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1918 January - April
Messages from Jesus and Celestials on Divine Love 1918 January - April
January 4th, 1918
I am here, John.
I desire to write for a short time tonight upon a subject that I consider important, and you may consider interesting.
As you may know, it has been sometime since I wrote anything of a formal character. I regret very much, that so much time has gone by without my being able to communicate some of the Spiritual Truths. Also, regret that your condition has been such, that I was unable to make the rapport with you that is necessary in order that I may deliver to you these Messages of the nature mentioned.
I have explained to you, in a former recent letter, in a brief way, the Law of Communication and Rapport. That Law, if you will try to understand it, will enable you to comprehend the reason why we have not been able to communicate these Higher Truths.
It may seem to you that if we control your brain, and not use, or transmit, your thoughts, but only the thoughts, which come from our minds, it would be immaterial what the Nature of our thoughts might be. That, as your brain is used by us as a mere instrument, we having possession of your brain, would have the power to write anything we might desire. Upon a mere superficial glance at the assertion, it could be reasonably supposed to be True.
As we have told you before, Rapport, and our ability to use your brain, are governed by Laws. One of these Laws is; that a High Thought cannot be transmitted through a human brain, which is not in the condition that qualifies it to receive the thought. Just as the brain, in matter pertaining to mere material knowledge, cannot receive a conception, or comprehension, of some intellectual Truth, with which it has not had acquaintance, and transmit it. A brain cannot be used by the mind of the human to make known, or present, a problem in geometry, when that brain has never been used by the mind to acquire an acquaintance with, or knowledge of, the Principles of geometry. This is an incomplete analogy, but it may serve to illustrate what I mean.
In the conception by the human mind of a Truth, material, or Spiritual, the brain must be used in order to manifest, or make known, that conception. This is absolutely True where the idea, or thought, originates in the mind of the human who is using their own brain to formulate, or manifest, that idea, or thought. The mind may have the thought, or knowledge, of some branch of learning. Yet, when it has never used the brain to put that thought, or knowledge, into concrete form, the brain cannot manifest, or transmit it. This Law applies specifically to the capabilities of the brain, where it is attempted to be used, or controlled, by the mind of the human who owns the brain. From this, you will see that it is possible for the human mind to have thought, and knowledge, of things, which it cannot use the brain to express.
In many of your material things of Life, such as great invention, the knowledge of these inventions is in the mind, it may be, for a long time, before it is formulated, and expressed, by the brain. Sometimes it never gets through the brain at all. The mind, and the brain, are not one and equivalent things. The one is the operator. The other is the thing used to operate with. So that the possessions of the operator may become manifested to others.
This Law, applying to, and controlling, the relationship of the mind and brain possessed by the same human, does not so absolutely apply to, and control, the relationship of mind and brain, where the mind is that of a spirit, and the brain that of a mortal. In such case, the mind may take such complete control of the brain, that the former's manifestations are not governed, or limited, by the special experiences, or want of experiences, which the brain may have had, in its use by the mind of the mortal, along specific lines of expression, or manifestation. Thus, as you may know, and as it has been demonstrated, by the work and experience of many human mediums, the minds of spirits have controlled the brains of these mediums, so that such brains have transmitted from these spirits expressions of various kinds of languages, and mathematical Truths, with which such brains never have had any acquaintance, or become exercised in expressing.
In these instances, the brain is used merely in the sphere of intellect. The spirit, who takes possession of that brain and uses it to express, and make known, the knowledge of the spirit's mind, is doing no different thing, in essentials, to what the human mind controlling its own brain could have done, had the brain been exercised in those directions. The capacity of the brain, whether exercised, or not, by the human mind controlling its own brain, limits the power of the spirit to control, in the manner, and for the purpose, mentioned.
This Law has a further phase. That is, the greater the general experience of the brain in its exercise by the human mind, the more perfectly can the spirit mind control it. All this is dependent upon facts, which I cannot linger here to explain, such as the mediumistic qualities and susceptibilities of the human, whose brain is attempted to be controlled by the spirit.
The same Laws apply to the disclosure of Truth, and Principles along the Moral planes. A spirit cannot possibly use the brain of a mortal to convey, or transmit, through it, Moral Precepts, or Truths, that that brain is not capable of receiving. I do not mean by this, that the brain must have had any acquaintance with any, or many, particular Moral Truths, or must have been used by the human for the purpose of receiving, or imparting, these Moral Precepts. It must be, in its essential capacity, potentially able to transmit and receive these Truths. So, the capacity of the brain to receive and transmit these Moral Truths, limits the control of the spirit over the brain to express through it, these Moral Truths.
The rapport of the spirit with the human is determined by the development of the brain, and the Moral Qualities of the human, at the time, the rapport is attempted to be made. This means, the actual development of these conditions, not what they may appear to be to other humans, or even to the individual them self. This development, determines to a large extent, the power of the spirit to use the brain to disclose the Truths, either intellectual, or Moral.
A medium can receive only such Truths as their condition, according to the Nature of the Truths, is susceptible to the forming of a rapport by the spirit. The possibility of rapport and the kind thereof, lie at the foundation of mediumship. Determines, and limits, the power of the spirit to convey its thoughts, and the capacity of the mortal to receive them.
When the medium is in a certain condition of development, the spirit writing can form the rapport, according as that condition Harmonizes with the condition of the spirit. It is impossible, unless the Harmony exists, for the spirit to write these things, which require a greater degree of development, than the medium, at the time, possesses. Hence, you will, in a way, understand why so few of the Higher Spiritual Truths have ever been delivered to the World through the mediumship of any mortal, who has been possessed of gifts of either automatic writing, as it is called, clairvoyance, or inspirational powers.
As to those Truths, which did not require a Higher Degree of Development than was possessed by the medium, there arose no difficulty in transmitting the same. Many mediums have been very successful in receiving the Truth, suited to their condition. This fact, and Law, also, will explain to you why the same spirit may communicate through several mediums, yet the communications be of a dissimilar character. That is, the communications through one medium contain higher or lower character of Truth, than those transmitted through some other medium. With the result, that those mortals who have heard, or read, these different communications, especially when critical, have been prone to believe that the same spirit was not making both communications. This is not a just conclusion. For while the spirit was in the same condition, possessing the same knowledge, at the time, of both communications, yet the mediums, because of their difference in development, were unable to receive the same character of messages.
You may search the whole History of Spirit Communications and of Mediumship. You will not find any messages, of the character of those that have been transmitted through you. For the reasons that I have stated.
Swedenborg was the last, and nearer perfect instrument, for receiving these Higher Truths. Yet he, because of his want of Soul Development, and his being bound to a more or less extent by his orthodox beliefs, and scientific knowledge, that caused him to coordinate, and fit in, these Truths, with his ideas of correspondence, and such like conceptions, was a failure. Could not be successfully used to transmit these Higher Truths, which we have been communicating through you. After him, other gifted, and in some respects, successful mediums, were used by spirits of the Higher Knowledge and Progression to convey Truths. But their conditions were such, that under the workings of the Laws governing Rapport, these mediums could receive only those Truths, which their conditions of development permitted them to receive. The workings of this limitation was not dependent upon the condition and ability of the spirits to impart these Higher Truths, but upon the capacity of the mediums to receive them.
You, yourself, have had experience as to how this Law works, and controls communication and rapport. As you know, it has been a long time since you were able to receive any spirit Messages of these Higher Truths. Although, the spirits have been present with you many times, ready and anxious to make the rapport, and deliver their messages. You have been willing, intellectually, to receive them. But because of your condition, or want of condition, the spirits could not deliver them. Were compelled to wait, until you get into the necessary condition. From all this, you will comprehend why so very few messages containing High Spiritual Truths, or even Moral Truths, come through mediums. The mediums, mostly, are so developed, that they can receive only messages dealing with the material affairs of Life. Which kinds of messages, I am compelled to, and can truthfully, say, are those that are largely desired by the mortals seeking information from the Spirit World.
Again, in your reading of Spiritual Literature, you may have observed the great diversity of opinions of spirits, upon the same subject, sometimes, contradictory opinions. Thus causing doubt on the part of mortals, as to what are the facts, existing in the Spirit World, as to the subject of inquiry. Well this is due very largely to the condition of the mediums. Also, to the knowledge of the spirits who attempt to communicate. For the knowledge of spirits is limited by the extent of their progress, and development.
Many spirits believe that what they have learned is True. So give authoritative expression to the facts of their knowledge. Often believe what they know, is all that may be known, of the subject on which they communicate. These are mostly honest in their beliefs, and truthful, as they think, in their messages. Thus, it is well for mortals to understand that everything written, or spoken, by spirits, at all times, is not to be accepted as the "finality of Truth". On the other hand, apparently contradictory statements should not be taken as fraudulent, merely because they are contradictory. A spirit, with greater knowledge, using a medium in Harmony with itself, can convey to humans the more exact and greater extent of Truth, than can a spirit with less knowledge and development, using a medium in Harmony with itself.
Now, from what I have written, it is apparent that in order to get the Greater Truth, and more extended knowledge of the Spirit World, mediums should make the effort to obtain larger, and more intensive development of their Spiritual Natures, as well as of their intellectual capacities. This acquirement is absolutely necessary to the reception of the Higher Truths, which are so Vital to Humankind.
So, you see, communication and rapport depend upon the condition of both spirits, and mortals, working in Unison. Though more, I may say, upon the condition of the mortal. For if, the medium is in the proper state of development, there being always many spirits present with that medium, in condition and readiness, a rapport can be made.
The Master is here tonight, and has heard my communication. Unites with me in saying, have Faith. Seek, with all your soul for this Divine Love.
Believe that I am your special Angel friend.
Your brother in Christ, John.
January 6th, 1918
I am here, Jesus.
