James Edward Padgett the first Pen and Hand Instrument
On August 25, 1852, in the District of Columbia, a baby boy named James Edward was born to John and Ann Padgett.
As a young man, Mr. Padgett attended the Polytechnic Academy Institute in Newmarket, Virginia. In 1880, he was admitted to the bar and became connected with the law firm of A.G. Riddle, later becoming a partner in the firm, then in business under the name of Riddle, Miller & Padgett. For several years, he was a member of the law firm of Riddle, Padgett & Davis and during his latter years, Mr. Padgett was associated with William H. Manogue.
Mr. Padgett was a member of the Association of Oldest Inhabitants and the District of Columbia Bar Association and practiced law for 43 years until his death on March 17, 1923.
On December 15, 1880, in Washington, D.C, James Padgett married Helen Worman Hyde, the daughter of Olivia and Rev. George Hyde. On February 12, 1914, tragedy struck when Helen died.
Grief stricken over her passing, even though he had been raised a strict Methodist, he decided to attend a meeting that was being held at the First Spiritualist Church in the Pythian Temple on 9th Street N.W. with the hope of receiving a message from Helen.
During the service, the medium told Mr. Padgett his wife was present and she informed Mrs. Maltby that her husband possessed the psychic power to obtain automatic writings from Spirits and challenged him to make the effort.
Shortly thereafter, Mr. Padgett followed her advice and took pen in hand. To his surprise, he found that the pen moved automatically and produced what he called “fish hooks” and “hangers.”
After a short period of time, he obtained a writing which he could make out as a message signed by Helen and from that point on, he began receiving not only messages from her, but many messages from family members and friends, who had passed over as well.
Then one night a few months later, following messages he received from Helen, his parents and Grandmother, Mr. Padgett had a surprise visitor.
As a young man, Mr. Padgett attended the Polytechnic Academy Institute in Newmarket, Virginia. In 1880, he was admitted to the bar and became connected with the law firm of A.G. Riddle, later becoming a partner in the firm, then in business under the name of Riddle, Miller & Padgett. For several years, he was a member of the law firm of Riddle, Padgett & Davis and during his latter years, Mr. Padgett was associated with William H. Manogue.
Mr. Padgett was a member of the Association of Oldest Inhabitants and the District of Columbia Bar Association and practiced law for 43 years until his death on March 17, 1923.
On December 15, 1880, in Washington, D.C, James Padgett married Helen Worman Hyde, the daughter of Olivia and Rev. George Hyde. On February 12, 1914, tragedy struck when Helen died.
Grief stricken over her passing, even though he had been raised a strict Methodist, he decided to attend a meeting that was being held at the First Spiritualist Church in the Pythian Temple on 9th Street N.W. with the hope of receiving a message from Helen.
During the service, the medium told Mr. Padgett his wife was present and she informed Mrs. Maltby that her husband possessed the psychic power to obtain automatic writings from Spirits and challenged him to make the effort.
Shortly thereafter, Mr. Padgett followed her advice and took pen in hand. To his surprise, he found that the pen moved automatically and produced what he called “fish hooks” and “hangers.”
After a short period of time, he obtained a writing which he could make out as a message signed by Helen and from that point on, he began receiving not only messages from her, but many messages from family members and friends, who had passed over as well.
Then one night a few months later, following messages he received from Helen, his parents and Grandmother, Mr. Padgett had a surprise visitor.
September 12, 1914
I am here, Helen.
Yes, I am here and I love to be with you.
(Who last wrote to me?)
The Savior of men. He was with you and I was so glad as I feel that you will now believe that I am in the Spirit World and in the Love of God.
He is the Lord who came down from Heaven to save men. Let his love for you, help you to become a more spiritual man. God will bless you in all your doings.
Good night,
Helen
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September 12, 1914
Yes, I am here, your Father.
Yes, it is true. He was with you and you will soon learn much more from him as he says that he will teach you the Truth and the Light and the Way. Love God and keep His commandments. Let your heart be open to the Divine teachings of the Master. He will not only show you all the love he has for you, but will let you feel that he is your loving friend and savior.
(Why did he come to me?)
Because he loves you and believes that you may be of some benefit to the world.
Yes, he was the real Jesus of the Bible.
He is not in the Heavens and sitting on the right hand of the Father, but is among all mankind and still teaching them the power of Love and truth. He does not need the worship of men, but all that he wants is their love and happiness.
He is not the savior of the few but of all who will ask him to help them. Let your love for God increase and you will not be unhappy or cast down.
Good night.
Your Father,
John H. Padgett
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September 12, 1914
Give your heart to the Lord and He will bless you as you will soon realize. He did and he will come to you again soon. He is waiting to tell you of the truths that he is longing to have you know.
