Published in The Gospel of God’s Love, page 421, recieved in 1915.
“I want to tell you of my experience in progressing in spirit life. When I passed over, I was received by your grandfather, and by my own dear mother who had been in the spirit world for so many years. She was then living in the seventh sphere and was a most beautiful and happy spirit. Now she is far up in the celestial spheres; she occasionally comes to see me, and tells me of the great beauty of her home, and other wonderful things.
“Shortly after I passed over, I progressed to the Third Sphere, and thought that there the very seat of heaven must be, because my happiness was so much greater than I ever anticipated.
“When I first entered the spirit world, I confess I was disappointed, because I did not see the Father on His throne, and Jesus sitting at His right hand, as I had been taught to believe. But it was not long before I realized that such belief had no foundation in truth; that God has no “throne” such as the writers of the Bible had declared, and that His spirit has no form in the sense that I had been taught to believe.
“After living in the Third Sphere for some time, having received much instruction from spirits who lived in higher spheres, and having received a great abundance of God’s Love, I progressed to the Fifth Sphere, and found a wonderful home of beauty and harmony among spirits who had received the Divine Love to a degree which gives us all this great happiness that I tell you of.
“In some planes of this sphere are spirits who have not received the divine love, but who have developed great moral and intellectual qualifications; but they are not so happy as were those who had received the great Love of the Father. They give their thoughts and works to things that pertain to moral and intellectual progress, rather then to the development in divine love.
“It may seem strange to you that these spirits could live in an atmosphere where so much of God’s Love was manifested by the spirits who had received it, and yet not realize that this divine love is the one thing absolutely necessary for their further progress beyond the sphere of the perfected human.” To be continued…