DIVINE FORGIVENESS

March 2nd, 1916

I am here, Jesus.

    I desire to write to-night on the subject of:  How the Redeemed soul is saved from the penalties which sin and error has brought upon it.

    When the soul is in a condition of sin and error, it is not responsive to the inflowing of the Holy Spirit.  In order to get into a condition of receptivity to these influences, it must have an awakening as to its actual condition of enslavement by these things.  Until such an awakening comes to it, there is no possibility of its receiving the Divine Love of God into it and of turning its thoughts to the Truths of God and to the Practices of Life that will help it in its progress towards a condition of freedom.

    I would not have humankind believe that any soul is compelled to stay in this condition of slavery to sin until the Holy Spirit comes to it with the Father's Divine Love to bestow it in all abundance.  For the mission of the Holy Spirit is not to awaken humans soul to a realization of sin and death, but merely to bring to that soul this Divine Love, when it, the soul, is ready to receive it.

    The awakening must come from other causes that influence the mind, as well as the soul.  Cause them to realize that the life humans live is not the correct life, or one in accord with the demands of the Laws of God, or with the real longings of their own hearts and souls.  Until this awakening comes the soul is really dead, so far as its having a consciousness of the existence of the Truths of its Redemption is concerned.  Such death, means a continuance in such thoughts of sin and evil.  In the life which leads only to condemnation and death for long long years, it may be.

    To come nearer to my point of discourse.  The soul that is existing in sin and error will have, sooner or later, to pay the penalties for such sin and error.  There is no escape from the payment of these penalties, except in the Redemption that the Father has provided by the New Birth. These penalties are only the natural results of the operation of God's Laws.  They must be endured, until the full penalty is paid.  Even though a human may progress to higher condition of soul excellence and have much happiness, yet they must pay the last farthing, thus release themself from these penalties.

With much love, I am your friend and brother, Jesus.

March 31st, 1915

I am here, your grandmother, Ann Rollins

    I came to write you about the FORGIVENESS and Pardon of The Father.  To enlighten you upon this subject, which is so little understood, since humans first commenced to distort the teachings of the Master.

    Forgiveness is that operation of the Divine Mind, which relieves humans of the penalties of their sins, that they have committed.  Permits them to turn from their evil thoughts and deeds and seek the Divine Love of the Father. If they earnestly seek, find the Happiness, which is waiting for them to obtain.  It does not violate any Law, that God has established, to prevent humans from avoiding the penalties of their violations of the Law of God controlling their conduct.

    The Law of Compensation, that what a human sows, that shall they reap, is not set aside.  In the particular case, where a human becomes penitent, in all earnestness prays The Father to forgive them of their sins and make a New Human of them, the operation of another and Greater Law, is called into activity.  The old Law of Compensation is nullified, as it were, swallowed up in the Power of this Law of Forgiveness and Divine Love.  So you see there is no setting aside of any of God's Laws.  As in the physical world, certain lesser Laws are overcome by greater Laws.  So in the spirit world, or in the operation of spiritual things, the Greater Laws must prevail over the lesser.  God's Laws never change, but the application of these Laws, to particular facts and conditions, do seem to change.  When two Laws come into apparent conflict, the lesser must give away to the greater.  The Spiritual Laws are just as fixed, as are the Physical Laws that control the material universe. No Law, having application, to the same condition of facts, ever is different in its operation, or in its effects.

    The sun and planets in their movements are governed by fixed Laws.  They operate with such exactness, that humans who make a study of these Laws and comprehend them, can, with almost mathematical precision, foretell the movements of these heavenly bodies.  This only means that as long as the sun and the planets remain as they are and surrounded by the same influences and meet no Law operating in a manner contrary to the Laws which usually control them, these planets and sun will repeat their movements year after year, in the same way and with like precision.

    Suppose that a more powerful and contrary Law should come into operation and influence the movements of these bodies.  Do you suppose for a moment that they would pursue the same course, as if such greater Law had not intruded itself?  The effect of this is not to set aside the lesser Law, or even to change it, but to subordinate it to the operations of the greater Law.  If these operations were removed, or ceased to act, the lesser Law would resume its operations on these planets again.  They would move in accordance therewith, just as if its power had never been affected by the Greater Law.

