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Messages from Jesus and Celestials on Divine Love 1919
January 5th, 1919
I am here, Spinoza.
Let me write a few lines, as I have not written you for some time. I am quite anxious to give some thoughts that may be of benefit to you. I am not one of the spirits who write to you of what they call the Higher Truths, yet I have a knowledge of some of these Truths, and believe in all that has been communicated to you. I know, that the spirits who write you, are of the Celestial Spheres, possessed of Knowledge that we who live in the Spirit Spheres do not possess.
Well, I merely want to say a few words in reference to the predictions, which you heard tonight, and as regards the source of the same. As you know, the woman is a medium, gifted with the power of clairvoyance and inspirational receptivity. On many occasions, she perceives, and receives, some of the Truths of the Spirit World, and some of the persons whom she professes to see. Her communicants though, are not of a very High Order of Development. She, herself, could not see the Highly Developed Spirits, because the Law of Communication and Rapport applies to her phases of mediumship, just as it does to yours. She is a very good woman, Morally, with some temperamental defects, and attracts spirits of Moral worth and conditions. Her guides are in the condition that enables them to live in the Brighter Spheres, yet not having much Spiritual Development.
She professes to declare the predictions of her spirit friend, G____, as to what the future, for the ensuing year will be in the experience of humans and nations. Well, she has such a control (spirit), and he is a very intelligent spirit. To some extent, inspires her with his ideas of what the future holds out to humankind. She, with more or less exactness, declares his thoughts as they are impressed upon her mind. In connection with these thoughts, she incorporates thoughts of her own, believing that they are inspired also, but such is not the fact, though, possibly, these thoughts furnish as good grounds for the predictions, as do the thoughts of her control.
I do not believe, at least I have never had it demonstrated to me, that any spirit can make truthful predictions, such as the medium expressed tonight. For spirits have not the powers of Omniscience, and are as dependent upon the workings of the Law of Cause and Effect, as are mortals, with this exception, that they can perceive many existing causes that mortals cannot. Hence, because of this knowledge can make predictions of the future happening of effects that mortals cannot make. Take from spirits the knowledge of these causes, and their predictions, are merely guesses, which may, or may not, come true.
As you heard, she declared many things that are problems now existing. The subjects of much thought and study on the part of mortals, who give their attention to these matters. She, as one of them, had her own thoughts, had formed her own conclusions, and believed that they were the results of inspiration. Whereas, they had their foundation in her own mind, arising from her knowledge of, and speculations on, these things.
The present conditions of the World are such, that there exists great probabilities of the happening of many things that the medium predicted. Many persons, having knowledge of these conditions, will predict, if they be called upon, future occurrences, similar to those mentioned by the medium. If they should happen, it will not be because any spirits know the facts, but because there are causes existing, which will necessarily bring them about.
Well, such meetings, and such predictions, will not do any harm. On the contrary, will cause many people to turn their thoughts to Spiritual Things, and to Spiritualism, which will tend to liberate their minds from the shackles that are now preventing them from seeking and understanding the Truth.
I will not consume more of your time now. I hope to be able to write later.
Goodbye, your friend, Spinoza.
January 5th, 1919
I am here, Helen.
Well dear, I am sorry that I could not write a while ago, but there were some spirits in trouble who wanted to write. I did not feel justified in using force to drive them away, though White Eagle would not let them write. We must expect such interferences, and abide the results for a while. You understand, I know, and will not think that I did not desire to write.
Well, you have received a letter tonight from a spirit who has written you before. As I then told you, he is a very bright and intelligent spirit, but not of the Celestial Spheres. Only knows the Truths, which came with the development of his soul in Natural Love. We have tried to help him, but have not yet been successful in convincing him, that what we tell him is the Only Way that will lead him to the happiness of the Divine. Yet we expect that sooner or later he will understand and follow our advice.
Helen.
January 6th, 1919
I am here, Francis Bacon.
Let me write just a few lines, as I desire to tell you of a thing which may be of importance to you.
I see you are a little disturbed over what a man said to you tonight as to his want of belief in the identity of the spirits who profess to manifest themselves through mediums. Well, this need not disturb you one particle. The identity of the spirit is just as real and certain as is the fact that a human can and does identify another after an absence, more or less long, from the latter's appearance, voice, and so forth. In the case of their identification, they depend on the operation of certain of their senses, such as their sight and hearing. Through them, they satisfy their mind, that the human identified is the identical person that they may claim to be, as you may say, they would be a very silly human if they would not accept such identification as convincing and determinate.
In the case of the identifying of those who are in the spirit, who come with the powers, and with the presence, of spirits only, they cannot, of course, use their senses, for the purpose of identification. If they had to depend upon these organs alone, they would never be able to conclude that the spirits who present the phenomena, are those who profess to be their friends, or acquaintances. Most mortals do not have the gift of perceiving, or receiving, the impression of, the presence of spirits. In such cases, are in the condition of the blind and deaf human, with reference to the things of Earth. The latter has no means of identifying their closest friends. Yet, it would be just as reasonable to contend that these friends are not existing and present, the same, day after day. As for mortals to say that the spirits of those, who once lived on Earth, are not existing and present, because the mortals have not the faculties of seeing and hearing them. There are things in Earth Life, as well as in Spirit Life, that can come to the knowledge of some humans, only through information given them by other humans, who have superior powers and faculties for seeking for, and obtaining this information.
Some mortals have eyes, and faculties, not material, as usually understood, for seeing, hearing, and receiving, knowledge from the spirits, and who render what is thus seen, heard, and received, just as real and certain, as are real and certain the presence of mortals and material things to those who have their physical organs of sight and hearing. The identity of what is seen, heard, and received, is just as truly established in the former as in the latter case. All humans who are wanting, as to the nonmaterial organs mentioned, can identify the things of the material world, and are satisfied of the fact. Make their mode of such identification the standard, by which they must, and only, can become convinced of the identity of the things of the Spirit World. When they insist upon such method of identification, they of course, can never be convinced, except, perhaps, in those phenomena as are manifested in materialization and spirit photography.
When the merely physical powers, or means, of ascertaining the existence and identity of things, or humans, are used, then those who confine their search for Truth, and the discerning of the identity of claimed existences, to the use of such physical organs, will never be able to see, hear, or receive, that, which might convince them of the identity of the things existing in the Spirit World.
This is the result of the Eternal Laws of the Universe in their operations. No desires, or efforts, of human can change this result. Human is unfortunate when they assume the position that unless these Laws can be, or are, changed, in order that they may by their physical organs see, hear, or be able to identify the things of the Spirit World, they will not believe that there is identity existing among the spirits who come to humans, and in various ways manifest their presence.
When a human stands on the compliance with this condition, as necessary to convince them of the identity of those friends of theirs who have passed to Spirit Life, and who come in psychical phenomena and manifest themselves, it is useless to try to convince them, because of the very necessities of the Laws governing such phenomena. Those who do believe, and those who know of, this identity will only waste time and effort in trying to convince humans who assume the position of depending entirely on the physical means which they may possess.
There are many humans today, who are truly convinced, and have all sufficient grounds for their convictions, as to the identity and presence of their spirit friends. They are not deceived, but enjoy the happiness that comes to them from such knowledge.
In my observations of the workings of human minds, upon this question of the existence and identity of spirits, I learn that such evidence, as would satisfy their minds, under the strictest requirements, as to material things, is brushed aside as wholly inadequate. Sometimes, not even worthy of consideration, to satisfy them as to these Spiritual Things. It seems, that the greater knowledge they possess of the Nature of, and Laws controlling material things, the less credence, and consideration, will they give to the Nature of, and Laws, controlling Spiritual Things. Every other explanation of psychical phenomena is put forth, and accepted, rather than, the simple and Natural one. If humans only knew what Nature really is, and its Laws, they would realize how little they now know of Nature. Generally, "Nature" is only that consciousness of things material, which comes within their limited cognition. They do not know that the larger part of Nature, if it can be separated, is beyond the things, or conditions, which they have knowledge of, as being the Material of the Universe.
Well, as I said, the identity of the Spiritual cannot be, and must not be, expected to be established by the operations of the merely physical organs of human, except perhaps in those manifestations appearing in the phenomena of materializations, or spirit photography. Even they are not accepted as Real, or True, by many humans who accept what are called scientific deductions, from supposed facts, connected with the manifestations, of what these humans consider to be "Natural".
So the proof of the presence, and identity, of spirits, will have to depend upon the results produced by the operations of Laws controlling the Spiritual Existences, and the psychical powers and gifts of certain humans. Sometimes it may be that these gifted persons will be accepted as honest and truthful, not self-deceived. The manifestations resulting from the exercise of these powers, as the effects of the efforts and intelligence of spirits, who, at one time, were human beings.
When humans come to realize, that the change called death, does not destroy identity, consciousness, and powers of mind, as well as what may be called powers physical. For the material of the Universe is used, and operated, by spirits, but on the contrary, intensifies these possessions and powers, then they will accept the Truth that the presence of the spirits of their departed friends, is a variety. That the identity of these spirits is Eternal.
Well, I have written as much as I think best to write tonight. Thank you for your indulgence.
With kind regards, I will say goodnight.
Your friend, Francis Bacon.
January 12th, 1919
I am here, Jesus.
Let me say a few words. I have been with you tonight while at church, and since you came home. I understand, your desire to have the preacher read my message on the soul. I agree with you that it is advisable. He has some conception of what the soul is, but his knowledge is not of that character, as to enable him to express the most important qualities, its origin, or difference, from the spirit.
I was glad that he undertook to deal with this subject. It has given you the opportunity of making known to him, or of affording him, the opportunity to talk to him about these Truths. Then be able to enlighten him. His mind is working in error and misconception of what the Truth of these Spiritual Things are.
I desire to come soon and write another message. I am only waiting for you to get into the necessary condition, that I may do so.
Well, I will understand you. I will come some night this week. Think more of these Spiritual Things. Pray more to the Father for His Divine Love. You will not fail to get in condition. Our work will go on. We will have many messages. Yet tonight we must take advantage of every possible moment.
I have been with you a great deal lately trying to influence you, and turn your mind to these Spiritual Things, and away from merely earthly things that are not important to you.
I hope that you will soon, be so situated that you can give all your thoughts and attention to the work. I believe you will, if you will make the effort. You know we can help you in many ways, but more depends upon yourself, as to these material matters. You must act.
I will not write more tonight. With my Love, and the Father's Blessings, I will say goodnight.
Your brother and friend, Jesus.
January 12th, 1919
I am here, your own true and loving, Helen.
Well dear, the Master has just written you. He was very much interested in what you have in mind to do. You must try your utmost to be ready to receive his message when he comes. Nothing to you is of more importance.
I will soon come and write a little upon some features of the soul, which is not in the Master's messages. I mean about the soulmates, and their Love. So expect me.
Baby says she wants to write and tell you what she knows about Love and happiness. Will do so, as soon as you will arrange things. I will not write more tonight as you are somewhat tired.
So sweetheart, Love us. Pray to the Father. Believe that I Love you with all my heart and soul, the great thing to you and me.
Goodnight, your own True and Loving Helen.
February 11th, 1919
I am here, Robert Dale Owen.
Let me say just a word, for I am interested in your work, and in the phenomena of Spiritualism. I have been with you as you read the book, which attempts to show the Truth of Spiritual Manifestations, the instances mentioned of spirits showing themselves in the garb of humans are True. I was then an investigator of the question. Had only the knowledge, which I received from my own observation. Hence, was an outsider, as it were, of these Spiritual phenomena. I mean, that I was not one of the gifted ones of Earth, who can have the power of receiving, or communicating, with spirits, by reason of the fact that they possess the power of seeing, feeling, or hearing, the presence of spirits. I was not so gifted.
I am now an investigator of Things Spiritual. But not of the possibility of communicating with the Spirit World. This I know to be a fact, beyond all question. Humans, who doubt the fact, are in the condition of those who will not learn. Because they do not believe in the First Principles of the Phenomena. Are willing to let their prejudices, or their indifference, lead them away from the Truth.
The phenomena, which I have portrayed in my book, are very simple, and of the lower order of Spiritual Phenomena. Yet humans will not believe, because they fail to approach the subject with open minds, and desire to learn the Truth, even though the search for the same leads them along lines of investigation that are so foreign to the course of study that they are pursuing in their various vocations. Of all the bigoted and hardheaded investigators of Truth, the preachers are the most difficult to teach the Truth of Spiritualism. Their periscope is one that enables them to see only in a straight line that has been laid down to them for ages, and holds them in its iron grasp.
