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Received by James Padgett.
Washington D.C.
I am here and want to write a little tonight with the permission
of your band and yourself. You will remember me when I tell you
that I am an old friend of yours and a brother in the profession.
You knew me as G. H., and I knew you as my young lawyer friend.
I am living in the third (spirit) sphere and am comparatively happy,
and am trying to progress to the higher spheres, but somehow the
old beliefs that I imbibed, when on earth, seem to retard my progress.
As you know, I was a Methodist and believed in the Methodist doctrines,
and yet was not so spiritual as I should have been. I have learned
or rather unlearned and learned many things since I have been here,
and, as a consequence, I am in a better condition to appreciate
the truth than when on earth.
Well, I know now that the blood of Jesus, as such, does not wash
away sin, and also that he is not the saviour of men because of
any vicarious atonement. These were great stumbling blocks to me
when I came into the spirit world, and my disappointment growing
out of these beliefs was very great, and almost caused me to believe
that there never was any Jesus or any God. But thanks to some of
my spirit friends who knew the truth, I was prevented from becoming
an unbeliever in the truths of salvation and so was saved from what
might have been a great stagnation of my soul and its progress.
Yes, and I am somewhat surprised at Riddle's progress, for I must
tell you that he is in a higher sphere than I am, and is more filled
with this Love of the Father. He has told me somewhat of his experience,
and how you first started him to right thinking, and then how your
band, I mean your grandmother, and the rest of your kinfolk, came
to him and helped him to see the light, and the necessity of seeking
and obtaining God's Love. He is now a very bright spirit and has
much faith. So you see, a man may have his doubts on earth and yet
succeed in progressing more rapidly than one, who, though he believes
in God and the Bible, yet because of his erroneous beliefs, stands
still.
Well, I must say that I have been with you a number of times when
the spirits were writing to you, and I was very much surprised at
first that such a thing should be; and I saw that you were doing
the dark spirits a great deal of good in the way in which you helped
them out of their darkness and sufferings.1 When I was
on earth I did not suppose that there would ever come a time when
you would be in this kind of work - in fact I did not know that
there was such a work to be performed by any one. Yes, I have seen
Jesus writing to you a number of times, and only tonight did he
do so.
My views as to him have changed very much since I was on earth.
As you may have thought, I then believed him to be God or one of
three that constituted God, and that he was a way up in the heavens,
sitting on the right hand of the Father, controlling the heavens
and the earth. But since I have been in the spirit world my beliefs
have changed, and now I know that Jesus is not God, but only his
highest, best son, and a spirit such as I am. He has at times talked
to me and told me of many erroneous beliefs contained in the Bible
and in the dogmas of the churches. He is a wonderful spirit - the
brightest in all the spirit world, and the one that is closer to
the Father than any of the others, ancient or modern.
He is so very filled with the Divine Love of his Father that we
adore him as our Master - not worship him as God. I have been surprised
at the great interest he has in you, and the abundance of love that
he has for you. But I know that I need not have been surprised for
he has selected you to write his messages to the world.
What a fortunate man you are. I don't sometimes understand how
such a thing can be, but he says that the world must have all the
truths of the Father, and he selected you because he saw that you
could carry out his desires better than any other mortal; and so
you are favored. Well I must stop as I have written a very long
letter and some others wish to write also. So my dear brother I
will say good night.
Your old friend,
G. H.
1 By causing them to visualize bright spirits after they wrote through Mr. Padgett.
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