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.
Cont.
http://www.divinelove.org/volume1/v1-30.htm
http://www.divinelove.org/volume1/v1-31.htm
http://www.divinelove.org/volume1/v1-32.htm
http://www.divinelove.org/volume1/v1-33.htm
|
