DIVINE TRUTH

April 7th, 1916

    I am here, John.

    I desire to write a little to night upon a subject that may prove to be of interest to you and others who may read my message.  I will not write a very long message, but will say what I desire in short sentences, so that the Truth that I intend to convey may be understood at a glance.

    Well, when you are sure that you have discovered, or have had revealed to you, a Truth, let it sink deep into your soul, so that it will find such lodgment as will cause you to realize that this Truth is a reality.  A thing that must not be forgotten, or neglected, in its application to your daily life on earth.

    When you have found that the Truth fits some particular condition of your mind's experience, adopt it as a criterion for determining what your course of action shall be.

    When you have thus adopted it, let it always remain with you as a guide and monitor in determining what your belief as to the particular thing involved shall be.

    When you have thus received this belief of the mind, encourage and feed upon it until it becomes a thing of established Faith.  When Faith has become a part of your very being, you will find that the accompaniments of such Faith, in the way of longings and aspirations, will become things of real existences, which will result in actual Knowledge.

    When such Knowledge becomes yours, then you have solved the problem of what is True and what is not.  When you have solved this, you will become a human, who, when they utter their Knowledge of Truth, will speak as one having authority.

    Such was the process by which Jesus became the possessor and authentic expositor of the Great Spiritual Truths, that had never before been known and declared by any human.

    Of course, these various steps which lead to this Great Knowledge of Truth, must be taken gradually and with increased confidence.  In all this, the Help and Influence of the Father are necessary.  Such Help and Influence comes only in response to sincere, soul aspiring prayer.

    Prayer must arise from the soul of human.  The response must come from God.  There is no other means by which this Knowledge can be obtained.  All Knowledge, of things spiritual, that humans may think they possess, coming in any other way, cannot be relied on.  For there is only One Source of such Knowledge, out of which the Real Spiritual Truths of God emanate.

    And Love is the Great Principle that enters into all Knowledge of things Spiritual.  Without Love it is utterly impossible for human to rightfully conceive the Truths of God and possess them.

    I merely desired to give you this short lesson on Truth, Knowledge and Love, so that in receiving and absorbing our messages of the Great Spiritual Truths of the Father, you may realize the means of making them your own, in a manner to satisfy your soul perceptions.

    I will come soon and write you a message on some of these vital Truths.  Think of what I have above written.  You will find that your soul perceptions will be opened up to a clear and wonderful comprehension of the real meaning of what we desire to reveal.

I will not write more to night.  Your brother in Christ, John

Angelic Revelations of Divine Truth, Vol II, pg 136

December 25th, 1915

I am here, Jesus.

    I come to-night because I see that you are lonesome and feel the need of companionship.  I come to you as a brother and friend to cheer you. Make you feel that, though you have no mortal friend with you, yet you have a friend in the spirit, who is closer than a mortal brother, who loves you with a deep and abiding love.

    To-day has been one in which the people of your land have celebrated what they suppose is my birthday.  Have also worshiped me as one of the triune godhead, as they believe.  As I have told you before, such worship is all wrong and is very distasteful to me.  Only makes me the more anxious and determined that this great falsehood shall be exposed and not believed in any longer.

    There is only One God and that is The Father.  He alone, must be worshiped.  For He Alone can save mortals from the result of their sins and from the consequences of the great fall of the First Parents.  I do not want humans to look upon me as anything more than an elder brother, who is filled with the Divine Love of the Father and very close to Him in the Qualities of Love and Faith.  I am a spirit, who is possessed of a Knowledge of the Attributes of the Father, that no other spirit is.  Yet am only one of His Children, as you and the rest of humankind are.  For my own brothers and sisters, to worship me as god makes me very unhappy. Seeing that they can have such a little Knowledge of the Truths of the Father.

    Tomorrow this worship and praise will be continued.  I must look upon it with all the distaste that I have and realize that I am not able to set humans aright in their beliefs and worship.

    Oh, I tell you the harvest is ripe and the laborers are few.  But very soon, I hope this Truth of the Oneness of God and the brotherhood of myself with all humanity, may be revealed to humankind, through the messages that you may receive and transmit to humans.

    The One Great Truth, that is the Foundation of Humans Salvation, is the New Birth.  The fact that the Divine Love of The Father is waiting, for every human to let it enter their souls and make them At-One with The Father.

