RESTORATION TO CONDITION OF PERFECTION

Restoration to condition of Perfection 

March 15th, 1916

I am here, Prof. Salyards.

    Well, I was telling you of the Object of Human's Life on Earth.  The necessity for their doing certain things, in a general way, in order to bring to humankind the happiness, which might be theirs while on Earth.  Now I desire to go a little in detail with reference to these matters.

    As has been written you before, there is Only One Way, in which human can attain to the Supreme (Divine) Happiness, which the Father in His Goodness, has made possible for human to attain to, which when once obtained can never be taken from them.

    There is also another kind of happiness, which is not, in either its Nature, or results, the same as that, which I have just referred to.  Human may obtain it, in a way, and by a method, which are different from those, which are necessary to obtain the first kind.

    Human was, Originally Created Good, Pure, and Happy.  Only, by their disobedience, did they lose these qualities, which when lost, finally made them approach, somewhat, the likeness of the lower animal.  Although, the latter is probably not so unhappy as human became, by their fall from the State of the High Condition of their Creation.

    When in their Original State, they were Happy, in what we called, and what was, their Natural Love, which they fully possessed, and needed nothing additional to make them happy.  This condition made human their own master, as it were.  The Father's Divine Love was not necessary to develop them more, as mere human, than they then existed.  They were Pure, free from sin, and in Perfect Harmony with God's Laws governing their Creation.  After the disobedience (of the First Parents), they lost this Harmony.  In doing so, lost also, the power to preserve in them self the Happiness, which was theirs by Right of Creation.  They also soon realized, that as this power left them, their dependence upon them self, became less and less effective, to keep them in a condition of Purity and contentment.  As a consequence, they became less than Perfect Human, has been such ever since that time.

    Now, with the other qualities that were given them, at the time of their Creation, there was, and is, one that they have never been deprived of, one that they have never realized their inability to exercise, although they so often exercise it wrongly.  That is, the will.  Which is the Greatest of the Natural Attributes that human possesses.  For even God will not attempt to control that.  I mean in the way of compelling.  This quality is the one, that more often than any other, will help human to again attain to that State, or Condition, in which they were The Perfect Human.  While this is True, yet it is also one of the greatest obstacles to attaining to that state.

    Upon human them self, very largely, depends the success of their regaining their Pristine Purity and Harmony with the Laws that govern their being.  They must understand this fact.  If they should believe, and rest in the belief, that other humans, or other instruments controlled by humans, can rescue them from their present condition of inharmony and unhappiness, they will be disappointed.  Their salvation will be a long time delayed.

    The exercise of this will power, in the proper direction, will depend upon other things that they must possess, in order to insure their return to their First Estate.  Among these are the necessity for their obtaining Knowledge that will enable them to know them self, and the relationship of them self to what is True and Good.  This Knowledge will come to them, as they examine them self, and learn the difference between right and wrong.  This, I mean, in its general sense.  For right and wrong mean Harmony, or inharmony, with the Laws (of Love and Harmony), of which I speak.  Not right and wrong according to the several circumstances of humans.  For these differ.  What may be right or wrong to one human, will not be to another.

    Human, by proper contemplation, and observation, may learn the difference between right (Harmony) and wrong (inharmony), in the sense in which I use the terms, be enabled to embrace, or avoid, those deeds, or thoughts, that come within one category, or the other.

    Again, they must realize that there is such a thing as the Natural Love being a part of them.  A thing, which may be possessed and cultivated, to such a high degree that all humans will be brothers to them, the Children of One Common Father, who has Love and Care for All Alike, who are content to remain the mere human.

    Again, they must realize that they have a Father in God, their Creator, that, that Father has a Love for them, which will always bring to them Happiness and Peace, if they will only respond with their own Love.  Human must have an object of worship and adoration, even when they possess only the Natural Love.  They must learn that their Love must go out to the Father in Faith and confidence.  There are also many other things that they may learn by contemplation and meditation as I have said.

    Many qualities that are desirable will flow to human from the Knowledge that there is a Father who Loves them, and that they have, or may have, a Love for that Father, and for their fellow human.  In fact, from these two subjects of Knowledge, everything else may come to human, that will make them the Perfect Human, in Harmony with the Laws of their Creation, a Pure Happy and Contented Creature.

     Now, when human obtains this Knowledge, here observe the distinction between Knowledge of these things, and the possession of them, they will naturally try to obtain all that Knowledge shows them may become theirs to possess.  Then, will come into operation the Great Will Power, and by its exercise, there is nothing that can prevent them from arriving at the goal of their desires.  In this way, one can in a sense, be their own redeemer.  They will find the struggle hard, the obstacles to be overcome many, and repelling.

    There are many mortals, who have a wonderful development of this Natural Love.  Notwithstanding the fact that they are living in sin, and in inharmony with the Laws that I speak of, who will find, from that fact alone, that their progress will be more rapid and easy when they come to the Spirit World, on their journey to the State of Perfect Human.  I do not believe that any mortal can ever attain to this condition while in the Earth Life.  They can lay the foundation for a rapid progress after they become a spirit.  The temptations and desires that beset them, as a mortal, at this time, are so great that rarely can they become that Perfect Human while on Earth.

