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Old Testament spirits write of their experiences and wisdom of here and hereafter.
June 27th, 1915
Solomon, of the Old Testament.
Well, I was visiting the Earth Plane and happened to see the two last spirits visit you. I thought that I would do so also.
I know Paul, and John, and converse with them sometimes. I do not live in as high a Sphere as do they. Wisdom, which I was said to have had in a pre-eminent degree, is not the equal of Divine Love in elevating a spirit in the Father's Kingdom. They are possessed of more of this Divine Love than am I. Yet I have great hope that someday I will get this great soul filling Divine Love to a degree that will enable me to live with them and the others of the followers of the Master. I mean his disciples.
I became a follower of the Master many years ago. I know that he is the Only Way to the Father. I mean by that, The Way, which his teachings show is the Only Way. It may seem a little surprising to you, that I was said to have been such a wise and good human, that am not as exalted as are the disciples. Well, while I lived and died many years before the disciples. One would suppose that I made more rapid progress than they did, yet such is not the fact. Because my progress, prior to the coming of Jesus, was purely intellectual. After his coming, it was a long time before I started on my soul's progression. So you must remember that the fact that a spirit who is called an ancient spirit, does not mean that they are very highly exalted in the Spheres. Because a spirit, prior to Jesus' coming to Earth, could only make intellectual and soul progress in the Natural Love, and then not higher than the Sixth Sphere of the Spiritual Spheres. But after his coming, and Rebestowal by God of Immortality and the Divine Love on humankind, the ancients had the opportunity to make soul progression which was intended, and would enable them to ascend to the Higher Celestial Spheres.
I would like to write more, but you are tired. So I will say goodnight, Solomon the wise.
Old Testament Spirits
July 21st, 1915
Daniel, the prophet of God of the Old Testament.
I am with you tonight because you have reason to believe that you have been selected to do the work of Jesus in transmitting his messages to Humankind. I want to add my testimony to that of the others who have preceded me.
I am a follower of the Master, although I lived on Earth many years before he came to announce the Rebestowal of the Great Divine Love of the Father, and show The Way, by which every human who so desires may obtain it.
I never knew what this Divine Love was until Jesus came and declared it to humans, and to spirits, as he did. When he came to the Spirit World, after his crucifixion. He preached to us who were in the Spiritual Spheres the Great Doctrine of God's Plan of Salvation.
Humans must not think that mortals are the only recipients of this Divine Love. Or, that they are the only ones that had the privilege of learning The Way to this Divine Love. For, as I tell you, Jesus came to the spirits who lived in the Spiritual Heavens, made known this Great Plan, and taught The Way to Immortality.
I was, before his coming, a spirit who enjoyed the favor of The Father, to the extent that my Natural Love was developed to the highest degree. In that Love, I was comparatively happy. I also possessed great intellectual development. But as to the Divine Love, which I now possess, I knew nothing of, nor did any spirit then living.
This may seem strange to you, because from my history as contained in the Old Testament, you would naturally suppose that I was in high favor with God. And so I was. That favor extended no further than in receiving from Him a very great amount of the Natural Love, which He had bestowed on all Humankind. In knowing, by my spiritual perceptions, and the power of a psychic nature, which I possessed, that God was caring for me and using me to convince the heathen nations, that there was Only One God, and that He Alone should be worshiped.
Never did I know the Reality of what the Divine Love was, or that I was not in position other than I might have been, had not that Divine Love (potentiality) been taken from humankind when our great earthly father and mother committed their fatal act of disobedience. No spirit, in those times before the coming of Jesus, could possibly progress higher than the (Sixth) Sphere where this Natural Love and intellectual development existed in their Greatest Degree of Perfection.
So you see, I was never a spirit possessed of this Divine Nature, until after the coming of the Master. You will find nowhere in the Old Testament, any declaration, or promise, that human should possess this Divine Nature. We who lived in the days of my Earthly Life, were satisfied with, and expected only, the favors and Gifts of God as they might affect our Earthly prosperity and happiness.
