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December 29th, 2002
Santa Cruz, California
Received by F.A.B.
I am here, Joseph.
We move now from creative genius to sainthood. In this message I
will write about St. Francis of Assisi. As you can well understand,
he has reached the Celestial Heavens, and in fact, is in a sphere
not numbered.
When he first came to this world of spirits, he brought with him
the Divine Love that he manifested on earth. It was a very joyful
reunion. As he suffered at the time just preceding his death, he
was naturally grateful to be free of that suffering.
What he realized was that there were very few of his Christian contemporaries
who could equal his spiritual development. After much time in this
world of spirits, he conceived of the idea that perhaps the organized
church wasn't necessary; he had observed many church officials in
darkness.
He gave a lot of time here in the spirit world to helping spirits
less developed than himself. Because of his vow of poverty on earth,
it was a little difficult for him to adjust to the liberality of
the spirit world, where all spirits' needs are met. But he reasoned
that God loves us and supplies our needs, as He did for him on earth.
He also reconciled with his father, who was mortified to discover
in spirit, the error of his ways. It was a long time before his
father was able to speak with his son, because of his remorse. That
is, he was overwhelmed by his mistake in thinking that his son had
gone astray on earth.
Of course, as you can well imagine, Francis was at first disappointed
not to find here what he had expected, but he is saying that it
is so much better the way it actually is.
He recognizes the absolute, utter equality of humanity in God's
eyes. He has visited many of his contemporaries to better understand
the life of his time on earth. He realizes that he was actually
very sensible in doing what he had done, for it enabled him to inherit
much happiness over here.
His was not an experience of suffering and darkness, though he had
an adjustment to make in regard to his attitude to his body.
When your mediumship gets stronger, he will come himself and write
more of his experiences. Let me close by stating that his experience
was unusual and not typical in the least.
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