The Messages of James Edward Padgett 1919 - page 1
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Baruch Spinoza Writes about medium's ability to predict the future of any person. January 5th, 1919
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Helen Padgett Helen confirms Spinoza writing and says that he is a very bright
JEP19190105B and intelligent spirit. January 5th, 1919
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Francis Bacon Francis Bacon: The limitations which mortal man places upon his
JEP19190106A perception of the laws governing the universe. January 6th, 1919
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Jesus Jesus' help spiritually is without limit but the material depends on
JEP19190112A the individual himself. January 12th, 1919
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Helen Padgett Helen wishes for Mr. Padgett to be ready to receive the Master's
JEP19190112B message and that she will write on soulmates. January 12th, 1919
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Robert Owen Robert Dale Owen: Spirit speaks of spiritual phenomena investigations
JEP19190211A that he used to write about. February 11th, 1919
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Job Job comments on the book that Mr. Padgett was reading, which only
JEP19190219A incorporates the natural love and not the Divine Love. February 19th, 1919
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John John explains the difference between the natural love and the
JEP19190219B Divine Love. February 19th, 1919
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Helen Padgett Helen is pleased with the improvement that Mr. Padgett is making in his
JEP19190219C recovery, but he is not strong enough for the Celestial Spirits to write. February 19th, 1919
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Jesus Jesus writes about a visit by Mr. Padgett to spiritualist medium and advise
him to help her to offer the Divine Love of the Father that is now justly due
JEP19190303A her since she has been seeking the greater Love since early childhood. March 3rd, 1919
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Emerson Emerson, an inhabitant of the sixth sphere, speaks of its purity. March 6th, 1919
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John John: The true meaning of - "In the beginning was the Word and the
JEP19190312A Word was with God, etc." March 12th, 1919
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Ann Rollins Mr. Padgett's grandmother writes on the importance of knowing the
JEP19190312B Way to the Celestial Heavens. March 12th, 1919
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Abraham Lincoln How man can come into harmony with the laws that govern him as the
JEP19190313A created man, without obtaining the Divine Love. March 13th, 1919
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Helen Padgett Helen comments on Abraham Lincoln's message on man's progress
JEP19190313B in his natural love. March 13th, 1919
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George Butler George Butler writes about his progress from darkness into the light
JEP19190315A with the help of Mr. Padgett. March 15th, 1919
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John Rogers Rogers is seeking help and was attracted to Mr. Padgett at the
JEP19190323A Séance he attended. March 23rd, 1919
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The Messages of James Edward Padgett 1919 - page 2
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Jesus God and His personality. April 7th, 1919
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Jesus Jesus comments on the discourse of the preacher on God. April 8th, 1919
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John Richards Richards tells about Mrs. Kates' séance, and there are no animals
JEP19190413A in the spirit world. April 13th, 1919
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Helen Padgett Helen comments on what Richards said about the medium. April 13th, 1919
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John Johnson Johnson comments on the book that Mr. Padgett was reading. April 18th, 1919
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Helen Padgett Helen confirms the writer to be a very beautiful spirit. April 18th, 1919
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Helen Padgett Helen comments on the book that Mr. Padgett was reading,
JEP19190419A "The Life Beyond Death" April 19th, 1919
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Helen Padgett Helen writes about the visit that Mr. Padgett made with Dr. Stone
JEP19190423A to Dr. Arbelee who was in a condition of death. April 23rd, 1919
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Arbelee Father in spirit writes to his sick son, Dr. Arbelee, regarding his life
JEP19190424A in the spirit world. April 24th, 1919
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Helen Padgett Helen affirms that the father of Dr. Arbelee wrote to him, giving advice. April 24th, 1919
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Helen/Mary Kennedy Helen relinquished part of her message to permit Dr. Stone's
soulmate, Mary Kennedy, to express her love and happiness in the
JEP19190426A work that he was performing with the dark spirits. April 26th, 1919
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Helen Padgett Helen comments on the preacher's sermon on New Thought. May 11th, 1919
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Francis Bacon The continuity of life after death. May 26th, 1919
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Helen Padgett Affirms that Francis Bacon wrote on the continuity of life after death. May 26th, 1919
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Jesus Jesus on "New Thought". The importance of mankind knowing the
JEP19190615A truth of the New Birth. June 15th, 1919
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Spencer Spencer (a friend) comments on the book that Mr. Padgett was
JEP19190618A reading about spiritualism. June 18th, 1919
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Jesus The importance of knowing the Way to the Celestial Kingdom - many
JEP19191018A statements in the Bible untrue. October 18th, 1919
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Messages
Baruch Spinoza: Writes about medium's ability to predict the future of any person.
