“I was not a Christian when I lived, and did not die a Christian, notwithstanding all the fantastical things which have been written about me and my conversion to Christianity. When I came to the spirit world I found myself in darkness and suffering, realizing I would have to pay the penalty for the sins committed by me on earth. All the masses which were said for the benefit of my soul never helped me one particle to get out of my unhappy condition. I knew nothing about the divine love or the true mission of Jesus, and found that my sins had not been “washed away” as the teachers had told me they would be.
“Many long years I remained in this condition of darkness without finding any relief by reason of the mystical workings of Jesus’ atonement, nor through the help of the gods in whom I had been taught to believe by our philosophers and religious teachers. But after a time, the light of truth which Jesus came to teach, broke in on my understanding soul. The Divine Love of the Father commenced to flow into my soul, and continued until I became a possessor of it to the degree that I was carried to the celestial spheres. Here I now am – a redeemed, pure and immortal soul, having undoubting knowledge and conviction that I possess in my soul the divine essence of God, and certainty of eternal life in the Celestial Kingdom.
“Before closing I wish to say, with all the force that I have, that only the Divine Love can save a soul from its sins and make it at-One with the Father in his divine nature. Let creeds, dogmas and man-made doctrines take care of themselves, and learn the truth, and in that truth abide. For truth is eternal and never changes. No decrees of mankind, or dogmas of church tradition, or creeds of ecclesiastical conventions, so solemnly adopted and declared, can make that a truth which is not a truth. Your brother in Christ, Constantine.”
Luke adds his thoughts:” I desire to confirm that it was Constantine, the Roman Emperor, who wrote. He was pleased that he could correct some historical errors that have existed concerning his true position as to Christianity. He was scourged by his conscience before he got out of his condition of darkness and suffering.”
Read, The Gospel of God’s Love, pages 208-210.