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Knowledge of Divine Truth - What the Divine Truth is and how to obtain Knowledge of Divine Truth.
Divine Truth
April 7th, 1916
I am here, John.
I desire to write a little tonight, upon a subject that may prove to be of interest to you, and others who may read my message. I will not write a very long message, but will say what I desire in short sentences, so that the Truth that I intend to convey may be understood at a glance.
Well, when you are sure that you have discovered, or have had revealed to you, a Truth, let it sink deep into your soul, so that it will find such lodgment as will cause you to realize that this Truth is a Reality. A thing that must not be forgotten, or neglected, in its APPLICATION to your daily Life on Earth.
When you have found that the Truth fits some particular condition of your mind's experience, adopt it as a criterion for determining what your course of ACTION shall be.
When you have thus adopted it, let it always remain with you, as a guide and monitor, in determining what your belief as to the particular thing involved shall be. When you have thus received this belief of the mind, encourage and feed upon it, until it becomes a thing of established Faith. When Faith has become a part of your very being (soul), you will find that the accompaniments of such Faith, in the way of longings and aspirations, will become things of Real Existences, which will result in Actual Knowledge.
When such Knowledge becomes yours, then you have solved the problem of what is True, and what is not. When you have solved this, you will become a human, who, when they utter their Knowledge of Truth, will speak as one having authority.
Such was the process by which Jesus became the possessor, and Authentic Expositor of the Great Spiritual Truths that had never before been known, and declared, by any human.
Of course, these various steps, which lead to this great Knowledge of Truth, must be taken gradually and with increased confidence. In all this, the Help and Influence of the Father are necessary. Such Help and Influence comes only in response to sincere, soul aspiring prayer (for the Divine Love).
Prayer must arise from the soul of human. The response must come from God. There is no other means by which this Knowledge can be obtained. All Knowledge of Things Spiritual, that humans may think they possess, coming in any other way, cannot be relied on. There is only One Source of such Knowledge (God), out of which the Real Spiritual Truths of God emanate.
Divine Love is the Great Principle that enters into all Knowledge of Things Spiritual. Without Divine Love, it is utterly impossible for human to rightfully conceive the Divine Truths of God and possess them.
I merely desired to give you this short lesson on Divine Truth, Knowledge, and Divine Love, so that in receiving, and absorbing, our messages of the Great Spiritual Truths of The Father, you may realize the means of making them your own, in a manner to satisfy your soul perceptions.
I will come soon and write you a message on some of these Vital Truths. Think of what I have above written. You will find that your soul perceptions will be opened up to a clear and wonderful comprehension of the Real Meaning of what we desire to reveal.
I will not write more tonight, your brother in Christ, John.
Divine Truth
August 3rd, 1915
I am here, Jesus.
My Truths are plain. My teachings can be understood by the simple. Any religion, which requires the exercise of the mental faculties, to an extent greater than what is required in the ordinary affairs of Life, cannot be a True Religion. God has designed that All His Children shall understand His Truths without the necessity of having a highly developed mind.
They that read, may understand my teachings. It will not be necessary for any preacher, or teacher, to explain them. My language will explain itself. So let not your mind be troubled over the question as to whether only the mentally developed can understand what I may write. The Truths are for all.
So with all my Love, I am, your brother and friend, Jesus.
Divine Truth
August 30th, 1915
I am here, Saint Paul.
I desire to tell you that I am very anxious to disclose to you what are the True Teachings of Jesus, and what errors my Epistles, as contained in the Bible, possess.
I know now that it may seem strange to you that errors should have gotten into my Epistles. There are several reasons for their entrance. First, the Epistles, as they now appear, are not what I wrote. I mean many changes have been made in my writings. Second, when I wrote the Epistles I did not know as much of the Truths of God as I do now. Thirdly, I was not such a believer in the Teachings of Jesus, as I am now. These are sufficient reasons why my Epistles should not be accepted as containing All the Truths, or rather, that all they contain are Truths.
There are apparent contradictions in these writings. If what is said were True there would be no real contradictions.
I fully realize this great defect in my Epistles. I have tried hard to impress those who attempt to explain my sayings, as to the Real Truth of what they attempt to explain, but with indifferent success. Now I want to correct what is untrue, or what is not in accord with the teachings of the Master. The only way in which it can be done is by writing through you. Of course, I realize that you have a great work to do for the Master, and that most of your time and energy will be taken up by doing this work of the Master, and that every other communication must be subordinated to those of Jesus. Yet, I believe that you will at times, find time to take my messages.
Tonight, I will not attempt to write any message of these Truths. Will only say that I am much interested in your work, and will try to help you all I can. So I must stop.
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No - no blood saves from sin, only the Divine Love of the Father does this.
With much Love, I am your friend, St. Paul.
Divine Truth
September 7th, 1915
I am here, John the Baptist.
I come because I want to encourage you to pray more and to believe. The Father's Divine Love is waiting for you to fill your soul to its utmost. The only things required on your part are prayer and Faith. We are all interested in you, and want you to get into a condition that will enable you to take the Master's Messages as rapidly as possible. For the time is now ripe when they should be given to Humankind and started on their work of Redeeming humans from false beliefs, erroneous doctrines, and dogmas. I, John, tell you this, for I can see that humans are longing for the Truths of God. Such Truths, as will remove from the teachings of the Spiritually guided, all superstition and errors. Such Truths, as will accord with the reasoning of humans, who are not biased by erroneous beliefs, either in matters Spiritual, or material.
I tell you that these Truths will be easier for the mere materialist to receive and understand, than by those who are bound by the beliefs, which the creeds and dogmas of the churches have inculcated. The acceptance of this New Revelation of the Divine Truths of God, will be by those who have no preconceived ideas of what the nature and relation of human to God in the Spiritual sense is, rather than by the learned theologian, and the simple worshipper at the altars of the churches, who believe whatever may be told them by the priests and preachers.
As I was at one time the voice of one crying in the wilderness, I am now the voice of many Spirits of God who know that the Master will teach the Divine Truths of his Father. That these Divine Truths must be accepted by mortals on Earth, and by spirits in the Spirit World, in order that they may receive that Salvation, which the Father has prepared for them. Which when accepted, realized, and possessed, will fit them to become partakers of the Happiness and Immortality, which the Father has promised them.
