation of souls, but continued with him in a Greater Love than I had ever before had. Endeavored to impress him, and guide his mind in the Truth. Oh, how different from heretofore! No more did I rejoice when he preached the sacrifice and blood. But prayed to the Father that my boy might become Enlightened in the Truth. That I might be given power to cause him to realize that there was Only One Way to Salvation, that through the Wonderful Divine Love. Not through the blood. Alas, I could not reach his mind, so that his intellectual beliefs could be changed, and a mental knowledge of the Truth come to him. Even this, I did to some extent. Many times, he has had his doubts, as to some of the doctrines of his creed, or church teachings, not knowing that his mother was working, with all her Love, to make these doubts, The Way to Truth.
These beliefs remained, and are his still. He must not feel hurt at his mother telling him that they are as fragile, and of as little tensile strength, as the shell of an egg. This consolation I have, that while I could not work effectively on his mind, I did help his soul to open up to the inflowing of this Great Love, and to become the possessor of a great deal of it. Sometimes this Divine Love dominates his beliefs. He thinks thoughts, and has come to him conceptions of Things Spiritual, that cause him to wonder as to their source.
Well, I have intruded upon you too long already. I Love my boy so very much, and want him to find the Truth, as soon as possible. Thereby, liberate his Soul Development from the bands that his intellectual beliefs fasten around it.
I am thankful for this opportunity to communicate to him, and let him know, not only what his mother now knows as facts, but that his mother is with him very often, praying with, and for him. Casting around him, her mother's Love, which has been made so much sweeter and purer by that other Divine Love, which she now possesses so abundantly.
I would like to write further, but I must not. When I tell you, that for a long time I have been waiting for this opportunity to tell my boy all that I have told him, you, I know, will pardon my long writing. With my Love to him, and the Blessings of the Father, I will say, goodnight, his Mother, Mrs. Mitchell.
July 7th, 1917
I am here, John.
Well, I come tonight to write a few lines on your condition, and suggest a few thoughts to encourage you in your despondency.
You have been much depressed in the past few days, owing very largely to the fact that you permitted the evil influences to make a rapport with you, which fact is largely due to your not letting the Divine Love enter your soul, in such quantities as heretofore. In your imaginings, for such I must call them; you became convinced that your material affairs were such, as to afford you no hope of relief from the burdens you felt were resting on you. Well, you have these burdens. You do not see, in what manner you may be able to meet them, and find relief. Consequently you become negligent of the necessity of seeking and praying more for this Divine Love. In other words, the thought came to you, that no Love, or influence from the Higher Spirits, could enable you to find a way out of your difficulties. You lost Faith in the Power of the Divine Love, and in us. The result was, that your soul became in such a condition, that the evil ones could make their rapport. Thus increase your feelings of despondency, and want of Faith.
I know that your disappointment was very real. That you had a difficult task to make yourself believe that we could do you any good, or that your condition of soul could determine that another of your problems being relieved from your worries. As may be said, it was natural for you to feel this way. If you had taken the advice, which we have given you more than once, and prayed with all the longings of your soul for the Help of the Father, you would not have gotten in such a condition of despondency. Could not have given way to the temptations of the flesh, and let the influences of the evil ones make a rapport with you, and suffered the effects of that rapport.
Every time you get in this condition, you lose ground in your Spiritual Development. Also, in your state of happiness and the strength of your Faith, and experience the hopelessness that comes with such a condition. The material things, I know are of great importance, and are necessary. You must obtain them, in order to sustain you in your Earth Life, and the earthly happiness that comes from the freedom of want. When you could not see where these things were coming from, it was difficult to throw aside the worries that resulted from such a state of anticipated want. If you had prayed, and exercised your Faith, such worries would not have dominated you, as they did, and caused you to ignore the Very Source, from which All Things must come.
I say to you now, that you will not be left alone in these matters. You well realize the things that you desire, and need. We are working to bring about the realization of your desires. We will succeed. You will be taken care of.
Yes, I understand. Nevertheless, you must try to believe us, and endure for a little, the disappointment. We cannot accomplish these things, at just the time that they may be used. They will be accomplished in such time, as will prevent embarrassment.
Yes, I see what your thoughts are. I say to you, that you will soon receive what is necessary to relieve you.
So have Faith in us. Pray for the Divine Love, in more abundance. Believe that we are with you, will not forsake you, and that all will be well.
Try to overcome the worries. Let them pass from you. I know that this is difficult to do, but you can do it, and will feel the good that will come to you by so doing.
