1916 January

Messages from Jesus and Celestials on Divine Love 1916 January

January 1st, 1916

I am here, Helen.

Well, I see that you are not in such a good condition tonight in your development. I am sorry; for I want so very much that, you have this Divine Love of the Father, in all its Beauty and Fullness. I see that the book you read did not have a good influence on you. You must not let it trouble you, or cause you to doubt. I am your own True Helen. I am writing to you. I am not the spirit of some lost angel of God, but the spirit of the women who was your wife on Earth.

The writer of that book will find to his surprise and sorrow, when he comes to the Spirit World, that his teachings are all wrong and very injurious.  He will have to pay the penalties for his false teachings. He has prevented many a person from coming into the Truth, and learning that there is no such thing as a dead spirit. So as I say, pay no further attention to what you have read.

Your own True and Loving Helen.

January 2nd, 1916

I am here, Jesus.

I come to tell you that you have not been in a very good condition of Spirituality, since last night when you read that book.

Well, in the first place, I want to say; that there are no such things as the "fallen angels", or any spirits, except the spirits of those who once lived as mortals and who are living now as spirits. Of course, many of them are what may be called evil spirits, but they are not devils, in the sense that the author describes them.

There never were any rebellions in heaven of any of the angels of God. Whenever such a thing is mentioned in the Bible, it has no foundation in fact, for there never was a Seraphim, or any other angel, that fell and became the devil, or Satan as he is called. You must not let your thoughts disturb your belief in our writing to you. We, who profess to write to you, actually do write. I know that it is very largely believed in the churches that there are such beings as devils, of whom Satan is the chief, such belief is wholly erroneous, and has worked a great injury to the cause of Truth, and to my teachings.

The humans who teach this false doctrine will have a great sin to atone for when they come to the Spirit World. Especially will the author of the book you were reading, not only for this false doctrine, but also for others, which he teaches. He will find, as soon as his breath leaves the body, that there is a Spirit World, and that he is a living spirit. One who will find come to him the recollections of all his false teachings. I know that it may be said, that he actually believes what he preaches. That fact will not alter the fact that his teachings are untrue, and that he must pay the penalties of these false teachings, until at last they shall no longer exist on Earth.

This may seem unjust when it is considered that he may be honest in his beliefs. As I said on Earth, the human who believes these false doctrines, and teaches other humans to believe them, will have to pay the penalties of results of these teachings, not because they injured him, and even taught insecurity, but because they injured others. As a consequence, placed those whom he taught, in a condition which is not in Unison with the Truth, or with the Laws of God. Only can that condition be reinclosed by the Truth, or Knowledge of the Truth, possessed by these misguided beings. They can only come into the possession of the Truth by being untaught, as it were, these falsehoods. And being taught the Truths. This will be the work of the author mentioned, and all those who assist him in teaching these doctrines, until all who have ever been deceived by such teachings, have been shown the error of the same, and brought to a Knowledge of the Truth. This will arise, not because of any special punishment inflicted upon him by God, but because of his realization of the great harm, he has done to those who believed in and followed him in these teachings. He will need no other punishment than that of his own recollections, and his conscience.

So, I say, give no further heed to what you may have read. Believe that I, Jesus, am actually writing to you. That all the others who claim to write, are the spirits that they actually represent themselves to be.

I was with you tonight at church. I heard the lecture. While it was undoubtedly interesting to many in the audience, yet it has no basis of fact upon which to rest. The medium did not know the things that she predicted. No spirit controlled her to make the prophecies. If such had, she would not have been able to make such predictions. The only reason that the medium had for making the prophecies, were the facts that she knows now exists, that will probably bring about the future as she stated it. No reliance can be placed upon what she attempts to foretell. If some of the things happen, that she predicted, it will not be because she predicted them, or because any spirit inspired her to make such predictions. Because they will be the natural effects of course that now exist, or which will probably arise in the future.

Well, as to the discourse of which she spoke, she does not know any more, nor have any greater reason to declare that such a disease will prevail in your country than you have. She has no reasons upon which to found any such prophecy. I do not see any condition, which will bring about such disease, in the way that she describes it. Of course, there are humans dying all the time of some disease or other. Humans will continue to so die. Some may die of the trouble that she speaks of, or of those akin to the same. Such disease will not prevail, in the way that she described. So on the whole; you need not give any credence to what she said, in the particulars mentioned.

I have been with you a great deal today. I was glad when you went to the church of your birth this morning. While you do not believe in the wine and the bread as representing my blood and body, yet many of the people who partook of these have the Divine Love of the Father in their souls, and are very close to the Kingdom. The Influence that attended this service was very Spiritual.

Many of the spirits of mortals, who had attended this church, were present exercising a very Spiritual Influence on the worshipers. You could feel the presence of the same.

I must not write more tonight. I will say that you must trust in my Love, and believe that I am with you very often, trying to help you, and make your soul feel the Great Love of the Father flowing into it.

With my Love and blessings, and that of the Father, I will say goodnight.

Your friend and brother, Jesus.

January 3rd, 1916

I am here, Jesus.

I am with you tonight to warn you against letting any doubt enter your mind or heart, as to our actually writing to you. We, and none other, are actually in communication with you.

The book that you read is a snare and a lie. There are no angels who have become devils, as the author of that book declares. Never were there any angels, who through ambition or any other reason, revolted against the power of government of God, and thereby lost their estate as angels. Never was there any Lucifer! Never were there any angels who were thrown from the battlements of heaven into hell, as it has been written. As I told you before, there are no devils, and no Satan, considered as real persons and fallen angels.

The only spirits in the Spirit World are those who at one time were mortals. Who lived lives on Earth, shorter or longer. Whenever angels are mentioned in the Bible, or rather in the New Testament, in places, which contain my sayings, or those of the apostles, and I mean those sayings, which were actually said, the word angel always refers to the spirit of some mortal, who had passed the line between Life and death, as commonly understood.

I desire to tell you of these things at large very soon. To instruct you as to who were the angels of God that are supposed to have had an existence, prior to the Creation of Human, and of the Creation of the World. Who the inhabitants of Heaven were, before the Spirit of God entered into human, and caused them to become a living soul, as the Bible says. The time is not yet ripe for me to instruct you in these matters. Because there are so many more Important Truths to be first taught you. Truths, which are vital to human's Salvation and Happiness, to those on Earth, and in the Spirit World.

This you must believe; that no devils ever write you, or in any manner manifest to, or through, any of the numerous mediums, who are used to show the existence of spirits of humans in the Spirit World, no matter whether these mediums be good or evil.

There are spirits of all kinds, just as there are mortals of all kinds, having all the traits and characteristics of mortals. Some of these spirits may be justly called wicked, or evil spirits, and even devils. They are nothing more, or less, than spirits, such as I describe.

I know that the belief of the majority of humankind is; that there are such things as devils, and that they are independent creations of God, made by Him to tempt and inflict all kind of trouble and unhappiness on mortals. Because of the great number of years that these beliefs have existed, and the fact that many of the churches still teach that such devils do exist, and are at all times trying to tempt and injure humans, it is hard, and will be difficult, to induce humans to believe that there are no such things as devils, which is the Truth.

I know, that the Bible in many places, speaks of my casting devils out of humans, and of humans being possessed of devils, and of the apostles casting out devils, and of their not being able to cast out some of these devils. I tell you now, that the Bible is all wrong in this regard. The writers and translators of the Bible never understood what the word devil, as used in these various instances, meant, or was intended to mean. As I have told you, there was never any devil, or devils, in the sense mentioned, and taught by the churches. Consequently, they never could have possessed mortals, nor have been cast out of them.

It is True, that by the workings of the Law of Attraction, and the susceptibility of mortals, to the influence of spirit powers, mortals may become obsessed by the spirits of evil. That is, evil spirits of humans, who once lived on Earth. This obsession may become so complete and powerful, that the living mortal may lose all power to resist this influence of the evil spirits, and may be compelled to do things that the mortal will not desire to do. And to show all the evidence of a distorted mind, and present appearances of a lost will power, as well as of the ability to exercise the ordinary powers given them by their Natural Creation.

In these instances referred to of casting out devils, wherever they occurred, and they did occur in some of the instances mentioned, the only devils that existed were the evil spirits who had possessed these mortals. This obsession obtains today, just as it did then, for the same Laws are in operation now, as were in existence then. Many a human is in a condition of evil life, and disturbed mind, from the obsession of these evil spirits. If there were any humans of today, in that condition of Soul Development, and belief, that my disciples were in, they could cast out these so-called devils, just as the disciples cast them out in the Bible days.

Humans have not this Faith. Though there are many who have been Blessed with the inflowing of the Holy Spirit. But they have not the belief that such work as the disciples performed, can be performed by them now. In fact, the most of them believe that it would be contrary to God's Will to attempt to exercise such Powers. Hence, they never attempt to do such work.

When humans learn that in all ages God is the same, that His Laws work the same way, that humankind is the same, so far as the soul's possibilities are concerned, and that the Faith, which God made possible for human to attain to, may be possessed by them now, just as it was possessed by my disciples, then they will attempt this work of beneficence, and will succeed. The sick will be healed, the devils cast out, the blind made to see, the deaf to hear, and the so-called miracles will be performed, as they were in my days on Earth.

There is not, and never was, such a thing as a miracle, in the sense of having an effect produced by a cause, which was not the result of the ordinary workings of God's Laws. For these Laws, in their workings, never vary. When the same Law is called into operation, upon the same condition of facts, the same results will always be produced.

So, let a mortal have in their soul, the same amount of God's Divine Love, which the Bible writers meant, or should have meant, when they spoke of being endowed by the Holy Ghost, and let them have the necessary Faith, that when they pray to God, He will give them the power to exercise this Divine Love, in a sufficient degree, to produce the desired results. Then try to exercise the power of casting out devils, or healing, etc. They will find that success will attend their efforts. God is the same, at all times, and under all circumstances. Only mortals vary in their conceptions and conditions.

So I say, there are no devils, as independent creatures of God, in contradistinction to the spirits of humans, who once lived on Earth. You must believe that there are not.

I tell you now, that the teachers of such false doctrines will have to pay the penalties for their false teachings when they come to the Spirit World, and see the result of these false teachings. No relief will be granted until they have paid the last farthing. To believe such doctrines, entails results that are bad enough for any spirit to endure. But to teach others these beliefs, and convince them of their truth, entails upon the teacher, whether they actually believe them, or not, sufferings, and duration of sufferings, of which humans have no conception.

I will not write more tonight, will in closing say, that you have my Love and blessings. My promises I will fulfill, so that you will realize your expectations, and be in condition to perform the work that you have been selected to do.

Well, you let doubt come into your mind. As a consequence, your soul does not respond. Although, strange as it may seem, the Divine Love is there. When this mental doubt exists, it is as if it were a covering, which prevents the existence of the Divine Love in the soul to shine forth, and produce the great feeling of Happiness and Joy, which otherwise you might experience. The mental condition of the mortal, undoubtedly, has a great influence on the consciousness of the human, as to their possession of this Soul Development, and the Divine Love. Consequently, there will have to be this continuous fight, as long as Life lasts on Earth, between the mental conditions, and the soul's consciousness. As the mental beliefs are brought into Harmony with the soul's condition, more and more, the fight will grow weaker and less frequent. It is possible that they will cease altogether. The mental beliefs become entirely, and absolutely, subordinated, or rather absorbed, in the soul's consciousness of its being possessed of this Divine Love of the Father.

