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Continued from previous message, found in The Gospel of God’s Love, page 443 – 447.

“The preacher said, he spoke as a scientist, not as a religious teacher, yet the deduction that he made by declaring the eternal existence of the hells, violated one of the fundamental laws of science: that two contradicting laws describing the workings of God’s universe, cannot both be true. Only one of these laws – the one that is in agreement with other known laws – should be accepted as true.

“The preacher spoke from his intellect, from mental beliefs of long years standing, but deep in his soul, where the Love of the Father is burning, and the soul sense is growing, he does not believe this doctrine, for he realizes that the Love of the Father is so much greater, purer and holier than any other love that exists in heaven or on earth. And that the Father, from whom it flows, must be Holier, more Merciful and thoughtful than any mortal father of his children.

“God has decreed that the universe shall be harmonious, and as it shall continue, the destiny for humankind is that they shall return to that harmony (from which they fell by reason of their own misdirected will). God’s laws are fixed and unchangable and always in harmony with one another and with his will. Knowing this, every thinking person should know that whenever a proposition, or opinion, is put forth by preacher, layman or philosopher that shows that what they ‘believe’ puts God’s laws in conflict with one and the other, then their proposition is false and has no foundatioon in fact.

“No, the preacher, in his soul, does not believe in this unnatural teaching, and at times he travails in his soul at the conflict that takes place between the mental bondage of his intellectual beliefs and the freedom of his soul sense. And thus is demonstrated the great and real paradox of the existence in the same mortal, at the same time, of an intellectual belief and a soul knowledge as far apart as the antipoles. And also is demonstrated the great truth, that the mind of a person and the soul of that person, are not one and the same thing.

“But some day, this soul knowledge will overcome the mental belief, and then the preacher will know that sin and error will disappear; and every person will become God’s pure child.” Amen

Found in The Gospel of God’s Love, pages 443-447, message from Jesus.

“The preacher’s sermon was an advance upon the beliefs of the orthodox in many particulars, but in the most important particular and the one that will affect mortals most vitally in their progress in spirit life, he was wrong – very wrong. I refer to his declaration that he knew of no statement in the Bible that would justify him in asserting that there would be an opportunity for spirits of mortals to progress from the condition of hell, to that of light and heaven in the spirit world, when they had not started on that journey in the mortal life. This is a damnable doctrine and one that has done more harm, all down the centuries from the time of my living on earth, than most any other teaching of the church that claims to be representative of me and my teachings.

“Many poor souls have come into the spirit world with this belief firmly fixed in their minds, and the difficulties have been great and the years long, before they could awaken from this belief and realize that the Love of the Father is waiting for them in the spirit world just as in earth life. And that probation is never closed for mortals or spirits, and never will be until the withdrawal of the opportunity for mortals to become inhabitants of the Celestial Heavens. And even then they will still be able to purify their natural love, and everyone will eventually become perfected in that love.

“Had the preacher searched the Scriptures, in which he so implicitly believes, he would have found an authorization for him to declare that, even in the spirit world, the spirits of the unsaved sinners who died without becoming reconciled to God, had the gospel of salvation preached to them.

“And furthermore, had the preacher known the truth of my teachings, he would have known that the sinner who did not progress on earth, would have the chance to progress in spirit. So according to his own source of information regarding these things of the future, he would be justified to declare that probation does not end with the physical death of the mortal. God has made his laws of harmony and these laws are never changed; when any particular soul gets into a condition of agreement with these laws, then that soul becomes an inhabitant of His heavens.” To be continued…

Paraphrased message from Mr. Padgett’s grandmother, published in The Gospel of God’s Love, on page 368. She was in the 2nd Celestial Sphere at that time, working with many loving spirits, helping the Master spread the Father’s truths:

“I live with angels, and want for nothing to make me realize that God is my Father of love and mercy. Yet I desire the progression that will take me to higher spheres – not because of any discontentment, but because I am told that there are homes waiting for me and my companions there, that are so much more beautiful than where we are now living. The law of progression is constantly working, and never do we cease our longing for the higher life and greater abundance of the Divine Love that will be ours, as we desire and seek for it. But you must understand that while we strive to progress, we are never dissatisfied with what our Father has provided for us, and what we possess.

