LAW OF COMPENSATION

Law of Compensation or Recompense - In all the beliefs of this kind, humans have misconceived God and His Divine Nature. With humans, like other Creatures, their powers are governed by God's Immutable Laws. Those Laws are no respecters of persons. Human was given a free will, which they could exercise righteously, or sinfully. God does not forcibly control such exercise, but the same, exercised rightly, or wrongly, is subject to Law of Compensation, which imposes penalties, or rewards, according as the Law is violated, or obeyed.

Law of Compensation

20th July 1915

I am here, Thomas Paine.

When I died, I did not believe in Jesus as the Son of God, or as His Messenger sent to show the World that The Father had Bestowed upon him His Divine Love and Immortality, and The Way to obtain it. Now I believe to the fullest these Divine Truths.  I am a follower of Jesus and the possessor of the Divine Love.

How different would my condition now be, if that erroneous and damning doctrine taught by the churches, that there is no Redemption beyond the grave, were True. I never thought that there was any necessity for Redemption, either while on Earth, or after I should become a spirit, but thought that if there was a God, He would deal justly with me and bestow upon me happiness and enjoyment of the Future Life according to my idea of His Love and Mercy.

I must tell you that I was mistaken in some particulars. God is Love. He is Merciful. His Love and Mercy are exercised only in accordance with His fixed and unchangeable Laws. Laws, that apply impartially to all humans,which in their operation make no exceptions. What a human sows, so shall they reap, is as True as that the sun shines for you on Earth.

I found the Truth of this Great Law of Compensation or Recompense in my own experience. I paid the penalties of my sins. Jesus could not do this for me. He never pretended that he could. He could, and does, show The Way by which the operations of the Laws, which produce these penalties, may be superceded by the operation of other Laws (The Law of Divine Love) which, as it were, removes the penalties from the individual spirit. This does not change the Law, but changes the condition of the spirit (soul), which invokes these penalties. If humans would only learn this Way, they would not remain in darkness and sin, because they believe and assert that God's Laws never change. If they would only understand that, while the Laws do not change, yet the condition of the spirit, which calls for the operation of these Laws, does change, and new Laws are brought into operation.

I have not time tonight to more fully explain these Principles, but should I in the future have the opportunity, I will be glad to do so.

Christ was, and is, The Way, the Truth and the Life.

I am in the First Celestial Sphere. My name was Thomas Payne, the so called infidel. I believed in God, but only One God. Jesus was never God to me, and is not now. He does not claim to be God now. So you see, even the so called infidel could come into the Divine Truth and Divine Love of the Father, even after he left the material plane and became an inhabitant of the Spirit World.

So, my dear brother, I will say, goodnight and God be with you, Thomas Paine.

Law of Compensation

November 19th, 1916

I am here, St. Paul

I merely want to say that I was present at the church tonight and listened to the preacher tell his congregation what he did not know about hell. Because, what he said, in many particulars was untrue. It was pleasing to hear him tell his people that there was no physical suffering. Although, he didn't explain to them why there could be no such suffering. I mean; that no spirit, when they go into hell, carries with them their physical body, or any other body, that has such substance as would be affected by fire, brimstone, and the other unreasonable things, that the churches have for so many years taught and terrified their members with. As a consequence, caused them to believe that The Father is such a cruel and wrathful Father, demanding that his cravings for satisfaction be supplied by the sizzling in fire of the bodies of His Children. No, this damnable doctrine is not True. I am glad to see that the churches are ceasing to believe or teach it.

The doctrine that the preacher taught is quite as bad, and useless as the former. For the reason; that punishment of sinners, and those who are out of Harmony with God, is a fact, which they all will realize when they come to the Spirit World. That being so, to teach that this punishment is everlasting, is as harmful as the one that I first mentioned. How strange that preachers and teachers will try to cause their people and listeners to believe that God is such a wrathful and vindictive being, having less Love and Mercy, than the most wicked and earthly father has for his children. It is so very deplorable that such attempts are made, by these supposed instructors of what God is, to blaspheme Him in His Great Qualities of Love and Tenderness, and the desire that All His Children become Happy.

Oh, I tell you that these preachers will have a woeful sin to answer for when they come to an accounting! That will not be at the great judgment day, as they teach, but just as soon as they enter Spirit Life and realize the great harm that they have done to many who have followed them in their teachings. They will realize that awful result very soon after their entrance into the Spirit World, for they will have come to them, as clouds of witnesses, the spirits of those who were under their instructions on Earth, bringing with them all the evidence of the results of their erroneous beliefs and the stains of this great sin of blasphemy.

I, Paul write this, for I know. I have suffered from this very cause myself. Because, when on Earth, I taught some doctrine like unto the one that these preachers are now teaching. Even now, I realize that to some extent, I am responsible for many false beliefs. I thank God, that all that is ascribed to me in the Bible, I am not responsible for. That if my True teachings were known and taught, the blind and erroneous beliefs that are now so prevalent among Christians would not exist. I tell you that mortals do not conceive the great harmful and deplorable results that flow from their beliefs in the Bible, in many particulars.

