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April 19th, 1917
Received by:James Padgett.
Washington D.C.
I am here, mother of Leslie. I came to say that
I am much pleased for this opportunity to write to him once more.
Of course I have been with him a great deal and he has felt my
presence, but it is so much more satisfactory to write him and tell
him in words of my love and solicitude for his welfare. I am now
in a higher sphere of the Celestial Heavens and correspondingly
happy and I find that as this great love comes to me it seems that
I love him with a greater intensity. I wish that I could describe
the glories of my new home so that he might have some idea of what
the heavens constitute in which his mother now lives and what it
means. He has heard described some of the spiritual spheres which
transcend all conceptions. But those descriptions are very inadequate
to convey the true portrayal of what the heaven which is mine contains.
But I am also happy in that his father has also progressed and
is so much happier and has so much more of the love in his soul.
We are in the earth plane a great deal of the time trying to help
his sisters and brothers who have their many troubles and moments
of unhappiness and if we could only get in rapport with them like
we can with Leslie, they would be much happier. But as it is they
do believe in our presence as their true loving parents and are
conscious of us sometimes when they need our help. But this they
cannot understand and their thoughts do not often turn to us and
as a consequence we are not able to get as close to them as we desire.
The girls are more interested in earthly matters than in those
pertaining to the spirit world, and are very largely absorbed in
the war and its possibilities. Well, this is quite natural, but
yet if they could only know that the other things such as the spirit
are more important and if they would only turn their thoughts more
to the spirit world and think of their parents more often, they
would receive an influence and help that would add so much to their
happiness even though they could not understand its source.
As you know we are controlled by law and no matter how great our
desires may be to come in closer contact with our children and cause
them a greater happiness but if they do not want to respond to our
feelings, they can prevent our doing so. Of course they do not understand
what possibilities are theirs and what a little thing keeps them
from us or rather permitting our influence to come to them as it
otherwise would. Let them have a real yearning for our presence
or a wish that they could have us with them and it will lift the
veil that keeps us from making our presence conscious to their souls
perceptions.
We are hoping though that someday or rather someway they will have
an awakening so that we may come closer together. Tell Leslie to
write them to think more about their mother and send out a desire
that they could have her with them and then I will be with them
and they will know that it is true although they may not realize
the fact.
Yes, I sometimes visit the scenes of battles and it is also possible
that I do not stay very long, except at some time when I have the
opportunity to help some poor spirit who has suddenly found himself
in the spirit world and is in great confusion and apparently all
alone. I am also with my son who is in the army and try so hard
to reach his consciousness, but with very little success and while
I do not know when he may be called to battle and suffer the dissolution
of life, yet I am with him waiting to help him should the end of
life come to him. My love draws me to him and my love will keep
me with him until he either becomes a spirit or returns to his home.1
Oh! What a terrible thing is war and if mortals would only understand
what it means to the individual spirit, they would try to bring
an end to its ravages and destruction.
I have written considerably and must stop. But I wish to say that
Leslie's father is also here now and sends his love and blessings
and wants him to know that the signal which he spoke of is the one
that his father uses to notify him of his presence. Also tell Leslie
to continue to pray and believe for in doing so, his prayers ascend
to the real living and loving Father and his beliefs are of the
truth of the great truth - that leads to God and redemption and
immortality.
Thanking you I will say - good night.
Priscilla Stone,
Mother of Dr. Stone
1 Dr. Stone has written: That his brother Harold did
survive the battle although he was injured, but returned to his
home and family in Toronto, Canada and lived until he was 80 years
old.
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