New Testament Revelations

For those already familiar with the messages received through James Padgett, the Samuels channelings are a blessing in that they provide continuity and integration between the teachings of the Bible and the Revelations received through Mr. Padgett.

Samuels’ mediumship differed from Padgett’s in that it is much more filled with detail and subtlety, which makes it a perfect supplement to the “broad strokes” that Padgett’s mediumship painted with. However, with this greater resolution of detail comes greater risk of error, and it is true that we have found factual as well as conceptual errors in some of Samuel’s writings. There are also a number of passages where the wording is perhaps not as clear as we would have wished – where it appears that there was something of a “tug-of-war” going on between Samuels’ and Jesus’ mind.

In upcoming editions we will attempt to notate these passages, but for now the reader is advised (as always) to read these messages with a prayerful heart, asking that their Celestial guides assist them in understanding the true intended meaning of these passages.

The following is an excerpt from a message received from Jesus regarding the accuracy and clarity of Dr. Samuels’ mediumship:

Received through KS
6-10-92

I am here now to write...and we are working with what is known as a "catch 22" on earth at this time, which means that it's very difficult to convince someone about the accuracy and clarity of a medium through the use of mediumistic means. But I will bring what clarity I am able to the situation. I am your friend and brother in spirit – the spirit of God's divine love made manifest in my soul – Jesus of the Bible and Master of the Celestial Heavens.

...When a person is serving the cause of truth in the best way he or she is able, it is hoped that others will accept the goodness of that person, and realize that he or she cannot go beyond the limits which his present condition allows.

So, when a medium is willing to serve as a channel for our messages, we express our thoughts as best as we can through the limitations of that person's development. We know that there is no person on earth, at this time, who is perfect. There are thousands of people who are striving to become more loving and caring people. There are many who know the truths of Gods' great love, and are praying for that love to help them rise above their present limitations and blocks and fears. The love is working in their souls....

As you have been given the explanation which appears in the volumes of messages we previously delivered, it may seem like a spirit is not the same person when delivering a message through two different mediums, because of the limitations imposed upon that spirit by the condition and experience of the medium. So even though you or others may not be able to discern what they believe my personality to be through some writings which I was able to deliver through a certain medium, this does not indicate conclusively that it was not I who delivered those thoughts.

Dr. Samuels was a very strong‑minded individual. We were able to deliver many messages successfully, but there were some messages, occasionally, which were given thoughts from his own mind. And this is true of each and every medium we have the privilege of working with in the world today. When a person is attempting to evaluate the accuracy and clarity of a medium, he or she needs to take into consideration a wide range of topics, and particularly taste the flavor of the messages in general, in order to get a feel for the quality of message we are generally able to transmit through that medium.

As the condition of soul determines, to a large degree, the quality of message we are able to deliver, then you can realize that as you continue praying for an increase of the Father's love into your souls, you will become in better condition to receive higher quality messages...

We do write through ___, and we did write through Dr. Samuels. And we were and are limited by the particular development and imperfections of these mediums; but we are also satisfied that what we were and are able to deliver is as accurate as possible under the circumstances of the medium's limitations.

Now you may be more able to see clearly why, as mankind progresses in his nature of love and quality of soul, we will be enabled to deliver higher and clearer truths, because these will be able to be transmitted through mediums in a higher condition of soul than are now available for us to use for this purpose.

We love you, each and everyone, and we will remain by your sides and work with you as long as it's your desire and free will choice to serve our God of love, by example and by helping others learn of the availability of His great love.

I am your friend and brother in spirit ‑ the spirit of Gods divine love residing in my soul, which came to me in answer to my sincere prayers for its inflowing.

Jesus of the Bible
and
Master of the Celestial Heavens

From this you can see that the revealment of divine truth is most certainly a work in progress. Sometimes the necessary response to a request for clarification is simply that we must be patient – awaiting the time when the soul development of our practicing mediums will permit the angels’ more successful communication.

Words in italics and parentheses have been inserted by the editors (a word only italicized or only in parentheses is part of the orginal text).

Please forgive the punctuation errors that still exist...

The Editors

New Testament Revelations

Received 1963

Introduction:
Jesus’ Birth and Youth As Revealed by Mary, Mother of Jesus

I am here, Mary:

It has been a considerable time, as mortals count time, since I have written you, and that very little. Neither would I communicate with you without having first received approval from my son, who has been giving to mankind for the first time an account of the natural love and those forerunners of the Divine Love which finally led to the fulfillment of the Father's promise in the person of my son Jesus.[1]

Since the time when our Heavenly Host exulted in the opportunities to get serious messages to earth through Mr. Padgett, to whom I wrote, like many others of our high spirits.[2] it has been possible to continue our instructions through you; and my son has undertaken to supplement the basic understanding of Divine Love with a study of the religious writings of the Jews to show how this was finally achieved and how it was that my son, the Messiah, attained that soul condition that made him know that this title was his, and that something from God, Himself, had permeated his soul, making it At-one in actual substance with the Father.

This soul development of my son, which is very important for mankind to realize 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 explain by this not only the Old Testament, as the background to his soul development, but the Talmud, some of which was available when he lived, and these non-canonical writings of the times just prior to his coming that will show the mind of Jesus - his thinking, his understanding, his insight and intuition -that lifted up his heart and soul to the Father, our God of Israel, 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 His creatures.

Most of what the New Testament says about me is untrue. I was married legally 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 a virgin and mother to a son whose Father has no body or spirit, only an All-Soul filled with Divine Love and Mercy (even in the taking by death of loved ones whose bodies can no longer function or sustain life as it is found 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 and pronounced differently in northern and central Palestine, as people speak differently in various parts of your own country. He was born exactly like other babies, and neither he nor Joseph, nor I, had any inkling of what his career was to be; and this is the truth and entirely contrary to what is stated in the Scriptures.

Jesus as a child was serous, studious, pious, one who drank eagerly at the fountainhead of religious instruction and knowledge of God's demands for right living through obedience to His Laws and love for Him. He learned that one 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 writings of Jeremiah and the prophets as well as the precepts of the rabbis, clung to him and became part of him, despite the conflicting ideas that clashed and merged in the religious Palestinian atmosphere and confused many Jews, especially of the north country, into believing that the Messiah was a patriot who would lead his country to freedom from Rome.

It was a long time before Jeshu showed any signs of a love different from the love he showed for me and his father, or for his younger brothers and sisters. He was kind and gentle, but possessed a certain mysticism - a relationship with the hills and the sky, a way of looking at the distant clouds and drinking in, a love of the bright blue heavens, an intense way of holding dear the words of the religious teachers - that separated him from us.

