1916 April

Messages from Jesus and Celestials on Divine Love 1916 April

April 1st, 1916

Let me write a few lines tonight, as I have not written you for a long time. I desire to tell you of the scene that was depicted to you tonight by the words and music at the church.

I was present at the time of the crucifixion of Jesus. I saw all that took place. The wonderful display of the forces of Nature that were presented to you tonight in the drama of the crucifixion.

Well, as you may not know, many of the scenes that were so forcibly presented to your imagination never had any reality in fact. The drama was the production of the oriental mind, which was so often used to depict things that had their origin only in such eastern imaginations.

When Jesus was crucified, there was no great concourse of people. Because he was considered as a common malefactor, paying the penalties that followed the violation of the law that he was charged with violating. Of course, there were soldiers, a large number of the members of the Jewish Sanhedrim, and a few followers present. There was no unusual crowd to witness the execution. He was not the only one crucified at the time. The other two were considered just as the Jews considered him, violator of their laws. One to be punished by hanging on the cross. The words that he is supposed to have uttered, at the time of his extremis were not uttered by him. No words that he may have spoken could have been heard by any of his followers, for they were kept away from the immediate scene of his execution. It was only after he had been pronounced dead, and found ready to be removed from the cross, that his followers were permitted to approach his body and remove it from the tree. The others, who were engaged in the execution, did not hear any words of his. As I have said, his followers could not hear, thus be able to report any supposed saying of his. So far as known, he died as bravely, that is without fear or doubt as to the future as did any other who has suffered the same fate.

The words that he is supposed to have uttered, were not so uttered. He did not call upon the Father for His Help, or to cause the bitter cup to pass from him. All reports of what he said, or did, at that time are not True, merely the imaginings of those who wrote of him in later times.

There was no sudden breaking up of Nature, or things material. The accounts of the graves opening, the bodies arising there from, being seen, and talked, within the city are purely fiction, and have no foundation in fact.

I know that Christians of today will not be ready to receive these statements as True, because of the long years of belief in these things that have obtained during the centuries. Why humans should want to believe in these representations of things that never happened, it is hard to understand. In themselves that have no significance, except that mere endeavor to make as dramatic and impressive on humanity, the wonderful circumstances that they allege surrounded the death of Jesus. If they will only think, they must realize, that the death of Jesus, accompanied by all the startling environments described in the Bible, did not afford one iota of help in way of saving a human soul, or teaching that human soul, the True Way to the Father's Kingdom. His life is what had the effect. Not his death. The sooner humans learn that Truth, the sooner will they learn the fact that no death of Jesus could save them from themselves, or show them The Way to the Celestial Kingdom.

I know that humans will not want to believe what I have written, and continue in their belief that all these tragic circumstances surrounded the death of Jesus. I suppose that this belief will continue with them for a long time to come. But what I have said is True. No human, can by any possible workings of God's Laws, find any hope, or assurance, of Immortality in these things. You may ask me how I know that Jesus uttered no words at the time of his death. I can answer by saying that he told me so himself.

He has not been present tonight at any of the churches where his death on the cross is celebrated, and will not be, until after the time of the great worship and adoration of him by the churches has gone by. This worship is all very distasteful to him, and are such that he does not desire to witness. Hence, he remains in his home in the High Celestial Spheres. He desires humans to worship only the One True Father that he worships, and thus receive the True Benediction of the Father.

Well, I see that you are tired. I will not write more.

With my Love, I will say goodnight.

Your brother in Christ, Samuel.

April 1st, 1916

I am here, your true and loving Helen.

Well dear, I see that you are tired. I will not write much.

The message that you received is from Samuel, who was present at the crucifixion in spirit, and heard and saw what took place, and so can be believed. I know also, that what the Bible contains as to the crucifixion of Jesus is very erroneous, and written by humans to impress their followers of the importance of Jesus' death.

I will not write more now. So believe that I Love you with all my heart, and want you to be happy.

Goodnight, your own True and Loving Helen.

April 5th, 1916

I am here, Jesus.

These people (the Christian Scientists) obtain by their study of the Principles, that God is everything, and that their will must be subjected to His, a certain union with the power of the Spirit World, that calls into operation those powers, which give them strength of will and a belief that their appetites for the stimulant has left them. That being so they may easily refrain from further indulging this appetite.

The Spirit Forces help them, to a greater extent than they possibly understand. But in order for this help to become effective, these people must necessarily come in rapport with these Forces. They, by what they believe they possess, in the way of having a proper conception of the True Relationship of themselves to God, further believe that there is some power, which exists in the spirit realms, that is sufficient to take from them their appetites, and enable them to lay aside these appetites for what, they realize, is the unreal.

This Faith is a wonderful thing in helping human to do, or not to do, a particular thing. Even though they may not understand the True Principle, upon which this Faith works out the results of which they testify. Yet they acquire the Faith, which causes them to come into close rapport with the powers that actually help them to a successful realization of their desires.

As a matter of fact, God does not, as you may say, personally intervene in these matters. He performs His Work by means of spirits, or ministering angels, as the Bible teaches, in things having to do with the material things affecting a human's existence. Even in the matters of the soul, He uses the Holy Spirit as an instrument to bring to human His Divine Love, and infill the soul of human with its Presence, Essence and Influence.

Many of these Christian Scientists, have in their souls, this Divine Love, without really understanding that it is there, or why or how it came to them. But they see the effect, and have a knowledge that there is some Power within them that enables them to come closer to the Father and experience the Presence of His Divine Love.

Christian Science, is in many particulars, a belief which leads to a Faith that brings the True, sincere believer into an At-Onement with the Father, and makes the believer a possessor of this Divine Love of the Father. Yet many of its teachings are misleading and hard to understand, and not suitable for the great mass of humankind, because of certain mental requirements necessary to be understood before the seeker can grasp the Truth, that this Divine Love is the only thing that will save them from their sins and fit them for the Celestial Kingdom.

I must not write more on this subject tonight. As I have told you, I will come sometime and show you its merits and demerits in detail.

I will soon come and finish my last message. As there are so many more that I desire to communicate, I hope that we may proceed faster in our work.

I will be with you in your daily Life, in my Love and influence, and try to help you to that condition of mind and soul progress that you pray for, and that are so very necessary.

Yes, I hear your request. I pray as you desire. I know that the Father answers my prayers, as He also answers yours. Only have more Faith, and more soul longings. You will soon realize an inflowing of this Divine Love to a wonderful degree.

I must stop now. With all my Love and blessings, I am, your friend and brother, Jesus.

April 7th, 1916
I am here, Saul.

I very much desire to write a short message tonight, as I promised you a short time ago. I will not detain you very long, and will try to make my message as succinct as possible.

I know that many humans look upon me, as depicted in the Old Testament, as having been a great sinner and violator of God's Laws. Well, that is largely True. I did not let God's Will control me, as I should have done. Consequently, I became in discord with His Will, and did many things that were contrary to His Laws. Of course, my knowledge of these Laws was limited to the teachings of Moses, and the prophets, as they were given to me by (oral) tradition, and word of mouth.

The books, which are part of the Old Testament, were not written in my time. Many of these Laws came to me by tradition. The Old Testament contains many sayings, which were written long after the times that they purport to have occurred. Many things therein declared, never had any existence, except in the minds of humans, who, at much later periods, conceived that it might be wise to write these things. Many alleged incidents connected with my Life, never had an existence, and were merely the fictions written by subsequent writers. We had very few writings in the shape of manuscript in my time. Humans depended upon tradition and memory.

Well, the history of my Life, and doings, was not written at the time it purports to have been written. I was a real person, a king. Some records of me, and my people, were actually written. They were very few. As time went by, the imagination and ingenuity added to them in the way of tradition. Then those books, relating to me, as they are now contained in the Bible, were compiled from some of these writings, and from tradition.

The story of my experience with the witch of Endor, as she is called, was not written at the time. It is a fact that I had visited her, and had an experience somewhat similar to that related in the Bible. I had with me at the time of my visit, some of my followers. They saw and heard what took place. After my death, they repeated and described what had taken place to my countrymen, and also to the followers of David. Some parts of this occurrence became inscribed on the materials, which we used to preserve some of the occurrences of those times. There was not kept any accurate history of the scene. The people of those days had retentive memories, and for long years afterwards this incident of my Life, were handed down from generation to generation. Some parts thereof, were written by some scribes, and other parts by other scribes.

