THOUGHTS, BELIEF AND FAITH

Thoughts, belief and Faith - Belief is the mainspring of human's acts, the result of their thoughts. Thoughts are things that cause the realities of human's consciousness. As they thinketh in their heart, so are they. Thinketh in their heart, means, or comprehends, the idea that the thoughts of their mind, which is the only part of human that has the powers, or faculties, for thinking, are suggested by, or flow from, the desires and appetites of the emotional part of human (the soul).

Thoughts, Belief and Faith

April 5th, 1916

I am here, Jesus.

These people (Christian Scientists) obtain, by their study of the Principles that God is everything, and that their will must be subjected to His, a certain union with the Power of the Spirit World that calls into operation those Powers. Which give them strength of will and a belief, that their appetite for the stimulant has left them.That being so, they may easily refrain from further indulging this appetite.

The Spirit forces help them to a greater extent than they possibly understand. But in order for this help to become effective, these people must necessarily come in rapport with these forces. They, by what they believe they possess, in the way of having a proper conception of the true relationship of themselves to God, further believe that there is some power, which exists in the Spirit Realms that is sufficient to take from them their appetites, and enable them to lay aside these appetites for what, they realize, is the unreal.

This faith is a wonderful thing in helping human to do, or not to do, a particular thing. Even though they may not understand the True Principle upon which this Faith works out the results of which they testify, yet they acquire the Faith, which causes them to come into close rapport with the powers that actually help them to a successful realization of their desires.

As a matter of fact, God does not, as you may say, personally intervene in these matters. For He performs His Work by means of spirits, or ministering angels, as the Bible teaches, in things having to do with the material things affecting a human's existence. Even in the matters of the soul, He uses the Holy Spirit as an instrument to bring to human His Divine Love and infill the soul of human with Its Presence, Essence and Influence.

Many of these Christian Scientists have in their souls this Divine Love, without really understanding that it is there, or why, or how, It came to them. But they see the effect, and have a knowledge that there is some Power within them, that enables them to come closer to the Father and experience the Presence of His Love.

Christian Science is in many particulars, a belief, which leads to a Faith that brings the True sincere believer into an At-Onement with the Father, and makes the believer a possessor of this Divine Love of the Father. Yet many of its teachings are misleading, hard to understand, and not suitable for the great mass of humankind. Because of certain mental requirements necessary to be understood before the seeker can grasp the Truth, that this Divine Love is the only thing that will save them from their sins, and fit them for the Kingdom.

I must not write more on this subject tonight, for, as I have told you, I will come sometime and show you its merits and demerits in detail.

I will soon come and finish my last message, and as there are so many more that I desire to communicate. I hope that we may proceed faster in our work.

I will be with you in your daily Life in my Love and influence, and try to help you to that condition of mind and soul progress that you pray for, and that are so very necessary.

Yes, I hear your request. I pray as you desire. I know that the Father answers my prayers, as He also answers yours. Only have more Faith, and more soul longings. You will soon realize an inflowing of this Divine Love to a wonderful degree.

I must stop now. With all my Love and blessings, I am, your friend and brother, Jesus.

Thoughts, Belief and Faith

October 28th, 1915

I am here, James.

I will write only a few lines tonight, as conditions are not very good, for you are tired and have been working too much to permit us to make a very close rapport.

I want to say, that today I have been with you and my charge (Dr. Stone) a part of the time and heard your conversation. I was pleased to hear your conversation, and was pleased to hear you both express yourselves so strongly with reference to the Truths that you have received. You will not be disappointed when the time comes for belief to become an experience.

The Truths are not to be refuted by any preaching or teachings, or any reference to the bible that are contrary to these Truths. I here declare to you, that The Only Way to the Celestial Spheres is by The Way of the New Birth, as it has been explained to you.

I also desire to encourage the mortal to whom I have attached myself especially (Dr. Stone), and assure him that I am with him very often. I impress him with thoughts that will make him realize more and more, that only the Truth that he has knowledge of will fit him for the work that is before him to perform. That he must endeavor to increase his Faith, so that his beliefs will become things of Real Substance. For they are Real. When he gets in that condition, and attempts his work, what will appear Real to him will, in fact, be Real. So Real, that other mortals will know the benefits that arise from their Reality.

