HUMAN'S AND CREATION

15th January, 1916.

    I am here, Jesus.

    I come to-night to tell you that you are in a very much better condition than you have been for sometime.  Your rapport with us is so very much greater, that I feel that I should write you a message upon an important subject, which is vital to the Salvation of Humans, from the sins and errors of their life on earth.  I will write a portion of what I desire to write.

    Well, I will first say that there are so many men and women on the earth, who believe, or assert that they believe, that through their own efforts they can develop those soul qualities which are necessary to bring them in accord with the Soul of the Father, that I find that the task of convincing these persons of the errors of their beliefs, or assumption of beliefs, will be a very great one.  This task will not be confined to those who have given real and deep study to the mysteries of life, both on earth and thereafter, but also to a much greater number who have a kind of smattering of this supposed knowledge, which the wiser or more learned publish to the world as a result of their investigations.

    It is more difficult to convince the ignorant, who think that they know the Laws of Being and the Plan of the Workings of God's Universe, than to convince those, who have given sincere thoughtful study to the same.  Because the latter, generally, as they progress in their investigations become convinced that the more they should know as a result of their investigations, the less they really know.

    I do not know just what is the most important subject for comment to-night relating to these matters, for there are so many.  All which I must at same time instruct you about. I will write to-night about "The relationship of human to the Creation of the World and the Origin of Life."

    Your Bible says:  in the beginning God Created the heavens and the earth, etc., out of a void, and continued that Creation until there was a Perfect Heaven, with all its glories, a Perfect Earth with inhabitants of every kind.  All Perfect and made just as an All Wise and All Powerful God would Create.  As a climax to all, human, who was so Perfect that they were made in the image of their Creator.

    Well, this story is just as good and satisfactory as any that has been conceived and written by humans.  Is just as worthy of belief.  But as a fact it is not true.  For there never was a time, or period when there was a void in the Universe, or when there was chaos.  God never Created anything out of nothing.  His Creations, such as are perceived by and known to humans, were merely the change in form, or composition of what had already existed. Always will exist as elements.  Though there will undoubtedly be changes in form, appearance and in constituent elements in their relation to one another.

    God was always Existent.  A Being, without beginning. Which idea, the finite mind, I know cannot grasp.  But it is true.  So also, everything which is in the Universe to-day always existed.  Though not in form and composition as they now are.  As they are, they will not continue to be, for Change Eternal is the Law of His Universe.  I mean as to all things which may be spoken of as having a substance, whether they be material, or etherial.  Of course, His Truths never change.  Neither do the Laws, by which the Harmony of the Universe is preserved and continued Perfect.

    Now, the earth on which you live did not always have an existence, as an earth.  Neither did the firmament and the great galaxy of planets and stars.  But they were not Created out of nothing.  Neither was there chaos.  For in God's Economy of Being, there is never any chaos.  Which if it should be, would mean the absence of the workings of His Laws and Harmony.

    The earth and the firmament were Created.  At one time they had no existence as such.  At a coming time they may cease to have such existence.  This Creation, was in an orderly way, according to design, with no element of chance entering into it.  Such Creation was not through what your wise humans may call accretion, or evolution, that is self evolution.  For every new, or additional exponent of growth, or manifestations of increase, was the result of God's Laws.  Which He operated in the Creation of the Creature.

    There is no such thing as self evolution, or that development which arises from the unassisted growth of the thing developed.  This applies to all nature, as well as to humans.  To grow, to become nearer Perfection, implies the decay and disappearance of some elements, which have performed their missions and work in the growth of the thing Created.  Never do the same elements continue, in the development of that, which the Laws in their operations, bring to greater and greater Perfection.

    In all this work of Creation there are Laws of Disintegration and Apparent Retrogression operating.  As well as Laws of Positive Construction and Advancement.  Again, these former Laws do not operate by chance, but by design, just as do the latter class of Laws.  The All Creator Knows, when for the purpose of bringing forth the Perfect Creature, be they human, or animal, or vegetable, or mineral, the Laws of Decay and Retrogression as well as the Laws of Advancement and Increased Effectiveness shall operate.  He never makes a mistake in setting into operation these Laws.  Never pronounces the result of His Work, "Not good."