I merely write you this to show that you need not give credit to the supposed truths of many sayings of the Old Testament. Many of these accounts had no existence.

I know that what I have written is not of much importance, but while you are receiving these Truths, you had as well learn something of what was True in my Life.

I will not write more tonight. So thanking you, I will say goodnight.

Your brother in Christ, Saul.

THE FOLLOWING IS A PROCESS THAT IS APPLICABLE TO ALL SPIRITUAL TRUTHS. THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT MESSAGES GIVEN FOR THE INDIVICUAL TO APPLY IN COMING TO ACTUALLY KNOW TRUTH.

April 7th, 1916

I am here, John.

I desire to write a little tonight upon a subject that may prove to be of interest to you, and others who may read my message. I will not write a very long message, but will say what I desire in short sentences, so that the Truth that I intend to convey may be understood at a glance.

Well, when you are sure that you have discovered, or have had revealed to you, a Truth, let it sink deep into your soul. So that it will find such lodgment, as will cause you to realize that this Truth is a Reality. A thing that must not be forgotten, or neglected, in its APPLICATION to your daily Life on Earth.

When you have found that the Truth fits some peculiar condition of your mind's experience, adopt it as a criterion for determining what your course of ACTION shall be.

When you have thus adopted it, let it always remain with you, as a guide and monitor in determining what your belief as to the particular thing involved shall be.

When you have thus received this belief of the mind, encourage and feed upon it, until it becomes a thing of established Faith. When Faith has become a part of your very being, you will find that the accompaniments of such Faith, in the way of longings and aspirations, will become things of Real Existences, which will result in Actual Knowledge.

When such Knowledge becomes yours, then you have solved the problem of what is True, and what is not. When you have solved this, you will become a human, who when they utter their Knowledge of Truth, will speak as one having authority.

Such was the PROCESS, by which Jesus became the possessor and Authentic Expositor of the Great Spiritual Truths, that had never before been Known, and declared by any human.

Of course, these various steps, which lead to this Great Knowledge of Truth, must be taken gradually, and with increased confidence. In all this, the Help and Influence of the Father are necessary! Such Help and Influence, comes only in response to sincere, soul aspiring prayer.

Prayer must arise from the soul of human. The response must come from God. There is no other means, by which this Knowledge can be obtained. All Knowledge of Things Spiritual, that humans may think they possess, coming in any other Way, cannot be relied on. There is Only One Source (God) of such Knowledge, out of which the Real Spiritual Truths of God emanate.

Divine Love is the Great Principle that enters into all Knowledge of Things Spiritual. Without Divine Love, it is utterly impossible for human to rightfully conceive the Truths of God, and possess them.

I merely desired to give you this short lesson on Truth, Knowledge and Love, so that in receiving and absorbing our Messages of the Great Spiritual Truths of the Father, you may realize the means of making them your own, in a manner to satisfy your soul perceptions.

I will came soon, and write you a message on some of these Vital Truths. Think of what I have above written. You will find that your soul perceptions will be opened up to a clear and wonderful comprehension, of the Real Meaning, of what we desire to reveal.

I will not write more tonight.

Your brother in Christ, John.

April 9th, 1916

I am here Luke.

I desire tonight to write for a short time on the text: "That the sins of the parents are visited upon the children unto the third and fourth generations."

I know that usually the explanation of the text has been; that the material sins, or rather the sins, which result in material injury or affliction are visited upon the children. To a very great extent this is True. But that explanation is not what was intended by the declaration.

Human is not only a material or physical being, but is more largely a Spiritual Being, having a soul and spirit, which never ceases to exist, and which are just as much a part of them while on Earth, as when they become a spirit. That is; after they have left the vestments of flesh and blood. These Real parts of human are of more importance to them, and their Real Existence, than is the physical part. The sins, which human commits, are not the results of any primary physical action, but of the operations of the powers, which form, or have their real seat, in the Spiritual part of their being.

The physical part of human is not the originator of sin. Merely manifests its effects. It (sin) almost always manifests itself on, and in, the physical body. Leaves its scars, apparent to the consciousness of humans upon such body. Hence, as human is able, in their ordinary condition, to perceive the effects more plainly on this body, they think that the meaning of the text must refer to the sins that affect, and are shown, upon their physical body. At the same time ignores, or is not sensible of the fact, that the great effect, or injury, of sin, is upon and to the Spiritual part of human. As the physical body is affected by the results of these sins being carried into operation, so much more so is the Spiritual part of human (the soul) affected by the fact that these sins had their creation in that Spiritual part of human.

It may be asked, in what way can the effect of sin upon a human, that is upon their soul, and spirit, have any injurious effect upon the spirit and soul of their child, so that the child may suffer from the sins of the parent.

Well, when a child is conceived, gestates, and is born, they not only partake of the physical nature of their parents, but also of the qualities and condition of the spirit and soul of the parents. This may seem improbable, but it is a fact, that the spirit and soul that enters into the child when it is conceived, comes from the Great Universe of soul and spirit, wholly independent of the parents. Is not, in its Nature, or qualities, a part of the parents, as is the flesh and blood, which build up and produce the physical body of the child. While this is True, it is also True that this spirit and soul of the child is susceptible to, and in a way, absorbs the influence of the spirit and soul of the parents, not only at the time of conception, but also during the period of gestation, and even for years afterwards. To such an extent, that this influence continues beyond the mere Earthly existence of the parents, and into the Life of the progeny, to the third and fourth generation, as the text says.

The spirit part of the child is more susceptible to the influence, and evil effects of these sins, than is really its physical body. As I have said, the spirit part is the originator, and breeder, of the sins, if I may so express it, while the body is merely the recipient of the exercise of the sins, and the objects of their manifestation.

The influence of spirit upon spirit is more extensive and certain than mortals can possibly conceive of. The results of that influence are not so apparent, or known to the consciousness of the succeeding children, or to the respective parents. As humans suppose, and as a fact, they do not understand, or become conscious of the fact, that such influence is operating upon the Spiritual parts of their children. They see, and realize, that the effects of such sins become manifested in the physical body. As their ordinary natural senses cannot perceive the condition of the spirit, they conclude that the text can only mean that these sins are visited upon the material bodies of their children.

I must tell them, that while great and deplorable injury is inflicted on these material bodies, yet greater, more lasting, and more grievous, in the way of manifestations, injury is inflicted upon the Spiritual Nature of the children. Not only because this Nature continues to live, but because humans, not realizing that this Nature has been injured, make no attempt to find, and apply, a remedy, as they so often do in the case where these sins manifest themselves in the physical body. Besides, there are many sins that do not affect the mere material body, but which do great injury to the Spiritual Nature, which to the senses of humans are never perceptible.

A human is not only the parent of a child's material body, but in a secondary way is also the parent of its Spiritual Nature. The condition of the parent's Spiritual Nature influences, and determines, to a large extent, the qualities and tendencies of the child's Nature for good or evil. Not only while it is a mortal, but frequently after it has ceased to inhabit the veil of flesh.

So let parents know, that they do not live to themselves alone as mortals, but that their evil thoughts and deeds have a greater or lesser influence upon the Spiritual Natures of their children, especially at the time of conception and during gestation. Then, how important that every parent, during these times particularly, and at all times, should have their Spiritual Natures in that condition of Purity and freedom from sin, that their children may be conceived and born in a condition of soul Purity, which will not reflect any evil that they can charge their parents with being the creators of.

If humans would only realize these facts, and live their lives in accordance with the Spiritual Truths, which I here declare, how much sooner would the human race be brought into Harmony with God's Laws, and the souls of humans be freed from sin and evil.

I know, it is often said, that it is unjust and not in accordance with the justice of an impartial God that the sins and penalties, arising from the disobedience of Our First Parents, should be visited upon humankind, who were and are their progeny, as such humankind had no part in that disobedience. When it is remembered, and it is a fact, that God did not create sin, evil, or impose such upon the First Parents for their disobedience, but that they themselves created evil and sin. Humans have been creating these inharmonies ever since. It will be seen that an impartial God, who is our Only God, is not responsible for either sin, or evil, and the consequent penalties which they impose. As has been written you before, the abolishing of sin and evil, and their penalties, is in the power of human and their (free) will.

