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God's True Plan of Salvation and Human Redemption is the inflowing of Divine Love by the Holy Spirit.
September 12th, 1915
I am here, Jesus.
I was with you tonight. I saw that the Holy Spirit was filling your heart with the Divine Love of the Father, that you realized its Presence, and felt that even though the people who worshipped me in their ignorance, yet they have this Divine Love of the Father, to a great degree.
I do not approve of their frequent reference to my blood as saving them from their sins and keeping them in the Grace and Favor of the Father. As I have told you, my blood has nothing to do with the Salvation of any soul. Only the Divine Love of the Father saves a soul from sin and makes it One with the Father in His Divine Love and Divinity.
Nevertheless, these people have this Divine Love in their hearts. While with their intellects they look upon me as God, yet their souls are turning to God. Consequently, they receive the Blessings of the Father's Divine Love, and are receiving, to a large extent, the development of their souls.
I am glad that you attend these meetings (The Church of the Holiness, Washington, D. C.), for in them is a Wonderful Presence of the Holy Spirit and the Divine Love of the Father. While you may not be in sympathy with their doctrines, as to who and what saves them from sin and unrighteousness, yet the Influence of the Holy Spirit is so great, that it helps your Soul Development.
I tried to influence the speakers, to tell just what the conditions of their souls were, and what experience they had in receiving and enjoying the Divine Love. Many of them experience, and have as a part of their religious possession, just what they said they had.
It will be beneficial to you to attend this church, and get the benefit of the Presence of the Holy Spirit, which is with them in their worship.
I was with you, and tried to make you feel my presence. I did, and you felt a little exaltation of your soul qualities and enjoyed the services, especially the singing and the prayers.
So, while you must not be influenced by their doctrines, as to my being God, or to be worshipped, yet if you will ignore this, and only consider that their Real Worship is of God, and that their souls are in Unison with Him, you will find that these services will do you much good.
I am with you very much. I am trying to get you relieved from the worries, which come to you. I am also trying to help you get in that Spiritual Condition, which is necessary in order for you to take and continue my formal messages.
Yes, you are. I am glad that it is so. I want you to become a human so possessed of this Divine Love, and of Faith so strong that nothing that you may encounter will swerve you from your convictions and from your work.
I see that you are anxious to continue this work. You will soon be able to do so.
Yes, I know that the Bible iterates, and reiterates, the statement that I am God, that my blood saves from sin, and that I am a propitiation for humankind. Nevertheless, the Bible is all wrong. These false doctrines must be corrected. Humans taught the True Plan of Salvation. I will be with you very often until we have commenced our work, in the way that we desire to carry it forward. Let not anything that you may read in the Bible, cause you to have a conception that may not agree with what I shall write. Let your mind be blank on these Truths. Wait until I shall disclose them to you, and believe me.
John never wrote these statements, as contained in his Epistles and Gospel. He will write to you denying that he did. The Bible contains many Truths, and many of my sayings, but also many statements that were never made by me, or by the apostles. My Mission now is to correct all these errors. So you see, we have much work ahead of us. We must commence it as soon as possible.
I am with you tonight to comfort and encourage you, and help you to overcome, not only your worries, (but your fears?). If you will only pray to the Father, and believe, you will be successful in both particulars.
I will not write more tonight as others are here to write. I desire that they shall do so.
Your brother and friend, Jesus.
God's True Plan of Salvation
October 16th, 1915
I am here, John.
You are now, so filled with the Divine Love of the Father, and the influence of the Master, that you are very near the Kingdom. The Master is with you, in all the fullness of his Love and blessings. No wonder that you should receive him in so palpable and conscious a manner. He certainly Loves you. If you could only see his glory as he writes to you, and the great streams of Love that flow from him to you, you would never again doubt that he is with you, and that you are the object of his care. It is wonderful! We are all amazed at the great display of his Love for you. We rejoice that it is so, for we know, that to him, you are the most important of mortals.
You will soon commence again to do his work. Your soul will be so filled with the Divine Love that you will receive his messages in such soul understanding that there will be no possibility of any mistake being made. Such Messages of Truth as they will be. Why the whole World will stand in wonder and amazement that such Truths should come to you. As a consequence, many a mortal will be brought to see the Great Plan of Human's Redemption, will turn to the Divine Love of the Father, and receive that Great Inflowing of Divine Love, that will show them beyond all doubt that they have become At-One with the Father, and are Inheritors of His Immortality.
So, as I say, we all rejoice, and are anxious that the work begin. We are all preparing to help, in conveying these Great Truths of the Father. So you must believe, and accept, what is written to you as True. Let not what may be contained in the Bible, what the preachers, or commentators, may say, influence you in anyway, to believe, or write, anything other than what the Master may write you.
The book that you have been reading tonight ("The Atonement" by Pastor Russell), contains many Truths in regards to Jesus' relationship to the Father, that there is Only One God, and that, the Father. No other God is there. Jesus is his Best Beloved Son.
The plan of salvation, as contained in that book, is not correct. As we have told you before, the blood of Jesus has nothing to do with the Plan of Salvation. Only the Bestowal of the Gift of Divine Love, and the Teachings of the Master, as to how it may be obtained, saves humans from sin and error, and brings about that At-Onement, which the author writes about.
My dear brother, if you only knew how much we all Love you, are interested in your welfare, and the work, which is before you, you would be very thankful to the Father for having had the Master select you, and would also never cease to Love and honor the Great Master for his Love and friendship.
I, John, tell you all this, because I know whereof I speak. I was the beloved disciple of the Master when on Earth. I know what it means to have the great Love of such a Master, and friend.
I see that you are opening up your soul to the Divine Influences, and that very soon you will find that through your soul perceptions you will be enabled to see, and understand, many, many things, which are now hidden from you. What an opening of the soul perceptions that will prove to be! Even the spirits, who are in portions of the Celestial Heavens, will not have the Great Truths presented to them, as will you. They are seeking these Truths in great earnestness. You are in a position that they are not, to make known to the World these Great Truths. While all this will not be done primarily for your benefits, yet you will receive such Knowledge of these Truths, and such inflowing of the Divine Love, as you write, that you will find yourself in a condition of Soul Development that rarely have mortals experienced.
So pray and believe. When I say believe, try to get that Great Faith of which the Master wrote you, the Faith that makes all the longings and aspirations of the soul, Realities. I could write much more, but think it best not to do so tonight.
So with all my Love and blessings, I am, Your brother in Christ, John. The beloved disciple of the Master in my time, and which you are now.
God's True Plan of Salvation
December 30th, 1915
I am here, St. Luke.
I come tonight to tell you of a Truth, that is of very great importance to you, and to Humankind. I desire that you shall be very careful in receiving what I may say. I am in a condition of Divine Love, that enables me to Know whereof I write, and to cause what I may say to be accepted by you as True.
I want to tell you that the Divine Love, of which we have been writing, is the only Love that can make a spirit, or human, At-One with the Father.
This is my theme: The Atonement (or At-Onement).
This word as used in the Bible, is interpreted by the churches and the commentators on the Bible, carries with it a meaning of some price being paid by Jesus for the redemption of humankind from their sins, and from the punishment that they will have to undergo, because of having committed sin. Also, the idea that God, as an angry and insatiable god, was waiting for the price to be paid, in order for His wrath to become satisfied, and for human to stand before Him acquitted of sin, the consequences of disobedience.
This price, according to the teachings of the churches, and the persons named, must have been paid by one, who in his goodness and purity was capable of paying this price. That is; one who had in him such inherent qualities, and by his sacrifices was of such inherent worth, as to satisfy the requirements of the demands of this angry god, whose Laws had been disobeyed. They also teach; that the only way by which such price could have been paid was by the death on the cross of Jesus. Who was the only person in All Creation that possessed these qualities sufficiently to meet these requirements. That by his death and the shedding of his blood, the sins were atoned for, and God was satisfied. This is, "The Orthodox Belief of the atonement and plan of salvation".
In short, a perfect human being, free from all sin, a death on the cross, and a shedding of blood, which was necessary that the sins of mortals might be washed away, their souls made clean, and fitted to become a part of the great family of God.
All this conception of the "atonement" is wrong, and not justified by any teaching of the Master, or by any of the True Teachings of the disciples, to whom he had explained the Plan of Salvation, and what the At-Onement means.
I know that in various parts of the New Testament, it is said; that the blood of Jesus washes away all sin, and that his death on the cross satisfies the Father's demand for justice. Therein, there are many similar expressions conveying the same idea. These sayings of the Bible were never written by the persons to whom they are ascribed. But by writers, who, in their various translations, and alleged reproductions, of these (original) writings, added to, and eliminated from, the writings of the original writers, until the Bible became filled with these false doctrines and teachings.
The writers of the Bible, as it now stands, were persons who belonged to "the church", which was nationalized about the time of Constantine. As such, had imposed upon them the duty of writing such ideas as the rulers, or governors, of this church conceived should be incorporated in the Bible, for the purpose of carrying out their ideas, in order to subserve the interests of the church. To give it such temporal power, as it never could have had under the teachings and guidance of the Pure Doctrines of the Master.
