ORIGINAL SIN A DAMABLE LIE

April 27th, 1916

I am here, Luke.

    I have not written you for some time and desire to write a short message tonight on the subject of:  What is necessary for a human to do, to recover the purity of soul and love, that was possessed by the First Parents?  I mean as a human possessing the natural love only.

    Well, in the first place, they should realize that they are a Perfect Creature of God.  That their sins and diseases are merely the results of their own thoughts.  Of qualities that have come to them, down the long ages of their ancestors living on earth.  They need not suppose that these sins and desires are inherent in, or a part of, their Creation.  For they are not.  Merely accretions, that fastened themselves upon them, by reason of the thoughts they have had.  The resultant course of life they have led.  When they change these thoughts, which will necessarily bring about a change in their manner of living, they will find that they can progress toward the Condition of the Perfect Human.

    I know that many of these thoughts are so deep seated, that they seem almost a part of their very nature, can only be eradicated by the death of their physical body.  This is not True.  For humans, even while in the full vigor of their humanhood, possessed with all the appetites and desires, which arise from the perverted indulgence of these desires, either on the part of themself, or on the part of those from whom they are said to have inherited them, may relieve themself from these desires.  Become a human, having only the thoughts of good and desires for those things which are in Harmony with the Nature of their Perfect Creation.

    This I know, seems to human, a thing impossible.  So thinking, they do not try to accomplish, what I say they may accomplish.  To become free from these sins and unnatural appetites.  The almost universal belief in "Original Sin", has caused humans, all along the ages, to think that such a task is hopeless.  That they are thinking and acting only in accordance with the appetites and desires that God has implanted in their natures.  That so long as they indulge these thoughts and desires in a moderate, or respectable way, they are not doing that which is contrary to God's will, or to their own nature.  This "Doctrine of Original Sin" is a mocking, damnable lie.  The sooner human realizes the fact, that it is a fraud and deceit, the sooner they will be able to get rid of those things, which have placed them in their present condition.  Held them there bound, as it were, hand and foot.  This supine submission to this old and ever recurring belief, is the great thing that prevents human from starting to progress towards the attainment of that condition, which is purity, health and the Perfect Human.

    Human must decline and no longer submit to this belief. Which, I am sorry to say, is fostered by the teachings of the orthodox churches, in order to sustain and make forcible their creeds and dogmas, to show to human that they are not to be considered worthy of the Mercy of The Father.  Cannot possibly obtain that Mercy and be relieved from the great wrath and punishment that God has prepared for them, unless they believe and acknowledge that they are a dependent and lost human, unworthy of The Father's favor.  Or, the help of the instrumentalities which the Father uses to assist humans in regaining their Lost Estate.

    If humans would only think, in thinking, realize that they are Dear Children of The Father, His Highest Creation.  That He prizes them above all His Creatures.  Wants them to know that they are beings of such wonderful qualities and possibilities, they would then have come to them, an overpowering and convincing sense of what they really are.  Of how necessary it is for them to assert their rights as such Exalted Creatures of The Father.  Would realize that they are masters of sin and disease, for they are the creators of the same.  When they shall assume such position and become possessed of such Knowledge, they will find that they have a wonderful power, as Creatures of The Father, they will realize that they are masters of sin, that must be gotten rid of.

    Let humans, for a moment think again, and thinking know that God does not desire His Greatest Creature to become, or be, less than the Perfect Being that He Created. He is not flattered, nor does He have any pleasure, in the thought that human is degraded and fallen from their Perfect Creation.  That in order to rise again, they, human, must believe that God may show His Power in rescuing them from their low and hopeless condition.  No, God is not pleased by human assuming such an attitude.  Nor does He need any such helpless condition of human, that He may show His Power, or gratify, what the teachings of these orthodox imply, His vanity, which He has not.

    In this particular human must work out their own salvation.  It will be a difficult task, so long as they continue to believe and act upon that belief, that they are a creature of "original sin".  That as God, in the beginning failed to make them the perfect human, so now, only God can remedy what He failed to provide in His Creation and that humans of themselves can do nothing.  That all they have to do, is to wait until God is pleased to recreate them and thereby take from their very nature this great curse of the "original sin".  See the great fatality of such belief.  How it tends to make human a slave of and obedient to, this false belief, in this blight of "original sin".

   God gave to humans, in their Creation, the great power of will.  The right to its unlimited exercise.  Subject only to the penalties of a wrongful exercise.  By the exercise of that will, humans created sin and disease.  Became depraved and fallen.  The possessor of false beliefs as to the Perfection of their Nature.  By the exercise of that will, humans, themselves, must redeem themselves from this condition of depravity and false belief.  Again, become the Perfect Human, God's Wholly Perfect Creation.  As humans were, in the beginning, the Perfect Child of God, by their own will's, created their own and only devil, so must they, by this same power, kill this devil.  Again become the Perfect Child.  They must believe, declare and show the sincerity of their beliefs, by their acts and living, that they are a Perfect Child of The Father, needing no new creation.

    This I have written to show what humans were in the beginning and what they really and truly are now, although, covered with sin, disease and false beliefs.

    To recover this Lost Estate, or, better, condition, they will find that by searching for, learning, and acting upon many of the Moral Precepts of the Bible and of other so called sacred writings, they will be greatly helped and strengthened in their efforts.  Above all, let them understand and believe, with the certainty of Knowledge, that they are God's Highest and Most Perfect Creation.

