MINISTERS, MEDIUMS AND SPIRITS

Ministers, Mediums and Spirits - William Stainton Moses, Eugen Crowell, Robert Colyer, St. Augustine, George Whitefield, Loyola, Hugh Latimer, Martin Luther, Chauncey Giles, Immanual Kant, Robert Dale Owen, Henry Ward Beecher.

Ministers, Mediums and Spirits

March 17th, 1915
I am here, Eugene Crowell.

By permission of your band, I will write you a little, as I see that you are reading my book. I am, consequently, interested in your right understanding of it.

Well, as you have observed, I did not look upon Jesus as a God, but merely as a very high medium, and in great favor with the High Spirit Powers. That is correct, so far as it goes. But he is more than that: He is the Highest, most Enlightened, and most powerful of all the spirits. Is the only one of all the great prophets, seers, reformers, or Messengers of God, who ever taught the True and Only Way to the Kingdom of Heaven. The sooner all Spiritualists recognize and believe this fact, the sooner will True Spiritualism be established on Earth, and the Divine Love of the Father be implanted in each soul.

All these things have I learned since I came over here, and had the opportunity of investigating the Truth, at first hand, with all my powers, which are not limited or encumbered with the physical senses. So you must, in reading my book eliminate everything from what you may accept as True, that teaches, or intimates, that Jesus is not the Great Master and Teacher of the True and Only Way to God's Divine Love and Salvation.

Of course, all spirits do not understand, or believe, this. When John said try the spirits and learn whether they be True, or not, he meant just what I have told you. I know now, that Jesus is the most Exalted Son of God. While we are all His (God's) Sons and Daughters, yet none of us is so At-One with Him as the Master. So, as you are investigating this question of Spiritualism in True earnestness, I thought it best to tell you what I have learned. I do not want any expression in my book, of a meaning contrary to what I have here expressed, cause you to doubt for one moment the Divine Truths that Jesus and your band have been teaching you.

You are wonderfully favored in having such a Teacher. I believe that the result will be that when you shall have received his messages and transmitted them to the World, Spiritualism will become the religion of the whole Earth. This is my belief. It is founded on the fact that it will then teach; besides the Continuity of Life, and Spirit Communication, the Great Truths that will show humans the absolute necessity of following these Teachings of the Master in order to become the True Children of the Father and be received by Him in His Kingdom of Divine Love and Divine Existence.

I must not take up more time now, but will write you again, if permitted.

Yes, it is. Well I thought that you wrote Eugene. I cannot see what you have written at the time of its being written. When I guide your hand and impress your brain, I think that you have written as I intended.
Eugene Crowell. That is my name. The writing of Edward was not what I intended.

Yes, in 1886, at San Francisco, California. This is True. You will find an account of my passing over in the newspapers of June 7, 1886, in the San Francisco newspapers. So examine for yourself and you will find what I say to be True.

Well, I will say goodnight. Your recent spirit friend, Eugene Crowell.

Ministers, Mediums and Spirits

July 22nd, 1915
I am here, St. Chrysostom.

I come because I want to tell you that you have entered upon a work that will bring much happiness to Humankind, and much glory to the cause of the Master.
When alive, I was a teacher of the Truths of the Master. I lived a great many years among a people who believed with their intellects, but who knew very little of the Soul Religion. I, myself, was not a great believer in the Truths, having reference to the Soul's Development. I taught those Truths, which appealed more to my intellect, and which were of a character suited more to instill merely Moral Principles, than to cause humans to receive and understand the Real Spirit and Real Meaning of these Teachings. Yet such teachings accomplished some good among the people of those times. I was a great student of the Bible, as it was then written. My studies enabled me to teach and explain these Truths in an intellectual way. It seems strange to me now, but it is a fact, that I never understood the Inner Depths of these Truths. When I came to die, I had not the consolation of knowing that the Divine Love was the Great Desideratum, in order for humans to become At-One with the Father, and to become a partaker of His Divinity.

I learned these Great Soul Truths after I became a spirit, and met those spirits who had received this Great Divine Love, and showed, by their wonderful appearances and happiness that they possessed it. So you see that, while I was sainted for what I was supposed to have done for the good of the church and for humankind, I was not a saint at all. But a very great sinner without the Essentials to make me a saint. Many a saint of the church was, when on Earth, anything but a saint. The church, in making such person a saint, only does what a nation may do in making its prominent warriors and statesmen heroes in marble or bronze.

We, who were saints of the church, only as we were believers in the Christ. But we were not saints, as to the Perfection of our Soul Condition. In my time on Earth, I sought to correct abuses in conduct among those people, who outwardly, as clergymen, were carrying on the work of Jesus, yet, in character, were lax in obtaining, from modes of conduct which were contrary to the Laws of God, as proclaimed in the writings of Moses, and preached by the Master.

So no church can make a human a saint, by merely declaring and recognizing them as such. On Earth, the sins and evil deeds of humans, may be hidden by the glamour which the church casts over and around them. In the Spirit World, these sins and blemishes appear in all the nakedness, which the glare of the noonday sun may develop. Character cannot be hidden. Defects cannot be hidden. Unless the soul of a spirit is pure and spotless, it will have to occupy that place and take that station, which its Soul Development determines are suited for it. So how futile are all these canonizing and worshipping of humans as saints, when there is nothing of the saint about them. The poorest peasant may be more of a saint in the Spirit World, than the greatest and most exalted saint according to the creation of the churches.

I do not remember if Vespasian was a Christian at the time, but he is a Christian now, an inhabitant of the Father's Celestial Kingdom. So you must not let the doubts that you may have about his writing to you cause you to disbelieve what he said. I saw him write. I know it was he, and no other.

With the Love of a brother, I will say goodnight, your brother and friend, (John) Chrysostom.

Ministers, Mediums and Spirits

August 5th, 1915
I am here, Colyer.

I was a preacher. I am now a preacher.  My doctrines are those of Christ, stripped of the creeds and dogmas of the churches. I was not an orthodox preacher, but was one who believed in God, and in Jesus as the best and most Spiritual human that ever lived on Earth, who taught the Truths of His Father. I am of the same belief still. I have, since being in the Spirit World, learned many things to confirm my belief. The orthodox doctrine, as to his being god, or one of three gods, is a pernicious one, and against all reason and Truth. He is just who he said he was; the son of God and the son of human. The first, in a Spiritual sense, the latter in the material or natural sense.

He never, as he has told me, claimed to be God. His disciples never understood that he was such. The freedom of humans minds from this doctrine of his being god, will do more to bring humans to the Truth, and to believe in Religious (Spiritual) Truths, than can be conceived of. When his True Mission on Earth shall become understood, humans will turn to the True Worship of God, and to a belief in the teachings of the Master, which will result, in many a one being saved from their sins, and in happiness, Harmony and Brotherly Love being more firmly established on Earth.

I am a believer in the Divine Love and the New Birth. I am an inhabitant of the Seventh Sphere, and am trying to progress to the Celestial Spheres.

I will not write more tonight as you are tired, but will come again sometime. So with all my Love as a brother in Christ, I am, Robert Colyer.

Ministers, Mediums and Spirits

August 7th, 1915

I am here, St. Augustine.

I merely want to say that I am the St. Augustine, who lived after the death of Jesus. I was well acquainted with his teachings, as they were preserved by the Church. At that time, I never knew exactly what became of the manuscripts that were in existence when I lived. The ones that are supposed to furnish the origin of many of the Biblical writings, were not the ones that I was acquainted with. Those that I used were all written in Greek, and were written by the disciples of Jesus, and by those of his followers to whom the disciples had communicated the teachings of the Master. They were the genuine ones and were written from the actual communications of the disciples.

Of course, the teachings of Jesus were never recorded at the time of his teachings, were merely the recollections possessed by the disciples of what they thought he really said. Consequently, as you may realize, they were imperfect, and could not be relied on implicitly.

I know that great controversies have arisen in the church as to what portions of these writings should be accepted as genuine. Many needless disputes have caused the officials of that church to differ as to what were really the writings of the disciples, and what were not. I, when on Earth, joined in these disputes, and maintained that certain of these writings were genuine and certain were not. I was as likely to be mistaken, as any of the others. Even the ones that I thought genuine, were more or less flavored by the spiritual knowledge (or lack thereof), and beliefs of those who wrote them. So I tell you that you cannot depend on these writings as a whole to learn what the Master actually did teach.

He is now in condition to give you the Genuine Truths. Whenever what he may say, conflicts with what is contained in the Bible, you must consider what he now writes as the Truth, and discard the Bible account as unreliable. I tell you this, because I am interested in having the World learn the Truths, which he came on Earth to declare.

I am a spirit of the Celestial Spheres. I am a follower of the Master. I am trying to help in having these Truths come to the World again. I did not always believe, as I do now, in many particulars. My comments on the Bible should not always be taken as correct. So if you will pardon my intrusion, I will repeat; pay attention to what Jesus may say now. Do not let the Bible statements, which do not agree with what he may write you, disturb you, or cause you to doubt what you may receive.

Sometime I shall come and give you my ideas of some of these Spiritual Truths. How necessary it is that humans should know them. I certainly believe in the New Birth. I want most emphatically to say, that it is one of the most important Divine Truths of the Spiritual World. It has not heretofore, been very often understood. Its exact meaning is somewhat in doubt, by even the best students of the Bible. I will not write more tonight, but will say that you are my brother in the good work of showing to Humankind the Divine Truths that are so important to their future happiness and salvation.

So with a Love that is in Christ, I am your brother, St. Augustine.

Ministers, Mediums and Spirits

August 8th, 1915
I am here, George Whitefield.

I was a preacher of England. A contemporary of John Wesley. I am in the Celestial Spheres, where are only those who have received the New Birth that has been written about by other and more ancient spirits.

I merely want to say that I am still a follower of Jesus, but a little different in my Knowledge of what he was, and is. I do not now look upon him as God, or a part of God, but as His True Son. The greatest of all the spirits in the Spirit World. There are none to be compared to him in beauty, or Spirituality, or in his Knowledge of God's Divine Truths.

I used to preach to thousands about his vicarious atonement and his blood sacrifice. Now I see his mission in a different light. It is not his death on the cross that saves humans from their sins, nor his sacrifice that appeases the wrath of an angry god, but his Life and Teachings of the Divine Love Bestowed on Humankind, and The Way to obtain that Divine Love, that saves humans from their sins. There was no need to appease the wrath of an angry god, for there was no angry god. Only a Loving and Merciful God. When humans think, that unless they turn from their sins they will be forever burned in a fiery hell, they are the dupes of preachers, such as I was, and will never get the Divine Love of the Father by such teachings. God is Love.Humans must know it. His Divine Love is for all of every race and clime.

I see now, what a great mistake I made in my conception of God and of Christ's Mission on Earth, and how much harm I did to mortals in my preaching, and how I slandered the Father of Divine Love. I was honest in my beliefs, and taught as I thought the Truth to be. Yet that does not alter the fact that many a mortal, after he became a spirit, was retarded for a long time in their Spiritual Progress, because of these false beliefs, which in order to progress they had to give up and start anew in their efforts to find the Divine Truths of God. As I worked hard and preached eloquently to make mortals believe these injurious doctrines while on Earth, so now I am working hard and preaching eloquently to make spirits who come over with these beliefs, unlearn them, and see the Divine Truth, as it is.

I am in sympathy with the movement which the Master is now making to spread the Truth of these Spiritual Things on Earth. I am ready to follow him in all his efforts to bring about the Salvation of Humans, not only from sin, but from erroneous beliefs. So I come to you tonight to express my sympathy and interest in the cause. Let your work proceed. Do your best to make known to humans, The Great Divine Truths which the Master shall teach. We will all join in the work, and do everything in our power to speed the great cause of Humans Redemption from sin and ignorance.

The human must have the Soul Development by obtaining the Divine Love, because you cannot inspire a human to preach grand and sublime Spiritual Truths, unless they have the capacity, in their own soul, to feel, and understand the Divine Truths.

