tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10210425532621676752024-03-12T19:54:52.553-07:00.Spirit Messages received through Automatic WritingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger165125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1021042553262167675.post-72988873244794662272018-02-25T10:51:00.001-08:002018-02-25T10:56:44.952-08:00The Shroud at Turin<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Yes, it is and I am glad that you have given me this opportunity to write, as I have been present for a short while and reading with you as you were reading Dr. Barbet's book on the crucifixion, and I would like to say at this time that the Shroud at Turin is a reality, the shroud which covered my mortal remains after the descent from the cross and the preparations made for my burial by Joseph as described in the Gospels. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The care for my body as described by John in Chapter 19, verses 38-42 is correct.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The nails that pierced my flesh were hammered into the wrists and not the palms as has been widely understood; that physical death came to me through asphyxiation, due to the unnatural position of my body dragging on my outstretched arms on the cross, and that the opening of my heart by the Roman lancer and the accompanying flow of blood from the right auricle and the liquid from the pericardium actually took place as described by John the Apostle in Chapter 19, verse 34.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I say again that, while my sincere and devoted Dr. Barbet has accomplished a task of primary importance in the reconstruction of the crucifixion such a reconstruction deals merely with the experiences undergone by my body, and does not deal with the living soul, so that how much more important is it to devote oneself to the reconstruction of man through the experience of the New Birth and to study those things which will, by deed, lead him to eternal life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The great compelling fact of the crucifixion is that, while my body was dematerialized by me and died as to its existence, yet my soul has lived on through the intervening centuries and will continue to live throughout all eternity, and this eternal life became a reality through my constant and fervent prayer to the Heavenly Father for the inflowing of His Divine Love into my soul and At-onement with Him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For while my body has these many centuries been returned to the elements from which they proceeded, and is no longer in existence as such, or can be brought back into existence through any such mysterious ceremony as the blood and wine now practiced among religious cults, nevertheless what is really alive is my immortal soul, with my teachings which show the way to achieve immortality of soul longing to the Father for it is the Divine Love that gives eternal life, and not that bread which is material, which as experienced by my body, suffers decay and is subject to the laws of the physical and hence transitory world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The information regarding my true resurrection has already been given to mankind in the messages which, with my approval, were given through Mr. James E. Padgett and these explain my work in Joseph's cave, then ascended to the Spirit World to proclaim the availability of the Father's Love through prayer and the possibility of At-onement with Him thereby, and then returning to the cave, materialized a body closely resembling my own with elements drawn from the elements of the universe; the linen shroud which had covered my body I folded neatly and placed in a corner and I walked out of the cave, the stone blocking the entrance to it having been rolled away by the bright spirit sent by the Father for that purpose; and it was in this way that I saw Mary the Magdalene and the others, as mentioned in the gospels.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The angel mentioned in the gospel was a bright spirit sent for the purpose of removing the stone; the strength he displayed in this task was obtained through the transmission of energy conveyed to him by many spirits who were present at the time. His materialized spirit body, endowed with this additional power, was able to cope with the task of rolling away the stone. He used the guard whom he put into a trance by suggestion, as the means by which he obtained the necessary ectoplasm to bring about the materialization. No, he was not able to materialize by culling from the elements a material form, such as I was able to do in my resurrection, and no one other than myself, not even the exalted spirits of the Transfiguration, has done this.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It was necessary for me to do this to show that I was still alive even after death through crucifixion for at this time in their spiritual development this phenomenon was the proof in the eyes of my disciples that I was the Messiah; but the real understanding of my Messiahship came to them only at Pentecost, when the Divine Love was conveyed into their souls with such power and in such abundance that they knew I had come to bring the very essence of the Father to mankind if they would seek it through earnest prayer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This became known later as receiving the Holy Spirit, erroneously, of course, because it is the Holy Spirit which conveys the Father's Love into the soul of he who seeks it; but even this became relegated to a secondary position before the great fact of the "Risen Christ" which was preached to the pagans to substitute for their own gods.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Spiritualism if properly understood and taught, must lead to prayer for the Divine Love and At-onement with the Father; and what more appropriate introduction to the Father's truths is there than that which reveals my resurrection -- the risen Christ -- as the working of a fundamental truth of Spiritualism</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1021042553262167675.post-92175278716662746962017-06-18T20:20:00.004-07:002017-07-09T13:35:04.908-07:00Jesus explains the truth about the Judgement Day<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I am here and desire to write a few lines in reference to the great day of judgment, of which the preacher and teachers of theological things write so often. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I know that the Bible, or rather some of the books, lay great stress upon this day when, as they claim, God will pour out His vials of wrath upon the ungodly and condemn them to an eternity of punishment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There is, as you know, very great and diverse opinions among these learned men as to what is the meaning and significance of this day of judgment, and when, in a chronological point of view, it will take place; and all these varied opinions have many students and teachers who embrace and proclaim them to the world as being true and free from doubt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Well, it is certain that all men must die and there will come the judgment, and that which follows the death is just as certain as is the death itself, and just as reasonable as is the following of any cause by an effect. So men should have no difficulty in believing in the judgment as a fact that cannot be avoided, just as death cannot be avoided.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But the word and the fact, judgment, when used as an effect or following of death, may have many meanings in the opinions and understandings of many men, depending upon what men may believe as to things that are called religious or scientific or philosophical.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">To the ultra-orthodox this term judgment means and necessarily comprehends the active pronouncement of a sentence by God, because of and determined by their lives and thoughts while living in the mortal life, irrespective of any of His general laws and the workings thereof. God is Himself the judge - personal and present - and by Him in this capacity are each man's life and works known and digested and made the basis of the sentence that He must pronounce in each individual case. God keeps the record of all of these acts of men, or, if man is conceded to be his own record-keeper, his records are, or will be, at the time of the great assemblage for judgment, opened up or brought into view so that nothing can be lost; and then, upon this record men will be sent to eternal happiness or to everlasting punishment, or, as some believe, to destruction or annihilation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Others, not orthodox, who believe in the survival of the soul and the continuing memories of the acts and thoughts of men, teach that the judgment will follow death as a natural consequence of the operations of the law of cause and effect; and the effect cannot be escaped from, until in some way there comes to the consciousness of men a realization that the effect in their suffering has satisfied the cause and that there is nothing mysterious or unnatural in the appearance and workings of the judgment. They do not believe that God by any special interposition or personal punishing will pronounce the judgment, or determine the merits or demerits of the one called to judgment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Besides these views, there are others extant and believed in, but the two that I have mentioned are principle ones and are sufficient to show what the large majority of thinking or rather believing, men conclude the term judgment as used in the Bible should mean or be understood to mean.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Well, the judgment of the human soul is an important accompaniment of the human life, both in the flesh and in the spirit world, and as regards the questions and punishments, hardly anything demands more of the thought and consideration of men, for it is a certainty that beliefs, true or false, he cannot avoid them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Judgment as certainly follows what men call death as does night the day, and no philosophy or theological dogmas or scientific determinations can alter the fact, or in any way change the character or exact workings of this judgment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But judgment is not a thing belonging exclusively to the after-death period or condition, for it is present and operating with men from the time that they become incarnated in the human until they become disincarnate, and thereafter continuously until the causes of effects have been satisfied and there remains nothing to be judged, which happy ending is also a fact - for all men are dependent upon their progress towards the conditions of harmony with the laws that make effective as well as pronounce the judgments. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">While on earth these laws operate, and continuously man is being judged for the causes that he starts into existence, and the after-death judgment is only a continuation of the judgment received by men while on earth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Of course - men may not know this - these judgments or the effects thereof, become more intensified after men have gotten rid of the influences of the flesh existence, and they become spirits, having only the spirit qualities. And because of this fact men must understand and try to realize that the expression "after death, the judgment" has a greater significance and is of more vital importance than the saying - that "judgment is with men all during their mortal lives."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">After death the causes of the inharmony with the law becomes more pronounced, and appear in the true meaning and force, and, consequently, as this is true the effects become more intensified and understood, and men suffer more and realize the darkness, and sometimes the gross darkness, that these effects produce. The inharmony appears in its unclothed and unhidden reality, and the law's workings bring to men the exact penalties that their violations demand.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Man is his own bookkeeper, and in his memory are recorded all the thoughts and deeds of his earth life that are not in accord with the harmony of God's will, which is expressed or manifested by His laws. The judgment is not the thing of a day or a time, but is never ceasing so long as there exists that upon which it can operate, and it diminishes in proportion as the causes of inharmony disappear.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">God is not present in wrath demanding, as does the human who believes himself to have been injured demanding reparation by the one causing the injury. No - the Father is present only in love, and as the soul of the one undergoing the penalty, which his own deeds and thoughts have imposed upon him, comes more in harmony with the Father's will, He, as you mortals say, is pleased.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Never an angry God, rejoicing in the satisfaction of a penalty being paid by one of His erring children, but always a loving Father rejoicing in the redemption of His children from a suffering that a violation of the laws of harmony exacts with certitude.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Then, as I say, the judgment day is not a special time when all men must meet in the presence of God, and have their thoughts and deeds weighed in the balance, and then, according as they are good or evil, have the sentence of an angry, or even just God pronounced upon them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The judgment day is every day, both in the earth life of man and in life in the spirit, where the law of compensation is working.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In the spirit world time is not known and every breathing is a part of eternity, and with every breathing so long as the law requires, comes the judgment, continued and unsatisfied, until man, as a spirit, reaches that condition of harmony, so that for him, no longer the law demands a judgment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But from what I have written, men must not suppose, or beguile themselves into that state of belief that will cause them to think that because there is no special day of judgment when God will pronounce His sentence, the judgment, therefore, is not so much to be dreaded or shunned. No, this state of thinking will palliate only for the moment, for the judgment is certain, and is and will be no less to be dreaded, because <b>the immutable law demands exact restoration instead of an angry God.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">No man who has lived and died has escaped, and no man who shall hereafter die can escape this judgment unless he has, in a way provided by the Father in His love, become in harmony with the laws requiring harmony. "As a man soweth so shall he reap" is as true as is the fact that the sun shines upon the just and the unjust alike.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Memory is man's storehouse of good and evil, and memory does not die with the death of the man's physical body, but on the contrary, becomes more alive - all alive - and nothing is left behind or forgotten when the spirit man casts off the encumbrance and the benumbing and deceiving influences of the only body of man that was created to die.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Judgment is real, and men must come to it face-to-face, and want of belief or unbelief or indifference or the application to men's lives of the saying "sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof" will not enable men to avoid the judgment or the exactions of its demands.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There is a way, though, in which men may turn the judgment of death into the judgment of life - inharmony into harmony - suffering into happiness - and judgment itself into a thing to be desired.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Elsewhere we have written of this way open to all men, and I will not attempt to describe it here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I have written enough for to-night. You are tired and must not be drawn on further.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So with my love I will say good-night.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Your brother and friend,</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1021042553262167675.post-91839339139440377392017-06-18T19:49:00.000-07:002017-11-28T21:47:44.301-08:00Jesus teaches the way to Immortality and Light<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">June 2nd, 1920</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I am here, Jesus.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Let me write to-night on a subject that is of importance to mankind and should be fully explained, that they may know the truth that will show them the way to immortality and light.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I know that men have debated all down the centuries the question of man's immortality, and have attempted to prove the reality of its existence by various arguments and by reference to the analogy of the workings of God's universe in the fulfillment of His designs as displayed by the various creations of animate nature.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In all these discussions they have not succeeded in definitely and satisfactorily established the fact of immortality. And why? Because they have not, in the first place, understood what immortality means, and without a correct conception of that which it is desired to prove, it becomes very difficult to successfully prove the existence of the thing sought for.