From Jesus, in The Gospel of God’s Love, pages 82-83.
“God is Soul, a thing of Substance with a Divine Nature, the Seat and Fountainhead of all the attributes that belong to our Creator, such as Love, Power, Life, Omniscience and Mercy. And here I’ll state a fact which may surprise those who believe and teach that “mind” is God: that which is called the human mind is not part of the mind of God. The human mind and all its faculties and wonderful qualities are special creations, just as are the spirit body and material body of God’s children.
“Humans were created in the image of God only as regards their souls. The mind was a specific creation, just as were the minds of lower animals, differing only in degree. If God had not given to humans a soul, and the spirit body containing the mind, when they died the death of the physical body, that would be the end of them.
“When God created humans by giving them a soul made in his own image, he also gave them the possibility of obtaining the Substance of His Divine Soul – that is, of having a soul, which was a mere image, become a soul having the same divine substance as the Creator-Soul. Humans, by their disobedience, lost that potential to receive the Gift of God’s Love, and for many long centuries existed without this great privilege. It, this soul potential, was again restored to all souls everywhere, at the time of my earthly ministry. So that now for 20 centuries (Jesus wrote 19 centuries because this message was received in 1916) humans have had possession of this privilege gift of partaking of the substance of the Father.
“As souls seeking truth and love continue to pray with heartfelt longings, and become possessed of this Substance of the Father’s divine nature, their soul commences to change and lose its character as a mere image. As people continue to pray, the image disappears, and the divine substance takes its place. As this process continues, the souls’ at-Onement with the Father eventually becomes so complete that they become fitted to enter the First Celestial Sphere, an inhabitant of the Father’s Kingdom of Love. And just here occurs another thing: the mind which humans (both as mortal and spirit) had possessed up to that point in their progress, becomes the mind of the soul. Then and forever after, this souls’ mind enables the divine person to understand the things of God’s universe.” Amen