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100	1		_aHatch, David Patterson _q(Spirit), _d1846-1912
245	1	0	_aLetters from a living dead man
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aIn later books of the series the author states that these spiritualistic messages are from Judge David P. Hatch, of Los Angeles.
500			_aRelease date is 2025-09-10
508			_aPeter 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)
520			_aLetters from a living dead man by David Patterson Hatch is a spiritualist epistolary work written in the early 20th century. It presents purported messages from a recently deceased thinker known as “X,” conveyed through a medium, describing the conditions, laws, and experiences of consciousness after death. Expect vivid accounts of astral travel, teachers and helpers, reincarnation, heavens and hells, and the mechanics of cross‑world communication, with recurring figures like a guiding Teacher and a boy named Lionel. The opening of this work begins with an introduction from the recorder explaining how the letters started through automatic writing in Paris, the surprising news of “X’s” death, her reluctance and later decision to publish, and her insistence that the communications be judged by their substance. The early letters then unfold: “X” asserts his presence, explains the ease and brightness of the transition, asks for discretion, and teaches safeguards against intrusive astral influences and the mental poise needed for writing. He describes movement and perception in the subtle world; the role of will; the “pattern world” of prototypes; a League that helps the newly dead; and meetings with souls, including Lionel, along with glimpses of a “heaven country” and a Christ vision. He reports visiting archives (a Paracelsus treatise), shaping garments by thought, and warns the newly departed not to revisit their corpses; he relates a marital tangle between a man and his two wives, notes individualized hells, and tells of a devoted couple reunited in a home he built for her. The section closes with reflections on finding God (“God is”), the rhythm of rebirth and eternity, a defense of this controlled collaboration (distinguishing it from indiscriminate mediumship), and a final vignette setting off to witness a great imperial funeral. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cNew York: E. P. Dutton & co., 1914
653			_aSpiritualism
653			_aSpirit writings
700	1		_aBarker, Elsa, _d1869-1954
856	4		_uhttps://archive.org/details/letters-from-aliving-dead-man
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76854
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