    As has been said, a thousand years are as a day with God.  While for many long years it may appear to human, there are retrogression and delay in bringing to Perfection a Creature of the Creator's Works.  Yet, that apparent retrogression is not such a fact.  Only a course, or method, adopted for bringing forth the higher, or greater, Perfection. I know it is difficult to explain these Workings of Creation to the finite, earthy mind, but you may grasp some conception of what I desire to make known.

    Human, in their Creation, were not the slow growth as were some of the other Creations of God, but was from, and at the beginning, made Perfect.  With the exception of the qualities of Divinity and Immortality.  They did not grow from a lower creature, as some of your scientists have proclaimed, by the slow process of evolution and this a self evolution, resulting from inherent qualities which were developed by experience.  They were Created the Perfect Humans.

I will stop for the present.  Your brother and friend, Jesus

February 6th, 1916.

I am here, Jesus.

    I come to-night to resume my discourse of several nights ago. 

    As I was saying, humans are the Creature of God.  Made in Perfection and instantaneously, as it were.  Not having a slow growth as other Creations.  When they were Created, they needed no evolution, or additional attributes to make them the Perfect Human.  Their physical bodies were Perfect, also their spiritual body and their soul.

    They had, in addition to these three constituents, a gift, which by their disobedience, they forfeited.  Which was never restored to them, until my coming.  Which when possessed by them, made them more than mere humans. As to those things which were made constituent and absolute parts of them, they were Perfect.  No evolution was necessary to give them any increased Perfection. Humans then, were a more Perfect Being then, than they are now, or ever have been, since their fall from their Condition of Perfection.

    After their disobedience and the consequent death of the Potentiality, of partaking of the Divine Nature of the Father, which is the gift above mentioned, humans were left in a state where they depended exclusively upon the qualities which they then possessed, for their future happiness and freedom, from those things which would cause them to lose the Harmony that then existed between them and the Laws governing their being.

    The greatest of all the qualities bestowed upon them, was that of the will power.  Which was wholly unrestricted in its operations.  Although, when exercised in a manner which brought this will in conflict with the Laws controlling this Harmony, humans had to suffer and pay the penalties of such violations.  Notwithstanding, that these perversions of the exercise of the will brought the sins and errors, which now exist on earth, God did not place any limitations on this exercise.

    Humans, in their Creation, had bestowed upon them appetites and desires pertaining to their physical nature, as well as desires of their higher, or spiritual nature.  They were all intended to work in Harmony, not in antagonism.  In such workings, humans were kept pure and free from sin, which is merely the violation of God's Laws of Harmony.  But after the first disobedience, which is the greatest demonstration of the power of humans to exercise that will, even when God had forbade them to do so.  After humans lost this Great Potentiality that I speak of, succeeding disobediences became easier.  As these disobediences occurred, humans lost, to a great extent, the desires for the Spiritual things.  The animal, or physical part of their nature asserted itself.  Then, instead of exercising these appetites, which belonged to the physical nature, in such a wise way, that no inharmony would ensue.

    Here let me say that even after the fall it was possible, even expected, that humans would exercise these appetites in the way mentioned, they indulged them beyond their proper functions.  Increased such indulgence, until they commenced to find, as they thought, more pleasure in such indulgence, than in the thoughts and exercise of their Higher Nature and the aspirations which belonged to it.  This deterioration of humans was not sudden, but gradual.  Until, at one time, they became in a state, or condition of being, bordering on that of the lower animals.  In fact, because of this increased indulgence of these appetites, they seemed to be transformed into the lower animal.  Yet, they remained human, a being Created in the image of their Maker.  (So far as the soul is concerned)

    From this position of low degradation, or degeneracy, humans slowly commenced to progress towards the attainment of their Original Condition before the fall.  Never in all this time, was their freedom of will taken from them. Nor attempted to be controlled by God.  But always the Laws of Compensation worked and humans suffered, as they continued to create sin and evil.

