January 20, 1915
Received by James Padgett
Washington, D.C.
I am here, your old friend G. R.
Yes it is I, and I am glad to be able to write to you again. I told your wife that I desired to write and tell you of my progress in spiritual matters, and as you are kind enough to give me the opportunity, I will try to tell you how my eyes were opened to the things of the spirit, and my heart to the Love of God.
Well, as you know, when I first commenced to write to you, I did not exactly believe in a God or Jesus or his teachings, except as they related to the moral condition of men. When you first commenced to talk to me about these spiritual things, I thought that you were merely telling me the things that you had learned in your church or Sunday school, and that they were only intended for men and women of no capacity to think for themselves and suited only to receive what the preachers might tell them. So, you see, I was not in a very receptive condition of mind to enable me to believe that what you told me had any foundation in fact or in truth. Jesus, to me, was just the same as any other man who had received large conceptions of the truth; but he was only a mere man, in the sense that what he attempted to teach he had learned by study and meditation, or through some worldly source that I did not know of. At any rate, I believed that his teachings were not the result of inspiration, or derived from a source any different from what mankind received other information as to things of nature, or of spirit.
Well, as you continued to tell me that I was mistaken, and that there is a Source from which all good flows, other than the mere mind or conscience of man, I began to think about the matter. And when I looked around me and saw that your mother and wife - who claimed that they had received this Love of God which you insisted was waiting for me to obtain - were so beautiful and happy, while I and my folks were not very beautiful and not at all happy, I began to inquire the cause. And when you told me that their, I mean your mother's and wife's condition was due to this Love of God, I asked them to tell me about the nature of this Love and the way in which they obtained it. And your mother, bless her soul, took great pains to instruct me in these things.
And when I learned that prayer was the only way to this Love and saw you praying for me with all your heart and in great earnestness, I commenced to pray also; but I must confess that my prayers were not accompanied with much faith. But I continued to pray, and every night when you prayed for me and for the many others who were with you praying, I tried to exercise all the faith possible and prayed for more faith. This continued for some time, and one day your grandmother, who is a most wonderful spirit in goodness and beauty, came to me and said that she was your grandmother and was very much interested in me, on your account as well as on my own, and commenced to unfold to me the great efficacy of prayer. She assured me that if I would only try to believe, and pray to God to help me believe, He would answer my prayers; and I would soon find that with my earnest efforts, faith would come to me, and with faith would come this Love into my heart, and with this Love would come happiness and joy.
So I listened to her, and tried to believe that what she told me must be true, and that she was interested in me and desired only my happiness. I continued to pray, as I said, and one day after I had received some considerable faith, I met Jesus, and he told me of the wonderful things that his Father had prepared for me, if I would only believe and ask Him to give them to me. Jesus was so very beautiful and loving that I could not resist the influence, which came over me; and then my faith increased, and I prayed with all my heart and soul.
At last, light came to me, and with it, such an inflowing of Love as I never dreamed could exist, either in the earth or in the spirit world. But it came to me and I felt as if I were a new spirit, and such happiness came as I never experienced before. And then that dear mother of yours came and rejoiced with me, and also your beautiful wife who had tried so hard to induce me to seek for this Love.
Oh, Padgett, I tell you that in all the wide universe of God there is nothing to compare to this Love of the Father. Let me say, that in all my life, when only my intellect ruled me, there was nothing to compare with that which came to me with this inflowing of the Love.
I am now in the Third Sphere with many beautiful and happy spirits. Your mother and wife are higher up, and are so beautiful and good that when I am in their company I feel that I will become a much happier man if I will try to follow them. Your father has progressed too, and so has Professor Salyards.
Well, my soul is one now that is filled with this Love. My mind is elevated in its thoughts and not inclined to think of those things that are merely intellectual. For I tell you that while knowledge of all God's laws and nature's apparent mysteries is desirable, yet a knowledge of this Love of God is far and above compare - and not only more necessary but more desirable. I would not give the feelings that come to me from the possession of this Love for all the sensations of delight that might arise from the discovery of the most stupendous and important law of the workings of nature.
Let this Love come first, and then the other acquirements will only help to show the spirit that God is a God of Wisdom and Power as well as of Love. But as you have read, "Love is the fulfilling of the law" nothing else is. And the man who has all the knowledge and wisdom without this Love is poor indeed.
Jesus is the most wonderful of all the spirits in both Love and the knowledge of the Father's attributes. He is the greatest and knows that the Father's plans to save and redeem mankind are as he teaches. So you must listen to him and believe.
I am going to try to learn more of his teachings, and when I do, you shall know what I learn. Jesus appears to me the one altogether lovely - he has no competitor, and no one who sees him, if he has any of this Love in his soul, can fail to know that he is the true Jesus of the Bible, and the most perfect son of his Father. I realized this only after this Love came to me; it seems that spirits who have not this Love do not realize who Jesus is, or how wonderful and glorious he is. This may seem strange to you, but it is a fact. Only when the spirit has an awakening of his soul's love for God does Jesus appear as their great brother and teacher of this Great Love of the Father.
You must not let the things of the material life lead you to think that you must wait until you come to the spirit world to get this Great Love, for I tell you that the man whose soul is opened to the inflowing of this Love while on earth is a much more fortunate man than he who waits until his earthly life ends. If I had only become conscious of this Love when on earth, I would have been saved many hours of suffering and unhappiness after I became a spirit. My own experience is so true to what so many undergo, and will undergo, that if I could proclaim to every man on earth the necessity of becoming possessed of this Love while on earth, I would do so with all my might and strength.
