Truths Of The Spirit World...The Hells    
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(Continued)

This is a message received from a messenger or angel from the
other side of the grave.  It describes what happens when one dies,
and crosses over to the spirit world.

"I am with you tonight to warn you against letting any doubt enter your
mind or heart as to our actually writing to you, for we, and none other,
are actually in communication with you.

The book that you read is a snare and a lie, for there are no angels
who have become devils, as the author of that book declares. Never
were there any angels who, through ambition or any other reason,
revolted against the power of government of God, and thereby lost
their estate as angels. Never was there any Lucifer, and never were
there any angels who were thrown from the battlements of heaven into
hell, as it has been written. And as I told you before, there are no
devils and no Satan, considered as real persons and fallen angels.

The only spirits in the spirit world are those who at one time were
mortals and who lived lives on earth, shorter or longer. And whenever
angels are mentioned in the Bible - or rather, in the New Testament,
in places which contain my sayings or those of the apostles (and I
mean those sayings which were actually said) - the word "angel"
always refers to the spirit of some mortal who had passed the line
between life and death as commonly understood.

I desire to tell you of these things at large very soon, and to instruct
you as to who were the angels of God that are supposed to have had
an existence prior to the creation of man and of the world, and who
the inhabitants of heaven were before the Spirit of God entered into
man and caused him to become a living soul, as the Bible says. But
the time is not yet ripe for me to instruct you in these matters because
there are so many more important Truths to be taught to you first -
Truths which are vital to man's salvation and happiness on earth and
in the spirit world.

But this you must believe: that no "devils" ever write to you or in any
manner manifest to or through any of the numerous mediums who are
used to show the existence of spirits of men in the spirit world, no
matter whether these mediums be good or evil.

There are spirits of all kinds, just as there are mortals of all kinds,
having all the traits and characteristics of mortals. And some of these
spirits may be justly called wicked or evil spirits, and even devils. But
they are nothing more or less than spirits such as I have described.

I know that the belief of the majority of mankind is that there are such
things as devils, and that they are independent creations of God, and
made by Him to tempt and inflict all kinds of trouble and unhappiness
on mortals. And because of the great number of years that these
beliefs have existed, and the fact that many of the churches still teach
that such devils do exist and that they are at all times trying to tempt
and injure men, it is hard and will be difficult to induce men to believe
that there are no such things as devils, which is the truth.

I know that the Bible, in many places, speaks of my casting devils out
of men, and of men being possessed of devils, and of the apostles
casting out devils, and of their not being able to cast out some of
these devils. But I tell you now that the Bible is all wrong in this regard.
The writers and translators of the Bible never understood what the
word "devil" meant, or was intended to mean, as used in these
various instances. As I have told you, there was never any devil or
devils in the sense mentioned and taught by the churches.
Consequently, they never could have possessed mortals or have
been cast out of them.

It is true that, by the workings of the Law of Attraction, and the
susceptibility of mortals to the influence of spirit powers, mortals may
become obsessed by the spirits of evil - that is, evil spirits of men
who once lived on earth - and this obsession may become so
complete and powerful that the living mortal may lose all power to
resist this influence of the evil spirits, and may be compelled to do
things that he will not desire to do, or may show all the evidence of a
distorted mind, and even may present appearances of a lost will
power as well as of the lost ability to exercise the ordinary powers
given him by his natural creation. And in these instances referred to of
casting out devils, wherever they occurred (and they did occur in
some of the instances mentioned), the only devils that existed were
the evil spirits who had possessed these mortals.

And this obsession obtains today, just as it did then, for the same
laws are in operation now as were in existence then. Many a man is
in a condition of evil life and disturbed mind from the obsession of
these evil spirits. And if there were any men of today in that condition
of soul development and belief that my disciples were in, they could
cast out these so-called "devils" just as the disciples cast them out in
the Bible days.

But men have not this faith, though there are many who have been
blessed with the inflowing of the Holy Spirit. But they have not the
belief that such work as the disciples performed can be performed by
them now. And in fact, the most of them believe that it would be
contrary to God's Will to attempt to exercise such powers; hence they
never attempt to do such work.

But when men learn that God is the same in all ages - that His laws
work the same way; that mankind is the same, so far as the soul's
possibilities are concerned; and that the faith which God made
possible for man to attain may be possessed by him now, just as it
was possessed by my disciples - then they will attempt this work of
beneficence, and will succeed. The sick will be healed and the devils
cast out, the blind made to see and the deaf to hear, and the so
called "miracles" will be performed as they were in my days on earth.

There is not and never was such a thing as a miracle in the sense of
having an effect produced by a cause which was not the result of the
ordinary workings of God's laws; for these laws, in their workings,
never vary. And when the same law is called into operation upon the
same condition of facts, the same results will always be produced.

So, let a mortal have in his soul the same amount of God's Divine
love which the Bible writers meant, or should have meant, when they
spoke of being endowed by the Holy Ghost; and let him have the
necessary faith that, when he prays to God, He will give him the
power to exercise this Love in a sufficient degree to produce the
desired results; and then let him try to exercise the power of casting
out devils or healing, etc., and he will find that success will attend his
efforts. God is the same at all times and under all circumstances, and
only mortals vary in their conceptions and conditions.

So I say, there are no devils as independent creatures of God, in
contradistinction to the spirits of men who once lived on earth, and
you must believe that there are not. I tell you now that the teachers of
such false doctrines will have to pay the penalties for their false
teachings when they come to the spirit world and see the result of
these false teachings. And no relief will be granted until they have
paid the last farthing. To believe such doctrines entails results that are
bad enough for any spirit to endure. But for a teacher to teach others
these beliefs and convince them of their truth, whether he actually
believes them or not, causes sufferings and duration of sufferings for
that teacher of which men have no conception.

I will not write more tonight, but in closing, will say that you have my
love and blessings, and I will fulfill my promises so that you will realize
your expectations, and be in condition to perform the work that you
have been selected to do.

(Mr. Padgett asked a question.)

Well, you let doubt come into your mind, and as a consequence, your
soul does not respond, although, strange as it may seem, the Divine
Love is there. But when this mental doubt exists, it is as if it were a
covering which prevents the existence of the Love in the soul to shine
forth and produce the great feeling of happiness and joy which
otherwise you might experience. The mental condition of the mortal
undoubtedly has a great influence on the consciousness of the man
as to his possession of this soul development and the Divine Love.
Consequently, there will have to be this continuous fight between the
mental conditions and the soul's consciousness as long as life lasts
on earth. But as the mental beliefs are brought into harmony with the
soul's condition, more and more the fight will grow weaker and less
frequent. And it is possible that the mental beliefs will cease
altogether and become entirely and absolutely subordinated, or
rather, absorbed in the soul's consciousness of its being possessed
of this Divine Love of the Father."






This was excerpted  from Angelic Visitations who publishes James Padgett's
messages received from messengers on the other side, back in the early
1900's.
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