The second message of Anne Simon

Foreword

The Second Message of Anne Simon would seem to be a logical continuation of the contents of the first Message, already published.

The third, fourth and fifth Messages have also evolved, and will follow sequentially in book form ; each bearing relation to what has preceded ; each of about the same length as the first Message; and each appearing in facile writing in the short duration of time of about a month. The Second Message began July 11, 1919, and ended a few weeks later, on August 7.

Anne Simon, in her earth-life, possessed an unusual power for the stimulation of fineness and fulfillment in others. She frequently spoke of this strange, controlling force.

The union of my wife and myself was one of harmony and understanding, and the bond sensitive. As two artists, our ideals were happily interwoven.

Neither of us were spiritualists, nor did we frequent mediums. The entire subject seemed of little interest.

The Writing came strangely. In January, 1919, I was impelled, through a friend, to experiment with automatic writing. The results were immediate, and two days later the first Message began, with evidently a definite purpose.

Foreword

There was no trance-condition, but the pencil wrote without my initiative or will, and I marvelled as this strange subject unfolded.

It may be that each Message, appearing in sequential publication, will create new interest, as added testimony of the significance of this document.

OTTO TORNEY SIMON.

THE SECOND MESSAGE

JULY llTH, EARLY AFTERNOON.

My beloved husband! This is I, Anne Simon, your loving Wife! I am again filled with the higher emanations, influences that come from the spirit-souls that have been purified through love and beauty until they are nearest to the innermost Heart-throb of the Great Source of All-Love and Life. This is then the second Message which has come to you. It is for the further consideration of the mortal earth-man, and its spiritual significance should reach, even in a larger degree than the first Message, the hearts and profoundest consciousness of the mortal of the earth-world. It is of the greatest importance that such earthbeings should awaken and encourage in themselves* a greater heart-serenity, a calmer poise, a deeper probe into the God-essence within them, the germ and central pulsating force of which is love. It is for them to become less material, less selfish, living more in the future vision of the great spiritual finality, which now they so dimly perceive, that it is but a flickering faith.

II

Mortal man! . . . my beloved earth-brother! If he but realized in this early development of earth-growth the unfolding of all earthly striving and virtue and love ... if he but realized the life of the spiritual planes in their relation to following these virtues that God has given to him in embryonic smallness, so that by his will and faith and striving (when even the full spiritual glory of the spiritual places is unperceived) he may develop strongly to the perfect flower of earth, and may form his character and characteristics and ideals and loves for the Heavenly places.

III

Around each earth-mortal there are the emanations which the spirit-souls of spirit-places are ever sending. It is for him to throw out the "demands" for the earth-virtues, strong, ever strong, with a vitalized will; and as he does this, the little crevices of his nature open, and the gateways are there for the ever-waiting emanations. This is prayer! I wish to emphasize this in these words of the second Message I have sent to you for the earth-mortal. These "demands" should be ever constant, many times daily (earth term!), until they become habit. Such action is the open highway for the inflowing and for the strengthening of the virtues; and so man reaches to the Heavenly places as he yet toils through earth-* shadows.

IV

The "demands"! They are the salvation of worlds and systems of worlds; but I can only speak to my beloved brothers of the earth-world. Again, I repeat : This is prayer ! The emanations, ever waiting, are reflexively sent from us in the spiritual planes; and we receive them from the higher spiritual forces and from the Christ- Emanations. If mortal man will but ponder on their significance, and by strong will and frequent projection make use of them, he will realize the significance of the term "spiritual salvation"; for he will more and more be in the state of goodness and love that approximates these conditions of the Heavenly places. ... I leave you!

JULY llTH, LATER EVENING.

It is I, Anne Simon! . . . Write! ... I spoke of the "demands" to be sent out for those strong virtues and characteristics that will prepare the mortal for the higher Heavenly places. In the first Message I have written of some of these traits. To chastity, humility, serenity, reverence, courage, kindness, elimination of fear should be added tolerance, forgiveness of real or imagined wrongs, the "demands" for happiness, for strength and health, and for a worldly success that is not an absorption of the rights of others. If the mortal of the earth-world will throw out these demands, as I have told you, with the intense wish and strong will, the emanations will flow inward and fill the empty places.