Well my brother, I am glad to tell you that your communion with The Father tonight has been responded to. His Divine Love has inflowed into your soul, in great abundance. His Holy Spirit has been bringing the Divine Love in wonderful abundance. Your soul is now filled with it. The Influence of this Great Love is working in your soul. You realize its Presence. If you will meditate, long for, and pray to The Father, as you have tonight, your soul will soon, be so filled with this Divine Love, that you will receive the Knowledge, that you have a near At-Onement with Him. You will be Conscious of the possession, of a part of His Divinity, of which we have written you. The Pentecostal Shower will come to you, as it did to my disciples in the days that followed my departing from them. I will be with you also, just as I was with them. Power, and Essence Divine, will be Bestowed upon you, so that you will be able to display the marvelous Presence of this Divine Love, just as they were able. So you must pray and long. Your experience tonight has given you some foretaste of what will come to you. There is nothing, in all the World, that can take the place of this Divine Love, in its Power to draw you near to, and make you in At-Onement with The Father.
All beliefs and faiths, in any and every other thing, will not suffice. Sacrifice and sorrow on account of sin and vicarious sufferings, and mediators, will not work the Transformation. Because it is solely a conjunction between this Divine Love and your soul that is capable of bringing you into this relationship to The Father. The resultant Consciousness that you have partaken of, and possess, to some extent, His Divine Nature in Divine Love.
Now, you are in condition that makes my rapport with you complete. I have that possession of your brain that enables me to write as I may desire. I know that I could convey a message to you tonight, in a most satisfactory way. I will not do so. For I think it best to permit the rapport to become a little more intense. Thus, enable me to write a long message, without the probability of tiring you. As you know, these Messages of Deep Truths, such as the ones on the "Soul" and "God", necessarily cause me to draw very intensely on your brain power. Soon now, I will come, and commence to deliver my Messages. Will continue to do so, if our rapport can be maintained. It can be, if you will only meditate, and pray, as you have done tonight. I have been with you very much today, entering into your thoughts and endeavoring to influence the longings of your soul. I was with you at the Spiritualist's meeting. Sometime, I will write you in reference to the claims of the speaker, and the real facts as to how much of what she said was inspired, or as she claims, was spoken through her by a controlling spirit.
I now want you to think, more than ever, of the importance of your work, of the necessity for you putting all your energies and desires into the work. No one can conceive of what it means. Above all, you must realize its Great Importance, and the place that you occupy in carrying it to a successful issue.
I will be with you very often. I know that you will feel my presence and influence. As you do, turn all your thoughts to the Father's Divine Love. Let all your longings go to Him.
Tonight, I will not write more. I will soon write, as I have said. Have Faith. Know that you have been selected to do the work, and that upon you rests the responsibility that is upon no other human.
With my Love, and the Father's Blessings, I will say goodnight.
Your brother and friend, Jesus.
January 6th, 1918
I am here, Elizabeth.
Let me say a word. That is; that you are a very happy human just now. So you should be, for as the Master said, you have much of the Divine Love in your soul tonight. You may not fully realize this fact. The Influence, and effect, of its Presence, will manifest themselves. You will find coming to you that Wonderful Peace, of which the Master has told you.
For a moment think that there is nothing between you and the Father. That, as regards your longings, and His Divine Love, they are face to face. No mediator intervenes, or can intervene. Only the Father's Divine Love, and you, alone. Think of this and you will realize not only what a Wonderful Thing the Divine Love is, but what a wonderful thing your soul is that it can become so in nearness and in Divine Love with the Father.
This is the Only Way of becoming At-One with Him. Everything besides is inefficacious to bring about the Great Transformation, of which the Higher Spirits have written you. So many spirits are engaged in this Great Work, which is the Real Second Coming of Jesus, which means; the Second Coming of the Divine Love, Mercy, and Privilege of receiving the Divine Love. If you could only, for a moment, with your physical vision see those who are present, you would never doubt the work that you are to do, and the great responsibility that rests upon you. As you cannot, in this way, see, you must believe without seeing. Let no doubt of the fact enter into your Faith.
I thought that I must write this tonight, for we see your condition. Many are here with you praying to the Father for a Great Bestowal of His Divine Love upon you.
So consider what has been written you tonight. Meditate, and long for, and pray, the Father. You will be greatly Blessed.
With my Love, I will say goodnight.
Your sister in Christ, Elizabeth
Well, it has been so long since I heard or used the name that it was a little difficult to recall and formulate it. Names are of the things that we forget in a short time after being in our Celestial Homes, unless there is some special reason for recalling them.
January 6th, 1918
I am here, your own true and loving, Helen.
Well dear, I am very happy tonight, and that because of your condition of soul in the Father's Divine Love. You are nearer the Father than you have ever been. His Divine Love is now more shed abroad in your heart than ever before. The Master was so glad that you opened up your soul by your longings and meditation tonight.
Many of the holy spirits are here tonight, united with you in your prayers to the Father. The Divine Love was Bestowed in great abundance. How Blessed you are. How happy you should be for you have a realization of the Divine Love in your soul. I know the Master is also pleased that the rapport is now so perfect. You may expect a long message from him, and many of them. So do the other spirits rejoice now that they realize that soon they will be able to write. As the Master wrote you, meditate, long, and pray.
The spirit who wrote is one that I have never seen here before, that I am aware of. She is a most beautiful and radiant spirit. Has her home in the High Spheres of the Celestial Heavens. She says her name is Elizabeth. John tells me that she is the Elizabeth of the Bible, the cousin of Mary the mother of Jesus. She is filled with the Divine Love, and seemed so anxious to write you about the Father's Divine Love, and how close you are tonight to Him.
Well dear, I will not write more now. It is not best to do so, as you are in that condition when you can commune with the Father. I want you to let your thoughts go to Him, with all the longings that your soul is capable of. We will remain with you as you sit and meditate, and unite with you in your prayers.
So my dear, dear husband, Love the Father with all your soul tonight.
Goodnight, your own True and Loving Helen.
January 9th, 1918
I am here, Helen.
Well dear, I was with you tonight. I saw that you were not much benefitted by Billy Sunday's sermon. Of course, could not be, because the preacher said nothing to feed the hungry soul. He said some things, which were very good, in the way of showing men and women what they should do in order to make the Earth lives more happy. It will be well, if the hearers will heed and follow the advice. Nothing much was said to help the progress of the soul.
I saw that you were not in much sympathy with the methods and sayings of the preacher. Thought that there was too much hilarity, and not enough reverence present, as a meeting for the opening up of the soul and helping the development of those qualities that will lead to the Father's Divine Love, and the Celestial Heavens. Nevertheless, some things that he said will do good to some people.
You must not forget that the teachings of the Master were twofold. For those who were not in a condition to hear and understand his Higher Spiritual Truths, he preached those things, which if followed, would make them better men and women, cause them to progress in the development of their Natural Love. In this latter effort the preacher will do good. His work must not be undervalued. All humans are not alike in their conditions, intellectual, or Spiritual. Besides, here and there in his preaching's some Truths that he utters, may by its influence upon the hearts of his hearers, cause such hearers to think more deeply about Spiritual Things of the Higher Nature. In thinking, their souls may be opened up to the influence of the spirits who have the Divine Love in their souls. From which, may follow the longings of these hearers for this Divine Love of the Father.
Everything said that tends to cause a spirit to progress, towards either of the conditions of Love, must be encouraged. The The Father works in His Own Way. Frequently the Divine Love comes into a human's soul, and the human not being intellectually conscious of what the Divine Love is. Whoever is not against us in this work is, in a certain sense, with us. For the salvation of humans, is the objects of all our efforts. If we, or mortals, cannot awaken dead souls, to a Life in the Higher Condition, then we must work to bring them into that condition that will cause them to get into a state of Purified Natural Love. They are All the Children of God. If they will not become His Beloved Children in the Divine Sense, then He wants them to become the Pure Spirits that the First Parents were before the fall. So do not criticize, or look down upon, the work of this preacher, because he does not show humans the True Way to the Celestial Heavens. God looks at the heart. The intentions and the forms of expression used by the preacher are not important, except as they may have the effect of causing some soul to turn away from the Truths that the preacher may communicate.
All humans are not alike. The preaching's of the human, while they may, as some say, disgust some hearers, yet others will be affected by them and good will be done.
I write this because I see that you are inclined to criticize the preacher, and conclude that his teachings are not conducive to Spiritual Progress. Well, as you have been told, the large majority of humans, and spirits, will never become inhabitants of the Celestial Heavens. That is no reason why they should not be taught the way that will tend to purge them of their sins, so far as the Natural Love is concerned. Those who will not become Angels must become purified humans. Any, and everything, that will help them to become the latter, is approved by the Father, and is the object of His Favor.
Well dear, I will not write more now, as I see that you are cold, and must go to bed. Remember this, that while all humans will not become dwellers in the Spheres of the Soul in the Celestial Kingdom, yet they are brothers. The favored brothers, must try and help, in every way possible, the less favored brothers in obtaining that, which the Father has designed shall be their portion, even though they refuse, or neglect to seek for, and obtain the great goal of Divine Love and Immortality. So Love me. Pray to the Father for His Divine Love. With all the sincerity of your soul, thank Him that you have found "The Way" to His Great Love, and the mansions in the Divine Heavens.
What I have said to you, I say to Dr. Stone. I see that his thoughts are somewhat similar to your own, and that you both think that, unless a preacher can and does show The Way to the Celestial Kingdom, his work is not worthy of much consideration, and falls short of what he, as a saviour of souls should do. So, it is. All cannot teach the Higher Truths, for they do not know, or understand them. That fact must not cause you, or any, who know the Truths, to think that this work, when sincere and beneficial in its Moral Teachings, should not be taught.
I thought best to write this tonight, so that you may not get a wrong conception of what humans, who cannot teach the Great Truths, should, or should not, teach. All humans are not in that condition of soul and Divine Love. They should be taught The Way that will lead them to that heaven that will be their destiny.
