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April 12th, 1917
Received by James Padgett.
Washington D.C.
I am here, Grover Cleveland.
Let me say a word, too. I am your friend and desire to say just
a few words about what has just been written you, and of the necessity
of keeping up your faith in what has been promised you, and your
courage.
Of course, I am not of the higher spirits, but I am in the soul
spheres of the spirit world, and it is so, as I am very happy to
say, very largely because of your advice and help and consequently,
you must know that I feel very grateful. I have not written you
for a long time, and I have no doubt that you wonder who I am that
is thus writing you; but in your wonder, think that I am a most
grateful spirit, and one who desires to help you all that he can.
I acted on your advice and listened to the high spirits who came
to me and told me of the wonderful plan of God for the salvation
of men and the making of their souls pure and like unto His in Love;
and I, at last, to an extent, believed what they told me and prayed
and hoped and continued to pray, and found that my prayers opened
up the way to the Father's Love, and to His Kingdom of Light and
Happiness.
It was surprising to me how simple the plan is, and how the true
longings of the soul will bring to itself this great Love, for I
found that as I longed and desired in true earnestness, this Love
was present, always present and not afar off to be searched for.
Now the Father must love the souls of mortals and spirits!
Well, now I am in the Third Sphere and in the association of spirits
like myself who are filled with this Love to the extent that they
are in great light and happiness, always striving for more Love,
yet always contented. You may not understand this seeming paradox,
but it is true, contented yet striving for more. And this is because
this great Love of the Father has in it those qualities that bring
a satisfying happiness and, the same time, creates a desire for
more love.
Well, my friend, I desire to tell you this because I know that
you are interested in knowing something of my experience in the
spirit world, and are pleased to know that I can call myself one
of the redeemed. And now, knowing the truth of the Father's Love,
and what its possession means to a spirit, I feel a great desire
to tell you that what you first told me of is a thing of reality
and that when you instruct spirits as to this Love and the Way to
obtain it and happiness, you are conveying to them truths that are
as real as the existence of our spirit world and the soul of men
therein.
I heard what the other spirits wrote you tonight and also want
to urge you to have faith for I know this; that all the powers of
these high spirits are being exercised in your behalf, for they
say that you have a work to do, that only you can do. What a wonderful
thing to contemplate! I do not yet understand it all, but this I
do know, that you seem to be of great importance to these spirits.
I am now much more interested in spiritual matters than in the
war that your country has just entered, for I now see that among
men and in their short lives on earth, wars and all such calamities
are mere incidents, and do not determine the destinies of men in
the great eternity, except as the individuals may or may not by
their thoughts and desires carried into action, contaminate the
conditions of their own souls and fit them for the hells and punishments
that follow.
If men would only understand that, after they become spirits and
possess some of this Divine Love, the mortals of earth, all alike,
become their brothers, and nationalities and race distinctions disappear
to the spirit's consciousness! All are brothers and the possible
recipients of this Love.
But still, while we have no particular interest in nations as such,
yet we have with us individuals and sympathize with them and love
them, and are glad when those things which bring upon them unhappiness
and misery cease to exist; and we try to exercise our influence
for good on those who have the administration and directing of national
affairs, and in this way we are interested in the war.
To us there comes no feeling of bias or prejudice against any nation,
or desire that any one nation shall become victorious, except as
we see the men of one nation are in their advocacy of principles
and justice more in accord with the righteousness and truth than
another, and then we are on the side of truth and use our influence
for its success.
In this war, I think that the Germans and their Allies will be
unsuccessful and believe that the war will soon end. But this is
for man to determine, though we are exercising our influence to
bring about this determination.
I will not write more tonight, but as I progress, which the higher
spirits tell me I will do, I will come to you and write you of my
progress.
With my love and gratitude, I will subscribe myself,
Your brother in Christ,
Grover Cleveland
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