Mr. Padgett’s friend G, continues to write about his spiritual progression. Published in The Gospel of God’s Love, on pages 406 – 412.
“At last my friends persuaded me to pray to the Father and then, they prayed with me, but it was hard for me to have faith in that which my mind did not understand. But they told me that the soul has faculties of its own and is not dependent upon the mind for faith. And that by exercising these soul faculties, I would receive this Divine Love and greater faith – for as the Love comes, faith will also come. It is not mere belief, but something greater and different.
“Well, I continued to pray for this Love and after awhile I felt a sensation which I had never felt before within my soul and as I prayed, this feeling increased, and faith in a small degree came to me. I realized there was a love possessing me that was never before with me. I continued to thus seek and pray, until this great Love came to me in abundance, and happiness unspeakable, and (as friends said) light and beauty also.
You might imagine that my longings and desires became insatiable. The darkness disappeared, and my recollections of evils of earth life became fainter, then I found myself in the 3rd Sphere, which then appeared to be the very heaven of heavens, and the very fountainhead of beauty and happiness. During all this time I gave no attention to the development of my mind, or to acquiring knowledge; but when I found myself in this light sphere, it seemed to me that my mental faculties had expanded beyond belief, and great knowledge came to me in wonderful clearness.
“But the Soul, not the mind, was the thing. And Love – this Divine Love of the Father made happiness mine. The one who seeks only the development of their mind and lets the soul slumber, is poor indeed; but they who seek the development of their souls will find that as the soul develops, the mind does also and they are rich beyond compare.
“I continued progressing through the 5th Sphere, and then into the 7th, the Sphere of transition from mortal into immortal. In a faint way I’ve tried to rehearse the story of my soul’s development. My advice to all mortals is to seek God’s transforming Love.
Your brother in Christ, G”