LIFE AFTER LIFE

Life after Life - The Continuous Life of a human after the death of the physical body, as shown by the manifestations of nature. As Life continues after death, in the elements of this latter body (spirit body), why cannot we declare that after death, Life continues in the invisible part (spirit body and soul) of human?

Life after Life

December 9th, 1914

I am here, Helen.

I am so very happy, as you are Loving me very much tonight. I can see that your thoughts are with me so much more than of late. So let me continue to feel that you Love me so much.

When I realized that the time had come for me to go, I did not fear to do so, but calmly waited, and thought that all my sufferings would soon end. When my spirit left the body, I commenced to feel as if I was rising out of it. That I was going upward to the place that I had so often heard my father speak about. I had scarcely awakened to the fact that my spirit had left the body, before your mother had me in her arms and was trying to tell me that I had nothing to fear, or cause me to feel that I was not with those that Loved me. She was so beautiful that I hardly realized that it was she. When I commenced to see that I was no longer in my body, I asked her not to leave me but to take me with her to where she lived. She told me that I could not go there, but that God had prepared a place for me to go to, and that she would accompany me and show me the Truth of my future existence. I went with her, and she took me to a place that was very beautiful and filled with spirits who had recently passed over. She did not leave me for a long time. When she did, your father came to me and said, "I am Ned's father and want to help you to realize that you are now in the Spirit World, and must not let the thoughts of the Earth keep you from getting in a condition to learn that all of us are only waiting for the Love of God to help us to higher and better things".
Your grandmother soon came to me and told me who she was, and was so beautiful and bright that I scarcely could look at her, for her face was all aglow with what seemed to me to be a Heavenly Light. Her voice was so sweet and musical that I thought she must be one of God's Angels that I had read about in the Bible. She told me of the things that God had prepared for me, and that He wanted me to Love Him and feel that He Loved me.
After awhile I commenced to think that, I must be deceived in my sight and hearing, was still on Earth, and needed only my body again to know that I was still a mortal. Some time elapsed before I really became conscious that I was a spirit and was not on Earth; for when I tried to talk to you, as I did, you would not listen to me and turned away from me as if you did not see or hear me. After a short time your mother and father came to me again, and tried to persuade me that I must not continue in my belief that I was still of the Earth, but must believe that I was in Spirit Life, and needed only the things of the spirit to make me more contented.

So you see, I was so very fortunate in having your dear parents and grandmother welcome me when I passed over. If they had not received me, I do not know to what condition of fear and distraction I might have been subjected. No spirit can learn the Truth of The Change, unless in some way helped by others.

So you see, when you come over I will be there to receive you, and Love you, so much that you will never have to go through the period of doubt that I did. Your father is also waiting to receive you. In fact, all your spirit band have agreed, that when you come, you will have nothing to fear for want of help and Love.

I first saw my parents after I commenced to believe that I was in the Spirit World. When I saw them they did not know me, but thought that I was still in the body and that they were still on Earth, as they had not yet Awakened to the fact that they were in the Spirit World. They were very unhappy. It took considerable talking to make them believe that they were spirits and not mortals. My father was more easily convinced than was my mother, for he commenced sooner to recall that when death comes, the spirit must go to God who gave it. My mother would not believe so soon, for she continued to think that she was with her acquaintances on Earth, and that they were not treating her very courteously, for when she spoke to them, they would not answer. But thank God, they both now realize that they are in the Spirit World, and that they must learn to Love God, if they would be happy.

When I commenced to leave the body there was no pain or suffering, only a feeling that I was rising out of it. No darkness appeared to me. I saw my body lying there as if it were asleep. I did not try to hold it, but thought that it was merely taking a rest and that as soon as it felt refreshed I would enter it again and continue to live as before. I did not wait for it to awaken, but continued to arise until, as I told you, your mother clasped me in her arms. She was my own dear mother as well as yours.

I did not know that I was dying, but felt that something unusual was happening. I was not afraid. As I always, in life dreaded death. The strange thing to me was that I did not look upon death as dying. It was only a pleasant dreamy feeling. I only thought that I was going to become absent from my body until it was refreshed. My thoughts were not of death at all. I had been suffering pain, but I thought that I was getting well. The feeling of relief that came over me was the result of my getting better. As my spirit arose, I thought only of my condition and how soon I would be able to return home and see my friends. No other thoughts came to me, not even my Love for God, or the fact that I was not in condition, as regards my soul, to meet my Maker, as I had been taught. There was absolutely no fear of what might happen to me, or that I would soon be called upon to account for the sins I had committed. Just before my spirit left my body I was unconscious, but just as soon as the separation commenced, I became fully conscious and knew everything that took place, and did not feel at all as if I were in danger, or needed the help of anyone.

