FIRST PARENTS 

August 29th, 1915.

    Aman, the first parent.

    You don't believe me, I can see, but I am whom I say and want to tell you that I am now a follower of Jesus and a lover of God and live in the Celestial Heavens, far up near where the Master lives.

    I know it is hard for humans to believe that I am the father of all physical humanhood.  That I can come and communicate with mortals.  Jesus has rendered this possible, in his opening the way for the higher spirits to communicate through you.  You should feel specially blessed at having this great privilege and feel that the Master has conferred on you a great favor, as he has.

    Well, I have never before come to earth to communicate with mortals.  The experience being new, I find some difficulty in doing so.  But I will try to write a few more lines.

    I and my soulmate lived in a paradise, which God had given us.  Were very happy until the Great Fall.  We were so filled with the thought, that we were all powerful and all wise, that we concluded that the obedience which God had required of us, was not necessary for us to observe.  That if we only exerted our powers, we would be as great as He is Great.  Would be able to obtain that Immortality which He Possessed.  But, alas the day.  We were mere creatures,    although wonderful and beautiful.  We soon realized that fact.

    The disobedience, was in not waiting for God to bestow upon us the Great Divine Love, that would make us like Him in Substance, as well as in image.  We were like Him in our possession of souls and also in the possibility of obtaining the Divine Love.

    We disobeyed Him, in that we tried to make ourselves believe that we were as He was.  That we need not submit further to His Decrees.  We tried to make this belief a thing of reality.  In our vanity tried to appear as gods.  As soon as we did this, the scales dropped from our eyes.  We saw how naked and impotent we were.

    God did not drive us from His Paradise.  The inexorable Laws of our Creation and of the workings of His Will, showed us that no longer could we expect this Divine Love, which He said would make us Divine.  So we became mere mortals, deprived of the potentiality of obtaining this Divine Love.  We had thereafter, to become subject to all the appetites of the natural human and to work to satisfy these natural appetites.

    We continued to live in the same place as formerly, but no more could we be satisfied with the spiritual food that had supplied our wants and enabled us to subdue the appetites which formed a part of our physical being.  The physical then asserted itself and the spiritual became subjected to it.  We became, as mortals now are and had to find our substance in mother earth.  We were compelled to till the soil and earn our living by work.  I mean we had to work in order to make the earth supply us with food for our physical wants.

    It was a bitter time of sorrow, but the Law had imposed its penalty.  We were without power to relieve ourselves of that penalty and had to live thereafter without the possibility of obtaining this Divine Love and of having our spiritual natures reassert themselves over the physical and subdue it.

    When Amon and I were created, there were no other human beings living on earth.  None came there to live, until we had sons and daughters, who intermarried and produced other sons and daughters.  I cannot tell you how long ago our creation was, but many thousand years before the coming of Jesus.  I will not write more to night, but will come again sometime and write.

Your brother in Christ, Aman

Angelic Revelations of Divine Truth, Vol. II, pg. 253

August 30th, 1915. 

    Amon.

    I am the first mother of all the human race.  I want you to know that before Aman and myself, no human beings ever existed.  We were created by God at the same time and were ready, just after the moment of our creation, to live the lives of natural beings.  So that there was no gradual growth on our part from any other creature, or thing.  I know it has been said that the First humans were not created, but developed from some animal of the lower order and as the process of evolution proceeded, this being became in the end a human, with all the wonderful organism and structure of their bodies.  I want to tell you that this is not true. 

    When I was created, I was as Perfect in my physical organism as I ever was afterwards, or as any human, or woman ever became from that time into the present.  In fact, I believe, that at the time of our creation we were more perfect than humankind are now.  Because we had no physical ailments, no sickness, no deformity of any kind. 

