CELESTIAL HEAVENS

June 5th, 1915. 

I am here, Jesus.

    I am with you tonight as I heard you longing for me and have come to comfort and bless you. 

    My dear brother, you have the Divine Love of the Father in your soul to a great extent this night.  I see that you are very happy and feel that the Father is very near you.  I am so glad that your condition is such, for I want to tell you how much the Divine Love of the Father is waiting to Bless you and make you At-One with Him, a True Child of His Affections.   

    I am now prepared to give you my next formal message. If you feel that you would like to take it tonight, I will do so. 

    Well then, I will write on the subject: "Why man must receive this Divine Love in order to be admitted to the Kingdom of Heaven, or Celestial Kingdom." 

    In that Kingdom, there are no spirits who have not received this Divine Love, so that their natures are of the Divine Essence of the Father.  I do not mean that any spirit is perfect in this Divine Nature, but that the spirit has so much of this Divine Love in their soul, as to make them in Unison with the Nature of the Father.  There are different degrees of Perfection.  Or rather, there are different degrees of possession of this Divine Love by the spirits. Their happiness and glory are dependent upon the amount of Divine Love possessed by them.  No spirit though, who is an inhabitant of this Kingdom, is without this Divine Love. No spirit, has in its soul any sin or error, that may have been a part of it while in the earth life.  All the spirits know that they are Immortal, just as the Father is Immortal.  This Knowledge comes to them, only from the possession of this Divine Love, which is the Divine Essence that flowed into their souls from the Great Divine Nature of The Father. Should anything in the soul not be in Unison with the Soul of the Father, that spirit could not possibly enter into that Kingdom.  As the soul of such spirit remains in such condition of inharmony, it can never be received into the Celestial Kingdom. 

    I know that among humans and spirits also, it is thought and asserted that the Father is All Merciful and All Good.  In His Great Plan for The Salvation of Humans and for establishing the Harmony of His Universe, no human, or spirit, will be excluded from His Heavenly Kingdom.  In this thought (about the exlusion), mortals and spirits both are mistaken.  I am sorry to say that many of them will, when too late, realize this error. 

    God has certain Principles, which are fixed, which are necessary for humans to know and obey in order for them to become At-One with Him and partake of His Divine Nature.  If they fail to obey the requirements of these Principles, they will forever be excluded from possessing, that in their souls, which will make them like the Father and admit them to His Kingdom.  They, in such condition, or want of the qualifications, even though they were admitted to the Kingdom, would not be happy.  For their condition would wholly fail to respond to those things in The Kingdom which give Happiness to the True Children of the Father. They, of necessity, would be most unhappy.  Heaven would not be a heaven to them.  So you see, all spirits, in order to inhabit this Kingdom, must have the prescribed requirements of soul love and soul development. 

    As I said when on earth, "He that enters into the sheepfold in any other way than through the gate is a thief and a robber".  No thief, or robber, is fitted for this Kingdom of Divine Love. 

    Let humans know, that no Mercy, or Divine Love of the Father, will be given them, to enable them to enter this Kingdom, unless that human seeks this Divine Love, this Mercy, in the way the Father has ordained that they shall be sought for.  No special providence will be extended to any human.  If they come to the marriage feast without their wedding garment, they will be cast out and not be permitted to enjoy the feast.  Humans may reason, to the extent of all their reasoning powers, to prove that The Father, being a Loving and Merciful Father, will not cast them out, or keep them from entering this Kingdom, because they are all His Children and the objects of His Love and Favor.  That one is as dear to Him as the other.   That He is no respecter of persons, therefore, will treat all alike.  I tell them that they are mistaken.  If they wait until the Great Day, when the sheep shall be separated from the goats, they will realize to their everlasting exclusion from this Kingdom, that what I say is true. 

    Of course, every spirit ever born, is the object of the Father's Care.  He makes no distinction between the spirits and mortals that He has Created.  Wants every one of them to inhabit His Kingdom and partake of those things which He has provided for them.  Which are beyond their conception, in the Greatness of the Grandeur and Beauty of these things.  He calls to All His Creatures, to come and partake of these Great Provisions, that He has made for them.  No Creature is refused the Gift of these things.  Or, heard to ask and not be answered with their bestowal.  Yet, when that human, or spirit, who has this Great Boon and the way shown by which they can receive these Gifts, refuses, or neglects, to follow that way, or to receive these Gifts, in the way ordained by the Father, then all these Great Gifts are withdrawn from them.  Never, after the Great Day of Separation, will they have the privilege of receiving them. 