    The time will come, I believe, when humans will become Perfect even while on Earth.  In this, I have reference to their Natural Love merely.  While, as I say, for human to obtain this State of Perfection, they must depend upon them self, to a very large degree.  Yet, it will be comforting to them to know, that there are hosts of spirit friends who are with them, trying to help them to obtain the Knowledge, of which I have spoken.  In their contemplations, and meditations, they (the spirits) are with them, suggesting to them, and impressing on them, the thoughts of Truth that help them so very much to understand the right, from the wrong.  They (spirit friends) also sustain them, in some degree, in the exercise of their will in the right direction.

    So from this, it must become apparent to human, that a very important thing in the determination of this great problem, as to what is right, and what is wrong, is the kind of associates that they may have.  This applies to the mortal, as well as spirit, companions.  Human must know this; that as their desires and appetites on Earth attract to them companions of similar desires and appetites, so also, does the same Law of Attraction operate in the case of their spirit friends.

    Now, in all this, I have no reference to the Redemption of Human by the possession of the Divine Love of the Father.  For such Redemption, and its way of saving human, are altogether different, from those of redeeming them in their Natural Love.

    In the one case, when they have found the goal of their desires, they become a merely Perfect Human, and nothing more.  In the other case, they become a Divine Angel of God.  Divine is their Nature, with no limitation to the Spiritual progress that they may obtain, and the Happiness that may become theirs.

    Oh, human!  Why will you be satisfied to become merely a Perfect Human, when you may become a Divine Angel of the Father's Kingdom, with Immortality assured?

    Human may not know it, but it is a fact, that it is easier, and The Way is shorter, to become a Divine Angel, than to become a Perfect Human.

    So my advice to all humans is; and I speak what I do Know, from a knowledge that comes to me from experience and possession, to seek for the Divine Love of the Father, with all their strength and efforts.  Then they will become not only the Perfect Human, but will obtain that, which our First Parents never obtained, but which was theirs for the proper seeking, as it is all human's.

I have written enough for tonight, and will close.

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

Restoration to Condition Perfection

April 27th, 1916

I am here, Luke.

    I have not written you for some time.  I desire to write a short message tonight on the subject of:  What is necessary for a human to do, to recover the purity of soul and Love that was possessed by the First Parents, I mean as a human possessing the Natural Love only.

    Well, in the first place, they should realize that they are a Perfect Creature of God, and that their sins and diseases are merely the results of their own (inharmonious) thoughts, and of qualities that have come to them down the long ages of their ancestors living on Earth.

    They need not suppose that these sins and desires are inherent in, or a part of, their Creation, for they are not.  But merely accretions that fastened themselves upon them by reason of the thoughts they have had, and the resultant course of Life they have led.  When they change these thoughts, which will necessarily bring about a change in their manner of living, they will find that they can progress toward the condition of the Perfect Human.

    I know that many of these thoughts are so deep seated that they seem almost a part of their Very Nature, and can only be eradicated by the death of their physical body.  This is not True.  Human, even while in the full vigor of their Humanhood, and possessed with all the appetites and desires, which arise from the perverted indulgence of these desires, either on the part of themselves, or on the part of those from whom they are said to have inherited them, may relieve themselves from these (perverted) desires, and become a human having only the thoughts of Good, and desires for those things, which are in Harmony with the Nature of their Perfect Creation.

    This I know, seems to human, a thing impossible.  So thinking, they do not try to accomplish what I say they may accomplish, and to become free from these sins and unnatural appetites.  The almost universal belief in "Original Sin" has caused humans, all along the ages, to think that such a task is hopeless.  That they are thinking and acting only in accordance with the appetites and desires that God has implanted in their Natures, and that so long as they indulge these thoughts and desires, in a moderate, or respectable, way, they are not doing that which is contrary to God's Will, or to their own Nature.

    This "Doctrine of Original Sin" is a mocking, damnable lie!  The sooner human realizes the fact that it is a fraud and deceit, the sooner they will be able to get rid of those things, which have placed them in their present condition, and held them there bound, as it were, hand and foot.  This supine submission to this old, and ever recurring, belief is the great thing that prevents human from starting to progress towards the attainment of that condition, which is Purity, health, and the Perfect Human.

    Human must decline, and no longer submit to this belief!  Which, I am sorry to say, is fostered by the teachings of the orthodox churches, in order to sustain and make forcible their creeds and dogmas, to show to human that they are not to be considered worthy of the Mercy of the Father, cannot possibly obtain that Mercy, and be relieved from the great wrath and punishment that God has prepared for them (God has no "great wrath" towards His Children, ed.), unless they believe and acknowledge that they are a dependent and lost human, unworthy of the Father's Favor, or the help of the instrumentalities, which the Father uses to assist humans in regaining their Lost Estate (of Perfection).

    If humans would only think, and in thinking, realize, that; they are Dear Children of The Father, His Highest Creation.  That He prizes them above All His Creatures, and wants them to know that they are beings of such wonderful qualities and possibilities, they would then have come to them an overpowering and convincing sense of what they really are, and of how necessary it is for them to assert their rights as such Exalted Creatures of The Father.  Would realize that they are masters of sin and disease, for they are the creators of the same.  When they shall assume such position, and become possessed of such Knowledge, they will find that they have a wonderful power, as Creatures of The Father, they will realize that they are masters of sin that must be gotten rid of.