I will not write longer tonight. I am your True friend, George Whitefield.

Ministers, Mediums and Spirits

August 8th, 1915

I am here, Loyola the Jesuit.

Yes, I am a follower of the Master, and a very weak one. I was a persecutor of those who differed from me in my views of religious things. Duty, as a consequence, was the cause of the death of many a True Christian, as I see the Truth to be.

On Earth, my followers, now in many parts of the World have the same bitter feelings against all who do not think as they do upon religious matters. Were it not for the Laws of the countries in which they live, they would do as I did.

How I have suffered since I became a spirit, for all the evil, which I inflicted on humankind when I lived on Earth, in what I thought then was a religious cause. Thank God, even my sins have been forgiven. I am now an inhabitant of my Father's Kingdom. Oh, the long years of bitter suffering, remorse, and the darkness of blackest night that I lived in, among howling devils and lost souls, as they thought.

Now I know that God's Mercy is so wide, that the greatest sinner may be saved, and receive the Great Divine Love of the Father. I write this because I have never before communicated to mortal in this way. I want to give warning to the World. Especially to my followers on Earth, that The Truths of God are Eternal, and will live Forever. That no persecution, in the name of truth, will meet the approval of God, or save from punishment and torment those who engage in it, no matter how honest they may think themselves to be, or, how much they believe that they are doing their duty to God. God has given to every human a free will, which even He does not attempt to curb or bind. No mere Creature of His has any right to say to a human that they shall, or shall not, believe this, or that, and exercise their will according to the enforced, or seeming belief. No, human is a free agent. Can do as they please in regards to their beliefs. Even God will not force them to believe. When they believe that, which is not True, they will certainly have to pay the penalties of their erroneous beliefs (and the resulting actions), because the Truths of God are fixed. With these Truths, operate Laws that are inexorable. Humans who fail to conform to the requirements of these Laws (of Love and Harmony) must pay the penalties to the last farthing. These Laws never change, and are Supreme.

I am now a Redeemed Spirit through the Grace of God, and have realized what His Divine Love means. I am an inhabitant of the Celestial Heavens, not because of my works on Earth, but because of the Great Overshadowing Divine Love of the Father.

So I say, seek the Truth, as it may be found in Jesus teachings (as written in these messages). Shun the dogmas and creeds of the churches, as you would a poisonous thing of death.

I will stop now, but thank you for the opportunity of making this, my confession.

So with all my kindest wishes I am your brother in Christ, the Jesuit, Loyola.

Ministers, Mediums and Spirits

October 28th, 1915

I am, Campbell.

I am the founder of the Campbellites. Well, I have spelled it as it should be spelled. I know my followers are called Camellites. That is not correct. The name makes no difference, for I am the man, and these people are my followers.

I merely want to say, that when on Earth I did not understand the Plan of Human's Salvation. I taught erroneous doctrines, as to this matter. I now see the great harm that I did. Nevertheless, there was some good done also. My people worshiped God as their Heavenly Father, and prayed to Him. Many of them received the Ministration of the Holy Ghost. So I am grateful for what I taught. Also very sorry for the errors that I taught.

I am now in the Celestial Heavens. I know that Jesus is a spirit and not God, and that his great work is still going on.

So, when I say that I am a follower of Jesus, I mean that I follow his teachings, and try to imitate his Life here, as on Earth. I am a stranger to you, but I felt that I must write to you, and so took this opportunity.

So thanking you, I am, your brother in Christ,
Alexander Campbell.

Ministers, Mediums and Spirits

August 13th, 1915

I am here, Latimer.

I was the martyr who was burned at the stake because of my belief in God, and in salvation by faith and works as taught in the Scriptures.

My name was Latimer, Hugh.

I merely come to tell you that I am now a happy spirit, and an inhabitant of the Father's Kingdom. I live in the Celestial Heavens. I am a follower of the Master, as I was on Earth.

No, I do not now worship him as God. That false doctrine, I believed when on Earth. Now I know that there is only One God to be worshiped, and that Jesus is His Most Exalted Son. I was surprised, I must confess, when I entered the Spirit World and did not enter Heaven, and see God on His throne, and Jesus sitting on His right hand. But it was not long before I understood the Truth, for Jesus came to me himself, and explained that he was not God, and that I must not worship him as such. But we who Love God as followers of Christ, adore the Master as our Great Teacher and Elder Brother.

When I first entered the Spirit World, I found myself in the Second Sphere among spirits of brightness and Love. After a little while, I entered the Third Sphere where Love is more abundant. Then as my soul became filled with this Divine Love and my errors of belief left me, I progressed from sphere to sphere until I arrived where I am now living. I thank God for His Divine Love and Mercy.

I do not think the fact that I died a martyr to my beliefs had any effect in enabling me to reach a Higher Sphere than I would otherwise have entered. Not the manner of my death determined my place in the Spirit World, but the development of my soul qualities did. If I had a belief in what I thought were truths, but which were not really Truths, and that belief, proclaimed and persisted in, had caused my being put to death, you can readily see that the mere fact that I died for the sake of that belief would not have in any way helped my Soul Development in the Real Truth. So the mere fact that I died a martyr for the Real Truth did not help me in obtaining a place in the Spirit World, that I would not have obtained, had I died a natural death with the same beliefs. The manner of a human's death does not determine anything. The manner of their living, and the development of their soul qualities, are what determines where they shall live in the Spirit World.

Of course, the death of the martyr will sometimes awaken soul qualities, or conceptions, that might not otherwise have been awakened. Thereby, increase the martyr's Love for the Father. In this way, such a death may help them in their progress to higher things. But, as I say, the Soul Development fixes the first home of the spirit. I mean the development at the time of passing over.

My dear brother I must stop now, but will come again some time and write you. Yours in Love, Hugh Latimer.

Ministers, Mediums and Spirits

December 9th, 1915

I am here, John P. Newman.

