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I AM HERE. John, the Apostle.
Let me write a few lines tonight, as I have not written for a long time and am
anxious to say a few words which may be of help to you.
I have been present on many evenings when you were expecting to receive
communications and were disappointed because of reasons or causes that you could
not understand, except that you were not in that condition which would enable
the spirits to make a rapport with you.
Well, this is true, and is the immediate cause of the want of power of
communicating. But it is well that you understand more than this. For, in order
to remedy the difficulty, you must have some knowledge of the seat thereof.
I have explained to you the law controlling rapport and communication. And I
have endeavored to make it as plain and understandable as possible so that you,
at least, might grasp its meaning. But I see there are some things that you
still do not understand. And, because of this, you have had the recent
experience of not being able to receive the many messages that were waiting to
be delivered through your brain and hand.
As I have said, the first and most important requirement is that you be in that
condition of soul which, because of its qualities, will enable the spirits who
may desire to write the higher messages to form a rapport or union with you.
This means simply to take charge and control of your brain—a brain which,
because of certain qualities and thoughts having possessed it, will be in
harmony with the thoughts that these spirits desire to transmit through it (just
as it is absolutely necessary that the material medium through which the
electric fluid shall flow is a medium possessing such nature and qualities as
will permit the fluid to flow through it). A wire or medium may be made of wood,
and the electric fluid will be present, ready to flow through it, but it cannot.
And why? Not because the wire or wood may not be perfect in itself, as such
wire, but because the wire has not that nature and quality that will permit the
electric fluid to make a union with it and thus control it. And so it is with
the brain of the mortal. But the brain, when properly prepared, has the
possibility of possessing those qualities that will admit of this union and
control, which the wood has not. The brain, when devoid of this preparation, is
just as nonreceptive to the rapport and union with, and control of, these
spirits as is the wooden wire to a union with the electric fluid.
You have been told on numerous occasions that you were not in condition and that
the spirits could not make the rapport, and that you must make the effort to get
in condition. And this assertion and advice is all true. You were told to pray
more to the Father and think of spiritual things, and then you would come into
that proper condition. This is also true, and the advice is helpful. But you
were not told what this praying to the Father or thinking of spiritual thoughts
means. And, hence, you may do these things in a way and, yet, not get in the
proper condition.
During a long period in the past, I know that you have been receiving many
messages of the higher Truths, and for the delivery of which a highly prepared
brain was necessary to receive the same. And the thought has come to you: Why
were you able to receive these messages at the time of their delivery and not be
able to receive them now, because, as you further think, your brain is in as
good condition now as it was at those times. Well, in the latter thought, you
are mistaken. And the fact of such mistake should be sufficient to convince you
that your inability to receive the messages should not surprise you. During the
period mentioned, you prayed more often for the inflowing of the Divine Love,
and your longings were intense. And the desires to possess this Love, which is
so vital to the preparation of your brain, were so much more active. And also
your thoughts of spiritual things were so much more frequent. In other words,
you were then seeking with your whole heart to learn the Truths of God and to
possess His Love. And, hence, your brain was continually in that condition which
enabled the spirits to make the union and control it for the purpose of their
higher expressions.
Lately, you have not had the longings or prayed the prayers for the Love as
frequently. And, as a consequence, the qualities and elements of thought that
have possessed your brain have not been such as to put your brain in that
condition which makes it receptive to those spirit thoughts of the higher
Truths. Now, from this, you must not infer that this condition is a mere matter
of brain condition, produced by itself, for it is not. You have had the
intellectual desire to write and receive the messages as much as you ever had,
and also to receive messages of the higher Truths that should be new as well as
edifying to you. And your desires were real, and you were disappointed because
they were not realized. And this merely demonstrates to you that there is
something more than the mere mental or intellectual faculties that is necessary
to prepare the brain for the reception and transmission of that which partakes
of the nature of Truth, and that has its source in something other than the mere
human mind. These higher Truths come from spirits whose minds, as you might say,
are of the soul. And as only soul can deal with soul, it is required that the
preparation of the brain should come from the exercise of soul powers upon the
organs of that brain. And, hence, the necessity for your soul being in that
condition that will produce in the brain the qualities that will unite and
permit the Truths of the soul to be received and transmitted.
You must not only pray to the Father for the inflowing of this Divine Love but
must also pray often, until you realize the possession of this Love in your soul
almost constantly. Also, you must turn your thoughts (and I do not mean the
merely intellectual thoughts, but the thoughts of the soul which, as you have
already had, you may have again) to the spiritual Truths which have been
revealed to you, and to the Spiritual Realm where you believe other spiritual
Truths are waiting to be revealed. If you will thus pray and think, you will
find the desires and the expectations of the fulfillment of these desires coming
to you, and an enthusiasm which will come from the development of your soul by
the possession of this Love, along with your soul thoughts. This is what is
meant by the condition necessary to enable the spirits to make the rapport.
Of course, as to the ordinary matters of the spirit world, where no special soul
condition is required, the spirits can make rapport as they desire. And, in your
case, many of them could have written at the times you thought you were unable
to receive any writings. But we thought it best that no spirit be permitted to
write to you, as it might endanger the probability of your getting in the
condition that we desire, and which is necessary in order for your brain to
receive our vital and important messages. And, hence, your Indian* was directed
to not permit any spirit to write to you, and he did not, though many made the
effort to do so.
Well, I am glad that I could write to you in this manner tonight. And I hope you
will consider what I have said, and will realize the importance of your getting
into the condition of which I speak. The brain must be used by a soul having the
Divine Love active and, thus, prepared to receive the rapport.
I will not write more tonight, but will merely say that we have many more
messages which we desire to transmit.
So, believe that I am frequently with you in my love and desire to help and
protect, and to make your mission a success.
Good night.
Your brother and friend,
JOHN.
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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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