He began to be more and more different; he spoke more and more of God and His Love which, he pointed out to us, was proven by our Scriptures, and by the time he was twenty, wondered if it could be him (sic). This we did not understand. We thought we brought into the world a typical pious Jew of the Chassidic sect - people who had let themselves be butchered rather than do violence to their religious beliefs. Our other children, like Judah and Jacob, 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 helping my 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 of commission and neglect as understood by our community and our religion. He was patriotic, too, but possessed a patience which contrasted with the energy and impatience of his younger brothers. They could not understand how the God of Israel could permit the cruelties which Romans practiced in our country - killings, scourgings, impossible taxes, all kinds of impositions, restrictions and violations - which they committed and were sanctioned by the Jewish high priests and the Sadducees.

My son Jeshu counseled peace and forbearance, for he said our God would deliver us from our enemies as in the days of Moses, and that a leader would come forth to deliver the people.

Jeshu began to talk as though he was such a leader. My sons would listen to him and be willing to go with him, and they saw in him a faith in God not found in the high places in Jerusalem nor in the hotheaded youngsters of Galilee, nor among the practical farmers and tradespeople, nor even in the rabbis and Pharisees of the land.

But when he began to talk about the personal relationship to God, as having God's Soul Quality in his own being, then we thought he was insane (for to our 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 knew what he felt; and when he finally left our home to liberate his people, we thought he was a Zealot leader gone to fight Rome, yet bewildered, because he was not belligerent but spoke of peace with Rome through God's Love in man's soul. Thus we thought of him as deranged.

My daughters Leah and Rachel, although in their hearts they loved him dearly, wanted nothing to do with their brother's idealism, but were firm in the old tradition of Law and Torah; and my husband, Joseph, who understood Jeshu's soul to a small degree only when Pilate delivered his body to him for burial [4], felt himself cursed for having such a son, then wept bitterly when he began to realize the worthiness of our son's soul and the sacrifice unto death which he had made, not as a blood sacrifice as most Gentiles believe, but as the sacrifice of his life to carry out his mission - the preaching of God's Divine Love in man's heart - to the opposition of the high priests who feared such unorthodox teachings, and Roman response to all mention of Messiahship, which they interpreted to mean "anointing by God of a King of the Jews," especially when he was whom the Romans thought of as rebels against Caesar.

As I, and as we all here in the Celestial Heavens now understand it, Jeshu's love for his family was a natural love, purified. It later became Divine through 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 the Glad 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 of love and marriage, deepened into Divine Love, and absorbed by it, held a marvelous feeling of filial and fraternal devotion, and made him feel like the dearest brother to all men and women - all mankind - taking away from him the thought of women and family life. He loved all people with a love which showed itself in kindness, in service, in helping others, in healing wounds of sicknesses, in alleviating sorrow and giving sympathy and comfort for the depressed, the bereaved, the heartbroken and the helpless.

He brought hope and taught salvation to thousands. Even when they did not understand, there was a sincerity, an absolute faith and conviction in the eternal life of the soul which spoke to people's hearts, if not to their minds, and many felt he was the light to the Jewish people who would show the 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 cross at 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 said and what was in his soul. Even just before the end, when I grieved for the one I considered a good son, dying because of a disturbance which manifested itself in a different path in religion and defiance of Roman power, how mistaken was I, my family and my husband! We understood, yes, after his death, when pain and grief and love had brought some of the Divine Love into our 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 now have the opportunity created for me by spiritual forces. I want to tell you most sincerely that I could perceive nothing different in Jeshu's love as a child, nor even as a growing boy, because there was nothing within me to distinguish anything beyond except my mother's love. We did not have a formal Bar Mitzvah at 13, for this was not common at our time, but a later development; yet, he did love to discuss the Scriptures with religious elders.

His Divine Love turned him to God, to think of God and long for God's Presence; to pray to avoid sins, to take on in his character virtues of kindness, of humility, of service and consideration of others so as not to hurt their feelings; and these were to him of the highest importance.

His, too, were qualities of firmness, faith and conviction; of courage, of fortitude 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 of daughters as well as sons. And I can penetrate into your hearts and see the struggles, the aches, the courage and the faith that animates you.

You know that, as a result of this great tragedy in our lives, which gave rise to the turbulence and persecution, and eventual tearing asunder of our holy religion, which my son never sought to destroy but to fulfill its promise, my home life was broken. My husband departed on preaching missions to calm his anguished heart and to proclaim what his son had given his life for, 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, when they would have meant most. And it is only later that my love for my son deepened into the Divine Love and gave me the courage, the serenity, the love for others, and the certain knowledge of eternal life with God that enabled me to face life and death with peace and love in my soul, and prayer to Him for His Love and Mercy.

Keep faith with God, and be open to His Love, and you will overcome with confidence and, indeed, peace of mind, optimism and happiness, those circumstances that seem to mar the fulfillment of your years. And I pour out upon you - those who feel my motherly love and guidance - all my love, and bless you, and your children.

Your dearest friend,

Mary,
Mother of Jesus
and Celestial Spirit

Received December 22, 1954

Dr. Samuels is Told that his Present Work will Result in a New and Corrected Gospel for Mankind.

I am here. Jesus

I told you this afternoon that I would come tonight to write you and the doctor [5] a message of Love and faith and hope, and it is a particular pleasure for me to do so tonight. For it has been a long time since I have written to a mortal in this way, and I am happy and grateful for the opportunity to write these messages which you have been enabled to receive by your willingness to submit to our influences and suggestions and your desire for things of the spirit.

I should like to tell you how fortunate you are to be able to receive these messages which put you into a condition of closeness with the highest spirits of the Celestial Kingdom, and into a condition of soul which enables you to perceive the Presence of the Heavenly Father whenever the Divine Love glows in your soul in response to your earnest longings and prayers—a physical feeling which is to you as real, even more real, than is your very existence. And, so, I want to emphasize to you the great importance of praying for the Divine Love, which will enable you to have more faith in the Promises of the Father and faith in our messages of Revelation to you.

I know it is but a short time since you have begun to receive our messages. We are also aware that your training and apprenticeship for receiving these messages have been very short ones, so that you realize that the reception of our thoughts have not always been perfect in that some of your own conceptions have interfered with ours in the transference of our thoughts into your brain; but, as a matter of fact, you have been able to grasp our ideas and vocabulary, as well as our constructions, to a more than satisfactory degree. And as you continue to exercise your brain in translating our thoughts into the language of the printed page, you will be the better able to prevent your own thoughts from interposing themselves, and to more readily receive directly that which it is our intention to convey to you.

