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November 4th, 1915
Received by:James Padgett
Washington D.C.
I am here, Leekesi.
I was a man who lived in the time of the destruction of Ninevah
and was an Assyrian official; but I am not mentioned in history,
for my time was short, though in it occurred some of the most important
acts of the whole history of that land.
I was not a believer in the God of the Hebrews, though in my time
I had heard of that God, and many Jews lived in my domain; yet I
would not let them worship that God or in any way teach my people
the religion of the Jews.
Our gods were many and were worshipped by the inhabitants of the
nation in accordance with what might be the desires of these people,
and when the gods answered the prayers of the people they were thought
to be good and true, but when the answers did not come, the gods
were false, and new gods were made and worshipped according as they
answered the people's prayers or not. So you see that our gods were
the creatures of men and not men the creatures of the gods.
But, notwithstanding this false idea, as I now see, of God, there
were men of deep insight into the matters pertaining to the spiritual
world, who did not make and worship the gods that I have spoken
of, but who were able to look beyond these material things and discover
that there was such a thing as a higher condition of the afterlife,
in which the souls of man could find happiness and knowledge of
the existence of a real and mighty power that would bring them into
a state of existence where men would realize the higher life of
the soul's predominance.
These men were not numerous and did not associate with the inhabitants
to any extent, but lived to themselves and evolved certain philosophies
which satisfied them of truths which our common beliefs did not
comprehend. These men also taught these truths, but not very generally,
and only to those who might become their followers.
In my time we had what you would call churches and priests and
officials of high position in the religious organization, and feasts
and ceremonies and sacrifices, and these powerful ecclesiastics
were very jealous and intolerant of anything which interfered with,
or in any manner controlled, their religious teachings or the power
which they exercised over the people, and the government of the
kingdom as well. And consequently, these philosophers that I speak
of were not permitted to disseminate their speculations or philosophies
among the masses, and were compelled to write their doctrines or
teachings in a language which the common people could not understand.
This was the condition of the religious part of my kingdom at the
time of its destruction, and many of my people who survived this
destruction and who were scattered into other countries took with
them these beliefs in the multiplicity of gods, and worshipped as
before their dispersion. In time these beliefs commenced to permeate
the beliefs of the people among whom they lived, until the belief
in many gods became the general belief of many other nations. You
will find in history that many nations which became great after
the fall of my kingdom, such as Greece and Rome and others, continued
the belief in a multiplicity of gods.
But not until the spreading and adoption of Christianity by them
did the belief in the one true God become the established and universal
belief of these nations and of the people thereof.
Man made the gods and worshipped them, until the great Master came
and proclaimed the truth of the one and only existing Father. Of
course, an exception must be made in the statement in favor of the
Jews, because they had only one God; but even they had different
names for their God, which were applicable and used in accordance
with the qualities that they ascribed to Him. It was only after
Jesus came did that one God with many names of the Jews become our
Father - the God of Love and Salvation.
From all of this you may suppose that I am a Christian. Well, I
am, and I live in the Celestial Spheres; for I must tell you that
I became converted to the truths of the teachings of Jesus many
years ago, and my progression in the development of my soul has
been such that I am now in the Celestial Spheres.
I merely wanted to write this to show you that man has been a maker
of gods for so many years that they cannot be numbered; and that
it was only when the great truths came with the coming of Jesus
that the real existing God and all His attributes were revealed
to mankind.
Yes, I know, many of the people who lived in my time, and long
since, have never learned the truth of the soul development, and
live in the happiness which has come to them with the progress of
their intellects. But many of them have also been brought into the
Light and Truth.
I will not write more, but will say,
Good night,
Leekesi
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