I am here, Spinoza:
Let me write a few lines as I have not written you for some time, and am quite anxious to give some thoughts that may be of benefit to you. I am not one of the spirits who write to you of what they call the higher truths, yet I have a knowledge of some of these truths and believe in all that has been communicated to you, for I know that the spirits who write you are of the Celestial Spheres, possessed of knowledge that we who live in the spirit spheres do not possess.
Well, I merely want to say a few words in reference to the predictions which you heard tonight, and as regards the source of the same. As you know, the woman is a medium gifted with the power of clairvoyance and inspirational receptivity, and on many occasions she perceives and receives some of the truths of the spirit world, and some of the persons whom she professes to see. Her communicants, though, are not of a very high order of development, and she, herself, could not see the highly developed spirits, because the law of communication and rapport applies to her phases of mediumship just as it does to yours. She is a very good woman morally, with some temperamental defects, and attracts spirits of moral worth and conditions, and her guides are in the condition that enables them to live in the brighter spheres, yet not having much spiritual development.
She professes to declare the predictions of her spirit friend, G____, as to what the future, for the ensuing year, will be in the experience of men and nations. Well, she has such a control, and he is a very intelligent spirit, and to some extent inspires her with his ideas of what the future holds out to mankind, and she with more or less exactness declares his thoughts as they are impressed upon her mind. But in connection with these thoughts she incorporates thoughts of her own, believing that they are inspired also, but such is not the fact, though, possibly, these thoughts furnish as good grounds for the predictions as do the thoughts of her control.
I do not believe, at least I have never had it demonstrated to me, that any spirit can make truthful predictions, such as the medium expressed tonight; for spirits have not the powers of omniscience and are as dependent upon the workings of the law of cause and effect as are mortals with this exception, that they can perceive many existing causes that mortals cannot and hence because of this knowledge can make predictions of the future happening of effects, that mortals cannot make. Take from spirits the knowledge of these causes and their predictions are merely guesses which may or may not come true.
As you heard, she declared many things that are problems now existing and the subjects of much thought and study on the part of mortals who give their attention to these matters; and she, as one of them, had her own thoughts and had formed her own conclusions and believed that they were the results of inspiration, whereas they had their foundation in her own mind, arising from her knowledge of and speculations on these things.
The present conditions of the world are such that there exists great probabilities of the happening of many things that the medium predicted, and many persons having knowledge of these conditions will predict, if they be called upon, future occurrences similar to those mentioned by the medium, and if they should happen, it will not be because any spirits know the fact, but because there are causes existing which will necessarily bring them about.
Well, such meetings and such predictions will not do any harm, but, on the contrary, will cause many people to turn their thoughts to spiritual things and to spiritualism, which will tend to liberate their minds from the shackles that are now preventing them from seeking and understanding the truth.
I will not consume more of your time now, but hope to be able to write later.
Goodbye, your friend,
SPINOZA
Index: JEP19190105A
Author: Baruch Spinoza
Receiver: James E. Padgett
Location: Washington D.C.
Date: 1919 January 05
Sources: True Gospel, Vol III, page 353
Helen: Confirms Spinoza writing and says that he is a very bright and intelligent spirit.
I am here, Helen:
Well dear, I am sorry that I could not write a while ago, but there were some spirits in trouble who wanted to write, and I did not feel justified in using force to drive them away, though White Eagle would not let them write. We must expect such interferences and abide the results for a while. You understand, I know, and will not think that I did not desire to write.
