GODSELF?

GODSELF

Life is real! 

Life is earnest! 

And the grave is not its goal—

Dust thou art, to dust returnest was not spoken of the soul.

Let us then be up and doing, with a heart for any fate—

Still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labour and to wait.

—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

MOTHER, I am here! I am so glad I am alive again. I never knew I could come back. I am alive—alive! I am alive! I am alive again and so happy. I appear to be in a wonderful light and marvellous country of perfect conditions. Everything is so beautiful, you would love it. 

Beauty is all about me. I am a happy little beggar in a wonderful state of life.

You need not grieve at all. It is a life such as we sometimes dream. We never grow tired, and we are always interested and ready for new and delightful experiences. Those who have developed their minds find they are able to go right on without any effort. Nothing is difficult.

How do you understand Love now?

Love is a vast and wonderful sense of life and is the atmosphere we breathe. Without Love, we could not continue to live.

We are divided immediately on leaving earth—

There are many entrances, and I find myself among those who are young and strong and very ambitious. I am ambitious, but not in an earthly sense. 

There is a destiny that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will. 

I want to know and go on. I feel elated and uplifted by a sense of life and force and joy beyond expression. 

I know my life is just beginning and I am conscious of every moment.

I am like in a beautiful dream. Beautiful scenes of Nature surround me and I am conscious of an uplifting force of Love. 

This Love is a real, tangible thing, even more tangible than sunlight is to you. 

It is a force, a marvellous certainty of never-ending, never-failing strength. In this life, nothing interferes with the real spiritual and intellectual exchange of ideas, and we soon find our own.

Are you never lonely?

Loneliness and happiness are incompatible. I am happy.

Do you have to eat and be clothed?

No more than you do in a beautiful dream.

We move about without effort by a mere wish or desire. Space and time do not exist. Our condition is of light and action. It is as though a wonderful intelligence is all that really existed, and that intelligence makes us perceive that our life is sustained by the most marvellous life-giving Love. 

The life we lead on earth is our preparation for our life here, and our life here is the result of our previous development.

How are you taught? In classes?

Our exchange of ideas is without conversation. Our ideas and thoughts and desires are understood without expression and received by those with whom we are in harmony.

This is a real and tremendous experience.

We are not separated. Our natural bodies are separated, but I have never been so near or so much in sympathy as now.

There are no classes. I am instructed by a sort of absorption of this life-giving love. I am freed from all restraint. My real nature and love of the beautiful and ideal is able to go on untrammelled. I long for the complete and full expression of my nature, and know with a marvellous certainty that it is to come.

When I awoke, my surprise was very great. 

My joy abounded to think I was really alive, with all the vigour and vitality of youth, and all the joy of its most supreme moments fulfilled.

I have since learned that the mental condition of the dying always affects the first state of consciousness in this life.

Christ's teachings were pure and true, and if really lived would make earth a foretaste of heaven, for all that really matters in mortal life is that we should be honest—the naked, real purpose, which underlies our acts, and sincere of purpose, and with a real love of our fellows. 

All are not strong enough to face the truth without fainting.

Love is essentially unselfish in its essence and beneficent in its results. It radiates and gives strength and joy and life becomes perfect in its warmth.

Here Love has a different meaning. 

Life must be lived for the good it radiates. It is not necessary to go far afield to search for work to do. 

The everyday exercise of thought and love towards all is sufficient. 

Man’s intelligence is part of his divine essence and persists when the envelope or body has been cast aside.

Earth's dogmas, with the exception of the two great laws, are superfluous, and more or less confusing. Love God above all things, and our neighbour, as ourselves.

From the first, I was quite conscious of my own old personality with its desires and ideas, only the externals had disappeared. My curiosity to know was as great as ever, and it was as if I had suddenly been transported to some strange and delightful country where conditions of climate and beauty of aspect were so perfect that the annoyances incident to earth life had vanished and all the obstacles to perfect expression had dissipated. I remembered my past, but could realise its best aspirations, and felt free and happy in the conscious strength given me by the transcendent atmosphere of Love. It is something of which earth gives you no idea. 