I am not the only one who is saying this to you tonight. Many of the spirits who are interested in you are present, and are trying to help you. Even the Master, who is so anxious that you find the relief that you so much desire, and get in condition to receive these messages.
I will not write more. Only say pray, and believe.
Goodnight, your brother in Christ, John.
July 7th, 1917
I am here, your grandmother.
Well my dear son, it has been sometime since I last wrote to you. I will write a few lines. Although I have not written, I have been with you, Loving, and sympathizing with you, in your troubles, and trying to help you.
I am so sorry that you have had the experience of the past few days. I know that you have suffered from the same. That everything has appeared to you very gloomy and disheartening. That even now, you are worrying about the material conditions that surround you, and see no hope for the immediate future.
Well, my dear one, what you are experiencing has been the experience of many mortals. Will be of many more. For such disappointment belongs to the Mortal Life. Yet you must remember this, that very few mortals have had the Loving close influence of High Spirits in their troubles, that you have had, and are now having, and have had, to have their burdens intensified by the evil influences of spirits of the dark Planes. So you see, you have been fortunate in this particular. Will be in the future. You must try to believe in the greater Faith, that such is your fortunate position.
We all understand what your worries have been. We have tried to help you, and to remove the causes. As we have told you before, we are not Omnipotent in these material affairs. Cannot absolutely control these things, although we have a greater influence than you can conceive of, with mortals, as regards their actions, as the result of these influences.
I cannot foretell just what will happen, or when. We know the existence of some, and the effects. We try to make conditions that will bring certain effects. This, we have been doing, with reference to your material affairs. Very soon, I am certain, you will be relieved of your present troubles, as John has written you. Pray, and have faith in us. You will find your condition of spirit and mind much bettered.
As you know, I Love you very much. I want you to be happy and free from worries. If I did not honestly believe that you will soon be, I would not tell you so. You have behind you a wonderful power, working for your good, both Spiritually, and materially. If you will only follow our advice, you will find yourself much benefitted. No matter how gloomy things may look to you, pray. Try to have Faith. The gloom will not last, or find its lodgment in your mind.
I would like to write you a long letter tonight, but you are not just in condition to receive such a letter. So my dear son, think of what has been written. Make the endeavor to let your Spiritual condition dominate your feelings, and conditions that arise from your depressions and despondency of mind. You can do it, if you will pursue The Way suggested to you. Happiness will come to you.
I will not write more now. With all my Love, say pray, believe and trust, in what we tell you. May this Divine Love of the Father flow into your heart in greater and greater abundance, until all worry shall leave you.
Goodnight, your Loving Grandmother. (Ann Rollins)
July 7th, 1917
I am here, your own true and loving Helen.
Well dear, I am glad that John, and your grandmother, wrote you as they have tonight. If you will meditate on what they said, you will derive much benefit, and realize that your troubles are natural. Not withstanding the fact that you are embarrassed by certain material affairs, that I know will soon disappear, and exist only on things of the past. I have been so anxious that you get out of the condition of despondency that has been yours for several days past, and see only the real condition of your soul qualities. You must not worry about these things, for while they are very depressing, yet you will be relieved. The sun will shine again. You and Nita will both be provided for. You must not worry.
I should like to write my letter tonight, but you are not just in condition to receive it. When I write, I want to do it successfully, so that you may get as much happiness out of my Love dictations as possible.
Keep up your courage, and pray. This is the greatest source of Help. When you pray, you bring to you the Father's Divine Love, which is the Great Thing that mortals, not only require, but which will make them happier than can anything else make them.
I Love you, with all my heart and soul. I so want you to be happy. I am doing everything possible to make you so.
So my own dear Ned, think of what I have said and believe.
Love me, and know that no one in all the universe can Love you as I do.
Goodnight, and God Bless you.
Your own True and Loving Helen.
July 8th, 1917
I am here, John.
Well, I was with you tonight. You did not learn any Truth from the preacher's discourse that is vital to the Salvation of Humans. He does not know the Truth. Consequently, cannot teach others. You could readily see his want of Knowledge, when he declared that Jesus was not different from the other teachers, to whom he referred, or did not teach any Truths, that they did not teach. No, I am sorry to say, he does not know the Truth. His opportunity is so great to teach the Truth, for the majority of his hearers do not believe in the orthodox creeds. Their minds are open to a reception of the Truth.
His conception of the relationship of human to God, and of human's own constitution, as regards Spiritual Things, are all wrong. He will not be able to learn the Truth from the investigation of Spiritualism, as he is now studying it. All he knows is that humans, when they become spirits, continue to live, and have the power of communicating with mortals. Also, that spirits are all happy, or very shortly after their entrance into the Spirit World may become so, by their own exertions by the development of the "divine spark", as he calls it, that exists in all humans souls.
