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March 15th, 1917.
Received by:James Padgett
Washington D.C.
I am here, Helen:
Well dear, I was with you, of course, at
the séance, and what has been told you is true, and I
need not repeat what has been said, but will add only, that you
and the Doctor must take the advice given you. It is absolutely
necessary.
Your work is different, and only you can do it. No other medium
can do it, and if you were like them you could not do it, either.
So you and the Doctor must remember that you have been selected
for a higher work than helping to bring spirits and mortals together
in communications, such as it is supposed the mediums of tonight
brought to the people who were present.
The spirits who the medium said were your grandparents, were not
such, but were merely spirits who attend her séances and
delight in inducing the expectant visitors to believe are really
the spirits of their departed friends or relatives. I saw that the
whole thing made no impression on you, except one of pity for the
medium that she would be subjected to such imposition and evil influences.
When the howling Indians, as the medium described them, came to
the Doctor he must have been surprised to learn that he had a new
spirit band of such lively antics to help him in his work of love
of curing the sick, and Mary said that she would not let such spirits
get in rapport with her sweetheart, even if she had to call on all
his guides and yours too, to keep them away. She said that there
was nothing about the Doctor to attract such beings to him, and
that she would pity him if he had to have such companions around
him.
Well, there were all kinds of spirits present, but none of them
whom the medium supposed that she saw or heard talk, belonged to
either you or the Doctor, and we rather enjoyed the thoughts that
he had when his new friends were introduced to him.
But, dear, these séances do you no good, and it is only
a waste of time to attend them, and I want to advise that you do
not; and further I want to say, that the messages that the Doctor
reads do no good, for the people who hear him look upon them as
mere stories of the imagination, interesting, but without effect
on the spiritual understanding. They are not in condition to grasp
the significance of them, and their chief interest is in receiving
some message that the medium may transmit to them from their spirit
friends. So, these messages do no good at such places. They are
like the teachings of Jesus that fell on stony ground, they will
not take any root.
So, I do not think it best to read them to these people. The Doctor
is doing a good work when he tells them to the individuals with
whom he comes in private conversation, and who listen to him with
a view and desire to learn the truth, or even when they have not
such desire, because as they listen some of the truths may find
a lodgment, and germinate.
So with my love, I will say goodnight,
Your own true and loving,
Helen
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