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February 19th, 1919
Received by:James Padgett.
Washington D.C.
I am here, John.
Let me say just a word. I was with you today when you were talking
to your friend, (Colburn) and heard your conversation, and saw the
utter want of comprehension on the part of your friend as to the
truths of the spirit world, and especially of the laws that divide
the mere perfect man from the Divine man or spirit. He is so engulfed
in the conceptions that he has of these loves arising from his experience
in life that he can only see the existence of one love, the natural,
and his mind is not capable of seeing the other Love, and of course
his soul has not that development which would assure him of the
reality of the Divine Love.
The mind itself is capable of informing him of the existence and
working of the natural love, and as this is the only means that
he possesses of understanding what love is, he cannot possibly understand
this Love, and that soul developed to a degree by the very Love
itself. He may argue to the extent of the capacity of his mind and
he will never be able to comprehend the Love that requires a perception
of the soul, and he may remain satisfied and convince himself that
the natural love is the only love and that when it becomes developed
to a certain degree it becomes the Divine Love, and then find that
he is far away from the truth.
He must know, and I mean it is necessary for him to know, that
only those who have the Divine Love to some degree are capable of
knowing that the Divine is a thing of itself, and not the development
of the natural love, and has in it not the qualities of that love.
The one is of God, that is partakes of His very nature, while the
other is also of God, but does not partake of His nature, but is
only a creation intended to make man happy and perfect in his condition
of the mere man - the merely created existence.
I thought that I would give you these short comments on your conversation
in order to show the grave and important mistake under which your
friend is laboring. He will not easily believe these things of truth
while in the flesh, and when he comes to spirit life the difficulties
will be just as great, and it may be that he will always be content
to remain the possessor of this natural love only. I wish that it
might be otherwise, and that he might let go his intellectual belief
and harken to the call of the soul, which when not trammeled by
these beliefs is continually longing for this Greater Love.
Believe that I am your friend and interested in you to an extent
that you cannot now comprehend, but which, some day you will understand
and wonder that such a thing could have been. Good night.
Your brother in Christ,
John
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