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Rising from Hell - Spirits write of their experiences of Spiritual Progression out of the hells of the Spirit World into the Heavens.
Rising from Hell
September 16th, 1915
I am the spirit of one who when on Earth was called Caesar.
Well, there was only one real Caesar. All others by that name were merely imitations. I was Julius Caesar, and was the Emperor of Rome, and the conqueror of the Gauls and of the Egyptians.
I am now in a condition of darkness, and also suffering, from my deeds on Earth, which were very wicked and numerous.
I am not an emperor now, but am a spirit who is in the condition of one who has no one to do him reverence. Not the meanest of my former slaves deign to bow the knee, or salute me as their superior. And why? Because in the Spirit World a human is as their Soul Development makes them. Mine has been very much retarded by my want of belief and faith, as I now see.
I merely want to tell you this that you may know that no position on Earth can determine the position of the person when they come into the Spirit World. I mean that the position of the human on Earth does not in the slightest degree influence the position of this same human in the Spirit World. Many of my slaves are higher in their development and in their Spirituality than I am. Well, that may be, but I am in the condition that I say I am. I don't know of any such spirit and doubt if there be any.
I see some bright spirits, and have asked for Prof. Salyards, and find him to be a most beautiful and bright spirit. I am inclined to listen to what he may say. He says that he was well acquainted with my history on Earth, as he had read many books dealing with my life and exploits. He is glad to meet me and show me The Way to a higher and happier condition of existence. I rather like him, and believe that I will go with him and listen to him.
Well, I will try. So I will say goodnight, and good luck. I am your friend now, since you have shown such interest in me, Julius Caesar.
Rising from Hell
October 11th, 1915
I am here, Caligula.
I was the Roman Emperor and the murderer of the Christians. I have, since that time, and for my sins, suffered all the horrors of a hell, which I can't describe. Suffice it to say that the hell of the Bible, or of those who interpret the Bible, is not equal in its torments and horrors to the hell that I passed through. I tell you this that you may know that every human will have to pay the penalties for the evil deeds they do when on Earth. As my deeds were so extremely evil, my penalties were correspondingly great.
But thank God, I have paid my penalties, and am now enjoying the happiness of the Christian Heaven. For I am now a follower of that Jesus, whose followers I persecuted. Strange as it may seem to you, the cause of my conversion to Christianity was one of the very Christians whom I murdered. She was a beautiful spirit when I first saw her in the Spirit World, when she came to me and told me of the Great Divine Love of the Father, and the kindness and humility of the Master. I was then, in much darkness, though I had suffered for many long years, and my thoughts were commencing to turn to things that ultimately helped me to get out of my darkness and find relief from my sufferings.
But this Christian Spirit came to me with such Love and forgiveness in her speech, that I was greatly affected by what she said, and by her appearance. I listened to her as she told me of the Wonderful Divine Love of the Father and the great desire of the Master that I should seek for that Divine Love and the Happiness, which it brings to spirits who obtain it.
She had many interviews with me. At last, she told me that her Happiness depended, to some extent, on my getting this Divine Love in my soul, and progressing with her to the Spheres of Light and Divine Love. She said that I was her soulmate, and that my Love was necessary for her happiness. That I could not give her that Love, until I had become the possessor of the Divine Love to some extent. So you can imagine what an effect this declaration had on me.
I saw that she was beautiful, pure, and loving, and that I was not a fit soulmate for her, and that I must try to make myself a suited soulmate in order that I could be with her. In addition, when she told me of her Love for me, and that we were necessary to each other's happiness, I had a most wonderful longing to be with her and enjoy her Love. The desire soon took possession of me, that I commenced to inquire The Way by which I might get this Great Love, or start to get it. She told me then of the Love of the Master, and how he could teach me The Way, and what power he had to help spirits like myself to get out of the darkness and torture into Light and Happiness.
So I continued in my longings and desires, until at last, my spirit seemed to have a power to rise out of the darkness and to meet other spirits who were not dark and forbidding as I was.
She often came to me and taught me to pray. I did pray and ask forgiveness, and for just a little of that Divine Love of which she had told me.