    Let humans for a moment think again, and thinking, know that God does not desire His Greatest Creature to become, or be, less than the Perfect Being that He Created.  He is not flattered, nor does He have any pleasure, in the thought that human is degraded and fallen from their Perfect Creation, and that in order to rise again, they, human, must believe that God may show His Power in rescuing them from their low and hopeless condition. No, God is not pleased by human assuming such an attitude, nor does He need any such helpless condition of human that He may show His Power, or gratify, what the teachings of these orthodox imply, His vanity, which He has not.

    In this particular human must work out his or her own salvation.  It will be a difficult task, so long as they continue to believe, and act upon that belief, that they are a creature of "original sin".  That as God in the beginning failed to make them the Perfect Human, so now, only God can remedy what He failed to provide in His Creation, and that human of them self can do nothing.  That all they have to do is to wait until God is pleased to recreate them, and thereby take from their very nature this great curse of the "original sin".  See the great fatality of such belief!  How it tends to make human a slave of, and obedient to, this false belief in this blight of "original sin".

    God gave to human, in their Creation, the great power of will.  The right to its unlimited exercise, subject only to the penalties of a wrongful exercise (in violation of the Spiritual Laws of Love and Harmony).  By the exercise of that will, human created sin and disease, became depraved and fallen, the possessor of false beliefs, as to the Perfection of their Nature.  By the exercise of that will, human, them self, must redeem them self from this condition of depravity and false belief, and again become the Perfect Human, God's Wholly Perfect Creation.

    As human was in the beginning the Perfect son (and daughter) of God, and by their own will, created their own and only devil, so must they, by this same power, kill this devil and again become the Perfect son (and daughter).  They must believe, declare, and show the sincerity of their beliefs, by their acts and living, that they are a Perfect son (or daughter) of the Father, needing no new Creation.

    This I have written to show what human was in the beginning, and what they really and truly are now; although covered with sin, disease, and false beliefs.

    To recover this Lost Estate, or better, condition (of Perfection), they will find that by searching for, learning, and acting upon, many of the Moral Precepts of the Bible, and of other so-called sacred writings, they will be greatly helped and strengthened in their efforts.  Above all, let them understand and believe, with the certainty of knowledge, that they are God's Highest and Most Perfect Creation.

    Now, from what I have said, it must not be inferred that human is their own god, and has not, and needs not, any Tender, Loving Father, who is interested in them, and always ready to help them, whenever they earnestly and in sincerity asks the Help of that Father.  Always, is human dependent upon God!  That dependence is not recognized by God, unless human first recognizes it, and by their longings and thoughts shows to the Father that they need His Help.

    This may seem unbelievable, but human was Created so independent in their great will power, as regards the dualities of thought and desire, both Spiritual and material, that God never interferes to compel.  The Principle involved in, "WHOSOEVER WILL", must be exercised by human before the Father will intervene.  When it is exercised, He does Intervene, and never refuses, or fails to answer, the call of the sincere cry of human for Help.

    God does help human in their recovery from the state of false beliefs and degradation that I have mentioned.  His Love overshadows all humans.  His Instrumentalities are always ready and waiting to answer the call upon Him for His Help in assisting them out of their condition of sin, disease and false beliefs.  For, as I have elsewhere written you, in God's Universe there must be Perfect Harmony.  The present human, so far as their own creation of inharmony is concerned, is not in that Harmony. Ultimately, human, all humans will become again the Perfect Human.

    Of course, you will understand that what I have written, does not apply to the Redeemed sons and daughters of God who receive the New Birth and become partakers of the Divine Nature of The Father.  In their case, the Perfect Human is absorbed into the Divine Angel.

    I have written longer than I intended, but as the theme is an interesting as well as important one, I thought it best to write just as I have.

    I will now say goodnight, and leave with you my Love and blessings, your brother in Christ, Luke.

Restoration to Condition of Perfection

September 23rd, 1916

I am here, St. John.

    I want to write tonight on a subject that is important.  I hope that you will be able to receive my message.  I have been waiting for some time to deliver it.

    Well, I desire to discourse on the subject of:  "What is the destiny of the mortal who has not experienced the New Birth, but who will progress to that condition, which may be called the Perfect Human?"  As you know, there is a future for the mortal who receives the New Birth, and a different one for they who have only the complete and Pure Development of their Natural Love.

    This latter condition does not depend upon the mortal having in their soul the Divine Love, or the Essence of the Father.  Merely upon the Purification of the Natural Love, so that all sin, error, and inharmony, form no part of their state of soul, or mental existence.  This condition is not the result of a New Birth, or of a change in the constituent elements of their soul.  Merely the elimination of those things there from, which were the results, and the necessary sequences of the defilement, that followed the fall.

    Now, as human lost, by this fall, the qualities, which made them the Perfect Creature of their Maker, it is only necessary for them to regain what they lost by that fall, in order to become the Perfect Human once more.  In recovering this State of Perfection, it is not required that they should seek, or actually add to the qualities, which they at first possessed, any new, or additional, qualities or attributes.  Only that they regain what they had been deprived of by their disobedience.  When that is accomplished, they will come again in Harmony with the Laws of their Creation, and have all the potentialities and excellence that they originally possessed.