I was, when on Earth, a preacher of the Gospel of Jesus, as I then understood it, and made my great and earnest efforts to show my brother human what the truths of that Gospel were, and at times succeed to a great degree. I now see how far short I was in my knowledge and understanding of these truths, and how very much the creeds and dogmas of my church interfered with me, and the members of my church, in getting a True conception of the Truths of the Master. Many a human lost their opportunity to develop their soul by their beliefs in the atonement. I mean that they relied upon the sacrifice of Jesus, being all sufficient to pay the debt which they supposed he owed to the Father, and relying upon such belief they neglected to develop their soul qualities of Love for the Father. This doctrine of atonement is one that is working great harm among the children of humans. One that should no longer be believed, but be shown to be utterly at variance with the Truth, and not approved by either God, or the Master.

I know it may seem surprising to some people that such assertions could come from an orthodox minister of the church (Methodist). If these people could only know what I now know, they would not be surprised at all. But would bend their efforts to have the creeds of their churches so revised and reformed, that the doctrine that I speak of, and a number of other untrue and harmful doctrines, would be entirely eliminated from these creeds, and from their own beliefs also.

I have found that progress in this Spirit World is a portion of the heritage of spirits, just as progress belongs to mortals on Earth. Not every spirit progresses, just by reason of being in the Spirit World. Desire and will, must exist, and must be exercised, in order for this progression to take place. I have heard that numerous spirits have been in a condition of stagnation for a great many years, just because they won't exert themselves to desire and believe what is often told them.

I have taken up more of your time tonight than I intended. I must apologize for having so intruded, but I felt that I should like to say just what I have said, as it may be that these Truths may help some mortal to get into the Light and The Way to God's Kingdom. So, if you will pardon me, I will say that I am thankful for your kindness, and would like to come again, if it is agreeable to you.

I will in saying goodnight, subscribe myself, your True brother in Christ, John P. Newman.

Ministers, Mediums and Spirits

February 19th, 1916

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

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

I know that Jesus taught the New Birth, the Divine Love, and The Rebestowal of the Great Gift, which had been forfeited by Our First Parents, at the time of their disobedience.

I also know that he never taught us to look upon him as God, or that any death that he might die would save us from our sins, or bring us in At-Onement with the Father, or that the Father demanded any sacrifice in order to satisfy His wrath, or pay any debt that human might owe to Him. No, the things last mentioned were not embraced in our Faith, or understanding of what the Truths of the Master's teachings were.

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

Jesus was always the human of Love, Mercy and Benevolence, and never tired of his great work of doing good to the mortal. But these works were merely subordinate to the other Great Mission that he performed. Above everything else, he was a Teacher of the Father's Divine Love, and the necessity of human's receiving this Divine Love, in order to become At-One with the Father, and an accepted child whose inheritance was Immortality and Heaven. So you can readily see what a departure there has been from our teachings, Faith, and practices, and the lives of simple followers of the Master.

Now I see that belief in the dogmas of the church and mysticisms of god are what constitute the christian. Soul Development is little preached, or really understood, either by preacher, or people. The Real Secret of Human's Salvation has been lost to the World.
I am now in the High Celestial Spheres, where the Divine Love of the Father is most abundant, and the Spirits of Humans live in Eternal Happiness, with the Knowledge that Immortality is theirs.

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

So with my Love and blessings I am, your brother in Christ, John. The lowly follower of the Master.

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John Yorking

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(I was a Jew.)

Ministers, Mediums and Spirits

May 23rd, 1916
I am here, Luther.

I came tonight in the hope that I may write my message, of which I spoke to you a short time ago. Well, if you feel that you can receive the same, I will proceed.

In my day, the members of the church, I mean the Roman Catholic Church, were dependent entirely upon the priesthood for all information; as to the contents of the Bible, and the interpretation that should be given such contents. Very few of the laymen were able to possess the Bible, and scarcely any could read it, as it was written in the Latin tongue. The inhabitants of my section of Europe were not acquainted with that language. The consequence of this was, that all the people were dependent entirely on the priests for any knowledge of the Will of God; that only as the priests saw proper to convey the same to these people.

Many things were taught by these officials of the church in such a way as to convince the people that the church was the "divine institution" of God, and that, in every particular, as to the conduct of humans. What the priests said and declared to be the Will of God must be accepted without doubt, or hesitation, and that the penalties of disobedience of these teachings of the priests would be in the form that they should prescribe, and that the wrath of god would fall upon all who should disobey these teachings of the church.

The Spiritual Enlightenment of humans was not attempted to any degree. The requirements of the church were that; humans should strictly obey the dogmas and tenets which should be declared to them by these instructions of the priests. Duty was the principal thing to be observed. The utmost obedience to the commands of the church must be performed, unless the church itself should release the people from the performance of these duties.

Every violation of these commands was a sin, to which a penalty was attached, which could not be avoided unless the priests should give to the believers an indulgence, and then to the extent of the indulgence the penalty was taken away. But in order to obtain this indulgence, compensation would have to be made to the coffers of the church, depending upon the ability of the one receiving such indulgence to make.

At a time when these indulgences were most prevalent, and when the church was becoming rich from the revenues paid for the same, I commenced to revolt from the claims of the church; and declared my want of belief in the dogma that the church could grant such indulgences, and absolve humans from the penalties which their sins brought upon them.

You all know the history of the Reformation, and its results upon the power of the church of Rome. How humans were freed from the superstitions of the church. How the reform grew in many of the catholic countries. New churches, and beliefs, were established. Well, I will not further recite any of these things, but merely say that what I have written is intended to be only preliminary to what the object of my writing is.

As humans of thought, convinced of the false claims and superstitions of the church, and of the necessity of making known to humankind the Truths of the Bible, I, and several others, in our zeal, refused to recognize and accept as a part of the teachings of the reform belief, many things which were contained in the church's dogmas, or teachings, that were really True, or in a manner True, when relieved of their appendages which the church had attached to the kernels of Truth. As a consequence, we rejected many Principles that we should have made parts of the beliefs and teachings of the new beliefs.

Well, I am sorry that you do not feel in condition to receive more at this time. It is best to postpone the remainder. I will soon come and finish what I desire to write.

