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June 8th, 1916.
Received by:James Padgett
Washington D.C.
I am here, Your own Helen.
Tonight everything seems favorable to my writing you my promised
message, and I will try.
Of course, you must expect to find some expressions of love in
it, for I could not write you if I did not tell you how much I love
you, and how happy I am when you love me and want me to be with
you.
Well, sweetheart, I am now in the Celestial Sphere with your grandmother,
though not in as high a plane as she, and have not so much of the
Divine Love as has she; yet my happiness is so great that I can
hardly realize myself what it means, and it is impossible to tell
you of the beauties of my home and surroundings. I have tried when
I was in a lower sphere to describe to you my home, and I did it
very inadequately, giving you only a glimpse of what it really was.
And now, if you could increase that description a hundredfold, you
would have no conception of the beauty and glory of my present home
and the wonders that surround it.
I so often wish that you had words in your language that could
be used to fully describe what this new home means to me, or even
the one that I just left; but as you have not, you will have to
be content with knowing that if you should take all the imagery
of the Revelation and add to it the sum total of all the beautiful
descriptions of places and homes and scenery that the whole range
of your English literature contains, you would have but a faint
idea of what really exists. And besides, the great increase in the
Love that I possess and enjoy and the beautiful and loving and holy
spirits whom I have for my companions, make this home of mine truly
one of the mansions of the Kingdom of Heaven that Jesus referred
to in the Bible; only the mansions that he there spoke of were not
necessarily like the one that I have, for the mansions in the Celestial
Heavens vary according to the soul development of their occupants.
I sometimes think that a very few years ago I was on earth, without
much soul development and very little knowledge of the things of
God; and now I have that development and knowledge of those things
that fit me for these glorious mansions of the Celestial Spheres.
How wonderful it all is, and how I thank the Father for His goodness
and mercy, and for having given to mankind such a loving and glorious
saviour as Jesus.
And I do not forget that you had something to do with my starting
on this great journey of progress, for I remember that when I first
came to you things of the material were very attractive to me, and
my appetites of earth had not left me, and how when I displayed
some of these desires for the material things you rebuked me, and
tried to point the way to the higher things; although I know now
that your advice came from your merely mental conceptions of what
I should strive for, as at that time you had very little knowledge
of the things of the soul and scarcely any soul development.
But your Christian training as a child, and the conceptions that
had come to you from these instructions, taught you that in the
spirit world there must be something higher and beyond the mere
earthly conditions of man, where purer joy and happier lives might
be found and lived; and your love for me was such that you desired
that I should find and possess these things, if possible. I have
never forgotten what you then said to me, although at the time I
thought you were unkind and not so anxious for my happiness. But
long ago I had come to me the knowledge of the motive that actuated
your advice, and much happiness has come to me from that knowledge
and recollection.
Only a little thought of love and an earnest desire on the part
of mortal for the spirit, when it is directed in the way of the
soul's progress, sometimes work a greater result than the conquering
of a city, for it means the salvation of a soul, which is of more
value than all the cities of the earth combined.
And while I am writing in this strain I wish to say that one of
the greatest benefits or possessions that can come to a mortal is
to have a mother or husband or wife in whose bosom glows the Divine
Love of the Father, even though very faintly, for that little spark
of love, to its own degree, makes that soul a part of the Divine
essence of the Father's Love, and its influence upon the possessor
causes an atmosphere of love and help to be felt by all who have
the relationship to such possessor of a child or wife or husband.
Christian instructions, though mixed with dogmas and creeds that
may all be wrong, yet will benefit, as in them are some thoughts
that may awaken the soul to a condition that will let in some portion
of the higher Love, which will remain, though dormant, until the
time comes when something will arouse the dormant Love to action
and life.
And this benefit passes with mortal to spirit life, and the influence
of the teachings, or rather the accompanying impressions of the
Christian mother, etc., to help such a spirit to realize its true
condition and to start on its progress to the attainment of the
higher things of the soul. No wealth or riches or position that
a mortal may inherit can possibly equal the influence of that one
little spark in the Christian mother who possesses some portion
of the Divine Love; and there is none so poor as the spirit who
comes into the spirit world without any recollection of having,
at some time in its earth life, received in its soul the influence
of that little spark.