    I am with you very often and am trying to impress you with the great necessity of having these Truths revealed.  As humans souls are longing for the Truth.  Their intellects are dissatisfied with the present teachings of theology and the sayings of the Bible in many places.  While this is to be deplored, yet the time will come, when the Light that I came into the world to disclose, will shine for every human who may come within the reach of my teachings.

    Last night I was reading, as you read an article, which advocated the eliminating from the Christian teachings, of a large part of the New and nearly the whole of the Old Testament.  The formulating of a faith based entirely on my sayings and the writings of some of the Bible writers.  Such a plan is one that should be investigated by the thinking Christians of the present day, in a modified way adopted.  The only difficulty in carrying out this plan effectively and having it produce the results desired, is that the Bible does not contain many sayings of mine disclosing The Truths and does contain many sayings attributed to me, which I never said.  Take that saying over which a controversy is now being had and which is referred to in another article contained in the book mentioned.  That is, that I said I came not to bring peace to the world, but rather a sword.

    Now, while it appears in Matthews' Gospel as coming from me, I never said it.  Nor used any expression that would convey the meaning, that some of the commentators are endeavoring to place upon the words.  I never taught war upon a human's neighbors.  Never at any time was such a thought a part of my teachings to the disciples, or to any others.

    No, militarism is all wrong.  Against all the precepts of Truth.  It should not, for a moment, be believed by any Christian, or by any one else, that such action was ever advocated by me.

    While the Truth will cause a division, as I know, among humans, as to what the Truth is.  May even separate and cause bitter thoughts, even hatred to arise in the souls of humans towards their fellow humans.  Even brother may come to dislike brother.  Yet the accomplishing of such results was not the object of my coming to earth and teaching the Truths.  Rather are, the results of the unavoidable conflict between Truth and error. Truth cannot compromise even for the sake of peace.  Error will not submit or acknowledge its untruth, so long as it can get any mortal to believe in and advocate it.

    Because of the great gift of free will to human, Truth itself, with all the Power and Knowledge of The Father back of it, will not compel a human to accept it against their will.  Hence, as human is very fallible, thinks and believes according, as their finite mental faculties convince them that a certain thing is, or is not true, they will not be willing to surrender their convictions, until the Truth shall come to them in such a way as to persuade them of its Reality.  As humans differ so much in the operations of their minds and reasoning faculties there will necessarily be a great division among them as to what is and what is not true.  Hence there will arise disputes, hatred and even wars among them, in maintaining their respective beliefs and opinions, as to what is Truth.  While these feelings of discord must necessarily follow the advent of Truth, yet I did not come for the purpose of bringing a sword, but for the purpose of showing humans what the Truths are and of causing Harmony and belief in these Truths.  Never is hatred, nor discord, nor war among humans justified.  No matter what the cause.  If humans will only learn the Truth there will never exist such feelings, or acts.

    Truth is of itself, a thing apart.  Admits of no variations, or modifications.  Hence, the minds of humans, must submit to and embrace Truth.  It will never accommodate itself to the beliefs of humans.  One is fixed and unchangeable.  The other is always changeable.  Until founded on a Knowledge of the Truth, will at sometime, or other, have to change.  Because in the end, Truth will be established in the hearts and minds of humans, so that Harmony and Peace shall reign in all God's Universe.

    Error does not exist in the world because God created it, or permits it to exist.  But solely because there belongs to human an unrestricted will, which controls and influences their thoughts and acts.  Which in turn is influenced by the desires and appetites of the mortal.

    I know it is said that if God did not permit evil and carnal thoughts and desires to exist in the world, there would be no reason or possibility for human to exercise their will, in a way that would bring them to all these feelings of hatred, etc., that I speak of.  This is merely saying that if a human had not the power of free will, they would commit no sin, indulge in no error.  For you must know, that in their Creation, they were given, not only the privilege and the power, under certain conditions, to become a being entirely free from sin, which is merely the violation of God's Established Laws, but also the privilege and power to violate these Laws.  As they will, so shall they be.

    Everything in nature, may be turned into an instrument of harm, if the Laws which establish the functionings and workings of these things are violated.  Sin as an abstract thing, does not exist.  Is the result of disobedience to some Law, whose operations, in conformity to its Creation, must be pursued and should always be pursued.  Humans who violate it must suffer the consequences of such violation.