The messages which we have been writing to you are, as you understand, supplementary to those messages which we wrote through Mr. Padgett, and they enter into the scheme which we have devised for furthering the truths which are now in print under the editorship of our selectee, the good and faithful Dr. Stone.

In the course of the last decade or more, we have been able to perceive just how people of various religious sects have reacted to the reading of these messages. And we realize that there is a considerable amount of skepticism in the minds of these readers, not because of the material which they contain but because of the source from which they come. We are agreed that, while these messages through Mr. Padgett represent the ultimate truths as far as they have been given and in accordance with Mr. Padgett’s ability to receive them, yet, the great drawback to them as a means of bringing readers to the Divine Love of the Father is the form in which they have been transmitted, although, under the circumstances, the manner of the writings was the only one appropriate. We now feel that, with the great truths now available in the world of the flesh, a more appropriate form be presented to the reader—a form that would be more readily understood and appreciated by mankind in general. And this is deemed necessary, just as during my mission in Palestine I had to resort to concrete and simple parables for the people to grasp the spiritual messages contained therein, instead of preaching the Kingdom through a direct approach. And thus it is that if these truths are now presented to the people in the form to which they have been accustomed for centuries—that is to say, in the form of the New Testament, wherein, together with the teachings of the glad tidings of the divine love, is added the purification of the gospels from the contaminating errors—the people of the various religious denominations will have been provided with the truths in a way which they will be more prone to accept and recognize as such. And this is the immediate task which you have been assigned to perform.

I have come with the purpose of helping you obtain the Revelations necessary for you to compose the New Gospel. And, when it has been finished, you should have it published. The means for its publication will be found at the time when the book is ready for printing. I also wish to tell you that I will inform you at the time just what is or is not appropriate for printing, and it is understood that many more revelations will be given you, such as you have been receiving.

I think I have said enough about the message for tonight. I want to tell you at this time, so near Christmas, that you have received as of now a certain portion of the father’s Love to the extent that It has already had a considerable effect upon your human soul, which has been transformed to that extent to the very essence of the Father. The effect of this transformation has already been made apparent to you in the noticeable change in your character, which has been purged to a certain extent of the animal passions that have been damaging your soul. You have not only perceived this change, but others associated with you have also perceived it. And the evidence of this change or transformation is like a light which heretofore never existed in your personality.

This Christmas, then, is a very different one from the previous ones in your life in that now, for the first time, it is being celebrated by you with a true knowledge of what the christ spirit in the life of man means to his soul. And this should be the reason for prayers of gratitude and love to the Heavenly Father that you have some of this christ spirit in your soul. You should pray constantly and with more intensity for the increased inflowing of the love of the Father into your soul, so that your soul will continue to make needed progress towards at-onement with the Father and increased ability to do His work.

I do not wish to close this message without addressing my faithful friend, the doctor, whose trials and tribulations we are all very much aware of, and to whom we all wish to send our gratefulness and love in this great task of bringing the messages to its final form and distributing them to the world, and whose faith in us has at long last been rewarded with renewed writings from the high spirits, assuring him of all our love and gratitude. And we wish to assure him once again that the help he has needed so badly, when he carried on bravely in the darkness and desert alone, is now at hand. The work of the Father will now continue with vigor and renewed vitality.

I want to take this opportunity at this Yuletide to tell you how much I love you both, my selectees and followers. I know how much you love the Father and me, and seek the truths despite the great handicaps of the veil of flesh with which you are encumbered. And I shall close now, praying to the Father that He bless you both with His divine love in wonderful portions, and I add my own love to that extent that I have received it from our Father. I bless you and ask you to have more and more faith in me and my co-workers who also send their love and blessings.

Jesus of the Bible
and
Master of the Celestial Heavens

Received January 20, 1955

The Hebrews - Wayshowers to the Father

I am here, Jesus:

Once again, to continue my messages on the New Testament, which is to be purged of its errors, and the truth regarding my real teachings and meaning as the Messiah established. And the first thing I wish to do tonight is to show the relationship between the Old Testament and how the guidance and Revelation of the Heavenly Father showed me the way to the Messiahship.

The Old Testament, as you know, is the book that reveals God as the Divinity that rules the universe and, in the narrower sense, the physical world of the earth and of man, not only as an individual Being but as the Arbiter between man and his fellow beings. This was the earliest revelation of God to man, through Abraham, to whom, through his spiritual condition, it was given to gain insight into the existence of the unseen God - the God of Eternity whose manifestations were the rules of conduct for man to follow in his relations with his neighbors.

Abraham perceived this spiritual presence made for him through divine messengers of the Heavenly Father, and he showed his faith in the unseen spiritual Father by leaving his home and family relations to live his life in accordance with these new conceptions of God; for his people had not this condition of soul and could not understand his spiritual insight. He was not called upon, as it is written in the Old Testament, to show his faith in God by sacrificing his son, for this description was used by later writers concerning Abraham to show his faith at a period of civilization when faith in God was expressed by sacrifice, and, indeed, in his day and in much later times by various tribes and peoples of Asia Minor, and elsewhere, by sacrifice of human beings.

Abraham’s supposed sacrifice, therefore, is simply a story to illustrate this faith in God, and here is where we have the beginnings of a knowledge of the Heavenly Father in that area of the world. This is not to state that in no other lands were there manifestations of an understanding of the existence of God, if only through conviction in the truth revealed by God for the right conduct of man in his dealings with other men, for this is not so; and, in fact, earlier examples of this discovery of the attributes of God are to be found in other peoples than the Jews, and earlier in point of time.

But I wish to concentrate on the evolution of those principles of righteousness, mercy, justice and consideration that eventually found their culmination in the descent of the Divine Love to humanity through the Holy Spirit, as manifested first in me at the time of my appearance in Palestine.

I may point out that the development of the concept of the Heavenly Father through an understanding of His laws of conduct towards men was brought to a higher level through Moses, who led the Hebrew people out of slavery in Egypt; and this liberation was brought about through the knowledge that the Jewish people, as a result of their great sufferings and inheritance of God as a religious concept, were in a state in which they could be used as a whole people as witnesses of the existence of God. And thus it was that they were led to freedom by Moses, and the law of righteousness of conduct and love for the unseen eternal God given to them as law; not that the Hebrews were more virtuous as a people than others but that they were simply chosen as a means of bringing to other people the knowledge of the Father. And this they were able to do to a certain extent, and only after many, many centuries.

