WHAT IS THE SOUL

March 2nd, 1917

I am here, Jesus.

    I come tonight to write my message on the soul.  Will do so, if we can establish the necessary rapport.

    Well, the subject is of vast importance and difficult of explanation.  For there is nothing on earth, known to humans, with which a comparison may be made.  Generally humans cannot understand Truth, or the nature of things, except by comparison with what they already know to exist and with whose qualities and characteristics they are acquainted.  There is nothing in the material world that will afford a basis of comparison with the soul.  Hence, it is difficult for humans to comprehend the nature and qualities of the soul, by the mere intellectual perceptions and reason. In order to understand the nature of this Great Creation, the soul, humans must have something of a spiritual (soul) development.  The possession of, what may be known as, the soul perceptions.  Only soul can understand soul.  The soul that seeks to comprehend the nature of itself, must be a live soul.  With its faculties (soul perceptions) developed to a small degree, at least.

    First, I will say, that the human soul must be a Creature of God, not emanation from Him, as a part of His Soul. When humans speak and teach that the human soul is a part of the Over-Soul, they teach what is not True.  This soul is merely a Creature of the Father.  Just as are the other parts of humans; such as the intellect, the spirit body and the material body.  Which before its Creation had no existence.  It has not existed from the beginning of eternity, if you can imagine that eternity ever had a beginning.  I mean that there was a time when the human soul had no existence.  Whether there will ever come a time when any human soul will cease to have an existence, I do not know, nor does any spirit.  Only God knows that fact.  This I do know, that whenever the human soul partakes of the Essence of the Father, thereby, becomes Divine itself, the possessor of His Substance of Divine Love, that soul, realizes to a certainty that it is Immortal and can never again become less than Immortal, as God is Immortal.  The soul that has been transformed into the Substance of the Father becomes Immortal.  Never again can the decree, "dying thou shalt die" be pronounced upon it.

    As I said, there was a period in eternity when the human soul did not exist and was Created by the Father.  When it was made, the Highest and Most Perfect of all God's Creations, to such an extent that it was made in His image. The only one, or thing, of All His Creations, that was made in His image.  The only part of humans that was made in His image.

    For the soul is the human.  All their attributes and qualities, such as their intellect, spirit body, material body, appetites and passions, are merely appendages, or means of manifestation given to that soul.  To be its companions while passing through its existence on earth.  Also, qualifiedly, while living in eternity.  I mean some of the appendages will accompany the soul in its existence in the spirit world, whether that existence be for all eternity or not.

    This soul, great and wonderful as it is, was Created in the mere image and likeness of God.  Not in, or of, His Substance or Essence, The Divine of the Universe.  It, the soul, may cease to exist without any part of the Divine Nature, or Substance, of the Father being lessened, or in any way affected.  Hence, when humans teach, or believe, that human, or the soul of human, is Divine, or has any of the qualities, or Substance of the Divine, such teaching and belief are erroneous.  Human is only and merely the Created Human.  The mere likeness, but no part of the Father, or of His Substance and Qualities.

    While the soul of human is of the highest order of Creation, their attributes and qualities correspond.  Yet they are no more Divine, in essential constituents, than are the lower objects of Creation.  They each being a Creation and not an emanation of their Creator.  True it is that the soul of human is of a higher order of Creation than any other Created things.  Is the only Creature, made in the image of God.  Was made the Perfect Human.  Yet human, the soul, can never become anything different, or greater, than the Perfect Human, unless they receive and possess the Divine Essence and Qualities of the Father.  Which they did not possess at their Creation.  Although, most wonderful gift with their Creation, God bestowed upon them the privilege of receiving this Great Substance of the Divine Nature.  Thereby, become Divine themselves.  The Perfectly Created Human could become the Divine Angel, if they, the human, so willed it and obeyed the commands of the Father.  Pursued the way provided by the Father, for obtaining and possessing that Divinity.