The transcendent atmosphere of Love is real, intelligent and exquisitely beautiful. It is exhilarating and gives clearness of vision and strength of purpose, life and certainty of progression. In its light and joy we know that the best is possible. The joy that pervades life on this plane is difficult to put into words for you. 

Thoughts and ideas are interchanged by a sort of automatic intercourse—or rather an interpenetration of mind. Words and languages have ceased to be necessary as a vehicle of communication.

I am sauntering along paths among exquisite flowers and trees in the glorious light of a perfect day. 

This light is a marvellous pleasure to the senses we now possess. It is a glorious, enveloping, self-radiant glow that leaves no shade and comes from no sun. It seems to be self-generating, but does not seem to generate heat, only light and joy.

There is no hurry, and I know I can only see so far as my development permits, but I know that there is no obstacle to perfection. My life is a purely intellectual one passed in the pursuit and absorption of knowledge, which becomes clearer every day. There is clarity of vision here. No artificial obstacles come between the searcher and the truth—no barriers are set up by personalities. The mind is liberated from all bonds, and is not only perfectly free, but entirely capable of understanding more and more each day.

There are many classes or conditions of life on this plane. Do you remember how you felt in those rare moments of life when natural beauty was so great that words were not only superfluous, but discordant? So, I feel, and so my language stops before the beauty and glory of Nature, as I see it.

We are all permitted to progress, for no one was ever entirely bad. There are moments of aspiration for good in every life, and this Divine Spark of Life, even if suffocated by evil deeds on earth, is eternal and inextinguishable. Those whose lives on earth were sincerely and consistently devoted to their spiritual development, and to doing good to their fellows, are received in the light. They go on just where they left off, and their progress towards perfection is rapid.

The individual here is still endowed with free will and can choose the particular sphere in which he will work. It is among these that we find the searchers for Truth and Light who wish to remain in communication with earth. They bring some of the certainty they now possess of immortality to others still groping in the dark.

Many never think. They live superficially, and in a state of reflected morality, which is without force or character, either for good or evil. They remain long in the shadows or mist and are slow to progress. Ultimately, they gather strength from the force of love about them, and so begin to question and grow. They are like bulbs buried in the earth—they have glorious possibilities, but remain impervious to them until exposed to the sun of truth, which must penetrate the cloud of their ignorance.

Until we recognise our own shortcomings and ignorance, it is impossible to receive help.

Many who fall victim to the varied temptations in life suffer periods of purification, which are bitter and full of remorse. They realise that it is entirely through their own weakness that they have failed to follow the good they frequently glimpsed, for, in this pure and radiant light, they see their own lives. They are permitted periods of repose and joy, which refresh and comfort them, and they themselves will to return to the expiation work, which they consciously undertake. 

The periods of exaltation, which they enjoy make them realise that all that is best and noblest is within their grasp, and they gladly devote themselves to whatever work is given them.

I want to try to make a little clearer this expiation I mentioned. 

Despite great suffering and anguish, there can never be despair among them, for the periods of light casts an effulgence over their days of suffering. 

Their suffering is real, but it is voluntarily undertaken to expiate their past sins.

My work of expiation is partly this [intercommunication]. It is a great joy and glorious privilege, but it entails suffering beyond your power to conceive, mingled with visions so transcendently beautiful that no words can ever convey my gratitude to you for the opportunity.

I am in the radiance. I know by a knowledge, which comes to me through senses developed since coming here that immortality is a glorious fact, that we are still alive and will have full opportunities of perfect fulfillment.

We are conscious of the sweetness of God’s love and its perfect reflection in our fellow beings.

The atmosphere, which surrounds us is like a tonic, giving us strength, joy and knowledge. The further we go the more we are able to withstand this radiance.

By our sincere regret of our past we ask that we be permitted to do something to atone. We gladly and consciously leave the glory of this radiant day and return to the gloom, where we face our worst selves, and others, in the same sad condition. We bring to them a glimpse of the light and try to atone for our sins of earth.

I have learned that heaven means Perfect Knowledge and Infinite Love, which generates Eternal Life.

Those who have been willingly and consciously bad suffer greatly here. Such are admitted to the light, but are as little children and their education must be made. They are committed to the care of guardian spirits and led gently to higher spheres.

While the shadows are deep and filled with suffering, there is never despair. 

