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These messages from Jesus and Celestials received through the hand of James E. Padgett are so extraordinary in concept and contents that it is indispensable that, as the publisher (original publisher 1940) and a firm believer in the truths contained in these messages, I give to interested readers and for future reference, some firsthand information regarding the man through whom these messages were received and how it was that he was enabled to obtain these amazing communications.

Mr. James Edward Padgett was born August 25, 1852, in Washington, D.C., and attended the Polytechnic Academy Institute in Newmarket, Virginia. In 1880, he was admitted to the bar in Washington, D.C., and practiced law for 43 years until his death on March 17, 1923. His wife, Helen, died about February 1914, and was the first to write him from the spirit world. During his student years, he became friendly with Professor Joseph Salyards, an instructor at the Academy who, after his death in 1885, wrote many interesting messages between 1914 and 1923 through the vehicle of Mr. Padgett's developed gift of automatic writing channeling.

Mr. Padgett never practiced his gift of mediumship to earn money. He was dedicated wholly to the reception of the great messages contained in this book and in succeeding volumes.
At this point, I must state that I was often in Mr. Padgett's room when he was receiving these writings and that I am the eyewitness to the formation and development of Mr. Padgett as a medium par excellence through which the truths of the Heavenly Father and of life in the spirit world have come to mankind.

My first contact with Mr. Padgett was in September, 1914. I became interested in him at first because he seemed to be a fine gentleman and what was also important to me, a genuine medium. We became friendly on the basis of Spiritualism and mediumship. This became a bond which, in addition to our mutual respect and brotherly love for each other, was never broken in this life until his death. I am convinced this bond continues to exist between us, his soul encased in a spirit body and mine still in mortal trappings.

Mr. Padgett invited me to visit him regularly at his home at 614 E Street, N.W., Washington, D. C. There, in the course of time, I met Eugene Morgan and Dr. Goerger. Mr. Padgett told me that the messages he was receiving were writings from his wife, Helen, who had died early that year. She had written about the spirit life she was living, describing her experiences at the time of her death, the sphere of her spiritual abode, and her love for her husband in the flesh, who she had discovered was her soulmate. I was very often present as he continued to receive these messages. They came in a rapid sweep of connected words that gave no time for thought on the part of the writer. In fact, he often insisted that he had no clear idea of what his pencil was writing until he read the messages afterwards. It was in this way that he received, from 1914 to 1923, some twenty-five hundred messages, many of them coming from those highest spirits whose signatures were testimony to the personalities they represented.

Interested as I had always been in Spiritualism and in the possibility of man's communicating with departed spirits, I asked Mr. Padgett what were the circumstances leading to this mediumistic activity. The facts, as he related them to me, were as follows:
About six months before I had met him, he had attended a seance held by a Mrs. Maltby in Washington, D. C. She informed him that he possessed the psychic power to obtain automatic writings from spirits, and challenged him to make the effort. He did so, and found that his pencil moved automatically to produce what he called "fish hooks" and "hangers." When this had continued for a short time, he obtained a writing which he could make out as a message signed by his wife, Helen. It was a short personal note which stated she was often present in spirit with him and how glad she was to be able to write him in this way. At this point, Mr. Padgett did not believe the evidence of the writings that his dead wife had actually communicated with him. In fact, he wanted to know what proof could she offer that a spirit was actually writing, and if so, whether that spirit was actually Helen. The writing that followed provided incidents in their lives that could only have been known to both.
Mr. Padgett thought even this could be explained as material coming from his own mind, except that the writings came too quickly for his mind to formulate thoughts. The messages kept on insisting that it was not his mind, but hers that was operating, with emphasis on her love for him and the happiness she obtained by being with him.

With his interest in Spiritualism greatly aroused by these strange writings and anxious to set his mind at rest, he began to read books on the subject. I remember his reading J. M. Peeble's "Immortality," and his frequent attendance at seances. Here, he learned that spirits, if given the opportunity and under the right conditions, can communicate with mortals and that apparently, in his case, the writings he questioned came from his departed wife. He was advised to continue to take messages while learning more about the spirit world. Among those things he learned was that souls have their mates and that spirit life, contrary to what is taught by orthodox religions, was one of constant progress through the various realms of the spirit universe.

At the end of one of these writings, he asked what plane or sphere she was in. He received the answer that she was living in one of the planes of the Second Sphere where a certain amount of light and happiness is present, but that she had no desire to make progress to other spheres because she could at that time make contact quite easily with him on the earth plane, and write to him by controlling his brain and hand. Mr. Padgett told me that he could feel her presence intensely, which produced in him a happiness that was alien to him except when she wrote.

