PEACE ON EARTH

May 5th, 1917.

    I am here, Jesus.

    I come tonight to write, on the only way by which humans can reach the Kingdom of God.  Or, the way to the Perfect Human.

    This is a subject that many humans and teachers have endeavored to explain to humankind.  The ways described have been as varied and sometimes contradictory as the thoughts and education of these humans have differed.  All have sought to base their teachings and conclusions on the Bible.  I, of course, mean those who profess to be Christians.  As to other teachers and reformers, as they have been called, their teachings are based on the doctrines of the various sects to which they have belonged, or professed allegiance.  The Kingdom of God is more peculiarly a phrase that is found in and belongs to the Christian Bible and to some extent in the Hebrew scriptures.

    In considering the subject of this message it is first important to understand what is meant by the "Kingdom of God".  Some understand, or conceive it to be a kingdom on earth, in which the Will and Laws of God will be followed and obeyed by humans in the mortal life.  Others understand it to be that Kingdom of God, which exists and will continue to exist in Perfection in the spirit world.  Some few, that Kingdom which will find its home, or place of existence, in the Celestial Spheres.

    Now, the way to each of these kingdoms is not the same. Although, in pursuing the way to one, that the Celestial Kingdom, the way to the others, must necessarily be followed.  Or, in other words, they who follow the way to the Celestial Kingdom, pursues that course, which in its pursuit, will cause them to do those things and obey those Laws of God that are necessary to establish the Kingdoms on earth and in the spirit world.  But they who pursue only the way that leads to the establishment of the Kingdom on earth and in the spirit world, cannot possibly become an inhabitant of the Celestial Kingdom.

    The Kingdom of God on earth, or in the spirit world, may be obtained by human, or spirit, by obeying the Will of God, in those essentials that will work a purification of their natural love.  Cause that coming into Harmony with His Laws, which affect and control human, as mere human.  That is, that will restore human to the Condition of Perfection that existed before the fall of the First Parents.  Many of my teachings, when on earth, of which there are preserved a number in the Bible, were intended to instruct humans, into that way of life that would develop their Moral Qualities.  Free them from the taint and destructiveness of sin, in which they were then and are now living.  By the observance of my teachings and sincere obedience to these Moral Precepts, human will lose those things that belong to their appetites, passions, evil thoughts and desires, realize that in their places will come a purer love and more spiritual desires and thoughts, which lead to a cleansing of their heart and soul.  Which means a living and thinking in Harmony with the Will and Laws of God.  For God is All Good.  All His Laws require that human shall become good, in order that this Kingdom in the spirit world shall be established.

    Naturally, I mean according to their Creation, human is good.  Not the depraved creature, that for so many centuries, the teachings and doctrines of the church have declared them to be.  When they shall arrive at that state of goodness, that was theirs in the beginning, they will merely have rid themselves of those contaminating appetites, thoughts and desires, that made them the sinful and inharmonious being that they now are.

   So, from this, you will see that the work of human, in order to enable the Kingdom to become established on earth, is largely a work of renunciation.  This Truth was taught by prophets and teachers, prior to the time of my coming to earth and teaching the way to the Celestial Kingdom.  The same Truth applies to the spirits that shall make up and establish the Kingdom in the spirit world.

    In these Kingdoms, of the purification and regaining of the Perfected Natural Love, there will be nothing of the Divine Nature of the Father.  Except, as may be generally said, all the objects of His Creation, by reason of being such objects, may partake of the image of the Divine.  But this is not the Divine.  The Divine, in its True Sense, is that which partakes of the very Essence and Nature of God.  Not that which is merely the object of His Creation.

    Human, in body, soul and spirit body, is only a Creation of God.  As to the soul, an image of its Creator.  This Creation, was not made of any, the least part of the Essence, or Substance, of God.  This Creation can, if it so please the Father, in its composite and coordinated existence, be utterly destroyed.  Reduced to the elements of which it was Created, without in the smallest degree affecting the True Substance, or Nature of God.  So you will see, that in Truth, there is in, or of, human, nothing of the Divine.  Hence, when the Kingdom of God shall be established on earth, or in the spirit world, there will be therein, nothing of the Divine.  Only the existence of the Perfect Creatures, living and thinking, in Harmony with the Laws of God which control their Creation and Existence.