So I say the man who has a Christian mother or wife who has, at
some time in his earth career, taught him to turn his thoughts to
God and to pray, even though that man in afterlife forsakes such
thoughts and prayers, is a very fortunate being; for in the spirit
life he has with him the memories of his earth life and nothing
is lost; and among these memories will be the influence of his mother's
teachings and his own prayers. And while he will have to satisfy
the laws of compensation, yet these recollections of these thoughts
and prayers will come to him sooner or later, and will help him
in his progress to higher conditions. And you must remember, as
has been often told you, that all souls will ultimately reach the
planes of purification of their natural loves, or the glories of
the spheres where only the Divine Love exists.
After I commenced to receive into my soul this Divine Love, I became
very anxious to increase its possession and my progress was very
rapid, as they tell me, and as I progressed from sphere to sphere,
ever were there coming to me new wonders and great happiness and
the disappearance of those things which belonged to my mortal life.
No one who has not experienced this progress can understand what
it means, and how the happiness increases and also the longings
for more; and yet the astonishing fact is that notwithstanding these
longings, the contentment of the spirit is perfect and no unhappiness,
because of longings yet to be fulfilled, exists.
As you know, when I entered the spirit world I was met by your
mother and others, and all fear or confusion that usually arises
from the change which so-called death brings to the spirit left
me, and, in fact, never came to me, and I was as tenderly cared
for as you can conceive of; and ever thereafter, while I could not
go to the home of your mother, yet she and others were with me often
enough to keep me from much darkness and suffering, though I did
experience some darkness and suffering.
But the influence of their love was with me, and they earnestly
and lovingly told me of the Great Love of the Father, and how I
might get it and become happy, and start on my upward progression.
And your father came to me also, with his cheer and help, and showed
me that upon myself, to a certain extent, depended my being able
to get into the light. He was so good and kind to me that I loved
him at once, although I had never seen him in earth life.
And from all this can you wonder that I did not remain very long
in the lower planes? I tell you that the love and tenderness and
influence of the beautiful and loving spirits who have some of God's
Love in their souls are things that can take away the terror of
death and make a spirit who has just left his mortal home almost
happy.
And if men could only realize the fact that by attempting to get
into their hearts good thoughts and longings of love so that these
beautiful spirits could be attracted to them, their entrance and
reception in the world of spirits would become one, even if not
of happiness, yet of freedom from fear and loneliness. So, I advise
all mortals to so live as to attract friends on the spirit side
of life that can come to them in the times of the great change,
and comfort and help them.
Now, I do not mean by this that such spirits of mortals will not
have to endure the darkness and suffering which the conditions of
their souls demand they should endure, but their entrance into the
spirit world will be as I say.
Well, sweetheart, I have written a quite long letter and you must
be a little tired, but I must further write and tell you that all
this happiness that I have spoken of may be yours, and as your soulmate,
I believe and almost know that it will be; for while you are a mortal,
no matter how long the years may be, you will have with you my love
and longings for your coming, and my prayers to the Father for a
great bestowal upon you of His Divine Love. And besides all this,
you know that you have surrounding you the loves of those who are
higher than I, and who possess so much more of this Divine Love.
Oh, it, will be a happy day for me when you do come, and I know
that you will be happy, also. Just think, that as your eyes close
in what the preachers call the last sleep, I will be with you, and
when you awake I will be with you, and the only thing that will
greet your newly-awakened vision will be my eyes, so filled with
love and joy that you will almost want to die over again just for
the sake of having the awakening.
I remember that when on earth, you thought my arms were very beautiful,
and loved to have them around you, and thought yourself happy; but
when you come to me again you will find arms so much more beautiful
clasping you to a bosom that you cannot dream of, and eyes looking
into your eyes with so much love and happiness that you will, for
the first time in all your life, know what happiness means; and
then when I tell you that I am all yours and that never again will
cruel death, as it is called, separate us, and that only love, pure
and unselfish and never-dying, will be ours without any lessening
or disturbing by jealousy or tiresomeness, you will wonder if you
have really awakened from that last sleep or are only dreaming.
But then I will give you a long, sweet kiss of love that you will
know that it is all real.
Oh, my Ned, I do love you and want you to love me with all your
heart! The time will not be long now, until we shall be together
in our spirit life, when your cares and worries of life will not
longer trouble you.
But, sweetheart, you must pray to the Father for a greater inflowing
of His Divine Love and blessings, for upon the development of your
soul depends our continuous living together, and progress.
I will be with you tonight while you sleep, and I am so filled
with love that I know I shall call your spirit from your body and
carry it with me to purer planes, where we can, for a few moments,
enjoy the bliss of living together, without the encumbrance of your
body. You may not remember it when you awake, but I will know, and
will tell you of it when next I write.
So, sweetheart, give me my good-night kiss.
Your own true and loving
Helen
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