We have lost sight of the fact that human beings are spiritual beings from Spiritual Creation who are experiencing in Material Creation, necessarily covered by material cloaks. Our goal, therefore, is to mature through the experiences to full spiritual value and return back to the Spiritual Kingdom, the Kingdom of God. We came into Matter as unconscious spirit germs with all the potential to develop consciousness, mature into viable human spirits, and ultimately into high pure spiritual beings ready to return to Spiritual Creation as conscious, fully active spirits.
If we fail to progress in the right experiencing of the Will of God, our maturity becomes stunted, and we may even retrogress. In such cases, we remain trapped or bound in Matter, experiencing in dark and darker regions until the world of Matter goes into disintegration in keeping with the Laws governing Creation. Therefore, not all spiritual beings in material covering are human beings. Some are already degenerate beings unworthy of the name human being. Only those whose activity remains adjusted to the Will of God manifest as the Laws governing Creation are true human beings.
However, some who walk the earth as human beings actually come from higher planes of Spiritual Creation. We have experienced many such high beings as prophets and guides amongst us. A good example is John the Baptist. Of him, the Son of God Jesus told us: – “I tell you, among those born of women none is greater than John. Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he” (Lk. 7:28). From this we understand that John came from above all human spirits on earth in the World of Matter but that nevertheless, any human spirit who has made it back to Paradise stands above him while he remains on earth.
Jesus came from the highest possible source to be cloaked in Material essence and work amongst us. He came from outside Creation, above everything that exists and has form. He comes from Divine Unsubstantiality. He comes straight from out of God and was neither made nor created. He is a part of the Love of God, a Word from God, and not a part of Creation at all. He is the Son of God because of His core identity!
John captures this for us in his gospel: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through Him all things were made; without Him, nothing was made that has been made. In Him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not understood it. … The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world. He was in the world, and though the world was made through Him, the world did not recognize Him.
Jesus’s mission was to turn us back from our wayward path toward the Light of God, back to the path that leads to our Spiritual home, thus ensuring Salvation. He makes it possible for us to once more return to the path of children of God. John again summarizes this: “He came to that which was His own, but His own did not receive Him. Yet to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God – children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God”. This promise already tells us that we become children of God not by right but that adoption as a child of God is conditional.
We cannot mature to become children of God unless we receive the Word that Is the essence of Jesus, the word from God. Because humanity could not rise above the Material in their thoughts, many devout individuals think that because they believe in Jesus as their savior, they have become children of God, forgetting that all they have received is the enablement, such that if they then live in the Truth He brought, they will mature into children of God.
There is, however, a large gulf between believing in God or in Jesus and truly accepting Him for who He is. Believing in Jesus without living His Word is blind faith, which many confuse with accepting Him, while genuinely accepting Him, which comes only with a living experiencing of the Truth, leads to convinced faith. Nor is this redemptive act of becoming children of God related to a belief in His blood washing away our sins.
Like everything that exists, we are creatures of God’s Creation who may be regarded as children or products of Creation, but until we, in conscious activity, adjust completely to His Will, we cannot be regarded as His children. After all, no one can be a child who does not recognize the parent. Only those who truly believed the Word from God and accepted the Bringer as coming from God will attain that status.
Salvation lies only in the Word He brought! Jesus came as the Word from God, who is, therefore, God; Light from Light. He is the Living Truth incarnate, and His Mission was to anchor that Truth in the spirit of men and thereby awaken us from our indolence, redirect us onto the path leading up to the Light, and prepare us for the coming judgment that was already imminent at that time.
It was only with His coming that our search for Truth could become focused, for He re-awakened the ability within us to recognize the Truth. As the Son of God was quoted as saying, from the time of His forerunner John, the Kingdom of God began to advance forcefully (rapidly), and only the determined (forceful) can enter. The axe was placed at the foot of the tree, and any that does not bear fruit will be cut down.