    We certainly were more beautiful in face and form, than humankind now are, or have been for many long centuries.  Besides, our bodies and organism lasted for longer years than do the bodies of humankind at this time.  Before our fall we were very happy in our conjugal love.  Knew not troubles, or worries of any kind.  Never had anything to make us afraid, or draw us apart from each other, or from God.  Nor, until the great temptation came and then because of our ideas of our greatness, power and want of dependence on God, we fell.  Never again were restored to our position of beauty and happiness that were ours in the beginning of our lives on earth. 

    So you must see that we were specially created and not evolved from any other thing. 

    Some humans now, may marvel and wonder at the Bible description of the Creation of Humans and reject the description, as the imaginings of a mind of romance, or imagery and not true.  I tell you now that the essentials of this Creation and the fall, are true.  Of course the parts played by the apple, the snake and the devil are not true literally, but are symbolical of the principles that entered into the temptation and fall.  Well, I was as much to blame as was Aman.  I did not entice him after I had the ambition to become immortal, without waiting till that time came when God would give us that Quality of His Own Nature. Our ambitions grew together and we discussed the matter of making the great effort between us.  Acted as one in trying to obtain this great immortality. 

    So the story in the Bible is not exactly true just as far as I am concerned, for I did not entice, or seduce Aman to do the great wrong.  Neither did he seduce me to enter into the effort. 

    All this is past and many thousand years have gone by since our fall.  We have suffered much because of our first sin.  As you have been told, many thousands of years passed since the time that we forfeited the gift of Immortality, until it was restored and made known to humanity by Jesus, the son of God.  For he was the son of God.  As being a part of his Father's Divine Nature, he was Divine.  Partook of those qualities of the Father which gave to him, Immortality.  Those who follow his teachings and receive the New Birth will become Divine and Immortal also. 

I must not write more tonight. Yes, I will.  Now I will say good night. 

Your sister, Amon

Angelic Revelations of Divine Truth, Vol. II, pg. 254

August 30th, 1915. 

    I am here, Aman.

    I want to correct what I wrote before in this:  that I never was a spirit who wanted to have merely immortality as God was Immortal, I also wanted to obtain the Power and Wisdom which I saw that God possessed. 

    I thought that if I could obtain these qualities, I would become a God and a co-equal with my Creator.  Hence the possessor of all the universe, of all power and knowledge that He had.  My effort to realize my ambition in these particulars was a part of my great sin of disobedience. 

    I thought it best to tell you this, so that my description of the great sin of disobedience would not be only a part of the Truth.  I now know what an insignificant creature I was as compared to the Father.  I also know that the Creation of Amon and me was the Highest Creation in all the Universe of God. 

    But the Great Mercy and Love of the Father, notwithstanding my great sin, has placed me in the position and condition which He promised me at my Creation and which I forfeited with such fatal consequences.  You have a privilege, which I was then deprived of, for so many long years.  Your happiness may be as great as mine is now, without having to wait the long and many years that I waited.  No wonder that humankind worships Jesus as God, when we consider the Great Gift that he brought to them and the way to obtain it. 

I must not write more. 

Your brother in Christ and father in the flesh.  Aman

Angelic Revelations of Divine Truth, Vol. II, pg. 257

May 28th, 1915. 

    I am here, Jesus.

    I want to tell you what I mean by Immortality, as you and your friend differed today in your ideas of what it means. 

    When Adam and Eve (as they are called) were told that if they should disobey God and eat of the forbidden fruit, they should surely die, the word death meant death of the soul, so far as its future progress, in that which would insure its receiving the Divine Essence of the Father's Love was involved.  It did not mean the physical death, or the death of the body, because it is very apparent that after their doom was pronounced, they lived in the flesh a great many years. 

    But their soul's progression stopped.  It was only after my coming to earth and teaching the doctrine and Truth of human being restored to the condition which Adam and Eve occupied before their fall, did humankind have the privilege of becoming Immortal again.  That is, of being permitted and in condition to obtain that soul progress which would enable them to become One with and a part of the Father in His Love and Affections. 