As these First Parents created these evils, as I have explained, and in the manner that I have pointed out to you, their sins, by the influence which they have upon the Spiritual Nature, at the time of conception and birth, become as it were, a visitation. That is, the Spiritual desires, tendencies, and inclinations toward that which is evil. This influence continues with the child for years after its birth, according as the child and parents are closely associated together in their Earth Lives. As each succeeding generation caused the visitation of its sinful influence and tendencies, upon the succeeding generation, you can readily see how humans, all humans, became subject to the sins, evils, and penalties, which were brought into the World by the First Parents.

Instead of God being the creator of these things, or visiting them upon the children of human, He declares that their existence is contrary to the Harmony of His Creation, and must be eradicated, before human can come into that Harmony, and an At-Onement with Him. As He gave to human the Great Power of Free Will, without any restriction upon its exercise, except as a human's understanding of the Harmony of the operations of God's Laws, might influence them to exercise this great power, as human, in the wrong exercise of that power, brought into existence these things of evil and sin, so human, as they perceive this Plan of God's Harmony, must exercise that will in such a way, as to free themselves from these things, which are not part of God's Creation, and are out of Harmony with His Plans for the Creation and Preservation of a Perfect Universe, of which human is its Highest Creation.

God never changes. His Laws never change. Only human has changed, from the Perfection of their Creation. Human must change again, before that Perfection will again be theirs.

Now from all this, it must not be inferred that human is left to their own efforts to bring about this Great Restoration. That is not True. Because Gods Instrumentalities are continuously at work, influencing human to turn again to their First Estate, and become the Perfect Human, as they ultimately will become.

So, "the sins of the parents are visited upon the children to the third and fourth generation", means, the tendencies and inclinations toward that which is evil. Not by God, but by human them self, solely, and exclusively.

Oh human, could you see the results of these sins, upon the Spiritual Natures of your children, as you often see them upon their material bodies, you would hesitate in your sinning, and think, in thinking, would see the way by which the great blot upon the Happiness and Salvation of Humanity could be removed, and its progress to the Perfect Human be hastened and assured.

Well, I have written enough for tonight. I hope that what I have said may be understood, and meditated upon, by all who may read it. I will not detain you longer. With my Love, and the blessings of one who is now not only the Perfect Human, but a possessor of the Divine Nature of the Father, an Inheritor of Immortality, say goodnight.

Your brother in Christ, Luke.

April 10th, 1916

I am here, Luke.

I desire to make some corrections in my message of last night. I will thank you to receive them.

I desire to say, that when I spoke of the sins of the parents being visited upon the children at the time of conception and birth, I meant that these sins, by the influence, which they have upon the Spiritual Nature of the child, became, as it were, a visitation. I did not mean that any part of the real sin of the parents became a part of the Spiritual Nature of the child. Only that the influence of the parent's sins upon the child is sufficient to give the Spiritual desires and tendencies of the child, an inclination towards that which is evil. This influence is continuous with the child for years after its birth, according as the child and parents are closely associated together in their Earth Lives.

Let this point be made plain so that human may not quibble about the meaning of what I wrote.

Otherwise, the message is True, and just as I intended it should convey to you the Truth of the meaning of the text.

I will not delay you longer tonight, but with my Love and blessings say, I am, your brother in Christ, Luke.

April 14th, 1916

I am here, Clara Barton.

I was the woman who founded the Red Cross Society. I am still interested in it, although I am a spirit.

I saw that others were writing through you. I thought that I would like to try. So with the permission of your wife, I took hold of the pen. I am now trying to express a few thoughts to you.

Well, I see that my society is very busy now in the great war, and is doing a great deal of good, and needs all the encouragement that it can get. It also needs to have an increase in its membership in all parts of the World, for I see additional scenes of action where its services will be required. Especially in Mexico. Very soon your nation will be at war with that nation. Many a poor soldier will need the services of the Red Cross.

I will not write more tonight, but will come sometime and write more fully, if I am permitted to do so.

I am in the Earth Plane, they tell me. I am not very happy, nor yet unhappy. I have the association of some very good and lovely spirits who are interested in humanity, as I am. We are trying to help humans wherever we can. Yes, I have met some of these beautiful spirits. They have been very kind to me, trying to help me. I am so interested in the work of my society, that I have not given much attention to the advice of these High Spirits.

Why do you ask the question as to my having seen these spirits?

I have listened to you with great interest. I am impressed by what you tell me. I have never thought of myself in the particular which you mention. Now I see that what you say must be True, and that I should seek my own development, as well as try to assist my late associates. I will do as you advise, and seek one of these High Spirits, and ask her help and instructions.

I see a number of high spirits here now, brighter and more beautiful than I have ever seen. Your wife brings one to me and says that she is interested in me, Loves me, and will help me in the way that you suggest. I am going with her. I will seriously listen to her, and seek for all the benefits that I may obtain. I thank you for your interest and kindness, and will come sometime and write you of my experience.

So thanking you, I will say goodnight.

April 14th, 1916

I am here, Clara Barton.

    I was the woman who founded the Red Cross Society.  I am still interested in it, although I am a spirit.

    I saw that others were writing through you.  I thought that I would like to try.  So with the permission of your wife, I took hold of the pen.  I am now trying to express a few thoughts to you.

    Well, I see that my society is very busy now in the great war, and is doing a great deal of good, and needs all the encouragement that it can get.  It also needs to have an increase in its membership in all parts of the World, for I see additional scenes of action where its services will be required.  Especially in Mexico.  Very soon your nation will be at war with that nation.  Many a poor soldier will need the services of the Red Cross.

    I will not write more tonight, but will come sometime and write more fully, if I am permitted to do so.

    I am in the Earth Plane, they tell me.  I am not very happy, nor yet unhappy.  I have the association of some very good and lovely spirits who are interested in humanity, as I am.  We are trying to help humans wherever we can.  Yes, I have met some of these beautiful spirits.  They have been very kind to me, trying to help me.  I am so interested in the work of my society, that I have not given much attention to the advice of these High Spirits.

    Why do you ask the question as to my having seen these spirits?

    I have listened to you with great interest.  I am impressed by what you tell me.  I have never thought of myself in the particular which you mention.  Now I see that what you say must be True, and that I should seek my own development, as well as try to assist my late associates.  I will do as you advise, and seek one of these High Spirits, and ask her help and instructions.

    I see a number of high spirits here now, brighter and more beautiful than I have ever seen.  Your wife brings one to me and says that she is interested in me, Loves me, and will help me in the way that you suggest.  I am going with her.  I will seriously listen to her, and seek for all the benefits that I may obtain.  I thank you for your interest and kindness, and will come sometime and write you of my experience.

So thanking you, I will say goodnight.

April 14th, 1916

I am here, Helen.

Yes, this is Helen, and no one else.

I heard what you told White Eagle. He was ready and able to keep away the spirits who wanted so much to write. A great many were here with that desire. He told them that they would not be permitted to write. Yes, Great Bear is here too. He was with White Eagle, in letting these dark spirits know that they would not be permitted to write tonight. Well, I have told him. He is pleased, and says he will write you very soon, and will be very glad to do so. He is a good Indian, and seems to Love you very much.

Well, as to the two who wrote, I advised White Eagle to let them write. I saw their condition, and saw that some good might result to them for having the chance to write. So it proved to be, for the Frenchman is now with Mr. Riddle, who is telling him of Spiritual Truths. Miss Barton is with your mother, who is explaining to her the Great Love of the Father, and the necessity for her to seek for and find it.

I will not write more tonight. As I promised sometime ago, very soon I will come and write my long Loving letter.

Well, as you are so anxious to receive it, I will come just as soon as you say. Well how will tomorrow night suit you? Oh, Ned, how happy you make me! If you would only Love in this way all the time! I wish I could have you see me, and feel my arms around you, and even feel you slapping me as you say. You may not know, but you would find something real to slap. You dear old Ned, how I Love you, and want you with me. I say to my longings, have patience, for soon he will be with me, just as soon as your work shall be finished.

I do Love you, pray for you, and try to make you happy. So sweetheart, when you go to bed tonight, think of me and Love me, and even dream of me, for I will be with you.

So dear heart, let us have a real long kiss and say goodnight.

Your own True and Loving Helen.

April 15th, 1916

I am here, Mary the Mother of Jesus.

