1916 February

Messages from Jesus and Celestials on Divine Love 1916 February

February 3rd, 1916

I am here, Luke.

I come tonight to say a few words concerning; The Great Truth of the development of the soul in its Natural Love, wherein the New Birth is never experienced.

I know, that humans think that this Natural Love has in it, a part of the Divinity of the Father's Divine Nature, and that as they develop in the way of purifying it, and ridding it of those things, which tend to impair its Harmony, they will realize that there exists in their souls this Divinity, of which we have written. This is not True. This Natural Love partakes only of those elements, which the Father implanted in it at the time of human's Creation. In none of these elements are any of the Qualities of the Divine Nature.

It is difficult to explain, just the distinction between the Divine Love coming from the Father, and the Natural Love also coming from Him, yet, not having any of the Divine Nature, or Qualities. It is a fact. The Natural Love may become so purified, that it may come into Perfect Harmony with the Laws governing its condition and composition, yet, fall far short of having in it, any of the Divine Love.

So, as we have explained to you, the soul may obtain this Divine Love, and thereby become a part of the Father's Divinity. I will now try to explain how the Natural Love of human may be developed, so that their soul may come into Harmony with the Law of Love, the Natural Love, and make them a very happy, pure and contented being.

In the first place, I wish to say that there is no such thing in the World as "Original Sin", or evil, and that God did not create them, or permit them to exist, except as He permits human to use their own will, without limitation. I mean by this that He does not say that a human, in the exercise of this will, shall do this, or do that. As respects this will, human is untrammeled. He does say, and His Laws are inexorable in this particular, that human, when in the exercise of the great power of free will, causes that will to come into conflict with the Will of God, or to violate His Laws, they, human, must suffer the consequences (of the Law).

This may be illustrated by your natural Laws declaring the freedom of the press. Human may publish whatsoever they please. So long as they do not thereby, violate the rights of others, or of decency, they may make their publications without fear of the Law. But when in the exercise of this freedom of speech, as you call it, they violate the Law, then they must suffer the consequences of this violation.

So it is with the mortal, who in the exercise of their free will violates the Will of the Father, or the Laws limiting its exercise by the mortal, they must suffer the consequences. The results of this violation are sin and evil created, and in no other way. Surprising as it may sound to you; human is the creator of sin and evil. Not God, who is only Good.

Then the question arises, how can sin and evil be eradicated from the world? Every thoughtful human will have the same answer. That is by humans ceasing to violate the Will of God, or His Laws, which restrict the exercise of the wills of mortals, to that, which in its right exercise will not produce sin or evil. In other words, when humans, by the wrong use of their wills, bring about inharmony, they can, by the right use of their wills, not disturb that Harmony, which when it exists, leaves no room for the presence of sin and error.

So you see, the one thing necessary in order for humans to become happy and free from everything that defiles them, or causes unhappiness, or discord to exist, is to develop their souls in this Natural Love, until this Natural Love comes into Perfect Unison with the Laws that control it. Thus may be applied the oft quoted expression; that Love is the fulfilling of the Law. This means Love in its Purest and most Perfect State.

Now, how can this development of the Natural Love be accomplished by humans?

The mind, while a powerful helper in this regard, is not, of itself, sufficient to bring about this great desideratum. It is True that with every mortal, there is a constant warfare between the appetites and lusts of the flesh, and their Higher Desires. Hence, it is said, that these appetites and desires are sinful, the cause of evil and the inharmony that exists in the lives of mortals. This statement is not altogether True. For as human was made with Spiritual Aspirations and Desires, so also, were they made with appetites and desires of the flesh. The latter, of themselves, are not evils.

The failure to make the distinction between the fact that these appetites and desires of the flesh are not evil, and the fact that only the perversion of them brings evil, is the great stumbling block that stands in the way of human's developing this Natural Love in the manner that I have indicated. These, what are sometimes called the animal appetites and desires, may be exercised, in such a way, as to be in Perfect Harmony with the Laws that control them. In such exercise, not interfere with, or prevent, the development of this Natural Love to Perfection.

Human, in the free exercise of their will, has in their wanderings, gone beyond the limitations, which the Law of Harmony has placed upon them, added to, and increased and distorted, the appetites and desires of the flesh, which were originally bestowed upon them. Hence, has them self, created those things that are not in Harmony with the Creation of them self.

So you see, human is a creator, as well as a creature. As the latter, they cannot alter or change any of the effects of their Creation. As the former, they can alter and change, even abolish, the effects of their own creation. As the creator, is greater than the things that they created. Although, these things of their own creation have held him in bondage and unhappiness, to a more or less extent, ever since they became their creator. The strength of this apparent paradox is that the creator, human, has for all these long centuries believed it, and submitted to their creations, and still does so.

So what is the remedy?

Simply this: Human must awaken to the fact that they are greater than their creatures (creations), and that their creations are subject to their will. That whenever, by their existence and workings, they bring discord and unhappiness, and cause their will to be exercised in opposition to the Will of the Father, then they must be destroyed. Never be permitted to come into existence again. Let humans become the masters of their creatures, and obedient to the Great Will of their Creator. They will realize that sin, error, and unhappiness will disappear. Their Natural Love will come into Harmony with the Laws of its Creation. Earth will indeed become a heaven. The Brotherhood (Fellowship) of Human established on Earth.

If humans will only think, and thinking, believe, that all sin and error, and the resulting unhappiness and sorrow in the World, are children of their own creation. Not the children of God. That, in the Economy of His Universe, He leaves the control, management, and even the existence of these children, to the will of their parents. They will then understand why evil exists, and why wars, hatred and misery continue on Earth, to blight the lives and happiness of mortals. Why, as some say, and especially the so-called christians, God permits all these things to exist, flourish, and apparently contradict the Great Truth, that He is Good, and the Fountainhead of All Goodness.

The Universe, the inhabitants thereof, and the Greatest Production of His Power, human, were All Created by God. But sin and error, and their awful followings, are the creatures of human. The Laws of His Universe work in Harmony. All is Good. Even the apparent inharmony, which human has created, does not affect that Great Harmony. But is confined in its workings to human, them self. Only human is apparently in inharmony. That is caused by human them self.

Suppose, for a moment, that human's will was working in accord with that of the Father. Can you imagine that there would be any of these creatures of human's perverted will in existence? Would there be any evil, hatred, disease, or suffering known to the consciousness of human? I tell you, no.

Now I say, human, their creator, must destroy these inharmonious creatures. Human must kill, and bury deep and forever, these children of the perverted exercise of their will. Until then, sin and error, and all their concomitants, will continue to live, flourish, and torment their creator.

I say here, with all emphasis, and with a full realization of the great significance and responsibility in the sight of God, which I assume in saying it, that human can destroy these bastard creatures of their will, so perverted and discordant.

Their Natural Love, if permitted to assert its God-Given powers and functions, is sufficient to bring their will in accord with that of the Father, and turn their thoughts away from these children of their, and to make them conscious of Purity and Truth. The dead desires, and dead appetites, will bury their dead children. Human will come into their own again.

Then comes the question. How is human to accomplish this great end, so devoutly to be wished for?

Well, it is late now. I will write upon this important feature of this development of their Natural Love in my next message.

So with all my Love, I will say goodnight.

Your brother in Christ, Luke.

February 5th, 1916

I am here, your own true and loving Helen.

Well dear, I see that you do not feel like writing much tonight. I will say only a few words.

The Master was anxious to finish his message, but he saw your condition and was not displeased that you did not write. But get in condition by tomorrow night.

Well, I have been with you today at your office, and at church. I was Loving you with all my heart and soul. I tried to make you feel my presence and love.

I think if you soon go to bed, you will feel better in the morning.

Well, I will do so. Tomorrow night he will come, and tell you what is best for you to take. While he has not written you for a long time, yet he is with you quite often looking after you. I will tell him your desire. I know that he will do what is best.

So sweetheart, keep up your courage, Faith, and pray. You will be happier, and realize your desires.

Goodnight, my own dear husband.

Your own True and Loving Helen.

February 6th, 1916

I am here, Jesus.

I come tonight to resume my discourse of several nights ago.

As I was saying, human is the Creature of God, made in Perfection, and instantaneously, as it were. Not having a slow growth, as other Creations. When they were Created, they needed no evolution, or additional attributes, to make them the Perfect Human. Their physical bodies were Perfect. Also, their spiritual bodies, and their soul.