Mr. Padgett confided to me that he would like to see her progress and told her so. He informed her that through his own spiritual studies he knew she could make her way to higher spheres and increased happiness as a spirit. Helen replied she would find out from his grandmother, Ann Rollins, who had been in the spirit world a long time, what steps were necessary to make progress to higher and brighter spheres.
I do not know why Helen turned to her husband's grandmother for guidance in the spirit world. Many of Mr. Padgett's early messages were destroyed because they were of such a personal nature that he did not wish others to be acquainted with their contents. But I do know that affinity of spirits in the other world is due to affinity of the soul and not to any relationship one may have in the flesh. And from what Mr. Padgett told me of his grandmother, and from the messages which she subsequently wrote (some of which I have inserted) she was a very kind and warmhearted woman. Helen later wrote about her meeting with Ann Rollins, who she said, was a glorious spirit dwelling in the high Celestial Heavens. Ann Rollins, surprisingly enough for Padgett and those of us who were present at the time, had informed her that spirit progress to the higher Celestial realms could be obtained only by prayer to the Heavenly Father for His Love through earnest longing of soul. In addition, Padgett's mother, Ann R. Padgett, also in the spirit world, wrote through her son, corroborating this information. Both spirits were thus instrumental in giving Padgett (and those like myself who used to be present at these writings) the knowledge that soul progress to the Celestial Heavens was achieved only through prayer to God for His Divine Love.
These sessions, held to obtain writings from Helen, had become a channel through which a deep religious note had been injected, replacing the personal material. From the scores of messages from Helen written at this time (which are in my possession), we can follow her rapid progress to the higher spheres. Helen took the advice of these high spirits and prayed. She found her prayers for the Father's Love were answered and that it came into her soul in a way that caused a purification of her desires and thoughts, with a corresponding change in her soul and spiritual appearance. She said her spirit body, reflecting the changing condition of her soul, was becoming etherialized and brighter. She then wrote she had reached the Third Sphere, where happiness was greatly increased.

Shortly thereafter, she suggested that since she had done what Mr. Padgett had wished and had been able to progress to a higher sphere, that he should seek to better his soul condition as well. In fact, she suggested that we should all do so. She stated that, since the soul is the same, whether in the flesh or spirit body, it could be transformed by prayer to the Father for His Divine Love. Not by ordinary intellectual prayers that come from the head, but from the heart and soul.

Mr. Padgett refused to lend credence to this information. The spirits insisted that, as inhabitants of the higher realms, they possessed knowledge of this sacred truth, and that Jesus himself, ever interested in bringing the truths to mankind, would come to corroborate their affirmations if Padgett would give him the opportunity.

I do not know exactly when the first message signed "Jesus of the Bible" was received, for as I write some thirty years later, I cannot remember the date. Padgett evidently felt it was absurd to believe that Jesus had written him, and alas, threw away the message. His friends, Dr. Goerger, Mr. Morgan, and I, had an instinctive feeling that Jesus had written a genuine message. The earliest message allegedly from Jesus to Padgett, which is in my possession is dated September 28, 1914, and refers to an earlier message written a few days before. It is a long message, urging Mr. Padgett to pray for the Father's Love. The Master went on to say that God is a spirit of everything that belongs to His Being. He is not only Mind, but Heart, Soul and Love. The message urged Padgett: "Go to your Father for His help. Go in prayer, firmly believing, and you will soon feel His Love in your heart."

Padgett was doubtful. Although he was not certain of the genuineness of the family spirits, he felt the need to ask whether Jesus had really written. Some of the messages which he received from Helen, Ann Rollins, his mother, and his father, John Padgett, all corroborated that Jesus had written.

Some of the early messages which he received from the Master tell Padgett to have faith that he is Jesus, and they encourage him to pray, but they are simply preparatory in nature and do not contain the wonderful contents and information which came later when Padgett had achieved that condition of soul which enabled him to obtain them.

At this point, it came forcibly to Mr. Padgett and to me that such messages could not possibly be the brainchild of his own imagination. Mr. Padgett had been, an Orthodox Methodist, and for many years he had taught Sunday School in the Trinity Methodist Church in Washington, D. C. His conception of religious doctrine was that which emanated from this Protestant Church. This view of soul progress was contrary to what he had been taught. He had no idea of Divine Love in contrast to the natural love, or what it might be, and realized that such a concept was foreign to his thinking and never could have been a product of his own mind. Therefore, he felt assured, and I agreed with him that these writings were actually not only from Helen, Ann Rollins, and his mother, departed spirits of mortals, but from the Master himself. He decided to follow those instructions which he had never entertained, and which by that very fact had to come from outside intelligences which were communicating to him in this way.

We began to pray for the Divine Love, letting our soul longings go out to the Heavenly Father. In time, a feeling came glowing involuntarily into the region of our hearts. We felt this emotion grow stronger and stronger with continued fervid prayers, and as we did so, our faith in God became solidified and absolute. Never before had he, nor I, felt so sure of the real existence of the Father and His Divine Love and mercy. The cold intellectual concept which we had entertained of Him had, through prayers for His Love, been transformed into a warm, glowing, living feeling of closeness, of at-onement with the Heavenly Father, whose Love and mercy and goodness we could now sense were personal and real.
The change in Mr. Padgett's attitude toward the Heavenly Father, through the inflowing of His Love, motivated a message from Ann Rollins. The message acknowledged the effect which this Divine Love was having upon his soul, which was now a receptacle for some essence of the Father's Divine Nature. It also reported on Helen's progress to higher spheres. Helen was now a much happier spirit, and her spirit body shone with a radiance produced by the Father's Love in her soul.

Message followed message now from Helen, Ann Rollins, and above all, from Jesus, encouraging Mr. Padgett to keep praying and to obtain increased portions of the Father's Love. Mr. Padgett might be used as a medium to transmit messages from the highest Celestial Spirits. Jesus wrote that since Padgett had the ability to receive writings from spirits, if Padgett's brain was sufficiently transformed through soul development by obtaining more of the Divine Love to a degree where he could receive high quality messages, Jesus and his apostles would come and write through him the truths of the Father, of his mission on earth, on the New Testament and Christianity! Only pray and pray harder for the Father's Love, urged the messages.