I have written you in this manner tonight, because I want you to realize more fully and deeply, the important work, which the Master has selected you to do, and also the necessity of continuing this work, at the earliest possible moment.
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Well, I have been interested in the great amount of discussion on that point. How the belief one way, or the other, has caused those calling themselves christians to form distinct sects. If they only knew, or would know, that it does not make a particle of difference to their soul's Salvation, whether Jesus was immersed, or sprinkled, they would not let the bitter feeling arise that frequently does in discussing this matter. To settle this dispute to the satisfaction of those who may read the book, which you may publish, and believe in its statements, I will say that when I baptized Jesus, I went with him into the water and then took the water in my hands and placed it on his head. There was no immersion. As this water was merely symbolical of the washing away of sin and error, and does not actually accomplish that great necessity, in order for humans to become One with God, it did not make any difference whether the recipient of baptism was immersed, or sprinkled.
It is strange, that many humans, who profess to have received the forgiveness of their sins and become reconciled to God, should let a trifling thing of this kind cause so much strife and bitter disputations.
I will now stop, your brother in Christ, John the Baptist.
Divine Truth
October 5th, 1915
I am here, John, Apostle of Jesus.
I am the apostle. You need not try me as your friend said, for no spirit can impersonate me when I am present.
So you must believe me and try to receive what I may write tonight, in faith. You will find that you will be benefitted.
I came principally to tell you that I have been listening to the conversation between you two (James Padgett and Leslie Stone) and to the reading of the Sermon on the Mount given to us by the Master in the days of long ago, as you would say.
When that sermon was delivered, we were not in a condition of Great Spiritual Development. We did not understand its Inner Meanings. As to its literal meaning, we thought it was not intended for the practical affairs of Life. People, I know, think that we, at that time, were very Spiritually developed, and had an understanding of the Great Truths taught by the Master, which were superior to what humans have now. I tell you that this is a mistake. We were comparatively ignorant humans, fishermen by occupation, and had no education above the ordinary working human of that time. When Jesus called us to become his apostles, we were as much surprised, and hesitated, as much as you did, when the similar Mission was declared for you.
Our Knowledge came with our Faith in the Great Truths, which the Master taught, and, from our observation of the great powers, which he displayed. Also from the influence of the Great Love that he possessed. When humankind thinks that we easily understood the Great Truths, which he taught, they are mistaken. Only after the descent upon us of the Holy Spirit at the Pentecost, did we fully come in accord with the Father, or fully appreciate the Great Divine Truths that the Master had taught.
Of course, we learned many things, which humans of that time did not know. Our souls became developed, to a large extent, but not sufficient to bring us to a Knowledge of the Wonderful Meaning of the Divine Truths, which made humans free, and brought them in Unison with the Father.
In your conversation tonight, you discussed the relative value of prayer and works, and did not agree with the preacher, that works are the great things to develop humans into Love, and bring about great happiness in the World, and that prayer is not of such importance.
Now let me, as a spirit, and as a human who worked on Earth and prayed on Earth, say with an authority that arises from actual experience, and Knowledge that comes of observation, that of all the important things on Earth for humans, who are seeking salvation, happiness and development of soul; prayer is the most important. For prayer brings from the Father not only Divine Love and Blessings, but the condition of mind and intent that will cause humans to do the great works that the preacher admonished humans to engage in.
Prayer is the cause of the power being given to humans that will enable them to do all the great works which will bring reward to the doer, and happiness and benefit to the one who receives the works.
So you see, the results can never be as great as the cause. For the cause, in this instance, not only gives to humans this ability to work, but also to Love, and to develop their soul, and to inspire them with all Good and True thoughts. Works are desirable, and in some cases necessary. Prayer is absolutely indispensable. So let you and your friend understand, and never doubt, that without prayer, the works of humans would be unavailing to accomplish the great good, which even now human performs for their brother.
Pray, and works will follow. Work, and you may do good, but the soul does not benefit, for God is a God that answers prayer through the ministrations of His Angels, and through the Influence of His Holy Spirit, which works on the interior, or Real Part, of human.
I will stop now. With my Love to both of you, I am your brother in Christ, John.
Divine Truth
October 25th, 1915
I am here, Jesus.
I have heard your discussion. I am much pleased that you and your friend are progressing so rapidly in the Knowledge of Divine Truth. Very soon you both will be surprised at the extent of Knowledge of Spiritual Things and Truths that will come to you.
No human, who on Earth is given to only what you may call the material things, will be able, when they become a spirit, to understand the Spiritual Laws, until they have gotten rid of the material mind, and the reasoning, that comes from the powers which have been exercised only in the investigation of material things.
You cannot perceive Spiritual Things with the material mind. Neither can a human, by reason of those powers of the mind, which know only material things, be able to perceive the Truths of the Spirit. Hence, the necessity for human cultivating the soul perceptions, which are greater and more comprehending than all the faculties of the material mind.
Mind, as usually understood by human, is undoubtedly a wonderful instrument in investigating and learning the Laws of Nature, and the relation of cause and effect in the physical World. Such powers, when applied to the Things of the Spirit, will not help much, but rather retard the progress of the soul's development of its faculties.
The reasoning power given to human is the highest quality of the material mind. When properly exercised, affords a very safe and satisfactory method of arriving at the Truth. But such power, when exercised in reference to things which are strangers to it, or with which such powers having no acquaintance, or have never been concerned in the investigation of the phenomena of their existence, cannot be depended upon to bring conclusions that will assure humans of Truth. Laws are Eternal, and never change. Are made by the Great Father, to be applied to all the conditions, and to all the relationships of the Material World, and of the Spiritual World. But the Laws that apply to the operations of the Material World are not fitted to apply to the operations of the Spiritual World. The human, who understands the former, and their application to material things, is not able to apply the Laws applicable to the Spiritual World to Spiritual Things. Knowledge of the Laws pertaining to the Natural, will not supply Knowledge of the Laws pertaining to the Spiritual.