    Mortals may not fully realize that every Law carries with it a penalty for its violation.  This applies to the smallest Law in the material universe, as well as to the Greatest Law in the Spiritual Kingdom.  This penalty is just as sure in its operation, as is the Law itself.

    A human may be Created physically almost perfect.  So long as they live in that way, which does not violate some physical Law, which is operating to keep them in that physical perfection, they will suffer no pain, or inharmony in their being.  Just as soon as they do violate this Law, the penalty therefore asserts itself and they suffer.  Now this arises not because there was existing in the abstract any pain or suffering.  Had not human violated this Law, they would never have known that there was such a thing as pain or suffering.  When they did violate the Law, there came into operation the penalty, which, as I said, is always the result of violating the Laws of Harmony.

    The same Principle applies to the Moral and Spiritual Universe.  As I said, there is no such thing as sin or error in the abstract.  For so long as a mortal may know and follow the Truth, they will never realize the existence of any such thing as sin, or error.  But the moment that Law of Truth is violated, the penalty asserts itself and human realizes that sin and error do exist.  Not as an abstract entity, but as a concrete sensitive thing.  Which will continue to exist, until the violation of that Law ceases and Harmony in its operation is again restored.  Or rather, until human in their thoughts and acts is brought into harmony with the operations of the Law.

    So you see, God did not create, or permit, sin or error, to exist, in the sense that it is an independent entity, waiting to influence humans to do wrong and violate His Laws of Perfect Harmony.  Rather that when humans, in the exercise of their will, which He will not compel, violates one of His Laws, thereby, as to themselves, interferes with that Harmony, they cause the inharmony to arise, which brings with it the pains, sufferings, sins and errors which are prevalent in the world.

    Let humans think, if they can, of sin or error in the abstract and then try to describe it.  What is the result?  Only vacuity.

    So I say, God did not create sin or error.  But gave to humans that Great Gift of Will, free and not subject to His control.  Then human became the responsible being that they are.  In giving human this Great Gift, He did not relinquish, or subordinate, His Will to that of human.  Nor did He confer upon human, the power to change, or modify His Immutable Laws.  Which He, Himself, will not do.  Within the limitations that human can exercise their will, that is, when such exercise does not interfere with the Will of God, or His Laws, human may exercise that will with impunity.  Without responsibility, as it were.  But when in the exercise of that will they infringe upon the Will of God, or violate one of His Laws, then, while human is not controlled in the exercise of their will, yet for such violation they must pay the penalty, which such violation calls into operation.

    God has decreed that His Universe shall be one of Harmony in its workings.  That no human shall destroy, or interfere with that Harmony.  No human can.  As human is a part of that Harmony, their every act, which tends to interfere therewith, and it does not, except as to themself, brings upon themself, the penalty of that interference.

    Let a human who has violated this Harmony and thereby, as to themself, becomes inharmonious, again get into that Harmony.  As to them there would be no sin or error.  Let every human do this and there would be no sin, or error, in all God's Universe.

    So, I repeat, there is no sin, or error, in the abstract, in all the Universe.  They appear only when human, in the exercise of their will, interferes, as to themself, in the Harmony of God's Laws.  It makes no difference what the cause of this interference may be.  Or in what way the will of human may have been exercised.  Or for what reason, to bring about this inharmony.  The effect is the same.  Because Harmony and inharmony cannot exist together.  No matter what the cause may be.  No matter that in one case the cause may appear excusable, or even, apparently forced on the individual.  The excuse for, or apparent justification of, the cause will not make what is inharmonious unite and work in unison with God's Laws of Harmony.

    Hence the human, whose will may be excused in the way mentioned by reason of heredity, or environments, or want of proper mental, or moral instruction, is just as much out of Harmony with the violated Law, as is the human who willfully violates the Law.  The penalty must be enforced just the same in each case, as the only remedy is the restoration of the Harmony.  There is this difference between the individuals of what may be called the involuntary class and the individuals of the voluntary class.  The former will find it easier and with more rapidity, to get into this condition of Harmony, than will the latter.