I was a prophet, as it is written. God spoke to me through His Spirits. The things, which I declared to the people, also enabled me to foretell many things, which would and did happen. This great favor and gift did not bring to me the possession of the Divine Love, or Nature of the Father. When I came to die, I passed to the Spirit World a sprit possessed only of the Natural Love and the Great Moral Development which my communications, from my associations which with the spirits of the Father had given me.
So human must not think that we of the Old Testament, no matter whether prophet, or seer, or the specially favored by God, ever had this Divine Essence of His, while we lived on Earth, or while we existed as spirits, before the coming of Jesus.
Abraham, Moses, or Elias, never possessed this Divine Nature, although, they were the specially chosen of God to do His Work, in the particulars in which they were chosen. They never understood that their lives after death were to be anything more than a mere existence in the Spirit World, as spirits, or as it was expressed; they were gathered to the "Home of their Fathers" (Spirit World). Rest was then understood as the great condition of the good humans of God. This rest meant to them a relief from all Earthly troubles, and a happiness that would result from such freedom.
So that when the Master came into the Spirit World and preached the Great Truth of the Rebestowal of the Divine Love, the spirits were as much surprised, as were mortals. There was just as much unbelief among them as among mortals.
The Jews still believe in their doctrines, which had been their rule of faith when in the flesh. The Laws of Moses, and the declarations of the prophets, control them as spirits, just as they had controlled them on Earth. Of course, after they became spirits, they learned many things, which pertain to the Spirit World, of which they had no knowledge as mortals. Among the Laws, which they learned as spirits, was the great Law of (Compensation) Recompense. Of course, Moses had in a way, taught the Principles of this Law as instanced in his decree of "an eye for and eye, and a tooth for a tooth". This was merely a shadow of what the Law of Recompense means in the Spirit World.
This Law was then in existence, just as much as it is now. Then, spirits had only the Natural Love to help them get out of their condition of suffering and darkness. In many cases, it required centuries and centuries for this Natural Love to work out their salvation.
I must tell you also, that when this Natural Love had done its work, the spirit came into a condition of happiness and satisfaction. So much so, that many of them remain contented. Some, who lived on Earth when I lived, and became spirits when I became a spirit, are still in that condition of happiness, which this Natural Love, in a Pure State, gives them. They did not Awaken to the Great Truth that the Divine Love had been offered them, at the time of Jesus' coming to Earth. Just as many, yes, as the large majority of humans, have never Awakened to this fact.
So you see, while God in His Goodness and Mercy has provided a Way, by which all may become partakers of His Divine Nature, and of the corresponding great and never dying happiness, yet, He has also provided a Natural Love, which may become free from all sin and earthly grossness. When so purified, enables the spirit to enjoy happiness far beyond what mortals may conceive of. This latter condition does not bring Immortality. No spirit, with only this Natural Love, has any assurance that it is immortal.
Well, I have written very much and must stop for this time.
Well, at the time Moses and Elias met Jesus in the Mount of Transfiguration, they had received a portion of this Divine Love, because they had learned, previous to that date, of its Rebestowal on Humankind. As they were very Spiritual Beings, in the sense that they had developed their Natural Love to its supreme excellence, and were very near the Father in their soul development, so they were ready recipients of this Divine Love when it came again to human and spirits. But they were so filled with it then, as many spirits who were mortals in your time, are now.
As I understand the meaning of the Transfiguration, it was to show to the disciples of the Master, that while Jesus was the possessor and embodiment of this Divine Love in the Mortal World, so Moses and Elias were the possessors of it in the Spirit World. In other words, Jesus' appearance showed that it had been bestowed on mortal human, and the appearance of Moses and Elias showed that it had also been bestowed on the spirits.
Sometime I will come and relate to you my experience in finding this Divine Love, and in becoming convinced of the Real Mission and Divine Truth of Jesus' Teachings, and how this Divine Love came into my soul and resulted in my becoming a Christian. The sphere in which I live has no number, but it is high in the Celestial Heavens, but not so high as that in which the apostles live. They have wonderful Soul Development, which means the possession of this Divine Love to a great degree, which determines their place of living.
