The Patience Worth Record: Volume I - Softcover

Worth, Patience

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1435712374 ISBN 13: 9781435712379

Publisher: Lulu.com, 2008

Synopsis

Patience Worth, a disembodied spirit, communicated through the mediumship of Pearl Curran from June 1913 to December 1937. At first, Patience communicated through Pearl by actuating Pearl's movements (i.e. having Pearl spell out words) while she was using an Ouija board. Later, Patience was able to communicate through Pearl more directly by activating Pearl's repertoir of mental images and thoughts. Over the course of this extraordinary relationship, Patience, through Pearl, dictated six books and engaged in lively conversations with hundreds of individuals from all walks of life. Scattered throughout Patience's conversations were numerous poems, essays, short stories, witticisms, and parables - all of a high literary and spiritual quality. These conversations, which consist of some four million words, were carefully recorded. They fill eleven bound volumes, which are kept at the Missouri Historical Society. This book contains the text of Patience's conversations found in volume one.

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The Patience Worth Record:
Volume I

I, John H. Curran, on this day, January 5, 1915, do here begin to transcribe and compile a complete record of certain communications received through Mrs. John H. Curran by means of the ouija board.

The plan will be to enter the date on which the sitting was had and the names of those who were present during the sitting. Unless otherwise specified, it is understood that the sittings were all held at our home wherever that may be.

From about August, 1912, Mrs. Curran had been playing with the ouija board simply as a means of entertainment without seriously considering that anything of value might come over it. The one person who has been most persistent for her to continue the sittings is Mrs. C. E. Hutchings. It may be well to state here that Mrs. Curran did not like to have these sittings and they bored her a great deal, but she was persuaded out of friendship for Mrs. Hutchings to have the sittings.

No record had been kept up to June, 1913, and none since then except that that was kept in the following manner up to date. Mrs. Hutchings or someone else have always been at the board with Mrs. Curran, Mrs Pollard transcribing the words as they came from the board. Mrs. Hutchings would then take them home and rewrite and punctuate the matter. Also she would make interpolations of her own in the record and, we found since, she would add to and take from and change ad libitum. She kept one copy of the record and gave us the carbon copy. In making up this preliminary record it is well to state that these interpolations have been eliminated entirely as has everything else that in our judgment has not come from Patience Worth, in the effort to make this entirely a record of the words of Patience Worth. We have no desire to hear from any other and none other has come to us as far as we know.

From this date on the record is being transcribed by myself as Mrs. Curran calls the words except in very few cases where this is impossible. At first Mrs. Curran believed in the idea conveyed by Mrs. Hutchings that it was absolutely necessary for Mrs. Hutchings to be at the board with Mrs. Curran in order that anything might come. At this date this has been entirely disproven and the following people have already sat with us, there being no difference in the character or quality of the result no matter who sat.

Mrs. C. Edwin Hutchings, Mrs. Mary E. Pollard, Mr. John H. Curran, Mrs. Allen Bacon, Mrs. C. S. Cornman, Mrs. Josephine Goodloe, Mr. Fred W. Arnold, Mr. C. S. Yost, Mr. & Mrs. Charles Underliner, Dr. & Mrs. L. C. Stocking all of St. Louis, Rev. C. H. Stocking and Mrs. C. H. Stocking of Cleveland, Ohio and Mr. D. W. Stocking, Deluth, Minn.*

The record follows:

On June 22, 1913, Mrs. C. E. Hutchings and Mrs. Curran sat at the board, the sitting began as usual, a curious play and after a mass of unconnected letters and fragmentary sentences the board began a rotary movement and persistently spelled out the letters p-a-t, p-a-t, p-a-t, and continued with the following:

"Oh, why let sorrow steel thy heart?
Thy bosom is but its foster-mother,
The world its cradle and the loving home its grave."

The thought impressed us and after discussion and expressions of real amazement we decided to take a copy of this and should we be fortunate enough to produce more, anything that might follow.

To our genuine surprise many beautiful thoughts continued.

At this time we had no clue as to who delivered the messages to us except the repeated p-a-t, p-a-t, p-a-t. The following messages came at this first sitting:

"Rest, weary heart. Let only sunshine light the shrine within. A single ray shall filter through and warm thy frozen soul."

"A leaf falls and nestles close to the earth, but ah, the message she once sent to Spring! So `tis with thee. Then nestle close on thy last day, but leave a message, like the leaf, to come again in Spring."

"Touch, taste and smell are homely facts, but thy heart-beats are a record for Him." (This matter is doubtful).

"Your deeds are nothing. Often the heart prompts what the circumstances will not permit." (This matter, also, is doubtful).

This sitting was interspersed with exclamations and conjectures which had no bearing whatever upon the material received - the board disregarding questions.

After this successful effort it was decided to continue persistently in sitting and keeping a careful record of each.

About this edition

• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1435712374
• ISBN 13: 9781435712379
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 346