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December 26th, 1918
Received by James Padgett.
Washington D.C.
Let me say a word.
You are not doing the wise thing in reading that book, (Scientific
Demonstration of a Future Life) for it is very largely speculation
and that which leads to untruth and harm.
The writer knows now that his hypothesis of the dual mind is all
wrong, and that he has the same mind now that he had when on earth,
and that no part of that mind died with the death of the body. He
also knows that spirits do communicate with mortals, and the subjective
mind, as he calls it, does not among mortals furnish the means of
communication or suggest the information that is contained in the
psychic phenomena. He also knows that the mind is not the soul,
but one of its attributes merely, and that it is controlled by the
soul and the will.
Many other things besides, he now knows, and is convinced that
man is not the result of evolution, but is the immediate and direct
creation of God, and that he has no relationship to the brute animal.
Sometime he will come and write you fully on these subjects, if
you will permit him to do so. Good night,
the author Jay Hudson
Scientific Demonstration of a Future Life was published
in 1904. The author had previously published:
The Law of Scientific Phenomena
The Divine Pedigree of Man
The Law of Mental Medicine
The Evolution of the Soul.
We now know that James Padgett
was biased towards the notion of creation rather than evolution,
as regards the human body, but one does not know if this message
is his bias, or a current error of this spirit. A cursory glance
at the contents of this book suggests the author believed in evolution,
and also believed that there had been an evolution of the soul as
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