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Message
1
The one-time president describes his home in the
spirit world,
and his great love for Jesus
January 5, 1916
I am here, Abraham Lincoln.
I am your friend and desire to write a few lines. I
am in the seventh sphere am very happy and enjoy all the delights of a
soul redeemed. I am in the way of progress to the higher spheres, where
some of your band lives. How beautiful must be their homes, because when
they come to the lower spheres they have such beauty and are so filled
with the divine love that I know they must live in homes of transcendent
loveliness, where happiness is supreme.
I am not one who knows all that
there is in the heavens provided by God, but
I know enough to say that no eye has seen
nor heart conceived of the wonderful things that have been prepared for those who love God (1
Corinthians 2:9). In our sphere, the glory of our
habitations and surroundings that we have are beyond
all conception of mortals and beyond all the powers
that we have to describe. Language is poor indeed
when we attempt to use it to describe our homes and
our happiness.
Never a sigh or a thought is tainted with the
slightest flavor of unhappiness or discontent. All our wishes are
gratified, and love reigns eternally and without stint. Never, when on
earth, did I conceive that one man could love another as one spirit here
loves his brother spirit. The “mine” and “thine” are truly the “ours,”
and no spirit is so happy as when he is doing something to make another
spirit happier. Then, love between the opposite sexes is so pure and
glorious.
My home is not in any of the cities, but it is in the
country, among beautiful fields and woods where the purest waters flow
in silver streams of living light. The birds of paradise in all their
glorious plumage sing and make merry the echoes of the hills and rocks,
for we have hills and rocks as well as plains and beautiful meadows and
placid lakes and shining waterfalls, all praising God for his goodness. So why
will every mortal not try to attain to this heavenly condition of love
and happiness, when it is so easy to do? God’s love is waiting for all
and needs only the seeking and the believing to make the mortal an heir
to all the glories of this heavenly place. The mind of man, in its
superimposed importance and in the conceit of the wonderful powers of
his reasoning faculties, keeps the simple childlike faith from making
him a child of the kingdom.
Oh, I tell you, if mortals only knew what is here,
ready for them to obtain and make their own, they would not let the
supposed greatness of their minds or the cares and ambitions and desires
for earthly possessions keep them from seeking this great and glorious
inheritance, which is theirs by merely claiming it in the way made known
by the Master.
What can I say about Jesus, the most glorious and
beautiful and loving of all the spirits in God’s universe? When on
earth, I looked upon him and worshipped him as God, sitting on the right
hand of the Father way up in the high heavens, way off waiting for the
coming of the great judgment day, when he would separate the sheep from
the goats and send each to the eternal place of habitation. Whether to
heaven or hell only he knew, and I did not and could not until the great
judgment should be pronounced.
Now, when I see him as he is, I know that he is my
friend and elder brother, a spirit such as I am, with only love for his
younger brethren, be they saints or sinners. I feel that as a loving
brother and friend he is more to me than when I looked upon him as the
god of judgment, having his habitation way off beyond my vision or
reach. This makes my happiness greater. He is so loving and so pure and
so humble. Why, his very humility makes us all love him almost to
adoration, and if you could only see him, you would not be surprised
that we love him so much.
Well, my friend, I have written a little more than I
intended, because I am so filled with love and so happy in having such a
friend as the Master that I can hardly restrain myself.
When on earth, I was not orthodox to the full extent,
but my early belief that Jesus was a part of the Godhead I did not
succeed in getting rid of, although my mind often rebelled at the
thought. The early teachings of my mother lingered with me, and maturer
thoughts and development of mind could never entirely eradicate this
belief in Jesus being part of God. Some have said and thought that I was
almost an infidel, but this is not true, for I always believed firmly in
God and, as I have told you, in Jesus.
I was, to some extent, a spiritualist. That is, I
believed in the communications of spirits with mortals, and on numerous
occasions have had such communications and have acted on advice that I
received through them. But I never learned from these communications any
of the higher truths that I now know and that are so important for
mortals to know, and which, if men only knew and taught, would make
their religion a live, virile, all pervading and satisfying religion.
We are all interested in your work and are co-workers
with you in revealing these great truths. May God bless and prosper you
and cause you to see the realities of God’s great love is the prayer of
your brother in Christ.
A. Lincoln
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