Hence, the great scientist who when on Earth, who was able to discover and show the operation of the Laws controlling material things, when they come to the Spiritual World and attempts to apply this knowledge to the things of the Spirit, will be wholly unable to do so. Will be as a babe, in their ability to understand and draw deductions from the Spiritual Laws. So you see the necessity for human's becoming acquainted with these Spiritual Laws, if they expect to progress in things to which they apply.
The Material Laws may be learned from by the operation of the senses that belong to, and constitute, the material mind. The Spiritual Laws can only be learned by the exercise and application of the faculties of the soul. The soul is to the Spiritual Things of God, what the mind is to the material things of God. The great mistake that humans make, and have made, is to attempt to learn these Spiritual Things with the powers of the material mind.
I write thus because I see that you and your friend desire to learn the nature, operations, and workings of the Spiritual Things. Hence, I want to impress upon you the necessity for exercising the soul perceptions, which will come to you as your Soul Develops (in Divine Love). These soul perceptions are just as Real as are the five senses of the natural mind. Though, most humans do not even know of their existence. When once you have succeeded in understanding that they do exist, and that you may be able to use them, just as you use the faculties of the material mind, you will be able to progress in the development of these faculties, or perceptions, with as much success and certainty, as does the great scientist, or philosopher, in the studies of the things to which they apply the faculties of their material mind.
I hope that I have made plain what I intend to convey. I will not write more tonight, but say let your Faith increase and pray more to the Father. You will see open up to you a wonderful vista of Knowledge of the Truths of the Spirit.
Your friend and brother, Jesus.
Divine Truth
November 9th, 1915
Moses, the Prophet of God of Ancient Days.
I have been with you on several occasions when some of the ancient spirits wrote you. I was much interested. I am still the Faithful Servant of God, but in addition, a believer in Jesus, who is the greatest of all the sons of the Father, and the Only One of all God's Messengers who brought to Light, Life, and Immortality.
I could not have said this before his coming. I mean that I could not have said that other great reformers and teachers of the Truths of God had not done this, because I did not know, before the coming of Jesus what Life and Immortality meant. No human, or spirit, before that time knew this Great Divine Truth.
I am now in the Celestial Heavens with many of the old prophets and seers who have received this Great Gift of the Divine Love. Many who lived and died since Jesus' time are also Celestial Spirits, partaking of Immortality. I now see that many of my teachings were not True, and that Love did not enter into them, but rather the spirit of retaliation, which is absolutely no part of the Truths of the Father. The Jews still look upon me as their great teacher and law-giver, and many of them observe literally my Laws.
I want to tell you this fact, because I believe that when you publish the messages of the Master, should you publish also what I may write, many Jews will believe me. That I, and many of those who taught my teachings, are now engaged in showing the spirits of Jews who come into the Spirit World, the Divine Truths as taught by the Master.
The Jewish nation is the most strict of all people in their beliefs in, and observations of, their religious doctrines as set forth in the Old Testament. Hence, will be among the last of all humans to accept the Divine Truths, which I now understand and teach. I hope that something, which I may communicate to you, will cause them to think, and become believers and observers of this New Revelation of the Divine Truth.
They have fought and suffered for their religion in all these centuries, and are still doing so. The one great thing, that more than any other, has prevented them from accepting the teachings of Jesus and believing in his Mission to humankind, is that his followers, or those who attempted to write his teachings, and those who interpreted the same, declare and maintain that Jesus is God, that the true god was three, instead of One, as I in the Decalogue declared. This has been the great stumbling block to the Jews. When they read, as they may, that Jesus himself declares and proclaims that he is not God, but only his son, and that they are also his sons, they will look upon his teachings with more tolerance. Many of them will be inclined to accept his Truths and the Divine Truths of the Father. Judaism in its religious aspect will gradually disappear. The Jews will become a part of the One Great Religious (Spiritual) Brotherhood of Humans. As in our Celestial Heavens, there will be on Earth no more Jew, and no more Gentiles. All will become one in their belief in the Father and the Mission of Jesus. He will be accepted as the Messiah, not only of the Jew, but of the Whole World. Then God's Chosen People will not be a very small minority of God's Children, but the Whole World will be His Chosen People.
I am so interested in this phase of the Great Truths that shall be given to and accepted by humans, because I was, more than any other human, responsible for the present beliefs of the Jews, which causes them to hold themselves separate and apart from all the rest of humankind as the chosen and specially selected of God's People.
I will not write more tonight. I feel that I must ask you to permit me to write again, as I have a mission to perform on Earth, to undo a work, which I so effectively performed when I was the leader of my people.
As Jesus is teaching, and will teach all humankind The Way to the Father and Immortality. I must teach my people The Way to get rid of these erroneous and false beliefs, which are contained in the Old Testament.
So thanking you, I will say, goodnight, Moses. The Lawgiver of the Jews.
Divine Truth
December 25th, 1915
I am here, Jesus.
I come tonight, because I see that you are lonesome and feel the need of companionship. I come to you as a brother and friend to cheer you, and make you feel that though you have no mortal friend with you, yet you have a friend in the Spirit World who is closer than a mortal brother, and who Loves you with a deep and abiding Love.
Today has been one in which the people of your land have celebrated, what they suppose is my birthday, and have also worshiped me as one of the triune godhead, as they believe. As I have told you before, such worship is all wrong, and is very distasteful to me. Only makes me the more anxious and determined that this great falsehood shall be exposed and not believed in any longer.
There is only One God. That is The Father. He Alone must be worshiped. He Alone can save mortals from the result of their sins, and from the consequences of the Great Fall of the First Parents. I do not want humans to look upon me as anything more than an elder brother, who is filled with the Divine Love of The Father, and very close to Him in the Qualities of Divine Love and Faith.
I am a spirit, who is possessed of a Knowledge of the Attributes of the Father, that no other spirit is. Yet I am only one of His Children, as you and the rest of humankind are. For my own brothers and sisters, to worship me as god, makes me very unhappy, seeing that they can have such a little Knowledge of the Divine Truths of the Father.
Tomorrow this worship and praise will be continued. I must look upon it with all the distaste that I have, and realize that I am not able to set humans aright in their beliefs and worship.
Oh, I tell you the harvest is ripe and the laborers are few! Very soon, I hope this Truth of the Oneness of God, and the brotherhood of myself with all humanity, may be revealed to humankind through the messages that you may receive and transmit to humans.
