IMMORTALITY

Immortality - Only the Father (God) is Immortal. Only those to whom He gives His Attributes of Immortality, can become Immortal as He is. Love is the Great Principle of Immortality. By this I mean the Divine Love of the Father, not the Natural Love of the Creature. They who possess this Divine Love become, as it were, a part of It, or It becomes a part of them, thus Immortal, as God is Immortal.

Immortality

May 28th, 1915
I am here, Jesus.

I want to tell you what I mean by Immortality, as you and your friend differed today in your ideas of what it means.

When Adam and Eve were told that if they should disobey God and eat of the forbidden fruit, they should surely die, the word death meant, death of the soul, so far as its future progress in that, which would insure its receiving the Divine Essence of the Father's Divine Love, was involved. It did not mean the physical death, or the death of the body. Because it is very apparent, that after their doom was pronounced; they lived in the flesh a great many years.

But their soul's progression stopped. It was only after my coming to Earth and teaching the Doctrine and Truth of human being restored to the condition which Adam and Eve occupied before their fall, did humankind have the privilege of becoming Immortal, again. That is; of being permitted, and in condition, to obtain that soul progress which would enable them to become One with, and a part of, the Father in His Divine Love and Affections.

I do not mean that Adam and Eve were endowed with this Divine Love when they were Created, but that they had that formation of soul Potentialities, which, if properly exercised, would have brought them in that Unison with the Father that would have made their Nature, Divine. When they disobeyed the Commandments (Laws) of the Father, they died, so far as that possibility of obtaining the Divine Nature was concerned.

As to those who lived on Earth between Adam and Eve's fall, and my revelation of the Divine Truth of Redemption, they did not receive this Divine Nature, or Potentiality, were compelled to live only as mortals, and spirits, having the Natural Love. They never were admitted into the Father's Heavenly Kingdom, but existed merely as spirits having the Natural Love which was bestowed upon Adam and Eve and their race.

Abraham, Isaac, and the rest of the persons who are described in the Bible as being Children of God, and obedient to His Commands, were not partakers of this Divine Nature. Became so, only after my coming to Earth and showing The Way to its attainment.

When I was sent to Earth, God sent me with the Divine Truth, as to Humankind's Redemption, and at the same time conferred upon humankind the privilege of receiving His Divine Essence. No sacrifice, or death, of mine brought this great boon, but only with my coming came this Divine Love and The Way to obtain it.

Adam and Eve were not created immortal, but had only the Potentiality of Immortality. After their (spiritual) death, human ceased to have even this Potentiality, until God sent it to them with my coming to Earth.

When it was said, "as in Adam all men died, so in (me) were all men made alive." it was merely meant that when Adam and Eve fell, that, which formed a part of their being, and made it possible for them to become Immortal, was taken from them. That is; as to that Potentiality and Privilege, they died, and were no more able to attain to the condition of soul that enabled them to become One with the Father, or to partake of His Divinity. That in this condition of (spiritual) death, humankind remained, until, as I say, I came and brought with me the Restored Gift of the Soul Attribute which made it possible for human to again become Immortal.

When this Gift was bestowed upon humans, it was also bestowed upon all those who were then living in the Spirit World. But they could obtain it only in The Way that was provided for human to obtain it. Understand me, everything that was lost by Adam and Eve's fall, was restored by my coming with the Restored Gift. It embraced every spirit who had ever lived as mortal, and every mortal who thereafter lived, up to the present time.

My coming, of itself, or the death, or sacrifice of me by the Jews, did not restore humankind to the condition that existed in Adam and Eve before their fall. I was only a Messenger of God, sent with that Gift,to teach the Truth of its Restoration to humankind, and to spirits. When, after my death, I descended into hell, as the bible says, I proclaimed to the spirits the Truth of the Bestowal of this Restored Life, which had been lost by Adam and Eve's disobedience. All spirits, good and bad, now have this restored Potentiality of obtaining the Divine Nature that I have spoken of, and Immortality. So you see, when Adam and Eve died, it was the death of the soul quality, or Potentiality, which makes Immortality possible.

When the Bible speaks of those humans of ancient times, who were God's prophets and beloved children, as walking with Him, it merely means that they had obtained such a high development of their Natural Love that they could occupy those spheres in the Spirit World, which made them, mere spirits of mortals, close to the Father and supremely happy. I mean that happiness which does not partake of the Divine Nature. They were not in the same condition of soul attributes as was Adam and Eve before their fall. For they did not have this Potentiality. Any interpretation of anything written in the Bible, which gives to any human, or spirit, at that time, the possibility of receiving the Divine Essence of the Father, is erroneous and misleading.

As I have said, my death, or sacrifice by blood, as is emphasized in creeds and worship of the churches, did not in the slightest degree, work to bring about the Restoration of this Great Favor of God to human. They were merely the results of the conditions of the beliefs of humans in the Jewish nation, which would not tolerate my declarations of Divine Truth. My death, etc., did not appease any wrath of God towards humans. But, of His Own Great Love for His Creatures, He bestowed this Gift, or privilege of the soul, which human had lost by Adam and Eve's disobedience.

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It was the disobedience of believing that they were not dependent upon God, for the soul quality, or potentiality, that made it possible for them to partake of God's Divine Nature. The tree of good and evil merely represented the Knowledge that God had reserved unto Himself, of the existence of that, which, if known to Adam and Eve, would have subjected them to temptations that would destroy this soul quality, of which I have spoken. When Adam and Eve ate of the fruit of this tree, that is; when they disobeyed God and sought the knowledge of those things, which subjected them to the temptations that might cause them to cease to be all-good, God took away the Potentiality of Adam and Eve becoming One with Him and Immortal. It was a direct punishment for disobedience. The result was that human was left mere human, either as a mortal, or as a spirit.

I do not think that it was ever said that if Adam and Eve should eat of the Tree of Life they would live forever and become as a god. Because they were already the recipient of this Tree of Life, in that attribute of their souls, which could, by its proper development, make themselves like the gods. Here you must understand that "gods" could mean only those who possessed this Divine Nature of the Father. There was only One God. All other living beings in the Spirit World were merely those who were possessed of the god-like qualities of Love and obedience. None were gods.