So, with my Love and best wishes, I am, your brother in Christ, (Martin) Luther.

Ministers, Mediums and Spirits

June 29th, 1916
I am here, Luther.

I desire to write a short message tonight on the subject of: The observance of the ceremonies, which my church still uses in its worship is not approved by God, or Jesus.

I will not detain you very long and will try to express myself as succinctly as possible.

Well, as you may not know, the church of which I am the founder believes and teaches the necessity of infant baptism and the observance of the Lords Supper as necessary parts of its church doctrine, and of such very great importance, that without them it is difficult to become an accepted member of the invisible church of Christ.

Nothing is further from the Truth than these doctrines of the baptism of infants, for they have no virtue to save one from their sins, or to make them in At-Onement with the Father. The mere fact that water is sprinkled on an infant's head, and some blessing pronounced by the preacher, does not in any way bring that infant in Unison with the Father. Baptism is of human's creation. To God it means nothing more than an outward ceremony that affects the infant merely as regards its connection with the established earthly church. It is not possible for this baptism to have any effect upon the soul of the infant. Neither does it open up the soul faculties to the inflowing of the Divine Love.

God cares not for these ceremonies. Rather, looks upon them with disapproval, for their tendency is to make men and women neglectful of the Great Truth that will bring them in Harmony with God's Laws of Divine Love and Redemption. The same thing may be said of any and all kinds of baptism, whether the subject thereof be an infant, or a grown man or woman. As to the sacrament of the lord's supper, it has no part in God's Plan for the Redemption of Humankind. It is merely a reminder of the association of Jesus with his disciples. It cannot affect the condition, or development, of the soul. As now understood and practiced, this sacrament is of no importance, for Jesus does not want to be remembered in the way of recalling to him the tragedy on the cross, which was only the result of the malice and envy of the Jews (Sanhedrin). The blood spilt is not an element that enters into the Plan of the Salvation of humans. Besides, with this sacrament, there is always more or less worshipping of Jesus as God, which he, Jesus, abhors and looks upon as blasphemy.

So you see, the celebration of the last supper is a thing which is not acceptable to God, or to Jesus. He does not want humans to believe that they can be saved by any sacrifice of him, or by any blood which he may have shed as a result of his crucifixion.

Of course, you will remember that the question of what the wine and bread of the sacrament really were was one that engendered much controversy,even hatred and ill-feeling on the part of those who were assisting me in the great Reformation. If I had known then, what I do now, no such question would have been debated, or believed in by me and taught for many years. The blood of Jesus was no more than any other human's blood. The commemoration of the last supper that Jesus gave his disciples before his death, is a useless ceremony and brings no help to those who indulge in this sacrament.

I see that you are tired and sleepy and I will not write more now. So with my Love and wishes for an increase in you of the Divine Love, I am, your brother in Christ, (Martin) Luther.

Ministers, Mediums and Spirits

February 28th, 1917

Let me write you a line for I am interested in what has just been written you. When I lived on Earth, I was a Swedenborgian, or New Churchman, and believed in the doctrines of that Church. Especially in the corner stone of its beliefs.That is; that Jesus was god, and the only god to be worshipped as such, and accepted as the incarnate god, who came to Earth, and lived and taught among humans, the coming of god into the flesh.

Well, I, when on Earth, was a leader, or preacher, in that Church. During the course of my ministry, I not only taught, but wrote many pamphlets and some books upon this doctrine of god becoming human, in the form of Jesus, and on many other doctrines, that I now know to be untrue.

My authority for saying that this fundamental doctrine of the church is untrue, is that I have seen, and talked with Jesus in the Spirit World, and learned that he is only the spirit of a mortal, but the Highest and Most Glorious Spirit in all the Heavens, and is not God. I have never seen God, nor any spirit who has seen Him with the spirit eyes, though Jesus and others of the Highest Spirits say that they have seen Him with their soul perceptions, which must be True because Jesus is so much like God in this; that he cannot tell a lie.
I know that there is a God. My knowledge is based on certainty, but the basis of this certainty I cannot explain to you, as you could not comprehend my explanation. But God Lives, Rules, and Loves. Is Present with us and with you, in some, or many, of His Attributes. Jesus is not this God.

I wish that I could come to my people and tell them of the errors of their beliefs, and the Divine Truths as they exist, and to the extent as now known to me. I have no hope of ever being able to do so. For one of the cardinal doctrines of the church is; that with the passing of Swedenborg, passed the possibility of all communications between God, or His Angels and mortals, as to Spiritual Truths, and that it is contrary to God's Will that mortals should attempt to penetrate the veil that separates the Two Worlds, and how such beliefs, as I taught, now cause me suffering and regret. I see no way of remedying the wrong that I did, and of turning the thoughts of my followers into the paths that lead to Divine Truth and the Certainty of Heaven.

As this is my first attempt to communicate, I am somewhat tired and must stop. I thank you for the opportunity. I hope that sometime I may have the privilege of again writing. Notwithstanding my erroneous beliefs, I have in my soul some of the Father's Divine Love, that enables me to sign myself, your brother in Christ, Chauncey Giles.

Ministers, Mediums and Spirits

December 24th, 1917
I am here, Immanuel Kant.

I have listened to your conversation tonight, and have been much interested. So much, that I have wondered what the source of your apparent beliefs is. I see that you are sincere in your declarations, of what you declare the Truths to be.

I have been in the Spirit World for a great many years, and have not been idle as regards my investigation of the Truth. I have given my very strenuous efforts to learn the Truth of Human's Destiny, and the ultimate end of their existence.

I was a thinker when on Earth, and had a considerable reputation as to being a deep thinker of things metaphysical. Even today, I have a large following among those mortals who give their time and attention to the investigation of the Truths, of the nature spoken of.