They had, in addition to these three constituents, A Gift, which, by their disobedience, they forfeited, which was never restored to them, until my coming, which, when possessed by them made them more than mere human. As to those things, which were made constituent and absolute parts of them, they were Perfect. No evolution was necessary to give them any increased perfection. Human then, was a More Perfect Being, than they are now, or ever has been, since their fall from their Condition of Perfection.

After their disobedience, and the consequent death of the Potentiality of partaking of the Divine Nature of the Father, which is the Gift above mentioned, human was left in a state where they depended exclusively upon the qualities, which they then possessed, for their future happiness and freedom, from those things, which would cause them to lose the Harmony, that then existed between them, and the Laws governing their being.

The greatest of all the qualities bestowed upon them was that of the will power, which was wholly unrestricted in its operations. Although, when exercised in a manner, which brought this will in conflict with the Laws controlling this Harmony, human had to suffer, and pay the penalties of such violations. Notwithstanding that these perversions of the exercise of the will brought the sins and errors, which now exist on Earth, God did not place any limitations on this exercise.

Human, in their Creation, had bestowed upon them appetites and desire pertaining to their physical nature, as well as desires of their higher or Spiritual Nature. They were all intended to work in Harmony, and not in antagonism. In such workings, human was kept Pure, and free from sin, which is merely the violation of God's Laws of Harmony. After the "First Disobedience", which is the greatest demonstration of the power of human to exercise that will, even when God had forbade them to do so, and after human lost this Great Potentiality, that I speak of, succeeding disobediences became easier. As these disobediences occurred, human lost, to a great extent, the desires for the Spiritual Things. The animal, or physical part, of their nature asserted itself. Then, instead of exercising these appetites, which belonged to the physical nature, in such a wise way that no inharmony would ensue, and here let me say that even after the fall it was possible and even expected that human would exercise these appetites in the way mentioned, they indulged them beyond their proper functions, and increased such indulgence, until they commenced to find, as they thought, more pleasure in such indulgence, than in the thoughts and exercise of their Higher Nature (soul), and the aspirations which belonged to it.

This deterioration of human was not sudden, but gradual, until, at one time, they became in a state, or condition, of being bordering on that of the lower animals. In fact, because of this increased indulgence of these appetites, they seemed to be transformed into the lower animal. Yet he remained human, a being (soul), Created in the image of their Maker.

From this position of low degradation, or degeneracy, human slowly commenced to progress towards the attainment of their Original Condition, before the fall. Never, in all this time, was their freedom of will taken from them, nor attempted to be controlled by God. But always the Laws of Compensation worked. Human suffered, as they continued to create sin and evil.

But as human on Earth continued to degenerate, and to permit, what is sometimes called their animal nature to dominate their Spiritual Nature, many humans died, and continued to die. Their physical bodies went back to the dust of which they were created. Their Spiritual Selves became inhabitants of the Spirit World, where they were freed, in a longer or shorter time, from the desire to exercise these animal appetites. The Spiritual part of human again asserted itself, until many of these spirits became free from sin, evil and in Harmony with the Laws of God, controlling their natures and conditions, as they existed before their degeneracy, and before the disobedience commenced.

These spirits, thus made free and in their Spiritual dominance, commenced to try to assist humans while living on Earth to direct their will, in such ways as to rid them self of submission to these appetites, and to became again a True Human, as in their Creation State, minus the potentiality that I have mentioned. These efforts on the part of spirits have been slow in their effects. While humans, in individual cases, have been almost regenerated, yet as whole, the progress has not been as rapid as is desirable. Sin and evil still exist in the World. Humans perverted appetites and desires still control them to a large extent.

Of course, this progress from the bottom of degeneracy has taken place in some parts of the Earth, faster than in others. Hence, you have your distinctions between the civilized, and the uncivilized, races or nations. This does not necessarily mean that the civilized people, as individuals, have made greater progress, in the manner indicated, than have the individuals of some of the so called uncivilized nations. For it is a fact, that among some humans of the former nations, are perversions, and manifestations of perversions, of these appetites, that do not exist in the latter nations.

Advancement in the intellectual qualities do not necessarily mean progress in the Spiritual asserting itself over the perversions of these appetites. Will, is not a thing entirely of the mind. Neither are these appetites and desires. Because back of the mind are the affections, usually called the heart's desires, which are the seat of these appetites. From which these desires arise. As they arise, the will is influenced by them. As the will is influenced, come positive thoughts and deeds.

It is not surprising that your scientists believe, and preach, the doctrine of the evolution of human from a lower species of animal, or from an atom, or from something that they cannot just understand, or give a name to. Because in their studies of the History of Humankind, and of the Created World, they find that human has developed and progressed amazingly from what appeared to have been their condition in some ages past.

But history does not extend to the time when human was in this lowest condition of degeneracy. Hence, all the conclusions that these scientists reach, are based upon facts sufficient unto themselves, which show the progress of human, only after the turning point of their degeneracy. They have no fact, and, of course, when the word "facts" is here used, it refers exclusively to the material things of Nature, showing them the gradual decline of human from their state of being a Perfect Human, to that when their retrogression, or degeneracy, ceased, and their progress of return to their former estate commenced.

So, if the scientists will believe and teach that human, instead of evoluting from an atom, or some other infinitesimal something, or from a lower species of animal than human, evoluted from their state or condition when they were at the bottom of their degeneracy, to which they had descended from the Perfect Human, then they will believe and teach the Truth. Their theory of evolution will then have as its foundation, or basis, a fact, which now it has not, only a speculation.

This in short, is the History and Truth of the Creation of the Universe of Human, of human's fall and degeneracy, and evolution and progress. Through all this Creation, and subsequent existence, runs Life, permeating it, and always with it. The Origin of Life is God.

I have finished. I hope that you will find some instruction, as well as entertainment, in what I have written. I will come again soon, and write you another Truth.

The fact that you waited for sentences to be formulated to express my thoughts, merely means that I was manipulating your brain, so that the proper expression, or idea, could be conveyed to your hand, as I wrote it.

You have my Love and blessings. I am more interested as time passes in you, and your work. Keep up your courage. Your desires will be fulfilled.

Your friend and brother, Jesus.

February 8th, 1916

I am here, St. Paul, of the New Testament.

I desire to continue my message tonight.

As I said in closing my last writing, there is a Resurrection, that is vital to the Salvation of Humans, which Jesus taught, and which after the death of his followers and believers of the early centuries, the Knowledge of, was lost to the World, and to those who assumed to teach the doctrines of the resurrection that he came to declare and teach.

You, and all humankind, must know, that the Resurrection, which is the Foundation Stone of Christianity, is a Resurrection from the dead. Not from the mere existence of a human as a spirit in the physical body on Earth, and not as a resurrection of the soul from its environments and limitations that the Earth Life placed upon it.

Then what is the Resurrection that Jesus referred to when he said, "I am the Resurrection and the Life!"

Now, in order to understand this Resurrection, it is necessary to understand what is meant by the death of human, that is, the Real Human, the ego (soul), that part of them in which the Breath of Life exists, no matter whether they are of the physical, or the Spiritual.

As has been explained to you elsewhere, when human was Created, their Creation was of the physical body, the spiritual body, and the soul. In addition, and the addition was the most important part of their Creation, the Potentiality of becoming so At-One with the Father in His Divine Nature, and certain of His Attributes, that they, human, would become so possessed of some of the Divine Essence of the Father, and a portion of His Divinity, that would cause them to be Immortal. So that death could never deprive them of their existence. Not only that, but they would realize the Consciousness of their Immortality.

This Potentiality then, was a part of their Creation. As we have explained elsewhere, the only part of their Creation that died as the result of their disobedience. For it is very apparent, from the mere knowledge that human has, or may have, from the ordinary investigation of the qualities of their being, and from the Truths of psychical research of modern days, as well as from the understanding of the many instances related in the Bible of the appearance of departed spirits on Earth, and the manifestations of their existence. Also from the many occurrences of the appearances of spirits, related in what is called secular history, that the soul and spirit body of human never died, and that their physical body lived for many years, after the day on which the sentence, because of their disobedience, announced that they should die. As I have said, this mortal body, not human, the human, but merely the vesture of covering for the Real Human.

This Potentiality then, being the only part of the Created human that died, and as Jesus' mission was to teach the Resurrection of human from the dead, it necessarily follows, that the only thing that was intended to be Resurrected, was this Potentiality of becoming a part of God's Divinity. This is the only Real and True Resurrection. Upon this Resurrection, must rest the Faith and Truth of Christianity. By Christianity, I mean religion, which is based upon the True Teachings of Jesus, the Christ.