So my dear brother, I will say goodnight.

Your brother and friend, Jesus.

January 4th, 1916

I am here, St. Luke.

I wish to continue my discourse on the Atonement. As I was saying, unless a human gets into Harmony with God in the Natural Love, which God bestowed upon them, and thereby becomes free from sin and error, there can be no redemption for them. The death of Jesus, and the shedding of his blood, cannot cause that Harmony.

Now what I have heretofore said, relates exclusively to human, and their salvation, in respect to their condition of becoming Perfect in this Natural Love, which all humans have. This is not the Great At-Onement, which Jesus came to Earth to teach humans, and The Way in which it could be obtained, and the effect of its attainment.

As has been told you, in the beginning, God conferred upon Our First Parents, not only the Natural Love, but the Potentiality of obtaining it (the Divine Love), by the observance of certain Laws and obedience, the Divine Love of the Father, which when obtained, would make a human a part of Divinity itself. While it would not make them a god, or the equal of the Father, yet it would give them a Divinity that would cause them to receive the Substance of God's Great Love, and not remain the mere image (of the Divine Soul). As a consequence, human would become Immortal.

God Alone is Immortal. Every part of Him is Immortal. When humans shall obtain in their souls, that part of Him, which is his Greatest Attribute, His Divine Love, they will also become Immortal, and thereafter not subject to death.

The Natural Love, which was implanted in the souls of all humankind, is not a part of the Divine Love. It is not this Divine Love in a lesser degree even. It (the Natural Love) is a distinct and separate quality of Love. All humans possess it. In many persons, it has become so contaminated by the sins that flow from the violation of God's Laws (of Love and Harmony), so that the Redemption, of which I have spoken, is necessary for human, even as the possessor of this Natural Love only.

The Divine Love of the Father is a Love that has in It, and is wholly composed of, the Divinity which the Father possesses. No human can ever become a part of that Divinity until they possesses this Great Love. I know it is said that human is divine because they were Created in the image of God. Nothing, which is a mere image, is ever a part of the Substance, of which it is the image, and cannot possibly have the qualities of that Substance. Commonly speaking, the image may have the appearance, and for the ordinary affairs of the Mortal Life, may serve the purpose of the real, until something that arises that demands the production of the Real. Then the image will no longer serve the purpose.

Now in the case of the Creation of Human, they were made in the image of God, in one particular only, and that in the matter of soul appearance. Their physical, or spirit bodies, were not in the image of God. God has no such bodies. Only the soul of human is in the image of God, the Great Oversoul. So long as human remains a mere image of the Father, they will never be more than the mere human soul that they were, at the time of their Creation. The Substance of the Father will never become a part of them. While the Substance is Divine, the image can never become Divine, until it becomes transformed into the Substance.

At Human's Creation, a Plan was formed, by which that image might become a Thing of Substance. There was given to humans, the possessor of the image, the Potentiality of obtaining the Substance. Humans, through their disobedience, or failure to comply with, or follow out, the requirements of the Plan provided, forfeited this Potentiality, which had been conferred upon them. Thereby, lost the possibility of having the image transformed into the Substance, which was absolutely necessary in order for them to ever become the possessor of any part of the Father's Divinity. When humans call themselves divine, they assert that which is not True, but which, since the coming of Jesus to Earth, may become True.

I will not recite what this disobedience of Our First Parents was. Or, in what way they lost the Great Potentiality of becoming Divine. Will only say, that when by their disobedience they forfeited this Potentiality, it was taken from them by God. His decree that in the day they should commit the act of disobedience, they should surely die, was carried out. They died. Not the material bodies died, nor their spirit bodies died, nor their souls, for humans continued to live in their physical bodies for many years after the day of disobedience. Their spirit bodies and souls never died, for they still live. What died, and what the sentence passed upon them affected, was the Potentiality of receiving the Substance, which would make them Divine and Immortal. This Potentiality was taken from them, and never restored, during the long centuries from the time of its death, until the coming of Jesus.

That part of the Divine Nature, or that Divine Attribute, which was the object of this Potentiality, which would make a human a part of the Divine Nature and Immortal, was the Divine Love of the Father. Nothing else! If Our First Parents, through their obedience, had received this Divine Love, never would mortality, as to the soul, have existed on Earth. Neither sin, nor a want of atonement with the Father. Disobedience came, and death of the possibility of becoming Immortal ensued. Human remained mere human, only an image of the Father, and nothing more.

No human, in all the long ages that I have mentioned, ever had anything more, or greater, in their Nature, than the Natural Love, of which I have spoken. Even as to that, human so abused and defiled it, until at a time, they became an outcast from the Father as to this Natural Love. In other words, they, human, buried it so deeply under their acts of sin, and the violation of those Laws of God, which control this Natural Love, that they appeared to be forsaken by the Father, even as a mere human being.

In the history of what is called "god's chosen people," the Jews, it appears that time and time again that these people became such aliens from God in this Natural Love, that humans, possessed of this Natural Love, in a purer state than were the common people, were used by the forces of the Spirit World, to call these people to a realization of their obligations to God arising out of the Gift of the Natural Love. None of the prophets, neither Moses, Elijah, nor any of the others, was possessed of this Divine Love. Merely of the Natural Love, in a purer state, than were the people to whom they delivered their messages.

In God's Own Time, and in accordance with His Mercy and Plan, He Re-Bestowed upon human, this Great Potentiality, of which I speak. So that, humans should again have the Privilege of becoming At-One with Him. To declare the Re-Bestowal of this Great Gift, Jesus was sent to Earth, in the form of human conceived and born as other humans, but without sin.

It was, at the time of Jesus' coming, the Great Gift was Re-Bestowed upon both mortals, and spirits of mortals then living in the Spirit World. They all, spirits and mortals, received the Privilege of becoming At-One with the Father, through the Plan of Salvation that He had revealed to Jesus, which Jesus taught in his Ministry during the short years of his Earthly Life, and which he is still teaching (in the Spirit World).

There is no other Way, in which human can become At-One with the Father, in which the image can be transformed into the Substance, than The Way that Jesus taught, which seems not to have been understood by humans, after the church became a church of temporal power, and after the Bible, or the writings of the apostles were emasculated, and the thoughts and desires of humans interpolated, in the place of the Gospel of Peace and Salvation. Yet there is, in the Gospel of John, one declaration of the True Plan of Salvation, though it is little understood, and almost ignored, in practical teachings and observances of the churches and their members. That is, "except a human be born again, they cannot enter into the Kingdom of God."

These words of the New Birth are the only words that declare the True Doctrine of the At-Onement. No death of Jesus on the cross, no shedding of blood, or washing away of sins by the blood, no paying of any debt, and no believing in the name of the Lord, Jesus Christ, will bring humans into At-Onement with the Father, and make them partakers of His Divine Nature, or fit them to become inhabitants of His Kingdom. Only the New Birth is efficacious for this purpose. No other plan did Jesus ever teach, and is not now teaching.

Then what is meant by the New Birth?

Humans, in their understanding and interpretation of it differ. It will do no good for me to recite these different interpretations, or what the New Birth is not. The important thing is what it is.

As I have said, the Potentiality, that was conferred upon Our First Parents, was the Privilege of obtaining the Divine Nature and Immortality of the Father, by becoming possessed of His Great Attribute of Divinity, the Divine Love. Had Our First Parents, by their obedience, received the benefits of this Great Privilege, they would have been "Born Again", as you, and all other mortals, and spirits as well, may now be Born Again.

Then the New Birth is simply the effect of the flowing into the soul of a human of this Divine Love of the Father. The disappearing of everything that tends to sin and error. As the Divine Love takes possession of the soul, sin and error disappear. It, the soul, becomes of a Quality like the Great Soul of the Father. The Soul of the Father, in its Quality of Love being Divine and Immortal. So, when the soul of human becomes possessed of this Quality of Divine Love, this soul becomes Divine also. The soul is the human. Then the image becomes the Substance. The mortal becomes the Immortal. The soul of human, as to Love and hope, becomes a part of the Father's Divinity.

Now to declare this Plan of Salvation, and also the Re-Bestowal of the Great Gift of the Potentiality of the human soul, Jesus came to Earth. This was his mission, none other. As readers of the Bible will remember, and it is a Truth, when Jesus was baptized and anointed, and also on the Mount of Transfiguration, the "Voice of God", as it is written, (which was really the manifestation of the voice of one of His Highest Angels) declared that Jesus was His Well Beloved Son, and demanded of the people "hear ye him." Not to believe that he came to die on the cross. Not to believe that his blood would bring about the atonement. Not to believe in any vicarious atonement, or that God in wrath demanded a sacrifice. Only "hear ye him." Jesus, in all his teachings, never taught one of these things. Only the New Birth, as I have explained it. This is the only thing necessary to the At-Onement. He is still teaching it.

He also taught Moral Truths, affecting the conduct and relation of human to human, human to God in their Natural State. None of these things, or Moral Teachings, were sufficient to bring about the Great At-Onement. There is no doubt that the observance of many of these Teachings of Morality, and of human's conduct towards God, will have a tendency to lead humans to seek the Higher Love of the Father, and help their souls to get in the condition that will make it easier for this Great Love to flow into them. These Moral Teachings, or prescribed conduct, will not, of themselves, be sufficient to bring the New Birth. Hence, the At-Onement.

Now Jesus not only taught the necessity for the New Birth, he also taught The Way in which It could be obtained. That Way is just as simple, and easily understood, as the New Birth itself. He taught, and is now teaching, that through earnest prayer to the Father, and Faith which makes all aspirations and soul longings things of Real Existence, by the Holy Spirit, which is the Father's Messenger of Divine Love, or to carry His Divine Love, this Divine Love will flow into the souls of humans, in response to such prayers. By such Faith, humans will "Realize" its Presence. In this Way, and this Way only, humans will receive the New Birth.

This is wholly an individual matter. Without the personal, earnest prayer of the supplicant, and Faith that comes with the Divine Love, a human cannot receive the New Birth. No ceremony of church, no laying on of hands, or masses for the souls of the dead, will be efficacious to make the human, or spirit (of human) a New Creature in God.

What I have written, is the meaning of the At-Onement, as taught by the Master, and as understood by All the Redeemed of the Father who are now living in His Celestial Heavens. There is no other At-Onement possible.

I have written enough. I hope I have made it plain to all humans, the True Explanation of the At-Onement. We, who are inhabitants of the Celestial Heavens, Know the Truth of my explanation, both from personal experience, and from the other fact, which no spirit in all the Universe can deny, that only those who have received this Divine Love of the Father in their souls, in sufficient abundance, can, or do, inhabit the Celestial Heavens. All other spirits, no matter what their several beliefs may be, live in the lower Spiritual Spheres, and cannot enter the Celestial Heavens, unless they seek for, and obtain, the New Birth that Jesus taught, and is still teaching.

So my dear brother, without writing more, I will say goodnight.

Your brother in Christ, Luke.

January 5th, 1916

I am a spirit, who cannot tell you of the joys of heaven. I can describe the horrors of hell, for just as these other spirits described to you their homes of beauty and happiness; I can describe my home of ugliness and torment. Do you wish me to do so?

Well know then, that when I lived on Earth, I was a human of very considerable intellectual powers and acquirements. I was also of an intense animal nature. So much so, that it overcame my judgment, and what moral qualities I had. I became at last a slave to my appetites, which were varied, especially my appetite for drink. I had many friends of position, social and otherwise. I was considered a brilliant newspaper writer, and had access to the inner political circles that were then in control of the government.