I have progressed very much, not only in the Spheres in which I have lived, but also in the development of my intellect, and in the development of my soul. I enjoy a very considerable happiness. I have been able to apply the Moral Principles that should govern humans in their relation to one another and to God. I have experienced the benefit of such application. I have many associates like myself in development of the qualities mentioned. Often do we assemble and discuss these important Principles of Human's Relationship to God, and to the development of human, and the aim and ultimate destiny of their existence. Truth is, we know, of Itself Alone, and never changes. When we believe and are convinced that we have found a Truth, we accept it as a basis upon which to found our further efforts for investigation and the discovery of other Truths. As a consequence, we are not compelled to depend upon mere speculation as we were when on Earth. We know that the spirit of human never ceases to live. Hence, immortality must be their certain portion in the Great Economy of God, and that, as the Law of Being is progression; we must always be enabled to progress. Having that fact from which to start, we continue our investigations and studies in the certain belief that their results will be, the discovery of the Truths, and that we must ultimately find the reason for human's existence, and their final destiny.

From what I have heard you and your friend say, there must be a Branch of Truth that I, or my friends, have never heard of, or attempted to investigate. To me it sounds very attractive. So much so, that I would like to have some Enlightenment, from which I may be able to postulate a premise upon which I may build a superstructure, if possible. I have, of course, heard a great deal of Love and the Purification of the Soul. The necessity for humans, and spirits, striving to get rid of all those things that contaminate the soul and foster the continuation of the inharmony, that now exists, and keeps human from becoming the Perfect Human, and spirit also. I have heard that in the Higher Spiritual Kingdom, there are spirits of humans that have become Perfect and existing in Harmony with the Laws of God, yet they do not claim to be more than humans, Perfect Humans.

But you talk of a Love that will make humans, or the souls of humans, Divine, in their constituency, therefore, a part of that Divinity, which we ascribe only to The Infinite. I must tell you, that what you say has opened up to me a new vision of possibility of study that may lead to what we now have no conception of. I am sincere in what I write. If you can help me in entering on the Study of the Truths, of which you speak, I will be very grateful, and assure you that it will not be lost on an inattentive ear, or a mind stunted by a belief that it already knows all that can be acquired, or the way to acquire all that may be learned.

I was on Earth a philosopher and known as, Immanuel Kant.

Ministers, Mediums and Spirits

July 5th, 1918

I am here, St. John.

Let me say a word.

I have read with you in the book ("Spirit Teachings" by William Stainton Moses). I find that many things in it are True. Many others show a want of the True Mission of the Master. I do not know the spirit who is supposed to have dictated the messages, but from the nature of the same, I would infer that he is a spirit of some of the Higher Spiritual Spheres. That his information, is limited by the development of his spirit (soul), as he calls it. He apparently knows nothing of the True Mission of Jesus, or of the Divine Love, or of the True Resurrection, as was taught by the Master. It is well that you have read this book, for it will show you the differences between the messages, which you are receiving, and those that you read in the book. Some of the writers declarations are correct, such communications as his development of mind and soul fit him to receive.

But the Great and Important Truth relating to God and human are not contained in the book, and could not well be, for the guiding spirit evidently knew nothing of the Transformation of the Soul into the Divine by reason of the Divine Love.

I merely wanted to write this to show you that your work is necessary to be done. That never, have the Divine Truths that you are receiving, been revealed to humans before.

Goodnight, your brother in Christ, John.

Ministers, Mediums and Spirits

September 14th, 1918
I am here, Stainton Moses.

Let me say a word. I have been present as you read the book called "Spirit Teachings", and saw that while many of the statements therein contained are in accord with the knowledge that you have of spirit matters, yet, that there is wanting, the One Great Truth of the New Birth, as it has been explained to you by the Master and other High Spirits.

Well, you must not, on account of the fact that this Divine Truth is not alleged and explained by the spirits who wrote the messages that you have been reading, assume that these spirits were not of a higher order. Or, that they are wanting in the Knowledge of many Truths that the book portrays; as to the relationship of spirit to human, and human to God, and their future destiny. No, these spirits were real and genuine, and taught Truths, as they understood them. They were limited in their Knowledge by the amount of the progress which they had made in things Spiritual. In attempting to teach, they were honest and declared only those things that they believed to be True. Many of the Truths that they declared are of vast importance, and necessary for humans to know, in order to their own salvation. They show the way to the condition of the Perfect Human. The struggles, sufferings, and sacrifices that spirits will have to make in order to arrive at this condition are not overdrawn. On the contrary, are merely the outlines of what will be necessary for humans and spirits to undergo in order to become the Perfect Human, or spirit.

These spirits have, since the time of the writings, learned of this formation of the soul into an Essence Divine by reason of the possession of the Divine Love. Hence, could not use their medium in making known this Great Means of Perfect Salvation, to humankind.
These spirits have, since the time of the writings, learned of this Divine Truth, and are now progressing towards the Celestial Spheres, which can be obtained only by the means of the Divine Love. You will notice in the (Spirit) Teachings many expressions that are erroneous, solely because the writers did not know to the contrary. This fact must not cause you to believe that many other things, which they teach, are not True, for outside of and independent of this Truth of the Divine Love, and what it means to humans and spirits, the (Spirit) Teachings are True, and should be believed.

I write this that you may not doubt the genuineness of the writings, or think that the same were not made by the spirits who professed to write. These spirits had a mission to perform, and were earnestly endeavoring to acquaint the medium, and, through him, The World, with the Truths, and the necessity of meditating upon the same, and ceasing to be satisfied with the old time beliefs, which were so erroneous, misleading, and harmful, as the spirits declared.

I have an enlarged Knowledge of the things that pertain to the Spirit World, and to the True Plan of Salvation, as established by the Father. I have experienced the possession of the Divine Love and its operations and effect upon the souls of humans, and how sufficient it is to relieve humans from the sufferings and penalties of their sins, that they would have to endure or undergo, were this Divine Love not open and free for them to obtain. I have that Divine Love, to a degree that has made me an Divine Angel of the Celestial Spheres. A possessor of that Immortality that was unknown to humans when I lived on Earth. Also, unknown to the spirits who communicated the writings ("Spirit Teachings"), which you have been reading. They taught a part only of the Truth of Salvation and Regeneration. That, the lesser part in importance, but the one which the large majority of humans will know of, and obtain, only.

