Excerpts from a message by Socrates, found in ‘True Gospel Revealed Anew by Jesus’, Vol. I …”After I became a spirit I realized my belief in continuation of life after death, and lived in the spirit world a great many years after Jesus came before I learned and believed in the larger truth of Immortality. When I taught I had only a hope, which was almost a certainty, that I would continue to live through all eternity, from the deductions and observations of the workings of nature.
“I had heard of the visitations of spirits, even though I never had personal experiences in that direction, I readily believed it to be true. My conviction of a future continuance was so strong that it amounted to a certainty, and when I comforted Plato and my other disciples, I told them that they must not say, Socrates died, but only his body died, his soul will live forever in fields Elysian.
“And I did not die, as soon as my breath left me, which was not very painful, even though the fatal hemlock did its work sure and quickly, I went into the spirit world a living entity, full of the happiness that my beliefs gave me. I was met by some of my disciples who passed over before me and who had progressed in the intellectual development. I thought I was in the home of the blessed; I continued there for many years and enjoyed the exchange of minds and feasts of reason.
“I continued to progress until, at last, I entered the highest intellectual sphere and became a beautiful and bright spirit, so I was told, and taught things of a mind developed. My happiness was beyond my conception when on earth. My friends and disciples came and our reunions were always joyous. Our existence was a continuous feast of bright and momentous thoughts interchanged.
“I observed that the condition of the soul determines the appearance of the spirit. For long years my life went on this way, until in my wanderings I found a sphere I could not enter. I was told that it was one of the Soul Spheres in which the Master was a spirit called Jesus, who had established a New Kingdom, since I had come to the spirit world. He taught that only those who had received the Divine Love of God could enter the Soul Spheres.”
To be continued…