My weakness, or rather the effect of the strength of my animal nature, was known to many of my friends. They, in many ways, tried to help me, and rescue me from my evil and destructive course of living. At times, I would succeed in reforming my conduct, but alas, not for any great length of time. When I would again relapse into my deplorable habits and become the controlled victim of my destroying appetites.

Of course human friendship and sympathy had their limits. Finally, my friends gave me up as lost and past redemption. I surely and quickly sunk lower and lower in my moral condition, and at last, died a drunkard, unwept and unsung, except for the evil that I had done. It was undoubtedly a relief to my friends and acquaintances when I passed over, and forever relieved them of the shadow of my presence, and the ghost of what I had been. Such was my end.

When I came to the Spirit World, I found that I still was deserted by friends, who had become spirits before me, except some who liked the "flowing bowl", as I did on earth, and who were inhabitants of the unattractive place that I found myself in, when my habitation became fixed.

I never, when on Earth, thought much of the Future Life, except to convince myself that there was no hell, and if there was a God, He was not bothered about me, a mere human of many millions. Oh, the fatal mistake! The unexpected realization of the fact, that there is a hell! Whether there is a God, I do not know. I have never seen Him, or felt His Influence.

Since I came to you tonight, and heard the messages of those two spirits who described their wonderful homes, and their condition of happiness, and ascribed them all to the Kindness and Care of God, I have commenced to think that there may be a God, and that my mistake was greater than I have heretofore realized. But this is a digression from what I started out to write.

That there is a hell, I know, to my sorrow and sufferings. I have been the occupant of one for oh these many years. It is always the same place of horrors and darkness, except, sometime it is lighted by the flame of lurid light, that comes from the anger and sufferings of some unfortunate like myself.

In this hell of mine, and there are many like it, instead of beautiful homes as the other spirits described, we have dirty, rotten hovels, all crooked and decayed, with all the foul smells of a charnel house, ten times intensified. Instead of beautiful lawns, green meadows and leafy woods filled with musical birds making the echoes ring with their songs, we have barren wastes, holes of darkness and gloom, and the cries and cursings of spirits of damnation without hope. Instead of living, silvery waters, we have stagnant pools filled with all kinds of repulsive reptiles and vermin, and smells of inexpressible, nauseating stinks.

I tell you that these are all Real. Not creatures of the imagination, or the out flowing of bitter recollections. As for Love, it has never shown its humanizing face, in all the years that I have been here, only cursings, hatred, bitter scathings, imprecations, and grinning spirits with their witchlike cacklings. No rest, no hope, no kind words, or ministering hand to wipe away the scalding tears, which so often flow in mighty volumes. No, hell is Real, and hell is here.

We do not have any fire and brimstone, or grinning devils with pitchforks, hoofs and horns as the churches teach. What is the need or necessity for such accompaniments? They would not add to the horrors, or to our torments. I tell you my friend, that I have faintly described our homes in these infernal regions. I cannot picture them as they are.

The horror and pity of it all, is that hope does not come to us with one faint smile to encourage us that there may at some time be an ending to all these torments. In our hopeless despair, we realize that our doom is fixed for all eternity.

As the rich human in hell said, if I could only send Lazarus to tell my poor, erring brothers on Earth of what awaits them, how gladly I would do so, and save their souls from the eternal torment.

Well, I have written you a long letter and am tired. Because it is the first time that, I have attempted to write, for many long years. I find some difficulty in gathering my thoughts, so as to be able to write in an intelligent and collected manner. So I must stop.

Well, I will say that you are the best friend that I have had since I became an outcast while on Earth. That I will do whatever you may advise, but you must not expect me to have much hope, not doubting your desire to help me, but merely your ability.

Well, I do not understand, but I will trust you. I will try to believe what you say, only do not create in me, that of which I have been deprived of for so long, I mean hope, and have me disappointed. Well I have looked as you advised. I see some spirits who are so beautiful and so bright that I can scarcely look at them. Never before have I seen such spirits, or imagined that such could exist. They must be gods, or why all the great happiness, beauty and Love which they have. Tell me what does it all mean? Is it a star of hope that has come to me from afar, and bids me trust that these hells shall not be my home forever? Oh, tell me, I pray you, are they the spirits of real mortals, who lived and died as I did?

Such Love I have never seen. They look at me with such encouragement, and almost human eyes of Love, and beckon me to come with them. I have asked if Mr. Riddle is there. One spirit comes to me and says yes, and that he is glad to have me come with him, as he knew me on Earth, and is acquainted with my sad Life. Now I remember him, for he was a friend who lived in the same city as I did.

He says: "Come G., I will try to show you The Way to Light and relief from your sufferings". I am going, and as I go a beautiful, glorious spirit comes to me and lays her hand on my head and says: "God bless you my brother, and may His Divine Mercy be yours". She tells me that they all Love me, and will help me.

Oh, tell me, what does it all mean? Am I dreaming? Are you real, and are they Real, or am I in one of the deliriums that I used to have on Earth? Oh, so beautiful and heavenly. They say no, that they are real spirits, and once lived on Earth, sinful mortals like myself.

How can I ever thank you? I am overcome and cannot write more. I will come again. So my dear friend goodnight, for I am going.

G. H. B.

My name is George H Butler. I died in 1899.

January 4th, 1916

I am here, Jesus.

    I will write only a few lines.  Because I desire to confirm what Luke has so clearly explained, as to what the atonement is.

    He has stated the True Plan of God for the Redemption of Humankind.  That is, for the placing of them in the exact relation to Our Father, that Our First Parents occupied, which relation, by their disobedience, was taken from them, and never restored, until my coming.  Humans must learn the True Meaning of the Great Plan for their Salvation, and for their becoming At-One with The Father in His Divine Nature.  No other Plan has been provided.  No other Way is open to humans to receive this Divine Nature of the Father and Immortality.

    The material Love of human, that is, the Natural Love of the Father, that God Bestowed upon humans, at the Creation of Our First Parents, is a Love that is Pure and in Harmony with God's Laws, and the Workings of the His Universe, which must be restored to its Pristine Purity in order for human to come into Harmony with God, as to the Laws controlling it.  Humans must, in order to get in this Harmony, become free from all violations of God's Laws, in their conduct towards Him, and towards one another.  Many of my teachings were directed to bring about this Harmony.

    The Golden Rule is one.  This Great Teaching, if observed, in the conduct of humans towards one another, will tend to bring about the Harmony.  For, to human, the most important thing is their own happiness.  When a human shall do unto others, as they would have others do unto them, they will be proceeding towards that condition of conduct, and the correct relationship of human-to-human that will bring Harmony, and an observance of those requirements of God's Laws controlling such relationship.

    The observance of the Right Conduct of human-to-human, or the regaining of the Purity of this Natural Love, will not bring about the Great Reconciliation to God in the Divine sense.  That is, make humans At-One with the Father, in His Divinity and Immortality.

    Now I see, and understand, why my Great Teachings of the Divine At-Onement were not considered as important by humans, after my early followers died, as the teachings that should control them in their conduct towards one another.  That is, what may be called my Moral Teachings.

    In those days, the great majority of humans who professed to follow my teachings, as are written in the Bible that the church adopted, thought more of the rewards and happiness that might come to them as mortals, than to those that might come to them after they became spirits.  Just as the Jews had thought, for all the long years prior to my coming, and these teachings were merely those of the Earth.  As such teachings, whether of the Old Testament, or any other teachings recognized by them as governing their conduct as mere mortals, were of more importance to them than were the teachings that showed them The Way to the Celestial Kingdom (and Eternal Life).

    When the church, which my apostles founded, came under the control and government of humans with only the temporal interests at heart, the more importance was attached to those things, which as the rulers and leaders of the church thought, would cause the people to conduct themselves in such a way, as would tend to increase the power and influence of the church.  Hence, the Great Truth of the New Birth was neglected.  Salvation was declared to be by means that could be more readily utilized by the officials of the church.  In other words, Salvation became a thing, which depended on the church.  Not on the individual.  So you see, the great harm that was done by these teachings, and the great power the church acquired.

    Salvation is a thing between God and the individual!  Can be obtained, only by the individual becoming At-One with the Father.  Who cares not for the teachings of the church, or of human, unless these teachings will bring the souls of humans in Harmony with Him.  I say, cares not, but that does not just express what I mean.  God does care, whenever His Creatures are taught false doctrines, as He is waiting, and anxious, to Bestow upon every human, His Divine Love.  Even He cannot, or will not, make such Bestowal, unless human follows the Plan, which He has prescribed.  He could not have adopted any other plan.  For the only way in which humans can become At-One with Him, is to become, as it were, a part of Him, to partake of His Divine Nature and Attributes.  Unless the soul of human, receives from the Father, these Qualities, it can never become At-One with Him.

    As Luke said, my death, blood, or any supposed vicarious atonement, could not have made a human's soul a possessor of the Divine Love of the Father.  Because they could not bring human into that relationship with the Father, that would cause the soul of human to open up to the inflowing of this Divine Love.  Let no human suppose, that by a mere belief in me as the son of God and the savior of the World, or that I died for them, they can become At-One with the Father.  It is not True, and has worked great harm to humankind.

    Only the pure, honest, sincere aspirations of the soul of a human for this Great Love of the Father, can possibly bring about this At-Onement that is necessary in order for that human to become a part of God's Divinity, and partake of His Divine Nature.

I have written enough and will close.

Your brother and friend, Jesus.

January 5th, 1916

I am here, Jesus.

I merely want to say, that I am glad to see that you are in condition of soul, which makes you more At-One with the Father, and which must convince you that the Divine Love of the Father is flowing into your soul in more abundant streams of power and quantity.

I know that you have not been in the best condition of mind, as regards your beliefs and doubts, during the past few days. You must not let such experience discourage you, for such conditions will arise as long as you are in the flesh. You must not think, that because of the doubts, you are not receiving this Divine Love in your soul, for you are. After a while, it will become so very abundant, that the doubts will rarely appear to disconcert you.

I will not write much tonight, as I think you are in need of meditation over what has been written you lately, before more Truths shall be presented to you. So think of what has been written you. You will find yourself much benefitted.

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

January 5th, 1916

I am your friend in Christ. I desire to write a few lines, but it will not be about religious matters, for I heard what the Master said, and he knows what is best.

Well, I am in the Seventh Sphere. I am very happy, and enjoy all the delights of a soul Redeemed. I am in The Way of progress to the Higher Spheres, where some of your band live. How beautiful must be their homes, because, when they come to the lower Spheres, they have such beauty, and are so filled with the Father's Divine Love, that I know they must live in homes of transcendent beauty where Happiness is Supreme.

I am not one who knows all that there is in the Heavens provided by the Father. I know enough to say, "That no eye of human has seen, and neither has their heart conceived, of the Wonderful Things that the Father has prepared for those who Love Him, and do His Will." In our Sphere, the glory of our habitations and surroundings that we have, are beyond all conceptions of mortals, and beyond all the powers, which we have, to describe. Your language is poor indeed, when we attempt to use it, to describe our homes and our happiness.

Never a sigh, or a thought tainted with the slightest flavor of unhappiness or discontent. All our wishes are gratified. Love reigns Eternally, and without stint. Never, when on Earth, did I conceive that one human could Love another, as one spirit here Loves their brother spirit. The mine and thine are truly the ours. No spirit is so happy, as when they are doing something to make another spirit happier. Then, Love between the opposite sexes is so pure and glorified.