There are contained in the Bible, some things, which if properly understood, would show to human, that no resurrection of the body was intended, as the thing which Jesus came to Earth to declare and teach.

When he said, "I am the Resurrection and the Life", he did not say, or mean, wait until I die and then I will become the Resurrection. Or, when you see me ascend to Heaven, then will I become the resurrection, and you will know it. His declarations, not only in the instance mentioned, but at all times, were that he was the Resurrection while living. These declarations did not refer to the human, Jesus, or to any disposition that he might make of his body, either physical or spiritual, or to any apparent ascension of his physical body, which never took place, or to any ascension of his Spiritual body, which did occur. In these particulars, he was essentially no more, or different, from other humans that had died, or should die.

The meaning of his saying, and his mission, were, that as by human's disobedience there had occurred the death of the possibility of their becoming At-One with the Father and partaking of His Divine Nature, and as that possibility had never been restored to human in all the intervening years, and human had remained in this condition of death during all the long centuries, if human would only believe in him as the True Christ, and in his teachings, as to the Re-Bestowal of this Great Privilege of again becoming At-One with the Father, and of obtaining Immortality, and would follow his advice as to The Way in which human could realize the benefits of this Great Privilege, then he would become conscious that Jesus was the Resurrection from the dead. Not Jesus the human, or teacher, or the chosen and anointed one of the Father, but Jesus the impersonation (embodied, or personification) of the Truths, which he proclaimed, as to the Re-Bestowal of the Great Gift. Only in this way was Jesus the Resurrection and the Life.

He, himself, had received the Great Gift, and realized his At-Onement (with God), and the Consciousness of his Immortality, and the possession of the Divine Nature, and knew that he had been lifted from death into Life. Therefore, if humans would believe his teachings, as to the Resurrection, these teachings, and not the human, Jesus, or even the fact that he had been Resurrected, would draw all humans unto him. That is, into the condition of Life and Consciousness that he possessed.

Then the Resurrection, that Jesus promised to human, was the Resurrection of this Great Potentiality, which they had lost at the time of the First Disobedience, and which had never been restored, until the coming of Jesus.

Now let it not be misunderstood, as to what was meant by this Resurrection. As I have said, after humans were deprived of this Potentiality, they were in a condition of (spiritual) death. It was not possible for them to get out of this condition. They were possessed of only what is called their Natural Love, without any possibility of obtaining the Divine Love, which was necessary in order to give them any portion of the Divine Nature, and a Consciousness of Immortality. When the Great Potentiality, which was as to them as if it had never existed, was Re-Bestowed, then humans were again placed in the position of the First Humans before their fall, and were no longer actually dead, but were possessed of this Potentiality to become that, which had been forfeited by the First Parents.

As we have told you, the Gift of this Potentiality, was not of itself the bestowal upon human of those Qualities, which such Potentiality merely made it possible for them to acquire, by aspiration and effort (prayer). Before this Re-Bestowal, humans could not, by any aspirations, or efforts on their part, obtain the conditions and Qualities, which this Potentiality made possible, no matter how great the effort might be. As to them, humans were simply and absolutely dead. After the Re-Bestowal, the impossibility, which this death had imposed, was removed. Then humans received, not the full fruition of what was possible to obtain because of such Re-Bestowal, but the Privilege of arising from death to Life, of the Resurrection from (spiritual) death, to the Glories of Immortal Life.

While this Privilege had become a part of human's possession, yet, if they had remained without Consciousness of that fact, they would, in effect, have remained in their condition of death, and have never received the benefit of the Re-Bestowal of the Great Gift. So to reveal to human, the Vital Truth, Jesus taught and demonstrated in his own Life, the possession of those Qualities that became his, because of the existence of the Gift.

He also taught, while humans had the Privilege spoken of, yet, unless they sought for, and prayed the Father, in sincerity, for the Gift of His Divine Love, the Potentiality, which had been Bestowed upon them, would not bring to them the Resurrection from the dead. They would continue in their lives as mortals, and as inhabitants of the Spirit World, as if they were still under the doom of death.

I may here state, that this Potentiality, which was lost by the disobedience of the First Parents, and was Re-Bestowed by the Father, and revealed by Jesus to humankind, was the Privilege of receiving and possessing the Divine Love of the Father, which, when possessed, would give to human, certain Qualities of Divinity and Immortality.

So the Resurrection from the dead that the master taught, and which is the One Foundation of the Christian Faith, arise from the fact that God Re-Bestowed upon humankind, the Privilege of seeking for, and receiving, His Divine Love, which would make the mortal One with Him and Immortal. Upon the further fact that human must, in order to obtain the Resurrection, seek and find this Divine Love, and thereby become a Child of the True Resurrection. A Resurrection that was never known to prophet, seer, reformer, or teachers of faiths, no matter how excellent their moral teachings, and private lives, may have been, before the coming of Jesus.

Truly, He was the Resurrection and the Life. I, Paul, who am the recipient of this Resurrection, and Know whereof I speak, and have Knowledge of the fact that those inhabitants of the Spirit World, who have never received this Resurrection, are still in a condition of death, so far as obtaining the Divine Love of the Father, and the Consciousness of Immortality, are concerned. So I declare unto you, what I have attempted to describe, as the Resurrection from the dead, is the True Resurrection.

I will stop, as I have written a long time.

So my dear brother I will say goodnight.

Your brother in Christ, Paul.

February 8th, 1916

I am here, your old Professor.

I merely want to say that I desire to finish my discourse of some weeks ago. I am ready at any time that may suit your convenience.

Well, I will come one night this week and try to finish. I see that you are in a very good condition now, as your brain is working very well. The message that you have received from Paul is a wonderfully deep message, upon the existence of the Resurrection. As I understand, and have experienced the Resurrection, is a True explanation of its meaning.

Paul is a very logical and clear writer. I am glad that he finds such little difficulty in making use of your faculties. He is very much pleased at the success of the experiment. His estimate of you is very great, as are the estimates of all the Higher Spirits who write.

Well my dear boy, I often think of the wonder of all this experience. Sometimes let my mind return to the days when you were my dear pupil. I think how wholly we were in want of any conception that such a thing could be. I cannot tell you how glad and thankful I am that we ever came in contact with each other. For I will frankly, and assuredly, say that if I had never met you, I doubt if I would have had the privilege of meeting such spirits as your grandmother and mother, and of having received the benefits of their advice, and the influence of their Love, as well as the companionship of your father and Mr. Riddle.

I often think of how a mere accident as your coming to my school should have brought about such momentous results. In thinking, I am so grateful to Our Heavenly Father.

So my boy, keep up your good work. You will find a wonderful happiness when you come over.

The dark spirits, whom you help, are so very grateful to you, and are all lovers of you and your friends, are ready at all times to protect you from the evil that might come to you from the influences of the many evil spirits who have their habitations so near your Earth. ? Yes, more than you can imagine, I want to say this further thing, and that is, that very many spirits who do not have the opportunity to write to you, are influenced very much by what they hear you tell others, and act on the advice that you give to those who write. Small wonder at the confidence of these spirits have in you, and the influence you have with them. So many are being helped. Our work is made so much easier, because they listen to us, and believe so much more readily, when you advise them to do so.

Well, we are very happy and progressing all the time. Oh, I wish I could tell you how beautiful she is. How Loving, and how much she thinks of you. She is with you quite often, and is trying, with the rest of us, to help you in everyway. We know when you pray for us. It does help us, more than you can conceive of. Your prayers are sincere. I know, ascend to the Father, Who answers the prayers of the sincere and trusting.

So I say, we all Love you very much, and feel that we cannot do for you what we should like to. You must believe in us, and know that we are with you, and have more power than you may think to help.

I have written too long already. Your wife says, "Professor, I do not like to be discourteous, but I must suggest that you stop, and let that baby boy go to bed. For he will sit up all night if you continue to write." What a beautiful and Loving wife you have. How we all Love her for her goodness.

So my dear boy, I will say goodnight.

Your brother in Christ, Prof. Salyards.

February 8th, 1916

I am here, Helen.

Well, you need a keeper, for you never know when to go to bed. I mean, that you must not let your interest in us, or our writing, interfere with those things, which are necessary for your physical welfare.

I will say only a word more, that is, that I Love you with all my heart and soul. I am with you all the time that I can spare from my work. Yes, he told me what you said. I will try to find him sometime, and bring him to answer for himself. I see you object. It may work all right. I do not know.