For nearly two thousand years this false doctrine of the "atonement" has been believed in, and accepted by, the so called christian churches, and has been promulgated by these churches as the true doctrine of Jesus. The one upon which the salvation of human depends. The consequences have been that humans have believed, that the only things necessary to their salvation and reconciliation to God, were the death of Jesus, and the washing away of their sins by the blood shed on Calvary.
If humans only knew, how futile his death was. How inefficacious his blood is to wash away sin, and pay the debt to the Father, they would not rest in the assurance that all they have to do is to believe in this sacrifice, and this blood, but would learn the True Plan of Salvation, and make every effort in their power to follow that Plan. As a consequence, have their souls developed so that they would come into Harmony with the Father's Divine Love and Laws.
At-Onement, in its True Meaning, never meant the payment of a debt, or the appeasing of the wrath of god, but simply the becoming At-One with Him, in those Qualities that will insure to humans the possession of His Divine Love, and the Immortality that Jesus brought to Light. The sacrifice of Jesus could have no possible effect upon the condition of human's soul qualities. Neither could the blood shedding make a vile and sinful soul, pure and free from sin.
God's Universe is governed by Laws, as Immutable, as they are Perfect in their Workings. The Great Thing to be accomplished by the Plan of Salvation, which He Provided for the Redemption of Humans, is to have every human come into Harmony with these Laws. Because just as soon as that Harmony exists, there will be no more discord. Sin will not be known to humanity. So, only that, which will bring human into this Harmony, can possibly save them from their sins, and bring about the At-Onement that Jesus and his disciples taught.
Human, when Created, was endowed with what may be called a Natural Love. That Natural Love, to the extent of the quality that it possessed, was in Perfect Harmony with God's Universe. So long as it was permitted to exist in its Pure State, was a part of the Harmony of the Universe. When it became defiled, or impregnated with sin, or anything not in accord with God's Laws (of Love and Harmony), it became inharmonious, and not at-one with God. The only Redemption required was the removing of those things that caused the inharmony.
Now, the only way in which this inharmony could be removed, was by the Natural Love becoming again pure and free from that which defiled it. The sacrifice on the cross could not furnish this remedy. Neither could the blood atonement accomplish it. Because the sacrifice and the blood had no relation to the evil to be remedied. So I assert; if these things paid the penalty, and satisfied God, and thereby, He had no further claim upon human for any debt supposed to be due Him from human, it necessarily implies that He kept the souls of humans in this condition of inharmony, and would not permit the same to be removed, until His demands for satisfaction and blood had been met. That then, when He should be appeased, He would permit humans, by His mere fiat, to again come in Harmony with His Laws, and the Workings of His Universe. In other words, He would be willing to let humans remain out of Harmony with His Universe, and the Workings of His Laws, until He had His demands for sacrifice and blood satisfied.
This, as is apparent to any reasonable human, would be a thing so foolish, that no mere human, in matters pertaining to their earthly affairs, would adopt as a plan for the redemption of those sons of theirs who had been disobedient.
I see you have a caller, and will continue later. Luke.
God's True Plan of Salvation
January 4th, 1916
I am here, St. Luke.
I wish to continue my discourse on the Atonement. As I was saying, unless a human gets into Harmony with God in the Natural Love, which God Bestowed upon them and thereby becomes free from sin and error, there can be no redemption for them. The death of Jesus, and the shedding of his blood, cannot cause that Harmony.
Now what I have heretofore said, relates exclusively to human, and their Salvation, in respect to their condition of becoming Perfect in this Natural Love, which all humans have. This is not the Great At-Onement, which Jesus came to Earth to teach humans, The Way in which it could be obtained, and the effect of its attainment.
As has been told you, in the beginning, God conferred upon Our First Parents, not only the Natural Love, but the Potentiality of obtaining the It (the Divine Love), by the observance of certain Laws and obedience, the Divine Love of the Father, which when obtained, would make a human a part of Divinity itself. While it would not make them a god, or the equal of the Father, yet it would give them, a Divinity that would cause them to receive the Spiritual Substance of God's Great Love, and not remain the mere image (of the Divine Soul). As a consequence, human would become Immortal.
God Alone is Immortal. Every part of Him is Immortal. When humans shall obtain in their souls that part of Him, which is his Greatest Attribute, His Divine Love, they will also become Immortal. Thereafter, not subject to (spiritual) death.
The Natural Love, which was implanted in the souls of all humankind, is not a part of the Divine Love. It is not this Divine Love in a lesser degree even. It (the Natural Love) is a distinct and separate quality of Love. All humans possess it. In many persons, it has become so contaminated by the sins that flow from the violation of God's Laws (of Love and Harmony), so that the Redemption, of which I have spoken, is necessary for human, even as the possessor of this Natural Love only.
The Divine Love of the Father is a Love that has in It, and is wholly composed of, the Divinity which the Father possesses. No human can ever become a part of that Divinity until they possesses this Great Divine Love. I know it is said that human is divine because they were Created in the image of God. Nothing, which is a mere image, is ever a part of the Substance, of which it is the image, and cannot possibly have the qualities of that Substance. Commonly speaking, the image may have the appearance, and for the ordinary affairs of the Mortal Life, may serve the purpose of the real, until something that arises that demands the production of the Real. Then the image will no longer serve the purpose.
Now in the case of the Creation of Human, they were made in the image of God, in one particular only, and that in the matter of soul appearance. Their physical, or spirit bodies, were not in the image of God. God has no such bodies. Only the soul of human is in the image of God, the Great Oversoul. So long as human remains a mere image of the Father, they will never be more than the mere human soul that they were, at the time of their Creation. The Substance of the Father will never become a part of them. While the Substance is Divine, the image can never become Divine, until it becomes Transformed into the Substance.
At Human's Creation, a Plan was formed, by which that image might become a Thing of Spiritual Substance. There was given to humans, the possessor of the image, the Potentiality of obtaining the Divine Substance. Humans, through their disobedience, or failure to comply with, or follow out, the requirements of the Plan provided, forfeited this Potentiality, which had been conferred upon them. Thereby, lost the possibility of having the image Transformed into the Substance, which was absolutely necessary in order for them to ever become the possessor of any part of the Father's Divinity. When humans call themselves divine, they assert that which is not True. Which, since the coming of Jesus to Earth, may become True.
I will not recite what this disobedience of Our First Parents was. Or, in what way they lost the Great Potentiality of becoming Divine. Will only say, that when, by their disobedience, they forfeited this Potentiality, it was taken from them by God. His decree that in the day they should commit the act of disobedience, they should surely (spiritually) die, was carried out. They died. Not the material bodies died, nor their spirit bodies died, nor their souls, for humans continued to live in their physical bodies for many years after the day of disobedience. Their spirit bodies and souls never died, for they still live. What died, and what the sentence passed upon them affected, was the Potentiality of receiving the Divine Substance, which would make them Divine and Immortal. This Potentiality was taken from them, never restored, during the long centuries from the time of its death, until the coming of Jesus.
That part of the Divine Nature, or that Divine Attribute, which was the object of this Potentiality, which would make a human a part of the Divine Nature and Immortal, was the Divine Love of the Father. Nothing else! If Our First Parents, through their obedience, had received this Divine Love, never would mortality, as to the soul, have existed on Earth, neither sin, nor a want of At-Onement with the Father. Disobedience came, death of the possibility of becoming Immortal ensued, human remained mere human, only an image of the Father, nothing more.
No human, in all the long ages that I have mentioned, ever had anything more, or greater, in their Nature, than the Natural Love, of which I have spoken. Even as to that, human so abused and defiled it, until at a time, they became an outcast from the Father, as to this Natural Love. In other words, they, human, buried it so deeply under their acts of sin, the violation of those Laws of God, which control this Natural Love, that they appeared to be forsaken by the Father, even as a mere human being.
In the history of what is called "god's chosen people", the Jews, it appears that time and time again that these people became such aliens from God in this Natural Love that humans possessed of this Natural Love in a purer state than were the common people, were used by the forces of the Spirit World to call these people to a realization of their obligations to God, arising out of the Gift of the Natural Love. None of the prophets, neither Moses, Elijah, or any of the others, was possessed of this Divine Love, merely of the Natural Love, in a purer state, than were the people to whom they delivered their messages.
In God's Own Time, and in accordance with His Mercy and Plan, He Re-Bestowed upon human, this Great Potentiality, of which I speak. So that humans should again have the Privilege of becoming At-One with Him. To declare the Re-Bestowal of this Great Gift, Jesus was sent to Earth, in the form of human, conceived and born as other humans, but without sin.
It was, at the time of Jesus' coming, the Great Gift was Re-Bestowed upon both mortals, and spirits of mortals, then living in the Spirit World. They all, spirits and mortals, received the Privilege of becoming At-One with the Father, through the Plan of Salvation that He had revealed to Jesus, which Jesus taught in his Ministry during the short years of his Earthly Life, and which he is still teaching (in the Spirit World).