I can tell you of my experience in passing over, but I do not think it best to do so tonight, as it would take too long and require more strength than you have tonight. Sometime soon I will do so in detail. I am so glad that I have been redeemed by this Great Love, and the teachings of Jesus, and the help of your spirit relatives, and also by the help of your prayers, that I cannot express the extent of my gladness. Nothing in all heaven or earth can compare with the feelings of joy that come to a soul when it realizes that it is at-one with the Father in Love and power. Yes, they (old friends of Padgett in the spirit world) know, and are with you every night as you pray. They don't seem to quite understand though that you can help them in any way, but still they, in a manner, feel some peculiar sensation as you pray and the others pray with you. Do not stop praying for them.
I tell you that you are a wonderfully blessed man in having such a loving Christian mother and grandmother to pray with and watch over you all your life. If all men had Christian parents to teach and show them the Way to this Love of God, as they grow from childhood to manhood, many a time of suffering and unhappiness would be avoided, and many a spirit would come into this life with many less sins to atone for.
Your old friend, G.R.
Monday, May 7, 2012
Sunday, May 6, 2012
Ann Rollins Writes that the Kingdom of God Will Be Closed to Those Who Have Not Received God's Divine Love
January 15, 1915
Received by James Padgett
Washington, D.C.
I am here, your Grandmother.
The Kingdom of Jesus will be one where only those who believe in his teachings of truth, and have received the Holy Ghost in their souls, will live. At sometime, known only to God, the entrance to this Kingdom will be closed, and all who have not qualified themselves, or rather who have not striven to heed and obey these truths, and have not received this love, will not be permitted to enter this Kingdom. Those who remain outside will have the love and care of God necessary to make them comparatively happy, but will not have that supreme Love, which they can all now get if they will seek and believe.
That all spirits shall enjoy this supreme Love is not necessary to the harmony of God's universe. Why should He continue to hold open the entrance to this Kingdom of supreme Love when men will not try to obtain it? Well, as to those who are born after the Kingdom is shut forever, He will not let enter, because they are not included in His plan of salvation to this supreme and Celestial Heaven. They will have this other happiness that I speak of, but not that which those in Jesus' Kingdom will enjoy.
No, it is not. He did not intend that His Kingdom, of which we speak, should remain open through all eternity for spirits to enter and live in. They, who come after, have no claim on God for such supreme opportunities, and He is not doing an injustice by keeping them from entering it. He has prepared a place, or places, where they will be able to find comparative happiness and will only be a little lower than the Angels of God, who are and will be the redeemed through the teachings of Jesus and who become part of his Kingdom.
I know that your friend and medium Mr. Colburn may think that this is not just right or just, but where there is no right to demand the Grace of God, and when He bestows that Grace in such a way as to make all His children comparatively happy, where is the injustice in giving to a certain few who seek the true way and find it, the supreme condition of happiness which His Love to the fullest gives.
He is not a God of justice, according to human understanding, but according to His own ideas of what man is justly entitled to. He will not turn away one soul who may seek this Love in the fullest, but will enter into the heart of everyone who asks Him to - and when men fail to ask, why should He, through all eternity, keep open the gate to His place of supreme happiness - or in other words, His Divine Sphere, set apart for those who follow Jesus and his truths? I know that some people might say that God had no right to provide this special Kingdom for any of His children and in doing so He showed partiality, but He has the right to show this partiality, when the very reason for its existence is the failure of some of His children to partake and accept what He freely offers to all.
Well, as to that, I am not so qualified to answer; but it seems to me that they, who come after the gates to the Kingdom are closed, have no right to expect that they are entitled to enter, for they are not born to have this privilege, and the only privilege that He can offer them is that of His spirit world, where they will be free from sin and unhappiness. They will all be His children, but not all His Divine Children. Those who have entered this Kingdom of which I speak will take on the Divine Nature of the Father, while those who do not will remain His spiritual children with the right to a life through all eternity, but not to all the attributes which the Divine Nature confers.
This is a subject which Jesus will instruct you in, when he comes to write his messages, and you had better wait until then, for you will be better able to understand after you hear his explanation.
No, after the gates are closed the Holy Ghost or Spirit will return to God and dwell in the Kingdom. Men's souls will then receive God's Love through the messengers which He will use for that purpose. But the Divine Part of His Love will not be conveyed, only the Love which God, as a spirit, has for His children as spirits. I suppose that this is hard for you to understand, but as I say, wait until Jesus writes and you will know all.
No, man is not divine in the sense that God is Divine. For he is created in the image, and that is the soul only that makes him like His Father, but not that divinity which divides or differentiates the God essence from the spirit essences. Only God is Divine in this sense, and only those born of man can ever obtain that Divine Essence, who become members of the Kingdom that I speak of.
"Divine" is a word used in a very comprehensive sense, and includes in the minds or thoughts of many persons everything that seems to be above the mortal existence or powers of man; but it is not a true conception of the meaning of the word. Only that is divine which is of the true Essence of God in His Nature, which man does not have or which is not a part of Him. In this sense, no man is divine, neither has he any of this divinity in him - only God is Divine, and man cannot possibly get this divine essence - except in the way that Jesus has taught. Only the Holy Ghost conveys to the soul of man this Divine Essence of God and, when the mission of this messenger ceases, man will no longer receive this Divine Essence.
So tell Mr. Colburn that he must not believe that through all eternity man will have the privilege of getting this Divine Essence of the Father. Tell him to seek it now while it may be obtained and when he has it neither all the powers nor forces of earth or spirit world can take it from him.
