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May 8th, 2002
Received by H.R.
Cuenca, Ecuador.
You are right, my dear brother, it is useless to wait for some
defined moment to publish a book of our messages. We will never
finish a topic; there will always be questions and more questions.
Also, as you advance in your soul development, and therefore, in
the development of your perceptions and understanding, we may again
focus on the topics already dealt with in order to analyze them
from a new angle.
A good example is the following question that recently was presented
to you, as to the statement that Luke uttered in one
of the messages on atonement, that is, that man was made in
the image of God only in the characteristics of the material appearance
of his soul. His physical or spirit body was not made in the image
of God, because God does not have such bodies. Only man’s soul
is made in the image of God, the Great Oversoul.
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“I can’t manage to understand, or rather
to grasp, how the form of God should be, is He perhaps like
a nebula without form or aspect, or a source that emanates energy,
but in some way, God should have a form as the spirits do; I
wonder: How will the Master of the Celestial Heavens communicate
with the Father? Is Jesus really unable to see the Father’s
shape, however it may be?” |
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With these words, your friend defines his inquiry.
Truly, this question points at the very heart of religion: God
and our relationship to Him.
Now, as we have detailed on previous occasions, man is composed
of three essentially different parts: the physical body, the spirit
body and the soul. Of these three components, the physical body
is characterized by its fleeting nature, for the numbered days of
its existence. In fact, it only fulfills the purpose of integrating
the soul into a material world, facilitating the interaction of
man’s spiritual part with the coarse matter environment that
surrounds him.
The spirit body, as I have explained previously, is composed of
a different kind of matter, “finer” or more “ethereal”.
The fact that its aspect reflects the condition of soul is a clear
indication that the soul influences largely its formation, and even
more, the soul is indeed the creator of this body, which covers
it and provides it with the characteristic of individuality. The
formation of the spirit body begins in the moment of incarnation
of the soul in the foetus, incarnation which only takes place should
there exist a high probability that the spirit of life has found
in the new organism a stable biological structure, allowing it to
carry out its life-giving function.
The soul, lastly, is man’s only part that resembles its Creator.
This is why we also refer to God as the Great Soul or the Oversoul.
Lucas undoubtedly is right when he explains that man’s soul
is made in the image of God. In the image — that means that
it is not composed a priori of the same elements as is the Creator’s
Soul, but rather, that many of its attributes only resemble the
Attributes of God. Therefore, the study of man’s soul characteristics
is a good approach when trying to investigate certain aspects of
God’s Soul, in order to understand as much as possible. This
is a procedure which science frequently applies: establishing a
reduced and simplified system as a model, whose study allows conclusions
and inferences in the actual system at a large scale. The human
soul, therefore, is like a model of God’s Soul.
The human soul has been described on several occasions by diverse
spirits. Jesus explains
that the soul is a creation of God, a separate and different
entity, and is not an emanation from the Supreme Being, as some
religions teach. The Master also explains that the soul is the seat
of “spiritual emotions”, using the word “emotions”,
because the soul does not “think” as the mind thinks.
The intelligent activity of the soul develops on the spiritual level,
and not on the level of reason. Therefore, it escapes description,
in the same way as the emotions of the animal nature elude the intent
of articulating them into words. Words are the shapes and structures
of the “material” mind, to which emotions add color and
life.
A good example of spiritual emotions are soul longings, an indescribable
internal commotion, which intensifies its pressure on occasions,
until it no longer fits in the heart and is liberated in a gigantic
blast, finding its way to God. This happens in the moments of extreme
anguish, when a scream for help breaks out of our chest, leading
infallibly to the answer from God. In this case, it is a “scream
of despair,” of a pronouncedly negative load, but man has the
possibility of stimulating this “internal pressure,” loaded
with positive values, until a “scream of love” breaks
out and soars high to our Father. That is what Jesus described as
true prayer. Not every day are mortals able to motivate the very
essence of their positive side, until it speeds impetuously toward
God. On most occasions, the prayer of the mortal is a sequence of
words, accompanied by lukewarm emotions, even knowing that true
prayer is different. And sometimes, just when you are not thinking
of prayer, your heart suddenly opens up, setting free its huge floods
of spiritual emotion, resulting immediately with God’s answer
— the conveying of His Love. The release of the positive pressure
and the subsequent flowing in of Divine Sweetness, are a climax
in spiritual experience, unforgettable and deep-seated, the sweet
honey of spirituality, which the soul will always thirst for.
I digressed from the topic of my discourse.