Well, you have received a letter tonight from a spirit who has written you before, and, as I then told you, he is a very bright and intelligent spirit, but not of the Celestial Spheres, and only knows the truths which came with the development of his soul in natural love. We have tried to help him but have not yet been successful in convincing him that what we tell him is the only way that will lead him to the happiness of the Divine. Yet we expect that sooner or later he will understand and follow our advice.
HELEN
Note: References message from Baruch Spinoza - JEP19190105A.
Index: JEP19190105B
Author: Helen Padgett
Receiver: James E. Padgett
Location: Washington D.C.
Date: 1919 January 05
Sources: True Gospel, Vol III, page 355
Francis Bacon: The limitations which mortal man places upon his perception of the laws governing the universe.
I am here, Francis Bacon.
Let me write just a few lines, as I desire to tell you of a thing which may be of importance to you.
I see you are a little disturbed over what a man said to you tonight as to his want of belief in the identity of the spirits who profess to manifest themselves through mediums. Well, this need not disturb you one particle, for the identity of the spirit is just as real and certain as is the fact that a man can and does identify another after an absence, more or less long, from the latter's appearance, voice, and so forth. In the case of his identification he depends on the operation of certain of his senses, such as his sight and hearing, and through them he satisfies his mind that the man identified is the identical person that he may claim to be, as you may say, he would be a very silly man if he would not accept such identification as convincing and determinate.
In the case of the identifying of those who are in the spirit, and who come with the powers and with the presence of spirits only, he cannot, of course, use his senses for the purpose of identification; and if he had to depend upon these organs alone, he would never be able to conclude that the spirits who present the phenomena are those who profess to be his friends or acquaintances.
Most mortals do not have the gift of perceiving, or receiving the impression of, the presence of spirits, and in such cases are In the condition of the blind and deaf man with reference to the things of earth. The latter has no means of identifying his closest friends, and yet it would be just as reasonable to contend that these friends are not existing and present, and the same day after day, as for mortals to say that the spirits of those who once lived on earth are not existing and present, because the mortals have not the faculties of seeing and hearing them. There are things in earth life as well as in spirit life that can come to the knowledge of some men only through information given them by other men who have superior powers and faculties for seeking for and obtaining this information.
Some mortals have eyes and faculties not material, as usually understood, for seeing and hearing and receiving knowledge from the spirits, and who render what is thus seen, heard and received just as real and certain as are real and certain the presence of mortals and material things to those who have their physical organs of sight and hearing; and the identity of what is seen and heard and received is just as truly established in the former as in the latter case.
All men who are wanting as to the nonmaterial organs mentioned can identify the things of the material world and are satisfied of the fact; and make their mode of such identification the standard by which they must and only can become convinced of the identity of the things of the spirit world: and when they insist upon such method of identification they, of course, can never be convinced, except perhaps in those phenomena as are manifested in materialization and spirit photography.
When the merely physical powers or means of ascertaining the existence and identity of things or humans are used, then those who confine their search for truth and the discerning of the identity of claimed existences to the use of such physical organs will never be able to see, hear or receive that which might convince them of the identity of the things existing in the spirit world.
This is the result of the eternal laws of the universe in their operations; and no desires or efforts of man can change this result. Man is unfortunate when he assumes the position that unless these laws can be or are changed in order that he may by his physical organs see or hear or be able to identify the things of the spirit world, he will not believe that there is identity existing among the spirits who come to men and in various ways manifest their presence.
When a man stands on the compliance with this condition as necessary to convince him of the identity of those friends of his who have passed to spirit life and who come in psychical phenomena and manifest themselves, it is useless to try to convince him, because of the very necessities of the laws governing such phenomena. And those who do believe, and those who know of, this identity will only waste time and effort in trying to convince men who assume the position of depending entirely on the physical means which they may possess.
There are many humans today who are truly convinced, and have all sufficient grounds for their convictions as to the identity and presence of their spirit friends, and they are not deceived, but enjoy the happiness that comes to them from such knowledge.