The angels of God were merely the spirits that I have last described. When it was said that human was made a little lower than the Angels, it meant that while these Angels had that Divine Nature perfected, to a more or less degree, human had only the Potentiality of soul that would enable them to obtain that soul development which would perfect them so that they could become an Angel. But this saying does not apply to any human born after Adam and Eve, and before my coming with the announcement that God had restored to human this Divine Attribute which Adam and Eve had forfeited. So you see, the loss of Immortality does not mean the death of the physical body, but the death of that quality, or Potentiality of the soul, which enabled human to become like the Father in certain of His Divine Attributes.

More strictly speaking, the mere possession of the soul of this quality, is not Immortality, or rather it does not make a human, or spirit, Immortal, but merely gives them such quality of soul and potentiality that, by its proper development, they may become Immortal.

In the future all humans, either as spirits or mortals, will possess that soul quality, or Potentiality, until the great Day of Judgment shall again take from those who have not, at the time, perfected their souls into the enjoyment of the Divine Nature, as I have explained. When that day comes, those who are without this Divine Essence in their souls will be forever deprived of the Privilege of receiving the Great Gift of this Divine Essence, or in other words, of God's Divine Love. After that time, those spirits, who have never acquired this Divine Nature, will be permitted to live merely as spirits enjoying their Natural Love. Just as Adam and Eve after their fall. All spirits and humans, who lived between that time and my coming, lived only in their Natural Love. This is the second death. Adam and Eve's was the first. The Great Day of Judgment will declare the second. After that, never again will human have the opportunity of partaking of this Divine Essence of the Father and becoming "as one of the gods".

Humans may reason, to the utmost of their limited intellects, in the way of saying that God would not subject His Creatures to this second death, and thereby deprive them of this great boon of becoming partakers of His Divine Nature and the Great Happiness that comes with it. But such reasoning, or the conclusion reached, will not change the fact. What I tell you is the fact. Many humans, to their sorrow, will, when too late, realize that it is True.

Humans will not be justified in complaining of this. The opportunity is now given. Will in the future be given to all humans and spirits, to become the Children of the Father, in the Angelic and Divine Sense. If they refuse to do so, they can have no grounds upon which to base the accusation of injustice against the Father, or His Love.

He will still be their Father, even though they may not accept His Great Gift. They will, from the Natural Love bestowed upon them, be comparatively happy. But they will not partake of His Heavenly Kingdom. They will be like the guests invited to the marriage feast, who, because of various excuses, declined to attend. While they were not deprived of other food and sustenance, yet the more precious food which the host had provided for them at the feast, they never partook of, and never thereafter had the opportunity to.

Many of my parables in the Bible illustrate this Great Truth, when properly understood, as humans did in those days when I was on Earth, but now harden their hearts, and shut their intellects, to the Truths of these parables, and to my teachings. Of course, ultimately, all these humans will be saved from sin and error. In fact, sin and error will be destroyed entirely. Humans and spirits will live in comparative happiness. But they will live in (spiritual) death and not in Life, so far as the Life of the soul, with its possibilities of becoming Divine and of enjoying the Great Happiness which the Divine Love of the Father bestows, is concerned.

So you see, Immortality does not pertain to the physical body, or to the spiritual body, or to the soul unqualifiedly, but to those qualities of the soul which makes it possible for the soul to become in its nature, Divine.

Immortality does not mean mere continuous existence, because every spirit and every soul may live through all Eternity in their individualized form. When it was said, in the Bible, that I brought Immortality and Life to Light, it did not mean that I showed humans merely that they would as spirits continue to live forever. It meant that they would live forever in the Father's Kingdom, with Natures Divine, and not capable of being deprived of the Great and True Life which is found only in that Kingdom.

So let you and your friend think over what I have written. In places where my meaning may not appear plain, I will try, by the inspiration of my Knowledge and power, to enlighten your souls and intellects. You are both very mediumistic and easy recipients of inspiration. As your souls seem to be attuned to the Truth, and as you are seeking earnestly for the Truth, I will endeavor with all my powers to inspire you with such intellectual thoughts and spiritual perceptions, as will enable you to see these Truths in all their nakedness, face to face, and not as through a glass darkly.

I must now stop, and give you my blessings, and the Blessing of the Father,your friend and brother, Jesus.

Immortality

July 5th, 1915

I am your friend and brother in Divine Love and desire for the Kingdom.

I am the spirit of Henry Ward Beecher.

I live in the Seventh Sphere where your father now is. Because of having met him there, I come to you tonight to write for a short time. He has told me of you and how easily you receive the communications of the spirits. I want to let you know, that even though I am no longer the same as when on Earth, I still have the desire to make known to humans the thoughts that arise in me concerning God, and the relation of humans to Him and His Kingdom. I am now a believer in Jesus as I never was on Earth. It may surprise you to know, that when on Earth, no matter what I may have preached to my people, yet, in my heart, I looked on Jesus as a mere man of the Jews, and not very different from others of the great reformers who had lived and taught on Earth the Moral Truths, which tended to make humans better and caused them to live more correct and righteous lives.

Since I have been in the Spirit World and have had the experiences which my Life here has given me, and have found The Way to God's Divine Love and to His Kingdom. I have learned, and now know, that Jesus was more than a mere reformer. He was not only a good and just teacher, and lived the Life of such, but he was the True Son of God, and His Messenger in bringing to the World the Divine Truths of Immortality and the Divine Love of the Father, and The Way to obtain it. He was Truly The Way, The Truth and The Life, as no other teacher before him ever was.

