I am here, Jesus;

    I was with you tonight and heard the address of the preacher as to the cause of the great war that is now raging in Europe.

    I will not come as the Prince Michael, as the preacher said, to establish my kingdom on earth and take into me those whose names are written in the book of life and destroy those whose names are not therein written, for I have already come and am now in the world working to turn people's hearts to God, and to teach them the way by which they may become at one with the Father and receive into their souls the divine love.

    In no other way will I ever come to men on earth, for they will not need me as a visible king with the powers and armies of the spirit world in visible form to subdue the evil that exists. There will arise no satan to fight against me or my followers, for besides the fact that I am already in the world fighting for the salvation of humanity, there is no satan.

    The only devils or evil spirits who are trying to influence men to evil thoughts and actions are the spirits of men which still retain all their errors and wickedness, and the evil that exists in the hearts of people themselves.

    How pitiable it is that the preacher and his followers believe that the spirits of people who have died the natural death are also dead and resting in the grave, or in oblivion, waiting for the great day of my appearance on earth, as they say, in order to come again into life and be called by me into my kingdom. How much they lose by such beliefs, and how great and surprising will be their awakening when they pass through the change called death.

    There will be no battle of Armageddon, except only as each person, or the soul of each person, is now fighting the battle between sin and righteousness. This is the only battle that will ever be fought between the Prince of Peace and satan. Each soul must fight its own battle, and in that fight the powers of God by His instruments which never cease to work, will be used to help that soul overcome the great enemy, sin, which is of man's creation.

    These teachings of the preacher do great harm to mankind in that they cause the individual person to believe that I, as the Prince of Peace, will come in mighty power and in one fell swoop destroy evil and all who personify it and thereby do the work each individual must do.

    I know that it will be very difficult to persuade the people of this sect that what they teach and what they conclude the Bible teaches is not true; but I hope that when my truths are brought to light and people have the opportunity to learn the truth, that many of them will halt in the security of their beliefs and attempt to understand these truths, as they must understand them, either in the mortal life or in the spirit world, in order to enter the kingdom of God.

    Peace will come, but not as the result of any battle of Armageddon, or any other battle based upon false principles applied to these prophecies. As I have said, this battle is going on all the time and is an individual fight between the soul and the creatures of a person's disobedience.

    So do not waste your time in reading or listening to these unreal and foundationless teachings of people who think they have discovered the intentions of God with reference to the destiny of nations.

    I am with you, as I told you, trying to help you and to show you the way to that new birth, which is yours and all others who will follow my instructions. I love you as a younger brother and will continue to bless you with my influence and prayers. So doubt not and pray to the Father and you will find the truth in greater fullness and receive corresponding happiness.

    I am here, Luke of the New Testament;

    People must cease to believe that the millennium will come with the coming of Jesus in a manifested physical way as a mortal conqueror might come with legions of followers and noises of drums and by force of arms or greatness of power subdue his enemies.

    This will never be, for no person is an enemy of Jesus', but all are his brothers and sisters. And he is not now making, and never will make, war on any human being, only on the error and defilement that is with their soul. And this war can never be waged by power or force of legions of angels, for so great is the power of a person's will, and so respected is its freedom of action by the Father, that there is no power in heaven or earth that can or will change a sinful soul into a pure one by force or threats and conquering legions of angels, even though they might be led by Jesus, which will not happen. No, the soul is the person, and that soul can be made pure and sinless only when that soul desires and consents that such a condition may become its own.

    So it should not be difficult for men to understand that this erroneous belief that Jesus will come in this semblance of a human conqueror and establish this great time of peace is doing them much harm and delaying the actual time of the coming of this event. The effect of this belief upon the soul is that everything is to be accomplished by the work of Jesus and nothing by themselves except to believe in his coming and wait and be ready to be snatched up in the clouds, and then help the host of heaven to destroy all of their late fellow mortals who had not believed with them, and put on robes of ascension as they literally or figuratively designate such robes.

    They thus believe, and in their minds they might be honest, yet their souls may be disfigured and tainted with error and the life's accumulation of sin so that they could not possibly be in condition to enjoy a place of purity and freedom from sin. And some of them expect and claim that they will be the judges of others of their fellow mortals because of deeds done in the body, and yet in how many cases would it prove to be the blind and sinful judging the blind and sinful.