I will not write more now. So with my Love, I will say goodnight.

Your brother in Christ, James, Apostle of Jesus.

Thoughts, Belief and Faith

October 16th, 1916

I am here, St. Luke, of the New Testament.

I desire to write my promised message. If you feel that you can receive it, I will try to write.

Well, I desire to declare certain Truths, with reference to: the necessity for humans turning their thoughts to Things Spiritual, and letting the material things of Life consume less of their time and thoughts.

In the first place, that which is Eternal is of more importance than that which is temporal, and has an existence for a short time only, even though these things of time are necessary to sustain and preserve human while living their Life on Earth.

I would not be understood as implying that these material things are not necessary and important for human to acquire and use to the best possible advantage, for they are a necessity to their Earth existence. It is not only a privilege, but a duty, for human to make the best use of these material gifts that is possible. To place themselves in that condition which will enable them to enjoy, to the utmost, these things that have been Provided for their material comfort and happiness. Further, it is their duty to bend their efforts to develop the use, and the application of these things, so that the greatest possible benefit and utility may be derived, from the proper use of them.

To do this, I understand that human has to give a portion of their thoughts, and devote a part of their time to their consideration, and to the means and methods by which the best results may be brought about. In doing this, human is not disobedient to the Father's Laws, or to the requirements which the Laws of their own being calls for.

The discoveries of the inventors are desirable. Humans work in making these discoveries is commendable. So are efforts of the merchant, mechanic, and financiers, to succeed in their different undertakings, and as a result accumulate money and use it for their comfort and sustenance.

These things, or the thoughts and efforts used to accomplish these results, do not help the Soul Development, or even the development of the Spiritual Side of Human's Nature. If human devotes them self, for the greater number of their hours of living, to these pursuits, when they come to lay these burdens down and pass into the Land of Spirits, they will find that they are very poor indeed. That the Eternal part of their Being has little developed. Their soul fitted for a place, where those who have laid up their riches on Earth must necessarily go.

So attractive is this accumulation of money, and the gaining of fame, or position, to human, that when once engaged in, and especially when accompanied with what they call success, they naturally devote their whole waking time and thoughts to these efforts. As a consequence, very little, of this short time on Earth, is given to thoughts of, and striving for, things of the Higher kind.

If mortals, especially those who are so arduously and constantly engaged in the effort to win the success that I have just mentioned, could only see and know the condition of those who when on Earth were engaged in similar pursuits, with like aspirations, and who are now in the Spirit World, they would realize the utter futility of such efforts. The great soul killing harm that the so-called success on Earth, have brought to these spirits. While we may assume that many of these spirits did not do affirmative wrong, or injury, in their work, and did not enter into the condition to which I refer because of any such, wrong or injury, yet they are in a stagnated and shriveled condition of soul and Spiritual Qualities. All because, when in their earnest pursuits of these material things, they neglected the development of their souls, or the cultivation of their Spiritual Qualities.
Their sin was that of omission. It is a sure one in its results. The more common one among humans who think too much of material things, or think not at all, or are indifferent to everything, and are satisfied to live in an atmosphere, or state, of vegetating contentment. The Law operates the same upon the human who neglects their Spiritual Nature because of their absorption in the things material, as upon the human who is guilty of such neglect because of indifference, or contentment with the pleasures that these material things give them. In both cases the results are the same. The soul remains stagnant. The Spiritual Qualities lie dormant. The human of such neglect will find their place in the Spirit World, to be one of darkness and suffering.

Life is short and time is fleeting, even though a human may live their allotted time of three score and ten years. There is no place in all God's Universe, where it is so important that human should start on their way to Eternal Progress, as in the Earth Life. There, the soul should have its Awakening, and be fed with thoughts and strivings for the Things Spiritual. When the start is thus made on Earth, it is so much easier for the continuous progress of the soul in the Spirit World. If not, the Awakening may be delayed for years. The progress which follows it may be, and generally is, very slow.

