Where can the messages of love be found?

Beginning on 2/8/78, a few months after scribing The Song of Prayer, Helen Schucman, Ph.D. scribed five messages of love.

 

These messages of love apply what had been given earlier because

God's Son can yet be more merciful on himself.

I remain grateful for the Love that inspires those messages and the collaboration that brings them to our attention.

The Gifts of God Poem

How five messages of love were published as a poem entitled The Gifts of God is described in the Absence from Felicity biography of Helen, especially Chapters 14 and 15.

• The messages of love are published as
  “a long blank verse poem in five sections printed in prose form”. (say what?)
• Section five of the long blank verse poem is not as scribed (this will be explained in a different post).

The messages of love are at the end of Helen's book of poems, on pages 115-128. The book of poems is also entitled The Gifts of God. How confusing. The message scribing dates, poem sections, and pages in the poetry book are

2/8/78 The Dream of Fear pp 115

2/9/78 The Two Gifts pp 118

2/11/78 The Ending of the Dream pp 119

early 3/78 Our Gift to God pp 123

4/11/78 The Father's Love pp 127

These messages of love are an application of The Song of Prayer addressed to (Helen 1st) everyday people. It is helpful (but not necessary) to be familiar with The Song of Prayer booklet before trying to grok the messages of love. The messages of love lie along the ladder of prayer in this way

upper rungs Our Gift to God and The Father's Love

rising on the ladder of prayer The Ending of the Dream

lower rungs The Dream of Fear and The Two Gifts

The messages of love differ in form from ACIM, for example the word ego and the word miracle do not appear in the messages, nor do they appear in The Song of Prayer as scribed. These messages help us live the song of prayer, they strengthen our faith and holds us up as we “ascend the shining stairway to the lawns of Heaven and the gate of peace”.

Almost every reader is dying, it's the often slow process on earth called life. These messages of love are a specific help for

the dying, the sick, the sad, the lonely, the grieving, those racked with pain,
each frightened voice that calls to God in whispered agony.

The same set of messages is germane to both circumstances (dying and sick) because, as explained in the section The Picture of Crucifixion (Text Chapter 27):

Sickness is but a “little” death; a form of vengeance not yet total.

Since sickness is a defense against the truth, we see in these messages, how Jesus presents truth in a simple gradual effective and persistent manner, to benefit all, especially those who call in sorrow.