“My home is a part of the Celestial Kingdom, and we who live in this sphere are  immortal, in the sense that it has been explained to you. We are greater in our attributes and qualities than were the first parents at the time of their creation. We can never die again, and have passed beyond the “2nd death,” as it is written; for we are partakers of the Father’s Divinity to such an extent that it can never be taken from us – not in all eternity.

“And yet with this knowledge, and the consolation it brings, we still have our love for those who live on earth and have not acquired this great gift; our work in trying to help mortals is a joy to us, and always a labor of love. I want to tell you, at this time, how much we’re interested in the work that the Master is doing for the salvation of humankind; his love for the people and his desires for their redemption are greater now than when he was on earth. His followers, all who are in the Celestial Heavens, as well as those in the spirit spheres, are working in unison with him to accomplish this great work to its fullest extent. Many mortals are inspired by him and by his followers to assist in this work, to make known to humankind the truths of his teachings, and the wonderful Love which passeth all understanding. Amen

From The Gospel of God’s Love, page 367. Mr.Padgett asked a question about, if spirits possess a medium, might that cause harm? The answer follows:

“Well, there are cases where such results follow, and it’s not astonishing that this is so, for these mediums, who surrender their own wills and faculties, will attract spirits who desire to take control of them. These spirits do not hesitate to use these mediums for any and all purposes that they may desire; and these desires are mostly injurious and detrimental to the mediums, both morally and spiritually.

“In such cases of spirit control, the mediums absolutely submit their mental and will power to the domination of these spirits, and once the spirit gets control they are never satisfied, and care not for the condition of the medium. And such being the case, the medium suffers. But the mediumship which you have is not of such a character as to permit a spirit writing through you to obtain that control of your mental faculties as would enable them to exercise their will and mental powers in a way that would prevent you from exercising yours as you desire. They do not become your masters, but are subordinate to your will and cannot use you for their purposes unless you are so inclined.

“The exercise of your phase of mediumship will not do you harm and you need not fear the result. In fact it is necessary that your mental faculties should become vivified and enlarged in order for you to do the work, and the greater develoment you have, the more you will be enabled to do our work in a more satisfactory manner.

“So, try to be in condition, and we will continue the writing of these messages. With all my love and blessings, I am Your brother and friend, Jesus”

Anyone who wants to develop their spiritual nature can do so through their soulful desires to receive the Grace of God’s Love into their soul. God Loves all his children, with a Love so great and deep that we cannot have even a near conception of how to describe this Love. As we continue praying and desiring to develop our Love nature, we will be enabled to start changing, little by little, at first, then more and more, until we can notice a wonderful difference in ourselves. And we will make a difference in the world. Amen

Message from Jesus, published in The Godspel of God’s Love, pages 221-222.

“I desire to write in reference to what the preacher said, that ‘Christ may be in you.’ I know it’s almost universal among preachers of Christian Churches to teach that the way to salvation is to “get Christ in them,” and thereby be enabled to come into unity with the Father and cease to remain subject to the effects of sin and evil.

“Well, this teaching is the true foundation of salvation for the Celestial Heavens – provided it be understood by the preacher and the people, what the true meaning of “Christ in you” means. Unless this meaning is comprehended, the fact that the preacher or people merely ‘believe’ that they have Christ in them will not work the results they may suppose or desire.

“Many, and I may say most, of these professing Christians have ideas of what this expression means that are not in accord with the true meaning of this condition of soul. They think that all that’s necessary is to ‘believe in Jesus’ as their savior, and that in so believing, they have “Christ” in them, and that nothing else is required. They have no conception of the distinction between Jesus, the man, and Christ, the spirit that manifests the existence of God’s Divine Love in a person’s soul.

“Christ is not a man, in the sesnse that he is Jesus, the son of the Father, but Christ is that quality of Jesus that came to him after he fully received into his soul, the Divine Love and was transformed into the very essence of the Father in this Love. Christ is thus not a man, but is the manifestation of this Love, as bestowed upon Jesus (in answer to his sincere longings and prayers) and made part of God’s very existence. So when humans use the expression, “having Christ in you,” if they could correctly understand the true purport of the same, they would know that it only means that the Divine Love of the Father is in their souls.

“The indiscriminate use of the word “Jesus” and “Christ” is the cause of much misunderstandings among Christians as to a number of sayings in the Bible. The Christ principle is one that all humans may possess, with the result that they will become at-One with the Father in his Substance of Love and Immortality. Amen

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Mr. Padgett’s friend G, continues to write about his spiritual progression. Published in The Gospel of God’s Love, on pages 406 – 412. 