He is not going to let you feel that he is away up in the Heavens far beyond the reach of men, but is with them all the time working and trying to save them from their sins. Let your love for God and His truths keep you from unbelief and doubt.
Be a true seeker after the knowledge that is in Christ, and you will not be long in doubt as to which is the way to eternal happiness. Keep trying to find the truth. He told me that he would come to you so that you might not doubt any longer, and he is not going to leave you again as he did some years ago when your heart was hard and sinful. You must believe that he came to you. He is no other than Jesus of the Bible.
I will love and help you at all times.
Your Grandmother,
Ann Rollins
I am here, Helen.
Yes, I am here and I love to be with you.
(Who last wrote to me?)
The Savior of men. He was with you and I was so glad as I feel that you will now believe that I am in the Spirit World and in the Love of God.
He is the Lord who came down from Heaven to save men. Let his love for you, help you to become a more spiritual man. God will bless you in all your doings.
Good night,
Helen
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September 12, 1914
Yes, I am here, your Father.
Yes, it is true. He was with you and you will soon learn much more from him as he says that he will teach you the Truth and the Light and the Way. Love God and keep His commandments. Let your heart be open to the Divine teachings of the Master. He will not only show you all the love he has for you, but will let you feel that he is your loving friend and savior.
(Why did he come to me?)
Because he loves you and believes that you may be of some benefit to the world.
Yes, he was the real Jesus of the Bible.
He is not in the Heavens and sitting on the right hand of the Father, but is among all mankind and still teaching them the power of Love and truth. He does not need the worship of men, but all that he wants is their love and happiness.
He is not the savior of the few but of all who will ask him to help them. Let your love for God increase and you will not be unhappy or cast down.
Good night.
Your Father,
John H. Padgett
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September 12, 1914
Give your heart to the Lord and He will bless you as you will soon realize. He did and he will come to you again soon. He is waiting to tell you of the truths that he is longing to have you know.
He is not going to let you feel that he is away up in the Heavens far beyond the reach of men, but is with them all the time working and trying to save them from their sins. Let your love for God and His truths keep you from unbelief and doubt.
Be a true seeker after the knowledge that is in Christ, and you will not be long in doubt as to which is the way to eternal happiness. Keep trying to find the truth. He told me that he would come to you so that you might not doubt any longer, and he is not going to leave you again as he did some years ago when your heart was hard and sinful. You must believe that he came to you. He is no other than Jesus of the Bible.
I will love and help you at all times.
Your Grandmother,
Ann Rollins
September 12, 1914
I am here, Jesus.
God is Love and they that worship Him in spirit and love will not be forsaken.
I came to tell you that you are very near the Kingdom, only believe and pray to the Father and you will soon know the truth, and the truth will make you free. You were hard hearted and sinful, but now that you are seeking the light I will come to you and help you, only believe and you will soon see the truth of my teachings.
Let your love for God and your fellow man increase. You are not in condition for further writing. I will come to you again when you are stronger. Yes, it is Jesus and I want the world to follow the teachings of my words.
Goodbye and may the Holy Spirit bless you as I do.
Jesus Christ
I am here, Jesus.
God is Love and they that worship Him in spirit and love will not be forsaken.
I came to tell you that you are very near the Kingdom, only believe and pray to the Father and you will soon know the truth, and the truth will make you free. You were hard hearted and sinful, but now that you are seeking the light I will come to you and help you, only believe and you will soon see the truth of my teachings.
Let your love for God and your fellow man increase. You are not in condition for further writing. I will come to you again when you are stronger. Yes, it is Jesus and I want the world to follow the teachings of my words.
Goodbye and may the Holy Spirit bless you as I do.
Jesus Christ
October 5, 1914
I am here, Jesus:
You are the messenger that I shall use to carry my gospel to mankind and I will teach you those truths which you cannot now understand. I will explain all the qualities of the soul and spirit so that mankind need no longer remain in darkness as to what my teachings mean and as to how very necessary it is that it shall understand and follow my teachings.
Do not be over anxious at this time to know the mysteries of preexistent of the difference between the soul and the spirit. You shall know in the future and you will then be able to receive the truths of God in their respects to your fellow man.
Go to the Lord in prayer and he will remove from your soul all that tends to defile it and make it an alien from Him. He is the one that will clean it from all sin and error.
Do not believe all that you read tonight in the books that you are reading at the library. Some statements were true and some were not. Only the teachings that I shall give you will tell the wishes 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 the Jesus of the Scriptures and 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 will soon receive the contentment that He gives His true children. Go to Him in all your troubles and you will find rest and peace.
(Unknown questions)
Yes, in a very short time you will be free to devote your whole attention to my objects and to your work. You will soon be in a condition to let the things of this world alone as I need you for my service.