The One Great Truth that is the Foundation of Humans Salvation is; The New Birth. The fact that the Divine Love of the Father is waiting for every human to let it enter their soul and make them At-One with the Father.
I am with you very often. I am trying to impress you with the great necessity of having these Divine Truths revealed, as humans souls are longing for the Truth. Their intellects are dissatisfied with the present teachings of theology, and the sayings of the Bible in many places. While this is to be deplored, yet the time will come when the Light, that I came into the World to disclose, will shine for every human who may come within the reach of my teachings.
Last night, I was reading (with you) as you read an article, which advocated the eliminating from the christian teachings, of a large part of the New and nearly the whole of the Old Testament, and the formulating of a Faith based entirely on my sayings, and the writings of some of the Bible writers. Such a plan is one that should be investigated by the thinking christians of the present day, and in a modified way adopted. The only difficulty in carrying out this plan effectively, and having it produce the results desired, is that the Bible does not contain many sayings of mine disclosing the Divine Truths. It does contain many sayings attributed to me, which I never said.
Take that saying over which a controversy is now being had, and which is referred to in another article contained in the book mentioned. That is that I said; 'I came not to bring peace to the World, but rather a sword". Now, while it appears in Matthews' Gospel as coming from me, I never said it. Nor used any expression that would convey the meaning that some of the commentators are endeavoring to place upon the words. I never taught war upon a human's neighbors. Never, at any time, was such a thought a part of my teachings to the disciples, or to any others. No, militarism is all wrong! Against all the Precepts of Truth. It should not for a moment be believed by any Christian, or by any one else, that such action was ever advocated by me.
While the Truth will cause a division, as I know, among humans as to what the Truth is, and may even separate and cause bitter thoughts,even hatred, to arise in the souls of humans towards their fellow humans. Even brother may come to dislike brother. Yet the accomplishing of such results was not the object of my coming to Earth and teaching the Divine Truths. Rather are the results of the unavoidable conflict between Truth and error.
Truth cannot compromise, even for the sake of peace. Error will not submit, or acknowledge, its untruth, so long as it can get any mortal to believe in and advocate it.
Because of the Great Gift of Free Will to human, Truth Itself, with all the Power and Knowledge of the Father back of it, will not compel a human to accept it against their will. Hence, as human is very fallible, and thinks and believes, according as their finite mental faculties convince them that a certain thing is, or is not, True, they will not be willing to surrender their convictions, until the Truth shall come to them in such a way as to persuade them of its Reality. As humans differ so much in the operations of their minds and reasoning faculties, there will necessarily be a great division among them as to what is, and what is not, True. Hence, there will arise disputes, hatred, even wars, among them in maintaining their respective beliefs and opinions as to what is Truth.
While these feelings of discord must necessarily follow the Advent of Truth, yet I did not come for the purpose of bringing a sword, but for the purpose of showing humans what the Truths are, and of causing Harmony and belief in these Truths. Never is hatred, discord, or war, among humans justified, no matter what the cause. If humans will only learn the Truth, there will never exist such feelings, or acts.
Truth is of itself, a thing apart, admits of no variations, or modifications. Hence, the minds of humans must submit to and embrace Truth. It will never accommodate itself to the beliefs of humans. One is fixed and unchangeable. The other is always changeable. Until founded on Knowledge of the Truth, will at sometime or other have to change. Because in the end, Truth will be established in the hearts and minds of humans, so that Harmony and Peace shall reign in all God's Universe.
Error does not exist in the World because God created it, or permits it to exist, but solely because there belongs to human an unrestricted will, which controls and influences their thoughts and acts, and which in turn is influenced by the desires and appetites of the mortal.
I know it is said that if God did not permit evil, carnal thoughts and desires to exist in the World, there would be no reason, or possibility, for human to exercise their will in a way that would bring them to all these feelings of hatred, etc., that I speak of. This is merely saying that if a human had not the power of free will they would commit no sin and indulge in no error. For you must know, that in their Creation, they were given, not only the privilege and the power, under certain conditions, to become a being entirely free from sin, which is merely the violation of God's Established Laws (of Love and Harmony), but also the privilege and power to violate these Laws. As they will, so shall they be.
Everything in Nature may be turned into an instrument of harm, if the Laws which establish the functionings and workings of these things are violated. Sin, as an abstract thing, does not exist. But is the result of disobedience to some Law, whose operations, in conformity to its Creation, must be pursued, and should always be pursued. Humans who violate it must suffer the consequences of such violation. Mortals may not fully realize that every Law carries with it a penalty for its violation. This applies to the smallest Law in the Material Universe, as well as to the Greatest Law in the Spiritual Kingdom. This penalty is just as sure in its operation as is the Law itself.
A human may be Created physically almost perfect. So long as they live in that way which does not violate some physical Law, which is operating to keep them in that physical perfection, they will suffer no pain, or inharmony, in their being. But just as soon as they do violate this Law, the penalty therefore asserts itself, and they suffer. Now this arises, not because there was existing in the abstract, any pain, or suffering. Had not human violated this Law, they would never have known that there was such a thing as pain or suffering. When they did violate the Law, there came into operation the penalty, which, as I said, is always the result of violating the Laws of Harmony.
The same Principle applies to the Moral and Spiritual Universe. As I said, there is no such thing as sin or error in the abstract. For so long as a mortal may know and follow the Truth, they will never realize the existence of any such thing as sin or error. But the moment that Law of Truth is violated, the penalty asserts itself, and human realizes that sin and error do exist. Not as an abstract entity, but as a concrete sensitive thing, which will continue to exist, until the violation of that Law ceases, and Harmony in its operation is again restored, or rather, until human in their thoughts and acts is brought into Harmony with the operations of the Law.
So you see, God did not create, or permit, sin or error to exist, in the sense that it is an independent entity, waiting to influence humans to do wrong and violate His Laws of Perfect Harmony. Rather, that when humans, in the exercise of their will, which He will not compel, violates one of His Laws, and thereby, as to themselves, interferes with that Harmony, they cause the inharmony to arise, which brings with it the pains and sufferings, and sins and errors, which are prevalent in the world.