Go to the Lord in prayer and He will remove from your soul all that tends to defile it and make it alien from Him. He is the one that will cleanse it from sin and error.
Only the teachings that I shall give you will tell the verities of my Father. Let not your heart be troubled or cast down, for I am with you always and I will help you in every time of need. Only believe that I am Jesus of the Scriptures and that you will not be long out of the Kingdom. You are my chosen one on earth to proclaim my glad tidings of life and love. Be true to yourself and to your God and He will bless you abundantly. Keep His commandments and you will be very happy and you will soon receive the contentment that He gives to His true children. Go to Him in all your troubles and you will find rest and peace. You will soon be in condition to let the things of this world alone as I need you for my service.
With all my love and blessings and those of the Holy Spirit,
I am, Jesus

Mr. Padgett was eventually convinced that he was being developed for a task of mediumship whereby great messages of religious truths would be given to mankind through him. He prayed earnestly and frequently, and for the next three months not only did Jesus write, but so did many of the apostles, especially John and James, who kept telling him to keep praying for the Father's Love. But the time had not yet come for the delivery of the great messages. Padgett's brain, while being changed in quality, had not yet reached that high quality which would permit the passage of communications of the kind they proposed. They continually urged him to seek for more of the Father's Love through prayer to Him. Many times when I met him in his room, he would say to me:

"Doctor, I feel the Divine Love in my soul in such intensity that I don't think I can stand it anymore." He would say this experience was always his when he had been praying for the Father's Love prior to obtaining messages from Jesus and the Celestial Spirits. And I can in all sincerity state, if only for the purpose of corroborating his experiences, that these feelings were mine as well, perhaps to a smaller degree.

While receiving these preparatory messages, it occurred to Mr. Padgett to ask how it was that Jesus had selected him to do this work, and what power, specifically, was there in the Divine Love which would enable him to succeed. There came a reply from John the Apostle. John's message, "Law of Rapport and Communication", deals with the laws of rapport in the spirit world which enable spirits and mortals to communicate, and the workings whereby the brain of the mortal is conditioned to receive various types of messages: intellectual, moral and soul. It is a message of great importance to those who are interested in developing mediumship or furthering their mediumistic powers. Jesus' reply is more direct.

To summarize briefly here, he wrote that two things are necessary for a genuine medium to receive the messages of the Father's truths. First, the medium has to have thorough faith that the spirits of the Celestial Heavens, inhabitants of God's Kingdom of immortality, are actual beings who can, if the medium achieves a certain condition of soul, control his brain and write through him. If the medium does not have this faith in the heart, then no contact can be made by the Celestial Spirits. Second, the medium must be willing to submit to the conditions imposed by the spirits and has to obey the instructions of the spirits and pray to the Father for His Divine Love. It is this Love alone that has the power to transform the brain of the medium so that it can be attuned to the thoughts of the spirits, and this transformation of the brain can be achieved only through the development of the soul. Jesus said that by prayer and the Father's Love inflowing into the soul which transforms the soul from the image of God (in which mankind was created) into the essence of God, so that sin and error in the human soul cannot exist. The brain of the medium, thus purified of material thoughts and manifesting a condition which corresponds to the soul condition of the spirits. It was in this way that Mr. Padgett could grasp their thoughts.

That was the importance of the Divine Love. Mr. Padgett had to attain through prayer to the Father a soul condition approaching that of the Celestial Spirits in order for his brain to receive their messages. Prayer had to be constant, for otherwise, renewed earth plane and material thoughts would naturally reimpose their dominance and the Love and the high soul condition would become inactive. Jesus said that Mr. Padgett had not been selected because of any particular goodness or freedom from sin as compared to other mortals, for there were many who were in a higher spiritual condition than he was, but because of his faith that Jesus could come and his willingness to obey the spirits and pray for the Divine Love for a transformation of his soul so that the conditions for receiving these messages could be met.

Jesus declared that he had tried for many centuries to write his messages, and he had found many mediums who were far better gifted than Padgett. But because they thought Jesus was God, or because they thought it was impossible for Jesus to write, or because of their religious beliefs and dogmas, they had refused to submit to the promptings of the spirits. And since man is endowed by his Creator with a free will, Jesus and the Celestial Spirits could not coerce them into submitting to a task to which they were opposed and in whose efficacy they had no conviction. For these reasons, Jesus stated, no other could be chosen except Padgett.

Mr. Padgett was now thoroughly convinced that what he was receiving was not only from the Celestial Spirits but also from the Master himself. He not only confided his beliefs to his friends, Eugene Morgan, Dr. Goerger, and me, but he also wrote boldly to others about his beliefs. I have in my possession a copy of a letter he wrote to a Dr. George H. Gilbert, Ph.D., D.D., who had published an article on religion entitled "Christianizing the Bible," in the November 1915 issue of Biblical World. This article, which I have read, advocated less emphasis on a stern and punishing Jehovah, and more attention to the teachings of the New Testament and the sayings of Jesus. There was no suggestion of the Divine Love in Dr. Gilbert's article, which anyone who procures a copy from the Library of Congress can very readily discover.

Mr. Padgett's letter explains that initially, he refused to believe the contents and origin of the handwriting, for with his legalistic turn of mind, he accepted only the most concrete evidence as proof, but that finally he was thoroughly convinced of the truths of the messages and the source from which they came.