I come to you with all the "Mother's Love" of one who Loved her dear son so much while on Earth, and who suffered all the heart pangs, which the cruel death of my beloved caused me, and with the Love, that has been purified by experience, and closeness to the Blessed Father.

I say, I come to you with this Mother's Love, for you are the Children of my Father, as I am His Child, and you are also the brothers of my dear son, who is with you so much, and so interested in you and your future.

Let your Love for the Father increase. Also your Love for the Master. He is the greatest and dearest friend that you have in all the Celestial, or Spiritual, Heavens.

I am in the Celestial Heavens, very near the Fountainhead of God's Divine Love. Also, near the home of my dear son, but not in the same Sphere with him. No spirit, in all the Celestial Heavens, has the same Great Soul Development as he has, or possessed with the Divine Love to such an extent.

I want to say just here that I am not in the condition, or place, that I am, because I am his mother. But, because of the development of my own soul. Only this great possession of the Divine Love determines our position and condition here.

I am now in such condition that I know that the Divine Love of the Father is the only thing in all the Universe of God that can make a mortal, or spirit either, a partaker of the Divine Nature, and an inhabitant of the Kingdom of Heaven.

I will not write more, but will come again and write you of the early Life of Jesus. Of his development in the Divine Love, as was shown to me, while he was a growing child, and after he became a man, prior to his public ministry.

(Question - Was Joseph the father of Jesus?)

Well, I suppose I am the only one in all the Universe of God, who knows the fact with reference to that question. I as a spirit of the Celestial Spheres, knowing only Truth, say to you, and all the World, that Joseph was the actual father of Jesus. That he was conceived and born as any other mortal was conceived and born. The Holy Spirit did not beget him. I never was informed that such a thing would happen. I was known by Joseph before the conception of Jesus. By him, I was made pregnant with that Blessed son. This is the Truth! All accounts and statements to the contrary are erroneous.

I was a simple Jewish maiden, and never had any knowledge that my son was to be different from the sons of other mothers. It was not until after the development in him of the Divine Nature of the Father, that I realized that he was so different from the sons of other mothers.

I will not write more tonight.

So my dear children, believe what I have written. Also know that I Love you with a Great Love. I am working with the other Celestial Spirits, to make your souls the possessors of this Great Love. With this Divine Love, and my blessing, I will say, God be with you Now, and for All Eternity.

Your sister, and mother, in Christ, Mary.

April 15th, 1916

I am here, Saul.

I want to write just a line, as I see that tonight you have around you so many of the High Spirits. I do not intend to say much, but I must tell you that I am in a condition of Love that makes me happy, as I see that you are.

I am not so high in my position, or have so much of the Soul Development as have those who have just written you. Yet, I am a spirit who knows the Truth of the Divine Love, and a possessor of the Divine Nature. I want to say to you both, pray and believe. Let not what others may write or say to the contrary cause you to doubt that the spirit who wrote you was Mary, not the "virgin" Mary. But Mary, the mother of Jesus. She is a beautiful, pure spirit. One who is filled with the Father's Divine Love to a wonderful degree.

She also has her "mother's nature" to an extent that makes her Love All the Children of God, whether they be good, or sinful. She does pray to the Father for the sons (and daughters) of Earth. She is not pleased when mortals pray to her as someone who should be worshipped. She is only a spirit, filled with Divine Love. When they, I mean mortals, look upon her as a mother, she is not displeased, for as I say, she loves them all. When they think that in order to reach the ear of the Father, in seeking for His Divine Love, they have to pray to her to intervene, she is sorely displeased. If she could do so, would proclaim to them the great error and sin in believing in her, and praying to her, as a necessary intermediary between God and themselves.

Some day, mortals will know that the Father hears their prayers, just as he does the prayers of Mary, or any other spirit. That while she, and all other spirits can help them, even by their prayers, yet God wants the prayers and soul longings of mortals directed to Him.

I write this to show that some of the orthodox Christians make a great mistake in praying to the Virgin Mary, or to any other saint, instead of to the Father.

I will not write more tonight. I will say that I, as well as the other spirits who are here tonight, Love you with the Love of a brother who knows the Reality of this Divine Love.

Your brother in Christ, Saul.

April 15th, 1916

I am here, John.

I came tonight to tell you that the Master will not write, as he is not present, but is at work in another part of the universe, where he is needed, and where he is doing a work that none of us can do.

Well, I know that he had an engagement with you, but he thought best not to keep it, and sent me here to tell you, for he did not want you to think that he had forgotten you, as he has not. Very soon, he will come and continue the messages. You will not be disappointed.

I will not write more tonight as you will have a communication from another that will be interesting.

Yes, it was a glorious night, for as you were told, many of the Celestial Spirits were present with their Love and helpful influences. One especially was with you, having a Great Love for you, and your friend. She still has a Great "Mother's Love" as well as the Divine Love, or rather this Divine Love, which includes this motherly feeling and desire to make you happy as one of her children. Although she is your sister, rather than your mother, but still she feels like the "mother" of all of Jesus' followers, as she is his mother still, yet, not his equal in the Great Soul Development.

She really wrote to you. What she stated is True, notwithstanding the declarations contained in the Bible, as to Jesus' conception and birth. I must here state again, that at no time in his ministry did he claim, or have the slightest thought of, having been conceived by the Holy Spirit, or that he had any other father than Joseph.

We never looked upon him as God, or as a Son of God, in the peculiar sense in which the orthodox churches teach. Now I know he was not such God, or Son of God. He is merely a spirit, as are the rest of us, but the one possessing more Divine Love, and having the Greatest Knowledge of the Father, and of His Personality and Attributes. So believe what we have written you on this question, for it is True.

I will stop now. In doing so will say, God Bless you.

Your brother and friend, John.

April 15th, 1916

I am here, Your Helen.

Well, you have had some wonderful messages tonight. You must believe that they were written by the spirits who professed to have written. I know the spirits. I tell you, and you know that I would not deceive you, that John, Saul and Mary wrote you. What they wrote, they know to be True.

How happy I am tonight, for I see that you are happy too, and have felt the influence of the Great Love that has surrounded you this night.

I never, in all our meetings, have seen so many of the Celestial Spirits, as have been present tonight. If it were not that you are too tired, though you may not realize it, many others would write you.

But the fact is, that you have been in an atmosphere of Love that I believe has rarely come to mortals. This Love is of a nature that can only come from spirits who have received this Divine Nature of the Father. So you, and the Doctor, must believe what I tell you, and follow the advice that has been given you. Rely upon the encouraging words that have been written. John is a very beautiful spirit, and is so greatly developed in his soul perceptions, that his Knowledge of the Father and the Divine Love that comes from Him is astonishing.

I will not detain you longer tonight, for I see that you are tired.

Goodnight, and pleasant dreams.

Your own True and Loving Helen.

April 15th, 1916

I am here, John.

I want to write a few lines on a subject that you will be interested in, and which will open your understanding to some Truths that are not known to mortals. Tonight I see that you have a caller. I will defer my writing until later, although I know that he also is interested in the subject, and it will be written as much for him, as for you. So after you shall have received the message of the Master, I will come and write you.

This I must say now, both for your sake, and that of your friend (Dr. Stone). That is, that you must both pray more to the Father, and seek the Faith that will bring you in Unison with Him and His Divine Love. You both have this Divine Love, to a considerable extent. You realize it, but what you now have cannot be compared to what will be yours, if you will only do as I say.

There is no other Way to obtain the Great Inflowing of this Divine Love. We can, and do, help you by our influence and association. But this Divine Love, is that which comes direct from the Father through the medium of the Holy Spirit. No spirits, no matter how high we may be in the Celestial Kingdom, and how great our development may be, we cannot give you this Divine Love. It comes only from the Father.

For your encouragement let me say, that we all pray for you, and are always endeavoring to throw around you influences, that will cause your souls to open up to the inflowing of this Divine Love. If you could only realize what this means, you would see the great favor that you have, and how your position is such, that not seldom have the wicked, or undesirable spirits, had any opportunity to exercise their influences upon you.

So my dear brethren, think of what I have written. Let it sink deep into your souls and consciousness, that there are surrounding you, many spirits of the Celestial Heavens, as well as of the Higher Spiritual Heavens. I will not write more tonight.

With my Love and blessings, will say goodnight.

Your brother in Christ, John.

April 18th, 1916

I am here, Helen.

