BELIEF AND FAITH NOT THE SAME 

October 10th, 1915.

    I am here, Jesus.

    I came to-night to tell you that you are nearer the Kingdom than you have been for a long time.  That if you pray to the Father, in more earnestness, you will soon realize the inflowing of the Divine Love, that will make you free indeed and fit you to enjoy that close communion with the Father.  That will enable you to forget all your worries and disappointments, and see with your soul perceptions the Great Truths which I and my followers may endeavor to teach you.

    I know, that at times, it seems difficult to grasp the full meaning of Faith in the Father and His Love.  If you will earnestly seek for His Divine Love, you will find that there will come to you such a belief in His Wonderful Love, in the nearness of His Presence, that you will be free from all doubt.

    You have asked me "what is Faith"?  I will answer:  Faith is that, which when possessed in its real and true meaning, makes the aspirations and longings of the soul a real, living existence.  One so certain and palpable that no doubt will arise as to its reality.  This Faith is not the belief that arises from the mere operation of the mind.  But that which comes from the opening of the perceptions of the soul.  Which enables its possessor to see God in all His Beauty and Love.  I do not mean that the possessor of this Faith will actually see God in form, or feature.  For He has none such.  But their soul perceptions will be in such condition, that all the Attributes of the Father will appear so plainly to them.  That they will be as real as anything that they can see with the eyes of the spirit form (spirit body).  Such Faith comes only with constant, earnest prayer and the reception into the soul of the Divine Love.

    No human, can be said to have Faith, who has not this Divine Love.  Of course, Faith is a progressive quality, or Essence of the soul.  Increases as possession of this Divine Love increases.  Is not dependent on anything else.  Your prayers, call from the Father, a response that brings with it Faith.  With this Faith, comes a Knowledge of the existence of this Divine Love in your own soul.

    Many persons, I know, understand this Faith to be a mere belief.  It is greater than belief.  Is existing, in its true sense, only in the soul.  Belief may arise from a conviction of the mind, but Faith never can.  Its place of being is in the soul.  No one can possess it unless their soul is awakened by the inflowing of this Divine Love.  So that, when we pray to the Father to increase our Faith, it is a prayer for the increase of Divine Love.  Faith is based on the possession of this Divine Love.  Without it (the Divine Love) there can be no Faith.  Because, it is impossible for the soul to exercise its function (Faith) when Divine Love is absent from it.

    Sometime, as you progress in these writings, you will be in soul condition to understand just what Faith is.  Until that time, your Faith will be limited by your possession of this Divine Love.

    Well, in my healing of the sick, the blind and the others of earth, who needed a cure, when I said: "as your Faith so be it unto you,"  I meant that they must believe that The Father had power to bring about the cure.  I did not mean that if their minds merely had the belief, that I might cure them, that then they would be cured.  Belief was not sufficient of itself, but Faith was required.

    Faith is not a thing that can be obtained by a mere exercise of the mind.  But has to be sought for with the soul perceptions.  When obtained will be enjoyed only by the soul perceptions.

    I am with you in all my love and power.  For I love you as I told you and desire that you shall become free and happy, so that you can do my work.

With all my love and blessings I will say good-night.

Your brother and friend, Jesus

Angelic Revelations of Divine Truth, Vol. I, pg. 13

October 25th, 1915.

I am here, Jesus.

    I have heard your discussion, am much pleased that you and your friend are progressing so rapidly in the Knowledge of Truth.  Very soon you both will be surprised at the extent of Knowledge of spiritual things and Truths that will come to you.

    No human, who on earth is given to only, what you may call the material things, will be able, when they become a spirit, to understand the Spiritual Laws, until they have gotten rid of the material mind and the reasoning that comes from the powers which have been exercised only in the investigation of material things.

    You cannot perceive spiritual things with the material mind.  Neither can a human, by reason of those powers of the mind, which know only material things, be able to perceive the Truths of the spirit.  Hence the necessity for human cultivating the soul perceptions.  Which are greater and more comprehending than all the faculties of the material mind.

    Mind, as usually understood by humans, is undoubtedly a wonderful instrument in investigating and learning the Laws of Nature and the relation of cause and effect in the physical world.  But such powers when applied to the things of the spirit, will not help much.  But rather retard the progress of the soul's development of its faculties.

    The reasoning power given to human is the highest quality of the material mind.  When properly exercised, affords a very safe and satisfactory method of arriving at the Truth.  But such power when exercised in reference to things which are strangers to it, or with which such powers having no acquaintance, or have never been concerned in the investigation of the phenomena of their existence, cannot be depended upon to bring conclusions that will assure humans of Truth.

