Understanding Judgement

Judgement;  What it is and what it is not.

February 25th, 1918

I am here, Jesus.

    I am here and desire to write a few lines in reference to the great day of judgment, of which the preachers and teachers of theological things write so often.  I know that the Bible, or rather some of the books, lay great stress upon this day.  When, as they claim, God will pour out His vials of wrath upon the ungodly and condemn them to an eternity of punishment.  There is, as you know, very great and diverse opinions, among these learned humans, as to what is the meaning and significance of this day of judgment and when, in a chronological point of view, it will take place.  All these varied opinions have many students and teachers who embrace and proclaim them to the world, as being true and free from doubt.

    Well, it is certain that all humans must die and there will come the judgment.  That which follows the death, is just as certain, as is the death itself.  Just as reasonable, as is the following of any cause by an effect.  So humans should have no difficulty in believing in the judgment, as a fact that cannot be avoided, just as death cannot be avoided.  But the word and the fact, judgment, when used as an effect or following of death, may have many meanings, in the opinions and understandings of many humans.  Depending upon what humans may believe, as to things that are called religious, or scientific, or philosophical.

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

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

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

    Well, the judgment of the human soul is an important accompaniment of the human life.   Both in the flesh and in the spirit world, as regards the questions and punishments. Hardly anything demands more of the thought and consideration of humans.  For it is a certainty, that beliefs, true or false, they cannot avoid them.  Judgment, as certainly follows, what humans call death, as does night the day.  No philosophy, or theological dogmas, or scientific determinations can alter the fact.  Or in any way, change the character, or exact workings of this judgment.  But judgment is not a thing belonging exclusively to the after-death period, or condition.  For it is present and operating with humans, from the time that they become incarnated in the human, until they become disincarnate.  Thereafter continuously, until the causes of effects have been satisfied and there remains nothing to be judged.  Which happy ending, is also a fact.  For all humans are dependent upon their progress, towards the conditions of Harmony, with the Laws that make effective, as well as pronounce the judgments.  While on earth these Laws operate continuously.  Humans are being judged for the causes that they start into existence.  The after-death judgment is only a continuation of the judgment received by humans while on earth.  Of course, humans may not know this.  These judgments, or the effects thereof, become more intensified, after humans have gotten rid of the influences of the flesh existence and they become spirits, having only the spirit qualities.  Because of this fact, humans must understand and try to realize, that the expression "after death, the judgment", has a greater significance and is of more vital importance, than the saying  that "judgment is with humans all during their mortal lives."  After death, the causes of the inharmony with the Law, becomes more pronounced and appear in the True meaning and force.   Consequently, as this is True, the effects become more intensified and understood.  Humans suffer more and realize the darkness, sometimes the gross darkness, that these effects produce. The inharmony appears in its unclothed and unhidden reality.  The Law's workings, bring to humans the exact penalties that their violations demand.  Humans are their own bookeeper.  In their memory, are recorded all the thoughts and deeds of their earth life, that are not in accord with the Harmony of God's Will, which is expressed or manifested by His Laws. 

    The judgment is not the thing of a day, or a time.  But is never ceasing, so long as there exists that upon which it can operate.  It diminishes in proportion, as the causes of inharmony disappear.  God is not present in wrath, demanding, as does the human who believes themselves to have been injured, demanding reparation by the one causing the injury.  No, The Father is present only in Love.   As the soul of the one undergoing the penalty, which their own deeds and thoughts have imposed upon them, comes more in Harmony with the Father's Will, He, as you mortals say, is pleased.  Never an angry God, rejoicing in the satisfaction of a penalty being paid by one of His erring Children.  Always a Loving Father, rejoicing in the redemption of His Children, from a suffering, that a violation of the Laws of Harmony exacts with certitude.

    Then, as I say, the judgment day is not a special time when all humans must meet in the presence of God and have their thoughts and deeds weighed in the balance.  Then, according as they are good or evil, have the sentence of an angry, or even just God, pronounced upon them.  The judgment day is every day.  Both in the earth life of human and in life in the spirit, where the Law of Compensation is working.  In the spirit world time is not known.  Every breathing is a part of eternity.  With every breathing, so long as the Law requires, comes the judgment, continued and unsatisfied, until human, as a spirit, reaches that condition of Harmony.  So that for them, no longer the Law demands a judgment.

    From what I have written, humans must not suppose, or beguile themselves into that state of belief, that will cause them to think, that because there is no special day of judgment when God will pronounce His sentence.  The judgment, therefore, is not so much to be dreaded, or shunned.  No, this state of thinking will palliate only for the moment.  For the judgment is certain.  Is and will be, no less to be dreaded.  Because the Immutable Law demands exact restoration, instead of an angry God.  No human who has lived and died has escaped.  No human who shall hereafter die, can escape this judgment, unless they have, in a way provided by the Father in His Love, become in Harmony with the Laws requiring Harmony.  "As a man soweth so shall he reap", is as True, as is the fact that the sun shines upon the just and the unjust alike.  Memory is humans storehouse of good and evil.  Memory does not die with the death of the humans physical body.  On the contrary, becomes more alive, all alive.  Nothing is left behind or forgotten, when the spirit human, casts off the encumbrance, the benumbing and deceiving influences of the only body of human that was Created to die.  Judgment is real and humans must come to it face-to-face.  Want of belief, or unbelief, or indifference, or the application to human's lives, of the saying "sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof", will not enable humans to avoid the judgment, or the exactions of its demands.

    There is a way though, in which humans may turn the judgment of death, into the judgment of life.  Inharmony into harmony.  Suffering into happiness.  Judgment itself, into a thing to be desired.  Elsewhere we have written of this way open to all humans.  I will not attempt to describe it here.

    I have written enough for to-night.  You are tired and must not be drawn on further.  So with my love I will say good-night.

Your brother and friend, Jesus