Angelic Messages through D.L.

Received from Jesus by thought impression

 The Law Of Prayer

The Law of Activation Part I , Part II , Part III

The Law of Equipoise or Balance

Received: July 8, 1986, March 18th and 26th, 1987

The Law Of Prayer

from Jesus

I am now here, my dear brother in Christ, and I come to you this day with my great love extended to all my co-workers in the flesh who are striving to impart the Truths of the Father to mankind.

We do not know everything that is to be known. But we are aware of certain laws which, if activated or brought into existence, must eventuate in known and beneficial results. One such law is a Law of Prayer, you might say, which has, as a result, only beneficial outcomes when directed in all sincerity and with great amounts of love and yearning. The Father hears all sincere prayers, and He Himself is bound by His Own Law in this regard. He will not turn a deaf ear to any prayer sincerely offered, so you must realize that a positive outcome will have to follow such a sincere prayer. What the particular outcome will be we cannot say; but, of necessity, that outcome will be a beneficial one.

The care and troubles of earth life can be so greatly reduced if people would but realize that they are first and foremost spiritual beings who have great resources at their disposal as children of the Father. They need not depend upon themselves alone, but should ever realize that the Father is always ready to receive their prayers with open arms, and that He is even more prepared to answer these prayers benevolently when petitioned for with great and true yearning. As I told you before, the Father has a law which He Himself abides by -- The Law of Prayer. But he will not exercise His Part in this law without activation of His children's own prayers. But once He receives a sincere and unselfish prayer, He is only most willing to answer this prayer in the best interests of the supplicant.

Now I know that most people believe that prayer is a chance kind of endeavor; that is, that some of their prayers may be answered and some may not. And this is true as far as it goes. But beyond this is a reality of prayer that would make each prayer offered in love and sincerity one that would be incapable of not being answered, if I may put it that way. People recognize and accept that they have their option or part to play in the offering of a prayer, but they usually understand little of the Father's accepted obligation to answer those prayers in what I have referred to before as a benevolent fashion. Some are answered through His instrumentalities, as you know -- the Celestial angels and other good or high spirits -- and some are answered directly by the Father Himself as this pertains not to materially related prayers but to spiritually based ones. Material prayers are not answered directly by the Father, but He knows that men have need of these things. But where it comes to man's inner, soulful development, this He attends to directly through HIs Response to the yearnings of the soul.

This is a law whereby man and the Father each have a part to play. Man offers the prayer and the Father answers it if He deems it worthy of being answered. Not all prayers offered are either sincere or loving; and, of course, the Father does not desire to attend to these. His listening Ear is only open to those prayers which have a genuine need or benevolent purpose in mind. And when I say this, I mean prayers which are offered with great sincerity and with a degree of faith that they will be answered.

Man has a very necessary part to play in this in that his prayers cannot be idle repetition of words, as if by some prescribed formula of presentation God will be necessarily compelled to respond. There are no verbal formulae that appeal to the Father's Love and Generosity in and of themselves. Unless these words are brought forth by the true desires and energies of the soul, the words will avail nothing in the way of a response from the Father. God knows what His children need at all times, and He does not need words to convince Him of these needs. What He requires is that these needs are put in such a prayerful form whereby the supplicant's heart and soul are involved. And this is what I mean when I say that man has a part to play. The prayerful energies of his soul must be exercised and brought into play, else his prayer lacks the link-up with the Father that will assure a benevolent response and answer.

God's Part in this is to respond to each and every prayer offered to Him with at least some degree of loving, soulful involvement on the part of the supplicant. There cannot be a weak verbal recitation offered, which lacks this loving, soulful involvement, that will be responded to. For God's relationship to His children is not based on words but upon soulful communication. But once a man's soulful energies come into play, the Father's listening Ear is automatically and unfailingly activated. It is as if one were to dial the correct number to the Father's private phone. A merely verbal prayer, lacking soulful energy, can be likened to the supplicant dialing a wrong number. But, on the other hand, a true prayer that emanates from the soul, no matter in what words it is couched or conveyed, is a prayer that never fails to ring the bell, and one that the Father is only happily waiting to hear and answer.

So, as I say, we are dealing here with a mutual undertaking that must conform to certain conditions. What man has seldom heretofore known is that if these conditions are met, God's Part is absolutely assured. There is no chance element in this. As a man prays, it is his sincerity and his soulful energies exercised which determine whether or not the Father will respond.