My home is not in any of the cities, but is in the country, among beautiful fields and woods where the purest waters flow in silver streams of Living Light. The birds of paradise, in all their glorious plumage, sing and make merry the echoes of the hills and rocks. We have hills and rocks, as well as plains and beautiful meadows, and placid lakes and shining waterfalls, all praising God for His Goodness.

So why will not every mortal try to attain to this Heavenly Condition of Love and Happiness, when it is so easy for them to do so? The Divine Love is waiting for all, and needs only the seeking, and the believing, in order to make the mortal an heir to all the Glories of this Heavenly Place. The mind of human, in its superimposed importance, and in the conceit of the wonderful powers of their reasoning faculties, keeps the simple childlike Faith from making them a Child of the Kingdom.

Oh, I tell you, if mortals only knew what is here, ready for them to obtain and make their own, they would not let the supposed greatness of their minds, or the cares, ambitions and desires for Earthly possessions, keep them from seeking this Great and Glorious Inheritance, which is theirs by merely claiming it, in The Way, made known by the Master.

He, what can I say of him, the most Glorious, Beautiful and Loving of all the spirits in God's Universe. When on Earth, I looked upon him and worshiped him as God, sitting on the right hand of the Father, way up in the High Heavens, a way off waiting for the coming of the great judgment day, when he would separate the sheep from the goats, and send each to their eternal place of habitation. Whether to hell or heaven, only he knew. I did not, and could not, until the great judgment should be pronounced. Now, when I see him as he is, and know that he is my friend and elder brother, a spirit such as I am, with only Love for his younger brethren, be they saints or sinners, and a great longing that all may come, and partake of the feast, which the Father has prepared, I feel that the Loving Brother and friend is more to me. My happiness is greater than when I looked upon him as the god of judgment, having his habitation away off beyond my vision or reach.

He is so Loving, so pure, and so humble. Why his very humility makes us all Love him almost to adoration. If you could only see him, you would not be surprised that we Love him so much.

Well, my friend, I have written a little more than I intended, but I am so filled with Love, and so happy in having such a friend as the Master, that I can hardly restrain myself. I will come again sometime, and write you upon some Spiritual Truth, which I so much want you to know.

When on Earth, I was not an orthodox to the full extent, but my early belief that Jesus was a part of the Godhead, I did not succeed in getting rid of, although, my mind often rebelled at the thought. But the early teachings of my mother lingered with me. Maturer thoughts and development of mind could never entirely eradicate this belief in Jesus as being part of God. Some have said, and thought, that I was almost an infidel. This is untrue, for I always believed firmly in the Father, and, as I have told you, in Jesus.

I was also to some extent a Spiritualist. That is, I believed in the communications of spirits with mortals. As on numerous occasions, I have had such communications, and have acted on advice that I received through them. I never learned, from any of these communications, any of the Higher Truths, which I now know, which are so important for mortals to know, which, if humans only knew and taught, would make their religion a live, virile, all pervading and satisfying religion. We are all interested in your work, and are co-workers with you in Revealing these Great Truths.

May God Bless and prosper you, and cause you to see the Realities of the Great Divine Love, is the prayer of your brother in Christ, A. Lincoln.

January 7th, 1916

I am here, John.

Well, I came to write only a few lines, as you are not feeling too well, and not in condition to receive any formal message tonight. I will say that, notwithstanding what you have read tonight, in reference to your material affairs, you must have Faith, and expect that our promises will soon be realized. The work must be done. You must be placed in condition to do it, without interference. If you could realize the powers that are at work, in their endeavor to bring about what is necessary to place you in condition to do this work as we desire it to be done, you would not lose Faith, or doubt, that all the promises made will be fulfilled. We recognize to the fullest the importance of this matter. We will not permit much more time to elapse until the end desired is brought about.

You, and your friend, who is interested in the means that we have adopted for bringing the consummation of our plans will, soon be enabled to start the business that we have told you of. You must both have Faith.

I will not write more tonight. With my Love to you, and your friend, who is present, I will say goodnight and God Bless you both.

Your brother in Christ, John.

January 10th, 1916

I am here, Mother.

I am here, the mother of the dear boy. I want to tell him that I am exceedingly happy in my new home, as I am now in the First Celestial Sphere, of which he has heard a great deal. What he has heard is all True, and more besides. I cannot attempt to tell him at this time, what a glorious home I have, and how the Good Father has provided for my Happiness everything that the heart and soul can wish for. This is the result of that Divine Love, which he talks so much about, which he has to some extent, and which, I know, will be his in an abundant degree, even before he comes to the Spirit World. There is no conception of what the Power of this Great Love can do, to make mortals and spirits both happy. The mortal who learns The Way to possess it, is Blessed above every other mortal of your Earth Life.

He must not think, that because I am so happy and so much nearer the Fountainhead of the Father's Divine Love, that I am not still interested in him, and Loving him with all my heart, for it is a fact that the more of this Great Love that I receive into my soul, the more Love flows from me to him, and the more my efforts are to have him get into his soul, this Divine Love, and the Knowledge that he is an Acceptable Child of the Father, and is an heir to the Great Kingdom, which Jesus is now establishing in these Celestial Spheres.

Well, I must not write very much tonight as it is late. I do want him to know that I, and all of his folks who are in these Higher Spheres, are trying to help him, and make him feel the influence of our Love and blessings. So tell him to believe in his mother, and in the Master, with all his heart and soul. His father is also very happy, and is progressing. I know is endeavoring with all his Faith, to progress to my Sphere and get with me. Then we will be One, in actual living, as well as in the Knowledge that we are One, and always have been.

So with all my Love, I will say goodnight, and thanking you, I will leave my Love for my boy, and the prayer of a mother, that he may continue in the Favor of God, and in the progress of his soul.

His mother, Priscilla Stone.

January 10th, 1916

I am here, Jesus.

I come tonight to tell you of a Truth, which is important to all humankind, and which I desire that you receive just as I write it. So give your best care to receiving just what I shall attempt to write.

I have read with you tonight many sayings contained in the alleged epistles of Paul and Peter. I realize that they do not seem to be consistent with the Truth that has been declared to you by myself, and by the apostles who have written to you. I desire that you shall understand some of these inconsistencies, and discard from your mind these sayings of the epistles, wherever they do not agree with what we have written, or what we shall write.

In the first place, the continual reference of these epistles to my being God is all wrong, and must not be believed. Also the statement that my blood washes away sin, or that I died on the cross for the salvation of humans, or that I took upon myself the sins of humankind, and thereby relieved them from the burden of their sins and the punishment which they must suffer in expiation of their evil deeds and thoughts.

Again, when it said, that from the beginning, the Father had foreordained my death on the cross, that humans might be redeemed from the penalties of sin, and in all humans who lived thereafter, are all wrong. Have no foundation as facts in the Plan of God for the Salvation of Human, and the restoring of the Harmony of His Universe, and the eradication of all sin and error from the World.

Neither Paul, nor Peter, wrote these things. Never did I teach them. They are not in accord with the Great Plan of Salvation (of the Father). The further away, will be the realization by humans, of the Truth of the Only Plan the Father has provided for their Redemption, which I came to Earth to declare, and explain to my apostles first, and then to the whole World.

In these epistles, too much emphasis is given to the importance of faith and works. I mean faith, in the mere beliefs, which these epistles taught, followed by works, and not enough importance to the Foundation Truth of Human's Redemption from sin and becoming reconciled to the Father. I mean, the New Birth, by the inflowing into their souls of the Divine Love of the Father through the Ministrations of the Holy Spirit.

Many of their teachings, as to human's conduct towards human, and as to the lives that the recipients of these Truths should lead, as effecting their own purification and becoming in a condition of righteousness, are True. Are as applicable to the conduct and living of humans today, as they were in the days in which the apostles taught. When the epistles teach, or lead humans, in any particular, to understand that these, what may be called merely Moral Principles, will enable a human by their observance, to enter into the Kingdom of God, or the Celestial Kingdom, they are false and misleading. Humans, when they become spirits, will realize that while leading the lives which these teachings call them to lead, they will become very happy, and occupy conditions and positions in the Spirit World that will make their happiness far superior to that which they enjoy on Earth, and even enable them to become occupants of Higher Spiritual Spheres. Yet, they will never be permitted to enter the Celestial Kingdom of the Father, which can only be attained to by the possession of Divine Love.

So I say, humans must understand, and realize, the difference between the results to them from leading merely Good and Moral Lives, which affect and develop the Natural Love, and those results which ensue from the New Birth.

I have attempted to explain to you why the Great and Important Truth of my Mission to Earth, as I explained it to my apostles, and as was taught by them and written by them, was not preserved and contained in the Bible, as now written and accepted by the church as canonical. The great desire in those days was to show and impress upon humans, those teachings which affected their conduct on Earth. To hold out to them the rewards that would follow such living, and also the rewards which would follow their lives in the Spirit World, which would become their homes after death. As I have said, the leading of lives in accordance with these teachings would ensure humans a great happiness in the Spirit World, but not the Happiness, which my teachings (of Divine Love and the New Birth), if observed, would lead to.

In the various copying and compilations of the writings of the apostles, many changes from the originals were made. Those persons who performed this work, and I mean by this, the dignitaries and rulers of the church, did not know the difference between those things, which would bring about a purification of the Natural Love, and those things, which were necessary to fit a soul for entrance into the Celestial Kingdom of Heaven. Hence, when they came to perform this work, they made the error of teaching, that the living of the Moral Life would entitle the soul to a reward, which they supposed would be the Kingdom of Heaven and Immortality.

This erroneous teaching has prevented many a human from gaining the right to the Celestial Kingdom of Heaven, as they honestly and sincerely believed would be theirs, when they came to pass into the Spirit World.

Many of these teachings are intended to make a reformation in the lives of humans, and to purge their souls from sin and error, so far as the Natural Love forms a part of the condition of the soul. I taught these Moral Truths, to a very large extent, for such teachings were necessary, because human's will were out of Harmony with God's Laws, which affected the Natural Love, as well as out of Harmony with the Laws that affected the Divine Love of the Father. It is the object and Plan of God, to bring into Harmony both of these Loves. Thereby, enable humans to enjoy those things which are provided and waiting for them.

As I said when on Earth: "Narrow is The Way, and strait is the gate, which leads to Life Everlasting. Few there be, that enter therein.", I repeat now. For it is apparent, from the observation of the way in which humankind, from the beginning, have exercised their wills, which God leaves free to their own volition, that a vast majority of humans will never enter in at the strait gate, but be contented to live in the Spheres and happiness, which their Natural Love, in its Perfect State, and progress, will fit them for.

That all humans will ultimately be brought into Harmony with God, in either the Natural Love, or in the Higher One, is certain. That all sin and error will finally be eradicated from God's Universe is decreed. But, the time will depend to a great extent, upon the wills and desires of humans. Hence, while my great mission in coming to Earth and teaching humans, was to show The Way to the Celestial Kingdom, yet a lesser part of my mission was to teach them a way to their redemption from sin and error that would result in the purification of the Natural Love. To my great regret, and to the untold injury to human, my Moral Teachings, were more at large, set forth in portions of the Bible, as now accepted, than were my Teachings of the Higher Truths.

I will not write more tonight but will continue later.