“At last my friends persuaded me to pray to the Father and then, they prayed with me, but it was hard for me to have faith in that which my mind did not understand. But they told me that the soul has faculties of its own and is not dependent upon the mind for faith. And that by exercising these soul faculties, I would receive this Divine Love and greater faith – for as the Love comes, faith will also come. It is not mere belief, but something greater and different.

“Well, I continued to pray for this Love and after awhile I felt a sensation which I had never felt before within my soul and as I prayed, this feeling increased, and faith in a small degree came to me. I realized there was a love possessing me that was never before with me. I continued to thus seek and pray, until this great Love came to me in abundance, and happiness unspeakable, and (as friends said) light and beauty also.

You might imagine that my longings and desires became insatiable. The darkness disappeared, and my recollections of evils of earth life became fainter, then I found myself in the 3rd Sphere, which then appeared to be the very heaven of heavens, and the very fountainhead of beauty and happiness. During all this time I gave no attention to the development of my mind, or to acquiring knowledge; but when I found myself in this light sphere, it seemed to me that my mental faculties had expanded beyond belief, and great knowledge came to me in wonderful clearness.

“But the Soul, not the mind, was the thing. And Love – this Divine Love of the Father made happiness mine. The one who seeks only the development of their mind and lets the soul slumber, is poor indeed; but they who seek the development of their souls will find that as the soul develops, the mind does also and they are rich beyond compare.

“I continued progressing through the 5th Sphere, and then into the 7th, the Sphere of transition from mortal into immortal. In a faint way I’ve tried to rehearse the story of my soul’s development. My advice to all mortals is to seek God’s transforming Love.

Your brother in Christ, G”

Continued from previous Blog; “…While I was trying to progress to higher levels in the spirit world, I met some of my old friends who had a beautiful appearance and seemed to be so perfectly happy. I asked them the cause of their happiness, and when they told me, I was quite surprised, and gave very little credence to what they said. It sounded so similar to what I had heard in Orthodox Churches on earth, I supposed they had brought their old religion with them and were deceiving themselves as to the cause of their happiness. I thought the probable cause was that they were more moral than I when on earth, and hence their recollections of earthly sins were less and their consciences were clear.

“I would not at first accept their explanation, and continued for a longer time trying to improve my moral condition and advance my mental acquirements. But there was another thing I noticed: while these beautiful friends did not appear to have great mental development, yet their beauty and happiness seemed so much greater, and of a different nature from that of the morally developed spirits.

“So I again determined to seek the cause, and with intention to listen more seriously to what they might tell me, and to open my mind to their secret. Well, I listened, and they told me that their progress and condition was caused by the soul development which they received after seeking for and obtaining the Divine Love of the Father, and that the soul is the great and important part of a spirit’s being. And that the degree of soul development determines the position and condition of the spirit.

“They further explained the nature and power of the Divine Love, and of the absolute necessity of its entering into the soul in order to make progress. As this Divine Love becomes more a part of the soul’s possession, the soul takes on itself the Divine Nature of the Father, and all things foreign to that nature disappear. All these things and many more these friends told me, and urged me to seek for this Love. At first I did not understand how to long for the Love, but was told the Love is waiting to fill all souls, yet only by earnest, sincere seeking would it enter the soul and fill it with it’s great Essence.”

G’s story will be continued…

Found in The Gospel of God’s Love, The Padgett Messages, page 406. From Padgett’s old friend, G.

“When I first came to the spirit world I was an unbeliever in things pertaining to the soul, except I thought the part of a person that survived death and continues to exist, would progress as the mental qualities developed. I had no conception of the soul as a thing distinct and independent from the mind. As I continued to live in this belief, I found that the mental faculties and their development did not bring to me the satisfaction I anticipated.

“I met some of my earth friends, men of great mental acquirements, who had preceded me by long years, and I found their conditions were not as advanced as I would have expected. Many were in the earth plane and some were in darkness. They did not have any great happiness, nor were they satisfied with their conditions. They were pursuing their studies, but some restraining force prevented them from going to higher spheres.

“I found out there were higher spheres where the mind is developed to a much greater degree, where many spirits who believed in the supremacy of the mind lived and enjoyed the pursuit of their studies. At times, some of these spirits would come to our plane and tell us of the wonderful development and happiness in these higher spheres and urge us to progress and become inhabitants of them.

