Continued from previous Blog; “…While I was trying to progress to higher levels in the spirit world, I met some of my old friends who had a beautiful appearance and seemed to be so perfectly happy. I asked them the cause of their happiness, and when they told me, I was quite surprised, and gave very little credence to what they said. It sounded so similar to what I had heard in Orthodox Churches on earth, I supposed they had brought their old religion with them and were deceiving themselves as to the cause of their happiness. I thought the probable cause was that they were more moral than I when on earth, and hence their recollections of earthly sins were less and their consciences were clear.
“I would not at first accept their explanation, and continued for a longer time trying to improve my moral condition and advance my mental acquirements. But there was another thing I noticed: while these beautiful friends did not appear to have great mental development, yet their beauty and happiness seemed so much greater, and of a different nature from that of the morally developed spirits.
“So I again determined to seek the cause, and with intention to listen more seriously to what they might tell me, and to open my mind to their secret. Well, I listened, and they told me that their progress and condition was caused by the soul development which they received after seeking for and obtaining the Divine Love of the Father, and that the soul is the great and important part of a spirit’s being. And that the degree of soul development determines the position and condition of the spirit.
“They further explained the nature and power of the Divine Love, and of the absolute necessity of its entering into the soul in order to make progress. As this Divine Love becomes more a part of the soul’s possession, the soul takes on itself the Divine Nature of the Father, and all things foreign to that nature disappear. All these things and many more these friends told me, and urged me to seek for this Love. At first I did not understand how to long for the Love, but was told the Love is waiting to fill all souls, yet only by earnest, sincere seeking would it enter the soul and fill it with it’s great Essence.”
G’s story will be continued…