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And, although I speak of the earth-mortal, the higher development of mortals of other worlds and systems has been perfected to its higher spiritual development through the efficacy and realization of the power of asking and demanding. So those mortals of higher development than the earth-man have advanced to higher stages; and so will the earth-man advance as he comes to a more perfect realization of what I have told you. Again, I send the message: These words come from the higher emanations through me, with you again as the earth-instrument. They come to the earth-mortal for his advancement and happiness, and are also an admonition to him, a warning to prepare, and the given means for preparation.

VII JULY llTH, LATER EVENING

Again I am with you! ... I write of the mortal worlds, other than the earth; each a unit, but bound in systems by God's law of progression and love. Each is evolving. On each the man-type exists, where God has so willed . . . not on all mortal planes. Other created types, as we know them, exist on some mortal planes . . . not on all mortal planes. Some of the latter are still in the fiery state, a molten mass of God- Energy, in which gestates the God-Love, awaiting the time of creation for what will later appear as created matter. Others are only . . . wait! . . . as empty worlds awaiting the God creative-touches of created matter; others have on their surfaces primal matter that will evolve into higher creation; others have a higher development in some forms of creations, and other forms are still in primary and elemental development; others have the created forms as we know them, animal, vegetable, mineral, with man in a higher state than the earth-man; others have animal, vegetable, mineral, with man in a lower state than the earth-man. The number of worlds and systems in any state of development is infinite. I speak of mortal worlds.

The earth-man's intelligence and development are incapable of understanding the immensity (no word!) and stupendous God-scheme of the mortaluniverse.

VIII July 12th, Morning

I come again to you! . . . You are receptive! . . . We know created life as man, and the animal, vegetable and mineral creation. On many of the higher planes there are more developed creations with higher sensitive development. On some of these there are already harmonization and discernments, of which the earth-man is unaware. Between all created life of these mortal-places there are already an understanding and a partial intercourse of communication. I have told you on the spiritual planes this occurs in a still more perfect degree, and is the source of happiness to all created things that have finished their mortal existences.

On the higher mortal-planes man is also in a higher intuitional state, and understands, to a degree, somewhat approximating the conditions on the spiritual planes. There is partial intercourse through intuitional understanding, and embryonic emanations are given and received . . . embryonic and elementary in contrast to the larger and complete emanation- outflow through the spiritual planes. So the earth -mortal, as I have told you, is developing toward this. There is a higher degree of happiness among the creation of the higher mortal-planes, because the veil has been partially lifted, and the flickering faith of the earth- world has been changed to a higher conviction.

IX

As I explain this higher mortal development of other mortal-worlds, let the earth-man realize that he is tending toward this. This higher intuitional faculty is the sixth sense; and with its use, appreciation, and growth, the other senses have also become more acute, more prepared to elide into the spiritual senses. The sense of taste and that of actual touch, of the senses I have mentioned, however, are not of the same value in the spiritual world. The sense of taste in the earth-man is for the enjoyment of material food for his physical body, and its super- stimulation in the earth-man often leads to excesses of physical appetite. So with touch, as of secondary importance. While not leading in its stimulation to what is physical, it is a sense which is used for mortal protection and guidance, and its value on the spiritual plane is not significant.

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Sight, hearing, and the keen sense for perfume and fragrance, on the other hand, are significant in their increase and spiritual values on the spiritual planes. So the mortal earth-man of the far future will be in a higher state of development than is the earth-man of the present time. The "passing over" of the latter is an episode in the mortal-life of a less developed nature. His higher development will be on the spiritual planes. The earth-man of future ages (a term only partially expressive of the far future) will be of a higher spiritual development, will have already sensed the higher unfolding of spiritual places while yet on mortal planes, and will go to a Mansion and a spiritual plane where the spirit-souls are more advanced than he who passes from the earth-plane at the present time. ... I have told you !

