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Birth and YouthAs Revealed by Mary, Mother of JesusI AM HERE, Mary:As
Received by Dr Daniel G Samuels in I963.It has been a considerable time,
as mortals count time, since I have writtenyou, and that very little.
Neither would I communicate with you withouthaving first received approval
from my son, who has been giving to mankindfor the first time an account of
the natural love and those forerunners ofthe Divine Love which finally led
to the fulfillment of the Father's promisein the person of my son
Jesus.*Since the time when our Heavenly Host exulted in the op****tunities
to getserious messages to earth through Mr. Padgett, to whom I wrote like
manyothers of our high Spirits,** it has been possible to continue
ourinstructions through you; and my son has undertaken to supplement the
basicunderstanding of Divine Love with a study of the religious writings
of theJews to show how this was finally achieved and how it was that my
son, theMessiah, attained that soul condition that made him know that this
title wa****s and that something from God, Himself, had permeated his soul,
making itAt-one in actual substance with the Father.This soul development
of my son, which is very im****tant for mankind torealize if they would
understand what enabled him to be the Messiah of God,is the purpose of my
son in writing at the present time. He hopes to explainby this not only
the Old Testament as the background to his souldevelopment, but the
Talmud, some of which was available when he lived, andthese non-canonical
writings of the times just prior to his coming that willshow the mind of
Jesus, his thinking, his understanding, his insight andintuition that
lifted up his heart and soul to the Father, our God ofIsrael, who poured
out His Sacred Love upon my child and made him, in time,His real, only
begotten son and thus brought to light eternal life for Hiscreatures.Most
of what the New Testament says about me is untrue. I was marriedlegally to
Joseph, my husband, who was a young man, and not the decrepit,impotent old
man he is described as by the writers who seek to make me avirgin and
mother to a son whose Father has no body or spirit, only anAll-Soul filled
with Divine Love and Mercy, even in the taking by death ofloved ones whose
bodies can no longer function or sustain life as it isfound on earth. No,
I was wife and mother to eight flesh and blood children,my first-born
being Jeshua, or Jeshu, for the people spoke differently andpronounced
differently in northern and central Palestine, as people speakdifferently
in various parts of your own country. He was born exactly likeother
babies, and neither he nor Joseph, nor I, had any inkling of what
hiscareer was to be; and this is the truth and entirely contrary to what
isstated in the Scriptures.Jesus as a child was serious, studious, pious,
one who drank eagerly at thefountainhead of religious instruction and
knowledge of God's demands forright living through obedience to His Laws
and love for Him. He learned thatone day a Messiah would come to help give
salvation to the Jewish people;and this thought, which possessed my son
because he believed in the writingsof Jeremiah and the prophets as well as
the precepts of the rabbis, clung tohim and became part of him, despite the
conflicting ideas that clashed andmerged in the religious Palestinian
atmosphere and confused many Jews,especially of the north country, into
believing that the Messiah was apatriot who would lead his country to
freedom from Rome.It was a long time before Jeshu showed any signs of a
love different fromthe love he showed for me and his father, or for his
younger brothers andsisters. He was kind and gentle, but possessed a
certain mysticism -- arelation****p with the hills and the sky, a way of
looking at the distantclouds and drinking in, a love of the bright blue
heavens, an intense way ofholding dear the words of the religious teachers
-- that separated him fromus.He began to be more and more different; he
spoke more and more of God
andHis Love which, he pointed out to us, was proven by our Scriptures,
and bythe time he was twenty, wondered if it could be him. This we did
notunderstand. We thought we brought into the world a typical pious Jew of
theChassidic sect -- people who had let themselves be butchered rather than
doviolence to their religious beliefs. Our other children, like Judah
andJacob, were more given to throwing out the Romans; they were very
patriotic,as were many of the young boys of this area.Jeshu expressed his
love for his family by working hard for them and helpingmy husband. He was
dutiful, obedient, protective to the younger children,seeking to live a
life of devotion to his family and to avoid the sins ofcommission and
neglect as understood by our community and our religion. Hewas patriotic,
too, but possessed a patience which contrasted with theenergy and
impatience of his younger brothers. They could not understand howthe God
of Israel could permit the cruelties which Romans practiced in ourcountry
-- killings, scourgings, impossible taxes, all kinds of
impositions,restrictions and violations which they committed and were
sanctioned by theJewish high priests and the Sadducees.My son Jeshu
counselled peace and forbearance, for he said our God woulddeliver us from
our enemies as in the days of Moses, and that a leader wouldcome forth to
deliver the people.Jeshu began to talk as though he was such a leader. My
sons would listen tohim and be willing to go with him, and they saw in him
a faith in God notfound in the high places in Jerusalem nor in the
hotheaded youngsters ofGalilee, nor among the practical farmers and
tradespeople nor even in therabbis and Pharisees of the land.But when he
began to talk about the personal relation****p to God, as havingGod's Soul
Quality in his own being, then we thought he was insane, for toour
training and knowledge a thing like this was an utter impossibility,come