    As I have said, the souls, the human souls, for the indwelling of which God provided material bodies, that they might live mortal lives, were Created, just as subsequently these material bodies were Created.  This Creation of the soul took place long before the appearance of human on earth as a mortal.  The soul, prior to such appearance, had its existence in the spirit world, as a substantial conscious entity, although without visible form.  And I may say, individuality.  Yet, having a distinct personality, so that it was different and distinct from every other soul.  Its existence and presence could be sensed by every other soul that came in contact with it, yet to the spirit vision of the other soul, it was not visible.  Such is the fact now.  The spirit world is filled with these unincarnated souls, awaiting the time of their incarnation.  We spirits know of and sense their presence, yet with our spirit eyes we cannot see them. Not until they become dwellers in the human form, in the spirit body that inhabits that form, can we see the individual soul.

    The fact that I have just stated, illustrates, in a way, describes the Being of Him, in whose image these souls are Created.  We know and can sense the Existence and Presence of the Father.  Yet, even with our spiritual eyes we cannot see Him.  Only when we have our soul developed by the Divine Essence of His Love, can we perceive Him with our soul perception.  Because you have not words in your language to convey its meaning, and nothing in Created nature, of which you have knowledge of, in which a comparison can be made.  But it is a Truth.  For the vision of the soul perception, to its possessor, is just as real, as I may say, objective, as is the vision of the mortal sight to the mortal.

    It may be asked, in considering this matter of the Creation of the soul; "were all souls that have been incarnated, or that are awaiting incarnation, Created at the same time, or is that Creation still going on?"  I do know that the spirit world contains many souls, such as I have described, awaiting their temporary homes and the assumption of individuality in the human form.  As to whether that Creation has ended and at sometime the reproduction of humans, for the embodying of these souls will cease, I do not know.  The Father has never revealed it to me, or to the others of His Angels who are close to Him in His Divinity and Substance.  The Father has not revealed to me all the Truths and the workings and objects of His Creative Laws.  Neither has He given to me all Power, Wisdom and Omniscence, as some may find justification for believing, in certain of the statements of the Bible.  I am a progressive spirit.  As I grew in Love, Knowledge and Wisdom when on earth, I am still growing in these qualities. The Love and Mercy of the Father come to me, with the assurance, that never in all eternity will I cease to progress towards the very Fountainhead of these Attributes of Him, the Only God, the All in All.

    As I was saying, the soul of human, is the human.  Before, while in the mortal existence and ever after in the spirit world.  All other parts of human, such as the mind, body and spirit are mere attributes.  Which may be dissevered from them as the soul progresses in its development toward its destiny, of either the Perfect Human, or the Divine Angel.  In the latter progression humans may not know it, but it is a Truth, that the mind, that is, the mind as known to humankind, becomes as it were, non-existent.  This mind, as some say the carnal mind, becomes displaced and replaced by the mind of the transformed soul, which is in Substance and Quality, to a degree, the Mind of Deity, Itself.

    Many theologians, philosophers and metaphysicians believe and teach that the soul, spirit and mind are substantially one and the same thing.  That anyone of them may be said to be the human, the ego.  That in the spirit world one, or the other of these entities, is that which persists.  Determines, in its development, or want of development, the condition, or state, of human after death. This conception of these parts of human are erroneous.  They each have a distinct and separate existence and functioning, whether human be a mortal, or spirit.

    The mind, in its qualities and operations, is very well known to humans.  Because of its varied manifestations, and being that part of human, which is more of the nature of the material, has been the subject of greater research and study than has been the soul, or the spirit.

    While humans have, during all the centuries, speculated upon and attempted to define the soul, its qualities and attributes, yet to them it has been intransitive and impossible of comprehension by the intellect.  Which is the only instrumentality that humans generally possess to search for the Great Truth of the soul.  Hence, the question, of what is the soul, has never been satisfactorily, or authoritatively answered.  Though to some of these searchers, when inspiration may have shed a faint light upon them, some glimpse of what the soul is has come to them.  Yet, to most humans who have sought to solve the problem, the soul, spirit and mind are substantially the same thing.

    The soul, as concerning human, is a thing of itself, alone.  A substance real, though invisible to mortals.  The discerner and portrayer of humans moral and spiritual condition.  Never dying, so far as known.  The real ego of the human.  In it are centered the Love Principle, the affections, the appetites and the passions.  The possibilities of receiving, possessing and assimilating those things, that will either elevate human to the state, or condition, of the Divine Angel, or, the Perfect Human.  Or, lower them to the condition that fits them for the hells of darkness and suffering.

