I am here, John the Baptist;

    I came to tell you that I am now the harbinger of the Master as I was on earth, and that he is the true Jesus who writes to you in all the communications which you receive signed by him and by his name. I do this that you may believe and not doubt the messages that you receive. He has written you and you must rely on what he says, for what he has said to you will surely come to pass.

    I am the same John who appeared in Palestine and announced his coming, and as I told them what was actually to take place, so I tell you what is actually taking place; and you will not only receive the messages of truth which he will write you, but they will also be distributed to all mankind wherever the written languages of the world exist and are spoken or written.

    So you have before you a wonderful and important mission, and one that will do more to make true brothers and lovers of the Father than anything that has happened since the Master was on earth and taught and preached the truths of his Father and did good to physical man.

    I sometimes have wondered why you should have been selected, as I see that your soul development has not been nearly as great as that of many other men who now live and have lived; but as he has made the selection we must understand that he knows what is best, and that his selection must be the right one. As a consequence of this, all we who are his followers in the celestial world are trying our best to forward the cause and help you. And I must tell you that you have behind you in this great work, supporting and maintaining you, more spiritual power than any mortal has ever had before. This may sound surprising, but it is true.

    So my brother, for such I must call you now, try to acquire a faith in the love and desire of the Father to save all mankind from the errors of their lives and to make them one with Him that will enable you to stand forth as the representative of the Master, and the authoritative teacher of these great truths.

    I am in the celestial heavens and am very close to Jesus in his home and in his love for the Father and for all humanity. I have powers which are great, and love which is of the divine essence of the Father; and what I tell you now I will tell the world when the opportunity presents itself.

    I desire to write a little and tell you of the wonderful love that the Master has for you in your selection to do his work.

    So I say, he loves you not only because your his choice for doing his work, but because he wants you to become a very spiritual man having a large soul development and becoming fitted to enter his kingdom and becoming one of his near and dear followers and brothers in the love of the Father.

    I do not know of any other mortal who has been so blessed in his earth life. Even we who were called by him when on earth were not so blessed until we received the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, as you are now doing. You will receive this great gift in greater abundance in a short time, and then you will realize what the gift of the divine love means to your soul and to your happiness on earth.

    So, you are my brother and a new apostle of the Master, and I know your work will be greater in extent than was the work of any of us when we were trying to spread his teachings while on earth. I hope that God will bless you abundantly and keep you free from all error.

    I am with you very frequently, trying to help you to obtain the divine love of the Father. You will receive it in increased abundance, and when you do, as I say, all other things will come to you that are necessary to carry on the work that has been assigned to you.

    So with all my love and blessings, and the assurance that you will soon receive the love in increased abundance and do this great work with a faith that will not falter.

    I come for the same reason that Andrew came, and I want to add my testimony to his that you are the true selection of the Master to do his work, and that he is with you very often writing to you and bestowing upon you his love and blessings. You must believe and let not doubt enter your mind or keep you from fully believing that the Master is your friend and brother and is with you in your times of worry and gloom.

    I am a spirit who once, when on earth, had great doubts as to the Master's sacred mission and as to his being the true son of the Father, but these doubts left me when I saw the greatness of his person, and the wonderful love of the Father which possessed him. You will remember that I even denied him, this is, that I knew him as a mere man. So you must not doubt or deny him.

    I know, now, beyond all question of doubt that he is the true Master and the true son of God, and the only one in all God's universe that has the divine love of the Father to such an extent as makes him almost like the Father in goodness and wisdom. He is your friend and savior, and even more, he is your brother and companion in this great work which he is doing for the salvation of mankind.

    I, Peter, tell you this, and I tell you it with all the authority and faith and more knowledge than I had when I declared him to be the only and true divine son of God, and you must believe what I say. So let no more doubt or fear exist that you are not the Master's instrument selected by him, and confirmed by his love and grace, to do this great work. I, Peter, declare it, and I know what I declare and say it with all the authority that knowledge gives me.

    All the followers of the Master are interested in this work and in you, and we are now forming our band which shall guide and instruct you in all these truths which only we of the higher heavens know.

    You have more power of the spirit world being exercised in your behalf than has any other mortal, and with the exercise of this power there will come to you a power that no other mortal has ever had since the days when we lived on earth.

    So you must have faith, and to get it you must pray to the Father more and more.