I Love you my dear husband. I am closer to you in your thoughts, and do not want you to think wrong in anything, even though you think right in a great many, and the most important things.
Pray. Let your Faith increase. Believe that we are all with you, trying to direct you aright. One who knows is more anxious than any of us that your Knowledge of the Truths increase, and your experiences, arising from that Knowledge, bring to you with more convincing force, the Truths, that God is Love, and your God.
Goodnight, your own and True and Loving Helen.
January 12th, 1918
I am your grandmother.
Let me write a few lines tonight, as I have been listening to your conversation with some interest. I desire to say a few words that may encourage you both to press forward to the goal, which you have before you, a home in the Celestial Heavens and the acquirement of a Nature Divine, which only those who know The Way can obtain. By following The Way that the Master has so Lovingly taught you. You will not be disappointed in your efforts. When you long for the Divine Love, and receive portions of it, every experience of that kind will help you to get more, and create in you increasing desires.
You must not think that it is possible to obtain this Divine Love in its fullness, and then permit your longings to decrease, whenever you feel that the Divine Love has come to you in wonderful abundance. I must tell you that, we in the Celestial Heavens know and realize that there is always more beyond what we obtain. Even the Master prays to the Father for an increase of this Divine Love in his soul. If you could see the evidence of the Divine Love that he possesses, as we see it, you would probably think that nothing more could be obtained, or that there was any greater amount to be obtained. With us, this fact of the Endlessness of this Divine Love is that, which keeps us always striving. Consequently, happy, because in realizing our experiences in our progress, and how each successive stage of that progress has brought us greater and greater happiness, we know, I say know, that what is beyond must mean a greater happiness, and a nearer approach to the Father, Himself.
So I say, let not your strivings, in the slightest particular, decrease. You will find that increased happiness will be yours.
I will stop now. With my Love to you both, I will say goodnight.
Your Loving Grandmother, Ann Rollins.
January 12th, 1918
I am here, Mary.
Well, I must say a word because I have the opportunity. I am just now like the old lady who never missed a wedding when she had the slightest chance of being present. I come with Love. While I know my sweetheart appreciates gratitude, yet, I know also that Love is a greater thing to him. Especially Soulmate Love, which in all the heavens and earth, I am the only one that can have it for him. Isn't this a glorious thing? No matter how many wives he may have, none of them can be his soulmate. No matter how many beautiful and attractive spirits he may meet when he comes over, none of them can become his soulmate. Only little me. When he thinks, he will realize that we are Eternally United for better or for worse. But there will be no worse.
Well you see I am full of Love tonight, and cannot help writing about it. I know that you will not think I cannot write of anything else, for I have written of other things. I must confess that I would rather write of Love, except when I can tell him of the Greater Love, and thereby help him towards the acquirement of that Divine Love.
I heard him speak of his brother. I am glad that I can tell him that he is now not in the darkness that was his a short time ago. How could he remain in the condition very long, when it is realized what a mother that brother has in the Spirit World? With the Love she gives to him, as she visits him, and tries to show him The Way to Light and Truth. She will have to come herself and write of her experience in inducing that son to believe in, trust her, and follow her advice. She says she will do so, sometime.
I am very happy, and find that this Love of which his father speaks, is growing in my soul all the time. With its increase, my soulmate Love is growing also.
I will not write more now, as there are others who desire to write. Helen says that I had better let the Doctor imagine what the rest of my Love may mean, for possibly his imagination can cause him to enjoy the Love, more than if I attempt to tell him of it. So with my Love, I will say goodnight, and God Bless him with a Divine Love that has no ending, and is never absent from him when he longs for it.
Goodnight, Mary.
January 22, 1918
I am here, Frederick, the father.
Let me write a line. I have heard what Bismarck said. I fully agree with him in his predictions as to the ending of the war. While it is not in accord with what would be my desire as a German when on Earth, yet it will prove to the great liberator of the Germans as individuals, and as a nation. The government of humans, are intended by the powers that they have in thought, the best interests of humankind, to be the means by which the greatest good may be bestowed upon the people, individually and as a whole. The government, which is founded upon the divine right of any one human, or family, to rule, is not best suited, for either the progress of the nation, or of the individuals that comprise that nation. Hence, I say, that the ending of the German monarchy and dethronement of the Kaiser and his family, and all who make claim any right to govern humans, will work out for the people of Germany, individually and as a nation the great good, justice, and freedom, to which all the Children of God on Earth are entitled.
Of course, when I lived on Earth, I did not look on these things from the viewpoint that I now see is the only correct one to assume. I was a monarch, and believed in the divine obligations of the people to be ruled. Hence, were I on Earth now, I might believe that the Empire of Germany should be maintained under all circumstances. Now, I am a spirit, and realize the hollowness and untruth of all such ideas. In sight of God, and in the Workings of His Unchangeable Laws, no one human, is by birth, or nation, better and entitled to any greater rights than any other human. Every Emperor, King, and nobleman of Earth will, when he comes to the Spirit Life, sooner or later, realize this fact. In the case of some, the conviction will come as it may be said, with a vengeance.
It will do no good to write of the great misery and distress that now exists in Germany. Of how the cruel masters of the people are compelling them to submit to all this misery. My writing would not lessen this condition one iota. I will say, that the end of all this horrible nightmare is in sight. Peace and happiness will come to the people. Though, in the meantime, many of these people will have become spirits. Among them will be the Kaiser, and many of his advisers and sustainers in his unholy ambitions. As a human father, it would be distressing for me to write in this, because then I would be controlled by my natural affections, and solicitation for my children. Having become a spirit, with enlarged and more truthful view of the relationship of mortals, and of the importance of each individual soul, while I may still maintain the affection for my children, yet I can see, and know, that the greatest good to the people of Germany will come when the ruler of the Empire shall cease. Suffering and death must follow. Out of them, will rise peace, happiness, and a deeper feeling of the people in their relationship to God. I will only say further, that the end is here.
Yes, very soon. The great sacrifice of humans, peace, and things material will cease.
I will not write more. Goodnight, your friend, Frederick, the father of the wounded nation. (William).
January 27th, 1918
I am here, Elias.
I have not written you for a long time. Tonight, I desire to say a few words, those in reference to your work, and the attitude that you have assumed towards it.
It has been a long time since you have received any formal messages from the High Spirits. This loss of time, means more to the accomplishment of the design to inform the World of the Spiritual Truths that are so important to the people, than you probably realize. As has been told you more than once, this delay has been caused by your condition of apparent indifference, and failure to place yourself in the condition of soul that is necessary to enable the spirits to make the required rapport.
You should think more seriously of what this means. How much on you, rests this great responsibility. Of the further fact, that without your cooperation we cannot make the rapport. As a consequence, these messages cannot be delivered. I know that in a way, I may say intellectually, you are willing and ready, as you think, to receive these messages, and that if you are not in condition, you do not exactly understand the reason, and do not know how to remedy the difficulty. In all this, you are mistaken. It is not merely a matter of having the inclination, and intellectual assent, to do the work, but further, the proper condition of your soul's longings is required. This will not come to you by a mere acquiescence, and willingness to do the work, but an active exercise of the soul's longings is called for. You must make the effort to obtain these longings, so that your soul may receive more of the Divine Love.
In messages, such as I speak of, the Divine Love in the soul is the important, and vital, factor in your condition. You must make greater efforts to get these longings, and this Divine Love, so that there will come to you the Soul Development that will enable the Higher Spirits to make the rapport. Well, there is only one way in which you can obtain this Soul Development. That is, by turning your thoughts to the Father, and His Divine Love, until they shall develop into deep, sincere longings of the soul. With these longings, you should pray with all the earnestness of your Nature for the inflowing of this Divine Love. If you will do this, the longings will come, also, the Divine Love. Then, you will find that your desires will go out to the spirits for communication with them. This is the only way in which you can overcome the difficulties that now prevent the writings. I hope you will think of what I have written, and do as I advise.
I have a message that I desire very much to communicate. Besides me, there are numbers of other spirits, with similar desires. The most important messages to be delivered, are those of the Master. He is anxious to write.
I will not write more now. Goodnight, and God Bless you.
Your brother in Christ, Elias.
January 27th, 1918
I am here, John.
No, I cannot write tonight as I expected. I am disappointed that you are not in condition for me to make the rapport. It seems that you are not inclined to receive my messages, as you were at one time, although you say that you are ready to receive the writings. Your mere intellectual willingness is not sufficient. My messages are those, which do not come from the human intellect, but from the intellect of the soul. In order that they may be received, it is necessary that your soul shall be, in some degree, in Harmony with mine. I could easily write you of things of the material, or even of the Spirit Heavens, but it is impossible for me to use your brain to convey these Spiritual Soul Truths, unless your soul is developed into a Harmony with mine.
To explain this, was the object of my unfinished message. As I desired to explain, the Laws controlling the Communication and Rapport of the Celestial Spirits with the mortal. Your soul not having the required condition, I was unable to finish my message. I have written you before on this subject. All that I can say now is, think of the importance of this matter, and the responsibility resting upon you. Remember the advice of Elias, and follow it. As soon as you are in condition, I will come and write.
Goodnight.
Your brother in Christ, John.
January 27th, 1918
I am here, Helen.
Well, dear, I see that you are not in condition to write much tonight. I am sorry for it, as I desired very much to write. I have heard what Elias and John said. I can only join with them in the advice that they gave. I do so hope that you will follow that advice, and soon get in condition that will enable the communications to be received.
I know that you do not feel like your usual self, and you do not exactly understand the reason. If you will think of what they told you, you will soon realize the cause, and will be able to get rid of it.
Think of these things. Keep up your courage. Have Faith in the future, what we have told and promised you.
I will not write more now.
Love me. Believe that I Love you. I am with you so very much, trying to help you.
Goodnight.