I thought that I would write this to you, for I saw that you were very much interested in the "(Spirit) Teachings", and had in mind the question as to whether these spirits who wrote were acquainted with the Great Truth. I am very happy that I am permitted to write, for I do not want those who have read and believe these writings to rest upon the assurance that the same contain All of Truth, and that there is no other Way to Heaven and Happiness, except that set forth in these writings. It is so important that All of Truth should become known to humans, and the opportunity given to them to seek and find the Great Way to Immortality and Bliss.

I will not write more now, but sometime in the future I should like to come and write further with reference to these matters. I thank you for your kindness in receiving this imperfect communication, and will only say further, that the Divine Love, the New Birth, and the Celestial Heavens, where the Master is forming his kingdom, are Truths, Vital and Unchangeable, and the desideratum of the Happiness of Humankind.

I will say goodnight, and while a stranger to you, yet, can subscribe myself, your brother in Christ, William Stainton Moses, The Medium.

Ministers, Mediums and Spirits

February 11th, 1919
I am here, Robert Dale Owen.

Let me say just a word, for I am interested in your work, and in the phenomena of Spiritualism. I have been with you as you read the book, which attempts to show the Truth of Spiritual Manifestations, and the instances mentioned, of spirits showing themselves in the garb of humans are True. I was then an investigator of the question. I had only the knowledge which I received from my own observation. Hence, was an outsider, as it were, of these Spiritual phenomena. I mean, that I was not one of the gifted ones of Earth, who can have the power of receiving or communicating with spirits, by reason of the fact that they possess the powers of seeing, feeling, hearing, the presence of spirits. I was not so gifted.

I am now an investigator of Things Spiritual, but not of the possibility of communicating with the Spirit World. For this I know to be a fact, and beyond all question. Humans who doubt the fact are in the condition of those who will not learn, because they do not believe in the First Principles of the Phenomena, and are willing to let their prejudices, or their indifference, lead them away from the Truth.

The phenomena, which I have portrayed in my book, are very simple, and of the lower order of Spiritual Phenomena. Yet humans will not believe, because they fail to approach the subject with open minds and desire to learn the Truth, even though the search for the same leads them along lines of investigation that are so foreign to the course of study that they are pursuing in their various vocations. Of all the bigoted and hardheaded investigators of Truth, the preachers are the most difficult to teach the Truth of Spiritualism. Their periscope is one that enables them to see only in a straight line, that has been laid down to them for ages, and holds them in its iron grasp.

I would like to come to you sometime and write you a long description of the Spirit World and its phenomena, although it may not surprise you very much, considering what you have had revealed to you.

Well, you have asked me some questions, which I cannot answer in one breath. I am in the Third Sphere, where many spirits are pursuing their studies of things, which pertain to the Laws of the Spirit World, as well as to the Laws of the Earth. I have not heard of the Divine Love, except as we call all Love divine. It must be so, for it leads us to the Spheres where those who are sinless and in Harmony with the Father reside. I am a True Believer in the Things of God and in the Redemption of all Humankind, sooner or later. My intellect is only part of my existence in the Spirit World. Above and greater than that, is the Love that causes me to become in Harmony with the Laws of God, and at-one with Him. These are the answers to your questions.

I should like to write you at length upon the Truths of what I have so briefly stated. I know that you are very busy in receiving communications from the Spirit World, and have little time for communications from strangers, yet I should like to write at least one letter in reference to my condition, and knowledge of things, as I have found them.

I say what is True, for I have never heard of the Divine Love, in the sense that you have spoken of. I have never talked with spirits who claim to have this Divine Love, and to be better than are the spirits who are progressing in the Love which they have, and as to Immortality. I only know that death merely sets the soul of the mortal free and enables it to enter onto its progress towards the higher spheres, where Truth and Goodness are.

Let me wait a moment in my astonishment, for I see more spirits, who seem to be of a different order of spirit from me, are brighter and more beautiful, and are willing to tell me of the Divine Love, for they all claim to know it. I do not understand. I am sure that if they are possessed of this Divine Love, it is only another form of belief. I am all confused and cannot think for the moment. I will come again. I must go. Good night, Robert Dale Owen.

Ministers, Mediums and Spirits

July 5th, 1915.

I am your friend and brother in Divine Love and desire for the Kingdom. I am the spirit of Henry Ward Beecher.

I live in the Seventh Sphere where your father now is. Because of having met him there, I come to you tonight to write for a short time. He has told me of you, and how easily you receive the communications of the spirits. I want to let you know, that even though I am no longer the same as when on Earth, I still have the desire to make known to humans the thoughts that arise in me concerning God and the relation of humans to Him and His kingdom. I am now a believer in Jesus as I never was on Earth. It may surprise you to know that when on Earth, no matter what I may have preached to my people, yet, in my heart, I looked on Jesus as a mere man of the Jews. Not very different from others of the great reformers who had lived and taught on Earth, the Moral Truths, which tended to make humans better, and caused them to live more correct and righteous lives.

Since I have been in the Spirit World, and have had the experiences which my Life here has given me, and have found The Way to God's Divine Love and to His Kingdom, I have learned, and now know, that Jesus was more than a mere reformer. He was not only a good and just teacher, and lived the Life of such, but he was the True Son of God, and His Messenger in bringing to the World the Divine Truths of Immortality, the Divine Love of the Father, and The Way to obtain it. He was Truly The Way, the Truth, and the Life, as no other teacher before him ever was.

I know it is taught, and I believed it when on Earth, that many religions and pagan teachers asserted, and tried to teach to humankind the immortality of the soul. As humans understood the meaning of the word immortality. These teachings were more or less satisfactory. I now see that their conception of immortality was merely a Continuity of Life, after what is called death. How different the meaning, as thus taught, and the True Meaning of the word! Immortality, means so much more than a mere Continuation of Life. It means not only a Continuation of Life, but a Life that has in it the Divine Love, or Essence of the Father, which makes the spirit who has that Divine Love, a Divinity itself. Not the subject of death of any kind. No mere spirit has this Immortality, just because it is continuing to live in the Spirit World, and cannot conceive that by any possibility that Continuity of Life can ever be arrested or ended. No such spirit knows that to be True. Because never has it been demonstrated, as a fact. Cannot be, until Eternity has come to an end. Such spirit is no different in its essence and potentialities, from what it was when enfolded in the flesh. Has no greater reason for believing that it is immortal, than it had when on Earth.

