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December 28th, 1916
Received by:James Padgett
Washington D.C.
I am here, the spirit of your old friend, General
Henkle.
I merely want to say that I have been present all evening and
heard your reading of the messages and the conversation, and must
say that some things that I heard surprised me, for instance, the
assertion that your spirit was taken from your body, and brought
to the spirit spheres, and there enjoyed the freedom of a spirit
that had left the earth forever. This I have never heard of before,
and cannot conceive that such a thing can be, and if it were not
for the fact that your wife and a number of other spirits who are
filled with love and truth tell me that it is true, I should doubt
the fact. It is all so wonderful to me that but for the experience
that I had when I came to the spirit world, and found so many things
that I thought true were not true, I should even yet hesitate to
believe. How little we spirits know of the wonders of God, and how
much there is to us to learn!
And the one thing that even yet makes me marvel is that all these
wonderful things, I mean the power of communication and the truths
that you receive, should have come to you, who when I was on earth
was merely a man like the rest of us with no knowledge of these
things. But I have had so many surprises and experiences that I
am ready to believe most anything that these high and beautiful
spirits tell me. The greatest truth of all - the existence of the
Divine Love and its effect upon the souls of men and spirits - I
know to be a truth, for I have had it come into my soul and transform
my condition of darkness into light and happiness.
Since I last wrote you I have made much progress and am now in
the third sphere, where I find so much bliss, and so many beautiful
spirits, who possess this love and tell me of the beautiful and
wonderful things that you did for them. Well, my dear friend, it
does me good to write you and tell you of my progress, and the certainty
of the existence of the great love.
I have met many of my old friends, and brother lawyers in this
spirit world, and some of them have found this soul development,
but the most of them, I am sorry to say, have not, and are still
trying to develop their intellects, especially in the way of spiritual
laws which, they think, is the most important thing to learn. And
my work is to try to convince them of the greater importance of
the divine love, and to show them the necessity of prayer. The work
is laborious and somewhat disheartening, but it is mine to do, and
I will continue in the work until I am told to go to a higher sphere.
I would like to write longer tonight and tell you of the experiences
of some of my friends, but your wife says that I must not do so
and so I will say good night, and leave you my love, and also your
friend, although I have never met him on earth, but realize that
he is a kindred spirit that the Father has blessed him also with
some of this great love.
General Henkle
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