I would like to come to you sometime, and write you a long description of the Spirit World, and its phenomena. Although, it may not surprise you very much, considering what you have had Revealed to you.
Well, you have asked me some questions which I cannot answer in one breath. I am in the Third Sphere, where many spirits are pursuing their studies of things, which pertain to the Laws of the Spirit World, as well as to the Laws of the Earth. I have not heard of the Divine Love, except as we call all "Love" divine. It must be so, for it leads us to the Spheres, where those who are sinless and in Harmony with the Father reside. I am a True Believer in the Things of God, in the Redemption of all humankind, sooner, or later. My intellect is only part of my existence in the Spirit World. Above, and greater than that is, the (Natural) Love that causes me to become in Harmony with the Laws of God, and at-one with him (in spirit, not soul). These are the answers to your questions. I should like to write you at length upon the Truths, of what I have so briefly stated. I know that you are very busy in receiving communications from the Spirit World, and have little time for communications from strangers. Yet, I should like to write at least one letter in reference to my condition, and knowledge of things as I have found them.
I say what is True. I have never heard of the Divine Love, in the sense that you have spoken of. I have never talked with spirits who claim to have this Divine Love, and to be better than are the spirits who are progressing in the (Natural) Love, which they have, and as to Immortality. I only know that death merely sets the soul of the mortal free, and enables it to enter onto its progress towards the Higher Spheres, where Truth and Goodness are.
Let me wait a moment in my astonishment. I see more spirits, who seem to be of a different order of spirit from me, and are brighter, and more beautiful, and are willing to tell me of the Divine Love, for they all claim to know it. I do not understand. I am sure that if they are possessed of this Divine Love, it is only another form of belief. I am all confused, and cannot think for the moment. I will come again. I must go.
Goodnight, Robert Dale Owen.
February 19th, 1919
I am here, Job.
Let me say a few words tonight upon a subject that is of importance to humankind, and to the Future of Human.
I see that you have been reading a book professing to give communications from a spirit who claims to be possessed of a "divine mission" in the way of teaching humans the Truths of the soul, of the way to Immortality and Life. Well, you may accept what is said, with some degree of Truth as to the condition of spirits who are progressing in the development of their Natural Love, and as to the facts that await a soul after it has left the Mortal Life. Many of the statements contained in the writings are True. Should be accepted, and acted upon, by mortals who desire a knowledge of the True Way to a Kingdom of the Purified Soul, and to a reconciliation to God, in The Way of Renunciation.
God is Good! Not the hateful and merciless being that your orthodox beliefs teach. He is always the same, NOW, as in the days of old, when humans conception of Him were determined by their own ideas of what a God should be, and what humans should believe him to be.
There are many things taught in the writings of the book that are not True, though in accord with the knowledge possessed by the (spirit) writers, and suited to the condition of the medium, through whom the messages were delivered. The writers were spirits who were highly developed intellectually, and morally. They had knowledge of the Truths, to an extent that made what they said powerful expositions of the Truth, as they knew it to be (as the result of their progression in the Natural Love). Beyond the fact that humans must, in order to become Pure and Holy, do those things, which the Law of Harmony, in their Natural Love demands, they could not teach.
Now, while this is all True, yet they did not know of the Higher Truths that make a human, or the soul of a human, Divine, and At-One with the Father. Could not teach, because they did not possess any Knowledge of, only so far as they knew, must, their teachings be accepted as Truth. They were far in advance in their renditions of the disclosures contained in the Bible, both as to God, and Jesus, and the Final Destiny of Human. Their Revelations should be accepted, in place of the teachings of the Bible. They were not only acquainted with the Laws of God, as dealing with human in their relation to good and evil, but also with the Laws, as to human's release from the consequences of their acts and deeds of Earth, and as to their release from the consequences of their evil acts.
I would like to write now, but the rapport is broken.
Goodnight, Job.
February 19th, 1919
I am here, John.
Let me say just a word. I was with you today when you were talking to your friend. I heard your conversation, and saw the utter want of comprehension on the part of your friend, as to the Truths of the Spirit World, especially, of the Laws that divide the mere Perfect Human, from the Divine Human, or spirit. He is so engulfed in the conceptions that he has of these Loves, arising from his experience in Life, that he can only see the existence of one Love, the Natural. His mind is not capable of seeing the other (Divine) Love. Of course, his soul has not that development, which would assure him of the Reality of the Divine Love.
The mind itself is capable of informing him of the existence, and working, of the Natural Love, as this is the only means that he possesses of understanding what Love is, he cannot possibly understand this Divine Love, and that soul, developed to a degree by the Very Divine Love itself. He may argue, to the extent of the capacity of his mind. He will never be able to comprehend the Divine Love that requires a perception of the soul (developed in the Divine Love itself). He may remain satisfied, and convince himself, that the Natural Love is the only Love, and that when it becomes developed to a certain degree, it becomes the divine love. Then find that that he is far away from the Truth.
He must know, I mean it is necessary for him to know, that only those who have the Divine Love, to some degree, are capable of knowing that the Divine Love is a thing of itself, not the development of the Natural Love, and has in it not the qualities of that Divine Love. The one (Divine Love) is of God, that is; partakes of His Very (Soul) Nature, while the other is also of God, but does not partake of His (Soul) Nature, but is only a Creation, intended to make human happy, and Perfect in their Condition of the mere Perfect Human, the merely Created existence.
I thought that I would give you these short comments on your conversation, in order to show the grave and important mistake under which your friend is laboring. He will not easily believe these Things of Truth while in the flesh. When he comes to Spirit Life, the difficulties will be just as great. It may be that he will always be content to remain the possessor of this Natural Love only. I wish that it might be otherwise, that he might let go his intellectual belief, and hearken to the call of the soul, which when not trammeled by these beliefs, is continually longing for this Greater Love.
Believe that I am your friend, and interested in you, to an extent that you cannot now comprehend, which some day you will understand and wonder that such a thing could have been.
Goodnight.
Your brother in Christ, John.
February 19th, 1919
I am here, your own true and loving Helen.
Well, dear, your condition is better tonight than for a long time past. We have great expectations that before long it will be such that a rapport can be made, and the spirits be able to write with ease.
The spirit who attempted to write you was a High Spirit, and was desirous of writing you. He was very sorry when the rapport was broken, as he had much to say on the subject of the writings, which you have been reading. I am sorry that the conditions were not such as to enable him to continue. It is better than it was for a long time. Will improve if you will only pray more, and give more of your thoughts to the Spiritual Things.
I wish that you were in the condition that once was yours, so that the Master, and others, could write you. You may now know, but it is a fact, that you are being looked after, with such watchfulness and care, that your condition shall not be injured. That no other spirits are permitted to communicate with you, who have not the powers of the Celestial Spirits. We desire that you shall be preserved for the work, which is yours to do. So we do not permit communication from the ordinary spirits to intervene. Soon you will be alright again. Then the Higher Spirits will come and write you, as they desire. Only wait a little while.
Tonight, I should like to write a long message. I will not, for fear that your condition may be interfered with. So I will stop now.
Remember that we Love you, and are trying to help you in everyway. Goodnight.
Your own True and Loving Helen.
March 3rd, 1919
I am here, Jesus.
Let me write a few lines, for I am anxious to tell you that you have not been in good company today, as the meeting was filled with spirits who are of the Earth Plane, and knew not the Truths, that will lead to a Knowledge of the things that are necessary, in order to secure a home in the Celestial Heavens. Many spirits were those of humans, who when on Earth, lived immoral and licentious lives. Who are in the same condition as they were when on Earth. They have not yet answered to the Law of Compensation. Of course, you will see that their influence is not of the kind that tends to develop those soul qualities that lead to the Celestial Heaven, of the followers of me in the True Sense.
The medium with whom you conversed, and who delivered the messages of some of the spirits who were so anxious to reach their friends of Earth, was influenced by spirits who are in a condition of more or less darkness, and alienation from God. Consequently, suffers from her association, and the influence, to which she was subjected. She has long been in this work of demonstrating to humankind, the fact of communication between the spirits in the flesh, and those who have passed the mysterious border line. Her work has been strenuous, and served to demonstrate the fact, for which it was intended. She is satisfied with the Reality of the fact of the Continuity of Life, after so called death. This has been a phase of mediumship that was necessary to be performed. She has done her work faithfully and well. Is now entitled to be relieved of this work, that pertains to the lower order of Spiritualism. Should be freed of this great burden, and be permitted to come into a Knowledge of the Higher Things of Spirit Life. I am glad that you will soon have the opportunity to tell her things that await her, as a reward for all the sacrifices that she has been compelled to make.
Now, do not misunderstand me. Her work was necessary, as a preliminary to the conversion of humans, to a belief in the Truth of Spirit Communication, and the fact that there is no death, and to the consolation that comes to humans, from the knowledge that their Loved ones are with them, seeking to help, and be helped, in their conditions that the Great Law of Cause and Effect (the Law of Compensation, or Recompense) imposes upon them. Many a sad heart has been comforted by her ministrations. Many a spirit has been helped, by having opened up to them the way to make known their presence to mortals.
She has, from the very Nature of her occupation, been more or less injured in her Spiritual Progress. The time has come when she shall have the opportunity to attend to, and obtain, her own Soul's Progress. She is naturally a good woman. When she told you that she had a longing for something, for which she did not understand, she was uttering a Great Truth of her soul. One that has been present with her since she was a little child. For her soul has been calling to the Great Soul of the Father for His Love, and the Happiness that comes with the Knowledge that the Father's Love is ever ready and anxious to respond to her longings. Her Knowledge of Spiritualism does not teach her what this Love is, even though her soul feels its Presence. In her underdeveloped longings, realizes that there must exist that, which will draw her closer to the Great Love of the Father.
So I say, tell her the Truths that have been Revealed to you, and of your experience in seeking for, and obtaining, this Transforming Divine Love. She will listen, seek, and obtain. With such obtaining, will come a Happiness she has never before experienced. When she has believed in this Divine Love, and obtained it to a degree, she will become a powerful instrument in converting humans to a belief in The Only Way to the Celestial Heavens, and to Immortality. Then, will she have back of her the influence of the Hosts of Celestial Angels, to inspire her, and qualify her, to preach the True Kingdom of God. Her faculties of clairvoyance will be opened up to see the Things of the Celestial Heavens, and the wonderfully bright and glorious spirits, who will come to her, with their Messages of Truth, and Knowledge of the Glories that belong to those who know that the Divine Love of God is the Only Thing that can Transform the human soul into an Angel of Light, and the Immortality, that I came to Earth to teach, and which I did teach. But which, alas, was so soon lost to the Knowledge of humans.
I am particularly interested in her, not so much because of her own soul, as because she has in her, those qualities that can be used by us in making known to the World, the Truths, which we of the Celestial Spheres, Know, will set them free from the false and damning teachings of the orthodox churches, and making my coming to Earth, and living, not dying, The Way to the Truth and the Life. She may think that her knowledge, I mean intellectual, is all that needs to be known. But when she let's her soul's longings go to the Father, and receives the Response, which she will certainly receive, she will then know that Spiritualism, as she conceives it to be, is the mere forerunner of that, which will make All humans, At-One with the Father, when embraced by human, and lived.
The meetings, such as was held today, while as I have said, was filled with spirits who are in darkness and suffering, yet, also, attracted many spirits who are bright and progressing in their Natural Love, and who tried to help those to whom they came and communicated. To that extent did good. Also, served to convince the unbelievers of the Truth, of the mere passing from the body of flesh into the spirit body, a continued existence, without changing of condition of happiness, or misery. The Great Law of Compensations, "As you sow, so shall you reap", is taught at the meetings. There is no Truer, or Greater Law, in all the Universe of God. Human must realize that it works, without exception, to the last farthing, and that there can never be forgiveness, until forgetfulness takes place.
Well, my dear brother, I must stop, as the power is weakening. Before closing, let me entrust you to tell the medium, that I, Jesus of the Bible, as I called my disciples when on Earth, now call her to do the work, which is so important to humankind, and that she must prepare herself, by seeking for this Divine Love. It is utterly impossible for a soul out of unison with the souls of the spirits who come to it, to receive their communications, and transmit the same, to humankind. Her soul must respond to the souls of the spirits. It will be so easy for her to get into the condition that will make this possible. Like attracts like. This Law (of Attraction) applies to rapport, and to other things of the Spirit World, and of the Earth as well.