    And they further claim that Jesus by his great power, and the fact that they believed that he would come again to earth to establish his kingdom, will, in the twinkling of an eye, make them fit subjects for his kingdom and qualified to judge the unrighteous and help cast them out of his kingdom. No, this can never be the way in which the millennium will be established, and the sooner people discard this belief and seek the truth and the true way to purity and perfection, the sooner this hope and expectation of mankind will be realized.

    I am here, St. John;

    There is scarcely a greater error in the beliefs of people that retard the development of their souls than the belief that at some time Jesus will come in all his glory and power and take people into his heaven just as they are in body, soul and spirit. This belief has for a long time prevented many people from seeking to develop their soul qualities, either as to the natural love or as to the Divine Love, for as a basis of their faith is that saying in the Bible that "whosoever believes in the Lord Jesus Christ shall be saved;" and many, thinking that they have this belief, are contented therein, and further believe that because of that belief they will be carried into the heavens of Jesus when he comes, even though in the meantime they may have given up the earth life. It is deplorable that men should believe these things and live and die in this belief, which, of course, is wholly intellectual.

    But such is the fact, and we spirits who know the truth have for all the long centuries been so anxious that people should know the truth and have been working among them by means of spirit impression, and sometimes by revelation, to help them learn not only the truth, but the errors of their beliefs. And as our efforts have not been very successful we concluded to use the means that we are now using, and to reveal to mankind in our own words and thoughts the truths of God as regards humanity and all things connected with Him.

    And here I want to say with all the emphasis that I can, that you and your friend* must believe that the communications that you receive as to these truths are written by us and in our own words, and that your mind does not supply a thought or suggestion, and that you are used only as a medium to convey our thoughts and lend your physical organs to facilitate our expressing in our own language the truths that we desire to convey.

    So, no matter how improbable some things may seem to you, you must accept them as true, for nothing but the truth will be written. And further, we will not allow any spirit who is not in our band, or who has not this divine love, to write on any of the truths that are necessary to be revealed to the world.

    I thought this the proper place to say this as I desire to assure you of the reality of the messages and the source from which they come.

    I will not write more now, and will say good night. With my love to you both, I am-

    I am here, Solomon;

    Your being chosen to do this work was not the thing of the moment, but for a long period of time the highest spirits of the celestial heavens have considered this great question and the way by which the great truths of God, and the necessary plans for humanity's salvation, could be made known to mortals.

    Heretofore the difficulty has been in finding a person gifted with mediumistic powers who had the unbiased mind, and yet a knowledge to some extent of the soul's requirements, and who could be used for the purpose of receiving these great truths and transmitting them to humanity.

    Some years ago, as you say, a selection was made of a man to declare these truths, and to him much power and spiritual knowledge were given, and even the power of leaving the body and visiting the world of spirits that he might see for himself the actual condition of things as they there exist, and to declare to mankind the results of his observations. And he did observe and declare many truths, but the difficulty in the way of his realizing the pure truth and interpreting the things which he saw, was that his mind was too much biased by what he had read and believed from the writings as contained in the Bible, and hence, his efforts failed to accomplish the great purpose intended by the mission given him. I am here referring to Swedenborg, the seer, as he was called.

    This was a great disappointment to these celestial spirits who had projected such a plan for revealing the truths to mankind. At the head of these celestial spirits was Jesus, as he is now. Since that time the time has never been propitious for a plan of this kind to be attempted again until now.

    But now, instead of having the mortal through whom this plan is to be worked leave their body and come to the spirit world and then relate the results and interpretations of his observations, it has been determined that the truths shall be declared to the mortal in the words and thoughts of these spirits so that no mistake or wrong interpretation can possibly occur; and hence, when we saw the possibilities of your becoming a medium with powers sufficient, and a soul capable of development to receive these thoughts and words, it was decided to select you and make you the medium for doing this great work. Of course, Jesus was the active superior spirit in making the selection, and we all submitted to his judgment. And such is the decree. And now you will understand why you were selected, and the fact that you have been selected. I have told you this because I have been selected by the others to do so. And I, as the wise man of old, tell you from a knowledge founded on fact.

