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July 25th, 1961 & April 20th, 1962
Received by Dr. Samuels.
Washington D.C.
I am here, Jesus:
I want to write you on the questions which has come up to intrigue
some of the California Members of the Foundation Church of the New Birth
about the creation of the Messiah as a soul and the Divine Love which
as a child the Messiah did receive from the Father.
In the first place, all human beings, since they are the children of
the Father, are blessed, inasmuch as they owe their soul existence, and
the possibility of eternal life with Him, to the Love and mercy of the
Father. These souls have been brought into existence because He desired
counterparts of Himself helping Him to do his work and glorifying Him,
souls of His Soul and yet individuals free in the great gift of freewill.
Whether these souls were brought into being as one act of soul creation,
or whether they are the result of separate acts, and at what time in God
's Eternity of time, has not been revealed for forces and ages are involved
that man or spirit has no real conception of, and since man as a recorder
of time, goes back only a few thousand years, and since as a creature
on earth only a few million years, the earliest man has no understanding
of the vast eons of time even before the creation of the solar system,
and no system of time measurement has been found to determine such a period,
for as of now, time is measurable by space, and the space-marks which
existed at the time, or times of soul creation are no longer in existence.
Souls are created from the souls of God, in my understanding, as a projection
of His Soul Will, in a way that thus far has remained unknown to the spirits
of the Celestial Heavens, for while we can understand the will of the
Creator to a certain extent and seek to help to fulfil His Will, we have
no power to create souls for we are not God, but simply souls possessed
of the divine essence of God to the extent and realization of soul immortality
but we do administer to the souls of men and spirits, like the Elder Brothers
we are, after their incarnation and the possession and consciousness of
individuality, in the mortal life and in the world of spirits.
Souls at creation, to my understanding, are endowed in certain proportions
with the wonderful qualities of the Father, less that of divine quality,
so that in this way they are subject to the influence of either good or
bad, of their forebears, and with his FREE WILL, man may turn to the Father
to eliminate evils in his soul and obtain the divine quality through prayer
to the Father for His Love. When the earliest man appeared, he had a perfect
soul with intuition that he had been created by the Father and a standard
for conduct which, if only intuitive or unconscious, lifted him above
the other creatures, who were soul-less, living on the earth, and in this
way he possessed a double set of emotions, one flowing from his condition
as a creature of god, and inherent in him on the base animal level, and
the other stemming from his position as a human being, implanted with
a soul created by the Father for higher living and development, for the
fulfillment of the spiritual values. Man could have eliminated the undesirable
animal elements within him, retained the perfection of his soul and become
possessed of the Divine Love, and at-one-ment with God, had he prayed
to the Father for this Love, but he did not, lost by his act the potentiality
of receiving it and contaminated his soul with those acts of the animal
nature which were not in harmony with the nature of God, brutalized his
soul to the point where it became non-operative and dormant, and he became
like the beasts in the field, functioning only on the animal level. It
is from this point that man has began to make his slow recovery, and that
is why man is born with evils so encrusted around his soul that they act
like part of his soul, which they are not, and he must make tremendous
efforts to remove them.
It is man's knowledge that he has a soul, that is inherently pure, that
encourages him to strive to make himself a better human being. This is
living the moral and ethical life, which was prescribed by Hammurabi (a
Semitic King ruling in Babylon 1728-1686 BCE) and Moses, stands in the
Egyptian Book of the Dead, but it gives purity of soul as its ultimate
reward. Prayer for the Father's Love not only purifies more quickly, but
also transforms the soul from the human to the Divine Soul, the first
example of which was provided by me, namely, Jesus Ben Joseph, the Messiah
of God and Master of the Celestial Heavens.
Of much interest today is the question of when I became the Messiah-
-at the creation of my soul by God in the midst of the ageless eons of
the past, or at the moment when I was incarnated as an incarnate soul
in the womb of my mother, Mary, or at birth. I have already said that
God creates, or has created, souls, with His great qualities, in a way
known only to His soul, and without the divinity, which his qualities
possess. The soul is subject to the influences, good or bad, of forebears
and the moment of birth is also influential, in that God's law of time
and qualitative effect are also operative for all.
To show in only one way the workings of God's Laws of time, you may understand
that conditions about the time of my birth pointed to the imminence of
the Messiah to earth. Daniel, the story of a prophet by his name, worked
out through a vision of God that the end time, more precisely, the end
time of the Hebrew dispensation and the beginning of the time of the Messiah
himself, which I had knowledge of through study and revelation, was to
begin his teaching of the Divine Love by what you call 26 A. D.
Why was it given unto Abraham, Moses and the prophets to be what they
were? They acted as they did because they had human souls- -not divine
souls, I must repeat- -which because of their constitution and human heredity,
of God's laws of time and qualitative effect, and because of their use
of FREE WILL CHOICE, also a Great Law of God, they generated activities
in the direction they took and because the circumstances of their day
required them to do so in order to fulfill themselves as human personalities
and individualities.
Why was it given unto man to be Adam or Eve? Thus, as some incarnated
souls become great painters, great scientists (they could not become great
scientists before their age of science, even if endowed with the greatest
talents), and great philosophers, the prophets became great men of God's
Will because their individual souls were equipped through endowment and
diverse forces working through them; and their use of Free Will, at the
moment of historical circumstance or situation demanding their action.