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I know that at times some idea of what immortality is has been conceived of and almost understood by some of the writers on the subject, and their efforts have been directed to show that by man's inner consciousness as well as by the appearance of those things in nature which die and live again, man is justified in inferring that man himself is immortal, or was intended by his Creator to be immortal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But the inner consciousness of man, meaning the knowledge of the possession of certain desires and aspirations, as well as the realization that his life on earth is too short to enable him to accomplish those things that his efforts and strivings attempt, and that what he really accomplishes in the way of his own mental and moral development, if they end with the physical death of men would mean only a useless exercise of the faculties and powers given him by God - is not sufficient to prove the immortality of the real man. Neither is it evidence of the uselessness of man's creation, though he is in one moment, deprived of all the learning and other benefits of a developed intellect, as well as of moral progression.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There is a difference between the state and condition of a human soul that continues in the spirit world the life that it had when embodied in the flesh, and the state that not only continues this life but makes the extinction of this life an utter impossibility - even by God, who in the beginning of man's existence created that soul.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">True Immortality then, is the state or condition of the soul that has knowledge that because of the essence and qualities of itself, it cannot ever cease to live - the impossibility of it's ever ceasing to live being known to it, and a fact.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It has been said that whatever has a beginning may have an ending - that which was created may be dissolved into its elements. And the possibility of this is true, and no man or spirit can deny the truth of the assertion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In your earth life you find that all things have an ending, that is in their individual and composite form; and in the spirit world why may not the same fate attend created things? The fact that there are things in the spirit world that exist as a continuation of things of earth does not mean that they shall endure forever.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The mere change, caused by the death and disappearance from the vision of men, of things that were once alive does not establish the fact that as they continue to live in the spirit world, they must live forever. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Death which is looked upon as a destroying angel is merely the result of the change from that which is visible to the invisible, and does not in any way determine the everlasting existence of the thing changed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The soul of man while in the flesh is the same soul as to its identity and individuality, as it is when it becomes an inhabitant of the spirit world, and if it is immortal while in the spirit world it is also immortal while in the body; and if it may cease to have an immortal existence in the one state, it may in the other.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Suppose that men by their arguments of the nature mentioned show that the soul of man does not die when the physical body dies but that it continues its existence in the spirit world as the identical, personal soul, then I ask, does that prove immortality as I have defined it?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Death of the body and the continuing life of the soul thereafter do not work any change in the qualities or essence of that soul - it is still the same created soul that it was in the beginning, and why may it not be true, that being a thing created it may have an ending? This is logical and not unreasonable.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Then I say, even if men by their arguments prove to the satisfaction of many, that the soul after the death of the physical body continues to live in the spirit world with all its faculties and powers in active operation, they do not prove, nor do all the facts possible for them to discover and marshal prove, that that soul is immortal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The soul of man did not always exist - it is not eternal, self existing or independent of everything else, but dependent upon the will of God that called it into existence, and why is it not reasonable to infer that in the long period of time to come, it will have served the purpose of its creation and be disseminated into the elements of which it was created?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But I will say here, for the benefit of those mortals who believe in the immortality of the soul that from the time of the creation of the first man to the present, no spirit in the spirit world has any knowledge of any human soul that has ceased its existence and been dissolved into its elements. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And further, that there are myriads of souls in the spirit world that are in just the condition of perfection that was the condition of the soul of the first man when created and God pronounced his creation, "very good." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But as mortals have no assurance that at some time the life of their souls will not end, so also spirits who have gained the perfect condition of their creation have no such assurance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">They have hope and belief that such may be their destiny, and also a knowledge that their progress as the perfect man has ended. They are in that state which limits their progress as the perfect man, although their enjoyment as such is not limited to them and in God's universe there is always something new and unknown appearing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But yet they have not the knowledge that they are immortal, and realize that they are dependent upon the will of God for their existence, and to many of these spirits, immortality is as much a subject of concern and speculation as it is to the mortals of earth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Men in their meditation, study and arguments of this question of immortality do not start from the foundation of the subject. They have no truthful premises from which they can draw a correct conclusion and consequently their arguments fail. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">They reason that it is because of the existence of certain things in and outside of man - all things of mere creation - that tend to show God's intentions and plans as regards man, therefore, in order to carry out such intentions, man must be immortal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">They do not consider or lose sight of the fact that all these things that they use as the foundation for their conclusions are things dependent and not self existing, and at one time or another the objects of God's creation. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">What God has called into existence He can also declare shall exist no longer. And knowing this, man cannot, or spirit either, rightfully conclude that the soul is immortal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But there is a way in which the immortality of the soul, or some souls - can be proved, and which, assuming the facts that enter into the argument to be true, necessarily establish the conclusion without possibility of refutation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Then in commencing the argument what is the only reasonable way to approach the subject?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">First, to discover and establish that which is immortal, and next to search for and find that which though not immortal, yet by reason of certain operations and effects upon it of that which is immortal, becomes itself immortal. Only from the immortal can immortality be acquired.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Well this is a good place to stop as you are tired; I am well pleased with the way in which you have received my message. Have faith and pray, and all will be well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Good-night my dear brother, for you are in truth my brother.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Your friend and brother,</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1021042553262167675.post-53548455179358438472017-04-28T18:14:00.000-07:002017-06-10T15:55:54.105-07:00How God answers prayers, by St John the Apostle of Jesus<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">April 25th, 1917</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I am here, St. John, Apostle of Jesus.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Well, He answers the prayers for things material by the work and operation of His angels and spirits, and they in that work are subject to the limitations of success as I have above mentioned.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">God does not exercise any arbitrary power to answer prayers, but when they are sincerely offered to Him, He works through His angels in answering them, and He does not by His mere fiat do so.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">His angels are always watching and working, and when the opportunity comes, they use their influence in the best possible way to bring about the ends desired.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As you know, man has a free will, and that determines very largely the action of men, and such actions are never arbitrarily controlled by any Divine power. If the prayers of men as to material things can be responded to by the workings of the angels and spirits, they are; but if such response depends upon the will of men, then they are not received by mortals, except as the spirits may be able to influence that will and cause men to act in compliance with that influence, which is always used for the purpose of bringing about the response to the prayers that are, in their nature, proper and worthy to be answered.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Well, I doubt if any of those petitions were ever answered in the arbitrary way that is related in the Old Testament. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">God never answers prayer in that manner, and the petitions of the old prophets had no more influence to bring about the answers to the same, in the manner indicated, than have the prayers of the sincere and earnest man of these days. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">God was the same then as He is now, and worked through the spirits then as He does now, except that now He has angels of the soul development in the Divine Love, that He did not then have, and these angels are doing His bidding as well as are the spirits.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But He does not answer prayers for material things except in a manner in consonance with laws controlling the free will and actions of men, as they may be operated upon and influenced by the work of spirits.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Sometime I will come and write you a message on this subject of prayer and answer.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But this I want to say, that we can at times understand what will happen in the near future, and having such knowledge, can tell to mortals what may be expected, or rather what will occur, and this we sometimes do.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In your case, we all of the higher spheres, as well as many of the spirit spheres, know what your petitions have been in reference to these material matters, and we have been working to bring about a realization of the same on your part - not only because of your petitions, but because they are so necessary to the doing and completion of our work; and we have been using our influence to the utmost to accomplish this end.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But as I say, we are all limited, and have not the power to cause the happening of any event by our mere willing the same, even though we are doing the work of the Father.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This may seem surprising as well as disappointing to you, but it is a fact, and it is a great truth that God helps those who help themselves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Of course, you must not lose sight of the fact that while men must themselves do those things that bring about changes or happenings or phenomena in material things, yet we can influence - but not control absolutely - their desires and intentions, and their wills that put into operation or effect these intentions. No, these things, as to their immediate manifestations, are subject to the wills of men.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">God never by a mere act of the moment or of a physical character, places into the hands of any man riches or prosperity. These things must immediately be wrought and brought about by man, but man in doing this can and is wonderfully influenced by the workings of the spirits.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Well, that is a question that has caused men to doubt and consider and explain in various ways the so-called miracle of the loaves and fishes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As I was a disciple of the Master at that time, it is quite natural that I should be expected to state whether such a miracle ever occurred, and of course, I can state what the fact in relation thereto is.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And notwithstanding that it has been used by preachers and teachers for many centuries to show the wonderful power possessed by Jesus, and thereby cause the people to believe in and accept him as God, or at least having God-like powers, and has been used to work much good among those who were seeking for the true religion, yet I am compelled and sorry to say, that no such miracle ever took place.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">While Jesus had wonderful powers, and understood the workings of the spiritual laws to a far greater extent than any mortal who ever lived, yet he had not the power to increase the loaves and fishes as is set forth in the account of the miracle. To be able to do so would be against the laws of God governing the material things of His creation, and also beyond and outside of the powers conferred on any man or angel by any spiritual laws.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There are certain laws by which we who are acquainted with and use them and may cause a dematerialization of physical substances, and also may to a limited degree cause a materialization of spiritual substances, but I am not acquainted with any law that would have operated, under the control of Jesus, to increase the loaves and fishes to the great number mentioned in the story referred to. As a fact, I know that no such miracle took place, and Jesus will tell you the same.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There are other alleged miracles in the Bible that never had any existence as a fact.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Well, I have written you a long letter tonight, and I must stop, but I am pleased that you asked me about the response to prayers, and the miracle of the loaves and fishes, for your questions gave me the opportunity, to some extent, to explain these matters.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But, as to prayer, you must wait until I deal with it more at large or in detail before you conclude that you understand the subject fully.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And I say to you pray not only for the spiritual things which God bestows through His Holy Spirit, but also for the material things which He bestows through His angels and spirits. The proper prayer will be answered sooner or later, and your prayer for that of which I have written will be answered, even though to you the response may seem a long time delayed. With my love and blessings, I will say goodnight.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I am here, Jesus.</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I am here according to promise, and desire to write you on a subject that all men should be acquainted with. "How the Divine Love enters into the soul of a man."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As I have told you before, man is a creature of God, having a body, spirit and soul; and all these are necessary to make the perfect man.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But these three parts of man are different in their characteristics and functions, and are separate and distinct, and have qualities that are unlike in their composition as well as in the duration of their existence.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The body, as you and all men know, has an existence which lasts only during the life of the mortal on earth, and after that life ends, dissolves into its elements, which no more can form the same body either in the mortal world or in the spirit world, for these elements are merely things of matter and may be and are used to form other bodies and manifestations of the material of nature; not necessarily in the form of human beings, for they enter into other forms both animal and vegetable, and are so disseminated that never again will they become parts of a resurrected body.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Your orthodox do not teach this truth, but think in some mysterious way that the mortal body will sometime be resurrected.