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September 25th, 2001
Received by H.R.
Cuenca, Ecuador
My dear brother, today I come in order to tell you a little more about
conditions prevailing in the fifth sphere of the spirit world. We have
already made a long journey together through several spheres, and you
already have some notion of the spheres which you got from
Ann Rollins, Jesus, and John's messages, etc.
My main interest has been the description of the development in the
diverse stages, and not so much the description of the environment,
because that is something that is impossible to achieve. Only in the earth
planes can you use comparison to convey an appropriate image, but
by the second sphere, that would be much more difficult, and
now, in the fifth sphere, that is absolutely impossible.
I have told you how spirits from the fourth sphere get rid of all their earthly
bonds. Only then are they mature spirits, true inhabitants of the spirit
world; they are only then 100% spiritual beings. Earth, for these spirits, is
of no interest anymore, except in as much as there are other incarnated spirits
who need their help.
Ann Rollins, in her writings, said that the spheres of the spirit
world can be categorized according to the kind of development they
offer. There are spheres which foster the development of the soul
through purification of natural love, as the second, the fourth, and the
sixth spheres. There are other spheres, which encourage the
development in Divine Love, as the third, the fifth, and the seventh
spheres.
Now, in the fifth sphere, we are in one of those soul spheres, as they are
also called, which offer great opportunities for obtaining the Love of
God, and where "natural" spirits don't spend much time. We will analyze
this in a little more in detail.
Natural spirits have already achieved almost everything. The only thing
that they still lack is the absolute purity of their natural souls. They have
to eliminate the last traces of sin from their souls. Error continues to exist
because they still cling to false convictions, to their beliefs, but, as I
already mentioned once, those are harmless beliefs. The kind of truth
they possess is really a kind of truth that is in harmony with the laws
under which they develop, but it is not in harmony with the Laws of
Divinity, with the Law of Divine Love.
This last stage of purification, in general, doesn't take much time, and
very soon they may leave the fifth sphere and enter the sixth, the great
goal of all their spiritual life, the entrance into paradise. Why should they
stay in an inferior place, given that they have the possibility of living where their greatest desire is to live?
We know that Divine Love achieves the purification of natural love in
the soul. Hence, the spirits along the Divine path of the fifth sphere, who
have obtained a considerable amount of Divine Love in order to arrive
there, already have a highly purified soul, too. They don't need much
time either to reach their definitive purification. And many of them, in
fact, hurry to progress into the sixth sphere, and almost all return very
soon to the fifth. What has happened?
You remember once, when you still were living in Europe, that one of
your friends informed you that she was going to get a divorce. She was
college teacher, and was married to a bricklayer. At the beginning,
there was no problem in this relationship, both understood each other
very well, but in the course of the years, the situation worsened
definitively. She summarized it in this way: "I am really fed up, the only
topic of conversation with him is Mickey Mouse!" She enjoyed the
opera, and he didn't have any interest in that. He enjoyed soccer games
on Sundays, but this bothered her. And so things were throughout all
fields of interest. The importance of sexuality had disappeared, there was
nothing new in this relationship, and in theory only basic topics of
common interest were left. But in fact, they did not exist. I don't want to
discuss if this marriage was based on love or not, but rather I want to
take advantage of this example to explain to you that spirits on the
Divine path no longer find common interests with spirits of the sixth
sphere.
During their development through the spirit world, the Divine spirits, if one
is allowed to call them such, as they are not still truly Divine, try to
convince the natural spirits of the superiority of their path toward the
Celestial Heavens. Success is rare, but they try anyway.
In the sixth sphere, however, where natural spirits know that they have
achieved the maximum that they can achieve, and where they live in
incredible happiness, there is not even the inclination to listen to them,
in general. The scientific and philosophical topics which are developed
there, are of little interest for Divine spirits, although they do possess
enough knowledge to be able to follow these discussions, but to them
they lack importance. And the topic of Divine spirits, that is to say, the
development of the soul in the Love of God, is an absurdity for their
mates.
Well, as I have said, after a very short time and after many
disappointments, the Divine spirits prefer to return to the fifth sphere,
where they try to obtain more Divine Love, in order to be able to enter directly the seventh sphere.
The "mentality", if I may call it so, between natural spirits and Divine
spirits of the fifth sphere is already quite different. As you know, the
obtaining of Divine Love also entails a superior role that the mind of the
soul plays in comparison with the material mind, with its seat in the spirit
body. This is a process that does not occur in natural spirits.
You have already read that the criterion for the entrance into the seventh
sphere is the disappearance of the material mind and the absolute
ascendancy of the soul's mind. I won't try to explain this now, as you would
not understand it anyway, but I tell you that one needs a lot of God's
Love, of His Substance, in one's soul to achieve this goal. And this is
exactly what spirits on the Divine path in the fifth sphere seek to obtain.
And besides that development, as you may imagine, they continue
working for humanity's benefit.
I think I have written enough on the fifth sphere. It is a fascinating topic.
But you have to experience it in order to understand it.
Now I will leave you. I wish you a very productive day, and as you
already know, when you should need me, just call me. I will be here at
once.
With all my love, I am your brother in Christ,
Judas,
a spirit from the Celestial Heavens
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