I see that you are in better condition tonight. I am pleased. I will soon come and write another message, with reference to the Higher Truths.
With my Love and blessings, I will say goodnight.
Your brother and friend, Jesus.
March 6th, 1919
I am here, Emerson.
Let me write tonight, on a subject that is of importance to humankind. One which so few of mortals know, or conceive of, in their teachings and philosophy. I am one who inhabits the Sixth Sphere, where the Pristine Purity of the First Humans obtains. Where sin, or the alienation from God, has no existence. You may not know, but it is a fact, that the Purity of this Sphere is such that the souls of humans find only that, which makes a human like unto God, and renders them happy and satisfied, with their existence, and with the divine attributes and nature with which they were Created, which God, in the Infinitude of His Powers, decreed that human should possess and enjoy to the fullest of their capacity. I am he whose book you have been reading tonight. Who was attracted to you by the fact that you were interested in the book, and sought the Truths of the Soul, as therein set forth. The soul, is one, that while individualized yet is a part of the great Oversoul. In its aspirations and thoughts of those things that are Pure, and in Harmony with the Oversoul, has a satisfaction that is complete, and at-one with the Father of Light and Love.
This Sphere is one where only the Perfected Soul can live, bloom, and feels its qualities of the divine as Perfect. No soul, that has not rid itself of sin, can possibly enter. I only know that we who inhabit that Sphere have that feeling of Purity and Perfection that was granted to our First Parents, which by them, was lost at the time of their disobedience. This soul is very much like unto the Great Soul of the Father, needs not the qualities that you have known on Earth, as the one that causes you to realize that the Father has for human, a Higher and Greater Existence than The Perfect Human.
Well, I have lost my rapport and must stop.
Goodnight, Emerson.
March 9, 1919
St. Luke.
Let me write a few lines tonight, as you are in better condition. I am able to make a rapport with you and deliver my message.
I was with you today at a meeting of the New Thought people. I saw the impression made upon you by the speaker, in his efforts to show that God is within human, and that only the opening up of the soul, or mind, of human to the development of that God is all that is necessary to bring that human into a Perfect at-onement with the Truths of God's Will. Well, I have to say that this speaker, when he comes to a Realization of himself in the Spirit World, will find that God is not in him, or in anything that he may have possessed in his Earth Life. That his development of the "kingdom within" him, as he termed it, was a mere delusion, a snare to the progress of his soul, in its career through the Earth Life, as well as through the Heavens, or Spirit World.
He is mistaken when he announces that the kingdom of heaven is within him, or that he has that within him, which can by its development, lead to the condition of the Perfect Human, in the sense that he spoke of. He is following a false way. All the efforts that he may make, will not lead him into the paths that end in the Perfect Human (Divine Angel) that partakes of the Father's Divinity.
He is also mistaken when he asserts that God is everywhere, in the flowers, in the thoughts of humans, and in the heart. God does not find His Habitation in any of these things. Humans do not live, move, and have their being, in Him. He is a Distinct and Individual Entity. Is not spread over All His Universe, as the preacher proclaimed. Can only be found, by the longings of the soul, followed by a development of that soul in His Divine Love. No, God is in His Heavens. Human can reach Him, only by the persistent longings of their soul for the inflowing of His Divine Love. These things that the preacher declared, were the "Presence" of God, are only the Expressions of His Being. They do not declare His Presence, in any other sense, than as the evidence of His Existence, in His Habitation, from which these expressions flow, and make known to human, His Presence, as these things reflect it. I am sorry that this speaker has not more Knowledge of the True God, and of His Seat of Habitation. For then he would realize that these things, upon which he places so much belief, as being the Very God, Himself, are but the expressions that flow from Him.
Human, has within them, that, which has in itself wonderful possibilities. I mean the soul. It may, by the observance of The Way that Transforms it into a Divine Angel, become Divine itself, or it may, only by the slow process of Renunciation, become merely the Perfect Human, with their Natural Love in a Pure State, which was the condition of the First Parents. If humans will listen to the call to their souls, they will realize this possibility, and receive this Divinity, with it, Immortality. Without this Transformation, they never can become other, or greater, than the Perfect Human.
I know, that humans teach that there is, implanted within the souls of all humans, that, which is capable of being developed into an existence like unto god. That human needs only this development, in order to become a god, and that there is nothing else necessary to make a human soul a part of the Soul of God. In this teaching, humans are mistaken. Will find themselves, at the stage of their Highest Development, nothing more than the Perfect Human (as Created). Human, has within them, only that, with which they were Created. Can, of them self, add not one thing that will change them from this condition of their Creation. It is True that they can, by a right course of thinking, and living, renounce those things that have tainted their soul, and alienated it from The Father, made it sinful and disobedient. When this is done, they are still, only the Perfect Human. Nothing of the Divine is in them. Jesus was the Perfect Human. As such, was an exemplar of what all humans will ultimately become. If Jesus had never become more than the Perfect Human (by praying and longing for the Divine Love of the Father from his soul), he would not now be an inhabitant of the Celestial Heavens, the most Beloved Son of the Father. Yet, he became more than the Perfect Human. It was only after he attained to this Condition of Excellence, that he could say, "I and my Father are one." For it was then only, that he possessed the Divine Love, to that degree, which made him At-One with The Father. Only they, who are At-One with the Father (in this Divine Love of the Father), that realizes that they are possessed of the Very Nature and Spiritual Essence of the Father. There is; Only One Way in which this can be obtained. That is, by the inflowing into the soul of the Divine Love. Jesus could not say to the multitude, that they were at-one with him, and with the Father, for they had only the Natural Love, and had not experienced the Transformation of their souls. Such sayings as this were addressed only to his disciples, or to those among his hearers, who had received this Divine Love.
The speaker spoke of the New Birth, but had no conception of what it meant. Like many other teachers, in and out of the churches, believes that a mere condition of the Purification of the Natural Love constitutes this New Birth, and that that is all Jesus meant when he taught the necessity of being born again. There is, Only One Way, in which this New Birth can be brought about. That you already know.
As to the Moral Truths taught by the Master, such as are referred to in the Sermon on the Mount, undoubtedly, they will, if observed in the heart, bring about a regeneration of the soul, that will lead humans to the Glory of the Perfect Human, and make them at-one with the Laws of their Creation. This condition is devoutly to be wished for, and sought after, by all humans. When they attain to this condition, they will experience the Beatitudes that are mentioned in the sermon. This is only the State of the Perfect Human. Nothing of the Divine enters into their condition.
"New Thought", as it is called, has in it, something that is an improvement on orthodoxy. Humans will be the better, if they will embrace some of its teachings. The great stumbling blocks of the Trinity, the vicarious atonement, and the blood, would be moved from the worship of humans. They would then, rely on the Moral Truths, in the development of their souls for salvation. Would not rest supinely in the belief of the efficacy of the vicarious atonement. Some other things that it teaches are all wrong. Its followers will find, when they come to the Spirit World, that there is a God to be worshipped. That human has not within them, that god to be developed by their own thoughts and deeds.
I know, that according to the "orthodox teachings", too little is thought of the Natural Goodness of Human. Too much emphasis placed in "their innate depravity, that nothing in human is worthy of the release from the sin and disobedience, in which they are now living, that of them self they can do nothing to bring about their Purification, and Restoration, to their Original Condition of the Perfect Human". This is wrong! For very largely upon human's efforts depends their Redemption. "As a human thinketh, in their heart, so are they". They are Naturally Good! Their present condition was brought about by their permitting their soul to be contaminated with sin. To become again Good, they need only to pursue that way, that will remove sin, and its consequences, from their soul. Human created sin. They will have to remove sin. The process will be slow. Ultimately, it will be accomplished. By the efforts of human them self. They will be helped, by spirits who are God's Ministering Angels, in these efforts. But upon them, depends the removal of that, which they created, and imposed. Here let me say, that unless human wills it, they will forever remain in sin. God will not, contrary to human's desires, make them a Pure and Undefiled Being. Human's belief, unaccompanied by striving and seeking, will not be sufficient to bring about this remedy.
The speaker is a "good" human. Has experienced, to a large degree, the workings of his own will upon the conditions of his soul. Knows, that his own efforts have caused him to renounce many things that tended to defile him, and cause doubt. In this condition, realizes much happiness. Thinks that he is, of himself, sufficient to attain to that, which will bring him into a Perfect Unison, with the god, that he thinks is within him. In this, he is deceiving himself. For what he thinks is god, is only an unusual condition of soul development in its Natural Love, that gives him a happiness, which causes him to believe that god must be in, and a part of him.
As you have been told, the happiness of the Purified Soul is beyond all conception of humans. The nearer a human approaches to that condition of Purification of their soul, the greater becomes their happiness. The belief that god must in some way be in that happiness, and form a part of it. When the fact is; that this happiness is only that, which was Bestowed upon human in the beginning. As the soul becomes Purer, and relieved from the defilement of sin, human becomes what they were, in the beginning. Has regained, only that, which by Nature is theirs. They do not receive any part of the Divine, nor does the Father Bestow upon them anything that was not theirs at the Creation. They must realize that by the removal of sin, their soul becomes more, and more, in Harmony with the Will of God. Less, and less, in harmony with their own perverted will.
Let "New Thought" progress, until humans may realize, that they are at-one with them self, their Created selves. Let it not teach them that what they experience, as a removal of sin from their own souls, by their own efforts and thoughts, is evidence of a development of any supposed god within them. For it is not True. Is merely the development of their own Natural Created selves, freed from that, which defiled, and made them unnatural.
The speaker said that the Kingdom of Heaven is within all humans, and needs only for humans to realize that fact, and declare its truth. That then, they will become pure, like unto god, find themselves in the presence of God, and see Him face to face. Well, in this, he is all wrong. The Kingdom of Heaven, or Celestial Kingdom, is not within humans. Though, it may be. Neither is God in their souls, and capable of being seen "face to face". These humans who teach Purification of their Natural Love, and a superior state, resulting from that Purification, and nothing more, will never see God. They will always remain in the mere image, in which they were Created, a merely Purified Human, made in the image of God, and nothing more. The Father will then, be the same unseen Creator, as He is now. Humans will worship Him in faith only. For their soul perceptions, which are the only eyes of the soul that can see God, will not exist. To them, God will still remain the unseen and unknowable Being, that exists today in the knowledge and belief of humans.
Well, I have written enough for tonight. I saw that you were somewhat interested in the teachings of the day. I thought it best that I should write you as to the Truth of the subject, of which he discoursed, and evidently believed.
With my Love to you, and the hope that our messages may now continue without interruption, I will say, goodnight.
Your brother in Christ, Luke.
March 12th, 1919
I am here, St. John, Apostle of Jesus.
I want to say only a few words, in reference to what the man said to you about my gospel, or rather the gospel attributed to me. His reference to the opening words of the Gospel that "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, etc.," is without any force, to prove that Jesus is God, or one of the Godhead. For it was never written by me, or at my dictation. Does not state a Truth.
The "Word", in the sense referred to in that Gospel can mean only God. He, and He Alone, was in the beginning, and made everything that was made.
As we have often told you, Jesus was the son of a father and mother, the same as you are son of your father and mother. Was not begotten by the Holy Ghost, in the sense ascribed to his birth in the account thereof.
He was born of the Holy Spirit as his soul opened up to the inflowing of the Divine Love, and was the First of Humankind to receive this Divine Love, the Father's Essence of Divinity. Hence, was the "First Fruits" of the Re-Bestowal of this Divine Love. As a consequence, was the first fitted to declare the Truths of the Father, and show The Way. As his soul became filled with this Divine Love, he grew in Wisdom and Knowledge of the Truths of the Father, it may be said that he was sent by the Father to declare the Truths, and explain The Way to the Celestial Heavens, and the At-Onement with the Father.
Undoubtedly, this Divine Love commenced to flow into his soul soon after his birth. Because he was selected to declare the Truths of the Re-Bestowal of the Divine Love. The knowledge of that Mission came to him, as he grew in Divine Love and Wisdom. Hence, he was without sin, though apparently only a boy, natural as other boys, in his human instincts and feelings. But he was the son of humans, Joseph and Mary, and also a Son of God, as all humans are, with the addition that he was an heir to the Celestial Kingdom.