I am very much interested in him, for he is a man of deep thought and is seeking the truth in all earnestness, and I hope that he will let his thoughts turn in the direction that will bring to his mind and consciousness the real and true things of His Father. He is not very dogmatic or difficult to grasp the truth if it presents itself in a reasonable way. He must not let his preconceived ideas, even if they are based on what the Bible may seem to teach him, keep him from embracing the true ideas of man's relationship to God and man's destiny. So give him my love and tell him to seek and he will find, even though he may at times be shocked at some propositions that may be placed before him, for I intend to tell him of what I know about these matters whenever I have the opportunity. I have written much longer than I intended I must stop. So goodnight my dear grandson.
Your loving grandmother,
Ann Rollins
Received by James Padgett
Washington, D.C.
I am here, your Grandmother.
The Kingdom of Jesus will be one where only those who believe in his teachings of truth, and have received the Holy Ghost in their souls, will live. At sometime, known only to God, the entrance to this Kingdom will be closed, and all who have not qualified themselves, or rather who have not striven to heed and obey these truths, and have not received this love, will not be permitted to enter this Kingdom. Those who remain outside will have the love and care of God necessary to make them comparatively happy, but will not have that supreme Love, which they can all now get if they will seek and believe.
That all spirits shall enjoy this supreme Love is not necessary to the harmony of God's universe. Why should He continue to hold open the entrance to this Kingdom of supreme Love when men will not try to obtain it? Well, as to those who are born after the Kingdom is shut forever, He will not let enter, because they are not included in His plan of salvation to this supreme and Celestial Heaven. They will have this other happiness that I speak of, but not that which those in Jesus' Kingdom will enjoy.
No, it is not. He did not intend that His Kingdom, of which we speak, should remain open through all eternity for spirits to enter and live in. They, who come after, have no claim on God for such supreme opportunities, and He is not doing an injustice by keeping them from entering it. He has prepared a place, or places, where they will be able to find comparative happiness and will only be a little lower than the Angels of God, who are and will be the redeemed through the teachings of Jesus and who become part of his Kingdom.
I know that your friend and medium Mr. Colburn may think that this is not just right or just, but where there is no right to demand the Grace of God, and when He bestows that Grace in such a way as to make all His children comparatively happy, where is the injustice in giving to a certain few who seek the true way and find it, the supreme condition of happiness which His Love to the fullest gives.
He is not a God of justice, according to human understanding, but according to His own ideas of what man is justly entitled to. He will not turn away one soul who may seek this Love in the fullest, but will enter into the heart of everyone who asks Him to - and when men fail to ask, why should He, through all eternity, keep open the gate to His place of supreme happiness - or in other words, His Divine Sphere, set apart for those who follow Jesus and his truths? I know that some people might say that God had no right to provide this special Kingdom for any of His children and in doing so He showed partiality, but He has the right to show this partiality, when the very reason for its existence is the failure of some of His children to partake and accept what He freely offers to all.
Well, as to that, I am not so qualified to answer; but it seems to me that they, who come after the gates to the Kingdom are closed, have no right to expect that they are entitled to enter, for they are not born to have this privilege, and the only privilege that He can offer them is that of His spirit world, where they will be free from sin and unhappiness. They will all be His children, but not all His Divine Children. Those who have entered this Kingdom of which I speak will take on the Divine Nature of the Father, while those who do not will remain His spiritual children with the right to a life through all eternity, but not to all the attributes which the Divine Nature confers.
This is a subject which Jesus will instruct you in, when he comes to write his messages, and you had better wait until then, for you will be better able to understand after you hear his explanation.
No, after the gates are closed the Holy Ghost or Spirit will return to God and dwell in the Kingdom. Men's souls will then receive God's Love through the messengers which He will use for that purpose. But the Divine Part of His Love will not be conveyed, only the Love which God, as a spirit, has for His children as spirits. I suppose that this is hard for you to understand, but as I say, wait until Jesus writes and you will know all.
No, man is not divine in the sense that God is Divine. For he is created in the image, and that is the soul only that makes him like His Father, but not that divinity which divides or differentiates the God essence from the spirit essences. Only God is Divine in this sense, and only those born of man can ever obtain that Divine Essence, who become members of the Kingdom that I speak of.
"Divine" is a word used in a very comprehensive sense, and includes in the minds or thoughts of many persons everything that seems to be above the mortal existence or powers of man; but it is not a true conception of the meaning of the word. Only that is divine which is of the true Essence of God in His Nature, which man does not have or which is not a part of Him. In this sense, no man is divine, neither has he any of this divinity in him - only God is Divine, and man cannot possibly get this divine essence - except in the way that Jesus has taught. Only the Holy Ghost conveys to the soul of man this Divine Essence of God and, when the mission of this messenger ceases, man will no longer receive this Divine Essence.
So tell Mr. Colburn that he must not believe that through all eternity man will have the privilege of getting this Divine Essence of the Father. Tell him to seek it now while it may be obtained and when he has it neither all the powers nor forces of earth or spirit world can take it from him.
I am very much interested in him, for he is a man of deep thought and is seeking the truth in all earnestness, and I hope that he will let his thoughts turn in the direction that will bring to his mind and consciousness the real and true things of His Father. He is not very dogmatic or difficult to grasp the truth if it presents itself in a reasonable way. He must not let his preconceived ideas, even if they are based on what the Bible may seem to teach him, keep him from embracing the true ideas of man's relationship to God and man's destiny. So give him my love and tell him to seek and he will find, even though he may at times be shocked at some propositions that may be placed before him, for I intend to tell him of what I know about these matters whenever I have the opportunity. I have written much longer than I intended I must stop. So goodnight my dear grandson.