    The soul is subject to the will of human.  Which is the greatest of all endowments that were bestowed upon them by their Maker at their Creation.  Is the certain index of the workings of that will, either in thought, or action.  In the soul, qualities of love, affection, appetites and passions are influenced by the power of the will, either for good or evil. It may be dormant and stagnate, or it may be active and progress.  So its energies, may be ruled by the will for good or evil.  These energies belong to it and are no part of the will.  The soul's home is in the spirit body.  Whether that spirit body is encased in the mortal, or not, it is never without such spirit body.  Which in appearance and composition is determined by the condition and state of the soul.  Finally, the soul, or its condition, decides the destiny of human as they continue in their existence in the spirit world.  Not a final destiny, because the condition of the soul is never fixed.  As this condition changes, humans destiny changes.  For destiny is the thing of the moment.  Finality is not known to the progress of the soul, until it becomes the Perfect Human.  Is then satisfied and seeks no higher progress.

    Now, in your common language and also in your theological and philosophical terms, mortals who have passed to spirit life are said to be spirits.  In a certain sense this is true.  Such mortals (spirits) are not nebulous, unformed and invisible existences.  They have a reality of substance, more real and enduring, than has human as a mortal.  Are in form and features visible, subject to touch and the object of the spiritual senses.  So when humans speak of soul, spirit and body, if they understood the Truth of the terms, they would say, soul, spirit-body and material body.

    There is a spirit, but it is altogether distinct and different from the spirit body, also from the soul.  It is not part of the spirit body, but is an attribute of the soul.  Exclusively and without the soul, it could not exist.  It has no substance as has the soul.  It is not visible to even the spirit vision.  Only the effect of its workings can be seen, or understood.   It is without body, form, or substance.  Yet it is real and powerful.  When existing, never ceasing in its operations.  Is an attribute of all souls.  Then what is the spirit?  Simply this, the active energy of the soul.  As I have said, the soul has its energy, which may be dormant, or which may be active.  If dormant, the spirit is not in existence.  If active, the spirit is present and manifests that energy in action.  So to confuse the spirit with the soul, as being identical, leads to error and away from the Truth.

    It is said that God is Spirit.  Which in a sense is True.  For Spirit is a part of His Great Soul Qualities.  Which He uses to Manifest His Presence in the Universe.  To say that Spirit is God, is not stating the Truth, unless you are willing to accept as true, the proposition that a part is the whole.  In the Divine Economy, God is all of Spirit, but Spirit is only the Messenger of God, by which, He manifests the Energies of His Great Soul.

    So with human.  Spirit is not human-soul, but human-soul is spirit, as it is the instrumentality by which the soul of human makes known its energies, powers and presence.

    Well, I have written enough for to-night, but sometime I will come and simplify this subject.  Remember this, that Soul is God, soul is human.  All manifestations, such as spirit and spirit body are merely evidences of the existence of the soul, the real human.

    I have been with you as I promised.  I know that Father will bless you.  So with my love and blessing, I will say good-night.  Your brother and friend, Jesus

Angelic Revelations of Divine Truth, Vol. I, pg. 193

February 15th, 1920.

I am here, Jesus.

    I am here as I promised last night and will write on the subject of the Incarnate Soul.

    You may have observed in your studies of the different theories of the Creation of Humans, that always the question has arisen, as to the relationship of the spiritual and physical.  That is, as to the soul and the material body.  I know that many theories have been set forth, as to how and when the soul became a part of the physical body, what was the means adopted by the Laws of Nature, as they are called, for the lodgment of the soul into that body and the relationship that one bore to the other.  Of course this applies only to those mortals who believe that there is a soul, separate in its existence and functionings from the mere physical body.  As to those who do not believe in the distinctive soul, I do not attempt to enlighten, but leave them to a realization of the fact, when they shall have come into the spirit world and find themselves existing without such body, but really existing, with the consciousness that they are souls.