Here is the letter:
December 28, 1915
Dr. George H. Gilbert, Ph.D., D.D.
Dorset, Vermont

Dear Sir,

I hope that you will pardon me for writing you as I herein shall, for your evident voluntary interest in a certain subject matter, and my involuntary interest in the same, furnish the only excuse. I have read your article, "Christianizing the Bible," in the November issue of the Biblical World and am much impressed with the same, not only because of its inherent merits but also because of its demands and suggestions are very similar to those which have been made through me in a way and manner which I can scarcely expect you to give credence to; nevertheless, I shall submit the matter to you, recognizing your right to consider what it may say unworthy of your serious attention.

First, permit me to state that I am a practical lawyer of 35 years experience, and as such, not inclined to accept allegations of fact as true without evidencing proof. I was born and reared in an Orthodox Protestant church, and until quite recently, remained orthodox in my beliefs; that a little more than a year ago, upon the suggestion being made to me that I was psychic, I commenced to receive messages by way of automatic writing from what was said to be the spirit world. And, since that time, I have received nearly 1500 such messages upon many subjects, but mostly as to things of a spiritual and religious nature, not orthodox, as to the errancy of the Bible.

I have not space to name, nor would you probably be interested in, the great number of the writers of these messages; but among the writers is Jesus of Nazareth, from whom I have received more than 100 messages. I will frankly say that I refused to believe for a long time that these messages came from Jesus because, God, while He had the power, as I believed, would not engage in doing such a thing.

But the evidence of the truth of the origin of these messages became so convincing, not only from the great number and positiveness of the witnesses but also from the inherent and unusual merits of the contents of the messages, that I was forced to believe; and I now say to you that I believe in the truth of these communications with as little doubt as I ever believed in the truth of a fact established by the most positive evidence in court. I wish further to say that, to my own consciousness, I did no thinking in writing the messages. I did not know what was to be written nor what was written at the time except the word that the pencil was writing.

The great object of these messages from Jesus, as he wrote, is to make a revelation of the truths of the Father. He asserts that the Bible does not contain his real teachings as he disclosed them while on earth; that many things that he said are not therein contained, and many things that are ascribed to him therein he did not say at all. And he wants the truths made known to mankind. And I must say that many of these truths, which he has already written, I have never heard of before, and I have studied the Bible to some extent. One thing in particular impressed me, and that is what the truth is of his bringing "life and immortality to light." The Bible does not state it, and I have not been able to find an explanation of it in any commentaries on the Bible.

But enough of this. I merely wrote this to assure you that I am serious in submitting for your perusal the enclosed copy of a message; and I would not do this were it not for the fact that the message comments upon your article and also upon another article in the same issue of the Biblical World.

On the night of December 24, 1915, I read your article and on the next night, Christmas night, I received a writing of which the enclosed is a copy. You will observe that a portion of the message is personal, but I thought it best to send it as it came to me. And though you may not believe the origin of the message, yet you may find some thoughts therein for your consideration.

Trusting that you will pardon my intrusion, I will subscribe myself

Very respectfully,
(s.) James E. Padgett

A few nights later a message signed "Jesus" commented upon Mr. Padgett's having sent a copy of the message, and referred to his letter to Dr. Gilbert:

I am here– Jesus.

I came tonight to tell you that you did the right thing by sending the message to the person who wrote the article upon the subject of Christianizing the Bible, for I now believe that he will appreciate it to a very great degree. He is not an orthodox churchman, but is the preacher of a Unitarian Church in the little town in which he lives, and is a very broad-minded man.

He may have some doubts as to the source of the message and may not feel inclined to accept as true your statements as to how you received it, but yet his doubts will not be altogether of such a nature that he may not have some hesitation in saying that such a thing as your receiving my message could not be true. At any rate, he will become interested in the subject matter of the message and will find some thoughts that he never before had.

I fully realize that when my messages are published, the great difficulty in their being accepted will be the doubt of the people as to their source, but you will have to complete the book in such a way that the testimony of the numerous witnesses will be so strong that the doubt will not be able to withstand the overwhelming evidence of my being the writer of the messages. And when men read the same, they will realize that the truths which they contain could only come from a higher source than mortal mind and that the hand of the Father is in them.

So I will continue to write and you to receive the messages and when the time comes to publish them, I do not fear that they will not be, in time, gladly received. Very soon I will write you another message which will be of importance to mankind. I will only say further that I am with you trying to help you and to have you believe with all your heart in the Divine Love of the Father, in my mission and in your work.
Your brother and friend,
Jesus

By this time, my original ideas about Spiritualism had undergone a radical transformation. In the light of these messages, Spiritualism was no longer simply an effort to prove to one's satisfaction, through seances, that man did survive death and that his spirit could appear from his spiritual habitat and give evidence of his post-mortal existence. Both Mr. Padgett and I now saw in Spiritualism not merely belief in life after death and conviction in communication between mortal and spirit, but a great universe of spirits seeking progression towards light and happiness through purification of their souls, and the possibility of transformation of these souls through prayer to the Heavenly Father for His Love. Gone were my belief in vibrations, abstract intelligence, cosmic force, astral bodies and other paraphernalia of a bare and cold concept and real Spiritualism took its place as part of that sublime religion which affirmed that souls were alive, with or without the flesh, and that these souls can be changed from the image of God, as originally created, into the very essence and nature of God through His Divine Love. My search for God ended. I found God through the messages from Jesus and his Celestial Spirits.

Because of the Love which I had obtained and my desire to help further the Father's truths, Jesus selected me to publish the Padgett messages. I have since devoted my entire life to furthering the Master's task of disseminating these truths to mankind. I have made a beginning in my lifetime. The work will be continued by my associates and friends everywhere.