    Now, what will that future be?  In order to determine this question, it is only necessary to understand what their inherent condition, or qualities, were, when they were the Perfect Human of their Father's Creation.

    At that time, they were possessed of those things of which they are now the possessor.  Except, that then they were all so accurately adjusted, that every sense and function of their body, as well as every faculty of their soul, and mind, were so in Harmony with the Laws of their Creation, that they were capable of doing the Will of the Father, and obeying every requirement that was imposed upon them.

    They were then, not only A Perfect Being, as regarded their physical formation, also as regards to their mental and moral qualities, which of course, included all the emotions, appetites, and Spiritual aspirations.  As we have written you before, all these faculties were subject to their will.  In a certain sense, their will was controlled by the exercise of these faculties.

    Their body was, in the beginning made of matter, changeable, as it now is, but of a more ethereal kind, and not subject to decay and disintegration, in such a short time, as it now is, yet, subject to this decay.  Human, as regards their physical being, necessarily was compelled to die, to have released their spirit body, and their soul, from this physical vesture.  Thereafter, exist as pure spirit.  This was not the death that they died as a consequence of their disobedience, but the death natural to them, by reason of the Very Nature of their Creation.  Their soul, and spirit body, was not subject to death, in the sense of annihilation.  They were given the qualities of Continual Existence, in a Pure and Perfect State.  The only difference that the fall made, as to these parts of their being, is that the Purity and Harmony that were human's are now no longer parts of their soul and spirit.

    Whether immortality was a quality of that existence (or not), we spirits do not know.  Therefore cannot assert.  As their Created soul, and spirit body, had a beginning, mere Creatures of the Father, it may be that they were intended to have an ending, as individualized soul and spirit.

    Of course, they were Created from something, not from nothing, as some of your theologians say.  It is possible, in the order of change, which seems to be the Law in the Spirit World, as well as in the mortal World, that this soul and spirit may be resolved again into that something.

    As to this finality, we do not have any knowledge.  Because, so far as the observation of spirits in this world go, no soul, or spirit body, and I mean the body as a composite whole, not as to its constituent elements, has ever been resolved into that something, or been deprived of its individualized existence. Therefore, I cannot say, that when human was Created, it was intended that, as human, he should not be Immortal, or that they should be so.

    You will readily see, that after human shall have accomplished the Purification of their soul, and become in mind and spirit body, as it was intended they should be at the time of their Creation, they will be nothing more, nor less, than they were at that time, and have no other, or greater, qualities, or freedom from limitations and changes, than they had before their fall.  Of course, they will have no physical body.  Here, let me say, that there is no fact, or experience, known to the Spirit World, that justifies the assertion that human on Earth will ever be immune to physical death.  I know, that some say, that in the far future, they may make such progress in the development of their Natural Love that their condition of inner purity will be so great as to cause the physical bodies to become so etherealized as to render them free from physical death.  That, I cannot conceive will ever happen.  Humans were made to become inhabitants of the Spiritual Realms.  The short time they were decreed to live the Earth Life was for the purpose only, of giving the soul an individualized existence.

    Never, was it intended that the physical form should have an Eternity of Existence, no matter how Pure, or, as they say, etherealized it may become.  For it was made of matter, of the Earth, earthy, while the soul was made of that, which had its Origin in the Spirit Realm, and composed of Spirit Substance, so that it cannot be conceived that in the beginning, human was Created for an Immortal Earth Existence.

    I see that you are tired.  I will finish later.  I am glad that I could write tonight.  Also, that you are in such good condition to receive my message.

    So with my Love and blessings, and my assurances that you have every reason to keep up your courage and hope, I am, your brother in Christ, John.

Restoration to Condition of Perfection

September 30th, 1916

I am here, John.

    I desire to finish my message.  I hope that you are in condition to receive it.  Well, as I was writing about the future, or the destiny, of the soul that has not experienced the New Birth.  I will continue where I left off.

    When the soul becomes wholly purified and restored to that Condition of Perfection that was possessed by the First Parents, before the fall, it continues to live a Life of happiness and contentment, until it realizes that its possibility of further progress, either mentally, morally, or Spiritually, has come to an end.  That it has reached its limit of advancement, and that the happiness, that it then enjoys, is the full complement of what it may obtain, or possess.  This condition is one, which satisfies the large majority of those who have reached the state of the Fully Restored human.  They are content to live the Life of such Perfection, and rest in the assurance that there is no greater happiness, or more desirable condition, existing in the Universe of God.

    With some of these souls, this state does not bring, or contain, this complete satisfaction.  In them, continues the desire for more and greater progress.  They realize that they have reached the limit of their progress, and that they must continue to live in that state, which holds for them the happiness and delight of being Perfect and at-one with the Father, as was intended by Him when human was Created the Perfect Being.

    Notwithstanding this knowledge, that as the soul develops in its Natural Love, and in its moral and mental faculties to the finality of limitation, there can be nothing beyond, yet there comes to them a dissatisfaction, and as it were, a negative unhappiness, that causes unrest, and a conscious desire for something, they know not what.