At last, as I was praying and hoping for this Divine Love and for deliverance, the Master came to me. Such a wonderful Loving spirit he was. The Most Beautiful and Loving, and yet the most humble that I had ever seen, or ever have seen. He commenced to tell me of this Wonderful Divine Love of the Father. How it was working for me to fill my soul and make me a Child of God and At-One with Him. He told me that the only things necessary were for me to pray to the Father and have Faith, and in all earnestness repent of my great sins, and that if I did so, the Divine Love would come to me. As it came into my soul all the sins and recollections of my sins, would leave me, so that I would be able to progress to a higher sphere, where Light and Divine Love were.
I could not resist his influence. I did not want to, for my soulmate was with me in her Love, with pleading eyes and anxious looks. I commenced to have this Faith, and to pray with all the earnestness of my soul. At last, Light came to me, and Divine Love came flowing into my soul. What a happy spirit I became, and thanked God for His Mercy. My soulmate rejoiced with me. We were so happy in our Love, and in the Great Love of the Father.
From thence, I have been progressing ever since, until now I am in the Celestial Spheres, where Divine Love is the Ruling Principle, and only those who possess this Divine Love can live, and where Jesus is our Prince and elder brother.
Caligula, the Emperor, is now a humble follower of the despised Nazarene, and happy in his humility and in his following of such a Loving saviour.
My soulmate is with me. Whenever I look upon her and think that I was the cause of her sufferings and death upon Earth, my whole soul goes out to her in great streams of Love, and she knows it. That is a part of my great repentance. So you see, that even though a human may be the vilest of sinners on Earth, yet the Father's Mercy is so great that His Love is never turned away, or is His Mercy ever withheld.
I tell you that Love, the Father's Divine Love, is the Greatest Thing in All the Universe. Like unto It, is the pure, holy love of the soulmate who has in her soul the Great Love of the Father.
I must not write more tonight. As I was passing I saw the brilliant light that is with you. I embraced the opportunity to write.
Yes, it was Celestia.
And what an appropriate name! My friend, you must also thank God for His Goodness to you, for I have seen your soulmate and she is a most beautiful spirit.
So with the Love of a brother in Christ, I am your friend, Caligula, the Roman Emperor that was, and the Christian that is.
Rising from Hell
December 13th, 1916
I am here, Caesar.
Well I merely want to say, that since I last wrote you, I have followed your advice and have listened to the advice of the High Spirits to whom you sent me. I have been praying as they instructed me. Now I am in a much better condition than I was. The view that I now have of Life in the Spirit World is very different.
I am still in some darkness, but Light is breaking into my soul and consciousness. I am commencing to realize that my fate, as I have for so many years conceived it to be, is not fate at all, and that, my conception of what my fixed state was is all wrong. Was the child, if I may so call it, of my condition of mind and beliefs, that came to me when I came to the Spirit World and realized that the fact of my having been, what the World called a great man on Earth, did not fit me for any greatness in the Spirit World. I was then so disappointed, shocked by finding myself a naked spirit, of qualities that brought me into darkness and suffering. I tried to avoid the association of all other spirits, and nursed my disappointment in isolation, and the belief that for me there could be no change in my condition, or possible progress out of the awful lonesomeness and weariness of my soul.
Now, when I know how different the Truth is, I feel that all these long years of my Spirit Life have been wasted. I bewail the fate that held me so long in that condition of stagnation, pride, resentment, and utter hopelessness.
I am now so thankful that I came to you when I did and told you of my condition. When I realize that my coming to you was more a matter of curiosity to be satisfied that I could communicate with the Mortal World, than because of any hope of receiving any help or benefit that could possible come to me, I thank my curiosity.
When you told me the things that you did, I thought that you were an idle dreamer, and the recipient of some of the harmless vices that existed among the humans of my Earthly days, who used to declaim upon the glories of the Spirit World. I had no faith in them. I had none in you. It was only when I realized that you were so earnest in what you were declaring to me. When I came in contact with the Higher Spirits that you called to my assistance and saw that they had in them something that I had not, which I had never seen in any other spirit, did I commence to think that what you had told me might have some Foundation of Truth.
I also thought that I could not make my condition any worse by listening to these spirits and learn what they had to tell me, as to what they declared was the Truth of Spirit Progress. The more I listened, the more interested I became. After a while, I was convinced that there might be some Truth to what they so earnestly asserted to be True. As an experiment, I concluded to follow their advice and seek for this Wonderful Divine Love that they told me would not only relieve me from my darkness and suffering but would make a new spirit of me in body and soul.