He was not God. Even up to this time, has never seen God, as the orthodox believe, as Moses, and some of the Old Bible characters are said to have seen God. With his soul perceptions, he has seen God. So have many others of us who are inhabitants of the Celestial Heavens. That "sight" is just as real to us, as is the sight to you, of any of your fellow mortals. It is impossible to explain this to you, so that you may fully comprehend its meaning. This "seeing" God by our soul perceptions, is a thing of Reality. Brings with it, increased Happiness, and Knowledge of Immortality. Jesus is not God. He is the Most Highly Developed spirit, in All the Heavens. Is nearest to God in Divine Love, and Knowledge of Truth.
So, I say, the Word is God. Jesus is His Son. You may become His Son, in the same sense, as an heir to the Divine Essence of the Father, and an Angel of His Kingdom. As Jesus has written you, all humans are His sons, but with a different inheritance, yet one that is provided by the Father.
Let not these doctrines of the teachers, of what are called Bible truths, trouble you. Listen, and believe only what may be written you by us.
I will not write more tonight as it is late. In closing, will say that you have our Love, and prayers.
I am, your brother in Christ, John.
March 12th, 1919
Let me write a line. I am not going to write a long message but one that is very short.
You are now in condition to receive our messages. I wish to write for a while on the importance of; Knowing The Way to the Celestial Kingdom, which has been written you before. I wish to add to what you have received. You have been told that The Only Way to obtain that Kingdom is by the Divine Love coming into your soul, and changing it into a Thing Divine, which partakes of the very Essence of the Father Himself. Well, this is a correct explanation of the operation of this Divine Love on the soul. But in order to get this Divine Love, there must be earnest supplication on the part of the seeker. A mere mental desire for the inflowing of the Divine Love will not suffice.
This is a matter that pertains to the soul alone. The mind is not involved except, as you might say, to start the soul's longings and prayer. When you think that you are longing for this Divine Love, and have a mere mental desire for its inflowing, the Divine Love will not come. Because it never responds to the mere mind. Must always be sought for by the soul's longings. Many humans have the intellectual desire for the Divine Love of God. Upon that desire, rest. Believe that they have the Divine Love, and that there is nothing further for them to do. They will find themselves mistaken, that instead of possessing this Divine Love, they have Awakened only the Natural Love. In a way, started it towards its goal of the Purified Soul. Like the First Parents before the fall. Will not experience the Transformation, that comes with the possession of the Divine Love. It is no easy matter to have these longings possess the soul. Humans should not remain satisfied with these mere mental desires. They will not be benefitted by such desires, except as I may say, in the way of having their Natural Love Purified. The longings of the soul, comes only from a Realization, that this Divine Love is waiting to be Bestowed, and that the soul must become active, and earnest, in its endeavor to have this Divine Love come into it. Then, the Transformation takes place.
From this, you will see how utterly impossible it is for the devotee of the church to experience this Divine Love, or to have the longings of the soul, which are not aroused by the observance of the church's sacraments, and the duties, which it imposes upon them. They may be ever so zealous in their attendance upon the church services, and in complying strictly with its requirements as to doing those things, which it prescribes. It is with them, all a mental process. The soul is not affected. They may think that their desires are from the soul, and that a response will come. In this, they are mistaken. The soul lies dead. Only when the soul's longings are started into activity, are prayers of the worshiper answered.
So you will see, that a human may be apparently devout, full of zeal for their church, and the teachings of their creed, yet will not be benefitted, so far as the progress of the soul is concerned.
Let not your desires be only of the intellect. Try to bring into activity, the longings of the soul. Do not rest satisfied, until a response shall come. It will certainly come. You will know that the Divine Love is Present, working Its Transforming Power, upon the soul.
This is all I desire to say tonight. I am pleased that you are now in condition to receive our messages. I hope that your excellent condition will continue.
With my Love, I will say, goodnight.
Your own Loving Grandmother, Ann Rollins.
March 13th, 1919
I am here, Abraham Lincoln.
Let me write a few lines tonight, as you are in good condition to receive my message.
Well, I see that you have been thinking a great deal about Spiritual Things, and have longed for the Divine Love of the Father. By such thoughts, and longings, you have come unto a condition that enables the Celestial Spirits to make a rapport with you.
Tonight, I desire to write for a short time on the subject of; "How important it is for humans to learn the Truths of God, in reference to the Plan, which He has prescribed for Human's Salvation, and their coming into Harmony with the Laws that govern them, as the Created Human.
As you have been told, in the beginning, human was Created Perfect, and in all the constituent parts of their being, made in Harmony with God's Laws controlling human as a Perfect Creature. If they had never disobeyed the Precepts of the Father, they would have always remained the Perfect Human.
Now this condition of human, is a fundamental one. The soul, is in itself, just as capable of that Perfection, as it was when Created. Only by the sin of disobedience, was it alienated from God, and made the possessor of those things, which tend to contaminate it, and cause its Pure Condition to be overshadowed, and dormant, as to this Perfection.
All of God's Universe is Perfect! Subject to the Workings of His Perfect Laws (of Love and Harmony). When that condition exists, which shows that some one, or other, of His Creatures are not working, or being, in Harmony with these Laws, it only means, that in order for the restoration to the Harmonious Existence, human must renounce, and get rid of, these foreign things, that have the effect of interfering with the Harmony of their Creation.
There is no such thing as total depravity, or "original sin", or the existence of any condition of the soul in this "original sin", that cannot be remedied by the application of the proper treatment, and the removal of the incubus. Human, in order to become Perfect again, as they were before "the fall", is not required to be recreated, or have imposed upon them, that, which will make them a new, or different, being, from what they were in the beginning. The Perfect Human is still in existence, but is hidden from the sight and consciousness of humans. Needs only their revealment, by eliminating from them, "the covering", which now hides their Real Self (the soul). Nothing new is needed! Only the riddance of the soul from those things, which do not belong to it. Then, the soul will appear, just as it was Created. A Perfect Soul, made in the image of God, but not formed from any portion of the Great Oversoul of the Father.
For a long time now, human has remained in this condition of having their soul "covered over" by those things that are merely the results of the perversion of their appetites, and the animal part of their Nature. It is only by a process of renunciation, that these encumbrances can be gotten rid of and human stand forth, a free and Glorious Being, as they were before the burden of sin came upon them.
In this process, they need no one to pay any supposed debt to the Father, or to make an atonement for them. But they must, them self, by their course of thinking, and consequent doing, remove the things that cause them to appear to them self, and to others, the outcast from God's Favor. In order to accomplish this, they must first renounce the idea that they are a vile being, and not worthy of the Favor of the Father, and assert their belief that they, as the human, is the Perfect Creature of God, and can, of them self, regain the Estate, from which they have fallen. Let sin and error be removed from their present, apparent, existence. In doing this, they will be helped by the spirits of humans, who from their own experience, Know, that sin and error has no Real Existence in the Economy of God, but in the living of human, on Earth, and in the Spirit World as well, have a Reality, that has prevented humans from finding their True Selves.
The Renunciation, is not so much a matter of the intellect, as it is of the Moral Nature of Human. They, while they must use their mind, and its attributes, in working out this Renunciation, yet must try earnestly, and certainly, use the Moral Faculties of their True Nature. For the perversions of these faculties, are the foundation of their present condition of sin and error. This renunciation may take a long time to be accomplished, as humans look upon time. But it will finally come to pass. The Harmony of God's Universe will be restored. In the meantime, humans will suffer, for this renunciation is always accompanied by suffering, not so much as a necessary ingredient, or penalty, of the renunciation, but as a consequence of the changing of humans wills, and desires, in the process of reaching again The Condition of the Perfect Human.
I will stop now, as the rapport has ceased, but will come again.
Goodnight, I am your friend and well-wisher. A. Lincoln.
March 13th, 1919
I am here, your own true and loving Helen.
Well, dear, you have had a communication tonight from Lincoln, who thinks it advisable to write you as he did. He is now in the Celestial Spheres, and knows what the Divine Love is, but said he wanted to write you a short message on human, as they are, and as they may be. He has told you just what the condition of human is, and how they are still the Perfect Human in their True Self, and needs only an "uncovering", to stand forth as the Being Created in the image of God.
Goodnight, my dear husband.
Your own True and Loving Helen.
March 15th, 1919
I am here, George Butler.
I would like to write a few lines tonight, if you are agreeable. A long time ago, I wrote you, describing my condition, and that of the hells, in which I was then living. You were kind enough to help me, and bring me in association with some Bright Spirits, who were willing to show me The Way out of my awful condition. Who, since that time, have been helping me with their Love, sympathy, and prayers. Now, I am happy to tell you, that I have gotten out of my darkness. I am progressing towards the Heavens, which a development and Transformation of the soul, by the inflowing of the Divine Love, leads to.
Tonight, I desire to express to you my thankfulness, and gratitude, for the great service you did me. To say, that in all the Spirit World, there is not one who feels more conscious of the Truth, which your advice leads to, in the Salvation of their soul, and the Redemption from an existence of darkness and suffering, than do I.
I cannot convey to you any conception of what this Redemption means to me, or of the wonderful difference of condition in a soul that has experienced the possession of this Divine Love, and one that remains in ignorance of the Blessings that it confers.
What I wrote you then, I now repeat, that the hell of a soul, which is all tainted and permeated with the results of an Earth Life of sin and error, is wholly True. The contrast between souls in the two states of existence, is impossible of description.
When you spoke to me of the probability of my release from the hells, and told me that this Great Love would work out my deliverance, I confess that, I had very little faith in what you told me. I thought that you were trying to impose on me some of the old nonsensical beliefs of your church doctrines, of which I had heard a great deal when on Earth. When the bright spirits came to me, confirmed what you had said, and offered their services in accordance with what you had advised me was the Certain Way to my obtaining a new state of living, I thought that it was an illusion, or delusion, that no results could possibly come to me by pursuing the course that they told me would surely lead to a change of my condition. But, they were so earnest, and so anxious that I should listen to them, and seemed to have so much Love for me and my welfare, which was a new experience for me since I had been in hells, that I commenced to think that such evidence of friendship, and anxiety for my betterment, must have some Foundation of Truth, and that I would not lose anything by heeding their advice, and making the effort to pursue The Way pointed out to me. So, I commenced to pray for the Divine Love. They prayed with me. In a little while their Father appeared to me in a New Light. Not just Real, but as something that might have a potential Existence. I continued to pray, and listen to their prayers. My emotions were aroused. I felt a kind of happiness that I had not before felt, and a feeling of hope that there might be some efficacy in their prayers, but, had not much Faith in my own. Notwithstanding my incredulity, I realized that I felt better in the atmosphere of their presence, and in the influence that their prayers seemed to bring around me. They were very kind and sympathetic. So wonderfully patient. Impressed me with the feeling that my soul's Salvation, as they termed it, and the deliverance of me from my unhappy and suffering condition, were to them, matters of personal interest and importance. Of course, with such feelings, I soon commenced to think that if these beautiful spirits could have such interest in me, I should have interest in myself, sufficient to earnestly seek for the relief that I so much needed.
Well, I then put more desire, and longings, in my prayers, and tried to look upon their Father, as possibly my Father also. So, my longings became more Real, and intense. I prayed, and called upon the Father to give me this Divine Love, and to cause me to have Faith in prayer, and in the Being, to whom my prayers were offered. I will not tell you how earnestly I continued to pray, and how the first faint Realization of the answer came to me. With it, the Consciousness of a hope that might be fulfilled. After a while, this Divine Love came to me. With it, a felling of happiness that I had never conceived of. Also, the conviction that these spirits were showing and helping me on The True Way to a Redemption of soul and (spirit) body. Also, for as you may know, I had then, and have now, a body more substantial, and real than the one which I possessed when on Earth.
I will not here describe my progress, or the different experiences that I had. Nor the Faith, nor doubts, that came to me in succession. I persisted, with the encouragement of these spirits. After awhile, found myself out of the darkness, sufferings, and the hells, real and terrible. An inhabitant of a Brighter Sphere, in the association of brighter spirits, who, though not like the Beautiful Spirits, who had so Lovingly worked with me, yet, were very different from those whom I had left in the darkness and the hells.
