Project Gutenberg 2025-10-05 Public domain in the USA. 206 Hatch, David Patterson (Spirit) 1846 1912 Barker, Elsa 1869 1954 19011582 Last letters from the living dead man $aNew York :$bMitchell Kennerley, $c1919. The author states that these spiritualistic messages are from Judge David P. Hatch, of Los Angeles. "... the third and last of the Living Dead Man series, was written between February, 1917, and February, 1918. ..."--page 7 Peter Becker, Laura Natal and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "Last letters from the living dead man" by David Patterson Hatch is a collection of spiritualist letters and metaphysical essays written in the early 20th century. Framed as messages dictated through Elsa Barker’s automatic writing, it offers posthumous guidance on America’s moral destiny during and after the Great War, blending occult insight with practical civic counsel. The focus is on courage, unity, ethical reform, and the shaping influence of unseen worlds on national life. The opening of this work begins with Barker’s candid introduction: she recounts how the letters were “written down” during 1917–1918, her earlier volumes, her reluctance to continue automatic writing, and her turn to analytical psychology (especially Jung) while affirming a deep, experiential belief in immortality and the practical value of prayer and mysticism. The first letters from “X” invoke the “Genius of America,” urging fearlessness, service, and national unity amid wartime upheaval, and foretelling great change akin to winter giving way to spring. He warns that America suffers from an “indigestion of gold,” presses for rebuilding Europe, shipbuilding, fair lending, government stewardship of key utilities and food, and steady work to prevent panic and hysteria, while cautioning about a coming surge in psychic sensitivity and the need for restraint. Further letters advise honest dealing at home, level heads in turbulent politics, simple methods to calm fear, and describe “invisible armies” aiding from beyond; they also stress America’s role in spiritual culture, discuss reincarnated Native souls within the population, and narrate a forest encounter with an indigenous chieftain that reframes vengeance into future brotherhood—before returning to the central theme that a nation’s ideals, like individuals’, determine its fate. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/lastlettersfroml00barkiala 20241228020424barker 1919 us en Spiritualism Spirit writings World War, 1914-1918 -- Miscellanea BF Text 234393 2025-11-30T10:13:58.213471 text/html 209019 2025-10-05T07:45:59 text/html 314416 2025-11-30T10:14:03.596202 application/epub+zip 311615 2025-11-30T10:13:59.286307 application/epub+zip 213223 2025-11-30T10:13:58.808262 application/epub+zip 346317 2025-11-30T10:14:06.752219 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 310776 2025-11-30T10:14:03.149265 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 201564 2025-11-30T10:13:57.575306 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 181579 2025-10-05T07:45:59 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17038 2025-11-30T10:14:06.905223 application/rdf+xml 9517 2025-11-30T10:13:58.952237 image/jpeg 2020 2025-11-30T10:13:58.880243 image/jpeg 271428 2025-11-30T10:13:58.358240 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia