Found in The Gospel of God’s Love, page 89, from our beloved brother Jesus.
“The human soul was not the result of a slow evolution, as were other creations of God, but was from the beginning perfect: but soul’s did not have the qualities of divinity or immortality. The human soul did not evolve from a lower creature, as did the physical body (it’s not known how long it took this pair to reach perfection). When the soul incarnated into the bodies of the first mortal human beings, these creatures, from their earliest memories, also existed in a state of perfection.
“It was, to them, as if this creation had been instanteous, with no further evolution needed to make them perfect. Their physical bodies were perfect, as well as their spiritual bodies and souls. These first parents, God’s first incarnate children, were more perfect than humans are today, or ever have been since their fall from this condition of perfection.
“Humans had, in addition to these constiuent parts, a gift which, by their disobedience, they forfeited, and which was never restored to them until my coming, and which if possessed by them would have made them more than mere human beings. After their fall, and consequent death of the potential to receive the divine nature of the Father, they were in a state where they depended exclusively upon the qualities which they then possessed for their happiness, and for their freedom from those things which would cause them to lose the harmony which then existed between them and the laws governing their being.
“The greatest of all qualities bestowed upon them was that of will power, which was wholly unrestricted in its operations – although, when exercised in a maner which brought their will into conflict with the laws controlling this harmony, humans had to suffer and pay the penalties of such violations. But notwithstanding that these perversions of the exercise of their wills brought about the sins and errors which now exist on earth, God did not place any limits on this exercise.
“Humans, at their creation, had bestowed upon them appetites and desires pertaining to their physical nature, as well as desires of their higher or spititual nature, and they were all intended to work in harmony, not in antagonism; and in such workings they were to be kept free from sin. But after the first disobedience, succeeding disobediences became easier.”
To be continued.