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October 30th, 1918.
Received by James Padgett.
Washington D.C.
I am here, Helen.
Well dear, you have been in two conditions of soul and mind tonight.
The one, rather repellant and out of sympathy with us, which prevented
us from writing you, and the other, which you now have, congenial
and in unison with us.
Your reading the prophecies of the old prophets did not have the
effect of awakening in your soul those feelings and aspirations
which were suitable to bring your soul in rapport with us, and largely,
because those writings did not declare and display the true and
loving Father whom we know and love. Our Father never had the feelings
of wrath against his children that are in those prophecies ascribed
to him. The Jehovah of those prophets was of a very different type
from the Father whom we know and love and fear only in the sense
that in some possible way we may violate the laws of His Love.
Of course, as you know, the people of those times, prophets, priests,
Kings and common people, never had or knew of His Divine Love, and
their comprehension of God, was one who required sacrifice and obedience
to his laws of right and justice as they understood them; and undoubtedly
their prophets were, to a degree, inspired by the spirits of the
higher heavens as they then existed; to warn and threaten and denounce,
so that the people might be brought to a realization of their sins
and induced to a return to that harmony with the law that would
enable them to become rid of their sins and evil doings; and considering
their conception of God, the means used by the prophets were the
ones necessary to bring about these results.
A consideration of these means in comparison with the ways taught
by the Master that lead to the Celestial Heavens will demonstrate
the fact that, in those ancient days, neither prophet, priest nor
people had any knowledge of the Divine Love, and that the privilege
of these ancient people of obtaining the Divine Love was not in
existence.
I and the higher spirits, as they have declared, see no good that
can possibly come to mortals of the present from a reading and understanding
of these books of the Old Testament. The moral commands contained
in them were pronounced and emphasized by the teachings of the Master,
which needs no assistance from these old teachings in order that
the Master's teachings should have a sanctioning. And as to the
higher spiritual truths, these old scriptures contain nothing which
can possibly enlighten or help man to acquire knowledge of these
truths.
So I advise you not to waste your time in reading these scriptures,
but rather use all the time that remains to you outside of the affairs
of your practical life to learn and study and meditate upon the
truths which have been revealed to you by the messages that you
have received.
I would not by what I have said, desire to be understood as depreciating
the reading of these scriptures by people who have not the opportunity
and privilege of hearing the truths that have been revealed to you
for in these scriptures are many moral truths and illustrations
which may be of benefit to these people; and undoubtedly essential
to them in the particulars and under the circumstances mentioned.
So my dear husband, continue to pray and believe.
Question and answer.
Well I meant that these truths are not necessary to be read by
the people of the present day, for in the New Testament are found
these moral truths; and while not necessary I would not advise that
the people should absolutely fail to read the Old Testament, because
some may enjoy the reading of these truths as they are therein contained
and associated with the circumstances surrounding them. They may
appeal to some people, and if so, work a benefit. I again say that
they are not necessary but they may be helpful to some - the minds
of all do not work alike.
Think of me in your prayers and love me. Good
night.
Your own true and loving,
Helen
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