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Solomon of the Old Testament.
Well, I was visiting the earth plane and happened to see the two last spirits visit you. I thought that I would do so also.
I know Paul and John and converse with them sometimes, but do not live in as high a sphere as do they. Wisdom which I was said to have had in a preeminent degree, is not the equal of love in elevating a spirit in the Father's kingdom; and they are possessed of more of this love than am I. Yet I have great hope that someday I will get this Great Soul filling love to a degree that will enable me to live with them and the others of the followers of the Master. I mean his disciples.
I became a follower of the Master many years ago, and know that he is the only way to the Father--and I mean by that, the way which his teachings show is the only way. It may seem a little surprising to you that I, said to have been such a wise and good man, am not as exalted as are the disciples. Well, while I lived and died many years before the disciples, and one would suppose that I made more rapid progress than they, yet such is not the fact, because my progress prior to the coming of Jesus was purely intellectual, and after his coming it was a long time before I started on my soul's progression. So you must remember that the fact that a spirit who is called an ancient spirit, does not mean that it is very highly exalted in the spheres--because a spirit prior to Jesus' coming to earth could only make intellectual and soul progress in the natural love and then not higher than the sixth sphere of the spiritual spheres. But after his coming and rebestowal by God of immortality and the Divine Love on mankind, the ancients had the opportunity to make soul progression which was intended, and would enable them to ascend to the higher Celestial Spheres.
I would like to write more, but you are tired. So I will say goodnight.
- Solomon the wise.
Vol. II, p. 108