    So both* of you realize your missions and strive with all of your might to acquire this great faith and soul development which are absolutely necessary to a successful performance of the work. We are with you very often trying to incline your thoughts to the higher things, and to fill your souls with the influences which our love for you creates around you.

    So, in behalf of all of us who are promoting this great work, I give you our love and blessings.

    I am here, Swedenborg;

    Well, I am sorry to say that my work was a failure. I know now that what I attempted to do was injured by my preconceived ideas based on the orthodox teachings, and that I did not carry out the work of the great mission that I had been selected to perform.

    I will say now, though, and you must believe me, that you have been selected to do the work which I failed to do. And I hope that you will permit me to give you one piece of advice, and that is, take record and believe only the messages as they shall come to you from Jesus and the other high spirits, and let no opinion of your own mar or flavor these communications. These truths will be presented to you and you must accept them as they come.

    When I came to the spirit world and realized the failure that I had made, then everything was failure to my conscience.

    In your case you have no such preconceived ideas to hamper you or prevent you from receiving the truths, for you are used merely as a conduit through which these truths are to be received and as they are to be declared in the very words of the writers.

    I am your friend and brother and co-worker in making known these truths, and write only because I, as a failure, can speak from experience. So my brother, turn your thoughts more to this work, and, if necessary, sacrifice every worldly consideration to carry forward your work and make perfect your efforts to fulfill the great mission with which you have been blessed.

    I will not write more now. May the Father bless you with His love.

    I am here, Jesus;

    I merely want to say a word for the benefit of you and your friend,* and that is that I have listened to your conversation tonight and find it in accord with the truth and the influence of the Spirit is with you both. Now continue in your line of thought and in prayer to the Father, and also in your making known to others whenever the opportunity arises of the importance of seeking for and getting the divine love.

    As your friend said, the only prayer that is necessary is the prayer for the inflowing of this Love. All other forms or real aspirations of prayer are secondary and of themselves will not tend to produce this love in the souls of men.

    Let your prayer be as follows:

Our Father, who art in heaven, we recognize:

    That Thou art--art all holy and loving and merciful, and that we are the children of Thy care, and not the subservient, sinful and depraved creatures that our false teachers would have us believe.

 

    That we are the greatest of Thy creations and the most wonderful of all Thy handiworks, and that we are the objects of Thy great Soul's love and tenderest care.

 

    That Thy will is that we become at one with Thee and partake of Thy great love which Thou hast bestowed upon us through Thy mercy and desire that we become, in truth, Thy children--and not through the sacrifice and death of any one of Thy creatures, even though the world thinks that one Thy equal and a part of Thy godhead.

 

    That Thou will open up our souls to the inflowing of Thy love, and that then will come Thy Holy Spirit to bring into our souls, this, Thy love in great abundance until our souls may be transformed into the very essence of Thyself; and that there may come to us faith--such faith as will cause us to realize that we are truly Thy children and that we are one with Thee in very substance and not in image only.

 

    Let us have such faith as will cause us to know that Thou art our Father and the bestower of every good and perfect gift, and that only we, ourselves, can prevent Thy love changing us from the mortal to the immortal.

 

    Let us never cease to realize that Thy love is waiting for each and all of us, and that when we come to Thee with faith and earnest aspirations, Thy love will never be withholden from us.

 

    Keep us in the shadow of Thy love every hour and moment of our lives, and help us to overcome all temptations of the flesh and the influence of the powers of the evil ones who so constantly surround us and endeavor to turn our thoughts away from Thee to the pleasures and allurements of this world.

 

    We thank Thee for Thy love and for the possibility of receiving it, and believe that Thou art our Father--the loving Father Who smiles upon us in our weakness, and is always ready to help us and take us to Thy arms of love.

 

    We pray thus with all the earnestness and longings of our soul, and trusting in Thy love give Thee all the glory and honor and love that our finite souls can give.

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    This is the only prayer that men need send to the Father. It is the only one that appeals to the love of the Father, and with the answer, which will surely come, will come all the blessings that men may need and which the Father sees are for the good of His creatures.

    I am in very great rapport with you two tonight, and see that the Father's love is with you, and that your souls are hungry for more.

    So my brothers, continue to pray and have faith, for in the end will come a bestowal of the love like unto that which came to the apostles at Pentecost.