from a mind of one whose religious studies had deranged his mentality.We
could not in all truth understand what we did not possess. Only he
knewwhat he felt; and when he finally left our home to liberate his
people, wethought he was a Zealot leader gone to fight Rome, yet
bewildered, becausehe was not belligerent but spoke of peace with Rome
through God's Love inman's soul. Thus we thought of him as deranged.My
daughters Leah and Rachel, although in their hearts they loved himdearly,
wanted nothing to do with their brother's idealism but were firm inthe old
tradition of Law and Torah; and my husband, Joseph, who understoodJeshu's
soul to a small degree only when Pilate delivered his body to himfor
burial, felt himself cursed for having such a son, then wept bitterlywhen
he began to realize the worthiness of our son's soul and the sacrificeunto
death which he had made, not as a blood sacrifice as most Gentilesbelieve,
but as the sacrifice of his life to carry out his mission -- thepreaching
of God's Divine Love in man's heart -- to the opposition of thehigh
priests who feared such unorthodox teachings and Roman response to
allmention of Messiah****p, which they interpreted to mean "anointing by
God ofa King of the Jews," especially when he was accompanied by hundreds
offollowers whom the Romans thought of as rebels against Caesar.As I, and
as we all here in the Celestial Heavens now understand it, Jeshu'slove for
his family was a natural love, purified. It later became Divinethrough
prayer; but when the conviction that he was the Messiah came to him,he
told us that he must attend to his Father's business of proclaiming
theglad tidings of His Love, and that for this was he born.His natural
love, which as a young man would have turned him to thoughts oflove and
marriage, deepened into Divine Love and, absorbed by it, held amarvelous
feeling of filial and fraternal devotion and made him feel likethe dearest
brother to all men and women -- all mankind -- taking away fromhim the
thought of women and family life. He loved all people with a lovewhich
showed itself in kindness, in service, in helping others, in healingwounds
of sicknesses, in
alleviating sorrow and giving sympathy and comfortfor the depressed, the
bereaved, the heartbroken and the helpless.He brought hope and taught
salvation to thousands. Even when they did notunderstand, there was a
sincerity, an absolute faith and conviction in theeternal life of the soul
which spoke to people's hearts, if not to theirminds, and many felt he was
the light to the Jewish people who would showthe way to God and to peace,
in this world and in the next.Jeshu showed this faith and conviction and
love up to the last, on the crossat Golgotha; it was a courage and a
patience beyond human capabilities. And,at last, at the foot of the cross,
I understood something of what he saidand what was in his soul, even just
before the end, when I grieved for theone I considered a good son, dying
because of a disturbance which manifesteditself in a different path in
religion and defiance of Roman power.How mistaken was I, my family and my
husband! We understood, yes, after hisdeath, when pain and grief and love
had brought some of the Divine Love intoour souls. Joseph preached away
from home; Jacob founded the Jerusalem sect;Judah and Thomas became his
apostles.I tell you these things because they have been requested now,
because I nowhave the op****tunity created for me by spiritual forces. I
want to tell youmost sincerely that I could perceive nothing different in
Jeshu's love as achild, nor even as a growing boy, because there was
nothing within me todistinguish anything beyond except my mother's love.
We did not have aformal Bar Mitzvah at 13. for this was not common at our
time, but a laterdevelopment; yet, he did love to discuss the Scriptures
with religiouselders.His Divine Love turned him to God, to think of God
and long for God'sPresence; to pray, to avoid sins, to take on in his
character virtues ofkindness, of humility, of service and consideration of
others so as not tohurt their feelings; and these were to him of the
highest im****tance.His, too, were qualities of firmness, faith and
conviction; of courage, offortitude and high resolve that faced and found
death with tranquility,patience and a oneness with the Love of God that
shatters all imagination.Such was my son Jeshu on earth.As for myself, I
speak to you now as a spirit who once was the mother ofdaughters as well
as sons. And I can penetrate into your hearts and see thestruggles, the
aches, the courage and the faith that animates you.You know that, as a
result of this great tragedy in our lives, which gaverise to the
turbulence and persecution, and eventual tearing assunder of ourholy
religion, which my son never sought to destroy but to fulfill itspromise,
my home life was broken. My husband departed on preaching missionsto calm
his anguished heart and to proclaim what his son had given his lifefor,
and my sons followed this example and met death in their missions.I speak
to you as a mother who has known sorrow and troubles and tragedy,and who
experienced them when least able to meet and surmount them --without the
Father's Love to console, to bind up, to heal, to fortify, whenthey would
have meant most. And it is only later that my love for my sondeepened into
the Divine Love and gave me the courage, the serenity, thelove for others,
and the certain knowledge of eternal life with God thatenabled me to face
life and death with peace and love in my soul, and prayerto Him for His
Love and Mercy.Keep faith with God, and be open to His Love, and you will
overcome withconfidence and, indeed, peace of mind, optimism and
happiness, thosecir***stances that seem to mar the fulfillment of your
years. And I pour outupon you -- those who feel my motherly love and
guidance -- all my love andbless you, and your children.Your dearest
friendMary,Mother of Jesus and Celestial Spiritwww.divinelove.org
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