Given the proper exercise of these soulful energies, the Response of the Father is absolutely assured. And this is why this is referred to as a law -- because it is exact in its workings.

If all men would but recognize that the Father is always ready to receive His children's soul-yearning prayers, they would not always attempt to rely so heavily upon themselves for the good fortune and blessings that they seek. The Father knows what is best for His children and is only too happy to provide this. But He cannot so provide His Blessings if He is not asked to do so; or if, in the asking, man puts nothing of his own heart and soul into the prayer.

As you know, the Father will never give His Divine Love to anyone who does not ask for this with all his heart and soul yearnings. Well, the same may be said of His Response to prayers in general. God is Soul and man is soul. And if man wishes to truly communicate with the Father, he can only do so soul to Soul. And even though he may not be asking for the Father's Love in his prayer, nevertheless, he must be asking for whatever blessing he is seeking through the active energies of the soul. His mind alone will not do.

For although the Father knows of our thoughts, it is not our thoughts alone He will respond to. Only if these thoughts are given the energy and wings of the soul will they reach the Father's listening Ear and be received with His Pleasure.

And, so, I would urge all men to seek not only the Divine Love of the Father but also all the many blessings He has to give, including material ones. Prayer is that device and avenue from and through which all blessings flow from the outpouring Fountainhead of the Father's Love and Mercy. And man can be assured that once he brings his soul into play in a sincere, true yearning fashion, the Father's Answer will surely come. He is beholden by His Own Law to so respond when the souls of His children activate the Benevolence of His Own Soul.

So, let all men know that the Father is ever ready to listen to and respond to His children's heartfelt prayers at all times. He ever wants them to seek His Help and Guidance when they themselves are experiencing difficulties. And let all men also know that benevolent responses to their prayers are absolutely assured if they will but bring their prayers to Him on the wings of their own souls. God will always do His Part, but man must also do his.

This is all I wish to say on the subject for now. God bless you all, my dear co-workers. I am most happy that our mutual progress is proceeding very nicely and according to our combined efforts. Until next time, then, I thank you for this opportunity which you have given me to share more of the Father's Truths with you.

I am,

Your brother and friend,

JESUS.

Received May 20, 1987

THE LAW OF ACTIVATION- Part I

from Jesus

I am now here to write, my dear brother in Christ. I am your friend and brother in spirit, Jesus, who is Master of the Celestial Heavens. Today I wish to discuss a subject of some importance relating to the Law of Prayer that you have already received. As you know, you have already received thought impressions concerning a Law of Activation, and this was given to you in preparation for my expounding somewhat upon this subject today.

As you have been told, the Law of Prayer is a law whereby both mankind and the Father have a part to play. The Father receives all prayers offered in true sincerity and that emanate from the souls of His children; and He, in turn, responds to these prayers in a benevolent fashion unfailingly when the soulful condition just expressed is met by His aspiring children. What you have not been told about as yet is how these prayers are answered in terms of the Father's helpers: the Celestial and other good and high spirits.

You have been told thus far that the Father has His helpers to carry out His Will, and that these helpers are always ready, willing, and able to carry out the Desires of our Heavenly Father. And this help, or its communication, is effected through a Law of Activation. When the Father hears and determines that He wishes to answer a material prayer, shall we say, He has to communicate His Desire to those spirits who will conform to His Wishes, and who will perform whatever deeds are necessary for His Will to be fulfilled. And this communication is effected rather immediately and through an inner knowing on the part of His ministering angels that a particular work is to be performed.

On earth, when people wish to communicate their desires, they either seek out people directly or they write or use a telephone. In the spirit world, no letters or phone calls are necessary in order for the Father's Thoughts to be made known to His ministering angels. The Father simply impresses His Thoughts upon the souls of those ministering angels whom He wishes to employ in carrying out His Desires.