    So that the way in which these two Kingdoms of the non-divine can be established, is by human pursuing that course of thinking and living, that will enable them to renounce and get rid of those things foreign to their True Nature, which prevent them from coming again into the Exact Harmony with the Will of God, as expressed and made obligatory by the Law of Human's Creation.  The observance of the Moral Law, will enable humans to accomplish this end.  The love, with which humans were endowed, as the Perfect Human, enables them, as it becomes purified and more harmonious, to love God and to love their fellow-human as themself.  For this natural love, is one that in its Perfection and Nature is Universal.  In its exercise, every human is their neighbor's brother and sister.

    The progressive qualities of this love, which every human may obtain, are truly and wonderfully set forth by Peter in one of his epistles, as contained in the Bible (II Peter, Chapter 1, Verses 5, 6, 7).   If humans will seek these successive steps, in acquiring the purifying development of this love, they will obtain the great object sought for.  As I have written, the Bible contains many of my teachings, which if followed, will lead to this end.  Humans will realize the Kingdom of God, on earth.

    Here, let me correct one mistaken belief, or idea, that has so long prevailed among humankind.  Which, in its results, has delayed the coming of the Kingdom on earth.  The correction is:  That God by His mere fiat, or irrespective of the desires and workings of humans souls, will not establish this kingdom.  Its establishment depends upon humans themselves.  Until their loves become, and they become, in Harmony with God's Will, this Kingdom will never be established.

    I know that it is believed, taught and emphasized and humans place all their hopes and expectations of a heaven of bliss, on the statement, that I will at sometime come in the clouds of heaven with a great shout to earth and by the power which they believe exists in me, establish the Kingdom of God.  A kind of kingdom in which I will be the king, rule supreme and receive as my subjects those who believe in and worship me and send those who do not into eternal damnation and outer darkness.  Well, this is pitiable, untrue and all erroneous.  This Kingdom will never be established in this way.  For only humans, themselves, can call into existence this Kingdom.  Only by becoming the Pure Perfect Human, that existed when God's Earthly Kingdom had at Humans Creation its existence.  Human alone brought sin into the world.  Humans, must themselves destroy sin.  Then Harmony with the Father's Will, will be restored.  Also this Kingdom.

    From what I have written, it must not for a moment, or in the slightest degree, be inferred even, that God is not taking and will not take any part in the Re-establishment of this Kingdom.  For it is a fact, that He is working through His Angels, upon the souls and thoughts of humans, to bring this Kingdom on Earth.  He will not force its establishment. It must come voluntarily on the part of humans.

    When He Created Human, He gave them a free will.  The most wonderful of the natural gifts to human.  He will not, by the exercise of His Power, arbitrarily control the direction of that will.  As to it, leaves human supreme.  Of course while this is so, yet, if human, in such exercise contravenes the Laws of God, human must suffer the consequences.  For He never changes, or sets aside His Laws.  Humans may exercise their free will as they desire, as their thoughts and appetites may influence them to do. But the freedom of exercise, does not prevent the imposition of the penalties, that the Laws prescribe when they are violated.  Thus you see there is freedom without limitation.  But every inharmonious exercise of that freedom, must invite the infliction of that, which necessarily follows the violation of Harmony.

    God wants and is patiently waiting for the love of human. Is always the Loving Father, who delights not in the suffering of His Creatures.  For He wants their love to come voluntarily.  Without constraint, or fear of punishment, or hope of reward.  Except that reward which must necessarily follow the blending of God's Love and the love of human.

    Then, I say, the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, is not the Divine Kingdom.  Has not in it, that which is necessarily Divine.  Except the Love of God to His Creatures, to bless and make them happy.  His Essence and Substance are not conferred upon them.  For if they were, humans would not remain in the Kingdom of Earth, but would, to a degree, be in the Celestial Heavens, even while on earth.  As I know some humans, while still mortals, are in this Divine Heaven.

    Now, what I have said with reference to the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, applies with equal Truth to the Kingdom of God in the spirit world.  For there, the inhabitants are merely the spirits of humans, after they have surrendered their physical bodies.  Become purified in their natural love. In Harmony with the Will and Laws of God, controlling their existence as Perfect Humans.

