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April 24th, 1919.
Received by James Padgett.
Washington D.C.
I am here, your father.
Let me write for I desire to tell my son that I am with him in
his sickness and am trying to help him and make him feel that there
is more in life than the merely physical living.
I know that he has often felt that I am with him in my love and
desire to help and encourage him in his afflictions, and his feelings
are true, for with me there has never ceased to be the love and
affections that were mine when in the flesh, and so long as he shall
remain a mortal my love and care will be with him in all their fullness.
I am in the spirit world, which is very close to his world and
am not very different from what I was when on earth, except that
now I have not a fleshly. body, and cares and distractions of my
physical living to disturb my happiness. I am in the fifth sphere,
where all is so beautiful and bright, and where the Love of the
Father is so abundant that we are happy all the time and enjoy that
bliss which Jesus told his followers was in store for them when
they should give up the ghost and enter into their rest, which is
a rest in action and work.
I was with you last night when the gentlemen called (Mr Padgett)
and explained to you the truths of the existence of a soul that
has been transformed by the Love of the Father and brought into
at-onement with Him, and I want you to believe in this Great Love.
Your days on earth, at the longest, will be very short and then
you will have to come to the spirit world and leave behind you all
the ambitions and accumulations of your earth life, and if you have
not laid up your treasures in heaven you will be very poor indeed.
Oh my son, realize that the pleasures and desires and efforts of
earth life are but fleeting and for a moment only, and that then
comes the great problem of living in eternity, and that the thoughts
and deeds of that earthly existence comes with you to condemn or
make you happy.
The great law of "whatsoever
a man sows, that shall he reap" is in full force and
exacts every part of the penalty that the life of a man for good
or evil imposes upon him. There is no exception to the workings
of this law and the full penalty must be paid until forgiveness
comes, and then the demand ceases, and the soul emerges from its
condition of suffering and darkness, a purified and redeemed soul.
But forgiveness is not the mere release from or remission of these
penalties, by the mere arbitrary dictum of God, as you are so often
taught by the preachers, but it is forgetfulness.
That is forgetfulness - an oblivion as it were - of the acts and
deeds that bring into operation the great law, and men when they
become spirits must work into this forgetfulness in a slow and laborious
manner. I say men must work, for on themselves depends to a large
extent, their own redemption. No miracle will be performed, for
as is said, the mills of the gods grind true but they grind exceeding
small, and the spirit will have to pay the last penalty; and this
must be so, as you will readily see, for the soul must in order
to get into the condition of harmony with the laws of God, become
purified and relieved of everything that would make it inharmonious.
No soul can live in a purer state than its own qualities possess.
And here let me say that no mere belief or sacraments or observance
of church dogmas can bring about this purification. It is a work
within the soul, and man must do the work.
Now, my son, I write all this to show you how inexorable is this
great law of which the Master spoke when on earth, and which in
its exactions never change. It has no mercy and admits of no shortcut
to the goal of the purified soul. How few of mortals really understand
the workings of this law, but in a careless and complacent manner
depend upon the forgiveness of priests and preachers and the mysterious
workings of some assurances of the church's dogmas.
So you will see the necessity for men to commence as early as possible
to practice the renunciation and turning away from these things
that contaminate and defile the soul; but, alas, as their lives
on earth continue, most men, instead of renouncing these things,
accumulate and add to them and come to the spirit world all burdened
and filled with thoughts and acts that defile. And as they are the
accumulations of many years of earth life, so many years will be
required for these men, when they become spirits, to get rid of
these things and false hopes and beliefs will not help them in the
slightest, but frequently seem only to retard the purification of
their souls.
If this were men's destiny, implacable and irrevocable, men would
be in an almost hopeless and unforgiven condition indeed, forgetfulness
would come only in a slow and sinuous way, and they would shed many
tears and suffer much groaning before they could feel themselves
forgiven. And this will be the lot of most men, but in the end forgetfulness
will come and they will find happiness.
But my son, thanks be to God, the Father of us
all, there is another provision of the Father which exists and is
freely given to all men who will seek for it, and that is the Divine
Love of the Father, in which are forgetfulness and mercy and oblivion
of the thoughts and acts of earth, and which is greater than the
great law of compensation, of which I have just written. When this
Love comes into the soul of man, with it comes forgetfulness, which
is the only forgiveness in the economy of God, and the demands of
the law of compensation cease, and the soul becomes freed from the
law. As Paul has said, then
is a man without the law. And with this Love comes a happiness
and joy that no man can conceive of, and the possessor of it knows
that he has become a part of God's divinity and immortality. Now,
this Love does not come all at once in its fullness, but as a still
small voice, it tenderly and timidly answers the call of the heart
that cries for it in earnestness and faith, and as it is nurtured
it grows stronger and more soul-possessing, and makes its presence
felt to the supplicant. Unless it is earnestly sought for it never
comes into the soul but passes by unseen and in silence because
the soul will not seek its possession.
You, my son, heard the way in which it may be obtained, and I urge
upon you, with all your strength and longings of soul, to seek for
it, and if you do, it will not refuse to enter into your soul, and
you will know it, and then your start will be made not only towards
forgiveness and forgetfulness - but towards the transformation of
your soul into the very Love and Essence of the Father, and a progress
that will last through all eternity.
I am the possessor of that Love and know whereof I speak, and to
me comes the great assurance of a life continuous and never dying,
filled with the bliss of angels and the joy of a redeemed soul.
Oh, I do so much want you to obtain this Love and become one of
us, who know that when death left us life took its place, bringing
to us a knowledge that immortality was ours.
Well my son, I must stop writing. I have written in this way because
I am more interested in your immortal soul than I am in your mere
physical body, which will perish and be no more. But the soul! the
great wanting, loving, hating, happy, suffering thing that it is!
I will be with you very often in my love and try to help you, and
if you will think of me intently, I will impress you with my presence.
I must stop now as the rapport is weakening. Good night,
Your father, Arbelee
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