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August 28th, 1916
Received by James Padgett
Washington D.C.
I am here, John.
I merely want to say that you will soon be well and in condition
to receive some of our messages which we are anxiously waiting to
write. The time is approaching when the book will have to be published
and it is very necessary that you get these messages in full so
that you can compile the book. Of course we want to incorporate
every truth that is necessary to make known to mankind, and to do
so we will have to work faster.
Yes l, I know him well (James the Lesser, the subject of a question
asked by Mr. Padgett) and he was the brother of Jesus, the real
brother, having the same father and mother that Jesus had and all
speculations as to his having parents who were other than the parents
of Jesus are not in accord with the truth, and were falsified, to
make it appear that Mary was a virgin. He was not in the beginning
an apostle of Jesus and came to believe in him late in the ministry
of Jesus, but when at last he became convinced that Jesus was the
true messiah he became a very earnest and hardworking follower of
Jesus, and also the first Christian Bishop of Jerusalem.
I have no personal knowledge as to whether he wrote the epistles
ascribed to him or not but he has said that he wrote some portion
of the first epistle and a portion of the second but that he did
not write the third. That in each of these epistles are many assertions
of truth which are wrong and which he did not teach. All the writings
of the New Testament, as they now exist, contain so many things
which the original writers did not write and which they did not
teach or believe in, that it is with difficulty that the mortal,
even though a great student, can separate the true from the false.
And that is one reason that enters into our motives for writing
a new revelation of the truth.
The truths will be made plain and you must not let the writings
of the Bible influence you in your receiving a correct conception
of these truths. I will not write more now.
So with my love I will say good night.
John
This message is a composite of three, being published
in Volume III on page 319 and Volume IV on page 192 and again in
Volume IV on page 233. For more details see
this page.
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