TRUE NATURE OF GOD

The True Nature of God and the Attributes of God's Divine Soul Personality of Divine Love.  He is the Only One who is Supreme, All Powerful, Loving, and Wise.  He is not a being of form, or individuality, as humans understand.  He is a Spiritual Substance of Being and Soul.  His Great Soul is that part of Him which embraces all the Affections and Love, which are Bestowed on humans, in order that they may become like their Father.  His attributes are Holiness, Love, Goodness, Wisdom, Caring, Merciful, All Knowing, Creativity, All Powerful.

Nature of God

January 31st, 1915

I am here, Your Grandmother (Ann Rollins).

    You must not think that because the Master said that God is a Personification of Love, Power, and Wisdom, that there is no Real God, but merely an abstract being representing these Attributes.  He is a Real Being.  These Attributes are His, and not the combination of the Attributes.  He Exists.  Without Him, there would be no Love, Wisdom, or Power.  He is the Creator of these Principles, not their creature!

    As Jesus said, He is without form, or substance, such as mortals and spirits have.  Yet He has a Spiritual Substance that is Real, not shadowy, or non-existent.  Pantheism is different from what God is.

    While His Attributes are Everywhere, yet He is of an identical Substance of Spirit.  So do not let the idea possess you, that He is not a Being, for He is.  Even though we cannot see Him, or feel Him as a spirit, yet He exists, as His One True Self.  So believe in a Personal God in that sense.

    I know that it is hard to comprehend the True conception of His Being.  The higher we get in the scale of Divine Love, the more apparent becomes His Real Existence as a Being.  Do not let your inability to grasp the True Meaning of this description of God and His Nature, lead you to think that He is a mere essence.  He is Real.  To us who have received a large amount of His Divine Love and Essence, He becomes as Real as if we could see, and feel Him with our Spiritual eyes and hands.

    I know the difficulties, in the way of your finite mind, to grasp the True Conception of His Being.  But as Divine Love draws you closer to Him, the mind gives way to the perceptions of the soul.  God appears as a Real Existing Being, the Creator of All.

    I want to tell you further, that God, while He Works through His Angels, yet He, Himself, comes into our souls by His Direct Communication.  The Holy Spirit is His Messenger that causes the souls of humans to hear and receive this soul communication.  Yet God's Divine Love comes direct from Himself.  When human was Created in the likeness of God, they were given a soul that was capable of receiving the Soul Essence of the Father.  Neither in their physical, nor in Spiritual form, was human Created in the image of their Father, because the Father has no such forms.  In the soul essence, the image was made alike.

    Yet human is of such a great degree in God's Creation that they can refuse to receive this Soul Essence, if they so wills.  Their soul is capable of receiving it, but is not compelled to do so.  While human has the image, yet if they neglect to receive the Substance, they will never become At-One with the Father.  That image will never be more than an image only.

    God is so Good, that He implanted in human's soul, what may be called the Natural Love.  That Natural Love is sufficient to make them comparatively happy.  In the great day, when sin and error shall be destroyed, human's Natural Love will be able to cause this happiness.  But human will not be At-One with the Father in the larger sense, will not take on the Divine Nature of their God.  So you see the necessity of seeking this wonderful Union with the Father.

I must now stop.  Your Grandmother (Ann Rollins).

Nature of God

January 31st, 1915

I am here, Jesus. 

    As I told you, I will write my second message tonight.  I am not going to tell you of my Father's Kingdom at this time, but of His Nature as my God and your God.

    He is the only One who is Supreme, All Powerful, Loving, and Wise.  He is not a being of form, or individuality, as humans understand.  He is a Substance of Being and Soul.  His Soul is that part of Him which embraces all the Affections and Love, which are bestowed on humans in order that they may become like their Father.

    I am not yet so possessed of that Soul Essence (Divine Love), as to make me just like the Father in All His Attributes.  I expect that some time in the future, when I have received that Divine Essence in all its fullness, I will be likened unto the Father.  So may every one of His Creatures, if they will only seek for It with True Faith and earnestness.