Oh, the wonderful surprise and experience that came to me, for I am no longer the gloomy, despondent, and isolated Emperor, but a mere spirit who recognizes that death is the great leveler. That rank, position, and greatness of Earth, do not in one iota, determine the status of the spirit for position of exaltation. I am now in my consciousness a plain spirit, having those qualities only, which the condition of my soul gives me, and realize that I must pursue the same course and suffer the same purgatory as must other spirits in the same condition of soul, be they princes or peasants.
Well, as I said, I am so thankful that this Knowledge has come to me. Now I am rid of pride and ideas of superiority. All those things that had caused me to believe that the Almighty had treated me unjustly in not recognizing my Earthly qualities and giving me a position which, as I believed, my greatness entitled me to. I resented all this. In my resentment, I became a spirit who fed on my imaginary injuries and thoughts that I would be sufficient unto myself, and not seek the favor of such a God. So you see what can be the effect of arrogance, pride, and a self-glorious estimate of one small mind upon the possibility of a spirit's happiness and progress.
Now these things have left me. I realize that I am a nothing, except that I am a Child of God and the object of His Love, as your spirit friends have told me, and are telling me. In my humility, and I am humble, for I want to tell you that my fall was great and the consciousness of my littleness extreme. I know that I need the help of the Father in order to become in the least degree a Spirit of Light. I am praying, longing and seeking, oh so earnestly, for this Divine Love.
Caesar, the once mighty, is now Caesar the most humble and weak, but the most hopeful. I realize the Greatness of God's Mercy, and the Great Possibility of its making me one of these Glorious Angels that came to you so often with their Messages of Divine Truth and Salvation to Humankind.
I was considered on Earth a human of brilliant mind and wonderful intellect. What of this I had I still possess, and now that The Way has been shown me, I am exercising these qualities to the best of my ability to help me in my search for Divine Truth and Light.
I thought that I would write this tonight, for I know that you are interested in my advancement. Besides, it does me much good to tell you. I am praying and longing, and these spirits are praying with me. As yet, I have not very much of this Divine Love in my soul, but enough to know, I say Know, that it is Real. That it makes the hard, unbelieving soul, open up to the inflowing in greater abundance of Its Divine Essence. The Father is Good. I am trusting Him, and with all the possibilities of my soul I am longing for its filling with this Divine Love and the getting rid of all these century old doubts, hardness of heart and unbelief’s.
I know The Way. Now I will never relapse into the state of mind that was mine for so many centuries. I can say that Caesar has seen the Beacon Light of Hope and the Great Sun of Knowledge, that these things, which the Loving spirits tell me are True.
I must stop now, but as I progress I should like to come to you and describe my progress. I will say goodnight, and subscribe myself, your friend and well-wisher, Julius Caesar.
Rising from Hell
5th September 1916
I am here, Constantine.
I was the Roman Emperor, and died as the head of the Christian Church. I was not really a Christian and did not understand the True Principles of the Christian teachings. I adopted Christianity as a State religion because of political purposes, added to my desire to destroy the powers of my antagonists, who were believers in, and worshipers of, the gods of paganism. I was a human who cared not in the slightest, whether the cross, or the symbol of the oracles, was the true sign of religion, or whether the followers of religious beliefs belonged to the Christian church, or the worship of the gods, which our country had for so many years adopted and followed.
My great desire, when I made Christianity the State religion, was to obtain power, and the allegiance of the majority of the people of the empire. The Christians were very numerous, and were persons of such intense convictions, so intense, that not even death could remove, or change these convictions, I knew that, when they once gave me their allegiance, I should have a following that could not be overthrown by those who were worshipers of the old gods. The latter people were not so interested in their religious beliefs, individually, as to cause them to have such convictions as would interfere with any religion that I might establish. When they realized that their material interests would be advanced by, at least, formally recognizing that religion as a state establishment. Their beliefs were not the results of conviction. Merely those, of what had been accepted by their ancestors and transmitted to them as a kind of inheritance. They believed in the gods, and the oracles, as a matter of course, without ever having made the objects of their beliefs matters of investigation, in order to learn if those beliefs were True or not. Truth was not sought for. Hence conviction was a mere shallow acquiescence.
During all the time of my office as Emperor, I never changed my beliefs, and never accepted the teachings of the Christians as the Revelation of Truth. In fact, I never considered such a matter as religion, worthy of my serious consideration. Many doctrines were proposed and discussed by the ecclesiastical teachers and leaders of this religion. Those doctrines were approved by me, which were adopted by a majority of these leaders as true and the correct declarations of what the Scriptures of the Christians contained.
