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Grandmother of medium affirms that no impostors
will be allowed to write through her grandson
April 5, 1915
I am here, your Grandmother.
I am glad to be with you, as I want to tell you some truths that you
will benefit by knowing. You have had more or less doubt pass through
your mind as to whether we are really the persons whom we represent
ourselves to be, and whether it is your own mind producing the thoughts
and writings, or whether some evil spirit or impostor does.
I want to tell you now, with all the love that I have for you, that
every one of us who writes you is the person he or she represents
himself or herself to be, and no spirit who may seek to impose on you is
permitted to write or in any way communicate with you. Our band is
sufficiently powerful to prevent any such spirit from intruding himself
upon you. Of course, the unfortunate spirits who write you we permit to
do so; however, they are not impostors, but tell you truthfully just who
they are. I know how natural it is for you to doubt this great marvel of
spirit communion and the truthfulness of our representations, but I
assure you that it is all true.
The Master is the one of whom you have read about in the Bible, and of
whom you have heard about all your life, the only difference being that
he is not God, but a spirit - the greatest in all the heavens. His
desire to do the great work that God gave him to do when on earth, and what he is doing now is
not so very different now except that he is more highly developed than
when a man traveling the plains and mountains of Palestine. He is more
powerful now and knows so many more truths of God, and his love is just
the same, only greater in degree.
So you must not doubt any longer or you will not develop as you should.
Jesus is the wisest and most filled with God’s love of all the spirits
in the celestial spheres. I know that you love us all, and I believe
that you love him also. And when I tell you that his love is greater
than that of any of us I am telling you what is true.
I would like to write more tonight, but there are some others here who
are very anxious to write you, and I will stop.
Your own true and loving,
Grandmother
Grandmother was nearly blind and deaf when on
earth though not unhappy, and how worry can be removed
January 9, 1917
I am here, your Grandmother.
Well, my dear grandson, it has been some time since I wrote you, and I
feel that I must say a few words, as you are in a condition that needs
some encouragement and sympathy.
I love you, as you know, and while I have not written you lately I have
been with you a great deal, watching over you and trying to influence
you with my love and powers by bringing to you spiritual thoughts and
soul longings.
Now, I want to tell you a few things that may help you in your moments
of worry. When on earth, as you know, I was nearly blind and deaf, and
in such condition that would naturally cause me to worry and be unhappy.
But I did not worry and was not unhappy. The secret was that I had in my
soul the love of God. It was so real to me that no doubt of its
existence ever came to cause me unhappiness, and I assure you that this
love is the same kind of love that now floods my whole being and gives
me the happiness that I now possess.
I remember that I did not have many material things to trouble me, for
you looked after my material welfare and was always kind and loving to
me. Yet, if it had not been for the love that I speak of, I can readily
see that I should have been very worried and unhappy a great deal for my
natural inclination was to worry when things did not go right.
So, I tell you from actual experience that all your worries, and by this
I mean your causes of worry, may be taken from your conscious self if
you will only seek for and obtain, which you certainly can do, this love
of God. It is astonishing how efficacious it is to cause the worries and
troubles to disappear. They, as you may know, are very largely a matter
of the mind, and while in a certain sense they are real, the mind or its
condition is the cause of the realization of the worries. Now consider
for a moment the fact, and I know that you will agree with me that it is
a fact, that the indulging in these worries does not remove the material
causes of the worry. It does not in any manner bring relief from the
troubles no matter how much you may allow your mind to dwell on these
things, and how intensely you may worry. The cause, the material cause,
remains.
You may say, and it is natural to do so, that it is easy enough to give
advise not to let these inconvenient things cause worry, but when you
come to the practical experience and are suffering from these conditions
it is not so easy to throw aside the effect of these troubles on the
mind. There is much truth in that, notwithstanding that this love that I
tell you of, when living in the soul, will make even that effort easier
to accomplish.
The philosophy of the “phenomenon”, if you may call it such, is
the divine love is of such real substantial substance that it takes
control of the mind and eliminates the consciousness of the reality of
the causes of the worry. Now, I do not want to be understood as
intending to convey the idea that these material causes are not real,
for I am not a Christian Scientist to that extent. What I mean is that,
notwithstanding the real existence of these causes, the effects of this
love, and the faith that accompanies it upon the mind, is such that
forgetting these causes of worry takes the place of the constant
indulging in the thoughts of their existence, and the unhappy
consequence that must flow from them.
The cause itself is not removed, but the consciousness of their
existence, for the time being, is dissipated, and to the mind that is
thus influenced by the love, these causes are as if they were not. Of
course, they are existing and facing you to some extent, but it will
come to you that they are not so over-whelming and insurmountable as
they would appear were this love absent from the soul and its influence
from the mind.
In addition to this, love and faith create a confidence in God’s power
and willingness to help. That engenders courage, which enables the
possessor of this confidence to over-come these causes of worry that he
would not otherwise be able to do. What I have said may be called the
“philosophy” of the workings of this love in its effective destruction
of worry. Now, the great fact in this is that God does, as a truth, help
one who is in the condition of possessing this love.