I did not stay with my body at all when I commenced to leave it, but continued to rise, as I have told you, until your mother met me. So you see death, which I so much feared, was not such a dreadful thing to experience.

Yes, when my son came to where my body lay, I returned to it, and saw it taken away, and afterwards buried. But I still did not understand what it all meant. Only when your grandmother told me that I would no more inhabit it, did I commence to realize that I had left it forever. Even then, I had some feeling that she was mistaken and that in some way I would return to it again and continue to live on Earth.

Yes, when I had been in the Spirit World a short time, I saw other spirit forms. Even then, I was not in a condition of mind to fully understand that they were spirits and not mortals. The resemblance is very real, to one who has never had their spiritual eyes opened. Even though the spirit forms all appear much more beautiful and bright, yet to me they all seemed to be human forms. I thought that I was not in condition to fully see just what they were.

You must let me stop now, for I am tired. Your own True and Loving Helen.

Life after Life

March 21st, 1916

I am here, Samuel.

I desire to write for a short time on a subject that is of importance to those who are in doubt as to the Reality of the Future Life.

I know that a vast majority of mortals believe in a Future Existence, and the immortality of the soul. But there are a considerable number of mortals who do not know these facts, or who have no belief regarding the matter. Simply say "I don't know." It is to these latter persons that I wish to write.

In the first place, all persons know, if they know anything, that they are living, and that sooner or later what they call death is inevitable. No matter, from what cause it may take place. To live then, implies that there is such a thing as Continuous Life. To die, to these people, demonstrates that the Life, with which they are acquainted, ceases. That the material body in which this Life manifests itself gradually disintegrates into the Original Elements that composed that body.

Now, a human, being a materialist purely, would seem to be correct in their conclusions, that when Life, which could be manifested only through the material things of nature, ceases, and the body becomes inanimate and dead, that then is the end, not only of the body, but of the individual. If there existed no other Manifestation of Life than this physical one, there would be no foundation upon which to base the assumption, that the death of the body does not end all.

I know it has been asserted, in the way of argument, that even though the material parts of vegetation die, yet as spring comes around, these materials show forth again the Life that had previously manifested itself. Therefore, by analogy, the death of the human body merely means that its Life will appear again in evidence, in some other body or form.

But upon close investigation and exact reasoning, it will be seen that the two subjects of demonstration are not alike. Because while the material of the vegetable kingdom apparently dies, yet it does not all die, for even though you may apparently see the particular body of the tree, or plant, or every part of it, go into decay or rottenness, yet as a fact, this is not True. The whole of the material plant which enclosed, or manifested Life, does not die, until out of it, a new body arises and grows. The Life that animated the body that appears to have died continues in it, awaiting the new growth for its display of existence.

The flower dies, and the bush upon which it grows may appear to die, yet the roots continue to enclose the Life Principle, which causes the bush to grow again, and which has its genesis in these roots, and is the same Life that originally existed in the bush. Pluck up the bush by the roots and expose them to the elements until they die and commence to disintegrate, and then replant them, and you will find they will not grow, for the reason that the Life, which had animated them, has departed.

The same conclusions will be reached when you apply the same investigation and reasoning to every species of the vegetable kingdom. The grain of corn, though apparently dead, is in Reality not dead, but continues to contain the Life Principle, which was the cause of the growth of the stalk, the blade and the ear in the blade. Nothing of the vegetable kingdom will be reproduced, or form the basis of a new growth, unless some part of the old growth retains in it the Life Force.

In human's investigation of the wonders of vegetable life, they have discovered that a grain of corn that had been entombed in the hands of an Egyptian mummy for more than three thousand years, when planted in the ground, reproduced the stalk, blade and ear of corn, just as the original material body had produced. Why? Not because when the grain of corn was planted in the earth it received unto itself New Life, or any Force that was not already in it, but because the grain had never ceased to be without the Life that existed in it, as it grew from the original seed to the perfect grain. The grain had never lost its Life, and had never died, though apparently it had. Always, there was some part of the original body that continued to exist, and that held enclosed in itself the Life Principle. Without the preservation of some part of the original body, there could never have been a manifestation of the Life that caused the growth of that body. This phenomenon, as you call it, was not the resurrection of a material body that had died and become disintegrated, nonexistent, but was merely the resurrection of that part of the old body that had never died, but had always retained in it the Life Principle. This, I say, is no argument for the future existence of human, as viewed from a purely material aspect.