    So humans must not accuse God in permitting sin and error to exist in the world.  As they do not exist.  Except as human brings them into existence by the wrongful exercise of their will.  All sin and error bring their sufferings.  If there were no sufferings and humans were permitted to exercise their wills, irrespective of the Laws which govern the Universe, without incurring the penalties, then the only result would be, that anarchy would prevail in all God's Universe where humans live and in the Spirit Universe as well.  For the will and its great franchise of unrestricted exercise pass with the mortal when they leave their material body.

So with all my love I will say, good-night.

Your brother and friend, Jesus

May 12th, 1916.

I am here, John.

    I desire to write tonight.  If you think it is not too late, we will do so.

    Well, I will not make my message very lengthy, but try to condense in short sentences.

    I want to tell you that when a human gets to know the Truths of the Father, they will become a very happy and wise human.  For these Truths, have in them only those Principles that Create Happiness and Wisdom.

    I know that humans believe many things on account of their being ancient, or having the authority of their forefathers, or some great saint, or writer, who lived many centuries ago.  Such a basis for Truth, while worthy of consideration and examination, does not, of itself, because of being old, afford any certainty that what is thus accepted contains the Truth.

    Truth is a thing very old.  Existed for many thousands of centuries before the times in which these ancient writers, as you call them, lived.  In fact, those days of the writers, in comparison to what had gone before, are as yesterdays.   Therefore, you will see that because the declarations of these writers, are what you consider very ancient, they should not be received as having authority.

    Truths of those days, of the long ages prior thereto, and of the present time are all the same.  As Truth never changes, or assumes new forms.  No matter what the conditions of mortals may be, as to intellectual, or spiritual development.  They may be revealed today, are being constantly revealed as time progresses, and should be accepted with as much credence and satisfaction as any Truths that were ever disclosed in ancient days.

    Humans are just as susceptible now to the reception of these Truths in their spiritual natures, or perceptions, as they were in the times of Abraham, or Moses, or at any time since.

    The mind of human was given to them to be exercised in the way of investigation and search.  Never, was it contemplated in their creation, that the time would come when they should accept anything as the ultimates of Truth and cease their inquiries.  For Truths are so many, great and deep, that so far, in the mortal universe, human has acquired only a smattering of these Truths.  To rest supinely in this acquirement, under the belief that there is nothing more in existence than human may know, violates and subverts the very object of their Creation.  What I have said applies to Spiritual Truths, as well as to material ones.

    The churches, I know, declare and try to enforce the declaration, that it is not possible to discover, or have revealed to humans, the Essential Principles of Spiritual Truths, to a greater extent than has already been declared in the Bible and the churches' interpretation of the same.  That, therefore, it is contrary to God's Will that humans should seek further for any additional Truths.  That humans should accept, without question, the sayings of the Bible, the dogmas and creeds of the churches, which their claim is founded upon.  Which they declare are the true principles of spiritual truths.  For many years this has been the demand of the churches.  The members thereof have acquiesced, without question or doubt.

    Now, this has been one of the great causes why humans have not progressed more.  Not only in their spiritual nature, but also in what may be called their natural qualities.  They have remained satisfied.  What was believed by them centuries ago, are believed today.  I say all this to show how stagnant the intellects of humans have been, as it depends on search and investigation, has remained for all these long ages.

    I further recite this to show the necessity for humans to seek and criticize, accept or reject, as the results of the search may demand.  In recent years, though, humans have made greater progress.  The individual has come to the front.  The old accepted fabrications of truths have been assaulted, shaken and denuded of their falsities, to a considerable degree.  So it should be.  Humans must seek, criticize, accept, or reject, as their own conscience (as developed by Spiritual Principals and practices) and reasoning powers dictate.  Therein will be freedom of the mind, as well as of the will.

    The soul also, has been smothered in these dogmatic beliefs.  As a consequence, its development has been slow.  Knowledge of things Spiritual has not come to humans, as it should have done.  As is necessary to teach them their destiny, and the Truths, which should control their lives on earth, and which will control their progress in the spirit world.

    Well, as you are tired, I will postpone the balance of my discourse.  I think it best when you feel tired to discontinue the writing instead of attempting to force yourself into receiving it.

So I will not write more.  Believe that I am your brother in Christ, John

July 3rd, 1917

I am here, Paul.