    I do not mean that Adam and Eve were endowed with this Divine Love when they were created.  But that they had that formation of soul potentialities, which, if properly exercised, would have brought them in that Unison with the Father that would have made their nature Divine.  When they disobeyed the Commandments of the Father, they died, so far as that possibility of obtaining the Divine Nature was concerned. 

    As to those who lived on earth between Adam and Eve's fall and my revelation of the Truth of Redemption, they did not receive this nature, or potentiality.  Were compelled to live only as mortals and spirits having the natural love.  They never were admitted into the Father's Heavenly Kingdom, but existed merely as spirits having the natural love which was bestowed upon Adam and Eve and their race. 

    Abraham, Isaac and the rest of the persons who are described in the Bible as being Children of God, and obedient to His commands, were not partakers of this Divine Nature and became so only after my coming to earth and showing the way to its attainment. 

    When I was sent to earth, God sent me with the Truth as to Humankind's Redemption.  At the same time conferred upon humankind the privilege of receiving His Divine Essence.  No sacrifice, or death of mine brought this great boon.  Only with my coming came this Divine Love and the way to obtain it. 

    Adam and Eve were not created Immortal, but had only the potentiality of Immortality.  After their "death" humans ceased to have even this potentiality, until God sent it to them with my coming to earth. 

    When it was said, "as in Adam (and Eve) all humans died, so in (me) were all humans made alive," it was merely meant that when Adam and Eve fell, that which formed a part of their being and made it possible for them to become Immortal was taken from them.  That is, as to that Potentiality and Privilege, they died.  Was no more able to attain to the condition of soul, that enabled them to become One with the Father, or to partake of His Divinity. That in this condition of death humankind remained until, as I say, I came and brought with me the restored gift of the Soul Attribute which made it possible for humans to again become Immortal. 

    When this Gift was bestowed upon humans, it was also bestowed upon all those who were then living in the spirit world.  But they could obtain it only in the way that was provided for humans to obtain it.  Understand me, everything that was lost by Adam and Eve's fall, was restored by my coming with the Restored Gift.  It embraced every spirit who had ever lived as mortal and every mortal who thereafter lived up to the present time. 

    My coming, of itself, or the death or sacrifice of me by the Jews, did not restore humankind to the condition that existed in Adam and Eve before their fall.  I was only a messenger of God, sent with that Gift, to teach the Truth of its restoration to humankind and to spirits.  When, after my death, I descended into hell, as the Bible says (but which saying does not express the destination of my going, for the true meaning is that I went into the world of spirits), I proclaimed to the spirits the Truth of the Bestowal of this Restored Life which had been lost by Adam and Eve's disobedience. 

    All spirits, good and bad, now have this restored potentiality of obtaining the Divine Nature that I have spoken of and Immortality.  So you see, when Adam and Eve died, it was the death of the soul quality, or potentiality, which makes Immortality possible. 

    When the Bible speaks of those humans of ancient times, who were God's prophets and beloved children, as walking with Him, it merely means that they had obtained such a high development of their natural love that they could occupy those spheres in the spirit world (upon their physical death), which made them, mere spirits of mortals, close to the Father and supremely happy.  I mean that happiness which does not partake of the Divine Nature.  They were not in the same condition of soul attributes as was Adam and Eve before their fall, for they did not have this potentiality.  Any interpretation of anything written in the Bible, which gives to any human, or spirit, at that time, the possibility of receiving the Divine Essence of the Father is erroneous and misleading. 

    As I have said, my death or sacrifice by blood, as is emphasized in creeds and worship of the churches, did not in the slightest degree work to bring about the restoration of this great favor of God to human.  They were merely the results of the conditions of the beliefs of humans in the Jewish nation, which would not tolerate my declarations of Truth.  My death, etc., did not appease any wrath of God towards humans.  But of His own Great Love for His Creatures, He bestowed this Gift, or privilege of the soul, which humans had lost by Adam and Eve's disobedience.