Your loving grandmother,
Ann Rollins
Saturday, May 5, 2012
Jesus Explains That God's Divine Love is Needed to Enter Into the Kingdom of God
January 13, 1915
Received by James Padgett
Washington, D.C.
I am here, Jesus.
Yes, I am that Jesus. You should not doubt as I have told you before that I am.
They are in a condition which prevents them from seeing that I am the true Jesus, and they will all be lost unless in some way they get an awakening to the fact that only through me can they obtain the Love of the Father, which will enable them to enter His Kingdom. I am the Way, the Truth and the Life, as I long ago said. They will be forever shut out of His Kingdom and will live in the spirit land without this love to comfort and make them happy. I do not mean to say that they will all suffer eternal punishment, for they will not. The Father loves them all, but their state will be one of only comparative happiness and they will not have within them that Love of the Father, which is necessary to make them supremely happy.
You will know in proper time all these things which make for the happiness of my followers. You must wait until I am ready to explain these matters to you.
Yes, I know you are helping the darkened spirits and some mortals; but you must not let every spirit who seeks your help cause you to give your strength to them in the way of writing, for as your wife has told you, the laws of communication must be obeyed, or you will suffer in your power to receive these messages.
Yes, very much. You have great faith and I am somewhat surprised at it myself, but you have it, and God hears and answers your prayers. You must continue to pray and believe.
You must not doubt that I am with you and wrote to you; neither must you doubt that I can help you in every time and heed.
Yes, you will receive that inflowing of the Holy Spirit as they did, even while you are on earth, and will be able to know that God is your Father to the extent that they knew. Only you must pray more and believe more. You will not only receive that but you will also receive power to convince men of my teachings and lead them to my Father's Love, and also to show that you possess this Love by being able to heal the sick by merely praying for them.
This I tell you now, because you will soon commence to take my messages and you must have these powers and faith.
Yes, I hear your prayers to the Father and I try to let you feel my love, and you do sometimes. But you must not let your prayers come to me as God; I am only your friend and brother. Yes, I know, but these sayings I did not say at all. I merely claimed to be my Father's son and messenger. I did not claim to be God.
Yes, I said that my Father sent me and that is true. I did live before I came to earth with my Father in the Heavens and so did you.
I meant that in the Kingdom of God there are homes and that I would go and prepare a place where my followers should have a home with me, separate from the homes of the spirits who are not believers in or followers of me; that my kingdom was to be a separate kingdom from the other parts of the spirit lands, and that those who wanted to live with me would have to get this love of God in their hearts to do so. My kingdom is one where Love is supreme and where it is manifested in the purest and highest degree. I have not seen God in the sense that I have seen you, but that in the sense that my love is so very abundant and so truly His Love, that He appears to my soul's eyes just as plainly as you appear to my natural eyes.
Many of my sayings were merely symbolical and not intended to be taken literally. My Father cannot be seen by anyone of His children, and no man has ever seen Him, for He is not of form or substance that can be seen. You are now very near where you will see Him with your soul's eyes, as I did, and when you do, then you will be able to know that His Love is in your heart to its fullest. Why you are so greatly blessed with this Love and Faith I really do not know, even though I do know so much of His truth and Love. But I see that you have great possibilities of faith and love, which will make you a most wonderful man doing His work of saving souls for His Kingdom.
Well, I can readily see how you may doubt; but as I know, you must believe me for I am telling you the truth. It will leave you as the Love flows in, and you will then be able to realize that you are free indeed. They will not after the time appointed shall end. No more will the opportunity come, and no more will God give His Love and Grace to men or spirits. They will love only with the natural love that belongs to them as mortals. They will never receive this great Love, which comes by the operation of the Holy Spirit. They will continue to live forever, but their happiness will not be of the kind that my followers will have and they will not be contented in that happiness. They will forever long for something that they can never get.
I will not let you write more tonight as you are now in a condition of more happiness. Well, I love you with a love that will never end and that will keep you in all your troubles and worries free from everything that tends to make you doubt God's love or my teachings.
So with this love I now bless you and pray that God's Love may come into your heart more abundantly.
Jesus
Received by James Padgett
Washington, D.C.
I am here, Jesus.
Yes, I am that Jesus. You should not doubt as I have told you before that I am.
They are in a condition which prevents them from seeing that I am the true Jesus, and they will all be lost unless in some way they get an awakening to the fact that only through me can they obtain the Love of the Father, which will enable them to enter His Kingdom. I am the Way, the Truth and the Life, as I long ago said. They will be forever shut out of His Kingdom and will live in the spirit land without this love to comfort and make them happy. I do not mean to say that they will all suffer eternal punishment, for they will not. The Father loves them all, but their state will be one of only comparative happiness and they will not have within them that Love of the Father, which is necessary to make them supremely happy.
You will know in proper time all these things which make for the happiness of my followers. You must wait until I am ready to explain these matters to you.
Yes, I know you are helping the darkened spirits and some mortals; but you must not let every spirit who seeks your help cause you to give your strength to them in the way of writing, for as your wife has told you, the laws of communication must be obeyed, or you will suffer in your power to receive these messages.
Yes, very much. You have great faith and I am somewhat surprised at it myself, but you have it, and God hears and answers your prayers. You must continue to pray and believe.
You must not doubt that I am with you and wrote to you; neither must you doubt that I can help you in every time and heed.