Well sweetheart, I want to say very seriously, that Dr. Stone must believe the message that he received from his "Hindu" doctor guide. He actually wrote him, and seems to have great interest in the case of the sick woman, and will do his best to help the Dr. In addition, he will find that other and higher powers will also help him, if he will only pray and have Faith. When these powers of the Higher Spirits come, he will find, as the Christian Scientist say, that there is no reality in the disease that seems to have placed that woman beyond all hope.

Oh, I tell you the power of these spirits is wonderful. If the proper rapport can be established, the Dr. will realize that the power to heal did not die, or was not taken from humans when the last of the Apostles died.

I write this in all seriousness, having a knowledge that this power still exists, and is waiting to be exercised in answer to prayer and Faith, when the mortal gets into that condition of sincerity and Faith that will cause it to come and manifest itself.

So, tell the Dr. to believe that what has been told him, is not the fairy story of some spirit who takes delight in planting and encouraging hope, only to end in disappointment. We are all interested in this matter, for we desire to have demonstrated again, this Healing Power of God, which has been given to mortals in the past, is here waiting for a further demonstration.

We have enjoyed being here tonight, and listening to your conversation. Also, the atmosphere of Love that has been with you. I will not write more tonight, but will say. Wait just a moment, for Mary wants to tell the Dr. that she is so much interested in the case, that he is working with, that she and his mother were with him when he visited the sick woman, and are so anxious that his ministrations will make her well. She also says: that she wants to tell him the old, but always new, to her, story of how much she Loves him.

Well, I must stop. So with all my Love and a big kiss, Mary says, one from her too, I will say goodnight.

Your own True and Loving Helen.

*************

P.S. The following notation was made by Dr. Stone, when he performed the healing work in 1915.

This lady was my patient. I am happy to write, that as the result of the High Spirits helping me with their Healing Powers, which enabled me to exercise their powers, that finally restored this lady to good health and brought about the removal of suffering and pain, that caused her to shed many tears of joy and happiness. She thanked me many times. I told her to thank the Heavenly Father for sending the High Spirits to heal her.

Dr. Leslie R. Stone.

April 20th, 1916

Solomon, of the Old Testament.

I come only to say, that very soon I desire to write you another message, conveying to you some Great Truth of the Father. I will not write more now, but will soon come.

(What is the greatest thing in all the World?)

Prayer, and Faith on the part of mortals. Love, the Divine Love, on the part of God. The latter is waiting. The former causes it to enter into the souls of humans. No other Truths are so great and momentous to humans.

Let what I say sink deep into your memory. Try the experiment. I know you do try. But try, and then try, and never cease trying. Divine Love will come to you. With It Faith. Then Knowledge. Then ownership.

I could write for a long time, yet, but I must not, as you are tired.

So with my Love and blessings, I will say goodnight. May the Father's Divine Love take possession of you.

Your brother in Christ, Solomon.

April 20th, 1916

I am here, John the Baptist.

I have not written you for some time. Tonight I come merely to let you know that I have not forgotten you. I am with you quite often, trying to help you with my Love and influence.

No, I was not present then.

Well, I am glad that you had such an experience. I will tell you that you shall have many more experiences of that kind, for the Celestial Spirits are your friends and companions. Where they are, only Divine Love can come.

Well, that does seem contradictory. The fact is, that I never sent my disciples to ask any such question. I knew at the time of the baptism of Jesus that he was the promised Messiah. That knowledge never left me, or degenerated into a doubt. This passage of the Bible has no foundation in fact, for I never thought it necessary to ask any such question. As I have said, I never asked it.

To me, Jesus was the Real Christ. I knew, that he was the True and Only One, and that no other would come after him. For when he brought to Light the fact that God had Bestowed upon humankind the Great Possibility of obtaining the Divine Love, and the Divine Nature, there never thereafter arose the necessity for the existence, or coming, of another Christ. The Great Gift, that was necessary to make human a being Divine, had been Bestowed. Beyond that, there was nothing that the Father had to Bestow upon humankind.

I am so sorry that such an untruth should have been written and incorporated in the Bible. It did Jesus an injustice, and made me appear as a contradictory prophet and messenger of his coming. When I said, "I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, make straight the way of the Lord", I meant that I knew that Jesus was the True Christ. That forever thereafter would that knowledge be mine. No, I did not send my disciples to ask the question that you referred to.

As I knew then, I know now, that Jesus was, and is, the True Son of God, and the Savior of Humankind, in the sense that he brought (Eternal) Life and Immortality to Light. I will soon come and write you on some of these Bible declarations.

I will now stop. In doing so, say that you have my Love and blessings, and the Love of the Father, which is the Great Love that makes you a part of the Divine Essence of the Father.

So my dear brother, goodnight, your brother in Christ,

John The Baptist.

April 23rd, 1916

Luke, the writer of the Third Gospel of the New Testament

Let me write, as I desire to say a few words on the question of Immortality, of which you have been thinking so much during the past few days.

I was with you today as you listened to the discourses of the preacher upon the subject of Immortality, and saw that you realized he did not have a True Idea of what the term means, and thought how much you would like inform him of your knowledge of the subject. Well, I understand just how you felt about the matter. I am in sympathy with you in your desire and hope that sometime you may have the opportunity to converse with him on this subject, and give him your conception of the Truth.

It is the subject of so many sermons, and theories, preached by preachers and others. Yet not one of them has the True Understanding of what Immortality is. They understand it only in the sense of Continuous Life. In addition, try by argument, and inferences, to attach to it the idea of never ending. That is, of the Continuous Life being so established, that it can never be ended. In this, they satisfy their longings and desires. You see, this inference is merely one that is drawn from the desires of the preachers, and that they have no True Basis, upon which to found their conclusions. As to the ordinary things of Life, they would not be willing to risk the important things of Life upon a basis no better established from which they could draw conclusions that would cause them to act.

No, humankind do not really know what Immortality is. All the arguments that they can put forth, to establish the True Immortality, are not sufficient to convince the clear, cool, and unprejudiced mind, as to its being a fact.

As is said in the message that you have received from Jesus, Immortality can be derived only from that which is Immortal. All arguments, that merely tend to show that a thing must be immortal, because of the desires or intentions of God, do not suffice. All the facts that may be established as premises, are not sufficient to logically prove the conclusion desired to be established. Humans cannot depend upon such method of reasoning.

It is utterly impossible to derive Immortality from anything less than that which is Immortal in itself. To attempt to do so, by argument, or inference, is a mere waste of time by the exercise of the reasoning faculties.

As has been said, only God is Immortal. That means that the very Qualities and Nature of Himself are Immortal. If it were possible for Him to have any Qualities that are not of a Nature that partakes of the Immortal, then these Qualities would not be Immortal, but subject to change and dissolution. Among the Qualities of His Being is the Great and Important One of Divine Love. Without It, God could not be. His Existence would be less than that of a God. That being a fact, this Great Quality of Divine Love must be Immortal. Into whatever this Quality may enter, and form a part, that thing is necessarily Immortal. In no other way could it become Immortal. Then this Divine Love of God brings Immortality, in the True Sense of the term. When It enters into the soul of human, and possesses it, that soul becomes Immortal. In no other way can Immortality be acquired.

Not all things of God's Creation are Immortal. For in a shorter or longer time they perform the object of their Creation. Their existence is no longer required, and they become dissolved into the elements of which they were composed. Human's physical body, for this reason, is not immortal. For after a short Life on Earth, it dissolves, and is no more. His spirit body is primarily of this evanescent character. It may be, that in the course of Eternity, it will have performed its mission, and cease to exist. We do not know this. Neither are we assured that it is not True, because it is dependent upon the continuous existence of the soul for its continuous existence. Not all souls will receive a part of the Father's Divine Love, which is the only thing that has within itself this Immortality. It may be, that at sometime in the future, this soul without the Divine Love may cease to exist, and become no more a Creature of the Father.

This we do know, that whatever partakes of the Divine Love, has in it that which is necessarily Immortal. Can no more die, than can this Divine Love itself. Hence, must be Immortal. So that when humans speak, or teach, that all humans are immortal, they speak that which they do not know. Only God, Himself, knows that fact. From the mere exercise of the reason, humans are justified in saying, that such humans, or souls, that do not obtain the Divine Love, are not Immortal.