Now, you have heard that the higher the development of the spirit, the closer is his association and communication with the Father Himself. And thus, the Celestial angels, who are nearer to Him than any other spirits, are much more clear in their reception of the Father's Thoughts and Desires. But nevertheless, even those spirits not of the Celestial Heavens, but still sufficiently developed in a purity of soul to be of use to the Father, are also often employed to do the Father's Bidding. While, in the former case, the work to be performed is very clearly received by the Father's Celestial angels, in the latter case, the communication is still effected through an impression upon the soul that is sufficiently clear as to prompt the benevolent action requested by the Father to be carried out by the particular spirit or spirits in question. One might say that an inner impulse or prompting is felt, and a certain knowing is activated as to what act or acts of assistance that the Father wishes to be carried out. The activation of the souls of those spirits whom the Father wishes to do His Bidding is the result of the Law of Activation, of which I have earlier mentioned. Without such activation of soul, the spirits who are ever ready to carry out the Will of the Father would be left unaware of what the Father wished for them to do.

Activation, such as I have described, is relative in the sense that the strongest activation occurs among God's highest Celestial spirits. And correspondingly, as we go down the scale to lower levels of soulful development, the activation experienced by less well-developed spirits is not as clear, but is still sufficient to prompt the spirit to perform the work that the Father desires.

On earth, the Law of Activation is in operation as well, but is not nearly as strong or precise in its action or effect as it is in the spirit world. Thus, you will be familiar with cases of those who receive certain impulses to perform a good or charitable act, and these acts are usually attributed to the goodness of the person himself. And while the goodness of the person is certainly involved, what is not often known is that the impulse he has received does not necessarily originate within himself. His impulse to perform a kindness or a benevolent act is many times the result of Celestial or spirit prompting to so perform that act. And the person so prompted, in harmony with his own charitable disposition, performs that act as if it were entirely his own.

From what I have said thus far, perhaps you can gather what I have been attempting to explain by example. There is a hierarchy of activation that exists from the highest heavens to the lowest hells, and this activation exists so that the Father can always preserve at least some degree of communication with all of His children. You have heard that there is goodness in every person, no matter how much steeped in sin or error they may be at any given point of time. Well, this is true because each person has a soul made in the image of God. And that which has been given by God-- the soul-- of necessity must retain an essential underlying goodness at some level. And it is the soul which links all of God's children to the Father Himself.

Thus, when the Father wishes to "speak" to any of His children, He does so Soul to soul. And this is how communication is effected and preserved by the Father where His children are concerned. The Active Energy of His Own Soul is ever directed throughout His Universe of Creation, and especially as this pertains to all of His living creatures. And as He wishes to make His Desires known, He activates the souls of His children to the degree that they are in harmony with Him and all of His Laws. A Celestial angel, being in much greater harmony with Him, is thus most open to the Activation of the Will of the Father. And this is why it is said that the Father's angels are always or ever ready to do the Father's Bidding.

This is a concept that will require further elucidation; and, as you are tired, I will postpone the balance of this message to a later time. You have received my message well enough thus far, but we shall see if we can improve upon it in the next sitting or so.

I am happy to say that you are all proceeding so well in your church work and efforts. Keep up your fine work, my beloved co-workers, and know that we ever appreciate deeply all that you do to bring the Activation of God's Love on earth to as many as will be encouraged to seek Him through the activation of their own souls in prayer. Until next time then, I thank you for your efforts and time spent in allowing me to communicate some more of my thoughts and the Truths of the Father to mankind. I am your brother and friend,

Jesus of the Bible,
and
Master of the Celestial Heavens

May 28th, 1987 

THE LAW OF ACTIVATION- Part II

I am here now to write, my dear brother in Christ, and I come to you this lovely day to bring to you, and for the benefit of mankind, my love and words of encouragement in the work before us. I am your brother in spirit, and friend, Jesus.

Today I wish to discuss an aspect of the Law of Activation touched upon in my introductory statements regarding this subject and Truth of one of the Father's Laws affecting His Communication to all His children, both in the spirit world and on earth. As I have told you, the Father communicates Soul to soul where His children are concerned, and He does this so that His Will and Desires may be made known to mankind. I have also told you that there is a hierarchy of communication wherein the highest of God's angels are most clear in the reception of His Desires, and that correspondingly clarity becomes somewhat less well received as we go down the scale of soul development. The communication effected is caused by the Activation of the Father's Own Soul. either in response to the sincere, heartfelt prayers of His children, or upon the Desires that spring from His Own Benevolent Soul apart from any outside stimulation.

Now, in receiving the inner message of the Father's Will, His highest angels are prompted to carry out His Instructions as expeditiously as possible. But of course, in order to do this, we of the Celestial Spheres must often also seek the assistance of either other high spirits, or even in some cases the assistance of mortals as well.