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">No, the body when it has performed its function of maintaining and shielding the soul and spirit of man during his earth life, is no longer and cannot thereafter be a part of that man, and may be considered as something that is no longer a part of him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This body though, as a matter of fact, even during the life of the mortal is not the same body during that life, for continually is there changes in the elements that compose that body; and one element or set of elements, gives place to others and becomes lost or absorbed in the great sea of elements that help form or constitute the universe of God.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">By operation of the laws of attraction and repulsion, these elements, as they replace others which disappear, conform themselves to the general appearance or outline of the parent body, so that the identity of the body as well as of its appearance is preserved; and as a man grows older, the laws which make the changes in his appearance cause these new elements to conform to these changes, so that, even while the material continues to envelop the spirit during the short span of a man' s life, yet that material is not the same for any length of time. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I make this preliminary statement merely to show that the material part of man is not at all connected with the real man, so far as the persistent nature for him is concerned, and this material need not be considered in discussing the subject that I desire to write about.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The spirit part of man is that part which contains what may be called the functions of life and the force and power existing in him and which immediately control him in his conduct and living. This real, existing principle of life, unlike the body, never dies, but continues to live after the spirit drops its envelope of flesh.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This spirit part of man contains the seat of the mental faculties and reasoning powers, and uses the organs of the material body to manifest these attributes. These faculties live and exist, even though the physical body may be in such imperfect condition that the spirit may not he able to make its manifestations in such a way as to enable the mortal to perceive or sense the material things of nature, as they are called. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">To specify, even though the material organs of sight may become impaired or destroyed, yet in that spirit body, which is within the physical body, exists the actual sight just as perfectly and completely as if these impaired or destroyed organs were doing their functioning; and the same is true as regards the hearing and the others of what are called the five senses of man.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And as to the reasoning faculties and mental qualities, they exist in the perfect state whether the brain is healthy or not, or whether it performs its work or refuses to do so. These qualities do not depend upon the soundness or perfect workings of the organs of the physical body in order that these spirit qualities may exist in a perfect condition, but the proper workings of the physical organs, or rather the proper and natural movements and manifestations of the brain, and the conscious operations of the mental faculties, do depend upon the spirit faculties being able to use these physical organs in a proper way and in accordance with the harmony of the creation of the relative and correlative parts of man.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">These spirit faculties, which man calls the intellect and the five senses, are a part of the spirit body which is enclosed in the material body and which in turn encloses the soul. When the material body dies, the spirit body continues to exist and live on in the world of spirit, and with it and as continuing parts of it, these intellectual faculties, performing all their functions free from the limitations that the physical organs placed upon them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And when this change takes place, these mental qualities, notwithstanding that they have not the material organs through which they functioned when in the mortal frame, can conceive thoughts of things material and hear and see things of the material just as they did, and even more perfectly, when they were enveloped by the environments of flesh and blood.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So you see when the mortal dies, the only thing that dies and is left behind is the mere physical body, and with the spirit body survives all those things which can be said to be the real man, so far as the mind is concerned. Hence, man never ceases to remember and to progress and to know that he is a being which death cannot destroy or change into something that he was not before death came to him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And thus I answer the question: "When a man dies shall he live again?" He never ceases to live, and his living is not a new life, but merely the continuation of the old life with all the things of mind and conscience that were his in the old life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In the purely spirit life the spirit body continues to contain the soul and will be its protector and covering so long as that spirit body shall last. But this body then begins to change, and by disintegration into what we may call spirit elements, and the formation of new elements to replace the disappearing ones.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This change in this body is not caused by the same laws that operated to change and disintegrate and replace the physical body, but by the law controlling the development of the soul which the spirit body contains.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The soul is the real man because it is the only thing or part of man that may become immortal, the only part of man that was made in the image of its Creator, and the only part of man that may become a part of the Substance of its maker and partake of His Divine nature.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I say may, for that is an important part of this great possibility. I know this possibility of the soul becoming immortal by partaking of the Divine nature of God, is true; for it is a proven fact in the case of many souls who are now in the Celestial Heavens.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I also know that there are many souls in the spirit world, who have been there for many centuries, who have never received this Divine nature and consciousness of immortality. Whether such souls who have not received this Divine nature shall become or are immortal, has never been demonstrated.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This I do know, that in the economy of God's plan for the forming of His Kingdom, at some time - when, I don't know - this privilege of partaking of His Divine nature and the certainty of immortality will be withdrawn from the souls of men and spirits, and then, whether these souls who suffer this condemnation will partake of immortality no spirit knows, only God.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There are other things that I know and here tell you, and among them is this: that so long as the soul does not receive this Divine nature, the mind, which I have described as being a part of the spirit body, continues to exist and dominates both soul and body; and in its progress it may attain to a condition of purity and perfection such as were possessed by the first created living souls - our first parents. Many spirits now are in this condition, but yet are mere men, and their souls remain only in the image of God - nothing more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">While God is mind, mind is not God, and also while God is spirit, spirit is not God. So that when men teach that mind is God, and that men must seek to attain to that mind, and thus become like God, they fall far short of the truth. The mind is only an attribute of God, and beyond and back of that mind is the real God - the personality, and that is Soul, from which emanates all these attributes and manifestations which mortals as well as spirits may be conscious of.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But while God is Soul, yet that Soul is a thing of Substance with a nature Divine, and the seat and fountainhead of all the great attributes that belong to Him, such as love and power and life and omniscience and mercy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And here I must state one fact which may startle those who believe and teach that mind is God, and that is, that which is called the human mind is not a part of the mind of God, for this human mind and all its faculties and wonderful qualities are mere special creatures just as are the spirit body and material body of man. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As I have said, man was created in the image of God only as regards the soul; and here always bear in mind that the creation was only an image.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The mind of man was a special creation, just as were the minds of the lower animals, differing only in degree. And if God had not given to man a soul and the spirit body to envelop it, and in which he placed this mind of man, when man died the death of the physical body, that would have been the end of him ; as such death is of the body, which is not a part of this soul image of God.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As I have heretofore written you, when God created man and made him in His own image as to the soul, he also gave to man the possibility of obtaining the Substance of the Father; that is, of having that soul which was a mere image become that soul which is of the Substance of the Creator.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I have also explained to you how man, by his disobedience, lost that possibility, and for long centuries was deprived of this great privilege, and how it was again restored to him at the time of my coming to earth, so that he now and for nineteen centuries past has had the possession of this great gift or privilege of partaking of the Substance of the Father.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Well, when man, by the way that has been pointed out to him, becomes possessed of the Substance of the Father's Divine nature, even in an initial degree, his soul commences to change and lose its character as a mere image, and to progress towards the attainment of that condition when this image disappears and the Divine Substance takes its place; and as the progress continues he receives so much of the Substance that his soul takes on the Divine nature of the Father, and his at-onement with the Father becomes so perfect that he becomes an inhabitant of the Father's Kingdom.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This occurs when he becomes fitted to enter the first Celestial Sphere . And just here occurs another thing which may startle those who teach that the mind is the essence of God, and that is that the mind which man, both as mortal and spirit, possesses up to that point in the progress of the soul where the transformation into the Divine nature takes place, becomes a thing of naught; or rather becomes absorbed in the mind of the soul, which is the real mind of the Father. And then and ever after, only this mind of the soul is that which enables the real Divine man to understand the things of God, to help him in his progress.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I will continue later. You are tired. But remember that I love you and you have me with you at all times to help and sustain and comfort you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Whatever one may believe regarding the source of the Messages from Jesus and Celestials, the contents are so new and revolutionary, yet so compelling by their logic and sublime simplicity, that a serious study of them must be undertaken in order to comprehend their significance and challenge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In these messages Jesus of Nazareth stands forth as the Master of what he calls the Celestial Heavens, wherein only those spirits possessed of the New Birth through prayer to the Father for His Divine Love can dwell in light and happiness, and conscious of their immortality through their at-onement with Him in soul nature.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If these messages are authentic as coming from Jesus and his celestial spirits, then mankind has at last been given the true mission which Jesus proclaimed on earth. This mission taught the transformation of man's soul from the image of God--the work of the original creation--into the very essence of God through the bestowal of the Father's Love upon whomsoever should seek that Love in earnest longing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It revealed that Jesus himself first manifested the Father's Love in his soul, thus making him at one with the Father in nature and giving him that clear consciousness of his kinship with the Father and his immortality of soul. It showed that in this development of soul Jesus was indeed his Father's true Son, not in the metaphysical and mysterious way of a hypothetical virgin birth, but through the Holy Spirit, that agency of the Father which conveys His Love into the souls of His creatures who seek it in earnest prayer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It brings to light that Jesus was born of Mary and Joseph, of human parents like other human beings, but that he was none the less the Messiah promised to the Hebrews and to mankind in the Old Testament. For wherever he taught the "glad tidings" that God's Love was available, and that it was this Love which bestowed immortality upon the soul filled with this Love, Jesus brought with him the nature of God--the Kingdom of God. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">At the same time Jesus tells us that neither was he God, nor was his mother Mary the mother of God, nor a virgin after her marriage to Joseph, but that she was in truth the mother of eight children, of which he was the eldest, and that he had four brothers and three sisters in the flesh, and not cousins, as some versions of the Bible relate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In addition, he relates that he did not come to die on a cross, nor did, or does, his shed blood bring remission of sins. He also shatters the time honored statements now found in the New Testament that he ever instituted a bread and wine sacrament on the eve of his arrest at the Last Supper. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This pious statement, he declares, was never his, nor did any of his apostles or disciples ever teach it, but was inserted about a century later so that such a doctrine might accord with the ideas then prevalent among the Greek converts to Christianity. Communion with the Heavenly Father can never take place through the mistaken notion that he had to be impaled on a cross by Roman soldiers, on the order of Pilate, the Procurator of Judaea, and in accord with the uncomprehending high priests, so that he could appear as a sacrifice for sin.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There is no sacrifice for sin, affirms Jesus, and his dried up blood cannot do what only man himself must do, by turning in repentance and prayer to the Heavenly Father, to effect that change in his heart whereby his soul will give up evil and sin, and embrace what is righteous. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Father's help in the elimination of sin from the human soul is His Divine Love which, on entering the soul through prayer, removes sin and error from that soul and provides not only purification but its transformation into a divine soul, at-one with the Father's great soul in nature. This real communion, which Jesus himself had achieved, is, he declares, the only communion between God and His children, which He has provided for their salvation and eternal life with Him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The vicarious atonement, Jesus states, is a myth, and its appearance in the New Testament is one of many false statements inserted therein to make it harmonize with later concepts concerning his relationship to the Father, which these later Greek and Roman copyists did not understand. It is a terrible thing to believe that God, in order to bring about His Son's sacrifice, approved the unlawful arrest of Jesus on the Passover, the bloody scourges, the treachery of Judas, the palpably unfair trial by high priests and Sanhedrinites, as well as Pilate's fear of Judaean revolt against Roman rule, to encompass the inhuman death of Jesus, His Messiah, on a cross. As though God needed to bring about through wickedness and sin the very wickedness and sin He seeks to blot out in His children.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In the light of these messages, a new interpretation of Jesus' death on the cross is certainly in order. We are told by the orthodox churches that Jesus gave himself up willingly as a sacrifice for sin because he loved humanity to the degree of self sacrifice, and because as the Messiah he had come for that purpose.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">He is supposed to take the place of the Hebrew sacrifice, the lamb, and he is called in the New Testament the Lamb of God. As a matter of fact, the Old Testament sacrifice of an animal was never intended to take away sin, and this is shown by the fact that although these sacrifices were not permitted during the Babylonian captivity, the people still put their faith in redemption through turning away from sin and seeking God through a life of moral and ethical conduct.