    So, in the spirit world, when a human has committed sins on earth, the Law of Compensation demands that they must pay the penalty of these sins, until there has been a full expiation, or until the Law is satisfied.  This Law does not change in its operations.  No human can avoid, or run away from, the inexorable demands of the Law.  They cannot, of themselves, abate one jot, or tittle, of the penalties.  But must pay to the last farthing, as the Master said.  Hence, they cannot, of themselves, hope to change the operations of this Law.  But, as the Creator of All Law has provided another and Higher Law.  Which, under certain conditions, may be brought into operation and causes the former Law to cease to operate.  Humans may experience the benefit of the workings of this Higher Law.  So, when God forgives a human of their sins and makes them a New Creature in their Nature and Love, He does not, for the particular case annihilate the Law of Compensation, but removes that upon which this Law may operate.

    Sin is violation of God's Law.  The effect of sin, is the penalty which such violation imposes.  A humans suffering for sins committed, are not the results of God's special condemnation, in each particular case, but are the results of the workings and scourgings of their conscience and recollections.  As long as conscience works, they will suffer. The greater the sins committed, the greater will be the suffering.  Now all this implies that a humans soul is filled to a greater, or lesser extent, with these memories.  Which for the time, constitute their very existence.  They live with these memories and the suffering and torment, which result from them, can never leave them, until the memories of these sins, or the result of them, cease to be a part of themselves and their constant companions.  This is the inexorable Law of Compensation.  Humans, of themselves, have no way of escaping this Law, except by their long expiation, which removes these memories and satisfies the Law.  Humans cannot change this Law and God will not.  So, as I say, the Law never changes.  But remember this fact, that in order for the Law to operate, a human must have these memories and they must be a part of their very existence.

    Now, suppose that the Creator of this Law has Created another Law, but which, under certain conditions and upon a human doing certain things, these memories are taken from them, no longer constitute a part or portion of their existence?  Then I ask, what is there in, or of, that human, upon which this Law of Compensation, that can act or operate?  The Law is not changed.  It is not even set aside.  But upon which it can operate, no longer exists.  Consequently, there is no reason, or existence of facts, which call for its operation.

    So, I say, as do your scientists and philosophers, that God's Laws are fixed and never change.  I further say, which they fail to perceive, that certain conditions, which may and do call for the operations of these Laws today, tomorrow change, or cease to exist, so that the Laws are no longer effective.  So when the Truths of God's Forgiveness of sin is declared, many wise humans hold up their hands and shout, "God's Laws do not change and even God Himself cannot change them.  To effect a Forgiveness of sins, the great Law of Compensation, must be violated.  God works no such miracle, or gives special dispensation. No, humans must pay the penalty of their evil deeds until the Law is fulfilled."

    How limited is the Knowledge of mortals and of spirits as well, of the Power, Wisdom and Love of The Father.  His Divine Love is the Greatest Thing in all the Universe.  The Law of Divine Love is the Greatest Law.  Every other Law is subordinate to It, must work in unison with It.  Love, Divine Love of the Father, when given to humans and they possess It, is the Fulfilling of All Law.  This Divine Love, frees humans from all Law, except the Law of its Ownself.  When humans possess this Divine Love, they are slave to no Law and are free indeed.  The Law of Compensation and all Laws not in Harmony with the Law of Divine Love, have nothing upon which to operate in that humans case.  God's Laws are not changed, but merely, as to this human, have no existence.

    Now, let all humans, wise and unwise, know that God in His Love and Wisdom, has provided a means by which humans, if they so will, may escape the unchanging Law of Compensation and become no longer subject to its demands and penalties.  These means are simple, easy and within the comprehension and grasp of every living soul, be they saint or sinner, a wise human or an ignorant one. 

    Intellect, in the sense of being learned, is not involved. The human who knows that God exists and provides them with food and raiment, as the result of their daily toil, as well as the great intellectual scientist, or philosopher, may learn the way to these Redeeming Truths.  I do not mean that a human, by mere exercise of mental powers, may receive the benefit of this great provision for their redemption.  The soul must seek and it will find.  The soul of the wise, may not be as capable of receiving, as the soul of the ignorant.