Well my dear brother, I see that you are in a much better condition Spiritually than you have been for some time. You must thank the Father for it. Your conception of last night's experience is True. You received a wonderful amount of the Divine Love. I was with you in Love and blessing. So continue to pray and trust in the Father. You will realize a wonderful happiness, power and peace.

I must stop now.

Your brother and friend, Jesus.

January 11th, 1916

I am here, Jesus.

I will continue my discourse of last night.

I was saying; that the Jews, and the teachers of the church that became established, or rather controlled, after the death of my followers, and those who understood the True Teachings of my disciples, taught the conduct of humans towards their fellow humans, and the observance of certain ceremonies and feasts were the important things for humans to learn and practice in order to gain salvation, rather than the Truths, which made human A Child of the Father, and At-One with Him, through the operations of the New Birth.

Of course, before my coming, the Jews could not have taught the Truth of the New Birth. Because, the Great Gift of the Re-Bestowal of the Divine Love had not been made. It was not possible for that Great Truth, which was necessary for Immortality, and the possibility of human's partaking of God's Divine Love, to be known to the Jews. Hence, they could not teach it. Their teachings were limited, and confined, to the things, which would make them Purer in their Natural Love, and in the relation of that Natural Love to the Father.

God, at that time, while He never gave them the Privilege of becoming At-One with Him in the Divine Love, or even of becoming such beings in their character and Spiritual Qualities as were Adam and Eve, commonly supposed to be our First Parents, yet did require of them obedience to His Laws, which would develop in them their Natural Love to such a degree, as would cause it to become in Harmony with His Laws that controlled and governed their Natural Love.

If you will study the Ten Commandments, you will see that these commandments deal only with the Natural Love. By their observance would tend to make humans better in that Natural Love, in their conduct with one another, and in their relationship to God, so far as that Natural Love brought them in communion with Him. This Natural Love, as I have said, was possessed by humans, just as the First Parents possessed it, and was never taken from them. In its Purity, was in Perfect Harmony with God's Creation, and the Workings of His Universe. Not withstanding these great qualities, humans were mere humans, and had in them no part of the Divinity of the Father. This being so, the Jews, while they were supposed to be more in contact with God, through the prophets and seers, than were any of the other races, or sects, of God's Children, yet, never looked for a Messiah that would come with any other, or greater, power, than that which would enable them to become the great ruling nation of the Earth to whom all other peoples would be subordinated and subjected, and powerless to ever again conquer, or subject their nation to bondage. In a way, this Messiah was to be a kind of supernatural being, having power, which no other human ever had. A kind of god to be worshiped, and served in their earthly lives.

Many of the Jews, notwithstanding what may be said to the contrary, and the teachings of the prophets, believed in other gods, than the one, which Moses declared, as is evidenced in their histories, both sacred, and secular. For whenever their God, that is, the God of Moses, did not treat them just as they thought He should, they would create and worship other gods, even the golden calf. So I say, they never expected a Messiah who would be other than a most powerful ruler on Earth.

Their ideas and beliefs of the Life after death were very hazy. Even that part of them known as the Pharisees, who believed in a kind of resurrection, never conceived that when they should drop the Mortal Life, they would be anything different in their qualities and characters from what they were as mortals, minus the physical bodies, and the great increased happiness, which would come to them as such mortals, changed in their appearances.

This was the idea of the common people. Also of the priests and scribes. Notwithstanding the many Beautiful and Spiritual Psalms, ascribed to David, the happiness, or glory, that they might expect, was only that which would come to them as Spiritualized mortals having only the Natural Love.

So you see, the Great Gift of the Father, that is the Re-Bestowal of the Divine Love, was not known, or even dreamed of, by the Jews. Nor conceived of, nor taught by their scribes, nor even by their great prophets, or lawgivers, such as Moses, Elias, and others. Their conception of God was that of an exalted personal being, All-Powerful, and All Knowing. One whom they would be able to see face to face, as they might any king, or ruler, when they should come into the Heavens, which he had prepared for them, and where He had His Habitation.

I will defer the writing until later.

Jesus.

January 12th, 1916

I am here, Jesus.

I will continue my discourse.

As I was saying, the chief object of my Mission on Earth was to teach the Re-Bestowal of the Divine Love upon human, and The Way to obtain it. The secondary object was to teach humans those Moral Truths, which would tend to make them better in their conduct towards their fellowman, and Purer in their Natural Love.

So it is, that in my teachings of these Moral Truths, the effect of these teachings was to bring human more in Harmony with the Laws of the Father, which control the operations of the Natural Love. I never, at any time, intended that humans should understand that these Moral Truths would bring about their Union with the Father in the Divine Sense. Or, that the possession of this Natural Love, in its Purest State, would enable human to become a partaker of God's Divine Nature, or an inhabitant of His Celestial Kingdom.

As I have said, the only object, apparently, that these compilers and writers of the Bible had to accomplish, was to persuade humans, that the observance of these Moral Teachings in their conduct was all that was necessary to enable them to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.

I know that it is said that Love, almsgiving, and kind deeds, will work to a human's Salvation. Enable them to become at one with the Father, and to enjoy the Presence of God in the High Heavens. This is not True. The good deeds, which humans perform, in the way of helping their fellow human will live after them. Will undoubtedly work towards a human becoming Perfect in their Natural Love. They will not bring that human in At-Onement with the Father in the Higher Love, which is so necessary to their Full Salvation.

My messages to you, while they will not take one jot, or tittle, from the Moral Teachings, yet, they will show to human the necessity, and The Way, to obtain a full reconciliation with the Father, and a home in the Celestial Spheres.

I will come to you again, and write upon a subject which is important to you, and which humans should understand.

So with all my Love, I will say goodnight.

Your brother and friend, Jesus.

January 13th, 1916

I am here, Luke.

I want to tell you tonight of the Mystery of the Birth of the soul in the human being.

All souls, which enter into mortal bodies, are previous to such advent, real living existences, made in the likeness of the Great Soul, though not having the Qualities and Potentialities of that Soul. Also, not having the form of individualized personality that they have, after they become parts of the composition or form of the mortal, and spiritual, bodies of human beings.

The soul, in its existence prior to becoming an indweller in the mortal body, has a Consciousness of its existence, of its relationship to God, to other parts of the Great Soul, and more especially of the duplex character of its being. By this I mean the sexual differences in the two parts of the soul, which, in the way that they are united, constitutes the one complete soul.

When the time comes for this soul to become an indweller in the mortal frame, the two parts that I speak of, separate. Only one of the parts enters, at the same time, into a mortal, and never into the same mortal. While this separation is necessary for the individualization of each part of this one complete soul, yet the two parts never lose that interrelationship, or the binding qualities that existed before their separation, which continue to exist thereafter. In the great future, after the work of individualization shall be completed, will come together again and reunite in a complete one.

This separation may exist a longer or shorter time, depending upon the similar development of those similar qualities, that is absolutely necessary in order that this coming together in the Original One, as it were, may take place.

While, as I have said, this soul, before its separation has a Consciousness of its existence, and when its duplex character leaves it, or rather leaves the two separated parts, and thereafter, until its reentrance into the spirit world, does not again return to these parts. In order to regain this Consciousness, it is not necessary that both of these parts at the same time shall come again into the Spirit Life. If one part becomes a spirit, free from the physical body, and the other part remains in the mortal body, that part that comes into the Spirit World may receive the Awakening to this Consciousness, depending upon certain conditions and developments.

It often happens that both these parts will return to the Spirit World, yet, for a long time, live as spirits without having a restoration of this Consciousness, because of various reasons that may exist. The conditions of the development of the two parts, may be so vastly different that the realization of this Consciousness may be wholly impossible. Very often, it is the case that when these two individualized parts are informed that they are the soulmates of each other, they will not believe that information, and live on in utter indifference to the fact.

Ultimately, the Consciousness of their relationship will come to them, because their development, no matter whether intellectual, or spiritual, will tend towards the Awakening of this Consciousness, which is always present with them, although dormant.

Now, as to what this soul is in its constituent parts, shape, or form, prior to its separation for the purpose of becoming an inhabitant of the mortal body, we spirits are not informed, and do not know. We are often present at the conception. Also, the birth of a child. Realize that a soul has become enveloped in the flesh. We cannot see that soul as it enters into that home of mortal environment. Because, as to us, it is invisible, and has no form. After its lodgment in the human body, we can perceive it, and realize its existence. For then it assumes a form, and that form varies, in different incarnations, or in the incarnations in different humans.

We have never seen the Soul of God, although we know that there is this Great Oversoul. Hence, we cannot see the soul of any image of the Great Soul, until it becomes, as I say, individualized.

I know that humans have often wondered, and asked the question, as to the preexistence of the soul that has been incarnated. What qualities and attributes it had during its preexistence? As to these particulars, I wish to say, that we spirits, although we are inhabitants of God's Celestial Heavens, have little information, though we know that the soul, and I mean the complete soul in oneness, has an existence prior to its becoming individualized. You may ask, how we know this? Well, it will be hard to explain this to you, so that you may comprehend. This I can say, that we spirits, of the Higher Soul Development (in Divine Love) can, by our soul perceptions, understand the existence of these souls as images of the Great Soul. The qualities of these images are such, that while we cannot sensibly, as you would say, see these souls, or their dualities, yet we are Conscious of their existence. To use an illustration, that is not altogether appropriate, you understand that the wind blows, yet you cannot see it.

We further understand, and such is the result of our observations, that when the soul, and keep in mind that I mean the two parts when I say soul, once becomes incarnated, and assumes an individualized form, it never thereafter loses that individuality. Hence, never again returns to its condition of preexistence. Can never again become reincarnated in the existence of any human being.

There is no such thing as reincarnation! All the theories and speculations of humans, upon that question, which conclude that a soul once incarnated can again become incarnated, are wrong. The incarnation of a soul is only one step in its destined progress from an invisible formless existence, to a Glorious Angel, or to a Perfected Spirit. A soul in this progress never retraces its steps. It is always progress, though sometimes stagnation takes place, but continues as an individualized spirit, until it reaches its goal in fulfillment of the Father's Plan for the Perfecting of His Universe.

This is a subject that is difficult of treatment, for several reasons, among which is the fact that we spirits, no matter how high our attainments, do not have the information, in order to give a full and complete description of the soul, and its qualities, prior to its incarnation. You mortals are not capable of comprehending the Full Truth, as we may try to convey it to you.

I have made this effort, to give you some faint idea of the soul, as you are in good condition tonight to receive my ideas. I realize how inadequate my attempt has proved to be. From it, you can understand that the soul has an existence, prior to its finding its home in the physical body. That it is duplex, and has a Consciousness of the relationship of its two parts. That after it has received the experience of the Mortal Life, and received an individuality, it returns to the Spirit World. That at some time that Consciousness will come to it again, the two parts will become one, unless in the development of these separate parts have arisen barriers that may prevent their reuniting. Further, that this soul will never again retrace the steps of its progression and become reincarnated.

I will now close. With my Love and blessings, say goodnight.

Your brother in Christ, Luke.

15th January 1916

I am here, Jesus.

I come tonight to tell you that you are in a very much better condition than you have been for sometime. Your rapport with us is so very much greater, that I feel that I should write you a message upon an important subject, which is vital to the Salvation of Human from the sins and errors of their Life on Earth. I will write a portion of what I desire to write.