    Humans cannot say that the Father is unjust, or unmerciful, or unloving, because He forever, thereafter, shuts the door to these privileges, or the opportunity of receiving them.  Humans have rejected His Gift.  Neglected to search His Plans for their Great Happiness.  Consequently, they will have no right to complain, when they, like the foolish virgins, find the door shut against them.  So I say, humans must realize the necessity of putting on the wedding garments, of filling their lamps with oil, in order to be admitted into the (Celestial)Kingdom. 

    I will not herein tell the way in which humans must prepare themselves for an entrance into this Kingdom of the Father.  For it would take too long.  I will, in a future message, explain this fully.  I will say, before closing, that if humans will pray to the Father, for the inflowing into their souls of His Divine Love and have Faith, they will find themselves on the True Way to become inhabitants of His Kingdom. 

    As it is late I must stop writing.  With all my love and blessings and the Blessings of The Father, will say good night.  Your friend and brother, Jesus 

15th May 1917.

    I am here, Jesus.

    I come to-night and desire to finish my message and hope that you may be able to receive it.  Well, to continue.

    I have described the way to the Kingdom of God on earth and in the spirit world.  Now I will describe the only way to the Kingdom of God in the Celestial Heavens.

    As I have written before, when humans were Created, in addition to having bestowed upon them those things that made them the Perfect Human, in Harmony with the Laws and Will of the Father, He also bestowed upon them the Potentiality, or privilege, of receiving the Divine Love.   Provided they should seek for It in the only way that God had planned for its attainment.  Instead of embracing this Great Privilege, humans (the First Parents) became disobedient, sought to exercise their own wills and did so in that manner, that lead not only to their fall from the condition of the Perfect Humanhood, in which God had Created them, but also to the loss of the Great Privilege of receiving this Divine Love.  Which privilege was never rebestowed upon them, until my coming and teaching that Rebestowal and the True Way to obtain this Divine Love.

    Now, here it had better be understood what this Divine Love was and is.  For it is the same today that it was when humans were Created in the image of God.  This Divine Love differs from the natural love of human, with which they were endowed when Created, which belongs to all humans.  Which they all possess, in a more or less perfect condition.  In this, that the Divine Love, is that Love which belongs to, or is a part of God.  Possessing His Nature and composed of His Substance.  Which when possessed by humans to a sufficient degree, makes them Divine.  Of the Nature of God.  This Great Love, God intended, should be received and possessed by all humans, who should desire to receive it, who would make the effort to obtain it.

    It is the Love that contains in itself the Divine.  Which the natural love does not.  Many, I know, write and believe that all humans, irrespective of the kind of love they have in their souls, possess what they call "the divine spark," which needs only the proper development to make all humans Divine.  This conception of the state of humans in their natural condition is all wrong.  For humans have not in them any part of the Divine.  Never can have, unless they receive and have developed in them, this Divine Love.

    In all God's Universe and Creation, of things material and spiritual, the only one of His Creatures who can possibly have within them anything of a Divine Nature, is they who possesses this Divine Love.  The Bestowal of this Divine Love was intended, in its operation and effect, to transform human, from the merely Perfect Human, into the Divine Angel.  Thus, Create a Kingdom of God in the Celestial Spheres, where only that which is Divine can enter and find a habitation.  You must understand, that as it depends very largely upon humans, themselves, to establish the Kingdom of God, on earth, or in the spiritual world.  So it also depends largely on humans to establish the Kingdom in the Celestial Heavens.  God will not and does not, by any Power that He may have, establish this Divine Kingdom.  If human had never received this Divine Love into their souls, there never would have been any such Kingdom brought into existence.  There is now a Kingdom in the Celestial Spheres.  Not a finished one, for it is still open and in the process of formation.  Is open to the entry of all spirits. Humans must seek for it, in the only way that the Father has provided.   No human, or spirit, will be excluded from it, who, with all the longings of their soul, will aspire to enter that Kingdom.

    I must also state that the time will come, when this Celestial Kingdom will be completed.  Thereafter, neither spirit, nor human, will be able to enter therein.  For this Divine Love of the Father will again be withdrawn from humans, as it was from the First Parents.  The only Kingdom that will then be accessible to humans, will be the Kingdom that will exist on earth, or that which now exists in the spirit world.

    Then what is the way that leads to this Celestial Kingdom?  The only way?  For there is but one!