Yet they, instead of pushing their knowledge of things spiritual into the consciousness of other people, had to fight to preserve their own religion and not to adopt the worship of pagan deities. In this they were not exempt from great errors and iniquities, for they failed to understand that real religion consisted in righteousness of conduct and not in the form of worship or in the exactitude of carrying out prescribed ceremonies.

Moses, as the lawgiver, gave to the Hebrews the way to the perfect natural man, as later I brought the Way to the Divine Love of the Father. But my mission was not a political or national one, although it would have been had it not been for the incomprehensions and lack of spirituality on the part of the high priests who were interested in politics and the formal side of religion, barren at best, whereas Moses’ mission was national and was successful because he had no opposition of a materialistic and powerful group to contend with, except the ignorance and naivete of the people.

I am not interested in providing you with a summary of the history of the Jews which, as history, is devoid of real religion, even though it is included as part of the Old Testament. But I would prefer to relate the doings of the prophets of Israel, as they contributed to the elevation of the spiritual concepts of the nation and gave the people and their leaders a deeper insight into the real nature of the Heavenly Father. And this is to be found in the prophet Nathan, who appears fearlessly before David the King to accuse him of murder and adultery in his relations with Bathsheba; and Elijah, or Elias, who braved the haughty Jezebel and showed the power provided especially for him by angel spirits to show the power of the unseen, eternal Father, and in contest with the priests of Baal; and Amos, who came to the priests at Gilead to warn the Israelites to repent of their sins, mainly the sins of the rich and powerful who abused the poor and brought them to misery and slavery.

From these prophets, the people were able to understand that God wanted righteousness and mercy in dealing with other human beings, not only amongst their own people but for all people - including the stranger within their gates, for they, too, had been strangers and, indeed, slaves, in Egypt. And the people were taught to trust in the one unseen and eternal God and to know Him through His attributes, which were the guides the Jews were to follow in their relations with others and in conducting all their affairs. The Jews were also given to understand that God was Ruler, not only of the Jews but of all human beings, and that punishment would be meted out for injustice in behavior as a result of inharmony against God, which would cause the operation of circumstances that would work against them.

I think I have written enough for tonight and I will come again to show how subsequent prophets revealed higher conceptions of God’s Goodness and Mercy, and eventually led to a period in which a New Covenant would be made with Israel through a law higher than that of righteousness in conduct for human beings - the Law of Divine Love, or Grace, as it is called by the Christian churches.

I will stop now, and I urge you and the Doctor to seek with all earnestness for the Divine Love through earnest prayer. So with my blessings and love, I will say good night and sign myself

Your friend and elder brother,

Jesus of the Bible,

Who urges you to keep praying and have more and more faith in me and trust in the Heavenly Father and continue to acquaint yourself with the Scriptures so that I can then more easily convey my thoughts on them through your brain.

Received April 20, 1955

I Shall Put Enmity Between the Serpent and the Seed of the Woman

I am here, Jesus:

I am glad to hear you state that you would not have been able to take the message on the attributes of God and man without having some of the Divine Love in your soul, and you are quite right in so stating, for such a message could not get across, or through, the brain of a medium in whom the Divine Love was wanting, and therefore I am happy that you realize the power which the Love in your soul has given you to take messages from me of this high order. And it is further proof that what you are receiving is not the creation of your own mind, although you may think it is, and that it comes from the spirit world and, in fact, from me, Jesus and, as I sign myself, Master of the Celestial Heavens.

Now, tonight I am going to write to you on the passage which struck your attention in the Catholic Quarterly dealing with the Messianic passages of Genesis, and the passage I have in mind is the one that states, “I shall put enmity between the serpent and the seed of the woman and the serpent shall bruise his heel, but the seed of the woman shall crush his head.” (Genesis, Chapter 3, Verse 15)

This is a very important statement, because many Christians have pointed to it as the prophecy whereby I would be crucified in order to save man from his sins. I understand the importance of making clear its real meaning so that the misconceptions of the writers of the traditional Christians will not continue any longer to convey an erroneous impression concerning my mission and at the same time cause readers to harbor the illusion that I was born without the benefit of a human father.

When that statement was written in Genesis, and, as a matter of fact, when the entire book of Genesis was written, the Jewish nation had been definitely established and many views regarding the creation of the world of man had crystallized into a fairly definite form in that area of the world and, indeed, in the Far East, and one of these fixed ideas was that the world was balanced between the forces of good and evil. This seemed to man at this time to be borne out by such contrasts in nature as male and female, light and darkness, heaven and earth, land and water, and many other phenomena of a like sort.

And thus it seemed natural for man to conclude that good and evil were also forces that balanced each other or, I should say, were in conflict with each other; and as these people disliked abstract concepts, they sought to clothe these concepts and make them appear in a way that would be better understood. Thus they evolved in their minds the concepts of archangels, which were really forces that operate upon mankind, and thus they gave to God the appearance of a man, made in man’s image, and they also made in their concepts the figure of a disobedient archangel who warred against God and was thrown out of heaven and who thus used earth as his dwelling place and became Prince of Darkness, Master of earth. And to this archangel they gave the name “Satan,” and endowed him with the ability to change his form, and was cursed by God so as to become a serpent. And thus was born the myth that the serpent was symbolic of the Prince of Darkness, or Satan.

Now, the statement from Genesis has God using the seed of the woman to fight this serpent, and that a battle would take ‘place over the centuries causing injury to the seed of the woman and the final destruction of the serpent. Writers and theologians have taken this to mean that I, as the product of a mother without a father, was thus the son of God, and that in the battle with Satan was fated to suffer death through evil, or shall I say, betrayal, but that eventual belief in me by Christians would in time cause man to stop sinning and thus overthrow the Prince of Darkness.

The reference to me is without doubt Messianic in that it refers to my coming to earth and eventually overcoming sin, but the interpretations connected with it must be corrected. In the first place, there is no Satan, for this, as I have shown, is the personification of all the evil found in mankind who, instead of looking into his own soul to find its existence, attributed to a power almost the equal to God and a “divinity” in his own right. I should like to emphasize that not only is evil not such a power but that it is not Divine, but only a product of the human soul and the result of human will and desire. The war between the Messiah and such a power, therefore, is absurd; and the warfare that the Messiah came to wage was one between the human soul and its defilements and evil desires, which is the real and only Satan.