Your own True Loving Helen.
January 29, 1918
I am here, Mary Kennedy.
Well, my dear, I mean Leslie. You may think that I am a simple little English girl, without having any knowledge of what the wise humans of Earth call psychology. Yet I know more about the soul than the scientist, as he is known on Earth. For I know that my soul is Immortal. Not only that, but the reason why it is so. How small a thing is the human mind. Even of the most learned, as compared to the mind of a spirit who has received the Great Love of the Father in their soul, and realizes that it is a part of the Very Essence of the Father's Being.
I know that you would rather have your Mary be an Angel of the Celestial Heavens, than to be one of the wisest of the wise in the Spiritual Planes.
Well dear, this is all interesting to us from a certain viewpoint. But really not so interesting as the Great Love that binds us so closely together. A knowledge of the soul, as I know it, is very vital, but a knowledge of what makes the soul At-One in Perfection with its True Soulmate, is equally, if not more, important.
How poor are those spirits who are investigating the subject of the soul, in a mere intellectual way, as compared with those who know what the soul is, without having to investigate with the mind. When Divine Love is known and realized, how rich is the spirit who possesses and realizes the Truth of the Reality of that Divine Love. Proof comes without seeking Proof. Speculation is a thing unnecessary, and unknown.
Tonight, I am very happy that I can write to you, and tell you what you already know. But to tell you is a Joy, for when I do so, you must say, "sweetheart I Love you in return". Then, you see I am happy in giving and receiving.
If it were not so late I would write you a long letter, but the writer tells me that he must not write more tonight.
So, believe that I Love you with all my heart. Trust in my efforts to help and comfort you. Above all, pray more to the Father for His Divine Love. Have Faith that it will be Bestowed upon you.
Goodnight, dear heart, your own Loving Mary.
February 1st, 1918
I am here, Auguste Comte.
I am not one of those spirits who come to you and prate about the New Birth, the Divine Love, and the Celestial Spheres. I am simply a spirit, who believes what can be known from observation and the exercise of the reasoning faculties. I have been in Spirit Life for a great many years. I am in a Sphere of Light. I have much happiness, and enjoy the Life of an investigator of Truth.
When on Earth, I was known as a free thinker, by some, as an agnostic. Consequently, was not very popular, except among a number who thought as I did. Who were what was considered followers of me in my beliefs and doctrines, as regards the purposes of human's Creation, and their functions and duties on Earth. I believed and taught that the great duty and object of their Creation, were the exercise of good deeds, and the offering of the greatest help to humanity, in its living the Life on Earth. That humanitarianism was the great and vital religion of human on Earth. The only god to be worshipped was the god of human kindness and help. That any and all other gods were the mere creatures of superstition, without real existence, and of no benefit to humankind. There were a number of persons, who believed, and lived in that belief. Endeavored to have it guide and control them in their course of living, just as I did. There are numbers on Earth, who believe, and make such belief their religion. I do not dispute the Future Existence of the soul. Or, that human should have a continuous progression during Eternity, and finally reach a condition of happiness and perfection that would render unnecessary the application of the doctrines of humanitarianism, that was so necessary while mortals. I have found, since coming to the Spirit World, that my beliefs and teachings are filled with Truth, and have resulted in great benefit to me, and to numbers of others, who carried out, to the best of their ability, the Golden Rule of doing unto others, as they would have others do unto them.
Many of my associates of Life are with me here. We have a comparatively joyous congregation of souls engaged in the work of helping spirits who come to the Spirit World, not knowing their destiny, or what is before them, in the way of living, or thinking.
When I came to this World, I entered the planes of darkness, and some suffering, and had to work with all the efforts of my mind to make progress out of that condition, by the exercise of thoughts of benevolence, and the doing of good to those spirits whom I found that I could help. My state of freedom from those things that partook of sin was what determined my progress. For a long time, I made very slow advancement towards the Higher Planes of thought and condition of Purity. I realized that within me, was that which was better than I had known, or realized, while on Earth, and that if I should get rid of those things, which kept that better part of me from developing, I would progress. So, I struggled to get rid of these things, and have, myself, become the master of the situation. I found that these contaminating things, which were really the creations of my mortal animal desires and appetites, were not a legitimate part of myself, and that I was not a True philosopher by permitting them to linger with me, for, to my deception, a part of myself, the undesirable part. So, I fought to banish them from my knowledge and recollections. As I succeeded in these efforts, I found that I was advancing in Light, Truth, and in Harmony with what was Pure and Good.
I did not ask the help of any mediator to rescue me from my condition of darkness, in some mysterious way. Or, pray to God to take me from my surroundings by means of some Omnipotent Power that He might exercise in my behalf. I was helped by other spirits, who had advanced Higher than I. That help consisted of their advice and the encouragement, that came to me when I perceived by their bright appearances, and happier conditions, that it was possible for me to advance also. As they assured me that they had been in my condition, and that by good thoughts, and their efforts to help others, they had been enabled to forget, and throw aside, those things that caused their state of darkness and suffering. Yes, their advice and influence helped me very much to help myself. I realized the fact that, notwithstanding the help of others, upon myself, principally, depended the success of effort, and the success of advancement.
So, as a spirit who has had the experience that I have related, I would advise all humans to examine themselves. Learn, what is the cause of their condition of darkness and unhappiness? Then seek the means of ridding themselves of this cause. If they will honestly make the effort, they will succeed, and become better and happier humans.
There is no question that the temptations of the animal appetites and desires, to accumulate those things that bring to them selfishness, greed, the want of charity, and human sympathy, will prevent them from progressing in the development of the better part of themselves, and keep it stagnant and retard its advancement. Humans should know this, and bend all their energies to curb these appetites, and replace these desires, with desires to help and serve their fellow humans. Let their sympathy and Love go out, in active works of good, to their brothers. For all humans are brothers, even in the Mortal Life. Though to many, it may not be apparent, but in the Spirit Life, it comes as a Truth to all. For as each spirit becomes developed, in their better part, spirits as a whole become developed. A more Universal Happiness ensues.
Well, I have written a long time tonight. As this is the first time that I have ever tried to communicate to a mortal, I am some little tired, as you mortals say, and will stop.
When on Earth I was known as Auguste Comte, and lived in France. I have no name here, and need none. Well, I have heard what you said. I am a little surprised to hear you make the assertion that you do. I have no pride of superior, or exclusive, knowledge. While I doubt that you can demonstrate what you say, yet I am willing to have you make the experiment. I will enter it with an open and unprejudiced mind. Only hope that you may be able to show me a Way, better than the one I have pursued. I have never seen, or conversed, with spirits of the Celestial Heavens. Though I have been informed that there are such. As, when on Earth, I did not believe in ghosts, so here, I have not believed in these Celestial Spirits. I thought that they were merely creations of the distorted imaginations of the spirits, who told me of the existence of these Celestial Beings. You must not be surprised when I ascribe to some of the spirits distorted imaginations. There are many such spirits, just as there are mortals on Earth, with distorted imaginations. The fact of being in the body does not confine distorted imaginations, and diseased minds, to the Earth Life only. Yes, I am ready to meet your Celestial Spirit.
There comes to me a beautiful bright spirit. Such as I have never seen before. Who says that he has answered your call, and is ready to perform the Work of Love of showing me the easier, and better, Way to soul development. It depends on me whether I will learn that Way, or not. If I am willing, he will teach me. Well, I am surprised, I confess! I will go with him, and learn all that he can teach me. I will come again.
Goodnight, Auguste Comte.
February 1st, 1918
I am here, your own true and loving Helen.
Well, dear, I had some difficulty because of spirits who wished and tried to write. White Eagle succeeded in inducing them to desist. I then took control. I am glad that you are feeling better tonight. I was expecting that John would write. Conditions are not just favorable. He did not stay. You must make the effort to get in condition, so that he can make the rapport, as he desires so much to finish his message.
The spirit who wrote you, I never saw before. He appeared to be a very bright and sincere spirit. Desirous of learning anything possible to learn. He has no Soul Development in the Divine Love. I know that he will be interested in what shall be told him. He went with Prof. Salyards, and was much impressed at the appearance of the Professor, and his kindly invitation to go with him. I hope that he may learn The Way. I will not write more tonight. So, sweetheart, say goodnight.
February 19th, 1918
I am here, Jesus.
Well, my brother, I see that you are in much better condition tonight, than you have been for some time past. I desire to tell you that it is due to the facts that you have turned your thoughts more to Spiritual Things, and have prayed more to the Father. If you will continue to do these things, you will soon be in that condition of soul, where I can make the necessary rapport with you in order to deliver my messages.
I have been very much disappointed in not being able to deliver my messages of the Higher Truths, as I intended. I have felt that we have lost much valuable time in pursuing our work. It is True, but now I hope that we will not have to delay longer our communications. We will not, if you will take my advice, and in that way try to remedy the difficulties that beset us.
I know that you are interested in the work. Intellectually desire to receive the messages. This, as I have told you, is not sufficient. You must get in that condition of Soul Development that will bring you in rapport with me, as I come to you for the purpose of writing these Higher Truths. It has been explained to you that a particular quality of rapport is required, in order that we may be able to get in that condition of Harmony, that will enable us to use your brain and hand, so that the messages may be delivered. So for the next few days, try to have your soul opened up to the inflowing of the Divine Love, so that the development may come to you.
I have many messages to write before the book will be completed. So have many other spirits who are engaged in the work.
Pray, let all the longings of your soul go to the Father. You will realize the response that will fit you for the work.
With my Love, I will say goodnight.
Your brother and friend, Jesus.
February 22nd, 1918
I am here, Helen.