    It may be that the memory of something they heard in their progress through the Spheres, or an imperfect suggestion of some unconscious reproduced dormant memory inherited from their First Parents of the Great Gift of Endless Progress Potentially Bestowed upon God's First Created Beings, and forfeited, that causes the discontent and longings for something beyond the Condition of their Perfect State.  When this state of mind and soul comes to them, then they are susceptible to the teachings, and help, of those spirits who have in their souls the Divine Love, and Knowledge, that there is a Way that leads to Everlasting Progress, without limit, or possibility of reaching the end.

    Many of these Perfected souls, in their Natural Love, have followed the advice of these Immortal Spirits, and have left the High Sphere of their Perfection, and entered the lower Soul Spheres of the Spiritual Heavens (Spheres 3 through 7), and sought, and found, the New Birth of the soul, and progressed from Sphere to Sphere, until they reached the Celestial Heavens.  Where they are still progressing, and realizing a contentment never marred, always accompanied with the Knowledge, that ever beyond are Spheres of Greater Happiness of Truth and Knowledge.

    As I say, the larger, yes, much larger number of souls that have been born unto humans will find and rest in the future, in the state and happiness of the restored First Parents.

    It should not be necessary for me to attempt to make the application of the Truths, which I have written, to the desires and wills of humans.  The vital importance of making the choice between the future of the Divine Spirit, and that of the Perfected Human, is so apparent, that scarcely any mortal, who is not the human that says in their heart, there is no God, needs another to apply for them the lesson taught.  I will say in closing, that such lesson contains the Truths, that actual observation and knowledge have made certain.  Speculation does not enter into it.  The possibility of error, or mistakes, is utterly eliminated.

I have written enough.  I will stop for tonight.  You have received the message very satisfactorily.  I am pleased.  So with my Love and blessings, I will say goodnight, and God bless you with His Divine Love.

Your brother in Christ, John.

Restoration to Condtition of Perfection

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.  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, and that only their acts, 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, the result of their thoughts.  Thoughts are things that cause the realities of human's consciousness.  "As he thinketh in his heart, so is he". "Thinketh in his 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, it 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, and 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 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.  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 (Spiritual) 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.

    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 humans, and spirits, there is this consolation; that at some time, how long in the future, I, or no other spirit, know, these erroneous beliefs will all be eradicated.  Human will again come into their Original Perfection.  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 (Spiritual) progress to the Perfect Human.

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

Goodnight and God Bless you.

Your brother in Christ, Luke.

Restoration to Condition of Perfection

March 8th, 1917

I am here St. James, Apostle of Jesus.

    I come to write my message, as Elias told you I would.  Well, I desire to write on the subject of:  What is the Great Truth respecting the way that the destruction of the powers of temptation that arises from the perverted human, may be restored to the Condition of Perfection, which the First Parents possessed before their fall

    You will understand that this does not involve any consideration of the operation of the Divine Love upon the soul, but exclusively the consideration of the method, by which the soul may be so Purified, by the operations of the actions and the will power, in conjunction with, or influenced by, the workings of the powers of the spirits, who have been relieved of the sins and errors that followed the fall (of the First Parents).

    When humans were Created, as has been told you, they were Created Perfect.  Every quality, function, and attribute, that was a part of them, was so Created, that Harmony, the most exact with the Laws of God that governed their existence, became theirs.  No discord of any kind was in existence to mar that Harmony.  As the Spiritual Nature of human became subordinated to the appetites, passions, and fleshly desires; sin, error, and inharmony appeared.  Increased, until human became degraded, and desired only those things that would satisfy these sinful desires.

    So this degeneracy continued, until humans reached their lowest degradation.  The turning point came in their career.  Then, they commenced slowly, and gradually, to rise from this condition of depravity, until at last, they arrived at the stage of their condition of Harmony with these Laws of their Creation, that now exists.  Their destiny is to a complete restoration to the Perfection of their First Estate.

    This improvement, and gradual restoration, depend upon two causes.  One, human them self, by their own thoughts, and reformation of the animal (material) appetites and desires.  The other, the influence and guidance of spirits, who in the Spirit World, have arrived at that Perfection, or are progressing thereto, and are in a condition of Harmony with these Laws, superior to that of mortals, to whom they lend their influence and help.

    Humans, in their degeneracy, or progression, are controlled very largely by their thoughts.  These thoughts are created by the operations of their desires.  Which on the other hand, cause these desires to increase.  Back of the thoughts, are always these appetites and passions, existing in their abnormal conditions.  They constitute the basic or moving cause, of desire, thought, and act.  So that in order for humans to become relieved of their abnormal desires, thoughts, and acts, the cause thereof must be eradicated!  The seat, or function, of the cause, be brought into Harmony with Laws of the Creation of these functions, or seats, of emanation.

    Strange as it may seem to you, and by a process that is contrary to the ordinary workings of the Law of Cause and Effect, humans must first deal with the effects, in order to control the cause.  Thereby destroy the effects.  This may seem to be an impossible operation, contrary to the Laws that govern the Material World, and its ordinary functioning.  Yet it is possible.  The only possible way, in which the causes may be destroyed.  Notwithstanding the fact that the animal, or material, part of human has had the ascendancy, for all these centuries, over the Spiritual part of their Nature.  Yet, that Spiritual part exists, has always existed, waiting to assert itself, whenever the opportunity occurred.  This assertion was prevented, or suppressed, only by reason of the want of opportunity.