Well, I am grateful that I could write to you tonight. I feel that by having done so, I am opening the way to my being able to do good to mortals. For we are now forming an army, as you would say, to make a great and successful onslaught on the powers of evil and darkness, as they now exist in the Mortal World. Jesus will be the leader of this army. He is the greatest spirit in all God's Universe. We, who are his followers, realize that fact and follow him without question. So, my friend, I must stop.
With the Love of a brother, who to you may seem ancient, but is very young, I will say goodnight, Daniel.
Old Testament Spirits
August 10th, 1915
Lot, of the Old Testament.
I come because I now am a follower of the Master, and want to add my testimony to that of others of olden times who have written you, that Jesus is Alive. The ruler in the Celestial Heavens, and is now working among humans and spirits to show them The Way to Eternal Life, and the Divine Love of the Father.
I am not a Hebrew who would have denied him, had I lived when he came to the Earth, for in my thoughts and belief, I expected the coming of the Messiah. To me Jesus was that Messiah, in all the Qualities and Spiritual Possessions, that I expected him to have.
Of course, when I lived we had not the privilege of knowing what the Divine Love of the Father means. We only knew that there was a God, and that God Loved us, as we thought, as His chosen people, and wanted us to live correct lives on Earth. Thereby, receive His Blessings as mortals, and all the rewards that an obedient Life might bring to us. But as to this Greater Love, which makes Divine Angels of us all who possesses it, we had no Knowledge. Nor had we ever been taught by our seers or prophets that such a Divine Love existed. As I now know, the privilege of obtaining it did not then exist. Only with the coming of Jesus, came that Divine Love again, to human and spirits.
But God had for us a Natural Love, in contradistinction to the Divine Love. We had for Him a Natural Love, which when fully purified, makes us spirits with a happiness that is beyond all conception of human happiness. But even of that happiness we were not taught. Only did we have glimpses in the teachings of our prophets that such happiness might exist in the Future Life.
I was a Lover of God, as I then understood what God was. Such Love was not that, which arose from my conception of Him as a Tender Loving Father, but more as a stern wrathful god, one of jealousy, and always watchful and ready to punish for disobedience to his commands. Yet we also learned that when we obeyed Him and did His Will, He would reward us.
So you see, the god of my days, and the God of the present, as we now conceive Him to be, are not similar. All humans should now understand, and believe, that Jesus Christ brought to Light, and by that I mean to the Knowledge of humans, the possibility of their knowing the True God of Love and Mercy. Also, that because of that Divine Love and His Great Mercy in the Rebestowal upon humankind of the possibility of humans becoming possessed of the Divine Love of the Father, which would make them One with Him, and the certainty of Immortality.
It was long years after Jesus came, before I received this Divine Love, or believed the Great Truths which Jesus taught. I was so satisfied in my happiness as a spirit possessing merely this Natural Love, which had been purified and freed from sin and error, that I thought there could be no Greater Love, or no greater happiness. But in the course of time, I had reasons to think that there might be another, if not Greater Love in operation in the Spirit World, because of the wonderful beauty and brightness, of some of the spirits that I at times met. I started to make investigation of the matter. As a result, I learned of this Divine Love. At last sought for, and found it. What a Treasure I found!
I am now so filled with It (Divine Love) that my happiness is beyond all conception, of not only human, but of spirits who live in lower spheres than I do.
I must not write more tonight, but I will tell you that I am one of the many Celestial Spirits who are interested in, and now are engaged, in doing the Great Work for the Redemption of Humankind. Jesus is our leader. We are all following him in the effort to Redeem the World. By that I mean the individuals who comprise the World. For you must know that Redemption is an individual matter. Not one that can be accomplished in the way of redeeming a nation, or a race as a whole. So you see back of this work is the Great Power of the Celestial, as well as of the Spiritual, Heavens.
I have written enough for tonight.
Well, the incident of my wife turning into a pillar of salt is like a great many others related in the Old Testament, these incidents are mere figures of speech, used to illustrate some Moral, or Spiritual Truth. My wife was never turned into salt, but died a natural death. Her remains were buried where mine were buried. She is now in the Celestial Heavens also.
So my dear brother, I must say goodnight, Lot.
Old Testament Spirits
September 12th, 1915
I am here, Jehosephat.