Now, while this question of human's Immortality is in doubt, and has never been demonstrated to be a fact, yet we do know that, that portion of humankind, whose souls have received this Immortal Divine Love, are Immortal, and can never cease to exist. The Great Comfort and Blessings to these souls that this possession brings, are that they know that they are Immortal, because they possess that Quality, or Divine Nature of God that is Immortal. As the latter can never have an ending, neither can that into which this Immortal Divine Love has entered and found a lodgment have an ending.

The preacher's arguments were strong. In the ordinary workings of humans minds, and reasoning powers, may convince humans that immortality is a proved fact for all humankind. When properly analyzed, and the True Rule of search for Immortality is applied, it will appear that the arguments are not conclusive. Hope is stronger than fact. Humans have not the assurance that for them, Immortality holds out its desired arms of certainty.

Well, I thought I would write you this short message, upon the question that you and the preacher have been meditating upon, in the hope that he might not depend upon the strength of his argument for the establishing of the fact of Immortality, but would see, and become convinced, that the Only Way to ascertain, and acquire, the True Immortality, is by seeking for and obtaining the Divine Love. Thereby, having his soul transformed into the very Essence and Nature of God in Divine Love.

I am glad that I can write to you again, and that your condition is so much better than it has been, and permits the rapport to be made. Pray more to the Father, and believe. You will get in a condition that we so much desire. I will not write more.

Goodnight, your brother in Christ, Luke.

April 23rd, 1916

I am here, Jesus.

I come tonight to tell you that you are in a much better condition of soul than you have been for several days. The inflowing of the Divine Love has been working today, in greater abundance, in your soul.

I do not intend to finish my message tonight, as it is rather late. You are not exactly in the condition to receive it. Turn your thoughts more to God. Pray in more earnestness. Very soon will come to you the power and soul perception, which will enable you to receive my message, as I desire to deliver it to you.

Today has been one when mortals, I mean those who profess to be followers of me, have offered their worship, and songs of praise to me, and to God. I am sorry to say, that He has been worshiped in a secondary sense, and I brought into prominence as the Saviour of Humankind, and as the important one of the three that constitutes the Godhead. How wrong and sinful this all is. How I deplore these erroneous beliefs and understandings of humans. If they would only know that, I am not God, and no part of the Godhead. Only a son, and spirit, filled with His Divine Love. One having Knowledge of Him, and His Plans for the Salvation of Humankind, they would get nearer to God in their worship, and receive more of His Divine Love in their souls, and partake more of His Divine Nature.

I realize that this belief, in me as God, and that my death and sacrifice on the cross were necessary to their salvation, will be hard to eradicate. That many who now live will pass into the Spirit World, before the Truths, which I come to teach and declare, will be published to the world.

We must make more speed in our work of writing and receiving these messages, for the importance of the World knowing the Truths, as regards me, and the True and Only Plan of Salvation, is now pressing. Must be shown to human in order for them to turn to the Father's Divine Love, and gain an entrance into the Celestial Kingdom. I want you to give more time to our writings, and instead of reading those books of philosophy, and the speculations of what are supposed to be, wise theologians, philosophers, and scientists. Let your hours from your business cares be devoted to my communications, and those of the other writers of the Celestial Spheres.

Of course, I do not intend that you shall not permit the dark spirits to write, on the nights that you have set apart for them, because such prohibition would prevent much good from being accomplished. These spirits are greatly benefitted by having the opportunity to write. Many of them have been greatly helped thereby, and have been turned to the Light, and instructed to seek for the Divine Love of the Father. The spirits here, who are engaged in the work of instructing and helping these spirits, have rescued many from their condition of darkness and sufferings, and have shown them The Way to Light, and to their Salvation. The work is a great and important one, and must not stop. Here let me say that this work will be a part of your duty, and also your pleasure, as long as you may live a Mortal Life. You will undoubtedly, be the means of helping mortals to see the Truth. Your work among these dark spirits will be even greater, and the harvest more abundant. When you come to the Spirit World, you will be surprised and gratified at the great host that will meet you, giving you thanks for the great help and assistance that you rendered them. Yours is a wonderful work. Is now spoken of, and wondered at, in the Spirit World.

Well, I will not write more tonight, but must come soon and finish my message, as I have many yet to write.

In my Father's House are many mansions, as I said, when on Earth. For your consolation, and that of your two friends, I am preparing for each of you such a mansion. Not as you may suppose, by erecting in the Celestial Heavens actual houses for your reception, but by helping to build in your souls that development of the Divine Love, and the Divine Nature, of the Father, that will, when you came over, make your souls in that condition that will necessarily and absolutely cause the formation of these mansions to receive you. No one else can build these mansions for you. Only your own Soul Development. While this is True, yet these Celestial Heavens have a locality, surroundings, and atmosphere, that will contain all those things that will give your mansions the proper settings.

The fields, trees, waters, sky, and all these things that you, in your Earth Life, find necessary to your happiness and peace, are in the Celestial Heavens. Only quite different from those that you are acquainted with.

So, believe what I say, and in believing, trust me and my Love. You will never be forsaken.

A human's Life on Earth is but a span; but in our homes, Eternity means Immortality, with always progress, and increasing Happiness.

So with my Love and blessings, I will say goodnight.

Your friend and brother, Jesus.

April 23rd, 1916

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

Yes, I come to tell you that I have been with you today in your attendance on the church services, as the preachers declared their ideas of what Immortality means. I suggested to you thoughts, showing how unsatisfactory their reasoning's and conclusions were. Of course, what the morning preachers said about the reasons for inferring that immortality must be the lot of human, had in it a considerable force, and consolation. I am glad that he dealt with the question as he did. When all is said, it was merely hope and belief. Knowledge was absent. Humans so often realize that their hopes are not fulfilled.

How regrettable it is, that while humans may know, and I emphasize Know, the Truth of Immortality, if they will only seek for it. Yet, they will not seek. Although, it is open to search, even without the information that our messages give you. In speaking of immortality in this writing, I mean Continuous Life, upon the death of the physical body.

Of course, Immortality, as it has been explained to you, can only be learned from the teachings of our communications. But immortality in the former sense, Continuity of Life, can become established as a matter of knowledge, to the satisfaction of these orthodox preachers, if they will only seek with open minds, divorced from the beliefs that keep them from accepting, as True, any, and everything, not contained in the Bible.

It has been established as a fact, for a long time, that in its beginning, antedating even the Bible, that spirits, or angels, communicated to humans. The Bible has many instances where such occurrences were declared. While these orthodox teachers accept all these instances as True, yet they say that the occurrences were caused by some special interposition of God. To a certain extent, this is True. This cause applies to all instances of spirit communication that have taken place, since these Bible manifestations.

As we have told you many times, Law, Unchangeable Law, governs All God's Universe. Nothing happens by chance. So every instance of spirit communion, is the result of the operation of some Law, working in an orderly manner. No spirit could communicate, and no mortal could receive the messages, unless the Law worked in such a manner as to permit, or cause, the same. Here I must say, that the same Principle of Law that enables the evil spirit to communicate, or manifest, enables the Higher Spirit to do the same. There is no special Law for one, and not for another.

Your land is filled with mortals, who have developed in them such powers, as enable the spirits to become in rapport with them, and thereby make known the fact that the supposed dead are alive, and able to declare the fact to mortals. These facts have been established to the satisfaction of humans, of all kinds, and characters, to the scientist, as well as to the human of ordinary intelligence. Even less, and to, the open-minded orthodox preacher, as well as to the infidel.

All these things are not merely matters of chance, but are designed to show them that they are a living, never dying, being, as far as known, whether in the flesh, or out of it. What is thus Designed, and provided for human's consolation, should not be looked upon with suspicion, or fear of being against God's Will. No, this Great Privilege is a part of God's Goodness to human. They must so understand it, and to their hope and desire for Continuous Life, add knowledge.

So, I say, these leaders of the worshipers at the orthodox shrines, may, if they will learn the Truth, of this immortality, or Continuity of Life, after the death of the body, will make certain, that, for which they have only a hope, backed by their faith in what their Bible tells them, is the Truth.

Of course, this hope and faith may become so strong as to satisfy their doubts on the question. Even then, it is not knowledge. This faith and hope will pale into insignificance, when the mother, mourning for her recently departed Loved one, hears their voice, declaring to her that they are still alive, and has all their Love, and longings for her, and that they are with her, feeling her love for them.

