Received from John, the apostle, through James Padgett, on Jan. 4, 1918. Found in, The Gospel of God’s Love, on page 354.
“…It may seem to you that if we control your brain and do not use or transmit your thoughts, but only thoughts which come from our minds, it would be immaterial what the nature of your thoughts might be; that as your brain is used by us merely as an instrument, we, having possession of your brain, would have the power to write anything we might desire. And upon a superficial glance at this assertion, it could be reasonably supposed to be true.
“But rapport and our ability to use your brain are governed by laws; and one of these laws is that a higher thought cannot be transmitted through a human brain which is not in condition that qualifies it to receive that thought – just as the brain, in matters pertaining to mere material knowledge, cannot receive and transmit a conception of some intellectual truth with which it has no acquaintance. A brain cannot be used by the mind of a human to make known or present a problem in geometry when that brain has never been used by that mind to acquire an acquaintance with or knowledge of the principles of geometry. This is an incomplete analogy, but may serve to illustrate what I mean.
“In the conception by the human mind of a truth-material or spiritual-the brain must have some familiarity with the subject in order to make known that concept. This is absolutely true where the idea or thought originates in the mind of a person who is using his own brain to formulate and manifest that thought. The mind may have a thought and knowledge of some branch of learning, yet if it never used the brain to put that kind of knowledge into concrete form, the brain may be unable to transmit it.
“In many of your material things of life, such as great inventions, the knowlwdge of these inventions may be in the mind for a long time before it is formulated and expressed by the brain, and sometimes never gets through the brain at all. The mind and the brain are not one and equivalent things; one is the operator, and the other is the thing used to operate with, in order that the possessions of the operator may become manifested to others. To be continued…