The human soul is invisible to the material vision and also to
the eyes of the spirit body. However, it is accessible to the senses
of the soul, which we call “perceptions,” because we lack
a better verbal substitute. Spirits cannot see the soul, as Luke
claimed, not even in the moment of its incarnation, but later on,
they can observe the development of the spirit body, which serves
them as a “marker” for detecting the presence of a soul,
and even for evaluating its condition.
Now, after so many words on the human soul, we may apply the same
concept to the Father’s Great Soul.
We cannot see this Soul, neither with the eyes of the physical
body, nor with those of the spirit body. But we can perceive Its
presence, even more, we can perceive, within the limitations of
our capacity, some aspects of Its being.
The highly developed spirits are able to readily determine the
condition of soul of other spirits of less development. This is
not possible the other way around because the advanced development
is hidden from the limited horizon of the not very highly developed
souls.
Hence, we may also perceive Kindness, Love, Mercy, Affection and
many more of God’s attributes, but it is impossible for us
to really understand the entirety of His being. He is the All in
All, the Eternal Fire of Life and Vigor, the Eternal Source of Love
and Wisdom. We, who have received His Essence of Love, are as tiny
sparks in front of an Ocean of Light.
M___ once wrote that we are like thoughts of God. And this parable
impressed me very much. Thoughts have their place of origin, but
they may materialize in another place. The incorporation of your
thoughts by other people does not diminish your own energy, on the
contrary, it vivifies it. And so it is with God. God has a place
where He resides. He does not have a spirit body, He does not have
a visible form, He only has the form of His Great Soul, accessible
exclusively to the senses of the soul, such as any contact with
God is also a contact from soul to Soul. There is no other possibility.
What the eye can see is but the manifestation of God through acts
or works.
Jesus has never seen God with his material or ethereal eyes, as
you may see other people. But in fact, he has seen our Father with
those “eyes of his soul.” I have done so, all spirits
in the Celestial Heavens have done so. This internal vision depends
on the development of the soul, and the image, which in the beginning
is hardly existent, blurred and diffuse, acquires ever more form,
and eventually becomes richer in details, as we progress in our
own development.
Think of your own way; think how you perceived God just a relatively
short time ago. Did you perceive Him? I almost doubt it. But now,
it is different, indeed, although you continue being a blind man
amongst the blind. However, occasionally, the eyes of your soul
dare to open up a little bit.
When the human soul receives the Love of God — His Essence
— it becomes a divine soul. This is called soul transformation,
culminating exactly at the moment when this process consumes the
last vestiges of the natural soul, in the New Birth. Later on, the
divine soul continues incorporating always more of God’s Love,
but the transformation from the profane into the divine has already
concluded. Another process of transformation follows, which I do
not dare to describe right now. You still do not understand the
basics, so, let us leave those advanced teachings for the time when
you may have the capacity to digest them.
I have a transformed soul. However, I cannot share this Immortal
Substance with you. My soul wants to help you, it loves you, it
offers all its energy for recharging “your low batteries,”
but it cannot share its own essence with you. I am an individual,
and as the word says, I cannot divide myself in order to share my
happiness with you, although I would like to do so.
On the other hand, God is doing exactly this continuously. His
richly structured Soul constantly emanates part of Its Essence,
the Divine Love, and offers It, so that men may incorporate it.
God “divides Himself,” He is not an individual. He has
personality, of course, but has no individuality.
We know very little of His personality, but one single word may
suffice to describe what we really know for sure: He is LOVE.
God emanates energy and Substance, and as I have said, communication
with Him is only possible from soul to Soul, without words. And
what God tells you, you will not perceive as words, but as “positive
internal knowledge.” Yes, it is faith.
God is not a hazy ghost, because with this expression, once again,
language betrays its incapacity of describing the nature of the
spiritual.
It is a very gratifying task to receive messages. But at times,
especially when we focus on a highly spiritual topic, you feel confused
and frustration overcomes you. At the very moment when you try to
express in words what you received, by means of the power of language,
whatever you had found so clear, so beautiful and fascinating, simply
disappears. The message persists in your soul, producing fruit there,
but the intent of grasping it by means of the language fails.
I remember that on one occasion, when we were gathered with the
Master, Andrew asked him to tell us of God, of how He is. And Jesus
spoke to us of the Love and Affection that the Father feels for
us. But Andrew insisted and continued insisting, until the Master
finally said with a broad smile, “Oh, Andrew, you hardly are
able to drink milk, and you already want to eat bread!”
Very well, my brothers, you definitely are able to ingest some
solid food. Eat it with a sound appetite, digest and incorporate
what we have said so far. Afterwards, we may always proceed to deepen
on it.
With all my love to you and our curious brother,
I am Judas
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