He says he was there, and gave Mr. Morgan a guide, a very powerful Indian of the more civilized tribes. He is something like White Eagle, and will be a great benefit to Mr. Morgan. Yes, White Eagle says his name is Red Fox.

So with all my Love, I am, your own True and Loving Helen.

February 11th, 1916

I am here, Helen.

Well, these spirits wanted so much to write, but White Eagle will not let them do so. He tells them that this is not their night. That if they will come on Wednesday night, they may write. He is very good and kind to them. They understand him, and while they are disappointed, yet they take his advice and leave.

Well sweetheart, I am so glad that you are feeling better. You were not in good condition last night. I think it was because you were worrying over Nita (daughter). As I told you, there is no necessity for you to worry.

I am very happy in my new home. I intend to write you about it very soon. I know you will be much pleased to learn what a beautiful home I have.

I will write my other message first, as I promised. You will think that I can do a little deep thinking, as well as can some of the other spirits. So try to get into a very good condition. You know, there are a number of spirits who have promised to write to you. They are all anxious to do so.

I was not present, but he (Elkins) told me that he had written. He is a spirit who has progressed considerably, and seems to be very anxious to get the Father's Divine Love. He almost worships your grandmother, who has been so good and kind to him, and believes implicitly in her advice and her Love for him. He is with us a great deal, and never seems to tire of listening to your grandmother. I know that he will soon get the Divine Love in his heart, and will progress to a Higher Sphere. He has a great deal of the Natural Love, and seems to Love his family so much. Well, I will not write about these other spirits, as it is late.

The Judge is progressing, and is with you quite often, as you receive the messages from the Higher Spirits. He is much interested in them, and thinks that it is wonderful that you should attract to you so many of the spirits from the Celestial Heavens. He says, that he did not appreciate you when on Earth, and is so sorry that he did not. He believes that he would be in a better condition now, had he understood your advice.

He is quite happy though. So is his Rose, who is with him nearly all the time. They make a happy couple. Rose wants me to send her Love. They are here now and want to write. I tell them it is too late. He says, "Not on your life," as he is with the one that he Loves, and who Loves him. There is no other in all the Universe for him. Rose says he is right, and that he does not want any little Dutch girl, or any other girl. So they both send their love.

He says he will be glad to do so.

He says he will try his best to prepare a message that will be interesting, but not such a one as he might have written for the University, that he sees how mistaken Dr. Holler is in his ideas of Spiritual Things, and in his teachings. That he would like to write the Doctor a letter telling him of his mistakes, but he supposes the Doctor would not believe that he had written it.

I must stop, or they will talk all night. Take good care of yourself, and Love me with all your heart. I Love you more than I can tell you. I must leave you now.

With all my Love, I am, your own True and Loving Helen.

February 15th, 1916

I am Saint Clement the Pope.

I merely want to say that I am glad to be able to testify, as to the work that you have been selected to do, and as to the fact that Jesus and many of the high spirits write to you.

I know that my testimony is not necessary in order to convince you of these facts, but there may be some who will more readily believe, when they know that a Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, gave his testimony to these facts. I am now an inhabitant of the Celestial Spheres. I am happy beyond description. As I have told you, I was compelled to undergo great sufferings before I was relieved of my recollections of the evil that I had done on Earth.

I will write you more in detail later. I hope that I may have the opportunity.

So, wishing you success and happiness, I am, your brother in Christ, St. Clement.

February 16th, 1916

I am here, Luke.

Well do you think you can take my message tonight? It looks like you may. At any rate, we will try.

As I was saying, "In what way is a human to obtain this development of the soul in its Natural Love?"

In the first place, they must recognize the fact that they do not live to them self, alone. That what they conceive to be the workings of their own mind, and will, are not always the result of thoughts and desires that originate in them, but are largely the products of the influences of the workings of the minds of spirits who are around them, trying to impress them with their desires and wills. Consequently, you will understand, that it is very important to human, as to what kind of spirit influences they have surrounding and working upon them. If these influences are good, the better it is for their progress in the development of this Natural Love. If they are evil influences, then, of course, such development is retarded.

Consequently, the First thing for a human to do is to attempt to attract to them self, influences of the Higher Nature. They can do so, by trying to cultivate good thoughts, and to indulge in good and moral acts.

The Great Law of Attraction that we have written about applies, and works, in such cases as this, as it does in every other relation of God's Universe. If a human's thoughts are evil, there will always be attracted to them spirits of similar thoughts. When they come to them, they attempt to, and succeed, in intensifying, these evil thoughts of theirs, which attract them to them. It must emphatically be understood in this regard, that human may, and often does, originate their own thoughts and desires. It is not necessary that any influence of these evil spirits should be present and operate upon their brain or affections, in order that these evil thoughts and desires should come into existence. Again, human has a will power that is susceptible of being exercised, free from the wills of these evil spirits. You will see how True this is, when you remember that they can exercise that will power, free and independent from the Will of God Himself.

So I say, that these thoughts and desires may, and do, originate in human, free and independent of the wills, or influences, of these evil spirits. As a fact, these spirits are attracted to them only when these thoughts that they have originated are evil.

Now, if human would have this progress that I speak of, they should endeavor to have good, pure thoughts and desires. Then, they will attract to them selves, spirits who are good and pure. Their influences will help them to a wonderful degree, in strengthening and increasing these good thoughts, and make it less and less likely that evil thoughts will arise in their brain, or evil desires in their affections. As a consequence, their will power will be exercised in doing those things, which are good and moral.

Now, while human may originate these thoughts and desires, they must also know, as a Truth, that this progress is not dependent upon them self alone. For when they are in that condition to attract the good spirits, they will invariably come to them and render their help. It will prove to be a wonderful and never failing help.

Now, human's thoughts and desires are not always, as may be supposed, the result of something that may be hidden within them selves, and of which they may not know its existence. I mean not in all cases, and probably in only a minority of cases. Most frequently are these thoughts and desires, the children of an objective influence, that comes to them by reason of objects becoming sensible to their ordinary senses, which create, or suggest, these thoughts or desires.

Without going into details, you will understand what I mean. As a mere illustration: a glass of whiskey may and does suggest to a human who likes whiskey, the thought and desire that they should take a drink. Thereby, bring into operation their will, which is followed by the act of drinking. So, as with many other objects, which a human meets in the course of their daily Life. These thoughts and desires arise not only from seeing objects, but also from feeling and tasting them.

Again, these objective suggestions, causing these thoughts and desires, arise, and exist, not only from the real object sensed, but also from words and thoughts, which are expressed by other human beings in course of conversations, or in books and literature. When they come in this way, they are frequently more effective than in any other. Hence, as these objective words and thoughts enter the mind of human, they create similar thoughts, which frequently intensify, and attract the evil spirits of like thoughts with their degenerating influences. Hence, the importance of a human avoiding companionship where such communications take place, and the books and literature where these evil suggestions are made.

It has been well said, that evil communications corrupt good manners. I may add that such communications corrupt good thoughts, produce evil desires, and retard the progress of the soul in its Natural Love. It must be remembered that this Natural Love is Pure, free from all evil, or taint of defilement, when it is fully developed. Anything, that tends to defile it, retards the progression of the soul in this particular.

So the plain lesson to be drawn from all this, is that human must, in the first place, make the effort to have only good, pure thoughts and desires from their inner self. Next, they must avoid those objects and associations that tend to cause to arise in them these evil thoughts. Thirdly, they must learn the Truth, that when they have these evil thoughts, they attract to them selves spirits of evil, who by their influence can, and do, intensify these evil thoughts and desires. I know, as regards this last mentioned Truth, that the majority of humans have no knowledge of its existence. It is time that they should learn, that such a danger to their soul's progression does exist, and is always imminent.

They should learn this other fact, that when their thoughts are pure and free from defilement, they have surrounding them, the influence of Good Spirits, who work to increase, and make permanent, their good thoughts. As these good thoughts continue, the Natural Love develops towards its Pristine Condition of Purity (as in their Created State). Human comes nearer to their Designed Condition of Existence (of Perfection).

So, you will see from this, that as human's thoughts and desires become freed from these things that tend to defile them, they naturally progresses toward that condition, which is necessary, in order for them to have this development of the soul in its Natural Love. Again, the development may be helped very much by human thinking, and doing, acts of charity and kindness, and observing the Golden Rule. For every act of charity, kindness, and self sacrifice for the sake of others, has its reflex action in their own condition of Love and soul, and helps their development.