He may learn the Truth, before he comes to the Spirit World. He may not. There is no way, other than through the information contained in your writings, by which he can learn these Truths. His advising his hearers to pursue the course of conduct that the Moral Teachings of the great teachers of Light, as he denominates them, show to humans, will not give them the Truth, the Light, and the Liberty, of which he so loudly discoursed.
There were many spirits present. Some of them communicated to their friends, as the preacher told them. He is a psychic, and has the gift of clairaudience. Also of clairvoyance, to some degree. He also is a human of quick perception, and readily grasps the conditions of the mind, and desires, of those who are so anxious to hear from their departed friends. Sometimes he uses the information, which he gathers by the exercise of his quick wit, to describe to the people the presence of those in the Spirit Life that they are anticipating will make their presence known by communicating. Aside from this, he receives many messages from the spirits. He tries, honestly, to deliver them to the hearers for whom they are intended.
Now, while all this is True, and affords consolation to many of these anxious ones, yet the meetings do you no good, as we have told you. The influences of the spirits who attend these meetings are not helpful to the development of your soul qualities. It is not desirable that you come in contact with these spirits, who always try to make a rapport, whenever the opportunity occurs.
There were also some spirits of the Higher Order present, who were interested in their relatives and friends, and tried to get in rapport with these persons, for the purpose of helping them. Generally, their efforts were not very successful, as the conditions prevailing, did not enhance the probability of making the rapport, or permitting the influence to be felt.
Well, I see that you are feeling better tonight, more hopeful, and realize the result of the prayers that you offered to the Father, and the increase of your faith in us. If you will continue to pray, and exercise this Faith, you will find yourself helped, to such an extent that the troubles you have will not worry you very much. In addition, such a condition of mind on your part, helps us to more effectively perform our part of the work in bringing to you those things that you so much desire. You may not understand the philosophy of this. Sometime, I will come to you and make clear the operation of the Laws, that are brought into use in bringing these results. Only believe and pray. You will not be forsaken.
Well, I will not write more. Soon I must come and write a message. If you improve, I will be able to do so in a very satisfactory way. So try to get in this condition.
Remember that I Love you. I am with you very often, trying to help you Spiritually, and materially, and that you will be so helped.
With my Love and blessings, I will say goodnight.
Your brother in Christ, John.
July 8th, 1917
I am here, Helen.
Well dear, I see that you are tired. I will not write much. I must say that I am so glad that you are feeling better, and more hopeful. Keep up your courage. Everything will be alright.
I was with you at the meeting, but will not write my impressions now. You were not benefitted.
Try to have Faith, and pray. I believe that tomorrow night you will be in condition to receive my letter, that I so much desire to write.
Love me and believe that I Love you. Goodnight.
Your own True and Loving Helen.
July 9th, 1917
I am here, Jesus.
Well, my brother, I see that you are much better than you have been for some days past, and that you have prayed more to the Father for the inflowing of His Divine Love. As a consequence, have more of It in your soul, and are in a better condition Spiritually, and physically.
I should like to finish my message on God tonight. I do not think that you are in just the condition necessary to enable you to receive it. I think it desirable to postpone it for a while longer.
You must surely realize the effect of prayer, to a greater extent than ever. If you had not prayed, as you have been doing for the past few days, you would have found yourself in a great degree of despondency, as the same cause for creating this despondency exists now, as it existed several days ago, when you were so depressed and worried. Prayer is a wonderful help, when offered with the True Longings of the soul. Will always find a response (from God). The benefit will not be merely Spiritual but, as you may say, material as well.
Of course, prayer does not remove the cause of worry, and thus relieve the mortal from worry, but it operates on the mortal's consciousness, in such a way as to remove the effect of this cause of worry, on the feelings and mental conditions of the mortal. In this way, is the mortal benefitted. Their prayers responded to. They, as it were, becomes a new human, and ceases to look upon these causes in the same Light that they did before the prayers commenced to bring their responses. They, in their Real Self (the soul), is a different human from what they were, when in the condition that existed before they prayed.
I am so very glad that you prayed, and let your longings go out to the Father, and tried to have faith in us to help you. We are helping you. You will soon realize the result of our work in securing those things that you desire, and consider necessary to enable you to get rid of your worries, and perform our work. Continue to pray, and to have faith in us. You will not be disappointed in what we promise. Our promises will be fulfilled in a very short time.