Let humans think, if they can, of sin, or error, in the abstract. Then try to describe it. What is the result? Only vacuity!
So I say, God did not create sin or error, but gave to human that Great Gift of Will, free and not subject to His Control. Then human became the Responsible Being that they are. But in giving human this Great Gift, He did not relinquish, or subordinate, His Will to that of human. Nor did He confer upon humans the power to change, or modify, His Immutable Laws, which He, Himself, will not do. Within the limitations, that human can exercise their will. That is, when such exercise does not interfere with the Will of God, or His Laws, human may exercise that will with impunity. Without responsibility, as it were. When, in the exercise of that will, they infringe upon the Will of God, or violate one of His Laws, then, while human is not controlled in the exercise of their will, yet for such violation (of the Law) they must pay the penalty (of the Law), which such violation (of the Law) calls into operation.
God has decreed that His Universe shall be one of Harmony in its workings, and that no human shall destroy, or interfere with, that Harmony. No human can. But, as human is a part of that Harmony, their every act, which tends to interfere therewith, and it does not, except as to themselves, brings upon themselves the penalty of that interference.
Let a human who has violated this Harmony, and thereby, as to themselves, becomes inharmonious, again get into that Harmony, as to them there would be no sin or error. Let every human do this and there would be no sin or error in All God's Universe.
So, I repeat, there is no sin or error, in the abstract, in all the Universe. They appear only when human, in the exercise of their will, interferes, as to themselves, in the Harmony of God's Laws. It makes no difference what the cause of this interference may be, or in what way the will of human may have been exercised, or for what reason, to bring about this inharmony, the effect is the same. Because Harmony and inharmony cannot exist together. No matter what the cause may be. No matter that in one case the cause may appear excusable, or even apparently forced on the individual. The excuse for, or apparent justification of, the cause, will not make what is inharmonious unite and work in Unison with God's Laws of (Love and) Harmony.
Hence, the human whose will may be excused, in the way mentioned, by reason of heredity, or environments, or want of proper mental or moral instruction is just as much out of Harmony with the violated Law, as is the human who willfully violates the Law. The penalty must be enforced just the same, in each case. As the only remedy is the restoration of the Harmony. There is this difference between the individuals of what may be called the involuntary class, and the individuals of the voluntary class. The former will find it easier, and with more rapidity, to get into this condition of Harmony, than will the latter.
So humans must not accuse God in permitting sin and error to exist in the World, as they do not exist, except as human brings them into existence by the wrongful exercise of their will. All sin and error bring their sufferings. If there were no sufferings and humans were permitted to exercise their wills, irrespective of the Laws which govern the Universe, without incurring the penalties, then the only result would be that anarchy would prevail in all God's Universe where humans live, and in the Spirit Universe as well. For the will, and its great franchise of unrestricted exercise, pass with the mortal when they leave their material body.
So, with all my Love I will say goodnight, your brother and friend, Jesus.
Divine Truth
May 12th, 1916
I am here, John.
I desire to write tonight. If you think it is not too late, we will do so.
Well, I will not make my message very lengthy, but try to condense in short sentences.
I want to tell you that when a human gets to know the Truths of the Father, they will become a very happy and wise human. These Truths, have in them, only those Principles that create Happiness and Wisdom.
I know that humans believe many things on account of their being ancient, or having the authority of their forefathers, or some great saint, or writer, who lived many centuries ago. Such a basis for Truth, while worthy of consideration and examination, does not of itself, because of being old, afford any certainty that what is thus accepted contains the Truth.
Truth is a thing very old, and existed for many thousands of centuries before the times in which these ancient writers, as you call them, lived. In fact, those days of the writers, in comparison to what had gone before, are as yesterdays. Therefore, you will see that because the declarations of these writers are, what you consider very ancient, they should not be received as having authority.
Truths of those days, and of the long ages prior thereto, and of the present time, are all the same. As Truth never changes, or assumes new forms, no matter what the conditions of mortals may be, as to intellectual, or Spiritual development. They may be revealed today.Are being constantly revealed, as time progresses, and should be accepted with as much credence and satisfaction as any Truths that were ever disclosed in ancient days.
Humans are just as susceptible now to the reception of these Truths, in their Spiritual Natures, or perceptions, as they were in the times of Abraham, or Moses, or at any time since.
The mind of human was given to them to be exercised in the way of investigation and search. Never was it contemplated in their Creation, that the time would come when they should accept anything, as the Ultimates of Truth, and cease their inquiries. For Truths are so many,great, and deep, that so far, in the mortal universe, human has acquired only a smattering of these Truths. To rest supinely in this acquirement, under the belief that there is nothing more in existence that human may know, violates and subverts, the very object of their Creation. What I have said applies to Spiritual Truths, as well as to material ones.
The churches, I know, declare, and try to enforce the declaration, that it is not possible to discover, or have revealed to humans, the Essential Principles of Spiritual Truths, to a greater extent than has already been declared in the Bible, and the churches' interpretation of the same. That, therefore, it is contrary to God's Will that humans should seek further for any additional Truths, and that humans should accept, without question, the sayings of the bible, the dogmas and creeds of the churches, which their claim is founded upon. Which they declare are the true principles of spiritual truths. For many years this has been the demand of the churches. The members thereof have acquiesced, without question, or doubt.
Now, this has been one of the Great Causes why humans have not progressed more, not only in their Spiritual Nature, but also in what may be called their Natural Qualities. They have remained satisfied. What was believed by them centuries ago, are believed today.
I say all this to show how stagnant the intellects of humans have been, as it depends on search and investigation, and has remained for all these long ages.
I further recite this to show the necessity for humans to seek,criticize,accept, or reject, as the results of the search may demand. In recent years, though, humans have made greater progress. The individual has come to the front. The old accepted fabrications of truths have been assaulted, shaken, and denuded, of their falsities to a considerable degree. So it should be. Humans must seek, criticize,accept, or reject, as their own conscience (soul), and reasoning powers, dictate. Therein will be freedom of the mind, as well as of the will.
The soul, also, has been smothered in these dogmatic beliefs. As a consequence its development has been slow. Knowledge of Things Spiritual has not come to humans as it should have done, and as is necessary, to teach them their destiny, and the Truths which should control their lives on Earth, and which will control their progress in the Spirit World.