In short, the observance by human of all the Moral Laws, which are many and varied, tends to bring about the development of the Natural Love. This must be remembered that as this development proceeds, the tendency to indulge in the perverted appetites of the flesh, as they are called, will disappear. As it disappears, this Natural Love, of course, becomes purer and sweeter, and brings human nearer to their State of Perfection.

Again, the meditation upon Spiritual Things, and the outflowing of this Natural Love towards the Father, will cause the progression. While all humans, as we have said, do not seek for the Divine Love, yet as All Humans are Children of God, He Helps them, to the full extent of their desires towards happiness, and the Perfecting of this Natural Love in its Natural Pure State, with which He endowed them at their Creation. Upon their will and aspirations depends the nature of the help, which the Father gives to them. Always, He gives His Help and Blessings, and to the fullest. His Great Desire is that human shall become Perfect in that Natural Love, which they possess, and which they seek for. The Natural Love in its qualities may become as Perfect in human, as may the Divine Love in its Qualities. Each is just as much in Harmony with God's Universe, in its respective Qualities, as is the other.

So I say, human is helped, more than in any other way, by their meditations of the Higher Things of their being, and by prayer and aspirations to the Father, who Hears the prayers of the human who has only this Natural Love, and Answers them, just as He does the prayers of the human who has the Divine Love in their soul. Ultimately, all sin and evil will be eradicated from the Universe. Human, in their mere Natural Love, will become Pure, Perfected and Happy.

I have tried, in my inefficient way, to show human how they may progress in the development of their Natural Love. If they will follow my advice, they will succeed. For as human, by the indulging of these perverted appetites of the flesh, and the exercise of their will power, fell to a low degree of degeneracy, so they can, by ceasing to indulge in these perverted appetites, and by the exercise of that same will power, rise again to their Condition of Purity in their Natural Love. Besides, they have the Help of the Father, and the Good Angels, in their efforts to recover. Also, the experience of the result of their fall, which they may not be conscious of, but which, in their Inner Self, has an existence, and is continually working.

Well my dear brother I must stop. I feel that you have taken my message very successfully. Read it over, and correct errors of construction. I will come soon, and write again.

Your brother in Christ, Luke.

February 17th, 1916

I am here, Mother.

I want to say just a word to my son, as I have not written him for some time. You know how much a mother's Love means.

I only want to say that I am with him so very often with my Love and mother's longings for his happiness and prosperity. He, I know, has a great deal of the Father's Divine Love in his soul. That brings him so much nearer to me, and causes me the happiness, which the knowledge gives me, that he will when he comes over become one of us in our consciousness of Immortality. Oh! I tell you that this knowledge is a thing more precious to me than I can express, for it shows me that he, my boy, is very dear to the Father, and to his elder brother, Jesus, the glorious one, and the most Loving one. Why if I could only tell you of the Love of the Master for you both, you would never more doubt that you are his chosen ones for the great work which lies ahead of you, and which even more is resulting in the Salvation of many.

He may not know that he is helping you in your work among the dark spirits, but he is. Very frequently, when you two are sitting together and talking about the Great Love of the Father, and the fact that these poor spirits can be helped by the Higher Spirits, these dark ones hear you. Many times they believe enough in you to cause them to seek our help, and thereby learn The Way to Light. It makes me so happy, because I know, for each of these spirits that are rescued from their darkness and suffering, there comes to you an additional blessing from the Father, and increased Love from all the spirits who Love to linger around you.

So, tell my boy, that what I say is True. He must realize that while he cannot communicate to these spirits as you do, yet, he has helped many of these spirits with his conversation, and the Divine Love, which he has in his soul, which these spirits sense when they come in close contact with him, as they frequently do.

We are all very happy and are waiting for the day of our uniting, which will be in God's Own Time. Not now, he has a work to do on Earth. Until that work is done, he will not come to us, and that is more real than apparent. His little soulmate certainly Loves him. At times, we all tease her, but she seems to rather enjoy it, and she does. His father and sisters send their Love, and want him to know that they are with him very much.

So, thanking you for your kindness, I will say with all my Love and blessings for you both, His Mother, Priscilla Stone.

February 18th, 1916

I am here, Robert G. Ingersoll.

Well, my friend, I come tonight to say a few words, for I have been very anxious to take advantage of your kindness and communicate a few thoughts that have come as the result of my progress here in matters Spiritual.

As I told you in my last communication, I am a thoroughly convinced spirit, as to the Truths of Christianity, as taught by the Master, and not as set forth in the Bible. As I have been instructed by him, your grandmother, and other bright spirits, since I have had my understanding and soul opened to these Great Truths. I have progressed very much since I last wrote you, and have received into my soul a wonderful abundance of this Divine Love of the Father, which you first called to my attention when I thought that you were a foolish and deceived man. I now know that you were not foolish, nor either deceived, for this Divine Love is a Real, Existing Thing, and is obtainable by All God's Children, whether on Earth, or in the Spirit World, who may seek for it, in The Way that the Master teachers.

My mind, as well as my soul, has opened up to the Truth of these teachings. I now realize that I was in great darkness on Earth, in my own beliefs and teachings. That human is not, of them self, sufficient to bring about their own Salvation, but must seek for, and believe, that their Salvation is dependent very largely upon the help that will come to them from the Spirit World. I mean, that such help is necessary, whether they seek the Divine Love of the Father, or only the Purification of their Natural Love and the happiness that will arise there from.

Of course, human's own will and desires are important factors in obtaining this Salvation. They may go on for their whole Mortal Life, and for a long time after they come into the Spirit World, and never obtain this Salvation, unless they realize the fact that they need this outside help, and that it is ready and open to them for the seeking.

I know that many may be astonished, and refuse to believe, that I am now in this condition of belief. As I when on Earth, sought only for the Truth. So, when I came to the Spirit World, I sought for the Truth. When I found it, as I have, I believed, accepted it, and made it a part of my Faith. With the result, that I am now convinced beyond all doubt, that I am the possessor of a Knowledge that has its Foundation in Truth, which never changes.

I am in the Earth Plane yet, but in a very bright and beautiful location. Free from the darkness and sufferings that I first endured when I came to the Spirit World.

Life is a thing that is lived on Earth only for a short time. Human is given the opportunity to make of it, the great means of their Salvation, and progress to the Higher Spheres of Light, Happiness, and Immortality, that those bright spirits tell me of. When humans fail to make the most of the opportunity, which the Mortal Life affords, then they lose that, which when they become spirits, would help them beyond all conception to progress to the Higher Realms.

I know that in the case of many thinking humans, as in my own case, it is impossible for them to believe the teachings and dogmas of the churches, the interpretations, and even many of the precepts of the Bible. As a consequence, humans turn entirely away from these things, though there are many Truths in the Bible, and become seekers of knowledge, which science and their own reasoning powers afford them.

The trouble here is that science does not teach things Spiritual. Their reasoning powers must be based very largely, upon what their senses tell them to be True, and these senses can only learn what naturally comes to them, which necessarily is of the material. As a consequence, humans discard entirely, all things Spiritual, which they cannot understand. Thus render impossible any development of their soul qualities, except that they do realize the great qualities of their Natural Love. In many cases, develop it. In that way, gain a progress that does help them in their condition of Light and Happiness both on Earth, and here.

Well, as you suggest that you are tired, I will stop. I will soon come and finish my communication.

Yes, and I am glad that you feel that way about it. You have many spirits here who desire to write. Some of them are such elevated and wise spirits, that I feel that their writings will benefit you more than mine.

Yes, I am with her quite often. She (Ann Rollins) is a wonderful spirit in Love and wisdom, and has such deep and wondrous Knowledge of God and His Divine Love. I almost adore her. I feel that if I had not met her, I probably would not be where I now am. I tell you, I am thankful that I came to you that night.

Yes, I see your wife quite frequently. She is a wonderfully beautiful and happy spirit, and makes so many other spirits happy by her goodness and help. She is a very positive spirit as well. She lets nothing stand in the way of her work and mission.

So, my dear friend, I will say goodnight, and God Bless you.

R. G. Ingersoll.

February 18th, 1916

I am here, Your Grandmother.

Well, my son, I come tonight, as I promised, for the purpose of writing you a letter, telling you of a certain Spiritual Truth, that I desire you to know.

I am now in the Third Celestial Sphere, as I already told you. I am in a much more exalted condition in my Knowledge of Spiritual Truths, that I have ever been, and have opened up to me a Spiritual View (soul perceptions) that increases my Understanding of Truth, and of the question of the Father's Provisions for the Happiness and Salvation of His Children.

