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2005-11-13 00:53:12 UTC
God and His personality.
I am here. Jesus.
Let me write a few lines.
I see that you were much interested in what the preacher said tonight about
God and His personality, and that you gave him several questions which he
could not answer. This must be expected, for to men is not given ordinarily
a true conception of God, or Who or what He is, and only by the development
of their souls by the Divine Love can they obtain any conception of His
being. As their souls thus develop they become a part of His Divinity, and
their soul perceptions become opened up to a realization of who God is, to a
small degree at least, and then they know that He is something more than an
all enveloping energy, supplemented by a purposeful will.
The preacher has not these soul perceptions and cannot conceive of God, the
Soul, but can only express to you the truthfulness of the evidences of God's
existence, such as the energy that he spoke of.
As you know, this energy is His Spirit, although the preacher has not the
exact conception of what this Spirit is or how it operates. He confuses the
soul and spirit, and makes the mere instrument by or with which God
expresses His energy, to be the real true substance of God, the Soul. He is
right when he says that he cannot go back of this energy to find God, for
his soul perceptions have not yet been awakened to a cognition of that from
which the energy proceeds, or which is the very source from which flows all
the manifestations, that to his mind constitute God. He is like the
theologians and philosophers, who believe that these manifestations and
energies and forces are the only God, the only personal God; and he may be
shocked to hear that his teachings amount to only this. But it is true, and
to him there is no more personal God than to the others, with this
exception; that he attempts to believe that in some manner and in some way
connected with this energy, there is a will which has in it a purpose of
love or kindness or fatherly care; but the real personal God, with his Great
Soul of Love which is being always bestowed upon the individual man, he does
not conceive of or make his own.
God is Soul, and only Soul, which has in it all the attributes of love and
wisdom and thought for the welfare of His creatures. He is a thinking and
seeing God, and all the energies of His Soul are used to make men better and
happier. As is the natural father of the man a personal father, so is the
Great Soul of God, a Personal Father to all his children; and men when they
have the development of their souls in the Divine Love will know that God is
personal--something more than an all enveloping energy or force or mere
manifestation of His existence.
The preacher says, in substance, that God is everywhere, and His presence
may be realized by all who are willing to receive that manifestation, and
that whether they are or not willing, that presence exists just the same.
This is pantheism, toned down a little by his beliefs in a more personal
God, but still pantheism, and wholly wrong and violative of God's being.
The source of things can never be the things themselves, although the things
as they flow from the source have some of the qualities of the source
itself, and so these manifestations of God's existence, while they are of
His qualities, yet they are not equivalent of His presence or the source
from which they flow. God is not everywhere, but in His Heavens, and all
these expressions of His powers and will and energies are merely evidences
that there is a source from which they all come, and they are not that
source itself.
And again, the preacher said that God created the body of man and not the
spirit, as he calls it, meaning the soul, so that the body is a creation by
itself and cannot contain in it the spirit or the spirit body, but that this
spirit is outside of the human body, and is in a general way a part of one
Great Spirit that is universal and everywhere and that, therefore, all men,
no matter what their conditions may be in the earth life or in the eternity
part of life are brothers and God is the Father of them all. Well in this
the preacher is mistaken, for every man has his own individual spirit, soul,
and on the state or condition of that soul depends the happiness or misery
of the man, and he is merely the brother of other men, because he is a
creature of God and made in his image, and not because he is a part of the
universal spirit, which the preacher believes permeates everything and
exists everywhere. And God is the Father, because these children are His
creatures, the objects of His creation, and individualized, each working out
his own destiny. As we have told you some of these children will always
remain the merely created children, while others will partake of His Divine
Love, and become a part of His divinity, and inhabitants of the Celestial
Spheres.
The preacher has many things to learn, and as he believes in the search for
the truth, if he will let the Divine Love flow into his heart, and transform
his soul into the very essence and substance of the Father's divinity, he
will be able to learn many things spiritual as well as of things material
are governed by law, and unless the soul gets into a condition that enables
it to see and realize the higher truths of the spirit world, it can never
obtain knowledge of things spiritual, and one of the objects of such
knowledge is God.
Well, I have written enough and will stop. With my love, I will say, good
night.