    While the Kingdom of God has not yet been established on earth, it has been in the spirit world.  For in the highest sphere of that world, the souls of humans, have become purified and Harmony has been restored.  The souls of humans, enjoy the supreme happiness, that was bestowed upon them at the time of their First Creation, which God pronounced Very Good.  Sometime you will have described to you the bliss and wonderful happiness of that Kingdom.  I will not say that this is beyond all conception of humans.  Was established, not by the mere Power and Will of God, but by the exercise of the will of humans, after they became spirits, in renouncing evil and sin.  Having their thoughts, desires and soul in its natural love, purified and made Harmonious.  Here I must say, that all humans who have ever lived, or who shall ever live, will, at sometime, live in this Kingdom of God in the spirit world, or in the Kingdom of the Celestial Spheres.  But the large majority will find their homes in the former kingdom.  The hells and dark places will be emptied of their inhabitants and abolished forever.  Surprising, as it may seem to mortals, not by the fiat of God, but the exercise of humans will, desires and longings, for the attainment of the purification of their love.  By their reaching the goal of their aspirations.  God will be with them in their efforts.  His Angels will do His Will, in helping mortals and spirits along this way to the Spiritual Kingdom.

    Then how important it is, that mortals should understand and realize the great work that they must do, in establishing the Kingdom on Earth and the Kingdom in the Spirit World.  Not rest supinely in the mere intellectual belief, that God will in His own way and at His own time, establish this Kingdom.  That, they who believe in God, observe the creeds and doctrines of their churches, perform their duties as church members, will become inhabitants of that kingdom and in a moment become pure and undefiled, in Harmony with the Will of God and His Laws.  It is a very harmful belief.  Because the only way to this Kingdom is the way of renunciation and purification.  All the beliefs ever possessed by humans, that do not lead to this purification of humans souls, will not lead to this Kingdom.  Humans, with the Help of the Father, must hew their own destiny. The Father, without the effort of humans, will not make for them a destiny, that their condition of soul and love do not entitle them to.

    There is a Kingdom, greater, different and unlike these Kingdoms of which I have been writing.  That is the Celestial Kingdom of God.  Only those, who receive of the Divine Essence, can become inhabitants of this Kingdom. The souls of humans, must become transformed into the very Nature Divine of God.  The natural love of humans, be changed in all its qualities and elements, into the Divine Love of the Father.

    I have written that many of my Moral Teachings are recorded in the Bible.  That I came, or rather my acceptance by the Father, as His Beloved Son and the reception into my soul, of His Divine Love, qualified me to teach the way to the several kingdoms.  As was said in that book, "what was lost by the disobedience of the First Humans, was restored by the coming of the second".  That only means, that by reason of the Knowledge that came to me, of Truth and of the Laws of Harmony that govern God's Universe, I was enabled to teach humans the way to a return to the purity and development of their souls, in natural love that existed before the Great Loss caused by the disobedience of the First Humans.  I was not to bring about this restoration by any great power, or godlike qualities of omniscience, that I might be supposed to possess.  Merely by teaching humans to love God and their brothers and sisters.  To pursue that course of living and thinking, that would necessarily enable them to renounce sin and evil, come into a state of Harmony with the Laws of Their Creation.  Now, while I taught these Moral Truths, I also taught the Great Spiritual Truths, that show humans the way to the Celestial Kingdom.  For in my communions with the Father, there came to me, not only the Divine Love, which transformed my soul into the substance of the Father in its Love Qualities, but also the Knowledge by which this Divine Love might be acquired.  The certain way to the Celestial Kingdom, even though to a degree while in the flesh.

    My spiritual teachings, that show the way to the Celestial Kingdom, were not so well understood by my hearers.  Not even by my intimate disciples.  More so by John.   Consequently, were not preserved in the Bible, as were my moral teachings.  As to the Bible, I mean the original manuscripts, were not written until many years after my death.  Even in these manuscripts, not many of my teachings, as to the way that leads to this Celestial Kingdom, were contained.  Afterwards, when these manuscripts were copied, the copies recopied, these Important Truths were not preserved, scarcely any.  Though the fundamental ones, namely:  God is Love and except a human be born again they cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, were retained.  As time went by and the recopying continued, fewer and fewer of my precepts were preserved.  Humans came to know less and less of these Higher Truths.  Consequently, the mere Moral Teachings, became better understood.  Were used by the teachers and instructors of the masses, to lead humans to a Kingdom of God.