So I say; let humans not devote so much of their time to those things which are of time only, while they remain in the world of time until the mortal becomes a spirit. Thoughts are Things. When applied to human's Spiritual Development, they are things of the most vital importance. A little thought may start a soul to a dormant, hardly living state. Or, cause it to grow and increase into a thing of Beauty and Harmony with the Spiritual possibilities of its possessor. As it has been said; where your treasures are, there will your heart be also, so also will your thoughts that turn human's soul into darkness, or Light.

So with all my Love, I will say, goodnight, your brother in Christ, Luke.

Thoughts, Belief and Faith

January 4th, 1917

I am here, Luke.

I will write a few lines tonight on a subject that I desire to make known to you and others. For I know it will be of interest to all who may read it.

The subject is the Truth of the statement: That no human can possibly reach the condition of Perfection, unless their mental beliefs become in accord with the Truth. This Perfection, you will understand, is the Perfection that human possessed before their fall. That is; the Perfection of their Creation.
It has been asserted by many that the beliefs of a human do not count for much in determining their condition of soul and mind. That only their acts and deeds, and the qualities of their heart determine that condition. This assertion I declare to be untrue, unless these acts, deeds, and qualities of heart are the results of beliefs being in accord with the Truth.

Belief is the mainspring of human's acts, and the result of their thoughts. Thoughts are things that cause the realities of human's consciousness. As they thinketh in their heart, so are they. Thinketh in their heart, means, or comprehends, the idea that the thoughts of their mind, which is the only part of human that has the powers, or faculties, for thinking, are suggested by, or flow from, the desires and appetites of the emotional part of human (the soul).

No thought originates itself, although, it may seem to be a spontaneous creation. But is the result of some Spiritual, or physical, perception. That is; of the perception of the Spiritual dualities, or of the sensuous organs, of human's physical constitution.

Belief is the result of thought. That agency which causes human's acts, or want of acts. Hence, the only guide, or way, shown to human in the progress of the development of their soul in its Natural Love, or of the mind, to the State of Perfection that I speak of.

Now, belief does not create Truth, or change Truth. For it (Truth) is absolute and unchangeable. Truth does not create belief, unless that Truth is comprehended by the thoughts from which emanate the belief. So it is apparent, that unless the belief, if erroneous, changes, so that it becomes in accord with the Truth, human, the possessor of the belief, can never get into a State of Perfection, which can only exist when a human is in a complete condition of Harmony with the Truth. Belief being the effect of the operations of the mind. Unless these operations are in Harmony with the Truth, the belief cannot possibly cause the development of the human who is possessed of, and controlled by, that belief, into the Perfect Human. Because every cause has an effect, and that effect must be, necessarily, only such as is the natural and inevitable result of that cause. 

Out of untruth it is impossible for Truth to emanate. From the imperfect, the Perfect can never be constructed. So it is impossible to develop a Perfect Love, and mind, out of an imperfect belief. The Law, that declares the effect of its operations to bring this result, is invariable. Only, by the observation of its requirements, can the imperfect ever become the Perfect.

So, therefore, I assert that no human can ever become the Perfect Human unless their beliefs become in Harmony with the Truth. As a matter of fact, irrespective of reason, established by my Knowledge, resulting from observation and experience in the Spirit World, as well as in the Mortal World, I declare the same to be a Truth.

Then how important to human it is to seek for, and obtain, those beliefs that are in Harmony with the Truth, in order to become, as they were originally, the Perfect Human. This True Belief may be found, and acquired, even by the mortal.

No human will be excused from the penalty of the great Law of Compensation, by their plea that they did not think it very material what their beliefs were, if they tried to do right in the World towards their fellow human. Here, you will see, that in addition to the fact that this Great Law accepts no excuse, is the fact that human's acts and deeds proceed from their beliefs. Whenever such are strong enough to control them, and when the beliefs are unformed, and human acts from emotion, impulse, or desire only, without the constraint of any belief, the result upon their progress to the Perfect Human is substantially the same. Because this Law, in order to escape the penalty for its violation, demands that beliefs, formed, or unformed, or acts and deeds resulting from emotion, or impulse, which are really beliefs without definite form, shall be in Harmony with the Truth.