There is no other Way in which human can become At-One with the Father, in which the image can be Transformed into the Substance, than The Way that Jesus taught. Which seems not to have been understood by humans, after the church became a church of temporal power, and after the Bible, or the writings of the Apostles, were emasculated, and the thoughts and desires of humans interpolated in the place of the Gospel of Peace and Salvation. Yet there is, in the Gospel of John, one declaration of the True Plan of Salvation. Though, it is little understood, and almost ignored, in practical teachings and observances of the churches and their members. That is, "Except a human be born again, they cannot enter into the Kingdom of God".
These words of the New Birth are the only words that declare the True Doctrine of the At-Onement. No death of Jesus on the cross, no shedding of blood, or washing away of sins by the blood, no paying of any debt, and no believing in the name of the Lord, Jesus Christ, will bring humans into At-Onement with the Father, and make them partakers of His Divine Nature, or fit them to become inhabitants of His Kingdom. Only the New Birth is efficacious for this purpose. No other plan did Jesus ever teach, and is not now teaching.
Then what is meant by the New Birth?
Humans, in their understanding and interpretation of it differ. It will do no good for me to recite these different interpretations, or what the New Birth is not. The important thing is what it is.
As I have said, the Potentiality that was conferred upon Our First Parents was the Privilege of obtaining the Divine Nature and Immortality of the Father, by becoming possessed of His Great Attribute of Divinity, the Divine Love. Had Our First Parents, by their obedience, received the benefits of this Great Privilege, they would have been "Born Again", as you, all other mortals, and spirits as well, may now be Born Again.
Then the New Birth is simply the effect of the flowing into the soul of a human of this Divine Love of the Father. The disappearing of everything that tends to sin and error. As the Divine Love takes possession of the soul, sin and error disappear. It, the soul, becomes of a Quality like the Great Soul of the Father. The Soul of the Father, in its Quality of Divine Love being Divine and Immortal. So, when the soul of human becomes possessed of this Quality of Divine Love, this soul becomes Divine also. The soul is the human. Then the image becomes the Substance. The mortal becomes the Immortal. The soul of human, as to Love and hope, becomes a part of the Father's Divinity.
Now to declare this True Plan of Salvation, and the Re-Bestowal of the Great Gift of the Potentiality of the human soul, Jesus came to Earth. This was his mission, none other. As readers of the Bible will remember, and it is a Truth, when Jesus was baptized and anointed, and also on the Mount of Transfiguration, the "Voice of God", as it is written, (which was really the manifestation of the voice of one of His Highest Angels) declared that Jesus was His Well Beloved Son, and demanded of the people, "Hear ye him!" Not to believe that he came to die on the cross. Not to believe that his blood would bring about the atonement. Not to believe in any vicarious atonement or that God in wrath demanded a sacrifice. Only "Hear ye him!" Jesus, in all his teachings, never taught one of these things. Only the New Birth, as I have explained it. This is the only thing necessary to the At-Onement. He is still teaching it.
He also taught Moral Truths, affecting the conduct and relation of human-to-human, and human to God, in their Natural State. None of these things, or Moral Teachings, were sufficient to bring about the Great At-Onement. There is no doubt that the observance of many of these Teachings of Morality, and of human's conduct towards God, will have a tendency to lead humans to seek the Higher Love of the Father, and help their souls to get in the condition that will make it easier for this Great Love to flow into them. These Moral Teachings, or prescribed conduct, will not, of themselves, be sufficient to bring the New Birth, hence, the At-Onement.
Now Jesus not only taught the necessity for the New Birth, he also taught The Way in which It could be obtained. That Way is just as simple, and easily understood, as the New Birth itself. He taught, and is now teaching, that through earnest prayer to the Father, and Faith, which makes all aspirations and soul longings things of Real Existence, by the Holy Spirit, which is the Father's Messenger of Divine Love, or to carry His Divine Love, this Divine Love will flow into the souls of humans, in response to such prayers. By such Faith, humans will "Realize" its Presence. In this Way, and this Way only, humans will receive the New Birth.
This is wholly an individual matter. Without the personal, earnest prayer of the supplicant, and Faith that comes with the Divine Love, a human cannot receive the New Birth. No ceremony of church, no laying on of hands, or masses for the souls of the dead, will be efficacious to make the human, or spirit (of human) a New Creature in God.
What I have written, is the meaning of the At-Onement, as taught by the Master, and as understood by All the Redeemed of the Father who are now living in His Celestial Heavens. There is no other At-Onement possible.
I have written enough. I hope I have made it plain to all humans, the True Explanation of the At-Onement. We, who are inhabitants of the Celestial Heavens, Know the Truth of my explanation, both from personal experience, and from the other fact, which no spirit in all the Universe can deny, that only those who have received this Divine Love of the Father in their souls, in sufficient abundance, can, or do, inhabit the Celestial Heavens. All other spirits, no matter what their several beliefs may be, live in the lower Spiritual Spheres, and cannot enter the Celestial Heavens, unless they seek for, and obtain, the New Birth that Jesus taught, and is still teaching.
So my dear brother, without writing more, I will say goodnight.
Your brother in Christ, Luke.
God's True Plan of Salvation
January 10th, 1916
I am here, Jesus.
I come tonight to tell you of a Truth, which is important to all humankind, and which I desire that you receive just as I write it. So give your best care to receiving just what I shall attempt to write.
I have read with you tonight many sayings contained in the alleged epistles of Paul and Peter. I realize that they do not seem to be consistent with the Truth that has been declared to you by myself, and by the apostles who have written to you. I desire that you shall understand some of these inconsistencies, and discard from your mind these sayings of the epistles, wherever they do not agree with what we have written, or what we shall write.
In the first place, the continual reference of these epistles to my being God is all wrong, and must not be believed. Also, the statement that my blood washes away sin, or that I died on the cross for the salvation of humans, or that I took upon myself the sins of humankind, and thereby relieved them from the burden of their sins and the punishment, which they must suffer in expiation of their evil deeds and thoughts.
Again, when it said, that from the beginning, the Father had foreordained my death on the cross, that humans might be redeemed from the penalties of sin, and in all humans who lived thereafter, are all wrong. Have no foundation as facts in the Plan of God for the Salvation of Human, the restoring of the Harmony of His Universe, and the eradication of all sin and error from the World.
Neither Paul, nor Peter, wrote these things. Never did I teach them. They are not in accord with the Great Plan of Salvation (of the Father). The further away, will be the realization by humans, of the Truth of the Only Plan of Salvation the Father has Provided for their Redemption, which I came to Earth to declare, and explain, to my apostles first, then to the whole World.
In these epistles, too much emphasis is given to the importance of faith and works. I mean faith, in the mere beliefs, which these epistles taught, followed by works. Not enough importance to the Foundation Truth of Human's Redemption from sin and becoming reconciled to the Father, I mean, the New Birth, by the inflowing into their souls of the Divine Love of the Father through the Ministrations of the Holy Spirit.
Many of their teachings, as to human's conduct towards human, and as to the lives that the recipients of these Truths should lead, as effecting their own Purification and becoming in a condition of righteousness, are True. Are as applicable to the conduct and living of humans today, as they were in the days in which the apostles taught. When the epistles teach, or lead humans, in any particular, to understand that these, what may be called merely Moral Principles, will enable a human by their observance, to enter into the Kingdom of God, or the Celestial Kingdom, they are false and misleading. Humans, when they become spirits, will realize that while leading the lives, which these teachings call them to lead, they will become very happy, and occupy conditions and positions in the Spirit World that will make their happiness far superior to that which they enjoy on Earth, and even enable them to become occupants of Higher Spiritual Spheres. Yet, they will never be permitted to enter the Celestial Kingdom of the Father, which can only be attained to by the possession of Divine Love.
So I say, humans must understand, and realize, the difference between the results to them from leading merely Good and Moral Lives, which affect and develop the Natural Love, and those results which ensue from the New Birth.
I have attempted to explain to you why the Great and Important Truth of my Mission to Earth, as I explained it to my apostles, as was taught by them, and written by them, was not preserved and contained in the Bible, as now written, and accepted by the church as canonical. The great desire in those days was to show and impress upon humans, those teachings, which affected their conduct on Earth. To hold out to them the rewards that would follow such living, also the rewards, which would follow their lives in the Spirit World, which would become their homes after death. As I have said, the leading of lives in accordance with these teachings would ensure humans a great happiness in the Spirit World, but not the Happiness, which my teachings (of Divine Love and the New Birth), if observed, would lead to.
In the various copying and compilations of the writings of the apostles, many changes from the originals were made. Those persons who performed this work, I mean by this, the dignitaries and rulers of the church, did not know the difference between those things, which would bring about a purification of the Natural Love, and those things, which were necessary to fit a soul for entrance into the Celestial Kingdom of Heaven. Hence, when they came to perform this work, they made the error of teaching, that the living of the Moral Life would entitle the soul to a reward, which they supposed would be the Kingdom of Heaven and Immortality.