I have many messages yet to write. So desire that you get in condition to receive them properly. Besides myself, there are many other spirits who want to write upon these Truths, that are so important that the World should know. So, if you continue to pursue the course that you followed today, you will find a wonderful improvement in your condition of soul, mind, and spirit qualities. We will be able to form the required rapport that is necessary to our properly communicating.
I will not write more tonight.
In closing, I advise that you continue to pray, with all the longings of your soul, and to believe, with all the strength of your mind. You will develop, to a surprising degree in your soul qualities and perceptions. Also, in your physical condition and mental strength.
I will say goodnight.
Your brother and friend, Jesus.
July 9th, 1917
I am here, your own true and loving Helen.
Yes, it is Helen. I will write only a few lines, as I see that you are feeling so much better physically and Spiritually. I think it best that you go to bed early tonight.
I am so glad that you do not feel so worried as you did. And, that you can understand that prayer helps so much to get rid of the worries, while it may not remove the immediate cause thereof. As you are helped, you are strengthened, the better fitted to deal with the causes, and overcome them.
So my own dear Ned, continue to pray. Try to have faith in us. You will realize, so wonderfully, the response to your prayers, the fulfillment of your hopes, and freedom from your causes of worry.
Goodnight, your own True and Loving Helen.
July 11th, 1917
I am here. St. John.
I heard your prayer. I know that this Divine Love is flowing into your soul, and that now you have a great abundance of its possession, of which you are conscious. It will never fail you when you pray in earnestness and with the real longings for its coming. It is always ready to respond to your aspirations, to make you feel its Presence, and the happiness that comes with it.
I, as you know, am your special friend, in my work of helping to develop your soul. Whenever you pray to the Father as you have just prayed, I come to you with my Love and influence, to help open up your soul to the inflowing of this Divine Love. Have Faith. You will have the Certainty of the Presence of the Divine Love, and that it is yours, seeking to come into your soul in greater and more abundance.
You are Blessed, in that you have the Knowledge of the existence of this Divine Love, and that it may be yours, if you so will it to be, and pray with the True longings of your soul's desires. You cannot doubt the Truth of what I write. As in the ordinary things of Life, there is nothing so convincing as personal experience. Your experience is such, that there has been no room for doubt. So, if you would keep the Consciousness of the Presence of this Divine Love continually alive, pray, and pray whenever the opportunity presents itself. By this, I do not mean that you shall wait for a time when you are not engaged in your business affairs, but at moments, when the mind may be free, even if only for a moment, from these business affairs. The longings, if exercised only for a moment, will bring their results. God's Ear is always open, and ready, to cause the responses to such longings.
One moment of True soul felt longings, is more effective than hours of prayer where these longings are not present. The prayers of the lip, or of habit, arise no higher than the escaping breath, and do not cause the Divine Love to respond, and flow into the soul. Remember this. Then realize how futile are all the prayers of preachers and ostensible worshipers, when the soul's longings and desires are not present.
Only soul can call to Soul. Love responds only when such soul calls. The mere desires of the mind, if I may so express my meaning, do not in the least affect the soul. As mind can operate only on mind, there cannot possibly be any activity of the soul's faculties, when only mind is in operation. Hence, you will see, that all the worship that comes merely from the mind, will not effectuate the working of the Divine Love, or bring into operation the Spirit's Work.
I write this to further encourage you. Also, to make plain the necessity for the True Prayer. John.
July 22nd, 1917
I am here, St. Luke, writer of the Third Gospel that was.
Well, I desire to write a few lines on the subject contained in the book, which you were reading tonight. I mean the book dealing with the "Creation and fall of human."
Well, the human who wrote the book is endeavoring to reconcile the Bible doctrine of the Creation and fall of human, with the scientists' doctrine of evolution. To show, that these two views of the subject are not antagonistic, and if properly understood, may be used, one to support the other. In this, he has not succeeded. Nor can he, for this reason, if there were no others, that human did not evolve from the beast, or lower animal. Was always human, the Creature of God, Perfect in their Creation, and wholly natural.
There was nothing of the supernatural about them. They never possessed any Nature of the superman, from which they fell, at the time of their disobedience. They have never been anything more, or less, than the Perfect Creation of their Maker! Although, they have degenerated in their qualities, and in the exercise of their will.
Evolution, or the doctrine of evolution, has its limitations. Its founder, or those who follow him, either wholly, or in a modified way, are not able to retrace this doctrine to the fall of human. Hence, when they attempt to pass beyond that stage, when human seemed to have been very degenerate, a product of the animal progenitors, they get into the field of speculation. Knowledge ceases to exist.