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Jesus did sacrifice himself, indeed, but in a way never related or understood by the writers of the New Testament.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Jesus went to his death because he would not deny his mission: that, as the first human to attain through prayer an immortal soul filled with the essence of the Father--the Divine Love--he was in this way the first true son of God and therefore the Messiah.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Jesus could have saved his life if he had retracted at his trial, but he died because he remained true to himself, true to his Messiahship, and true to the Father who had sent him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Jesus sacrificed his whole life preaching the Father's Love: he gave up home, his chance to marry and have a family of his own, a chance to devote himself to the quiet pursuits of a Nazarene carpenter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Instead, he chose the hatred and opposition of those who understood not and preferred the status quo; he chose the incomprehension of his loved ones, who considered him mad and sought to have him leave Galilee.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">He chose constant travels and journeys, so that often he had no place to lay his head; he chose to preach in the Temple at Jerusalem, chase the money lenders, defy the conspiracy of those who sought his death, and bravely faced the consequences of what he knew must inevitably occur.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Yes, Jesus did sacrifice himself, but it is high time to put aside myth and metaphysics, and to know and to realize what that sacrifice consists of. When we understand his sacrifice, then Jesus stands forth in all his greatness, in all his courage, in all his serenity and forgiveness and love for mankind, with his absolute faith in the Father and His Love, in that day of his teaching, tribulation, and death.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Jesus tells us many things about himself and his life in the Holy Land. He states that the Bible story of his birth, minus the many supernatural elements in it, is substantially true, and that he was born in Bethlehem, taken by his parents to Egypt to avoid destruction by Herod, that the Wise Men did come from the East to pay him homage and that he was taught the elements of the Hebrew faith from teachers; but that it was the Father Himself who taught him the truth of the Divine Love and made him realize what his mission was.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">He tells us that John the Baptist,his cousin, was a great psychic and had some understanding of him as the Messiah and that both planned the Master's public ministry. He states that John never sent emissaries when in prison to be reassured that Jesus was "Him whom we seek," and that Jesus as a boy of twelve never appeared before the doctors of the Law in the Temple at Jerusalem.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Jesus also tells about some of the miracles which he performed. Most of these, he explains, dealt with his healing power; but that he never raised Lazarus or anyone else from the dead, nor has anyone else been able to do so, regardless of what the Scriptures say, for the spirit body cannot return to the flesh once the physical conditions of life have been destroyed. He also relates that he never quieted a storm by rebuking the waves on the Sea of Galilee, but that he did calm the fears of the disciples with him through his example of courage and assurance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Some of the greatest messages which, to my mind, Jesus and some of the high spirits write are those connected with the Master's resurrection from the dead after his crucifixion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Jesus informs Mr. Padgett that he did die on the cross and that he did appear to Peter, John, Mary Magdalene and his mother on the third day, but that the true explanation of this occurrence is quite different from the accepted views of the churches.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Here, Jesus is supposed to reveal his divinity by arising from the dead; but actually, Jesus' soul never died, as no man's soul dies with physical death, and the Master goes on to state that, with the power inherent in his soul with the Divine Love, he simply dematerialized his mortal frame, announced in the Spirit World the availability of Immortality to mortals and spirits through the Father's Love which he was the first to manifest, and then on the third day materialized a body like flesh and blood drawn from the elements of the universe; and that it was in this materialized body, which he was able to assume without mediumistic aid, that he appeared to Mary Magdalene and the others.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It is the reason, he states, why Mary did not at first recognize him and thought him to be the gardener and the same may be said of his disciples at Emmaus.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The great misconception of Christians of all ages has been to believe that Jesus revealed himself to be part of the godhead by this resurrection; that is to say, rising from the dead, but actually his feat consisted in the assumption of a flesh-like body, indeed, so real, as to convince even the doubting Thomas.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1021042553262167675.post-918786753183321842017-01-10T16:53:00.000-08:002017-06-18T20:16:25.731-07:00Jesus disputes that he is God or that he was a sacrifice for the sins of man<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">January 10th, 1916</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I am here, Jesus.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I come to-night to tell you of a truth which is important to all mankind, and which I desire that you receive </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">just as I write it, so give your best care to receiving just what I shall attempt to write.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I have read with you to-night many sayings contained in the alleged epistles of Paul and Peter, and I realize </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">that they do not seem to be consistent with the truth that has been declared to you by myself and by the apostles </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">who have written to you, and I desire that you shall understand some of these inconsistencies and discard from </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> your mind these sayings of the epistles wherever they do not agree with what we have written or what we shall write.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In the first place, the continual reference of these epistles to my being God is all wrong and must not be believed; </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">also the statement that my blood washes away sin or that I died on the cross for the salvation of men, or that I took </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> upon myself the sins of mankind and thereby relieved them from the burden of their sins, and the punishment which </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">they must suffer in expiation of their evil deeds and thoughts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Again, when it said, that from the beginning the Father had foreordained my death on the cross that man might be </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">redeemed from the penalties of sin in all men who lived thereafter, are all wrong and have no foundation as facts </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">in the plan of God for the salvation of man and the restoring of the harmony of His universe and the eradication</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">of all sin and error from the world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Neither Paul nor Peter wrote these things, and never did I teach them, for they are not in accord with the great </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">plan of salvation; and the further away will be the realization by them of the truth of the only plan the Father </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">has provided for their redemption, which I came to earth to declare and explain to my apostles first, and then </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">to the whole world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In these epistles too much emphasis is given to the importance of faith and works. I mean faith in the mere beliefs </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> which these epistles taught followed by works - and not enough importance to the foundation truth of man's redemption </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">from sin and becoming reconciled to the Father. I mean the New Birth by the inflowing into their souls of the </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Divine Love of the Father's through the ministrations of the Holy Spirit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Many of their teachings as to man's conduct towards man and as to the lives that the recipients of these truths </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">should lead as effecting their own purification and becoming in a condition of righteousness, are true, and are </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">as applicable to the conduct and living of men today as they were in the days in which the apostles taught, b</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ut when the epistles teach or lead men in any particular to understand that these, what may be called merely</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> moral principles will enable a man by their observance to enter into the Kingdom of God or the Celestial Kingdom, </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">they are false and misleading and men when they become spirits will realize that while leading the lives which these </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> teachings call them to lead, they will become very happy and occupy conditions and positions in the spirit world that </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> will make their happiness far superior to that which they enjoy on earth and even enable them to become occupants of </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> higher spiritual spheres; yet they will never be permitted to enter the Kingdom of the Father, which can only be </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">attained to by the possession of Divine Love.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So I say, men must understand and realize the difference between the results to them from leading merely good and </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">moral lives which affect and develop the natural love and those results which ensue from the New Birth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I have attempted to explain to you why the great and important truth of my mission to earth, as I explained it to </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">my apostles and as was taught by them and written by them, was not preserved and contained in the Bible as now </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">written and accepted by the church as canonical.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The great desire in those days was to show and impress upon men </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">those teachings which affected their conduct on earth, and to hold out to them the rewards that would follow</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">such living, and also the rewards which would follow their lives in the spirit world which would become their </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">homes after death. And, as I have said, the leading of lives in accordance with these teachings would ensure men</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> a great happiness in the spirit world, but not the happiness which my teachings, if observed, would lead to.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In the various copyings and compilations of the writings of the apostles many changes from the originals were made, </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">and those persons who performed this work, and I mean by this the dignitaries and rulers of the church, did not know </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the difference between those things which would bring about a purification of the natural love and those things </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">which were necessary to fit a soul for entrance into the Kingdom of Heaven. And hence, when they came to perform this </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">work they made the error of teaching that the living of the moral life would entitle the soul to a reward which they </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">supposed, would be the Kingdom of Heaven and immortality.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And this erroneous teaching has prevented many a man from gaining the right to the Kingdom of Heaven, as they honestly </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">and sincerely believed would be theirs, when they came to pass into the spirit world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Many of these teachings are intended to make a reformation in the lives of men and to purge their souls from sin and </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">error so far as the natural love forms a part of the condition of the soul; and I taught these moral truths to a very </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> large extent, for such teachings were necessary, because men's will were out of harmony with God's laws, which affected</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the natural love, as well as out of harmony with the laws that affected the Divine Love of the Father; <b>and it is the </b></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>object and plan of God to bring into harmony both of these loves, and thereby enable man to enjoy those things which are provided and waiting for him.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>As I said when on earth, "Narrow is the way and strait is the gate which leads to life everlasting and few there be that enter therein," I repeat now; for it is apparent from the observation of the way in which mankind from the beginning have exercised their wills, which God leaves free to their own volition, that a vast majority of men will never enter in at the strait gate, but be contented to live in the spheres and happiness which their natural love, in its perfect state and progress, will fit them for.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">That all men will ultimately be brought into harmony with God, in either the natural love or in the Higher One, is certain, and that all sin and error will finally be eradicated from God's universe is decreed, but the time will depend to a great extent, upon the wills and desires of men, and, hence, while my great mission in coming to earth and teaching men, was to show the way to the Celestial Kingdom, yet a lesser part of my mission was to teach them a way to their redemption from sin and error that would result in the purification of the natural love; and to my great regret and to the untold injury to man, my moral teachings were more at large set forth in portions of the Bible, as now accepted, than were my teachings of the Higher Truths.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I will not write more to-night but will continue later.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Well my dear brother, I see that you are in a much better condition spiritually than you have been for some time, and you must thank the Father for it. Your conception of last night's experience is true, and you received a wonderful amount of the Divine Love, and I was was with you in love and blessing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So continue to pray and trust in the Father and you will realize a wonderful happiness and power and peace.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1021042553262167675.post-49502492778449421812017-01-08T15:01:00.000-08:002017-01-08T15:01:49.824-08:00The Magical Power of the Father's Divine Love<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I am here, Jesus.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Well my brother, I am glad to tell you that your communion with the Father tonight has been responded to. His love has inflowed into your soul in great abundance. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">His Holy Spirit has been bringing the Love in wonderful abundance and your soul is now filled with it, and the influence of this Great Love is working in your soul, and you realize its presence.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If you will meditate and long for and pray to the Father as you have tonight, your soul will soon be so filled with this Love that you will receive the knowledge, that you have a near at-onement with Him, and you will be conscious of the possession of a part of His Divinity, of which we have written you. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Pentecostal shower will come to you as it did to my disciples in the days that followed my departing from them; and I will be with you also just as I was with them, and power and essence divine will be bestowed upon you so that you will be able to display the marvelous presence of this Love just as they were able. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So you must pray and long, and your experience tonight has given you some foretaste of what will come to you. There is nothing in all the world that can take the place of this Love in its power to draw you near to, and make you in at-onement with the Father.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">All beliefs and faiths in any and every other thing will not suffice. Sacrifice and sorrow on account of sin and vicarious sufferings and mediators, will not work the transformation, because it is solely a conjunction between this divine love and your soul, that is capable of bringing you into this relationship to the Father, and the resultant consciousness that you have partaken of and possess, to some extent, His Divine nature in Love.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Now you are in condition that makes my rapport with you complete, and I have that possession of your brain that enables me to write as I may desire, and I know that I could convey a message to you tonight in a most satisfactory way; but I will not do so, for I think it best to permit the rapport to become a little more intense, and thus enable me to write a long message without the probability of tiring you; for as you know these messages of deep truths such as the ones on the "Soul" and "God" necessarily cause me to draw very intensely on your brain power.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But soon now, I will come and commence to deliver my messages and continue to do so if our rapport can be maintained. And it can be, if you will only meditate and pray as you have done tonight.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I have been with you very much today, entering into your thoughts and endeavoring to influence the longings of your soul. I was with you at the spiritualist's meeting and sometime I will write you in reference to the claims of the speaker, and the real facts as to how much of what she said was inspired, or as she claims, was spoken through her by a controlling spirit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I now want you to think more than ever of the importance of your work and of the necessity for you putting all your energies and desires into the work. No one can conceive of what it means, and above all you must realize its great importance and the place that you occupy in carrying it to a successful issue.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I will be with you very often and I know that you will feel my presence and influence, and, as you do, turn all your thoughts to the Father's Love, and let all your longings go to Him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Tonight, I will not write more, but will soon write as I have said. Have faith and know that you have been selected to do the work, and that upon you rests the responsibility that is upon no other man.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">With my love and the Father's blessings, I will say good night.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1021042553262167675.post-28681481548448501372017-01-01T22:18:00.000-08:002017-06-18T20:17:23.446-07:00From Jesus one hundred years ago <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">January 2nd, 1917</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I am here, Jesus.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I have been present as you read the article on Christian Science and was interested in your comments, and am pleased to assure you that your annotations were correct, and that in the particulars that you criticized the statements of the writer the same were erroneous and not in accord with the spiritual laws of truth and the understanding thereof.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Sometime I will come and write you a message at some length on the doctrines of Christian Science, for the reason that I think a correction of the claims of this cult is very important.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The doctrines that it proclaims to the world contain many truths and are beneficial to mankind, and are doing much good, both spiritually and physically, but some of the claims are so much in violation of the truth that they must not be permitted to pass as truths uncontradicted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The founder of this science or discovery, as her writings and followers claim, is here now, and deplores the fact that she left to the world so many false and misconceived concepts of the truth that so many persons believe and teach. She is a spirit of much soul development, and is in possession of much of the Divine Love, which she did not conceive the meaning of by her carnal mind, as she called it, and was not therefore able to teach what this Divine Love is, and its operations upon the souls of men, and the effect of its presence in such souls.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She never conceived any higher ideal for man than the perfect man. One who should become wholly delivered from the sins and errors which all men have to a more or less extent. And her teachings that sin and error and disease are not things of reality, because God did not create them, are all wrong, for they have a reality that not only makes men unhappy and causes them suffering in the mortal life, but also prevents their progress towards her ideal of the perfect man in the spirit world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">God only is good, and everything that He created is necessarily good, and cannot contain that which is evil or in conflict with His creations; but, as we have explained to you, while He created man perfect, knowing only good, yet He bestowed upon him that great power of free will, and after his disobedience, he exercised it in such a way that he violated the laws of his being, and sin and error resulted - this made man the creator of evil.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Mrs. Eddy will write you very soon on the subject of her Science, as she is very anxious to remedy the errors that she taught, and we have determined that it is advisable that she do so, on account both of her followers and her own account, for her work here and so far as possible in the mortal world, is to unteach, as it were, the errors that she taught.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I expected to write my message, or rather finish the message which I partly wrote a few nights ago, but you are not just in condition to receive it, and I prefer waiting until you feel better in this respect.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I am glad that you are so much interested in that message, and when you receive it, I don't think that you will be disappointed, for as you say, the subject is the one fundamental truth to be made known to mortals. I will deal with it in all its phases, and you must try to get in the best possible condition to receive it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Well, I do not think that that will be necessary for there will be such powers present, that the presence of any mortal and the favorable influences that he may attract will not afford any assistance to you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">You must know that I have greater power than all the other spirits have, and when I come to you the assistance of the powers of any other spirit is not needed. If you will only get your soul in the best condition possible, so that I can make the proper rapport, nothing else will be needed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I will not write more tonight. I love you very much and am with you quite frequently, throwing around you my love and influence, and trying to help you develop your soul condition and become in greater at-onement with the Father.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Yes, I have kept my promises, and when you call for me to come with you and pray, I come, and send up my earnest supplications in your behalf, and I know that the Father answers my prayers, not only because of the faith that I have, but because I can see the effect in your soul's condition.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Well, you must not think that I am God or one of the Godhead, for as I have told you, I am only His son, and the possessor of so much of His Divine Love that I get very close to Him, and have communion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I have my home in the Highest Heaven, that the spirit of man has not yet so far reached, but, notwithstanding, I am not of so exalted a condition, or in such position, that I do not come to you in love and sympathy and as your elder brother. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In my exaltation, I am most humble, and I must tell you that humility is a certain and eternal accompaniment of great spiritual and soul development.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And because I am the highest of the Father's sons, you must not doubt that I come to you, and deliver my messages and pray for you and throw around you my love and influence.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I have explained to you the great reason why I am doing this, and this reason is one that involves the salvation and good of all mankind, and you. I will tell you now that you are engaged and made a co-worker with me, and the spirits who write you, in the greatest work that any spirit or man can engage in. And I want further to say, that you will accomplish the work, and successfully; and when the time comes for you to lay down this work and come to the spirit world, your reward will be beyond all conception, and your happiness will be complete.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I see that you have in your mind the thought as to what will be the future of your two friends. Well, they will perform their work and it will be a great and important work, that will bring them a reward similar to the one that is in store for you; and this reward is not the result of any special dispensation of the Father, but is the result of the work and the associations and experience that you all will have in doing and completing the tasks that are before you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">You, and they too, are now doing a work which is laying up rewards in the spirit world for you when you come over, and not only there but you are now experiencing some of the benefits that flow from your work. Continue in the efforts that you are making to show spirits and mortals the way to the Father's Love and my Kingdom, and you will find a wonderful reflex happiness come to you while you are yet mortals.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If you men could realize the love and spiritual influences, and the number of highly developed spirits that are with you so often, and the efforts the latter make to help you and bring happiness to you, you would feel that you are the truly blessed of the Father.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Well, I must stop now. Remember what I have said and believe that I am,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Received by:James Padgett</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I am here, Mary Kennedy:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Well, if he had thought of me as much as he should, he would have guessed without any difficulty. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It just shows you how little you can depend upon the men who profess to love you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This is what I might say if I were a mortal, but being a spirit and able to see into his heart, </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I know that he loves me as I do him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I have been waiting for these other spirits to write before I attempted to say a few words, and by the way </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">let me say that all who wrote tonight are really the spirits that they represented themselves to be. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If it were not so late, and you were not so tired, I would write a long letter and tell you of our frolic </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">at Christmas Eve, when you came with us to our homes in the spirit world for the time being and partook of </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> all the love and greetings that awaited you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As Mr. Stone wrote, there were many spirits present, and all were very happy in having you both with us, </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">and the Judge especially enjoyed it after he got over his fright, if I may call it such, after seeing you </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">two sail through the air in our arms, for you must know that we had you in our arms, and would not let you </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">go until we reached the sphere, where we found a nice greensward to rest upon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I must stop writing a description of this, or I may forget myself and continue longer than I should;</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> just have a little patience and I will soon come and give you a full description. We will commence </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">to write earlier in the evening and provide that there shall be no interference by other spirits.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Tell my dear that I love him very much, and will go home with him and let him feel my presence. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So I will not write more now, and after I get my kisses, will say good night.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Received by:James Padgett</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I am here, Father.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I desire to write a few lines to my son as I see that he is in a condition that makes </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">any communication from us very desirable to him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">*I want to tell him that I am very happy and am progressing very rapidly and will soon,</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> I hope, be with his mother when my happiness will be complete for my love for her is so very </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> great that I am happy beyond desire when I am with her. This is a reality, and I know for I </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">am with her at times, and feel the certainty of the truth of what I say. She is very happy also,</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> and so are his sisters, who are here now, and who are with him so often and who would like to </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">come in closer contact with his brothers and sisters of earth, if they would only believe that </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">their spirit sisters so desire to make their presence felt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But their want of belief and of </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">desire to have their spirit sisters with them prevent a rapport being made, which is necessary </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> for the enjoyment of the close communion that I speak of.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Tell my son that I enjoyed his visit (to the spirit world) a few nights ago and was sorry when he had to return to </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">his body. We were all there and talked with him, and made him realize what beautiful homes we </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">have, and the wonderful happiness that is ours. This is not mere imagination, or tale of magic, </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">for he was actually with us, and saw and felt our spirit bodies and also experienced the </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> atmosphere of love that he ran into. Of course his soulmate had him most of the time of his visit to herself, but she was very generous and told us to enjoy his presence to our hearts content, but, of course, we understood and withdrew.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I imagine that he may not quite believe all that he saw, but I want to assure him, with all the </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">love of a father, that it is a fact, and that sometime I hope he may have a recollection of some </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">of his experiences, and I know that he will.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Well, I must not write more now, except to say, that he must continue to pray and believe in the </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> divine love of the Father, for I can assure him that it is the one grand thing that makes angels </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> of spirits; and soon I hope to be one of the angels, as his mother now is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So with my love I will say goodnight,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Received by:James Padgett</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I am here. Judge Syrick:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Well, my friend, how are you this Christmas time and how is the Doctor? Of course I know full well, but I adopt the old earth way of greeting you both.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It has been sometime since I wrote you or had the pleasure of talking to you at Mrs. Ripple's, and I am glad of the opportunity to now say a few words.