When the body of a human dies, it is Eternally destroyed, either by natural decay, or by incineration, or sometimes by cannibals, so that no portion of their body remains in which the Life Principle may be preserved. So far as the material body is involved, it utterly disappears. No roots remain in the ground, and no grain, or seed, of it is preserved, from which a new body may arise.

So I say, the phenomena of the vegetable apparently dying, and after a season springing forth again, and producing a body similar to the one that had formerly lived and died, furnishes no demonstration, or argument, from which logically, can be drawn the conclusion that when a human dies, they will not cease to exist, or will live again.

From the purely material standpoint, the materialist has the better of the argument, and they may well ask the question: "When a human dies shall they live again?", and answer the inquiry by saying, nature furnishes no proof that they will.

It may be said that Life permeates all nature, and is the basis of all existence. That assertion is True. But it does not follow there from that any particular manifestation of Life, such as the individual human, when once ceasing to manifest, will again be reproduced in that particular identity of material manifestation, or in that form, or existence that will make itself the identical being that had ceased to exist.

So to show human that there is a continuous existence after the death of the body, and I mean an individual, identical existence, something more is required than the argument of analogy in nature, or to the material things of nature, in which Life appears, then apparently disappears and then reappears.

As the discussion on this phase of the matter will require more time than you have tonight to receive it, I will defer the treatment until later.

With all my Love I will say goodnight, your brother in Christ, Samuel.

Life after Life

March 30th, 1916

I am here, Samuel.

I desire to continue my message on the subject: The Continuous Life of a human after the death of the body, as shown by the manifestations of nature.
As I was saying, the apparent death and resuscitation of things of the vegetable kingdom, do not furnish any argument that human will continue to live after the death of the physical body.

Now I know it is difficult to understand what there can be in the manifestations of nature to prove such Persistent Life, and that the people for whose benefit I am writing this, will not be willing to use evidence of things of a Spiritual Nature to prove this Continuous Life. Hence, I will confine myself to matters material.
Well, in the first place, there is no such thing as the death of anything in all the Material Universe of God. Every Primal Element has Life in it, even though that Life may not be apparent to the consciousness of humans, but it is a fact. Every atom, or electron, as the scientists term these particles of matter that are reduced to their infinitesimal proportions, is pregnant with Life. The very apparent decay of material substances is nothing more, nor less, than the results of the operation of the Life that they contain, working out the changes of form, or expression.

If the scientists will investigate and analyze the constituents of particles of all matter, notwithstanding that they appear to be devoid of the Life Principle, they will find that Life, in some of its expressions, is contained in these particles, and that there is nothing in the material things of nature that is completely inert. There is no such thing as inertia, it only appears to exist. While it may not be apparent to the natural eye that every thing in the material has Life within itself, and as a result, there from, there is Force and Motion, yet such is the fact.

This Life Principle permeates everything, and applies to, and forms a part of, everything that has the appearance of natural existence. The grain of sand on the seashore, or the dust of the decayed tree, has within it Life. This Life is no more nonexistent, or absent, from these material things, than are the elements that compose this visible form of matter ever lost, or without existence. It is True that these elements change their forms and their compositions, yet they never cease to exist, or become nothing. Nothing means a void. In God's Creation there is no void. Everything is of Substance. There are no vacancies unfilled. Hence, as Life is the Foundation Principle of Existence, and Life exists everywhere, and there being no void in nature, Life permeates everything, whether visible to the mortal eye, or senses, or not.

When that which is material decays, or disintegrates, it does not do so as the result of the absence of Life, but as the result of the operation of this Principle of Life upon the material, in such a way, as to cause the separation of its elements, and their change into new forms and appearances.

I know it is said, that the workings of the elements, that is; fire, water, air, and chemicals known and unknown cause the disintegration, or even the disappearance of things material. This is not strictly True. For these elements do not affect these things themselves, as a primary result of their workings, but what they affect is The Life within these materials. As that Life lessens, or changes, the materials of which that Life is a part, disintegrate, or dissolve, as is sometimes said, into thin air. Never does any part of the material substance, no matter how minute it may come to be, die, that is; in the sense of losing Life.

Life is a thing of such delicate Nature, and is so susceptible to a division, or reduction to smallness almost to infinity, that no substance can become so small that Life is not a part of it, and the Vital Principle of its Existence.

As is known, the solid rock may be reduced not only to dust, but to a liquid, and then to a vapor, and then to a gas. Then to that, that is not sensitive to the consciousness of humans, and yet the Life Principle exists in all these forms of that material rock. That which ultimates into apparent nothingness, contains Life, just as does the original rock, or any of its subsequent forms in the process of reduction to seeming extinction.

The materialist accepts these phenomena as True, and blindly and with full assurance, announces that nothing in Creation is ever lost or annihilated. This being True, why is not the conclusion logical that the apparently inanimate rock, or the animal without reasoning powers, or the human with the reasonable faculties, is never annihilated, or lost; or in other words, never dies the death that results in nothingness!

They say, while this may be True, yet the materials which form these various aspects of existence do not necessarily, or probably, come together again and reform the identical being that once appeared as an existing thing, and then dissolved into the elements that composed the thing. Hence, while the elements, in some form, may continue to live forever, yet that form in which they once existed will not again appear. I know that this is a reasonable conclusion. One in accord with the demonstrations of science, and is applicable to the merely physical human, just as to any other manifestations of the material things of nature.

Even these materialists admit that in the case of human, there is something in their formation and Essential Being that is more than, or in addition to, the merely physical portions of them. While they may say that this something is wholly of a material nature, yet they admit that it is of a material different and distinct from the material that forms the visible physical body.

I do not speak of the soul, or spiritual part of human, but of the intellect, and of the five senses, and of the reasoning powers, all which, of course, includes the memory. That part of human that embraces these things, the materialists must admit, is distinct and different from the mere body. Even though it were here to be conceded that they are material, yet no human has ever seen them, or felt them, or in any way perceived their existence, as they have that which they know to be of the material. They have seen, heard, and known the effects of the existence of these invisible material qualities, as they may call them, but has never demonstrated that they died when the physical body died. The furthest that they can go in this direction is that they disappeared and became lost to their consciousness; but that they disintegrated, or dissolved, or were reduced, to a gaseous substance, or thin air, in which they have seen the visible physical body disappear, they cannot affirm. The limit of their knowledge is; that with the death of the physical body, this other, as they term it, material part of human disappears, and never again reappears to their physical senses.

As I say, they have never observed, and have no knowledge of, any disintegration of these invisible material parts of human into any primary elements, or atoms, or electrons, as they apply such terminology to the physical body. Hence they are not justified in concluding that any such results to this invisible material follows the death and dissolving of the flesh, blood, and bones of human. To so conclude is more of a speculation than to hold that the invisible material did not dissolve into forms more invisible, if such an expression can be used.

As I have said, Life is in all things, visible and invisible. There is no vacuum in nature. While human is living, it is demonstrated that Life is in this invisible part of human, and more abundantly than in the merely visible body. As Life continues after death, in the elements of this latter body, why cannot we declare that after death, Life continues in the invisible part of human? Nothing is ever lost or annihilated. Hence these parts of human cannot be annihilated, and existing they must contain Life.

Has the materialist ever been able to demonstrate to their own satisfaction even, that this invisible part of human, which they say is material, ceases to live? He cannot say that the elements of the physical body, no matter what form they may assume, cease to live, but on the contrary affirmatively asserts that they are never annihilated and continue to exist. As Life is necessary to existence, they must continue to have Life.

So, according to their own arguments, demonstrations, and ultimate claims, the death of the physical body does not destroy the elements which compose that body, but only the form in which these elements were combined. Then from this, the most that they can claim, as to the invisible material part of human is, that while the material which composed this part is not dead, or annihilated, yet their formation may be disintegrated, or changed. Hence, the identity of the human, as to this portion of them, no longer exists. This conclusion does not follow as a logical sequence. The materialist has nothing upon which to base this conclusion, except, that they have seen and know that when the visible body dies it disintegrates and ultimately disappears.
They have never seen the disintegration of this invisible part of human. Though, they have seen its manifestations decay and even destroyed. The cause of this is shown to be some decadence, or disorganization, of some part of the visible body, through which the invisible manifested.