I was a character in the Old Testament. I want to say just a word. I am a Christian, Redeemed by the Divine Love of the Father.
I was not a very religious human when I lived. Never knew what the Love of God was, although, you might think from my association with Him, as portrayed in the Bible, that I was a righteous human.
I was a human possessed of great mediumistic powers. Through me, the spirits would communicate those things which they said came from God. I was not a teacher myself, and was not in condition to teach Spiritual Truths, for I was only a Jew of the Pharisees, who had certain intellectual beliefs as to what kind of worship should be given to God, and what humans should do otherwise, in their dealings with one another.
I merely wanted to say this, so that you might know that, while we are, what you would call ancient spirits, yet we are interested in your work, which the Master has called upon you to do.
I will say goodnight, Jehosephat.
Old Testament Spirits
October 23rd, 1915
I am the spirit of Sarah.
I was the wife of Abraham. I want to tell you that I am now a Christian and live in the Celestial Spheres.
Yes, but there are many things in the Bible that are not True. Well, when it says that I sent Hagar into the desert, or caused her to be sent into the desert to starve and die, that story was a slander on me, and did me great injustice, because I was not such a wicked woman.
Abraham did not send her there either. She went of her own accord, because she had done that which condemned her in her own conscience. Well, she had taken my husband and had a child by him. I know that the Bible says that was commanded by God, or that I prevailed upon Abraham to have a child by her, but it is not True.
Yes, I am happy. So is Abraham and our son Isaac, and his son Jacob. But they were without this Divine Love for a great many years, as it only came to us when the Master came to Earth.
I know that you think it strange that I should come to you and write, but as I was with Aaron in the Earth Plane, and was attracted to you by the Light which fills the space around you, I followed Aaron and came to you. After he wrote, I wrote also.
Yes, I see a great number of beautiful spirits around you, and some of the apostles who are so very beautiful and bright. They seem to be so much interested in you, and say that you have been selected to do the work of the Master on Earth, in the way of Revealing the Divine Truths which he shall write to you. I don't quite understand it all, but if the Master says it is what shall be done, you will do it.
I must stop now, but please believe that I am Sarah as I have told you. I will leave you now and say goodnight. Your sister in Christ, Sarah, the wife of Abraham.
Old Testament Spirits
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, and 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 Divine 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 human 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, nor 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, and 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 in what way these commands were given by God. 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, is 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.
Old Testament Spirits
April 7th, 1916
I am here, Saul.
I very much desire to write a short message tonight as I promised you a short time ago. I will not detain you very long, and will try to make my message as succinct as possible.
I know that many humans look upon me, as depicted in the Old Testament, as having been a great sinner and violator of God's Laws. Well, that is largely True, for I did not let God's Will control me, as I should have done. Consequently, I became in discord with His Will, and did many things that were contrary to His Laws. Of course my knowledge of these Laws was limited to the teachings of Moses and the prophets, as they were given to me by (oral) tradition, and word of mouth.
The books, which are part of the Old Testament, were not written in my time. Many of these Laws came to me by (oral) tradition. The Old Testament contains many sayings which were written long after the times that they purport to have occurred. Many things therein declared, never had any existence, except in the minds of humans, who, at much later periods, conceived that it might be wise to write these things. Many alleged incidents connected with my Life, never had an existence, and were merely the fictions written by subsequent writers.
We had very few writings, in the shape of manuscript, in my time. Humans depended upon (oral) tradition and memory.
Well, the history of my Life and doings was not written at the time it purports to have been written. I was a real person and a king. Some records of me, and my people, were actually written. But they were very few. As time went by the imagination and ingenuity added to them in the way of tradition. Then those books relating to me, as they are now contained in the Bible, were compiled from some of these writings, and from (oral) tradition.
The story of my experience with the witch of Endor, as she is called, was not written at the time. It is a fact that I had visited her, and had an experience somewhat similar to that related in the Bible. I had with me at the time of my visit, some of my followers. They saw and heard what took place. After my death, they repeated and described what had taken place to my countrymen, and also to the followers of David. Some parts of this occurrence became inscribed on the materials which we used to preserve some of the occurrences of those times. But there was not kept any accurate history of the scene. The people of those days had retentive memories. For long years afterwards this incident of my Life was handed down from generation to generation. Some parts thereof were written by some scribes, and other parts by other scribes.