I know it is taught, and I believed it when on Earth, that many religions and pagan teachers asserted, and tried to teach to humankind the immortality of the soul, as humans understood the meaning of the word immortality. These teachings were more or less satisfactory. I now see that their conception of immortality was merely a Continuity of Life, after what is called death. How different the meaning as thus taught and the True Meaning of the word! Immortality means so much more than a mere continuation of Life. It means not only a Continuation of Life, but a Life that has in it the Divine Love, or Essence, of the Father, which makes the spirit who has that Divine Love, a Divinity itself, and not the subject of death of any kind. No mere spirit has this Immortality just because it is continuing to live in the Spirit World, and cannot conceive that by any possibility that Continuity of Life can ever be arrested, or ended. No such spirit knows that to be True, because never has it been demonstrated as a fact, and cannot be, until Eternity has come to an end. Such spirit is no different, in its essence and potentialities, from what it was when enfolded in the flesh, and has no greater reason for believing that it is immortal than it had when on Earth.

A speculation and a proven fact are two entirely different things. Yet with some spirits, as well as with humans, speculation becomes almost as much a certainty as does a fact demonstrated. But there is no justification for relying upon conclusions drawn from mere speculation. The spirit, or human, who does, may, in the great workings of Eternity, find themselves, not only mistaken, but surprised beyond all conception at what eventualities such workings may bring forth.

So, I say that before the coming of Jesus, Immortality had not been brought to Light, and could not have been, because for humankind it did not exist.

I was as much surprised when I learned the True Meaning of the word, as humans will be, who may read this communication, or hear its import. The hope of Socrates, or of Plato, or of Pythagoras, was only a hope, fortified by the reasonings of great minds and supplemented by much development of soul qualities. When all is said it was only hope, Knowledge was wanting. Even if they had realized that the spirits of humans departed did return and communicate to them, that there was no such thing as the death of the spirit or soul. Yet, such experiences did not prove to them anything beyond the fact that Life was continuous, for the time being.

As change is the Law in the Spirit World, as well as on Earth, they could not, with the certainty of Knowledge, say there might not be some change in the Spirit World that would break, or set aside, the continuity of existence.

Take the young child, when its intellect has not sufficiently developed to understand that there is such a thing as the death of the physical body. It believes, if it thinks at all, that it will continue to live forever on Earth. So with these philosophers who had the hope of a future continuous Life. And with the spirits who know that there is a Continuous Life, living after death, they think that, that living must be the fixed state, and must of necessity continue forever.

As I say, it has not been demonstrated that such Life will continue forever. Yet, on the other hand, it has not been shown that it will not. Hence, no spirit can say that it is Immortal, unless it partakes of the Divine Essence. No wise philosopher, or religious teacher, prior to the coming of Jesus, could be said to have brought Immortality to Light.

While hope and speculation exist as the children of desire, yet Knowledge is wanting, and certainty is not.
The immortality then, that humans believed in, and comforted themselves with believing in, was the immortality that hope created and speculation proved. The experiences of humans, in communicating with the spirits, showed that death had not annihilated the individual. But hope, speculation, and experience did not create knowledge.

When Jesus came, he brought with him, not only hope, but Knowledge of the Divine Truth. Not many humans have comprehended it, or, understood the reason, or foundation, for such Knowledge. The reasoning faculties of humans were not sufficient to show the True reasons of such Knowledge. Strange as it may seem, the students and commentators of the Bible have never disclosed the True Foundation upon which this Knowledge exists.

I confess that in my Life, while a great student of the Bible, I never comprehended the True Meaning of how, or in what way, Jesus brought Immortality to Light. I thought, as many others do now, that his death and resurrection were the things that showed to humankind the reality of Immortality. But these things showed no more, as I now see, than did the numerous instances recorded in the Old Testament, and in the secular writings of the philosophers, and adepts of India and Egypt, that there was an existence after so-called death.
Many who dispute the fact that Jesus brought Immortality to Light, base their arguments on these other facts: that he was only one of many who had died and afterwards came to mortals and showed that they still lived as spirits. So I say, and as I believed not while on Earth, the mere fact of Jesus' resurrection does not prove immortality.

Then what have I learned Immortality to be since I have been in the Spirit World? My reasoning powers are much greater now than when on Earth. My perceptive faculties have become more keen, and my experience in the Laws of the Spirit World have given me great knowledge, but all these would not, of themselves, have given me the Knowledge of Immortality, had not Jesus himself explained it to me, and demonstrated it by his own condition, and that of many spirits in the Higher Spheres. Now I am, because of my present Soul Development, the possessor of that Knowledge.

Only the Father is Immortal. Only those to whom He gives His Attributes of Immortality, can become Immortal as He is. Love is the Great Principle of Immortality. By this I mean the Divine Love of the Father and not the Natural Love of the Creature. They who possess this Divine Love become, as it were, a part of It, or It becomes a part of them. In Its operations makes them like unto the Father. In other words, a spirit who possesses this Divine Love becomes a part of Divinity Itself, consequently, Immortal. There is no possibility of their ever becoming deprived of this element of Divinity.

No spirit is immortal when there is any possibility of its being deprived of that immortality. Even God Himself, if He could be deprived of that Great Quality, would not be Immortal. Just as it is impossible to take from the Father this Great Attribute, so is it impossible for the spirit who has once obtained this Divine Love of the Father, to lose its Immortality.

So you see, Immortality comes to a spirit only with the possession of the Divine Love. That Divine Love is not bestowed upon every spirit, only on those who seek for it, in The Way shown to humankind by Jesus.

Death does not bring to the mortal, Immortality, because their spirit survives their death, it does not follow that Immortality becomes a part of their existence as a spirit.

So I say that when Jesus brought to the World the Knowledge of the bestowal of this Divine Love of the Father, upon mortals, under certain conditions, and also showed mortals The Way in which that Great Gift might be obtained, he brought to Light, Immortality and Life. Before him, had no human, or spirit, brought these Great Gifts to Light.

I am now a partaker, to a certain extent, of the Divine Love. Have before me the possibility of obtaining it to its fullest extent, as promised by the Master, to all who may seek for it in Truth and with Faith.

I did not intend to write so long a message at this time, but as I am enthusiastic on this subject, I find that I have trespassed upon your time and kindness longer than I realized.

So thanking you for your patience, I will stop now, but hope that I may have the privilege of coming again at some time and writing.

With my kind regards, I am very truly yours, Henry Ward Beecher.

