From John the Baptist, in The Gospel of God’s Love, page 177.
“I have not written for some time, and I come to say, I have not forgotten you, I’m with you quite often, trying to help you with my love and influence.
(Interchange between James Padgett and John, not recorded.) “Well, I’m glad that you had such an experience, and I will tell you that you’ll have many more of that kind, for the celestial spirits are your friends and companions, and where they are, only love can come.
(Conversation not recorded.) “Well, That does seem contradictioy, but the fact is that I never sent my disciples to ask such a question. I knew at the time Jesus was baptised that he was the promised Messiah, that knowledge never left me or degenerated to a doubt. This passage of the bible has no foundation in fact, for I never thought it necessary to ask such a question. To me, Jesus was the real Messiah, and I knew that he was the true and only one, and that no other would come after him.
“After Jesus brought to light the fact that God had bestowed upon humankind the great possibility of obtaining the Divine Love and the divine nature, there never thereafter arose the necessity for the coming of another Christ. The great gift that was necessary to make humans become divine had been bestowed, and beyond that there was nothing that the Father had to bestow upon humankind.
“I am so sorry that such untruth should have been written and incorporated into the Bible. It did Jesus an injustice, and made me appear as a contradictory prophet and messenger of his coming. When I said; I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord.’ I meant that I knew that Jesus was the true Christ, and that forever thereafter would that knowledge be mine.
“I did not send my disciples to ask the question that you referred to. As I knew then, I know now, that Jesus was and is the true son of God and the savior of humankind, in the sense that he brought life and immortality to light.
“You have my love and blessiings, and the love of the Father, which is the great Love that makes you part of the divine essence of God.
Goodnight, your brother in Christ, John the Baptist