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    It was the disobedience of believing that they were not dependent upon God, for the soul quality, or potentiality that made it possible for them to partake of God's Divine Nature.  The tree of good and evil merely represented the knowledge that God had reserved unto Himself, of the existence of that, which if known to Adam and Eve, would have subjected them to temptations that would destroy this soul quality of which I have spoken.  When Adam and Eve ate of the fruit of this tree, that is, when they disobeyed God and sought the knowledge of those things which subjected them to the temptations, that might cause them to cease to be all good, God took away the potentiality of Adam and Eve becoming One with Him and Immortal.  It was a direct punishment for disobedience.  The result was that human was left mere human, either as a mortal, or as a spirit. 

    I do not think that it was ever said that if they should eat of the tree of life, they would live forever and become as a god.  Because they were already the recipient of this tree of life, in that attribute of their souls.  Which could by its proper development, make themselves like the gods.  Here you must understand that "god" could mean only those who possessed this Divine Nature of the Father.  There was only One God.  All other living beings in the spirit world were merely those who were possessed of the God-like qualities of Love and obedience.  None were gods.  The angels of God were merely the spirits that I have last described. 

    When it was said that human was made a little lower than the angels, it meant that while these angels had that Divine Nature, perfected to a more or less degree, human had only the potentiality of soul that would enable them to obtain that development which would perfect them, so that they could become an angel.  But this saying does not apply to any human born after Adam and Eve and before my coming with the announcement that God had restored to human this Divine Attribute which Adam and Eve had forfeited. 

    So you see, the loss of Immortality does not mean the death of the physical body.  But the death of that quality, or potentiality of the soul, which enabled human to become like the Father, in certain of His Divine Attributes.  More strictly speaking, the mere possession of the soul of this quality is not Immortality, or rather it does not make a human or spirit immortal, but merely gives them such quality of soul and potentiality, that, by its proper development, they may become Immortal. 

    In the future, all humans, either as spirits or mortals, will possess that soul quality, or potentiality, until the great day of judgment shall again take from those who have not, at the time, perfected their souls into the enjoyment of the Divine Nature, as I have explained.  When that day comes, those who are without this Divine Essence in their souls, will be forever deprived of the privilege of receiving the Great Gift of this Divine Essence.  In other words, of God's Divine Love.  After that time, those spirits who have never acquired this Divine Nature will be permitted to live merely as spirits enjoying their natural love, just as Adam and Eve after their fall.  All spirits and humans, who lived between that time and my coming, lived only in their natural love.  This is the second death.  Adam's and Eve's was the first. The great day of judgment will declare the second.  After that, never again will human have the opportunity of partaking of this Divine Essence of the Father and becoming "as one of the gods." 

    Humans may reason to the utmost of their limited intellects, in the way of saying that God would not subject His Creatures to this second death and thereby deprive them of this great boon of becoming partakers of His Divine Nature and the great happiness that comes with it.  But such reasoning, or the conclusion reached, will not change the fact.  What I tell you is the fact.  Many humans, to their sorrow, will when too late realize that it is true. 

    Humans will not be justified in complaining of this.  The opportunity is now given and will in the future be given to all humans and spirits, to become the Children of the Father, in the Angelic and Divine Sense.  If they refuse to do so, they can have no grounds upon which to base the accusation of injustice against the Father, or His Love. 

    He will still be their Father, even though they may not accept His Great Gift.  They will, from the natural love bestowed upon them, be comparatively happy.  But they will not partake of His Heavenly Kingdom.  They will be like the guests invited to the marriage feast, who, because of various excuses, declined to attend.  While they were not deprived of other food and sustenance, yet the more precious food, which the host had provided for them at the feast, they never partook of and never thereafter had the opportunity to. 

    Many of my parables in the Bible illustrate this Great Truth, when properly understood.  As humans did in those days when I was on earth, but now harden their hearts and shut their intellects to the Truths of these parables and to my teachings. 

