Messages from Professor Salyards, friend of James padgett, published in The Gospel of God’s Love, page 60.
“I am very happy and want you to know that I am progressing in my soul development and in my knowledge of spiritual truths; I would like to tell you some I’ve learned. I am now in condition to see the truth the Master has told us, about the real existence of a God who knows what his creatures are doing, and how they are making use of their souls and bodies. God is One having all the faculties that you would suppose only a being with personality and form would have.
“I’ve only recently been able to comprehend the truth about a God, who has the wisdom, love and power I was taught God possesses. Such comprehension is beyond the finite mind, and can only be preceived as a reality by faith. I now have that faith which enables me to understand that this God, whom we call Heavenly Father, possesses all these qualities, and this brings me such a wonderful addition to my knowledge of God.
“This understanding is not a thing that arises from any exercise of the mind, or any mental power, but is the result of the exercise of my soul perceptions. These have become so great, and in unison with the Father’s Soul qualities, that He and all these attributes appear to me as perceptible existences, having the certainty of a real Being.
“You see the importance of soul development and what the posibilities are to be learned; no mere intellectual development could ever lead to a comprehension of the personality of God as I have described it.
“I never in all my life, mortal or spirit, conceived or expected that it were possible for any soul of mortal or spirit to see God as I now see Him. I never could understand what was meant by the beatitude, “the pure of heart shall see God,” except in the sense that as we became pure of heart, those qualities that were ascribed to God would become part of us, and as such possessors, we could see God – or rather, the result of those attributes of God – in our souls.
“I have tried my best to put this in language that you may understand. But you won’t be able to fully know what soul perception is until you have experienced this Love development in your own soul.” Amen