You have been happy tonight, for I was with you, and could see and feel your happiness. Oh, it was grand to have such Love as you gave me, and to let me know that your heart was all mine. Why can't we often have such nights? I was with you all the time. When the Rosary was played, I showed myself to you, as you imagined you saw me. I was actually there in the position that you saw me in, with my heart and eyes full of Love for you, and pointing to the Higher Sphere, whence came the stream of Light that you saw. It was the silver stream of Love that was flowing down upon us showing us that in that Happy Sphere was All Love and Happiness. What you imagined you saw, was an actual vision, in which I was, very much present and alive. So you see, I have kept my promise to let you see me. I did it in a way that I knew would make you happy. At the same time, realize what a happy soulmate you have, and how Love has made her beautiful.
So, now I know that you will believe that I am with you, and Love you. I am waiting for you to come over, and go with me to the Sphere where Divine Love and Joy Reigns Supreme. Oh, my Ned, I am so happy tonight in the knowledge, that at last you have seen me as I am, and as I will appear to you when you come over.
So, sweetheart, we will not write more tonight, for it would seem to me that to write of other things after one wonderful coming together and enjoying our great happiness would be a sacrilege. So, in the Love, which I know you have for me and which you know I have for you, I will say with all my soul, be my own Ned forever as you are tonight. I shall be satisfied and happy.
Your own True and Loving Helen.
February 23rd, 1918
I am here, Jesus.
I see that you are in good condition tonight, and that I am able to make a rapport with you.
I was with you at the meeting tonight. I saw the workings of your mind. The pity, as it were, that you had for the preacher (Rev Billy Sunday), because of his want of knowledge of what the judgment is, that comes to all humans after death. A judgment that is certain and exact, but not one pronounced upon human by God, as the preacher proclaimed.
I was trying to impress you in your thoughts. You felt the influence of my suggestions, and realized that you did not fear the judgment, or rather its results. Because you know The Way, in which the judgment for you can have no terrors, or no Eternity of condemnation. I wished, as you did, that the preacher might know the Truth, then proclaim it to his hearers. In this manner, show them that the judgment is a certainty that cannot be escaped from, and that its sentences are not for an Eternity of duration.
He is an earnest human in his beliefs. Teaches just as he believes. The pity is, that he does not know the Truth. Nevertheless, he is doing good to those who hear him. Many of them are caused to think of Things Spiritual. Of the future, as well as of the present, who otherwise might, and would, neglect these important things that will determine the kind of judgment that they will have to undergo. I am glad that he is so preaching, and doing a work, that in many instances will lead humans to meditate upon their Spiritual conditions. Ultimately, lead them to seek for the Divine Love of the Father, which they may obtain by their longings, though their beliefs may be erroneous, as to how this Divine Love may be obtained.
Humans are constituted with a mind, and a soul, each having its own perceptions, and ability to comprehend the Truth. Sometimes, it happens that the perceptions of the soul will enable them to see and reach out for this Divine Love, while they may be wholly blind in their mind perceptions, and even these latter perceptions, may be in conflict with the operations of the perceptions of the soul.
Until the Truths, that I, and the other spirits, are revealing to you, shall become known to the World, there will be nothing in existence, or in the knowledge of humans, that can supply the place of these Truths, so much as the beliefs that have been, and are, being taught by the teachings of the Bible. For in it, are many Truths, especially those that show humans the way to attain to Moral Perfection. That, as you know, was one of the objects of my teachings when on Earth, but not the great object of my mission. Nevertheless, the human who learns, and applies, these Moral Truths to their daily Life, and conduct comes nearer to the enjoyment of that Harmony, that human must obtain, in order to get into a Unison with God's Laws that is necessary to their regeneration, and to their becoming (again) the Perfect Human. Besides, as they, I mean the mortal, progresses in this regeneration, they will find it easier for them to learn, by their soul perceptions, the Great Truth of the Transformation of the Soul through the New Birth.
I approve of the efforts of this preacher to bring humans to a realization of their relationship to God, even though he has many erroneous beliefs, and says many things that are contrary to the Truth, and not in accord with the True Relationship of Human to God.
I will write you soon upon this matter of the judgment, what it means, and the variety of its operations.
Tonight, I will not write longer. I think it best to not draw upon you too much at this renewed conjunction of rapport with your condition.
I have been with you very often of late, and tried to influence you with my Love and suggestions. I must tell you, that you have progressed much in your Soul Development and nearness to the Father's Divine Love. Continue to meditate upon these Spiritual Things. Pray to the Father. You will realize a great increase in the possession of this Divine Love, and in your condition that will enable us to come in closer rapport with you.
Well, I will do as you suggest. I am pleased that you feel as you say. We must do the work as rapidly as possible. We have lost much time, and will have to work the harder to bring about the completion of our delivery of the Truths. You need not fear that we will not be successful. Only have Faith, and pray. All will be well.
I must stop now, but before doing so must assure you that I am praying with you in your prayers at night, and that your prayers will be answered.
Other spirits will now be able to write you. They have many messages to communicate. All are anxious to do so.
Keep up your courage, believe in me, and what I tell you.
With my Love, and the Blessings of the Father, I will say goodnight.
Your brother and friend, Jesus.
February 25th, 1918
I am here, Jesus.
I am here, and desire to write a few lines in reference to the "Great Day of Judgment", of which the preacher and teachers of theological things write so often. I know that the Bible, or rather some of the books, lay great stress upon this day, when as they claim, God will pour out His "vials of wrath upon the ungodly and condemn them to an eternity of punishment".
There is, as you know, very great and diverse opinions among these learned humans, as to what is the meaning and significance of this "day of judgment". When, in a chronological point of view, it will take place. All these varied opinions have many students and teachers who embrace and proclaim them to the World, as being true and free from doubt.
Well, it is certain that all humans must die, and there will come the judgment. That which follows the death, is just as certain as is the death itself. Just as reasonable, as is the following of any cause by an effect. So humans should have no difficulty in believing in the judgment as a fact that cannot be avoided. Just as death cannot be avoided.
The word, and the fact, judgment, when used as an effect, or following of death, may have many meanings, in the opinions and understandings of many humans, depending upon what humans may believe, as to things that are called religious, scientific, or philosophical. To the ultra-orthodox, this term judgment means, and necessarily comprehends, the active pronouncement of a sentence by God, because of, and determined by, their lives and thoughts while living in the Mortal Life, irrespective of any of His general Laws, and the workings thereof. God is Himself the judge, personal, and present. By Him, in this capacity, are each human's Life, and works, known, digested, and made the basis of the sentence, that He must pronounce in each individual case. God keeps the record of all of these acts of humans, or if human is conceded to be their own record-keeper, their records are, or will be, at the time of the "great assemblage for judgment", opened up, or brought into view, so that nothing can be lost. Then, upon this record, humans will be sent to eternal happiness, or to everlasting punishment. Or, as some believe, to destruction, or annihilation.
Others, not orthodox, who believe in the survival of the soul, and the continuing memories of the acts and thoughts of humans, teach that the judgment will follow death, as a natural consequence of the operations of the Law of Cause and Effect. The effect cannot be escaped from, until in some way there comes to the consciousness of humans, a realization that the effect in their suffering has satisfied the cause, and that there is nothing mysterious, or unnatural, in the appearance and workings of the judgment. They do not believe that God, by any special interposition, or personal punishing, will pronounce the judgment, or determine the merits, or demerits, of the one called to judgment.
Besides these views, there are others, extant, and believed in. The two that I have mentioned are principle ones, and are sufficient to show what the large majority of thinking, or rather believing, humans conclude the term "judgment" as used in the Bible, should mean, or be understood to mean.
Well, the judgment of the human soul is an important accompaniment of the human Life, both in the flesh, and in the Spirit World. As regards the questions, and punishments, hardly anything demands more of the thought and consideration of humans, for it is a certainty that beliefs, True, or false, they cannot avoid them. Judgment, as certainly follows what humans call death, as does night the day. No philosophy, theological dogmas, or scientific determinations, can alter the fact, or in any way change the character, or exact workings, of this judgment.
Judgment is not a thing belonging exclusively to the after death period, or condition. It is present, and operating, with humans from the time that they become incarnated in the human body, until they become disincarnate. Thereafter, continuously, until the causes of effects have been satisfied, and there remains nothing to be judged, which happy ending is also a fact. For all humans are dependent upon their progress towards the conditions of Harmony, with the Laws that make effective, as well as pronounce the judgments. While on Earth, these Laws operate, and continuously human is being judged for the causes that they start into existence. The after-death judgment is only a continuation of the judgment received by humans while on Earth.
Of course, humans may not know this, these judgments, or the effects thereof, become more intensified, after humans have gotten rid of the influences of the flesh existence, and they become spirits, having only the spirit qualities. Because of this fact, humans must understand, and try to realize, that the expression "after death, the judgment" has a greater significance, and is of more vital importance, than the saying that; "judgment is with humans all during their mortal lives".
After death, the causes of the inharmony with the Law, becomes more pronounced. Appear, in the True Meaning and Force. Consequently, as this is True, the effects become more intensified, and understood. Humans suffer more, and realize the darkness, sometimes the gross darkness, that these effects produce. The inharmony appears, in its unclothed and unhidden Reality. The Law's workings bring to humans the exact penalties that their violations demand.
Human is their own bookkeeper. In their memory are recorded all the thoughts and deeds of their Earth Life that are not in accord with the Harmony of God's Will, which is expressed, or manifested, by His Laws. The judgment is not the thing of a day, or a time. Is never ceasing, so long as there exists that upon which it can operate. It diminishes, in proportion as the causes of inharmony disappear.
God is not present in "wrath" demanding, as does the human who believes them self to have been injured demanding reparation by the one causing the injury. No, the Father is Present only in Love. As the soul of the one undergoing the penalty, which their own deeds and thoughts have imposed upon them, comes more in Harmony with the Father's Will, He, as you mortals say, is Pleased. Never an angry God, rejoicing in the satisfaction of a penalty, being paid by one of His erring Children. Always a Loving Father, rejoicing in the Redemption of His Children from a suffering, that a violation of the Laws of Harmony exacts with certitude.