I merely write you this to show that you need not give credit to the supposed truths of many sayings of the Old Testament, for many of these accounts had no existence.
I know that what I have written is not of much importance, but while you are receiving these Truths, you had as well learned something of what was True in my Life.
I will not write more tonight. So thanking you, I will say goodnight, your brother in Christ, Saul.
Old Testament Spirits
October 1st, 1916
I am here, Elias.
I was the prophet of old. Now I am an inhabitant of the Celestial Heavens, an Immortal Child of the Father.
I have been present on several occasions when the High Spirits were writing to you. I have been much interested in the work, which they are doing, and in the work, which you are doing. For you are doing a wonderful work in helping the dark spirits of suffering in bringing these spirits in close communion with the Higher Spirits, who can show them The Way to the Father's Divine Love.
I would like to write you a long message tonight, upon the history of the times in which I lived. The knowledge that we, who were looked upon and written about as prophets, had as to the relationship between God and human, and what some of our experiences were with the spirits of the Heavens who came to us and communicated some of the Truths of the Father.
I will say, in all our Knowledge of Truth, we never understood what the Divine Love of the Father was, as distinguished from the Natural Love that He bestowed on all humans, irrespective of their seeking for His Divine Love, and irrespective of the fact that they were sinful and disobedient to His Commands (Laws). As I now know, we could not have understood what this Divine Love meant, or ever have possessed it. For in my time, and until the coming of Jesus, the Privilege of humans receiving It, did not exist. The Father had withdrawn this Privilege from Humanity (at the time of the First Parents disobedience).
We did receive Spiritual Knowledge, of those things that would make human better in their Moral Nature, and bring them closer to the Father in their Natural Love. Our efforts were directed towards making the people understand these things, and the necessity of complying with the Moral Laws.
As I said, I should like to write you a long message. There is another present, who desires to write. I will stop. I will come soon and deliver my message. In the meantime I will pray for you and try to help you in your Soul Development, and in your work.
With all my Love and blessings I will say goodnight, your brother in Christ, Elias.
Old Testament Spirits
December 4th, 1916
I am here, Esau, Son of Isaac.
I was the son of Isaac and the brother of Jacob, the one whom the Jews regarded as having sold his birthright for a mess of pottage. I was misrepresented in this regard; as I did only that, which necessity compelled me to do, and all that is long past. Now I am an inhabitant of the Celestial Heavens. For in the World of Spirits, all things are made right. I became a possessor of the Divine Love after I had received Knowledge of its Rebestowal at the coming of Jesus.
Many of the characters of the Old Testament have never yet realized this Great Transformation, because, in their conception of self-righteousness, are contented in that conception, and worship God as they did on Earth. Although, they have ceased to offer sacrifices of animals, because they have none in Spirit Life to offer, yet they still have the belief that sacrifice is necessary. In their imaginations, they offer, what to them is symbolical of the offerings, that they made in the Earth Life.
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Yes, that is quite a natural supposition, but you must know that mind and the beliefs of mortals continue with them when they become spirits, and who will not permit themselves to be convinced of the errors of their conceptions of Deity. Many of these spirits of old are in that condition now. They refuse to believe, or even listen, to the Truths of Existence, and their relationship to God, as they did when on Earth.
They have eyes, but they see not, and ears, but they hear not. Enveloped in the darkness of their beliefs, they decline to let in the Light, or to permit the Divine Truths, that are so apparent to others, to illuminate their souls. A mind that is shut in by bigotry and intolerance is just as persistent after the mortal becomes a spirit, even though a change in its surroundings, in what you might call its physical existence, and in its possibilities for learning the Truth. Yet many of these spirits absolutely refuse to recognize any change, or possibility of change, in their Spiritual condition.