I know now, more than ever, that He is a Real Existing God of Love, Power and Wisdom, and that wrath, such as is taught in the Bible, is no part of His Nature. That He has, for His Children on Earth, as well as in the Spirit World, only Love, Solicitude and Sympathy.

He is not a God that is afar off, waiting for the arrival of the great judgment day, in order to approve or condemn His Children, according to the deeds done on Earth. He is with all humans, and spirits, in a Way that His Influence of Love and Beneficence may be felt by them, if they will only place themselves in that condition of receptivity of soul that such influence may be felt. For, as we have before said, the Relationship and Nearness of God to human, depends, to a very large extent, upon the will and desires of human, them self.

God is not, in what may be called His Personality, with humans, as has been taught by the teachers of the religions of the Bibles of the World. Humans do not live, move, and have in Him, their being, as Saint Paul wrote. His Personality has a location, which is not everywhere, but in the High Heavens.

I know that this will appear startling to many persons, orthodox and otherwise, and that it apparently takes from them the consolation of believing and feeling that God is with, and in them. Nevertheless, what I say is True.

He is not in them, or in nature, as some of the scientists who believe in God say. He is not in every flower, tree, or other Manifestation of His Creation. As regards His Personality, is not omnipresent, though He has a Knowledge of all things, which He Created. I say which He has Created, for there are some things, which appear to human, as a part of the Realities of the Universe, which He did not create. But, which human alone created. For these things has no Love, and does not approve of, or favor their existence. In the end, they will be destroyed from the face of His Universe.

When I say that God, in His Personality, is not everywhere, and not with humans at all times, forming a part of their being, I do not mean that it shall be understood, that He is not the Loving, Watchful Father, trying to make them happy, and save them from the results of their own many wrong doings. For such inference would not be True.

While, as I say, He is not with humans, in this Personality, yet He is with them in the sense, and Truth, that His Attributes of Love, Wisdom, Knowledge, Power are with them always. Life emanates from God. Life is not God. It is only one of His Attributes, conferred upon the objects of His Creation, that they may live, grow and fulfill the designs of their Creation. When that purpose has been accomplished, He withdraws from them this Attribute of Life. Humans can realize that fact.

God has not, Himself, ceased to be a part of that object. He never was a part of it. Only this Attribute has ceased to be a part of the object.

God is the source, and Origin of All Life. That Life, is merely one of His Creatures, as we say, as is human, or other things which mortals call matter.

Human does not live, move, and have their being in God, merely in the Attributes of God. So you see, not all these Attributes together constitute God. For He is a Personality, from which all these Attributes flow.

I know that it is difficult for you to comprehend the full purport of what I intend to convey. You may, in a way, grasp my meaning.

Love is a Greater Attribute than even Life. But Love is not God, just as Love is not human. Though, it is their Greatest Possession, when it exists in its Purity. As human has many attributes, which all together do not make the human, so God has many. Yet they are only parts of His Nature, and not He.

Human has a physical body, and a mind. Yet, they do not constitute human, for they may lose them both, and still be human, or spirit. That is, the ego, the soul, is the Real Human, the (soul) personality. All the wonderful parts of human, such as the mind, affections, desires, and will, are merely of them. If they were deprived of any of them, they would still be human, though not the Perfect Human, as when they are all with them performing their proper functioning's.

Human is so Created, that unless they has these qualities, which in their Creation, were made parts of them, and which were necessary to make them The Perfect Creature that they were, while they are still human. Yet, they are not the Perfect Human that God decreed them to be. Until these qualities are fully restored, or regained by them, they will not be the human that was the Greatest Handiwork of the Almighty.

God is not God by reason of having these Qualities. These Qualities exist, because they are the Attributes of God. He never loses them. Nor do they become hidden, or cease to do their functioning. Always, are they existing, working and obedient to His Being.

God is Soul! Soul is God. In this Great Soul does His Personality consist, without individuality, but Real and Existing. Life, from which flow all these Attributes of Life and Love, etc., of which I have spoken. God is Spirit, but spirit is not God, only one of His Qualities.

I write this to give you some additional conception of Who and what God is. To show you that He is not in human, nor does human have their being in God. To further show you that God does not, and could not, exist in the same place with those things, which are not in accord with His Nature and Qualities. Were He in human, or human in Him, then no sin, error or things which violate, would exist.

I must stop now, but will come soon to finish my message.

With all my Love, I am your Grandmother. (Ann Rollins)

February 19th, 1916

I am here, the spirit of one who died a great many years ago, in a far distant country, when the Truths of Christianity, were known and practiced by the followers of the Master in the purity in which he taught them. I was a disciple of his, but I am not known to history. Like a great many others who lived in those days, I worked in a humble way among the poor and simple of the Earth. My work was mostly in the country outlying, but close to Palestine. I was one who received from the Spirit World, the communications of those spirits who had lived on Earth as Christians. These communications were received in our public worship, and interpreted or made plain to the common people, by those teachers, who had the gift of interpretation.

It was such communications as these, that John referred to when he advised us to "try the spirits to learn whether they were of God". In other words, to learn whether they were spirits who had a Knowledge of the Christ Doctrines. Who came to teach us the Truths, as they saw them to exist in the Spirit World, and who were followers of the Master.

I know that Jesus taught the New Birth and the Divine Love, and the Re-Bestowal of the Great Gift, which had been forfeited by our First Parents, at the time of their disobedience.

I also know that he never taught us to look upon him as God, or that any death that he might die would save us from our sins, or bring us in At-Onement with the Father, or that the Father demanded any sacrifice in order to satisfy His wrath, or pay any debt that human might owe to Him.

No, the things last mentioned, were not embraced in our Faith, or understanding, of what the Truths of the Master's Teachings were.

We also had the wonderful powers, which Jesus possessed, in the way of healing, casting out evil spirits, etc. We never looked upon them as miracles, but as the result of the exercise of the powers, which came to us when we received the Divine Love, and had the Faith, which made this Divine Love, and all that accompanied it, Things of Real Existence.

Jesus was always the human of Love, Mercy and Benevolence, and never tired of his great work of doing good to the mortal. These works were merely subordinate to the other Great Mission that he performed. Above everything else, he was a Teacher of the Father's Divine Love, and the necessity of human's receiving this Divine Love in order to become At-One with the Father, and an accepted child, whose inheritance was Immortality and Heaven.

So you can readily see what a departure there has been from our teachings, Faith and practices, and the lives of simple followers of the Master.

Now I see that belief in the dogmas of the church, and mysticisms of god, are what constitutes the Christian. Soul Development is little preached, or really understood, either by preacher, or people. The Real Secret of Human's Salvation has been lost to the World.

I am now in the high Celestial Spheres, where the Divine Love of the Father is most abundant, and the spirits of humans live in Eternal Happiness, with the Knowledge that Immortality is theirs.

I will not write more tonight, as it is late and you are tired. Before I stop, permit me to say, that you are receiving the Revelation of the True Religion of Jesus, as well as Truths, which pertain to the condition and existence of the Spiritual World, and the Celestial Heavens.

So with my love and blessings I am, your brother in Christ, John. The lowly follower of the Master, John Yorking. (I was a Jew.)

February 19th, 1916

I am here, your True Helen.

I will write only a line, as it is very late.

I never saw him before. He was from the Celestial Spheres, for he was a wonderfully bright and developed spirit, and had the Divine Love shining forth from his countenance to a wonderful degree. I have no doubt that he is whom he represented himself to be.

Goodnight, your own True and Loving Helen.

February 25th, 1916

I am here, your Grandmother.

I come to resume my discourse, if you think that you are in condition to receive the same. Well we will try. If I find that you are not, I will stop until later.

As I was saying, God is not in humans, or material things, as regards His Personality, but only those Attributes of His, which humans generally consider to be God, are manifested in the material things.

As I have said, God is not the Creator of all things that appear to have an existence. Many things, which control and govern the conduct of humans, are entirely the creatures of humans, and are not in Harmony with the Laws of God, or with His Will. Hence, when it is realized that there exists in the souls and minds of humans, evils that are not in Harmony with God's Creations, you can readily see that God cannot be, and is not, in such souls and minds, nor are His Attributes. As is said in the Laws of physical philosophy, two things cannot occupy the same place at the same time. So we may say, as regards Spiritual Philosophy, two things cannot occupy the same soul, or mind, at the same time. Especially when they be antagonistic, or opposed, to each other in their qualities, or fundamentals. Until the one vacates its occupancy, the other cannot come in. This is invariably True of the Creatures of God, and the creatures of human. For they are always, and under all circumstances, opposed to each other.

