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May 1st, 1918.
Received by: James Padgett
Washington D.C.
I am here, Mary Kennedy.
I will write a few lines if you will consent, and I know you will,
for Helen says that you receive so many letters of love and encouragement
from her, that you are wholly sympathetic whenever other soulmates
desire to write to their other halves on earth, and especially when
I come to write to mine, and Helen knows and never tells me an untruth
except when she is trying to plague or tease me.
Well, I am very glad that I can write once more to Leslie, for
it has been a long time, as it seems to me, since I wrote him, and
I believe that he thinks so, too. I know that he is interested in
me all the time, for the reason that I know he loves me, and where
loves enter there can be no want of interest, and so it must be.
I am very happy and am progressing all the time in my soul qualities,
and in my position in the soul spheres where only the Divine Love
exists, except the other love which belongs only to soulmates. Since
I have become an inhabitant of the Celestial Spheres and realized
what an absorbing thing the Divine Love is, I wonder that I can
have so much of this soulmate love as I do, when I realize the fact,
and know, that no other love exists in our spheres except the Divine
Love and our soulmate love. No love of mother or father, or any
other love that belonged to the relationship of the human life has
any place in our existence or happiness, for spirits cease to have
brothers and mothers and other relations, but all are as one great
brotherhood, whose nearness and unity depends upon the amount of
the Divine Love that enters into the souls of the respective spirits,
and in this, the Divine Love is different from our soulmate love
in that the former is of one nature and substance, though possessed
by spirits in different degrees, and is of the same quality and
may be possessed by the souls of spirits alike, while the latter
belongs only to the two soulmates, and no other spirit can enter
into or possess any portion of that love which belongs to the two
soulmates alone. I often think of this fact, and how good is the
Father in giving us this great Love which we partake of in common
with all other spirits, yet, let us have this soulmate love all
to ourselves. This may at first seem to partake of the element of
selfishness, but it is not, because, while one of the two souls
can and does have it, yet, no other soul is thereby deprived of
any love that would make them unhappy or that would afford them
any greater happiness. It is not selfishness but merely the possession
of that which in itself makes the love of the two individual.
Now, from what I have said you must not infer that when we become
inhabitants of the Celestial Spheres all the loves that were ours
when on earth by reason of our human relationship are not with us,
for it would not be true to make such an inference. The explanation
is that the objects and the place of existence of the objects of
our loves, determines whether we continue to have this love of the
human relationship. If our parents or brothers or sisters, or others
having a relationship whom we loved when on earth, continue to live
in the flesh, or even in the lower spheres of the spirit world,
then our earth love, as I may call it, remains with us, and our
dear ones are just as much, or to a greater degree loved than when
we were on earth or in the lower spheres; and out of that love grows
our desire to help and influence for good our relatives.
But when these relatives become with us inhabitants of the Celestial
Spheres, where the Divine Love is the great love belonging to us
all, then, the love that is possessed by reason of being relatives
one to another, leaves us and has no influence. As long as you remain
mortals we love you as parents or children or other relatives, but
when you come with us to the Celestial Heavens there remains no
reason why such love should continue, for this Divine Love is sufficient
for all and supersedes these other loves.
Well, I love my Leslie, and I will love him for and through all
eternity because I know that he will come to me in my home and be
united, his soul to mine. I am with him a great deal and my love
for him never dies down or ceases to exercise its influence upon
his soul, and never will so long as we remain separated, which will
not continue very long, as we who are in eternity view it. I have
written too long already and must stop. But I want to tell him that
he has his angels around and with him very much, and he is never
left alone. When he prays, as I know he does, we are all with him
praying to the Father for a greater inflowing of His Love into my
dear one's soul.
Oh, how I wish that I could tell him of the extent of my love and
what it means to him, and how much I want all the love that he can
give me. He must think of me and keep up his courage and faith in
the truths that have come to him, for he will never be disappointed
in that faith or in the expectations that come from it. Good night,
my dear one.
Your own loving,
Mary
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