It is not surprising that you may not understand, how it is possible that these spirits, of the kind mentioned, could live all this great period of years, as you estimate time, in this condition, surrounded by spirits who have found the Divine Truth, and display that possession in their appearances and happiness. Especially, by some of their old associates who have entered into the Light, and not be influenced by these appearances and the experiences of these associated. Nevertheless, it is True. The difficulty of converting these bigoted spirits seems to grow the greater as they advance in their progression of mind and Natural Love.
They are happy, in a relative sense, in their beliefs. They can conceive of no other belief, or cause of progress, that could bring to them Greater Happiness. Besides, they are firmly convinced that they are doing the Will of God, in their manner of worship, and in their symbolical sacrifices.
These Ancient Spirits, as you call them, but who are young as compared to many in the Spirit Spheres, have their synagogues and temples of worship, and their priests, servants, and worshipers according to their old beliefs. The ceremonies attending their gatherings for worship are very little different from what they were on Earth. They have all their vestments, attire, and other accompaniments, that on Earth distinguished them from the common people. They say their prayers in public, and delight in appearing as holy spirits, the specially chosen of God, just as they did on Earth. As they are developing more and more in their Natural Love, and taking on the Condition of Perfection, so far as the Perfection of the First Parents as they existed before the fall, they may remain in this condition of belief as to their relationship to God, as to their proper and only way to worship Him, throughout All Eternity.
They decline to receive the Knowledge of the Divine Truth of the New Birth. As that is a thing that is optional with them. Its rejection does not prevent them from becoming the Perfect Human, as you have had explained to you. There is no absolute necessity, as they think, they should be Born Again, in order to enable a restoration of the Harmony of that condition and relationship that they may have to the Father.
Of course, until the day of the consummation of the Kingdom of the Celestial Spheres, they will have the opportunity to become recipients of the Divine Love, and the Transformation into Divine Angels Redeemed. It is doubtful if very many of them will ever elect to accept this Great Privilege.
I am glad that I could write to you tonight. It is a new experience with me, but one that gives me great satisfaction. I will come again, if agreeable to you, and write further.
I wish to say in closing that I know the difference between the spirit who has in their soul the Divine Love, and one who has not, and that the mere time of a spirit's existence in the Spirit World, does not necessarily indicate that the spirit possesses the Divine Love. As Jesus said when on Earth, "the first shall be last, and the last shall be first. I may add that some will never be first, or last, but only the reminders of what might have been.
I will not write more, your brother in Christ, Esau.
Old Testament Spirits
March 18th, 1917
I am here, Elias.
I come tonight to write a short message on the subject of: The Truth of the Bible, as to the things that are contained in the Old Testament. By this I do not mean that I will discuss this portion of the Bible, in all the views and declarations that are contained therein, but only as to that portion which has to do with the times in which I was supposed to live.
In the first place my entrance on the scene of Jewish Life and history was very abrupt. Little was written about my antecedent Life. In fact, nothing except that I was a Tishbite, who lived in that portion of Palestine where the acts and doings of the prophets and humans of the Hebrew race are very seldom, referred to. Little is known of these people.
When I came into notice, as portrayed, I was not very widely known. To the writers of the Scriptures it appeared as if I had come out of the unknown, where God had taken special pains to instruct and communicate to me the Truths of His Laws, and also the acts of disobedience of those Jews, among whom I appeared. But a very great deal of the accounts of my appearing, and things that I declared, and did, are imaginary. The result of the workings of the minds of those who produced the stories of the lives of the Jews at those times, and in the way told in the Bible.
I was a real existing person. Of the prophet class, and warned the kings and rulers of the wrath of god that was impending upon them, and of the evils of their manner of living, and was listened to by these kings, who sometimes heeded my warnings, and sometimes did not. Some of the consequences were suffered by them, in a way similar to that described in the Bible.
I never claimed to have direct communication with God, or to deliver any messages that He had directed me to deliver by His own word of mouth, or that I had ever seen God, or knew who, or what, He was.
