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I AM HERE. Jesus.
Let me write a few lines, for I must tell you of an important Truth
that is necessary for men to know to gain a knowledge of the Plan of
salvation in order to reach the Celestial Kingdom.
I know that the Bible contains many sayings attributed to me in
reference to this Plan, and many of my alleged sayings are believed
in by those who claim to be Christians which are not true. I never
said them, and they are contrary to what I received from the Father
as to the true Plan of men's redemption from sin, and as to the only
Way by which they can obtain true at-onement with the Father and a
knowledge of their own immortality.
Many of these sayings were written by men who knew not the only Way
to a oneness with the Father, and were the results of the teachings
of the manuscripts that then existed. They were received by the Jews
as the revelations of Moses and of many of the prophets who had no
knowledge of the Divine Love or of Its rebestowal upon humanity.
These men made me say those things that accorded with their ideas of
what was necessary for salvation, or for the possibility of their
becoming at-one with me and with the Father, and, in writing their
ideas, confused the Truth with what they supposed was the truth as
contained in the Old Testament. Much harm has been done by
attributing many of these sayings to me because of the supposed
authority that was attached to them.
My disciples never taught and never understood that their salvation,
or that of any man, depended upon faith in me as the son of God; or
that I, the mere Jesus, had in me any virtue to forgive sin or to
ensure an entrance into the true Kingdom of God; or that I, as the
man Jesus, was a son of God in the sense that the Bible teaches.
They knew that the Father had revealed to me the Truth, and that I
had in me that Love which, to a large extent, made me like unto and
at-one with the Father. They also knew that my teachings of the
rebestowal of the Divine Love were true, and that when they or any
man should possess this Love, to the extent of that possession, they
would become at-one with the Father and also with me, who possessed
It to a greater degree than any man. I say they knew this and taught
it to the people, as I had taught it to them. But when the compilers
of the present New Testament came to declare my sayings and
teachings, they knew not of this Love, and, hence, could not
understand what many of my true expressions meant. They gave them an
interpretation, so far as my real sayings are concerned, that would
comply with their own knowledge.
No, I am not correctly quoted in many of these sayings, and, I may
say, in the large majority of them. For when they were written, as
now contained in the New Testament, men had lost the knowledge of
their true meaning, and, out of their own minds, recorded that which
they thought was what I had really said.
I do not see how these false sayings can be corrected except to take
each saying and show its falsity by its incompatibility with what I
now say. This would take too much time and expend much energy that
could be employed better in declaring what the truth actually is.
BUT THIS I WILL SAY: THAT WHENEVER THESE SAYINGS IMPART THAT I CLAIM
TO BE GOD, OR THAT I COULD, OR DID, FORGIVE MEN OF THEIR SINS, OR
THAT WHATSOEVER SHOULD BE ASKED OF THE FATHER IN MY NAME WOULD BE
RECEIVED, ARE ALL UNTRUE AND HAVE GREATLY MISLED THE TRUE SEEKER OF
KNOWLEDGE AND IMMORTALITY.
My disciples were close to me and understood my sayings better than
all others. Yet, they did not understand all the truth, and left the
mortal life with many expectations that were not fulfilled and, in
the very nature of the same, could not be fulfilled. In certain
nonessentials, they were influenced in their beliefs and
expectations by their training in the teachings of these Old
Testament manuscripts, and were very largely Jews in their beliefs
when they died. They understood the vital things that determined
their relationship to God and to their existence in the future
world, but, as to many of the nonessentials, they retained the faith
of their fathers and were not able to receive all the truth which I
could have taught them.
I MUST NOT LINGER TO CORRECT THESE ALLEGED SAYINGS OF MINE, BUT MUST
OCCUPY MY TIME AND YOURS IN DECLARING AND REVEALING THE TRUTH AS IT
EXISTS NOW, AND EXISTED THEN, THAT YOU AND THE WORLD MAY KNOW THAT
WHEREVER AND WHENEVER THESE BIBLE SAYINGS OF MINE CONFLICT WITH WHAT
I HAVE WRITTEN AND SHALL WRITE YOU, THEY ARE UNTRUE AND WERE NEVER
SAID BY ME. THUS, IN THIS GENERAL WAY, I WILL MAKE PLAIN TO MEN THAT
THE BIBLE MUST NOT BE RELIED ON OR BELIEVED IN, IN ALL PARTICULARS,
AS CONTAINING THE TRUTH OR MY DECLARATIONS OF THE TRUTH.
I was saying that the Jews and the teachers of the church that
became established, or, rather, controlled after the death of my
followers, and those who understood the true teachings of my
disciples, taught the conduct of men towards their fellowmen.
However, the observance of certain ceremonies and feasts was
regarded as the important thing for men to learn and practice in
order to gain salvation, rather than the Truths which made man a
child of the Father and at-one with Him through the operation of the
New Birth.
OF COURSE, BEFORE MY COMING, THE JEWS COULD NOT HAVE TAUGHT THE
TRUTH OF THE NEW BIRTH BECAUSE THE GREAT GIFT OF THE REBESTOWAL OF
THE DIVINE LOVE HAD NOT BEEN MADE. AND IT WAS NOT POSSIBLE FOR THAT
GREAT TRUTH, WHICH WAS NECESSARY FOR IMMORTALITY AND THE POSSIBILITY
OF MAN'S PARTAKING OF GOD'S DIVINE LOVE, TO BE KNOWN TO THE JEWS;
HENCE, THEY COULD NOT TEACH IT. THEIR TEACHINGS WERE LIMITED AND
CONFINED TO THE THINGS WHICH WOULD MAKE THEM PURER IN THEIR NATURAL
LOVE, AND IN THE RELATION OF THAT LOVE TO THE FATHER.