Immortality

July 8th, 1915
I am here, Socrates, the Greek.

I knew that you thought of me. I was attracted by your thought. If such spirit is in rapport with you, or has a similar soul quality, the soul condition is the great medium of attraction. I have been with you before, and there is a rapport growing out of your soul qualities. I am now a believer in the Christian Doctrine of the Soul's Immortality, and in the teachings of Jesus, as to The Way to obtain the Divine Love of the Father, as you are. Hence, our qualities of soul are similar. (Law of Attraction)

I am now a follower of the Master and believe in his Divine Mission on Earth, although he had not come to Earth when I lived. After I became a spirit I realized my belief in the Continuity of Life after death, and lived in the Spirit World a great many years after Jesus came, before I learned and believed his Larger Truth of Immortality.

Of course, when I taught I had only a hope, which was almost a certainty that I should continue to live through All Eternity. I had no other foundation for that belief, than the deductions from my reasoning powers and the observations of the workings of nature. I had heard of the visitations of the spirits of the departed, but had never had any personal experiences in that direction. I readily believed it to be True. My conviction of the Truth of a future continuance was so strong that it amounted to a certainty. Hence, when I died, I comforted Plato, and my other friends and disciples, by telling them that they must not say that Socrates will die, but rather that his body will die. His soul will live forever in Fields Elysian. They believed me. Plato afterwards enlarged on my belief.

Socrates did not die, but as soon as his breath left the body, which was not very painful, even though the fatal hemlock did its work sure and quickly, he went into the Spirit World a Living Entity, full of the happiness that the realizations of his beliefs gave him.

My entrance into the Spirit World was not a dark one, but full of Light and happiness, for I was met by some of my disciples who had passed over before me, and who had progressed very much in the intellectual development. I then thought that my place of reception was the heaven of good spirits, for there were good spirits to meet me and carry me to my home. I was then possessed of what I thought, that I was in the home of the blessed. I continued there for many years and enjoyed the exchange of minds and the feasts of reason.

As I continued to live, I progressed, until at last, I entered the highest intellectual sphere and became a beautiful and bright spirit, so they told me, and taught the things of a mind developed. I met many minds of great power of thought and beauty. My happiness was beyond my conception when on Earth. Many of my old friends and disciples came over, and our reunions were always joyous. Plato came, Cato and others.

The ages went by. I continued in my Life of intellectual enjoyment and profit, with many spirits developed in their minds and powers of thought, until our existence was a continuous feast of bright and momentous thoughts interchanged. I traversed the Spheres in search of Knowledge and information without limitation, and found the Principles of many Laws of the Spirit World.

I found, in many spheres, spirits who said they were the old Hebrew prophets and teachers. They were still teaching of their Hebrew god, who they claimed was the only God of the Universe and who had made of their nation his favorite people. I did not find that they were much different from the rest of us; I mean what they called the spirits of the pagan nations. They were not superior to us in intellect. They lived in no higher Spheres than we lived in. I could not learn that their morality was any more exalted than was ours. But they insisted that they were God's favorite people, and were, in their own estimation, superior to the rest of us and lived in a community all to themselves. I did not know just what the conditions of their souls were, but, as I observed the condition of the soul determines the appearances of the spirit, I did not perceive that their appearances were any more beautiful, or godlike, than were ours. I concluded that their God was no better, or greater, than was ours. No one, that I could find, had seen any God. I had not. So who, or what, God was became merely a matter of speculation. I preferred to have the God of my own conception to the one that they claimed to have.

For long years my Life went on in this way, until in my wanderings I found that there was a sphere I could not enter. I commenced to make inquiries, and was told that it was one of the Soul Spheres, in which the great ruler, or Master, was a spirit called Jesus, who had, since my coming to the Spirit World, established a New Kingdom, and was the chosen son of God, in Whom he lived and had his being. That only those who had received the Divine Love of this God could enter this sphere, or become inhabitants thereof. I then sought for more information, and continuing my search, I learned that this Divine Love had been given to humans and spirits at the time of the birth of Jesus on Earth. That it was free for all who might seek it, in The Way taught by him. That he was the greatest True son of this God, and that in no other way than the one shown by this son could this Divine Love be obtained, or the Soul Spheres entered.

I thereafter thought of this New Revelation, and let many years go by before I became convinced that I might learn something, and become benefitted by seeking this Way, and this Divine Love. After awhile I began to seek, but you must know that I, and spirits like me, who lived in the spheres where the mind furnished our pursuits and enjoyments, could not enter what was called this Soul Sphere, yet the inhabitants of that Soul Sphere could come into our sphere, without let, or hindrance. I sometimes met and conversed with some of these inhabitants. On one occasion I met one called John, who was a most beautiful and luminous spirit. In our conversation he told me of this Divine Love of his God, and of the Great Love and Mission of Jesus. Showed me some of the Divine Truths taught by Jesus, and The Way to obtain this Divine Love, and urged me to seek for it.

Strange to me, there were not any of the intellectual qualities required to be exercised in seeking for this Divine Love, only the longings and aspirations of my soul and the exercise of my will. It seemed so simple, so easy, that I commenced to doubt whether there was any reality in what I was told. I hesitated to follow the advice of this spirit, John. He was so Loving, and his countenance was so wonderful, that I concluded to try. I commenced to pray to this God, and tried to exercise Faith, as I was told. After a while, most surprising of all things to me, I commenced to have new and unaccountable sensations. With them a feeling of happiness that I had never experienced before, which made me think that there must be some Truth in what I was told. I continued to pray the harder and believe with more surety. I continued to make these efforts, until, at last, the Great Awakening came, that I had in me a Love that never before was in my soul and a happiness that all my intellectual pursuits had never been able to supply.

Well, it is not necessary to tell you further in detail my experience in getting and developing this Divine Love. But I became filled with it, and at last entered the Soul Sphere. What I saw is beyond description. I met Jesus, and had no conception that there could be such a glorious, magnificent, caring and Loving spirit. He was so gracious and seemed to be so much interested in my welfare and progress in the Divine Truths that he taught. Can you wonder that I am a Christian and follower of him?