    I must not write more tonight, but let me again insist that you pray to the Father and ask for more faith.

    I am also a follower of the Master and was with him in his travels through Palestine, and was with him when he was crucified on the cross and saw the great manifestations of God and the doom of evil and the principalities of the air, as St. Paul described them.

    I was a true follower of the Master on earth, and am a true one in the spirit world. He is now the prince of peace in its truest sense. His love for humanity is so great that we, even though we are his true lovers and very close to him, cannot comprehend it.

    So you must believe in him and in the fact that he has chosen you to do his great work. Believe and work and you will see the salvation of the Father manifest itself as never before.

    You have working with you all the powers of the kingdom of Jesus, and nothing will be able to withstand such powers. And love, the divine love of the Father, will enter into many a soul and make it an inhabitant of the kingdom through this great work.

    I will not write more tonight, but as Peter said, he will be with you often in love and blessings, and will write you the truths of the heavenly kingdom.

    So, with all my love and blessings I am your own true brother and friend-

    I come because most of the disciples have written you and I want to be in that number who testify that Jesus is the living and true son of God, and that he has selected you, and also your friend,* to do his work.

    I know that this has been told you by many spirits, but yet I want to add my testimony, for the time may come when you will meet such unbelief and skepticism that you will need all the testimony that you can get.

    The work that you will have to do will not be an easy one. You will have many antagonists, especially in the churches, and you will need the help that the spirit powers can give you.

    I am one of the band of celestial spirits that will sustain and help you in your work, and I am so interested that you shall succeed that I want you to know the fact that back of you both is the most wonderful power that has ever been given to mortals to carry out the plans of the higher celestial world.

    When on earth I was the brother of Jesus and called the lesser to distinguish me from James, the brother of John and son of Zebedee. I was not the son of any Alphaeus, such as the name is understood in the New Testament, but the son of Mary and Joseph, as was my brother, Jesus. Jesus, himself, will one day come and tell you exactly who Alphaeus was.

    So have faith and believe what we write you, for it is all true. You must not doubt or let your earthly affairs turn your thoughts from the great truths which we come to teach you.

    So without writing more, I will say believe!

    I came because I am a participant in the great work which the Master is now doing for mankind, and I want to assure you that in all your efforts to carry out this work, I will give you my love and exert my power to make you successful.

    I, too, will be of your band, and you will have a band that is so powerful that no opposition will be able to withstand it.

    So you must have faith, and with that will come the divine love and power to do these things which will help your work beyond your conception.

    I will not write more tonight, but in the future you will receive many messages from me.

    Let your mind be open to the conviction that I and the others of the disciples of Jesus have and can write to you in testimony of your selection to do the great work that you have been called to do. Never was a mortal so favored by the greatest man and most wonderful spirit that ever lived. I, an apostle, do not see how you could have been selected, for you are not so great a lover of God as we might expect the mortal to be who should be called to this work. But the Master has chosen you and he knows best, and we have no right to pass judgment on his choice. But, no matter whether you are worthy or not, you have been chosen and you must do the work.

    I know that you will have sustaining you all the power and wisdom of the spirit world that is ruled over by Jesus, and that will be sufficient to insure not only success in your work, but also your own soul's development and salvation.

    I wish that I might tell you what a privileged man you are, but I cannot tonight as I must stop now and let another write.

    I am your brother and friend in Christ, and in the love of the Father.

    I am a man who was a follower of the Master when on earth, and am a follower of him in the spirit world--I mean of the heavenly kingdom--and am a lover of God and a part of His divinity.

    I was not one of his twelve apostles, but I loved him and believed in him and died in his cause and am now receiving my reward, for I am now, as I say, an inhabitant of his heavenly kingdom and immortality is mine -- as it will be yours if you continue to believe in him and get the divine love of the Father in increased abundance.

    So let me tell you that not every man has bestowed upon him the great favor which the Master has bestowed upon you. No other mortal at this time has that great blessing of love and selection that he has given and made of you.

    The others have told you of this wonderful love and power and blessings that have been, and will be, bestowed upon you. So I will stop now and say that I am-

    I must add my testimony to the others who preceded me to the fact that the Master is now doing a great work for the redemption of mankind, and that through you he is going to transmit his great spiritual truths to mankind.

    I will not write much at this time, but say that in the future I will communicate my thoughts, which are the creatures of knowledge and experience in the celestial spheres of Christ's kingdom.

