TRUE RESURRECTION

As Jesus' Mission was to teach the Resurrection of human soul from the (spiritually) dead, it necessarily follows that the only thing that was intended to be Resurrected was this soul Potentiality of becoming a part of God's Divinity and Immortality.  This is the Only Real and True Resurrection.

True Resurrection

October 24th, 1915

I am here, Thomas Carlyle.

    I merely want to say that I was present when Luke wrote, heard what he said, and was much interested.  This very question used to be a great stumbling block to my belief in the resurrection of Jesus, because it seemed to me that the resurrection of the material body, as so improbable under the circumstances as narrated in the Bible, that it was difficult for me to believe the story.  Now I can understand, very readily, because I am acquainted with the Laws governing the Formation and Disintegration of the Material things of earth.  I know that there is a Law, which would enable a person with the knowledge and power that Jesus had at the time of his death, to cause the disintegration of the material, as the scientists say, so that they would disappear into the surrounding atmosphere.
    I wish that I had understood this fact when a mortal, for then many other things would have appeared to me as probably True.  I would have been in a different state of belief, as to Spiritual Things.  My progress here towards higher spheres would not have been delayed.
    It is to be deplored that this so-called mystery was not explained in the Bible.  Had it been, humans would not now be in darkness as to the meaning of the Resurrection.  The many thousands who believe that the soul and spirit go into the grave to await the great Judgment Day, would not be in such condition of delusion, and have to suffer the consequences of such false belief in the stagnation of their soul progression, which will surely come to them.
    I hope you will give this explanation to the world, and let humans know the Truth; that there will be no resurrection of the body of flesh containing the soul, or spirit, as taught by the churches.
    I will not write more tonight, but will come again.
Your brother in Christ, Thomas Carlyle

True Resurrection

January 16th, 1916
I am here, St. Paul, of the New Testament.

    I come tonight to tell you of a Truth that is important for humans to know, and which you must place in your Book of Truths.

    I have written you before on my alleged writings, as they are contained in the Bible, which, as I have said, were not written by me, as they there appear.

    I desire tonight to write for a short time on the subject of:  The Resurrection.

? (a question by James Padgett, medium)

    Because, as I see, the church doctrine of the resurrection is founded more on what is ascribed to me, than on the writings of the Gospels, though the latter also contain a basis for the doctrine.

    I never said there would be a resurrection of the physical body, nor of the individual clothed in any body of flesh.  My teachings were that human, at death, would rise in a Spiritual Body, and that, not a new one made for the special occasion of their departure from the material body, but one that had been with them through Life and that came into an individualized form when they first became a living being.  This Spirit Body is necessary to human's existence.  Is that part of them which contains their senses.  It is the seat of their reasoning powers.

    Of course, the organs of the physical are necessary for the utilization of these senses.  Without these organs there could be no manifestations of the senses, which are inherent in the Spirit Body.  Even if a human should lose the perfect workings of their physical organs of sight, yet the power of seeing would still exist in them, although they might not be able to realize that fact.  This same Principle applies to the hearing and the other senses.

    So when human loses their physical organs which are necessary for them to see with, they are dead, as to sight, just as dead as they ever become, with reference to all the other organs of sense, when the whole physical body dies.  Were it possible to restore these physical organs, that are necessary to enable them to see, or hear, they would be able to see and hear, just as they were before their loss.  The restoration of these organs does not, of itself, bring them the power to see and hear, but merely enables the faculties of sight and hearing to again use the organs for the purpose of manifesting the powers which are in, and a part of, the Spirit Body.

    When the whole physical body dies, the spirit body, at the very time of death, becomes resurrected, with all faculties of which I have spoken.  Thereafter, continues to live free and unencumbered from the material body, which, these organs being destroyed, can no longer perform the objects of its Creation, it becomes dead.  Thereafter, never has any resurrection as such material body.  Although its elements, or parts, do not die, but in the workings of God's Laws, enter upon other and new functioning’s, though never that of reuniting and forming again the body that has died.

    So the resurrection of the body, as taught by me, is the resurrection of the Spiritual Body, not from death, for it never dies, but from its envelopment in the material form, which had been visible as a thing of apparent Life.

    There is a Law controlling the uniting of the two bodies, and the functioning of the powers and faculties of the spirit body through the organs of the physical body, that limits the extent of the operations of these faculties to those things that are wholly material, or which have the appearance of the material.  When I say material, I mean that which is grosser, or more compact, than the Spirit Body.  Thus these faculties of sight of the spirit body can, through the organs of the material body, see what are called ghosts, or apparitions, as well as the more material things.  But never, in this way, see things of Pure Spirit.  When it is said that men or women see clairvoyantly, which they do, it is not meant, or is it a fact, that they see through the organs of the physical eyes.  On the contrary, this sight is one Purely Spiritual.  Its workings are entirely independent of the material organs.