One might liken this to an Ocean wherein a stirring occurs in the Center, and waves or ripples are sent out in a closed circular fashion to the farthest shores. The waves nearest the Source are strongest and contain the most Power; and, as the circle enlarges, the area taken in is greater but the Power necessarily becomes less. And this is why full comprehension of the Father's Will is clearer nearer the Source than at the "farthest reaches" of the Father's Universe. Nevertheless, there are always enough souls affected in this emanating Activation whereby the Father's Will is served, be the distance from the Source near or far.

On earth, there are many material prayers of a sincere nature that reach out to the Father and are received by Him. And these prayers which He wishes to answer must be carried out by those who have influence over material outcomes. Sometimes only the highest of God's angels are commissioned to carry out His Will, as this pertains to material benefits granted. But more often, where material blessings are concerned, spirits below the Celestial Spheres are commissioned to see to it that these blessings are accorded. The Celestial angels usually have higher works to perform that do not often pertain to material blessings from the Father, but to spiritual blessings that pertain to the soul of man and his development in his spiritual growth.

As you know, the trustees of our church always have among the highest of God's angels to serve their spiritual and even their material needs, because those working for the Kingdom of God are accorded the most protection, assistance, and blessings, and especially spiritual blessings. The work of disseminating the Father's Truths to mankind cannot be performed by those mortals who lack sufficient development of soul because of the absence of God's Love therein. Required are mortals who have prayed for and received His Love to that degree where their transformation of soul is at least sufficiently advanced to carry out the Father's Will and Work on the earth plane. So you see, it is not necessarily how close a soul may be to the Father in terms of "distance", but how close that soul is to the Father in terms of its possession of the Love that makes that individual's soul like unto that of the Father's Own Soul. Thus there are some souls on earth of such exceptional soulful development that they are able to serve the Will of the Father in spiritual matters as well, or nearly as well, as those in spirit who are likewise filled with great amounts of the Father's Love.

While on earth, if I myself had lacked this soul development, I could not have performed the mission I had, nor could I have been instrumental in bringing healings and other kinds of blessings to my brothers and sisters in the flesh who were living as mortals at that time. But even I had the constant assistance of high spirits then in existence in the spirit world during my earthly ministry. While they did not possess the Divine Love until I myself received It, these spirits were perfected in their natural love at that time, and were quite capable of bringing me the kind of spiritual comfort and support I too needed during my periods of trial and tribulation on earth. Of course, the greatest comfort and support I received were directly given to me by the Father Himself. But even in my own case, the Father utilized His highest perfected spirits to accord me additional blessings while on earth. I never hungered or thirsted in any deprived sense, stories in the Bible of a forty day fast on my part notwithstanding. And I always had a robe or coat to wear and a place to rest or sleep; and I certainly was also accorded the blessing of good health as I grew from a child to manhood.

I use myself as an illustration so as to point out that all spirits and men are influenced and helped through the Activation of God's Soul touching upon and influencing the souls of His children to perform those acts of kindness and other blessings which result in the happiness and well being of His children. The Father's Soul is never inactive, but is always radiating out those Gifts of His Benevolent Soul which either directly bless his children or indirectly bless them through His instrumentalities - those good souls in both the spirit world and on earth who ever seek to do the Father's Will and to help their brothers and sisters, be this on earth or in the spirit world. For surely you must know that the Father's many Blessings are given to spirits as well as mortals, and that spirits help other spirits, just as good and kindly mortals help other mortals.

So, as an overview then, there exists in God's Universe of Being a great network of communication from the highest heavens to the lowest hells. And the Activating Power in back of all this communicated Assistance is the Great Soul of the Father Himself. His Soul never rests or sleeps, but is ever attuned to the needs and desires of His children who bring these needs and desires to Him on the wings of their own heartfelt prayers for His Assistance. And that Assistance which He does not provide directly he commissions others to provide - Celestial angels providing the greatest assistance spiritually, and other good and high spirits usually providing those blessings pertaining to the more materially based needs of His children.