I let these leaders fight their own battles, as to doctrines and truths. When they decided what should be accepted and declared by the church to be true doctrines, I approved the same and promulgated them as binding upon all the followers of the Christian faith.
So I, though it has been frequently said, did not establish the canonicity of the Bible, or determine and legalize the doctrines which were declared and made binding by the conventions of the leaders of the church. Of course, I gave them my sanction and official approval, but they were not mine, and should not be said to have been established by me. If the doctrines of the Arians had been accepted and declared by a majority of these ecclesiasts, as the true teachings of the Christian scriptures, I should have sanctioned and given them the State's authority.
As I said, I was not a Christian when I lived. I did not die a Christian, notwithstanding all the fantastical and miraculous things which have been written about me and my conversion to Christianity.
When I came into the Spirit World, I found myself in great darkness and suffering, realizing that I had to pay the penalties for the sins thought and committed by me on Earth. All the masses which were said for the benefit of my soul never helped me one particle to get out of my unhappy condition. I knew nothing about the Divine Love or the Mission of Jesus in coming to Earth. I found that my sins had not been washed away, as the teachers had often told me on Earth would be done for me.
Many long years I remained in this condition of darkness and unhappiness, without finding any relief, by reason of the mystical workings of Jesus' atonement, of which the priests had told me, which I did not believe. Nor the help of the gods in whom I had been taught to believe by our philosophers and religious teachers. No, I found no relief. My condition seemed to be fixed. Hope of the Christian Heaven that was never mine, and of the fields Elysian that would be mine in a hazy way, did not cause me to feel that my sufferings would at sometime come to an end and the glad face of happiness appear.
But after a time the Light of the Truth in which Jesus came to teach broke in on my understanding and soul. The Divine Love of the Father commenced to flow into my soul, and continued, until I became a possessor of it to that degree that I was carried to the Celestial Spheres, where I now am, a Redeemed Pure and Immortal soul, having undoubting Knowledge and conviction, that I possess in my soul the Divine Essence of the Father, and the Certainty of Eternal Life in the Celestial Kingdom.
I cannot tonight write you of my experience in either the dark planes, or in the successive progressive spheres, but sometime I will come and detail that experience. But before ceasing my writing, I wish to say with all the force that I have, that only the Divine Love of the Father can save a soul from its sins and make it At-One with the Father in His Divine Nature.
Let creeds, dogmas, and human made doctrines, take care of themselves. Learn the Truth! In that Truth abide! Truth is Eternal and never changes. No decrees of human, or dogmas of church tradition of the early fathers, writers, or creeds of ecclesiastical conventions, so solemnly adopted, and declared, can make that a Truth, which is not a Truth. Truth existed before all these things. Is not subject to them, nor by them, can it be added to, or taken from.
I must not write more now. I thank you for having permitted me to write. So with my Love, I will say goodnight, your brother in Christ, Constantine.
Rising from Hell
September 5th, 1916
I am here, St. Luke.
I am glad to write once more and feel that very soon you will be able to receive our messages.
I will not attempt to write at length tonight. I will only say that as you may doubt the identity of the one who has just written you, I desire to confirm the fact that it was Constantine, the Roman Emperor, who wrote you. He was very much pleased that he could write, and in a hurried way correct some of the historical errors that have existed concerning his True position as to Christianity.
He is now a very bright spirit, an inhabitant of the Celestial Spheres, and of course, a possessor of the Divine Love. I desire to tell you though, that he was scourged by his conscience, as it were, before he got out of his condition of darkness and suffering, superinduced, very largely by pride. In his own conceit, he was an emperor for a very long time after he entered the Spirit World, and retained all the pride of an emperor. I will leave all this for him to write about, as he promised, and stop writing for the time.
Well, you must not become discouraged, for the Divine Love is a Reality. You have some of it, and may have more, only pray The Father for His Help and Guidance.
We all Love you, and are trying to helping you, only believe. Your brother in Christ, Luke.
Rising from Hell
January 16th, 1917
I am here, the spirit of one who lived on Earth the Life of a wicked human. A persecutor of the Christians, a blasphemer of God, and everything that was Pure and Holy. When I had lived the Life to its end, shuffled off the mortal coil and became a spirit, I also became a dweller in the lowest hells, where all is darkness and torment, and the abode of devils and everything that tends to make the spirit unhappy and at variance with the Loving God.
