From "True Gospel Revealed Anew by Jesus", Vol. I, page 72.
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The mystery of the Godhead three in one is a myth. There is
no mystery that man should not know.
( ... ) I know that the orthodox generally believe and classify it as a
part
of the Godhead, being one with and the equal of God, the Father, and not
merely a manifestation of the Father, as spirit, and hence, necessarily
identical with the Father, though having a different and distinct
personality.
In this belief and in this classification is included Jesus, having a
distinct personality.
The orthodox preachers and theological writers teach that it is a fact
that
these three are one, co-equal and existing, and that fact is the great
mystery of God, and that men should not endeavor to fathom the mystery,
because the sacred things of God are His own, and it is not lawful for men
to enter into these secrets.
Well this declaration and admonition are very wise as men's wisdom goes,
and
saves the expounders of these doctrines of mystery from attempting to
explain what they cannot explain, because it is impossible for them to
unravel that which as a fact, has no existence.
Men of thought all down the ages have sought to understand this great
mystery, as they called it, and have been unsuccessful, and as the early
fathers met with the same defeat in their endeavors to understand the
mystery, and, then because of such defeat, declared the explanation of the
doctrine to be a secret of God, not to be inquired into by men, so all
these
other investigators of the church when they became convinced of the
futility
of the search, adopted the admonition of the old fathers that God's secret
must not be inquired into, for it belonged to Him alone, and sinful man
and
the redeemed man also must respect God's secret.
And thus from the beginning of the established church, after the death of
Jesus and his apostles, was declared this doctrine of the trinity--one in
three and three in one, yet only one--and made the vital foundation stone
of
their visible church's existence. Of course, from time to time, there
arose
men, both in the church, who, having more enlightenment than their
brothers
in the church, attempted to gainsay the truth of the doctrine and declared
and maintained that there was only one God, the Father.
But they were in the minority, and not acting with the more powerful,
their
views were rejected; and the mystery became the church's sacred symbol of
truth, unexplainable and therefore more certain and entitled to more
credence. And it seems to be the tendency of men's minds, or at least of
those who believe in the Bible as the inspired word of God, to welcome and
encourage as the more wonderful and im****tant and the more to be cherished
those things which savor of the mysterious, rather than those which a man
may read and understand as he runneth.
NOWHERE, NOT EVEN IN THE BIBLE, IS THERE ANY SAYING OF JESUS TO THE EFFECT
THAT GOD IS TRIPARTITE, CONSISTING OF THE FATHER, SON AND HOLY GHOST; AND,
AS A FACT, NEVER DID JESUS WHEN ON EARTH TEACH ANY SUCH DOCTRINE, BUT ONLY
THIS: THAT THE FATHER IS GOD AND THE ONLY GOD, AND THAT HE, JESUS, IS HIS
SON AND THE FIRST FRUITS OF THE RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD, AND THAT THE
HOLY GHOST IS GOD'S MESSENGER FOR CONVEYING THE DIVINE LOVE, AND AS SUCH,
THE COMFORTER.
I know that in some of the Gospels, as now contained in the Bible and
adopted as canonical, it is said, in effect, that the Godhead consists of
the Father, Son and Holy Ghost--these three are one--but such Gospels do
not
contain the truth in this respect and are not the same Gospels that were
originally written. These original Gospels have been added to and taken
from
in the passing of the years and in the copying and the recopying that
occurred before the adoption of the same.
They, the adopted ones, were compiled from many writings, and as the
compilers in those early times differed in their opinions as men do now
respecting religious truths, the more powerful of these having authority
to
declare what should be accepted, according to their interpretations of
those
manuscripts that were being copied, directed the copies to be made in
accord
with their ideas, and I may say, desires, and announced and put forth such
productions to be true copies of the originals. And as these copies were
successively made the preceding ones were destroyed, and hence the
earliest
existing manuscripts of these Gospels came into being many years after the
originals from which they were claimed to be compiled, were written and
destroyed.
AND I, LUKE, WHO DID WRITE A GOSPEL AND WHO AM ACQUAINTED WITH THE PRESENT
GOSPEL ASCRIBED TO ME, SAY THAT THERE ARE MANY VITAL THINGS AND
DECLARATIONS, THAT I NEVER WROTE AND THAT ARE NOT TRUE, CONTAINED IN IT;
AND
MANY TRUTHS THAT I DID WRITE ARE NOT CONTAINED THEREIN--AND SO WITH THE
OTHER GOSPELS.
In none of our Gospels did the mystery of the Godhead appear, and that for
the reason that there was not and is not, and we did not teach that there
was any Godhead, composed of three personalities. Only one God, the
Father.
Jesus was a son of man in the natural sense, and a son of God in the
spiritual sense, but he was not God or a part of God in any sense except
that he possessed the Divine Love of the Father, and in that sense was a
part of His Essence. The Holy Spirit was not God, but merely His
instrument--a Spirit--the Holy Spirit.