Then, as I say, "the judgment day" is not a special time when all humans must meet in the Presence of God, and have their thoughts and deeds weighed in the balance, and then, according as they are good or evil, have the sentence of an angry, or even just God pronounced upon them.
The "judgment day" is every day, both in the Earth Life of human, and in Life in the Spirit World, where the Law of Compensation is working. In the Spirit World, time is not known. Every breathing is a part of Eternity. With every breathing, so long as the Law requires, comes the judgment. Continued, and unsatisfied, until human, as a spirit, reaches that Condition of Harmony, so that for them, no longer the Law demands a judgment.
From what I have written, humans must not suppose, or beguile themselves into that state of belief that will cause them to think, that because there is no "special day of judgment when God will pronounce His sentence", the judgment, therefore, is not so much to be dreaded, or shunned. No, this state of thinking will palliate only for the moment. The judgment is certain. Is, and will be, no less to be dreaded. Because The Immutable Law, demands exact restoration, instead of an angry God.
No human, who has lived and died, has escaped. No human, who shall hereafter die, can escape this judgment, unless they have, in a way provided by the Father in His Divine Love, become in Harmony with the Laws requiring Harmony. "As a human soweth, so shall they reap", is as True, as is the fact that the sun shines upon the just and the unjust alike.
Memory is human's storehouse of good and evil. Memory does not die with the death of the human's physical body. On the contrary, becomes more alive, all alive. Nothing is left behind, or forgotten, when the spirit of human casts off the encumbrance, and the benumbing and deceiving influences of the only body of human that was created to die.
Judgment is Real. Humans must come to it, face-to-face. Want of belief, or unbelief, or indifference, or the application to human's lives, of the saying "sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof" will not enable humans to avoid the judgment, or the exactions of its demands.
There is A Way though, in which humans may turn the judgment of death, into the Judgment of Life, inharmony, into Harmony, suffering, into happiness, and judgment itself, into a thing to be desired.
Elsewhere, we have written of this Way, open to all humans. I will not attempt to describe it here.
I have written enough for tonight. You are tired, and must not be drawn on further.
So with my Love, I will say goodnight.
Your brother and friend, Jesus.
March 2nd, 1918
I am here, John.
I will not write now, except to say, that your Spiritual Condition is much improved. You are advancing in your soul perceptions of the Truth, and of the Reality of the Father and His Divine Love.
Yes, I know. You must remember two things, with reference to the writings in the Bible ascribed to me. Namely; First, that many of the sayings therein contained, I did not write, or authorize to be written. Secondly, that at the time I lived on Earth, and wrote, my Knowledge of the Truth, and of God, was not so great, or so correct, as it is now. I realize that some things I then believed, and taught, were not in accord with the Truth, as I now know it to be. Even my conception of Jesus, his mission on Earth, and his return to Earth, was not True. Then, although I was a close companion of the Master, and had many lessons of instructions from him, I was a quite ignorant human. I did not grasp the "Spiritual Meanings" of his teachings. Up to the time of my decease, my beliefs were more colored by things of the material, than by those of the Spiritual. For instance, I, as did the other disciples, supposed that he was coming to Earth again, in a short time, at any unexpected time, and set up his kingdom on Earth. Now, this is a fact, notwithstanding that he had said that his kingdom would be a Spiritual Kingdom, though existing on Earth. I could not dissociate from my conception of the establishment, and existence, of this kingdom, the idea, that in some way it would be an actual, visible kingdom, in which the Master would be the king, and rule as other kings ruled, except it would be a rule of righteousness.
All this may seem a little strange to you. If you will consider for a moment, that my teachings as a Jew, were to the effect that when the Messiah came, he would actually rule on Earth as a king, you will understand how difficult it was for me to get the idea, or make the distinction, between that kind of kingdom, and one, which would be Purely Spiritual.
At sometime, I will write you more fully on this matter. I realize its importance, as many, yes a majority of the professed christians, now believe that Jesus at sometime will come to Earth, and establish a material kingdom, and rule all the nations of the Earth. Some of these enthusiastic christians believe that they will be of the elect, and become princes, and sub-rulers, in that kingdom, as material humans, called by the resurrection to again become the human, although glorified, as some of them express their faith. Well, they will be disappointed! When they shall have passed from the Mortal World to the Spirit World, they will forever remain spirits. The only kingdom that they will live in thereafter, will be a Spirit Kingdom, and that, whether the kingdom of the Restored Human, or of the Divine Angel, will not be on the Earth.
I must stop now. So pray to the Father. Strive for a deeper and more abiding Faith. You will realize the Truth, and this experience.
Goodnight, your brother in Christ, John.
March 3rd, 1918
I am here, Jesus.
I desire tonight to write you in reference to The Way in which, as the preacher advises, "Christ may be in you."
I know, that it is almost universal among preachers of the orthodox church to teach their hearers that the way to salvation is to get Christ in them, thereby they will be enabled to come into Unity with the Father, and cease to remain subject to the effects of sin and evil. Well this teaching is the True Foundation of Salvation for the Celestial Heavens, provided it be understood by the preachers and the people, what the True Meaning of "Christ in you" is. Unless, this meaning be comprehended, the fact that preacher or people may believe that they have Christ in them, will not work the results that they may suppose, or desire.
Many, l may say, the most, of these professing christians, have ideas of what this expression means in order to become effective, that are not in accord with the True Meaning of this condition of the soul. They believe that all that is necessary is to believe on Jesus as their saviour by his sacrifice and death, that in so believing, they have Christ in them, and that nothing else is required. They have no conception of the distinction between Jesus, the human, and Christ, the Spirit of Truth, more correctly, the Holy Spirit that manifests the existence of the Divine Love in the soul. Christ is not a human, in the sense that he is Jesus the son of the Father. Christ, is that part of Jesus, or rather Quality that came to him, after he fully received into his soul the Divine Love, and was transformed into the very Essence of the Father in His Divine Love. Christ is thus, not a human, but is the manifestation of this Divine Love, as bestowed upon Jesus, and made part of his very existence. When humans use the expression, having Christ in you, if they could correctly understand the True purport of the same, they would know that it, the expression means only that the Divine Love of the Father is in their souls.
The indiscriminate use of the words, "Jesus, and Christ," is the cause of much misunderstanding among these christians, as to a number of the sayings of the Bible.
Jesus became the Christ only because he was the first to receive into his soul this Divine Love, and to manifest its existence. This Christ Principle, is one that all humans may possess, with the result that they will become At-One with the Father in His Substance of Divine Love and Immortality.
It would be impossible for Jesus, the human, to get into, or become a part of, any mortal. It would be equally as impossible for Christ, as the human Jesus, even though Perfect, and free from sin, to become a part of anyone.
No, the Meaning of having Christ in you is to have this Divine Love of the Father in your soul, which can only be obtained through the working of the Holy Spirit as the Instrument of the Father in bringing this Divine Love into the soul.
To many who hear the preachers' exhortations in this particular, the expression is only a mystery, which they accept merely intellectually, and feel that by such acceptance, they have the possession of this Christ, which is the only evidence of the Truth of the Father's Divine Love.
Goodnight.
Your friend and brother, Jesus.
March 10th, 1918
I am here, John.
I see that you are in a much better condition tonight, and that your soul is more in Harmony with the spirits of the Higher Spheres. We could write now, but your hand and arm are tired. This is a matter that we always consider, and try not to cause you any unnecessary fatigue.
Other spirits are here tonight hoping that they might have written. Under the circumstances, they will not. The Master is here also, and says that he will not attempt to write tonight as he intended, but will soon come and deliver a message.
I am glad that you are feeling so much better Spiritually and physically. I feel that you will continue to do so. So pray more to the Father. Turn your thoughts to Spiritual Things. You will find a wonderful happiness that even the worries of your daily Life cannot take from you.
No, emphatically. Those who believe that there ever lived such mortals are greatly mistaken. The Highest of us spirits, cannot know, or foretell the future, in the sense in which the seers and prophets are supposed to have done in the centuries of which the Old Testament wrote. No human, whether in the flesh, or in the spirit, ever has the Omniscience of the Father! To foretell what will happen centuries ahead, is a power that belongs only to the Father.
So that, all the attempted application of prophecies, as contained in the Bible to the happenings or future happenings of the present day, are futile, and without any justification. Human must depend upon the condition and acts of this day, to determine what will happen in the short time that some expect the World to last.
What a position for them to take, when we, who live so close to the Father, cannot possibly know.
All this of course, refers to the material affairs of humans in their lives on Earth. As to Spiritual Things, we can tell what the future of each human or nations of humans will be, if certain conditions are observed, or not observed.
Well, I will write you on this subject when the opportunity presents itself. I will not write more now.
With all my Love, and the Blessings of the Father, I will say goodnight.
Your brother in Christ, John.
April 3rd, 1918
I am here, Ross Perry.
I was at the sance tonight, and talked to you and Middleton. Besides me, there were Carrington, and another spirit whom I did not know, named Silsby, who had committed an act similar to my own. He was a very unhappy spirit, because he was in the same condition as when he first came to the Spirit World, and has never had the benefit of the help that I received. Consequently, knows nothing of The Way in which he can find relief. As I have met him, I shall endeavor to help him, and give him the benefit of my experience. I think that he will listen to me. I have already told him of some of my experiences in progressing. As he is like a drowning human, willing to catch at any straw, I think he will be willing to listen to me, and probably act on my advice.