    Now when this body, the material body, dies, the spirit body becomes resurrected, as it is said, and free from all the limitations which its incarnation in the flesh has imposed.  It is then able to use all its faculties without the limitations, or help, of the physical organs.  As regards the sight, everything in nature, both material and spiritual, becomes the object of its vision.  That, which the limitations of the material organs prevented its seeing, and which to humans is the unreal and non-existent, becomes the Real and Truly Existing.

    This, in short, is what I meant by the resurrection of the body.  From this, you will realize that the resurrection is not to take place at some unknown day in the future, but at the very moment when the physical body dies, as the Bible says, in the twinkling of an eye.  This saying of the Bible attributed to me, I did write and teach.  This resurrection applies to all humankind.  For all who have ever lived and died have been resurrected.  All who shall live hereafter and die will be resurrected.

    This resurrection is not the Great Resurrection, upon which, in my teachings, I declared the Great Truth of Christianity to be founded.  This (resurrection of the spirit body) is not the Resurrection of Jesus that I declared, "Without which is our Faith as Christians vain".  This is the common resurrection, applicable to all humankind, of every nation and race, whether they have knowledge of Jesus, or not.  Many times, in many nations, has it been demonstrated, before the coming of Jesus, that humans had died, and appeared again as Living Spirits, in the form of angels and humans, and were recognized by mortal humans as spirits who had a previous Earth existence.

    So, I say, this is the resurrection common to all humans.  The coming, and death, and resurrection of Jesus, as taught by the churches, did not bring the Great Resurrection to the knowledge, or comfort, of humans, and did not furnish the True Foundation upon which the True Christian Belief and Faith rest.

    Many of the infidels, agnostics, and Spiritualists assert and claim, and Truly, that the resurrection of Jesus as above referred to, was not a new thing, and did not prove to humanity a Future Life, any more convincingly than had been proved before his time, by the experiences and observations of humans, and followers of other sects and faiths, and of no faiths at all.

    The great weakness of the church today is that they claim and teach, as the foundation of their faith and existence, this resurrection of Jesus as set forth above.  The result is; as plainly and painfully apparent to the churches themselves, that as humans think for themselves.  They are doing more than ever in the history of the world.  They refuse to believe in this resurrection as sufficient to show the superiority of Jesus' coming, and mission, and teachings, over those of other reformers and teachers who had preceded him in the World's history of faiths and religions. As a further result the churches are losing their adherents and believers.  Christianity is waning, and rapidly.  Agnosticism is increasing and manifesting itself in the forms of free thought societies and Secularism, etc.

    Hence, you will see the necessity of making known again to humankind the True Foundation Stone of the Real Christianity, that the Master came to teach, and which he did teach, but which was lost, as his early followers disappeared from the scene of Earthly action and practice.  Humans, of less Spiritual Insight and more material desires, with their ambition for power and dominion, became the rulers, guides, and interpreters of the church.

    There is a Resurrection though, that the Master taught, and his apostles, when they came into a Knowledge of, taught, and which I, as a humble follower taught, which is vital to human's salvation and which is the True Foundation of True Christianity, and which, no other human, angel, or reformer ever before taught, or has since taught.

    It is too late tonight to explain this Resurrection.  I will come again very soon and try to make it plain to you and to the World.

    I will now say goodnight and God Bless you and keep you in His Care.  Your brother in Christ, Paul.

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February 8th, 1916

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

I desire to continue my message tonight.

    As I said in closing my last writing, there is a Resurrection that is vital to the salvation of humans, which Jesus taught, and which after the death of his followers and believers of the early centuries, the Knowledge of was lost to the World, and to those who assumed to teach the Doctrines of the Resurrection that he came to declare and teach.

    You, and all humankind, must know that the Resurrection, which is the Foundation Stone of Christianity, is a Resurrection from the (spiritually) dead, and not from the mere existence of a human as a spirit in the physical body on Earth.  Not as a resurrection of the soul from its environments and limitations that the Earth Life placed upon it.

Then what is the Resurrection that Jesus referred to when he said:  "I am the Resurrection and the Life!"

    Now in order to understand this Resurrection, it is necessary to understand what is meant by the (spiritual) death of human, that is; the real human, (the soul), that part of them in which the Breath of Life exists, no matter whether they are of the physical, or the spiritual.

