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"Ssam" <ssam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> From "True Gospel Revealed Anew by Jesus", Vol. I, page 59
> WHO AND WHAT IS GOD ?
>
> I AM HERE. Jesus.
>
> I have been with you as you prayed, and joined in your prayer to the
> Father for the inflowing of His Great Love into your soul in great
> abundance; and I know that His Holy Spirit is present and that His love
is
> flowing into your soul, and that you are becoming in at-onement with the
> Father. His love will always come to you when you pray as you have
tonight,
> and His listening ear is always open to the earnest aspirations of His
> children who come to him with the true longings of the soul. You have
the
> secret of reaching the Father's love, and on all occasions, when you
feel
> that you need that Love or desire a nearness to the Father, use the
secret
> and you will not be disappointed.
>
> You are in better condition tonight in your soul development and
> perceptions and can receive my message which I have desired for sometime
to
> communicate, and to do which I was waiting only for you to be in a
complete
> rap****t with me.
>
> Well, you will remember, that in the early stages of our writings, I
> communicated to you my knowledge and conception of "who and what God
is,"
> and that I have recently told you that I desired to rewrite the message,
as
> your condition is now so much better to receive these truths than it was
> when the message was written; and so, tonight, I will deliver the
message,
> and will take a more complete possession of your brain and control of
your
> hand than I was able to do at the time mentioned.
>
> Then the question is: Who and What is God?
>
> In dealing with this question, you must realize that it is not so easy
to
> describe in language that mortals can comprehend the Essence and
Attributes
> of God, and I feel the limitations that I am under in endeavoring to
give
> you a satisfactory description of the only and true God; not because of
the
> paucity of knowledge and conception on my part, but because of the fact
that
> you have not the required soul development to enable me to form the
> necessary rap****t with you, in order that through your brain, may be
> expressed the exact truth as to who the Father is.
>
> WELL, TO BEGIN, GOD IS SOUL, AND SOUL IS GOD. NOT THE SOUL THAT IS IN
THE
> CREATED MAN, BUT THE SOUL THAT IS DEITY AND SELF-EXISTENT, WITHOUT
BEGINNING
> OR ENDING, AND WHOSE ENTITY IS THE ONE GREAT FACT IN THE UNIVERSE OF
BEING.
>
> God is without form, such as has been conceived of by man in nearly
all
> ages, and especially by those who believe in the Bible of the Hebrews as
> well as in that of the Christians. But nevertheless, He is of form,
which
> only the soul perceptions of the soul of a man which has arrived at a
> certain degree of development, that is taken on the Divine nature of the
> Father and thus become a part of the Soul of God, can discern and
realize as
> an entity. There is nothing in all nature with which men are acquainted
or
> have knowledge of, that can be used to make a comparison, even in the
spirit
> perceptions, with this Great Soul; and hence, for men to conceive of God
as
> having a form in any manner resembling that of man, is all erroneous;
and
> those who, in their beliefs and teachings, deny the anthropomorphic God,
are
> correct.
>
> But, nevertheless, God is of form such as to give him an entity and
> Substance and seat of habitation, in contradistinction to that God
which, in
> the teachings of some men, is said to be everywhere in this Substance
and
> entity--in the trees and rocks, and thunder and lightning, and in men
and
> beasts, and in all created things, and in whom men are said to live and
move
> and have their being. No, this concept of God is not in accord with the
> truth, and it is vital to the knowledge and salvation of men that such
> conception of God be not entertained or believed in.
>
> To believe that God is without form is to believe that he is a mere
force
> or principle or nebulous power, and, as some say, the resultant of laws;
> which laws, as a fact, He has established for the controlling of His
> universe of creation, and which are expressed to men by these very
powers
> and principles, that to some extent, they can comprehend.
>
> The child has asked: "Who made God?" And because the wise men cannot
> answer that question, in their wisdom, they conclude and assert that
there
> can be no real God of personality or soul form, and, hence, only force,
> principle or evolved laws can be God; and in their own conceit think
that
> they have solved the question. But the child may not be satisfied with
the
> answer, and may ask the wise men: "Who made principle and force and laws
> that must be accepted as the only God?" And then, the wise men cannot
> answer, unless they answer: "God," which they do not believe, but which
let
> me say, is the true and only answer.
>
> God is back of force and principle and law, which are only expressions
of
> His being, and which without Him could not exist; and they are only
> existences, changeable, dependent and subject to the will of God, who
only,
> is Being.