In my observations of the workings of human minds upon this question of the existence and identity of spirits, I learn that such evidence as would satisfy their minds, under the strictest requirements, as to material things, is brushed aside as wholly inadequate, and sometimes not even worthy of consideration, to satisfy them as to these spiritual things; and it seems that the greater knowledge they possess of the nature of and laws controlling material things, the less credence and consideration will they give to the nature of and laws controlling spiritual things. Every other explanation of psychical phenomena is put forth and accepted, rather than the simple and natural one; and if men only knew what nature really is, and its laws, they would realize how little they now know of nature.
Generally, nature is only that consciousness of things material which comes within their limited cognition. They do not know that the larger part of nature, if it can be separated, is beyond the things or conditions which they have knowledge of as being the material of the universe.
Well, as I said, the identity of the spiritual cannot be and must not be expected to be established by the operations of the merely physical organs of man, except perhaps in those manifestations appearing in the phenomena of materializations or spirit photography, and even they are not accepted as real or true by many men who accept what are called scientific deductions from supposed facts connected with the manifestations of what these men consider to be natural.
And so the proof of the presence and identity of spirits will have to depend upon the results produced by the operations of laws controlling the spiritual existences and the psychical powers and gifts of certain humans, Sometime it may be that these gifted persons will be accepted as honest and truthful and not self-deceived, and the manifestations resulting from the exercise of these powers as the effects of the efforts and intelligence of spirits who, at one time, were human beings.
When men come to realize that the change called death does not destroy identity and consciousness and powers of mind, as well as what may be called powers physical - for the material of the universe is used and operated by spirits - but on the contrary, intensifies these possessions and powers, then they will accept the truth that the presence of the spirits of their departed friends is a variety, and that the identity of these spirits is eternal.
Well, I have written as much as I think best to write tonight, and thank you for your indulgence.
With kind regards, I will say good night,
Your friend,
FRANCIS BACON
Index: JEP19190106A
Author: Francis Bacon
Receiver: James E. Padgett
Location: Washington D.C.
Date: 1919 January 06
Sources: True Gospel, Vol III, page 153
Jesus: States his help spiritually is without limit, but the material depends on the individual himself.
I am here, Jesus:
Let me say a few words. I have been with you tonight while at church and since you came home and understand, your desire to have the preacher read my message on the soul and I agree with you that it is advisable. He has some conception of what the soul is but his knowledge is not of that character as to enable him to express the most important qualities or its origin or difference from the spirit.
I was glad that he undertook to deal with this subject for it has given you the opportunity of making known to him or of affording him the opportunity to talk to him about these truths and then be able to enlighten him, for his mind is working in error and misconception of what the truth of these spiritual things is.
I desire to come soon and write another message and am only waiting for you to get into the necessary condition that I may do so.
Well, I will understand you and will come some night this week. Think more of these spiritual things and pray more to the Father for His Love and you will not fail to get in condition. Our work will go on and we will have many messages, yet tonight we must take advantage of every possible moment.
I have been with you a great deal lately trying to influence you and turn your mind to these spiritual things and away from merely earthly things that are not important to you.
I hope that you will soon be so situated that you can give all your thoughts and attention to the work and I believe you will if you will make the effort. You know we can help you in many ways but more depends upon yourself as to these material matters and you must act.
I will not write more tonight and with my love and the Father's blessings I will say goodnight.
Your brother and friend,
JESUS
Index: JEP19190112A
Author: Jesus
Receiver: James E. Padgett
Location: Washington D.C.
Date: 1919 January 12
Sources: True Gospel, Vol III, page 200
Helen: Wishes for Mr. Padgett to be ready to receive the Master's message and that she will write on soulmates.
I am here, your own true and loving, Helen.
Well dear, the Master has just written you and he was very much interested in what you have in mind to do.
You must try your utmost to be ready to receive his message when he comes, for nothing to you is of more importance.
I will soon come and write a little upon some features of the soul which is not in the Master's messages, I mean about the soulmates and their love. So expect me.