Well, as you are tired, I will postpone the balance of my discourse. I think it best when you feel tired to discontinue the writing instead of attempting to force yourself into receiving it. So I will not write more.
Believe that I am your brother in Christ, John.
Divine Truth
June 4th, 1917
I am here, St. John.
I came tonight to write you a message that I consider very important. As you are in good condition, I will endeavor to do so.
In the first place, I desire to say that you are much more in that condition of Soul Development that enables us to make a rapport with you than you have been. We are pleased that this is so, for the greater (soul) development you have, the easier it is for us to express our ideas of the Higher Truths, that we so much desire to disclose through you.
Well, the subject about which I wish to write is: What is the reason that mortals will not seek the Divine Love of the Father, rather than endeavor to believe in the creeds and sacraments of the churches to which they belong or be affiliated with?
Now it may appear to you that mortals, themselves, could better tell the reason of this preference and their actions in carrying out their preferences. This supposition would not be True, because they do not really know. The Knowledge of the Truth, which they might obtain, and the supposed knowledge of truth which so many of them content themselves with believing that they possess, are two and very different things.
First; they believe that the creeds of their churches contain and disclose the truths, as to God, and as to mortals relationship to Him, and that; if they follow these creeds, they will do that which is pleasing to God, and in accordance with His Will. Hence, they rest satisfied to abide in such knowledge, and seek no further to learn the Truths of their Being and of their Salvation.
The creeds, in most particulars, do not contain the Truths of these Spiritual Matters, for they are based upon error. Consequently, can have no Truth as a super-structure. From them, mortals cannot learn the True Knowledge of Things Spiritual. These creeds are human made, and are not based upon the Real Verities that can never be changed by creeds, nor any other thing that is the result of human's making.
Mortals do not know that these creeds do not disclose to them the Truth. This is one reason why they prefer to follow the teachings of the creeds and believe in them. They have nothing else to which they can resort, except the many statements of Truth that the Bible contains. Even, though, they should resort to these statements, yet in their condition of mental and Soul Development, they would not be able to discover the Truths, as therein disclosed. To realize any distinction between such Truths, and what they believe are truths of their creeds.
For long years, generation after generation, these creeds have been accepted, believed in, and proclaimed to be the truths by the respective churches to which the mortals may have belonged. They have seen their parents and grandparents believing and resting in the assurance that the creeds contained the truth. Have seen these relatives live and die apparently happy in their beliefs. Hence, they become satisfied to do that, which those before them did, and not question, or search for the Truth elsewhere, or even think that it can be found elsewhere.
As human is constituted, it may be said that such a position and condition is natural. We, or you, who Know the Truth, also that the creeds do not contain the Truth, should not be surprised.
Again, mortals prefer their creeds, because, in the majority of the instances, when a church, or denomination has existed for a long time, those who have, as I may say, inherited these beliefs in the creeds, never consider for a moment that they should do anything else than give an unquestioning belief to the teachings of their creeds. That in such belief, they are in the truth and are not called upon to doubt or question. Thus growing up, as many do, in this belief, it becomes to them, in many cases, a thing of mere form, having no vitality and creating in those who possess it, no special concern as to whether their belief is well founded or not. This belief saves them the trouble of exercising their minds to any comprehensive degree. They say: "I am content with the creed of my church and do not desire to be troubled by questioning the same". Hence, you will see, it is not difficult for them to make the preference, for in fact, there is no preference, but a condition of mind existing that has in it no room for the exercise of any preference.
Then again, this preference exists, because of the social life of the people who believe in the creeds of the churches. For if they do not so believe, it is not permissible for them to become members of the churches, as the creed must be subscribed to, no matter what else that may be vital is required to be believed in, or declared by the mortal who desires affiliation to be believed.
The church is the greatest of social centers in the lives of humans. Its influence and power are very great, and reaches further in the economy of social life than unthinking people may realize. So then when the applicant subscribes to the creed and becomes a member of the church, they become satisfied, usually, with their social position and their thoughts of Spiritual Truths are no longer plastic, but fixed. As time goes by they pay less attention to what the creeds may require of them, but in a kind of automatic manner acts upon them and rests satisfied. Their position then becomes so comfortable and their mind free from efforts by the undoubting acceptance of the doctrines of their church creeds. Of course, there are many exceptions to this condition existing among members of the churches. For while they subscribe to the creeds, yet their souls are not satisfied, and go out in longings to the Father for His Divine Love. Many who possess this Divine Love, though intellectually they do not know what it means. With the majority, the preference is made, because of the reasons that I have stated. The difficulty will be great, to cause an Awakening from this satisfaction and feeling, that in their beliefs lie the certainty of doing the Father's Will and of their own salvation.
Now, while all this is True, yet these mortals do not realize that it is True, just in the sense that I have described it. The great work that lies before you, and us, is to cause the Truths, which you are receiving, to be presented to these people in such a way that they will not be satisfied to rest in the security of their old beliefs. But be persuaded to seek for the Truth outside of the teachings of their creeds. This I can say, that if these people will have such an Awakening, and seriously and honestly seek for the Truth, they will not hesitate to believe that they have been mistaken in their beliefs, and will not be satisfied until they learn the Truth.
I merely thought I would write this, because, while it is more of a subject pertaining to the merely living of humans on Earth, yet in its results and consequences, if the living be changed, the Things Spiritual will become the things of absorbing interest. These creeds shut out the Truth. Humans will never be able to find the Truth, until they shut out from their minds and souls the doctrines of the creeds.
I will not write more tonight. So with my Love, I will say goodnight, your brother in Christ, John.
Divine Truth
July 3rd, 1917
I am here, Paul.
Let me write a few lines, as I desire to say a word about the condition of the human to whom you were talking a short time ago on matters connected with your work and the messages that you are receiving. I mean the Methodist preacher.
As you may judge from his conversation, his mind is open to the reception of the Truth. His beliefs in the dogmas of the Bible teachings are not such, as to cause him to be unduly biased, so that, if the Truth be presented to him with any degree of reasonable force, he will give consideration to the same.