Dr. Leslie R. Stone




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			These messages from Jesus and Celestials received through the hand of James E. Padgett are so extraordinary in concept and contents that it is indispensable that, as the publisher (original publisher 1940) and a firm believer in the truths contained in these messages, I give to interested readers and for future reference, some firsthand information regarding the man through whom these messages were received and how it was that he was enabled to obtain these amazing communications. Mr. James Edward Padgett was born August 25, 1852, in Washington, D.C., and attended the Polytechnic Academy Institute in Newmarket, Virginia. In 1880, he was admitted to the bar in Washington, D.C., and practiced law for 43 years until his death on March 17, 1923. His wife, Helen, died about February 1914, and was the first to write him from the spirit world. During his student years, he became friendly with Professor Joseph Salyards, an instructor at the Academy who, after his death in 1885, wrote many interesting messages between 1914 and 1923 through the vehicle of Mr. Padgett's developed gift of automatic writing channeling. Mr. Padgett never practiced his gift of mediumship to earn money. He was dedicated wholly to the reception of the great messages contained in this book and in succeeding volumes. At this point, I must state that I was often in Mr. Padgett's room when he was receiving these writings and that I am the eyewitness to the formation and development of Mr. Padgett as a medium par excellence through which the truths of the Heavenly Father and of life in the spirit world have come to mankind. My first contact with Mr. Padgett was in September, 1914. I became interested in him at first because he seemed to be a fine gentleman and what was also important to me, a genuine medium. We became friendly on the basis of Spiritualism and mediumship. This became a bond which, in addition to our mutual respect and brotherly love for each other, was never broken in this life until his death. I am convinced this bond continues to exist between us, his soul encased in a spirit body and mine still in mortal trappings. Mr. Padgett invited me to visit him regularly at his home at 614 E Street, N.W., Washington, D. C. There, in the course of time, I met Eugene Morgan and Dr. Goerger. Mr. Padgett told me that the messages he was receiving were writings from his wife, Helen, who had died early that year. She had written about the spirit life she was living, describing her experiences at the time of her death, the sphere of her spiritual abode, and her love for her husband in the flesh, who she had discovered was her soulmate. I was very often present as he continued to receive these messages. They came in a rapid sweep of connected words that gave no time for thought on the part of the writer. In fact, he often insisted that he had no clear idea of what his pencil was writing until he read the messages afterwards. It was in this way that he received, from 1914 to 1923, some twenty-five hundred messages, many of them coming from those highest spirits whose signatures were testimony to the personalities they represented. Interested as I had always been in Spiritualism and in the possibility of man's communicating with departed spirits, I asked Mr. Padgett what were the circumstances leading to this mediumistic activity. The facts, as he related them to me, were as follows: About six months before I had met him, he had attended a seance held by a Mrs. Maltby in Washington, D. C. She informed him that he possessed the psychic power to obtain automatic writings from spirits, and challenged him to make the effort. He did so, and found that his pencil moved automatically to produce what he called "fish hooks" and "hangers." When this had continued for a short time, he obtained a writing which he could make out as a message signed by his wife, Helen. It was a short personal note which stated she was often present in spirit with him and how glad she was to be able to write him in this way. At this point, Mr. Padgett did not believe the evidence of the writings that his dead wife had actually communicated with him. In fact, he wanted to know what proof could she offer that a spirit was actually writing, and if so, whether that spirit was actually Helen. The writing that followed provided incidents in their lives that could only have been known to both. Mr. Padgett thought even this could be explained as material coming from his own mind, except that the writings came too quickly for his mind to formulate thoughts. The messages kept on insisting that it was not his mind, but hers that was operating, with emphasis on her love for him and the happiness she obtained by being with him. With his interest in Spiritualism greatly aroused by these strange writings and anxious to set his mind at rest, he began to read books on the subject. I remember his reading J. M. Peeble's "Immortality," and his frequent attendance at seances. Here, he learned that spirits, if given the opportunity and under the right conditions, can communicate with mortals and that apparently, in his case, the writings he questioned came from his departed wife. He was advised to continue to take messages while learning more about the spirit world. Among those things he learned was that souls have their mates and that spirit life, contrary to what is taught by orthodox religions, was one of constant progress through the various realms of the spirit universe. At the end of one of these writings, he asked what plane or sphere she was in. He received the answer that she was living in one of the planes of the Second Sphere where a certain amount of light and happiness is present, but that she had no desire to make progress to other spheres because she could at that time make contact quite easily with him on the earth plane, and write to him by controlling his brain and hand. Mr. Padgett told me that he could feel her presence intensely, which produced in him a happiness that was alien to him except when she wrote. Mr. Padgett confided to me that he would like to see her progress and told her so. He informed her that through his own spiritual studies he knew she could make her way to higher spheres and increased happiness as a spirit. Helen replied she would find out from his grandmother, Ann Rollins, who had been in the spirit world a long time, what steps were necessary to make progress to higher and brighter spheres. I do not know why Helen turned to her husband's grandmother for guidance in the spirit world. Many of Mr. Padgett's early messages were destroyed because they were of such a personal nature that he did not wish others to be acquainted with their contents. But I do know that affinity of spirits in the other world is due to affinity of the soul and not to any relationship one may have in the flesh. And from what Mr. Padgett told me of his grandmother, and from the messages which she subsequently wrote (some of which I have inserted) she was a very kind and warmhearted woman. Helen