XI July 13th, Sunday Morning

I am with you! . . . Sunday! . . . An earthday of prayer for the Christian! . . . Prayer should be unceasing, and yet the one day of seven should be given especially to a higher serenity. The emanations from the spirit-planes will then have a greater efficacy, and replenish in completion the deeper consciousness of mortals.

XII

I have written of the more developed mortal planes. The idea of the return of the mortal-soul, after it has once passed into the spiritual places, is erroneous. A new germ of life is given to each new baby of mortal-life. It is fixed by certain laws of heredity and a certain absorption from the baby, unconsciously, of the emanations; each baby differing from another baby in this. The laws of heredity do not fix the boundary. Our emanations make the unusual fluctuations of characteristics and talents, sometimes by which one member of a family may stand out uniquely from the members of the rest of that family. And so a genius sometimes springs into existence as does the isolated flower, maybe in a dessert-land of desolation ... a flower of delicacy and fineness, far away from others of its kind. The penetration of the genius-spirit is alone in its spiritual discernment, and moves through the worlds of mortals as in alien worlds, contaminated sometimes by earth-follies, weaknesses and vices.

XIII

But the inner lamp of God's lighting always burns with a steady and serene flame of spiritual essence, though clouded frequently by earth-clouds and shadows. The genius is earth's crucified one. Frequently, so very frequently, the alternations of incandescent spirit-perception and the fall to temptation of physical needs make the burden of a remorse, heavy and pitiless, like that of ponderous and clanking chains. Habits form that fling themselves (as do the tentacles of a great seamonster) about his little lamp, the holy of holies in which God abides, and would enclose it with crushing, destructive force, with writhing viperfingers.

The little lamp ever gleams serenely, its flame ever pointing steadily toward the spiritual places. I have told you such a one (torn by remorse while yet enfolding in his encircling arms of tenderness the Heavenly essence) comes to us; and our love doubly encircles him, because he holds what is precious to the spirit-life and to spirit-worlds.

XIV

So the mortal after he has passed into the Heavenly places does not return as renewed life. His spirit remains in the Heavenly planes and is progressing. To return to the physical planes as renewed life would be retrogression. The mortal is helped by our emanations, and not by a reappearance of a new-born baby in an identity that has once lived on the mortal planes. ... I have told you!

XV,

JULY 13th, later.

I am here, Anne! . . . The mortal souls of more advanced worlds than that of earth, besides having the added perception of intuitional development, also have a partially opened spiritual vision. They perceive, though to a lesser degree than those on the spiritual planes, the rise of coloremanations from the earth-plane; and so perceive a scale of colors and tints unknown to the earth-man. They also see, with a partially opened spiritual eye, the conditions of the spiritual planes. So a deeper conviction pervades the mortals of such worlds, and a greater happiness results. The happiness and serenity of mortals of these more advanced worlds are so far greater than those of the earth-man, that the latter would not understand by the explanation of earth-words. As he cannot sense the happiness (the earth-word for this is dull like the brown earth-particles!) of the higher developed world-mortals, so for him it is not possible to sense the radiance, glory, progress and life of the supernal spiritual places from which this message is reaching you.

XVI

So the earth-man is in greater doubt as to the Great Beyond, than the one on the higher developed physical-planes. His awakening is all the more in greater splendor, God's gift to him for his years of mortal doubt. To the mortal of the more advanced physical-plane the awakening is partial and convincing on that plane. Such a one is happy in knowing before the ultimate spiritual planes are reached.

XVII July 14th, Morning

I am here again, waiting for you to write as I direct! ... I have explained to you, through my spirit knowledge, some of the conditions on the mortal-planes of other worlds besides your own. As man on these is more advanced, and as there already is a certain understanding between him and the other created things of his world, and as he senses also to a larger degree the conditions of the spiritual planes by which come to him a greater conviction and higher happiness, so are the other objects of God's creation on that plane in a more advanced stage . . . the flower is still the flower, the stone is still a stone, but the inner forces of these creations have advanced.