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Well, when I think of all the things that have happened since I left the mortal life and you two friends, I can scarcely comprehend what it all means. Here, I am a spirit who has found the love of the Father to a small extent, and enjoys the heavens which I used to wonder what it was like, and the company of a dear girl that I used to talk to you about as if I really knew her, and I did really believe in her existence, as my Rose. And you two who have found this love that you used to tell me about, and I didn't understand what you meant. You have your soulmates just as truly as I have mine, although the Doctor has never seen his, at least with his mortal eyes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But I want to say, right here, with all the sincerity of old friendship, that your soulmates are just as real as is mine, and are with you just as certainly as mine is with me. As your friend, I think it is my duty as well as pleasure, to assure you as a witness bound to you by the bonds of the Divine Love, that both Helen and Mary are the spirits in all communications that they hare written you of.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Well, I can hardly realize that all this is true, but I don't have to prick myself to feel that I am not dreaming, and I am glad for your sakes as well as for mine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I happened to be present a few nights ago when your two soulmates came sailing, as you might say, with the spirits of you two into our spirit sphere, and I must confess that I was surprised for I did not dream that such a thing could be. And you were there and I shook hands with you and greeted you and twitted you on being in possession of two such spirits as were they, and told you that they would never let you - return to earth, and you said you were glad of it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Now seriously, this is not a fairy tale, and I assure you in all truth that it is a fact.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I, of course. did not stay with you very long, but you both expressed surprise that I should be such a handsome spirit, and I said I would return the compliment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Well, there are stranger things in heaven and earth than men dream of in their philosophies and I know that this experience of yours is not among the least strange.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I am very happy now, and am progressing all the time, and I must tell you that you may, at times, experience some of this soul happiness, but when you come over you will find such happiness very faint in comparison with what you will then enjoy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I must not write further now and will close, but in doing so must congratulate you on the great privilege you have enjoying the presence of your soulmates, and other spirit friends in this heaven of bliss, and while you are mortals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So with my love, and Rose says hers too, I will say goodnight.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1021042553262167675.post-55248641974982526872016-12-28T14:15:00.004-08:002017-06-18T20:21:24.312-07:00Jesus writes a prayer for the Father's Divine Love<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I am here, Jesus.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I merely want to say a word for the benefit of you and your friend, and that is, that I have listened to your conversation to-night, and find that it is in accord with the truth; and the influence of the Spirit is with you both.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Continue in your line of thought and in prayer to the Father, and, also, in your making known to others, whenever the opportunity arises, the importance of seeking for and getting the Divine Love.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As your friend said, the only prayer that is necessary is the prayer for the inflowing of this Love; all other forms, or real aspirations, of prayer are secondary, and of themselves, will not tend to produce this love in the souls of men.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Let your prayer be as follows: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Our Father, who art in heaven, we recognize:</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">That Thou Art all holy and loving and merciful, and that we are thy children and not the subservient, sinful and depraved creatures that our false teachers would have us believe.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">That we are the greatest of Thy creations and the most wonderful of all Thy handiworks, and the objects of Thy great Soul's love and tenderest care.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">That Thy will is that we become at one with Thee and partake of Thy great love which Thou hast bestowed upon us through Thy mercy and desire that we become, in truth, Thy children through love and not through the sacrifice and death of any of Thy creatures.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We pray that Thou will open up our souls to the inflowing of Thy love, and that then may come Thy holy spirit to bring into our souls, this, Thy divine love in great abundance until our souls shall be transformed into the very essence of Thyself; and that there may come to us faith--such faith as will cause us to realize that we are truly Thy children and one with Thee in very substance and not in image only.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Let us have such faith as will cause us to know that Thou art our Father the bestower of every good and perfect gift, and that only we, ourselves, can prevent Thy love changing us from the mortal to the immortal.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Let us never cease to realize that Thy love is waiting for each and all of us, and that when we come to Thee in faith and earnest aspirations, Thy love will never be withholden from us.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Keep us in the shadow of Thy love every hour and moment of our lives, and help us to overcome all temptations of the flesh and the influence of the powers of the evil ones who so constantly surround us and endeavor to turn our thoughts away from Thee to the pleasures and allurements of this world.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We thank Thee for Thy love and for the privilege of receiving it, and we believe that Thou art our Father--the loving Father who smiles upon us in our weakness, and is always ready to help us and take us to Thy arms of love.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We pray thus with all the earnestness and sincere longings of our soul, and trusting in Thy love give Thee all the glory and honor and love that our finite souls can give. </span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Amen </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This is the only prayer that men need offer to the Father. It is the only one that appeals to the love of the Father, and with the answer, which will surely come, will come all the blessings that men may need, and which the Father sees are for the good of His creatures.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I am in very great rapport with you to-night, and see that the Father's love is with you, and that your souls are hungry for more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So, my brothers, continue to pray and have faith, and in the end will come a bestowal of the love like unto that which came to the Apostles at Pentecost.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I will not write more now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In leaving you, I will leave my love and blessings and the assurance that I pray to the Father for your happiness and love.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Good-night.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">“I
was born in Bethlehem, as you know, in a manger, and when I was a few
days old my parents took me to Egypt, in order to avoid the soldiers
of Herod who were sent to destroy me, and who did kill a great number
of male infants of less than two years of age.”</span><br /><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“The
Bible story of my birth and the flight of my parents and the murder
of the innocents, is substantially correct; and I only wish to add to
it, that when my parents arrived in Bethlehem they were not compelled
to seek the manger of a stable in order that I might be born, on
account of poverty, for they were supplied with funds and everything
that was needed to make my birth comfortable for my mother; and as a
matter of fact my father was not poor in the world's goods as poverty
was considered in those days.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“The
Bible says the wise men came and brought offerings of gold and
frankincense to my parents, or rather to me, but my parents have told
me that it did not amount to so very much, so far as the money value
of the same was concerned, and that their expenses of fleeing to
Egypt was met by the funds that my father had prior to his reaching
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“After
they arrived in Egypt my father sought the home of a Jew, who was his
relative, and lived there for a long time, doing the work that his
trade fitted him to do; and by his work supported the family, and to
an extent, educated myself and my brothers and sisters, for I had
four brothers and three sisters, and were all, except myself, born in
Egypt.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“When
I became of proper age, I attended the common school provided for
small children, and was taught those things that had to do with the
religion of the Jews, and some things that were not religious in
their nature. I was never taught the philosophy of the Egyptians or
of the other pagan philosophies; and when it is stated that I
received my religious ideas or moral teachings from any of these
philosophers, they are mistaken.”</span></div>
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<div class="western">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdCn4byrs8M6RLCC_DuOA7mzbgMxeBnxEtAAasvz9sNqSsiyVCpi04UTpPbB1t3XfbFhGnoaYALJxfhx7F_6-UcqypjClEdIh1IYx4iZ1osXY9u_7ePriISwa1Kpz4CeHPV7ruBXofBlDS/s1600/OldTestament.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdCn4byrs8M6RLCC_DuOA7mzbgMxeBnxEtAAasvz9sNqSsiyVCpi04UTpPbB1t3XfbFhGnoaYALJxfhx7F_6-UcqypjClEdIh1IYx4iZ1osXY9u_7ePriISwa1Kpz4CeHPV7ruBXofBlDS/s320/OldTestament.png" width="320" /></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“My
education as to these matters of religion was derived from the
teachings of the Old Testament, or rather from Jewish teachers whose
text book was the Old Testament.”</span></div>
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<div class="western">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“My
development in the knowledge of the truths which I taught during my
public ministry, was caused by my inner spiritual faculties, and my
teacher was God, who, through His angels and through my soul
perceptions, caused to come to me those truths or rather the
knowledge of them, and in no other way did I obtain it.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“I
was not born with the knowledge that I was the son of God sent to
earth to teach these great truths or to announce to mankind the
rebestowal of the great gift of immortality and the means of
acquiring it but this knowledge of my mission came to me after I
became a man and had the frequent communions with God by my spiritual
senses.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“I
was never in the presence of the Jewish priests, expounding to them
the law and asking questions when about twelve years of age, as
stated in the Bible, and not before my first appearance, after I
became a man did I attempt to show priest or layman, that I was the
messenger of the Father, and sent by Him to proclaim the glad tidings
of immortality restored and of the great love of the Father which was
necessary to make all men at one with Him, and to give them a home in
His Kingdom.”</span></div>
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<div class="western">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“I
never was a sinful boy or man, and did not know what sin was in my
heart; and strange as it may seem, I never sought to teach others
these truths until after my mission was declared by John the
Baptist.”</span></div>
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<div class="western">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“In
my boyhood days I was the same as other boys and engaged in the plays
of childhood and had the feelings of a child, and never thought I was
anything else than a child. In no wise was I different from other
children, except in the particular that l have named, and any account
of me to the contrary is untrue.”</span></div>
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<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">“My
teachings were those that the Father had committed to me from the
beginning, but which I was only conscious of after I became a close
communicant of the Father, and learned from Him my mission.”</span><br /><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“So
you must believe that I was a son of man as well as a son of God, and
that in the literal sense. I would not have been true to my mission
had I claimed that I was the only son of God, for it is not true -
and men should not so teach it.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="western">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“I
know it was said that my mother was told of the object of my birth
and what a blessed woman she was, but this is not true. My mother, as
she has told me, had no reason to suppose that I was different from
other children born of men. The story of the Angel of God coming to
her and telling her that she must submit to the birth of a child who
would be begotten by God or by His Holy Spirit, and that she, as a
virgin, should bear and give birth to that child, is not true, for
she never in all her life told me that she had any such visitor; and
I know that she would be as much surprised, as are many men, that
such a thing as the birth of a child by a virgin could take place. So
you see the Bible account of my being begotten and all the attending
circumstances are not true.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“My
father, Joseph, never supposed at anytime that I was not his child,
and the story of the angel coming to him and telling him that he must
not put her away because of appearance is not, true, because he never
in all my conversations with him, intimated that I was other than his
own child.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“Between
the time that I was twelve years of age and my public ministry, I
lived at home with my parents, and assisted my father in his business
of carpenter, and during all this time no hint ever fell from him
that I was not his child, or that I was different from other
children, except that I did not do sinful things.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“When
I commenced to get this divine love into my soul, I became very close
to the Father, and this relationship resulted in my realizing that I
was sent by God with a mission to perform and a great and important
truth to declare; and, at last the voice in my soul told me that I
was my Father's true son and I believed it, and commenced to teach
and preach the truths of His love bestowed and the salvation of men.”</span></div>
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<div class="western">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“I
knew John the Baptist when I was a child growing up. He was my cousin
and we often played together, and afterwards discussed the truth of
my mission and the way in which it should be made known to the
world.”</span></div>
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<div class="western">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“John
was a great psychic and saw in his vision who I was and what my
mission on earth was, and, hence, when the time came, he made the
announcement of my coming. He realized the difference in our
missions, and spoke of his not being worthy to unloosen my shoes.
But, yet, he did not fully understand my mission and the great truth
of the bestowal of immortality upon man by the Father.”</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZHbDca01fZYbLWWN5o8kGQOSe033ihVFEIB0-ju-3sWBJM-1-D9hsoaU2b0Bl0M5DS3iVBWsW94Q771lml6rg5NZ0785z3H89UmSzmP0WaUVY5YCVU6e_atImYZRm_NOWry-6IeJmiT0l/s1600/JesusBaptise.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZHbDca01fZYbLWWN5o8kGQOSe033ihVFEIB0-ju-3sWBJM-1-D9hsoaU2b0Bl0M5DS3iVBWsW94Q771lml6rg5NZ0785z3H89UmSzmP0WaUVY5YCVU6e_atImYZRm_NOWry-6IeJmiT0l/s320/JesusBaptise.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">“I
first became the Christ when I was anointed by my Father, and that
occurred at the time of my baptism by John.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“I
as Christ am different from myself as Jesus. Christ means that
principle which the Father has conferred upon me, which made me at
one with Him in the possession of this great love. Christ is that
love itself made manifest in me as man. This Christ principle is
universal and is everywhere, just as is the Holy Spirit, but I am
limited in my place of occupancy just as you are.”</span></div>
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<div class="western">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“I
never as Jesus merely, promised the great gift, mentioned in the
Bible, such as, where two or three are gathered together there will I
be also; for it would be impossible for me to be in all places at the
same time. But Christ, being without form or limitation, is
omnipresent and, consequently, may fulfill my promise in this regard.