I introduce myself in this way in order to demonstrate to you the Wonderful Power of the Divine Love. Now I am an inhabitant of the Celestial Spheres. I know that this Divine Love is not only real, but is capable of making the vilest sinner, a partaker and owner of the Divine Essence of the Father.
My sufferings were beyond all description. I was the most desecrated of mortals, and was almost worshipped by the devils of hell because of the great injury that I had done to the followers of Jesus, who, in my time, were possessed of this Divine Love and Faith, which even the terrors of the wild beasts of the arena, or the torches of my own evil designs, could not cause them to renounce in this great religion that the Master had taught them, and the disciples were still teaching when I put so many of them to death.
The devils loved me for the very evil that I had done. But strange to say, the spirits of those who I had sent unto the Spirit World before their time, were not revengeful to me, or came to me with their imprecations or cursing. Then, when I had been in the Spirit World a sufficient time to realize my surroundings, and the nature of these evils, these spirits of the martyrs, which I had made, came to me in sympathy and pity, and in fact, tried many times to help me out of my great sufferings and darkness. I did not understand all this unexpected kindness and evidence of Love. I would not, for a long time, believe that these spirits were sincere. So I suffered for year after year, and century after century, and became convinced that my condition was fixed. That for me, there was no hope. That the God that I had heard of was not my God, and that devils were the only companions that I was destined to have through All Eternity.
So I endured, wishing to die, but I could not. Oh, I tell you it was horrible and beyond all conception of mortals! The Law (of Compensation) was working, and I was paying the penalty. There seemed no end to the penalty.
I could find no consolation among those who surrounded me. The pleasures that I first enjoyed, became to me, mere things of mockery and derision. My darkness and torment became the greater. How often I called upon God, if there be a God, to strike me dead. The only answer to my call was the laughter of the grinning devils, who told me to shout louder, as God might be asleep, and may be deaf.
What to do, I knew not. So I became isolated, as best I could, from these terrible associates. Many years of my living were spent in the darkness of lonesomeness, with never a ray of hope, or the whisper of one word to tell me, that for me there might be a fairer destiny. So time went by, and I waited in my misery for some kind power to come and annihilate me, but I waited in vain.
During all this time, the recollections of my Earthly deeds were like hot irons scorching my soul, and burning my body, as I thought, and the end came not.
Well, I suffered the tortures of the damned. It seemed to me that I was paying the penalties for all the sins and evil deeds that had ever been committed by all the wicked kings, rulers, and persecutors of Earth. Many times the shrieks of the Christian children, the groans of the men and women as they were being torn asunder from limb to limb, or burned as living torches, which I had made of them, came to me and increased my torment. I lived the Life of centuries of torment in a few moments, as it seemed to me. Not one cooling drop of water was mine. It may seem impossible that I should have continued to live in this ever increasing suffering, but I did, because I was compelled to. The Law of Compensation did its work. There was no one to say "enough".
I might write a volume on this suffering of mine, and yet you would not comprehend its meaning. So I will pass it by.
In my loneliness and suffering there came to me, on an occasion, a beautiful spirit, full of Light and Love, and all the beauty of early womanhood, as I thought. With eyes of pity and longing, and said, "You are not alone, only open your eyes and you will see the Star of Hope, which is the Sign of the Father's Love and Desire to help you. I am a child of that Father and the possessor of His Great Enveloping Divine Love. I Love you, even though you took from me my young Life when you threw me to the wild beasts to satisfy your desire to gratify your thirst for innocent blood, and see the suffering and hear the groans of your victims. Yet, I Love you. Not because I am a human with a kindly Nature and a forgiving disposition, but because I have in me this Divine Love of the Father, which tells me that I am your sister, and that you are a Child of the Father, just as I am, and the Object of His Love, just as I was the Object of His Love. You have suffered. While you suffered, His Great Love went out to you in sympathy and desire to help you. You, yourself, prevented it from coming to you, and leading you to Light and surcease from sufferings. Now I come to you, your young and innocent victim, who had never done you any greater harm on Earth than to pray for you, and ask the Heavenly Father to take away from your heart, the great wickedness that caused so many of my people to suffer persecution and death. We all prayed for you, and never asked our Father to curse you, or do anything to you to make you suffer. We have prayed for you often since we came to the Spirit World. We are now praying for you, this because we Love you and want you to be happy. Look into my eyes and you will see that Love is there, and what I tell you is True. Now, can you not Love us a little and open up your soul to our sympathy, and let your feelings of gloom and despondency leave you for a moment, and realize that in this World of Spirits there are some who Love you?"
