Published in, The Gospel of God’s Love, page 423, from Ann Rollins.
“…Truth of the soul’s discernment is never shown to be in error, and no error ever becomes a part of the soul’s discernment of truth.
“The great road to the ascertainment of the realities of God is through – and only through – the development of the soul by the inflowing of the Divine Love. The “eye of the soul” is that interior perception which needs not reason from cause and effect to forever establish the truths of God. So how necessary it is for humans and spirits to understand that if they would learn the higher truths of spirit life, they must endeavor to develop their soul’s power of perception by seeking the Divine Love.
“After I had lived in the Fifth Sphere, and learned the great and wonderful truths that are taught therein, I progressed to the Seventh, and there learned what real happiness is. No spirit who has not received the Love of the Father lives in this sphere, because the mind is “absorbed” by the soul to such an extent that without the soul development, the mind would have no place of “lodgment.” I mean that the mind, then becomes so subordinated to the powers of the soul perceptions that it cannot exist as mere mind, independent of the soul.
“In this sphere all is grand and beautiful to an extent that I can not describe, because you have no possible mental conception with which I can compare such beauty and grandeur. Our homes are very harmonious, and without stain of anything that emanates from things other than the soul’s essence and power. No spirit who has not this great Love could possibly be happy here.
“Yet, while all this happiness exists, I was told that it is far greater in the Celestial Spheres, and consequently I was not satisfied to remain in the Seventh; I prayed for more faith, and more Divine Love, until finally the Love came into my soul in such abundance that I progressed into the First Celestial Sphere.
“I am so happy that it seems there can be no greater happiness; but my mother tells me that there is. My prayers are constant, and my faith is growing, I realize that when the Holy Spirit fills me with Divine Love I shall progress. An element of our happiness is knowing we can continue to progress in Love.” Amen