A SUNDAY SERMON
"We wish to affirm our belief that a
new era, a new power, is coming to earth in the unfolding and renewing
of spirit life through communication from this side. We are watching
with longing eyes for nearness to us of earth friends, for renewing, or
rather creating, spirit knowledge
on that side. For we believe that if this life could be rightfully
understood, and the knowledge acquired there that the earth life is only
a preparatory existence, that life would then become a more important, a
more beautiful experience."
'Who is writing?'
"We are two who loved, sorrowed, and
were separated in our earth life, one of us preceding by a long time the
other into the spirit world. We were not believers in spirit
communication there, and I, who came first, sadly wondering, and filled
with false theories and spurious wisdom, could not find immediate joy.
At last she
came, and all sorrow
disappeared in the complete happiness and companionship of this life."
'Today is Sunday. Can you not give
me a little sermon from over
there?'
"Sunday! And a sermon! What should it
be, what can it be, in this clear light, except
truth,
no other than truth, knowledge, great
and glorious knowledge of this
life and its never-ending joy."
'Does "never-ending" joy grow a bit
tiresome, if there is no change, no contrast?'
"Never! An eternity of love! Happiness,
increasing wisdom, knowledge, with an unknown and limitless universe for
study! Satiety? Weariness?
No, never!
We cannot express it in any earth
language. One must be here to
realize its perfect satisfaction."
There was a pause of some moments.
Finally Sis asked:— 'Is there
anything more?'
"Yes, more, and much more, if only we
could give it to you in mortal language. But to your thought we can only
convey the sense of never-ending contentment and
progress."
'A spirit of the time of Mahomet came
to me once to say that all this modern conception of heaven is wrong; that
there is no ecstatic joy, etc.
"Yes, there may have been for him truth
in those very words. For such souls may still be submerged in their own
ignorance and false belief.
"LET ME TELL THE WORLD that human life
in its short existence on earth may make its entrance here one of doubting
ignorance, or even one of evil
thought and feeling, for a time. This is true, because the divine law is one
of personal freedom. Each soul can choose its own future. Each soul, still
embedded in its human life, is choosing that future now. The old
theologians, in their half-knowledge, described this life of the human
soul as either a harp-playing
multitude about a golden throne, or a descent into a fiery burning hell to be
suffered forevermore. But this was only a human, emotional effort to
describe the indescribable. The life here is the
reasonable result
of one's choice of one's
character."
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