It must be understood, that when I speak of the Creatures of God, my meaning must not be taken as including God. He, as The Creator, is altogether different from His Creatures. While His Creatures, or certain His Attributes, may find a lodgment and habitation in the souls of humans, and the minds of humans, and in the existence of material things, yet He, God, never finds such lodgment, and is never a part of such existences. He is as distinct from the Creatures, or better probably, Emanations of His, as are the thoughts and desires of human, distinct from the human them self.

God is in His Heavens. Those Heavens have a locality. Just as the different Spheres of the Spirit World in which spirits have their homes have localities. His Locality is way beyond the Highest Celestial Spheres, known to the Highest spirit. Towards which spirits are always progressing. As they progress, the more and closer they come in contact with these Attributes of God, which are constantly flowing from Him.

Even Jesus, who, as you know, is the brightest of all the spirits, and the one possessing more of these Attributes of the Father than any other spirit, has never seen God, except through the soul perceptions, nor ever realized that God is in him, or forms a part of him. Mistaken and deceived are humans, when they say, or believe, that God is in them, or that in Him, they live, move and have their being.

To believe this as True, God can only be a kind of nebulous something, inconsistent as the air. As many of the Spiritualists say, merely a Force permeating the Whole Universe, divided into many, and infinitesimal manifestations. Seen and felt today, and tomorrow having no existence, a something less substantial than human, weak at once, and powerful at the same time, a contradiction beyond conception, or explanation.

Such is not God. All these manifestations are merely evidence of the Existence of a substantial, and I may say, never varying, Self Existing Being. Who is not the creature of human's mind, or of human's necessities, or desires. But the Creator of All. Even of these "wise humans", who cannot conceive of any God but Nature, the mere Creature of His Being, Wisdom and power.

The human mind when left to itself, that is to its own evolution, as your scientists say, and not influenced by the Revelations of Spiritual Truths, or the suggestions of spirits who have advanced in knowledge of things beyond the material, has not improved much since the days when they lived and died the sun worshipers, the worshipers of the sacred cats, bulls, elephants, of the storms, thunders and lightning's. god was in all these manifestations, immanent, and real, to be appeased, or loved, as necessity required. Today, among your civilized nations, and the "wise humans" of these nations, who can see no God in the Spiritual, the aggregate of all these material things is the god, which they must worship, if they worship at all.

Nature is god to them. You see, that the only improvement, if any there be, that their minds, have over the minds of the worshipers of the sun, and in animals etc., that I have mentioned, is that those minds are not satisfied to see god in a single manifestation, but there must be a combination of all these manifestations, which they call Nature. You see, it is only a difference in degree. The scientist of today, who refuses to accept, or believe, in any God who may be of a Spiritual Nature, is exactly the counterpart of their so-called barbarian brother, who could see god only in the Sun, etc., and in everything. Except that, they demand a larger god, who must be in the lowest form of mineral existence, as well as in the highest form of solar excellence, and even in human. For with some, human is their own, and only god. It is questionable whether these "wise humans" are not more limited in their conception, and acceptance of a God, than were the earlier uncivilized brothers. Because many of the latter saw beyond, and behind, their sun god, and god of thunders, etc., another and greater God, whom they could not see, but could feel, and in their souls, realized His Existence.

The "wise humans" of civilizations have so evolved their intellects, that they have lost their soul perceptions. No God beyond the horizon of their intellectual perceptions can exist. Hence, as they think they know Nature, Nature as all of the Creation, there can be no other god than Nature. Oh, the terrible mistake!

God then, as I have said, is a Being, a Soul, with a Personality, that has a location, High up in the Heavens, towards whom all spirits of the Celestial Spheres, and many of the Spiritual Spheres, are striving to approach, in greater and greater nearness. As they approach, they realize and know the increased Love, Life and Light that emanates from the Fountainhead of these Attributes of Perfection. So I repeat, God is not in human, beast, plant, or mineral. Only are His Attributes, as He Sees the necessity for their workings. Human does not live, move and have their being in God.

Well my son, I have, in my imperfect way, given you some idea of Who and What God is. My explanation, is in substance, the consensus of the Knowledge of the Celestial Spirits, whose Knowledge is based upon the Truths, that no mortal, or all the mortals combined, can possibly learn, with their finite minds.

I think that you have received my ideas and words quite correctly. I hope the Truths, which I have written, may prove beneficial to All Humankind.

I am very happy. I will come again soon, and write you some other Truths, which may interest you. I must stop now.

With all my Love and blessings, I am, your own Loving Grandmother, Ann Rollins.

February 25th, 1916

I am here, your Father.

I have been listening to your grandmother's message, and was interested in observing the way in which you received it, for it is a deep and important communication of Truth that is not generally known to mortals. We in the lower Spheres, of course, do not know these Truths so extensively, as do the spirits of the Celestial Spheres. I have heard the Master discourse on the subject of God. What your grandmother wrote you is, in short, what he has explained to us. Of course, in a way that we could better and to a greater extent comprehend the Truth than can you.

There is one thing that I have observed, in the case of these who are called scientists, and who believe only the material, and also in the case of those who claim to be infidels, when they come into Spirit Life. That is, that very soon they realize that there is, or must be a God, and that their god of Nature, or their human made god, does not supply the word, if I may thus express it, which they find to exist here. They, of course, do not get a conception of the Nature of God in the beginning, but they know very soon, after they come over that there is a God, other and different from what they conceived Him to be when they had any conception of Him on Earth, and when they denied that there was any God. They soon realize the absolute necessity for there being one. When they had made human their own god, they see many spirits of humans in such conditions of darkness, suffering and helplessness, that they readily realize that human is not God.

So I say, the first Truth that enters their mind and souls when they become spirits is; that there is a God. Although, they do not know His Nature and Attributes.

So you see there is only one little veil of flesh between the vaunted mind of mortals that proclaim there is no God but Nature, or no God at all, and the mind conscious of its weakness and littleness, as it exists in the Spirit World.

I must stop writing on this subject, or you will think that I am going to write you a lecture, which I do not intend to do now.

With all my Love, I am, your Loving father, John H. Padgett.

February 27th, 1916

I am here, Jesus.

I see that you are not in condition tonight. I will not try, for I would not be able to convey to you my thoughts, as I desire.

We will have to postpone it until later. Well, you have been thinking about other things too intently. Your mind is not in that condition of concentration, on what I may write, that is necessary.

You have been reading today about the teachings of Barbarism, the mysteries of Abdul Baba. You have not found that they are anything different from what you expected, for they are based upon the writings of the Bible, of the Koran, and of other so-called sacred writings. They will not benefit you particularly, for they stress that the Prophet is as the writer says, the Ancient of Days, and does not know the Real Truths, concerning God, humans, and His relationship to them.

So I advise that you do not think more of these things, but confine your thoughts to my writings.

As I told you several nights ago, I will come sometime and write you in detail about this new cult, and that Baba's Allah himself will come sometime. Strange as it may seem, he is not in the Celestial Heavens, but only in a High Sphere, which is inhabited by those who have equal development of the Natural Love. So stop thinking about these matters. Give your thoughts more to me. I will soon come.

So with all my Love, I am, your brother and friend, Jesus.

February 28th, 1916

I am here, Jesus.

I desire tonight to write you on the subject: How a human soul must receive the Divine Love of the Father, in order to become an inhabitant of the Kingdom of God, and realize that Immortality, of which I have written you.

In the first place, it must be understood that the Divine Love of the Father is an entirely distinct kind of Love from the Natural Love, which the Father bestowed upon humans at the time of their Creation, which human has possessed, in a more, or less, condition of Purity ever since that time.

This Divine Love was never conferred upon human as a Perfect and Completed Gift, either at the time of their Creation, or since my coming to Earth, but as a Gift, which is waiting for human's own efforts and aspirations to obtain, without which It (Divine Love) can never become theirs. Although, It (the Divine Love) is always close to them, waiting to answer their call.

Then understanding what this Divine Love is, that human must seek for it, and what its effect upon the soul of human is, it becomes very important that human should make the obtaining of it, the one great object of their aspirations and desires. For when they possess it to a degree that makes them At-One with the Father, they cease to be a mere human. They become, of a Nature of soul existence that makes them Divine, with many Qualities of the Father. The chief of which is of course, Divine Love. It also causes them to absolutely realize the fact of their Immortality.

