Found in The Gospel of God’s Love, page 196, from Jesus.
“I desire to write on the subject: Why humans should believe that I, who write to you, am the true Jesus of the Bible, and why I write to you.
“When I lived on earth, people did not believe that I was God, or that I was anything more than a teacher of God’s truths, possessed of wonderful powers not then so well understood as they are now. Since then, humans have comprehended, to a limited extent, the possibility of spirit forces operating through the material world – that is, that spirits and humans have the power to communicate with one another; and that the powers possessed by the spirits may be conferred upon and exercised by humans. This intercommunication and possession of powers and the conferring therof on people, was not so well understood when I was on earth as they are now.
“I, by reason of my soul development and my knowledge of spiritual things, was able to exercise those powers to an extent that made the people of my time suppose that I was “the son of God,” possessed of many of His powers and attributes. And as a matter of fact, I was possessed of these powers, but I was only a mortal when on earth, and only a spirit after I passed from the earth to the spiritual life. Of course, my development of soul qualities was such as to enable me to do many things on earth which no other mortal could do; and after I became a spirit, to obtain a position in the spirit world that no other spirit had obtained; yet I am only a spirit – though a highly developed one, possessing more knowledge of God’s truths than any other spirit.
“If I were God, or part of God. I would be something more than the mere spirit that I am, and my position would be such that I could not or would not communicate with you in the manner that I do. But I am only a spirit, having the same form, and the same means of communicating with mortals of earth that other spirits have, and thus I am not doing that which should be surprising to humankind.
“My home, of course, is in a sphere far above that of the earth, and my condition of soul development is far greater than that of other spirits.” To be continued…