The infidel who says they do not believe, the agnostic who says they do not know, the orthodox who believes, but whose belief is erroneous, and the free thinker who believes only what reason teaches them, as they proclaim; if such beliefs are not in accord with the Truth, all come under the same penalty. That is, the impossibility of becoming the Perfect Human, while such erroneous beliefs, or want of True Beliefs, exist.

So I say; belief is a vital thing in the progress of a human towards Perfection. Humans should cease to declare, and rest on the assurance of such declaration, that it makes no difference what a human believes, if they do what they may consider to be right and just. And why, I, who Know, tell you that the Earth Planes of the Spirit World are crowded with the spirits of humans who are in darkness and stagnation in their progress towards the Perfect Human, solely from the causes that I have above written. Some humans have been in that condition for many long years (in the spirit world), and will not find progress, except as such erroneous beliefs leave them, and beliefs in accord with the Truth take the place of the former.

For human, and spirits, there is this consolation; that at some time, how long in the future, I, or no other spirit, knows, these erroneous beliefs will all be eradicated. Humans will again come into their Original Perfection. But the waiting may be long, distressing, and wearisome to many.

I have written enough. In closing will say to all humans: know and realize that the belief of a human is a vital and determining element in their progress to the Perfect Human.

I am pleased to write you tonight, and will soon come again. Keep your Faith and courage. You will realize the promises.

Goodnight and God bless you, your brother in Christ, Luke.

Thoughts, Belief and Faith

December 4th, 1917

I am here, must I say? Your own True and Loving, Helen.

While, in many instances, the evil spirits influence mortals in their thoughts and actions, yet this is not always the case. It will not do for mortals to think so. They are not the mere pliant tools, or subjects, of these evil spirits. But are persons with free wills, controlled by their own appetites. For them to believe that all their evil acts are the results of the influence of these evil spirits would place them in a very subservient and deplorable condition. At the same time, retard the development of themselves by their own thoughts and acts. No, the evil spirits are always working evil. But all the thoughts and desires that mortals have, and do, are not the results of the influence of these spirits.

Human must realize that in themselves is the cause of their own evil thoughts and deeds, though increased by the influence of these spirits. That they must master these thoughts, that they be able to drive them from themselves, and overcome them by thoughts of a different and higher nature. It will not do for humans to think that they are wicked, only because of the influence of the evil spirits. For to think so would retard their development. At the same time, take from them a realization of their own responsibility. On the other hand, the source of good thoughts is within themselves. If they will only seek for this source, they will be able to progress in their moral conditions. While the good spirits can and do help them, yet primarily humans must help themselves from the Good that is within them (in their souls True Nature as Created).

I would like to write you fully on this matter, and will sometime. Tonight you are not in condition. I will not try. Remember this, that whatever of evil is displayed, or gives evidence of the soul being possessed by it, yet within themselves is the Power to overcome and cause its eradication. I mean that humans must make the effort, and realize that they are masters of good and evil. We can help you, if you will let us. It depends on you. No other can take the praise or blame of the results of your thoughts or actions. Yet, you must also realize this; that when the evil ones form a rapport with you, and in a way obsess you, it will become the more difficult for you to exercise your own will. Hence, humans should pray to be given help from the Higher Source (God) to overcome the influences of these evil ones. The character of your company will determine to a considerable extent the kind of thoughts you may have, and the deeds you may do. But good or bad be your associates, you alone will be responsible for the results of your thoughts and acts.

I must not write more, goodnight, your own True and Loving, Helen.

Thoughts, Belief and Faith

April 14th, 1918

I am here, Spinoza.

I desire to write a few lines, if you will permit. I need not say that I have never written you before, for you will know from the difficulty that I have in writing that such must be the case. No, I am a stranger to this method of communication, and to you. To me it has come, in very recent days, as a wonderful revelation.

I do not intend to write upon a subject of any great Truth connected with our Spirit Life. Merely to say, sufficient to introduce myself, in the hope that when I am better acquainted with the Laws governing this method, I may be permitted to come to you and write of those things, which I have learned since becoming a spirit. Which to learn, when on Earth, would have been not only very desirable, but also very important.