    I will not write more now. In leaving you I will leave my love and blessings, and the assurance that I pray to the Father for your happiness and love. Good night.

    I am here, R.G. Ingersoll;

    I am here and desire to say with all the emphasis of words and soul that the Master wrote you and gave you the prayer which he said was the only prayer that was needful to bring into the soul of a man the divine love.

    He was glorious! And it is not surprising that you felt the influence of his presence and love; and I, whom have so recently experienced what this love is, tell you that your feelings were real, and that this love is present, and that we spirits felt it as well as you two mortals.

    Astonishing to us, as to you, is the power of this love and the greatness of the Master, for with him seems to come the influence of the very Father Himself. How thankful I am that I found the way to this love, and it found its way to my soul! What a loving Father, and what a tender Master to teach us of this great gift.

    I could not restrain myself from writing, as the opportunity came to testify of this love and of the Master. And I felt that as I had so often declared on earth that there was no such thing, I must now and always when the occasion arises, declare the truth of the divine love and the Holy Spirit and the glorious Jesus.

    I must not write more tonight, so believe that it is I who writes, and that I can with all the certainty of life declare that I am-

    I am here, Helen;

    I am glad that you have the Master's prayer to help you and open up your soul to the inflowing of the love of the Father. It is a wonderful prayer, and as you repeat it with all your sincere soul desires you will find that peace will come to you, and the very presence of the divine love will be felt in your soul. So try to learn the prayer and offer it up to the Father, not only at night when you are ready to retire, but during the day, and especially when you feel gloomy and downcast, for the results will do you much good. It will bring to you the presence of this love, and also the higher spirits who possess so much of it; and the rapport will enable you to realize that there are spirits hovering around, and such spirits as will cause you much happiness and peace. So remember what I advise and give your aspirations to the offering of the prayer, and to the hope that you may abound in this love in all its fullness.

    Oh, my dear, when I think of how blessed you are in having conferred upon you this great mission I can hardly realize that it is true. Yet I know that it is, and that you should feel so thankful to the Master, as I do. No other has had such a privilege conferred upon them, and, of course, no other has such a responsibility. And when this latter is considered, it seems that you will have the sustaining influence and power of all the spirits who are in your higher band to enable you to do the work and not faint in its performance. Jesus is with you and you will not be afraid that you will not succeed. The way and the means will be provided, and the great truths will be given you, and through you, to the world. And in the future men will learn the truth and thank the Father that it became possible for His truths and knowledge of His great love to be revealed through the instrumentality of a mortal.

    You may be forgotten, but your work will live forever. And people and nations will experience the benefit of it and come closer to the Father and closer to one another as brothers and sisters. The nations will necessarily be what the individuals who compose them are, and love and peace will reign on earth as the Master promised long ago, and as he promises now.

    All will be fulfilled. And as the old prophet said, "the desolate places will bloom and blossom as the rose." And this means that in people's hearts and souls will come such love that every person will truly become each others neighbor, and the great leaders of mankind will realize their dream of the brotherhood of man.

    I must stop now, so with my love, good night.

    I am here, Jesus;

    You are my own true brother and disciple. I come because you need me and my love, and I want to tell you that you are very near the kingdom. Your prayers have been heard and our Father has given you His love to a great degree. So you must soon be prepared to take my messages, for the time is getting ripe for the world to receive my gospel of love and peace. Men are now thinking deeply of spiritual things and want a gospel that will teach them the way to the truth and to God's love and their eternal happiness. So do not let the things of earth keep you from getting more of your Father's love and grace in your soul. Be steadfast in your faith and you will not want for anything that will enable you to become His true son and my own loving disciple in spreading the glorious tidings of joy and peace to mankind. Your love is now so great that you will soon be at one with your Father and receive from Him the outpouring of His love and the Pentecost of the Holy Spirit. Be a man who will not let anything of earth or heaven keep you from doing the work which I have set before you to do. I am your true helper and protector and you will not suffer for want of anything that will make you free and happy. Be more earnest in your efforts to obtain the great boon which your Father has promised to give you and you will not be disappointed.

    I am your true teacher and brother, and I want you to do my will as regards the teaching to mankind of the truths of the Father. I do not desire to tell you now of these things. I will in a short time and then you will know just what the truth is.