God’s love is real, the help is real, and the effect is to make the
causes named things of unreality so far as the happiness of the object
of this help is concerned. And as a truth, shown by the experience of
mortals, a very large proportion of the worries and troubles that harass
and cause so much unhappiness to mortals is a thing of the imagination
and never realized.
So, my dear grandson, try to understand what I have written and apply it
to your own condition, and you will find that your worries are not near
so great as you now think. I know just what is facing you, and as you
have been told by others who have written, in a short time you will be
relieved, and the sun will again shine in your consciousness of
existence. You will become in a much better condition to do your work,
both that of your business and that of the Master.
You must not for a moment think that you will not be looked after so
that you can do and complete the task that you have been selected to do.
This is as certain as that the sun shines, and while for a time some
disagreeable and disheartening things still may confront you, it will
not be a great while before they will become things of the past, and you
will be in condition to do this work without hindrance or interference.
So, think of all that I have said and try to believe and make practical
the application of my philosophy. Above all, pray to God for a greater
inflowing of this love and have faith to realize that it will become
yours, limited only by your longings and sincerity of aspirations. I
will come soon and write you a long letter on some spiritual truth that
will be of interest to you.
I must stop now, and so with all
my love and God's blessings, I will say goodnight.
Your loving,
Grandmother
A description of some of the spheres
December 22, 1915
I am here, your Grandmother.
I come because I see that you have been very much interested in the
description of the various spheres of the spirit world as contained in
the book that you have just been reading.
Well, my grandson, I have read the book, as you did, and I must say that
I have grave doubts that any mortal ever had the experience related in
that book. I, of course, will not positively say that he did not leave
his body, visit some of the spheres of the spirit world, and attempt to
give a description of what he saw, but I do not think it was possible
for him to visit any sphere that is higher than his soul development
would enable him to enter. I am informed that he was not a man with the
soul development that would fit him for the higher soul spheres, so I do
not understand how he could possibly have entered a sphere higher than
the sixth.
At any rate, the descriptions of the higher spheres as contained in the
book - and I mean by this the spheres above the third - are not correct
in many particulars, for, as I have told you before, the fifth and
seventh spheres are not intellectual spheres in the pre-eminent sense.
In them are not the great colleges and institutions of learning that the
book refers to. Neither are the inhabitants engaged in any special study
of the laws of nature with the mere intellect, for in these spheres the
great studies and aspiration of the spirits are given to the development
of the soul by obtaining God’s love. To help in the work there are
teachers who devote themselves to instructing these spirits in those
things that will lead to this soul development.
The mind or mere intellect is not given much attention, but is
subordinated to the soul development because with this, in whole or a
part, comes a wonderful development of the faculties of what you might
call the “mind” but we call, and which really are, the soul perceptions.
I know it is hard for you to understand, for what we call the “soul
perceptions” may be compared to the mental faculties as you commonly
speak of them. These soul perceptions do not depend upon these mental
faculties, and in fact the latter forms no part of the former, they are
entirely distinct and of a different order and composition from these
mental faculties.
These soul perceptions, as such, cannot be cultivated or made to
increase in their powers or qualities by mere study. They and their
progress are entirely dependent upon and not separated from the
development of the soul in love. I mean the love of God. In other words,
unless there be a development of the soul by this love, there will be no
development of the soul perceptions. It is difficult to explain this to
you, but you may possibly get some idea from what I have said.
The sixth sphere is the great intellectual sphere, and in it are
wonderful colleges and institutions of learning. Many spirits who were
great intellectually on earth are teachers in these institutions. You
must not think that because certain spheres are preeminently
intellectual there are not teachers of the higher truths pertaining to
the soul and to the love of man working in them. There are, and many
great spirits of the celestial spheres are engaged in this teaching.
This I must say, that the work is more difficult and the effort to
convince these spirits of highly developed intellectuality and knowledge
is more strenuous than in any of the lower spheres. These bright-minded
spirits seem to think that the mind is the great thing to be cultivated
and looked after, and while in a way they worship God, it is merely with
the faculties of the mind.
They do not think that there is any truth in the teachings of God’s love
in contradistinction to the love that they possess, which is only the
human or natural love. I have been in all these spheres and have worked
in them, and what I tell you I know from actual experience.
He (the author) is mistaken, for in the seventh sphere the spirits have
homes just as they do in the lower spheres, only they are much more
beautiful and bring more happiness and gladness because of the great
number of additional things that are provided by God to increase their
happiness.
As to our clothing, we are clothed in what you would say a modest and
comfortable way. Our clothing is not so flimsy as to permit our forms to
be seen as if we had on no clothing at all.
We wear clothes to cover our bodies because we think it proper to do so.
We make our clothes by our own thoughts and will, and they are of the
most glorious and shining appearances that you can imagine. As all
things in nature have a covering, so in the spirit world the spirits all
have coverings, and this is so even in the celestial sphere in which I
live. I have never seen such a thing as a naked or nearly-naked spirit.
I would like to write more tonight but it is late, and you are tired. I
will say with all my love, goodnight.