    The Spiritual may be said to be the Natural State.  I mean, that in that state, the animal is subordinate to the Spiritual, and is controlled by it.  Human's True Tendency is to exist, and act, in accord with that Natural State.  Then, such being the fact, it may be asked why, or in what manner, did this Natural Spiritual Condition, become, in the manifestation of what human's dominant dualities are supposed to be, subordinated to the control of the inordinate exercise of this animal side of their Nature, which resulted in the sin and unhappiness that so many of the teachers and philosophers proclaim to be their Natural condition?

    Well tonight, I will not attempt to explain the manner in which this inversion, or perversion, of human's True Nature took place, but will at some future time write on this subject.

    The question now is; how can human obtain the Restitution to their Created Perfection?

    As I have said, this can only be accomplished by making the perfect adjustment of the two apparent conflicting sides of their Nature.

    First, they must recognize that they have the Spiritual Nature, as well as the animal, and that there is such a relationship, and coordination, between the two, that the supremacy of the latter disturbs the Harmony of their (condition of) Perfection as human.  The Spiritual, having been subordinated; the remedy is to remove the subordination, and restore the equality.  The Spiritual, notwithstanding its condition, is always fighting to regain its place in the True Adjustment, and will always answer the call of human, to come to their rescue.  The only thing that has prevented that response is, that human has not called for it to assert itself.

    Well I am sorry, but we had better postpone until later.  Try to get in greater rapport.

Goodnight, your brother in Christ, St. James.

Restoration to Condition of Perfection

May 5th, 1917

I am here, Jesus.

    I come tonight to write on the only way by which humans can reach the Kingdom of God, or The Way to the Perfect Human.

    This is a subject that many humans, and teachers, have endeavored to explain to humankind.  The ways described have been as varied, and sometimes contradictory, as the thoughts and education of these humans have differed.  All have sought to base their teachings and conclusions on the Bible.  I, of course, mean those who profess to be christians.  As to other teachers and reformers, as they have been called, their teachings are based on the doctrines of the various sects to which they have belonged, or professed allegiance.

    The Kingdom of God is more peculiarly a phrase that is found in, and belongs to, the Christian Bible, and to some extent in the Hebrew Scriptures.

    In considering the subject of this message, it is first important to understand what is meant by; "the Kingdom of God".  Some understand, or conceive, it to be a kingdom on Earth, in which the Will and Laws of God will be followed and obeyed by humans in the Mortal Life.  Others understand it to be that Kingdom of God, which exists, and will continue to exist in Perfection in the Spirit World.  Some few, that Kingdom, which will find its home, or place of existence, in the Celestial Spheres.

    Now, "the way" to each of these kingdoms is not the same.  Although, in pursuing The Way to one, that, the Celestial Kingdom, the way to the others, must necessarily be followed.  In other words, they who follow The Way to the Celestial Kingdom, pursues that course, which in its pursuit, will cause them to do those things, and obey those Laws of God, that are necessary to establish the Kingdoms on Earth, and in the Spirit World.  But they who pursue only the way that leads to the establishment of the kingdom on Earth and in the Spirit World, cannot possibly become an inhabitant of the Celestial Kingdom.

    The Kingdom of God on Earth, or in the Spirit World, may be obtained by human, or spirit, by obeying the Will of God, in those essentials that will work a Purification of their Natural Love, and cause that coming into Harmony with His Laws, which affect and control human as mere human.  That is, that will restore human to the Condition of Perfection that existed before the Fall of the First Parents.  Many of my teachings, when on Earth, of which there are preserved a number in the Bible, were intended to instruct humans into that Way of Life that would develop their Moral Qualities, and free them from the taint and destructiveness of sin, in which they were then, and are now, living.  By the observance of my Teachings, and sincere obedience to these Moral Precepts, human will lose those things that belong to their appetites, passions, evil thoughts, and desires, and realize that in their places will come a Purer Love, more Spiritual desires and thoughts, which lead to a cleansing of their heart and soul, which means a living and thinking in Harmony with the Will and Laws of God.  For God is All Good.  All His Laws require that human shall become (again) Good, in order that this kingdom in the Spirit World shall be established.

    Naturally, and I mean according to their Creation, human is Good.  Not the depraved creature, that for so many centuries the teachings and doctrines of the church have declared them to be.  When they shall arrive at that State of Goodness that was theirs in the beginning, they will merely have rid them self of those contaminating appetites, thoughts, and desires, that made them the sinful and inharmonious being that they now are.

    So, from this you will see, that the work of human, in order to enable the kingdom to become established on Earth, is largely a work of Renunciation.  This Truth was taught by prophets and teachers, prior to the time of my coming to Earth and teaching The Way to the Celestial Kingdom.  The same Truth applies to the spirits that shall make up, and establish, the kingdom in the Spirit World.

    In these kingdoms of the Purification and Regaining of the Perfected Natural Love, there will be nothing of the Divine Nature of the Father, except as may be generally said, all the objects of His Creation, by reason of being such objects, may partake of the image of the Divine.  This is not the Divine.  The Divine, in its True Sense, is that; which partakes of the Very Essence and Divine Nature of God.  Not that, which is merely the object of His Creation.