Yes, you will receive that inflowing of the Holy Spirit as they did, even while you are on earth, and will be able to know that God is your Father to the extent that they knew. Only you must pray more and believe more. You will not only receive that but you will also receive power to convince men of my teachings and lead them to my Father's Love, and also to show that you possess this Love by being able to heal the sick by merely praying for them.
This I tell you now, because you will soon commence to take my messages and you must have these powers and faith.
Yes, I hear your prayers to the Father and I try to let you feel my love, and you do sometimes. But you must not let your prayers come to me as God; I am only your friend and brother. Yes, I know, but these sayings I did not say at all. I merely claimed to be my Father's son and messenger. I did not claim to be God.
Yes, I said that my Father sent me and that is true. I did live before I came to earth with my Father in the Heavens and so did you.
I meant that in the Kingdom of God there are homes and that I would go and prepare a place where my followers should have a home with me, separate from the homes of the spirits who are not believers in or followers of me; that my kingdom was to be a separate kingdom from the other parts of the spirit lands, and that those who wanted to live with me would have to get this love of God in their hearts to do so. My kingdom is one where Love is supreme and where it is manifested in the purest and highest degree. I have not seen God in the sense that I have seen you, but that in the sense that my love is so very abundant and so truly His Love, that He appears to my soul's eyes just as plainly as you appear to my natural eyes.
Many of my sayings were merely symbolical and not intended to be taken literally. My Father cannot be seen by anyone of His children, and no man has ever seen Him, for He is not of form or substance that can be seen. You are now very near where you will see Him with your soul's eyes, as I did, and when you do, then you will be able to know that His Love is in your heart to its fullest. Why you are so greatly blessed with this Love and Faith I really do not know, even though I do know so much of His truth and Love. But I see that you have great possibilities of faith and love, which will make you a most wonderful man doing His work of saving souls for His Kingdom.
Well, I can readily see how you may doubt; but as I know, you must believe me for I am telling you the truth. It will leave you as the Love flows in, and you will then be able to realize that you are free indeed. They will not after the time appointed shall end. No more will the opportunity come, and no more will God give His Love and Grace to men or spirits. They will love only with the natural love that belongs to them as mortals. They will never receive this great Love, which comes by the operation of the Holy Spirit. They will continue to live forever, but their happiness will not be of the kind that my followers will have and they will not be contented in that happiness. They will forever long for something that they can never get.
I will not let you write more tonight as you are now in a condition of more happiness. Well, I love you with a love that will never end and that will keep you in all your troubles and worries free from everything that tends to make you doubt God's love or my teachings.
So with this love I now bless you and pray that God's Love may come into your heart more abundantly.
Jesus
Friday, May 4, 2012
Helen Transcribes a Conversation By James' Friends Wherein They Discuss an Experiment to Pray for God's Love
January 12, 1915
Received by James Padgett
Washington, D.C.
I am here, Helen.
You must not write to these spirits as we have told you. Yes. he said that he knew you on earth and wanted you to help him. I see that he has gone to seek Mr. Taggart, but I don't think that he will be much helped. Yes. you may be right. You certainly have a way of accomplishing things. I never thought of that. Well, I will go and see if I can find them and make them come here, and write you what I hear.
They are here.
Mr. Taggart tells Mr. Harvey that you told him that the way to get out of this condition of darkness and unhappiness is to pray to God for His Love to enter into their hearts, and believe that it will, that if he will only be willing to have it come into their hearts, it will, but that he has not yet been able to believe. But Mr. Harvey says, that when he was on earth, he was a strict Catholic and that he often prayed something like that and attended to his duties, and even when he made his will, he left some money for the priests to pray him out of purgatory, but all their prayers together have not helped him, and he doesn't believe that there is any God to whom a person can pray and from whom he can get relief. So that when you talked that way to Taggart, you were merely trying to mislead him as the priests did him.
But Mr. Taggart says:
"George you are wrong there, for our friend does not merely say pray, but he prays with us and for us and seems to believe with all his heart that there is a God and that he will answer prayer. So I am not so certain that there is not a God and one who answers prayers, I am going to try to pray and believe myself and I advise you to do likewise."
Mr. Harvey says:
"Taggart it is all nonsense, and if that is the only way we can get out of this condition, we never will be any better than we now are. So you need not tell me of God and prayer."
Mr. Taggart says:
"George, I have seen the effect of this prayer on some spirits and I know that they have been made more beautiful and happy, and even Mackay is commencing to say that he sees light ahead and has felt some strange influences come into his heart as he said a prayer, which he promised our friend to say. Now what is the use in your being pig-headed and say that there is no God, when you don't know anything about it. I tell you, though, there must be something in this belief, or I would not see so many happy spirits around us. Be a man who can keep his mind open to what he sees and the reasons therefor may come to you. Let us not become hardheaded in this matter. As you were so easy to believe on earth what your priests told you about purgatory and the Hells and the necessity for you to pay for prayers to help you out of purgatory, why can't you try to believe a little when the same thing is told you without your having to pay for it? I am going to try my best to believe and if you know what is best for you, you will follow suit."
Mr. Harvey says:
"Taggart, what is the use of being fooled twice, once is enough for me. Priests are here with me and suffering more than I am, and when I ask them why don't they pray themselves out of purgatory, they say - to hell with prayer. Now, how am I to believe anything that is told me about prayer or God?"
Mr. Taggart says:
"George, let your priests and their sufferings and their cursings pass out of your mind and listen to me for a moment. When I came over, I was in great darkness and despair and believed that there was no possible help for me and that I must remain in the condition of darkness that I found myself in, but one day I was called to meet our friend by his father and, when I came where he was, I found that Mackay was there also, and then we exchanged greetings and wished each other happiness. But I found that there was no happiness for me and I told our friend that I was anything but happy, and he said believe in God's Love and you will soon be, and I said, who is God and what is His Love. And then he explained to Mackay what that love is, and I heard it all, and then I tackled him and told him that God was a myth and prayer was nothing but the wish of a man and went no higher than his mind.