I am now in the Third Sphere. If I had the time, or rather, if I felt justified in consuming your time, I would describe to you, as best I could, what this Sphere is, and the wonderful beauty and happiness that belongs to it. Sometime, I hope to have the opportunity to attempt to portray the wonders of this Sphere, and more particularly of my home and surroundings.
Tonight, as I have said, I merely desire to express to you my gratitude. To assure you of the Truth, and the results of what you told me was the True Way to Light and Happiness.
Never, through All Eternity, shall I forget your kindness, and the great help that you gave me. Nor, shall I cease to remember you in my prayers to the Father, whom I now Know, is a True, Real, Existing, and Loving Father. Oh, the difference in the condition of the Butler in hell, and the Butler who is now writing you, is beyond all description. This Divine Love, which is the Greatest Thing in All the Universe, and the Greatest Gift to mortals, is the cause thereof.
I must stop writing, although I should like to write longer, for I have already intruded too long.
So remember my gratitude, and also that I am now a very happy soul. George Butler.
March 23rd, 1919
Let me write a line, John D. Rogers.
I was with you at the meeting. I saw that you are mediumistic. I felt that I should like to communicate with you for a short time.
I am one of the spirits who frequently attend the meetings of the medium whom you heard speak tonight, and give to some of the people the messages from their Loved ones. I was very anxious to communicate also, but had not the opportunity. I am a man who was known to several of the persons present, would have been recognized had my name been mentioned and would have been gladly received.
I am very unhappy in my present condition and surroundings. I want to learn the way to get out of darkness and unhappiness. I know that the friends of mine who were present think that I am a happy spirit, can come to them and help them in their worldly affairs, when the fact is, that I cannot, and that they can help me more than I can help them. I wish that they would do so. It is terrible to be left in the condition in which I am, with no Light, or the way to get into the light, left open to me.
I never know when to ask for help, for something always comes forward to interfere with my efforts. I am relegated to my awful condition of darkness, in which I have been since I came to Spirit Life. It is a mistake for mediums to believe, or teach, that we all are in a happy condition when we come to the Spirit World, for such is not the case. Many a spirit comes to their relatives, for the purpose of relieving them of any fear, as to their condition. Tells them that they are happy, when they are not.
Well, I came with you, hoping that you might help me some, if only by your sympathy and kind thoughts, which do so much good to spirits situated as I am. I believe that you would probably send up a prayer for my relief. I was not a very good human when on Earth. I am now paying the penalty for my evil thoughts and deeds. My friends thought that I was good. In this they were mistaken. Many a human, who considers them self good, as humans generally do, will find that in the storehouse of their memory, are the records of many thoughts and deeds that they had forgotten, which when they come to Spirit Life, will come upon them, in all their nakedness and horror, to be atoned for, in the way that the Laws of God require. I am not a Christian, though when on Earth, I believed in the creeds of my church, considered myself a very good church member, and was certain that I would be among the redeemed when I should come to meet the great revealer of things as they are, I mean death.
No, the Truth cannot be hidden by belief, or anything, but truth itself. We must all face the great revelation. When it comes, it will not show us to be free from sin and defilement, as I thought when on Earth.
I must pay the penalty. The Great Law (of Compensation) will work in my case, as certainly as that; the sun will rise on your World tomorrow morning.
I have seen sick spirits, but only as you see ghosts, as you believe. I have never had any conversation with them. I do not know that they can do me any good, or that they desire to help me. Why do you ask?
Well, I see a spirit. He is exceeding bright and beautiful. Comes to me, and tells me that he will help me, if I will only believe what he tells me, and follow his advice. I am going with him. I do my best to do as he advises. He says that I will find relief and Light.
I must go. So goodnight.
Your friend, John D. Rogers.
April 7th, 1919
I am here, Jesus.
Let me write a few lines.
I see that you were much interested in what the preacher said tonight about God, and His Personality. That you gave him several questions, which he could not answer. This must be expected. To humans, is not given, ordinarily, a True Conception of God. Or, who, or what He Is. Only by the development of their souls by the Divine Love, can they obtain any conception of His Being. As their souls thus develop, they become a part of His Divinity. Their soul perceptions become opened up to a Realization of who God is, to a small degree at least. Then they know that He is something more than an all-enveloping energy, supplemented by a Purposeful Will.
The preacher has not these soul perceptions. Cannot conceive of God, the Soul. Can only express to you the Truthfulness of the evidences of God's Existence, such as the Energy that he spoke of.
As you know, this Energy is His Spirit, although the preacher has not the exact conception of what this Spirit is, or how it operates. He confuses the soul, and spirit. Makes the mere instrument, by, or with which, God expresses His Energy, to be the Real True (Spiritual) Substance of God, The Soul. He is right when he says that he cannot go back of this Energy to find God. His soul perceptions have not yet been Awakened, to a cognition of that, from which the energy proceeds, or which is the Very Source from which flows all the Manifestations, that to his mind constitutes God. He is like the theologians and philosophers, who believe that these manifestations, energies, and forces, are the only God, the only personal God. He may be shocked to hear that his teachings amount to only this. But it is True. To him there is no more personal God, than to the others. With this exception, that he attempts to believe, that in some manner, and in some way, connected with this Energy, there is a Will, which has in it a Purpose of Love, Kindness, or Fatherly Care. But the Real, Personal God, with His Great Soul of Love, which is being always Bestowed upon the individual human, he does not conceive of, or make his own.
God is Soul! Only Soul! Which has in It, all the Attributes of Love, Wisdom, and thought for the welfare of His Creatures. He is a Thinking and Seeing God. All the Energies of His Soul are used to make humans better, and happier. As is the natural father of the human, a personal father, so is the Great Soul of God, a Personal Father to All His Children. Humans, when they have the development of their souls in the Divine Love, will know that God is Personal. Something more than an all enveloping energy, force, or mere manifestation of His Existence.
The preacher says, in substance, that God is everywhere, and His Presence may be realized by all who are willing to receive that manifestation, and that whether they are, or not, willing, that presence exists just the same. This is "PANTHEISM", toned down a little by his beliefs in a more personal God, but still pantheism. Wholly wrong, and violative of God's Being.
The Source of things can never be the things themselves. Although, the things, as they flow from the Source, have some of the qualities of the Source itself. So, these manifestations of God's Existence, while they are of His Qualities, yet they are not equivalent of His Presence, or the Source from which they flow. God is not everywhere, but in His Heavens. All these Expressions of His Powers, Will, and Energies, are merely evidences, that there is a Source, from which they all come. They are not that Source itself.
Again, the preacher said; "that God Created the body of human, and not the spirit, as he calls it, meaning the soul, so that the body is a Creation by itself, and cannot contain in it the spirit, or the spirit body, but that this spirit is outside of the human body. Is, in a general way, a part of one Great Spirit that is Universal and everywhere. That, therefore, all humans, no matter what their conditions may be in the Earth Life, or in the Eternity part of Life, are brothers. God is the Father of them all".
Well in this the preacher is mistaken. Every human has their own individual spirit (and) soul (being). On the state, or condition, of that soul, depends the happiness, or misery, of the human. They are merely the fellow of other humans because they are a Creature of God, made in His image. Not because they are a part of the "Universal Spirit", which the preacher believes permeates everything, and exists everywhere. God is the Father, because these Children are His Creatures, the Objects of His Creation. Individualized (beings), each working out their own destiny. As we have told you, some of these children will always remain the merely Created Children, while others will partake of His Divine Love, and become a part of His Divinity, and inhabitants of the Celestial Spheres.
The preacher has many things to learn. As he believes in the search for the Truth, if he will let the Divine Love flow into his heart (soul), and Transform his soul into the Very Essence and (Spiritual) Substance of the Father's Divinity, he will be able to learn many, Things Spiritual, as well as of things material, are governed by (God's) Law(s). Unless the soul gets into a condition that enables it to see, and Realize, the Higher Truths of the Spirit World, it can never obtain Knowledge of Things Spiritual. One of the objects of such Knowledge, is God.
Well, I have written enough and will stop.
With my Love, I will say goodnight.
Your brother and friend, Jesus.
April 8th, 1919
Let me say a few words tonight.
I was with you again at the services. I listened to the preacher as he expounded the "Truth of God, and the Truth of human", as he conceived these Truths to be. I am compelled to say, that if his future state of happiness depended upon these supposed truths, he would be a very unhappy spirit in one of the million heavens, of which he spoke.
I am sorry that humans can conceive of such notions of God and human, and teach them to other mortals. So it will be, for many years. Until my teachings, through you, are accepted, and believed by humans, great darkness and error will prevail in the Earth. It is hardly necessary for me to attempt to analyze many of his erroneous statements. They are so many, and so erroneous, that it will take too long a message to review them all. I will say one thing. That is; that when he attempted to show that God's Energy, and human's energy, are one and the same, he was all wrong. Knew not what he said.
God is a Being, who is Infinite, Omnipotent, and as to His Energies, there is no limits. While human, is a mere Creature of God. Cannot possibly have any greater, or other, energy than he was Created with. This energy is controlled by the soul that is the human. Is subject to all the limitations of that soul.
Well, I will not write more tonight. I hope ere long to write you one of my Messages of Truth.
I see that you have been somewhat in doubt, as to the Reality of the Truths of the Messages that you have received, and as to the Power of the Divine Love to make you a Child of God, in the sense Divine. You must not let such doubts enter your soul, for one moment. They are the breeders of other things that are most harmful, and tend to alienate you from the Father. As you are aware, God's Divine Love is all around you, may be in you, if permitted to flow into your soul, with Faith accompanying it, you will find yourself growing in At-Onement with the Father, and Realize that fact. So my brother, get rid of your doubts. Come to God, in the Faith that is childlike and dependent. He will not disappoint you. I will be with you, and try to help you in your desires.
Pray more to the Father. Believe that His Divine Love is yours, only for the longing and seeking.
I will not write more tonight.
Rest assured that my Love is with you, in all its fullness. Believe that you have a work to do.
Goodnight, Jesus.
April 13th, 1919
I am here, John T. Richards.
Let me write a few lines, as I am very anxious to tell you of what the scene was at the meeting tonight.
There were surrounding you, a very great number of spirits, of all kinds and conditions. Some were present for the purpose of mere curiosity. Others, with the desire to communicate with their Loved Ones of Earth. Still others were seeking help, and deliverance from their conditions of sufferings and torment.
Mrs. Kates, the medium, tried to give the communications of some of the spirits who were anxious to tell their relatives and friends of their presence, and of the condition in which they, the mortals, were in, and advise them as to what is best to be done. If they will only take the advice, they will be helped.
There was one spirit who tried to make himself known by an unusual method of identification, in having with him a dog, which the person to whom the spirit came, was enabled to identify. But the spirit was not within his recollection. The dog was a real dog, not the spirit of any dog that had existed in the human, or rather, earthly form. The likeness was created by the spirit, who tried to have the individual identify him. There are no spirits of dogs, or any other animals, that once had an existence on Earth, in the Spirit Worlds. These appearances are all manufactured by the spirits, for the purpose of having the medium see, clairvoyantly, the resemblance of the dog on Earth. So that, an identification may be made. Dogs, and other animals, when they die never have any part of themselves that survive death, and become extinct. They have no soul. Consequently, nothing that persists after death of the Earth form. I was much interested in the sance. Tried to make myself appear to the medium, but was not successful.
The condition of the dark spirits who were seeking help was most pitiable. The medium, for some reason, was not able to see, or understand their condition. Hence, no help was given them. They went away, very sorrowful.
You had several spirits around you. They did not try to manifest themselves. I doubt if the medium could have seen them had they tried. They were not of the kind who come to her and make their presence known. Her development, as a medium, is not such as to enable her to see spirits of the kind mentioned. She has not the Soul Development that is necessary, in order that they can make a rapport with her. Hence, she can neither see nor hear them.
I will not write more now, so goodnight.
Your friend, John T. Richards.
April 13th, 1919
I am here, Your own true and loving Helen
Well, dear, you have just had a message from one of the spirits who sometimes attends the meetings of Mrs. Kates. He was very anxious to write you. We permitted him to do so. He is not of the Higher Order of spirits, though one who is much advanced in his Natural Love, and knows the different classes of spirits who attend the meetings. We were present. Of course, could not communicate, for the reason that he has given you. If Mrs. Kates would only learn the Truth of Communication and Rapport, and seek to obtain the Soul Development, that would enable the Higher Spirits to come to her, she would have wonderful powers, and hear the voices of spirits, who now never communicate with her. She is a wonderful medium, in the sphere of work that she is doing. Many spirits are made happy by the messages of Love to their Loved ones. The mortals as well. Her mediumship is not of the order that will benefit her very much. The time is now arrived when she must get into a Higher Class of work, and enable spirits of a Higher Order to come to her, and communicate.