That I came from the seed of woman is true in this sense: that the Jews attributed birth, as a physical fact, as belonging to the realm of woman, for in those days it was impossible to prove who the father was except as the child resembled the parent, and the one real basis for birth was that a child was the offspring of a given mother. Hence the expression, “born of the seed of a woman” did not have the interpretation given to it by the writers of theology, who thought erroneously that their expression meant born of a woman, only, and without a father. But it simply meant mankind in general, and no connection with parents in particular, for we must remember that the expression, “born of the seed of woman,” is a physical impossibility, for the female does not carry the seed but the egg, and it is the male who carries the seed. So that, if the writer of Genesis had meant to convey the thought ,”born of a woman alone without a man,” he would have said, “born of the egg of woman.”

The entire meaning of this important Messianic statement has thus been distorted to mean the existence of Satan as a “divine” power of evil and has given sin the status of a divine being, which is abhorrent and a blasphemy, and has also caused the beliefs that I was born of a virgin, which is utterly absurd and impossible.

The meaning of that passage was that a Messiah would come in the course of time, and in the usual manner, to give to all mankind the means to fight the sin in his soul, which he did not possess and would not possess until I came, and that this weapon to fight and overcome sin was the Divine Love. The words dealing with the bruising of the heel indicated that sin would not be eliminated from the soul without a great effort on the part of sin, which includes transgressions involving lusts and the pleasures of this world, and that it would take an effort on the part of man to eradicate sin from his soul. And it also referred to my death on the cross as a part of the struggle, but it should not - rather, cannot - be read to imply that this death in the manner that it did take place was foretold, but that this death would take place while carrying out the duties and undergoing the dangers incurred by the nature of my mission.

I think I have written enough for tonight on the subject, and I shall close with all my love to you and the Doctor, and I shall pray for you both to obtain more of the Father’s Love. And with my thought to you not to be discouraged but to have faith in the Father and in us, and in the efficacy of our help, I shall sign myself

Your friend and brother,

Jesus of the Bible
and
Master of the Celestial Heavens

Received January 31, 1955

Messianic Passages from Isaiah

I am here, Jesus:

I would like to express myself about some of the Messianic passages found in Isaiah, the prophet, and one of these is the passage dealing with the so-called virgin who would give birth to a son who would eat honey and butter, and who is supposed to represent me.

Now, the truth is that this message is Messianic in nature, and although it would be applied to one of the prophet’s sons, yet it also has a far-reaching meaning which could be applied to the coming of the Messiah. The word which is translated by some churches to mean virgin simply means a young woman, and the meaning was that a child was to be born who would be simple and ingenuous, without sin, and that this child, called Emmanuel, would have the faith in the Heavenly Father which King Ahaz did not have. So that, while a child was meant who could have been a child of the prophet, one who, because of the invasion of the Assyrians would be compelled to live in the country, yet the utterance had a wider meaning to indicate the birth of a child with certain qualities which went beyond those of the child which Isaiah may have had in mind when the passage first came to him.

Furthermore, Isaiah wrote his 53 chapters on the servants of God, which is also Messianic, and which has been discussed and disputed by Jews and Christians alike - the passage dealing with the man of sorrows and the one smitten for the sins of mankind. The Jewish interpretation that this man of sorrows represents Israel, the righteous servant of the Father, is at least the servant who undertakes to serve the Father despite his imperfections. And this interpretation is correct, for the prophet had in mind a righteous and suffering Israel, servant of God.

Yet, at the same time, this interpretation is but a partial one, and the prophet Isaiah also had in mind another prophet who would be smitten because of his duty to the Father, and would be rejected of men because of his unpopular prophecies and visions concerning the people and the ruling classes. And this double meaning of the prophecy, which students of the Bible have not been able to see, is clear when we realize that Isaiah wrote in the double symbolic way that Hosea did. And so, just as Hosea wrote about a man (himself) who married a faithless wife, Gomer, but also meant God’s Infinite Love for His faithless Israel, in the same way Isaiah wrote about himself and also had in mind another prophet to come, Jeremiah, but also had in mind Israel, the servant of God, as well.

At the same time, the prophecy concerning the woes and the persecutions of Jeremiah, to the point where he was put in the stocks for his unpopular predictions about the doom of Judah and the temple and persecution by the people of his own town, are sufficient to show that Jeremiah was the prophet whom Isaiah had in mind above all. But the passage goes beyond Jeremiah, and also refers to me in some detail.

These, of course, were flashes of intuition which showed the persecutions that the prophets of Israel and Judah faced in doing their unpleasant duty in bringing to the people and their priests and rulers the presence of corrupting practices and the need for repentance. And the fact of the matter is that Uriah, another prophet, was killed by the King of Judah after being brought back to his native country from Egypt, where he had run away for refuge.

Isaiah’s Messianic utterances were therefore complicated, in that various prophets were indicated in his passage on the man of sorrows and that, as was to be found in Hosea, Israel personified as a servant of God was also a part of the prophecy.

I wanted to mention this tonight because the Messianic prophecies of Isaiah, while famous, have been misunderstood, and their true meaning and to whom they referred have not been accurately gauged by the students of the Scriptures. I wish to say that under the circumstances these Messianic sayings were quite applicable to me as well as to my predecessors, and in view of my ministry in Palestine and its outcome, this prophecy can be considered as applicable to me, as well.

I will stop now, for rapport with you is weakening, and while I am satisfied with the way the message has been taken, I shall close with a word of love to the Doctor, and state that I am your elder brother and Master of the Celestial Heavens,

Jesus of the Bible

Received March 22, 1955

Isaiah’s Intuition of the Messiah To Come

I am here, Jesus:

I am here tonight to write you again on the Old Testament, inasmuch as the relationship between Jehovah, or Yahweh, and the Heavenly Father, or God, of the New Testament, must be made clear that they are one and the same, except that He had not bestowed His Divine Love upon mankind until my coming, and it was impossible for mankind to know God in that attribute of Divine Love.

The prophets had an understanding that the Messiah would come to save the Hebrew people, and in Isaiah this intuition of the Messiah’s coming was associated not with an all-powerful king who would save his people from their enemies but a savior in the spiritual sense - that is, that the Messiah to come would save his people from sin. This concept of my coming was a correct one and shows the nearness to God that Isaiah stood in. But there, Isaiah met with difficulties of interpretation, for while he recognized that the Messiah would save from sin, it was not given to him to know how this process of salvation, or by what means, was to take place.