Thereafter, I learned what True Immortality is, and that I am a part of that Immortality. I see how far short my conception and teaching of immortality were. Only this Divine Love can give to spirits Immortality. Anything less is but the shadow of a hope, such as I had.

I am now in a Sphere that is not numbered, but it is high in the Celestial Heavens. Not far from some of the Spheres where the disciples of the Master live. I am still progressing. That is the beauty and glory of the Soul Development where there is no limit, while my intellectual development was limited.

I must stop now as I have written more than I should have done. I will come to you sometime in the not distant future and tell you of some of the Truths which I have learned.

Your friend and brother Socrates, the one time Greek philosopher but now a Christian.

Immortality

August 15th, 1915

I am here, Jesus.

I was with you tonight at the meeting of the Christians. I saw that you were thinking of several things that I had written, and wanted to tell the preacher of my Truths. But of course you could not. He took a bit from the Bible, which I am credited with having uttered, and I did. But I did not mean exactly, what he explained it to mean.  When I said: "he that liveth and believeth on me shall never die", I meant that the human, whose soul was not dead to sin, and believed in the Divine Truths that I had disclosed. That is; that God's Divine Love was waiting to enter into and fill their soul with its Essence and Substance, and that means by prayer and Faith, and received that Divine Love, they should never die. That is; they would become Immortal as God is Immortal.

No mere belief in me as Jesus the human, or as the son of God, is sufficient to give a human Eternal Life. While they must believe that I was sent by God to proclaim the Great Truth; that He had again Bestowed on human, the possibility of obtaining this Divine Love by their prayers and Faith, yet unless they believed this, and became the possessor of this Divine Love, they could never claim Eternal Life.

I wish that the preachers would pay more attention to the Divine Truths, which I taught. That is; those Truths which showed humans the Fathers Divine Love, waiting to be bestowed, and The Way to obtain It. 

I, Jesus, as the son of human, or of God, do not save any human from their sins and make them One with the Father. The Divine Truths, which I taught, and which were taught me by The Father, are the things that save.

I know that the preachers attempt to explain these things by the light of the Bible as they understand that light. But so often it is so obscured, that instead of preaching from The Light they preached from darkness.
For these reasons, among others, I am so anxious to declare to you my Teachings of these Divine Truths, that the World may know what Truth is, and what the individual must do in order to attain Eternal Life, or Immortality. I will try with all my power to bring about this opportunity for your receiving my messages, and believe that very soon I will succeed.

So believe in my Love and my desire for your success.
Your brother in Christ, Jesus.

Immortality

October 23rd, 1915

I am the spirit of Aaron, the prophet of the Old Testament and the brother of Moses, as it is written.

I merely want to say, that as you read the message from the spirit of Henry Ward Beecher, I read also. That is a wonderful description of what Immortality is, and how it first was given to humankind after the fall of the First Parents.

I know the Divine Truth of what he wrote. For I experienced the want of this Divine Love for many thousand years before the coming of Jesus and the Rebestowal of this Divine Love, which is the only thing in all God's Universe that can bring to human Immortality.

So, let this Great Truth be preached to all the World. Let humans know, that until they get this Divine Love, they can never become Immortal. It is so difficult for humans to understand this Divine Truth, and for those who come forward, as the teachers of humans in Spiritual Things, to comprehend that only this Divine Love will save them from their sins, and make them a part of the Divinity of the Father, and certain of Immortality.

I lived at a time when we had not the privilege of getting this Divine Love, and as a consequence, Immortality. We had to find our happiness in our Natural Love. That meant a Love towards God, as well as towards our fellow human. This Natural Love, while it enabled us to experience much happiness, yet it did not give that Divine Essence, or Divine Nature, which now makes our Happiness Supreme, and also At-One with the Father.

I had many experiences in teaching the Hebrew children that there was Only One God. At that time my conception of God was not what it is now. I then thought more of Him as a God of wrath and jealousy, than as a God of Love and Mercy.

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In my contest with the magicians of the Egyptian Pharaohs, I was afforded the help of the Spirit World. Unusual powers were given me. Such as I had never had before, or ever afterwards. It was for the purpose of causing the king to let the people of God, as we called ourselves, depart from Egypt. When this was accomplished, I never again possessed those powers, or had any occasion to. Those powers were merely the influences that came from the Spirit World. God Himself did not speak to me, or to Moses, as it is written. Merely His Spirits, or angels, told us what we must do, and gave us the power to do it. This power is still existing. Should the occasion arise again, it will be given to the Instrumentality that may be selected to do the Will of the Father. Even as to Jesus, who had the greatest power conferred upon him of any mortal that ever lived, this power was given him by the Angels of God, in obedience to the Commands of The Father.

I cannot explain to you now, or in what way these commands were given by God, for you would not understand me if I should make the attempt. Suffice it to say, that the Higher Angels, have such soul perceptions that they can receive, and understand, these Instructions of the Father. All this is, I know, strange to you, but it is True. Because you do not understand, you must not doubt, that there is such a close relationship between God and His Celestial Spirits that they know what the Will of the Father is. I am in a Celestial Sphere. I am very high up, but not so high as are the apostles. I am high enough to know to be True what I write you of my own Knowledge.

I will not write more tonight, but will come again sometime and instruct you in the Laws obtaining in our Celestial Spheres.

So with all my Love, I will say that, I am your brother in Christ, Aaron. The Prophet of Old.

Immortality

November 2nd, 1915

I am here, St. Matthew.

I have not written you for a long time. I desire to say a few words on matters pertaining to: The soul and its relationship to God, Future Life, and Immortality.

The soul is an image of the Great Soul of the Father, and partakes of features like this Great Soul, except, that it does not necessarily have in it, the Divine Love which makes the soul of a mortal, or spirit, a partaker of Divinity. The soul may exist in human and spirit in all its receptive qualities, yet never have the Divine Essence to fill it, which is necessary in order to make human, or spirit, a New Creature, that is the subject of the New Birth.