As you have been informed, the soul of man existed prior to man's creation
in the flesh, and was the only part of man that was made in the image of
God. It existed in this pristine state without individuality, though
having
a personality, and resembled the Great Soul of the Almighty, which Soul is
God Himself; though the soul that was given to man was not a part of the
Great Soul, merely a likeness of it.
Some of you mortals have said that man's soul is a part of the "Oversoul,"
meaning the Soul of God, but this is not true, and if in any of our
communications it has been said that the soul of man is a part of the Soul
of God, and I mean while it existed before its incarnation, our saying
must
not be so interpreted.
The ego of God as may be said, is the Soul, and from this Soul, emanates
all
the manifested attributes of God, such as power and wisdom and love--but
not
jealousy or wrath or hatred, as some of the writers of the Bible have
said,
for He possesses no such attributes.
The ego of man is the soul, and in his created purity and perfection from
his soul emanated all the manifested attributes belonging to him, such as
power and love and wisdom; and neither were jealousy nor hatred nor wrath
attributes of his before his fall.
It is said that man is composed of body, soul and spirit, and this is
true.
From your life's experience you know what the body is, and I have told you
what the soul is, and now the question arises, what is the spirit? I know
that there have been for centuries great differences of opinion among
theologians and other wise men as to what the spirit is; some contending
that it and the soul are the same thing, and others, that the spirit is
the
real ego of man and the soul something of less quality and subordinate to
the spirit, and others having other views, and all wrong, for as I have
said
the soul is the ego, and everything else connected with man and forming a
part at his creation when he was pronounced to be "very good," is
subordinate to the soul, and only its instrumentality for manifesting
itself.
As Jesus has told you, the spirit is the active energy of the soul and the
instrumentality by which the soul manifests itself; and this definition
applies to the spirit of man while a mortal as well as when he becomes an
inhabitant of the spirit world. The spirit is inseparable from the soul,
and
has no function in the existence of man, except to make manifest the
potentialities of the soul in its activities. Spirit is not life, but it
may
become an evidence of life--it is life's breath.
And as man was created in the image of his Maker--and as spirit is only
the
active energy of the soul, by the application of the principle of
correspondences, which one of your former psychics declared to exist, IT
MAY
BE ASSUMED AND IT IS TRUTH, THAT THE HOLY SPIRIT IS THE ACTIVE ENERGY OF
THE
GREAT SOUL OF THE FATHER, AND, AS WE KNOW FROM OUR EXPERIENCES AND
OBSERVATIONS, IS USED AS THE MESSENGER OF THE FATHER TO CONVEY TO MANKIND
HIS DIVINE LOVE. AND I DO NOT MEAN TO RESTRICT THE MISSION OF THE HOLY
SPIRIT TO MANKIND IN THE FLESH, FOR IT ALSO CONVEYS AND BESTOWS THIS GREAT
LOVE UPON THE SOULS OF THE FATHER'S CHILDREN WHO ARE SPIRITS WITHOUT THE
BODIES OF BONE AND FLESH, AND WHO ARE INHABITANTS OF THE SPIRIT WORLD. AND
SO, IT IS A TRUTH THAT THE HOLY SPIRIT IS NOT GOD AND NO PART OF THE
GODHEAD, BUT MERELY HIS MESSENGER OF TRUTH AND LOVE EMANATING FROM HIS
GREAT
SOUL AND BRINGING TO MAN LOVE AND LIGHT AND HAPPINESS.
So you see there is no mystery of the Godhead, and no secret that God does
not wish man to know and understand, and no truth that it is contrary to
God's laws and will that man shall search for and possess.
IT IS SAID THAT GOD IS SPIRIT, AND IT IS TRUE; BUT SPIRIT IS NOT GOD, ONLY
ONE OF HIS INSTRUMENTS USED TO WORK WITH MANKIND AND THE SPIRITS OF MEN.
TO
WOR****P THE INSTRUMENT IS BLASPHEMY, AND ONLY GOD ALONE MUST BE WOR****PED.
JESUS MUST NOT BE WOR****PED AS GOD, THE HOLY SPIRIT MUST NOT BE SO
WOR****PED, AND THE SOONER MEN LEARN THIS TRUTH AND OBSERVE IT THE SOONER
THEY WILL GET IN AT-ONEMENT WITH THE FATHER, AND PLEASE THE MASTER, WHO,
AS
SOME MAY NOT KNOW, IS THE GREATEST WOR****PER OF THE FATHER IN ALL HIS
UNIVERSE.
I have written longer than l expected, but I hope from my message many
mortals may receive the truth, and believe that the Holy Spirit is not one
of the Godhead, and that the mystery of the Godhead is a myth, without
body,
soul or spirit, and that there is no truth in all God's universe that man
is
not invited to search for and understand and possess. ( ... )
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