Well, I am pleased with the satisfactory manner in which you have received my message of this day, and I look forward to sharing many other messages to mankind through your channeling efforts and willing cooperation. This is all I wish to say for now other than to again convey my gratitude and love to all of you working to bring the Activation of God's Great Love and all of His many other Blessings to His needy children on earth. Until next time then, I bid you good day, and leave you with my prayer that the Father bless you all for what you do in His Name and for His Cause. I am your brother and friend,

Jesus of the Bible,
and
Master of the Celestial Heavens

June 4th, 1987 

THE LAW OF ACTIVATION - Part III.

Once again I am here to write my thoughts, my dear brother in Christ, and I come to you with my love extended as usual to all my brothers and sisters in the flesh who are working mightily along with me and my Celestial brethren to bring the Truths of the Father and His Love to all of mankind. I am your friend and brother in spirit, Jesus, who is Master of the Celestial Heavens.

Today I wish to discuss a topic relating to the desire of mankind to know more about the Truths of the Father as this pertains to His Laws regarding the dissemination of Truths from the highest reaches of the spirit world to the farthest reaches of His Universe of Creation. You have been told about a Law of Activation which enables all of the Father's children to know the Desires of the Father as this relates either to His Answer to prayer or to an aspect of His Will that He wishes to make known. In my last message, I stressed Activation as this pertained to answers to prayers sincerely offered. But today, I would like to enlarge upon this topic somewhat in order to clarify another phase of the Father's Use of communication where His children are concerned.

The Father's Truths are so many and varied that undoubtedly none of us will ever experience an end to their revealment; that is, none of us will experience such an end when our hearts, minds, and (most importantly) souls wish to learn more of these Truths as we progress in the development of our souls through the inflowing of God's Love. For with this inflowing comes many other blessings such as health and happiness, and even material gains if the Father feels He wishes to gift His children in these things as well. But one gain which is of a higher order and priority than other gains is the knowledge of the Father's higher Truths.

You have been told that those of us in the Celestial Heavens have been and are always receiving such higher Truths as our own souls are increasingly prepared to receive them. Truths, you see, are intended to be housed in the soul, not just the mind, just as the Father's Divine Love is housed in the soul. The soul being the man, it would make no sense for higher Truths to be housed or located in the transitory physical body or even in the transitory physical mind. The physical parts of the Father's Creation are essentially coverings or temporary appendages that are "attached" to the soul, one might say, while mankind lives their lives during the mortal phase of their existence. But these appendages are of temporary use and duration.

Now, the problem of mankind in general is that they become so enamored of what they can see, feel, or touch with the objects of the material senses that they often totally neglect that which they cannot see but most certainly possess - their souls. And as these souls need nourishment, just as do their bodies, it becomes essential that mankind become more aware of that which provides such nourishment to their essential and eternal identities.

In a previous message, it was declared that the Divine Love was the quintessential "Food" for the soul, and this is most certainly true. But the Divine Love has in It diverse Properties that are accompaniments of this Love. If Love can be said to be the "Fruit" that the Father gifts or presents to man in response to his sincere aspirations for this Love through prayer, then it also might be said that Truth represents a "Covering" for this Fruit. For just as the energy of the soul must have a material covering or means of expressing that energy, so too, the Father's Love has Its more visible Coverings through which It is expressed. And the most prominent Coverings I would like to refer to are God's Truths. Through the application and revealment of Truth, God's Love is made known. It, the Truth, is the visible manifestation of the invisible Love which is in existence in the Soul of the Father, and which may be in existence in the souls of his children.

Now, in order for this Love of the Father to manifest in terms of mankind's appreciation of Its existence, the Truth of Its existence must first be brought to their attention. Without some "visible" property that mankind can grasp in their intellects or understanding, the Father's Love would remain a mystery and essentially unavailable to men. It becomes important and crucial, then, that the manifestation of Truths is presented to mankind in order for the Love of the Father to be inferred as that which is in back of these Truths. The Truths of God are that which can be "seen" and "grasped" by material and spirit minds. They become the visible manifestation of the invisible existence of the Producer of these Truths, the Great Loving Soul of the invisible Father, Himself.

And so, whenever we are charged with delivering the Truths of the Father, in a very real sense, what is being delivered or projected to mankind is the "Body" of the Father. If the Soul of the Father is His Divine Love, then the Body of the Father is His Divine Truths. And when this Body becomes clearer and clearer in terms of a more complete manifestation and great amount of understood Truths, then it can be said that the "Appearance" of the Father becomes "more visible" to the appreciation and understanding of men.