   God is Love.  Humans have a natural love.  This natural love is not sufficient, to enable them to find these Great Means that I speak of.  Only the Divine Love of the Father.   He is willing that all humans should have this Divine Love. It is free and waiting to be bestowed upon all humans. Strange as it may seem, God will not, and I might say, cannot, bestow this Divine Love, unless humans seek for It and ask for It, in earnestness and Faith.

    The will of humans is a wonderful thing and stands between them and this Divine Love.  If they fail to exercise this will in seeking for it, no human can secure it against their will.  What a wonderful thing is humans will and how they should study and learn, what a great part of their being it is.

    The Divine Love of the Father, comes only into a humans soul, when they seek It in prayer and Faith.  Of course, this implies that they will It to come to them.  No human is ever refused this Divine Love, when they properly ask for It.      Now, this Divine Love is a part of the Divine Essence.  When a human possesses It, in sufficient abundance, they become a part of Divinity Itself.  In the Divine, there is no sin, or error.  Consequently, when they become a part of this Divinity, no sin, or error, can form a part of their being.

    Now, as I have said, humans who are without this Divine Love, have their memories of sin and evil deeds.  Under the Law of Compensation, must pay the penalties.  Yet when this Divine Love comes into their soul, it leaves no room for these memories.  As they become more and more filled with this Divine Love, these memories disappear.  Only the Divine Love inhabits their soul, as it were.  Hence, there remains nothing in them, upon which this Law can operate. The human is no longer its slave, or subject.  This Divine Love, is sufficient of itself, to cleanse the soul from all sin and error and make humans, One with The Father.

    This is forgiveness of sin.  Or rather the result of forgiveness.  When a human prays to the Father for this forgiveness, He never turns a deaf ear.  But says, in effect, "I will remove your sins and give you my Divine Love.  I will not set aside, or change my Laws of Compensation, but I will remove from your soul everything upon which this Law can operate.  As to you it becomes as if it had no existence."

    I know, by your personal experience, that this forgiveness is a real, actual, existing thing.  When The Father forgives, sin disappears.  Divine Love only exists. That Divine Love, in its fullness, is the Fulfilling of the Law.

    So let humans know, that God does forgive sin.  When He forgives, the penalty disappears.  When they disappear, as the result of such forgiveness, no Law of God is changed, or violated.

    This was the great mission of Jesus when he came to earth.  Before he came and taught this Great Truth, the forgiveness of sin was not understood, even by the Hebrew teachers.  Their doctrine was, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.  The Divine Love, as I have feebly described, was not known, or sought for.  Only the care, protection and material benefits, that God might give to the Hebrews.

    The Divine Love entering into and taking possession of the souls of humans, constitutes the New Birth.  Without this no human can see the Kingdom of God.

    My dear son, I have written you a long, but imperfect communication.  There is sufficient in it, for humans to think of and meditate upon.  If they do so and open their souls to the Divine Influence they will know God can forgive sin and save humans from their penalties.  So that they will not have to undergo the long period of expiation, which in their natural state, the Law of Compensation ever demands.

    So without writing further, I will say that I love you with all my heart and soul.  And pray the Father, to give you this Great Love in all its abundance.

Your loving Grandmother, Ann Rollins

November 29th, 1918

    Let me write a few lines for I am very anxious to write you in reference to a Truth, which obtains in our spirit world, with which you may not be acquainted.

    As you may not know, there is in our world, a Law which makes the soul of one who has not yet been purified, suffer the penalties for the acts of sin and evil, of which they may have been guilty during their earth life.  There is no forgiveness of these acts, in the sense that forgiveness is taught by the theologians and churches.  The only forgiveness is the cessation of recollection of these acts, so that they become as though they had never been.  As the soul becomes Naturally Pure and in Harmony with the Laws of its Creation, it then comes into its Natural Condition.  Then and then only, forgiveness takes place.