But he would not agree with me and we had an argument right then and there, and I tell you that while he did not convince me that there was a God or any efficacy in prayer, yet, it made me think and wonder if I could be wrong and he right, and before I left him, not only Mackay, but myself promised that we would try an experiment in the nature of prayer and we have been doing it many times since, and I tell you, that while I am not yet convinced that there is a God, or that prayer to Him will take us out of our awful conditions of suffering and darkness, yet, I have felt many strange sensations, and at times, some little feeling of happiness, which I had never felt before.
So you can see, I would be a fool not to try and get this relief if I possibly can. And I want to tell you George that, if you are willing to make the effort with us, we will be glad to have you come. Of course, you need not believe if you don't want to, but just come and join with us in our experiment and you will soon realize that there is something operating that you cannot account for.
Mackay is now feeling very much happier he says. And I believe that he will soon believe in this God and his love that our friend told us about. At any rate, he is commencing to improve in his appearance, and I attribute it to trying the experiment I told you of. So what is the use in holding back and saying that there is no God and no love that can get you out of your condition of which you complain so much, when by the exercise of a little reason and will, you may be on the right track to salvation. Of course, I don't know just what this may lead to, but I have determined to follow it to a conclusion, and you will be a big fool if you don't go with me."
Mr. Harvey said:
"Taggart, you were a pretty level-headed man when on earth and required to have things proved to you and were really a stubborn man, as I know, and what you say impresses me, but you will have to show me what you mean by this experiment. You have not told me what you mean and, of course, until you do, I can't follow you."
Mr. Taggart says:
"George, it is a very simple thing. Mackay and I told our friend that we did not believe in God or in His love or in any saviour, and he said, you need not to do what I want you to try. He said, while there is a God and His love, which is the only thing that can save you from sin and make you happy men, yet, that God does not force that love on you or make you believe in Him. And only when you are willing to receive that love of your own volition will it come to you. So you see he said it all depends upon your own will, whether you will have that love and the happiness which flows from it or not, and if you will only will that you may believe in God if there be one, and that you may receive that love if such there be, then if you will, will this and say to God, if there be one, that you will that this love shall come into your heart and that this belief shall come into your mind, and repeat this with all earnestness and will, you will find that after a little while, this belief will come to you, and this love will come into your heart.
So Mackay and I are desiring to try anything to get out of our condition and believing that our friend would not intentionally deceive us - promised to say these things. And in that way, pray to a God that we did not believe in, and we have continued to repeat these thoughts ever since. And I must confess to you that some strange change or sensation has come to me. What it is, I don't just know, but it is there, and I am determined to continue in this qualified prayer until I know one way or the other what the result will be. So you see, George, if it does no good, it can do no harm, and if you have desire enough to get out of your condition, you will try the experiment."
Mr. Harvey says:
"Well, Taggart, there may be something in what you say and I am willing to go with you. For as you say, if it does no good, it can do no harm. So let me hear again what I am to say and I will commence."
Then Mr. Taggart repeated the prayer and they left.
You are too wonderful in your way of getting the attention of spirits who are in darkness to turn their thoughts to things that may help them. And I am so glad that you are helping these spirits, even though you did let Mr. Harvey write. But who knows, maybe such interferences are intended for some good purposes.
So, my darling, I love you with all my heart and soul and must stop writing. Yes, I will, and will try to talk to him sometime when the proper occasion comes.
So goodnight, my own darling Ned.
Helen
Received by James Padgett
Washington, D.C.
I am here, Helen.
You must not write to these spirits as we have told you. Yes. he said that he knew you on earth and wanted you to help him. I see that he has gone to seek Mr. Taggart, but I don't think that he will be much helped. Yes. you may be right. You certainly have a way of accomplishing things. I never thought of that. Well, I will go and see if I can find them and make them come here, and write you what I hear.
They are here.
Mr. Taggart tells Mr. Harvey that you told him that the way to get out of this condition of darkness and unhappiness is to pray to God for His Love to enter into their hearts, and believe that it will, that if he will only be willing to have it come into their hearts, it will, but that he has not yet been able to believe. But Mr. Harvey says, that when he was on earth, he was a strict Catholic and that he often prayed something like that and attended to his duties, and even when he made his will, he left some money for the priests to pray him out of purgatory, but all their prayers together have not helped him, and he doesn't believe that there is any God to whom a person can pray and from whom he can get relief. So that when you talked that way to Taggart, you were merely trying to mislead him as the priests did him.
But Mr. Taggart says:
"George you are wrong there, for our friend does not merely say pray, but he prays with us and for us and seems to believe with all his heart that there is a God and that he will answer prayer. So I am not so certain that there is not a God and one who answers prayers, I am going to try to pray and believe myself and I advise you to do likewise."
Mr. Harvey says:
"Taggart it is all nonsense, and if that is the only way we can get out of this condition, we never will be any better than we now are. So you need not tell me of God and prayer."