    As has been explained to you elsewhere, when humans were Created, their creation was of the physical body, the spiritual body, and the soul.  In addition, and the addition was the most important part of their Creation (the First Parents), the Potentiality of becoming so At-One with the Father in His Divine Nature, and certain of His Divine Attributes, that they, humans, would become so possessed of some of the Divine Essence of the Father, and a portion of His Divinity that would cause them to be Immortal, so that death could never deprive them of their existence.  Not only that, but they would realize the consciousness of their Immortality.  This Potentiality then was a part of their Creation.  

    As we have explained elsewhere, the only part of their (the First Parents) Creation that died as the result of their disobedience.  For it is very apparent, from the mere knowledge that human has, or may have, from the ordinary investigation of the qualities of their being, and from the Truths of psychical research of modern days, as well as from the understanding of the many instances related in the Bible of the appearance of departed spirits on Earth, and the manifestations of their existence, and also from the many occurrences of the appearances of spirits related in what is called secular history, that the soul and spirit body of human never died.  That their physical body lived for many years after the day on which the sentence, because of their (the First Parents) disobedience, announced that they should die.  As I have said, this mortal body, not human, the human, but merely the vesture of covering for the Real Human (the soul).

    This Potentiality then being the only part of the Created human that died.  As Jesus' Mission was to teach the Resurrection of human from the (spiritually) dead, it necessarily follows that the only thing that was intended to be Resurrected was this Potentiality of becoming a part of God's Divinity.  This is the Only Real and True Resurrection.  Upon this Resurrection must rest the Faith and Truth of Christianity.  By Christianity, I mean religion which is based upon the True Teachings of Jesus, the Christ (in these messages, and those few that were reproduced in the bible).

    There are contained in the Bible, some things, which if properly understood, would show to human that no resurrection of the body was intended as the thing which Jesus came to Earth to declare and teach.

    When he said, "I am the resurrection and the life," he did not say, or mean; wait until I die and then I will become the resurrection; or when you see me ascend to Heaven, then will I become the resurrection and you will know it.  His declarations, not only in the instance mentioned, but at all times, were that he was the Resurrection while living.  These declarations did not refer to the human Jesus, or to any disposition that he might make of his body, either physical, or spiritual, or to any apparent ascension of his physical body, which never took place, or to any ascension of his spiritual body which did occur.  In these particulars he was, essentially, no more, or different, from other humans that had died, or should die.

    The meaning of his saying, and his mission, were that; as by human's (First Parents) disobedience there had occurred the death of the possibility of their becoming At-One with the Father and partaking of His Divine Nature.  As that possibility had never been restored to human in all the intervening years, humans had remained in this condition of death during all the long centuries, and if human would only believe in him as the True Christ, and in his teachings as to the Rebestowal of this Great Privilege of again becoming At-One with the Father and of obtaining Immortality, and would follow his advice, as to The Way in which human could realize the benefits of this Great Privilege, then they would become conscious that Jesus was the Resurrection from the dead.  Not Jesus the human, or teacher, or the chosen and anointed one of the Father, but Jesus the Personification of the Truths, which he proclaimed as to the Rebestowal of the Great Gift of Divine Love.  Only in this way was Jesus the Resurrection and the Life.

    He, himself, had received the Great Gift (of Divine Love), and realized his At-Onement (with God), and the consciousness of his Immortality, and the possession of the Divine Nature.  Knew that he had been lifted from death into Life (Everlasting).  Therefore, if humans would believe his teachings as to the Resurrection, these teachings, and not the human Jesus, or even the fact that he had been Resurrected, would draw all humans unto him.  That is; into the condition of Life and Consciousness that he possessed.

    Then the Resurrection that Jesus promised to human, was the Resurrection of this Great Potentiality, which they had lost at the time of the First Disobedience (by the First Parents), and which had never been restored until the coming of Jesus.

    Now let it not be misunderstood as to what was meant by this Resurrection.  As I have said, after humans were deprived of this Potentiality (of receiving the Divine Love), they were in a condition of (spiritual) death.  It was not possible for them to get out of this condition. They were possessed of only what is called their Natural Love, without any possibility of obtaining the Divine Love, which was necessary in order to give them any portion of the Divine Nature, and a Consciousness of Immortality.  When the Great Potentiality, which was as to them as if it had never existed, was Rebestowed (New Covenant), then humans were again placed in the position of the First Humans before their fall.  Were no longer actually dead, but were possessed of this Potentiality to become, that which had been forfeited by the First Parents.