Baby says she wants to write and tell you what she knows about love and happiness and will do so as soon as you will arrange things.
I will not write more tonight as you are somewhat tired.
So sweetheart, love us and pray to the Father and believe that I love you with all my heart and soul, the great thing to you and me.
Goodnight,
Your own true and loving,
HELEN
Note: References message from Jesus - JEP19190112A.
Index: JEP19190112B
Author: Helen Padgett
Receiver: James E. Padgett
Location: Washington D.C.
Date: 1919 January 12
Sources: True Gospel, Vol III, page 179
Robert Dale Owen: Spirit speaks of spiritual phenomena investigations that he used to write about.
I am here, Robert Dale Owen:
Let me say just a word, for I am interested in your work and in the phenomena of spiritualism. I have been with you as you read the book which attempts to show the truth of spiritual manifestations, and the instances mentioned of spirits showing themselves in the garb of humans are true. I was then an investigator of the question, and had only the knowledge which I received from my own observation, and, hence, was an outsider, as it were, of these spiritual phenomena. I mean that I was not one of the gifted ones of earth, who can have the power of receiving or communicating with spirits by reason of the fact that they possess the power of seeing or feeling or hearing the presence of spirits. I was not so gifted.
I am now an investigator of things spiritual, but not of the possibility of communicating with the spirit world, for this I know to be a fact, and beyond all question, and men who doubt the fact are in the condition of those who will not learn, because they do not believe in the first principles of the phenomena, and are willing to let their prejudices or their indifference lead them away from the truth.
The phenomena which I have portrayed in my book are very simple and of the lower order of spiritual phenomena, and yet men will not believe because they fail to approach the subject with open minds and desire to learn the truth even though the search for the same leads them along lines of investigation that are so foreign to the course of study that they are pursuing in their various vocations. Of all the bigoted and hardheaded investigators of truth, the preachers are the most difficult to teach the truth of spiritualism, and their periscope is one that enables them to see only in a straight line that has been laid down to them for ages and holds them in its iron grasp.
I would like to come to you sometime and write you a long description of the spirit world and its phenomena, although it may not surprise you very much, considering what you have had revealed to you.
Well, you have asked me some questions which I cannot answer in one breath. But I am in the Third Sphere, where many spirits are pursuing their studies of things which pertain to the laws of the spirit world, as well as to the laws of the earth. I have not heard of the Divine Love, except as we call all love divine, and it must be so, for it leads us to the spheres where those who are sinless and in harmony with the Father reside. I am a true believer in the things of God and in the redemption of all mankind, sooner or later. My intellect is only part of my existence in the spirit world, and above and greater than that is the love that causes me to become in harmony with the laws of God, and at-one with him. These are the answers to your questions, and I should like to write you at length upon the truths of what I have so briefly stated. I know that you are very busy in receiving communications from the spirit world and have little time for communications from strangers, yet I should like to write at least one letter in reference to my condition and knowledge of things as I have found them.
I say what is true, for I have never heard of the Divine Love in the sense that you have spoken of. I have never talked with spirits who claim to have this Love, and to be better than are the spirits who are progressing in the love which they have, and as to immortality, I only know that death merely sets the soul of the mortal free and enables it to enter onto its progress towards the higher spheres, where truth and goodness are.
Let me wait a moment in my astonishment, for I see more spirits who seem to be of a different order of spirit from me, and are brighter and more beautiful, and are willing to tell me of the Divine Love, for they all claim to know it. But I do not understand and I am sure that if they are possessed of this Love, it is only another form of belief. I am all confused and cannot think for the moment. I will come again. I must go.
Good night,
ROBERT DALE OWEN
Index: JEP19190211A
Author: Robert Dale Owen
Receiver: James E. Padgett
Location: Washington D.C.
Date: 1919 February 11
Sources: True Gospel, Vol III, page 349
Job: Comments on the book that Mr. Padgett was reading, which only incorporates the natural love and not the Divine Love.
I am here, Job:
Let me say a few words tonight upon a subject that is of importance to mankind and to the future of man.