later wrote about her meeting with Ann Rollins, who she said, was a glorious spirit dwelling in the high Celestial Heavens. Ann Rollins, surprisingly enough for Padgett and those of us who were present at the time, had informed her that spirit progress to the higher Celestial realms could be obtained only by prayer to the Heavenly Father for His Love through earnest longing of soul. In addition, Padgett's mother, Ann R. Padgett, also in the spirit world, wrote through her son, corroborating this information. Both spirits were thus instrumental in giving Padgett (and those like myself who used to be present at these writings) the knowledge that soul progress to the Celestial Heavens was achieved only through prayer to God for His Divine Love. These sessions, held to obtain writings from Helen, had become a channel through which a deep religious note had been injected, replacing the personal material. From the scores of messages from Helen written at this time (which are in my possession), we can follow her rapid progress to the higher spheres. Helen took the advice of these high spirits and prayed. She found her prayers for the Father's Love were answered and that it came into her soul in a way that caused a purification of her desires and thoughts, with a corresponding change in her soul and spiritual appearance. She said her spirit body, reflecting the changing condition of her soul, was becoming etherialized and brighter. She then wrote she had reached the Third Sphere, where happiness was greatly increased. Shortly thereafter, she suggested that since she had done what Mr. Padgett had wished and had been able to progress to a higher sphere, that he should seek to better his soul condition as well. In fact, she suggested that we should all do so. She stated that, since the soul is the same, whether in the flesh or spirit body, it could be transformed by prayer to the Father for His Divine Love. Not by ordinary intellectual prayers that come from the head, but from the heart and soul. Mr. Padgett refused to lend credence to this information. The spirits insisted that, as inhabitants of the higher realms, they possessed knowledge of this sacred truth, and that Jesus himself, ever interested in bringing the truths to mankind, would come to corroborate their affirmations if Padgett would give him the opportunity. I do not know exactly when the first message signed "Jesus of the Bible" was received, for as I write some thirty years later, I cannot remember the date. Padgett evidently felt it was absurd to believe that Jesus had written him, and alas, threw away the message. His friends, Dr. Goerger, Mr. Morgan, and I, had an instinctive feeling that Jesus had written a genuine message. The earliest message allegedly from Jesus to Padgett, which is in my possession is dated September 28, 1914, and refers to an earlier message written a few days before. It is a long message, urging Mr. Padgett to pray for the Father's Love. The Master went on to say that God is a spirit of everything that belongs to His Being. He is not only Mind, but Heart, Soul and Love. The message urged Padgett: "Go to your Father for His help. Go in prayer, firmly believing, and you will soon feel His Love in your heart." Padgett was doubtful. Although he was not certain of the genuineness of the family spirits, he felt the need to ask whether Jesus had really written. Some of the messages which he received from Helen, Ann Rollins, his mother, and his father, John Padgett, all corroborated that Jesus had written. Some of the early messages which he received from the Master tell Padgett to have faith that he is Jesus, and they encourage him to pray, but they are simply preparatory in nature and do not contain the wonderful contents and information which came later when Padgett had achieved that condition of soul which enabled him to obtain them. At this point, it came forcibly to Mr. Padgett and to me that such messages could not possibly be the brainchild of his own imagination. Mr. Padgett had been, an Orthodox Methodist, and for many years he had taught Sunday School in the Trinity Methodist Church in Washington, D. C. His conception of religious doctrine was that which emanated from this Protestant Church. This view of soul progress was contrary to what he had been taught. He had no idea of Divine Love in contrast to the natural love, or what it might be, and realized that such a concept was foreign to his thinking and never could have been a product of his own mind. Therefore, he felt assured, and I agreed with him that these writings were actually not only from Helen, Ann Rollins, and his mother, departed spirits of mortals, but from the Master himself. He decided to follow those instructions which he had never entertained, and which by that very fact had to come from outside intelligences which were communicating to him in this way. We began to pray for the Divine Love, letting our soul longings go out to the Heavenly Father. In time, a feeling came glowing involuntarily into the region of our hearts. We felt this emotion grow stronger and stronger with continued fervid prayers, and as we did so, our faith in God became solidified and absolute. Never before had he, nor I, felt so sure of the real existence of the Father and His Divine Love and mercy. The cold intellectual concept which we had entertained of Him had, through prayers for His Love, been transformed into a warm, glowing, living feeling of closeness, of at-onement with the Heavenly Father, whose Love and mercy and goodness we could now sense were personal and real. The change in Mr. Padgett's attitude toward the Heavenly Father, through the inflowing of His Love, motivated a message from Ann Rollins. The message acknowledged the effect which this Divine Love was having upon his soul, which was now a receptacle for some essence of the Father's Divine Nature. It also reported on Helen's progress to higher spheres. Helen was now a much happier spirit, and her spirit body shone with a radiance produced by the Father's Love in her soul. Message followed message now from Helen, Ann Rollins, and above all, from Jesus, encouraging Mr. Padgett to keep praying and to obtain increased portions of the Father's Love. Mr. Padgett might be used as a medium to transmit messages from the highest Celestial Spirits. Jesus wrote that since Padgett had the ability to receive writings from spirits, if Padgett's brain was sufficiently transformed through soul development by obtaining more of the Divine Love to a degree where he could receive high quality messages, Jesus and his apostles would come and write through him the truths of the Father, of his mission on earth, on the New Testament and Christianity! Only pray and pray harder for the Father's Love, urged the messages. Go to the Lord in prayer and He will remove from your soul all that tends to defile it and make it alien from Him. He is the one that will cleanse it from sin and error. Only the teachings that I shall give you will tell the verities of my Father. Let not your heart be troubled or cast down, for I am with