James E. Padgett
\n<\/span>Washington D.C.<\/p>\nI am here, Constantine.<\/p>\n
I was the Roman Emperor and died as the head of the Christian Church.
\nI wasn’t really a Christian and did not understand the true principles
\nof the Christian teachings, but I adopted Christianity as a State
\nreligion because of political purposes added to my desire to destroy
\nthe powers of my antagonists who were believers in and worshipers
\nof the gods of paganism. I was a man who cared not in the slightest
\nwhether the cross or the symbol of the oracles was the true sign
\nof religion, or whether the followers of religious beliefs belonged
\nto the Christian church or the worship of the gods which our country
\nhad for so many years adopted and followed.<\/p>\n
My great desire when I made Christianity the State religion was
\nto obtain power and the allegiance of the majority of the people
\nof the empire. The Christians were very numerous and were persons
\nof such intense convictions – so intense, that not even death could
\nremove or change these convictions – I knew that when they once
\ngave me their allegiance, I should have a following that could not
\nbe overthrown by those who were worshipers of the old gods. The
\nlatter people were not so interested in their religious beliefs,
\nindividually, as to cause them to have such convictions as would
\ninterfere with any religion that I might establish, when they realized
\nthat their material interests would be advanced by at least, formally
\nrecognizing that religion as a state establishment. Their beliefs
\nwere not the results of conviction but merely those of what had
\nbeen accepted by their ancestors and transmitted to them as a kind
\nof inheritance. They believed in the gods and the oracles as a matter
\nof course, without ever having made the objects of their beliefs
\nmatters of investigation in order to learn if those beliefs were
\ntrue or not. Truth was not sought for, and hence conviction was
\na mere shallow acquiescence.<\/p>\n
During all the time of my office as Emperor, I never changed my
\nbeliefs and never accepted the teachings of the Christians as the
\nrevelation of truth, and in fact, I never considered such a matter
\nas religion, worthy of my serious consideration. Many doctrines
\nwere proposed and discussed by the ecclesiastical teachers and leaders
\nof this religion, and those doctrines were approved by me which
\nwere adopted by a majority of these leaders as true and the correct
\ndeclarations of what the Scriptures of the Christians contained.
\nI let these leaders fight their own battles as to doctrines and
\ntruths, and when they decided what should be accepted and declared
\nby the church to be true doctrines, I appoved the same and promulgated
\nthem as binding upon all the followers of the Christian faith.<\/p>\n
So I, though it has been frequently said, did not establish the
\ncanonicity of the Bible, or determine and legalize the doctrines
\nwhich were declared and made binding by the conventions of the leaders
\nof the church. Of course, I gave them my sanction and official approval,
\nbut they were not mine and should not be said to have been established
\nby me, for if the doctrines of the Arians had been accepted and
\ndeclared by a majority of these ecclesiasts as the true teachings
\nof the Christian scriptures, I should have sanctioned and given
\nthem the State’s authority. As I said, I was not a Christian when
\nI lived and I did not die a Christian, notwithstanding all the fantastical
\nand miraculous things which have been written about me and my conversion
\nto Christianity.<\/p>\n
When I came into the spirit world, I found myself in great darkness
\nand suffering, realizing that I had to pay the penalties for the
\nsins thought and committed by me on earth; and all the masses which
\nwere said for the benefit of my soul never helped me one particle
\nto get out of my unhappy condition.<\/p>\n
I knew nothing about the Divine Love or the mission of Jesus in
\ncoming to earth, and I found that my sins had not been washed away
\nas the teachers had often told me on earth would be done for me.
\nMany long years I remained in this condition of darkness and unhappiness,
\nwithout finding any relief by reason of the mystical workings of
\nJesus’ atonement of which the priests had told me, and which I did
\nnot believe, nor the help of the gods in whom I had been taught
\nto believe by our philosophers and religious teachers. No, I found
\nno relief and my condition seemed to be fixed, and hope of the Christian
\nheaven that was never mine, and of the fields Elysian that would
\nbe mine in a hazy way, did not cause me to feel that my sufferings
\nwould at sometime come to an end and the glad face of happiness
\nappear.<\/p>\n
But after a time the light of the truth in which Jesus came to
\nteach, broke in on my understanding and soul, and the Divine Love
\nof the Father commenced to flow into my soul and continued until
\nI became a possessor of it to that degree that I was carried to
\nthe Celestial Spheres, where I now am, a redeemed pure and immortal
\nsoul, having undoubting knowledge and conviction that I possess
\nin my soul the Divine Essence of the Father, and the certainty of
\neternal life in the Celestial Kingdom.<\/p>\n
I cannot tonight write you of my experience in either the dark
\nplanes or in the successive progressive spheres, but sometime I
\nwill come and detail that experience. But before ceasing my writing,
\nI wish to say with all the force that I have, that only the Divine
\nLove of the Father can save a soul from its sins and make it at
\none with the Father in His Divine Nature.<\/p>\n
Let creeds and dogmas and man made doctrines take care of themselves,
\nand learn the Truth, and in that Truth abide, for Truth is eternal
\nand never changes, and no decrees of man or dogmas of church tradition
\nof the early fathers or writers, or creeds of ecclesiastical conventions,
\nso solemnly adopted, and declared, can make that a truth which is
\nnot a truth. Truth existed before all these things and is not subject
\nto them, nor by them can it be added to or taken from.<\/p>\n
I must not write more now, and thank you for having
\npermitted me to write.<\/p>\n
So with my love, I will say good night.<\/p>\n
Your brother in Christ, Constantine<\/p>\n
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