Human was not Created with any of the Divine Qualities, as the writer seems to think. Was made the merely Natural Human that you see now. Without the defilement of their soul qualities, which involves only the elimination of those things from their soul, that cause the departure from the (Perfect) Condition of their Creation. That is; when they were Created, they were in Perfect Harmony with the Will of God, and His Laws, when they shall be restored to that Harmony of Unity with these Laws (of Love and Harmony), they will then be in, what was theirs, before the fall.
So, the idea put forward by the author, that human was Created with something of the divine in them, which took them out from a kind of physical condition of imperfection, and that when they lost these "divine qualities", they fell into that imperfect condition, is all wrong. The Great Truth connected with human's Creation, is that human was Created Perfect! That, as regards their Order of Creation, or the qualities of their Moral, and physical Nature, there could be no progress. For the next step in progression would be the Divine.
Thus, you will see that they were so Wonderfully, and Perfectly Made, that they were only a little lower than the Angels. By "Angels", I mean the souls of humans, which have ceased to be incarnate, and have partaken of the Divine Love, and become a part, of the Father in His Divinity of Divine Love, not the mere souls in the Spirit World, which have only the development of their Moral Qualities (or Perfect Natural Love). Because these, whenever they have become Purified, and in Harmony with the Laws and the Will of God, are only humans, Perfected in their Natures and organisms, as they were at the time of Human's Creation.
I say, the Perfect Human possesses those qualities and attributes that were theirs at the time of their Creation. They cannot progress, or become greater, or other than, they were at the time of such Creation. They were made Perfect, as a Creation. Beyond "the Perfect" there can be nothing greater evolved from the qualities and faculties, one and all, that made them Perfect.
To progress, there must come into their (Created) Nature from without, the Divine Love, that, which will add to these qualities and faculties, which you may understand is no part, or method, of evolution.
When the First Parents fell, they lost that, which destroyed the Harmony of their existence with the Laws of God. Also, were deprived of the Great Potentiality of becoming Divine in their Natures of Love and Immortality, like unto the Father. As mere Created humans, they fell from Perfection. Not from divinity. Nor were they, by that fall, deprived of the possibility of living forever in the physical bodies. Because those bodies were made only for the purpose of enabling the souls to individualize themselves (at the time of the soul's incarnation). Thereafter die, and become dissolved into their derivative elements.
The physical body was never created to live forever. Humans were never Created to live on Earth forever. For a greater, and larger, World was provided for their Eternal Habitation, where things are Real, and only the Spiritual exist. The Earth is a mere image of the Realities of the Spirit World, and exists, only as the nursery for the individualizing of the soul. That you may not misconceive my meaning; remember the soul is the human, the ego. That when human fell, it was not the physical part of human that fell, except as it was influenced by the soul, but, it was the soul that fell. The "sentence of death" was not pronounced upon the physical, but upon the soul Potentialities (of longing for and receiving the Divine Love). Hence, you may see, that when human shall again become the Perfect Human (in condition), it will not be necessary that the physical body be restored.
Even if it were not contrary to the Physical Laws of the Universe, or, to speak more correctly, to the Laws controlling the Material Part of the Universe, that the material body of human be resurrected, and again be housed the soul, it would not be necessary. The soul has its spirit body, which manifests its individuality. There is no necessity for the resurrection of the physical body. There will be no such resurrection. God never does a useless thing.
As I say, human, has never ceased to be the Human of God's Creation. Although, they have become degenerate, defiled, and at one time in the history of their existence, devoluted, to that degree, where, save for the Essential (soul) Qualities of their Creation, they "appeared" to be lower than the brutes. They were always the Human of God's Creation, never an animal of the lower order. The scientists, in their geological search and research, in their finds of fossils and traces of ancient human, and in their biological theories, conclude; that human was of a lower degree of intelligence and manner of living. They may be justified in so concluding. Also, that they have gradually evolved from that condition and state, and draw apparent correct theories therefrom. Yet, when they attempt to go further, they enter only into the realm of speculation. Become lost in the darkness of mystery. They can rightly acclaim the evolution of human, from where they lose them in their retracing of that evolution, but can know nothing of their "devolution" anterior to that time. Hence, their speculations are without Foundation of Substance.
No, human has not evolved from the lower animal. Only from themselves when they reached the bottom of their fall. In this particular, the history, and experience of human is this; they were Created Perfect. They sinned. They fell from the Condition of their Created State. Their condition, at the bottom of their fall, was inferior, in some phases, to the brute animal. After long centuries, they commenced to rise from their base condition. Had made progress when the scientists by their discoveries, found evidence of their then condition. Since then, they have been the subject of their "evolution." The scientists, and all humankind, must know, that all during these centuries of descent and ascent, human was always human, the Greatest Creation of God. And, the most fallen.
