THE EARTH ONLY A SCHOOL

 

"We are not your usual friends. Do you wish us to write?" 'Certainly, if you have something good to tell us.'

"We will try to tell you of our work today. Not today as you

know it, but for a 'time' as we know it.

"We will introduce ourselves first. We are two who have learned much from your true guides, Mary and Dee. And we are now studying in other circles for power and more power, that we may send messages to earth that will attract the attention of the careless and give inspiration and comfort to the thoughtful.

"If you could realize the need as we do, we believe you would make it your life work, and let nothing interfere with our messages.

'What do you see of the need for them, more than we see?'

"We see that so-called religion has failed to convert the world. Many saint-like souls are within the church, but the great multitudes outside are an opposing influence."

'Many outside are also pure and wise.'

"Yes, we know this, and we depend upon them. But how to reach the thoughtless, the criminal, or the foolish ones of earth is the serious question here. Each must help, we here and you there."

'How can you best help here?'

"Make your thoughts known; try for influence; tell others of our presence."

'But when we do they do not believe.'

"Use your influence and do not be discouraged if the results are not as great as you wish. Each can do something. Only the kindness taught by loving spirits, only the wisdom which can make kindness a living power, only the constant reiteration of the fact that life on earth is only a school, and only the beginning of the spirit education, only the truth, the almost tragic truth, that the soul arrives here just as it left the earth,—no better, no wiser,— and that true happiness here is in their own power, and must come from their own adaptation to the laws of spirit life. These things must be the foundations of the teachings from here. Mary and Dee are doing much good, but they must depend on mortal power and influence after all."

'Can you tell us who you are?'

"We are two who loved each other on earth, and found each other here after the change that you call death. There is no death, be sure of that. But happiness must come from one's own nature, one's own receptivity to spirit knowledge, one's own lovingness and desire to help others."