“You may be assured we were willing and anxious to make such progress , but try as we would our efforts produced no visible effect and we continued in darkness. Being of an inquisitive nature I sought to find the reason for our inability to get out of darkness. I at last realized that the mind was not everything, but that the development of the moral qualities was necessary to enable us to progress as we desired. Conscience must be satisfied and our recollection of evil deeds on earth must be gotten rid of. Our qualities of soul, which determine our position and condition must be adjusted to the demands of the laws of compensation in order to progress.

“But while in this condition of struggle and slow progress, I would occasionally meet spirits who seemed to be of a higher order and who were more beautiful than was I, and naturally, I wondered what the cause was.” To be continued…

Martin Luther came to write through James Padgett, on January 31, 1917. This message is found in The Gospel of God’s Love, on page 242.

When Mr. Padgett asked a question, he did not write it on the tablet he was using to record the spirits’ thoughts. “Well, you have asked me a question that I should like to answer… in short, Jesus was not “of the Substance of God,” in the sense that the Catholic church, following the Nicene Creed, claimed. He took on a part of the divine substance as the Divine Love filled his soul – and so can you or any other person, to the extent that they receive the Love. But to say that Jesus was in his very being “of the Substance” of the Father, to the degree that made him “equal” to God, is erroneous and should not be taught or believed in.

“Jesus was born, or created in the likeness of God, as all other souls were created, and no other. Jesus was a human being, just as you and I, and if he had not received into his soul the Divine Love, he would have never been of the Substance of the Father. The Love commenced to come into his soul very early – before his birth, and at the time of his anointing he was so filled with It, that you may say he was “of the Substance of the Father”.

“He was no more divine, though “natrually,” than was any other mortal born in the flesh. All the speculation that ever existed as to the Eucharist and the change in the qualities of the bread and the wine are untrue. Jesus is Not in these elements in any particular view that may be taken. His flesh and blood went the way of all other mortals, and no more forms a part of the bread and wine than does your flesh and blood.

“This sacrament, as it is called, is distasteful to the Master; and when it is celebrated, I must tell you, he is not present – not only, not in his flesh and blood, but also not in his spiritual presence. JESUS DISLIKES ANY KIND OF WORSHIP WHICH PLACES HIM AS ITS OBJECT, he wants God alone to be worshipped, and himself thought of as the one who brought immortality to light by his teachings, and by demonstrating the truth of the existence of God’s Grace, the Divine Love, in himself.” Amen

Excerpts from The Gospel of God’s Love, The Padgett Messages, page 182.

In 1915, Judas wrote; “I come to tell you what my condition was, and my expectations were, when I betrayed Jesus, which resulted in his crucifixion. I was a very enthusiastic lover of the Master, and believed thoroughly in his teachings and power. I did not believe that the Roman soldiers could take him, if we did not permit it to be done. As a consequence, I was anxious that Jesus should show his great power and demonstrate to the Jews that he was the true son of God, with power over men and low spirits.

“I never betrayed him for the money that I received, for it was not sufficient to pay for one moment of happiness which I lost because of my act of pointing out the greatest person in all God’s universe. (Jesus is Master of the Celestial Heavens.) I see that you are too sleepy to write more tonight, so I will say goodnight, Judas.”

From John, the apostle; “Judas was not a bad person, as he is described to be, and his “betrayal” as it is called, of the Master, was not for the puropse of gratifying any avarice that he might have had, or because of jealousy, or to revenge a wrong; it was because he was impulsive and had great belief in Jesus’ power and his ability to overcome both Jewish leaders and their Roman overlords. He thought he would be doing the Master and his cause a benefit by having it demonstrated that Jesus could not be silenced or harmed by any earthly powers. Judas’ betrayal was really an act that grew out of his love for, and belief in the greatness of Jesus’ powers.

“Jesus never said that one of us would betray him; I know because I was there. You must not rely on the Bible’s statements, they are based upon erroneous writings, they are not the originals written by those whose names they bear. The trouble is that they give Jesus, as the individual, the prominence which should be given to his teachings. He is very displeased because of this, and one of the great objects of his writing anew these truths is to correct that error, and make the truths which he received from the Father the important message.”

Read more of Jesus’ teachings in The Gospel of God’s Love.