    As we have told you, the Gift of this Potentiality was not, of itself, the bestowal upon human of those qualities which such potentiality merely made it possible for them to acquire by aspiration and effort.  Before this Rebestowal, humans could not, by any aspirations or efforts on their part, obtain the conditions and qualities which this Potentiality made possible.  No matter how great the effort might be.  As to them, humans were simply and absolutely (spiritually) dead.  After the Rebestowal, the impossibility, which this death had imposed, was removed.  Then humans received, not the full fruition of what was possible to obtain because of such rebestowal, but the privilege of arising from (spiritual) death to (Everlasting) Life.  Of the Resurrection from death, to the Glories of Immortal Life.

    While this privilege had become a part of human's possession, yet, if they had remained without consciousness of that fact, they would, in effect, have remained in their condition of death, and have never received the benefit of the Rebestowal of the Great Gift.  So to reveal to human, the Vital Truth, Jesus taught, and demonstrated in his own Life, the possession of those Qualities that became his because of the existence of The Gift.

    He also taught, while humans had the privilege spoken of, yet, unless they sought for, and prayed the Father in sincerity, for the Gift of His Divine Love, the Potentiality, which had been bestowed upon them, would not bring to them the Resurrection from the dead.  They would continue in their lives as mortals, and as inhabitants of the Spirit World, as if they were still under the doom of death.

    I may here state that this Potentiality, which was lost by the disobedience of the First Parents, and was Rebestowed by the Father, and revealed by Jesus to humankind, was the privilege of receiving and possessing the Divine Love of the Father.  Which, when possessed, would give to human certain qualities of Divinity and Immortality.

    So the Resurrection from the dead that the Master taught, and which is the One Foundation of the Christian Faith, arise from the fact that God, Rebestowed upon humankind the privilege of seeking for and receiving His Divine Love, which would make the mortal One with Him and Immortal.  Upon the further fact that human must, in order to obtain the Resurrection, seek and find this Divine Love, thereby become a child of the True Resurrection.  A Resurrection that was never known to prophet, seer, reformer, or teachers of faiths, no matter how excellent their moral teachings and private lives may have been, before the coming of Jesus.

    Truly he was the Resurrection and the Life.  I, Paul, who am the recipient of this Resurrection, and know whereof I speak, and have Knowledge of the fact that those inhabitants of the Spirit World who have never received this Resurrection, are still in a condition of death, so far as obtaining the Divine Love of the Father, and the Consciousness of Immortality are concerned.  So I declare unto you what I have attempted to describe as the Resurrection from the Dead, is the True Resurrection.

I will stop, as I have written a long time.

So my dear brother, I will say goodnight, your brother in Christ, Paul.

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October 4th, 1916
I am here, Paul.

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Yes.
    I come tonight to write you upon a subject that may be of interest to you and important to all humankind.  If you are in condition to receive my message I will write.
    Well, the subject is:  What is the real body that is resurrected at the time of the physical death? 
    Of course, there will be but one resurrection.  That takes place at the time the mortal becomes an inhabitant of the Spirit World.  There will never be what is called a general resurrection of the dead.  The mortal can die only once.  I mean in a physical sense.  In order to live in the Spirit Realms, it is necessary that they have a spirit body that preserves the identity of their individuality (soul).  Having this body, and not needing an additional body, there is no possibility of another resurrection.  Or, of another body being added to the one that the soul already has.
    The body that dies when the human ceases to be a mortal disintegrates into its elements.  Never again do these elements form the same body that becomes decayed.  Hence, it is impossible for that body to be resurrected.  The only body that is ever resurrected is the (spirit) body that encloses the soul of the mortal at the time they give up the Earth Life.
    I know, that many believe that when the human dies, their conscious existence ceases, and they become, as it were, dead in body, soul, and spirit.  That, although the physical body decays and returns to dust or ashes, yet the soul, and spirit, in some mysterious and unexplainable manner, continues to exist as an unthinking sleeping entity, not subject to sensation or activity, and so remains until the great day of judgment, or of Christ's coming.  When, in response to the summons, it arouses itself, answers the summons, and again becomes clothed in the body, which it possessed while in the human form.  In their belief, it may not be the exact or identical body which once existed, but the new body will be one of flesh and blood, and of such a nature as to be in substance the same body that was dead, buried and decayed.  This is not True.  For the very Laws of Nature, with which humans are acquainted, prove the impossibility of such an occurrence.  Many arguments have been formulated and declared to prove that such a resurrection cannot be.  That it will be wholly impossible for the elements that constituted the old body, to again assemble in the same form, and give to the soul the body that it discarded when it experienced its freedom from the bonds of the flesh.
    The advocates of this untrue theory respond that God is all Powerful, and in some way, not understood by humans, will resurrect this old body and clothe the soul therein so that the identity of the individual will appear.  It must be remembered that God works and produces beings and entities in accordance with Laws that He has established.  Not by any special sporadic act irrespective of, and, as said, in contravention of these Laws.
    Human understands, to some extent, the workings of these Laws in what they call Nature, or the normal.  Some spirits understand not only what human understands, but also the workings of these Laws that may be called, above nature, or super-normal.  The Laws work the same, without change, or interference, in the one case, as in the other.
    As it would be impossible to clothe a mortal having one body of flesh, with another body of flesh, so, in the Spirit World, it would be impossible to clothe the spirit who has a spirit body with any additional body, whether of flesh, or other substance.  This spirit body is a thing of real substance, and not susceptible of being enveloped in any other body.
    Well, I see that you are not in condition to write.  I will postpone the remainder of the message until later.  I have not written you for some time, and am glad of the opportunity to again write.  I understand what you mean and will act on your suggestion, as I think it a very wise and desirable one.
    I will come more often and write.  So with all my Love I will say, goodnight, your brother in Christ, Paul.