This erroneous teaching has prevented many a human from gaining the right to the Celestial Kingdom of Heaven, as they honestly and sincerely believed would be theirs, when they came to pass into the Spirit World.
Many of these teachings are intended to make a reformation in the lives of humans, and to purge their souls from sin and error, so far as the Natural Love forms a part of the condition of the soul. I taught these Moral Truths, to a very large extent. For such teachings were necessary, because human's will were out of Harmony with God's Laws, which affected the Natural Love, as well as out of Harmony with the Laws that affected the Divine Love of the Father. It is the Object and Plan of God, to bring into Harmony both of these Loves. Thereby, enable humans to enjoy those things which are provided and waiting for them.
As I said when on Earth: "Narrow is The Way, and strait is the gate, which leads to Life Everlasting. Few there be, that enter therein." I repeat now. It is apparent, from the observation of the way in which humankind, from the beginning, have exercised their wills, which God leaves free to their own volition, that a vast majority of humans will never enter in at the strait gate, but be contented to live in the Spheres and happiness, which their Natural Love, in its Perfect State, and progress, will fit them for.
That all humans will ultimately be brought into Harmony with God, in either the Natural Love, or in the Higher One, is certain. That all sin and error will finally be eradicated from God's Universe is decreed. The time will depend to a great extent, upon the wills and desires of humans. Hence, while my Great Mission in coming to Earth and teaching humans, was to show The Way to the Celestial Kingdom, yet a lesser part of my Mission was to teach them a way to their Redemption from sin and error that would result in the Purification of the Natural Love. To my great regret, and to the untold injury to human, my Moral Teachings, were more at large, set forth in portions of the Bible, as now accepted, than were my Teachings of the Higher Truths.
I will not write more tonight but will continue later.
Well my dear brother, I see that you are in a much better condition Spiritually than you have been for some time. You must thank the Father for it. Your conception of last night's experience is True. You received a wonderful amount of the Divine Love. I was with you in Love and blessing. So continue to pray and trust in the Father. You will realize a wonderful happiness, power and peace.
I must stop now.
Your brother and friend, Jesus.
God's True Plan of Salvation
January 12th, 1916
I am here, Jesus.
I will continue my discourse.
As I was saying, the chief object of my Mission on Earth was to teach the Re-Bestowal of the Divine Love upon human, and The Way to obtain it. The secondary object was to teach humans those Moral Truths, which would tend to make them better in their conduct towards their fellowman, and Purer in their Natural Love.
So it is, that in my teachings of these Moral Truths, the effect of these teachings was to bring human more in Harmony with the Laws (of Love and Harmony) of the Father, which control the operations of the Natural Love. I never, at any time, intended that humans should understand that these Moral Truths would bring about their Union with the Father, in the Divine Sense. Or, that the possession of this Natural Love, in its Purest State, would enable human to become a partaker of God's Divine Nature, or an inhabitant of His Celestial Kingdom.
As I have said, the only object, apparently, that these compilers and writers of the Bible had to accomplish, was to persuade humans, that the observance of these Moral Teachings in their conduct was all that was necessary to enable them to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
I know that it is said that Love, almsgiving, and kind deeds, will work to a human's Salvation. Enable them to become at one with the Father, and to enjoy the Presence of God in the High Heavens. This is not True. The good deeds, which humans perform, in the way of helping their fellow human will live after them. Will undoubtedly work towards a human becoming Perfect in their Natural Love. They will not bring that human in At-Onement with the Father in the Higher Love, which is so necessary to their Full Salvation.
My messages to you, while they will not take one jot, or tittle, from the Moral Teachings, yet, they will show to human the necessity, and The Way, to obtain a full reconciliation with the Father, and a home in the Celestial Spheres.
I will come to you again, and write upon a subject which is important to you, and which humans should understand.
So with all my Love, I will say goodnight.
Your brother and friend, Jesus.
God's True Plan of Salvation
April 23rd, 1916
I am here, Jesus.
I come tonight to tell you that you are in a much better condition of soul than you have been for several days. The inflowing of the Divine Love has been working today in greater abundance in your soul.
I do not intend to finish my message tonight, as it is rather late,and you are not exactly in the condition to receive it. Turn your thoughts more to God and pray in more earnestness. Very soon will come to you the power and soul perception, which will enable you to receive my messages, as I desire to deliver them to you.
Today has been one when mortals, I mean those who profess to be followers of me, have offered their worship and songs of praise to me, and to God. I am sorry to say, that He has been worshiped in a secondary sense, and I, brought into prominence as the saviour of humankind, and as the important one of the three that constitutes the godhead. How wrong and sinful this all is. How I deplore these erroneous beliefs and understandings of humans. If they would only know that, I am not God, and no part of the Godhead. Only a son, and spirit, filled with His Divine Love. One having Knowledge of Him, and His Plans for the Salvation of Humankind, they would get nearer to God in their worship, and receive more of His Divine Love in their souls, and partake more of His Divine Nature.
I realize that this belief, in me as God, and that my death and sacrifice on the cross were necessary to their salvation, will be hard to eradicate. That many who now live will pass into the Spirit World before the Divine Truths, which I come to teach and declare, will be published to the World. We must make more speed in our work of writing and receiving these messages. The importance of the World knowing the Divine Truths, as regards me, and the True and Only Plan of Salvation, is now pressing. Must be shown to human in order for them to turn to the Father's Divine Love, and gain an entrance into the Celestial Kingdom. I want you to give more time to our writings, instead of reading those books of philosophy, and the speculations of what are supposed to be, wise theologians, philosophers, and scientists. Let your hours from your business cares be devoted to my communications, and those of the other writers of the Celestial Spheres.
Of course, I do not intend that you shall not permit the dark spirits to write on the nights that you have set apart for them (to help them). Such prohibition would prevent much good from being accomplished. These spirits are greatly benefitted by having the opportunity to write. Many of them have been greatly helped (by you)thereby, and have been turned to The Light, and instructed to seek for the Divine Love of the Father.
The spirits here, who are engaged in the work of instructing and helping these spirits, have rescued many from their condition of darkness and sufferings, and have shown them The Way to Light and to their Salvation. The work is a great and important one, and must not stop. Here let me say that this work will be a part of your duty, also your pleasure, as long as you may live a Mortal Life. You will undoubtedly be the means of helping mortals to see the Divine Truth. Your work among these dark spirits will be even greater, and the harvest more abundant, when you come to the Spirit World. You will be surprised and gratified at the great host that will meet you, giving you thanks for the great help and assistance that you rendered them. Yours is a wonderful work. Is now spoken of, and wondered at, in the Spirit World.
Well, I will not write more tonight, but must come soon and finish my message, as I have many yet to write.
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In my Father's House are many mansions, as I said when on Earth. For your consolation, and that of your two friends, I am preparing for each of you such a mansion. Not, as you may suppose, by erecting in the Celestial Heavens actual houses for your reception. But by helping to build in your souls that development of the Divine Love and the Divine Nature of the Father, that will, when you came over, make your souls in that condition that will necessarily, and absolutely, cause the formation of these mansions to receive you. No one else can build these mansions for you, only your own Soul Development (in the Divine Love of the Father). While this is True, yet these Celestial Heavens have a locality, surroundings, and atmosphere that will contain all those things that will give your mansions the proper settings. The fields, trees, waters, sky, and all these things that you, in your Earth Life, find necessary to your happiness and peace, are in the Celestial Heavens. Only quite different from those that you are acquainted with.
So, believe what I say. And, in believing, trust me and my Love, and you will never be forsaken.
A human's Life on Earth is but a span. In our homes, Eternity means Immortality, with always progress and increasing happiness.
So with my Love and blessings, I will say goodnight, your friend and brother, Jesus.
Gods True Plan of Salvation
June 1st, 1916
I am here, your grandmother. (Ann Rollins)
I thought that I might write you a message tonight, if you feel like receiving it.
The Only Way in which the Salvation that can be obtained by human and make them of a Nature Divine is through the medium of the Holy Ghost, and The Way pointed out by Jesus (in these messages).
I will not here attempt to go into details as to the methods, for they have been fully explained to you. I must say that no other methods can be pursued that will bring the soul of human in Unison with God, and make them of a Nature Divine.
No sacraments of baptism, or mere ceremony of the church, will enable a human to accomplish this end. In fact, such things frequently retard the soul of human from becoming in the condition of soul development that places them in the position of a Redeemed Child of God.
I will not write much, in detail, as to what human themselves should do in order to bring into operation the workings of the Holy Spirit, but merely say, that they must pray with the sincere longings of their soul for the inflowing of the Father's Divine Love, and have Faith that such Divine Love is a Real Thing. That It comes to them in response to their prayers.
Now to continue, as to the Divine Truth, that this Divine Love is waiting for all humankind, no matter where the individuals of the race may be. That they can receive this Divine Love even though they have never heard of the Plan of Salvation; as declared by Jesus.
