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March 6th, 1919
Received by:James Padgett
Washington D.C.
I am here, Emerson.
Let me write tonight on a subject that is of importance to mankind
and one which so few of mortals know or conceive of in their teachings
and philosophy. I am one who inhabits the Sixth Sphere, where the
pristine purity of the first man obtains, and where sin or the alienation
from God has no existence. You may not know, but it is a fact, that
the purity of this sphere is such that the souls of men find only
that which makes a man like unto God, and renders him happy and
satisfied with his existence and with the divine attributes and
nature with which he was created and which God in the infinitude
of his powers decreed that man should possess and enjoy to the fullest
of his capacity. I am he whose book1 you have been reading
tonight and who was attracted to you by the fact that you were interested
in the book and sought the truths of the soul as therein set forth.
The soul is one that while individualized yet is a part of the great
Oversoul, and in its aspirations and thoughts of those things that
are pure and in harmony with the oversoul has a satisfaction that
is complete and at-one with the Father of light and love.
This sphere is one where only the perfected soul can live and bloom
and feel its qualities of the divine as perfect, and no soul that
has not rid itself of sin can possibly enter. I only know that we
who inhabit that sphere have that feeling of purity and perfection
that was granted to our first parents and which by them was lost
at the time of their disobedience. This soul is very much like unto
the great soul of the Father and needs not the qualities that you
have known on earth as the one that causes you to realize that the
Father has for man a higher and greater existence than the perfect
man.
Well, I have lost my rapport and must stop. Good night,
Emerson
1 Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April
27, 1882) was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet, who led
the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen
as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing
pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens
of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the
United States.
Emerson gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs
of his contemporaries, formulating and expressing the philosophy
of Transcendentalism in his 1836 essay, Nature. Following this ground-breaking
work, he gave a speech entitled The American Scholar in 1837, which
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. considered to be America's "Intellectual
Declaration of Independence". He wrote an essay entitled "The
Oversoul" in 1841. (Source: Wikipedia)
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