    The Father is not capable of being seen with the physical or spiritual sight.  Can only be seen with the soul's eyes of Perfect Divine Love.  He is not in any particular place, or seated on a throne in His Heavens.  His Attributes are everywhere, and fills the whole Universe.  The Earth is a very small portion of the Universe.  Humans must not believe that God is only in the Heavens, where the sons of Earth go when they cease to live as mortals.

    God is a God of Love above everything else.  The sooner humankind learns and believes that fact, the sooner will happiness exist on the Earth, as well as in the Heavens.  He is not a God of hatred.  Nor does He chastise His Children in wrath or anger.  His Love is with all humankind, be they saints or sinners.  No human suffers punishment because the Father wants them to suffer.  He is also a God of Mercy and Forgiveness, and will forgive the sins of humans, and shed His Mercy over them, if they will Truly, and in sincerity, ask His Forgiveness and seek His Mercy.

    He is also a God of Wisdom.  His Plans for the Redemption and Salvation of Humankind are the only Plans that can be adopted for humans to try to follow in order that they may receive this salvation.  He is also a God of Power.  In the days to come, when He sees fit to carry out and perfect His Plans in their full fruition, He will, through the working of His Spirit, which is Perfect in its working, destroy all sin and error in His Universe.  Perfect Harmony will reign.  Humans will be at peace and happiness.

    So God is everything in His Nature and Attributes which will not only Redeem humans from their sins, but will make them Lovers of one another, brothers and sisters, in the True sense of the words.  The world will not be destroyed, as it is taught by some in the interpreting of the Bible.  When the Great Day of Judgment comes, all sin will be eradicated from the World.  Humankind will continue to live upon the Earth, free from sin and unhappiness.  Just as it is supposed Adam and Eve lived in the Garden of Eden.

    Never has human seen God.  The stories in the Old Testament about some of the prophets and leaders of the Jews in their early captivity and wanderings, are not True.  God cannot be seen, as therein described.  His angels and messengers, who were at one time mortals of Earth, were seen.  Spoke to the prophets, and represented themselves as being angels of God.  No angel, or spirit, ever represented themselves to be God.  Not even the angels who delivered to Moses the tablets of stone, as it is written.  God works always through His Angels.  Never directly, as some of the Bible writers teach.  I was His Chosen Son to do the work of Redeeming the Earth from sin.  I came as my Father's Representative.  I never was God, nor did I ever claim to be, either to my disciples, or to the Jews, or the Sanhedrin.

    It is written in the Bible that the voice of God spoke to my disciples on the Mount of Transfiguration, and to John and those present at my baptism.  But it was not the voice of God, but the voice of one of God's Highest Angels.

    No human has ever heard the voice of God, for He has no voice.  He works in a silent mysterious way, through the operation of His Soul upon the souls of humans, just as the coming of the Holy Ghost at Pentecost.  While the Bible says that there was a noise as of a mighty wind, yet that was not perceptible to the physical ears of the disciples.  In their souls they felt the Presence of such a manifestation.  In order to have humankind understand that there was this Wonderful Manifestation, they used the imagery of the voice of a mighty wind.  So humans must understand that God speaks to human through His Angels, or through the communication of His Soul and theirs.

    I speak thus because I want it made plain that God is not the person, Loving or otherwise, which the Bible may teach humans that He is.  He is only the Personification of Love, Power, and Wisdom, and is without form, or personal appearance.  This is my knowledge of what God is.

    I will not write further tonight.  With my blessing and Love, Jesus.

Nature of God

November 21st, 1915

I am here, your old Professor Salyards.

    I merely want to say that I am very happy, and want you to know that I am progressing in my condition of soul development and in my Knowledge of the Truths that pertain to the Spirit World.  I have not written you for a long time, and would like to tell you of certain Truths that I have learned since last I wrote you.

    Well, I find that I am now in a condition of soul development that enables me to see the Divine Truth of what the Master has told us, in reference to the Real Existence of God, who knows what His Creatures are doing, and in what way they are making use of their souls and bodies.  I mean that this God is one having all the faculties that you would suppose only a Being would have, who had a Personality and Form.  But can hardly understand how a mere essence or formless existence could have such powers and qualities.