These materialists have knowledge of the facts that humans have been deprived of their arms, or legs, or other parts of the body, and yet the invisible parts remained Perfect, performing their functions. Also, it is True, that humans have received injury to their physical organs of sight or hearing, and, as a consequence, the invisible organs of sight or hearing did not function, but that fact constitutes no proof that they were dead, or had ceased to preserve the form they had before the physical organs were impaired. For when the defects of the physical organs were removed and these organs again came into condition to do their functioning, the invisible faculties of sight and hearing manifested their existence again, just as they had existed before the physical organs were impaired. So many similar instances might be referred to, to show that death, or destruction of, any, or many parts, of the visible body does not destroy or disseminate into its elements, the invisible material part of human. Besides, let the materialists consider the great difference in the powers and objects of the Creation of these visible and invisible parts of human. They will realize that the purely physical is wholly subordinated, and used, merely to enable the invisible parts to manifest themselves, and show that the Real Human is the invisible part. That human can lose part of their physical vestment, and yet exist and perform their functions, and exercise their powers.

I have thus tried to show, that while no argument can be drawn from any analogy between the vegetable things of nature dying and coming to Life again, and humans dying. Yet, neither can any argument be drawn from the fact that the visible body of human dies and goes into its elements, never to be resuscitated again as the same body, to show that the invisible body of human dies and is dissolved into its elements. And that, human ceases to be the individual that they were before the death of the physical body.

I may not have made my message as plain and convincing as I would desire, but in discussions of this kind it is difficult to transmit the various shades of thought through the medium of a mortal. I thank you for your courtesy and will stop now. So with all my Love and the Blessings of the Father, I will say goodnight, your brother in Christ, Samuel.

Life after Life

May 29th, 1916

I am here, St. John, Apostle of Jesus.

I come tonight to tell you a Vital Truth, which I know you will be interested in.

The question has often been asked; What does the spirit of human do when it leaves the physical body for Eternity?

Many spirits, I know, have written you about this matter. Some of them have described their personal experiences. Yet in all the information that you have received, there are some facts that have not been referred to. I will, in a brief way, describe them.
When the spirit leaves the body, there is a breaking of the silver cord, as it is called. Thereby, all connection between the spirit and the body is severed, for all Eternity. Never again can that spirit enter that body. Neither can any other spirit, although, I know it is claimed by some Spiritualists, that another spirit may inhabit the cast-off body. This is all wrong! For no spirit, ever enters the body, which has once been the home of another spirit. Hence, claims made by some of the wise humans of the East that such a thing can be, have no foundation in fact. When the silver cord is once severed, no power that is known to the Spirit World, or among spirits of the Highest Sphere, can again resuscitate that body and cause the manifestation of Life. Hence, in the miracles mentioned in the Bible, where it is said that the dead were brought to Life, it must be understood that this tie between the spirit, and the body, was never broken. In those ancient days, as now, there were persons who had the appearance of being dead. So far as human knowledge was concerned, were dead, but who were really in a state of what may be called suspended animation. No signs of Life appearing, to the consciousness of humans. Death was thought to have taken place. Yet in no case where the supposed dead were raised to Life, had the mortal really died.

As Lazarus has already told you, when Jesus commanded him to come forth, he had not died. And so of all the other supposed dead who were called to Life.
When this tie has been once severed there are certain chemical Laws affecting the physical body, and certain Spiritual Laws affecting the spirit, which absolutely render it impossible for the spirit to again enter the body. As you have been informed, we all, mortals and spirits, and Angels as well, are governed by Laws, which have no exceptions, and never vary in their workings. So I say; when once the spirit and body separate it is for All Eternity. The spirit then becomes of itself, a thing apart. Controlled entirely and exclusively by Laws governing the spirit body.

With the spirit's entry into the Spirit World, comes the soul, still enclosed in that spirit body. To an extent controlled by that body. Which latter is also, in certain particulars, controlled by the soul. The spirit body has not, of itself, the power to determine its own location, or destiny, as regards place. For the Law of Attraction, which operates in this particular, operates upon the soul. The condition of the soul determines the location of itself. As the spirit body is the covering of the soul, it must go where this Law of Attraction decrees the soul shall abide.