    Human, in body, soul, and spirit body, is only a Creation of God.  As to the soul, an image of its Creator.  This Creation was not made of any, the least part of the Essence or Substance of God.  This Creation can, if it so please the Father, in its composite and coordinated existence, be utterly destroyed, and reduced to the elements of which it was Created, without in the smallest degree affecting the True Substance, or Nature of God.  So, you will see, that in Truth, there is in, or of, human, nothing of the Divine.  Hence, when the Kingdom of God shall be established on Earth, or in the Spirit World, there will be therein, nothing of the Divine.  Only the existence of the Perfect Creatures, living and thinking in Harmony with the Laws of God, which control their Creation and Existence.

    So that the way in which these two kingdoms of the non-divine can be established, is by human pursuing that course of thinking, and living, that will enable them to renounce, and get rid of, those things foreign to their True Nature, which prevent them from coming again into the exact Harmony with the Will of God, as expressed, and made obligatory, by the Law of Human's Creation.

    The observance of the Moral Law will enable humans to accomplish this end.  The Natural Love, with which human was endowed as the Perfect Human, enables them, as it becomes Purified and more Harmonious, to Love God, and to Love their fellow-humans as them self.  For this Natural Love is one, that in its Perfection and Nature, is Universal.  In its exercise, every human is their neighbor's brother.

    The progressive qualities of this Natural Love, which every human may obtain, are Truly and wonderfully set forth by Peter in one of his Epistles as contained in the Bible (II Peter, Chapter 1, Verses 5, 6, 7).  If humans will seek these successive steps in acquiring the Purifying development of this Natural Love, they will obtain the great object sought for.

    As I have written, the Bible contains many of my teachings, which if followed, will lead to this end.  Humans will realize the Kingdom of God on Earth.  Here let me correct one mistaken belief or idea that has so long prevailed among humankind, which in its results, has delayed the coming of the Kingdom on Earth.  The correction is; that God, by His mere fiat, or irrespective of the desires and workings of human's souls, will not establish this Kingdom.  Its establishment depends upon humans, themselves.  Until their Natural Love becomes, and they become, in Harmony with God's Will, this Kingdom will never be established.

    I know that it is believed, taught, emphasized, and humans place all their hopes and expectations of a Heaven of Bliss, on the statement; "that I will at sometime come in the clouds of heaven with a great shout, to Earth, and by the power, which they believe exists in me, establish the Kingdom of God.  A kind of kingdom, in which I will be the king and rule supreme, receive as my subjects those who believe in and worship me, and send those who do not, into eternal damnation and outer darkness".  Well, this is pitiable, untrue, and all erroneous.  This Kingdom will never be established in this way.  Only human, them self, can call into existence this Kingdom.  Only by becoming the Pure Perfect Human that existed when God's Earthly Kingdom had, at human's Creation, its existence.  Human alone, brought sin into the World.  Human must them self destroy sin.  Then Harmony with the Father's Will, will be restored, also, this Kingdom.

    From what I have written, it must not for a moment, or in the slightest degree, be inferred even, that God is not taking, and will not take, any part in the re-establishment of this Kingdom.  It is a fact that He is working through His Angels, upon the souls and thoughts of humans, to bring this Kingdom on Earth.  He will not force its establishment.  It must come voluntarily, on the part of humans.

    When He Created human, He gave them a free will.  The Most Wonderful of the Natural Gifts to human.  He will not, by the exercise of His Power, arbitrarily control the direction of that will.  As to it, leaves human supreme.  Of course, while this is so, yet if human in such exercise contravenes the Laws of God, human must suffer the consequences.  For He never changes, or sets aside, His Laws.  Human may exercise their free will, as they desire, and as their thoughts and appetites may influence them to do.  The freedom of exercise does not prevent the imposition of the penalties that the Laws prescribe when they are violated.  Thus, you see there is freedom without limitation.  Every inharmonious exercise of that freedom must invite the infliction of that, which necessarily follows the violation of Harmony.

    God wants, and is patiently waiting for, the Love of human.  He is Always the Loving Father, who delights not in the suffering of His Creatures.  He wants their Love to come voluntarily.  Without constraint, fear of punishment, or hope of reward, except that reward, which must necessarily follow the blending of God's Love, and the Love of human.

   Then, I say, the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth is not the Divine Kingdom.  Has not in it, that, which is necessarily Divine, except the Love of God to His Creatures to Bless them, and make them happy.  His Divine Essence and Substance are not conferred upon them.  If they were, humans would not remain in the Kingdom of Earth, but would to a degree, be in the Celestial Heavens, even while on Earth.  As I know, some humans while still mortals, are in this Divine Heaven.

    Now, what I have said, with reference to the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth, applies with equal Truth to the Kingdom of God in the Spirit World.  For there, the inhabitants are merely the spirits of humans, after they have surrendered their physical bodies, and become Purified in their Natural Love, and in Harmony with the Will and Laws of God, controlling their existence as Perfect Humans.

