Message received in 1915, found in The Gospel of God’s Love, The Padgett Messages, pages 161 – 165.
“I am your friend and brother in Love, Henry Ward Beecher. I live in the 7th sphere, where your father now is, and because of having met him there, I come to you tonight to write for a short time. He has told me of you, and how easily you receive the communications of spirits. I want to let you know that, even though I am no longer the same as when on earth, I still have the desire to make known to humankind the thoughts that arise in me concerning God and the relation of humans to Him and the Kingdom of Love.
“I now understand what Jesus was trying to convey in his Mission on Earth. It may surprise you to know that when on earth, no matter what I may have preached to my people, yet in my heart I looked upon Jesus as a mere man of the Jews, and not very different from other great reformers who taught the moral truths which tended to make humans better and caused them to live more righteous lives.
“But since being in the spirit world and having had the experiences which my life has given me, I have found the way to God’s divine love and to the Kingdom. I now know that Jesus was more than just a reformer. He was not only a good and just teacher, but the true ‘Son of God’ and the Messenger in bringing to the world the truths of Immortality, and knowledge of the Divine Love of the Father and the way to obtain it. He was truly the Way, the Truth and the Life, as no other teacher ever was.
“I know that many religious and secular teachers have asserted and tried to teach humankind about immortality of the soul; and as humans understood the meaning of the word ‘immortality’ these teachings were more or less satisfactory. But I now see that their conception of the word meant only the continuation of life after what is called death. How different the meaning as thus taught and the true meaning of the word. It means not only continuation of life, but a life that has in it the Divine Love or Essence of the Father, which makes the spirit part of Divinity Itself, and not subject to death of any kind.” To be continued…