    God does not forgive, by the mere act of pronouncing forgiveness.  Or by any arbitrary and sudden blotting exit of sins, thereby removing the condition which creates the inharmony.  So you will understand, that He cannot forgive sin in this way.  Neither can the popes, priests, teachers or churches.  The pronouncing of forgiveness by these humans constitutes a deception of, an injury to, the persons who pray and ask for forgiveness.  For such deception, these humans will have to answer when they come to the spirit world and realize the Truth of Forgiveness and the great deception that they had practiced upon those, who were their followers and believers, in these false doctrines.  Many spirits, are now living and suffering in darkness in their purgatories, just because of their beliefs and the results thereof, in these misleading teachings.

    There is no forgiveness, until humans make the effort, by struggling and succeeding in getting rid of these recollections.  Such riddance, can be obtained only by humans realizing the fact, that sin, is only the effect of their having done those things and thought those thoughts, which are out of Harmony with the Will of God and the Laws governing the Creation of Human (Laws of Love and Harmony).

     There can be no sinning of the physical body, or of the spirit body, but only of the soul, caused by the exercise of the (free) will in a manner antagonistic to the Will of The Father.  The body, of course, is affected by these inharmonious thoughts and impelling directions of the (free)will.  Is caused thereby, to commit the act, which is the external demonstrator of the inharmonious exercise of the will.  As God leaves to humans the freedom of exercizing their free will, as such will, may be influenced by the thoughts, desires and affections of their appetites and lusts. So God, leaves to humans, the application of the remedies that will free the soul from such influence and effects, as are caused by this exercise of the (free) will.  Only when these thoughts, appetites and lusts become eliminated, from their souls and desires, does the soul come into its Natural Condition and in Harmony with the Will of God.

    Humans, themselves, must be the actor and the initiating force, to bring about these changes in their wills.  No assurances of forgiveness by popes, priests, or churches, can eradicate these contaminating influences.  Or, remove that which is the cause of the sin, or the effect of the cause.  You must see that there can be no relationship between the assurance of forgiveness, and the sin, or the cause thereof.

    Prayer to the Father for forgiveness, or supplication to priests and church, is supposed to effectuate the objects sought.  This belief is erroneous and does not bring the relief prayed for.  Yet prayer is a very important element in forgiveness.  While the Father does not, the priests and church cannot, forgive sin, in the manner mentioned.  Yet, True, sincere prayer to the Father for forgiveness will bring its answer, and affect, not the sin, but the soul and state of humans.  So that their will, appetites and desires may be influenced, in such a way, that they will receive and realize the fact of a Wonderful Help, in changing these appetites and desires, in turning their thoughts to those things that will enable them to remove from their recollections, the acts and thoughts, which are the causes of the existence of their souls in a state of sin.

    If humans would only realize these Truths and when they desire the forgiveness of their sins, pray to the Father for help in turning away from these thoughts and in exercising their will, in accord with His Will and not expect any arbitrary forgiveness, or removal of their sins, they would find themselves on the way to this forgetfulness and the True Forgiveness.

    Well, I desired to write this short message and am pleased that I could do so.  Thanking you, I will say, good night. 

Your brother in Christ, Apostle of Jesus, Peter

October 29th, 1916.

I am here, Jesus.

    You were right in your surmise that I was with you to-night.  As you imagined, I was standing close to you at the time the preacher was delivering his discourse.  You felt the influence of my love and sympathy, also received the thoughts that I was superimposing on your brain.

    The preacher's sermon, was an advance upon the beliefs of the orthodox, in many particulars.  But in the most important particular and in the one that will affect mortals most vitally in their progress in the spirit life, he was wrong, very wrong.  I refer to his declaration that he saw, or knew, of no statement in the Bible that would justify him in asserting that there would be an opportunity for the spirits of mortals to receive pardon, or to progress from the condition of hell, to that of light and Heaven in the spirit world, when they had not started on that journey in the mortal life.  This, as I have told you, is a damnable doctrine.  One that has done more harm, all down the centuries from the time of my living on earth, than most any other teaching of the church, that claims to be representative of me and my teachings.