    The observance of the Moral Precepts, the cleansing of humans souls from sin, by following these precepts, will not lead to this Kingdom.  For as it can be readily seen, the stream can rise no higher than its source.  The source of the souls of humans, in a merely purified state, is the condition of the Perfect Human.  That condition in which they were before their fall.  Hence the results of the observance and living of the merely Moral Precepts, the exercise of the natural love in its pure state, is that human will be restored to the condition of the Perfect Human.  The Created human, in whom there is nothing of the Divine.  This restored condition of human, will be so Perfect, so in Harmony with God's Will and His Laws governing the Highest and Most Perfect of His Creatures, that human will be very happy.  Yet, they will continue to be only the Created Being, having nothing more than the image of their Maker.

   So, I say, living in a Harmony with the Moral Laws and the exercise of this natural love in its highest and purest state, towards God and towards their fellow human, will not lead into the way to the Celestial Kingdom.  The greatest height of their attainment will be the Kingdom on earth, or that in the spirit heavens.  The distinct and differing nature of these Kingdoms from that of the Celestial Heavens, will enable humankind to understand the difference between the missions of the great teachers and reformers who preceded me in their work among humans and the mission which I was selected to perform on earth.  The former could not possibly have taught the way to the Celestial Kingdom.  For until my coming, this Divine Love of which I write was not possible for human to obtain.  The privilege was not, before that time, in existence, after the First Parents lost it.  There was no Celestial Kingdom in which humans could find their eternal home.

    So, I repeat, all the moral teachings of the world's history, could not show the way to the Celestial Kingdom of God.  Cannot now.  For morality, as understood and taught by humankind, by the spirits and angels, cannot give to human, that which is absolutely necessary in order to transform their souls, into that state or condition that fits them for an entrance into this Truly Divine Kingdom of The Father.  The way thereto is simple and single.  Humans were taught that way by me when I was on earth.  And could have been taught that way during all the centuries since I left the human life.  I must say that some have been so taught.  Have found that way.  But comparatively few.  For the mortals, whose ostensible and claimed mission and privilege were to teach that way, I mean the priests, preachers and churches, have neglected to teach the same. Rather, though in earnestness and realizing their allegiance to God, their obligations to humankind, have taught merely the way, which the observance of the Moral Precepts would lead humans into.  All this notwithstanding, that in the Bible, which most of those professing to be Christians believe contains my sayings and teachings, is set forth this way to the Celestial Kingdom.  The words are few, the way is plain.  No mystery prevents humans from comprehending the meaning thereof.  When I said, "Except a man be born again, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God,"  I disclosed the only and True way to this Kingdom. During my time on earth, there were some who understood this Great Truth.  Since that time, there have been some who not only understood this Truth, but found the way. Followed it until they reached the goal.  Are now inhabitants of this Kingdom.  But the vast majority of humans, priests, teachers and people, have never understood.  Have never sought to find the way.  This Great Truth, to their spiritual senses, has been as it were, a hidden thing.  As they read, or even recite the same to their hearers, it has no special significance, but is merely as one of the Moral Precepts, such as "Love your neighbor as yourself".  And with not as much importance attached to it, as to some of these moral instructions.  So, all down the ages, since the Great Kingdom has been waiting for humans.  They, though in all sincerity and in love towards God, have sought for and to a greater or lesser extent, found only the Kingdom of the Perfect Human.  Have neglected to seek for and missed the Kingdom of the Divine Angel.

    Then, as I have said, this Divine Love of the Father, when possessed by the soul of human, makes them in their Substance and Essence, Divine, like unto the Divinity of The Father.  Only such souls constitute and inhabit the Celestial, or Divine Kingdom of God.  This being so, it must be readily seen that the only way to the Celestial Kingdom, is that which leads to the obtaining of this Divine Love.  Which means the New Birth.  Which New Birth is brought about by the flowing into the souls of humans, this Divine Love.   Whereby, the very Nature and Substance of the Father,  wherefrom, humans cease to be the merely Created Beings, but become the souls of humans born into the Divine Reality of God.  Then the only way to the Celestial Kingdom being by the New Birth.  That New Birth being brought to humans, only by the inflowing and working of this Divine Love.  Whether or not a human shall experience this New Birth, depending in its initiative on the human themselves.

    The question arises, how, or in what way, can a human obtain this Divine Love, this New Birth and the Celestial Kingdom?  Because the way is so easy and simple, it may be, that humans will doubt the Truth of my explanation and continue to believe and place all their hopes upon the orthodox doctrines of the vicarious atonement.  The washing of the blood, my sufferings on the cross, bearing all the sins of the world and my resurrection from the dead. Doctrines as harmful to the Salvation of Humankind, as they are without Truth, or foundation, in fact, or effect.