    Now, from what I have said, it must not be inferred that humans are their own God and has not and needs not any Tender, Loving Father, who is interested in them.  Always ready to help them whenever they earnestly and in sincerity ask the help of that Father.  Always is human dependent upon God!  That dependence is not recognized by God, unless human first recognizes it, by their longings and thoughts, shows to The Father that they need His Help.

    This may seem unbelievable, but humans were created so independent in their great will power, as regards the dualities of thought and desire, both spiritual and material, that God never interferes to compel.  The Principle involved in "WHOSOEVER WILL" must be exercised by human before the Father will intervene.  When it is exercised, He does intervene.  Never refuses, or fails, to answer the call of the sincere cry of human for help.

    God does help human in their recovery, from the state of false beliefs and degradation, that I have mentioned.  His Love overshadows humans.  His instrumentalities are always ready and waiting to answer the call upon Him for His Help, in assisting them out of their condition of sin, disease and false beliefs.  For, as I have elsewhere written you, in God's Universe there must be Perfect Harmony.  The present human, so far as their own creation of inharmony is concerned, is not in that Harmony.  Ultimately, humans, all humans, will become again the Perfect Human.

    Of course, you will understand that what I have written does not apply to the Redeemed Children of God, who receive the New Birth, become partakers of the Divine Nature of The Father.  For in their case, the Perfect Human, is absorbed in the Divine Angel.

    I have written longer than I intended, but as the theme is an interesting as well as important one, I thought it best to write just as I have.  I will now say good night and leave with you my love and blessings.  Your brother in Christ, Luke

March 13th, 1919.

I am here, Abraham Lincoln.

    Let me write a few lines tonight as you are in good condition to receive my message.

    Well, I see that you have been thinking a great deal about spiritual things.  Have longed for the Divine Love of the Father.  By such thoughts and longings, you have come unto a condition that enables the spirits to make a rapport with you.

    Tonight, I desire to write for a short time on the subject of:  How important it is for humans to learn the Truths of God, in reference to the Plan which He has prescribed for human's salvation, and their coming into Harmony with the Laws that govern them as the Created Human.

    As you have been told, in the beginning human was Created Perfect.  In all the constituent parts of their being, made in Harmony with God's Laws controlling human as a Perfect Creature.  If they had never disobeyed the Precepts of the Father, they would have always remained the Perfect Human.

    Now this condition of human is a fundamental one.  The soul is, in itself, just as capable of that Perfection, as it was when Created.  Only by the sin of disobedience was it alienated from God, made the possessor of those things which tend to contaminate it, and cause its Pure Condition to be overshadowed and dormant, as to this Perfection.

    All of God's Universe is Perfect.  Subject to the workings of His Perfect Laws.  When that condition exists which shows that some one, or other, of His Creatures are not working, or being, in Harmony with these Laws, it only means that in order for the restoration to the Harmonious Existence, human must renounce and get rid of these foreign things, that have the effect of interfering with the Harmony of His Creation.

    There is no such thing as total depravity or "original sin".  Or, the existence of any condition of the soul, in this sin, that cannot be remedied by the application of the proper treatment and the removal of the incubus.  Humans, in order to become Perfect again, as they were before the fall, are not required to be recreated.  Or, have imposed upon them, that which will make them a new, or different, being from what they were in the beginning.  The Perfect Human is still in existence.  But is hidden from the sight and consciousness of humans.  Needs only their revealment, by eliminating from them, the covering which now hides their Real Self (the Perfect Soul).  Nothing new is needed.  Only the riddance of the soul, from those things which do not belong to it.  Then the soul will appear just as it was Created.  A Perfect Soul, made in the image of God, but not formed from any portion of the Great Oversoul of the Father.

    For a long time now human has remained in this condition, of having their soul covered over by those things that are merely the results of the perversion of their appetites, the animal part of their nature.  It is only by a process of renunciation, that these encumbrances can be gotten rid of and human stand forth a Free and Glorious Being, as they were before the burden of sin came upon them.  In this process they need no one to pay any supposed debt to the Father, or to make an atonement for them.  But they must themselves, by their course of thinking and consequent doing, remove the things that cause them to appear to themselves and to others, the outcast from God's Favor.  In order to accomplish this, they must first renounce the idea that they are a vile being and not worthy of the Favor of the Father.  Assert their belief that they, as the human, are the Perfect Creature of God.  Can of themselves, regain the estate from which they have fallen, and let sin and error be removed from their present, apparent, existence.  In doing this they will be helped by the spirits of humans, who from their own experience, know that sin and error has no real existence in the economy of God, but in the living of human on earth, and in the spirit world as well, have a reality that has prevented humans from finding their True Selves.

    The renunciation is not so much a matter of the intellect, as it is of the Moral Nature of human.  They, while they must use their mind and its attributes, in working out this renunciation, yet must try earnestly and certainly use the moral faculties of their Nature.  For the perversions of these faculties are the foundation of their present condition of sin and error.  This renunciation may take a long time to be accomplished, as humans look upon time, but it will finally come to pass.  The Harmony of God's Universe will be restored.  In the meantime, humans will suffer.  For this renunciation is always accompanied by suffering.  Not so much as a necessary ingredient, or penalty, of the renunciation, but as a consequence of the changing of humans wills and desires, in the process of reaching again the condition of the Perfect Human.

    I will stop now, as the rapport has ceased, but will come again.  Good night, I am your friend and well wisher.

(Abraham) Lincoln