Only that mortal or spirit who has received this Divine Love of the Father can be said to be Immortal. All others may live, or they may not. It has not yet been revealed to us whether the Life, or existence, of these spirits who have not the Conscious Knowledge of Immortality, will continue to live through All Eternity. If they do, it will be because God so Wills that they shall live. Their existence will be subject to change. If such change should take place, only God knows what its character will be. While on the contrary, the soul that has acquired Immortality can never die. Its status, as to a Life through All Eternity, is fixed. Even God Himself cannot destroy that existence, because it (the soul) is the possessor of that Divinity which makes God Immortal.

"The soul that sinneth, sinning it shall die," means; that the qualities, which it is necessary for it to obtain to make it a part of Immortality can never come to it. Hence, as regards these qualities it is dying and dead. The soul itself will live, for no spirit could possibly have an existence without a soul. When humans attempt to teach, that when the Spirit of Life leaves the body, the soul dies, such humans do not state a Truth. The soul will live as long as the spirit existence continues, until the great change, should there be one, comes to that spirit. So, all humans must believe, that the soul which God gave to human is just as much a part of human as is the spiritual (body), or physical body. The soul is the highest part of human. Is the only part that in any way resembles the Great Father, who is not body, or spirit-body, in form, but is Soul. The human soul, as I have said, is an image of that Great Soul. So you see, that when we speak of destroying the soul it does not mean that the soul which belongs to every spirit will be destroyed, but that the essence of the soul, or rather the Potentiality of that soul receiving the Divine Love and Nature of the Father will be destroyed.

Of course, the soul can be starved, and placed in a condition of stagnation, so that all its receptive powers will be, as it were, dead. Only some great miracle, or unusual ministration, can Awaken it. But to say that the soul ever dies is erroneous. In saying this, I do not include the possibility of some great change in the spirit of mortal by which such spirit may be destroyed, and in such case the soul will cease to exist as an individualized soul, or entity.

I do not know what would be the destiny of a soul in such event. Hence, cannot prophesy. Unless there be such great change, the soul will live. But not as an Immortal soul possessing the Essence of Divinity, unless it has experienced the New Birth.

God, the Great Oversoul, may not recall to Himself the soul of any human, in the sense of depriving that human of their soul, but His Relation to that soul will be merely that of Creator and created, subject always to the Will of the Creator. Whereas, the relationship of God towards the soul that has received the New Birth, hence, the Divine Nature, is not only of a Creator and created, but also that of a co-equal, so far as this Great Quality of Immortality is concerned. The soul of human then becomes self-existing and not depending upon God for its continuance to exist.

This, I know, is a subject not easy for mortal mind to understand, but when you shall have received the soul perceptions, in addition to your natural mind, it will not be so difficult to grasp the exact meaning of my propositions.

I will not write more tonight. I am your brother in Christ, St. Matthew.

Immortality

April 23rd, 1916

I am here, St. John, Apostle of Jesus.

Yes I come to tell you that I have been with you today in your attendance on the church services. As the preachers declared their ideas of what immortality means, I suggested to you thoughts showing how unsatisfactory their reasonings and conclusions were. Of course, what the morning preachers said about the reasons for inferring that immortality must be the lot of human, had in it a considerable force, and also consolation. I am glad that he dealt with the question as he did. But when all is said, it was merely hope and belief. Knowledge was absent. Humans so often realize that their hopes are not fulfilled.

How regrettable it is, that while humans may know, and I emphasize Know, the Divine Truth of Immortality, if they will only seek for it. Yet they will not seek. Although, it is open to search, even without the information that our messages give you. In speaking of immortality in this writing, I mean Continuous Life upon the death of the physical body. Of course, Immortality, as it has been explained to you, can only be learned from the teachings of our communications. But immortality in the former sense, Continuity of Life, can become established as a matter of knowledge, and to the satisfaction of these orthodox preachers, if they will only seek with open minds, divorced from the beliefs that keep them from accepting, as True, any and everything not contained in the Bible.

It has been established as a fact, for a long time, that in its beginning, antedating even the Bible, that spirits or angels communicated to humans. The Bible has many instances where such occurrences were declared. While these orthodox teachers accept all these instances as True, yet they say that the occurrences were caused by some special interposition of God. To a certain extent, this is True. This cause applies to all instances of spirit communication that have taken place since these Bible manifestations.

As we have told you many times, Law, unchangeable Law, governs all God's Universe. Nothing happens by chance. So every instance of spirit communion is the result of the operation of some Law, working in an orderly manner. No spirit could communicate, and no mortal could receive the messages, unless the Law worked in such a manner as to permit, or cause, the same. Here I must say, that the same Principle of Law that enables the evil spirit to communicate, or manifest, enables the Higher Spirit to do the same. There is no special Law for one and not for another.

Your land is filled with mortals who have developed in them such powers, as enable the spirits to become in rapport with them, and thereby make known the fact that the supposed dead are alive and able to declare the fact to mortals. These facts have been established to the satisfaction of humans of all kinds and characters, to the scientist, as well as to the human of ordinary intelligence, even less, and to, the open-minded orthodox preacher, as well as to the infidel.

All these things are not merely matters of chance, but are designed to show them that they are a living, never dying being, as far as known, whether in the flesh, or out of it. What is thus designed and provided for human's consolation should not be looked upon with suspicion, or fear of being against God's Will. No, this Great Privilege is a part of God's Goodness to human. They must so understand it, and to their hope and desire for Continuous Life, add knowledge.

So I say, these leaders of the worshipers at the orthodox shrines, may, if they will learn the Truth of this immortality, or Continuity of Life after the death of the body, will make certain, that, for which they have only a hope, backed by their faith in what their Bible tells them, is the Truth. Of course, this hope and faith may become so strong as to satisfy their doubts on the question, but even then it is not Knowledge. This faith and hope will pale into insignificance, when the mother, mourning for her recently departed Loved one, hears their voice declaring to her that they are still alive, and has all their Love and longings for her, and that they are with her, feeling her Love for them.