Well, to say that I was surprised, does not express my feelings. As I looked into the Love lit eyes of that beautiful spirit, I felt the great sins of my Earth Life overwhelm me. In my anguish, I cried, "God be merciful to me, the greatest of sinners". For the first time, in all my Life in the hells, tears came to my eyes. My heart seemed to have a sense of living. There came to me feelings of remorse and regret for all the evils that I had done.
It would take too long to tell what followed this breaking up of my soul, all shriveled and dead. Suffice it to say that from that time, I commenced to have hope come to me, and to get out of my awful condition of darkness. It took a long time, but at last, I got into the Light. This Divine Love, which the beautiful spirit first told me of, gradually came into my soul. Until, at last, I reached the condition of Bliss, in which I now am.
During all the time of my progress, this radiant Loving spirit came to me very often with her words of Love and encouragement, prayed for me, and never left me when I became, as I did at times, doubtful and discouraged. As my Awakening continued, the Divine Love came into my soul. As she told me of the heavenly things that would be mine, as I progressed and reached the Soul Spheres, where beautiful homes and pure bright spirits are, I became more and more bound by my Love to her. After a while I got into the Third Sphere, and realized that what she had told me was True, only I had not been able to comprehend the Greatness of the Truth.
She then commenced to tell me of the happiness of the beautiful spirits of the two sexes, that I so often saw together. Explained that they were soulmates, that their Love was the Greatest of all the Loves, except the Divine Love, and that every spirit in all the Spheres had its soulmate, and at the proper time would find it.
My Love for this Loving spirit had then become so intense that in the very depths of my soul, I wished and prayed that my soulmate might be such a one as she. At last, I became so filled with my Love for her, that I told her that the only thing in all the Heavens that I needed to make full my happiness, was she as my soulmate. But that I realized that that desire was hopeless, as I had destroyed her Life, and of course she could not be my soulmate. Oh, how I suffered when I realized that she could not be mine, but was another's.
As I told her of these longings and hopeless feelings of my soul, she came close to me and looked into my eyes with such burning Love, and threw her arms around me, and said, "I am your soulmate, and knew the fact a short time after you came to the Spirit World and entered your hells of darkness. During all the long years I prayed and prayed for the time to come when I could go to you with my Love and awaken in your dead soul the response to my great Love. When the time came that I could go, I was so thankful to the Father, that I almost flew to you, with some dread of disappointment, I confess, to tell you that you were not neglected, or unthought-of, but that there was some Love in the Spirit World that was going to you. Of course, I could not tell you of my Soulmate Love, for you would not then have understood. But as your soul awakened and the Divine Love of the Father came to you, I became happier and happier, and have waited so anxiously for this moment, when I could tell you that this Love, that had been consciously mine for so long, is all yours."
Well, I will draw the veil here, but you can imagine what my happiness was. As I progressed from sphere to sphere, my happiness and Love for her increased and increased.
Thus, I have told you the story of the Life, in the Spirit World, of the wickedest human that God ever permitted to live and gratify his feelings of hatred and revenge. I, who have passed through this experience, and realized all that it means, say, that the Divine Love of the Father is able to, and does, save the vilest sinner, and transforms the chiefest of devils into a Celestial Angel of His Highest Spheres.
I have written long and you are tired. I thank you, and will say goodnight, and subscribe myself, your brother in Christ, Nero, the Roman Emperor and at one time persecutor of God's True Children.
Rising from Hell
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 his 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 Divine Love would work out my deliverance, I confess that I had very little faith in what you told me. 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, and 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 is 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. 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, and 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, and my emotions were aroused. I felt a kind of happiness that I had not before felt. 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, and so wonderfully patient, and 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, and with it the consciousness of a hope that might be fulfilled. After a while, this Divine Love came to me and with it a feeling 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 body also, for as you may know, I had then, and have now, a (spirit) 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, and an inhabitant of a brighter Sphere and 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 that I am now a very happy, George Butler.
Rising from Hell
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