They, too, have grown toward the spiritual fineness of spiritual planes and places. Their cognizance and language and life may not be, or seem to be, similar to that of man living on their plane. Its basic principle, however, is the same God-essence which makes for each order of created things a particular system of inner life for that especial family of created beings . . . each family happy in its exclusiveness, and yet reaching out into the paths and by-ways of other creation.

XVIII

Thus is the immense diversity of the ways of God's universe shown, which always tends toward the finality of complete unity. And the gentle influence is God's Love, that like a tender, soothing hand leads all together in one glorified pathway of harmony. Love! . . . As I write the word I see you deeply moved! When the world, and worlds and systems prostrate themselves before Love, there will be complete regeneration . . . for God is Love!

In this my second Message I again send, in all encircling tenderness, the thought to earth-mortals: God is Love! . . . (Deep "isms" and dry theologies!) . . . And may the knowledge of love enter the human heart of worlds-mortals through the gateway of serenity.

XIX July 14th, Later Morning

I am here with you! . . . Write! . . . The ultimate end of all created life on all mortal-worlds and systems of worlds is the spiritualization of its creation. There will come a time (so remote that even to the highest intelligence of the most advanced creation of the most advanced mortal-world it is unthinkable) when each world will have received its final blessedness of spiritual growth; when those mortals and each creation of all worlds and systems will be so in complete harmony with spiritual planes, that but a shadowy line of demarcation will exist. Each world, as it reaches this stage of near elision to the spiritual planes, will be taken to the fold of spiritual planes, one after the other in its given time; and so through God's love, and man's and other creationreceptiveness, it will have reached its spiritual perfection.

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So will the material worlds, as we know them, ultimately become the spiritual planes and places. And this is God's law and solution for the gradual change of all that is material into its spiritual essence, each creation retaining its identity, but still further progressing through the spiritual planes and places. As I have explained before, there is Heavenly peace and serenity, but not Heavenly rest. The blessed laws of love and progression surround us.

XXI JULY 15th, morning

It is I, Anne, awaiting your readiness for the Message! ... I have written, through you, of the spiritual awakening through countless space of time of the created life of mortal-planes, and its eventual blending into the spiritual places. I have told you also in the former Message that the created life of worlds and worlds-systems must have its gradual evolution. This time, however, of spiritual arrival may be hastened by the higher seeking for those elements of mortal characteristics, which will tend toward an earth-realization of this. The following of such virtues and supernal qualities will lead to a stronger faith and a dominant unswerving conviction from which emanates the increased happiness. The dread of death will disappear. Toil and care will be looked on and accepted, not with that hopeless appearance of the fallen, parched, and shriveled earthfruit; but as a happy discipline that gives to character a vertebrae and support, realized as necessary, and happily and joyfully accepted as

such. ^wmmm

XXII

But not only as the man of worlds and systems throws out the "demands" do the healing, stimulating, pinnacle-aspiring emanations flow inward to the secret, innermost places of his being; but also all other created matter is stimulated to throw out its "demands" with the same results for spiritual progression. For such creation also has its specific system of intelligence, and aspires to prepare for the still further development of fineness on the spiritual planes. Happiness and joy of living are experienced in its own consciousness by each system of created life. And this becomes more sensitive and finer on the higher mortal-planes than on the earth-plane. On the spiritual planes such consciousness and added growth are but a sequential continuance . . . and so onward, ever higher, ever finer, through the spiritual development on progressive spirit-planes, until they become a part of the great Central Essence of God's Love and Energy.

XXIII JULY 15th, morning, later

Do not fear! . . . Only passive! ... I will convey through this part of the Message the element, more than any other, that keeps the spiritual consciousness of the earth-man clouded, and also of those mortals that live on mortal worlds in a near similarity of development to the earth-world. Mortals of the higher mortal-worlds have partially evolved. . . . Wait and rest! . . .