God intended, when He Re-Bestowed this Divine Love, that every human being, as well as spirit, should have the opportunity to obtain It, and that the manner (The Way)in which it might be obtained should be made known to all humankind. In carrying out this intention He specially selected Jesus for this work,who, through his own teachings to humankind, should learn of It. Of course, during the short ministry of Jesus on Earth, it was impossible that all humans should learn of him through the teachings of himself, or of his disciples. Hence, the spirits of the Spirit World were permitted to hear these teachings, and come into the Knowledge, and then, when they should obtain this Divine Love, to teach it to mortals and spirits.Which they did, and have been doing ever since.
While they (the Celestial Spirits) have been working all these centuries to bring about this Great Consummation, yet they have not succeeded, for the reason, that they could not force the Divine Truth of the Plan of Salvation upon either mortal, or spirit. Consequently, humans, in the exercise of their free will, and spirits also, in the exercise of their free wills, unless they would open up their understandings of the soul qualities, supplemented by the exercise of their mental qualities, could not obtain this Divine Love. Just as on Earth humans have refused to listen to those in Mortal Life, who have attempted to teach them of things religious (or spiritual), so in the Spirit World, many spirits have, and are, refusing to listen to the teachings of other spirits who have the Knowledge and Possession of this Great Love. Mortals also have failed to respond to the impressions, which spirits have been trying to make upon them, as to this Divine Truth. As a consequence, were unable to open up their soul perceptions. Many mortals, as well as spirits, have never received the benefit of the Great Gift of Rebestowal. Yet, as I have said, many have responded to these impressions, and even while on Earth have had the inflowing of this Divine Love, to a more, or less, extent. Although, they may not have been conscious of the fact, in such a definite manner as to Know that what they had received was a portion of the Divine Love. Among the great obstacles to humans putting themselves in this condition of receptivity, are the creeds, mental beliefs, and ceremonies, obtaining in many of the churches of christendom, and in many of the faiths and teachings of the races which live outside of christendom and which have never heard of this Great Plan of Salvation.
In the Spirit World, the followers of many of the faiths and creeds, distinct and different from one another, live together in communities as separate races, still, believing in their various creeds and teachings of their leaders. They have never heard of this Divine Love, or of the necessity of receiving it. But, worship God according to their beliefs on Earth, satisfied that the doctrines which they profess are the true and only ones, and absolutely refuse to listen to the spirits, who often try to teach the Divine Truths, as to Eternal Life in the Celestial Spheres.
Of course, these spirits have the right and the power to refuse to listen to these Divine Truths, and are never compelled to. Then again, some of them will listen, and decline to believe that there are any other Truths than the ones that they have embraced. Thus, you see, that while this Great Gift, the Divine Love, and the Privilege of obtaining it, was Bestowed upon all humans. The Divine Love is ever ready to enter into their souls. Yet a very large majority of spirits and mortals will never receive it and become inhabitants of the many mansions. All humans and spirits will have the opportunity, before the great day of final separation, but many will not be willing to accept The Gift, and will be satisfied in the happiness of their Natural Love, contented to live in their merely Spiritual homes.
Here, let me say, because of the fact of the great variety of beliefs and teachings on Earth, as to the meaning of the Second Death, many humans, and spirits, will neglect to exercise their Privilege of obtaining the Great Gift of the Divine Love, and suffer the Second Death. The Second Death will take place when that great separation occurs. The Gift of this Privilege of receiving the Divine Love of the Father will again be withdrawn from human, and spirit. No other death is meant. Humans and spirits will continue to live their mortal and spirit lives, without any other death than that which is now constantly taking place. There will be no death in the sense of condemning the spirit of human to Eternal punishment, or the annihilation of any spirit, as is taught by some of your religious teachers. No, the only death will be the (spiritual) death that the First Parents died at the time of their disobedience, which was the deprivation of the Great Privilege of receiving the Divine Love, and thereby partaking of the Divine Nature of the Father, and Immortality.
Well my dear boy, I have written enough for tonight and will stop. You have my Love and my influence to help you in every way, also my prayers to the Father for your Spiritual Development. So with my blessings, I will say goodnight, your Loving Grandmother (Ann Rollins).
Gods True Plan of Salvation
August 13th, 1916
I am here, Jesus.
I was with you tonight and heard the address of the preacher, and the explanation of the cause of the great war (WWI) that is now raging in Europe. It was a very intelligent and Truthful one, the real foundation of the war.
I will not come as the Prince Michael, as the preacher said, to establish my Kingdom on Earth, and take into me those whose names are written in the book, and destroy those whose names are not therein written.
I have already come. I am now in The World working to turn human's hearts to God, and to teach them The Way by which they may become At-One with The Father and receive into their souls the Divine Love. In no other way will I ever come to humans on Earth. They will not need me as a visible king with the powers and armies of the Spirit World in visible form to subdue the evil that exists. There will arise no satan to fight against me, or my followers, in the sense that the preacher teaches. For besides the fact that I am already in the World fighting for the salvation of humans, there is no satan. The only devils, or evil spirits, who are trying to influence humans to evil thoughts and actions, are the spirits of humans, which still retain all their sins and wickedness, and the evil that exists in the hearts of humans themselves.
How pitiable it is, that the preacher and his followers believe that the spirits of humans, who have died the natural death, are also dead and resting in the grave, or in oblivion, waiting for the great day of my appearance on Earth, as they say, in order to come again into Life, and be called by me into my Kingdom. How much they lose by such beliefs. How great and surprising will be their Awakening when they pass through the change called death.
There will be no Battle of Armageddon. Only as each human, or the soul of each human, is now fighting the battle between sin and righteousness. This is the only battle that will ever be fought between the Prince of Peace and satan. Each soul must fight its own battle. In that fight, the Powers of God, by His Instruments, which never cease to work, and will be used to help that soul overcome the great enemy, sin, which is of human's creation.
These teachings of the preacher do great harm to humankind, in that, they cause the individual human to believe that I, as the Prince of Peace, will come in mighty power, and in one fell swoop will destroy evil, and all who personify it, and thereby do the work which each individual human must do.
I know that it will be very difficult to persuade the people of this sect that what they teach, and what they conclude the Bible teaches, is not True. I hope that when my Divine Truths are brought to Light, and humans have the opportunity to learn the Divine Truth, that many of them will halt in the security of their beliefs, and attempt to understand these Divine Truths. As they must understand them, either in the Mortal Life, or in the Spirit World, in order to enter the Kingdom of God.
As to these prophecies of Daniel, they have no application to the present condition of the World. So far as they were written by him, or by any other prophet, they related only to the times in which they were written. No human, inspired, or not, and no spirit, had the Omniscience to foretell these wonderful things that are now taking place in the World. Any attempts to apply these supposed prophecies to the happenings of the present day are without justification, and the results of the imaginations of humans, that the occurrences fit the prophecies.
Peace will come. Not as the result of any Battle of Armageddon, or any other battle, based upon the principles, which the preacher applies to these prophecies. As I have said, this battle is going on all the time. It is an individual fight between the sinful soul and the creatures of human's disobedience. So do not waste your time in reading, or listening to, these unreal and foundationless teachings of humans, who think that they have discovered the intentions of God with reference to the destiny of nations.
I will not write more tonight, but at sometime I may say more on this subject, though its only importance is that it attracts human's attention away from the Divine Truth, and creates beliefs which do harm.
I will soon come and write another Message of Divine Truth.
I am with you, as I told you, trying to help you, and to show you The Way to that New Birth, which is yours, and all others, who will follow my instructions. I Love you as a younger brother, and will continue to bless you with my influence and prayers. So doubt not. Pray to the Father. You will find the Divine Truth, in greater fullness, and receive corresponding happiness. I will now stop, your brother and friend, Jesus.
God's True Plan of Salvation
September 24th, 1916
I am here, Jesus.
I have been with you a great deal today. I know just what have been the workings of your mind. I tried to influence you as to some of your thoughts.
I was with you at church in the morning and heard the minister's sermon. I saw that he did not rightly comprehend the meaning of the words of the text. "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do, shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father." "If ye shall ask anything in my name I will do it."
His explanation of what was meant by "greater works than I do", was not in accord with what I meant, or with the meaning that I intended to convey. When I referred to works, I meant those works which the World considered as miracles. I intended to assure my disciples that they would have power to do similar works, or perform similar miracles, to a greater extent than I had performed them. "Greater" referred to quantity, not to quality.
This power, or the successful exercise of it, was not dependent upon belief in my name, but upon their Faith in the Power of the Father, in the fact that He would confer upon them that Power. There was no virtue in my name, or in me, as the individual, Jesus. All virtue rested in the Faith that they might have in the Father. I never performed any of the so-called miracles of my own self! They were all performed by the Father, working through me. Just as He worked through me, He would work through my disciples, who should acquire the necessary Faith.