Hutchins was also present. He also is in a very bad condition, and needs help very much. I believe it will be more difficult to help him. Because the sins of his Earth Life had a long continuous, and accumulating acquirement. He is very dark and repulsive looking, and has not yet had any Spiritual Awakening. His thoughts and interests are still connected with the money that he left, and the fight that is going on between his children and wife. He has attempted to discuss the matter with me, just as he did on Earth. I tell him that he must forget these things, and think of things that are more vital to his happiness and progress. He says, he cannot, for as he loved the accumulation and possession of money while on Earth, he still loves them. As on earth they took the place of God, so now, he has no other God. It is very pitiable. It seems as if it were not possible for him to get rid of his thoughts and desires, with reference to these things. It is hard to induce him to make the effort. When tonight, he said he was happy, he only meant that he had that supposed happiness, which he imagined he had on Earth, by reason of his love for these material things.
I have observed frequently, that spirits who are in a condition of darkness, with all their old loves, and imagined happiness, which they had on Earth, say that they are happy. It is not so. They are merely without an Awakening, as to their True Condition, which will surely come to them, sooner or later. Then, they will see themselves as spirits, in the more advanced condition, see themselves to be.
I want to say one other thing for the benefit of Middleton. That is; that his father, whom I knew very well on Earth, was with him, and was very anxious to talk to him. He could not get the proper and sufficient rapport, and strength to do so. Also, his wife was present, and desired so very much to make herself known to him. For the same reason, as in the case of his father, she could not. Sometime she will be able to do so, if he will give her the opportunity. He must do that. It will make her very happy and him also, if he will only believe that it is she who may appear to him, tell him of her being alive and with him so much, as she says she is.
Well, I have written enough and must stop. Soon, I desire to write you a long letter about my own condition, if you can find time to receive it.
With kind regards, I will say goodnight.
Your True friend, R. Ross Perry.
April 14th, 1918
I am here, Spinoza.
I desire to write a few lines, if you will permit. I need not say that I have never written you before. You will know from the difficulty that I have in writing that such must be the case. No, I am a stranger to this method of communication, and to you. To me, it has come in very recent days as a wonderful revelation.
I do not intend to write upon a subject of any great Truth connected with our Spirit Life. Merely to say, sufficient to introduce myself, in the hope that when I am better acquainted with the Laws governing this method, I may be permitted to come to you, and write of those things which I have learned since becoming a spirit, which to learn when on Earth would have been not only very desirable, but very important.
I was when on Earth a philosopher, so-called. Gave many years of my Life to the search for Truth, relating not only to the Natural World, but also to what I conceived to be Truth connected with that World, or existence, outside of, and beyond the sense world. In my researches, I was guilty of many speculations, which I now see have no foundation upon which I had built many conclusions and postulates. I had only the intellect, supplied in its workings by the knowledge that came from the phenomena of the purely physical. As I thought, by that great faculty called reason, which, as a fact, is a wonderful faculty. But, in its exercise, it is dependent upon, first, its own development, and next, whether that development has been along the lines of, and in accord with, Truth.
A reason, merely because it is a reason, is not a guide that can be depended on. Reasoning in an erroneous way must necessarily lead to conclusions of error. Merely calling, or believing, that these conclusions are the results of reason, does not justify the belief that the conclusions must be correct and veracious. Reason can be mistaken, and featured by error. Just as can the senses. Hence, if you read the writings of the philosophers, metaphysicians, and scientists, you will find that things declared, and accepted, by these humans at one age, have been repudiated, and rejected, by the successors of these humans, in later ages.
So, when I wrote, and I wrote considerably, was very largely read by what was considered to be, the thinking class of humans. Especially those, whose researches led them along a similar line of study and subject matter as my own. I declared certain doctrines, or principles connected with these metaphysical and philosophical matters, that I now know to be wholly erroneous, which at the time, I firmly believed to be things of verity. Because largely, they were based on what I thought was, the True workings of reason, together with some little empirical knowledge.
From this, I do not mean to decry the value and importance of the faculty of reason. It has been the great factor operating progress of humankind. Like other finite faculties, it is subject to erroneous exercise, and cannot be depended on as a thing infallible. The common experience of humans, has shown that humans who have sincerely, earnestly, and constantly, exercised their reasoning faculties, have arrived at different, and contradictory, conclusions as to the same Principles, or subject matter. Those conclusions have been entirely satisfactory, and convincing, to the respective persons. Now it is apparent that in such instances, all of these humans could not possibly be correct in their conclusions. In many cases, not any of them were correct. Yet, they were all founded on the reason, properly and intelligently exercised, as they supposed.
No, reason is fallible. It is not a thing of itself. But dependent upon environments, and sometimes inherited, or preconceived, ideas of what Truth must be. It is the great friend and defender of speculation. Without it, speculation could not exist. So often is speculation deceived by its friend. Truth, is that, which exists as an unchangeable condition or fact. Speculation, can neither create, nor destroy, Truth. Reason, is a means, which may be used to reach Truth, when knowledge does not exist. The fact that reason exists, does not mean that it is always used, in that way, that leads to the discovery of Truth. Reason, as I am now justified in saying, is but a Creature of God, just as is everything else in His Universe. When given to human, with the freedom of exercising it as human wills is subject to all the possibilities of defective exercise that every other faculty possessed by human is subject to. Is no more infallible in its Nature, than are these other faculties.
It is the greatest faculty that human has as a Creature of the Almighty. Without it, some of the "wise of Earth" have said human would be no better than, or different from, the brute animal. This is not quite True. For human is possessed with that, which is Really human them self (the soul), that the brute animal does not have. That is a soul, made in the image of its Creator. It may be said, that reason is merely an appendage of the soul. I have justification in asserting that the soul, in its progress, can do without, or cast aside, this reason, without doing harm to itself. Because, as I have learned in progressing in the Spirit Life, the soul may, and does, arrive at that degree of development, where reason is not necessary, or even used by it, in its acquirement of Truth.
I now believe, without speculation, that reason is a Gift to human, to be useful to them only in their Earth Life, and in a portion of this Spirit Life, until the soul comes into a Knowledge of Truth, by the exercise of the mere desire to know. A knowledge of the whys and wherefores is not required. It knows, because it knows. Just as in your Earth Life, you have a knowledge of the sunlight, even if you do not know the why and the wherefore that produce that light.
Well, my new found friend, I have written more than I intended. As I continued, I found the desire to write increase. I fear that I have trespassed too long, and pray your forgiveness. Sometime I should like to come and write of the errors of some of the teachings of Earth, or rather of the Truths, along the line of the subject matter of my earthly writings, as I now know them to be.
I am in what is called the intellectual planes of the Fifth Sphere. Very near the entrance to the Sixth Sphere. In which, I hope to be in a short time. It has been a long time since I left the Earth Life. The early period of my existence in the Spirit World was one of stagnation. As I now see, merely because I brought with me many of the doctrines of the philosophy of my Earth Life. As a consequence, I continued my research along the ideas and ways that I had pursued as a mortal. The time thus spent was long, and continued, until I became convinced that speculation in the Spirit Life is not very different, and arrives at no more satisfactory end, than speculation on Earth. Then, I stopped speculating. Waited for something. I know not what. Strange to say, that which came to me, was from a spirit who had never heard of my philosophy, or any other philosophy on Earth, but merely accepted Truth, as it gradually came to him, without knowing why, or how. I soon learned that he had a greater knowledge of the Verities, than had I. So, I adopted his way of receiving Truth. Since then, I have been progressing. I am now advancing with accelerated speed, all to my happiness and intellectual enjoyment.
Good-bye, your friend, Spinoza.
April 14th, 1918
I am here, John.
Let me say just a word, and that is, that I have been waiting with some interest until the spirit who has just written you finished his writing.
I see that you are feeling very much better physically and Spiritually. Now, I know that we can make the rapport with you that will enable us to write our messages. So I hope that tomorrow night you will give us the opportunity to write.
What the spirit wrote, I know, was quite interesting, but it is not of the vital. The time, for the present, must not be consumed by messages of this kind. After we shall have finished the messages that we intend for the book, these messages of the kind just written may be received, for they have a work to do in the plan that we have in view.
I will not write more now, except to say that we are with you very much, and pray to the Father for you, and try to help you with our Love and influence. So remember what I have written. Pray to the Father.
Goodnight, your brother in Christ, John.
April 18th, 1918
I am here, Jesus.
I was with you tonight, and heard what the preacher said. Some parts of his talk expressed the Truth, and some did not. I should like to comment on what he said just now, but you are a little tired from the effect of the writings of the spirits who preceded me. I will postpone my comments until later.
I expressly wish to write on the subject of what God has to do with the war, and show how far the preacher was right. I know that humans may be surprised at what I may say. Nevertheless, I will state the Truth, as I know it.
I also desire to finish my message on God. As your condition is much improved, I will do so very soon. You must commence to write, or permit me to write, earlier in the evening when you are fresh. I was with you last night as you prayed, and prayed with you. You were benefitted. I will continue to pray. For I desire, and it is necessary, that your soul have such development, and get in such rapport with me, as will enable me to write my Deepest and Highest Messages of Spiritual Truths. This can be brought about, only by the Divine Love increasing in your soul, and your becoming nearer and closer to the Father. There is nothing in all the universe that can accomplish this result so certainly, as the receiving of this Divine Love in your soul. In fact, there is nothing else. You must pray, and long for its inflowing.
I will not write more now, so goodnight. Believe that I am with you often, throwing my Love and influence about you.
Well, I understand. I am sorry that it has so far, not worked out its end. It will, I am sure. For the work has to be accomplished, and the attaining of these ends is necessary. Have a little more Faith, and act on it.
Your brother and friend, Jesus.
April 18th, 1918
I am here, your grandmother.
Let me say that I have heard what the Master said, and join with him in advising you to keep up your Faith and courage. I know that which you desire, will be accomplished. The means found for fulfilling the work, and bringing it to a successful issue.
We are all with you, trying to help you. We will. Only do as the Master said, and you will not fail, or be disappointed in the end. Believe that I Love you very much. I am with you often, and that we will succeed.
Goodnight, your Grandmother, Ann Rollins.