    Of course, ultimately, all these humans will be saved from sin and error.  In fact, sin and error will be destroyed entirely.  Humans and spirits will live in comparative happiness.  But they will live in death and not in life, so far as the life of the soul, with its possibilities of becoming Divine and of enjoying the great happiness which the Divine Love of the Father bestows, is concerned. 

    So you see, Immortality does not pertain to the physical body, or to the spiritual body, or to the soul unqualifiedly.  But to those qualities of the soul, which makes it possible for the soul to become in its nature Divine.  Immortality does not mean mere continuous existence, because every spirit and every soul, may live through all eternity in their individualized form.  When it was said in the Bible that I brought Immortality and Life to light, it did not mean that I showed humans merely that they would, as spirits, continue to live forever.  But it meant that they would live forever in the Father's Kingdom, with Natures Divine and not capable of being deprived of the Great and True Life which is found only in that Kingdom. 

    So let you and your friend think over what I have written.  In places where my meaning may not appear plain, I will try, by the inspiration of my knowledge and Power, to enlighten your souls and intellects.  You are both very mediumistic and easy recipients of inspiration.  As your souls seem to be attuned to the Truth and as you are seeking earnestly for the Truth, I will endeavor with all my powers to inspire you with such intellectual thoughts and spiritual perceptions, as will enable you to see these Truths in all their nakedness, face to face and not as through a glass darkly. 

I must now stop, and give you my blessings, and the blessing of the Father. 

Your friend and brother, Jesus

August 30th, 1915.

I am here, John.

    I merely want to say tonight that you must soon prepare to take messages which the Master and some other high spirits desire to write.  Let your arrangements be such that you can take those messages without anyone being disappointed, for when you say that you will receive them and then something comes up to prevent, the spirits feel that you have not interest sufficient and they are disappointed.

    Well, that will be satisfactory and we will make our arrangements to comply with that understanding.

    I know though that you have been in a condition of love and soul during the past few days.  Have realized that the Father has been close to you, and you have been happy.  So continue to turn your thoughts to the Father and His Divine Love and you will find that there will come to you an increased Love and a Great Happiness.  I feel that your Faith is growing and that the rapport between us all is steadily increasing.

    I did not intend to write more tonight, as we will all wait until the time that you have named.

    Well, I have already told you that that Book (Revelation) was written as a kind of allegory.  That now it is of no practical use and should not be given much attention. Besides it is not as I wrote it, for many interpretations and additions have been made.  At any rate it is of no importance.  Humans lose much time in trying to solve what they call its mysteries.

    Well, Aman is a general term which means first, or highest.  When applied to human it means the first or Highest Creation.  As it is applied in Revelation to Jesus it means the man who first received the Divine Love of the Father after its rebestowal.

    I will come to you sometime and explain this matter more fully.  Yes, they (Aman and Amon) came to you and gave you their names, which were the names that they were called by after their Creation.  They were both created instantaneously.  Became living souls in a moment.  Did not grow from a germ by the slow process of evolution.  Their story of the fall is substantially correct as I have learned from them and from the Master.  The names Aman and Amon are correct, and were known thousands of years ago to the early inhabitants of the earth and who descended from them.  The story of their fall was, of course, known to their immediate descendants and became known for some generations after their deaths to their more remote descendants.  After awhile the names became forgotten.   The substance of the story of their fall did not.  There were, at one time, manuscripts showing the account of the fall. But they disappeared long before the time of any of the present writings.  Though the story of the fall, with various changes and amendments, came down the ages, until the writers of the Old Testament incorporated such tradition in the Book of Genesis.  Of course, Adam and Eve (the names) did not exist.  Neither is the story as to their fall, true.  It is only symbolical in the way of showing that human once occupied an exalted and happy state, and by their own disobedience fell.  With their fall came the condition of evil and sin.

    Well, I must not write more tonight.  So remembering what you say, I am your brother in Christ.

John - Apostle of Jesus

Angelic Revelations of Divine Truth, Vol. II, pg. 257