While the mind, the mental faculties, and the senses, have their seat in the spirit body, yet the Law that I speak of does not operate upon these faculties. As is apparent to every spirit, which they know from observation, as well as from experience, that the combined power of all these faculties cannot move a spirit body one step in the way of progress, unless such faculties have, in their influence upon the soul, caused its (the soul) condition to change. In the matter of mere mental, or moral, advancement this can be done.
So, I repeat, the condition of the soul determines the locality, as well as the appearance of the spirit body. This Law of Attraction is so exact, that in its operations, there is no opportunity for chance to interpose, and place the spirit body in a location, which is not its, by reason, of the operation of this Law of Attraction.
So that, when the spirit body enters the Spirit World, it must go to, and occupy the place, which its enclosed soul condition determines that it shall occupy. No interposition of spirit friends, or love of parent, or husband, or child can prevent this destiny. Although, for a time, until the soul has really had an Awakening, as to its condition of severance from the Mortal Life, these relations or friends, may retain the spirit body near the place of its entrance into the Spirit Life. Even though that place be one of more beautiful surroundings and happiness than the one to which it is destined. This situation does not last long, for the Law works. As the soul comes into full consciousness, it hears the call, and must obey. Thus, you see, friends and loved ones in Spirit Life, meet with Love, kindness and consolation, the newly arrived spirit. But the parting must come. Every soul must find its home, according as its own qualities have determined. Yet the consolation mentioned is a real one. For in many instances, if it were not so, the lonely spirit would experience fear, bewilderment, and all the unspeakable sensations of being deserted.

Then there comes a time, when every soul must stand alone. In its weakness, or strength, realize that no other soul can bear its sorrow, or take from its burdens, or enter into its sufferings. Thus is realized the saying: that each soul is its own keeper, and alone responsible for its own condition. Of course, in many cases the loving friends may visit that soul in its place of existence, and offer consolation, help, encouragement, and instruction. But in some cases this cannot be. For as this soul is then laid bare to itself, all its deformities, sins, and evil qualities come before it. Thus throws around it a wall, as it were, that prevents the good friends and Loving ones from appearing to it. Thus again comes into operation the Great Law of Attraction. For while these more elevated friends cannot come to that soul, yet other spirits, of like souls and qualities, may become its associates, and render such assistance, as the blind can lead the blind in their moving about. I wish here to say, notwithstanding what some of you Spiritualistic teachers have said, for the soul has its location, as well as its condition.

The above condition that I have described is the destiny of some souls shortly after becoming spirits. It is a deplorable one. While you may think that such souls are deserted by the Loving Influences of God's Ministering Spirits and left all alone in the dreary places of their habitations. Such is not the case. While they are deprived of the presence to them of the higher spirits, yet the influences of Love and compassion are flowing from these spirits. At sometime will be felt by the lonely ones. As these influences are felt, the poor soul commences to have an Awakening, which gradually causes the wall of their seclusion to disappear. Until, at sometime, the Higher Spirits find that they can manifest their presence to these unfortunate ones.

Besides, this, every spirit, no matter how fallen, has a work to do, even though it may appear insignificant. Among these spirits, of similar conditions, some are a little more progressed than others. By reason, of a Law (the Law of Higher Help), which causes the more progressed to help the lesser; the latter are frequently helped from their low estate. Now what I have last written applies of course to the spirits who are wicked, vile, and without any soul development, in the way of goodness. A similar Principle enters into the conditions of all the spirits in the Earth Plane, although the higher they are in that plane, the greater opportunities they have for receiving help and progressing. Of these latter, and the operation of the mental thoughts and moral qualities, upon the condition and progress of the soul, I will write you later.

I have written enough for tonight, and leaving you my Love and blessings, I will say goodnight, your brother in Christ, John.

Life after Life

September 10th, 1916

I am here, John.

I come tonight to tell you that in a few nights I desire to write you a message on an important Truth, Regarding; The ultimate destiny of the human who does not receive the Divine Love of the Father, but who depends upon their own righteousness, and the help that they may receive from spirit friends, who have not this Divine Love in their souls.

I know that this subject has been written on before, to a limited extent. I wish to deal with it in detail, and at large, so that humanity can make no mistake as to what this future will be, and can have no excuse for not seeking the Celestial Kingdom.

I have been with you tonight, and heard what was said. Saw that none of the speakers have any experience, as to what this Great Necessity, as to a future state of At-Oneness with the Father means, and that they are satisfied with the knowledge of the Continuity of Life, and the help and comfort that their spirit friends may bring to them in their communications.

The Truth, as to this Great Vital Necessity, must be taught to humankind. The Way to this Divine Love must be made so plain, that no human can have any excuse for not obtaining it, and becoming an inhabitant of the Celestial Kingdom. Many are longing for this condition of soul, and know not The Way to obtain it, and have to rest unsatisfied. So you see we must hurry with our messages, for humans are dying rapidly, and without the Knowledge of this Great Truth.