This book is one of falsehoods, forgery, and imputations, that have no resemblance to what the Master, or any of his apostles, taught. You can readily realize how anxious we all are that these errors and untruths be removed from the minds and souls of humans. I must not permit myself to become too enthusiastic in considering these things tonight, or I might not stop, as I should under the circumstances.
I will come though very soon, and write you on the subject, as it is a vital one to Humankind. I will explain the Truths connected with it, as fully as is possible for humans to understand.

I should like to write more tonight, but I must not. So with my Love, I will say goodnight, your brother in Christ, Paul.

Law of Compensation

November 20th, 1916

I am here, St. Paul.

I come to write you on the subject that I commented on last night, namely: Hell and the duration of punishment. If you feel that you are in condition to receive the message I will begin and finish the same.

Well, as I said last night, the hell of the orthodox preachers, as formerly taught, that is a hell of brimstone and fires, is not the True hell, and has no existence, save in the minds of these orthodox believers.

The True hell is a place, and a condition. One is not separated from the other. While the condition of the soul and the beliefs of humans create the hells, to a very large extent, yet hell is a fixed abiding place. Made and established, of such a character as to suit the inhabiting of it by the soul, according to the condition of that soul. To illustrate; a soul that is less vile and filled with evil thoughts and the recollection of evil deeds and false beliefs, is in a very different place from the soul that has more of this evil in it. The former soul would not find its habitation in the same place as the latter soul would, any more than would the highly developed soul find its home in the same place as would the soul that is less developed. Heaven is a place, or many places, suited to the development of the soul, so hell is a place suited to the souls of degradation and evil condition. I mean to be understood as saying that place and condition of soul are correlative terms, the home of the soul depending on the condition of the soul.

As these different hells vary, so they are suited for the souls of spirits according to the defilement of soul.
I see that you are not just in condition to write, or to receive my thoughts. I will not write more.

I will come soon and write fully on these matters. So with the hope that soon you will be able to take my message, I will say goodnight, Paul.

Law of Compensation

November 21st, 1916

I am here, St. Paul.

I desire tonight to finish my message on Hell; What it is and what its purpose is.

As I said before hell is a place as well as a condition. The human who believes that it is nothing more than a condition of their mind, or soul, will be wonderfully surprised, as well as disappointed. I know the condition of mind and soul to a very large extent creates a human's hell, and is the chief source of their suffering and the darkness that surrounds and envelops them. Yet this condition is not the only source of that suffering, or of darkness, in which they find themselves. Hell is a place. A place that has all the appearances and ingredients that are in exact agreement with their state; as produced, or caused, by the condition of their mind, or soul, and is not a place of universal character and fitted for the habitation of souls, irrespective of conditions of degrees of defilement, sin, and darkness. It is not a single place, forming a common home for all fallen souls, but is composed of many and different places. As has been said, there are many hells having gradations of appearances and surroundings that are suitable for causing additional sufferings which souls may have to endure.

The expression, "the lowest depths of hell" is not a meaningless one, but portrays a Truth, a Real Existing Fact, that many spirits are now experiencing the Reality of. In its broadest sense, hell is every place outside of heaven.

Heaven is that place where everything entering into it, its appearance, qualities, and its inhabitants, is in Perfect Harmony with the respective Laws of God and His Will concerning the same. This statement involves the fact that there are several heavens. Because the Heaven of the Redeemed, or those who have received the Divine Essence in their souls and become of the Divine Nature of the Father, is a distinct Heaven from that wherein live those who have been restored in their Natural Love to the Perfect Condition that the First Parents possessed before the fall. The condition of the restitution to humankind of that Perfection, which was lost by the disobedience of the First Man and Woman.
Mortals usually believe that heaven is a condition. The Bible, in which so many believe, attempts to describe this heaven with its streets of gold and pearly gates, etc. As a fact, it is a Real Substantial Place, having all the elements and appearances of a Home of Bliss, which help to bring to its inhabitants Happiness and Joy, in addition to the happiness, which their Soul Perfection and Development cause them to have.

Then, as Heaven is a place, having Real Substance, perceptible to the spirits that inhabit it, why should not hell be a place of real substance also, with those qualities and appearances exactly suited to add to the unhappiness of those who are fitted for it? The Spirit World, both heaven and hell are places of substance, having their planes, divisions, and limitations of occupancy, and not mythical, invisible conceptions of mind, as you mortals ordinarily conceive ghosts to be. The spirits of mortals are Real, and more substantial than are the physical bodies of mortals. These planes and divisions, whether of heaven or hell, have a more Real Existence than have the mortals in their places of habitation or confinement in the Earth Life.