>
> GOD THEN, IS SOUL, AND THAT SOUL HAS ITS FORM, PERCEPTIBLE ONLY TO
ITSELF,
> OR THAT OF MAN, WHICH, BY REASON OF THE SUFFICIENT POSSESSION OF THE
VERY
> SUBSTANCE OF THE GREAT SOUL HAS BECOME LIKE UNTO GOD, NOT IN IMAGE ONLY,
BUT
> IN VERY ESSENCE. We spirits of the highest soul progression are enabled
by
> our soul perceptions to see God and His form. But here, I use the words
> 'see" and 'form," as being the only words that I can use to give mortals
a
> comparative conception of what I am endeavoring to describe.
>
> When it is remembered that mortals can scarcely conceive of the form
of
> the spirit body of a man, which is composed or formed of the material of
the
> universe, though not usually accepted to be of the material, it will be
> readily seen that it is hardly possible for me to convey to them a faint
> idea even of the Soul form of God, which is composed of that which is
purely
> spiritual--that is, not of the material, even though to the highest
degree
> sublimated.
>
> And although I am not able because of the limitations mentioned, to
> describe to men that form which they may glean a conception of the
Soul's
> form--as such form can be seen only with the soul's eye, which eyes men
do
> not possess--it must not be believed that because men cannot understand
or
> perceive the truth of the Soul's form, therefore, it is not a truth. A
> truth, truth of the Soul's form, therefore, it is not a truth. A TRUTH,
> THOUGH NOT CONCEIVED OR PERCEIVED BY MEN, SPIRITS OR ANGELS, IS STILL A
> TRUTH, AND ITS EXISTENCE DOES NOT DEPEND UPON ITS BEING KNOWN; AND EVEN
> THOUGH ALL THE MORTALS OF EARTH, AND THE SPIRITS AND ANGELS OF HEAVEN,
SAVE
> ONE, COULD NOT PERCEIVE THE EXISTENCE OF THAT TRUTH, YET ITS EXISTENCE
> PERCEIVED BY THAT ONE IRREFUTABLY PROVES ITS REALITY.
>
> But, as I have said, the truth of God's form--the Soul's form can be
> testified to by more than one of the celestial spirits of men passed
from
> earth; and the possibility is before mortals of the present life, in the
> great future, if their souls have become possessed of the Divine
Substance
> of God's Love in sufficient abundance to perceive God as I have
attempted to
> explain.
>
> The created soul of man has its form, it being made in the image of
God,
> yet man cannot see that form, although it is a fact and can be testified
to
> by many in the spirit realms.
>
> And here it need to be said, that when in our message we speak of God
as
> being without form, we mean any such form as men have or think they have
> conceived of, and our expressions must not be considered as
contradictory to
> what I have tried to explain as the form of God.
>
> Well, in addition to the form, God has a personality, and this is
> expressed and made known to man by certain attributes, which to the
> consciousness of man is existent in the universe; and to some
philosophers
> and scientists and wise men these attributes are their impersonal God
> himself, and to them the only God. They make the created, the Creator,
not
> realizing that behind the expression must be the Cause; and that greater
> than the attribute must be That from which the expression of the
attribute
> is projected, or, as they better like to say, evolved.
>
> AND HERE, I, WHO KNOW, DESIRE TO SAY THAT THESE MANIFESTED ATTRIBUTES
OR
> FORCES AND POWERS AND PRINCIPLES AND LAWS AND EXPRESSIONS DO NOT, ALL
> TOGETHER, CONSTITUTE OR BE THAT FROM WHICH THEY FLOW OR IN WHICH THEY
HAVE
> THEIR SOURCE. GOD IS HIMSELF, ALONE. HIS ATTRIBUTES OR EXPRESSIONS
> MANIFESTED TO MORTALS OR SPIRITS, ARE ONLY THE RESULTS OR EFFECTS OF THE
> WORKINGS OF HIS SPIRIT, WHICH SPIRIT IS ONLY THE ACTIVE ENERGY OF HIS
> SOUL--HIMSELF. AND HENCE, THE FORM OF GOD IS NOT DISTRIBUTED OVER THE
WHOLE
> UNIVERSE OF CREATION WHERE HIS ATTRIBUTES MAY BE, OR BECAUSE THEY ARE
> EVERYWHERE MANIFESTED.
>
> No, as was said by Moses of old, and as was said by me when on earth:
God
> is in His Heavens. And although it may be surprising and startling to
> mortals to hear, God has His habitation, and God the Substance, the
> Self-existing and Soul form, has His locality, and men do not live and
move
> and have their existence in God; but in His emanations and expressions
and
> spirit they do.
>
> As you are somewhat exhausted, I think this a good place to stop.
>
> I am pleased that you are in such good condition. So be prepared for
an
> early resumption of the message.
>
> With my love and blessings, I will say, good-night.
>
> Your brother and friend,
>
> JESUS.
>
Oh, bull****, go away.
SMC
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