Message from Jesus, published in The Gospel of God’s Love, page 64.
“I come tonight to write a message on the soul, and will do so if we can establish the necessary raport.
“The subject “human soul” is of vast importance, and difficult to explain, for there is nothing on earth known to mortals with which a comparison may be made. Generally people cannot understand a truth or the nature of a thing except by comparison with what they already know to exist, and with whose qualities and characteristics they are acquainted. There is nothing in the material world that will afford a basis of comparison with the soul, and hence it is difficult for humans to comprehend the nature and qualities of the soul with their mere intellectual perceptions and reason.
“In order to understand the nature of this great creation, the soul, a human must have some spiritual development, and the possession of what may be known as the soul perceptions. Only soul can understand soul; and the soul that seeks to comprehend the nature of itself must be a “live” soul, with it’s faculties developed to a small degree at least.
“First, I will say that the human soul is a ‘creature’ of God, and not an emanation from Him, as a part of His Soul; and when humans speak and teach that the human soul is a part of the “Oversoul” what they teach is not true. This soul is merely a creature of the Father, which, before its creation had no existence. It has not existed from the beginning of eternity, if you can imagine it ever had a “beginning.” There was a time when the human soul had no existence, and whether there will ever come a time when any human soul will cease to have an existence, I do not know, nor does any spirit – only God knows that fact.
“But this I do know: that whenever the human soul partakes of the Essence of the Father and thereby becomes divine itself, and the possessor of His substance of Love, that soul realizes to a certainty that it is immortal and never will die.
“There was a period in eternity when the human soul did not exist, and was created by God. It was made the highest and most perfect of all God’s creations – and made in His image. For the soul is the person.
To be continued…