you always and I will help you in every time of need. Only believe that I am Jesus of the Scriptures and that you will not be long out of the Kingdom. You are my chosen one on earth to proclaim my glad tidings of life and love. Be true to yourself and to your God and He will bless you abundantly. Keep His commandments and you will be very happy and you will soon receive the contentment that He gives to His true children. Go to Him in all your troubles and you will find rest and peace. You will soon be in condition to let the things of this world alone as I need you for my service. With all my love and blessings and those of the Holy Spirit, I am, Jesus Mr. Padgett was eventually convinced that he was being developed for a task of mediumship whereby great messages of religious truths would be given to mankind through him. He prayed earnestly and frequently, and for the next three months not only did Jesus write, but so did many of the apostles, especially John and James, who kept telling him to keep praying for the Father's Love. But the time had not yet come for the delivery of the great messages. Padgett's brain, while being changed in quality, had not yet reached that high quality which would permit the passage of communications of the kind they proposed. They continually urged him to seek for more of the Father's Love through prayer to Him. Many times when I met him in his room, he would say to me: "Doctor, I feel the Divine Love in my soul in such intensity that I don't think I can stand it anymore." He would say this experience was always his when he had been praying for the Father's Love prior to obtaining messages from Jesus and the Celestial Spirits. And I can in all sincerity state, if only for the purpose of corroborating his experiences, that these feelings were mine as well, perhaps to a smaller degree. While receiving these preparatory messages, it occurred to Mr. Padgett to ask how it was that Jesus had selected him to do this work, and what power, specifically, was there in the Divine Love which would enable him to succeed. There came a reply from John the Apostle. John's message, "Law of Rapport and Communication", deals with the laws of rapport in the spirit world which enable spirits and mortals to communicate, and the workings whereby the brain of the mortal is conditioned to receive various types of messages: intellectual, moral and soul. It is a message of great importance to those who are interested in developing mediumship or furthering their mediumistic powers. Jesus' reply is more direct. To summarize briefly here, he wrote that two things are necessary for a genuine medium to receive the messages of the Father's truths. First, the medium has to have thorough faith that the spirits of the Celestial Heavens, inhabitants of God's Kingdom of immortality, are actual beings who can, if the medium achieves a certain condition of soul, control his brain and write through him. If the medium does not have this faith in the heart, then no contact can be made by the Celestial Spirits. Second, the medium must be willing to submit to the conditions imposed by the spirits and has to obey the instructions of the spirits and pray to the Father for His Divine Love. It is this Love alone that has the power to transform the brain of the medium so that it can be attuned to the thoughts of the spirits, and this transformation of the brain can be achieved only through the development of the soul. Jesus said that by prayer and the Father's Love inflowing into the soul which transforms the soul from the image of God (in which mankind was created) into the essence of God, so that sin and error in the human soul cannot exist. The brain of the medium, thus purified of material thoughts and manifesting a condition which corresponds to the soul condition of the spirits. It was in this way that Mr. Padgett could grasp their thoughts. That was the importance of the Divine Love. Mr. Padgett had to attain through prayer to the Father a soul condition approaching that of the Celestial Spirits in order for his brain to receive their messages. Prayer had to be constant, for otherwise, renewed earth plane and material thoughts would naturally reimpose their dominance and the Love and the high soul condition would become inactive. Jesus said that Mr. Padgett had not been selected because of any particular goodness or freedom from sin as compared to other mortals, for there were many who were in a higher spiritual condition than he was, but because of his faith that Jesus could come and his willingness to obey the spirits and pray for the Divine Love for a transformation of his soul so that the conditions for receiving these messages could be met. Jesus declared that he had tried for many centuries to write his messages, and he had found many mediums who were far better gifted than Padgett. But because they thought Jesus was God, or because they thought it was impossible for Jesus to write, or because of their religious beliefs and dogmas, they had refused to submit to the promptings of the spirits. And since man is endowed by his Creator with a free will, Jesus and the Celestial Spirits could not coerce them into submitting to a task to which they were opposed and in whose efficacy they had no conviction. For these reasons, Jesus stated, no other could be chosen except Padgett. Mr. Padgett was now thoroughly convinced that what he was receiving was not only from the Celestial Spirits but also from the Master himself. He not only confided his beliefs to his friends, Eugene Morgan, Dr. Goerger, and me, but he also wrote boldly to others about his beliefs. I have in my possession a copy of a letter he wrote to a Dr. George H. Gilbert, Ph.D., D.D., who had published an article on religion entitled "Christianizing the Bible," in the November 1915 issue of Biblical World. This article, which I have read, advocated less emphasis on a stern and punishing Jehovah, and more attention to the teachings of the New Testament and the sayings of Jesus. There was no suggestion of the Divine Love in Dr. Gilbert's article, which anyone who procures a copy from the Library of Congress can very readily discover. Mr. Padgett's letter explains that initially, he refused to believe the contents and origin of the handwriting, for with his legalistic turn of mind, he accepted only the most concrete evidence as proof, but that finally he was thoroughly convinced of the truths of the messages and the source from which they came. Here is the letter: December 28, 1915 Dr. George H. Gilbert, Ph.D., D.D. Dorset, Vermont Dear Sir, I hope that you will pardon me for writing you as I herein shall, for your evident voluntary interest in a certain subject matter, and my involuntary interest in the same, furnish the only excuse. I have read your article, "Christianizing the Bible," in the November issue of the Biblical World and am much impressed with the same, not only because of its inherent merits but also because of its demands and suggestions are very similar to those which have been made through me in a way and manner which I can