    Many poor souls have come into the spirit world with this belief firmly fixed in their minds and conscience.  The difficulties have been great, the years long, before they could awaken from this belief and realize that the Love of the Father is waiting for them in spirit life, just as in the earth life.  That probation is never closed for humans, or spirits.  Never will be, until the time of the withdrawal of the Great Opportunity for humans to become inhabitants of the Celestial Heavens.  Even then, the opportunity to purify their natural love will not cease.  Never will, until all who have the opportunity shall become Perfect Humans in their natural loves.

    Had he searched the Scriptures, in which he so implicitly believes, he would have found an authorization for him to declare, that even in the spirit world, the spirits of the unsaved sinners on earth, who died without having become reconciled to God, had the Gospel of Salvation preached to them.  Furthermore, when he declared that the Bible says that I said "that he that sinneth against the son of man it shall be forgiven him, but he that sinneth against the Holy Ghost it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world nor in the world to come".  Had the preacher placed the natural and only implied construction on this declaration, he would have found that the sinner who neglected the opportunity on earth, would yet have another chance for salvation in the world to come, as the spirit world is referred to.  So that, even according to his own source of belief and foundation of his knowledge of these things of the future, he would be justified and even required, as an honest preacher of the Scriptures, to declare that probation did not end with the physical death of the mortal.

    It is so sad that the creeds and fixed opinions of these preachers, formed from the teachings of the old fathers, as they are called, should be humans of soul development, such as this preacher has, and teach the damnable doctrine that I speak of which he declared.

    There is a hell, or rather hells.  Just as there is a heaven, or heavens.  All humans, when they become spirits, will be compelled to occupy one, or the other of these places.  Not because God had decreed that any particular spirit, because of their earth belief, or condition, shall occupy that place.  But because the condition of their soul development, or want of development, fits and fixes them for that place, and no other.  God has made His Laws of Harmony.  These Laws are never changed.  When any particular soul gets into a condition of agreement with these Laws, then that soul becomes at-one with the Father and an inhabitant of His Heavens.  So long as that soul remains out of such condition, it is in hell.  Which is the condition of being out of agreement with the Harmony of God's Laws.  This is hell. There is no other comprehensive definition of it.  Every thing, or place that is not heaven, is hell.  Of course there are many gradations of hell.  The inhabitants of these gradations are made by the condition of their soul development.  Which is determined by the quantity and quality of the defilement and sin that exists in these souls. The soul is developed as the love becomes purified and sin eradicated.  Just as this process progresses, the soul becomes developed.

    God has decreed that His Universe, both of humans and things, shall be Harmonious.  Only the Creature, human, has become out of that Harmony.  As the Universe shall continue, the only destiny for human, is that they shall return to that Harmony, from which they fell by reason of their own misdirected will.  Had God decreed, as the preacher, by necessary implication declared, that the sinner who dies in their sins, shall forever remain in their sins, in a state of antagonism to such Harmony, then God, Himself, would necessarily become the cause and power of defeating His Own Laws of Harmony.  Which no sane mortal, whether they believe in the Scriptures, or not, would, or could, believe.

    God's Laws are fixed and unchangeable.  Always in Harmony with one another and with His Will.  Knowing this, every thinking human will know and should know, that whenever a proposition, or opinion, is put forth by preacher, or layman, or philosopher, or scientist, that shows that in order for a certain condition, or Truth, to exist, God's Laws will have to work in conflict with, or in opposition to, one another, then that proposition, or opinion, is false.  Has no foundation in fact.  So to accept this declaration of the preacher, that there is no probation after death, or as he said, chance to progress out of the hell which the mortal carries with them to the spirit world, humans will have to believe that the Loving Father, for the satisfying His wrath and meeting the demands of His supposed justice, will set His Laws in conflict with one another and destroy the Harmony of His Universe.