The hells are places of darkness and sufferings. But in them are no fires or brimstone, etc., as have been so commonly represented by the preachers and teachers of the orthodox churches. Because there is nothing therein that would feed fires, or that fires could affect. There are no devils, or satan, though there are evil spirits of humans, that are more wicked, vicious, and horrifying than have ever been pictured of the devil and his angels.

In your communications, you have had some very realistic descriptions of hell, from those who are actually living therein and are realizing its tortures and realities. I will not take the time here to attempt to describe it in detail. Will only say that as it has not entered into the minds of humans to conceive the wonders and beauties of Heaven, neither have they ever conceived of the horrors and sufferings of hell.

From all this, humans must not understand that the punishment and darkness which the spirits of evil endure in the hells, are specifically inflicted by the Father because of any wrath that He may have towards these spirits, or to gratify any feelings of revenge, or even to satisfy any outraged justice, for it is not True.
Human, when they become a spirit, is their own judge and executioner. Submitting to, and receiving, the inexorable results of the Law of Compensation or Recompense: that whatsoever a human sows that shall they also reap. This is a Law that is necessary to preserve, or bring about, The Harmony of God's Universe, which, of course, is absolutely necessary. While it may appear to human, at first sight, to be a harsh and cruel Law, yet in its workings and results, even to the individual spirit who may suffer in the reaping, it is a Most Benign and Beneficial Law, for the darkness and sufferings of a few years, as you mortals say, bring about an Eternity of Light and Happiness.

The Law must rule. In all the apparent harshness, suffering, and want of mercy, the Great Love of the Father overshadows the sufferer, and finally makes the defiled and wicked soul become one of Purity and Goodness. Humans may never have thought of the fact, that if it were possible for these evil spirits to live in Heaven, their sufferings and unhappiness would be greater, than what they endure by living in the place, that is more in agreement in its surroundings and appearances, with their own distorted conditions of soul. So even in their hells, the Father is Merciful and Good.

Regarding the second proposition of the preacher in his sermon, namely, the duration of suffering, or of the Life of the spirit in hell. His conclusion was, that this duration of the spirit is eternal, everlasting, and without end. How it must have hurt and violated the teachings of his soul, and his conception of the Loving Father, to come to such a conclusion! Yet, being bound by his creeds, and the domination of his belief, that the Bible is the sole authority upon hell, as well as heaven, in the conviction of his mind. Here I want to emphasize mind, for his heart was not in agreement. He declared that the duration of the sufferings and Life of the hells is eternal, and the saying of Jesus proved it to be. Not only because it was in the Bible, but because the true meaning of the original Greek word, can have no other translation. Not knowing, or if knowing, not recalling, that Jesus, even if he used such expression, did not speak in Greek, and that back of the Greek word, in order to obtain the True Meaning of the word used by Jesus, he, the preacher, must go to the word as it was uttered by Jesus and its True Meaning.

So many preachers and commentators on the Bible attempt to determine a most Vital Truth by a shade of meaning, that they conceive a particular word in its original may have, when they are not justified in concluding that such word had, at the time used, such shade of meaning, or that the original as they conceive it to be, was the original word actually spoken or written. They seem to lose sight of the fact that the writings of the Bible, I mean the manuscripts to which they make reference to prove the correctness of their conclusions, are far removed from the original writings. That; by reason of the copying and recopying of the word upon which they rely, and the shade of meaning that they give it in their interpretations, may not have been the word originally used. Of course, they have no way of learning this fact. Consequently, they have to resort to the best authority that they can have access to. Under such circumstances, it is not a justifiable thing to have a vital question of human's future and destiny determined by the shade of meaning that may be given to one word, or more words, without reference to other declarations of the same book, having relation to the subject matter of the inquiry.

The preacher said; that in his conclusion as to the question, he must be governed by the Bible alone, and had no right to indulge in speculation of the philosophies of other humans, and that in the Bible, he could find nothing that would justify him in coming to any other conclusion than that the duration of punishment in hell is eternal. Well, he was not honest with himself. For if, he had searched a little more deeply, and have given as much credence to other parts of the Bible, as to the passage that he quoted, he would have found a strong statement to the effect that the evil spirits in hell have the possibility of leaving it. Not only that, but that a part of the Great Mission of Jesus, upon whose supposed declaration the preacher based his conclusion, was to show The Way, and induce these spirits of evil to leave their hells. This was the Master's first work after he became a spirit. He would not have attempted to preach to these wicked spirits in hell, so wicked, according to the Bible, that God, because of their great sins when mortals, punished them as He never punished any other of His Children, for their disobedience, utterly destroying them as a race, and His only living human creatures from the face of the Earth, by one great catastrophe, leaving only Noah and his family as a reminder of the great failure of God in His Creation, the Most Perfect and the Very Good.