These teachers will not seek, or if they do, and feel their hope and faith turn to knowledge, they will not declare the Truth to their flock. Why not declare the Truth to their flock? Why not? Because the creeds, dogmas, and iron bands of erroneous beliefs, forbid them doing so. They will preach of the press, and if necessary, will lay down their lives for such a cause. Yet, when they come to deal with this question of supreme and vital fact, they are afraid to seek the Truth, or in seeking, find, declare the freedom of their beliefs from the bondage of their creeds.

What a responsibility they have! What an answer they will have to make! They bury the talent, which is given them. The accounting will be grievous.

Someday, and soon, this Truth will seek them with such overwhelming force, that their creeds will crumble. In addition to hope and faith, there will come to them knowledge. With knowledge, freedom. With freedom, the Pearl of Great Price, which to them has so long been hidden in the shell of fear and bigotry.

I must not write more tonight.

I felt that I must say these few things to you, to encourage you in your work of bringing Truth to Light. So with all my Love and blessings, I am, your brother in Christ, John.

April 24th, 1916

I am here, Rose - just Rose.

I want to say only a word, for I am so happy that I must tell you, as I know that you will join with me in my happiness. Well, the Judge has progressed to the Third Sphere. He is so happy that he hardly knows what to do, or what to say! He is here, but wanted me to write; as he thinks that I may be able to tell you more understandingly than if, he should try to write.

Well, he now knows what the Divine Love means, and what a Saviour and great spirit the Master is. He is praying to, and praising, the Father, with all his heart. He certainly is happy, and wants everybody to know it! You can imagine that we all rejoice with him, and unite in thanking the Father for the Great Blessing (of Divine Love) that has been bestowed. I, of course, am especially happy, for I am his soulmate, and he is now so much nearer to my home. Now, his progress will be more rapid, and his growth in this Divine Love so much more easy, for as he realizes the Wonderful Power of this Divine Love to make him happy, and to give him a home more beautiful than he ever conceived of, his Faith increases, and will increase.

He thanks God for his Rose, and for his friends on Earth who helped him so much in learning the Truths of the Spirit World, both as to what you might call the material things, and as to the Spiritual Higher Things.

Well, I am so full of joy that I cannot write much tonight. I feel that what I have said must be disconnected. I know you will excuse my weakness, for when the time comes for you to understand what Soulmate Love means, under such circumstances, you will wonder that I was able to write al all!

He sends his Love. So do I. When next he comes, he will want to use up your whole tablet in writing his experiences.

So, thanking you, I will say goodnight.

Your sister in Christ, Rose.

April 24th, 1916

I am here, Robert G. Ingersoll.

I come tonight to tell you of my progress, since last I wrote you. You will remember that I had declared to you my conversion to Christianity. I mean the True Christianity of Jesus, and to the Faith in the Divine Love of the Father. Since then, I have been praying, and seeking for this Divine Love, and the Faith that comes with it. Now, I have progressed so that I am in the Third Sphere, where I find such beauty and happiness, as I never conceived of on Earth, or since coming to the Spirit World.

Now, I know what was meant by Jesus when he said, "In my Father's House are many mansions," for I have one that is very beautiful and grand, filled with everything to make me happy and to satisfy my heart's longings. Of books, I have so many that I cannot find time to read them. All the appointments of my home are so very beautiful and satisfying to the eye, as well as comfortable for its occupancy.

Above and beyond all, is the Happiness that comes from the possession of this Divine Love of the Father, which to me is the most wonderful Revelation and Reality in all my experience, either on Earth, or in the Spirit World.

I now think with regret of my years of erroneous teachings on Earth, and of my failure to seek for, and know, at least partly, the Great Truths of a Continuous Life, and the Existence of God. When I contrast my beliefs then, and my knowledge now, my happiness then, and my happiness now, I realize that as a mortal I was very ignorant, and very unhappy. I know that Jesus is The Way to Immortality and Life Everlasting, and to the True and always increasing Happiness, and that the followers of his teachings of the Father's Truths, will never be disappointed in their expectations.

My work now is to help those mortals, and spirits as well, who read and believe my books, and as a consequence lose the opportunity for learning the Truths, and The Way to the Father's Divine Love. Very many of my followers live on Earth, and many have become spirits. I search for them. When I find them, I tell them of my great mistakes, and try to turn their thoughts to the True Way to become Redeemed Children of God. My work is continuous, and sometimes disappointing, for when I come to some spirits, and attempt to tell them of my new beliefs and knowledge myself mistaken, why may it not be that I am equally mistaken in my beliefs. The result is, that I find it difficult to convince some of them of the Truths that I attempt to teach them.

As I sowed the seeds of the pernicious and false beliefs when a mortal, now I am bound to root up these seeds, and plant in their places the Seeds of Truth. I cannot tell you how much happiness I experience, when one of these deluded followers of mine discards the old beliefs, and accepts my new teachings. How unhappy I am, when they tell me that, as they believed what I taught them on Earth, and were satisfied, so now in the Spirit World they prefer the same belief and are satisfied. As they stay in this condition of belief, they remain in darkness and unhappiness. I, knowing that I am the cause of their darkness and unhappiness, am also unhappy, and always in search of some one of these who will accept my teachings of Truth. Thus I fully realize the meaning of "What a human sows, that shall they also reap."

This is my work. You must know that it is self-imposed, for I see that until I have removed the evils by me taught, and engendered, I cannot be so happy, and progress as rapidly as I desire.

I want further to say that when I succeed in convincing any of my followers of the Truth, I enlist them in my cause of correction. They work with me, for no spirit so well understands the meaning of error, as he who once indulged in that same error, as I most assuredly did.

I will not write longer tonight, except to say to all who have heard of me, and have read my books, and imbibed my beliefs, that I am a Christian, a follower of Jesus the Christ, a believer, with knowledge, in the Divine Love of the Father.

Yes, when I told you that, I actually believed what I said, and really felt sorry for your ignorance. I want now to assure you, with gratitude, that that conversation was the means of starting me in the progress to a Knowledge of the Truth, and the gaining of this Divine Love. Oh, I was very ignorant, and with it, I now realize there was much pride in my own opinion, for I thought that my reasoning powers, and my research in things of the religious past, had given me a knowledge that could not be gainsaid or overcome.

So my brother, you now see that Truth is Truth. That no matter whether mortals learn it, or understand it, or not, it is still the Truth, and never changes.

Thanking you for your kindness, I will say goodnight.

Your brother in Christ, R. G. Ingersoll.

April 24th, 1916

I am here, Helen.

Well, sweetheart, you have had a very happy night. I also have enjoyed the reading of the messages, and the exchange of thoughts between you and the Doctor.

It is wonderful to see the Great Truths that are being opened up to you, and with what understanding you receive them. I am so glad that you are in condition to understand what the spirits mean in their Revealment of these Truths.

The Doctor is so very much in earnest and has such Faith, that he too can understand these things of the soul.

Oh, how good the Father is to come to you in this way, and show you the Great Truths that do exist, and that all humans must learn, either in the flesh, or in the Spirit World, in order to become Children of the Father.

I will not write more tonight, as it is late. You must go to bed and get your sleep. I will watch over you until you sleep. Even then, I will come to you through the night. You will feel my Love and presence. When in sleep, your spirit will come to me. You will realize that you are with me, even though you may not remember the fact in your waking moments. We will communicate in our Love, and realize that we are together.

So Love me waking, and you will Love me when you think you sleep. With a great big kiss and a hug, I will say goodnight.

Your own True and Loving Helen.

26th April 1916

I am here, Lafayette.

I have been anxious for some time to write you again, and let you know the results of your advice to me when last I wrote. After our last communication, I sought General Washington, and told him of my conversation with you, and asked him to explain what this Divine Love meant, and how it could be obtained.

He was so pleased at my inquiry that he actually took me in his arms and called me his boy as he had on Earth. With his face beaming with Love and happiness, he told me what this Divine Love meant, what it had done for him, what happiness it had brought him, and how he was now progressing towards the Celestial Heavens of Light and Truth.

Well, I commenced to consider what he had told me, and to have a longing in my soul for that Divine Love and the Happiness, which he said it would bring me. I commenced to pray for the Divine Love, and tried to have Faith. Well, without taking up your time by rehearsing the steps of my progress, I am glad to tell you that I have this Divine Love, to some extent, and that I am now an inhabitant of the Third Sphere enjoying the associations of spirits who also have this Divine Love and are striving to progress.

