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April 27th, 1915
Received by James Padgett.
Washington D.C.
Well, my darling son, I am so happy to be with you tonight and
tell you that I am now in the Second Celestial Sphere, where everything
is so beautiful, and happiness exists to a degree that I cannot
portray to you. I am in my own home and what it is, I can scarcely
describe, for you have no words which are adequate to give you an
idea of what I may mean in attempting to describe the glories of
this sphere.
My home is of a material that you have no faint counterpart of
on earth, and it is furnished with everything that is suited to
make me happy and more thankful to the Father for His Love and kindness.
I am living all alone, but I have many visitors, and love is the
ruling sentiment among all its inhabitants. No spirit who is not
filled with this Divine Love of which I have so often told you can
possibly live in this sphere. The spirit who has all the most wonderful
intellectual acquirements, and is without this Love, cannot enter
this sphere, nor can the mere natural love of mortals or of spirits
fit the spirit for inhabitancy here. Only the Divine Love of the
Father can make a spirit so at-one with all the surroundings and
atmosphere of love that here exists.
When I left the first sphere I was taken in charge by a most beautiful
and glorified spirit, and carried from my home in the first sphere
up to the entrance of the second sphere where many other beautiful
spirits were waiting to give me welcome - and such a welcome I never
thought could be extended to a spirit who is progressing. But I
was received with all the love and affection and evidence of joy
that the spirits of this sphere have for a spirit who has progressed
from the lower one. Oh, I tell you that my happiness was certainly
beyond any conception of what I had in the home which I just left.
I thought that the beauty and grandeur of the first sphere could
not possibly be surpassed, but when I tell you that comparison cannot
be made between the beauty of the two places, it is the best that
I can do. My home was all ready for me, and I was carried by a whole
host of spirits to it and told that it was for me, and that God
had prepared it for my happiness and joy. It certainly is beyond
description, and it would be useless for me to try to describe it.
The spirits here are so much more beautiful than those of any other
sphere. They are more etherial and their garments are all shining
and white - not one little speck reminds one of the earth or the
grosser spheres of the spirit world. And here the music is entirely
divine and of such a great variety - all telling of the great Love
of God, and sung in His praise and adoration. I have not yet seen
all the beauties of this sphere, and I may later give you a fuller
description of it.
Yes, I met some spirits whom I knew on earth, but not many; some
of the truly Christian men and women who lived and loved and worshipped
God, and passed over long before I did. My own dear mother and father
have progressed to this sphere and were ready to receive me; and
how glad they were to welcome me and take me to their arms of love.
Well, I must not write more tonight as you are not in condition
for extended writing. So with all my love, which is so much greater
than when I last wrote you, I am your own true and loving grandmother.
(Ann Rollins)
This message is a composite of two, being published
in Volume II on page 60 and Volume III on page 107. For more details
see this page.
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