# Chain: Divine Love Mediumship > *How spirit communication works and what makes it clear and trustworthy* **The argument it traces:** The basic laws of communication are the same for all → but clarity, quality, and safety of reception depend on the soul's development in Divine Love, not the ambitions or gifts of the mind → a true instrument is prepared over years into a finely tuned, clear channel → messages centred on ego, or not on God's Love and the flowering of the soul, are not from Celestial angels (discernment) → and this capacity is not confined to designated mediums: every soul accompanied by angels has some avenue of communication that grows as it stays open and awakens in love **14** messages · **11** supporting · main statement not yet chosen --- ## Foundation ### 2016-03-27 - [[2016-03-27 Mediumship, Communication and Rapport|Mediumship, Communication and Rapport]] A developed statement of the thread: how communication crosses from spirit to the mortal at all, and why it is never perfect. A truth held wordlessly in the soul travels up into the material mind, where the encrustations, biases, and fears narrow the passage, so every message is incomplete and no medium is perfect; as the soul grows the channel clears. Establishes the mechanism the thread's later entries build on (soul development governs reception quality; discernment; universality). ## Elaboration ### 2016-07-04 - [[2016-07-04 Receiving Guidance|Receiving Guidance]] Jesus states the fidelity ceiling: guidance through a medium is "often colored by that individual and represents an approximation of what is intended to be given," explicitly not error ("This is not to say that what comes through is in error, for this is not true"), but "the complete truth cannot be given through a soul that is not entirely cleansed and purified by the Love and at the level of a celestial angel," and "there are no perfect mediums in this world." Closest member [[2016-03-27 Mediumship, Communication and Rapport|2016-03-27-af-seretta-kem]] (Foundation, the conditions that make reception clear); new facet: the ceiling on clarity, and the instrument's colouring reframed as approximation rather than error, the premise the discernment strand rests on. Anticipates the [[2019-01-30 How Can We Discern Truth When Messages from Different Mediums Contradict Each Other|2019-01-30-af-jesus]] Testimony by two and a half years, in Jesus' own voice. ### 2016-11-27 - [[2016-11-27 The Value of Knowing Your Souls|The Value of Knowing Your Souls]] A fact about how communication works, given as an aside by the communicator himself. The instrument can lower a threshold, and that determines who is able to speak: "I hope that I will be able to speak again through this instrument for he has let down a barrier allowing those of us who are not yet a Celestial Angel but are well on our way." He also reports the experience from his side, "How different it is to speak on this side of the voice." The chain's founding message, [[2016-03-27 Mediumship, Communication and Rapport|2016-03-27-af-seretta-kem]], is about how faithfully a truth survives the passage into a mortal mind. This is about who is admitted in the first place, and on whose decision. Worth reading beside [[2016-12-06 Talk on Mediumship - The Laws of Communication and Rapport|2016-12-06-af-seretta-kem]], which tests a message by its content: this message passes that test while its author is explicitly not a Celestial angel, so the rule sorts content rather than rank. ### 2016-12-06 - [[2016-12-06 Talk on Mediumship - The Laws of Communication and Rapport|Talk on Mediumship: The Laws of Communication and Rapport]] Develops the conditions and laws of communication that the Foundation (2016-03-27) opens. The circle's prime objective must be to seek the Divine Love, not a message; harmonious conditions built by prayer and desire draw the angels close, and the Laws of Communication and Rapport come into effect from those conditions. Carries the thread's discernment principle: if a message has no mention of God's Love and is not about the opening and flowering of the soul, it is not from an angel, and each must discern through their own soul what is true. Elaborates the mechanism into a practical account of what makes reception clear and how to test it. ### 2018-08-29 - [[2018-08-29 What Brings Divine Love Mediumship|What Brings Divine Love Mediumship]] The pivotal Elaboration on why Divine Love changes reception. The basic laws of communication are the same on the natural love and Divine Love paths, but Divine Love in the soul transforms the quality, clarity, and depth of what comes through: as the soul awakens, God's Love reshapes the mind's gifts and faculties drop by drop, the mind acquiesces, and rapport with the Celestials deepens until clear communication (in some, trance mediumship) emerges. Adds the universality claim the thread relies on: "each mortal in your world has some gift that will open and bring clear communication with the Celestials, provided their souls are enlivened with the Divine Love." Distinguishes the mechanism from the mind's role (the mind is a factor, not the predominant one; it is the Divine Love and the soul). ### 2019-01-26 - [[2019-01-26 All Have Some Ability to Communicate with Angels|All Have Some Ability to Communicate with Angels]] Widens the thread from designated mediums to everyone. Through the Laws of Attraction the angels are drawn close by the soul's desire for God, so "each one of you possesses many gifts and many abilities which we may use to establish a deep rapport with you." What inhibits awareness is not lack of gift but the dense reality the material mind and humanity have conferred on the