Since Isaiah had no conception of the Divine Love, he undertook to interpret his message from the high spirits regarding the Messiah’s coming in accordance with the established system of religion as practiced by the Hebrews at the time. The Hebrews obeyed the law as much as they could, but Isaiah realized that man’s weaknesses of the flesh made him the constant victim of sin; and thus Isaiah rightly realized that salvation would not be obtained through obedience to the law, or attempts to give obedience to the law, but through a different system.

This was to be in connection with the law of Moses, which enjoined the Hebrew people to make certain sacrificial offerings, some for impurities and others for sin; and Isaiah thought that the Messiah’s work of salvation for his people lay in connection with the sin offering. He realized that, unlike other peoples of the time, human sacrifices were unthinkable and were not a part of the Hebrew religion. And he could not accept the teachings of the religions which taught the salvation of human beings through the symbolic sacrifice of their God, such as found in the Hindu religion with Krishna, or the Greek religion with Dionysius, the cult which was beginning to achieve acceptance at this time, in the 8^th century BC

But Isaiah felt that the soul of the Messiah could be offered up as a sacrifice for sin and, in that way, his soul thus looked upon as the sacrifice for sin would be accepted by God for the sins of the people, and in that way would the Messiah save his people from sin. And it was for that reason that Isaiah wrote, erroneously, “And when those shall make his soul an offering for sin he shall see his seed,” meaning that the people, being cleansed of their sins, would be spiritually his.

This mistaken concept of the role to be played by the Messiah to come was used extensively by the Greek writers on Christianity to force their own ideas of my sacrifice on the cross as the means of salvation - a concept in accord with their own pagan ideas - and used the prophecy of Isaiah concerning my coming to impose these pagan practices upon Christianity and thus eliminate my true teachings of salvation, or immortality, to be achieved by mankind through earnest prayer to the Father for His Divine Love.

This understanding of Isaiah’s prophecy and the reasons for his failure to understand the means by which salvation was to take place is extremely important to show why pagan practices were introduced into the formation of the Christian Church, and Isaiah referred to in support of these practices. This explanation should be used to show that Isaiah was mistaken in his interpretation of the role of the Messiah, and the true teachings of my mission as Messiah emphasized.

I think I shall stop now because there are others who would like to write tonight, but I shall say that the message regarding the Doctor received by Mr. Huntoon was authentic, because this man has a high regard for the Doctor and thinks about him as one who has enabled mankind to receive the truths; and one of the higher spirits provided him with the message that the Doctor should not worry about the publication of Volume I and, instead, to seek for more of the Divine Love.

So I shall stop, and with my love to the Doctor and to you, I shall close and say good night.

Your friend and elder brother,

Jesus of the Bible
and
Master of the Celestial Heavens

Received January 11, 1956

What is Meant by the Old Testament References to the “New Heart”

I am here, Jesus:

I see that you have been studying the teachings and prophecies of the Old Testament, and I should like to write you just a few words tonight on how I came to know that I was the Messiah who had been proclaimed as the Savior of the Israelites. Now, I have written to you before concerning what I learned from the Father, but I shall supplement this with material which will help to make things clearer to you.

The people of Israel had broken the covenant which God had made with them, and He foresaw that it would be necessary to actually bestow upon them His own Divine personality through His Love in order to purify and transform their souls so as to be free from the temptation of sin and evil. This is what the Father meant by giving the people a new heart, which He voiced through Jeremiah and Ezekiel, and pouring His Spirit out upon them. This, of course, was not His Spirit which functions in the realm of the intellectual or moral, but was the Spirit that conveys His Divine Love which He had shown He possessed for His people despite their sinful ways. For, through the prophet Hosea, He had revealed that He loved Israel, His people, as the husband loves the wife, though unfaithful. He was, therefore, going to pour out His Love upon His people through His Spirit - the Holy Spirit - and in this way give them a New Heart.

The Divine Love in my heart kept telling me that I was the Messiah who should come to bring salvation to the people through the Love which should not only be given to me, but to all those who should return to the Father and seek it through earnest desire, as people seek to do righteousness and kindly acts because they so desire to do them. The obtaining of the Father’s Love was a soul action springing from the emotions and the will exercised by the emotions, and comprised trust in the Father’s Love and mercy, and prayer to Him that it would be bestowed on sincere seeking.

Many of the prophecies about the Messiah’s coming made by the prophets dealt with times previous to my coming and nearer to their own times, and dealt with Zerubbabel, by Haggai and Zechariah, after Cyrus, the Persian king, permitted the exiles to return to Jerusalem; and also Onias, in the days of the Greek ruler Antiochus Epiphanes. At the same time, it was given to me to understand that the prophecies of God’s spokesmen were applicable not only to their own generation but could also apply just as forcibly to later times, when these times brought into operation circumstances like unto those which were originally referred to. And this can be seen in Isaiah and Jeremiah, in seeking to keep Judah free from the wars between Egypt and the Eastern empires Assyria and Babylonia.

I knew from the Love glowing in my soul that the prophecy of the New Heart was being fulfilled in my soul and I began to see that many of the Messianic passages in the (books of the) prophets referred to me as well as to predecessors. I saw that I fulfilled many of the requirements, such as being of the House of David, being born at Bethlehem, that I came at a time when Judah was a dependency of a foreign power, and that the prophecies of Daniel brought the time of the coming of the Messiah to my own days.

While Isaiah’s passages of the suffering servant referred to Israel, a man as the personification of Israel fitted perfectly into the Messianic picture; for, in Hosea, God had pictured Israel as an adulterous woman, and in Isaiah as a vineyard, and in Jeremiah in various forms; and it seemed that when God referred to Israel, He meant one who would represent Israel through suffering for the salvation of all of God’s children. By Israel, He meant one of His children who would suffer because of his faith. And, thus, when God meant Israel, He meant the Messiah.

The one sign that I waited for was the desecration of the Temple, prophesied in the Book of Daniel; and when Pilate did that early in the year AD 26, I knew that what had occurred in the days of Antiochus Epiphanes had not been limited to his day, alone, and had been repeated in my own, and made me realize that I must come forth and proclaim the rebestowal of the Father’s Love - the New Heart - as proclaimed by the prophets, and that I had been anointed the Messiah of God.