So I say, if the preacher had searched the Bible, he would have found that the hell that contained the spirits of all the human race that was living at the time of the flood, except Noah and his family, was not in its duration, Eternal.

Again, had the preached searched further, he would have found that the Master Himself, declared by necessary implication, that at least, for some of the wicked who became inhabitants of hell, there was possibility of release, and certainty, upon conditions. I refer to the declaration attributed to him where he said, "He that sinneth against the son of human, it shall be forgiven them, but they that sinneth against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven them, neither in this World, nor in the World to Come." (Matt. Chapter 12--Verse 32)

Now, to any reasonable human, there is only one interpretation of this declaration. That is, that for any and all sins, except that against the Holy Ghost, there is forgiveness in the Next World, as well as in the Mortal World. That being a fact, it is an irresistible conclusion that the Father would not compel a spirit (humans) to remain in hell after He had forgiven that spirit's sins.
No, the preacher had not searched the Scriptures as he was in duty bound to do. Else his conclusion could he have ridden his mind of the beliefs that the creeds of his church had driven into his intellect, and of the teachings of the ancient fathers, and of the churches that had taught such false and damnable doctrines for so many years, would have been very different.

The preacher repudiated the old teachings that there would be physical suffering in hell, or fire or brimstone, etc. Expressed his commiseration for those preachers and others who had taught such doctrine, and for their awful responsibility and accounting, and his commiseration was needed and appropriate. I want to say here that he needs as much, if not more, commiseration for the preaching of his false doctrines, as did those preachers to whom he refers. He has more Light, or may have, and his accounting will be correspondingly greater.

I have written a long letter, and you are tired. I must stop. Before doing so, let me declare the Truth to be; that hell is not a place of Eternal punishment. That all the hells, as well as other parts of the Spirit World, are places of progression. The privilege of probation is not taken from any spirit, no matter how wicked. For All are God's Children. In His Plans for the Perfecting of the Harmony of the Universe, and Human's Salvation, all the hells will be emptied, and the hells themselves destroyed.

Humans must not think from this, that the duration of suffering in these hells is necessarily short, for that is not True. Some of the evil inhabitants of these places have been in such darkness and suffering for centuries, as mortals count time, and may be for centuries more. The time will come when they will have the Awakening to the fact that they may become Children of Light. Then, when they make the effort to progress, they will succeed.

The sooner that Humankind learns that hell is not a place of punishment to satisfy the wrath of an angry god, but merely the natural and necessary living place of the spirit whose condition of soul and mind demands. As that condition changes, and it will change, the hell of its habitation will change, until finally, for that spirit, all the hells will disappear.

You are tired and I must stop. So thanking you, and leaving you my Love and blessings, I am, your brother in Christ, Paul.

Law of Compensation

November 26th, 1916

I am here, John.

I was with you tonight and heard the sermon on hell. I was so sorry that the preacher could not tell his people more of the Truths, as to what hell is, and the punishment of those who will be so unfortunate as to go to that place will be. It is pitiable that these leaders of the people are so blinded and without Knowledge as to what the Truth is in regard to this subject, as well as to many others, that they so erroneously declare to their congregations. Of course, their knowledge is based upon what they consider to be the truths of the Bible. In many respects, what they say is justified by the teachings of the book. In many cases their teachings are erroneous because of the wrong construction that they place upon many of the declarations of the Bible. In either case, they are teaching for the truth, those things that are not True. The harm accomplished is just as baneful, as if their beliefs and teachings were the result of what they realized to be untrue.

Untruth is untruth, no matter whether it arises from honest conviction, or known error. The harm done is the same in each instance. The preacher, I have no doubt, believes what he declared to be the truth. Some things he said were True, yet the fact that he believed these doctrines to be True, will not palliate, in any way, his responsibility, so far as the effect of these errors on his hearers are concerned. For their sufferings and darkness, which will certainly follow their beliefs in these erroneous teachings, will be no less because the preacher was honest in his declarations of what he supposed to be the truth. The source of error, does not in any way modify, or affect, the results that flow from its acceptance and following. The preacher, while not in such cases, a willful deceiver, yet when they come to the Spirit World, and learn the Truth, they will have the regrets, and the sufferings, which always flow from the spreading of falsehood and deception.

Error works its own punishment. It may be of some consolation, and will be to those who preach, and to those who accept falsehood as truth, to know that such punishment will not be Everlasting. That God is not a god of wrath, or of vindictiveness. That His Justice never demands more than is necessary for the removing of error, and the Establishment of His Truths.

Why? His Justice, would not be justice, if He permitted error to continue, and prevented recovery on the part of human, or spirits, of the Truth, just for the purpose of having those who had been disobedient suffer and be separated from Him for All Eternity.

I merely wanted to say this much on the sermon. Sometime I will come and write you a full explanation of what hell is, its purpose and work, and how long it continues.