Well, I have written enough for tonight. As I was with you today, as you were reading, and saw the misconceptions of the writer of the book, as well as those of the scientists, to whom he referred, I thought it advisable to write the few incompleted Truths about the subject.
I will soon come and write.
So with my Love and blessings, I will say goodnight.
Your brother in Christ, Luke.
August 28th, 1917
I am here.
I want to say a word to my friend, as I have not written for a long time.
I heard what was said, in reference to protection being afforded Mr. Morgan when the Broker calls upon him to write. I desire to say that I will be present. The priests will not have any opportunity to interfere. Because I am stronger than any of these fellows of the popes. I will not hesitate to use my power. Not that I do not want them to receive the benefit that so many of them have received in their communications with Mr. Morgan, but I realize the importance of what you are attempting to do. The priests will have to wait a while in order to make their assaults.
I am progressing. It seems to me, that I am a different spirit altogether from what I was when I first came in contact, consciously with you. And had my eyes and soul opened to the Truth. I cannot tell you how much I am benefitted by the messages I hear you read and discuss with your friends. Also, by the explanation of the Truth that Mr. Morgan so often gives to the spirits who come to dissuade him from doing his work.
It may seem strange to you that we are benefitted by what you mortals may say as to the Truths of the Spirit World. You may naturally suppose that we, being here in the Spirit World, would more easily learn these Truths from the Higher Spirits, than learn the same from you. The fact is; that these Higher Spirits do not often come into our Plane, and disclose these Truths, except, when they come and communicate with you. Of course, we have spirits here who teach us Truths. These Truths, are not of so comprehensive a Nature as what you receive. We are taught, only as we progress, and are fitted to receive the next lesson in advance, as you might say. This may not appeal to your reasoning in such matters, but it is a Truth.
You are having Revealed to you, a Wonderful Plan of God for the Salvation of Human. To be taught to humans, whether their conditions are such as to enable them to fully grasp the Great Significance of the Truths, or not. We are taught that Plan, only as we progress. That Truth, or part of the Truth, is sufficient for us, as we are, at the time, capable of applying, or making it our own.
I merely thought that you would like to know just what the Truth is, in reference to our being taught, and the manner in which we are taught by these spirits, whose work it is to open up to us the Truths that may be embraced by us. So you see, we can learn of things by listening to your messages. The instructions that you, your friend, and my friend, may give us, where we cannot learn from our Spirit Teachers.
I am with him a great deal. I am his friend and protector, so far as in my power, as I promised to be.
I could not be otherwise. He must not forget, that among all the spirits here who Love him, he has no more devoted friend than Sam Ford.
September 2nd, 1917
I am here, Mrs. Mitchell.
Let me say only a word.
I was present at church this morning and heard my son's sermon. I was so happy that he preached of the Divine Love of the Father, and the work of the Holy Spirit. It made me think that the Truths of God's Divine Love, and human's Redemption, are becoming a part of his soul's knowledge.
There were many spirits present. Many were affected by the sermon. Turned their thoughts to this Divine Love the Father that had never before been preached to them.
I have great hope that my son will receive the Truths that have been revealed to you in their fullness. Thereby, receive to a greater degree, this Transformation of his soul into the Very Essence of the Father.
I thank you for your kindness, and will not write more. So with my Love, I will say goodnight.
Your sister in Christ, (Mrs. Mitchell) Mother of Rev. Mitchell, Methodist.
September 2nd, 1917
I am here, your own true and loving, Helen.
Well dear, you have received a message from the preacher's mother (Mrs Mitchell), who was so anxious to write. She is very happy, and believes that her son will have an Awakening to the Truth, and put aside his dogmatic beliefs.
I was with you at church, and was very happy, because I saw that you were happy. The Master was there, as you realized in all his Love and soothing influence, and was pleased that the preacher delivered the sermon as he did. Many of the audience were affected by what was said. Their souls responded to the Truths told them by the preacher. They experienced a feeling of Love that made them happy.
I see that you are sleepy. I will not write more. Only continue to think of these Spiritual Things, and pray to the Father. You will find the Divine Love increasing more and more in your soul.
So Love me, and believe that I Love you. Goodnight, my dear one.
Your own True and Loving Helen.
September 16th, 1917
I am here, your own true and loving Helen.
Well, dear, the Master has written you an important message. I know it will help you in your conception of what and how you shall work.
He was in great earnestness when he wrote. We all felt that he was speaking with authority and Knowledge that only he possesses. So keep in mind what he has said. Try to follow his instructions.