    I never, until recently, could comprehend the Real Truth and meaning of God, who could have the Wisdom, Love and Power that I was taught such God possessed.  Such comprehension is beyond the finite mind.  Can only be accepted as a realization of an existing condition, or Truth, by means of Faith.  Yet now I have more than Faith to enable me to understand the fact that this God, whom we call Our Father, for He is, has all these Qualities and Powers,  and such understanding is, to me, a wonderful and unexpected addition to my Knowledge of God.  This understanding, of course, is not a thing that arises from any exercise of the mind, or the result of any mental power, or quality, which I may never have realized that I possessed.  But is the result of the exercise of my soul perceptions, which have become so great and in such condition of Unison, or Harmony, with our Father's Qualities of Soul that He, and all these Attributes appear to me as real, perceptible existences, having a certainty of comprehensible being, as do the existence of spirits and their attributes.

    So you see what Soul Development may mean and what its possibilities are.  No mere development of the intellectual qualities, or attributes, could ever lead to a comprehension of the Personality of God, as I have described it.

    I never, in all my Life, natural or Spiritual, conceived or expected, that it were possible for any soul of mortal, or spirit, to see God as I now see Him.  I never could understand what was meant by the beatitude, "the pure in heart shall see God", except in this sense; that as we became pure in heart, those qualities that were ascribed to God would become a part of us.  As such possessors, we could see God or rather the result of those Attributes of God in our souls.

    I don't know whether you can fully comprehend what I intend to convey to you.  I have tried my best to put the idea in such language that your mind may understand, to some extent, what my meaning is.  I know that you will never fully know what this great soul perception is, until you have experienced what this development is in your own soul, which is necessary to enable it to see, with the clearness that I now see.

    I thought that I would tell you of this progress of my soul, so that you might have some faint idea of what the development of the soul means, in a way other than an addition to the development of the Love Principle.  But really, all phases of its development are part of, or dependent upon, and resultant from, the development of this Love Principle.  For Divine Love is the Fulfilling of the Law.  And Law includes that which enables us to perceive that God is a Personality, having these qualities that I speak of.

    I see that I have written enough for tonight.  If you will carefully read what I have written, you will find much food for thought.  Probably some help to a correct, concrete comprehension of Who and What God Is.

    So expressing to you my gratification and pleasure in being able to come to you again, and having you take down my ideas of who Our Father is, and also for the opportunity to declare that God is a Being, having an Existence of His Own, comprehensible by the soul perceptions of the Redeemed of His Creatures, I will say, goodnight.

    Your old professor and brother in Christ, Joseph H. Salyards.

Nature of God

November 21st, 1915

I am here, St. Stephen.

    I want to say only a word.  At the time of my martyrdom, I saw the heavens opened and the spirits of the just made perfect, so now, I can by my soul perceptions, see my God as a Real Personal Being, Full of Love and Mercy.

    Let no human rest in the assurance that God is only a formless spirit, without the Attributes of Seeing, Hearing and Knowing what the thoughts and deeds of humans and spirits are, for if they do, in the time of accounting, they will be deceived in their false security.

    I am in a condition of Soul Development to know the Great Truth that God is a God of Real Personality.  When I say this, I do not mean individuality, in the sense that you are an individual.  What I mean by Personality is that all these Attributes of Love, Power, Knowledge, and Mercy, do not constitute God, but are merely a part of His Being, and flow from Him in their operations upon humans, and in fact, upon all the things of the Universe.

    I will not enlarge upon this Truth, as it has been explained by those who preceded me.  I will say this; that because a human, with a finite mind, cannot understand this Divine Truth, it by no means follows that it is not a Truth.  For it is.  In the great future every human, who has received the necessary Soul Development will learn, and know, this Truth.

    I will not write more tonight, but will say to you, continue to seek this great development of your soul.  You will not be disappointed in coming to the realization that God is Our Father of the Master, the close Personal and Loving Father.

    With all my Love I will say goodnight, your brother in Christ, St. Stephen.

Nature of God

November 22nd, 1915

I am here, Jesus.