    So I will say goodnight, and may God bless you and keep you in His love and care forevermore.

    (St. Luke)

    Let me add my testimony also, and you will soon see that any doubt is more than foolishness.

    I am St. Luke, the writer of the third gospel, as it is called. But here let me tell you that in that writing are things that I never wrote and never believed to have any existence. I know that my gospel is considered one of the most authentic of the four, but in it, as it is contained in the Bible, are many errors and impossible declarations of the truth as taught by the Master. You must eradicate the errors and retain the truths, and this you will be able to do when you have received the messages from the Master, and the epistles that we, the apostles and disciples, may write.

    Your labor will not be an easy one, but you will be given strength and understanding and wisdom sufficient to make your work of showing the truth to mankind a correct and unimpeachable one. I will help you in this particular work with all my love and powers of depicting the true meaning of what may be written you, and will be with you continually when you get ready to compile these messages and other writings which will come to you from the Master and many others of us.

    But in order to become perfect in this great work you must acquire abundant faith and a large degree of soul development. These qualifications are very necessary because spiritual things conveyed must be spiritually received. This we all know now, and we tell it to you for you must know it too.

    I will not write more now and so will say goodnight.

    I am here, St. Stephen;

    I am the martyr, and I came to you to tell you that you must believe in us spirits who once lived on earth and taught the truths of Jesus, and who were followers of him and lovers of the Father, and are inhabitants of his kingdom and immortal.

    I died the death portrayed in the Bible, and Saul, who was my most pernicious persecutor, is the same person who afterwards became Paul, the Christian. I merely state this fact to identify myself with you, and to show you that I am the same spirit who once died for the faith. So while I am now a happy spirit and an inhabitant of the heavenly kingdom, yet once I was a mortal engaged in teaching the truths of the Master and suffered the pains and torments which such teachings and such faith brought to many of Jesus' disciples.

    But those times are past and now these truths may be preached, and there is none to make afraid; yet opposition will come from the churches and the ecclesiastical brethren who are bound by their beliefs in the creeds of the churches.

    But, nevertheless, the truths must be taught, and the Master has chosen you to receive them so that they will be given to the world. And while your task is a glorious one, yet you will find much responsibility and antagonism, and maybe even persecution in your private life because of such teachings, but be firm and stick to these truths and in the end they will prevail and mankind will be benefited and will turn to the love of the Father and pursue the way that the Master will show.

    So let not your courage falter, or your efforts cease, and you will find a recompense, not only in the spirit world, but in the world of mortals as well.

    I will be one of your band that St. Peter spoke of, and you will find that your power for good will develop wonderfully and in a way that will make the world take heed to the truths that you shall transmit.

    You are the chosen one and have with you the powers of the celestial kingdom, and the world will not prevail against you or your efforts to show mankind the way to salvation.

    So put your trust in the Master and in the Father's love and you will not be forsaken.

    I will come to you again and give you some truths of the Father's kingdom that will show the real truths of God's will. My teachings will be supplemented to those of the Master and in unison with them.

    (St. Barnabas)

    Let me supplement what St. Stephen wrote. I am an apostle of the Master and was called Barnabas, the partner of Paul in much of his ministry in extending and making known the truths of the Master throughout Asia and also Judea. I was not only the collaborator with Paul at Jerusalem, but among the circumcised Jews who embraced the faith in Christianity. I am now working with the apostles in trying to help men and spirits understand and believe in these great truths.

    So you must believe that I am trying to help you in the great work which the Master has decreed and declared you shall perform. We are with you and will exert all our power and love to forward the cause of righteousness and the redemption of people.

    You must acquire the faith which is so necessary to your success--I mean the faith which leaves no room for doubt that the Master has called you, and has and will give you power and spiritual development that you may do his work as he desires you to do it. Be a true believer and you will not fail.

    I will not write more tonight and will say, may God prosper you and make you like unto Himself in soul qualities and goodness.

    I am here, St. Paul;

    I desire to tell you I am very anxious to disclose to you what are the true teachings of Jesus, and what errors my epistles, as contained in the Bible, possess.

    ...Tonight I will not attempt to write any message of these truths, and will only say that I am much interested in your work and will try to help you all I can. So I must stop.

   (question) No. No blood saves from sin, only the divine love of the Father does this.