    The only way then is simply this:  that humans shall believe with all the sincerity of their minds and souls that this Great Love of the Father is waiting to be bestowed upon each and all of them.  That when they come to the Father in Faith and earnest aspirations, this Divine Love will not be withholden from them.  In addition to this belief, pray with all the earnestness and longings of their souls, that they open up their souls to the inflowing of this Divine Love.  That then, may come to them the Holy Spirit, to bring this Divine Love into their souls, in such abundance, that their souls may be Transformed into the very Essence of the Father's Divine Love.

   The human who will thus believe and pray will never be disappointed.  The Way to the Kingdom will be theirs, as certainly as that the sun shines day by day upon the just and the unjust alike.  No mediator is needed.  Nor are the prayers, or ceremonies of priests, or preachers.  For God comes to humans, Himself.  Hears their prayers, responds thereto by sending The Comforter, which is the Father's Messenger for conveying into the souls of humans, this Great Divine Love.

    I have thus explained the only way to the Celestial Kingdom of God, to the Divine Nature in Divine Love.  There is no other way, whereby it is possible, to reach this Kingdom and the certain Knowledge of Immortality.

    So, I implore humans to meditate on these Great Truths. In meditating believe.  When believing, pray to the Father for the inflowing into their souls of this Divine Love.  In doing so, they will experience belief, Faith, possession and ownership of that, which can never be taken from them. No, not in all eternity.

    So it is with human to choose and fix their destiny.  Will that destiny be the Perfect Human, or the Divine Angel?

I have finished and feel that you have received my message as I intended and am pleased.  I will not write more now.  With my love and blessings, will say goodnight.  Your brother and friend, Jesus 

Angelic Revelations of Divine Truth, Vol. I, pg. 171

June 27th, 1916.

    I am here, Jesus.

    I wish to-night to write you upon a subject that is of interest to all humankind.  I hope that we will be able to communicate and you receive the message.

    I desire to write on the subject of:  Why the Love of God, I mean the Divine Love, is necessary for humans to possess, in order that they may become At-One with the Father and an inhabitant of the Celestial Kingdom.

    Already, I have written you what this Divine Love is, in contradistinction to the natural love.  How it is necessary to save humans from their sins, so that they may become inhabitants of the Celestial Kingdom.  That nothing but this Divine Love will make a human At-One with the Father.  That no mere ceremony, or belief in me as the saviour of humans will effectuate that end.  Now I will try to show you why this Divine Love is necessary, or as your learned humans might say, show you the Philosophy of the Transformation, of the mere human, into the Divine Angel. Which every human becomes who receives this Divine Love into their soul.

    In the first place, humans, as you have been informed, are a Special Creation of God.  Are no greater than the component parts that enter into their Creation, as they are in their individual and aggregate qualities.  These parts are merely what God, in His Act of Creation, designed them to be.  It must not be assumed that these parts, or any of them, are a part of God, or of His Essence, or Qualities.  For they are not.  Are as separate and distinct from Him and His Qualities, as are the lower Creations of His Will.  Such as; animals, vegetables and mineral substances.  The only difference is that humans are of a much Higher Order of Creation.  In one particular (the soul), made in the image of God.  No other of His Creatures has this image in its Creation.  Nevertheless, humans are no part of God.  But a merely Distinct Creation.  In their best and purest state, only a human, having simply those qualities which were Created in them at the time of their coming into existence.

    There are certain qualities which humans possess, such as love, wisdom and the reasoning faculties, which may be said to resemble the godlike attributes.  So they do.  Yet, they are not a part of God's Essence, or Qualities.  When humans assert that human is divine, or that they have in them the Divine Nature, or even a portion of the Divine Essence, they are wrong.  For the qualities in them, that appear to be of this divine resemblance, are merely those which were Created, for the purpose of making the human a Perfect Human.  Because of this conception of humans, as to their inherent qualities, they have, do and will, lose the opportunity of becoming possessed of the Divine Nature, or Essence of the Father.  Which they may obtain, if they will pursue the proper and only method that God has provided for them in order to be At-One with Him.

    The universe of human, can and will continue to exist, even though human may never become a partaker of this Divine Nature of the Father.  Humans will live and enjoy the happiness that was bestowed upon them at the time of their Creation.  They will not lose the Perfect Condition of this Creation, after they shall have been separated from sin and error, their own creatures.  But they will not be anything more than the Perfect Human.  In the time to come, will not be anything less.  Yet, they will always, as long as they exist, remain distinct from the Nature and Essence of The Father.  Just as they were at the time of their Creation, unless they obtain this Divine Nature and Essence of the Father, in the way that I mentioned.