XXIV

The element of which I now write is the act of mortal procreation, of bringing into the world the new babyhood that shall be the little link that may have in its being a little more of the possibility of spiritual expansion than the last baby born to the mortal. . . . "Marriage," as you see the written word before you, is a mystical symbol. And as you gaze intently, the letters will seem to gradually fade, moved by spirit-fingers; and in their place will be the supernally glorified word of "love"!

On the earth-plane and similar worlds, to most of its men and women, such a spiritual one-word does not appear ; but a shadowy, forbidding finger rudely crosses out what should be the sacred word of "marriage" (enshrined and surrounded by soft spiritual lights in its own place), and rudely writes across this, "habit"! ... a gnawing pain of increased sensualism. . . . Wait! . . . This will be eventually destroyed through the element of which I have written: the throwing out of the "demands" with strong will-power (not pusillanimous knocking, I have told you!) for chastity. This must be individual, until it becomes all-inclusive and universal.

XXV

The "demands" for all other virtues are intertwined in the demand for chastity. Each of these virtues has its own significance and cognizance. Each realizes that sex-perversion and excess are detrimental to its own flowering. Each looks up to this mighty hero-brother of chastity, to whom all reach pleadingly and beseechingly for a rigid fineness; for on this depends their own efficacy of development, and with chastity perverted they become as hopeless, drooping flower-life . . . dead!

XXVI

In the higher mortal-worlds the ideal of marriage is a consecration, with the baby placed ever before it as a delicate spirit-flower. It is God's love to his yet undeveloped children of the earth and similar worlds, that the little baby does even now appear to him, mortal-man, with the sweetness and tenderness of a flower, though the seeds of its life were sown in an element in which spiritual fineness had no place. And so let mortal man ever send out the "demands" for chastity. The little delicate shell of babyhood will vibrate oftener with the higher, inner harmonies.

XXVII JULY 16th

My dear husband ! I am with you this morning ! It is I, Anne; and what I am giving to you, with you as the earth-instrument of writing, comes from the higher spiritual essences through me. It is your mission to write this as it comes through me to you. . . . Always in calmness, and impassive! . . . Write now! ... I have written with a certain minuteness of the condition of mortal planes, and will now write in greater detail, than in the first Message, of the spiritual planes and their divisions of congenial spirit-life, the "Many Mansions," where there is affinity of association and characteristics.

I have told you in the first Message of my own "passing over," so full of serenity, and the realization at once of influences of love for which in mortal-life there are no applicable words of explanation or expression; of the dream-like condition for a time, with moments of greater consciousness, as if the spiritual awakening was even beneficent in its gradual unfolding so as not to overstimulate the newly arrived spirit-soul; of the realization of spirit-vision and of spirit-hearing; of the emanations, our language, for reaching mortals of all mortal-worlds and immensity of systems, and for sending our own spirit-essence wider into the infinite spirit-planes and their "Many Mansions," to be received, or passed by, according to the receptive condition and the wish to receive of any spirit-souL

For you will understand that a spirit of higher development would not find interesting the emanations from the lower spirit-planes; and the spirits of lower spirit-planes might not quite understand the emanations of higher spirit-planes. But about this lower spirit-life, less developed, the higher emanations lovingly linger; and, as there is more and more a greater demand for these, they enter the consciousness of such a spirit-soul. . . . Such are God's Law and Love!

XXVIII

And this is spiritual progression for the spirit-souls; and from what I have written before, you may sense how similar is this progression in law and method to the progress of the mortal individual soul. So you will understand more and more, as will my beloved brothers of the earth-world, what I have said before in my first Message: The veil is but of transparency, like an exquisite bit of gossamer; and he of the mortal-worlds, if he so wishes, may easily peer through to the life and fineness of the spiritual planes and receive his spiritual Crown of spiritual Sonship, while yet in the toils of mortal cares and chains.

