Spiritual Revelations Across Time
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Childrens' Stories from Heaven
Introduction
Carrie Rafferty California 1917
"These stories are for the mothers who have lost little children. Tell them for me, if they could know the love and tenderness that surround those little ones here, they would not grieve so much. There are many teachers here - loving spirits, all of them - to whom is given the care of little ones who have come to this side without their parents. The stories given here are only one of the ways in which they are cared for and educated." (Spirit Teacher Carrie Rafferty - Dee - communicating with medium Charlotte Dresser via automatic writing - California - 1917) [Carrie Rafferty was a very close friend of Dresser. She passed into the spirit world in 1917, which prompted Dresser to study Spiritualism. The happy result, of course, was Carrie's ability to speak to medium Charlotte Dresser via automatic writing]
A Spirit Teacher
Carrie Rafferty California 1917
[Questions asked by medium Charlotte Dresser] - "One evening we asked if she could tell us of her work. The reply came quickly." - [Carrie] - "Can you believe that I am developing into a teacher?" - 'We surely can,' we replied. 'But will you tell us just how and what you are teaching?' - "I am teaching little childre at present and love the work. I tell them stories that have a lesson in them...and I love it. For the children are so quick to learn - and so loving, too. I like to mother the little things, so that they may not miss too much the care and tenderness of the mothers left on earth." (Spirit Teacher Carrie Rafferty - Dee - California 1917)
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Fairy Stories
California 1917
[Charlotte Dresser] - 'Can you give us some idea of the way you teach them?' - [Carrie] - "I will try..."'Once upon a time,' I told them, 'there was a beautiful fairy who took little children to a wonderful garden where they could play. Then the fairy told them of a new game.' And here I tell it to them, pretending to quote the fairy's words. And so I draw them into all sorts of little, new, educational thoughts by clothing the thought in a story." (Spirit Teacher Carrie Rafferty - Dee - California - 1917)
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A Playhouse
Carrie Rafferty California 1917
(Part 1 of 2) - [Charlotte Dresser] - "Again, when asked for a 'kindergarten' story, she told us the following" - [Carrie] - "Today I called a tiny child to come to me. And when I had her in my arms, I placed my hand on her head and said to the other children: 'Now this, where my hand is, is a beautiful house that we are going to furnish. And you may tell me what we should put in it.' One said, 'There must be a big room full of love,' opening her arms as if she would enclose the universe. Another declared that we must put in kind thoughts for other children who had no mothers here. (Carrie Rafferty - Dee - California - 1917)
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Carrie Rafferty California 1917
(Part 2 of 2) - "Another said we could 'make a playroom in the house and play games and see pictures of all those queer animals on earth.' Another thought, 'We might have a little mother's room where we could mother other little children as you mother us.' I said, 'Do you think the rooms in this beautiful house are all filled now?' One replied, 'Wouldn't love fill all the others?" Pretty near it,' I said, but how about truth and knowledge and growth?' 'Why, each of these could have a room, too,' they said. And the little child in my arms began to feel of her head to find where all these rooms could be." ((Carrie Rafferty - Dee - California - 1917)
A Singing Lesson
Carrie Rafferty California 1917
(Part 1 of 2) - [Charlotte Dresser's own words] - "The work of my life nearly always has been in music. And the part of it that I have liked best has been the direction of choruses and choirs. Yet, I was greatly surprised when Dee on that unseen side drew a lesson from even this circumstance." - [Carrie (Dee)] - "Can you guess what I talked to my children about today?" she wrote one evening. "I told them that you were my friend on earth, and I told them how you loved music. [Dresser was also a music teacher] "Then they wanted to try to sing, and I wish you could have heard them." (Carrie Rafferty - Dee - speaking to Charlotte Dresser - pictured here - via automatic writing - California - 1917)
Carrie Rafferty California 1917
(Part 2 of 2) - "They made many sweet sounds, but no time and no harmony. Then I described how you used to beat time to have us sing together. Then they all tried that. I thought they were very dear, trying to follow my motions and keep together. The lesson was, of course, unity in action, and that to work together in harmony meant better and bigger things than for each to try separately. I think the idea appealed to them and increased their desire for united and harmonious action. (Carrie Rafferty - Dee - California 1917)
A Lesson in Unselfishnes
Carrie Rafferty California 1917
"I do so love the work with the children and their quick responsiveness to my thought. I am teaching them about unselfishness now and how to send their thoughts out to others in kindness and love. Sometimes a newly-arrived child feels desolate and lonely without the sheltering protection of a mother's arms. Then the children can be of the greatest service in surrounding the little one with love and tender thought. There are many ways in which children can learn the true office of unselfishness and love. And their gentle and loving attention to others react upon themselves in added happiness." (Carrie Rafferty - California - 1917)
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A Flower Garden
Carrie Rafferty California 1917
(Part 1 of 2) - "Today we walked in the garden looking at the flowers. Then we tried to find the colors that each liked best, and each picked out her favorite color. One chose a pink flower and said it was for love. Another chose white because that to her was like the baby angels. Another gathered purple flowers because her mother had loved that color. Dearest of all was the little blue flower that stood for hope and happiness, they said." (Carrie Rafferty - California - 1917)
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Carrie Rafferty California 1917
(Part 2 of 2) - "And so we went through the garden, picking flowers and telling what they meant. Until we had nearly all the virtues represented - but no faults. When I asked where the faults were, they said, 'Why, flowers have no faults.' Then I called them "my flowers" and told them that they, too, must be without faults if they would belong in the beautiful garden of love. Ah, dear mothers of little children - I wish you could see these happy ones at play in these wonderful gardens! Can you not think of them so - rather than taken from you and borne to some far-away unknown place?" (Carrie Rafferty - California - 1917)
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Hide &Â Seek