    When the physical body is Created, it has no consciousness of its having been Created.  For it is merely of the unconscious Creations, that are of the other material Creatures of nature.  Does not feel or sense, in any degree, the fact that it is a living thing dependent upon the proper nourishment of its mother for its growth and continued life, in accordance with the Laws of Nature and the objects of its own Creation.  The father and mother, being necessary to the Creation, or formation, of this merely animal production, know only that in some way there has come into existence an embryo thing that may eventuate into a human being like unto themselves.  If this thing were allowed to remain without the soul, it would soon fail to fulfill the object of its Creation and disintegrate into the elements of which it is formed.  Humankind would cease to exist as inhabitants of the earth.  This physical part of humans, is really and only the result of the commingling of those forces, that are contained in the two sexes.  Which, according to the Laws of Nature, or of Humans Creation, are suited to produce the one body, fitted for the home of the soul, that may be attracted to it to develop its individuality as a thing of life and possible Immortality.

    The result of this commingling is intended only as a temporary covering, or protection, for the growth of the real being (the soul) and does not in any way limit, or influence the continuous existence of the soul.  When its functions have ended, the soul, which has then become individualized, continues its life in new surroundings and in gradual progression.  The mere instrument used for its individualization, is disseminated into the elements forming its appearance and substance.  As this body was called from the elements for a certain purpose, when that purpose shall have been served, it returns to these elements.  This body, of itself, has neither consciousness, nor sensation.  In the beginning, has only the borrowed life of its parents.  Then, when the soul finds its lodgment, it has only the life of the soul.  For the human life can exist only so long as the soul inhabits the body.  After such habitation commences, the borrowed life of the parents, ceases to exercise any influence, or directing force on the body.  This then, is really the true description of the physical body.  If it were all of human, they would perish with its death and cease to exist as a part of the Creation of the Universe of God.

    The soul is the vital, living and never dying part of humans.  Is really the human.  The only thing that was intended to continue an existence in the spirit world.  It was Made in the image of God.  There is no reason for its existing for the continuing companionship of the physical body.  When humans say, or believe, that the body is all of human and when it dies human ceases to exist, they do not understand the relationship, or functioning of soul and body. Know only the half truth, which is visible to their senses, that the body dies and can never again be resuscitated.  This is a determined fact.  All arguments, by analogy, to show that humans must continue to live, notwithstanding the death of that body, are not apposite and very inconclusive.  All these analogous appearances only show that the objects of the analogy ultimately die, thus, fail to prove that these objects are eternal.  Just as much as if there had never been any change in their condition or appearance.  The final demonstration is that they die.  When this analogy is applied to humans, it must show that they die also and are no more.

    But the questions are asked, whence comes the soul?  By whom Created?  How does it become incarnated in human?  For what purpose?  What is its destiny?

    First let me state, that humans have nothing to do with the Creation of the soul, or its appearance in the flesh.  Their work is to provide a receptacle for its coming.  A mere host, as it were, for its entry into the flesh and existence as a mortal, or in the appearance of a mortal.  Their responsibility in this particular is very great.  For humans can destroy that receptacle, or care for it, so that the soul may continue in earth life, a longer or shorter time.  While this receptacle is the creation of humans and without them it could not be brought into existence, yet the soul, is no part of their creation and is independent of the body.  After the earth life, in the spirit world, it will cease to remember that it was ever connected with, or dependent upon, the creation of its parents.  The soul, in the spirit life, as a Truth, is so separated from and dissociated with that body, which was its home while in the earth life, that it looks upon it as a mere vision of the past and not a subject for its consideration.

    As has been told you, the soul was Created by The Father, long before its appearance in the flesh.  Awaited such incarnation for the purpose only of giving it an individuality.  Which it did not have, in its preexistence, in which it has a duplex personality, male and female, that is needed to be separated and made individual.  We who have had this preexistence and incarnation in the flesh and have obtained this individuality, Know the Truth, of what I have here stated.  There is a Law of God controlling these things, that renders these pre-existing souls capable of knowing the desirability of incarnation.  They are always anxious and ready for the opportunity to be born in the flesh and to assume the separate individuality, that they are privileged to assume.  As humans provide the receptacle for their appearing and homing, as it were, they become aware of the fact and take advantage of the opportunity to occupy the receptacle.  Become ostensibly, a human being, with the necessary result of individuality.

    I am glad that you are in a better condition and will continue the messages as we have been desiring to do for some time.  I shall be with you and help you in every way and hope that you will keep up your Faith and prayers to The Father.  Good night and God bless you.

Your brother and friend, Jesus