Let me bless you and leave you now for you are too nervous to write more at this time.
With all my love and my blessings and those of the Holy Spirit,
Jesus
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In the messages when Jesus began communicating with Mr. Padgett, he urged him to pray earnestly and with all of his heart and soul for the inflowing of the Divine Love. He explained that while Mr. Padgett was naturally a medium, there were many things he (Jesus) couldn't write to him about because Mr. Padgett's condition was not elevated enough to receive them. But if Mr. Padgett would follow Jesus promptings and pray to receive the transforming Substance of the Father's Divine Love, his soul's condition would be elevated and the powers of the Love would work to elevate his mind and mortal brain.
In time, Jesus explained, Mr. Padgett's mediumship would be transformed into a much higher quality of receptivity that would enable Jesus and his co-workers to form the necessary rapport with him that would allow them to write the highest truths of the Father. These would include the truths of his public mission on earth and his teachings of the Divine Love which had been lost to mankind's awareness on earth shortly after his death and the death of his Disciples.
When Jesus began to deliver his "formal messages," as the high truths are called, he wrote Mr. Padgett that their delivery constituted his second coming to earth, to proclaim once again the glad tidings of the Father's rebestowal of His Divine Love upon His children for their eternal salvation, the privelege to become divine which had been lost to mankind with the fall of the first parents,
For 8 years, until Mr. Padgett's passing to the Spirit World in 1923, Jesus and other high Celestial Spirits as well as many below the Celestial Heavens, wrote over 2,500 messages through him. His work was well known throughout the Spirit World and he soon became a friend in need to many in the hells of suffering, for he would allow them to write through him one night each week. He would then call their attention to the bright Spirits present who helped them begin their progress to higher spheres.
Several close friends and associates were frequently present with Mr. Padgett as he took the writings. One of them, Dr. Leslie R. Stone a Chiropractor, became the first publisher of the writings. A fellow lawyer, Mr. Eugene Morgan, assisted in the work of transcribing them. Both were dedicated to helping the dark Spirits and were responsible for thousands finding their way out of the hells of suffering into the love and light of the Father's Divinity. This work with the Spirits both before and after Mr. Padgett's passing had a great impact on the Spirit World and actually delayed the start of the movement on earth.
I am here, Jesus:
You are the messenger that I shall use to carry my gospel to mankind and I will teach you those truths which you cannot now understand. I will explain all the qualities of the soul and spirit so that mankind need no longer remain in darkness as to what my teachings mean and as to how very necessary it is that it shall understand and follow my teachings.
Do not be over anxious at this time to know the mysteries of preexistent of the difference between the soul and the spirit. You shall know in the future and you will then be able to receive the truths of God in their respects to your fellow man.
Go to the Lord in prayer and he will remove from your soul all that tends to defile it and make it an alien from Him. He is the one that will clean it from all sin and error.
Do not believe all that you read tonight in the books that you are reading at the library. Some statements were true and some were not. Only the teachings that I shall give you will tell the wishes 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 the Jesus of the Scriptures and 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 will soon receive the contentment that He gives His true children. Go to Him in all your troubles and you will find rest and peace.
(Unknown questions)
Yes, in a very short time you will be free to devote your whole attention to my objects and to your work. You will soon be in a condition to let the things of this world alone as I need you for my service.
Let me bless you and leave you now for you are too nervous to write more at this time.
With all my love and my blessings and those of the Holy Spirit,
Jesus
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In the messages when Jesus began communicating with Mr. Padgett, he urged him to pray earnestly and with all of his heart and soul for the inflowing of the Divine Love. He explained that while Mr. Padgett was naturally a medium, there were many things he (Jesus) couldn't write to him about because Mr. Padgett's condition was not elevated enough to receive them. But if Mr. Padgett would follow Jesus promptings and pray to receive the transforming Substance of the Father's Divine Love, his soul's condition would be elevated and the powers of the Love would work to elevate his mind and mortal brain.
In time, Jesus explained, Mr. Padgett's mediumship would be transformed into a much higher quality of receptivity that would enable Jesus and his co-workers to form the necessary rapport with him that would allow them to write the highest truths of the Father. These would include the truths of his public mission on earth and his teachings of the Divine Love which had been lost to mankind's awareness on earth shortly after his death and the death of his Disciples.
When Jesus began to deliver his "formal messages," as the high truths are called, he wrote Mr. Padgett that their delivery constituted his second coming to earth, to proclaim once again the glad tidings of the Father's rebestowal of His Divine Love upon His children for their eternal salvation, the privelege to become divine which had been lost to mankind with the fall of the first parents,
For 8 years, until Mr. Padgett's passing to the Spirit World in 1923, Jesus and other high Celestial Spirits as well as many below the Celestial Heavens, wrote over 2,500 messages through him. His work was well known throughout the Spirit World and he soon became a friend in need to many in the hells of suffering, for he would allow them to write through him one night each week. He would then call their attention to the bright Spirits present who helped them begin their progress to higher spheres.