A speculation, and a proven fact, are two entirely different things. Yet with some spirits, as well as with humans, speculation becomes almost as much a certainty, as does a fact demonstrated. There is no justification for relying upon conclusions drawn from mere speculation. The spirit, or human, who does, may, in the great Workings of Eternity, find themselves not only mistaken, but surprised beyond all conception, at what eventualities such workings may bring forth.

So, I say; that before the coming of Jesus, Immortality had not been brought to Light, and could not have been, because for humankind it did not exist.

I was as much surprised when I learned the True Meaning of the word, as humans will be, who may read this communication, or hear its import. The hope of Socrates, or of Plato, or of Pythagoras, was only a hope fortified by the reasonings of great minds, supplemented by much development of soul qualities. When all is said, it was only hope. Knowledge was wanting. Even if they had realized that the spirits of humans departed did return and communicate to them, that there was no such thing as the death of the spirit, or soul. Yet, such experiences did not prove to them anything beyond the fact that Life was Continuous, for the time being. As change is the Law in the Spirit World, as well as on Earth, they could not, with the Certainty of Knowledge, say there might not be some change in the Spirit World that would break, or set aside, The Continuity of Existence.

Take the young child, when its intellect has not sufficiently developed to understand that there is such a thing as the death of the physical body. It believes, if it thinks at all, that it will continue to live forever on Earth. So with with these philosophers who had the hope of a future Continuous Life, and with the spirits who know that there is a Continuous Life, living after death, they think that, that living must be the fixed state, and must of necessity continue forever.

As I say, it has not been demonstrated that such Life will continue forever. Yet, on the other hand, it has not been shown that it will not. Hence, no spirit can say that it is immortal, unless it partakes of the Divine Essence. No wise philosopher, or religious teacher, prior to the coming of Jesus, could be said to have brought Immortality to Light. While hope and speculation exist as the children of desire, yet knowledge is wanting, Certainty is not.

The immortality then that humans believed in, and comforted themselves with believing in, was the immortality that hope created, and speculation proved. The experiences of humans, in communicating with the spirits, showed that death had not annihilated the individual. But hope, speculation, and experience, did not create Knowledge.

When Jesus came, he brought with him, not only hope, but Knowledge of the Truth. Not many humans have comprehended it, or understood the reason, or foundation, for such Knowledge. The reasoning faculties of humans were not sufficient to show the True Reasons of such Knowledge. Strange as it may seem, the students and commentators of the Bible have never disclosed the True Foundation, upon which this Knowledge exists.

I confess, that in my Life, while a great student of the Bible, I never comprehended the True Meaning of how, or in what way, Jesus brought Immortality to Light. I thought, as many others do now, that his death and resurrection were the things that showed to humankind the Reality of Immortality. These things showed no more, as I now see, than did the numerous instances recorded in the Old Testament, and in the secular writings of the philosophers, and adepts of India and Egypt, that there was an existence after so-called death. Many who dispute the fact that Jesus brought Immortality to Light, base their arguments on these other facts: That he was only one of many who had died and afterwards came to mortals and showed that they still lived as spirits. So I say, and as I believed not while on Earth, the mere fact of Jesus' resurrection does not prove immortality.

Then what have I learned Immortality to be since I have been in the Spirit World? My reasoning powers are much greater now than when on Earth. My perceptive faculties have become more keen. My experience in the Laws of the Spirit World have given me great Knowledge. All these, would not of themselves, have given me the Knowledge of Immortality, had not Jesus himself explained it to me, and demonstrated it by his own condition, and that of many spirits in the Higher Spheres. Now I am, because of my present Soul Development (in Divine Love), the possessor of that Knowledge.

Only the Father is Immortal. Only those to whom He gives His Attributes of Immortality, can become Immortal, as He is. Love is the great principle of Immortality. By this I mean the Divine Love of the Father. Not the Natural Love of the Creature. They who possesses this Divine Love becomes as it were, a part of It, or It becomes a part of them. In Its operations, makes them like unto the Father. In other words, a spirit who possesses this Divine Love becomes a part of Divinity itself. Consequently, Immortal. There is no possibility of their ever becoming deprived of this element of Divinity. No spirit is immortal when there is any possibility of its being deprived of that immortality. Even God Himself, if He could be deprived of that great quality, would not be Immortal. Just as it is impossible to take from the Father this Great Attribute, so is it impossible for the spirit, who has once obtained this Divine Love of the Father, to lose its Immortality.

So you see, Immortality comes to a spirit only with the possession of the Divine Love. That Divine Love is not bestowed upon every spirit. Only on those who seek for it, in The Way shown to humankind by Jesus (in these messages).

Death does not bring to the mortal, Immortality, because their spirit survives their death. It does not follow that immortality becomes a part of their existence as a spirit.

So I say, that when Jesus brought to the World, the Knowledge of the Bestowal of this Divine Love of the Father upon mortals, under certain conditions, and also showed mortals The Way in which that Great Gift might be obtained, he brought to Light, Immortality, and Eternal Life. Before him had no human, or spirit, brought these Great Gifts to Light.

I am now a partaker, to a certain extent, of the Divine Love. Have before me the possibility of obtaining it to its fullest extent, as promised by the Master, to all who may seek for it in Truth and with Faith.

I did not intend to write so long a message at this time, but as I am enthusiastic on this subject, I find that I have trespassed upon your time and kindness longer than I realized.

So thanking you for your patience, I will stop now. I hope that I may have the privilege of coming again at some time and writing. With my kind regards, I am, very Truly yours, Henry Ward Beecher.

Ministers, Mediums and Spirits