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January 8th, 1917.
Received by:James Padgett
Washington D.C.
I am here, Samuel P. Shannon.
Let me tell you that you and the Doctor need someone to look after
you in your mental qualities, as you are the most gullible men that
I have heard talk for a long time. I have heard what you just said
in reference to your experiences in connection with these writings
and the efforts made by spirits to convince you that your communications
were from the higher spirits, even the spirits of the Celestial
heavens, and I feel sorry that you should be so weak as to believe
all these false and flattering things that have been said to you.
So as I am a spirit who knows and loves only the truth, and do not
desire to see anyone deceived, I feel it my duty to tell you that
you have had only deceiving spirits write you, who take great delight
in making you believe that you have received communications that
have not been equaled by the writings that any other medium in all
the wide world has received.
Of course, you have received some wonderful truths and some beautiful
sayings, but they are merely the efforts of spirits who think that
they know all of the truth of the spirit world. And I advise you
to let these things go from your mind and listen only to spirits
who are honest and who know of what they write. I am one of those
who are capable to tell you the truths that exist in our spirit
world and that are only necessary for mortals to know. Much has
been written you about the Divine Love and its effect upon the souls
of men, making them, as it were, very Gods; and I want to say that
the only Divine Love is the pure love that exists in the hearts
of spirits who have been purified of sin, and had their intellects
developed in the highest degree. So my friends, give up this belief
in the Divine Love, and put all your efforts to the cultivation
of your minds.
And there is another kind of love that you have been told of, and
in the belief in which you have had great satisfaction, and expectations
created of coming into a wonderful and ecstatic happiness when you
shall come into the spirit world, and that is the soulmate love.
How foolish to believe in any such love. Our soulmates are our acquirements
of knowledge, and not female spirits. The women here are very much
like they are on earth, and they love one male for a while and then
get tired and seek another. I thank God that they have never been
able to fool me! I see so much of the treachery of these female
spirits that I shun them, and as a consequence, they call me the
woman-hater, and so I am, and I do not regret it.
My companions are only spirits like myself, having a friendship
for one another, but no such thing as what they call love, especially
soulmate love. Sometime, before many years, you will come to the
spirit world, and I beg that you will let me warn you before you
come, to put no faith in what is told you about this soulmate love,
and if you will listen to and take my advice, you will be saved
much unhappiness. I write thus as a friend and well-wisher, and
you must believe that I am wholly impartial and honest in what I
say to you. I live in the Second Sphere, where there are many intellectual
spirits who find much happiness and satisfaction in the development
of their minds, and are not troubled by the women, or the ghost
of what is called the Divine Love.
Occasionally I see some spirits who claim to have the Divine Love,
and some who claim to have soulmates, but I pay no attention to
them, and consider them fanatics and deceived spirits. Well, they
are different in appearance from us. They seem to be much brighter
and, as they claim, happier; but this is due only to the fact that
they are frivolous, that is, they never give any consideration to
the investigation of the important things of this spirit world,
and flitter about from sphere to sphere as if they had nothing else
to do than find amusement and pleasure in their joy rides, as I
have heard some of you mortals express it.
Yes, they don't seem to be confined to any sphere, and that is
something that I don't quite understand, for we who are so much
more substantial and work so hard to learn the truths, cannot pass
into the higher sphere. This I don't understand, and neither do
my associates. But it may be that these spirits that I speak of
are of such little importance that the guardians of the higher spheres
do not pay any attention to them. At least, they are never stopped
in their moving from our sphere to the higher ones.
Well, I will consider what you suggest, and as you say, it can
do no harm, and as I can spare time enough to make the inquiry of
one of these spirits, I think that I will do so, merely to learn
what their idea is of the reason that they have such freedom of
movement and we have not. I see the Indian who is acting as your
guide and he to an extent is another one of these foolish spirits.
He says that I am a wonderful spirit in my own mind and that if
I continue to develop in my opinion of my own importance and greatness
I will soon be sitting on the right hand of God. He seems serious,
but I do not know whether to think that he is really impressed by
my appearance and intellectual greatness, or whether he is saying
what he does, ironically. But I suppose he is serious, for being
an Indian he cannot have much intellectual development and must
be impressed by my superior qualities.
Well, my friend, I am glad that I could write you tonight and do
you the friendly turn that I have, for I am a lover of humanity
and wish to do all the good that I can to my fellow man. I must
stop now, as a spirit who says she is your soulmate, comes to me
and says that I have been indulged enough, and, of course, wishing
to get away from her, as from all other females, I must leave; but
you must think of what I have written.
Your friend,
Samuel P. Shannon,
a one-time scientist of England.
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