Mr. Taggart says:
"George, I have seen the effect of this prayer on some spirits and I know that they have been made more beautiful and happy, and even Mackay is commencing to say that he sees light ahead and has felt some strange influences come into his heart as he said a prayer, which he promised our friend to say. Now what is the use in your being pig-headed and say that there is no God, when you don't know anything about it. I tell you, though, there must be something in this belief, or I would not see so many happy spirits around us. Be a man who can keep his mind open to what he sees and the reasons therefor may come to you. Let us not become hardheaded in this matter. As you were so easy to believe on earth what your priests told you about purgatory and the Hells and the necessity for you to pay for prayers to help you out of purgatory, why can't you try to believe a little when the same thing is told you without your having to pay for it? I am going to try my best to believe and if you know what is best for you, you will follow suit."
Mr. Harvey says:
"Taggart, what is the use of being fooled twice, once is enough for me. Priests are here with me and suffering more than I am, and when I ask them why don't they pray themselves out of purgatory, they say - to hell with prayer. Now, how am I to believe anything that is told me about prayer or God?"
Mr. Taggart says:
"George, let your priests and their sufferings and their cursings pass out of your mind and listen to me for a moment. When I came over, I was in great darkness and despair and believed that there was no possible help for me and that I must remain in the condition of darkness that I found myself in, but one day I was called to meet our friend by his father and, when I came where he was, I found that Mackay was there also, and then we exchanged greetings and wished each other happiness. But I found that there was no happiness for me and I told our friend that I was anything but happy, and he said believe in God's Love and you will soon be, and I said, who is God and what is His Love. And then he explained to Mackay what that love is, and I heard it all, and then I tackled him and told him that God was a myth and prayer was nothing but the wish of a man and went no higher than his mind.
But he would not agree with me and we had an argument right then and there, and I tell you that while he did not convince me that there was a God or any efficacy in prayer, yet, it made me think and wonder if I could be wrong and he right, and before I left him, not only Mackay, but myself promised that we would try an experiment in the nature of prayer and we have been doing it many times since, and I tell you, that while I am not yet convinced that there is a God, or that prayer to Him will take us out of our awful conditions of suffering and darkness, yet, I have felt many strange sensations, and at times, some little feeling of happiness, which I had never felt before.
So you can see, I would be a fool not to try and get this relief if I possibly can. And I want to tell you George that, if you are willing to make the effort with us, we will be glad to have you come. Of course, you need not believe if you don't want to, but just come and join with us in our experiment and you will soon realize that there is something operating that you cannot account for.
Mackay is now feeling very much happier he says. And I believe that he will soon believe in this God and his love that our friend told us about. At any rate, he is commencing to improve in his appearance, and I attribute it to trying the experiment I told you of. So what is the use in holding back and saying that there is no God and no love that can get you out of your condition of which you complain so much, when by the exercise of a little reason and will, you may be on the right track to salvation. Of course, I don't know just what this may lead to, but I have determined to follow it to a conclusion, and you will be a big fool if you don't go with me."
Mr. Harvey said:
"Taggart, you were a pretty level-headed man when on earth and required to have things proved to you and were really a stubborn man, as I know, and what you say impresses me, but you will have to show me what you mean by this experiment. You have not told me what you mean and, of course, until you do, I can't follow you."
Mr. Taggart says:
"George, it is a very simple thing. Mackay and I told our friend that we did not believe in God or in His love or in any saviour, and he said, you need not to do what I want you to try. He said, while there is a God and His love, which is the only thing that can save you from sin and make you happy men, yet, that God does not force that love on you or make you believe in Him. And only when you are willing to receive that love of your own volition will it come to you. So you see he said it all depends upon your own will, whether you will have that love and the happiness which flows from it or not, and if you will only will that you may believe in God if there be one, and that you may receive that love if such there be, then if you will, will this and say to God, if there be one, that you will that this love shall come into your heart and that this belief shall come into your mind, and repeat this with all earnestness and will, you will find that after a little while, this belief will come to you, and this love will come into your heart.
So Mackay and I are desiring to try anything to get out of our condition and believing that our friend would not intentionally deceive us - promised to say these things. And in that way, pray to a God that we did not believe in, and we have continued to repeat these thoughts ever since. And I must confess to you that some strange change or sensation has come to me. What it is, I don't just know, but it is there, and I am determined to continue in this qualified prayer until I know one way or the other what the result will be. So you see, George, if it does no good, it can do no harm, and if you have desire enough to get out of your condition, you will try the experiment."
Mr. Harvey says:
"Well, Taggart, there may be something in what you say and I am willing to go with you. For as you say, if it does no good, it can do no harm. So let me hear again what I am to say and I will commence."
Then Mr. Taggart repeated the prayer and they left.
You are too wonderful in your way of getting the attention of spirits who are in darkness to turn their thoughts to things that may help them. And I am so glad that you are helping these spirits, even though you did let Mr. Harvey write. But who knows, maybe such interferences are intended for some good purposes.
So, my darling, I love you with all my heart and soul and must stop writing. Yes, I will, and will try to talk to him sometime when the proper occasion comes.
So goodnight, my own darling Ned.
Helen
Thursday, May 3, 2012
George Harvey, a Former Washington, D.C. Resident and Restaurant Owner, Asks James for Help, for He is in Hell in Despair and Darkness
January 12, 1915
Received by James Padgett
Washington, D.C.
I am here, George W. Harvey.
I lived in Washington and kept a restaurant on Pennsylvania Avenue and Tenth Street. I am in the spirit world and in the earth plane and in Hell also. I am not happy for I am in darkness and despair.
Yes, I did, but that did not keep me from Hell. The priests mislead me, and they are here, too. Damn them. Can you help me any, if you can do so?
Yes, I remember Taggart, but he is here too and can't help himself, for I see him sometimes and he tells that he is in a condition of suffering, too. No, but he is not in condition to help me, even if I do see him.