Now, you have been told that the Father's Law of Activation is employed to communicate the Father's Will or Desires to His children. His Soul activates the souls of His children and gives to them, through such activation, an understanding not only of His Will but also of Himself, the Divine of the Universe. Through the impression of His Will, His creatures come to understand the Nature of the Father, Himself. For whatever is asked or given by the Father is a reflection of Himself. And the more that the Father reveals of Himself in concrete terms, shall we say, the more both spirits and mortals can infer the Great Nature of the Father in back of these concrete or more visible expositions.

As I introduced earlier, the Father's Truths form the best "Appearance" or "visible Part" of His Nature that men can comprehend. And so, because the Father wants His children to know Him completely as the Loving Father that He is, He is ever commissioning His Celestial angels, and even other good and high spirits or developed mortals, to carry His "more visible" (understandable) Truths to His children. When these Truths are thus "seen" by His children, then what is seen and better known is the "Body" of the Father that houses all His Great Love and forms the "Covering" of His Great Soul.

And so, dear ones, you will perhaps now better understand why there is the great Law of Activation to begin with. The Father is ever revealing Himself through the vehicle of His Great Truths. And in order to communicate or project these more visible Parts of His Nature, he often activates the souls of His children which prompts them to carry His Truths to and before the sight of men. And when His children both see and understand these Truths, in a very real sense, they begin to "see" what is in back of, or is the Projector of, these Truths - the Father, Himself.

So, in addition to activating the souls of His children to confer His Blessings upon them through the help that some of His children can provide others of His children, our Great Father also activates the souls of those nearest to Him in His Love with the implantation of His many and higher Truths, so that, in turn, these Truths may be brought to the attention of those who are still struggling to "see" and know God, their Heavenly Father. And the more Truths that either spirits or mortals can see, the greater becomes their appreciation of both the "Appearance" of God and His Soulful Nature in back of these Truths.

So you see of what momentous importance it is for all of us to bring the Father's Truths to the knowledge and perception of men. The more Truths we are successful in presenting, and that are embraced, the clearer becomes the "Appearance" and Nature of the Father to those children of His who are earnestly seeking Him from their souls.

Well, this has been a rather long message, but I feel it to be an important addition to the Law of Activation which should serve to enlighten all of our beloved co-workers even more so of the importance of the work being accomplished. With each Truth imparted and shared with our brethren, God's Manifestation becomes clearer and clearer to His aspiring children.

And so, with my love extended to all my beloved co-workers who are working along with us to make the "Appearance" and Nature of our Father clearer to the hearts and souls of His children, I will thank you for the successful receipt of my message of this day, and will leave you with my prayer that, with your own ministries, you will also come to see God clearer in the greater unfoldments of His Magnificent Truths. I am your brother and friend,

Jesus of the Bible,
and
Master of the Celestial Heavens

Received: January 18, 1988.

The Law of Equipoise or Balance

from Jesus

I am now here to write, my dear brother in Christ, and I am again most happy to come to you today to deliver another message through you and for the benefit of all mankind. As you know, I am your friend in spirit, Jesus, who is Master of the Celestial Heavens and the eternal leader of our church on earth, and I come to you as usual in an attempt to communicate some portion of information that will prove useful in encouraging all our mortal brethren to seek the true path toward at-onement with our Heavenly Father.

As you have been told, there are many laws, both natural and spiritual, that govern the workings of God's Universe, and without which chaos would indeed exist. These laws are perfect in their workings, even though adherence to them is not always subscribed to or followed by man himself. And when these laws are violated, not God, but penalties inherent in the violation of these laws come forth to restore the harmony that man himself has disturbed.

Man is a creature with a free and unhampered will, as you know; and, in the exercise of that will, he remains the true master of his own destiny while he yet remains a mortal. Of course, his time on earth is indeed fleeting by standards of the eternal perspective, but nonetheless it is a most important time as this pertains to his present and future growth and development. What he does on earth establishes to a great extent what he will do or, in some cases, what he must do when he becomes a spirit.

On earth, the will a man exercises is only for a time, as this pertains to its completely free exercise. In the spirit world, however, while the will still exists, it is no longer completely free in its exercise because accountings have to be made to atone for certain wrongs, and also because the rules of living in the spirit world are somewhat different from those of the purely material or earthly character.

