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January 4, 2005
Santa Cruz, California
Received by F.A.B.
I am here, Walt Whitman.
This is my first writing through you, and I am pleased to
call you my dear friend. Your interests have attracted me.
I pondered deeply over the meaning of America just like
you, and also like you, I saw a special type of Providence
hidden behind her many sins. Though it is more than a
hundred years since my death, I am still to a certain
extent preoccupied with our country, not in a low
earthplane way, but in the high way so beautifully and
eloquently expressed in the book you are reading ["The
American Soul" by Jacob Needleman].
Many have thought that the being I articulated in my
poetry was a persona, an artificial construct. Whereas I
was in fact different in real life from the individual
portrayed in "Leaves of Grass," nevertheless in essence I
was one and the same with the rhapsodic lover of humanity
described. That is, in my inward parts, I did truly love
humanity and life very much. So, even though I may not
have outwardly manifested my personality in the same way
as in my poems, nevertheless that literary creation was
true to my intention as a creature of God passionately in
love with the drama of History and the beauty of the
cosmos and its Creator.
Now, let me say what Jesus told you in 1997 - you need not
fear for America's eventual fate, for there are certain
qualities she has manifested consistently since her
founding that will guarantee her survival. We know you
feel the horror and injustice done to her indigenous
people. Well, we feel that too, and so does God.
Let me repeat another thing Jesus told you in 1997 - that
many American indigenous spirits have responded to your
genuine love and concern for their culture and their
tradition. They respect your beliefs and will work with
you in that framework, but they see also that you
recognize and respect their way of thinking, even though
you don't yet know that much about it. So you see, there
is respect and consideration both ways because of the
loving attitudes you all manifest. Let me assure you that
in the coming manifestation of America's greatness, the
Native cultures will play a crucial role, and they will
finally get the widespread respect they always deserved.
It has been blatantly obvious to all here in the spirit
world that God disapproved completely of the way Native
American peoples have been treated by the white culture,
and indigenous spirits over here have been completely
vindicated. But even they had to go through a purification
period as to their hatred of the white man, who attempted
to destroy their culture.
So you see, the redemptive process has continued over here, and those white people who committed atrocities
against Native people discovered to their horror that they were caught in their own net, and had to pay the
penalty of their dastardly deeds, and they could no longer ignore the terrible suffering they inflicted on their
fellow humans. Yes, every massacre, every broken treaty had to be accounted for in their crucible of suffering.
Gone were their hegemony and their lust for dominance and power, and all that remained in their consciousness
were the cries of the innocent children murdered by their hand, and their attempted murder of a whole people,
which you in your time have called genocide.
I know you expected this first message to be all about me.
Well, my friend, many wonderful surprises await you. I
will stop here. Thank you so much for your interest in my
life. I noted it from the beginning.
Love,
Walt Whitman
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