    In addition to this, these leaders changed even these Moral Truths, the interpretations of the early writers, in such a way as to enable these leaders to attain to wealth, power and control over the common people, in their beliefs and observances of worship.  The God of Love, then, to a large extent, became a God of hatred and wrath.  Inflicting punishment upon those who dared to disobey those injunctions, that the hierarchy of the church placed upon them, as the demands and will of God.  These matters have been written upon more fully elsewhere.  I will not further enlarge upon them.  I will now disclose the True Way, that leads to the Kingdom of God in the Celestial Heavens.

    Well, we have written a long time tonight.  I think it best to postpone my further writing till later.  I must say this though, that I am pleased that you are in so much better condition.  I feel that now we can proceed more rapidly with our messages.  Remember this, that my promises will be fulfilled.  You must have Faith.  I am with you very often and love you as you know.  Will continue to pray to the Father for you.  So trust me and be assured that I am helping you in your desire.

Good-night and God bless you.  Your brother and friend, Jesus.

October 1st, 1916 

I am here, Saint John.

    I come to-night to write a few Truths, upon the subject of the preacher's sermon.  As I was present with you, heard his declarations as to the end of the world. 

    I know that among humans, there are and have been, since the time of the Master, differences in opinion as to when this important event is to take place and as to the meaning of the end of the world. 

    Well, humans know just about as much now, as to the time of this event, as they have known all down the centuries.  Understand the meaning of these prophecies as well as did humans from my day down to the present. 

    In the first place, I will say, there will be no end of the world from any of the causes mentioned by the preacher.  In the next place, there will be no end of the world at all, as understood and declared by the orthodox preachers, as is expected by most of the professing Christians.  The world, meaning the earth, will not have an end in the sense of annihilation.  It will continue to revolve on its axis.  To have seed time and harvest, produce and reproduce those things that are necessary to sustain human life.  Have its appropriate seasons of heat and cold.  Move along in its orbit as it now does, until some change, we know not of now, may come and destroy it.  Such change, not any of the prophecies of the Bible, admitting that there are prophecies, can apply to the end of the world, in the sense that the preacher understood and declared. 

    If humanity would only understand, that the world that was lost by the disobedience of the First Parents, was the world of human's Immortality and Happiness.  Not the physical world.  That Jesus came to declare the restoration of that world upon condition.  The end of that restoration, then would they know, that the material world is not involved in the Plan of Humans Salvation, or in Jesus' mission, or in the declarations of Jesus, as to the coming of the end. 

    Humans will continue to be born, live a short time and die the physical death.  As to each individual human, the end of the material world comes when they die.  For thereafter, their habitation will be in the spirit world.  Never more will they have life on earth.  All humans, at some time, will have to die the physical death.  Then why should it be necessary to include, in the Plan of God for the Salvation of Humans, the destruction of the material world? For planets, worlds and stars to crash together and destroy, would mean that the orderly workings of God's Laws must be interfered with, in order that humans might be destroyed, or saved, according as they might be snatched up into the air, or left to their own weakness on earth. 

    Such interpretations of God's Intentions, or Plans, or of Jesus coming again to earth, is all wrong and absurd.  Jesus will never come to establish his kingdom on earth and reign as Prince of Peace and lord of lords.  For the Kingdom which he and all his followers, both on earth and in the spirit world, are seeking to establish, is in the Celestial Heavens.  It is the Kingdom of God.  Not made with hands, or by the mere fiat of any spirit, no matter how high he may be.  But made and populated by the souls of humans, who have experienced the New Birth and received the Divine Essence of the Father.  Of this Kingdom, Jesus is the Prince.  Only because of his great and exceeding possession of the Divine Love of the Father, his more perfect At-Onement. 