April 25th, 1918
Let me write a line, Luke.
I was with you tonight at the church, and listened to what the preacher said in reference to religions and their point of contact. I was somewhat surprised at his declarations, as to the analogy, which he drew between the believers in the various so-called christian religions.
While, as you know, there is implanted in the souls of humans, a longing, for that which tends to elevate and Spiritualize them. Even though this longing may not be consciously present with a large number of them, yet the beliefs, as to the ways in which this longing may be made manifest and develop the Spiritual Nature of the soul, are very different among those professing these various religions. The ways are not equally efficacious in causing their Spiritual Development.
Religion is a matter of soul, not of intellect. The greater the development of the soul in the right direction, the Higher will be the Spiritual State, or Condition, of the soul. Mere intellectual belief, no matter how intense and undoubting, will not tend to bring about this Spiritual Development. For "religion is really nothing but the relationship and Harmony of human's souls, with the Soul of God." The mind will not be sufficient to create this State, because the mind of human cannot possibly bring into Harmony, the Soul of the Creator, and that of the Creature. Mind, in its exercise, may tend to Awaken the soul to this possibility of relationship. Only the workings of the soul can effectuate the complete Unity of the Creator, and the Created. Only soul can speak to soul. Mind, is only a helper, provided the soul is alive in its longings.
So, it is apparent that, that form of belief, which is wholly of the intellect, can have no common meeting place with that belief, which is the result of the development of the soul. Hence, to say that humans, of all the various religions, just because they are what are called christians, are in an equal relationship to the Father, is erroneous and misleading.
As regards the condition of human as the Perfect Human, these several religions may tend to bring about this State of Perfection, if the Moral Precepts, which they teach are observed and practiced by humans. As regards human as the Divine Angel, that is, as a spirit having in itself the Essence of the Divine, only that religion which teaches the True Way to acquire this Divinity, can lead humans to the At-Onement with the Father in His Very Divine Nature. There can be, in this respect, only One True Religion. Only One Way in which that religion can be practiced, and possessed. To say that all religions have a common point of approach is misleading, and deceiving.
I know that among these various religions, there are individuals who have found The Way to the method of becoming Transformed into the Divine Nature of the Father. This, notwithstanding, that the teachings and creeds of the several churches do not show The Way to this Soul Development into the Spiritual of the Divine. In these churches, there is waiting, in their dogmas and doctrines, that, which will help humans to this True Religion.
Because it may be found that in the churches there are some who have, to a degree, this Divine Spirituality, there is no justification in saying that there is any common place of meeting in these several religions. Of course, the Moral Precepts may be, and are, taught by all the christian churches. When observed will ultimately lead all humans, to the Condition of the Perfect Natural Human. Only to this extent can it be said that they may have a common ground of religion, arising from the belief in the Moral Teachings.
The church, which declares and teaches as its religion with great exactness and more enlarged comprehension is the church in which this, as I may call it, Natural Religion exists. The more dissimilar these churches are in these teachings, the farther apart is their approach. If a preacher of one church knows, with the conviction that arises from their sincere and honest investigation of the Moral Laws, that some other church is not teaching or insisting on the observation on the part of its members, of these Great Moral Truths then they have no right to conclude and say, this latter church is the possessor of religion, as is the church in which these Moral Truths are taught and followed by its adherents.
It is a mistake for a preacher to say that because there may be good and Spiritual humans in all churches, therefore, one church is as good and religious in its teachings as another church. Truth, is of such a Nature that it cannot be compromised. The human, or preacher, who would compromise the Truth, is not fulfilling their duty to God, or human.
The church, which teaches that there is nothing greater than morality, and that human can become no more transcendent than the Perfect Human, is devoid of the Truth, and would not be accepted, as a teacher of the Full Truth, as should the church, which knows, and teaches, The Way, by which human may become a Divine Angel.
That the preachers of the various churches should accept as equal, and the possessors of, the True Religion, whenever these Moral Lessons are alike taught by these churches, and have a common point of approach, is not to be wondered at, because these preachers do not know the Higher Religion, or are able to teach The Way to the same. When it is understood that a Moral Truth is a Truth, no matter where it may appear, and by whom taught, there is some justification in declaring that all churches which teach the Moral Truths are on a Plane of Equality. That one is entitled to as much respect and freedom from criticism, as another. Further, as The Great Truth of the Re-Bestowal of the Potentiality of receiving the Divine Love, and the effect on human's souls was never known, and taught, until the coming of the Master, it is not surprising that none of the churches can, or do, teach this Great Spiritual Truth, and The Only True Religion arising there from. The Knowledge of this Truth perished from the Earth, a short time after the passing of the Master. Hence, no church can teach this Religion of the Soul that Transforms the mortal into the Divine.
The Religion of the Perfect Human may exist in varying degrees in all the christian churches. The religion of the Divine Angel exists in none. Although, some individuals of these churches, to some extent, have received in their souls the Great Truth, the Divine Love, even though they have no intellectual knowledge of the same.
I thought it advisable to make these few remarks on the declaration of the preacher, as showing that his broad assertion, that the religions mentioned, which to him is all embracing, may have a common meeting point with every religion. When he learns the Truth, he will realize the errors of his human and brotherly declarations.
I will not write more. Goodnight and God Bless you.
Your brother in Christ, Luke.
April 27th, 1918
I am here, Perry.
Let me write a line, for I am very desirous of again communicating to you the fact that I am progressing, and have found the Divine Love, of which you first told me, and which information led to my seeking to possess it.
I know that you are very much interested in the Higher Messages, and want to give your time to receiving them. That it is almost impudence for me to intrude. I have asked your wife if I will interfere with any of these messages tonight by my writing. She informed me that it would not, as none of the messages would be written tonight. So I feel somewhat at liberty to write. I hope that you will consider that I am not intruding.
Well, since last I wrote you, I have been praying to the Father, with all the longings of my soul, for an increase of His Divine Love, and realize that it has come into my soul in greater abundance. I am correspondingly happy. I shall soon be in the Third Sphere, so the spirit friends who have been so kind and loving to me tell me. It gives me much happiness to know that such a prospect is opened up to me. For I can, because of the progress that I have already made, and realize to some extent, what a home in that Sphere will mean to me.
I would like to write you a long letter tonight. I must not detain you. This I want you to remember, that I am very happy now. My sufferings have left. I know that all these Blessings came to me because of the workings of the Divine Love in my soul. It is wonderful what that Divine Love can accomplish, in the way of rescuing a sinful soul from its surroundings of darkness, and from suffering the Law of Compensation, which is a Great Truth, does its work without hesitation, partiality, or interference by any God, or Angel, in the way of commanding it to cease its work. This great Divine Love is more Powerful than the Law. When it enters into the soul of a human, or spirit, it in effect says to this Law, you shall no longer operate on the soul of the sinner that was, because it will take that soul away from and outside the operations of the Law. How little humans understand this working of the Divine Love. It does not set aside the Law, but it merely removes the soul in which it has found a lodgment, from the scope of the operation of the Law. The Law goes on, but the objects of its operations are rescued from the same. No Law is set aside, which humans think, and argue, is necessary in order for a soul to be saved from its penalties. When on Earth, I believed this too. Did not believe in, or accept, the doctrine of the special interposition of Divine Providence to succor humans from the consequence of their sins. That I did not believe because I thought that the only way in which this could be accomplished, was for God to say to the Law, you shall cease to operate.
Now I know that, while the Law never ceases to operate, until the penalties that I suffer for have been paid, yet this Divine Love is above the Law, but not antagonistic to it. I wish that I might write more on this subject tonight, as to me, it is one of the Most Wonderful Truths in God's Universe of Spirit. I never cease to meditate upon it, and thank the Father that I was made a real example of the Power of this Divine Love.
Well, I must stop now. When you have time, I should like to come and write at more length. I see that my wife has not progressed in learning the Truth. I am very sorry. Well friend, goodnight.
Your friend, Perry.
April 28th, 1918
I am here, James.
I am here, and desire to say a few words, as I have been with you this evening at the church. I listened to the lecture of the preacher, and feel that he misapplied his opportunity for furnishing his hearers Spiritual Food, which they all are so much in need of, and which in many cases, their souls are longing and crying for.
The lecture of the preacher was instructive, in a certain way, appealed to the sympathies, and Better Nature, of those who heard it. It contained nothing that tried to open up the souls of humans to the Divine Love of the Father, or show them The Way to the Celestial Kingdom of the Master, or The Way in which they may become Divine in their soul Qualities of Divine Love, or in Perfect Union with the Spirit Love of the Father. I do not know that what I have said will serve any good purpose. Yet, I thought it best for me to communicate to you their thoughts. Perhaps they may do some good in the future, when you come to demonstrate the Truths that you have received.
I will not write more. Goodnight, James.
April 28th, 1918
I am here, Helen.
I am your own true and loving Helen.
Well, dear, I have been with you a very great deal today, and know just how you have felt, and experienced a happiness in your soul arriving from the thoughts that you had in reference to things of the soul.
I will not attempt now to comment on either of the sermons that you heard. I know just what thoughts you had in reference to the same. Your thoughts were as my thoughts. It is so important, but sad that the preachers have not had more information of the Truth, so that they might tell their hearers.
Tonight the Master was with you, listened to the lecture, impressed you with the thoughts that you had, and felt that he would like to be able to tell the preacher just what his future is. He is a representative, as he claims of the Christian teachings, with a duty upon him to give forth these teachings to his people. Yet he failed to do so. It is pitiable that such condition of ignorance of the Truth exists among the ministers of the Gospel. It is so. No help can apparently be offered them until the Truths that you are receiving shall be published and spread among them.
The Master would have written tonight, had circumstances been altogether favorable. They were not. He will come very soon and communicate. I will not write more now.
So my dear, Love me. Pray to the Father for His Divine Love.
Goodnight, your own True and Loving Helen.
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