As I have told you before, all acts, that are apparently miracles, are controlled by Law. Just as are those things which you call the workings of Nature controlled by Law. When sufficient Faith is acquired, there comes to its possessor a knowledge of these Laws. It may not be, as you would say, a knowledge, or consciousness that is perceptible to the ordinary senses of human, but perceptible to that inner sense, which is the one that enables humans to comprehend the Things of the Spirit. Having this Knowledge, of the Inner Sense, humans may so control these Laws, that they will work those effects, which seem to be contrary to the accustomed workings of the Laws of Nature.
Until my disciples had acquired this Faith that brought to their Inner Sense, this Knowledge, they could perform no miracle, and do no work of phenomenon, that other humans could not do.
The Bible expression, that belief in my name is sufficient to cause the workings of miracles is all wrong. I never said that such belief was what was required. Neither did I say, "that whatsoever should be asked of the Father in my name would be given to humans."
I was not a part of the Godhead. I had not, of myself, any Power. Neither did my name have any miraculous influence with the Father. I was a human, as other humans are human. Only, I had become filled with the Divine Love of the Father, which made me At-One with Him. Consequently, had that Knowledge of His Love and Laws that enabled me to bring into operation those Laws, that would cause the desired effects to appear as realities.
Belief in my name caused no working of these Laws, or the response of the Father to any supplications. Prayer must be made to the Father, in the name of Truth, to His Divine Love and Mercy. Every individual is dear to Him. He is ready to Bestow this Divine Love upon every one who asks, in Faith and Pure Desire (of the soul). In response to the earnest prayer, will come Divine Love. With It, Knowledge of Things Spiritual. With this, Power, that may be used for the Good of Humankind.
My name is not a mediator between God and human. Neither is belief in one, the Jesus, a means to reach the responsive Soul of the Father. If humans will understand my Teachings of Truth, and when they ask in my name, mean that they ask in the name of these Truths, then such asking will have its results. So few humans, when they pray to the Father in my name, have such intention, or understanding.
Only a Knowledge of the Truth of the Plan for Human's Salvation, will enable them to seek, in the right Way, to obtain the Gift of the Father. When I say Knowledge of the Truth of the Plan of Salvation, I do not mean that humans shall understand all the minutiae of this Plan, how one element, or part of it, may operate upon another, and what results may flow there from. That Knowledge must be sufficient, in the beginning, which shows to human that the Father is a God of Love. That this Divine Love may be obtained by human through earnest prayer for Its Bestowal. This is all that is necessary. The response that will follow will cause the New Birth, which when experienced by a human will place them in that Unison with the Father, that will lead to a Knowledge of the other Truths that form a part of the True Plan of Salvation. There is nothing else that will bring about this Knowledge of that Inner Sense, of which I write. A Knowledge of the mind, except in conjunction with this Inner Knowledge, can never bring about this necessary At-Onement with the Father.
It often exists, that a human will have this Inner Knowledge, and at the same time, have a knowledge of the mind, which is wholly at variance with the Truths of the Plan for their Salvation.
The mind of human, being a thing of wonderful power, can for a time, retard the growth of the Knowledge of the Inner Sense, or, as I will say, the soul sense (soul perceptions). But only for a time. At some time, the soul sense will progress to that Knowledge of the Truth, so that the erroneous mind knowledge will entirely disappear. Human will possess only the Truth.
Of this erroneous mind knowledge, or perhaps rather, conviction, is the belief that in my name, that is, supplications made in my name, will bring about the realization of the desires of the supplicant. Also, that in my blood, or in the power of the cross, or in my alleged vicarious atonement, the salvation of humans can be obtained. If any name must be used in human's supplication, then use only the Name of the Father. For His is a Name High over all. The only Name in Heaven, or Earth, that can bring to human, Salvation, and At-Onement with His Being.
What I have said applies to many other declarations contained in the Bible, such as; "he that believeth on the Lord Jesus Christ shall be saved". "There is no other name under heaven whereby humans can be saved", etc. This is the enunciation of a false doctrine. Misleading to the great majority of humankind, for they accept the declarations as literally true. Of course, if it be interpreted as meaning that he that believeth on the Truths that I teach, then the objection is not so great. Even then, the declarations do not go far enough. For humans may believe in these Truths, and that belief may be a mere mental one, acquiesced in merely by the mind's faculties, without any exercise at all of the soul sense. If, to all these declarations, shall be added the vital Truth, that; "Except a human be born again, they cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven", and to this mental belief, be added the soul's Faith, then the doctrines will be Truly stated. Humans will understand what is necessary to Salvation.
Belief and Faith are not the same. One is of the mind, the other of the soul. One can and does change as phenomena and apparent facts change. The other when Truly possessed, never changes. For Faith, possessed by a soul, causes all the longings and aspirations of that soul to become Things of Real Existence, which like the house that is built upon the solid rock, can never be shaken, or destroyed.
I write thus tonight to show; that the preacher in his sermon did not explain the True Meaning of the text, and did not comprehend the Truths, that were intended to be conveyed, of which the text was susceptible. Though, it did not set forth my expressions, or in its literal interpretation, declare the Truth.
I will not write more now, except to say, that I Love you with a great Love, and pray to the Father to Bless you.
Believe in the Father, and trust me. You will not be disappointed. Pray that this Divine Love of the Father shall come into your soul, so that you shall know that you are an Accepted Son of the Father.
Keep up your courage. Have Faith, that whatsoever things you shall ask the Father in the Name of His Divine Love and Truth, shall be given to you. I am with you in all my Love and care. You will not be forsaken.
So my dear brother, rest assured that, I am, your brother and friend, Jesus.
God's True Plan of Salvation
January 23, 1917
I am here, Elohiam.
I am the spirit of a Jew, who lived in the time of Jesus. I was a member of the Sanhedrin and sat as one of his judges at the time of his condemnation for blasphemy and iconoclastic teachings against the beliefs and doctrines of the Hebrew faith. I was one of those who voted for the sentence of death upon him. In doing so, was as honest in my conviction, and action, as it was possible for an earnest believer in his faith to be.
Consequently, I was without prejudice against Jesus as a human, and, as I believed, a fanatic. It was only because I was convinced that he was an assailer of, and dangerous to, our religion, and the welfare of my race, that I consented to his death.
Mortals of these days cannot fully understand the exact relationship of Jesus and his teachings to the security of our religion, and the preservation of the faith, which we believed, had been handed down to us by God, direct through our prophets and teachers. When we were confronted with what we believed to be the destructive and irreligious teachings of Jesus, and after making the numerous efforts to suppress him by threats and persuasion without effect, we concluded that our absolute and indisputable duty to God, demanded that he be removed from the sphere of his activity, even though such result could only be accomplished by his death.
If mortals of the present day, could understand our deep religious convictions. The sense of obligation that rested upon us, to protect and keep whole the divine doctrines and teachings of our faith, especially that one, which declared the Oneness of God, they would not judge the action of the Jews in condemning Jesus to death to be a thing unusual, or unexpected. He stood in the position, to us, and to our religion, of a breeder of sedition. Just as in modern times, humans have occupied the position towards the civil governments of breeders of treason, and have suffered the punishments, which have been with approval, inflicted upon them by such governments.
To us he appeared not only guilty of treason to our national life, but of treason to the higher and God-given life of the religious government of our race, the chosen one of God, as we sincerely and zealously believed. Even in latter days, humans have appeared and claimed to be the especially anointed of God, with missions to perform, and have gathered around them a following of people, whom they have impressed with the Truth of their character, mission, and of their teachings. For a short time were permitted to declare their claims and doctrines, then suddenly brought to death, by the decree of those who were in authority, as trouble-makers, enemies of the church, or state, and have been forgotten. Their doctrines disappeared from memory.
Only in the instance of Jesus, has his death been remembered through all the ages. Those who were the cause, and responsible for his death, have been desecrated, cursed, and charged with the murder of god.
Well, I write this to show you, that the Jews who took the life, and demanded the crucifixion, of that just human, were actuated by motives other, or different, from those that have many times since caused the very followers and worshippers of that Jesus to murder and crucify other humans who have claimed to be the sons of God endowed with special missions for the Salvation of Humankind.
The sincerity of the Jews who took part in this great tragedy cannot be assailed. Even their Roman masters at the time understood that the demands for the death of Jesus did not arise from personal spite, or the satisfaction of any revenge against the individual. But solely because they believed, and so declared, that Jesus was an enemy, and would-be destroyer of the divine faith and teachings of the Israelite nation, a seducer of the people. It is only because of the subsequent rise and spread of his teachings, and the Truths that he declared, which have made so large a portion of the inhabitants of the Earth followers of him, that the act of the Jews in causing his death has been called the great crime of the world, and the people themselves to be hated, persecuted, and destroyed as a nation, and scattered to all points of the Earth.
I do not write this to excuse, or palliate, the great error, which we committed in causing the crucifixion and death of the True Son of God. Only to show that they, though as I now know, mistakenly, did that, which other humans, with the same faith, convictions, and zealous for the religious preservation of the nation, be these humans Jews, Gentiles, or pagans, would have done in similar circumstances.