Carrie Rafferty California 1917
(Part 1 of 2) - [Charlotte Dresser] - "We have often been so curious about the blending of story and instruction that we repeat our request for the daily teachings quite often. This one came in answer to one such request." [Carrie] - "I had a little hide-and-seek story for them today. I don't like to preach about character. So, I turn the preaching into playing. And this time, I described the old game of hide-and-seek to them and how we shouted 'I spy' when the hidden person was found. Then I told them of the little thoughts that hide away, and that now I was going to find them. The children grew interested, and bright eyes were following mine in the pretended search. For, really, I could see the characters written on the souls before me." (Carrie Rafferty answering Dresser's request via automatic writing - California - 1917)
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Carrie Rafferty California 1917
(Part 2 of 2) - "Sometimes I saw helpfulness. Sometimes a kind thought that seemed to blossom out like a flower. And again, just love illumined the soul...I hardly know if they had any real faults - only beginnings of what might become so. Now and then a shade of self-love. Or maybe a tiny grain of selfishness or pride...but I said 'I spy' just the same and told them what I saw. And said, ' We must drive them out and chase them away before they grew into faults.' So then, we played that we had them on the run and chased them hither and yon - until I thnk we drove them all away. And everyone laughed and was happy. but the lesson remained." (Carrie Rafferty - California - 1917)
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Fairy Travel to the Stars
Carrie Rafferty California 1917
(Part 1 of 2) - "We were trying to learn about the stars, and I told them about the planet Mars. And they wanted to go there at once. I told them of the study they must first have, and they wanted a lesson right away. What could i do but tell them about travel of all kinds: on earth, in the clouds, by land and by water, by material and spiritual ways. They listened so eagerly that I could not find it in my heart to tell them that years must elapse before they would be wise enough to travel to planets where conditions were so different from here." (Carrie Rafferty - 1917)
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Carrie Rafferty California 1917
(Part 2 of 2) - "So, I told them a fairy story about travel. And we all journeyed together in fairy boats with fairy sails, up above the stars, and swung on comets, and danced through the northern lights. And played with elves and goblins, and finally slid down a moonbeam to our home here once more." (Carrie Rafferty - California - 1917)
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Carrie's Classes
Carrie Rafferty California 1917
[Charlotte Dresser] - "How long have you been teaching the class?" - [Carrie] - "I have been with them almost since I gained my spiritual sight and hearing." - "I suppose some have graduated from your class before this?" - "Yes, many have gone on into higher classes. But I teach the tiny ones still. And many others are coming from the earth plane, so that I always have many to teach." - "Can you tell us how many are in your charge?" - "The number changes as some move on and others come in. But there are very many; you would call them hundreds." - "We were interested the other day when you told of the one who was homesick for her mother." - "Some are bewildered at first and call often for their mothers. But the love and tenderness that is here soon help them to be happy. And to wait for their earth parents with love in their hearts for those who loved them from the first." (Carrie Rafferty - California - 1917)
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The Rainbow....
Carrie Rafferty California 1917
(Part 1 of 2) - "We were trying to see colors in a rainbow. I mean a spiritual rainbow, for we do not see earth colors. This was as far as we got - when one of the little ones said, 'Could we break it up into dresses?' and another said, 'No, let's play it is a beautiful chariot for us to ride in.' "They knew about chariots in other stories. [Please see Rev. George Owen's mother's story in "What Is Heaven Like"] So, we all jumped into the rainbow and sailed around. Or played we did and told what we saw. Some saw moons and stars; some saw other little playmates coming out of the sky to play with them. Some laughed at the queer animals they conjured up; and we had a laughing, happy group." (Carrie Rafferty - California - 1917)
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and a Lesson
Carrie Rafferty California 1917
(Part 2 of 2) - "Then suddenly, one little girl said, 'I want my mama. Where is she?' For the little thing had come over alone. So, we stopped our play, and all began comforting the child and leading her into happy thought. So, after all, the little game ended in sympathy and service. So, don't you think it was a lesson after all?" (Carrie Rafferty - California - 1917)
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"Where Was Love?"
Carrie Rafferty California 1917
(Part 1 of 3) - [Carrie asked Charlotte Dresser this question] - "Will you take a story [through Dresser's pen via automatic writing] tonight about my children? They were today trying to see pictures of life on earth. Some of them have to do with war and other troubles, and I have a hard time trying to explain that these things existed on the planet they came from. Finally, I told them of the effort to bring the low and evil-minded into good and of the many ways by which they were brought. Some had to go through suffering, and some had to see the results of selfishness [in order] to make them leave these faults and come into a better life." (Carrie Rafferty - California - 1917)
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Carrie Rafferty California 1917
(Part 2 of 3) - "They could not understand, and one little one said, 'Why, what was love doing all this time?' I said I thought love must have hid her eyes and gone away for a tme. Then one of them put her hands to her eyes, and the others pretended to quarrel and have a little war. And before i knew it, a game was started. But love - the little one who pretended to be love - took her hands away from her eyes and smiled. And such a smile! Did you ever see the sun come out of a dark cloud? Well, she smiled just such a smile, and the children all ran to her and circled about her. And the war was over." (Carrie Rafferty - California - 1917)
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"Love Enough?"
Carrie Rafferty California 1917
(Part 3 of 3) - [Carrie] - "Don't you think that might happen on earth if there were love enough?" [Charlotte Dresser] - 'If only there were love enough!' [Carrie] - "You must just go on trying to teach the world of better things. It will be long before selfishness is changed into service. But it must come sooner or later." (Carrie Rafferty - California - 1917)
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