The urge to seek God plays out in the lives of every individual, depending on the degree of mobility of their spirit. The indolent want to be led to God without much personal input. While busy and preoccupied with material things such as wealth, health, marriage, children, etc., they leave their relationship with God in the hands of so-called men of God who often have their own livelihood attached to their so-called ministration. Truly a case of the blind leading the blind. For both parties, the relationship with the Truth is a business, even if they are not fully conscious of it. It is, therefore, useless to only blame the religious leaders who extort money from their herd while ignoring the fact that the indolent herd is receiving what they have paid for.
On the Other hand, the spirits that are more mobile do not need such dependency. They approach God at their own level, bearing fruit according to their strength and maturity—some a hundredfold, others 60, and others 30, as the Lord Jesus indicated.
No one is perfect who still needs to continue experiencing in this Material World! As long as we are in the World, we all must experience within the opportunities granted to us with the gift of life. We may not always appreciate it, but the circumstances in which we find ourselves in our time on earth, whether rich or poor, sick or healthy, represent the best help for us and have been provided in Omniscience for us to mature aright.
Petitioning or, better said, demanding for these obstacles and difficulties to be removed will not help us. Help from above can reach us only when we go through the offered experiences, that is, by living through and internalizing the experiences that we gain from each circumstance. We may waste our whole life moving from church to church, from preacher to preacher, looking for the easy way out, but that path will never lead us to the Truth or out of our difficulties. If anything, the individual will sink from one level to the next under the delusion that he or she is doing well and that the so-called spiritual leaders are helping.
It is essential to realize that God Is. The Truth is the Truth. A wrong interpretation of the Word He has sent to guide us is our own failing. It is irrelevant whether we believe in Him or not. It is the human spirit that must approach Him, and the Word embodied and granted through His Envoys is the only path.
It is wrong to believe that many paths lead to God. There is the only path that leads through the Truth, the Word that is God. What is different for human spirits is the methods they adopt to reach this path, which they have defined and distorted as their religions, philosophies, and sciences. Yes, it is for us to seek Him! And in these end times, we have what is literally the last opportunity to do so. I call on you, who genuinely seek God, to recognize that the path to God leads away from material things. That redemption and salvation lie only in the Word of God!
I call on you who claim to teach and guide human spirits who seek God to beware of falling into the category of false prophets or spiritual highwaymen – no better than the Scribes and Pharisees, who, as the scriptures say, will cross mountains and rivers to recruit members for the church, only to make them twice the children of Hell. The Lord Jesus was reported to have pronounced a woe on such people. Do not distort the Word of Truth brought by Christ.
Distortions of the Truth are presented in such a fashion that seeking souls, gullible in their vulnerability, are misled into wrong paths that bind them like a vice in the darkness. Since Christ is the Living Word that leads to Life, this distortion is equivalent to murdering the Son of God over and over again just to gain adherents, make money, or for power. The bringer of the Grail Message, the last Envoy of God, declares a thousand-fold woe on those who continue to murder Christ in the Word.
It is a tragedy of human obduracy that the high expectations from religion have only resulted in fanatic extremes that deny reason and encourage deprivation of individual freedom of choice in spiritual movement! Where the accumulated knowledge about God should lead the human spirits to a higher, purer, and more unified goal, we find only dissent, distrust, disharmony, and disasters.
The Lord God expects and welcomes our worship as due but does not depend on humanity or our acknowledgment of His existence. He is complete in Himself and requires nothing from His creatures. The urge to worship God, which drives us all and is often interpreted as the need to identify with what is good, arises from the pressure of ego consciousness since our identity of self is intricately bound with the source of this ego consciousness – the Creative Will of God, the Holy Spirit.
One stubborn illusion is that wealth, position, and power represent fulfillment and happiness. This is indeed far from the truth, as those who have achieved these positions know very well. The glitter of material achievements remains attractive only to those who still hope to achieve them, but those who have already achieved wealth or power know of their hollowness and inability to satisfy the urge that burns within for inner fulfillment.
Real joy or contentment lies only in living according to God’s will and fulfilling our spirituality within the opportunities Creation grants us.