These teachers will not seek, or if they do, and feel their hope and faith turn to Knowledge, they will not declare the Truth to their flock. And why not declare the Truth to their flock? And why not, because the creeds, dogmas, and iron bands of erroneous beliefs, forbid them doing so. They will preach of the press, and, if necessary, will lay down their lives for such a cause. Yet, when they come to deal with this question of supreme and vital fact, they are afraid to seek the Truth. Or, in seeking, find, declare the freedom of their beliefs frown the bondage of their creeds.

What a responsibility they have! What an answer they will have to make! They bury the talent which is given them. The accounting will be grievous.

But some day, and soon, this Truth will seek them with such overwhelming force, that their creeds will crumble. In addition to Hope and Faith there will come to them Knowledge, and with Knowledge, freedom. With freedom, the Pearl of Great Price, which to them has so long been hidden in the shell of fear and bigotry.

I must not write more tonight. I felt that I must say these few things to you to encourage you in your work of bringing Truth to Light.

So with all my Love and blessings, I am, your brother in Christ, John.

Immortality

April 23rd, 1916

The writer of the Third Gospel of the New Testament.

Let me write, as I desire to say a few words on the question of Immortality, of which you have been thinking so much during the past few days.

I was with you today as you listened to the discourses of the preacher upon the subject of Immortality, and saw that you realized he did not have a True Idea of what the term means, and thought how much you would like inform him of your knowledge of the subject. Well, I understand just how you felt about the matter, and am in sympathy with you in your desire and hope that sometime you may have the opportunity to converse with him on this subject and give him your conception of the Truth.

It is the subject of so many sermons and theories preached by preachers and others. Yet not one of them has the True understanding of what Immortality is. They understand it only in the sense of Continuous Life. In addition, try by argument and inferences, to attach to it the idea of never ending. That is, of the Continuous Life being so established that it can never be ended. In this, they satisfy their longings and desires. You see, this inference is merely one that is drawn from the desires of the preachers, and that they have no True basis upon which to found their conclusions. As to the ordinary things of Life, they would not be willing to risk the important things of Life upon a basis, no better established, from which they could draw conclusions that would cause them to act.

No, humankind does not really know what Immortality is. All the arguments that they can put forth to establish the True Immortality, are not sufficient to convince the clear, cool, and unprejudiced mind as to its being a fact.
As is said in the message that you have received from Jesus, Immortality can be derived only from that which is Immortal. All arguments, that merely tend to show that a thing must be immortal because of the desires, or intentions, of God, do not suffice. All the facts that may be established as premises, are not sufficient to logically prove the conclusion desired to be established. Humans cannot depend upon such method of reasoning. It is utterly impossible to derive Immortality from anything less than that which is Immortal in Itself. To attempt to do so, by argument, or inference, is a mere waste of time by the exercise of the reasoning faculties.
As has been said, only God is Immortal. That means that the very Qualities and Nature of Himself is Immortal. If it were possible for Him to have any Qualities that are not of a Nature that partakes of the Immortal, then these Qualities would not be Immortal, but subject to change and dissolution. Among the Qualities of His Being is the great and important one of Divine Love. Without It, God could not be. His existence would be less than that of a God. That being a fact, this Great Quality of Divine Love must be Immortal. Into whatever this Quality may enter and form a part, that thing is necessarily Immortal. In no other way could it become Immortal. Then this Divine Love of God brings Immortality in the True sense of the term. When It enters into the soul of human and possessesit, that soul becomes Immortal. In no other way can Immortality be acquired.

Not all things of God's Creation are Immortal. For in a shorter or longer time, they perform the object of their Creation. Their existence is no longer required. They become dissolved into the elements of which they were composed. Humans physical body, for this reason, is not immortal. For after a short Life on Earth it dissolves and is no more. Their spirit body is primarily of this evanescent character. It may be that in the course of Eternity it will have performed its mission and cease to exist. We do not know this. Neither are we assured that it is not True, because it is dependent upon the continuous existence of the soul for its continuous existence. Not all souls will receive a part of the Father's Divine Love, which is the only thing that has within Itself, this Immortality. It may be that at sometime in the future, this soul without the Divine Love may cease to exist and become no more a Creature of the Father.

This we do know; that whatever partakes of the Divine Love has in it that which is necessarily Immortal, and can no more die than can this Divine Love itself. Hence, must be Immortal. So that when humans speak, or teach, that all humans are immortal, they speak that which they do not know. Only God, Himself, knows that fact. From the mere exercise of the reason, humans are justified in saying, that such humans, or souls, that do not obtain the Divine Love, are not Immortal.

Now while this question of human's Immortality is in doubt, and has never been demonstrated to be a fact, yet we do know that; that portion of humankind whose souls have received this Immortal Divine Love, are Immortal and can never cease to exist. The great comfort and blessings to these souls that this possession brings are that they know that they are Immortal because they possess that Quality, or Divine Nature of God that is Immortal. As the latter can never have an ending, neither can that into which this Immortal Love has entered and found a lodgment, have an ending.

The preachers arguments were strong. In the ordinary workings of humans minds and reasoning powers, may convince humans that immortality is a proved fact for all humankind. When properly analyzed and the True Rule of Search for Immortality is applied, it will appear that the arguments are not conclusive. Hope is stronger than fact. Humans have not the assurance that for them Immortality holds out its desired arms of certainty.

Well, I thought I would write you this short message upon the question that you and the preacher have been meditating upon, in the hope that he might not depend upon the strength of his argument for the establishing of the fact of immortality. But would see and become convinced that the only Way to ascertain and acquire the True Immortality is by seeking for and obtaining the Divine Love, thereby having his soul Transformed into the Very Essence and Divine Nature of God in Divine Love.

I am glad that I can write to you again, and that your condition is so much better than it has been, and permits the rapport to be made. Pray more to the Father and believe. You will get in a condition that we so much desire.

I will not write more. Goodnight, your brother in Christ, Luke.

Immortality

June 2nd, 1920

I am here, Jesus.

Let me write tonight on a subject that is of importance to humankind, and should be fully explained; that they may know the Divine Truth that will show them The Way to Immortality and Light.