Your own loving,
Grandmother
Ann Rollins’ experiences as a spirit,
and a description of Jesus
May 13, 1915
I am here, your Grandmother.
I am happier than I can tell you. I am living in my home and it is
beautiful beyond the possibility of description.
Tonight I want to tell you of my experience in seeking the love of God
and in realizing that love knows no shadow of wavering or cessation. I
was not always filled with faith or believed so implicitly in prayer. In
my early married life I received the conviction that if I were to be
happy in life and fitted to receive the blessings that the Bible
promised to those who should seek the Lord, I must see the necessity of
seeking. I then with all the earnestness of my nature commenced seeking
for this love, and as a result I found it, along with a great happiness
and peace.
You know what my spiritual condition was in my later years on earth, and
how my faith was such that, although I was nearly deaf and blind, yet I
was happy and joyful. When I came to the spirit world, I brought that
faith and love with me, and I found that it was just as real here as it
had been on earth. Of course, in some of my beliefs I was mistaken, such
as my belief that Jesus was God, and that his death and blood saved or
could save me from sin and damnation. Notwithstanding my mistakes in
these particulars, however, my love for God was not interfered with, and
I continued to live in that love and was happy.
I had not been in this world for a great while before spirits of a
higher order than myself came to me and told me many wonderful things of
God’s kingdom. They told me that my progress to the higher spheres would
depend upon my receiving more of this love in my soul and becoming more
at-one with God.
The first time I saw Jesus was after I had been in the third sphere a
short while, and when I met him he impressed me as being the most
beautiful and loving spirit that I had ever seen. When he told me that
he was Jesus, I, of course, was somewhat surprised, because I had
believed that he was in the heavens sitting on the right hand of the
Father, as I had been taught on earth to believe. When Jesus saw my
surprise he looked on me with a wonderful love and said that I must not
believe further that he was God accepting the worship of men, for he was
a spirit as I was, and was still working among mortals and spirits to
lead them into the light and the way to God’s love.
At first, I confess, it was difficult for me to believe this, and I had
my doubts, but his manner of speaking to me and the wonderful love that
he displayed, not only for me but for all men, soon convinced me that he
was the true Jesus and not an impostor. Afterwards, I met many spirits
who knew him and had been his followers for many years. They told me
that he was the Jesus of the Bible, and that I could not do anything
else but believe it. Now, after my long years of association with him
and feeling his ministrations of love and the influence of his
greatness, I know that he is the true Jesus. Through his teachings and
overwhelming love he saves men from their sins by showing them the way
to God’s forgiveness and mercy. So, my dear son, do not doubt what I
tell you in reference to this matter, or what I have already told
you.
It is somewhat difficult to describe his appearance, but I will try. He
is of a commanding figure, as you say on earth. His features are
regular, and his eyes are of a deep blue, almost a purple blue, with
such depths of love in them that under its influence you almost forget
to note the color of his eyes. His hair is a beautiful brown, worn long
and parted in the middle so that it falls over his shoulders. His nose
is straight and somewhat long, with nostrils very refined and showing
the artistic elements in his nature. He wears a beard quite long and
very silky and brown like his hair. His manner is grace itself and
modesty personified, and yet, in him is the intensity of feeling that can
show itself in just indignation when the occasion requires. Yet, with
all the great beauty of his person and the greater love of his soul
showing itself, he is very humble, more so than any spirit I have seen.
I have given you a bare outline of his appearance, and you will never
fully realize in your mind’s eye just what his appearance is. Only when
you come over and meet him will you fully understand the appearance of
the most wonderful and beautiful and loving spirit in all God’s
universe. Someday this will happen, and you will not have the doubts
that I had, and your heart will go out to him from the first moment of
your meeting. My dear son, it is a greater privilege than you can
appreciate, and be prepared to meet your friend and teacher. So, you
see, my experience was a somewhat exceptional one and a secret of its
being so is that I received great faith and the love of God while I was
on earth.
While the teachings of many preachers are that the earth is the only
place of probation, that teaching is not correct. Yet, if it were
believed more, and men prepared their future in view of that belief,
many a mortal, when he becomes a spirit, would avoid experiences that
are unpleasant and have retard his progress in the spirit world. Of course,
such a belief that the earth is the only place of probation when the
mortal fails to make the preparation, will work him great injury after
he becomes a spirit because such a belief is difficult to get rid of,
and as long as it lasts, the spirit is very apt to believe that his
status is fixed forever. Hence, he will not progress until he accepts
the truth that he can make this progress in the spirit world.
Sometimes, men do not attempt to take full advantage of their time on
earth and come to the spirit world in all their material thoughts and
sins. Their souls are dead and in such condition they will find that
they will have a more difficult time to awaken and progress. I am
informed that some spirits have been in this world for many, many years
and have not yet had an awakening. So you must see the importance of
taking advantage of the earth time. Well, dear grandson, I have written
a great deal and must stop now, though I should like to write you a much
longer time. So with all my love I will close and sign myself.
Your loving Grandmother,
Ann Rollins
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