I was, when on Earth, a philosopher, so-called. Gave many years of my Life to the search for Truth, relating not only to the Natural World, but also to what I conceived to be Truth connected with that World, or existence outside of and beyond the sense World. In my researches I was guilty of many speculations, which I now see have no foundation upon which I had built many conclusions and postulates. I had only the intellect, supplied in its workings by the knowledge that came from the phenomena of the purely physical. As I thought, by that great faculty called reason, which, as a fact, is a wonderful faculty. In its exercise, it is dependent upon, first, its own development. Next, whether that development has been along the lines of, and in accord with, Truth.

A reason, merely because it is a reason, is not a guide that can be depended on. For reasoning in an erroneous way must necessarily lead to conclusions of error. Merely calling, or believing, that these conclusions are the results of reason, does not justify the belief that the conclusions must be correct and veracious. Reason can be mistaken, and featured by error, just as can the senses. Hence, if you read the writings of the philosophers, metaphysicians, also scientists, you will find that things declared, and accepted, by these humans at one age, have been, repudiated and rejected by the successors of these humans in later ages.

So, when I wrote, and I wrote considerably, and was very largely read by what was considered to be the thinking class of humans, especially those whose researches led them along a similar line of study and subject matter as my own. I declared certain doctrines, or principles, connected with these metaphysical and philosophical matters, that I now Know to be wholly erroneous. Which at the time, I firmly believed to be things of verity, because largely they were based on what I thought was the true workings of reason, together with some little empirical knowledge.

From this, I do not mean to decry the value and importance of the faculty of reason. It has been the great factor operating progress of humankind. Like other finite faculties, it is subject to erroneous exercise, and cannot be depended on as a thing infallible. The common experience of humans has shown that humans, who have sincerely, earnestly, and constantly, exercised their reasoning faculties, have arrived at different and contradictory conclusions as to the same principles, or subject matter. Those conclusions have been entirely satisfactory and convincing to the respective persons. Now it is apparent that in such instances, all of these humans could not possibly be correct in their conclusions. In many cases, not any of them were correct. Yet they were all founded on the reason, properly and intelligently exercised, as they supposed.

No, reason, is fallible. It is not a thing of itself, but dependent upon environments, and sometimes inherited, or preconceived, ideas of what Truth must be. It is the great friend and defender of speculation. Without it, speculation could not exist. And so often is speculation deceived by its friend.

Truth is that which exists as an unchangeable condition or fact. Speculation can neither create, nor destroy, Truth. Reason is a means, which may be used, to reach Truth when knowledge does not exist. The fact that reason exists, does not mean that it is always used in that way that leads to the discovery of Truth. Reason, as I am now justified in saying, is but a Creature of God, just as is everything else in His Universe. When given to human with the freedom of exercising it, as human wills, is subject to all the possibilities of defective exercise that every other faculty possessed by human is subject to. Is no more infallible in its nature than are these other faculties.

It is the greatest faculty that human has as a Creature of the Almighty. Without it, some of the wise of Earth have said human would be no better than, or different from, the brute animal. This is not quite True, for human is possessed with that, which is Really Human them self, that the brute animal does not have. That is a soul, made in the image of its Creator. It may be said that reason is merely an appendage of the soul. I have justification in asserting that the soul, in its progress, can do without, or cast aside, this reason; without doing harm to itself. Because, as I have learned in progressing in the Spirit Life, the soul may, and does, arrive at that degree of development where reason is not necessary, or even used by it, in its acquirement of Truth.

I now believe, and without speculation, that reason is a Gift to human, to be useful to them only in their Earth Life, and in a portion of this Spirit Life, until the soul comes into a Knowledge of Truth by the exercise of the mere desire to know. A knowledge of the whys and wherefores is not required. It (the soul) Knows because it Knows. Just as in your Earth Life you have a knowledge of the sunlight, even if you do not know the why, and the wherefore, that produce that light.

Well, my newfound friend, I have written more than I intended, but as I continued I found the desire to write increase. I fear that I have trespassed too long, and pray your forgiveness. Sometime I should like to come and write of the errors of some of the teachings of earth, or rather of the Truths along the line of the subject matter of my earthly writings, as I now know them to be.