I was a human who lived a rather secluded Life. I was versed in the teachings and beliefs of the Israelites, as they were known at the time, and was also given to much meditation and prayer, and possessed much of the religious instinct. In fact, to such a degree, that I really believed that the thoughts and perceptions of Truth that came to me, were actually the messages from the Unseen World, and possessing the Knowledge of the Moral Truths, as declared in the Decalogue, and as taught by the priests of the temple. I could readily discern and understand the acts and doings of the kings, and of the people as well, to be a violation of these Moral Truths. So when I learned of these violations, I appeared to these rulers and people, and denounced their acts and doings, and threatened them with the wrath of god, unless they ceased their acts of disobedience, and returned to the Worship of the One True God, that the Hebrew race distinctly declared and worshiped. Sometimes I was received as the True prophet of God. Sometimes I was not. As a consequence, my messages, at times, were received and believed in. At other times they were not.
The Foundation Stone of my belief and office was that there was only One God, and He was the God of the Hebrews. All other gods that were believed in, and worshiped by, a part of the Jews, and by the Gentiles, were false gods, and should not have obeisance made to them, or worshiped. Hence, when I appeared to Ahab and denounced the gods of Belial, I was performing, as I believed, the duties that my God had imposed upon me, and which were so necessary to cause the turning away of the people from their false beliefs, and worship to an acknowledgment of the One True God.
Well, there are many things related in these writings that never occurred. The one that is often referred to and accepted as proof of the superior power of my God over the god, Ba-Al, that is; the consuming by fire of the offerings at the altar by the power of God. After the priests had called upon their false god to answer their prayers, and he neglected to respond, never occurred. It is the result of the endeavor of some Jewish writer to demonstrate to his people, the wonderful power, activity, and closeness of that God to His prophets. Such an incident never took place. There are many other occurrences related to the powers that I possessed as the prophet of God, that never had any existence.
While I considered and believed myself to be a prophet of God, yet I never had any of the supernatural powers, nor were any such ever displayed by me, as recorded in the supposed history of my Life as a mortal.
There is one other instance to which I desire to refer. That is; my supposed ascension into heaven in a chariot of fire in the presence of Elisha. This is merely a tale. As I may say, well told, but it never had any existence in fact. I did not ascend in my physical body, nor did any other mortal that I have heard of. Not even the Master. For it would be against the Laws of God that such a thing should take place. He never violates His Laws, for the purpose of demonstrating to mortals His Power, or the greatness of any of His followers, or for any other purpose.
No, I died as other mortals died, and was buried as was necessary for me to be buried, having with one at the time of my death, friends and relatives. Since that time my physical body has never been resurrected, and never will be.
I ascended into the Spirit World in my spirit body. As has every other mortal at the time of the death of their physical body, since the World of human existence began. In the future, the spirits of humans will so continue to ascend, and their physical bodies go to the elements out of which they were composed.
It may be supposed, that because I was versed in the teachings of the religious laws of the Hebrews, and the precepts of the Decalogue, and believed myself to be a prophet, and especially delegated by God to denounce the sins and evils of the kings and people that had forsaken the beliefs and practices of their fathers, that I went into the Heaven of Perfection, and into the supreme happiness that the obedient child, when in Perfect Harmony with the Laws of God, would enter. Well, if I had been such child, I might have done so, but not being such, I went merely into the Spirit World, and found my place just where the condition of my soul, in its Harmony with God's Laws and His Truths, fitted me for, and determined that I should be placed.
The condition of soul determines the destiny of the spirit. No mere belief in self-righteousness, or the conviction that I, the individual, have been specially favored by God to do His Work, or that I am closer to God and deserving of His Special Mercy and Favor, or that a special dispensation is exercised in my behalf, can ever place me in different surroundings, or conditions, or degrees of happiness, from what the Actual Harmony of the qualities of my soul with the Laws of God, and the workings thereof, entitle me.
The Law of Fitness works invariably, and under all circumstances. The conditions and qualities of the soul in the Spirit World can never be hidden, nor counterfeited, then, is seen face to face. The Law, in its application and effect, never makes a mistake. So that the soul, not having the Fitness, cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven by crying, Lord, Lord, did I not prophecy in Thy name, etc.
Many of these stories of the Old Testament may be profitably used, to draw a moral, or adorn a tale. But when the question arises, as what shall determine the destiny of the human soul, then the Truth never changes. Only the Truth will decide the question. Only a Pure Perfect Soul can find its home in a Pure Perfect Heaven. Only a Divine Soul can find its home in a Divine Heaven. Which latter, is the home of the soul that possesses the Divine Essence of the Father, to that fullness, that the Created Qualities of the soul have disappeared, and been replaced by the Divine Substance.
