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January 22nd, 1917.
Received by James Padgett
Washington D.C.
I am here. Elameros.
I am a Greek, or rather the spirit of a mortal who was a Greek,
and I lived in the days when Jesus walked the hills and plains of
Palestine, teaching his new doctrines of the Divine Love and the
Kingdom of Heaven. I was not a follower of him or a believer in
his teachings, for I was a disciple of Plato and Socrates, and was
satisfied of the truth of their philosophy, and did not believe
that there were other truths than what it contained.
I was a traveler, and at times visited Palestine, and on several occasions heard Jesus teaching the multitudes of people who seemed to be so interested in his discourses. I must confess that I was startled at times by his doctrines, and recognized that while they treated of subjects similar to those contained in my philosophy, yet they were different, and gave to these subjects a new and spiritual meaning that I had never before thought of.
I could see that he was not a student of philosophy, or yet, an educated man, as we understood men to be educated, yet he dealt with these questions in such an enlightening and authoritative way that caused me to wonder at the source of his information; and when, at times, he said that he was not speaking of his own knowledge, but that his Father was speaking through him, I was almost ready to believe that such was the fact.
You must remember that I believed in God and in the lesser gods
or demons who executed His will, and when Jesus spoke of his Father,
meaning God, it was not unnatural for me, in a way, to accept what
he declared. And then I recollect, that I was impressed with the
fact that he was not speaking from a mind that had been developed
by the study of the philosophies, but from a mind that seemed to
have in it that which had been lodged there by some great outside
intelligence. He spoke, as he said, with knowledge, and speculations
seemed to be no part of his conclusions or the cause of any of his
deductions. Notwithstanding these impressions on me, I was too wise,
in my own conceit, that my philosophy was the only true one, and
that my knowledge of it was without defect, to attempt to give serious
consideration to what I had heard Jesus say, and consequently, let
the truths which he uttered pass from me.
I saw and heard him teach only a few times, and then I heard of
his crucifixion and death as a malefactor, and forgot about him.
When next I saw him, it was in the spirit world, and this continued
after I became a spirit; and then he was teaching the same doctrines
that I had heard him teach on earth; but he was a wonderfully bright
and glorious spirit. I don't think that I can write more tonight.
I will come again.
Your brother in Christ,
Elameros
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