I am in what is called the intellectual planes of the Fifth Sphere. Very near the entrance to the Sixth Sphere, in which I hope to be in a short time. It has been a long time since I left the Earth Life. The early period of my existence in the Spirit World was one of stagnation. As I now see, merely because I brought with me many of the doctrines of the philosophy of my Earth Life. As a consequence, I continued my research along the ideas and ways that I had pursued as a mortal. The time thus spent was long, and continued, until I became convinced that speculation in the Spirit Life is not very different, and arrives at no more satisfactory end, than speculation on Earth.

Then I stopped speculating and waited for something, I know not what. Strange to say, that which came to me, was from a spirit who had never heard of my philosophy, or any other philosophy on Earth, but merely accepted Truth as it gradually came to him, without knowing why, or how. I soon learned that he had a greater Knowledge of the Verities than had I. So I adopted his way of receiving Truth. Since then I have been progressing. I am now advancing with accelerated speed, and all to my happiness and intellectual enjoyment.

Goodbye, your friend, Spinoza.

Thoughts, Belief and Faith

March 9, 1919

St. Luke.

Let me write a few lines tonight, as you are in better condition. I am able to make a rapport with you and deliver my message.

I was with you today at a meeting of the New Thought people, and saw the impression made upon you by the speaker in his efforts to show that god is within human. That only the opening up of the soul, or mind, of human, to the development of that god is all that is necessary to bring that human into a perfect at-onement with the Truths of God's Will.

Well, I have to say that this speaker; when he comes to a realization of himself in the Spirit World will find that God is not in him, or in anything that he may have possessed in his Earth Life, and that his development of the kingdom within him, as he termed it, was a mere delusion. A snare to the progress of his soul in its career through the Earth Life, as well as through the Heavens, or Spirit World.

He is mistaken when he announces that the Kingdom of Heaven is within him, or that he has that within him, that, which can by its development, lead to the condition of the Perfect Human, in the sense that he spoke of. He is following a false way. All the efforts that he may make, will not lead him into the Paths that end in the Perfect Human that partakes of the Father's Divinity.

He is also mistaken when he asserts that god is everywhere, in the flowers, in the thoughts of humans, and in the heart. For God does not find His Habitation in any of these things. Humans do not live, move and have their being in Him. He is a Distinct and Individual Entity. He is not spread over All His Universe, as the preacher proclaimed. Can only be found by the longings of the soul, followed by a development of that soul in His Divine Love.

No, God is in His Heavens. Human can reach Him only by the persistent longings of that soul for the inflowing of His Divine Love. These things, that the preacher declared were the presence of god, are only the Expressions of His Being. They do not declare His Presence in any other sense than as the Evidence of His Existence, in His Habitation, from which these expressions flow and make known to human His Presence, as these things reflect it. I am sorry that this speaker has not more Knowledge of the True God, and of His Seat of Habitation, for then he would realize that these things, upon which he places so much belief as being the very God, Himself, are but the Expressions that flow from Him.

Human has within them, that which has in itself wonderful possibilities. I mean the soul. It may, by the observance of The Way that Transforms it into a Divine Angel, become Divine itself, or it may, only by the slow process of renunciation, become merely the Perfect Human, with their Natural Love in a Pure State, which was the condition of the First Parents. If humans will listen to the call to their souls, they will realize this possibility and receive this Divinity (The Divine Love), and with it, Immortality. Without this Transformation they never can become other, or greater, than the Perfect Human.

I know that humans teach that there is implanted within the souls of all humans, that, which is capable of being developed into an existence like unto God. That human needs only this development in order to become a god, and that there is nothing else necessary to make a human soul a part of the Soul of God. In this teaching humans are mistaken, and will find themselves, at the stage of their highest development, nothing more than the Perfect Human. Human has within them, only that with which they were Created. Can of themselves, add not one thing that will change them from this condition of their Creation.