    As humans on earth continued to degenerate and to permit, what is sometimes called their animal nature, to dominate their Spiritual Nature, many humans died and continued to die.  Their physical bodies went back to the dust of which they were Created.  Their spiritual selves became inhabitants of the spirit world.  Where they were freed, in a longer or shorter time, from the desire to exercise these animal appetites.  The spiritual part of humans again asserted itself.  Until many of these spirits became free from sin and evil, in Harmony with the Laws of God, controlling their natures and conditions, as they existed before their degeneracy and before the disobedience commenced.  These spirits, thus made free and in their spiritual dominance, commenced to try to assist humans, while living on earth, to direct their will in such ways, as to rid themselves of submission to these appetites. To become again a True Human, as in their Creation State, minus the Potentiality that I have mentioned.  These efforts on the part of spirits have been slow in their effects.  While humans, in individual cases, have been almost regenerated. Yet as whole, the progress has not been as rapid as is desirable.  Sin and evil still exist in the world.  Humans perverted appetites and desires, still control them to a large extent.

    Of course, this progress from the bottom of degeneracy, has taken place, in some parts of the earth, faster than in others.  Hence, you have your distinction between the civilized and the uncivilized races or nations.  This does not necessarily mean, that the civilized people, as individuals, have made greater progress, in the manner indicated, than have the individuals of some of the so called uncivilized nations.  For it is a fact, that among some humans of the former nations, are perversions and manifestations of perversions of these appetites, that do not exist in the latter nations.

    Advancement in the intellectual qualities, do not necessarily mean progress in the spiritual asserting itself over the perversions of these appetites.  For will, is not a thing entirely of the mind.  Neither are these appetites and desires.  Because, back of the mind, are the affections, usually called the heart's desires, which are the seat of these appetites and from which these desires arise.  As they arise, the will is influenced by them.  As the will is influenced, come positive thoughts and deeds.

    It is not surprising that your scientists believe and preach the doctrine of the evolution of humans from a lower species of animal, or from an atom, or from something that they cannot just understand, or give a name to.  Because in their studies of the history of humankind and of the Created world, they find that humans have developed and progressed amazingly, from what appeared to have been their condition in some ages past.

    But history does not extend to the time when humans were in this lowest condition of degeneracy.  Hence all the conclusions that these scientists reach, are based upon facts sufficient unto themselves, which show the progress of humans, only after the turning point of their degeneracy. They have no fact.  Of course, when the word "facts" is here used, it refers exclusively to the material things of nature, showing them, the gradual decline of humans, from their state of being as Perfect Humans, to that when their retrogression, or degeneracy, ceased and their progress of return to their former estate commenced.

    So, if the scientists will believe and teach that humans, instead of evoluting from an atom, or some other infinitesimal something, or from a lower species of animal than humans, evoluted from their state, or condition, when they were at the bottom of their degeneracy, to which they had descended from the Perfect Humans, then they will believe and teach the Truth.  Their theory of evolution, will then have as its foundation, or basis, a fact, which now it has not, only a speculation.

    This in short, is the history and Truth of the Creation of the Universe of Humans.  Of humans fall, degeneracy,  evolution and progress.  Through all this Creation and subsequent existence, runs Life, permeating it, always with it.  The Origin of Life is God.

    I have finished.  I hope that you will find some instruction, as well as entertainment, in what I have written.  I will come again soon and write you another Truth.

    The fact that you waited for sentences to be formulated, to express my thoughts, merely means that I was manipulating your brain, so that the proper expression, or idea, could be conveyed to your hand, as I wrote it.

    You have my love and blessings.  I am more interested, as time passes, in you and your work.  Keep up your courage and your desires will be fulfilled.

Your brother and friend, Jesus

June 3rd, 1916.

I am here, Josephus.

    I come tonight to write a few lines upon a subject in which you may be interested, as I have observed that recently you have been reading my History of the Jews. There are some things in that book which require correction.  I don't mean that I desire to correct the whole book, but I do want to say something on some of the subjects that you have been reading about.

    Well, you will notice that I attempted to tell of the Creation of the World and of humans.  That what I said was taken from the Old Testament.  That I elaborated a little upon what is contained in Genesis.  My work was not taken entirely from the Old Testament.  For in my time on earth there were other books dealing with this subject, that were entitled to just as much credence as was the Old Testament.  From these books I obtained much information that is contained in my writings.  But the Truth of the things which I wrote, I find now to be not the Truth in many particulars.  Should not be accepted as such.  The description of the Creation of Human is not in accordance with the facts.  The story as related in the Old Testament, and by me, is not the True Story of the facts of such Creation.  I have not the time now to enter in detail, into a correction of the errors contained in these descriptions, except that I wish to say a few words as to the Creation of Human and also their fall.

