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I AM HERE: Mary, Oh dear how our love makes us wish for what we should not wish but in this particular you see we have still something of the mortal in us. Well I have introduced myself and now I want to tell him how happy I am and describe briefly my home. My home is a beautiful one of which you might call Alabaster and in it I have may rooms suited to my various moods and conditions. All beautiful and full of the most perfect harmony and everything to make me happy and contented. My music room is filled with many instruments of various kinds on which I can perform and bring forth the most beautiful harmonies and I can sing too and when he comes over I am going to surprise him by playing and singing some of the songs he so much enjoys at the Colburns. I will prove to him that I was with him many times while he was a mortal and could not see and feel my presence. I have a library but not many of the spiritual books which he has read or heard of for they do not contain anything that is helpful or beneficial to spirits who live in the soul spheres because few of them contain anything which shows or teaches the develpment of the soul or the grandeur of the Father's Divine Love. I have the most beautiful vines and roses all over the porches of my home. And in all the rooms are flowers and plants of the most exquisite colors and delicious perfumes. And the pictures on my walls are such as he has never seen on earth. The subjects portrayed are not of scenes that lend to make inharmony or strife or mortal passions appear but all teach by their realism the truths of love and happiness. I do not have any beds to lie on for as you know we never sleep but we do have couches which sometimes lie on to rest when I have become a little tired from work and strange to say I sometimes dream of him as you mortals say. I have no kitchen for we cook nothing but my dining room is fitted up in a style that would make your mouth water as it is filled with pictures of fruits and nuts and flowers and other things to suggest good eating. We eat and enjoy our eating as do you mortals but our food is nuts and fruits and our drink is pure water with all the life-giving qualities that spirits need. The lawns around my home are very beautiful in the freshness and greeness and the trees are grand old oaks as you say that cast shade over the greensward and over the many little nooks that abound in our gardens. And the flowers are so abundant and so varigated in color and delve in perfume. I have also a beautiful lake of water in which are boats to carry one without the physical exertion that you have to exercise on earth. All is more beautiful than I can give you the faintest idea of and there is only one thing wanting in all this beauty and happiness and that is that man sitting opposite you but I would not care to have him bring that moreal body though he is a pretty good-looking boy as you mortals go. But I can see beyong the mortal body and I know that his soul is much more beautiful than his physical appearance, and yet I am afraid that his soul is not yet in that condition of develoment that would enable him to come to me just now. But he is developing and before he comes over I feel that he will be in condition that will bring him closer and closer to me so that the distance between us will not be so great. Well I have written a long letter and must go so give him my love and tell him that I am with him more than he realizes and will continue to do so until he comes over and thanking you for your kindness in permitting me to write so long I will say goodnight and subscribe myself your friend and his ever true and loving ,   
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