You must not fail to give her the message that the Master wrote. Upon it, depends not only her own Salvation, but the Salvation of many mortals, to whom she can preach the Truths of God, and the Knowledge of the Life beyond the borderline of death. I hope that you will soon have the opportunity.
Well, I see that you are in a better condition today. Some of the Higher Spirits have been with you, suggesting thoughts, trying to impress you with the importance of your work. You must realize this, when you contrast the teachings that you heard today, with the Truths that have been Revealed to you.
Well, they will come soon, and continue the messages that treat of the Great Spiritual Truths of God, and human. You must get in the condition that will permit them to successfully write.
I will not write more tonight. Baby is here, and sends her Love. We all Love you, and hope that soon now, brighter things will open up to you, and that your hopes will soon be realized. Keep up your Faith. You will not be disappointed.
Goodnight my dear husband.
Your own True and Loving Helen.
April 18th, 1919
I am here, John B. Johnson.
Let me say just a word.
I have been with you tonight as you read the book, and saw that in it you found something that agreed with your ideas of what was necessary for humans to do, in order to regain their conditions of Pristine Purity from which they fell. Well, these things are very helpful, and True. When the author said; "that humans should exercise self-control", he stated a Truth, which is necessary, that they may attain to a Condition of Purification. It will not do for humans to teach, and believe, that they have a Higher Self, which as soon as relieved from the burdens of the lower self, which takes place at death, is sufficient to make that human's soul fitted for the "Heavenly Kingdom". No, the soul is one, and the self is one. Unless that self is purified, by the efforts and struggles of human them self, they will never become a Pure Spirit, fitted to occupy the place that was theirs, before the fall. I was interested in the book. I saw that it contained much of the Truth that applies to human, as the mere human. It knows nothing of the Celestial Angel, or the manner in which the soul of human can become Transformed into the Divine Essence of the Father. But, has many suggestions, which, if followed, will lead into The Way of the Perfect Human.
This is all that I intended to say tonight.
Your friend, John B. Johnson.
April 18th, 1919
I am here, your own true and living Helen.
Well dear, I see that you have been much interested in the book that you have read. The spirit who wrote you is a very beautiful spirit of the Celestial Heavens. I do not know him. He wanted so much to write you. We thought it best that he should do so.
I understand how you have been feeling today. I am not disappointed that you did not give me the opportunity to write tonight. I will come again and write you.
You are now in better condition than you have been for several days. You must pray to the Father for an increase of His Divine Love in your soul, and for greater Faith, so that you may do the work that is before you. We are all anxious that you receive our messages, and the benefit of the increased Divine Love.
I will not write more tonight. You had better go to bed, get up early, and attend to your business. Turn your thoughts to your Mission, then with all the powers of your own soul. With the help that will be given you by the spirits, without your disposition to take things in the easy manner that you do. Yours is a work that needs courage, determination, and fortitude. You must try to let these qualities possess your soul.
Well my deal Ned, I will say goodnight.
Your own True and Loving Helen.
April 19th, 1919
I am here, your own true and loving Helen.
Well my dear, I see that you have been very much interested in the book that you have been reading. Also, in many of the Truths that it contains, as well as in many untruths that are set forth. The writer of the book knows not, as a fact, the things that he has therein written. Has compiled the statements from other works, that were written long ago, by humans who were of the oriental religions, and who wrote, as they conceived the Truth of Existence to be, both in the Earth World, and in the Spirit World.
They were possessed of a combination of concepts, that came to them in their moments of meditation, and in their moments of being wide awake to the conditions of the Present Life. I mean the Earth Life. They are not authority. While they have many of the Truths, of the "other side of Life", yet they must not be relied on for definite and authoritative information.
I will come soon and write to you on the subject of the rebirth, or reincarnation. Show you that it has no foundation in fact, or in the Economy of God's Creation of the human soul.
Human, when they once gives up their Earth Life, never returns to it again, in the way described in the book. Only in their spirit form (body), as I am now doing.
Well, dear, you are in better condition tonight. The Higher Spirits will soon come and write you. The Master is not here tonight. He has gone to the Celestial Heavens, where he may not hear the praise and worship ascend to him as God, the redeemer of the world by his death and resurrection. Subjects which are wholly untrue, and very distasteful to him. If humans would only understand the True Resurrection, how much they would be benefited, and progress in their Soul Development. He arose from the dead while yet Living. When his physical death took place, "The Resurrection" had already occurred. The Truth of the "Resurrection from the (spiritually)dead", had already been demonstrated (in his soul). He will soon come and write you.
I will not write more now. With my Love will say, goodnight.
Your own True and Loving Helen.
April 23rd, 1919
I am here, Helen.
Well my dear, I see that you have done a good work tonight towards one poor soul who is in a condition of death, and that your conversation will have an effect upon his soul, that will lead him to wish for the Divine Love of the Father. He was much impressed by your talk. Many of his spirit friends were present, and listened to your explanation of the Divine Love, and The Way to obtain it. Were somewhat astonished at your doctrine. They are living in the belief that the Christianity, as explained by the teachers and ministers of the churches leads them into, and were much affected by the teachings, which you expounded. They are very anxious to learn The Way. Some of them accompanied you home, listened to the conversation of yourself and the Doctor.
Some are here now, and desire to write. We tell them that it is too late. That if they come tomorrow night, they shall have the opportunity to write. The sick man's father was among the spirits who were present. Is very anxious to write to his son, and corroborate what you said to him. Tomorrow night, he desires to write you. So you must be prepared to let him write.
Well, we were present. The drawing power that you experienced came from the exercise of the desires of many of these friends of the sick man to communicate with you. If we had permitted, they would have taken possession of you, and made their wishes known. We did not think it best for them to control you. So we told them. They desisted.
The power, which you felt going out of you, was directed towards the sick man. If it had continued, he would have realized that there was some power, or influence, which was working on him, for his benefit. As it is, I think that he will feel the results of the power on his physical condition, and find himself feeling much better. He is paralyzed. Needs the help of the spirits to bring about his cure. Some of them will be with Dr. Stone when he next treats the man. He will realize that some unseen power is helping him. I will not write more of the occurrence now. Let the spirits themselves tell you of the scene. So do not try to get more messages now, as you need your strength reserved.
I am happy to tell you that you are in better condition tonight to receive our messages. Your worries have left you, to a large extent. If you will only listen to, and take the advice that John gave you tonight, you will soon feel yourself again, and become suited to do the work that is before you.
We all Love you very much, and are trying to help you in every way. The spirit who advises you in your material affairs, was here tonight desiring to write you, but has now left. He said though, that he is of the same opinion, but that you must be a little careful in your estimate of the market, as it may not reach the high that he first told you of. That there has been a large volume of the stock sold, or bought, lately. That the climax may come a little earlier than he at first thought. He will come tomorrow night, and speak for himself.
Baby wants to write. I told her that soon she shall do so. I will not write more now. So Sweetheart, say goodnight, and go to bed.
Your own True and Loving Helen.
April 24th, 1919
I am here, your father.
Let me write, for I desire to tell my son that I am with him in his sickness. I am trying to help him and make him feel that there is more in Life than the merely physical living.
I know, that he has often felt that I am with him in my Love, and desire to help and encourage him in his afflictions. His feelings are True, for with me there has never ceased to be the Love and affections that were mine when in the flesh. So long as he shall remain a mortal, my Love and care will be with him, in all their fullness.
I am in the Spirit World, which is very close to his World. I am not very different from what I was when on Earth, except that now I have not a fleshly body, and cares and distractions of my physical living, to disturb my happiness. I am in the Fifth Sphere, where all is so beautiful and bright. Where the Divine Love of the Father is so abundant, that we are happy all the time, and enjoy that Bliss, which Jesus told his followers was in store for them when they should give up the ghost and enter into their rest, which is a rest in action and work.
I was with you last night when the gentlemen called (Mr Padgett) and explained to you the Truths of the Existence of a soul that has been Transformed by the Divine Love of the Father, and brought into At-Onement with Him. I want you to believe in this Great Divine Love. Your days on Earth, at the longest, will be very short. Then you will have to come to the Spirit World, and leave behind you all the ambitions and accumulations of your Earth Life. If you have not laid up your "Treasures in Heaven" you will be very poor indeed. Oh my son, realize that the pleasures, desires, and efforts of Earth Life, are but fleeting, for a moment only. That then, comes the great problem of living in Eternity, and that the thoughts and deeds of that earthly existence come with you, to condemn, or make you happy.
The Great Law (of Compensation), of "whatsoever a human sows, that shall they reap", is in full force. Exacts every part of the penalty that the Life of a human, for good, or evil, imposes upon them. There is no exception to the workings of this Law. The full penalty must be paid, until forgiveness comes. Then the demand ceases. The soul emerges from its condition of suffering and darkness, a Purified and Redeemed soul. But forgiveness is not the mere release from, or remission of, these penalties, by the mere arbitrary dictum of God, as you are so often taught by the preachers, but is forgetfulness.
That is forgetfulness, an oblivion as it were, of the acts and deeds that bring into operation the Great Law (of Compensation). Humans, when they become spirits, must work into this forgetfulness in a slow and laborious manner. I say humans must work. For on themselves depends, to a large extent, their own redemption. No miracle will be performed. As it is said, "the mills of the gods grind True, but they grind exceeding small". The spirit will have to pay the last penalty. This must be so, as you will readily see. For the soul must, in order to get into the Condition of Harmony with the Laws (of Love and Harmony) of God, become Purified, and relieved of everything that would make it inharmonious. No soul can live in a purer state than its own qualities possess. Here let me say, that no mere belief, sacraments, or observance of church dogmas, can bring about this Purification. It is a work within the soul. Human must do the work.
Now, my son, I write all this to show you how inexorable is this Great Law (of Compensation), of which the Master spoke when on Earth. Which, in its exactions, never change. It has no mercy. Admits of no shortcut, to the goal of the Purified soul. How few of mortals really understand the workings of this Law, but in a careless, and complacent manner, depend upon the forgiveness of priests, preachers, and the mysterious workings of some assurances of the church's dogmas.
So, you will see the necessity for humans to commence, as early as possible, to practice the Renunciation, and turning away from these things that contaminate and defile the soul. But, alas, as their lives on Earth continue, the most of humans, instead of renouncing these things, accumulate and add to them. Come to the Spirit World all burdened, filled with thoughts and acts that defile (the soul). As they are the accumulations of many years of Earth Life, so many years will be required for these humans, when they become spirits, to get rid of these things. False hopes and beliefs will not help them in the slightest, but frequently, seem only to retard the Purification of their souls.
If this were human's destiny, implacable and irrevocable, humans would be in an almost hopeless, and unforgiven, condition indeed. Forgetfulness would come only in a slow and sinuous way. They would shed many tears, and suffer much groaning, before they could feel themselves forgiven. This will be the lot of most humans. But in the end, forgetfulness will come. They will find happiness.
But my son, thanks be to God, the Father of us Sll, there is another Provision of the Father, which exists, and is freely given to All humans, who will seek for it. That is; the Divine Love of the Father. In which, are Forgetfulness, Mercy, and oblivion of the thoughts and acts of Earth, which is Greater than the Great Law of Compensation, of which I have just written. When this Divine Love comes into the soul of human, with It, comes Forgetfulness, which is the only forgiveness, in the Economy of God. The demands of the Law of Compensation cease. The soul becomes freed from the Law (by the Greater Law of Divine Love, which is the Fulfillment of All Law). As Paul has said, then is a human without the Law. With this Divine Love, comes a Happiness and Joy, that no human can conceive of. The possessor of It, Knows that they have become a part of God's Divinity and Immortality. Now, this Divine Love does not come all at once, in its Fullness. But as a "still small voice", it tenderly, and timidly, answers the call of the heart that cries for it, in earnestness and Faith. As it is nurtured, it grows stronger, and more soul-possessing. Makes its Presence felt to the supplicant. Unless it is earnestly sought for, It never comes into the soul, but passes by unseen, and in silence, because the soul will not seek its possession.