    Jesus is not seeking to establish a Kingdom on earth, but is working for the purpose of leading humans to the New Birth of the spirit.  Of showing them the way to the Celestial Kingdom.  Also, is he working to help humans, by his love and suggestions, so also the other good spirits, to cast sin and error from their hearts and strive to regain the condition of Perfect Humanhood, in the Perfection of their natural love.  Also to help humans to get in this condition of soul regeneration, or in that of the purification of their natural love, while they yet live on earth.  So that, love to God in the Divine Sense and love to God in the Created sense, and brotherly love will cover the whole earth and humans be at peace and happy while yet clothed in the flesh.  Such a condition of mortal existence may be called the Kingdom of God on earth.  It will not be the Kingdom which Jesus came to earth to establish, that is, the Kingdom of Heaven.  This Kingdom has its seat and abiding place in the Celestial Spheres, whence it will never be removed. 

    So then, when the Bible teaches of the world coming to an end and passing away, it does not mean the material world.  But the world of humans thoughts, deeds and sinful conditions, that are not in Harmony with God's Laws, or the Laws of His Creation.  This is the world that shall be destroyed.  When righteousness shall cover the earth as the waters do the deep.  Brotherly love reign among humans. Even today, there are some humans living on the earth, who are so separated from the world, that as to them, the world has no existence.  Not the material world, but the world of sin and unrighteousness, which is the only world to be destroyed. 

    There shall be wars and rumors of wars.  Times of trouble, etc., such as never were.  Then shall come the end. Not the wars of the cannons' roars, or the bursting shells, or the mutilated flesh, or the making of widows and orphans, or the ruthless changing of mortals into spirits.  But the wars of the spirits of good and evil, of love and hate, of purity and sin, of joy and despair, of Knowledge of Truth and belief in error.  All to be fought in the souls of humans. With such intensity and earnestness, creating such mind and spirit trouble, as never has been.  Causing rumors thereof, to flood the earth and the habitations of humans.  Then shall come the end of the world.  The world of evil, sin, despair, hatred and belief in error.  This world shall pass away.  Truth, love, peace and good will shall be established on the earth forever.  The earth of this present day, then becoming to humans so peaceful and filled with love and brotherly kindness, that to them it will seem as if the City of God had been let down from heaven on to earth. 

    Let mortals know that Jesus has already come to earth and is among humans.  That since the time of his becoming the Prince of the Celestial Kingdom, he has been with humans and spirits, teaching them The Way, The Truth and The Life.  By the Holy Spirit have the Truths of the Father spoken to humans as a still small voice.  By the communions of souls, has the Master led humans, to the Divine Love and Mercy of The Father.  As in my time, when he came to the Jews with his message of Divine Love and Life Eternal, they knew him not and rejected him.  So now, many humans and spirits too, refuse to listen to him and learn the way, through the straight gate to The Father's Divine Love and Immortality. 

    Let humans study the prophecies, the times, the seasons and calculate the time of the end.  Predict the near approach of the Master's coming in the clouds.  Prepare themselves to be snatched up in the air and become of the heavenly hosts.  Yet, they will find that all these things are vanities of vanities.  Only as each individual passes beyond the veil of flesh, will they realize the end of their mortal world has come.  Then, will all their speculations, as to themselves become realities.  The certainty of the world's end become an established fact.  Humans will continue to live on earth and die.  In succession others be born to die, and so on, until.... only God Knows.  So I say to humans, prepare not for the passing away of the heavens and the earth, but for the passing of themselves from the earth to the Great World of Spirits.  Remember, that as they sow, so shall they reap.  A certainty that is never changed.  A Truth that no speculation can make untrue.  The end of humans world comes each day to some mortal.  That end may lead to a Glorious Immortality, or to a temporary, or a long darkness and suffering.  Thus are the prophecies being fulfilled.  The speculations of preachers, teachers and leaders of the unthinking, are robbing humans of the Vital Truth, that the end of the world is coming each moment, day and year. 

    Oh preacher, teacher and leader, your responsibility is great.  The accounting must be made.  The reaping must follow the sowing, as certainly as the day follows the night.  What will your harvest be?  The end of the world for some mortal is the important now! 

    I have written enough for to-night as you are tired.  So believe that I love you and am praying, for the Father to bless you.  To so fill your soul with His Divine Love, that when the world comes to an end for you, you shall find the Kingdom of Heaven waiting to receive you. 

Good-night.  Your brother in Christ, John