Well, my darling grandson, I am so happy to be with you and tell you that I am now in the second Celestial Sphere, where everything is so beautiful, and happiness exists to a degree that I cannot portray to you. I am in my own home and what it is, I can scarcely describe, for you have no words which are adequate to give you an idea of what I may mean in attempting to describe the glories of this sphere.

My home is of a material that you have no faint counterpart of on earth, and it is furnished with everything that is suited to make me happy and more thankful to the Father for His love and kindness.

I am living all alone, but I have many visitors and love is the ruling sentiment among all its inhabitants. No spirit who is not filled with this Divine Love of which I have so often told you can possibly live in this sphere. The spirit who has all the most wonderful intellectual acquirements, and is without this love cannot enter thissphere, nor the mere natural love of mortals or of spirits fit the spirit for inhabitancy here. Only the Divine Love of the Father can make a spirit so at-one with all the surroundings and atmosphere of love that here exists.

When I left the first sphere I was taken in charge by a most beautiful and glorified spirit and carried from my home in the first sphere up to the entrance of the second sphere where many other beautiful spirits were waiting to give me welcome, and such a welcome I never thought could be extended to a spirit who is progressing. But I was received with all the love and affection and evidence of joy that the spirits of this sphere have for a spirit who has progressed from the lower one. Oh, I tell you that my happiness was certainly beyond any conception of what I in the home which I just left.

I thought that the beauty and grandeur of the first sphere could not possibly be surpassed, but when I tell you that comparison cannot be made between the beauty of the two places, it is the best that I can do.

My home was all ready for me and I was carried by a whole host of spirits to it and told that it was for me, and that God had prepared it for my happiness and joy. It certainly is beyond description, and it would be useless for me to try to describe it.

The spirits here are so much more beautiful than those of any other sphere. They are more etherial and their garments are all shining and white not one little speck reminds one of the earth or the grosser spheres of the Spirit World. And here the music is entirely divine and of such a great variety all telling of the great love of God, and sung in His praise and adoration. I have not yet seen all the beauties of this sphere, and I may later give you a fuller description of it.

Yes, I met some spirits whom I knew on earth, but not many. Some of the truly Christian men and women who lived and loved and worshipped God, and passed over long before I did. My own dear mother and father have progressed to this sphere and were ready to receive me.

I am, as you know, in the same sphere with Helen and your mother and we are a ll very much together though we live in different homes. Helen,of course, is not as far advanced as I am, and neither is your mother, but nevertheless, we are very congenial and love one another very much. Soon though, I will leave them for a higher sphere, and then they will miss me I know, for they keep telling me so, and say that they will follow soon after, and I believe that they will, for they are wonderful spirits in love and faith; and these two possessions, as you know, are the "open sesame" to things and spheres higher.

Well, my son, as Helen told you of her home, I want to tell you a little bit about the condition of the spirits in this sphere. No spirit who has not received this Great Love of the Father is here; or better, all spirits who are here have received and possess this love. Mere intellectual acquirements are not sufficient to fit a spirit for this sphere and if a spirit ever realizes that the gate is shut to him, it is because he has not this love. And then the great happiness that exists here could not be enjoyed by the mere mind, for the mind is limited in its capacity for happiness. Only the soul can enjoy this great happiness.

I sometimes think that if mortals could be permitted, for one moment only, to realize what this happiness is, they would never let their lives slip by without making the greatest efforts to fit themselves for this great life in the Celestial Spheres.

Our time here is occupied in helping one another to a greater realization of the truths of our Father, and in helping spirits who live on lower planes than we do. I do not, now, very often come to the earth plane to help other spirits or mortals but, of course, in your case I am so bound by my affections and desires that I am with you quite often, and more so with that darling little daughter of yours for, as I have told you; I am her guardian angel, and so long as she lives, I will be with her to help and guide.

We are engaged in the study of things that pertain more to the spiritual things of this life, than to studying the things of the other worlds of the universe these things to us are what might be called the material things; and while a knowledge of them would be very interesting, yet our thoughts are turned to the more important truths of God.

Yes, we all have our libraries and homes, as Helen has told you of, but, of course, there is a great difference in these homes, depending upon the amount of love which the spirit has in his soul. I am now living in a home that is so beautiful, that I could not in the short time that I will write tonight describe it to you; but soon I will in detail, and then you can realize what a home it is.

Well, do not believe everything in the book you have been reading because it is said to be written by spirits, because, even if it is so written, the information given depends upon the condition and knowledge and beliefs of these spirits. Some may tell the exact truth as they conceive it to be and yet it may not be the truth.

Well, the explanation is, that the spirits whose communications you read have never learned the truth taught by the Master. They only know what they have read or from what spirits who have not this great knowledge have told them. Any spirit who says that Jesus is not the great Spirit and Teacher, and the only one of the great teachers who have lived on earth who shows the only and true way to the Father's Kingdom, has never learned this way or come under the influence of the Master. So far as that is concerned do not pay any attention to what they say or let their communications influence you; for these communications will not help you spiritually.

There are certain great assembly places in the Spirit World where the higher spirits meet and discuss the various plans that they think will benefit mankind, and also the lower spirits; and I believe the Master has attended these meetings and given his advice and encouragement. For you must remember that he is a teacher, not only of the way to God's kingdom, but also of the acquiring of those things that will help and benefit mortals and spirits who have not received this Great Love.

Part of his mission is to make man and spirits happy, even though they may never become inhabitants of the Celestial Spheres. God loves all His creatures, and the Master, as His greatest instrument of love and beneficence is doing all that he can to make these men and spirits happy; and as some of these communications say, he has helped in many of these assemblies to do good for all. But, while this is so, yet he is the Father's greatest instrument showing men the way to the higher life.

Well, that is a question that seems hard to answer; but if these other great teachers will not believe the Master's message as to the only way to the Kingdom, they alone know why and will have to bear the consequences.

All spirits are not able to see these great truths any more than mortals are, and the mere fact that they have so much greater opportunities to learn these truths does not seem to persuade them to accept the same.

The higher spheres in which these ancient seers and wise men live are not the Celestial Heavens, but spheres higher up in the Spirit World; and no matter how high they may get in these spheres, they will never partake of that Divine Essence or nature of the Father, which we have told you of, unless they seek for and obtain the Divine Love to qualify them to enter the Celestial Heavens. They will always be nothing more than spirits possessed of the natural love which they had on earth, but, of course, more refined and free from sin; yet it is merely the natural love and nothing more.

Yes, I have met Paul and Peter and John and James and several others of lesser development. Yes they are all in the Celestial Spheres and very happy yet they go to the lower spheres to do the work set before them.

No spirit who has not received this New Birth is ever permitted to enter the Celestial Spheres. I do not think that these mortals who claim that they left their bodies and entered the Celestial Spheres ever did so and I have grave doubt they ever entered the Spiritual Spheres above the third.

I must stop now so with all my love I am your own loving grandmother,