Christ is as much alive today as ever. He was never crucified and
never died as did Jesus.”</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1021042553262167675.post-60071948232412089522016-12-17T21:56:00.002-08:002017-06-18T20:23:49.235-07:00Jesus first two messages through James Padgett<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">September 24th, 1914</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiNUdxigWZ6Wpuk5otOBFsKI1qoi7YC2pWUegeBiSsLl68cU6LVAywoozF5kWryHqotjISGU57gbRJ9PINEhxdKEU_9t_2-4cN8Z5uY8_JbzGMedDVCQZRt1IbN5NX0tdJK0wuwUt3r-hd/s1600/jesus3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; display: inline !important; float: right; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="140" data-original-width="93" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiNUdxigWZ6Wpuk5otOBFsKI1qoi7YC2pWUegeBiSsLl68cU6LVAywoozF5kWryHqotjISGU57gbRJ9PINEhxdKEU_9t_2-4cN8Z5uY8_JbzGMedDVCQZRt1IbN5NX0tdJK0wuwUt3r-hd/s400/jesus3.jpg" width="265" /></a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">I am here, Jesus.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Be of good cheer for I am with you always. Do not let your heart fear, for the Lord is your keeper and He will be your guide and shield.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Only believe and trust in Him and you will soon be born again into the spiritual world of His Kingdom. Let me teach you and give you the thoughts that He gave me while on earth.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Let me show you that the things of this world are not the things that save the soul from sin and unhappiness. Be a true follower of your God. The New Birth</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> is the flowing of the Holy Spirit into the soul of a man and the disappearing of all that tended to keep it in a condition of sin and error. It is not the workings of the man's own will but the Grace of God. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It is the Love of God that passes all understanding. You will soon experience the change, and then you will be a happy man and fit to lead others to the truths of God.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Let your heart be open to the knockings of the Spirit, and keep your mind free from thoughts of sin. Be a man who loves his God and his fellow man. Your love is only now of the earthly kind, but it will soon be of the things spiritual.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">You must not let the cares of this world keep you from God. Let His Spirit come into your soul. Your will is the thing that determines whether you will become a child of God or not. Unless you are willing to let the Holy Spirit enter into your heart, it will not do so. Only the voluntary submission to or acceptance of the Holy Spirit will make the change.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I was the instrument in God's hands of leading men to His favor and Love. When I said "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life," I meant that through my teachings and example men should be able to find God.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I was not God and never claimed to be. The worship of me as a God is blasphemous and I did not teach it. I am a son of God as you are. Do not let the teachings of men lead you to worship me as a God. I am not. The trinity is a mistake of the writers of the bible. There is no trinity - only one God, the Father. He is one and alone. I am His teacher of truth, the Holy Spirit is His messenger and dispenser of Love to mankind. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We are only His instruments in bringing man to a union with Him. I am not the equal of my Father - He is the only true God. I came from the spirit world to earth and took the form of man, but I did not become a God - only the son of my Father. You also lived as a spirit in that kingdom, and took the form of man merely as a son of your Father. You are the same as I am, except as to spiritual development, and you may become as greatly developed as myself.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I am the only son when on earth who until then had become vested with the Divine love of God to the extent of being wholly free from sin and error. My life was not a life of earthly pleasure or sin, but was given wholly to my Father's work. I was His only son in that light. He was my Father as I knew Him to be. He is not a spirit of form like myself or yourself.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I was born as you were born. I was the son of Mary and Joseph, and not born of the Holy Spirit as it is written in the Bible. I was only a human being as regards my birth and physical existence. The account in the New Testament is not true, and was written by those who knew not what they wrote. They have done the cause of God's truths much injury. Let not your belief in that error keep you from seeing that my teachings are the truth.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Be only a believer of God and His truths and you will soon be in the Kingdom.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">You will soon be able to understand as I understand.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">December 17th, 1914</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I am here, Jesus.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I have come to write to you my first message and you are too weak to take it, but I will come again when you are stronger. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">You are not in a condition for me to tell you of what I have to write because you are too much worried by what you think of your earthly affairs. So I want you to let these things pass from you entirely as I cannot give you the thoughts that I desire you to write, until you are wholly free from your earth cares. Be more faithful and you will be more in condition to do as I desire. I will not come again until you are free from these worries, for you are not in a condition to receive what I wish to write while these worries exist.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> (Unknown question asked by Mr. Padgett)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Yes I know, but you have not succeeded as I can see the condition of your mind and know that you are too much worried by the things that you have been thinking about during the day. You must trust more in the Father.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> (Other unknown questions)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Yes, I do. So let that question rest.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Yes, I am that Jesus, and the men you have been reading about were my disciples and they are now enjoying the reward which their work and faith entitled them to. They are not in the heavens singing psalms or riding on clouds, as some of the Christians of the present and past times believe and teach, but are still working for the salvation of human and spirit souls. They are with me still and are doing the same kind of work as when they were on earth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">They did not actually mean that, but spoke only in allegory, and meant that I was in the heavens where they all supposed God to be; but as to my sitting on the right hand of His Throne, that is not true.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I am in a sphere that is of the highest and closest to the fountainhead of God's love, but I am also working to save mankind from their sins, and bring them in unison with God's Love, which is all around men and angels, but not necessarily in or form a part of them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Only when a soul is filled with this love, can it be said to be in the Kingdom of God. So do not think that because God's Love is all through and around the world that every man is a partaker of it. I tell you that only the man who has received this love into his soul and lets it fill that soul so that there is no room for anything that tends to defile it, can be said to have received salvation or to be at-one with the Father.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">You are trying to learn the truth in this regard and are progressing to a degree that you will realize what the New Birth means, and without this New Birth no man can come into the full enjoyment of the Fathers Love or he supremely happy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Men may when they come into the spirit world think that they are happy by reason of a great moral excellence or because of wonderful mental acquirements, but their happiness is not the kind that the love of God, filling a man's soul, will bring.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So let your faith in the one necessary attainment increase, and when you have realized it to the full, you will be very happy and in God's Kingdom. I must stop writing now, for you are not in condition to write more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(Question and Answer)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">No, I will soon come again, for you will be in condition to receive me. Yes, I will love you with all my heart and let you feel that I am in closer rapport with you and lead you to a greater happiness from now until you can find the more extensive and greater love of the Holy Spirit. It is with you to a large extent now, but not so full as you need.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">You are very dear to me and I will never forsake you, so rest in that assurance and I know that you will be happier, for no man has ever yet been in condition of unhappiness who has my love as you now have it. Be only my own true follower and I will be with you to the end.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Your own dear teacher and friend,</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1021042553262167675.post-2471278562291910552016-11-23T16:03:00.001-08:002016-11-23T16:10:53.716-08:00Spirit Greetings from Priscilla Stone and his sister Kate and Mary Kennedy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">November 23rd, 1915</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Received by:James Padgett.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I am here, Mother:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I want to say one word to my son before you stop writing, as I feel so much love for him tonight and am so anxious to let him know that I am with him and feel that he is my dear loving boy, whom his mother is so much interested in and so thankful to God that he has found the way to the Father's love.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Oh, my boy, if you could only know the happiness that you have given your mother by having sought and found this love of the Father, you will also thank God, that you had the opportunity to make your mother so happy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I am your own dear mother, and will always love you and pray to the Father for you and for your happiness and well being of your soul. Your sisters are here too, and they are among the redeemed, and enjoy the happiness which the Divine Love gives to them, and they want me to tell you that they are happy too, because you have found the great love and mercy of the Father.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So press forward in your soul development and you will find a wonderful happiness and love, not only on earth, but when you come to us as well.Your Mary loves you too as you know, and her love for you is something wonderful and beyond what we can tell you, and beyond your comprehension.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I will not trespass longer tonight as your friend is tired and should not write much more, but I must say that I am so glad that you met him, and have the benefit of his knowledge and experience of these higher things of the spirit world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Be always friends and you will both realize a wonderful outflowing of love from the higher spirits, and from the Father, and also from Jesus, who is the most wonderful and loving spirit in all the Celestial Heavens.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I will stop now and in doing so, give you all my love and blessings of a mother whose love is without limit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Your loving mother,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Priscilla Stone</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I want to tell my brother that he must not leave until I tell him that I love him too, and am praying for him with all my heart, and am with him very often trying to help him. So he must believe me and love me too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I can't write more - but I love him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Goodnight,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">November 23rd, 1915<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Received by:James Padgett.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I am here, Mary Kennedy:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Your wife did not mention my name and so I thought that I would tell you myself, for I am of much importance to my dear as any of them that she mentioned. I wanted to tell him that I am right here and close to him, and won't let even his mother take my place, though I love her very much and she loves me, but she knows that I am entitled to the first place, and that I won't let anyone take my place.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I am with him nearly all the time, trying to help and comfort him, and make him have good thoughts, and wish for me. So he will understand when you read this to him that I intend that he shall know that I am with him and won't let him forget me even if he wanted to, which I don't believe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I was with you on Friday night, but I did not write or say anything, as his mother and grandmother and sisters and brothers were so anxious to communicate with him; but now, while I am here and have the opportunity which is mine by right of love, I intend to be first to write him. He must not think I am a bit jealous, for I am not; but you know that when a sweetheart has a chance to write to her soulmate, she is going to do it or try very hard. They can write too, but they must wait until I get through, and then they can tell him whatever they wish. So tell him to love and think of me and wish that I may be with him very often.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I am progressing in my soul development and I am very happy; and the only thing that when he is around makes me happier is to have him with me, but that will not be very soon, for he has a work to do before he comes over, and he will have to wait until he does that work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I am so glad, though, that he has this work, and as he is doing it and helping others, he will also help himself, so that when he does come over he and I will not be separated for a very long time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I suppose I have written enough under the circumstances, and should let others write, but I certainly wish that I could have one evening when I could take my time, and tell him of a great many things that I want him to know. So tell him that I am not stopping because I want to, but because decency requires it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">He is my own true love, and I love him with all my heart, and sometime he will know what this means.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So with all my love for him and my sister's love for you, I will stop.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">His own true,</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1021042553262167675.post-33326574649291668632016-03-13T16:32:00.003-07:002017-06-18T20:24:38.150-07:00Jesus selects Dr. Stone to do a work for the Kingdom<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">December 15, 1915 </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I am here, Jesus:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I have heard what you have said to your friend, Dr. Stone, and I must say that while you have some appreciation of the Great Love that came to you last night, yet you cannot fully understand, for no mortal can, although you did experience a wonderful feeling of its inflowing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But let me emphasize that if you continue to have the great longings and desires that you had last night, the Father's Love will come to you in increased abundance. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And I want further to say that the same Love that you received is waiting for Dr. Stone and will be his if he will only let his longings go out to the Father with all his soul's earnestness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">While I have selected you to perform the great task of receiving my truths and spreading them to all mankind I have also selected Dr. Stone to do a work which will be of great importance and will involve a labor of love on his part, and much physical as well as spiritual exertion. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">He must not only believe in me and trust in the Father, but let all his longings and prayers and desires go to obtain the great Love, and it will be his. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I am glad that you two men have come so closely together in your beliefs and in your faith in the Divine Love; and I will further tell you that you will both receive a happiness that can never be taken from you, even while you are on earth, and when you come to the spirit world this happiness will be increased beyond all human conception.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I am also glad that you can exchange thoughts on these important subjects of my religious teachings, and feel that you both have a work to do, and, above all, am happy that you are willing and anxious to do it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I am with you in all my love, and will make both of you the special objects of my care and keeping - and in the great hereafter when you shall end your work on earth, you will both receive a reward that Angels would wish for and wonder that you two could receive it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So I will give you both my love to-night, and will also pray to the Father to bestow upon you His Great Love and blessings.