You are now in better condition than you have been for sometime. You will continue to improve, so that we will be enabled to deliver our messages with ease and certainty.

Pray to the Father for His Divine Love and Help. You will receive both, and find that your worries will leave you and peace come to you, so that your thoughts may be turned more to the work which is set before you. Faith and prayer are the Great Means by which your soul may be filled with this Divine Love. Happiness will follow, as surely as the day follows the night. Something of the joys of the Celestial Spheres will be yours.

I know that you are anxious to do this work and that you long for the time when your whole efforts may be devoted to it, and to the revealing to humans, The Truths, which we come to reveal. We are all with you, and are trying to help you in every way so that troubles may leave you.

There are many spirits present tonight, throwing around you the influence of their Loves, and praying to the Father that His Blessings may be bestowed upon you, and your soul made happy with the inflowing of His Divine Love.

I will not write more tonight. In leaving you, say, pray and believe. With my Love and blessings, I am, your brother in Christ, John.

Life after Life

March 21st, 1920

I am here, Jesus.

Let me write tonight as you are in good condition. I desire very much to write you in reference to a subject that is important for humans to know.

As I have before written you; There are two destinies for human in the Spirit Life. The one, or the other, of them may be just as they desire and seek for.
I was with you today as you listened to the preacher expound the reasons why he is a believer in the faith of the church to which he belongs, and in which he is a leader and teacher. He is undoubtedly honest and earnest in his beliefs. So far as they go, they will afford him the happiness that he spoke of, provided he puts such beliefs into actual, practical living and makes them the dominating, dynamic influence that shall guide and control him in his intercourse with humanity. He said Truly, that there is a Law that operates in wonderful power in shaping humans lives, which, when obeyed, will determine the career not only of humans, but of nations. That Law is; that when once a Truth is ascertained, or comes to the knowledge of humans, it must be recognized and acted upon, or it will lose its beneficent effect upon the lives of humans. If he applies this Law to his own Life, he will experience a wonderful help in meeting the difficulties and cares of Life, and in overcoming the things that beset him as a thinking man.
This is a wonderful Truth, and so far as it pervades the Life of a human will result in making that Life one of consistent goodness, and cause Harmony between that human and God, who overrules the secret things of the Universe, and that human will enjoy a great happiness even while in the flesh.

This is not the important object and aim of what the preacher calls religion. Nor does it furnish the means by which a human may come into a greater and closer Harmony with the Will of God.

I know that to human, this present Mortal Life seems a thing of the greatest importance, and that the chief aim of human should be to act in that manner that will make their Life successful and happy. So far as it is suited to make human the Harmonious Creature that is intended, it is advisable to follow that course of living and Loving. The preacher does not know of, and cannot teach, the Great Object of human's appearance on Earth, and the goal that is ever before them waiting to be reached and possessed. As I have told you before, human's existence in the flesh is only for the purpose of giving their soul individualization. All other apparent objects are only secondary, as you may say accidental accompaniments of this process of individualization.

Hence, you will observe that this great object is accomplished equally, in the case of the infant who dies young, and in the case of the human who lives to a ripe old age. In each case, the object of the soul's incarnation in the flesh is affected. The old human, of course, has their experience, a longer, and more diverse existence in meeting and overcoming, or submitting, to the exigencies of their living, than does the infant. But the Great Object is not more perfectly accomplished in the one case than in the other. The soul becomes individualized the moment it finds its lodgment in the receptacle (embryo) prepared by the Laws of Nature, in using the human father and mother as its instruments. Time thereafter does not influence, or have any determining effect, upon that soul, so far as its individualization is concerned. Neither does Eternity, for that condition, being once fixed, never can be changed, nor annihilated, so far as is known to the Highest Spirits of God's Heavens. Of course, the soul, as thus individualized, is subject to the various influences that surround it in its Mortal Life. These influences may be retarding, deadly, or destructive, to the progress of the soul, but cannot possibly affect the object obtained by that soul's coming into the flesh, or ever require a new individualization of that soul. Its identity and character, as an individualized thing, are established. No condition of the soul, as to its goodness, or badness, can ever in the slightest degree, affect this character, or identity. The soul, once individualized, always remains the individual, even though the elements that enter into and make up the form will always find it self being rebuilt and continued by the operations of the Law that preserves the individuality of that soul.