    Laws are eternal, never change.  Are made by the Great Father, to be applied to all the conditions and to all the relationships of the material world and of the spiritual world.  But the Laws that apply to the operations of the material world, are not fitted to apply to the operations of the spiritual world.  The human who understands the former and their application to material things, is not able to apply the Laws applicable to the spiritual world to spiritual things. A knowledge of the Laws pertaining to the natural, will not supply a Knowledge of the Laws pertaining to the spiritual.

    Hence the great scientist who, when on earth, was able to discover and show the operation of the Laws controlling material things, when they come to the spiritual world and attempts to apply this knowledge to the things of the spirit, will be wholly unable to do so.  Will be as a babe, in their ability to understand and draw deductions from the Spiritual Laws.  So you see the necessity for humans becoming acquainted with these Spiritual Laws, if they expect to progress in things to which they apply.

    The Material Laws may be learned from by the operation of the senses, that belong to and constitute the material mind.  But the Spiritual Laws can only be learned by the exercise and application of the faculties of the soul.  The soul is, to the spiritual things of God, what the mind is to the material things of God.  The great mistake that humans make and have made, is to attempt to learn these spiritual things with the powers of the material mind.

    I write thus because I see that you and your friend desire to learn the nature, operations and workings of the spiritual things.  Hence I want to impress upon you the necessity for exercising the Soul Perceptions, which will come to you as your soul develops.  These perceptions are just as real as are the five senses of the natural mind, though most humans do not even know of their existence.  When once you have succeeded in understanding that they do exist, and that you may be able to use them just as you use the faculties of the material mind, you will be able to progress in the development of these faculties, or perceptions, with as much success and certainty as does the great scientist or philosopher in the studies of the things to which they apply the faculties of their material mind.

    I hope that I have made plain what I intend to convey.

    I will not write more tonight.  But say, let your Faith increase and pray more to the Father.  You will see open up to you a wonderful vista of Knowledge of the Truths of the Spirit.  Your friend and brother, Jesus

September 24th, 1916

    I am here, Jesus.

    I have been with you a great deal to-day and know just what have been the workings of your mind.  I tried to influence you, as to some of your thoughts.  I was with you at church in the morning, heard the minister's sermon and saw that he did not rightly comprehend the meaning of the words of the text.  "Verily, verily, I say unto you.  He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father."  "If ye shall ask anything in my name I will do it."

    His explanation of what was meant by "greater works than I do," was not in accord with what I meant.  Or, with the meaning that I intended to convey.  For when I referred to works, I meant those works, which the world considered as miracles.  I intended to assure my disciples that they would have power to do similar works, or perform similar miracles, to a greater extent, than I had performed them. "Greater" referred to quantity and not to quality.

    This power, or the successful exercise of it, was not dependent upon belief in my name.  But upon their Faith in the Power of the Father.  In the fact that He would confer upon them that Power.  There was no virtue in my name, or in me, as the individual, Jesus.  All virtue rested in the Faith that they might have in The Father.  I never performed any of the so-called miracles of my own self.  They were all performed by the Father, working through me.  Just as He worked through me, He would work through my disciples, who should acquire the necessary Faith.  As I have told you before, all acts, that are apparently miracles, are controlled by Law.  Just as are those things which you call the workings of nature, controlled by Law.  When sufficient Faith is acquired, there comes to its possessor, a Knowledge of these Laws.  It may not be, as you would say, a Knowledge, or Consciousness, that is perceptible to the ordinary senses of human, but perceptible to that Inner Sense.  Which is the one that enables humans to comprehend the things of the spirit.   Having this Knowledge, of the Inner Sense, humans may so control these Laws, that they will work those effects, which seem to be contrary to the accustomed workings of the Laws of Nature.  Until my disciples had acquired this Faith, that brought to their inner sense, this Knowledge, they could perform no miracle, do no work of phenomenon, that other humans could not do.

    The Bible expression, that belief in my name is sufficient to cause the workings of miracles is all wrong.  I never said that such belief was what was required.  Neither did I say, "that whatsoever should be asked of the Father in my name would be given to humans."

    I was not a part of the Godhead.  I had not, of myself, any power.  Neither did my name have any miraculous influence with the Father.  I was a human, as other humans are humans.  Only, I had become filled with the Divine Love of the Father, which made me At-One with Him. Consequently, had that Knowledge of His Divine Love and Laws, that enabled me to bring into operation those Laws, that would cause the desired effects to appear as realities.

