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January 5th, 1919
Received by:James Padgett
Washington D.C.
I am here, Spinoza:
Let me write a few lines as I have not written you for some time,
and am quite anxious to give some thoughts that may be of benefit
to you. I am not one of the spirits who write to you of what they
call the higher truths, yet I have a knowledge of some of these
truths and believe in all that has been communicated to you, for
I know that the spirits who write you are of the Celestial Spheres,
possessed of knowledge that we who live in the spirit spheres do
not possess.
Well, I merely want to say a few words in reference to the predictions
which you heard tonight, and as regards the source of the same.
As you know, the woman is a medium gifted with the power of clairvoyance
and inspirational receptivity, and on many occasions she perceives
and receives some of the truths of the spirit world, and some of
the persons whom she professes to see. Her communicants, though,
are not of a very high order of development, and she, herself, could
not see the highly developed spirits, because the law of communication
and rapport applies to her phases of mediumship just as it does
to yours. She is a very good woman morally, with some temperamental
defects, and attracts spirits of moral worth and conditions, and
her guides are in the condition that enables them to live in the
brighter spheres, yet not having much spiritual development.
She professes to declare the predictions of her spirit friend,
G____, as to what the future, for the ensuing year, will be in the
experience of men and nations. Well, she has such a control, and
he is a very intelligent spirit, and to some extent inspires her
with his ideas of what the future holds out to mankind, and she
with more or less exactness declares his thoughts as they are impressed
upon her mind. But in connection with these thoughts she incorporates
thoughts of her own, believing that they are inspired also, but
such is not the fact, though, possibly, these thoughts furnish as
good grounds for the predictions as do the thoughts of her control.
I do not believe, at least I have never had it demonstrated to
me, that any spirit can make truthful predictions, such as the medium
expressed tonight; for spirits have not the powers of omniscience
and are as dependent upon the workings of the law of cause and effect
as are mortals with this exception, that they can perceive many
existing causes that mortals cannot and hence because of this knowledge
can make predictions of the future happening of effects, that mortals
cannot make. Take from spirits the knowledge of these causes and
their predictions are merely guesses which may or may not come true.
As you heard, she declared many things that are problems now existing
and the subjects of much thought and study on the part of mortals
who give their attention to these matters; and she, as one of them,
had her own thoughts and had formed her own conclusions and believed
that they were the results of inspiration, whereas they had their
foundation in her own mind, arising from her knowledge of and speculations
on these things.
The present conditions of the world are such that there exists
great probabilities of the happening of many things that the medium
predicted, and many persons having knowledge of these conditions
will predict, if they be called upon, future occurrences similar
to those mentioned by the medium, and if they should happen, it
will not be because any spirits know the fact, but because there
are causes existing which will necessarily bring them about.
Well, such meetings and such predictions will not do any harm,
but, on the contrary, will cause many people to turn their thoughts
to spiritual things and to spiritualism, which will tend to liberate
their minds from the shackles that are now preventing them from
seeking and understanding the truth.
I will not consume more of your time now, but
hope to be able to write later.
Goodbye, your friend,
Spinoza
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