GOD AND HUMANS

November 6th, 1917 

I am here, Jesus.

    I have been with you part of the time as you were reading the different explanations of the various religions.   Tried to direct your mind so that you might conceive the difference between the things taught in those teachings and what we are revealing to you.  Many things that are set forth in those teachings that are mysteries and the results of speculation will be revealed to you in their true existence and meaning, so that all defects, or desiderata, that arise because of the insufficiency of these teachings will be corrected and supplied.  I am glad that you read these sermons, for they demonstrate to you a number of Truths that were known to the ancients, but which fall far short of the Truth.  At those times there was no source from which our Truths could come.  Either in the spirit world, or in the mortal world.  Hence, humans could not become inspired as to the Vital Truths that we are revealing. 

    The humans who appeared as reformers and gave forth the Truths that were unknown to their fellow humans were inspired by the intelligences of the spirit world.  But that inspiration could not be greater, or higher, than the Knowledge of the spirits by whom these humans were inspired.  What I here say applies not only to the prophets and teachers of the Old Testament times, but to those of all the times and among all races preceding my coming to earth and making known the Great Truths which were revealed to me by the Father. 

    I noticed that some of these teachers and writers of essays at the great religious gathering attempted to speak of a future, or world religion.  Their claims were divergent but were based mostly on those foundations that will never support such a religion.  They almost entirely based their concepts on Principles of Morality, as understood by them.   The churches based their beliefs on the teachings of the New Testament, which in many and vital particulars are erroneous.  Especially, the basic one that I am God the Son and that my vicarious atonement and sacrifice must be the touchstone of the future great and ultimate religion.  Well, as their claims are not true.  It is certain that any religion based upon them cannot be true, or lasting. 

    There will be a religion of the future.  A comprehensive and final one.  It will be founded upon the Truths which you are now receiving, for it will be inclusive of all the other religions, so far as the Truths that they contain are concerned.  With the addition of the Greatest of All Truths affecting mortals, the New Birth and Transformation of the human soul into the Divine.  When humans shall come to make a comparative analysis of these existing religions and the one that I shall make known, there will be very little conflict in the Vital Principles.  My teachings will only add to the old teachings that which all humans can accept. 

    Hence, you see the importance of our working more rapidly in our efforts to disclose and disseminate the Truth. 

    I will come in a few nights and deliver another formal message.  Others also will come and write you.  Many of the Celestial Spirits are qualified to teach the Truths of the Father.  They are ready and anxious to do so. 

    I will not write more now, but with my love and blessings will say, good-night.  Yes, I am with you as I promised and will continue to be.  Your brother and friend, Jesus

April 25th, 1918.

Let me write a line, Luke.

    I was with you tonight at the church.  Listened to what the preacher said, in reference to religions and their point of contact.  Was some what surprised at his declarations, as to the analogy which he drew between the believers in the various so-called Christian religions.

    While, as you know, there is implanted in the souls of humans, a longing, for that which tends to elevate and spiritualize them.  Even though this longing may not be consciously present with a large number of them.  Yet the beliefs, as to the ways in which this longing may be made manifest and develop the spiritual nature of the soul, are very different among those professing these various religions.  The ways are not equally efficacious in causing their spiritual development.

    Religion is a matter of soul, not of intellect.  The greater the development of the soul in the right direction, the higher will be the spiritual state, or condition, of the soul.  Mere intellectual belief, no matter how intense and undoubting, will not tend to bring about this spiritual development.  For religion is really nothing but the relationship and Harmony of humans souls, with the Soul of God.  The mind will not be sufficient to create this state.  Because the mind of human, cannot possibly bring into Harmony, the Soul of the Creator and that (soul) of the Creature.  Mind, in its exercise, may tend to awaken the soul to this possibility of relationship, but only the workings of the soul can effectuate the complete Unity of the Creator and the Created.  Only soul can speak to soul, mind is only a helper, provided the soul is alive in its longings.  So it is apparent that, that form of belief, which is wholly of the intellect, can have no common meeting place with that belief which is the result of the development of the soul.  Hence, to say that humans of all the various religions, just because they are what are called Christians, are in an equal relationship to the Father, is erroneous and misleading.

    As regards the condition of human, as the Perfect Human, these several religions may tend to bring about this State of Perfection, if the Moral Precepts which they teach are observed and practiced by humans.  But as regards human, as the Divine Angel, that is, as a spirit having in itself the Essence of the Divine, only that religion which teaches the True Way to acquire this Divinity, can lead humans to the At-Onement with the Father in His Very Nature.  There can be, in this respect, only one True Religion.  Only one way in which that religion can be practiced and possessed.  To say that all religions have a common point of approach, is misleading and deceiving.