Let all of you continue to pray to the Father for this Divine Love, and have Faith. The time will soon come that Faith will become as Real and Existing as the sun which you so much enjoyed today.

So my brother, with all my Love and blessings, I will say goodnight, your brother in Christ, John.

Law of Compensation

December 24th, 1916

I am here, Jesus.

I desire to say that I was with you tonight at the church, and listened to the preacher's sermon, and was somewhat surprised that he should have declared that all the wars, persecutions, and outrages, that in the manner described, have been perpetrated on humankind since my coming, can be ascribed to my coming and my teachings. I, of course, can only resent the imputation, and declare that the preacher has misconceived the cause of these wars and persecutions. To charge that they are due to my Truths, or the Truths of God that I taught, is not only an injustice to me, but also a great injury to the Truths and objects of my Mission to Humankind.

Never did I attempt, by force, or constraint, to compel a human soul to believe in my Truths. Or, to become a follower of me, in, or out, of the church. My Mission on Earth was to show humans The Way to the Father's Divine Love, and to declare to them the Great Gift of this Divine Love. Also, to break down and destroy the erroneous beliefs and ignorance that then existed among humans, as what was necessary in order to seek for and obtain this Divine Love of the Father and their own salvation. So far as the Truths, Moral, or Spiritual, which I taught, antagonized the false beliefs and practices of humans, there was, and necessarily would be a conflict, in the thoughts and lives of those who followed me, and those who persisted in their existing beliefs. To this extent I brought a sword into the World. It was not the sword that called for bloodshed, murder, and persecutions. It was the sword that pierced human's souls, where this great conflict should, and must, be fought to the end.

No nation can be more Spiritual in its government, or in its treatment of other nations, than are the individuals composing it, Spiritual. The nation cannot be greater than, or different from, the individuals who control it. Be such control centered in one, or more, individuals, or in a secular, or religious head. The ruler, if they be not a Real Follower of me, although they may claim to be, cannot, in their acts or deeds, attribute to me the results of the carrying into action their thoughts, desires, and ambition.

The present war of which the preacher spoke with such horror and lamentation is not due to my coming into the World as an iconoclast, or destroyer of sin and error. But to the fact that humans refused to be controlled, or persuaded, by my doctrines of peace, and acted because of the sin, evil desires, and immoral ambition, that they possessed and permitted to control them. The sword, which he claims I brought into the World, did not cause these sinful, inhuman desires and ambitions to manifest themselves in the form of war and all the evils that follow it. No, this war is not a part of my warfare, or the Plan of the Father to bring Salvation to Humankind.

The cause is this, and only this: The exercise by humans in control of the nations of their desires for increased power, territory, and subjugation of nations, together with their sinful cravings for what they call glory and unsatisfied ambition.

Had they understood my warfare, each of these humans would have found their enemy in themselves, and nowhere else. The Great War would be a war of the soul and not the war of nations.

Each nation claims that its war is right, and that god is on its side, and prays to that god to assist it in overcoming its enemies. I want to say here, and it may astonish those who believe that if they conceive that they are in the right and pray to God for success that their prayers will be answered, that God hears only the prayers of the righteous, or of the sinner who prays for Mercy and Salvation. Never, in all the history of humankind, has God responded to the prayers of humans, or nations, to assist in the destruction of other humans, or nations. This, notwithstanding the accounts in the Old Testament of the many times that He was supposed to have helped the Jews to destroy their enemies.

If humans, for a moment, will think that God is a God of Love, and that All People are His Children, the equal recipients of His Love and Care, they will realize that His Love would not permit Him to sacrifice the happiness, or well being, of one class of His Children, to satisfy the desires of revenge, hatred, or outraged justice as they conceive it, of another class of His Children.

In all the beliefs of this kind, humans have misconceived God and His Nature. With humans, like other Creatures, their powers are governed by God's Immutable Laws. Those Laws are no respecters of persons. Human was given a free will, which they could exercise righteously, or sinfully. God does not forcibly control such exercise, but the same, exercised rightly, or wrongly, is subject to Law of Compensation, which imposes penalties, or rewards, according as the Law is violated, or obeyed.

This war (WWI), which so many mortals believe and declare is a punishment inflicted on humans because of their sins and disobedience, that is; that it was specially caused by God because of such condition of humans. Some expounders of the Bible teach, that it was prophesied centuries ago. This war, I say, is solely the result of the sinful conditions and workings of human's souls, and thoughts. The natural effect of the causes that humans themselves created, and the exact workings of the Laws, that such causes brought into operation. In a similar condition, where the same causes exist, Laws will invariably operate, wars will occur and recur until the possibility of the causes cease to exist.