I know that humans have debated, all down the centuries, the question of human's immortality. Have attempted to prove the reality of its existence, by various arguments, and by reference to the analogy of the workings of God's Universe in the fulfillment of His Designs, as displayed by the various Creations of Animate Nature. In all these discussions, they have not succeeded in definitely and satisfactorily established the fact of immortality. Why not? Because they have not, in the first place, understood what Immortality means. Without a correct conception of that which it is desired to prove, it becomes very difficult to successfully prove the existence of the thing sought for. I know that at times some idea of what Immortality is, has been conceived of and almost understood by some of the writers on the subject. Their efforts have been directed to show that by human's inner consciousness, as well as by the appearance of those things in nature, which die and live again, human is justified in inferring that humans themselves are immortal, or was intended by their Creator to be immortal.

But the inner consciousness of human, meaning the knowledge of the possession of certain desires and aspirations, as well as the realization that their Life on Earth is too short to enable them to accomplish those things that their efforts and strivings attempt, and that what they really accomplish, in the way of their own mental and moral development, if they end with the physical death of humans, would mean only a useless exercise of the faculties and powers given them by God, is not sufficient to prove the immortality of the Real Human. Neither is it evidence of the uselessness of Human's Creation, though they are in one moment, deprived of all the learning and other benefits of a developed intellect, as well as of moral progression.

There is a difference between the state and condition of a human soul that continues in the Spirit World, the Life that it had when embodied in the flesh, and the state that not only continues this Life, makes the extinction of this Life an utter impossibility. Even by God, who in the beginning of human's existence Created that soul.
True Immortality then, is the state or condition of the soul that has Knowledge, that because of the essence and qualities of itself, it cannot ever cease to live. The impossibility of it's ever ceasing to live being known to it, and a fact.

It has been said that whatever has a beginning may have an ending. That which was Created may be dissolved into its elements. The possibility of this is True. No human, or spirit, can deny the Truth of the assertion. In your Earth Life, you find that all things have an ending. That is, in their individual and composite form. In the Spirit World why may not the same fate attend Created things. The fact that there are things in the Spirit World that exist as a continuation of things of Earth does not mean that they shall endure forever.

The mere change caused by the death, and disappearance from the vision of humans of things that were once alive, does not establish the fact that as they continue to live in the Spirit World, they must live forever. Death, which is looked upon as a destroying angel, is merely the result of the change from that which is visible to the invisible. Does not in any way determine the everlasting existence of the thing changed.

The soul of human, while in the flesh, is the same soul, as to its identity and individuality, as it is when it becomes an inhabitant of the Spirit World. If it is immortal while in the Spirit World, it is also immortal while in the body. If it may cease to have an immortal existence in the one state, it may in the other.

Suppose that humans, by their arguments, of the nature mentioned, show that the soul of human does not die when the physical body dies, but that it continues its existence in the Spirit World as the identical, personal soul? Then I ask; does that prove immortality as I have defined it? Death of the body, and the continuing Life of the soul thereafter, do not work any change in the qualities or essence of that soul. It is still the same Created soul that it was in the beginning. Why, may it not be True, that being a thing Created, it may have an ending? This is logical, and not unreasonable.

Then I say, even if humans by their arguments prove to the satisfaction of many that the soul, after the death of the physical body, continues to live in the Spirit World with all its faculties and powers in active operation. They do not prove, nor do all the facts possible for them to discover and marshal prove, that that soul is immortal. The soul of human did not always exist. It is not Eternal, Self-Existing, or independent of everything else, but dependent upon the Will of God that called it into existence. Why is it not reasonable to infer that in the long period of time to come, it will have served the purpose of its Creation and be disseminated into the elements of which it was Created?

I will say here, for the benefit of those mortals who believe in the immortality of the soul, that from the time of the Creation of the First Humans, to the present, no spirit in the Spirit World has any knowledge of any human soul that has ceased its existence and been dissolved into its elements. Further, that there are myriads of souls in the Spirit World that are in just the Condition of Perfection that was the condition of the souls of the First Humans, when Created and God pronounced His Creation, "very good." But as mortals have no assurance that at some time, the Life of their souls will not end, so also spirits who have gained the Perfect Condition of their Creation have no such assurance. They have hope and belief that such may be their destiny, and a knowledge that their progress, as the Perfect Human has ended. They are in that state which limits their progress as the Perfect Human, although, their enjoyment as such is not limited. To them, in God's Universe, there is always something new and unknown appearing. Yet they have not the Knowledge that they are Immortal, and realize that they are dependent upon the Will of God for their existence. To many of these spirits, immortality is as much a subject of concern and speculation as it is to the mortals of Earth.

Humans, in their meditation, study, and arguments of this question of immortality, do not start from the foundation of the subject. They have no Truthful premises, from which they can draw a correct conclusion. Consequently, their arguments fail. They reason, that because of the existence of certain things in, and outside, of human, all things of mere Creation, that tend to show God's Intentions and Plans, as regards human, therefore, in order to carry out such intentions, human must be immortal. They do not consider, or lose sight of the fact, that all these things that they use as the foundation for their conclusions are things dependent (on God) and not self existing. At one time or another, the Objects of God's Creation. What God has called into existence He can also declare shall exist no longer. Knowing this, humans cannot, or spirits either, rightfully conclude that the soul is immortal.

There is a Way in which the Immortality of the soul, or some souls, can be proved. Which, assuming the facts that enter into the argument to be True, necessarily establish the conclusion without possibility of refutation.

Then in commencing the argument what is the only reasonable way to approach the subject?

First, to discover and establish that which is Immortal. Next, to search for, and find, that, which though not immortal, yet by reason of certain operations and effects upon it of that which is Immortal becomes itself Immortal. Only from the Immortal (God), can Immortality be acquired.

Well this is a good place to stop as you are tired. I am well pleased with the way in which you have received my message. Have Faith and pray. All will be well.

Goodnight my dear brother, for you are in Truth, my brother. Your friend and brother, Jesus.

Immortality