    Let me write a few lines, as I desire to say a word about the condition of the man to whom you were talking a short time ago on matters connected with your work and the messages that you are receiving.  I mean the Methodist preacher.

    As you may judge from his conversation, his mind is open to the reception of the Truth.  His beliefs in the dogmas of the Bible teachings are not such as to cause him to be unduly biased, so that if the Truth be presented to him with any degree of reasonable force, he will give consideration to the same.  Of course, he is an orthodox in the way of believing in the plan of salvation provided by God, as recognized and enunciated by the creeds of the churches.  To him Jesus is God.  His sacrifice and vicarious atonement are truths vital to the salvation of humankind.  That the human who does not believe in these necessary prerequisites, cannot possibly become reconciled to God or be at-one with Him.  To him, Jesus is God.  The only saviour of humans, and without him it is not possible for human to escape the great condemnation.

    Now, while all this is true as regards the preacher's belief, yet he does not believe positively that the human who dies in his sins, as the churchmen term it, will be condemned to a separation from God for all eternity.  His belief on this question is not fixed.  His love for humankind, creates in him a hope that this may not be so, and that some means will be provided by which such an awful condemnation will not be imposed on humans.

    He has in his soul much of the Divine Love, without having the consciousness that this is a separate and distinct Love from the natural love, that has been to some extent purified.  In fact, he has no conception of any Love of God other than the Love that was given to humans at the time of the Creation of the First Parents, and which every human being born since that time has received.  Although, it has become defiled by sin and error and the willfulness of human.  He believes that human, by the operation of the Holy Spirit, is cleansed of this defilement of the Love with which they were endowed.  And by the atonement of Jesus is brought into a state of reconciliation with the Father, and no other or different love is necessary for the redemption of the fallen human.  That Jesus, by his sacrifice, is all that is required.  When a mortal, by their belief and acceptance of that sacrifice, receives Jesus into his life and nature, they become a redeemed child of God.

    Of course, he cannot fully understand just the method by which this change is brought about.  He believes that there is something mysterious connected with the manner in which the resultant condition of goodness and purification and the change of the vile human into an angel, which flows from the sacrifice, acceptance and belief, yet the human is so changed, and the manner thereof is known to God, and it is not necessary for human to understand.  This is a path which does not demand knowledge, a mystery of God which need not be inquired into; only "believe on the Lord, Jesus Christ, and ye shall be saved."  I say that this belief is his and is sufficient for him.  In it he rests securely.

    Well, he is comparatively happy in his belief.  Is willing to retain it.  For, as he sometimes thinks, if he renounces it, where and unto what shall he go?  He can see nothing to take its place.  He is wise not to give it up.  For in Jesus is salvation, when Jesus is correctly understood.  As the preacher turns his thoughts to Jesus and sends forth his soul's longings to the Master and what he represents, his soul at times catches a True Conception of the very Jesus, although this conception does not agree with and is not the same thing as his intellectual comprehension of the Jesus of the Bible as interpreted by the creeds.

    I am glad that you had the conversation with him.  I believe that as he listens to the unfoldment of the Truths, as contained in these messages, his mind will take on a new and True Conception of the Truth.  His soul open up to a greater inflowing of the Divine Love, that will make him At-One with the Father.  Transform that soul into the very substance of the Father's Divinity in Divine Love.

    I would advise you to present these Truths to him.  For he is an important factor in the work of human's salvation, when it is considered that one soul is of more worth than the whole world.  He has the opportunity to show the Way to Salvation to many souls by the preaching of the Truth.  Any personal sacrifice, which may come to him as a result of learning and believing the Truths is not to be considered. While his material happiness on earth is to be considered and not thrown away, whenever it is possible to retain it, in connection with the teachings of the Truth, yet his soul's happiness and that of many other souls are of more importance than the mere material happiness that arises from ignorance of the Truth, or the living in that ignorance. So I say, let him know the Truth no matter what the consequences may be.  For in the end, happiness will come to him, even on earth, as well as in the Great Eternity.

    I will not write more now.  So, with my love, I will say good-night, and God bless you and the preacher.  For I am interested in him.  In the future may possibly sustain a closer relation to him than is now possible, by reason of his false beliefs and the want of the necessary rapport with him.

Your brother in Christ, Paul