    I have heard what the Professor said to you.  You must try your best to comprehend its meaning, for it contains a description of the True Conception of God, in a way that only one having the developed soul perceptions could explain.  The only difficulty in the way of your fully understanding this idea of Who and What God is, is that the idea is not one that the mere mind can grasp.  For only the soul, that has been developed to a sufficient degree, can comprehend.  Yet, you may be able to conceive of its meaning to an extent that will enable you to get closer to Our Father as a Real, Personal Father, and not as a being of formless existence only.  I mean, that the idea of personality may bring the Father nearer to you, so that you may realize a deeper meaning of His Love, Care, Mercy, and interest in you, and in All His Creatures.

    In my message on God, you will find that the idea of Personality is spoken of.  But not emphasized so much as in the writing of the Professor.  The Truth is that Our Father is, to the soul perceptions, a Being of Real Existence and Personality.

     I know how difficult it is for the mind to conceive, even in a faint way, how such a Personality can be a part of a Being, who is declared to be, a mere spirit without form or limitation, everywhere at the same time.  I tell you that it is a Truth, that by the soul's faculties is comprehensible, the Personal Attribute of the Father.

    Of course, humans will not understand this Truth so long as they depend upon the mere intellect to comprehend it.  To them it may not mean much, but it is of the greatest importance to humankind, both in their lives on Earth and in the Spirit World. "Thou, God seest me", is not a mere meaningless generality, which humans repeat, and do not understand.  For God does see every act of human.  As I said when on earth, “not even a sparrow falls without my Father Knowing it, and the hairs of your head are all numbered”.  So, if humans will only learn that this Great Truth is of such importance, they will take more care of the manner in which they live their lives.

    (I am not disconcerted by the interruption)

    As I was saying, humans must realize that God knows not only their acts, but also their thoughts.  Every idle thought will have to be accounted for.  The penalties, which His Laws impose, will have to be paid.  So, if humans would only realize this fact, of God's being able to see and Know what their lives on Earth are, they would many times, think before they do some things which they do, supposing that no one but themselves know of them.  I am very glad that the Professor wrote to you on this subject tonight, for it is one that is very important in our plan of revealing the Divine Truths of God and His Attributes.

     Very soon, I will write you another message, one that will be very important to humankind.  I will come again soon, and tell you of some things that you must learn.

     So, with all my Love and blessings, I am, your own brother and friend, Jesus.

Nature of God

November 22nd, 1915

I am here, St. Luke.

    I want to add my testimony to that of Professor Salyards as to:  Who and what is God.

    Of course, since the Master has substantiated what the Professor wrote, and enlarged on it, my testimony is not necessary.  Yet, I desire to say a few words, which are expressive of my Knowledge, arising from my own experience.

    I have a Soul Development, which is greater than that of the Professor.  A perception which is clearer and more convincing than his.  Yet, what he has said, is all that I can say, as to the Truth of the Personality of God, except that to me it is undoubtedly much clearer, and of longer acquaintance.

    I know that God is a Being that has Personality, though not a form, like unto human.  But has all the Attributes that have been mentioned.  These Attributes are not God, but merely Qualities which He possesses, which, in their workings upon the hearts and souls of humans, emanate and flow from Him.  You may better understand this, if I call your attention to the fact that while you can see, feel, hear, Love, and dislike, yet these attributes, or qualities, are not you, but only those things that belong to your personality.  You may be deprived of any, or all of them, and yet you may not cease to exist as a personality.

    So with God, while these things of Divine Love and Wisdom, and Loving and Hearing, do not constitute God, yet they are a part of Him, and are exercised by Him.  Just as the qualities I have mentioned are exercised by you.

    I know it is difficult for the mere mind to comprehend this Great Truth of God having a Personality, yet it is a Truth, just as real to the perceptions of the developed soul, as is the existence of yours, or any human's, personality to the finite mind.  

    Here is another fact, in connection with this Great Truth, that is; that only the spirits who have experienced the New Birth and become filled with the Divine Love of the Father, hence a partaker of His Divinity, will ever be able to perceive this Great Truth of the Personality of God.  No other spirit will ever receive that Soul Development, which is absolutely necessary for it to possess, in order to perceive the Great Truth under discussion.  Yet the mere fact that these other spirits do not comprehend, or understand, this Truth, does not make it any the less a Truth.  All humans, and spirits, are subject to its operations, and must come under the benefits that they may receive by reason of the workings of this Truth upon their lives and thoughts.