    I think this is the best place, though the place will not determine the best means of doing the work. I do not intend to restrict you to any place, only take the messages and publish them.

    You will also teach the truths by your daily conversations and example. It will make little difference to you where you are, for the spreading of my truths is the important thing.

    Yes, a church will be established and there will be many leaders of my new movement, and it will succeed and supplant all other beliefs in this hemisphere; I mean in the United States and other Protestant countries.

    God will eventually rule peoples lives through His love, for men will then seek His love and peace will be established in the earth. When my kingdom comes on earth I will reign in the hearts of men and women not as a ruler or as a sovereign lord, but as a Prince of Peace--the only son of the Father who was born without error. And all mankind will worship God in spirit and truth. War shall be no more, and swords shall be turned into pruning hooks and plowshares, and men shall know what peace and love for one another are.

    I will not desert you in your work and it will prosper. I know that certain churches, I mean the clergy and high officials, will fight my truths and teaching of them to humanity, but they will not succeed. I will prevail and mankind will be redeemed. All will bow down in earnest prayer and thanksgiving to their God, and His love will enter into their hearts and they will be at peace. Brothers will be brothers indeed, and the Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man will be established, and all will serve their God.

    The Catholic church will eventually as an organization of political power and as a monster of error and a teacher of doctrines contrary to God's truths be utterly destroyed, and its followers will embrace the true teachings of my gospel. Many will not embrace these new teachings though until the last vestige of power of this great vampire has utterly disappeared. The priests will be shaken from their seats of power and will become men of no influence among the people, for my truths will destroy all the errors which they have preached and through fear caused their deluded followers to embrace and believe.

    So with my love and blessings, I am-

    I am here, Elizabeth (mother of John the Baptist;)

    Let me say a word, and that is that you are a very happy man just now, and so you should be, for as the Master said, you have much love in your soul tonight. You may not fully realize this fact, but the influence and effect of its presence will manifest themselves and you will find coming to you that wonderful peace of which the Master has told you.

    For a moment, think that there is nothing between you and the Father, and that as regards your longing and His love they are face to face and no mediator intervenes or can intervene. Only the Father's love and you, alone. Think of this and you will realize not only what a wonderful thing the divine love is, but what a wonderful thing your soul is that it can become so in nearness and in love with the Father. This is the only way of becoming at one with Him and everything besides is inefficacious to bring about the great transformation of which the higher spirits have written you.

    So many spirits are engaged in this work, which is really the second coming of Jesus--and which means the second coming of the love and mercy and privilege of receiving the love--and if you could only for a moment with your physical vision see those who are present you would never doubt the work that you are to do, and the great responsibility that rests upon you. But as you cannot in this way see, you must believe without seeing and let no doubt of the fact enter into your faith.

    I thought that I must write this tonight, for we see your condition and many are here with you praying to the Father for a great bestowal of His love upon you. So consider what has been written you tonight and meditate and long for and pray to the Father, and you will be greatly blessed. With my love I will say good night.

    I am here, St. John;

    I heard your prayer and know that this love is flowing into your soul and now you have a great abundance of its possession of which you are conscious. It will never fail you when you pray in earnestness and with the real longings for its coming. It is always ready to respond to your aspirations and to make you feel its presence and the happiness that comes with it.

    I, as you know, am your special friend in my work of helping to develop your soul, and whenever you pray to the Father as you have just prayed, I come to you with my love and influence to help open up your soul to the inflowing of this love. Have faith and you will have the certainty of the presence of the love and that it is yours, seeking to come into your soul in greater and more abundance.

    You are blessed in that you have the knowledge of this existence of this love, and that it may be yours if you so will it to be and pray with the true longings of your soul's desires. You cannot doubt the truth of what I write, for as in the ordinary things of life there is nothing so convincing as personal experience, and your experience is such that there has been no room for doubt. So if you would keep the consciousness of the presence of this love continually alive, pray and pray whenever the opportunity presents itself. And by this I don't mean that you shall wait for a time when you are not engaged in your business affairs. The longings if exercised for a moment will bring their results, for God's ear is always open and ready to cause the responses to such longings.

    One moment of true soul longings is more effective than hours of prayer where these longings are not present. The prayers of the lip or of habit arise no higher than the escaping breath and do not cause the love to respond and flow into the soul. Remember this, and then realize how futile are all the prayers of preachers and ostensible worshipers when the soul's longings and desires are not present.