    The preacher spoke, as he said, as a scientist and not as a religious teacher.  Yet the deduction that he made when he declared the eternal existence of the hells, violated one of the Fundamental Laws of science, that is; that two conflicting Laws in the workings of God's Universe cannot both be accepted as True.  That the one of these two that is in Harmony with all the other known Laws, must be accepted as True.  Then I say, that founded on the Scriptures, or founded on science, the preacher had no basis for making the untrue and deplorable statement, that physical death ends humans possibility of progressing from a condition, or state, of hell existence, into that of purity and freedom from sin and into Harmony with God's Perfect Laws and the requirements of His Will.

    The preacher spoke from his intellect and mental beliefs of long years standing.  The memory echoes of what he had heard said by other preachers and teachers, who left upon his conscious beliefs in their false doctrines.  But deep down in his soul, where the Divine Love of the Father is burning and the soul sense is growing, he does not believe this doctrine, for he realizes that this Divine Love of the Father is so much Greater, Purer and Holier than any other love that exists in heaven, or on earth.  The Father from Whom It comes must be Holier, more Merciful, Forgiving and Thoughtful of His Children, than of any mortal father of his children.  Then, as a mortal father, having in his soul the Divine Love, he knows that his child could not commit any sin, or offense, that could possibly become unpardonable. Or, that he would not permit, and gladly, the child to repent of at any time.  So he would see, that if he refused to the Father, from Whom this Divine Love comes, a Love and Sympathy that would cause that Father to be as forgiving to His Children, as is he, the earthly parent, then the Greatest Attribute of that Father, God, Who is All Love, would not be equal to the love of His Creature.  The derivative would be greater, grander, purer, more Divine than the Fountainhead from which it is derived.  No, the preacher in his soul does not believe this unnatural teaching.  At times, he travails in his soul at the conflict that takes place between the mental bondage of his intellectual beliefs and the freedom of his soul sense, the Creature of the Divine Love that is in him, and the only part of Divinity that he possesses.

    Thus is demonstrated the great, real paradox of the existence in the same mortal, at the same time, of an intellectual belief, and a soul knowledge, as far apart as the antipodes.  Also is demonstrated the Truth, a Great Truth, that the mind of human and the soul of human, are not one and the same.  But are as distinct as the Creature of a Special Creation, the mind, and the Creation of that which is the only part of human made in the image of his Maker, the soul, must necessarily be.

    Some day, the soul knowledge will overcome the mental belief.  Then the preacher will know that Harmony and inharmony cannot exist for all time.  That sin and error must disappear.  Purity and righteousness must exist alone. That every human and spirit must become At-One with the Father, either as an inhabitant of the Celestial Heavens, or as the Perfect Human, that first appeared at the call of God, and by Him pronounced "very good."

    I have written enough for to-night and must stop.  Before doing so, I want to say that I have been with you today and saw that you were very happy in your thoughts and in your soul experience.  Other spirits were also with you, throwing around you their love and influence.  Persevere in your efforts to obtain this Divine Love.  Pray to the Father and It will come to you in increased abundance.  With It a wonderful happiness.

    I will come soon and write you another message.  So with my love and blessings, I will say good-night and God Bless you.  Your brother and friend, Jesus

     So i would like to be clear here, that in this message from Ann Rollins, that she, in reference to the Law of Compensation, is specifically speaking to it in relationship to sin, the exertion of the human free will, in an unloving thought or action, more specifically, action, that creates the remorse of the soul, in the conscience of the human soul, that is recalled, untill the Law is paid in full. 

But the Law of Compensation, is a Law that might be said, to be like many of God's Laws, a Law of Love and Harmony, and one might say equally just.  For it is just as applicable to the exertion of human's free will in loving acts and thoughts.  "As a human sows, so shall they reap" will and does apply to love.  Give love and you shall reap love and all the happiness, fulfillment and joy that accompanies it.  Sometimes refered to as unconditional love, or agape love.  But, first, we much search out and find the Truths of real souls love.  Love for God above all things and love for all His Creations, as His Creations, souls, each and every one, Beautiful and Perfect, though, often not knowing and manifesting that Perfection and its Beauty.  So the Law of Compensation is about the exertion of the free will in positive or negative action.

One might also be able to say the Law of Positive Compensation and the Law of Negative Compensation, but i am impressed that it is the same Law, dealing with the exertion of the free will.

brother dave k.