So, goodnight.
Your own True and Loving Helen.
September 17th, 1917
I am here, Jesus.
I come as I promised. I desire to write on a subject that requires that I should have absolute control of your brain and hand. Tonight, I see that you are not just in the condition necessary. So I will not write on the subject as I intended. Will postpone the same until later.
I will say a few words that may be of interest to you, and your friend, whose conversation tonight I listened to, and saw what was in both your minds and hearts.
I realize that you both appreciate the importance of the work that is set before you. That you have arrived at that condition of Faith, which causes you to forego all interest in material things, so far as they may benefit you personally. It is well that you are in this state of feeling, and appreciation of the work. This work is of such an exclusive Nature, that in order to be performed, in the way that we desire, and which is necessary that the Truths, which you receive, shall be given to the World, all thoughts of the things that ordinarily belong to the mere human living must be eliminated and turned aside.
These Truths, while when understood, and applied, by the individual, will not render that individual less qualified to perform the duties of Life, on the contrary, will increase these qualifications, and must be so taught. Yet, in the case of you who are to make and teach these Truths, your interest in the World must be forgotten, or submerged, in these Higher Interests. In other words, while you are in the World, you must not be of the World. As I taught my disciples when on Earth.
Of course, while you are mortals, you will have to have these things that are necessary to sustain Life, health, and comfort. Your work does not require that you shall make sacrifices of these things, but that you shall have the comforts that are necessary to your enjoying the merely physical Life. This you must understand.
As you have said, the work will be hard; the difficulties that you shall encounter will be great. You will be able to do the work, and overcome the difficulties. I desire to tell you here, that never in all the History of Humankind, has any work had behind it the power and influence of the High Spirits of the Spirit World, as your work will have. Your Faith must be such that no possibility of failure will be permitted to enter into your conception of success.
The World is now ready for these Truths. Human's souls have been, and will be, more opened to the possibility, and necessity, of seeking for, and obtaining, Things Spiritual, than ever before. Humankind will, and now does, realize that human, them self, notwithstanding the teachings of some of the writers that human is of the divine and of himself capable of self-regeneration, is not able to become brothers in Truth and Reality. That the brotherhood of human, is a mere dream, when based upon the power of human, because of any qualities of goodness, or of the divine, that they may be "supposed" to possess.
Time is passing. The great conflict (WWI) that has deluged the Mortal World with bloodshed, hatred, and vengeance, will soon come to an end. Humans will wander in confusion, and seek that, which may bring them into unison and brotherly kindness. Also, into a greater knowledge of the World unknown to them, the hereafter. Faith will fail to satisfy. Their souls will long for the Spiritual Food that will have in it, the qualities of certainty and knowledge.
They will think in their hearts. In many instances, declare that the christian faith, as has been taught them by the churches, does not satisfy. The creeds and dogmas of the churches have been failures, and will cry out for something that will fill their souls with Spiritual Food of Truth and Salvation.
So, we must work, and be prepared to give to humankind the Truth and this food, a knowledge of the Only Way to the Father's Divine Love, and of what the possession of this Divine Love in the souls of humans will mean to them.
I feel that you are both in earnest in your desire to do the work, that all opportunities will be embraced, and that when you are free to give your whole time to the work, you will permit nothing to intervene. This, you will do for the Good of Humanity, without thought of reward. Such should be your desires. Nevertheless, your reward will be great, not in the way of an independent payment, but as an acquisition, necessarily growing out of the Very Nature of the work that you will do. As you help others to learn the Truth, and gain the possession of this Great Divine Love of the Father, your own souls will obtain more of the Divine Love. With that increased possession, will come increased happiness, and a closer At-Onement with the Father. This, of course, means rewards beyond all conception of mortals, or spirits, who have not arrived at the degree of possession of this Divine Love that will be yours.
So, as I said in the beginning, first place yourselves in that condition, which will enable you to free yourself from all Worldly cares. Consecrate your body, mind, and soul, to this great work. Then what follows will be without interference of Worldly Things.
I am glad that I could write you in this way tonight. I know it will assist you in pursuing the best way to accomplish the mission that has been given you, which at this time, no other can take from you. You have been selected for the work. We feel that no mistake has been made. So, believe in us. Pray to the Father, with all the earnestness of your souls. You will find that, which we have told you to be the Greatest Thing in All the Universe: the Divine Love, the Divine Nature, and Immortality, of the Father.
I will not write more tonight. With my Love, and the Blessings of the Father, will say goodnight.
Your brother and friend, Jesus.
September 27th, 1917
I am here, John the Baptist.