God never ceases to Love and Care for humankind. Always, He Desires that humans shall be Happy and at-one with Himself, and that they shall exercise their wills in accordance with His Will and His Laws (of Love and Harmony). Just as certainly does He. Never by compulsion, or force, endeavor to compel humans to exercise their wills in a manner that is not voluntary with them. Should He do this, humans would cease to be the Greatest of His Creation, and incapable of giving Him that voluntary Love and Obedience, which only is acceptable to Him.

From what I have said, it must not be inferred that the Father is indifferent to human's sufferings, and the calamities that wars bring upon humankind, for He is not. If, in His Wisdom, He saw that it would be for the lasting good of the humans who are engaged in the present war, that He should intervene by the mere Force of His Powers and end the war, He would do so. But in that Wisdom He sees, that there is a good which humans should have, greater and more Eternal than their mere physical and material good, and that greater good cannot be obtained by them through His suddenly bringing this war to an end without regard to their souls, thoughts, and desires. The Law of Compensation must work, as well for nations, as for individuals, even though, apparently, the innocent suffer as well as the guilty.

On Earth, as humans are now constituted, that is; in their condition of sin and disobedience to the Laws of their Being, exact justice cannot be expected, and is not received; because this justice is the subject of human's dispensation, and not that of God. A human is influenced by their desires, which in turn control their will, and results in their acts and deeds, which, must of necessity, bring their results. These results can be avoided only by absence of deeds, these by a different exercise of the will, and this, by the change of desire. So, when a human so desires and wills, God will not set aside the Law of Compensation and cause results to follow that are not the consequences of such desire and will.

God is always Willing that these evil results shall have no existence, and through the Influence of His Divine Love and Holy Spirit is calling humans to learn The Way to wholly prevent the possibility of these results coming to them, either as individuals, or as nations. He has provided The Way and is teaching humans the Knowledge thereof through, and by which, the causes that produce these harmful results may be utterly destroyed and prevented from ever arising to bring to them the deplorable results such as, are manifested in the present war.

God will not interfere by His mere fiat, to cause the one side, or the other, of those who are engaged in this war of bloodshed and carnage to become victorious. The Law of Compensation must work. As the leaders of the respective nations have sown, so must the nations reap. In this, the innocent must suffer in this reaping, because as conditions are, the Law could not work its fulfillment unless all within the scope of its workings should feel its operation.

The Father, and the Hosts of His Angels, and the spirits of humans, are working to bring this terrible catastrophe to an end.

You have written long, and it is late, so I will postpone the further consideration of the subject to another time.

Believe that I am with you, Love you, and will sustain you in your desires to do my work. Your brother and friend, Jesus.

Law of Compensation

December 24th, 1916

I am here, Elias, Prophet of Old, (Elijah).

I will write a short message tonight, as it is late and you are tired.

Well, I desire to say that the message you received from the Master contains some of the most important Truths affecting the relationship of God to human, in their worldly, or material living.

Every Truth that was uttered has in it an element, which shows; that human, to a certain extent, must expect and know that God will not interfere with the Law of Compensation, as to its effects and results. Only will He help human to remove the causes that so certainly entail the results. The sooner humans know this, and more thoroughly understand it, will they become able to avoid the consequences of sin and the violation of Law, and also understand that no prayer will cause God to respond, where a suspension, or setting aside, of His Laws, or their workings are necessary. He will respond to prayer, where that prayer asks the removal of causes, but never when it applies only to effects.

This Truth, humans should learn. In their prayers ask that those things, or causes, which in compliance with the Law of Compensation, bring about results that are harmful to them be removed, or eliminated, from their acts and deeds, as well as from their desires.

I could write a long message on this subject but will not do so now, as you are not just in condition to receive it. I will come soon and write at length. So with my Love, I will say, goodnight, your brother in Christ, Elias.

Law of Compensation

February 23rd, 1918

I am here, Jesus.

I see that you are in good condition tonight, and that I am able to make a rapport with you.

I was with you at the meeting tonight and saw the workings of your mind, and the pity, as it were, that you had for the preacher (Rev Billy Sunday), because of his want of Knowledge, of what the judgment is, that comes to all humans after death. A judgment that is certain and exact, but not one pronounced upon human by God, as the preacher proclaimed.

I was trying to impress you in your thoughts. You felt the influence of my suggestions and realized that you did not fear the judgment, or rather its results, because you know the Way in which the judgment for you can have no terrors, or no eternity of condemnation. I wished, as you did, that the preacher might know the Truth, and then proclaim it to his hearers, and in this manner show them that the judgment is a certainty that cannot be escaped from, and that its sentences are not for an Eternity of duration.

He is an earnest human in his beliefs, and teaches just as he believes. The pity is that he does not know the Truth. Nevertheless, he is doing good to those who hear him. Many of them are caused to think of things Spiritual, and of the future, as well as of the present, who otherwise might and would, neglect these important things that will determine the kind of judgment that they will have to undergo. I am glad that he is so preaching and doing a work that in many instances will lead humans to meditate upon their Spiritual conditions. Ultimately, lead them to seek for the Divine Love of the Father, which they may obtain by their longings, though their beliefs may be erroneous as to how this Divine Love may be obtained.