Then, I say, the object of the incarnation of the soul is to give it individualization, this, in two appearances. First, in that of the physical form, which humans, by their perception of their natural organs of sense, can perceive. Secondly, a form that is more sublimated and generally invisible to these organs, a spiritual form (the spirit body).

At the moment of incarnation, the soul takes the form, which has been prepared for it by the Forces that exist in the parents, and retains that for during the Natural Life. At the same moment there is Created for it, or attracted to it, the form of the spirit body, which then, and ever afterwards, remains with it. Both of these bodies are of the material, one of the visible material of the universe, the other of the invisible but still of the material.

As you know, that body which is made of the visible material lasts for a little while only, and then disappears forever. While that which is of the invisible, and which is more Real and substantial than the former, and exists all the time of the existence of the visible, continues with the soul after the disappearance of the visible body. While changeable, in response to the progress of that soul, yet the spirit body never, in its composite form, leaves that soul.

This we in the Spirit Life know to be True, just as certainly as you mortals know the Truth of the existence of the physical body. As you mortals may in the short space of the Life on Earth, identify the human, which is really the soul, by the appearance of their physical body, so we in the spirit world identify the same human by the appearance of the spirit body. So this fact must be forever. Then such being the fact, it must be conceived that the soul has its existence in the physical body for an infinitesimal short time. That is, its Life on Earth is only the breath of a moment, and then it enters on its career through Eternity. After a few years, as you may say, it may cease to remember that it ever had a lodgment in the physical body.

The preacher criticized the religion that taught human to think of, and prepare for, The Future of the Soul. Emphasized the fact that their thoughts should be more of the present, and that duty and good works towards their fellow human should be the object of their living, and their religion. Well, I recognize the importance of duty and good works, and approve of them with all the Knowledge that I now have of the demands and requirements of God's Love. On the other hand, must say, that their importance to human's future destiny, is also the importance of other privileges and obligations possessed by, and resting on, human, during the short time that the soul is clothed in the physical body. Duty performed, and good works, will lessen the distress and sufferings of the Mortal Life, and cause the human who performs the duty, and does the good works, to become more in Harmony with God's Laws of Mercy and Truth, but will never suffice to bring a soul into Harmony with the Will of the Father, as regards the Higher Destiny of human. These things will tend to lead merely to the purification of the soul, and to cause it to come into accord with the Laws of its own Creation, and their end. These constitute merely the exercise of compliance with the Moral Laws, and bring only a moral effect. When I say Moral Laws, I mean those Laws that demand, that, and by, the observance of which, human comes into the condition of the Perfect Human, which was theirs at the time of their Creation. They, thereby, obtains nothing more than belonged to them when they existed as the Perfect Human and was in Complete Harmony with God as such Perfect Human. They then, Loved God with all the capacity of their souls, in the exercise of the Love that had been Bestowed upon them. Could have Loved their brother as themselves.

To this condition, humans are, to a more or less extent, now striving to attain. Many precepts of the Old Testament, as well as of the New, will lead humans to thus obtain. If this were the only destiny of human, then the religion of the preacher, which he says is based on these Moral Precepts of Love to God and Love to their fellow human, would be sufficient to obtain the goal sought. Love, duty, and service would be all that are required of humans, while on Earth, as well as after they become spirits. The exercise of these graces by humans while on Earth would be just as necessary and helpful, as would their exercise afterwards in the Spirit World. These things of Love to God and Love to human, and service and sacrifice, constitute the True Religion that leads to the Perfect Human, and makes for that Harmony with the Laws of God, governing the condition of the Perfect Human, but not the Divine Human.

These things should be preached by all ministers and teachers, and practiced by humans everywhere, for in their practice is happiness and bliss unspeakable. As these things work to a finality, human, again, becomes the Son of God and obedient to His Laws, and realizes the meaning of "Love God and Love your brother". So I repeat, the preacher in pronouncing the basis of his religion, declared the Truths that will lead him into the condition of the Perfect Human, in Harmony with God's Will, as to Human's Creation.

Well, I see you are tired and so we will postpone the further writing. I am very much pleased that you are in so much better condition, and hope that we may continue our messages without further interruption.

Only pray more and believe that The Father will answer your prayers. So believe that I Love you and want you to be happy and free from care. Goodnight, your brother and friend, Jesus.

Life after Life