    Belief in my name caused no working of these Laws.  Or, the response of the Father to any supplications.  Prayer must be made to The Father in the name of Truth, to His Love and Mercy.  Every individual is dear to Him.  He is ready to bestow this Divine Love upon every one who asks, in Faith and pure desire.  In response to the earnest prayer, will come Divine Love.  With It, Knowledge of things spiritual.  With this, Power that may be used for the good of humankind.

    My name is not a mediator between God and human.   Neither is belief in one, the Jesus, a means to reach the responsive Soul of the Father.  If humans will understand my teachings of Truth, when they ask in my name, mean that they ask in the name of these Truths, then such askings will have its results.  But so few humans, when they pray to the Father in my name, have such intention, or understanding.  Only a Knowledge of the Truth of the Plan for Human's Salvation, will enable them to seek, in the right way, to obtain the Gift of the Father.  When I say Knowledge of the Truth of the Plan, I do not mean that humans shall understand all the minutiae of This Plan.  How one element, or part of it, may operate upon another and what results may flow therefrom.  But that Knowledge must be sufficient in the beginning, which shows to human, that The Father is a God of Love, that this Divine Love may be obtained by human through earnest prayer for Its bestowal. This is all that is necessary.  For the response that will follow, will cause the New Birth.  Which when experienced by a human, will place them in that Unison with The Father, that will lead to a Knowledge, of the other Truths, that form a part of the Plan of Salvation.  There is nothing else that will bring about this Knowledge of that Inner Sense of which I write.  A knowledge of the mind, except in conjunction with this Inner Knowledge, can never bring about this necessary At-Onement with The Father.  It often exists that a human will have this Inner Knowledge and at the same time have a knowledge of the mind which is wholly at variance with the Truths of the Plan for their Salvation.  The mind of human, being a thing of wonderful power, can for a time, retard the growth of the Knowledge of the Inner Sense.  Or, as I will say, the soul sense.  But only for a time.  For at some time, the soul sense, will progress to that Knowledge of the Truth, so that the erroneous mind knowledge will entirely disappear and human will possess only the Truth.

    Of this erroneous mind knowledge, or, perhaps rather, conviction, is the belief that in my name.  That is; supplications made in my name, will bring about the realization of the desires of the supplicant.  Also that in my blood, or in the power of the cross, or in my alleged vicarious atonement, the salvation of humans can be obtained.  If any name must be used in human's supplication, then use only the Name of The Father.  For His is a Name, High over all.  The only Name in Heaven, or earth, that can bring to human salvation and At-Onement with His Being.

    What I have said, applies to many other declarations contained in the Bible.  Such as, "he that believeth on the Lord Jesus Christ shall be saved."  "There is no other name under heaven whereby humans can be saved", etc.  This is the enunciation of a false doctrine, misleading to the great majority of humankind.  For they accept the declarations as literally true.  Of course if it be interpreted as meaning that they that believeth on the Truths that I teach, then the objection is not so great.  Even then, the declarations do not go far enough.  For humans may believe in these Truths and that belief may be a mere mental one, acquiesced in, merely by the mind's faculties, without any exercise at all of the soul sense.  If to all these declarations shall be added the vital Truth, that "except a human be born again, they cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven," and to this mental belief be added the soul's Faith, then the doctrines will be truly stated.  Humans will understand what is necessary to salvation.

    Belief and Faith are not the same.  One is of the mind, the other of the soul.  One can and does change, as phenomena and apparent facts change.  The other, when truly possessed, never changes.  For Faith possessed by a soul, causes all the longings and aspirations of that soul, to become things of real existence.  Which, like the house that is built upon the solid rock, can never be shaken or destroyed.

    I write thus to-night, to show that the preacher in his sermon did not explain the true meaning of the text.  Did not comprehend the Truths, that were intended to be conveyed, of which the text was susceptible.  Though it did not set forth my expressions, or in its literal interpretation, declare the Truth.

    I will not write more now except to say, that I love you with a great love and pray to The Father to Bless you.

    Believe in The Father and trust me.  For you will not be disappointed.  Pray that this Divine Love of The Father shall come into your soul, so that you shall know that you are an accepted child of the Father.

    Keep up your courage and have Faith, that whatsoever things you shall ask The Father in the name of His Love and Truth shall be given to you.  I am with you in all my love and care, you will not be forsaken.