    While the Kingdom of God has not yet been established on Earth, it has been in the Spirit World.  For in the Highest Sphere (the 6th) of that World, the souls of humans have become Purified.  Harmony has been restored.  The souls of humans enjoy the Supreme Happiness, that was Bestowed upon them at the time of their First Creation, which God pronounced Very Good.  Sometime, you will have described to you, the Bliss and Wonderful Happiness of that Kingdom.  I will not say that this is beyond all conception of humans, and was established, not by the mere Power and Will of God, but by the exercise of the will of humans, after they became spirits, in renouncing evil and sin.  Having their thoughts, desires, and soul, in its Natural Love, Purified, and made Harmonious.  Here, I must say, that all humans who have ever lived, or who shall ever live, will at sometime live in this Kingdom of God in the Spirit World, or in the Kingdom of the Celestial Spheres.  The large majority will find their homes in the former Kingdom.

    The hells and dark places will be emptied of their inhabitants, and abolished forever.  Surprising as it may seem to mortals, not by the fiat of God, but the exercise of human's wills, desires, and longings, for the attainment of the Purification of their Natural Love, and by their reaching the goal of their aspirations.  God will be with them in their efforts.  His Angels will do His Will, in helping mortals, and spirits, along this way to the Spiritual Kingdom.

    Then, how important it is that mortals should understand, and realize, the great work that they must do, in establishing the Kingdom on Earth, and the Kingdom in the Spirit World, and not rest supinely in the mere intellectual belief that God will, "in His own way, and at His own time, establish this Kingdom, and that they who believe in God, observe the creeds and doctrines of their churches, perform their duties as church members, will become inhabitants of that Kingdom, in a moment become pure and undefiled, and in Harmony with the Will of God and His Laws".  It is a very harmful belief!  Because the Only Way to this Kingdom is The Way of Renunciation and Purification.  All the beliefs ever possessed by humans, that do not lead to this Purification of human's souls, will not lead to this Kingdom.

   Human, with the Help of the Father, must hew their own destiny.  The Father, without the effort of human, will not make for them a destiny that their condition of soul and Natural Love, do not entitle them to.

    There is a Kingdom, Greater, different, and unlike these Kingdoms, of which I have been writing.  That is the Celestial Kingdom of God.  Only those, who receive of the Divine Essence, can become inhabitants of this Celestial Kingdom.  The souls of humans must become Transformed into the Very Nature Divine of God.  The Natural Love of human be changed, in all its qualities and elements, into the Divine Love of the Father.

    I have written that many of my Moral Teachings are recorded in the Bible.  That I came, or rather my acceptance by the Father as His Beloved Son and the reception into my soul of His Divine Love, qualified me to teach The Way to the several Kingdoms.  As was said in that Book, what was lost by the disobedience of the First Humans, was restored by the coming of the second.  That only means; that by reason of the Knowledge that came to me of Truth, and of the Laws of Harmony that govern God's Universe, I was enabled to teach humans the way to a return to the Purity and development of their souls in Natural Love, that existed before the great loss caused by the disobedience of the First Humans.  I was not to bring about this restoration by any great power, or godlike qualities of Omniscience, that I might be supposed to possess.  Merely by teaching humans to Love God and Love their brothers (and sisters).  To pursue that course of living and thinking that would necessarily enable them to renounce sin and evil, and come into a State of Harmony with the Laws of their Creation.

    Now, while I taught these Moral Truths, I also taught the Great Spiritual Truths that show humans The Way to the Celestial Kingdom.  For in my communions with the Father, there came to me, not only the Divine Love, which Transformed my soul into the Divine Substance of the Father in its Divine Love Qualities, but also the Knowledge, by which this Divine Love might be acquired, and the Certain Way to the Celestial Kingdom, even though to a degree, while in the flesh.

    My Spiritual Teachings, that show The Way to the Celestial Kingdom, were not so well understood by my hearers.  Not even by my intimate disciples.  But more so by John.  Consequently, were not preserved in the Bible, as were my Moral Teachings.

    As to the Bible, I mean the original manuscripts, were not written until many years after my death.  Even in these manuscripts, not many of my teachings, as to The Way that leads to this Celestial Kingdom, were contained.  Afterwards, when these manuscripts were copied, and the copies, recopied, these Important Truths were not preserved, scarcely any.  Though the fundamental ones, namely, "God is Love", and, "Except a human be born again, they cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven", were retained.

    As time went by, and the recopying continued, fewer and fewer of my precepts were preserved.  Humans came to know less and less of these Higher Truths.  Consequently, the mere Moral Teachings, became better understood, and were used by the teachers and instructors of the masses to lead humans to a kingdom of God.  In addition to this, these leaders changed even these Moral Truths, and the interpretations of the early writers, in such a way as to enable these leaders to attain to wealth, power, and control, over the common people, in their beliefs, and observances of worship.  The God of Love, then, to a large extent, became a God of hatred and wrath, inflicting punishment upon those who dared to disobey those injunctions that the hierarchy of the church placed upon them, as the demands and will of God.

    These matters have been written upon more fully elsewhere.  I will not further enlarge upon them.  Will now disclose the True Way that leads to the Kingdom of God in the Celestial Heavens.

    Well, we have written a long time tonight.  I think it best to postpone my further writing until later.  I must say this though, that I am pleased that you are in so much better condition.  I feel that now we can proceed more rapidly with our messages.

   Remember this, that my promises will be fulfilled.  You must have Faith.  I am with you very often, and Love you, as you know.  I will continue to pray to the Father for you.

So trust me.  Be assured that I am helping you in your desire.

Goodnight and God Bless you.

Your brother and friend, Jesus.

Restoration to Condition of Perfection