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March 7th, 1916
Received by:James Padgett
Washington D.C.
I am here, Louis I. O'Neil:
Yes, it is he who was called Judge. I merely want to say a word
as I have not had the opportunity to write you for a long time.
I am now in a better condition than I was and am in more light
and have less suffering thanks to the beautiful spirits with whom
you brought me in contact. I find that as I get rid of some of my
old beliefs the better I am and the more progress I make and the
less darkness surrounds me.
Your wife has helped me a great deal and she is a wonderfully beautiful
spirit and filled with love and kindness.
I see a number of my old friends, but I am sorry to say that a
great many of them are in darkness and suffering. Lyscomb is in
a very bad condition and has not progressed any, thus far, though
I have tried to help him some, but as you know he had a dogmatic
and all-knowing temperament on earth, so he has the same qualities
here, and it is hard to make him see things differently from what
he thinks they are or should be.
You may know that he frequently visits his old haunts in the neighborhood
where he spent so many hours in drink and he is still drinking as
he thinks and seems to get a kind of satisfaction out of the deceit
and he does not seem to be inclined to turn his thoughts to anything
of a higher nature.
I tell you that the appetites of earth are strong with the spirits
who come to this world with them unsatisfied or not gotten rid of
and it is so sad that he has them to the extent that he has when
he passed over. But sometime I hope that he will have an awakening
to the true condition of his existence and to the necessity of his
having his thoughts away from these things and seeking those things
which will enable him to get out of his awful darkness.
Now you must not think from this that I am a very highly developed
spirit for I am not, but just as the higher spirits have a work
to do, so have I and my work, of course, can be only with those
who are in a worse condition than I am and strange as it may seem
to you every time I help one of these lower spirits I realize that
I help myself. What a wonderful provision of God this is, and if
men Mould only realize this, they would live more in accordance
with the Golden Rule.
Yes, I have seen Maurice Smith and John Clark and many others that
we both know, and also Perry. He is in a bad condition, too and
does not seem to be much inclined to listen to the advice of some
spirits who come to him. Your grandmother seems to be trying hard
to help him and he seems to have more confidence in her than in
any other spirit and at times it looks as if she is helping him
and I have no doubt that she is, but then he will relapse back into
his old condition and bewail the awful deed that he committed. As
you know he was a man of deep conviction and he seems now to have
some conviction which holds him to his conditions of suffering and
darkness.
Well, if we only knew while on earth what the
truths of this spirit world are.
You certainly are wonderfully proud to have revealed to you all
these things and I am told that the spirits from the Celestial Spheres
come to you and give you their messages of truth. I will confirm
this is unaccountable and you must wonder too, for when I was on
earth I did not know that you had any conception of the things that
come to you now. I know that I did not, and that my beliefs were
only those which were to rely upon what the Bible taught as I thought,
and there was no reality to me in these teachings and the only effect
was to create in me beliefs which I now see in many particulars
were all wrong. At least they have now been realized and I am told
that they will not be and yet they cling to me in a way that holds
me to my present condition. I wish when on earth I had known what
you now know, for if I had I would, I am certain, be in a better
condition of light and happiness.
Well I have written a long time and I feel better for having done
so and I thank you for the opportunity. So with my kind regards
and in hope that I may come to you at sometime and write again.
Your friend and well wisher,
Louis I. O'Neil
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