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August 12th, 1915
Received by:James Padgett.
Washington D.C.
I am here - George Washington: The same who wrote
to you a few nights ago.
Well you are my brother and I am pleased that you call me your
brother, for in this world of spirits we have no titles or distinctions
because of any fame or position we may have had on earth.
I came to tell you that I have watched with interest the many communications
that you have received from the various kinds and orders of spirits,
and am somewhat surprised that you could receive with such accuracy
these several messages. I never in earth life supposed that such
a thing could be, and since I became a spirit, I have never seen
such demonstrations of the powers that exist on the part of spirits
to communicate and mortals to receive the messages that come to
you. I know that very many times such communications have been made
by spirits to mortals, but what I mean as surprising is the great
variety of spirits who come to you. They come from the highest Celestial
Spheres as well as from the earth planes and what they write are
not only new to mankind but many of their declarations of truth
are new to many of us spirits.
Very seldom do we who are in the Celestial Spheres have the opportunity
to communicate with any of these ancient spirits who live high up
in the Celestial Heavens and when I see them come and communicate
to you so frequently, I wonder at it all.
I know, of course, that such spirits do occasionally come into
the earth plane; and try to influence both mortals and spirits to
do good, but I want to tell you that usually their influence is
exerted through intermediary spirits, and not directly by these
higher spirits in person as they do through you.
The messages that you have received from these spirits who lived
on earth thousands of years ago were really written by them as they
controlled your brain and hand.
I am trying my best to help you in your work and will continue
to do so, for the work that you have been selected to do is the
most important one that the spirit world is now engaged in - I mean
the world that recognizes Jesus as its Prince and Master.
Some spirits come, because they see the way open to communicate
to mortals, and they naturally desire to make known the fact that
they live and are happy in their spheres. But their happiness is
not the real happiness which the true believers and followers of
the Master enjoy. So you in your work, when they come to you may
have the opportunity to tell them of this higher experience which
the redeemed of the Father enjoy. Many spirits are in these lower
spheres who would be in the Celestial Heavens if they only knew
the way.
We frequently try to show them the way to truth and the higher
life, but we find it a difficult task. They think that we are merely
spirits like themselves - have our opinions just as they have theirs,
and that we are mistaken in ours, and hence we can tell them nothing
which will show them truths that they do not know, or will give
them greater happiness than they have.
When they notice the contrast in our appearance - that is that
we are so much more beautiful and bright than are they - they simply
think that such beauty and brightness is a result of some natural
cause and that we merely differ from them as do one race of men
differ from another. They do not seem to think that there is anything
in the contrast in our appearance that is caused by any higher spiritual
condition than what they have. And this is the great stumbling block
in the way of their becoming interested in the conditions which
we have, and which should urge them to investigate and learn the
true cause for the same. And hence, I say, that you may do them
some good in this regard, for you are a third person and should
call their attention to the great contrast and tell them the cause
as you understand it. What you say would probably make some impression
on them, and cause them to make inquiry, and once they commenced
this then would come our opportunity to lead them into the light
of the great truth of the Divine Love of the Father.
Well, I have digressed from what I intended to write but it is
just as well, for all the truths of God are important to both mortals
and spirits. I am very happy in my home in the Celestial Spheres
of the Father, and I am trying to progress to those higher. So let
me assure you of the truths of what you have had written to you
by your band and others of God's redeemed spirits.
I thank you for this opportunity and will come
again sometime.
Your own true brother in Christ,
George Washington
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