So my dear brother, rest assured that I am your brother and friend, Jesus

Angelic Revelations of Divine Truth, Vol. I, pg. 364.

August 30th, 1915.

I am here, Jesus:

     I come tonight because I see that you are again praying to the Father for the inflowing of His Divine Love and for Faith.  For a nearness to Him that will make you happy.  I am glad of this new aspiration.  Know that the Divine Love will come to you.  That your Faith will be increased.  Your trust in me will be established firmly so that we can proceed with our work.  So, I will soon come now and write you another of my formal messages.  I hope that thence we can go rapidly onward.

    I have been with you today and know what your feelings have been.  How, in a way, you have had Faith that certain things would come to pass without knowing just why.  You have not troubled yourself very much and expected to secure them at the time needed.  Well, I want to tell you that, that is the kind of Faith that you should have in reference too all the things that affect you both materially and spiritually.  Such Faith brings results.  You will not be disappointed in your present Faith.  For what you need will come to you this week.  I am here predicting a thing with certainty as I see it.  I do not think you will be disappointed.

(question or statement) 

    I know what you mean and we will help you.  Only exercise your willpower, when you feel the temptation come to you very strong, utter a prayer to the Father for help.  You will receive it.

    I am glad that you are in such condition of Harmony with the Father tonight.  That your love for Him is so strong. With that love will come Faith, that will be able to accomplish most anything that you may desire, that the Father sees is best for you.

(question)

    Yes, you can ask those things with the assurance that they will be pleasing to the Father, and will not be refused you.  I would like to write longer but I must stop now.

    I will tell you the next time that I write about these two spirits who say they are the First Parents of the human race.  I have not the time now.  What I may say may be interesting to you and to the world.

So, my dear brother, I will say goodnight.

Your brother, Jesus

April 5th, 1916.

I am here, Jesus.

    These people (the Christian Scientists) obtain by their study of the principles that God is everything, and that their will must be subjected to His, a certain union with the power of the spirit world, that calls into operation those powers which give them strength of will and a belief that their appetites for the stimulant has left them.  That being so, they may easily refrain from further indulging this appetite.

    The spirit forces help them to a greater extent than they possibly understand.  But in order for this help to become effective, these people must necessarily come in rapport with these forces.  They, by what they believe they possess in the way of having a proper conception of the true relationship of themselves to God, further believe that there is some power which exists in the spirit realms that is sufficient to take from them their appetites and enable them to lay aside these appetites for what, they realize, is the unreal.

    This Faith is a wonderful thing in helping human to do, or not to do, a particular thing.  Even though they may not understand the True Principle, upon which this Faith works out the results of which they testify, yet they acquire the Faith which causes them to come into close rapport with the powers that actually help them to a successful realization of their desires.

    As a matter of fact, God does not, as you may say, personally intervene in these matters.  For He performs His work by means of spirits, or ministering angels, as the Bible teaches, in things having to do with the material things affecting a human's existence.  Even in the matters of the soul, He uses the Holy Spirit as an Instrument, to bring to human His Divine Love and infill the soul of human with Its Presence, Essence and Influence.

    Many of these Christian Scientists have in their souls this Divine Love, without really understanding that it is there. Or why, or how, it came to them.  But they see the effect and have a knowledge that there is some power within them that enables them to come closer to the Father and experience the Presence of His Divine Love.

    Christian Science is, in many particulars, a belief which leads to a Faith, that brings the true, sincere believer into an At-Onement with the Father.  Makes the believer a possessor of this Divine Love of the Father.  Yet many of its teachings are misleading and hard to understand.  Not suitable for the great mass of humankind, because of certain mental requirements necessary to be understood, before the seeker can grasp the Truth, that this Divine Love is the only thing that will save them from their sins and fit them for the Kingdom.

    I must not write more on this subject tonight.  For, as I have told you, I will come sometime and show you its merits and demerits in detail.

    I will soon come and finish my last message.  As there are so many more that I desire to communicate, I hope that we may proceed faster in our work.

    I will be with you in your daily life in my love and influence.  Try to help you to that condition of mind and soul progress that you pray for, and that are so very necessary.

    Yes, I hear your request.  I pray as you desire.  I know that the Father answers my prayers, as He also answers yours.  Only have more Faith and more soul longings.  You will soon realize an inflowing of this Divine Love to a wonderful degree.

I must stop now.  With all my love and blessings, I am

your friend and brother, Jesus