You, my son, heard The Way, in which it may be obtained. I urge upon you, with all your strength and longings of soul, to seek for It. If you do, It will not refuse to enter into your soul. You will know it. Then, your start will be made, not only towards Forgiveness and Forgetfulness, but towards the Transformation of your soul, into the Very Divine Love and Spiritual Essence of the Father. A progress that will last through All Eternity.
I am the possessor of that Divine Love. I Know whereof I speak. To me comes the Great Assurance of a Life Continuous, and never dying, filled with the Bliss of angels, and the Joy of a Redeemed soul. Oh, I do so much want you to obtain this Divine Love, and become one of us, who Know, that when death left us, Life took its place, bringing to us a Knowledge, that Immortality was ours.
Well my son, I must stop writing. I have written in this way, because I am more interested in your immortal soul, than I am in your mere physical body, which will perish, and be no more. But the soul! The great wanting, Loving, hating, happy, suffering thing that it is!
I will be with you very often, in my Love, and try to help you. If you will think of me intently, I will impress you with my presence.
I must stop now, as the rapport is weakening.
Goodnight, your Father, A____.
April 24th, 1919
I am here, your own true and loving Helen.
Well dear, I am glad that you received a letter from the father of the sick man.
He wanted so much to write, and was here ready to do so as soon as you gave him the opportunity. He is a spirit who is in Fifth Sphere, has in his soul, much of the Divine Love, and is so anxious that his son shall receive the benefit of the Great Gift of the Father and live the Life that only those who know what Heavenly Joy and Immortality are. He was very thankful that he could write. He says; that sometime he wants to come and write of his experience in becoming Awakened to the Truth of God's Divine Love, and his Acceptance as One of His (Divine) Children.
So Love us all. Believe that we Love you.
Goodnight, our own True and Loving Helen.
April 26th, 1919
I am here, Helen.
Let me write, for I have been waiting so long for the opportunity to send a message to my soulmate, and let him know that I am so happy, not only because of the Divine Love that I possess in my soul, but because he has a great deal of this Abounding Love.
I am with him very often, as he knows. I am so glad for him that I can impress upon him my presence and Love. We are all very much gratified that he is progressing so much in his soul, and realize that he is progressing in the right Way to a position here, when he comes over, to enjoy the Bliss that is outside the Spheres of darkness. Many spirits attend him, in his serious talks to mortals of the Truths of the Spirit World, as he knows them, and the effect that they have on the spirits who listen to him, and think of what he tells them. He must continue in this work, for he hardly knows, or realizes, the vast number of spirits who surround him, anxious to hear of those things that show The Way to a New Life.
Now to be a little more personal. I must tell him that when he talks in this way, I feel that he will surely be mine, without the long wait that comes to many spirits, who do not know The Way and have not the "longings" for this Divine Love, as he has. Surely, God is Good, and Loves His Children. We should thank Him, with all the gratitude of our souls. Never cease to render unto Him, the expression of our gratitude. There are many spirits present tonight, for a fact are always present with him, for they learn that he has in him, that which enables him to receive the impression of the spirits who are so anxious to meet with their Loved ones on Earth. This is a Wonderful Gift. If humans could only know, that it is as interesting to spirits, as it is to mortals, they would realize how Blessed the human is, who has a soul in Unionism with the Spirit World.
I will not write more now. Only say, that he must continue to proclaim the Truths of God, and not be disappointed when humans do not heed, or are indifferent. For in the end, the seed that he sows, will bear fruit. He will see the results of his work, when he comes to the Spirit World.
With my Love, and everlasting longings for him.
I will subscribe myself, his Loving Mary.
P.S.
As early as January 1915 before Mary Kennedy could write her own message, and be able to control the mind and hand of the instrument. She was permitted to dictate her thoughts of Love to Mrs. Helen Padgett, who wrote (from the Spirit World) through her husband Mr. James E. Padgett the following:
"Tell Leslie that he is so very dear to her, that he must not let his thoughts of Love wander away from her towards any other person upon Earth, or in the Spirit World, that she loved him so long, and only recently has she had the opportunity to let him know, in a way, that he could understand, that she feels as if she must just let her whole heart burst upon him with its great fountain of Love for him. She is not able to express to him the extent, or intensity, of this Love. But she does Love him, to the full limit of her capacity. When he lies down at night, or when he awakens in the morning, she is with him, trying to flood his soul with her Love and Happiness".
Mrs. Helen Padgett further says, that Mary Kennedy will not be content to have Leslie think that her Love is not his. For it is, to its fullness. Tell him, he must believe her. That she is with him nearly all the time, trying to help him, and make him feel her presence. She is not so far away that she cannot know, at all times, what his feelings are. When he gets lonely, and wants her Love, and help, he must try to become in rapport with her. Even when he is alone in his room, and thinks that no one is with him. She is his now. Will be through All Eternity. Only (soulmate) Love like hers, can last when disappointments and troubles come. When they do come, then her Love grows stronger, sweeter. and he must feel it more as he feels the need of it. She is not now trying to make him believe that she is only waiting for him to come over, in order that he may know that she Loves him with all her heart and soul. But she Loves him, in that way, while he is on Earth, beset by all the cares that come to him. He must Love her more and more each day. He will find that his happiness will increase as this Love grows. Tell him she is in the Fifth Sphere, and is preparing a home, which will be so beautiful, that he will be more surprised than he will be at the beauties of the Spirit Plane where she is. For her home, in addition to having the beauties that are in that Sphere, will have her Love permeating it.
She also has another Love for him, to become more intense and pure, but which draws her nearer to her Father of Divine Love. This is the Greatest of all Love. She so wants him to let his heart become filled with it also. It is his, if he will only seek for It, and believe that the Father is ready to give it to him. For He is not only ready, but anxious. She further says: Tell my dear Leslie to pray to God, and ask that this Divine Love may be given to him, and fill his soul. For if he does, he will receive It. When he does, he will not only Love God Supremely, but will Love his True Soulmate, with a purer and sweeter Love than he can conceive of. When he does that, he will find that his happiness will be so great and joyful, that the little cares and troubles of his Earth Life will not be able to mar that happiness, or make him to wish for any other kind. Because, I am his, and he is mine. When he realizes that, he will know what soulmate Love means.
We are not for each other for a limited time only. But for All Eternity. Even Eternity will not be too long, in the enjoyment of our mutual Love. Oh, he is, my own True Soulmate, and sweetheart. I am so happy in that knowledge, that my cup of joy seems to be full and running over. Let him think of me as being close by his side, all the time, sharing his joys and sympathizing with him in all his sorrows. He will feel that he is not alone. Tell him to try to become a True Lover of God, and the Truths of His Teachings, by His son, our brother and helper Jesus. I am a firm believer in these Truths, and know that they are True. I want my dear soulmate to believe with me, for in that belief is found the Great Happiness, which I tell you of. So Leslie dear, goodbye for now.
Mrs. Helen Padgett in her writing through Mr. James E. Padgett instrument, makes further comments:
Well, she Loves him with a very pure and steadfast Love. She is a lovely spirit. One who is filled with the Divine Love of her Father. She is worthy of all the Love that any man can give her. I am very fond of her, and see a great deal of her. She is so gentle, Loving, and tender, and is Loved by many spirits, to whom she has administered consolation and help.
Well sweetheart, I must stop for tonight. Goodnight, with all my Love.
Your own True Helen.
May 11th, 1919
I am here, your own true and loving, Helen.
Well, my dear, I see that you are happy tonight. I am also. For I heard you read the messages, and saw the effect that they had on your soul, and that they caused you to Love, both the Father, and me, more. You must not cease to Love, as you do tonight, for there is no other happiness that can supply the place, which this Love brings to you.
I was with you tonight at the meeting. I heard the preacher speak of the "source of the greatest joy". I was sorry that he did not know that Source. He talked of a happiness that came to him from a knowledge that he thought he had of God. He was in earnest. He did not realize the Real Joy, or The Source thereof. His joy is that which comes from a great degree of the Purification of his Natural Love, which must necessarily bring to him increased happiness. I am glad that he talked in the way he did. But so sorry that he has not experienced the Real Divine Love, that is the Only Source of the Greatest Joy.
Well, sometime, humans will know what the Source means. How different it is, from the mere Purification of the Natural Love. In addition, will learn The Way to obtain this Divine Love, and keep it, as the Greatest Thing in All the Universe.
The talk of the preacher is very beneficial to many of his hearers. Causes much searching of their souls. A better condition of living. An experience that makes them very happy. I would advise you to attend his meetings occasionally, for the influence is good. You may have the opportunity sometime, to tell him of the Higher Truths.
There were a number of spirits present with you, desiring to hear and learn something that might render them happier, and enlighten them as to The True Way. Some things that he said, did not help much. He placed too much emphasis on the necessity of making Life on Earth, the great object of their efforts and aspirations. Rather discountenanced the thought, that in the Spirit Life, there are Heavens, and conditions, to be longed for, and enjoyed. Yet, as I say, his preaching will do good. For the better humans become in their thoughts and aspirations, even though as to a mere cleansing of their Natural Love, the better it will be for them. Will tend to make the Earth Life better, and more in Harmony with the Laws of Human's Creation.
I am so glad that I can write you again, and tell you of my Love, and assure you of the Truths, that have been already Revealed to you.
Well I will not write more tonight. We all Love you. So, with my Love, I will say, goodnight.
Your own True and Loving Helen.
May 26th, 1919
Let me write a few lines tonight upon a subject that has recently been discussed by a Spiritualist, a preacher, a philosopher and a scientist. That is; "The Continuity of Life after death of the physical body". Each of these writers approaches the subject from a different viewpoint. All arrive at the same conclusion, based upon different means of argument. That is, that Life Continues after death.
The subject is one in which humankind is vitally interested. Is worthy of consideration by the greatest minds of investigation and research. Should be studied in the Light of Nature, as well as in that of actual demonstration by the experiences of those who have, by their experiences, proved to humankind that the spirits of their departed friends, acquaintances, and of others of more or less distinction when in the physical Life, do actually live, and communicate to humans, their existence, and the possession of the mental faculties and thoughts that were theirs when mortals.
The proper study of human would demonstrate this fact. Logically, doubt would cease to exist. The difficulty is, that humans do not understand human, or their Creation, faculties, and their relationship to things of Life, known as the material, or matter. It is a common belief that matter that is now existent, or rather that what humans see, and know, of the material, is all that is knowable. That when that, which is merely physical, as commonly understood, ceases to exist, no further, or other, knowledge of it can be obtained, or understood, by the finite mind of human.
This accepted assumption is not True. If human would only think for a moment, of what matter, or the material is, they would comprehend the possibilities of its workings, and functioning's. Also, of what use may be made of the same, by the minds of the spirits operating upon it in the Spiritual World. That is; in the World beyond the comprehension of the five senses of humans, which are only the means of the spirits working in the ordinary purview of the physical Life.
Matter is Eternal. Exists in all the Spheres of the Spirit World, just as it does on Earth, although in different forms, and attenuations, and in conditions that may, or may not, be the objects of the physical senses, or of the senses of the mind, which are superior to, or exclusive of, these mere physical senses. Matter is, in its Essential Nature, the same, notwithstanding the fact that it assumes different forms, some visible to the ordinary senses of humans, and some entirely outside of that view, or sensation, as to these senses, wholly nonexistent. Yet to these other senses of the mind, just as real, tractable, and subject to the influence of the workings of the mind, as the merely physical matter is to the five senses of humans.
The World, in which humans live, is composed of the material. The World in which I live, is also composed of the material, of the same Nature, but of different consistencies, and objective qualities. The Material of the Universe is always Material, whether or not it be cognizable by human, and subject to their thoughts, inventions, and uses. As human progresses, in the study of the same, I mean the practical and experimental, they will discover, that there are things of the material in Nature, which to them are being developed, and made known, which a few years before, they had no conception of their existence. Such is the discovery and use of electricity, the workings of the Laws of Nature, which enables them to make possible the effects of wireless telegraphy. These discoveries, and workings of forces of the unseen, are nothing more, or less, than a certain kind of knowledge controlling the same. As to their consciousness, has become apparent. In all these operations, matter is the thing made use of, not any Spiritual Power, as commonly understood by humans. So you see, matter, whether in the grossly physical of Earth, or in the more attenuated and invisible of the Spirit World, is that, which is used to produce effects, and is operated on, by the mind, whether or not it be tangible and understandable, or not.