It is True that they can, by a right course of thinking, and living, renounce those things that have tainted their soul and alienated it from The Father, and made it sinful and disobedient. When this is done, they are still only the Perfect Human. Nothing of the Divine is in them. Jesus was the Perfect Human, and as such, was an exemplar of what all humans will ultimately become. If Jesus had never become more than the Perfect Human, he would not now be an inhabitant of the Celestial Heavens, and the Beloved Son of The Father. Yet he became more than the Perfect Human. It was only after he attained to this condition of excellence, that he could say, "I and my Father are one", for it was then only, that he possessed the Divine Love, to that degree which made him At-One with the Father. Only they, who are At-One with the Father that realizes that they are possessed of the Very Nature and Essence of the Father. There is only One Way in which this can be obtained. That is; by the inflowing into the soul of the Divine Love. Jesus could not say to the multitude that they were at-one with him, and with the Father, for they had only the Natural Love and had not experienced the Transformation of their souls. Such sayings as this were addressed only to his disciples, or to those among his hearers, that had received this Divine Love.

The speaker spoke of the New Birth, but had no conception of what it meant. Like many other teachers, in and out of the churches, believes that a mere condition of the purification of the Natural Love constitutes this new birth, and that, that is all Jesus meant when he taught the necessity of being born again. There is only One Way in which this New Birth can be brought about. That you already know.

As to the Moral Truths taught by the Master, such as are referred to in the Sermon on the Mount, undoubtedly they will, if observed in the heart, bring about a regeneration of the soul that will lead humans to the glory of the Perfect Human and make them at-one with the Laws of their Creation. This condition is devoutly to be wished for, and sought after, by all humans. When they attain to this condition, they will experience the beatitudes that are mentioned in the sermon. But this is only the state of the Perfect Human, and nothing of the Divine enters into their condition.

"New Thought", as it is called, has in it something that is an improvement on orthodoxy. Humans will be the better if they will embrace some of its teachings. The great stumbling blocks of the Trinity, the vicarious atonement, and the blood, would be moved from the worship of humans. They would then rely on the Moral Truths in the development of their souls for salvation, and would not rest supinely in the belief of the efficacy of the vicarious atonement. But some other things that it teaches are all wrong. Its followers will find, when they come to the Spirit World, that there is a God to be worshipped, and that human has not within them, that god to be developed by their own thoughts and deeds.
I know that according to the orthodox teachings, too little is thought of the Natural Goodness of Human, and too much emphasis placed in their innate depravity, and that nothing in human is worthy of the release from the sin and disobedience in which they are now living; and that of the self, they can do nothing to bring about their purification and restoration to their Original Condition of the Perfect Human. This is wrong, for very largely upon human's efforts, depends their redemption. As a human thinketh in their heart, so are they. They are Naturally Good! Their present condition was brought about by their permitting their soul to be contaminated with sin. To become again Good, they need only to pursue that way that will remove sin and its consequences from their soul. Human created sin.They will have to remove sin. The process will be slow, but ultimately it will be accomplished, by the efforts of humans themselves. They will be helped by spirits, who are God's Ministering Angels, in these efforts. But upon them depends the removal of that which they created and imposed. Here let me say, that unless human wills it, they will forever remain in sin. God will not, contrary to human's desires, make them a pure and undefiled being. Human's belief, unaccompanied by striving and seeking, will not be sufficient to bring about this remedy.

The speaker is a good man, and has experienced, to a large degree, the workings of his own will upon the conditions of his soul. Knows that his own efforts have caused him to renounce many things that tended to defile him and cause doubt. In this condition realizes much happiness, and thinks that he is of himself sufficient to attain to that which will bring him into a Perfect Unison with the god that he thinks is within him. In this he is deceiving himself. For what he thinks is god, is only an unusual condition of soul development in its Natural Love that gives him a happiness, which causes him to believe that God must be in and a part of him.

As you have been told, the happiness of the Purified Soul is beyond all conception of humans. The nearer a human approaches to that condition of purification of their soul, the greater becomes their happiness, and the belief that God must in some way be in that happiness and form a part of it, when the fact is; that this happiness is only that which was bestowed upon human in the beginning. As the soul becomes purer and relieved from the defilement of sin, human becomes what they were in the beginning, and has regained only that, which by Nature is theirs. They do not receive any part of the Divine, nor does the Father bestow upon them anything that was not theirs at the Creation. They must realize, that by the removal of sin their soul becomes more and more in Harmony with the Will of God, and less and less in harmony with their own perverted will.