Well, I will first say that there are so many men and women on the Earth, who believe, or assert that they believe, that through their own efforts, they can develop those soul qualities, which are necessary to bring them in accord with the Soul of the Father, that I find that the task of convincing these persons of the errors of their beliefs, or assumption of beliefs, will be a very great one. This task will not be confined to those who have given real and deep study to the Mysteries of Life, both on Earth, and thereafter, but also to a much greater number who have a kind of smattering of this supposed knowledge, which the wiser, or more learned, publish to the World, as a result of their investigations.

It is more difficult to convince the ignorant, who think that they know the Laws of Being, and the Plan of the Workings of God's Universe, than to convince those who have given sincere thoughtful study to the same. Because the latter, generally, as they progress in their investigations, become convinced that the more they should know as a result of their investigations, the less they really know.

I do not know, just what is the most important subject for comment tonight, relating to these matters. For there are so many, all which I must, at same time instruct you about. I will write tonight about "The relationship of human to The Creation of the World, and The Origin of Life."

Your Bible says; in the beginning, God Created the Heavens and the Earth, etc., out of a void, and continued that Creation, until there was a Perfect Heaven, with all its glories, and a Perfect Earth, with inhabitants of every kind. All Perfect, and Made just as an All Wise and All Powerful God would Create. As a climax to all, human, who was so Perfect that they were made in the image of their Creator.

Well, this story is just as good and satisfactory as any that has been conceived and written by human, and is just as worthy of belief. As a fact, it is not True. There never was a time or period when there was a "void" in the Universe, or when there was chaos.

God never Created anything out of "nothing". His Creations, such as are perceived by, and known to humans, were merely the change in form, or composition, of what had already existed, and always will exist as elements, though there will undoubtedly be changes in form, appearance, and in constituent elements, in their relation to one another.

God was always Existent! A Being, without beginning, which idea the finite (human) mind, I know, cannot grasp. But it is True. So also everything, which is in the Universe today, always existed, though not in form and composition, as they now are. As they are, they will not continue to be, for Change Eternal is the Law of His Universe. I mean, as to all things, which may be spoken of as having a substance, whether they be material, or ethereal.

Of course, His Truths never change. Neither do the Laws, by which the Harmony of the Universe is preserved and continued Perfect.

Now, the Earth on which you live did not always have an existence, as an Earth. Neither did the firmament, and the great galaxy of planets and stars. They were not created out of nothing. Neither was there chaos. For in God's Economy of Being, there is never any chaos, which if it should be, would mean the absence of the workings of His Laws and Harmony.

The Earth, and the firmament were Created. At one time they had no existence as such. At a coming time, they may cease to have such existence. This Creation was in an Orderly Way according to Design, with no element of chance entering into it. Such Creation was not through, what your wise humans may call accretion, or evolution, that is self-evolution. For every new or additional exponent, of growth, or manifestations of increase, was the result of God's Laws, which he operated in the Creation of the Creature.

There is no such thing as self-evolution, or that development, which arises from the unassisted growth of the thing developed. This applies to All Nature, as well as to human. To grow, to become nearer Perfection, implies the decay, and disappearance of some elements, which have performed their missions and work in the growth of the thing Created. Never do the same elements continue in the development of that, which the Laws in their operations, bring to greater and greater Perfection.

In all this Work of Creation, there are Laws of Disintegration and Apparent Retrogression operating, as well as Laws of Positive Construction and Advancement. Again, these former Laws do not operate by chance, but by Design, just as do the latter class of Laws. The All Creator Knows, when for the purpose of bringing forth the Perfect Creature, be they human, animal, vegetable, or mineral, the Laws of Decay and Retrogression, as well as the Laws of Advancement and Increased Effectiveness, shall operate. He never makes a mistake in setting into operation these Laws. Never pronounces the result of His Work, "Not good."

As has been said, a thousand years are as a day with God. While for many long years it may appear to human, there are retrogression and delay in bringing to Perfection, a Creature of the Creator's Works, yet that apparent retrogression is not such a fact. Only a course, or method, adopted for bringing forth the Higher, or Greater Perfection. I know it is difficult to explain these Workings of Creation to the finite, earthy mind, but you may grasp some conception of what I desire to make known.

Human, in their Creation, was not the slow growth, as were some of the other Creations of God, but was from, and at the beginning, Made Perfect, with the exception of the Qualities of Divinity and Immortality. They did not grow from a lower Creature, as some of your scientists have proclaimed, by the slow process of evolution, and this a self-evolution, resulting from inherent qualities, which were developed by experience. They were Created the Perfect Human.

I will stop for the present.

Your brother and friend, Jesus.

January 16th, 1916

I am here, Hannah Somerville.

I am the spirit of one who lived on Earth the Life of a leader of a sect that believed in the resurrection of the body, and the eternal punishment of those who refused to believe in the vicarious atonement of Jesus and his sacrificial death.

I have been in the Spirit World a great many years. I have long ago learned the great errors of my beliefs and teachings. Now know that the earthly body does not rise again, and Jesus did not make a vicarious atonement, nor did his death on the cross satisfy the justice and demands of an angry god.

I know that other spirits have written you this same denial of a false belief. I wanted to do so also, for I realize to such a great extent how harmful such beliefs are. I was in the Spirit World a long time before I was relieved of these beliefs. I stood still in my progress for many years waiting to be called to heaven and meet my Lord face to face, and receive from him the great commendation of, "Well done, good and faithful servant." I received no such call. I never got any nearer to God, apparently, than when I first entered the Spirit World. All this time I was in such a condition that I was not susceptible to the teachings of other spirits who know the Truth, and attempted to show me the errors of my belief.

This may seem strange to you. I want to tell you that the conviction of a strong belief is one that is not easily removed, or shaken. I did not find any greater and convincing force in the assertions and arguments of spirits, than I would have found in the arguments of mortals, had I remained on Earth.

I saw many spirits, and talked with them. They told me that Jesus was not God, but merely a spirit like myself, only the perfect one. I would not believe, for my Earth belief could not be shaken.

I even saw a spirit who said he was Jesus, and that I must not believe in him as God, or in any vicarious atonement. Yet I would not be convinced of my errors.

This Earth belief is a wonderful thing when it once possesses a human as it did me. So many spirits have suffered from it, as I suffered.

At last, the Light came to me. My soul was set free to progress to the Higher Spheres. How much time I lost, and how much unhappiness I needlessly endured, I cannot tell you. Now I am in a Celestial Sphere, where I Know that Jesus made no vicarious atonement and is not God, but my Loving elder brother.

I have never written before. I wanted very much to write. Your band was kind enough to let me do so. My name was Hannah Somerville. I lived in England, and died in 1682.

I have forgotten the name, but it was a sect of dissenters. Yes, and I have given you my correct name. Yes, I can. I believe and know that Jesus was, and is, the son of God, and the most Beloved Son too.

I will say goodnight. Hannah Somerville.

January 16th, 1916

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

I come tonight to tell you of a Truth that is important for humans to know, which you must place in your Book of Truths.

I have written you before on my alleged writings, as they are contained in the Bible, which, as I have said, were not written by me as they there appear.

I desire tonight to write for a short time on the subject of the "Resurrection," because, as I see, the church doctrine of the resurrection is founded more on what is ascribed to me, than on the writings of the Gospels, though the latter also contain a basis for the doctrine.

I never said there would be a resurrection of the physical body, nor of the individual clothed in any body of flesh. My teachings were; that human at death would rise in a Spiritual body, and that not a new one made for the special occasion of their departure from the material body, but one that had been with them through Life, and that came into an individualized form when they first became a living being. This spirit body is necessary to human's existence, and is that part of them which contains their senses, and is the seat of their reasoning powers.

Of course, the organs of the physical are necessary for the utilization of these senses. Without these organs, there could be no manifestations of the senses, which are inherent in the spirit body. Even if a human should lose the perfect workings of his physical organs of sight, yet the power of seeing would still exist in them, although they might not be able to realize that fact. This same Principle applies to the hearing, and the other senses.

So when human loses their physical organs, which are necessary for them to see with, they are dead as to sight. Just as dead as they ever become, with reference to all the other organs of sense, when the whole physical body dies. Were it possible to restore these physical organs that are necessary to enable them to see, or hear, they would be able to see and hear, just as they were before their loss. The restoration of these organs does not, of itself, bring them the power to see and hear, but merely enables the faculties of sight and hearing to again use the organs for the purpose of manifesting the powers, which are in, and a part of, the spirit body.

When the whole physical body dies, the spirit body, at the very time of death, becomes resurrected, with all these faculties, of which I have spoken. Thereafter, continues to live free and unencumbered from the material body, which, these organs being destroyed, can no longer perform the objects of its Creation. It becomes dead. Thereafter never has any resurrection as such material body. Although, its elements, or parts, do not die, but in the workings of God's Laws, enter upon other, and new functioning's, though never that of reuniting and forming again the body that has died.

So the resurrection of the body, as taught by me, is the resurrection of the spiritual body, not from death, for it never dies, but from its envelopment in the material form, which had been visible as a thing of apparent Life.

There is a Law controlling the uniting of the two bodies, and the functioning of the powers and faculties of the spirit body through the organs of the physical body, that limits the extent of the operations of these faculties, to those things that are wholly material, or which have the appearance of the material. When I say material, I mean that which is grosser, or more compact, than the spirit body. Thus these faculties of sight of the spirit body, can through the organs of the material body, see what are called ghosts, or apparitions, as well as the more material things, but never, in this way, see things of pure spirit. When it is said that men or women see clairvoyantly, which they do, it is not meant, or is it a fact, that they see through the organs of the physical eyes. On the contrary, this sight is one purely spiritual. Its workings are entirely independent of the material organs.

Now when this body, the material body, dies, the spirit body becomes resurrected, as it is said, free from all the limitations, which its incarnation in the flesh has imposed. It is then able to use all its faculties, without the limitations, or help of the physical organs. As regards the sight, everything in Nature, both material and Spiritual, becomes the object of its vision. That, which the limitations of the material organs prevented its seeing, and which to humans is the unreal and non-existent, becomes the Real and Truly Existing.

This, in short, is what I meant by the resurrection of the body. From this you will realize that the resurrection is not to take place at some unknown day in the future, but at the very moment when the physical body dies, as the Bible says, in the twinkling of an eye. This saying of the Bible, attributed to me, I did write and teach. This resurrection applies to all humankind. All who have ever lived and died have been resurrected. All who shall live hereafter and die will be resurrected.

This resurrection is not the "Great Resurrection", upon which, in my teachings, I declared the Great Truth of Christianity to be founded. This is not the Resurrection of Jesus that I declared, "Without which is our Faith as Christians vain." This is the common resurrection, applicable to all humankind, of every nation and race, whether they have a knowledge of Jesus, or not. Many times, in many nations, has it been demonstrated before the coming of Jesus, that humans had died, and appeared again as Living spirits, in the form of angels and humans, and were recognized by mortal humans, as spirits who had a previous Earth existence.

So I say, this is the resurrection common to all humans. The coming, death and resurrection of Jesus, as taught by the churches, did not bring the Great Resurrection to the knowledge, or comfort, of humans, and did not furnish the True Foundation upon which the True Christian belief and Faith rest.

Many of the infidels, agnostics, and Spiritualists assert and claim, and Truly, that the resurrection of Jesus, as above referred to, was not a new thing. Did not prove to humanity a Future Life, any more convincingly than had been proved before his time by the experiences and observations of humans, and followers of other sects and faiths, and of no faiths at all.

