This is a very long message, so will be continued in several episodes. It can be found in “The Gospel of God’s Love” on pages 470 to 474.
“I am the spirit of one who lived on earth the life of a wicked man – a persecutor of the Christians, and a blasphemer of God and everything that was pure and holy. When I had lived earth life to its end, and shufled off the mortal coil and became a spirit, I also became a dweller in the lowest hells, where all is darkness and torment; it’s the abode of “devils” and everything that tends to make the spirit unhappy and at variance with the loving God.
“I introduce myself in this way in order to demonstrate to you the wonderful power of the divine love, for now I am an inhabitant of the celestial spheres, and know that this love is not only real, but is capable of making the vilest sinner a partaker and owner of the divine essence of the Father.
“My sufferings were beyond all description, and I was the most desecrating of mortals, and was almost worshipped by the devils of hell because of the great injury I had done to the followers of Jesus, who in my time were possessed of a faith which even the terror of wild beasts of the arena or the tortures of my own evil designs could not cause to renounce.
“The devils loved me for the evil I had done; but strange to say, the spirits of those who I had sent into the spirit world before their time were not revengeful towards me, nor came to me with their imprecations or anger. In fact, when I had been in the spirit world a sufficient time to realize my surroundings and the nature of these evils, these spirits of the martyrs which I had made, came to me in sympathy and pity, and tried many times to help me out of my sufferings and darkness. I did not understand all this unexpected kindness and evidence of love, and I would not for a long time believe that these spirits were sincere.
“And so I suffered, year after year, and century after century. I became convinced that my condition was fixed, and that for me there was no hope; and that the God that I had heard of, was not my God…”To be continued…