So that, we may be prophets and preachers, wise in the intellectual knowledge of religious Truths, and saints on Earth, and apostles and disciples, and yet, not having the Purification of the soul, or the Divine Essence, we cannot enter the home, which the one, or the other, of these possessions will fit us for.
Let the prophets of Old, the sacrifices, the blood, and the vicarious atonement, rest in the memory of forgetfulness. Seek and obtain the inflowing of the Divine Love of the Father. Then the home of the soul will Truly and certainly be the Heavens Celestial, where only things Divine can exist.
Well, I have written enough for tonight. I hope that you will find my message both interesting and helpful.
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It is True, and you can believe that it is. In its Truth rests the certainty of what the destiny of your own soul may be.
I will come again very soon. So goodnight, your brother in Christ, Elias.
Old Testament Spirits
October 30th, 1918
I am here, Helen.
Well dear, you have been in two conditions of soul and mind tonight. The one; rather repellant and out of sympathy with us, which prevented us from writing you. The other; which you now have, congenial and in unison with us.
Your reading the prophecies of the old prophets did not have the effect of Awakening in your soul, those feelings and aspirations which were suitable to bring your soul in rapport with us. Largely, because those writings did not declare and display the True and Loving Father, whom we Know and Love. Our Father never had the feelings of wrath against His Children that are in those prophecies ascribed to him. The Jehovah of those prophets was of a very different type from the Father whom we Know and Love, and fear only in the sense that in some possible way we may violate the Laws of His Love.
Of course, as you know, the people of those times, prophets, priests, kings, and common people, never had, or knew of, His Divine Love. Their comprehension of god was one who required sacrifice and obedience to His Laws of right and justice, as they understood them. Undoubtedly their prophets were, to a degree, inspired by the spirits of the higher heavens, as they then existed, to warn, threaten and denounce, so that the people might be brought to a realization of their sins, and induced to a return to that Harmony with the Law that would enable them to become rid of their sins and evil doings. Considering their conception of god, the means used by the prophets were the ones necessary to bring about these results.
A consideration of these means, in comparison with The Way taught by the Master, that lead to the Celestial Heavens, will demonstrate the fact, that in those ancient days, neither prophet, priest, nor people, had any Knowledge of the Divine Love, and that the Privilege of these ancient people of obtaining the Divine Love was not in existence.
I, and the Higher Spirits, as they have declared, see no good that can possibly come to mortals of the present, from a reading and understanding of these books of the Old Testament. The moral commands contained in them were pronounced and emphasized by the Teachings of the Master, which needs no assistance from these old teachings in order that the Master's Teachings should have a sanctioning. As to the Higher Spiritual Divine Truths, these Old Testament scriptures contain nothing, which can possibly enlighten, or help human to acquire Knowledge of these Divine Truths.
So I advise you not to waste your time in reading these scriptures, but rather use all the time that remains to you, outside of the affairs of your practical life, to learn, study, and meditate upon the Divine Truths which have been revealed to you by the messages that you have received.
I would not, by what I have said, desire to be understood as depreciating the reading of these scriptures by people who have not the opportunity and privilege of hearing the Divine Truths that have been revealed to you. For in these scriptures are many Moral Truths, and illustrations, which may be of benefit to these people. Undoubtedly essential to them, in the particulars and under the circumstances mentioned. So my dear husband, continue to pray and believe.
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Well, I meant that these Truths are not necessary to be read by the people of the present day, for in the New Testament are found these Moral Truths. While not necessary, I would not advise that the people should absolutely fail to read the Old Testament. Because some may enjoy the reading of these Truths, as they are therein contained, and associated with the circumstances surrounding them. They may appeal to some people. If so, work a benefit. I again say that they are not necessary, but they may be helpful to some. The minds of all do not work alike.
Think of me in your prayers, and Love me. Goodnight, your own True and Loving, Helen.
Old Testament Spirits
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