    The highest endowment of human, either in soul, or heart, or intellect, is merely that which belongs to them as a part of their Creation.  Is not the smallest part of the Divine Nature and Qualities of the Father.  No part, or portion, of Divinity enters into human's Creation.  No matter how divinely constituted humans may appear to be, or godlike they may seem, in the greatness of their intellect, or in the extent of their Love Nature.  So you see, human, is as distinct from God and from His Divinity, as is the animal, the brute, from human.  Must forever remain so, unless they follow the only way the Father has prescribed for them to obtain a portion of this Divinity.

    Now, all this shows that human, no matter how highly they may develop their intellect, or to what extent they may develop their Moral and Love Nature, cannot become more than the mere human that they were in the beginning.  Perfect in every particular.  For they were, in the beginning, Perfect in every particular.  As I have said before, God never makes a mistake as to the Perfection of His Creatures.  Even though, in the case of human, it may appear that He did, in giving them the great power of free will.  Which, in its wrongful exercise, has caused sin and evil to appear in the word of human's consciousness.

    Human was made finite.  Their capacity for exercising any and all their qualities is limited.  Beyond which they cannot possibly go.  Their intellect is bound by limits, as determined as the Law of God which controls it.  Also, their capacity for loving and for the enjoyment of their happiness.  Though they may live for all eternity, either as human, or spirit, they cannot possibly extend, or pass beyond, the boundary lines of their Creation.  They cannot enter into the Realm of the Divine, where limitations do not exist, capacity for receiving Knowledge, Wisdom and Divine Love, for progression that is commensurate with the very Fountainhead of God, Himself.

    Then, such being the nature, limitation and capacity of human, it is apparent that they can never, by virtue of their Creation and the qualities which they possess, become a partaker of the Nature and Essence of God.  Unless, they receive something in addition to these qualities.  They must receive this something from without.  It will not do to say, that there is within them, as an inherent part of them, that, which when developed, will make them of a Nature Divine,  a part of the Essence of the Father.  For this is not true. There is nothing in human of this Divine Nature.  It is impossible to produce an Essence Divine, unless there be something from which it can be produced, that in some degree has the Nature of that Essence.  It would be the equivalent of producing something from nothing, which even God does not attempt to do.

    Then, as humans are thus limited, all that flows from the qualities and attributes which they possess, is necessarily limited.  The enjoyment of their intellect, the pleasures of their love, the satisfaction of their reasoning powers and as a sum total, their capacity for happiness, have their bounds. Besides, the Consciousness of Immortality can never be theirs, either as spirit, or mortal, even though they may strive it to be.

    When human takes on the Divine Nature, becomes absorbed in the Essence of the Father, they then become like the Father.  Whatever their image to the Father may have been, when they were mere human, now they become the Real Substance.  Limitations of possibilities become removed.  Love sees no ending.  Intellectual development no boundaries.  Happiness no limitations.   Immortality becomes a thing of Knowledge.  The soul, a New Creature, having the Divine Essence of the Father.  Until this new creation has taken place and the transformation becomes a thing of Reality, the soul be made At-One with The Father, human cannot enter into the Celestial Kingdom of Heaven.  Then, no longer human, but now an Divine Angel.

    Now, as I have written you before, all this can be accomplished only by the operation of the New Birth.  That is; the inflowing into the soul of human, of the Divine Love of The Father.  This Divine Love contains the Essence of God's Divinity.  When humans obtain It, they are then, of the same Essence as the Father.  For the first time becomes a part of the Divine.  Fitted to inhabit the Celestial Heavens. In no other way can human partake of this Nature.  It does not require much reasoning to show the logical Truth of this statement.  For humans in their earthly affairs and in their material experiments, in producing compounds from elements, applies the same Principle that I assert in my statement, "The dough cannot be leavened unless leaven is placed in the batch."

    So you see, that without this Divine Love entering into the soul, it will be impossible for the natural human to become the Divine Angel.  Beliefs, creeds, doctrines and sacrifices cannot work this Transformation.  Even though the beliefs may be without doubt, the creeds and doctrines satisfactory, the sacrifices without end, yet they will all be futile to change the soul of the mere human, into the soul of the Divine Angel.  All this, in part, is why human should seek to obtain the Divine Love and become an inhabitant of the Celestial Spheres.

    I have written enough for tonight.  I am pleased at the way in which you received it.  So with all my love and blessings, I am, your brother and friend, Jesus