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February 6th, 1916.
Received by James Padgett
Washington D.C.
I am here, Jesus.
I come tonight to resume my discourse of
several nights ago. As I was saying man is the creature of God,
made in perfection and instantaneously, as it were, not having a
slow growth as other creations, and when he was created he needed
no evolution or additional attributes to make him the perfect man.
His physical body was perfect, and also his spiritual body and his
soul.
He had, in addition to these three constituents, a gift which,
by his disobedience, he forfeited, and which was never restored
to him until my coming, and which when possessed by him made him
more than mere man. As to those things which were made constituent
and absolute parts of him, they were perfect, and no evolution was
necessary to give them any increased perfection. Man then was a
more perfect being than he is now, or ever has been since his fall
from his condition of perfection.
After his disobedience and the consequent death of the potentiality
of partaking of the Divine nature of the Father, which is the gift
above mentioned, man was left in a state where he depended exclusively
upon the qualities which he then possessed for his future happiness,
and freedom from those things which would cause him to lose the
harmony that then existed between him and the laws governing his
being.
The greatest of all the qualities bestowed upon him was that of
the will power which was wholly unrestricted in its operations.
Although, when exercised in a manner which brought this will in
conflict with the laws controlling this harmony, man had to suffer
and pay the penalties of such violations. But notwithstanding that
these perversions of the exercise of the will brought the sins and
errors which now exist on earth, God did not place any limitations
on this exercise.
Man, in his creation, had bestowed upon him appetites and desire
pertaining to his physical nature, as well as desires of his higher
or spiritual nature, and they were all intended to work in harmony
and not in antagonism; and in such workings, man was kept pure and
free from sin - which is merely the violation of God's laws of harmony.
But after the first disobedience, which is the greatest demonstration
of the power of man to exercise that will, even when God had forbade
him to do so, and after man lost this great potentiality that I
speak of, succeeding disobediences became easier; and as these disobediences
occurred man lost to a great extent the desires for the spiritual
things, and the animal or physical part of his nature asserted itself,
and then, instead of exercising these appetites which belonged to
the physical nature in such a wise way that no in-harmony would
ensue - and here let me say that even after the fall it was possible
and even expected that man would exercise these appetites in the
way mentioned, he indulged them beyond their proper functions, and
increased such indulgence, until he commenced to find, as he thought,
more pleasure, in such indulgence, than in the thoughts and exercise
of his higher nature, and the aspirations which belonged to it.
This deterioration of man was not sudden, but gradual, until, at
one time, he became in a state or condition of being bordering on
that of the lower animals, and in fact because of this increased
indulgence of these appetites he seemed to be transformed into the
lower animal; but yet he remained man, a being created in the image
of his Maker.
And from this position of low degradation or degeneracy man slowly
commenced to progress towards the attainment of his original condition
before the fall. Never in all this time, was his freedom of will
taken from him, nor attempted to be controlled by God - but always
the laws of compensation worked, and man suffered as he continued
to create sin and evil.
But as man on earth continued to degenerate and to permit, what
is sometimes called his animal nature to dominate his spiritual
nature, many men died, and continued to die, and their physical
bodies went back to the dust of which they were created, and their
spiritual selves became inhabitants of the spirit world, where they
were freed, in a longer or shorter time, from the desire to exercise
these animal appetites and the spiritual part of man again asserted
itself, until many of these spirits became free from sin and evil
and in harmony with the laws of God, controlling their natures and
conditions as they existed before their degeneracy and before the
disobedience commenced.
And these spirits thus made free and in their spiritual dominance
commenced to try to assist men while living on earth to direct his
will in such ways as to rid himself of submission to these appetites,
and to become again a true man as in his creation state, minus the
potentiality that I have mentioned. But these efforts on the part
of spirits have been slow in their effects, and while men in individual
cases, have been almost regenerated, yet as whole the progress has
not been as rapid as is desirable - sin and evil still exist in
the world, and men's perverted appetites and desires still control
then to a large extent.
Of course, this progress from the bottom of degeneracy has taken
place in some parts of the earth, faster than in others, and, hence,
you have your distinction between the civilized and the uncivilized
races or nations; but this does not necessarily mean that the civilized
people, as individuals, have made greater progress in the manner
indicated, than have the individuals of some of the so called uncivilized
nations, for it is a fact, that among some men of the former nations
are perversions and manifestations of perversions of these appetites
that do not exist in the latter nations.
Advancement in the intellectual qualities do not necessarily mean
progress in the spiritual asserting itself over the perversions
of these appetites, for will is not a thing entirely of the mind,
and neither are these appetites and desires, because back of the
mind are the affections usually called the heart's desires, which
is the seat of these appetites, and from which these desires arise;
and as they arise the will is influenced by them and as the will
is influenced come positive thoughts and deeds.
It is not surprising that your scientists believe and preach the
doctrine of the evolution of man from a lower species of animal,
or from an atom or from something that they cannot just understand
or give a name to, because in their studies of the history of mankind,
and of the created world, they find that man has developed and progressed
amazingly from what appeared to have been his condition in some
ages past.
But history does not extend to the time when man was in this lowest
condition of degeneracy, and hence all the conclusions that these
scientists reach are based upon facts, sufficient unto themselves,
which show the progress of man only after the turning point of his
degeneracy. They have no fact, and, of course, when the word "facts"
is here used, it refers exclusively to the material things of nature
- showing them the gradual decline of man from his state of being
a perfect man to that when his retrogression or degeneracy ceased,
and his progress of return to his former estate commenced.
So, if the scientists will believe and teach that man, instead
of evolving from an atom or some other infinitesimal something,
or from a lower species of animal than man, evolved from his state
or condition when he was at the bottom of his degeneracy, to which
he had descended from the perfect man, then they will believe and
teach the truth, and their theory of evolution will then have as
its foundation or basis, a fact, which now it has not - only a speculation.
This in short, is the history and truth of the creation of the
universe of man - of man's fall and degeneracy, and evolution and
progress. And through all this creation and subsequent existence,
runs life, permeating it and always with it, and the origin of Life
is God.
I have finished and I hope that you will find some instruction
as well as entertainment in what I have written. I will come again
soon and write you another truth.The fact that you waited for sentences
to be formulated to express my thoughts, merely means that I was
manipulating your brain so that the proper expression or idea could
be conveyed to your hand as I wrote it.
You have my love and blessings, and I am more interested as time
passes in you and your work. Keep up your courage and your desires
will be fulfilled.
Your friend and brother
Jesus
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