Those who are intellectually developed, but who have allowed their impulses of love and charity to dry up [spiritual atrophy], and who have lived selfishly suffer greatly. 

They are enclosed in a shell formed by their own selfishness. 

They see outside this shell, but it is extremely difficult for them to break through. Their attitude of mind has made it almost impossible for them to ask for help, and love is more like a wave breaking against a rocky cliff than a soft spring rain being absorbed by the rich earth. 

This voluntary return to darkness is not in the nature of a punishment. It is the inevitable result of clarified vision.

Seeing more and more clearly what is essential to spiritual progress, we long to share this knowledge with others still in the darkness of ignorance. Feeling more each day the vitalising effect of God’s Intelligence, we long to express our love, for real love is selfless and beneficent.

Mortal mind cannot grasp the meaning of infinity. 

It is a blessed dispensation that we are permitted to reflect the infinite love, which He gives so freely, and its realisation makes it inevitable that we should search a way of expressing it in our turn.

The essence of God is Life and Love. Infinity fills all space, all time—Infinity is All-knowing, All-present, All-powerful. This knowledge is clear to us, and Love vivifies to an extent undreamed on earth.

We are the images of God—

We have in us a spark of the divinity. We cause actual and active harm through ignorance or faulty education or weakness engendered by habit and association. 

This evil is not real in the eternal and unforgivable sense, but it forms vibrations, which go on indefinitely, and influence others. The mere ignoring or denying of wrong does not annihilate its effects.

Perfect Knowledge sees the innermost reasons of every act and takes account of an individual’s limitations. There is salvation—the realisation of God’s transcendent love for all, but the road is long, and the trials are not limited to life on earth. It would be easier if we could know on earth what is really and eternally right and wrong, and this knowledge would help us to understand the possibility of a God of Infinite Love and Goodness, Who is equally a God of Justice.

You may ask any questions you wish.

Why is man subjected to earth's trials? What is the fundamental essential for all, and why is there no way of having this essential understood by all?

God is an Infinite Spirit or Intelligence, emanating Life and Love. Intelligence includes all that ever was or will be. 

One of the attributes of intelligence is freedom. Each emanation of that Infinite Intelligence partakes of its essence, and when expressed is endowed with freedom of development and godlike possibilities. 

There are many spheres and all eternity in which to perfect this tiny ray of the great Creator.

Mind becomes progressively more the paramount expression of the individual, and is able to grasp the meaning and reason of life, and the absolute necessity of its free development. 

The degree of understanding of each life is superior to the preceding one. 

Truth is one of God’s eternal attributes and is synonymous with reality.

The Ray of Light, which proceeds from the Word or Infinite Intelligence gives eternal life. Without it nothing could exist.

Truth includes all the essentials. Life on earth is given us as a period of preparation, not as our ultimate end. We do not live in time, but for eternity.

God knows best. He is Eternal and Infinite Wisdom and Love, and He sees that the pains and sufferings of His children are nothing in comparison with their eternal happiness. If it seems to Him best that they be removed from earth, it is for a good purpose.

Truth is one, and its essence is infinite and unchangeable. Only its expression varies with the varying power of the age and individual to give it form. Everything that has in it the spirit of truth is necessarily harmonious with all other forms of truth.

Jesus brought into the earth's teachings a far fuller measure of truth than had yet been given to man. 

His teachings revolutionised society by love. 

He was understood by few because of their unwillingness and inability to leave their old standards. 

The measure of truth was too great for immediate understanding by the masses, but served as a vehicle for the intelligent comprehension of God’s Love.

While we remain on earth that understanding is purely intellectual or real by faith, but here we are conscious that it is that Love alone, which gives us life. 

We understand that love and life are attributes of Divine Intelligence, God, the Great Creative Spirit is Intelligence, and every outpouring of His mind forms an individual, partaking of His essence and sustained by the love this Divine life has generated.

The expression of this life, which on earth was enclosed in a body has now become clearer here. 

The earthly body has given place to a spiritual one, which remains, in its personal characteristics, the same, but has progressed mentally and spiritually. 

Earth senses have given place to spirit senses, among which is a faculty of imparting and receiving knowledge without other effort than desire by a conscious absorption of His vivifying and enlightening Love. 

