(Q) Please give a definition for, "God so loved the world as
to give has only begotten son."
(A) A beautiful lesson has just been given, and definition.
This may suit those seeking this the better.
God, the Father, the first cause, seeking - in the
manifestations of self - brought the world, as we (as
individuals) observe it about us, into being - THROUGH love;
giving to man, His creation, His creatures, that ability to
become one with Him. That son WE have called the Son of man,
the Christ Spirit, the love made manifest in bringing the
creature into material being in a plane we have called earth.
That son was shown, then, the way, through the love of the
Father, and He made manifest that love in giving His earthly,
material life for a cause, an ensample, a mediation, a
contact with the Father, a mediator for man. Hence in love,
through love, God IS love, in the Christ Consciousness, the
Christ Spirit; the Son of man made same manifest in all the
experiences through the earth. Hence, as given by the
beloved disciple, "God so loved the world as to give His only
begotten son, "that we, THROUGH Him, might have life - God -
more abundant. He, though He were the Son, learned obedience
through the things which He suffered. He that climbs up any
other way than accepting those things that are to be met day
by day, even as He, seeks through some other channel. The
servant may never be greater than the master. He has given
that we may be equal and one with Him, yet through Him, His
manifestations, in Him, we live in the earth, we move and
have our being.
(Q) What is meant by the children of light, as just given?
(A) They that choose to be guided by His will and do not,
through themselves, attempt to manifest self rather than the
will of the Father.
In the beginning was the word, and the word was God. He
said, Let there be LIGHT - and there was light. Like begets
like. It IS both cause and effect, and they that choose some
other way become the children of darkness; and they are
these: Envying, strife, hate; and the children of these are
sedition, rebellion, and the like.
The children of light first love, for "Though I may have the
gift of prophecy, though I may speak in unknown tongues,
though I give my body to be burned and have not the spirit of
the Son of man, the Christ Consciousness, the Christ Spirit,
I am nothing." For, the children of light KNOW Him; He
calleth each by name.
(Q) [
404] and [
462]: Please give us a message in regard to
our experiences.
(A) Be ye patient in well doing. Count not the time long,
for in so doing ye give the forces of doubt a place in thine
own experience; and he that doubteth, or looketh back, is
worse than an infidel. For, unto thee has come much, in joy,
much in peace; and the little discouragements that make for
faltering, if the heart will be kept singing, will make for
the brighter joys, the greater appreciations, and the glories
of the Son may be made the brighter in thy experience. For,
live each day as if ye were to meet Him the next; in that
expectancy, in that glory, and let not those things that
would hinder have a place in thy consciousness. Thus do HIS
children, His brethren, manifest that faith that removes
mountains.
(Q) [
69]: When may I expect the promise given me to be
fulfilled?
(A) In waiting, in being overanxious, oft does one delay the
appearing. Open rather thine self, and know that He will
speak with thee. "Be not afraid, it is I." Then, when self
is open, there will come - not one, but many - such
experiences.
(Q) How may I open self more than I am doing?
(A) By entering more into the holy of holies, into the inner
self.
(Q) [
295]: May I have a message on the lesson?
(A) In self may there be manifested that love, even as He
showed in thee, in the experiences in the ministering with
and for Him; and the promises that were made thee ARE true,
if self will be kept in that way in which that spirit of
love, of faith, of hope, of charity, may be kept in His way.
"If ye love me, keep my commandments" is ever the call of
Him.
(Q) [
993]: Why do records entities are making come
constantly to me, and a desire to know more about them?
(A) As has been given thee, there were those experiences
in which those that consecrated and set themselves as
individual souls to accomplish definite conditions in the
experiences and the affairs of the sons of men, were the
records kept by self. Then, this experience of seeing,
feeling - visioning, even, at times - the records made by
entities, by groups, is just a portion of self's development
towards those marks of higher calling as may be set only in
Him. For, through the glorying in Him, and not in self, do
we become conscious of that He would accomplish THROUGH us.
So keep, even as was said of her of old, "She pondered these
and kept them in her heart," knowing that there would be
revealed - even as they may be put to service for others -
that as each soul may need for the stimulation of ITS soul in
a broader, better service in His name. For, there be no
other name given under heaven whereby men be saved.
(Q) Please explain what was meant in the Life Reading given
[
329] that he would be offered work on the 15th of May?
(A) The way was opened; and ye may assist him in
understanding what is to be done in the material and mental
self, for the carrying on is to only give the understanding
in the relationships to time, space, condition, relations,
and individuals.
(Q) Any message for the group as a whole at this time?
(A) Take that as has been given, that ye - each soul - enter
into the quietness of self and seek to know His bidding with
thee at this time. For, as it has been given, there is a
cause - a purpose - for which the group was called, and
enjoined, that each study to show self approved unto Him,
avoiding the appearances of evil, RIGHTLY dividing the words
of truth, life, light, and love; and by thy conversations, by
thy deeds day by day, make manifest that love He has given,
He has shown, in the earth.
We are through.
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