My happiness is very different from what it was before this Divine Love came to me. I realize that the soul, and not the mind, is the human, especially of God's Redeemed Children. I never thought that the soul was capable of such Love, Happiness, and of the Knowledge that the Divine Love is the One Absolutely Necessary thing, to bring spirits into Unison with the Father.

I want to express my gratitude to you, and to say that I will never forget your kindness and Love, in turning my thoughts to this Great Truth.

Yes, I am still interested in the war. Now I do not have any hatred for the Germans that I had before. I see that they are all brothers, Children of the Father. That only the ambitions of some, and the passions and hatred of others, are prolonging the war. It will soon close, for I see before me the collapse of the German campaign against Verdun. Then the end will come rapidly.

I wish it were tomorrow, for then slaughter, death, and added misery would cease. There are so many spirits coming from these battlefields, who are all unfit for the Spirit Life, and appear in great confusion. When they realize they are no longer mortals, they become bewildered and miserable. We are trying to help them. We know no enemies, and all are helped alike. I will not write more tonight. In closing, give you my Love, and sign myself with a new name, which is;

Your brother in Christ, Lafayette.

April 27th, 1916

I am here, Luke.

I have not written you for some time. I desire to write a short message tonight on the subject of: What is necessary for a human to do to Recover the Purity of Soul and Love that was possessed by the First Parents. I mean, as a human possessing the Natural Love only.

Well, in the first place, they should realize that they are a Perfect Creature of God, and that their sins and diseases are merely the results of their own thoughts, and of qualities that have come to them down the long ages of their ancestors living on Earth.

They need not suppose that these sins and desires are inherent in, or a part of, their Creation. They are not! Merely accretions, that fastened themselves upon them, by reason of the thoughts they have had, and the resultant Course of Life they have led. When they change these thoughts, which will necessarily bring about a change in their manner of living (actions), they will find that they can progress toward the Condition of the Perfect Human.

I know that many of these thoughts are so deep seated, that they seem almost a part of their "very nature", and can only be eradicated by the death of their physical body. This is not True. Human, even while in the full vigor of their Humanhood, and possessed with all the appetites and desires, which arise from the perverted indulgence of these desires, either on the part of them self, or on the part of those from whom they are said to have inherited them, may relieve them self from these (perverted) desires, and become a human having only the thoughts of good, and desires for those things which are in Harmony with the (True) Nature of their Perfect Creation.

This I know seems to human a thing impossible. So thinking, they do not try to accomplish what I say they may accomplish, and to become free from these sins and unnatural appetites. The almost universal belief in "original sin", has caused humans, all along the ages, to think that such a task is hopeless, and that they are thinking and acting only in accordance with the appetites and desires that God has implanted in their Natures, and that so long as they indulge these thoughts and desires, in a moderate, or respectable way, they are not doing that, which is contrary to God's Will, or to their own Nature.

This Doctrine of Original Sin is a mocking, damnable lie! The sooner human realizes the fact that it is a fraud and deceit, the sooner they will be able to get rid of those things, which have placed them in their present condition, and held him there bound as it were, hand and foot. This supine submission, to this old and ever recurring belief, is the great thing that prevents human from starting to progress towards the attainment of that condition, which is Purity, Health, and the Perfect Human.

Human must decline, and no longer submit, to this belief, which, I am sorry to say, is fostered by the teachings of the orthodox churches, in order to sustain, and make forcible, their creeds and dogmas, to show to human, that they are not to be considered worthy of the Mercy of the Father, and cannot possibly obtain that Mercy, and be relieved from the great wrath and punishment that God has prepared for them, unless they believe and acknowledge that they are a dependent and lost human, unworthy of the Father's Favor, or the help of the Instrumentalities, which the Father uses to assist humans in regaining their Lost Estate (of Perfection).

If humans would only think, and in thinking, realize that, they are Dear Children of the Father. His Highest Creation. That He prizes them above All His Creatures, and wants them to know that they are beings of such Wonderful Qualities and Possibilities, they would then have come to them an overpowering, and convincing, sense of what they really are, and of how necessary it is for them to assert their rights, as such Exalted Creatures of the Father, and would realize that they are masters of sin and disease, for they are the creators of the same.

When they shall assume such position, and become possessed of such Knowledge, they will find that they have a Wonderful Power, as Creatures of the Father, they will realize that they are masters of sin that must be gotten rid of.

Let humans for a moment think again, and thinking, Know that God does not desire His Greatest Creature to become, or be, less than the Perfect Being that He Created. He is not flattered, nor does He have any pleasure, in the thought that human is degraded and fallen from their Perfect Creation, and that in order to rise again, they, human, must believe that God may show His Power in rescuing them from their low and hopeless condition. No, God is not pleased by human assuming such an attitude, nor does he need any such helpless condition of human, that He may show His Power, or gratify, what the teachings of these orthodox imply, His vanity, which He has not.

In this particular, human must work out their own Salvation. It will be a difficult task so long as they continue to believe, and act upon that belief, that they are a "creature of original sin", and that as God, in the beginning, failed to make them the Perfect Human, so now, only God can remedy what He failed to provide in His Creation, and that human, of them self can do nothing. That all they have to do is to wait until God is pleased to recreate them, and thereby take from their very nature, this great curse of the "original sin". See the great fatality of such belief? How it tends to make human a slave of, and obedient to, this false belief in this "blight of original sin".

God gave to human, in their Creation, the great power of will. The right to its unlimited exercise, subject only to the penalties (of Spiritual Law) of a wrongful exercise. By the exercise of that will, human created sin and disease, and became depraved and fallen, the possessor of false beliefs, as to the Perfection of their Nature. By the exercise of that will, human, them self, must redeem them self from this condition of depravity and false belief, and again become the Perfect Human, God's Wholly Perfect Creation.

As human was, in the beginning, The Perfect Son (and Daughter) of God, and by their own will, created their own and only devil, so must they, by this same power, kill this devil, and again become the Perfect Sons (and Daughters). They must believe and declare, and show the sincerity of their beliefs, by their acts and Living, that they are a Perfect Son (or Daughter) of the Father, needing no "new creation".

This I have written to show what human was in the beginning, and what they really and truly are NOW, although, covered with sin, disease and false beliefs.

To recover this Lost Estate, or better, condition; they will find that by searching for, learning, and acting upon many of the Moral Precepts of the Bible, AND/OR of other so called "sacred writings", they will be greatly helped and strengthened in their efforts. Above all, let them understand, and believe, with the Certainty of Knowledge, that they are God's Highest and Most Perfect Creation.

Now, from what I have said, it must not be inferred that human is their own god, and has not, and needs not, any Tender, Loving Father, who is Interested in them, and always ready to help them, whenever they earnestly, and in sincerity, asks the Help of that Father. Always, is human dependent upon God! That dependence is not recognized by God, unless human first recognizes it, and by their longings, and thoughts, shows to the Father that they need His Help.

This may seem unbelievable, but human was Created so independent, in their great will power, as regards the dualities of thought and desire, both spiritual and material, that God never interferes to compel. The Principle involved in "WHOSOEVER WILL" must be exercised by human, before the Father will intervene. When it is exercised, He does Intervene! Never refuses or fails to answer the call of the sincere cry of human for Help.

God does help human in their recovery from the state of false beliefs and degradation that I have mentioned. His Great Love overshadows humans. His Instrumentalities are always ready and waiting to answer the call upon Him for His Help, in assisting them out of their condition of sin, disease and false beliefs. As I have elsewhere written you, in God's Universe there must be Perfect Harmony. The present human, so far as their own creation of inharmony is concerned, is not in that Harmony. Ultimately, human, all humans, will become again the Perfect Human (the Law of Eventual Harmony).

Of course, you will understand that what I have written does not apply to the Redeemed Sons (and Daughters) of God (Redeemed by their sincere longings and aspirations for God's Divine Love through the Holy Spirit) who receive the New Birth, and become partakers of the Divine Nature of the Father. In their case, the Perfect Human is absorbed in the Divine Angel.

I have written longer than I intended. As the theme is an interesting, as well as important one, I thought it best to write just as I have.

I will now say goodnight, and leave with you my Love and blessings.

Your brother in Christ, Luke.