True Resurrection

October 5th, 1916
I am here, Paul.

    I will finish my message tonight if you are so inclined. Well we will try.

    As I was saying, the body that is resurrected at death is not the physical body, but the spirit body.  Never, after the first resurrection, is there another.  I am now dealing with the resurrection other than that of the soul, or the Resurrection from the (spiritual) Death, of which I have before written.
    The body that is once laid in the grave will never be resurrected.  Neither will any of its elements enter into any other body for the purpose of a resurrection.  The body of flesh is Created for one purpose only.  When that purpose has been accomplished, never will that body, or any derivative from it, be used for any resurrection.  This body of flesh is of matter.  Like all matter, is used for the Life on Earth only, and cannot be used for any function, or clothing any spirit in the Spirit World.  Neither can it be translated into the Spirit Realms.  All material bodies must die.  Never will there come a time when humans can leave the Earth, and enter the Spirit Life in these material bodies.
    I know that it has been written, that certain of the prophets of old were translated into the Spirit Heavens clothed in their fleshly bodies.  This is not True.  It is impossible that such a thing could be, as the same Laws apply to the physical body of the saint, as to that of the sinner.  Both are of the Earth, earthly, and must be left behind when the spirits of humans enter the Heavens of Spirits.  So that when humans believe, and preach, the general resurrection of the material body, or the special resurrection of the same, they are in error, and do not believe or preach the Truth.  Flesh and blood, or flesh without blood, cannot inherit the Kingdom.  No belief, or teachings, can make that True, which is untrue.
    I do not desire to write more on this subject.  Because many humans who are acquainted with the Laws of Nature and many more who will become acquainted with these Laws, know, and will know, and understand, the impossibility of the material entering the Realm of the Spiritual.
    So thanking you for your kindness, I will say goodnight, your brother in Christ, St. Paul.

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January 17th, 1916
I am here, Saint Stephen.
    I merely want to say a word on the importance of the subject, which Paul has written on; The Resurrection.
    This is one of the most Vital Truths in all the Plan of God for the Redemption of Humankind, and for the preservation and existence of the church.  When I say church, I do not mean any church, which claims to be the “only church of christ”, but that invisible church, which is composed of the soul worship of men and women who have received the Divine Love in their souls.  It is not necessary that there be any formation of congregations and ceremonies of church worship, as humans understand it.  The True sincere worship of humans, founded on a Knowledge of the Divine Love and Its possession in their souls.
    While humans on Earth may never form large congregations, erect magnificent churches in which to worship the Father with the True Soul Worship and aspirations.  Yet when they come into the Spirit World, they will find that the Master has established his church in the Eternal Heavens, where none but the Truly Christian can enter and partake of its glories and happiness.
    Jesus is the head of that church here in our Celestial Heavens, as he should be of the church on Earth, and as he must be when that church, has for its members, only those who have had the Resurrection from sin and error, and death of the soul, into the Knowledge of the Divine Love and the Life Everlasting.  Jesus referred to this Resurrection when he said; “I am the Resurrection and the Life”, and not the resurrection of the body, either physical, or spiritual.
    I see that you are anxious to have these Divine Truths come.  I am also anxious, and a coworker.  I will now say goodnight.  In doing so, say with all my Love, God Bless you and keep you in His Care, now and always, your brother in Christ, St. Stephen.

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