    I know that among these various religions there are individuals who have found the way, to the method of becoming transformed into the Divine Nature of the Father.  This notwithstanding, that the teachings and creeds of the several churches, do not show the way to this soul development, into the Spiritual of the Divine.  But in these churches there is wanting, in their dogmas and doctrines, that, which will help humans to this True Religion.

    Because it may be found that in the churches there are some who have, to a degree, this Divine Spirituality, there is no justification in saying that there is any common place of meeting in these several religions.  Of course the Moral Precepts may be and are taught by all the christian churches.  When observed, will ultimately lead all humans to the condition of the Perfect Natural Human.  Only to this extent, can it be said that they may have a common ground of religion, arising from the belief in the Moral Teachings.

    The church which declares and teaches, as its religion, with great exactness and more enlarged comprehension, is the church in which this, as I may call it, natural religion exists.  The more dissimilar these churches are in these teachings, the farther apart is their approach.  If a preacher of one church knows, with the conviction that arises from their sincere and honest investigation of the Moral Laws, that some other church is not teaching, or insisting, on the observation on the part of its members of these Great Moral Truths, then they have no right to conclude and say, this latter church is the possessor of religion, as is the church in which these Moral Truths are taught and followed by its adherents.  It is a mistake for a preacher to say, that because there may be good and spiritual humans in all churches, therefore, one church is as good and religious in its teachings as another church.  Truth is of such a Nature, that it cannot be compromised.  The human, or preacher, who would compromise the Truth, is not fulfilling their duty to God, or human.

    The church, which teaches that there is nothing greater than morality, that humans can become no more transcendent than the Perfect Humans, is devoid of the Truth.  Would not be accepted as a teacher of the Full Truth, as should the church which knows and teaches the way by which humans may become a Divine Angel.

    That the preachers of the various churches, should accept as equal and the possessors of the True Religion, whenever these moral lessons are alike, taught by these churches and have a common point of approach, is not to be wondered at.  Because these preachers do not know the Higher Religion, or are able to teach the way to the same.  When it is understood that a Moral Truth is a Truth, no matter where it may appear and by whom taught, there is some justification in declaring that all churches, which teach the Moral Truths, are on a plane of equality.  That one is entitled to as much respect and freedom from criticism as another.  Further, as the Great Truth of the rebestowal of the Potentiality of receiving the Divine Love and the effect on humans souls, was never known and taught until the coming of the Master, it is not surprising that none of the churches can, or do, teach this Great Spiritual Truth and the only True Religion arising therefrom.  The Knowledge of this Truth, perished from the earth a short time after the passing of the Master.  Hence, no church can teach this Religion of the Soul, that transforms the mortal into the Divine.

    The religion of the Perfect Human may exist in varying degrees in all the christian churches.  But the religion of the Divine Angel exists in none.  Although, some individuals of these churches, to some extent, have received in their souls the Great Truth, The Divine Love, even though they have no intellectual knowledge of the same.

    I thought it advisable to make these few remarks on the declaration of the preacher, as showing that his broad assertion, that the religions mentioned, which to him is all embracing, may have a common meeting point with every religion.

    When he learns the Truth, he will realize the errors of his human and brotherly declarations.

I will not write more.  Good night and God bless you.

Your brother in Christ, Luke

August 31st, 1915

I am here, Jesus.

    I heard what Paul wrote.  I corroborate everything that he said, and add; that these people are pursuing the True Way to the inheritance which I promised them while I was on earth.  Their Faith is wonderful.  The fruits of its exercise is shown in the condition of their souls and in their lives.

    Theirs is the soul conception of religion and of my Truths. While they may not, with their intellects, understand the philosophy of my teachings, yet with their soul perceptions they have grasped the Great Foundation Truth of Salvation through the Divine Love of the Father.

    Of course they sing and proclaim that my blood saves them from sin, but this is merely the exercise of their mental conceptions, learned from the teachings and creeds of the churches.  Yet they have grasped the great and only Truth of Salvation, with the far more and certain Knowledge that the awakening and filling of their souls by the Divine Love gives them.

    How much to be wished for, that all these churches of form and mental worship could realize that the only True Worship of God is with the soul perceptions.  Only with these perceptions, that are developed by obtaining the Divine Love, can we see God.  Only by such development can we become Pure, Holy and At-One with the Father,  partakers of His Divine Nature.

    I am glad that you attended this church (Church of the Holiness).  I advise you to go there often.  For I tell you that the Spirit of Truth (The Holy Spirit) and Divine Love is with these people to a very extended degree.  That, because their souls are open to its inflowing and to its Ministration.

    I was with you again tonight.  So was the Spirit of Truth, trying to open up your soul to its influence, to that which will cause your Faith to increase and your trust in me to grow.

    No church will do you as much good as that.  I advise you to attend.  Of course you will not have to believe in its creed, but only in the fact that the Holy Spirit is there in all its quickening power, as they sometimes sing.

So with all my love I say, goodnight.

Your brother and friend, Jesus