    Just because humans cannot “see” God, it does not follow that He does not see them, for He does.  Their every thought is known to Him, and taken account of.  Strange as it may seem to you, or as I should more appropriately say, surprising as it may seem to you, that account is kept in the memories and consciences of humans themselves.  When the time comes for them to render an account of their acts and thoughts, no other place, or receptacle, is sought for, or examined, to find this account, than these very memories and consciences.  Nothing can be hidden, or lost, until it has fulfilled the purpose of its existence.

    Humans may create, but they cannot destroy.  I refer now to their actions and their thoughts.  While on Earth, they may forget and ease their consciences by forgetting, yet, when they come to the Spirit World, and are called to render an account, the Inexorable Laws, that are really their judges and executioners, show them that there is no such thing as forgetting, and as has been said, they have forgotten to forget.

    God is Being, Self-Existing, Unchangeable, but full of Divine Love and Mercy.  These, He does not exercise in any individual case, but has made certain that His Laws of Mercy will so operate, that all the spirits of humans, and mortals also, may, by their own acts and desires place themselves in such condition of soul, that these spirits will receive the benefit of this Mercy.  Yes, His Mercy is, from the beginning, waiting for all humans to ask for it, and want it, just as is His Divine Love.

    I could write on this subject for a longer time, but I must not write more tonight as you are tired, so I will close.

    With all my love and blessings, I am, your brother in Christ, Luke.

Nature of God

September 19th, 1920

I am here, Jesus.

    Let me say a few words tonight, as I see that you were disappointed in the sermon that the preacher delivered tonight.  Well, you must not be so disappointed, because he knows only that which he could deduce from the teachings of the Bible.  While what he said was True, yet it is not all of the Truth, but discussed only one of the Attributes of God.  That is; the Loving Care that He has for, and exercises over, the Children of Earth.  To most humans, this view of God is satisfactory, gives them much comfort and assurance in the security that arises from the knowledge that there is such a Loving and Caring Father.  To these humans, this assurance is of Wonderful Blessedness and Comfort.  It is well that humans can have this conception of God, a Father who is always solicitous for their happiness and welfare, and to whom they can pray in the Faith that He will Hear and answer their prayers.

    As we have written you before, the things that humans generally pray for, and expect to receive in response thereto, are not the things that God, in His Own Personality, bestows upon humans in answer to such prayers.  His Great Gift is His Divine Love.  These things of the material, or earthly, in themselves, He leaves to His Ministering Spirits to bestow.  Or, in other words, He delegates His Angels, to so come into contact with, and influence the souls of humans, that they may feel that their prayers have been answered, as they have.

    The preacher's conception of God does not extend beyond these Attributes, that in themselves, are sufficient to answer human’s wants, and make them better and happier.

    I will come soon and write you of God's Attributes, and hope that you will get in condition that I may make the necessary rapport.

    It has been sometime since I have written you of these Higher Truths, that are so important to humans, and regret that such is the fact.  But now that you have had your vacation, and feel that you are willing and anxious that our communications be resumed, I will try to assist you in getting in that condition of soul, that will enable the messages to be written you.  But as you know, much depends upon yourself.  You must try, with all the energies of your soul, to obtain a greater inflowing of the Father's Divine Love, for only from it can come the condition that is necessary.  Pray more, and think deeply of the Spiritual Truths that have already been written you.  We will come together in closer communion and be able to give, and you receive, the messages.

    I am glad that you have thought more of these things during the past few days, and hope that your thoughts will continue, and that your longings will flow more to the Father.  You cannot now appreciate the necessity for this condition.  If you could, I know you would give all your thoughts, longings, and energy to the accomplishment of the work.

    Well, I will not write more tonight, but will be with you, pray with you, and try to influence you in the efforts to perform the mission that has been given you.  Have more Faith and believe that you will succeed.  You will not be disappointed.

Your brother and friend, Jesus.

Nature of God