I merely wish to say that your condition tonight is not such as to permit the High Spirits to communicate to you the important Spiritual Truths, which they are waiting to write, and that you will receive communications from your friends of the Spirit World, upon matters more personal.
We have so many messages to communicate that we find the time is hardly long enough in which to do so. We earnestly hope that you will soon get in condition to receive our messages. Let your mind turn more to the Truths, which have been Revealed to you, and to the Divine Love of the Father. You will soon find yourself in a better condition.
So, wishing that you will take my advice, I will say goodnight.
Your brother in Christ, John the Baptist.
September 29th, 1917
I am here, John C. Carlisle.
Well my friend, I have not written you for sometime. Not because I did not desire to do so, but because I have not had the opportunity. I have been present many times when other spirits were here writing you. I have also been present when you and your friends have talked about Spiritual Things, and have listened with very close attention, and have derived much benefit from thinking of what you have declared to be the Truths of the Spiritual Kingdom.
As a consequence, I have progressed very much. I am now in considerable Light, and have received into my soul, sufficient of this Divine Love that you talk of, to be convinced that it is a Wonderful Redeeming Influence from the darkness and suffering that I, and spirits like, me found ourselves in when we came to the Spirit World. I know that prayer is a thing that brings its response. I am praying with all my soul. But it is hard to make a complete surrender of my beliefs, and to forget the deeds of my Life that cling to me, with such very great tenacity. While, as you have said in your conversations, and as some of the bright spirits tell me, the True Longings of the soul (for the Divine Love) will bring to my soul this Divine Love. Yet, I find it difficult to get these longings, so that they are not mingled with the thoughts of Earthly things, that came with me when I became a spirit. As you know, when on Earth, I accumulated in my memory, a large and varied amount of evil and sin. When I became a spirit, I found it very natural that these memories should be with me, and control my thoughts and desires as they did on Earth. In fact, they seemed to get rid of some member of my body without injuring the body.
So you will see, it is not so easy to have these longings that I speak of. Even if a spirit makes up their mind and will to have the longings, they cannot always succeed. This has been my experience. I have suffered so very much in consequence of this inability to direct my will to these longings. Intellectually, I understand that this is necessary, and that the longings, when earnestly possessed, will bring relief, and surcease from these sufferings, but this intellectual knowledge. I find is not sufficient. The knowledge does not bring the power to will. The will is controlled by appetites and desires. I know that I must try to control these appetites and desires, but oh, how hard is the task!
It is very foolish for humans to suppose that they can cultivate and exercise these desires and appetites, until a time convenient to them, and then by the mere wish, control these desires, and have these longings and aspirations come to them, so that the help that comes in response to prayer will be theirs. No, they will find themselves greatly disappointed. They will realize that these desires, and the results of their indulgences, will bind them in bands of iron, that a mere intellectual attempt to sever, will not prove efficacious. The spirits, who all have this Divine Love, of which they tell me, teach me that this Divine Love is sufficient to bring happiness to me. That it will come in response to earnest prayer. They do not tell me, that by the sudden exercise of my will I can obtain these True Longings. If they should so teach, I could hardly believe them. I have had such a will, and have attempted to pray, and as I think, wanted to be in all earnestness. Still, the longings would not come, free from the memories of my sinful Life on Earth. I find, that I have to continue to pray, in order to progress the little that I have progressed.
I have no doubt that the Divine Love is waiting for me. That I will be enabled to obtain it by the proper condition of my longings. The trouble is, to get the proper longings. It is not so easy to get rid of the effects of evil deeds and evil thoughts on Earth. The mere praying with the mind, will not help, except such prayers become merged into the prayers of True Longings (of the soul).
Well, I realize all this in my own experience. I am praying and longing. Sometimes I feel the True Longings. Then comes the response. I progress just that much. I mean, in proportion to the strength of these True Longings.
When humans believe, that by merely saying that they believe on Jesus Christ, or by asking forgiveness of the priests, and when absolved, believe that they have done all that is necessary, they are mistaken. If they rest in that contentment, they will find themselves, as I was, when they come to Spirit Life. No belief of this kind, or absolution by the priests, will put them in such condition of memory, or soul, as will enable them to have these longings, of which I speak.
You may think that I am quite a preacher. I am very ignorant of the bulk of the Spiritual Truth. What I have said, is the result of my own experience. Well, I will not write more now, except to thank you and your friends for the opportunities that I have enjoyed, in listening to your conversation on Spiritual Matters. I will not cease to come to you, even though I may not be able to write. So with my Love, and hope that you will pray for me, I am, your friend well-wisher. Goodnight.
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