Your brother and friend, JESUS.
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I am here. Jesus.
Let me write a few lines.
I see that you were much interested in what the preacher said tonight about
God and His personality, and that you gave him several questions which he
could not answer. This must be expected, for to men is not given ordinarily
a true conception of God, or Who or what He is, and only by the development
of their souls by the Divine Love can they obtain any conception of His
being. As their souls thus develop they become a part of His Divinity, and
their soul perceptions become opened up to a realization of who God is, to a
small degree at least, and then they know that He is something more than an
all enveloping energy, supplemented by a purposeful will.
The preacher has not these soul perceptions and cannot conceive of God, the
Soul, but can only express to you the truthfulness of the evidences of God's
existence, such as the energy that he spoke of.
As you know, this energy is His Spirit, although the preacher has not the
exact conception of what this Spirit is or how it operates. He confuses the
soul and spirit, and makes the mere instrument by or with which God
expresses His energy, to be the real true substance of God, the Soul. He is
right when he says that he cannot go back of this energy to find God, for
his soul perceptions have not yet been awakened to a cognition of that from
which the energy proceeds, or which is the very source from which flows all
the manifestations, that to his mind constitute God. He is like the
theologians and philosophers, who believe that these manifestations and
energies and forces are the only God, the only personal God; and he may be
shocked to hear that his teachings amount to only this. But it is true, and
to him there is no more personal God than to the others, with this
exception; that he attempts to believe that in some manner and in some way
connected with this energy, there is a will which has in it a purpose of
love or kindness or fatherly care; but the real personal God, with his Great
Soul of Love which is being always bestowed upon the individual man, he does
not conceive of or make his own.
God is Soul, and only Soul, which has in it all the attributes of love and
wisdom and thought for the welfare of His creatures. He is a thinking and
seeing God, and all the energies of His Soul are used to make men better and
happier. As is the natural father of the man a personal father, so is the
Great Soul of God, a Personal Father to all his children; and men when they
have the development of their souls in the Divine Love will know that God is
personal--something more than an all enveloping energy or force or mere
manifestation of His existence.
The preacher says, in substance, that God is everywhere, and His presence
may be realized by all who are willing to receive that manifestation, and
that whether they are or not willing, that presence exists just the same.
This is pantheism, toned down a little by his beliefs in a more personal
God, but still pantheism, and wholly wrong and violative of God's being.
The source of things can never be the things themselves, although the things
as they flow from the source have some of the qualities of the source
itself, and so these manifestations of God's existence, while they are of
His qualities, yet they are not equivalent of His presence or the source
from which they flow. God is not everywhere, but in His Heavens, and all
these expressions of His powers and will and energies are merely evidences
that there is a source from which they all come, and they are not that
source itself.
And again, the preacher said that God created the body of man and not the
spirit, as he calls it, meaning the soul, so that the body is a creation by
itself and cannot contain in it the spirit or the spirit body, but that this
spirit is outside of the human body, and is in a general way a part of one
Great Spirit that is universal and everywhere and that, therefore, all men,
no matter what their conditions may be in the earth life or in the eternity
part of life are brothers and God is the Father of them all. Well in this
the preacher is mistaken, for every man has his own individual spirit, soul,
and on the state or condition of that soul depends the happiness or misery
of the man, and he is merely the brother of other men, because he is a
creature of God and made in his image, and not because he is a part of the
universal spirit, which the preacher believes permeates everything and
exists everywhere. And God is the Father, because these children are His
creatures, the objects of His creation, and individualized, each working out
his own destiny. As we have told you some of these children will always
remain the merely created children, while others will partake of His Divine
Love, and become a part of His divinity, and inhabitants of the Celestial
Spheres.
The preacher has many things to learn, and as he believes in the search for
the truth, if he will let the Divine Love flow into his heart, and transform
his soul into the very essence and substance of the Father's divinity, he
will be able to learn many things spiritual as well as of things material
are governed by law, and unless the soul gets into a condition that enables
it to see and realize the higher truths of the spirit world, it can never
obtain knowledge of things spiritual, and one of the objects of such
knowledge is God.
Well, I have written enough and will stop. With my love, I will say, good
night.
Your brother and friend, JESUS.
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