Creation of Man
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"New Testament Revelations", Revelation 6
Creation of Man
I am here to write you on the subject; Who were the angels presumed to have
existed before the creation of man?
As you know, man was created by God from the elements of the universe, and
into man was implanted the soul, or the real or Spiritual man, which
distinguished him from the other creatures of God. And with this soul, God
gave man the possibility of obtaining God's own nature, through the longings
of man's soul for At-onement with Him. Pride and the desire to master the
physical surroundings, which he thought would insure him immortality, led to
the withdrawal of the Divine Love and man's potentiality for becoming at one
with God was lost until I appeared in Palestine and preached immortality to
the Jews.
The descendent of man from his position as the elect of God, to partake of
His nature and essence, was rapid, and in the course of only a few hundred
years, man was not too different in behavior from the beasts of the field,
and in some respects, he was worse. For man, on receiving his human soul
from God, had received with it the understanding that he was a child of God,
though unredeemed, and as a consequence of being a child of God, he had had
implanted into him a consciousness of the laws of conduct which God had
decreed, and thus man knew that he sinned when he broke God's commandments,
and even in his worst state and lowest descent, man always had a small voice
within him, which was never quite completely drowned out by the excesses and
violences which became habitual to his sinful existence.
The death of the physical body, and the path toward purification which the
soul, on entering the spirit life, has to take, eventually brought to man's
souls, in the spirit world, freedom from the excrescences and defilements
they had accumulated in the earth life, and these purified souls turned
their attention to helping mortals refrain from violations of the law, and
at the same time embued them with a renewed consciousness of God as their
Creator. These purified souls were angels of the Lord, because they were
souls purified of sin, and because they did the bidding of God in seeking to
assist man to overcome the weakness of his flesh, and turn him to the
Father.
When I uncovered immortality in man's soul, whether on earth or in the
spirit world, men could, if they so chose and willed it, become capable of
receiving the Divine Love, through the operation of the Holy Spirit, and
become Divine Angels of the Lord, not merely purified from sin, but filled
with the essence of the Father, to the extent that they become the
possessors of immortality, and acquire consciousness of that reality.
The Divine Angels of God have been seeking to turn man and spirit to God,
not only as son, in the created sense, or servant, but to have man seek His
Love, partake of His nature and immortality, and become His son in the real
and Divine meaning of the term.
After the creation of man, therefore, there were angels in the sense that I
have explained, but the great angel or messenger -- for angel means
Messenger of God -- was and is the Spirit of God, who is obedience to the
physical laws of God, has been doing the will of the Father, working, not
only on the vast infinity of His universe and bringing about those constant
regroupings and changes in His heavens, but working also on man's intellect,
and moral fiber, ever since man was created by the Father.
The Spirit of God is God's great angel or messenger which has been manifest
throughout all eternity. It was this spirit of the Lord which has been
described in Genesis, hovering over the face of the earth, working on, and
developing it in preparation of the day when life and living beings could
exist and survive on it. It was this Spirit of the Lord which carried out
the decrees of God, and set in motion those cosmic forces and elements that
resulted in the new combination known to you as the solar system, and which
at the Lord's bidding, will bring about the destruction of the same, and
cause the emergence of a new order and a new dispensation. Before the
creation of man, God's only active angel was His Spirit, His active energy
whose operations proclaimed His Majesty, from everlasting to everlasting.
Adam and Eve, or whom they represent, were created through the operations of
the Spirit of God. God's active energy, which brought about the groupings of
those elements employed in fashioning man, as He fashioned the other living
creatures on earth, but, man was not man, until the purely spiritual -- and
by that, I do not mean the spirit body, which is of sublimated material, but
the soul, in the likeness of God -- was bestowed upon man. The first parents
do not know when they became souls, that is, when God actually implanted
souls into them, for there is no way of telling when they were human in
appearance without their souls, for without their souls, there was no memory
of that degree that such a fact or state could be recollected by them, nor
do they know how this implanting of the soul took place, even though it was
done unto their bodies; and I shall say, now, neither do I know how it is
done, for I have never seen a soul, although I can perceive its presence
through my soul senses of perception; But when it was accomplished, the
first parents were aware that they were human beings, and that they were the
creations of the Father.