Limitations of earth are removed. Language has become unnecessary. Cause and effect are clearly understood.

Here we are conscious of all the past and present, and as much of the future as our development permits. We are freed from the weaknesses from which we suffered on earth, and in this clear and radiant light, we have no errors to combat.

Truth is inextinguishable. Every word and earnest desire for truth sets in motion vibrations, which go on in widening circles forever.

God is truth, and if we would vibrate in harmony with Him, we must search far and deep. 

We must learn to put away the enveloping covering of error, custom, self-interest and worldly considerations. 

We must be willing to sacrifice everything that prevents or obstructs the perfect unison, which would exist between us and truth or harmony with God. 

It was to clear away the clouds of ignorance that Christ became man in Jesus. The clear, simple rules that He gave are all that are needed. Love God above all things, and thy neighbour as thyself include everything.

Love radiates force and strength, joy and happiness, confidence and peace. When we vibrate in conscious unison with love, we expand and enlarge our possibilities to receive more of the divine elixir.

Love is an active principle of life. 

The way to purify and fit ourselves to receive a fuller measure of the sustaining and life-giving force of the Universe, Love, is to search deeply within ourselves every day, find the seeds of selfishness and uproot them—be honest with our inmost selves—find out the naked truth of our own hearts, and try to uproot the weeds, which prevent the growth of our soul.

Our soul can never die, and will one day be reunited to God in its perfection.

Love is unselfish. Even the earthly love, which is true thinks always of how it can help and bring happiness to the loved one. 

Try to imagine how great and beneficent is the divine, all-sustaining, all- comprehending love of God. God, Who is Love itself, sees and pities the sufferings of His children, but in His perfect knowledge, He sees that these sufferings, which are only real for time, and not for eternity, serve to develop and strengthen the growth of the individual.

A broken doll seems a sad and tragic thing to a sensitive child, but the mother knows that another day will bring forgetfulness and need of another toy. In the light of eternity, our greatest sufferings can be as easily consoled.

Any teaching, which helps humanity to believe that there is another life, and that the soul is strengthened by trials bravely met and weaknesses conquered is good, for it has that much fundamental truth. When it reveals a God of Love, it is better, and if humanity could comprehend this Divine love, all suffering even on earth would cease.

Heaven means perfect happiness. Where there is absolute knowledge and infinite love, there can be no doubt, fear and pain.

Our souls or spirits existed from all eternity in God’s divine intelligence. In the fullness of time, and in harmony with His divine plan, His thought found expression in us, and we became endowed with free will and understanding.

Divinely implanted in us is the souvenir of our Creator, and our immortal destiny persists and guides us through life’s paths. Errors of education and environment make our voices weak—

We have all earth's accumulated faults and habits to combat. 

The nearer we come to perfection on earth, the higher our intellectual and spiritual development will be, the clearer our perception will be when arriving here of the truth, and the greater our strength will be to meet the new conditions and duties. 

We see clearly here the inevitable results of our past lives, and realise that the waves set in motion by every thought and act of our earth life go on forever.

One of our tasks here is to undo the harm of earth, to harmonise the discordant waves. 

We must consciously will to learn and fulfil our high destiny. 

We are helped greatly if our spiritual development has made us prize the truth, as we were able to discern it. If we gladly undertake our task of redemption, we catch glimpses of the illimitable and glorious possibilities beyond.

With our ever-widening vision, and ever-increasing capacity for absorbing and reflecting Divine Love, we are permitted to soar ever higher and ever nearer through the coming evolutions of our immortality to the Divine Centre, the Infinite God, the Generator of Life, Love and Light.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. Repeat this often, and try to grasp its meaning. 

Try to understand that each ray of that Divine light will shine forever. 

Try to realise that it really exists in each individual. Try to help all, and each one you come in contact with, to clear away the cobwebs of ignorance and error, which dim the light of this Divine ray.

The ray is the immortal soul. It will shine for all eternity. If you help, even infinitesimally, to permit this ray to penetrate the earthly envelope, you are doing the work of the Saviour. 

Never doubt its existence. Never fear that the love you give in thought and deed will be lost. 

Meslom's Messages from the Life Beyond