Humans are constituted with a mind and a soul, each having its own perceptions, and ability to comprehend the Truth. Sometimes it happens that the perceptions of the soul will enable them to see and reach out for this Divine Love, while they may be wholly blind in their mind perceptions. Even these latter perceptions may be in conflict with the operations of the perceptions of the soul.

Until the Truths that I, and the other spirits, are revealing to you, shall become known to the World, there will be nothing in existence, or in the knowledge of humans, that can supply the place of these Truths. So much as the beliefs that have been and are being taught by the teachings of the Bible. In it are many Truths, especially those that show humans the way to attain to Moral Perfection. That, as you know, was one of the objects of my teachings when on Earth, but not the Great Object of my mission. Nevertheless, the human who learns and applies these Moral Truths to their daily life and conduct, comes nearer to the enjoyment of that Harmony that human must obtain in order to get into a Unison with God's Laws, that is necessary to their regeneration and to their becoming the Perfect Human. Besides, as they, I mean the mortal, progresses in this regeneration; they will find it easier for them to learn by their soul perceptions the Great Truth of the Transformation of the soul through the New Birth.

I approve of the efforts of this preacher to bring humans to a realization of their Relationship to God, even though he has many erroneous beliefs, and says many things that are contrary to the Truth and not in accord with the True Relationship of Human to God. I will write you soon upon this matter of the judgment, and what it means and the variety of its operations.

Tonight, I will not write longer, for I think it best to not draw upon you too much at this renewed conjunction of rapport with your condition.

I have been with you very often of late, and tried to influence you with my Love and suggestions. I must tell you that you have progressed much in your soul development and nearness to the Father's Divine Love.
Continue to meditate upon these Spiritual Things. Pray to the Father. You will realize a great increase in the possession of this Divine Love and in your condition that will enable us to come in closer rapport with you.

Well, I will do as you suggest, and am pleased that you feel as you say, for we must do the work as rapidly as possible. We have lost much time and will have to work the harder to bring about the completion of our delivery of the Truths. You need not fear that we will not be successful. Only have Faith and pray, and all will be well.

I must stop now, but before doing so, must assure you that I am praying with you in your prayers at night, and that your prayers will be answered.
Other spirits will now be able to write you. They have many messages to communicate and all are anxious to do so.

Keep up your courage. Believe in me and what I tell you. With my Love, and the Blessings of the Father, I will say goodnight, your brother and friend, Jesus.

Law of Compensation

February 25th, 1918

I am here, Jesus.

I am here and desire to write a few lines in reference to; The Great Day of Judgment, of which the preacher and teachers of theological things write so often. I know that the Bible, or rather some of the books, lay great stress upon this day when, as they claim, god will pour out his vials of wrath upon the ungodly and condemn them to an eternity of punishment.

There is, as you know, very great and diverse opinions among these learned humans as to what is the meaning and significance of this day of judgment, and when, in a chronological point of view, it will take place. All these varied opinions have many students and teachers, who embrace and proclaim them to the world as being true and free from doubt.

Well, it is certain that all humans must die, and there will come the judgment. That which follows the death is just as certain as is the death itself, and just as reasonable, as is the following of any cause by an effect. So humans should have no difficulty in believing in the judgment, as a fact that cannot be avoided, just as death cannot be avoided.

But the word, and the fact, judgment, when used as an effect, or following of death, may have many meanings in the opinions and understandings of many humans, depending upon what humans may believe, as to things that are called religious, or scientific, or philosophical.

To the ultra-orthodox, this term judgment means and necessarily comprehends the active pronouncement of a sentence by God, because of and determined by their lives and thoughts while living in the Mortal Life, irrespective of any of His General Laws and the workings thereof. God is Himself the judge, personal and present. By Him in this capacity are each human's Life and works known and digested and made the basis of the sentence that He must pronounce in each individual case. God keeps the record of all of these acts of humans, or, if human is conceded to be their own record-keeper, their records are, or will be, at the time of the great assemblage for judgment, opened up, or brought into view, so that nothing can be lost. Then, upon this record, humans will be sent to eternal happiness, or to everlasting punishment, or, as some believe, to destruction or annihilation.

Others, not orthodox, who believe in the survival of the soul and the continuing memories of the acts and thoughts of humans, teach that the judgment will follow death as a natural consequence of the operations of the Law of Cause and Effect. The effect cannot be escaped from, until in some way there comes to the consciousness of humans, a realization, that the effect in their suffering has satisfied the cause, and that there is nothing mysterious, or unnatural, in the appearance and workings of the judgment. They do not believe that God, by any special interposition, or personal punishing, will pronounce the judgment, or determine the merits or demerits of the one called to judgment.