The great element of tragedy in all this is not that Jesus was crucified, but that the Jews were so mistaken, and failed to recognize and accept Jesus as their long looked for Messiah and Deliverer, not from their material conditions of bondage, but from the bondage of sin and error, in which they have lived for so many centuries. This, I say, was their tragedy. It has been their lasting and deadly tragedy from that time until the present day. The prospects are that it will continue theirs for many years to come, and that generations of them will pass from the Earth Life, to the Spirit World, under the shadow of that great tragedy.
They still believe, and that belief is a part of their existence, as firmly fixed as in the days of the great mistake, that they have Abraham for their father, and that his faith and example are sufficient to show them the True Way to God and Salvation, and that they are the chosen people of God. By worshipping the One and Only God, observing the sacraments, feasts, and commands of God that were given to them by, and through, Moses, and the prophets, as are contained in the Old Testament, they will find the heaven of God here on Earth, and after death rest in the bosom of Abraham, and that the observance of the moral and ethical precepts of their Bible is all that is necessary to develop their Spiritual Natures. That beyond such development, there is nothing to be desired, or to be sought for. That at sometime they will attain the Adamic condition of reward and happiness, which is the ultimate of human's future existence.
Some are still looking for the coming of the Messiah, who will restore to them their former glory, and rule on Earth, as the king and governor of all the nations, and that they will be his chosen subjects, selected to assist in the administration of that Messiah's kingdom.
How certain it is that their dreams will never be realized, and that unless they have an Awakening, to the True Nature of their God, they will never become inhabitants of the Father's Kingdom!
I want to say to my people, with the Certainty of Knowledge, arising from experience, and actual observation, that Jesus of Nazareth was the True Messiah who brought to the World, and first to the Jews, the Truths of God, and His Plans for the Salvation of Humankind, and their restoration, to all that they had lost by the fall of their First Parents, because of their disobedience. That if the people of my nation had received him, accepted and followed his teachings, they would not now, on Earth, be the scattered, homeless, and persecuted race that they are. In the Spirit World, would not now be satisfied with their homes and happiness in the Spiritual Heavens, but would be, many of them, inhabitants of the Celestial Heavens, the possessors of Immortality and God's Divine Love.
You have received many messages, describing the Plan of the Father for the Salvation of Humans. What the Divine Love is, and how it may be obtained. Its effect on the soul of human, and spirit, when once possessed. I will not attempt here, to enter into an explanation of these things. With all the Love that I have for my race, superadded to a Knowledge of the great error, and insufficiency of their faith to bring them into At-Onement with God, I advise, and urge them, to seek the Truth, and apply it to their individual souls. I affirm that the Truth is contained, and The Way be found, in the Messages that you have received from Jesus, and the other High Spirits.
I am a believer in these Truths, a follower of the Master, and an inhabitant of the Celestial Heavens. I want to say that these Truths did not come to me as a part of my Faith, until many long years of Life in the Spirit World, and that some of these years, I lived in darkness and suffering.
So I will say goodnight, and subscribe myself, your brother in Christ, Elohiam.
God's True Plan of Salvation
March 12th, 1917
I am here, Luke.
I desire tonight to write on the subject of: "What is the fact, with reference to the authenticity of the Bible."
I was with you at the lecture of the preacher on this subject. I was surprised that he could announce, with such apparent confidence, that the Bible is the authentic word of god, actually written by the humans whose names appear therein as the writers of the same, and the fact that he traced back the existence of certain manuscripts and versions to a hundred and fifty years subsequent to the time of the Teachings of Jesus, did not establish the Truth of his declaration, that by such establishment, the authenticity of the Bible, or the genuineness of the manuscripts, as they now exist, contain the Real writings of the apostles, or of those persons who are supposed to be the writers of the same, from the fact that their names are associated with these manuscripts.
Neither is it True that John's Life was prolonged to the end of the first century in order that he might write the True declarations of the Eternal Truths, as declared by Jesus. John did not live until that time. His writings were not preserved, as he had formulated them, nor were the results of his declarations transmitted Truthfully, as claimed by those who teach the inviolability of the scriptures (of the Bible).
I was a writer upon these sacred subjects. As I have before told you, I wrote a document, which was called the "Acts of the Apostles", and left a number of copies of my writings when I died. Such compilation was merely a history of what I had heard from those who had lived with, and heard, the Teachings of Jesus, and of their efforts to circulate and teach his doctrines, after his death. I also had the benefit of some writings of the disciples about Jesus. Such writings were very few. These disciples and followers of Jesus did not commence to place, in the form of manuscript, his teachings, or the experience of his Life, until a longtime after he had left the Earth. They expected his speedy return when he would become their king and legislator. Hence, they saw no occasion, or necessity, for preserving in the form of writings, the Truths in which he had instructed them.
I know that after my own death, the writings that I had left were not preserved intact. That many things that I had incorporated therein were, in the numerous copying, and recopying, of my manuscripts, left out and ignored. Many things that I did not write, that were not in accord with the Truth, were inserted by these various successive copyists, in their work of reproduction. Many of these omitted things, and additions, were of vital importance to the Truth of Things Spiritual, as they had been declared by the disciples, as containing the Truths that Jesus had taught. During the period, the short period, as the lecturer denominated it, between the earliest writings of the fathers of the church, and the times of the actual occurrences of the things, to which these writings are supposed to relate and correctly describe, there were many changes made in the writings that I had left, as well as in those left by the other original writers.
Even in Epistles of Paul, which these theologians and Bible students claim have more authenticity, and greater certainty, than the Gospels, or other epistles of the Bible, many changes were made, between the times of their writings, and the times of the execution of the manuscripts, or of the sermons, of the fathers of the early church.
Within that one hundred and fifty years, The Truths of the Spiritual Teachings of the Master (Jesus), had become, to a more or less extent, lost to the consciousness and knowledge of those who attempted to reproduce the original writings, because these humans had become less Spiritual. Their thoughts, and efforts, had become more centered in building up the church, as a church, than in attempting to develop, teach, and preserve the Great Spiritual Truths.
The Moral Precepts became the dominating objects of their writings and teachings, and were more easily comprehended by them, than were precepts that taught The Way to the development of their souls, and to a knowledge of the Will of the Father, and the Mission of Jesus to Humankind, as a way-shower and saviour of souls, rather than as a Messiah to establish his kingdom on Earth.
No, I declare with authority, that the authenticity of the Bible cannot be established as the "word of god", for in very many particulars, it is not His Word. On the contrary, contains many assertions of truth that are not Truths, and diametrically opposed to His Truths, and to Jesus' Teachings of the Truth.
This Bible has changed, and perverted, the Whole Plan of God for the Salvation of Human, and has substituted a plan that arose from the limited wisdom of those who attempted to convince humankind that they had a knowledge of God, and of His Designs, as to the creation and destiny of human. They were influenced, very largely in this particular, by their knowledge of, and belief in, the teachings of the Jewish church, and the history of the Jewish race, in its dealings with God, as they supposed, and in the teachings of the Scribes and Pharisees. This fact was conspicuously shown by these writers attempting to substitute Jesus in their plan of salvation, in the place of the animals in sacrifice in the Jewish plan of salvation. As the God of the Jews, in order to be appeased, and satisfactorily worshiped, demanded blood, and more blood, so the god that Jesus declared was the god of all the peoples of the Earth, in order to be appeased and satisfactorily worshiped, demanded blood, and that the blood of His dearly beloved son.
Among these writings of the Bible, there are many things declared to be truths, and embodied as the actual words of god, that are contradictory, and unexplainable, which, if they were the words of God, or even the teachings of Jesus, would contain no contradiction, or admit of any constructions, that were not consistent one with the other.
As the additions, emasculations, and interpretations, were made in the original writings of those who declared the Truths, as they had heard them from the Master, the decreasing want of comprehension of Spiritual Things, and the growing wisdom of their own finite intellects, caused them to conceive a plan on the part of god for human's salvation. As the recopying continued, the thoughts of those who copied, or who dictated the same, became more centered on this plan. So these copies were gathered together, considered, and efforts to have some agreement in the declaration of this plan. As the new copies were made, they were constructed with the view of showing forth this agreement.
It must not be supposed that the copies, from which the manuscripts that are the basis of the Bible was made, were executed and preserved in a manner that caused them to be isolated one from the other, and that they were not all known to the persons who copied, or caused the copying, of the writings from which the manuscripts were made, for that would not be True. These, what may be called the basic copies, were in circulation at the time the christian fathers wrote. They had access to them, quoted from them, and helped to give them the interpretations that now prevail in the churches, with the additional interpretations since those days.
Humans know now, that among these christian fathers, were bitter disputes, as to what was a part of the word, and as to what should be accepted, and what rejected, among these writings antedating the manuscripts that form the basis of the Bible, and that many manuscripts, purporting to be the word of god were rejected as such. For the reason that they could not have been the records of god's word, because they did not agree with what the bishops of the church, in their human knowledge and reason, accepted as god's word should be. Even these bishops disagreed and differed, just as the human minds and reason disagree with one another.