The great weakness of the church today is that they claim, and teach, as the foundation of their faith, and existence, this resurrection of Jesus, as set forth above. The result is; as is plainly and painfully apparent to the churches themselves, that as humans think for themselves, and they are doing more than ever in the History of the World, they refuse to believe in this resurrection, as sufficient to show the superiority of Jesus' coming, mission, and teachings, over those of other reformers and teachers who had preceded him in the World's History of faiths and religions. As a further result, the churches are losing their adherents and believers. Christianity is waning, and rapidly. Agnosticism is increasing and manifesting itself in the forms of free thought societies and Secularism, etc.

Hence, you will see the necessity of making known again to humankind, the True Foundation Stone of the Real Christianity, that the Master came to teach, and which he did teach, but which was lost, as his early followers disappeared from the scene of earthly action and practice. Humans of less Spiritual Insight, and more material desires, with their ambition for power and dominion, became the rulers, guides and interpreters of the church.

There is a Resurrection though, that the Master taught. His apostles, when they came into a Knowledge of, taught, which I, as a humble follower taught, which is vital to human's Salvation, which is the True Foundation of True Christianity, which no other human, angel, or reformer ever before taught, or has since taught.

It is too late tonight to explain this Resurrection. I will come again very soon and try to make it plain to you, and to the World.

I will now say goodnight and God Bless you, and keep you in His Care.

Your brother in Christ, Paul.

January 16th, 1916

I am here, Jesus.

I am pleased that Paul was able to write you so successfully, as he did upon the two subjects, which I know will prove to be interesting to you. The one that Paul wrote about is very vital to the beliefs of human, for upon the question of the resurrection is founded the doctrine of what is called Christianity. I must say that, that foundation, as explained by the orthodox churches, and the commentators on the Bible, is a very weak foundation. Very vulnerable to the assaults of those who are not satisfied with the authority of the Bible, or the explanations of its teachings, as they now exist. Paul will finish this most important message. Let me impress upon you to make the effort to get in the best condition for receiving it correctly.

Well, I will not write more tonight, but only further say, that I am with you in my Love and influence, and trying to help you in the ways of which we have written you.

With all my Love and blessings, I will say goodnight, your brother and friend, Jesus.

January 17th, 1916

I am here, Samuel. Yes, Samuel, the prophet.

Well, I will not write long tonight, as I merely want to say that you are much better in your Spiritual condition. The rapport between us is so much greater than heretofore.

Tonight, I desire to say one word on the subject of my knowledge of; how a soul is born into the flesh and becomes an individualized person.

I heard what Luke wrote you. I agree with him in his explanation of the character and qualities of the soul in its state before its incarnation. I want to add one other thing to what he wrote. That is; that when the soul first separates into its two component parts, and one of these parts enters into the physical body, the other part remains a mere soul, invisible even to us, but having an existence of which we are conscious, and hovers close to the earth plane seeking the opportunity to also incarnate and become individualized. This happens within a short time after the separation from the half that has already incarnated. Of course, when I say a short time, I do not mean in a few months, or even a few years, because sometimes there is a space of several scores of years between the two incarnations. Such time seems short to us who know nothing of time.

The soul which remains, as Luke has told you, as well as the soul that enters the human body, loses its consciousness of having been a part only of One Complete Soul, and of its relationship to the other part of that soul. Exists in the supposition that it is still a complete soul, and needs no other soul to make it complete. This is a provision of the Father's Goodness, so that the soul that continues in its pristine existence will not become lonely or unhappy.

You will naturally ask how I know this. As we have said, these souls are not visible to us. I can only answer, that we spirits who have developed our souls to a high degree, have acquired certain faculties, or what you may call senses, which enable us to know these things. It is not necessary that we should see these unindividualized souls in order to know of their existences, and the qualities that they possess, any more than it is that we should be able to see the Great Oversoul of the Father in order to understand its Qualities, Attributes and Existence. I know it is hard for you to understand this. I cannot now satisfactorily explain it. For your senses of the Earth Life are not capable of comprehending the explanation. What I tell you is True.

We often see the birth of the two parts of the souls into mortals, and know that such souls then, for the first time, assumes a shape and form. For this invisible image of God fills the whole of the spirit body, and from that spirit body assumes, or receives, its form, and thereby becomes individualized. The soul is the Life of the spirit body, and never leaves it during the Earth Life of the mortal, and comes with it at the death of the physical body, and remains a part of it during all the time of the existence of the spirit body in the Spirit World. Whether it can ever become lost is a question upon which I shall write you later. You will remember that Jesus said, according to the Bible, "What does it profit a human to gain the whole world and lose their own soul?"

I will say this though, at this time, that a human may retain their soul as a fact, and yet have a consciousness of having lost it. They are then, as if they had no soul.

I have said to you what I intended to write, because Luke had omitted to speak of the condition of that half of the soul that remained in the Spirit World, after the other half had been incarnated.

Matters of this kind, though, are not important, as regards the Salvation of Human, or the perfecting of their soul, to such a degree that, that soul may become At-One with the Great Soul, having what it did not possess before its seeking a dwelling place in the flesh. That is, the Divine Nature of the Father, and Immortality, as an individualized, never dying person.

As we proceed in these writings, you will understand the importance of the soul's becoming incarnated, and then leaving the flesh, and again returning to the Spirit Spheres. You will also learn that the doctrine of evolution is to an extent correct, but not as commencing from an atom, or from an animal inferior to human. Back of, and greater than, this doctrine of evolution, is the Great and more Divine Doctrine of Involution. For if the soul had not come from above, and been placed in the physical human, there would never have been any evolution. If the soul had never received its individualized existence by coming into the body of the human, it would never have evoluted to the Divine Nature, as well as to the individualized being that follows that incarnation.

When I say the Divine Nature, I do not mean that all souls, either on Earth, or in the Great Eternity, necessarily receive that Divine Nature. Many of them do not and never will. All, no matter whether they come into the Divine Nature, or retain the Nature, which was theirs in their preexistence, will become individualized personalities, which will be theirs, so long as that soul and its spirit body shall continue to exist.

I have written enough for tonight, but will come again and write you other Truths.

So with my Love and blessings, I am, your brother in Christ, Samuel.

January 17th, 1916

I am here, Saint Stephen.

I merely want to say a word on the importance of the subject, which Paul has written on the Resurrection.

This is one of the most Vital Truths in all the Plan of God for the Redemption of Humankind, and for the preservation and existence of the church. When I say church, I do not mean any church, which claims to be the only church of christ, but that invisible church, which is composed of the soul worship of men and women, who have received the Divine Love in their souls. It is not necessary that there be any formation of congregations, and ceremonies of church worship, as humans understand it, but the true, sincere worship of humans, founded on a Knowledge of the Divine Love, and its possession in their souls.

While humans on Earth may never form large congregations, and erect magnificent churches in which to worship the Father with the True Soul Worship and aspirations, yet when they come into the Spirit World, they will find that the Master has established his church in the Eternal Heavens, where none but the Truly Christian can enter, and partake of its Glories and Happiness.

Jesus is the head of that church here in our Celestial Heavens, as he should be of the church on Earth. As he must be, when that church has for its members, only those who have had the Resurrection from sin, error, and death of the soul, into the Knowledge of the Divine Love, and the Life Everlasting. Jesus referred to this Resurrection when he said: "I am the Resurrection and the Life.", and not the resurrection of the body, either physical, or Spiritual.

I see that you are anxious to have these Truths come. I am also anxious, and a coworker.

I will now say goodnight. In doing so, say with all my Love, God Bless you and keep you in His Care now and always.

Your brother in Christ, St. Stephen.

January 19th, 1916

I am here, Your Old Friend, G_____.

I desire to write to you tonight upon a subject, which I think will be interesting. It is so late now I hesitate to do so.

Well, as you think it will be all right, I will do so. I want to write on the subject of the soul's progression, as I have experienced it.

As you know, when I first came into the Spirit World, I was an unbeliever in things pertaining to the soul, except that I thought that the soul, which in my then opinion was the equivalent of that part of human, which survived death, would continue to exist, and progress, as the mental qualities of the human should be developed. That the mind was the great and only thing in the future existence, and as the mind was developed more and more on Earth, the condition of the human in their progression would be determined.

I had no conception of the soul, as a distinct and independent existence from the mind. I thought that all the qualities and attributes of the mind were those, which belong to the soul, and that I had none others. So, I say, I entered the Spirit World, and did not change my beliefs until a long time after I became a spirit.

As I continued to live in the Spirit World in this belief, I found that the mental faculties, and their development, did not bring to me the satisfaction, which I had anticipated. Also, I met some of my friends of Earth, who had preceded me by long years, humans of great mental acquirements. I found that their condition were not as satisfactory a nature as I had led myself to believe that they should be. For many of these friends were only in the Earth Plane. Some were in darkness, which was wholly contrary to what they should be, if my theory of the allness of the mind was True. All this caused me to think, and in thinking, I commenced to realize that there might be something wrong in my theory, and that the soul might be a distinct thing from the mind, in its Nature and functions.

I did not find that these intellectual friends of mine had any very great happiness, nor were they satisfied with their conditions. Yet they could not, by the exercise of any mental progress, get out of their condition of darkness. Of course, they were engaged in pursuing studies of one kind or another, and such studies gave them considerable happiness and satisfaction. Yet, notwithstanding all this, there was some restraining force that prevented them from going to Spheres, higher than they were then living in.

I found that there were Higher Spheres, where the mind was developed to a much greater degree, and where many spirits who believed in the supremacy of the mind, lived and enjoyed the pursuits of their studies. At times, some of these spirits would come to our Plane and tell of the wonderful development and happiness in these Higher Spheres, and urge us to make the effort to progress and become inhabitants of them. You may be assured we were willing and anxious to make such progress. But try as I would, and as my friends would, the efforts produced no visible effect. We continued in darkness.

Being of an inquisitive nature, I sought for the reason of our inability to get out of the darkness. At last, found that the mind was not everything, but the development of the Moral Qualities were necessary to enable us to progress as we desired, and that in order to develop these qualities, something more than the mere exercise of the mental faculties were required.

Conscience must be satisfied. Our recollection of evil deeds on Earth must be gotten rid of. Our qualities of soul, which determined our position and condition in the Spirit World, must be so adjusted to the demands of the Laws of Harmony, so that we could be able to advance in our progress, to that place which such adjustment would entitle us to occupy.

I further found that the darkness, in which we lived, was not created by any defective condition of the mind. For many spirits, whose minds were highly cultivated, and possessed of unusual knowledge, were in just as much darkness as were many spirits of very meager mentality and information.

All this knowledge came to me, and caused me to seek a way to improve my Moral Nature, and to get rid of the recollections of those things, which tainted and darkened such Nature. I sought very diligently. But it was slow work, and the efforts required were great. But some progress was made. If I had continued long enough, and used my will powers in urging the cultivation of kind thoughts, Love for the True, and affection, etc., I would undoubtedly have progressed from darkness. This had been the experience of many spirits, who believed as I did, that the mind was the thing, and depended upon their own will and exertions to bring the desired results.

While in this condition of struggle and slow progress, I would occasionally meet spirits who seemed to be of a Higher Order, and more beautiful than was I. Naturally, I wondered what the cause was. Although, strange as it may seem to you, I never made the inquiry, until one day I met some of our folks, who had this beautiful appearance, and seemed to be so Perfectly Happy.