Of course, he is an orthodox, in the way of believing in the plan of salvation provided by god, as recognized and enunciated by the creeds of the churches. To him Jesus is God. His sacrifice and vicarious atonement are truths vital to the salvation of humankind, and that the human who does not believe in these necessary prerequisites cannot possibly become reconciled to God or be at-one with Him. To him, Jesus is God and the only saviour of humans, and without him (Jesus); it is not possible for human to escape the great condemnation.
Now, while all this is True as regards the preacher's belief, yet he does not believe positively that the human who dies in their sins, as the churchmen term it, will be condemned to a separation from God for All Eternity. His belief on this question is not fixed. His Love for humankind creates in him a hope that this may not be so, and that some means will be provided, by which such an awful condemnation will not be imposed on humans.
He has in his soul much of the Divine Love, without having the Consciousness that this is a separate and Distinct Love, from the Natural Love that has been to some extent purified. In fact, he has no conception of any Divine Love of God, other than the Natural Love that was given to humans, at the time of the Creation of the First Parents, and which every human being born since that time has received, although it has become defiled by sin, error and the willfulness of human. He believes that human, by the operation of the Holy Spirit, is cleansed of this defilement of the Natural Love, with which they were endowed, and by the atonement of Jesus is brought into a state of reconciliation with the Father, and no other, or different Love, is necessary for the Redemption of the fallen human. That Jesus, by his sacrifice, is all that is required, and when a mortal, by his belief and acceptance of that sacrifice, receives Jesus into his Life and nature, he becomes a redeemed child of God.
Of course, he cannot fully understand just the method by which this change is brought about. He believes that there is something mysterious connected with the manner in which, the resultant condition of goodness, purification, and the change of the vile human into an angel, which flows from the sacrifice, acceptance, and belief, yet the human is so changed. The manner thereof is known to God, and it is not necessary for human to understand. This is a path which does not demand Knowledge, a mystery of God which need not be inquired into. Only "believe on the Lord, Jesus Christ, and ye shall be saved". I say that this belief is his, and is sufficient for him, and in it he rests securely.
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Well, he is comparatively happy in his belief, and is willing to retain it, for, as he sometimes thinks, if he renounces it, where, and unto what, shall he go? He can see nothing to take its place. He is wise not to give it up. For in Jesus is salvation, when Jesus is correctly understood. As the preacher turns his thoughts to Jesus and sends forth his soul's longings to the Master, and what he represents, his soul at times catches a True Conception of the Very Jesus. Although, this conception does not agree with, and is not the same thing as, his intellectual comprehension of the Jesus of the Bible, as interpreted by the creeds.
I am glad that you had the conversation with him. I believe, that as he listens to the unfoldment of the Divine Truths, as contained in the messages, his mind will take on a New and True Conception of the Truth, and his soul open up to a greater inflowing of the Divine Love, that will make him At-One with the Father, and Transform that soul into the very substance of the Father's Divinity in Divine Love.
I would advise you to present these Divine Truths to him. He is an important factor in the work of Human's Salvation, when it is considered that one soul is of more worth than the whole (material) world. He has the opportunity to show The Way to Salvation to many souls by the preaching of the Divine Truth. Any personal sacrifice, which may come to him, as a result of learning and believing the Truth is not to be considered. While his material happiness on Earth is to be considered, and not thrown away whenever it is possible to retain it in connection with the teachings of the Divine Truth, yet, his soul's happiness, and that of many other souls, are of more importance than the mere material happiness that arises from ignorance of the Truth, or the living in that ignorance. So I say, let him know the Divine Truth no matter what the consequences may be, for in the end, Happiness will come to him, even on Earth, as well as in the Great Eternity.
I will not write more now. So, with my Love, I will say goodnight, and God Bless you, and the preacher, for I am interested in him, and in the future may possibly sustain a closer relation to him than is now possible by reason of his false beliefs, and the want of the necessary rapport with him.
Your brother in Christ, Paul.
Divine Truth
April 14th, 1918
I am here, Spinoza.
I desire to write a few lines, if you will permit. I need not say that I have never written you before. You will know from the difficulty that I have in writing that such must be the case. No, I am a stranger to this method of communication, and to you. To me, it has come in very recent days as a wonderful revelation.
I do not intend to write upon a subject of any great Truth connected with our Spirit Life. Merely to say, sufficient to introduce myself, in the hope that when I am better acquainted with the Laws governing this method, I may be permitted to come to you, and write of those things which I have learned since becoming a spirit, which to learn when on Earth would have been not only very desirable, but very important.
I was when on Earth a philosopher, so-called. Gave many years of my Life to the search for Truth, relating not only to the Natural World, but also to what I conceived to be Truth connected with that World, or existence, outside of, and beyond the sense world. In my researches, I was guilty of many speculations, which I now see have no foundation upon which I had built many conclusions and postulates. I had only the intellect, supplied in its workings by the knowledge that came from the phenomena of the purely physical. As I thought, by that great faculty called reason, which, as a fact, is a wonderful faculty. But, in its exercise it is dependent upon, first; its own development, and next; whether that development has been along the lines of, and in accord with, Truth.
A reason, merely because it is a reason, is not a guide that can be depended on. Reasoning in an erroneous way must necessarily lead to conclusions of error. Merely calling, or believing, that these conclusions are the results of reason, does not justify the belief that the conclusions must be correct and veracious. Reason can be mistaken, and featured by error. Just as can the senses. Hence, if you read the writings of the philosophers, metaphysicians, and scientists, you will find that things declared and accepted by these humans at one age, have been repudiated and rejected by the successors of these humans, in later ages.
So, when I wrote, and I wrote considerably, I was very largely read, by what was considered to be the thinking class of humans. Especially those, whose researches led them along a similar line of study and subject matter as my own. I declared certain doctrines, or principles connected with these metaphysical and philosophical matters, that I now know to be wholly erroneous, which at the time, I firmly believed to be things of verity. Because largely, they were based on what I thought was, the True workings of reason, together with some little empirical knowledge.