Besides these views, there are others extant and believed in. But the two that I have mentioned are principle ones, and are sufficient to show what the large majority of thinking, or rather believing, humans conclude the term judgment, as used in the Bible, should mean, or be understood to mean.

Well, the judgment of the human soul is an important accompaniment of the human Life, both in the flesh and in the Spirit World. As regards the questions and punishments, hardly anything demands more of the thought and consideration of humans, for it is a certainty, that belief, true or false, they cannot avoid them. Judgment, as certainly, follows what humans call death, as does night the day. No philosophy, theological dogmas, or scientific determinations, can alter the fact, or in any way change the character or exact workings of this judgment.

But judgment is not a thing belonging exclusively to the after-death period or condition, for it is present and operating with humans, from the time that they become incarnated in the human, until they become disincarnate. Thereafter, continuously, until the causes of effects have been satisfied and there remains nothing to be judged, which happy ending is also a fact. For all humans are dependent upon their progress towards the Conditions of Harmony with the Laws that make effective, as well as pronounce, the judgments. While on Earth these Laws operate. Continuously human is being judged for the causes that they start into existence. The after-death judgment is only a continuation of the judgment received by humans while on Earth.

Of course, humans may not know this. These judgments, or the effects thereof, become more intensified after humans have gotten rid of the influences of the flesh existence and they become spirits, having only the spirit qualities. Because of this fact, humans must understand, and try to realize, that the expression "after death, the judgment" has a greater significance and is of more vital importance, than the saying, that "judgment is with humans all during their mortal lives".

After death, the causes of the inharmony with the Law become more pronounced, and appear in the True Meaning and Force. Consequently, as this is True, the effects become more intensified and understood.

Humans (spirits) suffer more and realize the darkness, and sometimes the gross darkness, that these effects produce. The inharmony appears in its unclothed and unhidden reality. The Law's workings bring to humans the exact penalties that their violations demand.

Human is their own bookkeeper. In their memory are recorded all the thoughts and deeds of their Earth Life that are not in accord with the Harmony of God's Will, which is expressed, or manifested, by His Laws. The judgment is not the thing of a day, or a time, but is never ceasing, so long as there exists that upon which it can operate. It diminishes in proportion as the causes of inharmony disappear.

God is not present in wrath, demanding, as does the human who believes themselves to have been injured, demanding reparation by the one causing the injury. No, The Father is present only in Love. As the soul of the one undergoing the penalty, which their own deeds and thoughts have imposed upon them, comes more in Harmony with the Father's Will, He, as you mortals say, is pleased, and never an angry god, rejoicing in the satisfaction of a penalty being paid by one of His Erring Children. Always a Loving Father, rejoicing in the Redemption of His Children from a suffering that a violation of the Laws of Harmony exacts with certitude.

Then, as I say, the judgment day is not a special time, when all humans must meet in the Presence of God, and have their thoughts and deeds weighed in the balance, and then, according as they are good or evil, have the sentence of an angry, or even just God pronounced upon them. The judgment day is every day, both in the Earth Life of human, and in Life in the Spirit World, where the Law of Compensation is working. In the Spirit World, time is not known. Every breathing is a part of Eternity. With every breathing, so long as the Law of Compensation requires, comes the judgment. Continued and unsatisfied, until human, as a spirit, reaches that Condition of Harmony, so that for them, no longer the Law demands a judgment.

From what I have written, humans must not suppose, or beguile themselves into that state of belief that will cause them to think that because there is no special day of judgment, when god will pronounce his sentence, the judgment, therefore, is not so much to be dreaded or shunned. No, this state of thinking will palliate only for the moment, for the judgment is certain, and is, and will be, no less to be dreaded, because the Immutable Law demands exact restoration, instead of an angry god.

No human who has lived and died has escaped. No human who shall hereafter die can escape this judgment. Unless, they have, in a way provided by the Father in His Love, become in Harmony with the Laws requiring Harmony. "As a human soweth so shall they reap" is as True, as is the fact that the sun shines upon the just and the unjust alike.

Memory is human's storehouse of good and evil. Memory does not die with the death of the human's physical body. On the contrary, becomes more alive, all alive. Nothing is left behind, or forgotten, when the spirit human casts off the encumbrance, the benumbing and deceiving influences of the only body of human that was Created to die.

Judgment is Real. Humans must come to it face-to-face. Want of belief, or unbelief, or indifference, or the application to humans lives of the saying "sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof" will not enable humans to avoid the judgment, or the exactions of its demands. There is a Way, though, in which humans may turn the judgment of death, into the Judgment of Life, inharmony into Harmony, suffering into Happiness, and judgment itself into a thing to be desired. Elsewhere we have written of this Way, open to all humans. I will not attempt to describe it here.

I have written enough for tonight. You are tired and must not be drawn on further. So with my Love I will say goodnight, your brother and friend, Jesus.

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