    Only soul can call to soul, and love responds only when such soul calls. The mere desires of the mind, if I may so express my meaning, do not in the least affect the soul; and as mind can only operate on mind, there cannot possibly be any activity of the soul's faculties when only mind is in operation. Hence, you will see that all the worship that comes merely from the mind will not effectuate the working of the love or bring into operation the Spirit's work.

    I write this to further encourage you and also make plain the necessity for the true prayer.

    I am here, Jesus;

    Well, my brother, I am glad to tell you that your communion with the Father tonight has been responded to. His love has inflowed into your soul in great abundance, and your soul is now filled with it, and the influence of this great love is working in your soul and you realize its presence. If you will meditate and long for and pray to the Father as you have tonight your soul will soon be so filled with this love that you will receive the knowledge that you have a near at Onement with Him, and you will be conscious of the possession of a part of His divinity of which we have written you. The Pentecostal shower will come to you as it did to my disciples in the days that followed my departing from them, and I will be with you also just as I was with them; and power and essence divine will be bestowed upon you so that you will be able to display the marvelous presence of this love, just as they were able. So you must pray and long, and your experience tonight has given you some foretaste of what will come to you.

    There is nothing in all the world that can take the place of this love in its power to draw you near to and make you at one with the Father. All beliefs and faiths in any and every other thing will not suffice. Sacrifice and sorrow on account of sin and vicarious sufferings and mediators will not work the transformation, because it is solely a conjunction between this divine love and your soul that is capable of bringing you into this relationship to the Father and the resultant consciousness that you have partaken of and possess to some extent His divine nature in love.

    Now you are in condition that makes my rapport with you complete, and I have that possession of your brain that enables me to write as I may desire; and I know that I could convey a message to you tonight in a most satisfactory way; but I will not do so for I think it best to permit the rapport to become a little more intense and thus enable me to write a long message without the probability of tiring you; for as you know, these messages of deep truths such as the ones on the soul and God necessarily cause me to draw very intensely on your brain power. But soon now I will come and commence to deliver my messages, and will continue to do so if our rapport can be maintained. And it can be if you will only meditate and pray as you have done tonight.

    I now want you to think more than ever of the importance of your work, and of the necessity for you putting all your energies and desires into the work. No one can conceive of what it means, and above all you must realize its great importance and the place that you occupy in carrying it to a successful issue.

    I will be with you very often and I know that you will feel my presence and influence. And as you do, turn all your thoughts to the Father's love and let all your longings go to Him.

    Tonight I will not write more, but soon will write as I have said. Have faith and know that you have been selected to do the work and that upon you rests the responsibility that is upon no other man. With my love and the Father's blessings, I will say good night.

    I am here, John the Baptist;

    I come because I want to encourage you to pray more and to believe. The Father's love is waiting for you to fill your soul to its utmost, and the only things required on your part are prayer and faith.

    We are all interested in you and want you to get into a condition that will enable you to take the Master's messages as rapidly as possible, for the time is now ripe when they should be given to mankind and started on their work of redeeming people from false beliefs and erroneous doctrines and dogmas. I, John, tell you this for I can see that people are longing for the truths of God. Such truths as will accord with the reasoning of men who are not biased by erroneous beliefs, either in matters spiritual or material.

    I tell you that these truths will be easier for the mere materialist to receive and understand than by those who are bound by the beliefs which the creeds and dogmas of the churches have inculcated. And the acceptance of this new revelation of the truths of God will be by those who have no preconceived ideas of what the nature and relation of man to God, in the spiritual sense is, rather than by the learned theologian and the simple worshiper at the altars of the churches who believe whatever may be told them by the priest and preachers.

    As I was at one time the voice of one crying in the wilderness, I am now the voice of many spirits of God who know that the Master will teach the truths of his Father, and that these truths must be accepted by mortals on earth and by spirits in the spirit world in order that they may receive that salvation which the Father has prepared for them, and which when accepted and realized and possessed will fit them to become partakers of the happiness and immortality which the Father has promised them.

    I have written you in this manner tonight because I want you to realize more fully and deeply the important work which the Master has selected you to do.

    I will stop now.