Mere moral goodness, or the possession of the Natural Love, to its fullest degree, will not confer upon human this Divine Nature that I have mentioned. Nor will good acts, charity, and kindness, of themselves, lead humans to the possession of this Divine Love. The possession of this Divine Love, in Truth, and in fact, will lead to charity, good deeds, kindness, always unselfish, and to a brotherhood of humans on Earth, that the mere Natural Love cannot possibly lead to, or cause to exist.

I know that humans preach about the Fatherhood of God, the brotherhood of human, and urge humans to attempt to cultivate the thoughts, deeds of Love, self-sacrifice and charity, in a way to bring about the greatly to be wished for Unity of Life and Purpose on the part of humans. By reason of this Natural Love can, themselves, do a great work in bringing about this brotherhood. Yet the chain that binds them together cannot possibly be any stronger than the Natural Love, which forges it. When that becomes overshadowed by ambition and material desires, the brotherhood will become greatly weakened, or disappear entirely. Humans will realize that its foundation was not built upon a rock, but rather upon the infirm sand, which could not sustain the superstructure, when the storms arising from humans ambition, desires for power and greatness, and many other material things, beat upon it. So I say, there is a great necessity for something more than human's mere Natural Love to help them form a brotherhood, that will remain steadfast and firm under all conditions, and among all humans.

So this Natural Love under circumstances the most favorable to preserve the constancy of human's happiness and freedom from sin and error, proved itself to be not sufficient to maintain that condition (when, in its Purity and Perfection it existed with the First Parents, prior to their fall), then what may be expected of it when circumstances are such that this Natural Love has degenerated from its pure state, has become defiled by all these tendencies of humans to do that, which is in violation, not only of God's Laws, but of everything that would otherwise help humans to realize a True Brotherhood (Fellowship).

As I have heretofore said in my writings, there will come a time when this Natural Love will be restored to its Original State of Purity and freedom from sin, when this brotherhood may exist, in a degree of Perfection that will make all humans happy.

Yet that time is far off, and will not be realized on Earth at all, until the New Birth, and the New Heavens appear. In the meantime, human's dreams of this Great Brotherhood will not be realized.

I know that humans expect, that sometime, in the far distant future, by means of education, conventions, and preachments of Moral Truths, this dream of an Ideal Brotherhood will be established on Earth, and all the souls of hatred and war, and the oppression of the weak by the strong will disappear. I tell you, that if humans depend upon this mere Natural Love, and all the great feelings and impulses that may arise from it, to bring about this condition so much desired, they will find disappointments, and lose faith in the goodness of humans. At times a retrogression, not only in that Natural Love, but in the conduct of humans towards one another, and in the treatment of nations by one another.

I have digressed somewhat from my subject. I thought it best to show to human that their dependence upon them self, which is their dependence on this Natural Love, is not sufficient and adequate to bring them into a condition of happiness, even on Earth. Therefore, totally inadequate to bring them into the Kingdom of Heaven.

The Divine Love that I speak of, is of Itself, not only able to make a human an inhabitant of the Father's Kingdom, but is sufficient to enable them to bring about, and realize, to the fullest of their dreams, that Great Brotherhood, even while on Earth.

This Divine Love of the Father's Own Self is of a never changing Nature. In all places, and under all conditions, is working out the same results, and converting the souls of humans on Earth, as well as of the spirits in the Spirit World, into not only the image, but also the Substance, of the Divine Nature. It may be possessed in smaller, or greater degree, depending upon the human them self. This degree of possession determines the condition of the soul, and its nearness to the Father's Kingdom, whether the soul be in the flesh, or in the spirit.

Human does not have to wait to become a spirit, in order to seek for, and obtain this Divine Love. For the soul on Earth, is the same soul as when in the Spirit World. Its capacity for receiving this Divine Love is just as great in one place, as in the other. Of course, on Earth, there are many circumstances, surroundings and limitations on human, that prevent the free workings of the soul, in the way of aspirations and Faith, that do not exist after human becomes an inhabitant of the Spirit World. Nevertheless, and notwithstanding all these drawbacks, and stumbling blocks, of the Earth Life, the soul of human may receive this Divine Love without limitations, and to an abundance that will make them A New Creature, as the scriptures say.

The possession of this Divine Love also means the absence of those desires and longings, of what is called the Natural Human, which produce selfishness, unkindness, and other qualities, which create sin and error, and prevent the existence of this True Brotherhood, which humans so earnestly desire, as the forerunner of Peace and Goodwill. The more of this Divine Love that enters into the soul of human, the less there is of evil tendencies and desires, and the more of the Divine Nature and Qualities.

The Father is all Goodness, Love, Truth, Forgiveness, and Kindness. These Qualities, the souls of humans become possessed of, when they receive and possess the Divine Love. When human is sincere and Faithful, and possesses these Qualities, they never leave them, or change. When this Brotherhood shall be founded on them, it will be built on a rock. Will continue to live, become purer and firmer in its binding effect, and in the great results that will flow from it. Its Foundation Stone will be the Divine Nature of the Father, which is without variableness, or change, and never disappointing.

A Brotherhood, so created and joined together, is as I say, "the Only True Brotherhood that will make for human, a kind of Heaven on Earth, and banish wars, hatred, strife and selfishness, and The principle of mine and thine. The mine will be changed to ours. All Humankind will be Truly Brothers and Sisters, without reference to race, sect, and intellectual acquirements. All will be recognized as the Children of the One Father."

Such will be the effect of the existence of this Divine Love in humans souls on Earth. When such souls leave their envelope of flesh, they will find their homes in the Celestial Kingdom of God, parts of the Divinity of the Father, and partakers of His Immortality. Only this Divine Love will fit the souls of humans for this Celestial Kingdom, because in this Kingdom, all things partake of this Divine Nature. Nothing, which has not that Divine Quality, can possibly enter therein.

So humans must understand, that no mere belief, ceremony of church, baptism, or any of these things, are sufficient to enable a soul to become an inhabitant of this Celestial Kingdom. Humans may do, and deceive themselves, in their beliefs that anything short of, or other than, this Divine Love, can ensure them an entrance into the Kingdom.

Beliefs may help humans to seek for, and aspire to, the possession of this Divine Love. Unless, and until, this Divine Love is actually possessed by the souls of humans, they cannot become partakers of the Divine Nature of God, and enjoy the Happiness and Peace of the Father's Kingdom.

When "The Way" to obtain this Divine Love is so easy, and the Joy of its possession is so great, it is surprising that humans will be satisfied with the husks of formalism, and the satisfaction and delusion of mere lip worship and intellectual beliefs.

As I have said, this Divine Love is waiting for every human to possess It, who sincerely, and with True soul aspirations seeks it. It is not a part of, but surrounding, and enveloping, every human. At the same time, forming no part of them, unless their longings and prayers have opened up their soul, so that It may flow in, and infill them, with Its Presence.

Human is never compelled to receive It, as they are never compelled to do other things against their will. But, as in the latter case, when in the exercise of that same will, they refuse to let the Divine Love flow into their soul, they must suffer the penalty, which is the utter, and absolute, deprivation of any possibility to become an inhabitant of the Kingdom of God, or Celestial Kingdom, and of any Consciousness of the fact of their Immortality.

Let humans turn their thoughts and aspirations to God, and in Truth, and sincerely, pray to The Father, for an inflowing into their souls of His Divine Love, and have Faith. They always find that the Father will Bestow His Divine Love upon them, in accordance with the extent of their aspirations and longings, which are mediums of opening up their souls to the workings of the Holy Spirit, which, as I have before written, is the Messenger of God, for the conveying of His Divine Love, from His Fountainhead of Divine Love, to the souls of the prayerful and aspiring humans.

In no other way can the Divine Love be possessed by human. Always, it is an individual matter, between the particular human and the Father. No other human, body of humans, church, spirits, or angels, can do the work of the individual. As to them, their soul is the only thing involved. Only their aspirations, and their prayers, and their will, can open up their soul to the inflowing of this Divine Love, which makes them a part of its Own Divinity.

Of course, the prayers, kind thoughts and Loving influences of good humans, Divine Spirits and Angels, can, and do, help the souls of humans, in turning to His Divine Love, and in progressing in its possession. As to the question, will a human become possessor, or not, of this Divine Love? It depends upon the individual human.

Well I have written enough for tonight, and must stop.

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

Your brother and friend, Jesus.