I see that you have been reading a book professing to give communications from a spirit who claims to be possessed of a divine mission in the way of teaching men the truths of the soul, and of the way to immortality and life. Well, you may accept what is said with some degree of truth as to the condition of spirits who are progressing in the development of their natural love, and as to the facts that await a soul after it has left the mortal life. Many of the statements contained in the writings are true and should be accepted and acted upon by mortals who desire a knowledge of the true way to a kingdom of the purified soul and to a reconciliation to God in the way of renunciation.
God is good, and not the hateful and merciless being that your orthodox beliefs teach and is always the same, now as in the days of old when men's conception of Him were determined by their own ideas of what a God should be, and what men should believe him to be.
But there are many things taught in the writings of the book that are not true, though in accord with the knowledge possessed by the writers and suited to the condition of the medium through whom the messages were delivered. The writers were spirits who were highly developed intellectually and morally, and had knowledge of the truths to an extent that made what they said powerful expositions of the truth as they knew it to be; but beyond the fact that men must, in order to become pure and holy, do those things which the law of harmony in their natural love demands, they could not teach.
Now, while this is all true, yet they did not know of the higher truths that make a man or the soul of a man divine and at one with the Father and could not teach because they did not possess any knowledge of, and only so far as they knew, must, their teachings be accepted as truth. They were far in advance in their renditions of the disclosures contained in the Bible, both as to God and Jesus, and the final destiny of man, and their revelations should be accepted in place of the teachings of the Bible. They were not only acquainted with the laws of God as dealing with man in his relation to good and evil, but also with the laws as to man's release from the consequences of his acts and deeds of earth, and as to his release from the consequences of his evil acts.
I would like to write now, but the rapport is broken.
Goodnight,
JOB
Index: JEP19190219A
Author: Job
Receiver: James E. Padgett
Location: Washington D.C.
Date: 1919 February 19
Sources: True Gospel, Vol III, page 312
John: Explains the difference between the natural love and the Divine Love.
I am here, John
Let me say just a word. I was with you today when you were talking to your friend, and heard your conversation, and saw the utter want of comprehension on the part of your friend as to the truths of the spirit world, and especially of the laws that divide the mere perfect man from the Divine man or spirit. He is so engulfed in the conceptions that he has of these loves arising from his experience in life that he can only see the existence of one love, the natural, and his mind is not capable of seeing the other Love, and of course his soul has not that development which would assure him of the reality of the Divine Love.
The mind itself is capable of informing him of the existence and working of the natural love, and as this is the only means that he possesses of understanding what love is, he cannot possibly understand this Love, and that soul developed to a degree by the very Love itself. He may argue to the extent of the capacity of his mind and he will never be able to comprehend the Love that requires a perception of the soul, and he may remain satisfied and convince himself that the natural love is the only love and that when it becomes developed to a certain degree it becomes the Divine Love, and then find that that he is far away from the truth.
He must know, and I mean it is necessary for him to know, that only those who have the Divine Love to some degree are capable of knowing that the Divine is a thing of itself, and not the development of the natural love, and has in it not the qualities of that love. The one is of God, that is partakes of His very nature, while the other is also of God, but does not partake of His nature, but is only a creation intended to make man happy and perfect in his condition of the mere man - the merely created existence.
I thought that I would give you these short comments on your conversation in order to show the grave and important mistake under which your friend is laboring. He will not easily believe these things of truth while in the flesh, and when he comes to spirit life the difficulties will be just as great, and it may be that he will always be content to remain the possessor of this natural love only. I wish that it might be otherwise, and that he might let go his intellectual belief and harken to the call of the soul, which when not trammeled by these beliefs is continually longing for this Greater Love.
Believe that I am your friend and interested in you to an extent that you cannot now comprehend, but which, some day you will understand and wonder that such a thing could have been.
Good night.
Your brother in Christ,
JOHN
Index: JEP19190219B
Author: John
Receiver: James E. Padgett
Location: Washington D.C.
