Family Correspondence

A. That is a figure of speech used to represent the sin that was to come into the form of Christ's Church _ there can be no rebellion in the state we call heaven and when Christ said, he saw Satan fall from heaven, he meant that in that state, sin and the tendancy to sin were overcome. Q. Q. What do you mean by the "force of Christ's Church? A. As I explained to you the real church of Christ is hid in many forms and many cruelities and much sin has been committed by those bodies. Q. Why was Lucifer called the "Son of the morning"? A. There are names given necessarily to the Messengers of God and Lucifer was one of the great and good Angels who desired the name of Son _

Q. (E.) Will there be any by which we can reach you when she is gone? A. I think there may be, if you keep yourself in sympathy with what I have taught you. Q. Shall I know? A. Yes, you will have the consciousness given you if I find it necessary, but I do not see that you need much more instruction for a time Q. (C.) Do you know our Prof. Sophocles? A. You must think of Him as a Spirit not by his earthly name. Think of his peculiarities as a follower of the Truth and particularly of his trust in Christ as the great Expounder of the Truth _ It is given me to know of him, he saw and does now, see the truth as an intellectual force rather than a moral one, but his spirit will progress out of this lower condition, for without knowing,

like many, he went about doing his Father's will. Q. (E.) Can you tell me of Miss (Coushman?) ? A. As we shall not all be together again soon, it is permitted me to give you such tidings, but they not spiritual things. The one of whom you think is not of our society, but as I told you, of another which lies behind the understanding. She has known of these communications and is willing to wait for the good she sees will result from them. Q. (C.) Can you tell us of Hatty? A. She who was known as Determination is also in our midst, but she belongs to the same society as Resolution. I am told just now, that she is in the same heaven with the friend who has just been spoken of and is making rapid progress to the perfection which will bring her into the heaven I occupy, then I shall know her personally and

Q. Is the knowlwedge that you are acquiring in your present existence, purely spiritual, or is it also intellectual? A. Both, but the spirtual knowledge will not be used actively in any objective lives for I shall not need it any more than a man would need his eyes, were he living always in the dark.

Q. What becomes of the intellectual knowledge that you acquire now? A. That goes with me and determines my position in my next incarnation and I am trying to acquire enough to enable me to go into another world than the one of my last incarnation.

Q. What becomes of the spiritual knowledge that you acquire now? A. The spiritual knowledge is latent in the soul, but every new body that is assured, shuts it out from its source and the soul must each time struggle out of its prison house, but each time the

struggle is easier and easier and the light more easily reached.

Q. Is the spirit ed limited in each soul? A. The spirit as part of the Divine, is without limit, but it must reach of its own accord, for each part of God is as free as God himself.

Q. Can an individual ever behold his part of the divine spirit & when? A. When the spirit becomes free from matter, it is conscious of itself, and there are moments when this freedom becomes apparent even in its prison house. When the soul seeks for its source it is often as free for the moment as if there was no such thing as matter, for spirit has suffered it and it is no longer gross.

Q. How will matter return to its source? Can it become spirit and how? A. Matter will always exist, if by matter for mean something objective to the Divine for what God has created to love Him

and to be loved in return will always remain outside of the Divine or Beginning.

Q. Will matter then finally be pure as spirit is pure and will it always exist as matter? A. The perfect man being outside of God, will to him be matter, that is, not being God, it cannot be pure spirit and the name matter might be applied to it.

Q. Is God ceaseless activity? A. God is all that for can conceive of and much more that you cannot understand. He is activity and rest, Heaven with its peace, Earth and all the world with their endless activities and unrest.

Q. How could God who is perfect need my thing, or need creatures to love him? A. That is the question that the greatest of the archangels asks in his humility, for what can God need of us? We cannot understand but we know that it must be for the good and happiness of the creature He has brought by

His will, into existence.

Q. Are physical manifestations to be explained by Follwers "Fourth Dimension"? A. I am not able to see physical manifestations. ane do not know the laws that govern them.

Q. What is the "fourth Dimension"? A. I do not know what idea lies behind that term.

Q. Can Grandmother come to us as now? A. Yes, she has come.

Q. Have you any message for Resolution, or [Cenwould?], or any of us? A. I can tell you of those in the spirit world for I am just from my children there. Your father takes the rest now that he needs and in a secret chamber of his own house, is being unclothed and thinks no longer of his old life, but only of the ravishing joys that are slowly dawning on his spiritual eyes. Even I am not with him, the angel of the Resurrection us there with him and assists him, as his soul is not yet strong enough

enough of itself, till after it has left the last of its earthly garments behind.

Q. Then he is progressing rapidly is he not? A. Progress does not begin till the need {birth?], the soul must be born out of its earthly state first, and then growth begins Do not think I speak of his earthly body, that is a part of your world, but the soul has many garments and like a newborn infant, must come naked into its new life.

Q. (by C.) Do you know anything of my Wayman?

A. Yes, in my beautiful home in the heaven I occupy, are all the child souls who have come from my children and they being without earthly stain, come direct into a sphere of innocence.

Q. (C.) Is Hatty still with our brother, Wayman? A. She is with him and others whom she has chosen to make herself a guide and dirction for, into her own condition of purity and peace. She is the joy & delight of all who come

my chosen one and am to learn many things besides those which relate to a mother's love for her own

Q. (Ned) Do you know anything of my mother? A. I have seen her once at your aunt's house, which is filled continually with crowds who come to her for shelter and encouragement and I was told that she was dear to her, and cared for by her, in some ways, while the other received fom her. knowledge which she herself had not gained

Q. Had she passed out of the Spiritual world? A. She had, for your aunt's house built and decorated with pictuers of her good deeds, is in one of the heavenly spheres.

Q. (E.) Can you tell me of Mary Parker, one of the guides in the spirit world? A. I do not know her by that name, for names with us depend on one's spiritual state and our adaptibility to come within this sphere. When in the spirit world I only see those to

whom I sent for that is one of the differences between us and you, when you do not wish to see, it require a conscious effort on your part, but with us, what we do not desire is impossible for us.

Q. (C.) Can you tell us of Aunt Louisa? A. Yes, and she is with me in my own house. She was one of her own, but she wishes to be with me and wish, is with us, the act accmplished. She is a most lovely spirit always joyous and gives herself to the little ones whom the Father has given into my keeping.

Q. (I.) Grandmother when are you (specially) with us? A. When you put yourself into bad spiritual conditions I am with you, as if you were with the other ones of whom you form a part and a mother you know [flies?] to a child in any danger.

Q. (I.) Would you rather I should never go to see any medium? A. It is not for me to decide, you must