These chains are meant as a discipline! ... I have told you! They must not clank in heaviness like those of an incarcerated one, but are to be examined by intelligence. And the little opening in any link must be sought for (it is not so tightly welded that it may not be found by man's ingenuity and intense seeking ! ) . And when the little opening is found, salvation is not far away; for the seeking pre-supposes the wish to be free.

Through the little opening of any link, if carefully examined, will be a light-gleam. . . . Now!

. . . Now! . . . Rend this link apart with mortal will, effort and conviction! . . . The chain is rent!! . . . The gleam is a glory! . . . Heaven is before you! ... I have told you!

XXIX JULY 17th, morning

My beloved husband! I will continue my writing now of the spiritual planes and places, and their sequential unfolding to the innermost Essence of the God-Love. ... I have told you of the "Many Mansions" of each spiritual plane; of the infinite number of these; of their vastness (no space-word!) ; of the infinitude of spirit-life; of the happiness of activity; of progress; of the clouds of doubt and uncertainty removed; of the spirit-consciousness; of its future evolution; and of the all-pervading Serenity and God-Love in these Heavenly places. I have explained that time and space are not terms of spirit-life. Our consciousness is that of a continuous happiness, that, visualized, might be expressed by the term "glorified radiance."

XXX

For from this state of beatifiction there is always streaming a certain magnetic essence that awakens the optimism of all mortal-beings that it touches. Only the mortal must throw out the "demand" for this! And as spirit-souls have this quality to a greater or lesser degree, and as all are throwing out this characteristic emanation, its domination and permeation through the spiritual planes also are continuous and exhilarating (no word!).

It is difficult for mortals to understand that this buoyant sense of happiness is surrounded by the great Calm and Serenity, which give the happiness of these places their peculiar quality, not to be described to mortals of earth or other worlds (those of more advanced mortal-worlds, of which I have told you, will sense this state of which I speak) . It shines as a crown of glorified star-light through the serenity of the tranquil earth-night (only a poor earth symbol!). The nearness of the God-Love gives to our happiness the especial quality which makes it indefinable to the earth-man. ... I have told you!

XXXI JULY 17th, later morning

There are also the lower spiritual planes. Of these I have not written, but have mentioned them. Their number is also to be expressed through no earth-terms. The spirit-life of each plane can sense to a degree the spirit -life of other spirit-planes, higher or lower. We hover in our consciousness about the higher ones. Our love, the God-love now intensified in us, will make our influence felt on the lower planes. For the lovepermeations are the elements of regeneration for these lower planes, as they are indeed for the spirits of all planes.

XXXII

The sense of aloofness or superiority is not a characteristic of any spirit-soul. There is, instead, the fervent wish to be of strong service to such, whose mortal life (not always wisely lived, perhaps) may have given them their spiritual abode in the lower spiritual planes. From all spirit-consciousness of spirit-souls there flows the God-love for the bringing of every other spirit-soul to its finality of spirit-regeneration and perfection. I have explained the anguish of those of the lower spiritual planes. Memory of past deeds does not fade immediately, and regeneration is not immediate. This is remorse, which includes memory. The entire acceptance of the emanations of love, that surround such a one, is not immediately understood, or maybe wished for, and so the realization of earth-vices and conduct remains. But to each spiritual soul the Light eventually comes in its completeness. There are no "lost souls." ... I have told you!

XXXIII JULY 17th, later morning

I have spoken of the emanations that the mortal feels, sent by us, that blossom to the higher deeds of earth-beauty and kindness. I shall only write briefly of the following: Ignoble impulses to the earth-mortals come through vitiating habit, and sometimes through obnoxious weeds that spring from heredity. Malicious impulses are not sent from the lowest spiritual planes. There is no place of evil spirits! The wave of partial regeneration has permeated the sinner of mortal-worlds when he passes the portals of the spiritual planes, even the lowest. No malicious permeations for the degeneration of those on mortal-worlds leaves even the lowest of spiritual planes. The faint glimmer of what love means becomes immediately a part of the consciousness of even that spirit-soul, whose earth-life has been most unclean and tainted. Malignity does not flow from the spiritual places! ... I have told you!