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August 8th, 1915
Received by:James Padgett
Washington D.C.
I am here, Seleman.
I am an ex-sultan of the Mohammedans.
I do not know time, but about four hundred years ago. Yes, I am
still a follower of the Prophet, and I am in our paradise and happy.
God is great! Allah is his name and Mohammed is his prophet!
I had a desire to learn what the writers who have written you tonight
might say, and so I stayed and listened to them and found that their
doctrines of the Divine Love of the Father are new to me. The Mohammedans
do not understand this Love, and when I heard that it gave such
bliss to those who possessed it, I became interested and wondered
what it really meant.
We have not this Love, and our happiness comes to us from our brotherly
love and our worship of Allah and our devotion to his prophet. As
I wondered the thought came to me that we should have been taught
to know what this Love means, and if our Allah is not such a loving
God as the God that these Christians tell of.
I am going to inquire into this, because if there be a greater
happiness than what I now have I want to learn about it, and if
it exists, to become a partaker of it.
We don't have much intercourse with the Christian spirits, as our
heavens are separate from theirs and we believe that we have the
true heavens and are the chosen of God, and that all these Christians
are in the dark.
Well, these Christians seem to be brighter and more beautiful than
do the spirits in our heavens, and that has caused me to think,
also. I know that in our heavens the higher we progress the more
beautiful we become and the brighter we seem to be, and that the
condition of the progress of the individual determines his appearance;
and, knowing this, I have come to think that these Christians live
in a higher or more progressive heaven than ours.
I am dissatisfied now, and I will investigate.
Can you tell me the best way to do so?
Yes, some are who have not written. I will do
so.
There is one here - a beautiful woman - who says she is your grandmother.
I will ask her and maybe she can start me on my investigation.
Well, I will say good-night.
I will certainly come again.
Your friend,
Seleman
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