Naturally, in our conversation, I asked them the cause of their happiness. When they told me, I was so surprised that I gave very little credence to what they said. Because, what they told me was so similar to what I had heard on Earth, in the orthodox churches, that I supposed that these friends had brought with them their old orthodox faiths and emotions, and were deceiving themselves, as to the cause of their appearances, and that the probable cause was that they were more moral than I when on Earth. Hence, their recollections of Earthly sins were less, and conscience was not so severe on them, therefore they had gotten out of their darkness into Light, with the resultant appearance of beauty and happiness. I would not, at first, accept their explanations of the cause of their conditions, and continued for sometime longer, in the effort to improve my moral condition and advance in my mental acquirements.

There was one other thing, I noticed. That is, that while these beautiful friends had not the mental development, apparently, that some other spirits who had progressed out of the darkness into the Higher Spheres of Light, yet the beauty, and seeming happiness of these friends, were so much greater, and of a different Nature from the happiness and appearance of those more highly mentally developed spirits.

Again, I thought, and concluded that even moral and mental development could not explain the cause of the difference between the appearances and happiness of these friends, and those of these more mentally developed spirits. So I again determined to seek the cause. As a consequence, I sought these friends, with the intention and desire to listen more seriously to what they might tell me, and to open my mind to the secret as it was to me.

Well, I listened to them. They told me that their progress and condition was caused by the Soul Development, which they had received in seeking for, and obtaining, the Divine Love of the Father. That the soul is the great and important part of being spirits. That the condition of the Soul Development determines the position, appearance and happiness of the spirit. That the spirit body and mind are both subordinate to the soul, and whenever the mind submits to the control of the soul, and the will of the mind, as you may say, to the will of the soul, that then, the progress to the Highest Sphere will commence. The spirit who is thus progressing, will show the state of their advancement, by the appearance of their beauty and happiness.

They further explained to me the Nature and Power of the Divine Love, and Its great developing potentialities. The absolute necessity of Its entering into, and possessing, the soul, in order for it to make its greatest progress. That, as this Divine Love became more and more a part of the soul's possessions, the soul took on itself the Divine Nature of the Father. All these things which had a lodgment therein, and which tended to make it dark and sinful, disappeared. As these things disappeared, the soul mounted to Higher Spheres, and became happier and more beautiful. The spiritual body correspondingly manifested this happiness and beauty.

All these things and many more, these friends told me, urged me to seek for the Divine Love of the Father, and offered in every way to help me. At first, I could not understand what seeking this Divine Love meant. They took great pains to instruct me, and told me that only through prayer and Faith would it come to me. That while this Divine Love was waiting to fill the soul of every spirit, and anxious to do so, yet only by earnest, sincere, seeking would It enter the soul and fill it with Its Great Essence.

At last, they persuaded me to pray to the Father, and then prayed with me. It was hard to have Faith in that, which my mind did not understand and could not grasp. But they said, the soul has its faculties, and is not dependent upon the mind for this Faith. Upon my exercising these soul faculties, would depend the question of my receiving this Divine Love, and this Faith. For as Divine Love came, Faith would come also, which Faith was not a mere mental belief, but something greater and different.

Well, I continued to pray for this Divine Love. After awhile, I felt a sensation, which I had never felt before within my soul. As I prayed this feeling increased. Faith, in a small degree, came to me. I realized that there was a Love possessing me that was never with me before. I continued thus to seek and pray, until at last, this Great Love came to me in great abundance, flooding as it were, my whole soul. Happiness unspeakable came to me, and as these friends said, Light and Beauty also.

Well you can imagine that my longings and desires became insatiable. The darkness disappeared. My recollections of the evils of my Life became fainter and fainter. Suddenly, I found myself in the Third Sphere, which then appeared to me to be the very heaven of heavens, and the very fountainhead of beauty and happiness.

Now during all this time, and it was not accomplished in a day, I gave no attention to the development of my mind, or to the acquiring of knowledge of the material things, as I might say, of the Spirit World. When I found myself in the beautiful Sphere that I have mentioned, it seemed to me that my mental faculties had expanded beyond all possibilities of belief, and knowledge of things that I had never before heard, or conceived of, came to me with wonderful clearness.

The soul, and not the mind was the thing! And Love, this Divine Love of the Father, made happiness mine, and everything beautiful and satisfying. They who seeks only the development of the mind, and lets the soul slumber are poor indeed. But they who seek the development of the soul, finds that as their soul develops, their mind does also, and rich they are beyond compare.

Well, I continued in this Soul Development. In the increased happiness, and the attainment of great brightness, and more than all, the possessions of this Great Love, until I passed through the Fifth Sphere, where everything was much more beautiful, and Love so more abundant than in the Third Sphere, and entered the Seventh Sphere, where I now am. I will not attempt to tell you the glories of this Sphere, for I feel that words are inadequate to do so. Then in a faint, unsatisfying way, have I attempted to rehearse to you the Soul's Development, and the wholly sufficient thing that it is.

My advice to all mortals, based on my own personal experience, is to seek with all their might, and earnest efforts, the development of the soul, and that of the mind will follow. This they can commence while yet on Earth. They will find, that progress after they have crossed the borderline, will be much more rapid and easier.

Well, it is late. I have written long enough. I wanted so much to write to you tonight upon this subject of the Soul Development, as I see its vital importance to the future happiness of human, and to their Immortality.

So with all my Love and blessings, I am, your brother in Christ, G ____.

January 21st, 1916

I am the spirit of Galileo. I come to you to tell you a few things pertaining to the Spirit World of science.

When on Earth, I thought that my invention of the telescope was a most wonderful thing, and that it would revolutionize human's knowledge of astronomy and the solar system. To some extent it did. But what I saw and anticipated then was as a mere drop in the bucket to what I have learned of these matters since I have been in the Spirit World, not bound by the limitations of space and sight.

I have explored these heavens, among the planets and the stars, and have discovered many Truths in reference to them, not even conceived of by humans. I desire to come sometimes and describe to you, and explain to you, these hidden Truths, so that human may have an enlarged conception of the Great God, whose Creatures they all are. It is too late tonight to commence my discourse. With your permission, I will come at a later date.

I live in the Sixth Sphere, where the intellect rules supreme and the wisdom of the ages is congregated.

Yes, I have seen Jesus. Sometimes he comes to our Spheres. He is not so much interested in these scientific matters, as in disseminating the Divine Love, as he calls it. I do not know what this is. I am not much interested, as I find great happiness in the pursuit of my studies of the material universe.

I will stop now and say goodnight. Galileo.

January 21st, 1916

I am here, Prof. Salyards.

I am here. I have waited a long time for you to give me the opportunity to write. Now I fear it is too late to write, as I desired to do.

I was not with you, and of course do not know why you did not come earlier. I suppose you had some good reason for not doing so. Hence, I make no complaint at the delay.

Well, do you think that we had better try to write tonight! Under that condition, I will try to give you my ideas on a certain topic, which I have had under consideration for some time, intending to give you the results at the first opportunity. I hope that I may be able to do so, in an intelligent manner. I desire to write you about the importance of learning that Law is the unchangeable factor in determining the status of humans on Earth, and spirits in this Life. When I speak of Law, I mean the Laws established by God, at the time of the Creation of Human, which ever since that time has been in continuous, unchangeable existence, operating upon the same condition of facts, at all times, in the same way, and producing the same results.

I have been in the Spirit World now for some years. From having given considerable of my time to the study of these Laws, their influences, and dominating effect upon humankind in their relationship to one another, and to God, my investigation has resulted in the discovery of many important Truths, which humans should know, and attempt to apply the benefits of, to themselves, and to their relation to one another, as members of society.

First, let me say that in compliance with these Laws, humans should observe the rights and duties, which all humans possess, are under obligation to perform to one another, and to try with all their best efforts to understand.

There are many of these Laws operating upon these rights and duties of humans. To know them, humans are obliged to study first the rights of others, then the rights of themselves, and in applying these Laws, the rights of the former are of no greater importance than the rights of the latter. These rights are correlative. An understanding of these rights is necessary, in order for humans to understand the relative duties resting upon them.

I feel that this subject is one that is in its nature, very dry. Yet it is of no less importance to the well being of human, than are many Truths of much seeming greater importance.

These Laws are, I know, to a very large extent, not comprehended by humans, nor are these rights that I speak of. Yet, if humans will only attempt to get into the right attunement with the Father, they can understand the Laws, and the rights and duties, without much fear of making mistakes in their comprehensions. I will not tonight go into great detail, because it would require too long a writing. I merely write in this general way as a preliminary to what I desire to write hereafter on the subject indicated.

So if I stop now and wait until I have more time for entering into the spirit and heart of my theme you will not be disappointed.

So if you will excuse me I will stop now.

Your old friend and teacher, Joseph H. Salyards.

January 21st, 1916

I am here, Helen.

Well, sweetheart, we were somewhat disappointed tonight that we could not have the opportunity to write as we had agreed. You were also, I know. I was with you at Mrs. Miller's. I saw and heard what took place. While there was nothing very edifying in the proceedings, yet it was a little enjoyable, because of the great number of spirits who were present and their evident happiness in being able to communicate.

The spirit who was writing through you, was one that I did not know, and who was of the lower planes, and had not much of the development.

The guides of Mrs. Miller actually talked through her. Minnie is a very cute and Spiritual little Indian, and is very faithful to her medium.

The other Mrs. Miller was much interested. The advice given her by Rolling Cloud is good. If she will procure the medicine, and give it to her mother, she will find some relief. These Indians know a great deal about healing. Very often, help mortals in their sickness. Yes, she was very anxious to hear about the prospects of her becoming a free woman. While I can hardly blame her, yet, the spirits are not permitted, or inclined, to give much comfort to mortals who have in their souls the desires that she had.

I know the condition of Mr. Miller. It is a very precarious one. He may die at any moment. His heart is not in a good condition. His kidneys are very much diseased. Worse than that, he is obsessed by a wicked drunken spirit, who will not let him get out of their power, if they can prevent it. Because of his circumstances and surroundings, it seems to me that they will be able to retain their control of him. Well, we have some power, but not all that you may think. Unless he puts himself in condition to accept our help, we can do nothing for him. His condition is what gives these spirits the power to control him. Unless he makes some effort himself, to break the rapport between him and them, we can do him very little good. Such is this Law of Attraction that I have written you about.

Well, she is a good hearted woman, but not one that would benefit you in a Spiritual point of view. She is very worldly in her desires, and thoughts. Scarcely ever gives the future any consideration. I know this from not only what she said, but from the condition of her Soul Development, which shows, that not often does she permit her soul to have any communion with the Higher Things of God's Universe. I tell you that the condition of the soul is a sure index of the thoughts and aspirations of the person.

Yes, of course, she has a soulmate. Who he is, I do not know. It is not important at this time to find out, for she is not thinking of soulmates, but of the material things of Life. Her chief desire is to obtain money. Well, I must not write more. You must go to bed. The others of the band will come at a later time and write you.

So with all my Love, I will say goodnight.

Your own True and Loving Helen.

January 28th, 1916 

I am here, your own true and loving Helen.

    Well, dear, the influences have not been good tonight.  Many dark spirits have been present.  The one who wrote was very dark, and brought with him others who were all anxious to write.  White Eagle would not let them write, although he did not force them to leave.

    I desired to write, as I told you last night, but under the conditions did not think it best to try to do so.  I will try tomorrow night, and hope you will be in condition.

   I will not write more now, as it is best not to draw on you.  So Love me, and believe that I Love you.  I am with you very much, trying to help you.

Do not forget to pray more and more often to the Father for His Divine Love.

Your own True and Loving Helen.