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August 30th, 1915
Received by James Padgett.
Washington D.C.
I am here, The spirit of one who when on earth was a believer in
the divinity of Jesus and in his being one of the three parts of
the Godhead, co-equal with the Father and with the Holy Spirit.
This belief I died in and as a consequence, when I came to the spirit
world, I was disappointed and also surprised to find that Jesus
is not God, but a spirit made like the rest of the inhabitants of
that world though infinitely more beautiful and possessed in a very
much larger degree of the Divine nature of the Father.
I did not believe that this was true until a long time after I
entered the spirit world, for my old beliefs clung to me, and while
I did not find myself in heaven singing psalms and playing on harps
as the Bible taught, yet I was not very happy and was not in much
darkness, and I settled down to the belief that the state in which
I found myself was the one that I should probably remain in until
the great day of judgment and the general resurrection of those
who had died.
But after a while I met spirits who said they were from a higher
sphere, and who told me that there is no such thing as a fixed state
in the spiritual world, and that the day of judgment is every day
that I existed as a spirit, and that if I chose to do so I could
progress out of my condition into higher spheres where I would find
more happiness and light.
Of course I did not readily believe this, for my old beliefs stayed
by me and I continued in my condition of hesitancy for a long time,
until at last I had the good fortune to come face to face with the
Master, and then I knew that my beliefs were wrong and erroneous.
Such a beautiful and bright and loving spirit I had no conception
of. He told me that he was not God, and that he was only a son of
the Father, and that I was a son also, and could obtain the Divine
Love just as he had obtained it, if I would only pray to the Father
and have the necessary faith.
Since then, I have been praying, and my old beliefs about Jesus
being God, and the Great day of Judgment and the resurrection of
the dead at the last day have left me, and I am a free spirit possessing
the Love of the Father to a considerable extent.
I am not so exalted and bright, and have not the soul development
that your band have, but I am progressing and know that the Divine
Love of the Father is what we all, spirits and mortals, need to
make us one with the Father, and partakers of His Divine nature
and of immortality.
I am a stranger to you, and you must excuse my intruding, but I
so desired to write as I have, that when I saw the way open I could
not resist the temptation to write.
I am S. B. S. I lived in the city of New York and died many years
ago, I am in the fifth sphere and am progressing.So thanking you,
I will say, good night and God bless you.
Your brother in Christ,
S. B. S.
NOTE. This spirit would appear to be Samuel
B Southard.
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