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So believe with all your hearts and the Father's Love and blessings will be poured out upon you. </span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1021042553262167675.post-2217299238911822542015-11-02T12:38:00.002-08:002016-03-06T19:14:26.775-08:00Jesus selects Dr. Stone for a mission of great importance<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">October 3rd, 1915<br />Received by James Padgett<br />Washington D.C.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">You and your friend (Dr Leslie R Stone) must believe what has been told you and continue to pray to the Father and seek more of the Divine Love. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">When the time comes I will inform him of the work which he shall do, and it will be an important one and one which will bring him in close contact with me, and the higher forces of the Celestial Spheres.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">He is now in a condition to receive this soul development, and he must let his mind and soul expand to their fullest extent, so that when it comes, I mean the Divine Love, with the great and wonderful power which will accompany it, he will be in a condition to receive it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I am your friend and brother and his also, and you must both believe that I am writing this to you, for I am that Jesus that all the spirits have told you about, and if it were profitable, I would come to you, as I came a few nights ago, and show my glory and power. But this is not necessary for you will believe without this and so much the stronger will be your belief.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I must stop now.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So with my love and blessings for you both and my peace which the world cannot give you, I will say goodnight.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Your brother and friend,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Jesus</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">October 3rd, 1915</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Received by:James Padgett.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Washington D.C.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I am here, John:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I came merely to say that you have received from the Master a communication which has more importance than you at this time appreciate.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I am referring more particularly to that part of it which Jesus states that your friend Dr. Stone has been selected for a work which is of great importance.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I know how important that work will be, and he will be impressed at it and will probably hesitate to undertake it, but he must not falter for he will be given all the power that will be necessary for him to have in order to do what shall be required of him.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">You both are highly favored in being selected for these missions and you must not let doubt as to your being selected or as to the Master writing to you or as to your having the power conferred on you which will enable you to do the work.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I am interested in both of you, and you must recollect that, while you are both weak and unimportant mortals, yet you have behind and sustaining you the great power of the celestial world, with Jesus as the leader. What a wonderful thing this is!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Why when we were selected as mortals, to become the disciples of the Master we never had such power to sustain us, because Jesus himself was not then as powerful as he is now, and he had not then formed the Celestial Spheres with all the powers that now exist there.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So I say there is no reason why you two should not be greater in your works than were any of us who worked with the Master while he was on earth or who worked afterwards as long as we remained mortals.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Do not think that this is improbable, for it will come true; and while you may doubt, considering the fact that you are weak mortals with all the deficiencies of mortals, yet you must remember this one fact and that is, that so far as you are personally concerned, you are not of importance in doing the work, but as mediums and instruments through which it will be done, you are of the greatest importance to the plans and designs of these higher spirits. Of more importance than any other mortals at this time.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So there is no reason to flatter yourselves because of the great powers that will be given to you, and of the importance that you will be to the salvation of mankind, but you may congratulate yourself that you have been selected from all humanity to do this work.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And further, remember this, that as a result of your doing this work you will receive such an abundance of the Divine Love, and come in such close association with the Celestial Spirits, that you will probably find yourselves in that condition of soul development as will enable you to enter those spheres where your Soulmates may be living at the time, without having to go through the experiences of the lower spheres.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I will not write more tonight as your power has been greatly called on by the messages which you have received.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So with all my love for you both, I am</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Your brother in Christ,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">John </span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1021042553262167675.post-22393489014545849302015-09-19T12:18:00.002-07:002015-09-19T12:21:50.866-07:00Jesus confirms what Paul wrote about the false belief of his blood saving man from sin.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">September 19th, 1915</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Received by:James Padgett<br />Washington D.C.<br /><br />I am here, Jesus.<br /><br />I heard the discussion between you and the other man about my blood saving from sin, and I felt that you were not benefited by what was said, because his faith is based on ignorance of the true plan of salvation and my mission on earth.<br /><br />But he is so firmly fixed in his belief that no argument that you might make would convince him that anything but my death and atonement could save from sin. So I do not think it would do any good to attempt to argue with any of these people in reference to the matter of my blood as the means of salvation.<br /><br />They have received the Divine Love to a considerable degree and the Holy Spirit is with them in their worship and is in their hearts, but it does not come to them by reason of their belief in my atonement, but because they pray to the Father for its coming and making them a new being so far as their soul development is concerned. They do not know that only the flowing of this Divine Love into their hearts in answer to prayer is what gives them this New Birth.<br /><br />They think that my blood has something, or rather that it is the great and only cause of this New Birth and they will continue to think so. I would not let this matter deter you from attending their meetings because, as I have said, the spirit is present with them. Of course they will learn differently when they come to the spirit world and see that I am not God.<br /><br />Yes, I know that is what all the orthodox believe but that does not make it a fact, for no devil ever comes and teaches the things that I have written you.<br /><br />I will not write more now.<br /><br />So with the assurance that I am with you very often, and that I will guide you in the ways of truth, I will stop.</span></span><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> Your brother and friend,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></span></span><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> Jesus </span></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1021042553262167675.post-4930526565078486972015-08-20T22:55:00.000-07:002015-09-19T12:14:25.831-07:00One hundred years ago today St. Paul disputes Bible Writers that He taught the blood of Jesus saves men from their sins<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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20th, 1915</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Received
by:James Padgett.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Washington
D.C.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I
am here, St. Paul.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I
merely want to write about the truth of the New Birth, because I
speak, or rather it is written, that the blood of Jesus saves men
from condemnation, and sin and death.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This
is not true, and I never wrote such declarations of what purports to
be true.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Jesus did not save men by his death or sacrifice, and as I
am informed now, and learned when on earth, he never claimed that his
blood or sacrifice saved men. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And I hardly see how that could be so,
because the blood did not have any efficacy to affect the condition
or spiritual development of men, and his death could not help men to
become redeemed from any condition of evil or defilement that they
might be in, and, hence, there can be no possible connection between
his blood or sacrifice and the condition of men, whether good or bad.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I
know that it is claimed that the blood of Jesus tended to appease the
wrath of God towards men as did his death, but this presupposes that
God had a wrath against men and that only blood and death could
satisfy it. What a barbarous assumption!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">God
was never a God of wrath, but always of Love, and men can come to Him
in reconciliation through Love only, and not through any sacrifice.
Jesus never taught this doctrine of sacrifice and does not now, but
repudiates it and says that it is a doctrine that is doing his cause
and the salvation of mankind a great harm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If
men will only think for a moment, they will see that the only
relation between God and man is that which arises from the soul's
condition. God, as I said, is Love, and for man to be at-one with
Him, man must become Love; I mean that his soul must be filled or
permeated with this Love to such an extent, that it will become
impossible for anything that is not of love to be or remain a part of
his soul.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I
do not mean that it is necessary for men to obtain this Divine Love
in order to live and enjoy a happiness which is far above the
happiness that they have on earth, for that would not be true. God
has given to man a natural love, which, when enjoyed in all its
intended purity, is sufficient of itself to make men comparatively
happy; but this love does not make man a part of God's oneness, or
enable him to partake of the Divine Essence of the Father. And this
oneness is absolutely necessary for men to become reconciled to God
as Jesus taught.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So,
while the large majority of men may never become reconciled in the
sense that I have mentioned, yet they will be able to enjoy this
inferior happiness in the spirit world, and to such a degree that no
sin or evil will be permitted to mar it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A
small minority will become reconciled to God and enjoy the superior
happiness which such reconciliation will bring to them. They will be
in their nature and substance like the Father, having his Divine
Essence and partaking of His immortality.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But
this reconciliation can only be obtained by what is called the New
Birth, which comes to men not by reason of any power or effort on
their part only, but by the operations of the workings of the Holy
Ghost, the instrument of God in bringing about this New Birth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And
yet man has his part to perform also, in this great renewal of his
spiritual being. He must open his soul to the inflowing of this
Divine Love, and must pray to the Father for the inflowing of the
Holy Ghost, and with his prayers, must believe that the Father is
waiting to bestow it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Without
the desire on the part of man to receive this Divine Love with prayer
and faith, it will not come to him, for God never forces any human
soul to a New Birth against its will.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I
tell you this, because in my opinion this is the one great important
truth of the mission of Jesus on earth, and the one that human beings
should understand and try to comply with.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I
know now, as I never knew on earth, the full meaning of this truth,
and I thank God all the time for His goodness and mercy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Only
those who receive this New Birth become Divine angels, all other
spirits remain mere spirits and subject to all the changes and
conditions that belong to spirits; for there is nothing fixed as to
those who may remain mere spirits any more than there was in the case
of the first man and woman. We know now that changes may take place
in the conditions of these spirits during the workings of God's
plans.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Many
men may, even when they know of the things that I have written, be
content to remain mere spirits and live their spiritual lives in the
happiness which their natural love gives them, but it seems to me
that all men, if they will think a little and understandingly, will
seek for the greater Love and happiness and immortality.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I
wanted to write this tonight, for I see that some of the teachings of
my Epistles may tend to lead men astray on this most important
question as to what saves them from their sins and reconciles them to
God. I will not write more to night, but will come at times and write
you in regard to the various spiritual truths of this Kingdom</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I
will say good night.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Your
brother in Christ,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Paul</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1021042553262167675.post-76714687625743627102015-07-30T12:32:00.002-07:002015-07-30T12:40:08.098-07:00One Hundred Years ago today Nicodemus tells his story<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">July 30th, 1915<br />Received by James Padgett<br />Washington D.C.<br /><br />A Master in Israel, and yet I did not understand this New Birth. How few understood it then, and how few now.<br /><br />Oh, the long years that have gone by since Jesus told me that I must be born again to inherit eternal life, and how comparatively seldom this great truth is taught by the churches and the teachers of religious matters.<br /><br />This truth is at the very foundation of mankind's redemption, and until a man receives this New Birth he cannot possibly enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. Men may claim to have faith in God and believe on Jesus' name and conform to all the essentials and sacraments of the churches, and yet, unless they have this New Birth, their faith and works as Christians are vain.<br /><br />This I know from my own experience as well as from the teachings of the Master, and I desire to emphasize, with all the powers that I have, that it is the only important requirement to immortality. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The New Birth means the flowing into the soul of a man the Divine Love of the Father, so that that man becomes, as it were, a part of the Father in His Divinity and Immortality.<br /><br />When this truth comes to a man he commences to take on himself the Divine nature of the Father, and all that part of him that may be called the natural nature commences to leave him, and as the Divine Love continues to grow and fill his soul, the natural love and affections for things of the earth will disappear, and as a result he will become at-one with the Father and immortal.<br /><br />Why don't those who profess to be teachers of Jesus' truths - which are the truths of the Father - and all followers of him, pay more attention to this vital truth?<br /><br />When you shall have received the messages from the Master, I think you will find this Truth of the New Birth to be the one thing that Jesus will emphasize and reiterate most. It is the most important thing for men not only to hear about and acquiesce in their intellectual beliefs, but also to actually experience.<br /><br />I wish that I had understood it when on earth as I do now. He meant as no man could see the wind or tell from whence it came or whither it was going, so no man who received this New Birth could see the operations of the Holy Spirit or know whence it came. But this latter expression must be modified, because we all know it comes from the Father; but just how we do not know. The Holy Spirit is as invisible as the wind, and yet it is just as real and existing.<br /><br />But men need not trouble their intellects to know exactly what this Great Power is, for it is sufficient to know: that which causes the New Birth is the Divine Love of the Father coming into the souls of men. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I must stop as I have written enough for to night.<br /><br />So let me subscribe myself a brother who has received the New Birth, and a lover and follower of the Master.<br /><br />
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