    They were not made of the dust of the ground, but were made of the elements that existed in the Universe, of a different order from the mere dust of the ground.  Were so Created by God for the purpose of forming the mere physical body of human.  The two persons, called our First Parents, were Created at the same time.  Not one out of the rib of the other.  Therefore, the man and the woman are equal in their dignity, and in the relationship which they bear to God.  The one is of just as much importance, in the sight of God, as is the other.  One was Created stronger physically, than the other.  Also, was given a stronger mentality, for the exercise of the reasoning powers and the workings of the physical organs of the body.  The other, while weaker in these particulars, yet was given more of the spiritual and emotional nature.  Also, an intuition by which she could understand the existence of things just as accurately and more quickly than could the man, by the exercise of his reasoning power.  One was just as the other as respects the gifts bestowed.  Together, they were the Perfect Pair.  Male and female were they Created.  With diverse functions and duties to perform.  In the Perfect Workings of the Laws of God, power and love were theirs.  Neither was made the superior of the other.  Nor was the one to be subject to the other.  Had it not been for their fall, there never would have been the subjection of the female to the male.

    When the disobedience took place and the consequent fall, the qualities of the spiritual were taken from them to a large extent (by the exertiion of their own free will).  The animal qualities, as they may be called, asserted themselves.  Then the male felt his superiority by reason of the fact that he possessed a greater amount of these animal qualities.  The female became subordinated and continued to be ever afterwards.  For the male, not having these spiritual qualities, to the extent that his mate possessed them, and not being able to realize the greater existence of these qualities in the female, believed that the physical was the superior.  As he possessed the physical to a larger degree than his companion, he determined that he was the superior.  Therefore asserted this superiority.  The female observing that this physical superiority did exist, submitted herself unto the male and so continued until now.

    As man degenerated, this domination of the male intensified.  In some parts of the earth the female became nothing better in the sight of the dominant man than one of the lower animals.  This degradation continued until human found the lowest place of their degeneracy.  When the turning point came, the qualities of the woman came to be more recognized, but very slowly.  For many thousand years this inequality continued, and man remained the master.

    As man evolved from this low condition and the moral qualities began to come more into his consciousness.  The animal nature became less dominant.  The condition of the female commenced to improve.  As education came into the life and practices of men, woman's opportunities became more extended.  She was more and more recognized as approaching the equal of her companion.  In some countries of the earth her equality was recognized, but not in many.

    The Jews recognized the equality of the woman in all matters pertaining to the home or the domestic life and continued the distinction which had previously existed, only in respect to public affairs and the qualities of the mind.   Women were not permitted, even by them, to develop their mental faculties.  Were taught that they were things that belonged to the male, in all matters pertaining to the state, or religion of the race.  The consequence of this course of life, was that the woman developed the spiritual qualities, which were hers to a larger extent.  Her refinement and emotional nature and Love Principle exceeded those of the man to a great degree.  She became in her soul nearer the image of the Divine.

    I have noticed that this progress has continued with the passing of the years.  Now in some of the nations of earth the equality of the woman has become recognized.   Notwithstanding the fact that the laws of these countries did not permit her to exercise the rights of man, as she is his equal only in the home, or in social life.  But a time will come when she will be recognized, not only by the individual man, but by the human-made laws, as his equal in every particular.  The further fact will appear that she will be his superior in matters pertaining to the spiritual.

    As the time approaches when human shall return to their former state of Purity and Harmony with the Laws of God, the spiritual qualities will assert themselves.  The animal will become subordinated.  Woman will stand before God and man as the latter's equal.  In these soul qualities, his superior.  For in the beginning, in this particular, she was his superior.  That superiority existed only in order that what, in this regard, was lacking in man, was supplied by the woman.  The perfect pair was one.

    You may think that this is a digression from what I first intended to write and so it is.  But I thought the occasion a proper one to tell humankind, the future of the two integral parts of the Perfect Creation of God.

I will not write more tonight, but sometimes will come again and write.  So with my love I will say goodnight.

Your brother in Christ, Josephus