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March 17th, 1915.
Received by James Padgett.
Washington D.C.
I am here, Helen.
I want to tell you of my experience in trying to show a spirit the way to God's Love, which I had a short time ago.
Well, I talked to this spirit of this Love, and told her that the
only way to happiness and to the Celestial Kingdom was through prayer
and faith, and that all spirits who were inhabitants of those spheres
had received this Great Love of the Father only through prayer and
faith; and if she wanted to become an inhabitant of these Heavens
she must seek for this Love in that way. She said that she was told
when on earth that if she only observed rules and regulations of
the church, and devoted herself to doing church work and looking
after the interest of the church, so that it might be sustained
and fostered, she would go to heaven just as soon as she had left
the earth life - that that would be all that would be required of
her, and that no other seeking or striving after God's Love would
be necessary to enable her to get into the Heavens where God and
all His angels are. I told her that she must now realize that such
performance, of what she considered to be her duty, had not been
sufficient to carry her into these Heavens, and that she must realize
that something more was necessary. But she still persisted, that
her belief in what she had been taught in the church could not be
changed, and that very soon she would become an inhabitant of these
higher spheres. So I left her, because I saw that at this time her
belief had so fastened itself upon her convictions that it was useless
to try to convince her that she was laboring under an absolutely
false belief.
So, I find that in this spirit plane there are many spirits in darkness and bigotry, which prevents them from seeing the truth and progressing to the higher spheres. I do not think that mortals, when they become spirits, have any better opportunity, for sometime at least, to realize and accept these truths than they had when on earth, and the men or women who teach these things have a great sin to answer for, as Jesus said, cursed is he who believes and teaches these false doctrines. And I think he must have laid especial emphasis on the teaching as it affected not only the teacher, but many others who had faith in and accepted these teachings as true.
I am so glad that I, when on earth, was never fully convinced of these church dogmas: as I consequently found it so much easier when I came to the spirit world to believe the truths as they are. Of course, I was exceptionally blessed in having your mother and grandmother, who are so well versed in these things, to show me the way, and then when Jesus came to me and corroborated what they had said, I could not help from believing.
So you see the importance of learning these truths while on earth, for the greater our comprehension of them as mortals, the more easily will be our progression to the higher things of the spiritual life. Well, I thought I would tell you of this little incident as it shows you a great and necessary truth, and one which all men should know.
So with all my love I am your own true loving Helen
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