II
Man, as he is considered ordinarily, is a creation which passed through what
you would call a long period of development, as have all of God's creatures
during that period of the earth's development, which enabled living beings
to come into existence and survive.
Man's nature is therefore both animal, or, material, in accordance with the
conditions of his physical being, and spiritual, at the same time, in
accordance with the soul qualities and attributes given to him at the time
God bestowed a soul upon him. In short, man's nature is dual, and thus we
have man with animal passions and feelings and interrelated with these are
those emotions and feelings which belong to his spiritual nature as a result
of having received a soul. The Bible's reference to the creation of man,
refers to the creation of man in the image of God, or to the time, when God,
the Great Soul, conferred upon man a soul, and made him the greatest of His
creations.
In other words, man possesses a double set of emotions, and the activity or
dominance of the animal feelings in man sets in motion those thoughts and
actions related to his material or animal existence, and this is not of
harmony with the laws of God, but it is only when these thoughts and
resultant actions are in violation to the law of God that they are sinful
and cause unhappiness. The influence of these sinful emotions and thoughts
and actions upon the soul is such that the spiritual emotions and
aspirations of man becomes dormant, and as though not existing, and the soul
itself is incrusted with evil. Man knows when his physical passions and
resulting actions violates God's laws, and he must therefore exercise his
will to prevent such violations and allow his feelings to be exercised for
the purpose for which they were given him and also to permit the development
of his spiritual nature and with it the knowledge of his soul and the
relationship which it has with God, it's Creator.
Through prayer, thoughts and soul longings, the spiritual nature in man can
be developed so as to dominate the personality, and he will act in accord
with the feelings and emotions of his soul; if, however, his animal emotions
are allowed to dominate the spiritual emotions of man and transgress the
laws of God concerning them, then the soul becomes incrusted with these
baneful excrescences, or, shall I say, the soul is contaminated by them, and
when the mortal dies and the spirit enters the spirit world, the soul must
undergo a period of suffering in which the contaminating elements acquired
in the earth life are eliminated from the soul and the soul assumes its
pristine purity.
This purification of the soul obeys the dictates of God's law of
compensation, for no such soul is permitted a place in God's spiritual
heavens. The Paradise of the Hebrews cannot be reached without such
purification, yet the time consumed, as you would say, in this process of
purification depends upon the soul itself; Upon the awaking which it has of
its condition, and those circumstances in the spirit world, mainly his own
will, as well as the help of others, which will enable him to make the
necessary progress, all souls in the spirit world will be eventually
purified.
This was the condition of man before the bestowal of the gift of the Divine
Love, which I brought to light during the time of my public ministry in
Palestine. For no man, before I came with this gift, could achieve
At-onement with the Heavenly Father with transformation of his soul into a
Divine Soul, through the pouring out of the Divine Love into his soul
through earnest prayer to the Father for this love, the Father's Essence,
and brought into man's soul through the ministration of His Holy Spirit.
This then briefly, is the evolution of man from the natural being to the
purified soul and, if he so desires it, to the state of the divine angel.
The soul is the seat of the spiritual emotions, comes from God, and has the
potentiality of becoming At-one with God, if it so desires, while the gift
of the Divine Love, obtained through earnest prayer to the Father, is still
available.
The material feelings, also the creation of God, have nothing of the soul
substance and have no permanent existence in the spirit world, but they do
exist in the spirit world for a certain period, for man passes over from the
mortal life, with all his earth desires and feelings; these, and their
perversions, which harm the soul, however, eventually become evanescent in
the course of the spirit life.
Jesus of the Bible
and
Master of the Celestial Heavens