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23rd April, 1916
Received by:James Padgett.
Washington D.C.
I am here, Lafayette - I have been anxious for some time to write
you again and let you know the results of your advice to me when
last I wrote. After our last communication, I sought General
Washington and told him of my conversation with you and asked him
to explain what this Divine Love meant and how it could be obtained.
He was so pleased at my inquiry that he actually took me in his
arms and called me his boy as he had on earth and with his face
beaming with love and happiness he told me what this Love meant
and what it had done for him, and what happiness it had brought
him and how he was now progressing towards the Celestial Heavens
of light and truth.
Well, I commenced to consider what he had told me and to have a
longing in my soul for that Love and the happiness which he said
it would bring me, and I commenced to pray for the Love and tried
to have faith. Well, without taking up your time by rehearsing the
steps of my progress, I am glad to tell you that I have this Love
to some extent and that I am now an inhabitant of the third sphere
and enjoying the associations of spirits who also have this Love
and are striving to progress.
My happiness is very different from what it was before this Love
came to me and I realize that the soul and not the mind is the man,
especially of God's redeemed children. I never thought that the
soul was capable of such Love and happiness and of the knowledge
that the Divine Love is the one absolutely necessary thing to bring
spirits into unison with the Father.
I want to express my gratitude to you and to say that I will never
forget your kindness and love in turning my thoughts to this great
truth.
Yes, I am still interested in the war, but now I do not have any
hatred for the Germans that I had before. I see that they are all
brothers, and children of the Father, and that only the ambitions
of some and the passions and hatred of others are prolonging the
war. But it will soon close for I see before me the collapse of
the German campaign against Verdun and then the end will come rapidly.
I wish it were tomorrow, for then slaughter and death and added
misery would cease. There are so many spirits coming from these
battlefields who are all unfit for the spirit life and appear in
great confusion, and when they realize they are no longer mortals
they become bewildered and miserable. But we are trying to help
them. We know no enemies and all are helped alike. I will not write
more tonight and in closing give you my love and sign myself with
a new name, which is,
Your brother in Christ,
Lafayette
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