CHRIST MAY BE IN YOU

March 3rd, 1918

I am here, Jesus.

    I desire tonight to write you in reference to the way in which, as the preacher advises, "Christ may be in you."

    I know that it is almost universal, among preachers of the orthodox church, to teach their hearers that the way to salvation is to get Christ in them.  Thereby, they will be enabled to come into Unity with the Father and cease to remain subject to the effects of sin and evil.  Well this teaching is the True Foundation of Salvation for the Celestial Heavens, provided it be understood by the preachers and the people, what the true meaning of "Christ in you" is.   Unless this meaning be comprehended, the fact that preacher, or people, may believe that they have Christ in them, will not work the results that they may suppose, or desire.

    Many, and l may say the most, of these professing Christians, have ideas of what this expression means, in order to become effective, that are not in accord with the True meaning of this condition of the soul.  They believe that all that is necessary, is to believe on Jesus as their saviour, by his sacrifice and death.  That in so believing, they have Christ in them and that nothing else is required.

    They have no conception of the distinction between Jesus the man, and Christ the Spirit of Truth.  Or, more correctly, the Spirit that manifests the existence of the Divine Love in the soul.  Christ is not a human, in the sense that he is Jesus the son of the Father.  Christ is that part of Jesus, or rather quality that came to him, after he fully received into his soul the Divine Love and was transformed into the very Essence of the Father in His Divine Love.  Christ is thus, not a human, but is the manifestation of this Divine Love, as bestowed upon Jesus and made part of his very existence.  When humans use the expression, having Christ in you, if they could correctly understand the True purport of the same, they would know that it, the expression, means only that the Divine Love of the Father is in their souls.

    The indiscriminate use of the words, "Jesus" and "Christ" is the cause of much misunderstanding among these Christians, as to a number of the sayings of the Bible.  Jesus became the Christ, only because he was the first to receive into his soul, this Divine Love and to manifest its existence.  This Christ Principle is one that all humans may possess.  With the result, that they will become At- One with the Father in His Substance of Divine Love and Immortality.  It would be impossible for Jesus, the man, to get into, or become a part of any mortal.  It would be equally as impossible for Christ, as the man Jesus, even though perfect and free from sin, to become a part of anyone.

    No, the meaning of having Christ in you is to have this Divine Love of the Father in your soul.  Which can only be obtained through the working of the Holy Spirit, as the Instrument of the Father, in bringing this Divine Love into the soul.

    To many, who hear the preachers exhortations in this particular, the expression is only a mystery.  Which they accept merely intellectually and feel that by such acceptance, they have the possession of this Christ, which is the only evidence of the Truth of the Father's Divine Love.

Good-night.  Your friend and brother, Jesus

December 16th, 1918

    Let me write a few lines tonight, as I desire to tell you of a Truth, that to me seems important for humankind to know, in order that they may comprehend the Truth of their personal salvation.

    I am a spirit of soul development, an inhabitant of the Celestial Heavens.  Where only those whose souls have been Transformed by the Divine Love into the very Nature and Essence of the Father can find a habitation.

    I will not write at any great length and have only one idea, or Truth, to convey.  That is; "that no human, or spirit, can possibly receive the Full Salvation, that Jesus taught and exemplified in his own person, who does not become wholly possessed in their soul of this Divine Love of the Father.  Becomes rid of the conditions and attributes that belong to their Created soul."  This soul was not Created with any of the Divine Attributes, or Qualities.  Simply and merely with those, which you may call human.  Which all humans and spirits, who have not experienced The Transformation, possess.

    The God-human, as Jesus is sometimes designated by your religious writers and theologians, was not at the time of his Creation, or appearance in the flesh, possessed of these Divine Attributes, which are of the Nature and Essence of the Father.  Only of the human attributes, which belonged to the Perfect Human.  That is, the human who was the Perfect Creature, as they existed before the fall of the First Parents, when sin had not entered into their souls and into the world of humans existence.

    Jesus was, from the time of his birth, the Perfect Human. Consequently, without sin.  All his moral qualities being in complete Harmony with the Will of God and the Laws controlling his Creation.  Yet, he was not greater than were the First Parents, prior to their act of disobedience.  There was nothing of God, in the sense of the Divine, that entered into his nature, or constituents.  If the Divine Love had not come into and Transformed his soul, he would have remained only the Perfect Creature, of a quality no higher, or greater than, was bestowed upon the First Humans.  Jesus was, as regards his possibilities and privileges, like these First Humans, prior to their fall, or death of the potentiality, of becoming Divine.  But differed from them in this:  that Jesus embraced and made his own, these privileges.  Hence, became Divine.  While the First Humans refused to embrace them and lost them.  Remained the mere human, though not the Perfect Human (in state or condtion), as they were Created.  While Jesus, by reason of his possession of the Divine Love, became Divine.  Yet, he never became the God-human.  Never can.  For there does not exist and never can be a God-human.  God is God, Alone.  Never has and never can become human.  Jesus is human only and never can become God.

    But Jesus is preeminently the Divine Human.  May rightly be called the best Beloved Son of the Father.  For he possesses more of the Divine Love.  Consequently, more of the Essence and Nature of the Father, than does any other spirit of the Celestial Heavens.  With this possession, there comes to him greater power, glory and knowledge.  He may be described and understood, as possessing and manifesting the Wisdom of the Father.  We spirits of the Celestial Kingdom recognize and acknowledge that superior wisdom of Jesus.  Are compelled by the very greatness and force of the Wisdom itself, to honor and abide in his authority.  This transcendent and greatest possessor of the Father's Wisdom, is the same when he comes to you and reveals the Truths of God, as he is when in the highest spheres of the Celestial Kingdom, clothed in all the glory of his nearness to the Father.  As the voice on the Mount said "Hear ye him,"  I repeat to you and to all who may have the privilege and opportunity of reading, or hearing, his messages, "Hear ye him!"   When hearing, believe and seek.

    Well, my brother, I deemed it proper to write this short message and hope it may help you in the work.  I will come again.

Good night.  Your brother in Christ, Saint Matthew, as called in the Bible.