I also knew that from the life of Jeremiah and his troubles as well as the prophecies of Isaiah and Daniel, that I would be cut off, but this would come as a result of the sins of mankind and not because I was fated to be crucified or because I voluntarily assumed the sins of all mankind and saved mankind from sin by paying the penalty for sin with my blood. Now, I know this is what is being taught, but it is all wrong and has no basis in fact.

I will stop now, for it is late and you should get some sleep. So, with my love to you and the Doctor, and to all my workers, I will say good night and sign myself,

Jesus of the Bible
and
Master of the Celestial Heavens

Received January 27, 1955.

How the writings of Hosea Helped Jesus to Understand The New Covenant Between God and Mankind

I am here, Jesus:

I am here, again, to write you about the Old Testament and its relationship to my Messiahship, that is to say, the steps in the Scriptures that show and point the way to the development of the spiritual truths that finally led to the Divine Love.

In my last message to you, I spoke about the prophet Hosea and I showed that he concentrated upon the subject of love, and this subject was of a twofold variety: the natural love of a man for a woman and the great quality of this love because of the sinful ways of his wife; but secondly, we have a change from this natural love to the love which is bestowed by the Father, because this prophet’s love was symbolic of the Love which the Father had for His erring Israel.

The importance of the message of Hosea, then, was not in the usual type of prophetic message calling guilty Israel and her leaders to repentance and return to moral laws and worship of Jehovah, but a message which turned from the love of man to concentrate on the Infinite Love, and thus we might say Divine Love for mankind which animates the Father. And it is here that I learned the lesson of the Father as a Father of Love and not simply a Father of warning, of “wrath,” of “anger” for sin, or as a leader in battle to win victory over the foes of Israel or to save her from destruction.

This concept of the Father’s Love is not to be found again among the prophets of Israel or of Judah, for the condition of the people of both Hebrew countries was such that the call to repeated repentance had to take precedence during the following centuries over the call to the Father’s Love and the Father’s Love for His children. Yet, there were other writings amongst the Hebrews that complimented my knowledge and understanding of the Father’s attributes and His Divine Love which was waiting to be rebestowed upon mankind at the moment which He deemed right and correct in His own wisdom; and these writings included some of the Psalms attributed to David and other Psalmists, and they are those which deal with the longings of the human soul for the Father’s Love, the panting and trembling of the soul for God and His presence.

And these writings were important because they drew the attention of the people away from national problems like victories and defeats and threats of invasion by other Semitic peoples at the time, and turned them to thoughts of inward feeling and introspection and a consciousness that God was not only God of the Israel nation but the Father and Creator of each individual soul which, if it seeks the Father in earnestness, is the way for Him to provide His protection and His Love.

By combining these songs of the Psalmists, with their highly individualistic feelings of desire to approach and feel the presence of the Father through earnest longing of soul to obtain the Father’s protection and loving presence, with the understanding that the Father loves His children as individual souls and wants His children as individual souls to turn to Him for each one’s salvation and protection against the evils of the earth life, and His guidance and Love, that here was the way to obtain the Father’s gifts through my earnest longing of my soul for the Father’s presence and guidance and protection and, finally, and most important, His Love, for I knew from Hosea that God’s Love was burning like a great fire to convey it to the soul that wanted it, and I prayed earnestly to the Father not only for His guidance and protection, but because of my intuition and condition of soul and the promptings of the Father, Himself, for that Love to come into my soul which I knew was waiting for everyone who sought it in earnest - everyone, whether he be a sinner, as Gomer, the faithless wife, or a soul without sin.

My prayers to the Father were rewarded, not with the love that is termed the Spirit of God, for this love is one which comes in connection with the love of development and moral and intellectual efforts, but the Love which had never before come to mankind before the Divine Love which Hosea foresaw but did not receive, but which came to me through the Holy Spirit. This Divine Love came to me when I was very young, because my thoughts and soul longings were upon the Love of the Father unconsciously and without words; but the Father1s Love began to be shed abroad in my heart in greater and greater abundance as I understood that the Divine Love of the Father was ready to be rebestowed upon man and, especially, specifically, upon me, if I prayed in earnestness of soul, which would cause the Love to be conveyed into my soul, and with that understanding, or shall I say intuition, or suggestions, made to me by the messengers sent by the Father to apprise me of these things and to instruct me.

I let my longings of soul go out even stronger and with greater intensity for the Father’s Love, rather than any other of His good gifts, and the Love came burning more and more brightly in my soul, and I felt the glow and the incoming of the Love in my soul and I knew that my intuitions and the suggestions that came to me were things of reality. And I was soon convinced as I grew towards manhood that the Divine Love was mine and that this Divine Love would insure me a place near the Father.

And, indeed, I felt close to the Father and I felt His presence to the point where I could feel His Divine Love in my heart often, and finally, almost constantly. And, with Love came the conviction that I must be the Messiah whose mission it was to tell mankind the glad tiding that the Divine Love had been rebestowed.

And through continual study of the Scriptures, I began to understand how the first parents had failed and the consequences; and that death referred to, meaning separation from God, meant separation from God’s actual presence through His Divine Love; and that I had been able to obtain it for the first time through the Father’s Loving-Kindness and Infinite Goodness and Mercy and Love for His children.

And also, in the Scriptures was the story of Jeremiah and the message which this persecuted prophet gave to his people: the message that Jehovah would at some time give the people a new chance to be with Him and make a New Covenant with them which would be engraved in their innermost parts, in their hearts and souls. And this New Covenant between God and man, through penetration of God’s Being into man’s very soul, showed me that I had been favored with this Covenant through God’s living fire of Love in my soul which I could feel burning in my heart with my prayers to Him.

And this is the way in which I knew that I was the Messiah promised the Hebrew people and, indeed, all mankind. And, as the other prophets had received their call, I heard the voice proclaiming that I was the Messiah and that I should go throughout all Palestine and proclaim the message, regardless of the material conditions prevailing in the world at the time.

I have more to say to you about this subject, which you realize is a very important one, but I will stop now and wish you a pleasant good night and a word to the Doctor that I love him, and you, that you both be of good cheer. And I will sign myself,

Jesus of Nazareth –
Jesus of the Bible

Received February 7^th & 14^th, 1955

Prophecies of Joel; Meichizedek

I am here, Jesus:

Tonight I am going to provide certain information for the benefit of you and mankind regarding certain prophecies and statements in the Old Testament. The first of these is the prophecy of Joel dealing with the dreams and visions of the sons of Judah as well as the manifestations of disorder and destruction in the world in the last days of the Jewish nation. I had not intended to write about this chapter in Joel, but inasmuch as I saw that you had examined it last Thursday and declared it to be non-Messianic, I have come now to inform you that you were mistaken and that the passage in question is one of the finest passages of its type dealing with the New Covenant of grace and presaging the age of destruction about the time of the fall of Jerusalem.