You must help me if you can. I don't know but I want help from someone. I know they say so, but I don't believe them, for they can't help themselves. No, I don't know them. I will see him at once and ask him, and tell him that I want to know. So good-night.
Your friend,
George W. Harvey
Harvey Family Tree
Received by James Padgett
Washington, D.C.
I am here, George W. Harvey.
I lived in Washington and kept a restaurant on Pennsylvania Avenue and Tenth Street. I am in the spirit world and in the earth plane and in Hell also. I am not happy for I am in darkness and despair.
Yes, I did, but that did not keep me from Hell. The priests mislead me, and they are here, too. Damn them. Can you help me any, if you can do so?
Yes, I remember Taggart, but he is here too and can't help himself, for I see him sometimes and he tells that he is in a condition of suffering, too. No, but he is not in condition to help me, even if I do see him.
You must help me if you can. I don't know but I want help from someone. I know they say so, but I don't believe them, for they can't help themselves. No, I don't know them. I will see him at once and ask him, and tell him that I want to know. So good-night.
Your friend,
George W. Harvey
Harvey Family Tree
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Jesus Writes a Loving Message to James: "You are my friend and disciple."
January 12, 1915
Received by James Padgett
Washington, D.C.
I am here, Jesus.
You are my friend and disciple. You are in me and I am in thee, and we are in the Father. You are in me for all eternity. My kingdom is not of this world and you are not of this world. You are in me, as I told my disciples of old. Only believe me and keep my commandments, and I will love you to the end, and the Father will love you.
I mean that you must love all mankind and try to show them the way to God's Love. I mean that I am my Father's son of truth and righteousness, and as such you must pray the Father in my name, not because I am Jesus, but because I represent all the truth and Love of my Father.
Yes, and that is the only way in which men can come to the Father - no other - and when my kingdom is completed only those who have become one with the Father will become a part of it.
Yes, she told you the truth. My kingdom will be composed only of those who believe in my teachings and who have received the Holy Ghost. So do not doubt more. You I have selected and you will be my true disciple and messenger of truth - you have my help and love to the fullest, and no man can take it from you. In all eternity you will be with me. God answers your prayers because you have faith and are my own disciple. So continue to pray and He will hear you and answer your prayers.
No, only believe and trust Him. He will never forsake you or let you want. You must love God with all your heart and soul and mind and your neighbor as yourself. This is the great commandment. So observe this and you will be happy and free.
Let your prayers become more fervent and your faith more fully developed. I will help you to know more of your Father's Love, and you will soon become a true follower of me. You must seek and you will know; wait until I give my messages, and then you will know the truth.
Yes, I am the vine and you are the branch. So believe. What you have written is my thoughts. You did not think any of these thoughts.
So good night and may God bless you as I do now.
Jesus
Received by James Padgett
Washington, D.C.
I am here, Jesus.
You are my friend and disciple. You are in me and I am in thee, and we are in the Father. You are in me for all eternity. My kingdom is not of this world and you are not of this world. You are in me, as I told my disciples of old. Only believe me and keep my commandments, and I will love you to the end, and the Father will love you.
I mean that you must love all mankind and try to show them the way to God's Love. I mean that I am my Father's son of truth and righteousness, and as such you must pray the Father in my name, not because I am Jesus, but because I represent all the truth and Love of my Father.
Yes, and that is the only way in which men can come to the Father - no other - and when my kingdom is completed only those who have become one with the Father will become a part of it.
Yes, she told you the truth. My kingdom will be composed only of those who believe in my teachings and who have received the Holy Ghost. So do not doubt more. You I have selected and you will be my true disciple and messenger of truth - you have my help and love to the fullest, and no man can take it from you. In all eternity you will be with me. God answers your prayers because you have faith and are my own disciple. So continue to pray and He will hear you and answer your prayers.
No, only believe and trust Him. He will never forsake you or let you want. You must love God with all your heart and soul and mind and your neighbor as yourself. This is the great commandment. So observe this and you will be happy and free.
Let your prayers become more fervent and your faith more fully developed. I will help you to know more of your Father's Love, and you will soon become a true follower of me. You must seek and you will know; wait until I give my messages, and then you will know the truth.
Yes, I am the vine and you are the branch. So believe. What you have written is my thoughts. You did not think any of these thoughts.
So good night and may God bless you as I do now.
Jesus
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
John Padgett Writes that His Son, James, is a Loving Man and His Soul is Developing Rapidly
January 10, 1915
Received by James Padgett
Washington, D.C.
I am here, your Father.
I came to tell you that you are a very loving man and that you will do some good both in the earth and in the spirit world. I feel that I must tell you this for I see that your soul is developing very rapidly, and as the more of God's Love you get the more power for doing good you will have. Only pray as you are doing and you will become more happy yourself and make others happy.
The message that you have just received will make the judge feel very happy, and it will cause him to think more of things spiritual as I believe.
You should not write more tonight as you are tired.
So with all my love and many wishes for your happiness and prosperity.
I am your loving father,
John H. Padgett
Received by James Padgett
Washington, D.C.
I am here, your Father.
I came to tell you that you are a very loving man and that you will do some good both in the earth and in the spirit world. I feel that I must tell you this for I see that your soul is developing very rapidly, and as the more of God's Love you get the more power for doing good you will have. Only pray as you are doing and you will become more happy yourself and make others happy.
The message that you have just received will make the judge feel very happy, and it will cause him to think more of things spiritual as I believe.
You should not write more tonight as you are tired.
So with all my love and many wishes for your happiness and prosperity.
I am your loving father,
John H. Padgett
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