Several close friends and associates were frequently present with Mr. Padgett as he took the writings. One of them, Dr. Leslie R. Stone a Chiropractor, became the first publisher of the writings. A fellow lawyer, Mr. Eugene Morgan, assisted in the work of transcribing them. Both were dedicated to helping the dark Spirits and were responsible for thousands finding their way out of the hells of suffering into the love and light of the Father's Divinity. This work with the Spirits both before and after Mr. Padgett's passing had a great impact on the Spirit World and actually delayed the start of the movement on earth.
Dr. Francis A. Goerger
Friend and associate of Mr. Padgett
I am glad to say that I was well acquainted with Mr. James E. Padgett, of Washington, D.C. from the year 1915 to 1923.
I knew him to be a man of a very loveable and kindly disposition, as well as an able and conscientious lawyer, with a high reputation at the bar, having been acquainted with some of his associates often heard them speak of him with the highest esteem as a lawyer and a man.
I was present with Mr. Padgett in his room on some occasions when he was receiving messages, which he explained to me were communications from the Spirit World, and which were received by him without any interposition of his own mind. He also told me that while he was receiving the writings, he did not know in advance what the next words or sentences written would be, and when receiving these writings, that he was instructed by spirits that a necessary acquirement on his part was that his mind must be kept in a passive and inactive state so that his own thoughts would not interfere with the messages transmitted through him and then they would be able to write the exact words and sentences that they were anxious to be made known to mankind.
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Dr. Leslie R. Stone
Friend and associate of Mr. Padgett
I was closely associated with Mr. Padgett from the time he started to receive the messages from the high spirits up to the time of his passing over into the Spirit World.
I was often present with Mr. Padgett in his room when he was receiving the messages from the Celestial Spirits. And I now want to say, with all the emphasis of my soul and being, that I have a firm conviction in the genuineness of the same. And I know that if any man could have felt the wonderful love and power that Mr. Padgett and myself often spoke of and experienced, during the time the truths were being revealed, and when we discussed them, they would never doubt that Jesus and the Celestial Spirits were actually present and were the high spirits who communicated.
Mr. James E. Padgett was the instrument used by Jesus, and many spirits of the Celestial Heavens to receive their messages of spiritual truths that they are anxious should be made known to all mankind.
Mr. Padgett was at one time Assistant District Attorney, Washington, D.C., an able lawyer with a high standing at the bar. He practiced law in the District of Columbia for more than 40 years. He was born August 25, 1852, in Washington D.C., and passed to the Spirit World March 17, 1923.
Friend and associate of Mr. Padgett
I am glad to say that I was well acquainted with Mr. James E. Padgett, of Washington, D.C. from the year 1915 to 1923.
I knew him to be a man of a very loveable and kindly disposition, as well as an able and conscientious lawyer, with a high reputation at the bar, having been acquainted with some of his associates often heard them speak of him with the highest esteem as a lawyer and a man.
I was present with Mr. Padgett in his room on some occasions when he was receiving messages, which he explained to me were communications from the Spirit World, and which were received by him without any interposition of his own mind. He also told me that while he was receiving the writings, he did not know in advance what the next words or sentences written would be, and when receiving these writings, that he was instructed by spirits that a necessary acquirement on his part was that his mind must be kept in a passive and inactive state so that his own thoughts would not interfere with the messages transmitted through him and then they would be able to write the exact words and sentences that they were anxious to be made known to mankind.
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Dr. Leslie R. Stone
Friend and associate of Mr. Padgett
I was closely associated with Mr. Padgett from the time he started to receive the messages from the high spirits up to the time of his passing over into the Spirit World.
I was often present with Mr. Padgett in his room when he was receiving the messages from the Celestial Spirits. And I now want to say, with all the emphasis of my soul and being, that I have a firm conviction in the genuineness of the same. And I know that if any man could have felt the wonderful love and power that Mr. Padgett and myself often spoke of and experienced, during the time the truths were being revealed, and when we discussed them, they would never doubt that Jesus and the Celestial Spirits were actually present and were the high spirits who communicated.
Mr. James E. Padgett was the instrument used by Jesus, and many spirits of the Celestial Heavens to receive their messages of spiritual truths that they are anxious should be made known to all mankind.
Mr. Padgett was at one time Assistant District Attorney, Washington, D.C., an able lawyer with a high standing at the bar. He practiced law in the District of Columbia for more than 40 years. He was born August 25, 1852, in Washington D.C., and passed to the Spirit World March 17, 1923.