From Luke, found in The Gospel of God’s Love, page 133.
“In what way do humans develop their soul in natural love? First, they must recognize that they do not live to themselves alone – that what they conceive to be the workings of their own mind and will, is not always the result of thoughts and desires which originate in themselves, but are often products of the influence of the spirits who are around them, trying to impress them with their desires and wills. Consequently you will understand that it is very important to mortals what kind of spirit influence they have surrounding and working upon them. If these influences are good, their progress in the development of their natural love is benefitted; but if they are evil influences, then of course such development is retarded.
“The first thing for a person to do is to attempt to attract to themself influences of a higher nature. And they can do so by trying to cultivate good thoughts, and to indulge in good and moral acts. The great law of attraction that we have written about applies and works in such cases as this, as it does in every other relation of God’s universe. If a person’s thoughts are evil, there will always be attracted to them spirits of similar thoughts. And when they come to that person, they attempt to, and often succeed in intensifying these evil thoughts which attracted them to that person.
“It must emphatically be understood in this regard that human beings may, and often do originate their own thoughts and desires, and it is not necessary that any influence of these evil spirits should be present and operating on their brain or affections in order that these evil thoughts should come into existence. And again, mortals have a willpower that is capable of being exercised free from the wills of these evil spirits – and you will see how true this is when you remember that they can exercise that free willpower independently from the will of God. So I say that these thoughts and desires may and do originate in mortals, free and independent of the will and influence of any evil spirit; and in fact, these spirits commonly are attracted to them because of the evil thoughts that they originated.
“So, if humans want to have the progress that I speak of, they should endeavor to have good and pure thoughts.” To be continued…