Then I say the lecturer did not prove the authenticity of the Bible as being the word of god. He did not go down the stream of time, as he called it, far enough to discover the existence of any authenticity. That being so, his argument of proof, is just as weak as if he had started from the time of the printed Bibles, where their contents are substantially the same, but they not being the originals, the similarity proves nothing.
What I have said with reference to my own writings, applies to the writings of all the others. The Bible does not contain their writings, as they wrote and left them to humanity.
The Bible contains many Truths, enough to enable human to reach the Kingdom of Heaven, provided they are correctly understood and applied. There are so many things taught therein as truths, which are just the opposite of Truth, that they make it difficult for humans to discern and apply the Truth, and comprehend the Will of God, with respect to humans, and the destinies that must be theirs, according as they follow and obey that Will, or do not do so.
John has already written you on this subject with reference to his writings. So has Paul as to his. So that there is no necessity for me to deal with the errors and interpretations contained in their writings.
I will not write more now as you are tired. I will soon come and write a message on another subject that I have been desiring to write for some time.
With my Love and blessings, I am, your brother in Christ, Luke.
God's True Plan of Salvation
September 14th, 1918
I am here, Stainton Moses.
Let me say a word. I have been present as you read the book called "Spirit Teachings". I saw that while many of the statements therein contained are in accord with the knowledge that you have of spirit matters, yet, that there is wanting, the One Great Truth of the New Birth, as it has been explained to you by the Master, and other High Spirits. Well, you must not, on account of the fact that this Truth is not alleged, and explained, by the spirits who wrote the messages that you have been reading, assume that these spirits were not of a Higher Order, or that they are wanting, in the Knowledge of many Truths, that the book portrays as to the relationship of spirit to human, and human to God, and their future destiny. No, these spirits were real and genuine, and taught Truths, as they understood them. They were limited in their knowledge by the amount of the progress, which they had made in Things Spiritual. In attempting to teach, they were honest. Declared only those things that they believed to be True. Many of the Truths that they declared, are of vast importance, and necessary for humans to know, in order to their own salvation. They show the way to the condition of the Perfect Human. The struggles, sufferings, and sacrifices, that spirits will have to make, in order to arrive at this condition, are not overdrawn. On the contrary, are merely the outlines of what will be necessary for humans and spirits to undergo, in order to become the Perfect Human, or spirit.
These spirits have, since the time of the writings, learned of this formation of the soul into an Essence Divine by reason of the possession of the Divine Love. Hence, could not use their medium in making known this Great Means of Perfect Salvation to Humankind.
These spirits have, since the time of the writings, learned of this Truth. Are now progressing towards the Celestial Spheres, which can be obtained only by the means of the Divine Love. You will notice in the teachings, many expressions that are erroneous, solely, because the writers did not know to the contrary. This fact must not cause you to believe that many other things, which they teach, are not True. For outside of, and independent of, this Truth of the Divine Love, and what it means to humans and spirits, "The Teachings" are True, and should be believed.
I write this that you may not doubt the genuineness of the writings, or think that the same were not made by the spirits who professed to write. These spirits had a mission to perform, and were earnestly endeavoring to acquaint the medium, and through him, the World, with the Truths, and the necessity of meditating upon the same, and ceasing to be satisfied with the old time beliefs, which were so erroneous, misleading, and harmful, as the spirits declared.
I have an enlarged knowledge of the things that pertain to the Spirit World, and to the True Plan of Salvation, as established by the Father. I have experienced the possession of the Divine Love, and its operations and effect upon the souls of humans. How sufficient it is to relieve humans from the sufferings and penalties of their sins that they would have to endure, or undergo, were this Divine Love not open and free for them to obtain. I have that Divine Love, to a degree that has made me an Angel of the Celestial Spheres. A possessor of that Immortality that was unknown to humans when I lived on Earth, also unknown to the spirits who communicated the writings, which you have been reading. They taught a part only of the Truth of Salvation and Regeneration, and that, the lesser part in importance. The one, which the large majority of humans will know of, and obtain, only.
I thought that I would write this to you, for I saw that you were very much interested in the "Spirit Teachings", and had in mind the question as to whether these spirits who wrote were acquainted with the Great Truth. I am very happy that I am permitted to write, for I do not want those who have read, and believe, these writings, to rest upon the assurance that the same contain All of Truth, and that there is no other way to Heaven and Happiness, except that set forth in these writings. It is so important that All of Truth should become known to humans, and the opportunity given to them to seek, and find, the Great Way to Immortality and Bliss.
I will not write more now. Sometime in the future, I should like to come and write further, with reference to these matters. I thank you for your kindness in receiving this imperfect communication. Will only say further, that the Divine Love, the New Birth, and the Celestial Heavens, where the Master is forming his Kingdom, are Truths, vital, and unchangeable. The desideratum of the Happiness of Humankind.
I will say goodnight, and while a stranger to you, yet, can subscribe myself.
Your brother in Christ, Stainton Moses, the medium.
Gods True Plan of Salvation
October 18th, 1919
I am here, Jesus.
Let me write a few lines, for I must tell you of an important Divine Truth, that is necessary for humans to know, in order to reach the Celestial Kingdom, and a Knowledge of the True Plan of Salvation.
I know that the Bible contains many sayings attributed to me in reference to this Divine Plan, and many of my alleged sayings are believed in by those who claim to be christians, which are not True, for I never said them. They are contrary to what I received from The Father, as to the True Plan of Human's Redemption from sin, and as to the Only Way, by which, they can obtain the True At-Onement with the Father, and a Knowledge of their own Immortality.
Many of these sayings were written by humans, who knew not, the Only Way to Oneness with the Father. Were the results of the teachings of the manuscripts that then existed, and were received by the Jews as the Revelations of Moses, and of many of the prophets who had no knowledge of the Divine Love, or of its Rebestowal upon humanity. These humans made me say those things (in their writings) that accorded with their ideas of what was necessary to a Salvation, or possibility of their becoming at-one with me and with the Father. In writing their ideas, confused the Truth, with what they supposed was the truth, as contained in the Old Testament. Much harm has been done by attributing many of these sayings to me, because of the supposed authority that thereby attached to them.
My disciples never taught, and never understood, that their Salvation, or that of any human, depended upon faith in me as the son of God. Or, that I, the mere Jesus, had in me any virtue to forgive sin, or to insure an entrance into the True Kingdom of God. Or that, I, as the human Jesus, was a son of God, in the sense that the Bible teaches.
They knew that the Father had revealed to me the Divine Truth, and that I had in me that Divine Love, which, to a large extent, made me like unto and At-One with the Father. That my Teachings of the Rebestowal of the Divine Love were True, and that when they, or any human, should possess this Divine Love, to the extent of that possession, they would become At-One with the Father, and also with me, who possessed It to a greater degree than any human. I say, they Knew this, and taught it to the people, as I had taught it to them. But when the compilers of the present New Testament came to declare my sayings and teachings, they knew not of this Divine Love. Hence, could not understand what many of my True Expressions meant, and gave them an interpretation, so far as my Real sayings were concerned, that would comply with their knowledge.
No, I am not correctly quoted in many of these sayings. I may say, in the large majority of them, for when they were written, as now contained in the New Testament, humans had lost the Knowledge of their True Meaning. Out of their own minds, recorded that which they thought was what I had really said.
I do not see how these false sayings can be corrected. Except, to take each saying, and show, by its incompatibility with what I now say, its falsity. This would take too much time and expend much energy that could the better be employed in declaring what the Divine Truth actually is. This I will say, that whenever these sayings impart that I claim to be God, or that I could, or did, forgive humans of their sins, or that whatsoever should be asked of the Father in my name would be received, are all untrue, and have greatly misled the True Seeker of Knowledge of Immortality.
My disciples were close to me, and understood better my sayings, than all others. Yet they did not understand all the Divine Truth, and left the Mortal Life with many expectations that were not fulfilled. In the very nature of the same could not be fulfilled. They were, in certain non-essentials, influenced in their beliefs and expectations by their training in the teachings of these Old Testament manuscripts. Were very largely Jews in belief when they died. They understood the vital things that determined their relationship to God, and to their existence in the Future World. But as to many of the non-essentials they retained the faith of their fathers, and were not able to receive all the Divine Truth, which I could have taught them.
I must not linger to correct these alleged sayings of mine. But must occupy my time, and yours, in declaring and revealing the Divine Truth as it exists now, and existed then. You, and the World, may know that wherever, and whenever, these Bible sayings of mine, conflict with what I have written, and shall write you, they are untrue, and were never said by me. Thus, in this general way, I will make plain to humans that the Bible must not, in all particulars, be relied on, or believed in, as containing the Divine Truth, or my declarations of the Divine Truth.
I will soon come and write a message on a Vital Truth, and hope that you will be in condition to receive it.
I will now say goodnight. God Bless your efforts and keep you safely in His Care, your brother and friend, Jesus.
Gods True Plan of Salvation
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