God, at that time, while He never gave them the privilege of
becoming at-one with Him in the Divine Love, or even of becoming
such beings in their character and spiritual qualities as were Adam
and Eve (commonly supposed to be our first parents), yet, He did
require of them obedience to His Laws, which would develop in them
their natural love to such a degree as would cause it to become in
harmony with His Laws that controlled and governed their natural
love.
If you will study the Ten Commandments, you will see that these
Commandments deal only with the natural love. Their observance would
tend to make men better in that natural love, and better in their
conduct with one another and in their relationship to God, so far as
that love brought them in communion with Him. This natural love, as
I have said, was possessed by men, just as the first parents
possessed it, and was never taken from them, and, in its purity, was
in perfect harmony with God's Creation and the workings of His
Universe. But notwithstanding these great qualities, men were mere
men and had in them no part of the Divinity of the Father. And, this
being so, the Jews, while they were supposed to be more in contact
with God through the prophets and seers than were any of the other
races or sects of God's children, yet, never looked for a Messiah
who would come with any other or greater power than that which would
enable them to become the great ruling nation of the earth to whom
all other peoples would be subordinated and subjected and powerless
to ever again conquer or subject their nation to bondage.
In a way, this Messiah was to be a kind of supernatural being,
having power which no other man ever had, and a kind of god to be
worshiped and served during their earthly lives.
Many of the Jews, notwithstanding what may be said to the contrary
in the teachings of the prophets, believed in other gods than the
one which Moses declared, as is evidenced in their histories, both
sacred and secular. For whenever their God—that is, the God of
Moses—did not treat them just as they thought He should, they would
create and worship other gods—even the golden calf. So, I say, they
never expected a Messiah who would be other than a most powerful
ruler on earth.
Their ideas and beliefs of the life after death were very hazy. And
even that part of them known as the Pharisees, who believed in a
kind of resurrection, never conceived that, when they should drop
the mortal life, they would be anything different in their qualities
and characters from what they were as mortals (minus the physical
bodies), or would experience anything more than the great increased
happiness which would come to them as such spiritualized mortals.
This was the idea of the common people, and also of the priests and
scribes. And, notwithstanding the many beautiful and spiritual
psalms ascribed to David, the happiness or glory that they might
expect was only that which would come to them as spiritualized
mortals having only the natural love.
So, you see, the Great Gift of the Father—the rebestowal of the
Divine Love—was not known or even dreamed of by the Jews, nor
conceived of, nor taught, by their scribes, nor spoken of even by
their great prophets or lawgivers such as Moses and Elias and
others.
Their conception of God was that of an exalted, Personal Being,
All-Powerful and All-Knowing, Whom they would be able to see face to
face, as they might any king or ruler when they should come into the
heavens which He had prepared for them, and where He had His
Habitation.
As I was saying, the chief object of my mission on earth was to
teach the rebestowal of the Divine Love upon man and the Way to
obtain It, and the secondary object was to teach men those moral
truths which would tend to make them better in their conduct towards
their fellowman and purer in their natural love.
And so it is that, in my teachings of these moral truths, the effect
of these teachings was to bring man more in harmony with the Laws of
the Father which control the operations of the natural love. I never
at any time intended that men should understand that these moral
truths would bring about their union with the Father in the Divine
sense, or that the possession of this natural love in its purest
state would enable man to become a partaker of God's Divine Nature
or an inhabitant of His Kingdom.
But, as I have said, apparently the only object that these compilers
and writers of the Bible had to accomplish was to persuade men that
the observance of these moral teachings in their conduct was all
that was necessary to enable them to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
I know it is said that love and almsgiving and kind deeds will work
to a man's salvation and enable him to become at-one with the Father
and to enjoy the Presence of God in the high heavens. But this is
not true.
The good deeds which a man performs in the way of helping his
fellowman will live after him, and will undoubtedly work toward his
becoming perfect in his natural love. But they will not bring that
man into at-onement with the Father in the higher Love which is so
necessary for his full salvation.
While my messages to you will not take one jot or tittle from the
moral teachings, yet, they will show to man the necessity and Way to
obtain a full reconciliation with the Father and a home in the
Celestial Spheres.
I will come to you again and write upon a subject which is important
to you, and which men should understand.
So, with all my love, I will say good night.
Your brother and friend,
JESUS.
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About James E. Padgett
 Born August 25, 1852, Mr. James Edward Padgett
practiced law in Washington, D.C. Subsequent to his wife's, Helen,
passing in February, 1914, James learned from a psychic that he had
the gift of automatic writing. Based on the promptings of the
psychic and with a desire to reach his dearly departed Helen, he
commenced take messages from the spirits in the spirit world. At
first, James denounced the messages as merely coming from his mind,
driven by a strong desire to reach his departed wife. Eventually,
however, James could not deny the fact that information he was
receiving could not have possibly come from his own mind - for the
content of the messages surpassed his own education and knowledge.
Before his passing in March, 1923, James had accumulated hundreds of
messages from spirits and celestials in the spirit world.
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