January 15th, 1917
Received by:James Padgett
Washington D.C.
I am here, John B. London. Let me say a word, and I shall feel better for having done so. I am a spirit who lives in the earth plane and see spirits of all kinds and conditions, and know from observation and experience that in this plane is darkness as well as light, and that many, many spirits are in the dark places paying the penalties which the great law of compensation compels them to pay. These planes are of various degrees of darkness, all suited to the condition of the spirits who occupy them. Some of them are called hells and some purgatories, but they are all really connected, and the only difference between them is the condition of darkness and suffering which the inhabitants there are compelled to undergo. I have been through the hells and am now in purgatory, trying to rid my soul of suffering and get into the light of freedom and peace; and oh, there are so many here in that condition and without much hope. Our progress is slow and we have to pay the minutest demand that this law of compensation calls for.
I hope that you will pardon me for having intruded, but I felt that if I could communicate with you I should feel better, and so I do. I will bid you good night.
Your friend,
John B. London.