I AM HERE. Abraham Lincoln.

Let me write a few lines tonight, as you are in good condition to receive my message.

Well, I see that you have been thinking a great deal about spiritual things and have longed for the Love of the Father. By such thoughts and longings, you have come into a condition that enables the spirits to make a rapport with you.

Tonight, I desire to write for a short time on the subject of how important it is for man to learn the Truths of God in reference to the Plan which He has prescribed for man’s salvation, and his coming into harmony with the laws that govern him as the created man.

As you have been told, in the beginning, man was created perfect and, in all the constituent parts of his being, made in harmony with God’s Laws controlling man as a perfect creature. And if he had never disobeyed the Precepts of the Father, he would have always remained the perfect man.

Now, this condition of man is a fundamental one, and the soul is in itself just as capable of that perfection as it was when created. Only by the sin of disobedience was it alienated from God and made the possessor of those things which tend to contaminate it, and to cause its pure condition to be overshadowed and dormant as to this perfection.

All of God’s Universe is perfect and subject to the workings of His perfect Laws. And when that condition exists which shows that some one or other of His creatures are not working or being in harmony with these laws, it only means that, in order to restore the harmonious existence, man must renounce and get rid of the foreign things that have the effect of interfering with the harmony of his creation.

There is no such thing as total depravity or original sin, or the existence of any condition of the soul in this sin that cannot be remedied by the applications of the proper treatment and the removal of the incubus. In order to become perfect again, as he was before the fall, man is not required to be re-created, or have imposed upon him that which will make him a new or different being from what he was in the beginning. The perfect man is still in existence, but is hidden from the sight and consciousness of men, and needs only his revealment by eliminating the covering from him, which now hides his real self. Nothing new is needed, but only the riddance of those things from the soul which do not belong to it. Then the soul will appear just as it was created—a perfect soul made in the image of God, but not formed from any portion of the Great Oversoul of the Father.

For a long time, now, man has remained in this condition of having his soul covered over by those things that are merely the results of the perversion of his appetites and the animal part of his nature. And it is only by a process of renunciation that these encumbrances can be gotten rid of, and that man can stand forth as a free and glorious being, as he was before the burden of sin came upon him.

In this process, he needs no one to pay any supposed debt to the Father or to make an atonement for him. But by his course of thinking and consequent doing, he must himself remove the things that cause him to appear to himself and to others as the outcast from God’s Favor. And in order to accomplish this, he must first renounce the idea that he is a vile being and not worthy of the Favor of the Father, and assert his belief that he, as the man, is the perfect creature of God; and that he can, of himself, regain the estate from which he has fallen, and let sin and error be removed from his present apparent existence. In doing this, he will be helped by the spirits of men who, from their own experience, know that sin and error have no real existence in the Economy of God, but, in the living of man on earth and in the spirit world as well, have a reality that has prevented men from finding their true selves.

The renunciation is not so much a matter of the intellect as it is of the moral nature of man. And while man must use his mind and its attributes in working out this renunciation, yet, he must also try earnestly and certainly to use the moral faculties of his nature; for the perversions of these faculties are the foundation of his present condition of sin and error. This renunciation may take a long time to be accomplished, as men look upon time, but it will finally come to pass, and the harmony of God’s Universe will be restored. But, in the meantime, men will suffer, for this renunciation is always accompanied by suffering—not so much as a necessary ingredient or penalty of the renunciation, but as a consequence of the changing of men’s will and desires in the process of reaching the condition of the perfect man again.

I will stop now, as the rapport has ceased. But I will come again.

Good night. I am

Your friend and well-wisher,

ABRAHAM LINCOLN.