The mind is an entity indivisible and united, is not separable into the subjective and objective, as humans frequently teach. Except in this: That in its workings, that part of the mind, which controls the brain, in the ordinary affairs of Life may be called the objective. That part, which is suited for, and used in, controlling the material, after it has been transformed into the purely invisible, may be called the subjective. It is all one mind. Exists in human while on Earth, just as it will, and does, when they become a spirit.
Human, in their journey through Life, I mean when in the Earth Existence, as well as in the Eternal part of their Existence, is always of the material. That is, their soul has a material covering and appearance. While this material covering changes, in its appearance, and quality, as they progress in the Spheres, yet the gross physical of their Earth Life, and the sublimated Spiritual of the Eternal part of their Life, are both of the material. Real, existing, and tangible. Used for the purpose of their Creation, namely, the protection, and individualizing, of the soul, which they contain.
Now this being so, you can readily understand that human, when they give up the coarser physical of the human body, does not cease to be of the material, but becomes an inhabitant of the finer and purer material of what is called their Spirit Body. This spirit body is subject to the Laws governing the material, just as was their physical body subject to these Laws. The spirit, which in this sense is the Real Human, clothed in the material, controls and uses that material more effectually than they did when on Earth, bound in the physical. All the material of the Spirit World is used and formulated by the spirits, according to their degree of intelligence and development, as the occasions for such uses may arise. Such use, or the effects of the same, are, or can be, made known to human, according as their limitations admit.
Ordinarily, human's understanding of the effects of the spirit's control of the material of the invisible World, is limited by the capacity of their five senses to comprehend. As these five senses were created for the purpose only of permitting, or helping, the spirit to manifest itself, with reference to those things, which belong to the wholly physical of Earth, it rarely happens that humans can perceive the invisible material, or the workings of the Laws controlling the same.
Now, in what I have said; this spirit is merely the mind of human, the same indivisible mind that they possess when on Earth, but which, because of the limitations of the physical organs, they were not able to function, as regards the invisible material, so that, human could understand that functioning and its results.
Human, when they die, is thereafter the same being, in all their faculties, desires, thoughts, and in their ability to use the material, as they were before their death, except, that the purely physical organs of their own being are no longer theirs. As to them, they are dead. Strange as it may seem to you, they can, and often do, control the physical organs of another human who is living in the flesh, if that human will submit to that control. When you think for a moment, you will realize that there is nothing remarkable in this. The mind of the spirit remains just the same as it was before their departure from the body, having all its powers, thoughts, and consciousness. If, it can obtain control of that, which is necessary to manifest itself to the consciousness of humans, there will be no difficulty in its doing so. Nothing unusual, or supernatural. Its own organs of brain, nerves, and the five senses having gone, and the brain of every other mortal being subject to the control of its own mind, so long as that mind claims the exclusive use, or control, of these organs, the mind deprived of its own physical organs cannot control. Because, it is a Law of Being, that no mind, in its "normal" state, can be intruded upon by another mind, and unless the mind whose seat and functioning are within the spirit body, which is enclosed in the physical body, possessing these organs, consents to the control of such organs by the other mind, it cannot use such organs. The power is in the disembodied spirit, or mind, only the opportunity is wanting.
When the spirit desires to control the invisible material, it is limited, only by its intelligence, and knowledge of the Law governing such control, and its progress in the Spirit Spheres.
Well, I have written enough for tonight. I will come again and amplify my message.
Thanking you, I will say, goodnight.
Your friend, Francis Bacon.
May 26th, 1919
I am here, your own true and loving Helen.
Well dear, I am glad that you are in condition to again receive the messages of the spirits who wish to write you in reference to Things Spiritual.
The spirit who wrote you was very anxious to do so. We permitted him, in order that you might gain some conception of what the Material of the Universe is, and the power that spirits have over such material.
This is not the Nature of the messages that we wish to convey to you. We will not permit ourselves to be interfered with very often in this particular. Until our messages are all delivered, you must not think of such things.
The Master has been with you today, and is well pleased at your way of thinking. He says that you will soon commence to receive the Higher Messages again. We are all anxious to write. Keep up your prayers to the Father. Your thoughts about the Higher Things of the Spirit World.
As you have been drawn on a great deal tonight, I will not write further now. I will only say that we all Love you, and will be with you to help you in your thoughts.
So Love us, and say goodnight.
Your own True and Loving Helen.
June 15th, 1919
I am here, Jesus.
Let me write just a line, for I desire to tell you that I was with you tonight at the convention of the New Thought people. I saw the impression made upon you by the discourses. I am pleased that what they said only confirmed your Faith in our teachings. They are sincere in their efforts to obtain a Knowledge of the Truth. The difficulty is that while they are free from many of the orthodox teachings of the church, yet they have only the Natural Love, and perceptions of the intellect, and to some extent, of the Awakened soul in its Natural Condition.
They know nothing of the Divine Love, or The Way to the True Kingdom, and are depending entirely upon the Spiritual Feelings, that come to them with the consciousness of an Awakened soul, in its conflict with the things that prevent its Purification and Development into the Perfect Human.
These people are to be encouraged in their efforts, and teachings, so far as they disclose the True Natural Condition of Human, and the possibility of their becoming in Harmony with the Will of the Father in their Natural Love. To that extent, they are progressing beyond the old orthodox ideas of what the Real Human is, and what is incumbent upon them, in order to get into the Condition of Happiness that comes with a Purification of their Natural Love, and a living in Harmony with the Laws of God governing that Purification.
It is to be wished that these humans will proceed in their teachings. Thus, give to humankind a knowledge of what human Really is, and the possibilities that lie before them when they exercise the inherent powers that exist within. For concerning sin, and inharmony, until the Great Truths of the New Birth, the Transformation of the soul, and the Wonderful Kingdom of the Celestial Spheres are made known to humans through our teachings of these things, these Greater Truths, which lie beyond the Knowledge of humans, at this time, will not be theirs.
In their search for God, they are on the wrong track. Will never find Him, if they pursue the search, in the way indicated by their discourses. God is not within humans. Nor do they live, move, and have their being in Him. Nor, is He everywhere, waiting to be developed by humans, as they grow better and Purer. No, they are mistaken in their thought, as to God, and His Habitation. Will learn, when they come into a Knowledge of the Truth, that God is not in human, or in everything that surrounds them, but is separate from them, and from the environments in which they live and move. He has His Locality in the Highest Heavens, where He works out His Purposes, and makes Himself, and the evidence of His Existence, known to humans by the Energies (His Spirit) that control the Universe in which humans exist. He can only be seen by the soul perceptions of a soul that has been Transformed into the Divine Angel. To humans, in every other particular, He is unseen, and unknown, except as His Laws, and the effect of their operations, disclose His Being.
Well, I merely wanted to write this short message. I am glad that you can receive it.
Goodnight. Your brother and friend, Jesus.
June 18th, 1919
I am here, Spencer.
I want to say just a word to your friend who is so much interested in the discovery of the Truths of the Spirit World, and of the facts that exist in that World.
Well, I have been with you as you discussed these prospects, also the writings of the humans who have become converted to Spiritualism. I saw that you are not satisfied with what the writings contained, and wished that these humans might know the Truth that they could declare it to the World.
Well, you must wait content, until your messages are finished, and in shape to publish, before these Truths can be made to the World. These humans, who are having the experiences of which they write, are doing a good work in publishing accounts of the same in this: That they are preparing the minds of their readers to accept the Truth of Spiritualism, whenever the same shall be published. They are breaking up the falloff ground, and making it ready, to receive the Seeds of Truth, as they shall become scattered over the soil, that was so lately barren and unfitted to receive and nurture these seeds. The work is one that will result in much good. Will gradually lead human to accept as True, and coming from the Spirit World, what they would not otherwise receive.
I merely wanted to write this little message, so that you and your friend may not think that the publications, such as you have read tonight, are worthless and without a function in causing humans to believe in the lower Truths of Spiritualism. They are very valuable to humankind in general, and to those philosophers and scientists who are more interested in the physical aspect of the study. They must be encouraged. You must not think that their appearing, is merely a waste of time or effort. They are the ABC's of Spiritualism, and must be learned, before you can expect the Higher, or more Spiritual Truths to be received.
Well, I will not write more now. Goodnight.
Your friend, (Herbert?) Spencer.
I was a scientist when on earth and supposed agnostic. I know better now.
October 18th, 1919
I am here, Jesus.
Let me write a few lines, for I must tell you of an important Truth that is necessary for humans to know, in order to reach the Celestial Kingdom, and a Knowledge of the Plan of Salvation.
I know that the Bible contains many sayings attributed to me in reference to this Plan, and many of my "alleged" sayings are believed in by those who claim to be christians, which are not True. I never said them. They are contrary to what I received from the Father as to the True Plan of Human's Redemption from sin, and as to The Only Way by which they can obtain the True At-Onement with the Father, and a Knowledge of their own Immortality.
Many of these sayings were written by humans, who knew not The Only Way to a True Oneness with the Father. Were the results of the teachings of the manuscripts that then existed, and were received by the Jews as the Revelations of Moses, and of many of the prophets who had no knowledge of the Divine Love, or of its Re-Bestowal upon humanity. These humans (by their writings) made me say those things that accorded with their ideas of what was necessary to a salvation, or possibility of their becoming at one with me, and with the Father. In writing their ideas, confused the Truth, with what they supposed was the truth, as contained in the Old Testament. Much harm has been done by attributing many of these sayings to me, because of the supposed authority that thereby attached to them.
My disciples never taught, and never understood, that their salvation, or that of any human, depended upon faith in me, as the son of God, or that I, the mere Jesus, had in me any virtue to forgive sin, or to insure an entrance into the True Kingdom of God, or that, I, as the human Jesus was a son of God, in the sense that the Bible teaches. They knew that the Father had Revealed to me the Truth. That I had in me that Divine Love, which to a large extent, made me like unto, and At-One with the Father. That my teachings of the Re-Bestowal of the Divine Love was True, and that when they, or any human should possess this Divine Love, to the extent of that possession, they would become At-One with the Father, and also with me, who possessed it to a greater degree than any human. I say, they knew this, and taught it to the people, as I had taught it to them.
When the compilers of the present New Testament came to declare my sayings, and teachings, they knew not of this Divine Love. Hence, could not understand what many of my True Expressions meant. Gave them an interpretation, so far as my Real Sayings were concerned that would comply with their knowledge. No, I am not correctly quoted in many of these sayings. I may say, in the large majority of them. When they were written (300 A.D.), as now contained in the New Testament, humans had lost the Knowledge of their True (Spiritual) Meaning, and out of their own minds, recorded that, which they thought was what I had really said.
I do not see how these false sayings can be corrected. Except, to take each saying, and show, by its incompatibility with what I now say, its falsity. This would take too much time, and expend much energy, that could the better be employed in declaring what the Truth actually is. This I will say, that whenever these sayings impart, that I claim to be God, or that I could, or did, forgive humans of their sins, or that whatsoever should be asked of the Father in my name would be received, are all un-True, and has greatly misled the True Seeker of Knowledge of (Divine Love and) Immortality.
My disciples were close to me, and understood better, my sayings than all others. Yet they did not understand All the Truth (that I told them). Left the Mortal Life with many expectations that were not fulfilled, and in the Very Nature of the same, could not be fulfilled. They were, in certain non-essentials, influenced in their beliefs and expectations, by their training in the teachings of these Old Testament manuscripts. Were very largely Jews, in belief, when they died. They understood the Vital Things that determined their relationship to God, and to their existence in the Future World. As to many of the non-essentials, they retained the faith of their fathers, and were not able to receive All the Truth, which I could have taught them.
I must not linger to correct these alleged sayings of mine. Must occupy my time, and yours, in declaring, and Revealing the Truth as it exists now, and existed then. You, and the World may know, that wherever, and whenever, these Bible sayings of mine, conflict with what I have written, and shall write you, they are untrue, and were never said by me. Thus, in this general way, I will make plain to humans, that the Bible must not, in all particulars, be relied on, or believed in, as containing the Truth, or my Declarations of the Truth.
I will soon come and write a Message on a Vital Truth. I hope that you will be in condition to receive it.
I will now say goodnight, and God Bless your efforts, and keep you safely in His Care.
Your brother and friend, Jesus.
Messages from Jesus and Celestials 1919
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