world; as the soul awakens in Divine Love the perception clears "like a flower whose petals unfold." Elaborates the universality strand (every soul has some avenue) that Seretta Kem stated 2018-08-29, framed now through the mind's constructed reality as the obstacle. ### 2019-02-27 - [[2019-02-27 Mediumship of Al and Ability to Communicate for All|Mediumship of Al and Ability to Communicate for All]] Adds two things to the thread. First, the mechanics: the instrument as "a finely tuned mechanism that has been developed over many years," the radio-frequency image of a clear channel, and the governing principle that reception quality depends on "development of the soul in Divine Love" rather than "the satisfaction of the mind and the ego" (the same principle as [[2019-01-30 How Can We Discern Truth When Messages from Different Mediums Contradict Each Other|2019-01-30-af-jesus]], developed at [[2016-12-06 Talk on Mediumship - The Laws of Communication and Rapport|2016-12-06-af-seretta-kem]] and [[2018-08-29 What Brings Divine Love Mediumship|2018-08-29-af-seretta-kem]]). Second, the widening: "every soul who desires to be guided is blessed and accompanied by an angel or many angels," each with "many possibilities for your angel friends to connect," so "do not underestimate your own ability to communicate with us... you are never alone" (the same argument as [[2019-01-26 All Have Some Ability to Communicate with Angels|2019-01-26-af-andrew]]). Elaborates the Foundation, [[2016-03-27 Mediumship, Communication and Rapport|2016-03-27-af-seretta-kem]], on both fronts: the instrument's preparation and the universality of the gift. ### 2019-04-01 - [[2019-04-01 We Are Not So Different|We Are Not So Different]] The rapport's origin, from the spirit's side: Yogananda names why he comes to this particular medium (the parallel lives, the shared path) and asks permission to deliver "the broader teachings" through "our conversations in spirit." A Celestial establishing a working rapport on the record, companion to the Al Fike invitation (2019-04-06). ### 2019-04-05 - [[2019-04-05 Mediumship, Gifts, Being a Channel of Love|Mediumship, Gifts, Being a Channel of Love]] Criterializes the discernment strand into a teachable test, the mark of Truth: "If a message from a medium is not of love and does not include the Divine Love as the source of Truth, then this is not of a Celestial spirit." Adds the kernel doctrine (a Celestial Angel cannot speak untruth; distortion may blur but never empty a genuine message) and locates verification in the soul, which "may always go to the soul, to that source of knowing and receive a signal from that place that affirms its truthfulness and its source." Restates and sharpens the discernment Jesus grounded in Testimony (2019-01-30) and answers the impersonation problem (2018-11-26); also reaffirms this instrument's protection and rapport. ### 2019-04-06 - [[2019-04-06 Your Gifts Are Opening|Your Gifts Are Opening]] The development-protocol facet: the steps of establishing rapport (dedicated time, prayer, thinking of the spirit, openness, practice: "like any venture in the beginning, it may not be perfect... but with practice and effort we will have a good working relationship"); the tools (pen and paper or a recording device); and the invitation principle ("There is no pressure to begin. There is merely an invitation... I do not wish to impinge upon my brother's free will"). A Celestial recruiting a new instrument on the record, beside Jesus designating channels (2019-01-30). ## Objection-removed ### 2018-11-26 - [[2018-11-26 Clarification on the Existence of Jesus|Clarification on the Existence of Jesus]] Clears the belief that messages in Jesus' name are from Jesus: "Many have tried to impersonate me in your world. Some do so overtly, but many do so because they do not understand the power of the influence of spirit upon them," mediums "influenced by spirits who are eager for acknowledgement and a platform from which to speak," the rapport sometimes "so close that they truly believe that they are that individual." Only the awakened soul can tell the difference, "When you have the eyes of your soul awakened and opened you will see." Read with [[2019-01-30 How Can We Discern Truth When Messages from Different Mediums Contradict Each Other|2019-01-30-af-jesus]], where Jesus grounds the discernment teaching. ### 2019-01-30 - [[2019-01-30 Jesus Assigns Spirit Guides|Jesus Assigns Spirit Guides]] Clears the belief that Jesus can be summoned on demand or claimed as any one person's guide: "There are those in the world who believe that Jesus will come and speak through them at their beck and call... They do not realize that he is at God's beck and call," and "Jesus does not guide any individual at this moment, merely Jesus comes to many individuals in response to prayer." Guides are assigned, "Jesus assigns these guides in his wisdom," and the condition of genuine communication is humility rather than expectation, "It is best that you humbly ask to be used as an instrument, keeping your thoughts and inclinations out of this picture." (Also cited in the [[2019-02-18 Be Receptive to God and the Celestial Angels|2019-02-18-af-augustine]] NOTE.) ## Testimony ### 2016-05-11 - [[2016-05-11 Encouragement to Read the Volumes|Encouragement to Read the Volumes]] First-person witness to the production of the archive's foundational texts: "written by me, but not of me, but by spirit who used me... in ways similar to that way I use this instrument." Jesus (2019-01-30) testifies to reliability of reception; Padgett testifies to authorship, and draws the line from his own mediumship to the present instrument, joining the archive's historical