Date: 1919 February 19
Sources: True Gospel, Vol II, page 141
Helen: Is pleased with the improvement that Mr. Padgett is making in his recovery, but he is not strong enough for the Celestial Spirits to write.
I am here, Your own true and loving Helen:
Well, dear, your condition is better tonight than for a long time past, and we have great expectations that before long it will be such that a rapport can be made and the spirits be able to write with ease.
The spirit who attempted to write you was a high spirit and was desirous of writing you, and was very sorry when the rapport was broken as he had much to say on the subject of the writings which you have been reading. I am sorry that the conditions were not such as to enable him to continue, but it is better than it was for a long time, and will improve if you will only pray more and give more of your thoughts to the spiritual things.
I wish that you were in the condition that once was yours, so that the Master and others could write you. You may now know, but it is a fact, that you are being looked after with such watchfulness and care that your condition shall not be injured, that no other spirits are permitted to communicate with you, who has not the powers of the Celestial Spirits. We desire that you shall be preserved for the work which is yours to do, and so we do not permit communication from the ordinary spirits to intervene. Soon you will be alright again and then the higher spirits will come and write you as they desire. Only wait a little while.
Tonight I should like to write a long message, but I will not for fear that your condition may be interfered with, and so I will stop now.
But remember that we love you and are trying to help you in every way.
Goodnight.
Your own true and loving,
HELEN
Index: JEP19190219C
Author: Helen Padgett
Receiver: James E. Padgett
Location: Washington D.C.
Date: 1919 February 19
Sources: True Gospel, Vol III, page 313
Jesus: Writes about a visit by Mr. Padgett to spiritualist medium and advise him to help her to offer the Divine Love of the Father that is now justly due her since she has been seeking the greater Love since early Childhood.
I am here, Jesus:
Let me write a few lines, for I am anxious to tell you that you have not been in good company today, as the meeting was filled with spirits who are of the earth plane, and knew not the truths that will lead to a knowledge of the things that are necessary in order to secure a home in the Celestial Heavens. Many spirits were those of men who, when on earth, lived immoral and licentious lives, and who are in the same condition as they were when on earth. They have not yet answered to the law of compensation and, of course, you will see that their influence is not of the kind that tends to develop those soul qualities that lead to the Heaven of the followers of me, in the true sense.
The medium with whom you conversed, and who delivered the messages of some of the spirits who were so anxious to reach their friends of earth, was influenced by spirits who are in a condition of more or less darkness and alienation from God, and consequently suffers from her association and the influence to which she was subjected. She has long been in this work of demonstrating to mankind the fact of communication between the spirits in the flesh and those who have passed the mysterious border line; and her work has been strenuous and served to demonstrate the fact for which it was intended, and she is satisfied with the reality of the fact of the continuity of life after so called death.
This has been a phase of mediumship that was necessary to be performed, and she has done her work faithfully and well, and is now entitled to be relieved of this work that pertains to the lower order of spiritualism, and should be freed of this great burden and be permitted to come into a knowledge of the higher things of spirit life. I am glad that you will soon have the opportunity to tell her things that await her as a reward for all the sacrifices that she has been compelled to make.
Now, do not misunderstand me. Her work was necessary as a preliminary to the conversion of men to a belief in the truth of spirit communication and the fact that there is no death, and to the consolation that comes to men from the knowledge that their loved ones are with them, seeking to help and be helped in their conditions that the great law of cause and effect imposes upon them. Many a sad heart has been comforted by her ministrations and many a spirit has been helped by having opened up to them the way to make known their presence to mortals.
But she has from the very nature of her occupation been more or less injured in her spiritual progress, and the time has come when she shall have the opportunity to attend to and obtain her own soul's progress. She is naturally a good woman, and when she told you that she had a longing for something for which she did not understand, she was uttering a great truth of her soul, and one that has been present with her since she was a little child, for her soul has been calling to the great soul of the Father for His Love and the happiness that comes with the knowledge that the Father's Love is ever ready and anxious to respond to her longings. Her knowledge of spiritualism does not teach her what this Love is, even though her soul feels its presence, and in her underdeveloped longings realizes that there must exist that which will draw her closer to the great Love of the Father.