The dreams mentioned by Joel are the dreams which the Jews of my time had in their great zeal to overcome Roman rule and establish a free Hebrew state, and the visions of the Jews were the visions which Peter had regarding the foods to be eaten as provided by the bounty of heaven, and the vision which Paul saw of me on the road to Damascus, and Joel also foresaw the clouds of smoke of Mt. Vesuvious destroying Pompey and Herculaneum and earthquakes in Crete and Asia Minor and elsewhere that took place at this time, as well as the great fire in Rome in 64 AD, the fighting in Germany between the pagans there and the Roman legions, as well as other disturbances in Palestine and the rebellions and wars finally ending in the destruction of the Holy City. So you see the prophecy of Joel was a two fold prophecy of the New Covenant of Divine Love and the end of the Jewish dispensation following their rejection of me as their long sought Messiah and the upheavals that announced the birth pangs of the Gentilic dispensation.

Another subject I wish to discuss with you tonight is the passage in the New Testament comparing me to the old king-priest Meichizedek, of Genesis Chapter 14, verses 18-20, who blessed Abraham and who offered bread and wine at one of his feasts. I wish to state that at no time is it possible to compare me to a king priest of this type inasmuch as my own reign as king is not of this world of flesh but of the spirit, and more exactly the Celestial Heavens, and furthermore by no stretch of the imagination am I a priest in the ordinary sense of the word, although I do a great deal of praying to the Heavenly Father, but not as a priest offering sacrifices or performing the usual priestly ceremonies, but simply as a spirit seeking a further portion of the Father’s Love through earnest longing of the soul; furthermore, Melchizedek had no conception of the Divine Love or of the possession of immortality which I possessed at the time of my ministry and which I taught in Palestine, bringing to the Jews and to all mankind knowledge of the New Birth and the New Covenant. And thus it is entirely wrong to say, as it is stated in the New Testament, that I was a person after the order of Melchizedek.

Now the reason for the insertion into the New Testament of this falsity, which by the way was not written by any of my disciples but by some later writer who interpolated this comparison a good century or more later, was the desire of this writer to show that the sacrament of the bread and wine being transformed into my body and blood, which is called the Eucharist by the Catholic cult, owes its origin to the Old Testament dating back to the days of Abraham, the Patriarch, and thus putting the stamp of orthodoxy upon this sacrament, to conciliate Jews and Jews converted to Christianity.

This comparison between me and Melchizedek does not do me justice insofar as my mission and teachings and relationship to the Father are concerned and was inserted arbitrarily without regard to truth, simply to link me with a king-priest who offered bread and wine at his feasts. I point out to you that this is just as false as that doctrine that makes of me the lamb of God cleansing sin through the shedding of my blood. In the coming true religion of the New Birth, what it is - man made and without the authority of my teachings - and will be eliminated from the beliefs and practices of men.

The Covenant which God made with Abraham may not have been the first between the Deity and man, for spiritual men earlier in time and in different areas of the world, became aware of His laws of righteousness and justice and sought to interpret them and make them known to their peoples. But the Covenant with Abraham has a special meaning to mankind because, rather than a groping towards God, it appears as a Revelation by God Himself, and the forerunner of that New Covenant through Jesus which made available to man His Divine Love and Salvation.

The Old Covenant was a remarkable one. When he became conscious of the Divine call, Abraham was in the sunset of a long life. How much strength, courage and determination God gave him is shown by his obedience to that call - a call that meant long periods of arduous and dangerous travelling undertaken by an old man of seventy-five, from Ur of the Chaldees to the land of the Canaanites, nearly a thousand miles away. The task which God had entrusted to him seemed hopeless - to raise up a people devoted to an invisible Deity of righteousness, justice and mercy, and who demanded that these things be practiced by those who worshipped Him.

It was impossible to teach the Chaldeans, Canaanites or other peoples of that time in that area, to seek God. The benefits and blessings of the land which God in His Love and Mercy bestowed upon His children of all races, were attributed to local agricultural and fertility gods, like Boal, Melcart or Ashtorch, and accompanied by immoral rites of worship. Their offerings to these gods were the first fruits of the fields and the firstlings of the living creatures—not excepting their own first born, who were slaughtered or “passed through the fire” to insure the fertility of fields and wombs. The people of these lands were addicted to these horrible practices of human sacrifice. Unable to teach them to trust in Him, and with another plan of salvation in view, God sent forth Abraham, His willing servant, to a distant land and there raised him up as father to a race that would turn from the bloody ceremonies of the heathens and walk in His ways of justice, righteousness and mercy.

Abraham’s binding of his son, Isaac, to an altar, and the latter’s being saved by an angel of God from sacrifice at the hand of his father is not, therefore, a narrative depicting the testing of Abraham’s faith in God, as Bible commentators so erroneously think. Abraham’s faith in God had been put to the test again and again by the rigors and hardships which he had faced and borne for months and months in the slow and exhausting trek from his native Ur, to begin, at his old age, a new life at the call of a God he could not see but whom he knew in his heart was the living King of the universe. The saving of Isaac, then, was not a test at all, but the undeniable proof, stamped with the authority of God Himself through His angel, that He had turned away His countenance from human sacrifice and demanded true worship in obedience to His statutes of righteousness, justice and mercy.

I should also like to write you on the origin of the Eucharist, for it is not sufficient to state that this institution is a false one, for the question will invariably arise in the minds of men that if it is false, where did it originate? The fact of the matter is that the Eucharist began as a simple prayer to the Father of thanksgiving that He had revealed one to mankind and through me the gift of immortality through the Divine Love, and this was done accompanied by the breaking of the bread and the drinking of the wine, but especially of the bread, for here is where the meals began with the Hebrew equivalent of the saying of grace for meals. And thus the prayer of thanksgiving for the gift of food was associated with thanksgiving for the Divine Love through me and as time went on the conception of the Divine Love was lost in favor of immortality gained through emphasis on, and belief in, my person, so that the devotee became aware that he was thankful for immortality through his belief in my immortality, and since this was done with the breaking of the bread and the drinking of the wine, these parts of the meal became associated with my supposed second person of the godhead, or divinity, and the primitive Eucharist or thanksgiving was thus established.

However, the conception of the wine and the br