And thus it was that I, Jesus Ben Joseph, became the Messiah. It was
not foreordained that I should become the Messiah, except that I was constituted
in soul at birth for the mission; I determined upon that mission by my
own free choice of free will; and the circumstances, namely the Roman
iron grip on Palestine, the appearance of the New Covenants of Damascus,
the retreat to the dead sea among the Essenes, the publication of Enoch
the Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs, the Assumption of Moses, the Psalms
of Solomon, the rise of the Chassid's following the disaster of the Second
Temple Living, the growth of the Sadduccees and the Pharisaic Party, a
member of which my Father was, and an admirer of the teachings of Hillel,
the realization that the Divine Love would not become a reality to mankind
unless I, Jesus, preached it, an the Temple and the people would be eventually
destroyed, due to Zealotic intransigence in the face of Roman brutality.
The circumstances, I repeat, demanded that I give myself to this mission,
even though it resulted in my death, which I knew I would have to face
and undergo, not because of any mysticism such as now preached in the
churches, but because the temper and the violence of the times so dictated.
At birth God did not deliberately bestow upon me the Divine Love, but
I did receive some small potions of it into my soul because my soul, constituted
in a way to understand the meaning of God, as others understand great
art, science or literature, experienced longing for the Divine Love without
my being aware, as a child, that this was actually taking place, and it
was only later, as I continued to study while helping my father Joseph
in his carpentry shop, did I have an understanding of what was happening.
No, I did not have the Divine Love in my soul before birth, but my soul,
as I have said before, was already predisposed to receive it at birth
without conscious thought. That is why there are members of the orthodox
churches who have, and are receiving, some of the Divine Love without
knowing that they have it, simply because their respective churches do
not preach Divine Love, and many of them would indignantly reject it as
being contrary to doctrine if they were told about it, as I hope that
in time they will be so informed, if not on earth then in the spirit life.
Yet these people experience an inflowing of the Divine Love when their
souls are aroused to emotion, perhaps by the uplifting of church music,
seeks at-one-ment with the Father as an earnest longing. So you see that
the Divine Love, as I have stated, many times before, enters the soul
as a result of a soul longing, and not because of any prayer offered merely
with the brain-it must be a sincere prayer that comes from the soul, or
to put it another way, an earnest prayer that comes from the heart. Neither
does the Father bestow His Love upon those who do not seek it; and that
is why I keep repeating "pray to the Father for His Love." These
things are miracles indeed, but only in the sense that all life is a miracle,
all creation a miracle, the human soul and the transformation of that
human soul into a Divine soul. But instead of a "miracle" a
word which is so widely employed and misunderstood by the orthodox churches,
let us use an expression that more aptly fits the ineffable workings of
the Father's Ways-His love.
I wish to emphasize two important principles of the Divine Love; that
it was never available to mankind before my birth, for it was first given
on earth, not in the spirit-world, and, in fact, I preached its availability
in the spirit world after the crucifixion; and secondly the Father never
bestows upon the soul this Divine Love if that soul does not seek it in
earnest prayer, and that is why, while my soul, predisposed to becoming
the Messiah by constitution, it was never preordained that it should be
so, but I chose to be the Messiah and undertook to preach the "good
news" of my own free will, because I met the challenge of the historical
circumstances that prevailed, and neither was it preordained that I should
die on the cross, but neither did I stop preaching when I realized the
opposition of the high priests and Roman barbarism that made my arrest
and death a certainty, because in preaching the Divine Love I was true
to my mission as the Messiah of God, and was, and am, faithful unto Him.
And now the second question about the resurrection.
The question as to whether I rose immediately from my body on death, or
whether I stayed in the body until burial, may be answered by stating
quickly that the first is correct.
When Luke wrote in Volume I, page 326, and 3rd paragraph, in TRUE GOSPEL
REVEALED ANEW, "Dematerialization of Jesus'
body," and "After the tomb was sealed Jesus arose,"
this was simply a figure of speech, and simply indicated that from the
time of the sealing of the tomb, or official burial, I went about my business
as a spirit, whereas until that time I simply accompanied the body, from
without, and observed the events, waiting until the ritual of burial had
been duly accomplished.
One must remember that on death, countless individual cells remain alive
for as much as days, and even hair will continue to grow, until deprivation
of substance brings total demise. The release of cosmic force upon the
body caused rapid acceleration of cellular, or molecular, death, as well
as corporeal evaporation through a kind of thermal action. I applied cosmic
energy that caused the disappearance of man in short order, energy that
has always existed in the universe is known to modern science to a limited
extent, and may some day be used by man.
In respect to culling of elements from the universe, each mortal does
this not only on eating or drinking, but also in breathing the air about
him. He does this not only to replenish needed energy, but also to replace
the atoms in his body, almost all of which he loses within the space of
a year.
Air and food thus provide the entire mortal frame, once a child is born
within its body, resultant from a natural process, taking place within
the body itself. Spiritual culling of the eternal cosmic elements to give
an appearance of flesh conforms to a process of building of organic molecules
around a spirit body.
This rebuilding, or ammaterialization, took place in a way similar to
that wherein ectoplasm borrowed from mediums is used to enable a spirit
body to be visible to mortal eyes.
But the process of transformation from cosmic matter to substance like
unto flesh without benefit of a bodily organism took place from spiritual
energy applied with Divine Love to mass with an effect quite the reverse
of what happens in disintegration. In birth, bodily growth and decay,
natural forces within the body are operative according to natural law,
but in both dematerialization and molecular accumulation, or, as I have
said, ammaterialization, spiritual force is applied from without to the
body, or to a spirit body.
Unto you all, who are helping me in my work of bringing the truths of
the Father and the Kingdom, I want to pour out my sincere blessings of
love. and ask the Father to Bless you with His Great Blessings of Divine
Love;
Your Elder Brother
JESUS OF THE BIBLE
And
MASTER OF THE CELESTIAL HEAVENS.
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