In a previous message, you were informed of certain opportunities for sinning or violating God's Laws that exist for mortals on earth that no longer exist when a man becomes a spirit. With the sinning potential being removed, consequently, further retrogression cannot take place. This does not apply to the aspect of stagnation or a lack of further growth, however, for one's development can remain at a standstill for many years -- sometimes centuries -- before further growth and progress may resume or begin to take place. And there is a law which determines just when advancement can take hold once again, assuming now that a person has made some soulful progress and development while proceeding through the mortal existence. For those who have not, advancement still depends upon certain soulful conditions having been met that will allow positive development to begin.

Usually, most all mortals have led such lives as there exists a certain amount of good admixed with a certain amount of evildoing. And, so, even on earth, only very few indeed have made absolutely no progress whatever. And, yet, when we speak of progress on the spirit side of life, we are speaking of progress that can take place only when the soul is in that condition where the degree of existing goodness and harmony within exceeds that degree of evil or inharmony accumulated in the earth life.

In previous messages through Mr. Padgett, you have read many from associates of Mr. Padgett who were in various stages of soul development. Those in the hells were of course experiencing a great deal of suffering, while those in higher planes of relative light and happiness were relating experiences of more pleasant circumstances. What was not expressed or explained to any great extent was that precise point of time and development wherein the balance becomes tipped in favor of the good, and where true spiritual development in the spirit planes first becomes possible and potentially accelerative in nature. That point of the opening up of development potential occurs when the goodness accrued in a man's soul begins to supersede the evil expiated or, more precisely speaking, the evil that still exists once certain amounts of encrustments have been removed from the soul and it has been brought more in balance with the goodness accumulated therein. That point of equipoise, where a man's soul contains equal measures of goodness and encrustments, marks that point where true advancement becomes possible thereafter. And, until that time, each soul is held to its individual plane of existence, be this in a lower or higher plane upon its initial entry.

Those who are in the lowest planes of the hells from the onset of their entry into spirit life are required to spend the most time in those planes, not only because of the extent of their degradation and sinfulness but also because of the paucity of their accumulated goodness. However, those in higher planes, with correspondingly more goodness to their underlying natures, have usually much less time to remain confined to these planes before the balance between goodness and encrustments has equalized through soul expiation of the relatively fewer encrustments existing in the souls of those in these higher planes.

The law to which I am referring might be referred to as the Law of Equipoise or Balance, although the wording is not as important as the concept or reality itself. And, from all this, you might now gather that the time it takes each individual to attain to this equipoise or balance varies enormously and is dependent upon the great variety of soul differences among new entrants to the spirit world. To a lesser but still important extent is also the consideration of both how much help is offered from without, and how much is truly received and acted upon by the spirit exposed to and being given that help. For as has been told to you before, without the help from other spirits being offered, one's progress could remain at a standstill for countless more years than would be necessary otherwise.

Progress, then, is really the blending of two occurrences: one's soul attaining to at least a balance between accumulated goodness and encrustments, and the available help from without given to that soul seeking its progress to greater light and happiness. And, of course, once goodness does in fact begin to outweigh and supersede the remaining encrustments in a man's soul, progress hereafter not only becomes possible but likely accelerative in nature. For when a person begins to experience happiness and is convinced he is on the right track toward further development and even greater happiness, he tends to naturally pursue that specific course with greater intensity and dedication.

Well, I think this should suffice to familiarize you all with yet another law that obtains and prevails in our spirit world. However, the important thing to bear in mind is not knowledge of all the spiritual laws involved in maintaining the harmony of the Father's Universe, for such knowledge comes in time and with greater soul development, and as the Father wishes to reveal the workings of these laws to us. No, the important thing and goal to keep ever before us is our own strivings for soul development and at-onement with our Heavenly Father through the one and only Way I taught upon this earth two thousand years ago, and am still teaching today: through fervent soulful prayer to Him for His immortalizing Love. And I am happy to conclude this presentation of today by saying that you, our beloved trustees, will never have to be concerned about reaching the "balance" position necessary to progress, because your goodness already far outweighs the remaining encrustments that you will all expiate in good time and as you obtain more and more of the Fathers purifying Love. And, so, I shall leave you now with my blessings and love until next time.

Your friend and brother in Christ,

Jesus