Let "New Thought" progress, until humans may realize that they are at-one with themselves, their Created Selves. Let it not teach them that what they experience as a removal of sin from their own souls by their own efforts and thoughts, is evidence of a development of any supposed god within them. For it is not True, but is merely the development of their own Natural Created Selves, freed from that which defiled and made them unnatural.

The speaker said that the Kingdom of Heaven is within all humans, and needs only for humans to realize that fact, and declare its truth. That then, they will become pure and like unto God, and find themselves in the Presence of God, and see Him face to face. Well, in this he is all wrong, for the Kingdom of Heaven, or Celestial Kingdom, is not within humans, though it may be. Neither is God in their souls and capable of being seen face to face. These humans, who teach purification of their Natural Love and a superior state resulting from that purification, and nothing more, will never see God. They will always remain in the mere image in which they were Created, a merely purified human made in the image of God. Nothing more. The Father will then be the same unseen Creator as He is now. Humans will worship Him in faith only, for their soul perceptions, which are the only eyes of the soul that can see God, will not exist. To them God will still remain the unseen and unknowable Being that exists today in the knowledge and belief of humans.

Well, I have written enough for tonight, but saw that you were somewhat interested in the teachings of the day, and thought it best that I should write you as to the Truth of the subject of which he discoursed and evidently believed.

With my Love to you, and the hope that our messages may now continue without interruption, I will say, goodnight, your brother in Christ, Luke.

Thoughts, Belief and Faith

June 15th, 1919

I am here, Jesus.

Let me write just a line, for I desire to tell you that I was with you tonight at the convention of the New Thought people, and saw the impression made upon you by the discourses. I am pleased that what they said, only confirmed your Faith in our teachings. They are sincere in their efforts to obtain Knowledge of the Truth. The difficulty is, that while they are free from many of the orthodox teachings of the church, yet they have only the Natural Love and perceptions of the intellect, and to some extent, of the Awakened soul in its natural condition.

They know nothing of the Divine Love. Or, The Way to the True Kingdom, and are depending entirely upon the Spiritual feelings that come to them with the consciousness of an Awakened soul, in its conflict with the things that prevent its purification and development into the Perfect Human.

These people are to be encouraged in their efforts and teachings, so far as they disclose the True Natural Condition of Human, and the possibility of their becoming in Harmony with the Will of the Father in their Natural Love. To that extent they are progressing beyond the old orthodox ideas of what the Real Human is, and what is incumbent upon them, in order to get into the condition of Happiness that comes with a purification of their Natural Love, and a living in Harmony with the Laws of God governing that purification.

It is to be wished that these humans will proceed in their teachings, and thus give to humankind a knowledge of what human really is, and the possibilities that lie before them when they exercise the inherent powers that exist within. For concerning sin and inharmony, until the Great Truths of the New Birth and the Transformation of the soul, and the Wonderful Kingdom of the Celestial Spheres are made known to humans through our teachings of these things, these Greater Truths, which lie beyond the knowledge of humans at this time, will not be theirs.

In their search for God they are on the wrong track, and will never find Him, if they pursue the search in the way indicated by their discourses. God is not within humans. Nor do they live, move, and have their being in Him. Nor is He everywhere, waiting to be developed by humans as they grow better and purer. No, they are mistaken in their thought as to God and His Habitation. Will learn, when they come into a Knowledge of the Truth, that God (The Divine Soul) is not in human, or in everything that surrounds them. But is separate from them, and from the environments in which they live and move. He has His Locality in the Highest Heavens; where He works out His Purposes, and makes Himself, and the evidence of His Existence, known to humans by the energies that control the Universe (His Spirit) in which humans exist. He can only be seen by the soul perceptions of a soul that has been Transformed into the Divine Angel. To humans, in every other particular, He is unseen and unknown, except as His Laws, and the effect of their operation, disclose His Being.

Well, I merely wanted to write this short message. I am glad that you can receive it.

Goodnight, your brother and friend, Jesus.

Thoughts, Belief and Faith