From this, I do not mean to decry the value and importance of the faculty of reason. It has been the great factor operating progress of humankind. Like other finite faculties, it is subject to erroneous exercise, and cannot be depended on as a thing infallible. The common experience of humans, has shown that humans who have sincerely, earnestly, and constantly, exercised their reasoning faculties, have arrived at different, and contradictory, conclusions as to the same Principles, or subject matter. Those conclusions have been entirely satisfactory, and convincing, to the respective persons. Now it is apparent that in such instances, all of these humans could not possibly be correct in their conclusions. In many cases, not any of them were correct. Yet, they were all founded on the reason, properly and intelligently exercised, as they supposed.
No, reason is fallible. It is not a thing of itself. But dependent upon environments, and sometimes inherited, or preconceived, ideas of what Truth must be. It is the great friend and defender of speculation. Without it, speculation could not exist. So often is speculation deceived by its friend. Truth, is that, which exists as an unchangeable condition, or fact. Speculation, can neither create, nor destroy, Truth. Reason, is a means, which may be used to reach Truth, when knowledge does not exist. The fact that reason exists, does not mean that it is always used, in that way, that leads to the discovery of Truth. Reason, as I am now justified in saying, is but a Creature of God, just as is everything else in His Universe. When given to human, with the freedom of exercising it as human wills, is subject to all the possibilities of defective exercise that every other faculty possessed by human is subject to. Is no more infallible in its Nature, than are these other faculties.
It is the greatest faculty that human has as a Creature of the Almighty. Without it, some of the "wise of Earth" have said human would be no better than, or different from, the brute animal. This is not quite True. For human is possessed with that, which is Really human them self (the soul), that the brute animal does not have. That is a soul, made in the image of its Creator (Soul). It may be said that reason is merely an appendage of the soul. I have justification in asserting that the soul in its progress can do without, or cast aside, this reason, without doing harm to itself. Because, as I have learned in progressing in the Spirit Life, the soul may, and does, arrive at that degree of development, where reason is not necessary, or even used by it, in its acquirement of Truth.
I now believe, without speculation, that reason is a Gift to human, to be useful to them only in their Earth Life, and in a portion of this Spirit Life, until the soul comes into a Knowledge of Truth, by the exercise of the mere desire to know. A knowledge of the whys and wherefores is not required. It knows, because it knows. Just as in your Earth Life, you have a knowledge of the sunlight, even if you do not know the why and the wherefore that produce that light.
Well, my new found friend, I have written more than I intended. As I continued, I found the desire to write increase. I fear that I have trespassed too long, and pray your forgiveness. Sometime I should like to come and write of the errors of some of the teachings of Earth, or rather of the Truths, along the line of the subject matter of my earthly writings, as I now know them to be.
I am in what is called the intellectual planes of the Fifth Sphere. Very near the entrance to the Sixth Sphere. In which, I hope to be in a short time. It has been a long time since I left the Earth Life. The early period of my existence in the Spirit World was one of stagnation. As I now see, merely because I brought with me many of the doctrines of the philosophy of my Earth Life. As a consequence, I continued my research along the ideas and ways that I had pursued as a mortal. The time thus spent was long, and continued, until I became convinced that speculation in the Spirit Life is not very different, and arrives at no more satisfactory end, than speculation on Earth. Then, I stopped speculating. I waited for something. I know not what. Strange to say, that which came to me, was from a spirit who had never heard of my philosophy, or any other philosophy on Earth, but merely accepted Truth, as it gradually came to him, without knowing why, or how. I soon learned that he had a greater knowledge of the Verities, than had I. So, I adopted his way of receiving Truth. Since then, I have been progressing. I am now advancing with accelerated speed, all to my happiness and intellectual enjoyment.
Goodbye, your friend, Spinoza.
Divine Truth
May 21st, 1918
I am here, Helen.
Well dear, I see that you have been much benefitted by the reading of The Messages tonight. I am so glad that you read them, in the manner that you did. The Truths, which you read in reference to the Spirit World, in the book of Dr. Peebles, are very beautiful. Also, edifying and helpful to the extent that they affect the conditions of the souls of humans. As you know, they do not teach the Vital Point, or tell of the Great Truth, which is necessary for humans to know in order to obtain the condition of the Divine Angel and the home in the Celestial Heavens.
Of course, the writer, or any of those whom he quotes, could not speak of this Higher Truth, for they did not understand the same. They could comprehend only the Great Moral Teachings of Jesus. These Teachings are also of great importance to Humankind, for the understanding and observance of them in thought and deed will certainly lead human to a purification of their soul, and to a coming in at-onement with the Father, in accordance with the Perfectness of Humans in their Creation. As we have written you, the large majority of humans will exist in the Great Eternity only as Perfect Humans, enjoying the happiness which that condition brings to them. Hence, it is of great importance that humans should be taught these Moral Truths.
Of greater importance is the Knowledge of the Divine Truth, which will show humans The Way to become Divine Angels and At-One with God in His Very Substance and Essence of Divine Love. This was the Great Mission of the Master on Earth. But humans failed to understand and realize that fact. Instead, were possessed only of the Knowledge of the Moral Truths, and a belief that such Moral Truths, or rather the results of the practicing and living the same, would lead them to Immortality and Perfect Happiness.
Well, you understand all this. I will not say more on the subject. I wish to emphasize to you the importance of your fully realizing, deep down in your soul, that the Truths of the Divine are not understood by humans. Hence, cause you to appreciate more the great importance of the work which you are to perform.
Oh, my dear, I hope that you will consider and meditate upon this, and try your best to get in such condition that the rapport may be made, and these Divine Truths delivered to you. You know The Way, The Only Way. You must follow that Way. Pray to the Father, with all the longings of your soul. Meditate more on Spiritual Things, such as the Divine Truths, which the Master and the others have revealed to you. I know that you are desirous of receiving the messages, but you are not willing, as it seems, to make the effort to get in the soul condition, which will not come from the existence of the mere desire to receive the messages.
Well, I did not write earlier in the evening, for you were not just in condition. I thought that if you did not hear from me, you might possibly read some of the messages and thus get in a better soul condition to receive my message, as you have done.
It is too late to write more tonight. I feel quite hopeful that I will be able to do so very soon. So sweetheart, pray to the Father, and let your Faith increase. Think more of these Divine Truths, and what they mean. I will not write more now. Will only further say, Love me with all your heart and think more of me. You will be much happier.
Goodnight my dear husband, your own True and Loving, Helen.
Divine Truth
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