scarcely expect you to give credence to; nevertheless, I shall submit the matter to you, recognizing your right to consider what it may say unworthy of your serious attention. First, permit me to state that I am a practical lawyer of 35 years experience, and as such, not inclined to accept allegations of fact as true without evidencing proof. I was born and reared in an Orthodox Protestant church, and until quite recently, remained orthodox in my beliefs; that a little more than a year ago, upon the suggestion being made to me that I was psychic, I commenced to receive messages by way of automatic writing from what was said to be the spirit world. And, since that time, I have received nearly 1500 such messages upon many subjects, but mostly as to things of a spiritual and religious nature, not orthodox, as to the errancy of the Bible. I have not space to name, nor would you probably be interested in, the great number of the writers of these messages; but among the writers is Jesus of Nazareth, from whom I have received more than 100 messages. I will frankly say that I refused to believe for a long time that these messages came from Jesus because, God, while He had the power, as I believed, would not engage in doing such a thing. But the evidence of the truth of the origin of these messages became so convincing, not only from the great number and positiveness of the witnesses but also from the inherent and unusual merits of the contents of the messages, that I was forced to believe; and I now say to you that I believe in the truth of these communications with as little doubt as I ever believed in the truth of a fact established by the most positive evidence in court. I wish further to say that, to my own consciousness, I did no thinking in writing the messages. I did not know what was to be written nor what was written at the time except the word that the pencil was writing. The great object of these messages from Jesus, as he wrote, is to make a revelation of the truths of the Father. He asserts that the Bible does not contain his real teachings as he disclosed them while on earth; that many things that he said are not therein contained, and many things that are ascribed to him therein he did not say at all. And he wants the truths made known to mankind. And I must say that many of these truths, which he has already written, I have never heard of before, and I have studied the Bible to some extent. One thing in particular impressed me, and that is what the truth is of his bringing "life and immortality to light." The Bible does not state it, and I have not been able to find an explanation of it in any commentaries on the Bible. But enough of this. I merely wrote this to assure you that I am serious in submitting for your perusal the enclosed copy of a message; and I would not do this were it not for the fact that the message comments upon your article and also upon another article in the same issue of the Biblical World. On the night of December 24, 1915, I read your article and on the next night, Christmas night, I received a writing of which the enclosed is a copy. You will observe that a portion of the message is personal, but I thought it best to send it as it came to me. And though you may not believe the origin of the message, yet you may find some thoughts therein for your consideration. Trusting that you will pardon my intrusion, I will subscribe myself Very respectfully, (s.) James E. Padgett A few nights later a message signed "Jesus" commented upon Mr. Padgett's having sent a copy of the message, and referred to his letter to Dr. Gilbert: I am here– Jesus. I came tonight to tell you that you did the right thing by sending the message to the person who wrote the article upon the subject of Christianizing the Bible, for I now believe that he will appreciate it to a very great degree. He is not an orthodox churchman, but is the preacher of a Unitarian Church in the little town in which he lives, and is a very broad-minded man. He may have some doubts as to the source of the message and may not feel inclined to accept as true your statements as to how you received it, but yet his doubts will not be altogether of such a nature that he may not have some hesitation in saying that such a thing as your receiving my message could not be true. At any rate, he will become interested in the subject matter of the message and will find some thoughts that he never before had. I fully realize that when my messages are published, the great difficulty in their being accepted will be the doubt of the people as to their source, but you will have to complete the book in such a way that the testimony of the numerous witnesses will be so strong that the doubt will not be able to withstand the overwhelming evidence of my being the writer of the messages. And when men read the same, they will realize that the truths which they contain could only come from a higher source than mortal mind and that the hand of the Father is in them. So I will continue to write and you to receive the messages and when the time comes to publish them, I do not fear that they will not be, in time, gladly received. Very soon I will write you another message which will be of importance to mankind. I will only say further that I am with you trying to help you and to have you believe with all your heart in the Divine Love of the Father, in my mission and in your work. Your brother and friend, Jesus By this time, my original ideas about Spiritualism had undergone a radical transformation. In the light of these messages, Spiritualism was no longer simply an effort to prove to one's satisfaction, through seances, that man did survive death and that his spirit could appear from his spiritual habitat and give evidence of his post-mortal existence. Both Mr. Padgett and I now saw in Spiritualism not merely belief in life after death and conviction in communication between mortal and spirit, but a great universe of spirits seeking progression towards light and happiness through purification of their souls, and the possibility of transformation of these souls through prayer to the Heavenly Father for His Love. Gone were my belief in vibrations, abstract intelligence, cosmic force, astral bodies and other paraphernalia of a bare and cold concept and real Spiritualism took its place as part of that sublime religion which affirmed that souls were alive, with or without the flesh, and that these souls can be changed from the image of God, as originally created, into the very essence and nature of God through His Divine Love. My search for God ended. I found God through the messages from Jesus and his Celestial Spirits. Because of the Love which I had obtained and my desire to help further the Father's truths, Jesus selected me to publish the Padgett messages. I have since devoted my entire life to furthering the Master's task of disseminating these truths to mankind. I have made a beginning in my lifetime. The work will be continued by my associates and friends everywhere. Dr. Leslie R. Stone
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