root to its current channel. ### 2019-01-30 - [[2019-01-30 How Can We Discern Truth When Messages from Different Mediums Contradict Each Other|How Can We Discern Truth When Messages from Different Mediums Contradict Each Other?]] First-person witness and authority grounding the whole thread. Jesus confirms the governing principle experientially: no medium is one hundred percent accurate; the harmonisation of mind and soul and the soul's development in Divine Love bear directly on the quality of a celestial message; excessive mental expectation draws not Celestials but eager higher spirits mistaken for them. Supplies key testimony on the instrument in question, "this instrument has a higher soul development than James Padgett had", and on how the Celestials designate a channel only once a certain soul progression is attained, not by the mind's ambition. Also carries the discernment teaching: test the truth that comes, take responsibility through the spirit of truth within the soul rather than putting the onus on the messenger. Grounds the doctrine the Seretta Kem and Andrew Elaborations describe in Jesus' own endorsement and correction. --- ## Also touches on this *These messages restate or echo the idea rather than carry it forward, so they sit alongside the thread rather than in it.* - **1963-12-26** [[1963-12-26 Jesus' Birth and Youth|Jesus' Birth and Youth]] (sighting) - Mary communicates only with the approval of Jesus, and the message continues a line of instruction running from Padgett to Samuels. - **2015-08-20** [[2015-08-20 Express the Truth to Others - Padgett Talks of Why This Is So Important|Express the Truth to Others: Padgett Talks of Why This Is So Important]] (witness) - His own doubt as the receiving instrument, "it was a struggle for me, my friends, to accept what is written, to allow these spirits to write many passages which I questioned. It took me some years to believe that what was being written was true." - **2016-03-31** [[2016-03-31 The Purpose of Divine Love|The Purpose of Divine Love]] (witness) - The reason the truth cannot be demonstrated, "You can perceive the manifestations of it, you can feel the power of it, but can you touch it and see it? No, my friends, it is at the soul, it is a power within the soul. It must be experienced in an awakening." - **2016-04-12** [[2016-04-12 Talk on Receiving Guidance|Talk on Receiving Guidance]] (witness) - The rapport-and-influence claim, stated in two sentences inside a broader talk; does not develop the thread's mechanism or discernment strands; held at witness level (revised down from Elaboration during batch review). - **2016-08-31** [[2016-08-31 Welcome to Frankfurt|Welcome to Frankfurt]] (witness) - "I regret that I can not speak my language through this instrument who is unprepared to do so, so we will have to make do with English." The preparation of an instrument includes the languages it can speak; a concrete limit on how the channel works; one sentence, an aside. - **2016-09-10** [[2016-09-10 You Have Joined a Network of Light|You Have Joined a Network of Light]] (sighting) - "if you ask for help in your prayers, help to be able to pray, help to come to know this Truth, God will send an angel to you, to help you in this struggle." That chain ends on the claim that this capacity is not confined to designated mediums, and that every soul accompanied by angels has some avenue that grows as it stays open. This is that in its request-and-dispatch form, a specific angel sent on a specific asking, and the message says nothing about communication or reception. - **2016-09-11** [[2016-09-11 Many Are with You in Your Efforts|Many Are with You in Your Efforts]] (sighting) - "you sit listening in a circle of Light for God to respond, and indeed God did respond and Touch each soul"; reception by a whole gathering rather than by an instrument, asserted in passing. - **2016-10-16** [[2016-10-16 The Opening of Your Soul Perceptions|The Opening of Your Soul Perceptions]] (witness) - The every-soul avenue and the ways it works. "We come close to you and give impressions and visions so that you may see further... We are with you in your dreams, as you pray to God in your quiet times, as you walk the street, as you do your work." Nearest to it is [[2019-01-26 All Have Some Ability to Communicate with Angels|2019-01-26-af-andrew]], which widens the thread from designated mediums to everyone through the Laws of Attraction. A facet worth weighing at build: Andrew's widening is about gifts and establishing communication, while this describes the spirits augmenting the seeker's perception rather than delivering anything, which joins this thread to [[Chains/Soul Faculties|Soul Faculties]] at the point where the two overlap. - **2019-01-26** [[2019-01-26 Establishing Portals|Establishing Portals]] (sighting) - The opening section teaches the Law of Communication and Rapport as the circle's own responsibility, which bears on the conditions of clear reception; no role proposed. - **2019-02-12** [[2019-02-12 God's Love Is the True Way to Liberation|God's Love Is the True Way to Liberation]] (sighting) - The instrument's "mind was not so happy" to channel this spirit "but his soul allowed this," a datapoint on the instrument's own mind-soul dynamic, echoing the rapport material at [[2016-03-27 Mediumship, Communication and Rapport|2016-03-27-af-seretta-kem]]. - **2019-04-07** [[2019-04-07 Walking God's Path of Divine Love Will Bring You Upon A Different Road|Walking God's Path of Divine Love Will Bring You Upon A Different Road]] (sighting) - What empowers Celestial contact with mortals "is the power of God's Love within your souls," the mechanism restated in a sentence.