So I say, tell her the truths that have been revealed to you, and of your experience in seeking for and obtaining this transforming Love, and she will listen and seek and obtain, and with such obtaining will come a happiness she has never before experienced. And when she has believed in this Love and obtained it to a degree, she will become a powerful instrument in converting men to a belief in the only way to the Celestial Heaven and to immortality.
Then will she have back of her the influence of the hosts of celestial angels to inspire her and qualify her to preach the true kingdom of God; and her faculties of clairvoyance will be opened up to see the things of the Celestial Heavens and the wonderfully bright and glorious spirits, who will come to her with their messages of truth and knowledge of the glories that belong to those who know that the Divine Love of God is the only thing that can transform the human soul into an angel of light, and the immortality that I came to earth to teach, and which I did teach, but which, alas, was so soon lost to the knowledge of men.
I am particularly interested in her, not so much because of her own soul, as because she has in her those qualities that can be used by us in making known to the world the truths which we of the Celestial spheres know will set them free from the false and damning teachings of the orthodox churches, and making my coming to earth and living - not dying - the way to the Truth and the Life. She may think that her knowledge - I mean intellectual - is all that needs to be known, but when she let's her soul's longings go to the Father and receives the response, which she will certainly receive, she will then know that spiritualism, as she conceives it to be, is the mere forerunner of that which will make all men at one with the Father, when embraced by man and lived.
The meetings, such as was held today, while as I have said was filled with spirits who are in darkness and suffering, yet, also, attracted many spirits who are bright and progressing in their natural love, and who tried to help those to whom they came and communicated, and to that extent did good, and also served to convince the unbelievers of the truth of the mere passing from the body of flesh into the spirit body - a-continued existence, without changing of condition of happiness or misery. The great law of compensations - as you sow so shall you reap - is taught at the meetings, and there is no truer or greater law in all the universe of God, and man must realize that it works without exception and to the last farthing, and that there can never be forgiveness until forgetfulness takes place.
Well, my dear brother, I must stop as the power is weakening, but before closing let me entrust you to tell the medium that I, Jesus of the Bible, as I called my disciples when on earth, now call her to do the work which is so important to mankind, and that she must prepare herself by seeking for this Love. It is utterly impossible for a soul out of unison with the souls of the spirits who come to it to receive their communications and transmit the same to mankind. Her soul must respond to the souls of the spirits, and it will be so easy for her to get into the condition that will make this possible. Like attracts like, and this law applies to rapport and to other things of the spirit world, and of the earth as well.
I see that you are in better condition tonight, and I am pleased, for I will soon come and write another message with reference to the higher truths.
With my love and blessings, I will say goodnight.
Your brother and friend,
JESUS
Index: JEP19190303A
Author: Jesus
Receiver: James E. Padgett
Location: Washington D.C.
Date: 1919 March 03
Sources: True Gospel, Vol III, page 85
True Gospel, Vol IV, page 162
Emerson: An inhabitant of the sixth sphere, speaks of its purity.
I am here, Emerson:
Let me write tonight on a subject that is of importance to mankind and one which so few of mortals know or conceive of in their teachings and philosophy. I am one who inhabits the Sixth Sphere, where the pristine purity of the first man obtains, and where sin or the alienation from God has no existence. You may not know, but it is a fact, that the purity of this sphere is such that the souls of men find only that which makes a man like unto God, and renders him happy and satisfied with his existence and with the divine attributes and nature with which he was created and which God in the infinitude of his powers decreed that man should possess and enjoy to the fullest of his capacity.
I am he whose book you have been reading tonight and who was attracted to you by the fact that you were interested in the book and sought the truths of the soul as therein set forth. The soul is one that while individualized yet is a part of the great Oversoul, and in its aspirations and thoughts of those things that are pure and in harmony with the oversoul has a satisfaction that is complete and at-one with the Father of light and love.
This sphere is one where only the perfected soul can live and bloom and feel its qualities of the divine as perfect, and no soul that has not