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September 28th, 1916.
Received by:James Padgett.
Washington D.C.
I am here, Jesus.
I come tonight to tell you that you are in a better condition
to write than you have been for sometime and I think it best that
I deliver to you a message. Well, I will write on the subject: Of
the destiny of the man who has not the Divine Love in his soul,
and dies with only the natural love and a belief in the creeds and
dogmas of the churches.
I know that many men believe that the creeds of the churches is
what is necessary for the salvation of mankind. I mean as to baptism
and observance of the sacraments, and the belief that in my name
men may be saved - are sufficient and all that are necessary to
ensure them an entrance into the Kingdom of Heaven; and in such
belief rest, with the feeling of assurance that nothing else is
required or in any way to be sought for and acquired.
The large majority of professing Christians are in this state of
belief, and hence the greater number of mankind will not enter the
Kingdom of Heaven, or become in their natures Divine. I have already
told you what is the future of those who possess this Divine Nature
of the Father, and now I will confine my message to the future of
this great majority.
As you may know, the river can never run higher than its source
and neither can this majority attain to a perfection and happiness
superior to that which was possessed by man before the time of the
fall from the state of his perfect creation, and hence, no matter
how great his progress may be in his natural love or in his moral
or mental qualities, he can never excel (exceed) the first created
man as he was before the fall. And the only possible future for
this vast majority is the condition and development that existed
in the perfect man of God's first creation.
I know it is said that man has in him that which is a part of the
Divinity of God, and that by his own efforts he may develop that
Divine Substance until he becomes Divine himself, and of the nature
of the Father. But this is not true, and it is not possible to develop
the Divine Love or any Essence of the Divine out of that which has
not (that) in itself, (and) there is nothing of the Nature of the
Divine (in man). In the spirit world, and I mean the spiritual as
well as Celestial, laws prevail, and are just as certain in their
operations as are the laws of the material world and a fundamental
law is, that only like produces like; although in the physical world
it may appear that a derivative is not like that from which it is
derived, but this is in appearance only, for in substance and essence
the likeness exists and cannot be eradicated.
And so as to the real condition of the soul of man. If he has only
the natural love - the created love - the development of that love
will result in that which cannot possibly be greater or other than
that which in its constituent parts is only the natural love, and
no matter what the perfection may become, the Divine element is
absent, and all the limitations that are inherent in the created
being still continue to form a part of and control that being. There
is a limit to the development of this natural love and to the state
of happiness beyond which it is not possible for this being to go,
and that limit is the qualities and excellence possessed by the
first man before he became defiled and impregnated with sin. The
mind of such being is also limited in the progress which it may
make in obtaining knowledge, for that mind being a thing of creation
is bound by the limitations that that creation imposed.
So I say, such a man can never progress higher than those attributes
or qualities with which he was endowed when he was the perfect man,
either spiritually or mentally, unless he seeks for and obtains
the Divine Love. When spirits come and write that life in this spirit
world is always progressive, these spirits who write, have never
attained to this limit of which I speak and hence to them progression
is endless; and this belief is very beneficial, because it inspires
them to make an effort to progress.
There are many spirits in this perfect state in the highest sphere
of natural love or mentality, but they are spirits who have been
in the spirit world for a vast number of years, and are what you
might call ancient spirits. These spirits have realized this limitation
of which I write, and while they can change the objects of their
seeking and the sources of their happiness, yet their progress has
its ending, and often there comes to them dissatisfaction and a
realization that over and beyond their sphere, there must be something
that may be obtained, that surpasses their perfect state and development.
And as a result of this dissatisfaction many of these spirits, in
moments of their unrest, give heed to the suggestions of those spirits
who have become possessed of the Divine Essence, and upon whom (there)
is no limitation of progress; for these latter spirits are at all
times in the highest sphere of these spirits of perfected natural
love, trying to show them the way to the higher development and
happiness of the Celestial Spheres.
It may seem surprising to you, but it is a fact, that these spirits
of the natural love, during their periods of progression and especially
as they make nearer approach to their perfection, in the satisfaction
and happiness that they experience in that progression, will not
listen to the spirits of the Divine Spheres, or believe that there
can be any other methods of progress more desirable or excellent
than the ones that they are pursuing, and only when they come to
realize the dissatisfaction that I speak of, will awaken to the
fact, or consent to be awakened to the fact, that there may be a
way that leads to things beyond their limits of progress and the
perfection that they may have acquired. So, as I say, the higher
the progress of these spirits and the farther away they advance
from the earth plane, the greater the difficulty in persuading them
that there is a state of perfection and happiness surpassing that
which they are seeking for, and a way, different from the way they
are pursuing.
As these spirits progress in their natural love and in the development
of their created minds, much happiness and satisfaction come to
them, and in each stage of progress, so much greater do these experiences
become, that they readily conceive that there can be no way superior
to the one that they are travelling, and, hence, having such belief,
the difficulty of convincing them to the contrary, becomes almost
insurmountable. As a consequence the spirits of the Celestial Spheres
and those of the spirit spheres, who are progressing in the Divine
Love, give the greater part of their time and efforts to convincing
spirits of these higher truths while they are in the earth planes,
before the happiness that I mention is experienced.
The life on earth and that in the earth planes of the spirit world
are the states in which the souls of mortals and of spirits have
the best opportunities for learning and believing these truths that
show them the way to the progression that is without limitation
or ending, and hence, the importance of men knowing these truths,
and of spirits also, before they experience the satisfaction and
pride, I may say, that the advancement in the development of their
natural love and mental and moral qualities gives them.
Until the time comes when the Father shall withdraw from man and
spirit the privilege of obtaining this Divine Love and Essence,
which time will bring the second death, these spirits and all spirits
and mortals will have the opportunity of seeking for and finding
the way to the Celestial Spheres and Immortality. But after that
time this privilege will no longer exist, and then those spirits
and mortals who have not found and followed the way of that privilege,
will be and become only the perfect beings, as were their first
parents. They will have no assurance of Immortality, or even continuous
life, and that dissatisfaction and longing for something unknown,
will be theirs.
They will remain only the created beings in spirit body, soul and
mind, and as the first parents had all the qualities that these
restored men will have, and fell, and why may it not be that they
will fall (or) that there may come some change in the individualized
spirit that will destroy that individuality and dissolve it into
its elements of pre-creation? No spirit knows that such a change
will take place, that the perfect spirit will not always retain
the same individuality, or that the happiness of such spirit will
not always exist. And neither does any spirit know that these things
will continue to be.
Then why should he not choose that course which leads to Divinity
and certainty of Immortality and progress, rather than the one which
leads to limitation of progress and happiness, and to uncertainty
of Immortality?
I have written enough for tonight. I will come
again soon. So remember that I love you and am with you trying to
help you spiritually and that I pray to the Father to bless you.
Good night.
Your brother and friend,
Jesus
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