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The
True Relationship of Man to the Creation of
the World, and the Origin of Life.
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I AM HERE. Jesus.
I come tonight to tell you that you are in a very much better
condition than you have been for some time. Your rapport with us is
so very much greater that I feel that I should write you a message
upon an important subject which is vital to the salvation of man
from the sins and errors of his life on earth, and I will write a
portion of what I desire to write.
Well, I will first say that there are so many men and women on the
earth who believe, or who assert that they believe, that, through
their own efforts, they can develop those soul qualities which are
necessary to bring them in accord with the Soul of the Father, that
I find the task of convincing these persons of the errors of their
beliefs, or assumption of beliefs, will be a very great one. And
this task will not be confined to those who have given real and deep
study to the mysteries of life, both on earth and thereafter, but
also to a much greater number who have a kind of smattering of this
supposed knowledge, which the wiser or more learned publish to the
world as a result of their investigations.
It is more difficult to convince the ignorant, who think that they
know the Laws of Being and the plan of the workings of God's
Universe, than to convince those who have given sincere, thoughtful
study to the same, because the latter, generally, as they progress
in their investigations, become convinced that the more they should
know as a result of their investigations the less they really know.
I do not know just what is the most important subject for comment
tonight relating to these matters, for there are so many, all of
which I must at some time instruct you about. But I will write
tonight about: “The True Relationship of Man to the Creation of the
World, and the Origin of Life."
Your Bible says that, in the beginning, God created the heavens and
the earth, etc., out of a void, and continued that creation until
there was a perfect heaven, with all its glories, and a perfect
earth with inhabitants of every kind—all perfect and made just as an
All-Wise and All-Powerful God would create. And, as a climax to all,
man was created so perfect that he was made in the image of his
Creator.
Well, this story is just as good and satisfactory as any that has
been conceived and written by man, and is just as worthy of belief;
but, as a fact, it is not true. For there never was a time or period
when there was a void in the universe or when there was chaos.
God never created anything out of nothing. But His Creations, such
as are perceived by and known to men, were merely the change in form
or composition of what had already existed (and always will exist)
as elements, though there will undoubtedly be changes in form and
appearance, and in constituent elements in their relation to one
another.
GOD WAS ALWAYS EXISTENT—A BEING WITHOUT BEGINNING, WHICH IDEA THE
FINITE MIND, I KNOW, CANNOT GRASP; BUT IT IS TRUE. AND, SO,
EVERYTHING WHICH IS IN THE UNIVERSE TODAY ALSO HAS EXISTED, THOUGH
NOT IN FORM AND COMPOSITION AS THEY NOW ARE. AND THEY WILL NOT
CONTINUE TO BE AS THEY ARE, FOR CHANGE ETERNAL IS THE LAW OF GOD'S
UNIVERSE—I MEAN AS TO ALL THINGS WHICH MAY BE SPOKEN OF AS HAVING A
SUBSTANCE, WHETHER THEY BE MATERIAL OR ETHEREAL.
OF COURSE, HIS TRUTHS NEVER CHANGE, AND NEITHER DO THE LAWS BY WHICH
THE HARMONY OF THE UNIVERSE IS PRESERVED AND CONTINUED PERFECT.
NOW, THE EARTH ON WHICH YOU LIVE DID NOT ALWAYS HAVE AN EXISTENCE AS
AN EARTH, AND NEITHER DID THE FIRMAMENT AND THE GREAT GALAXY OF
PLANETS AND STARS. BUT THEY WERE NOT CREATED OUT OF NOTHING, AND
NEITHER WAS THERE CHAOS; FOR, IN GOD'S ECONOMY OF BEING, THERE IS
NEVER ANY CHAOS. IF THERE WERE, THIS WOULD MEAN THE ABSENCE OF THE
WORKINGS OF HIS LAWS AND HARMONY.
BUT THE EARTH AND THE FIRMAMENT WERE CREATED. AT ONE TIME, THEY HAD
NO EXISTENCE AS SUCH, AND, AT A COMING TIME, THEY MAY CEASE TO HAVE
SUCH EXISTENCE. AND THIS CREATION WAS IN AN ORDERLY WAY, ACCORDING
TO DESIGN, WITH NO ELEMENT OF CHANCE ENTERING INTO IT. AND SUCH
CREATION WAS NOT THROUGH WHAT YOUR WISE MEN MAY CALL ACCRETION OR
EVOLUTION—THAT IS, SELF-EVOLUTION—FOR EVERY NEW OR ADDITIONAL
EXPONENT OF GROWTH OR MANIFESTATION OF INCREASE WAS THE RESULT OF
GOD'S LAWS, WHICH HE OPERATED IN THE CREATION OF THE CREATURE.
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS SELF-EVOLUTION, OR THAT DEVELOPMENT WHICH
ARISES FROM THE UNASSISTED GROWTH OF THE THING DEVELOPED. AND THIS
APPLIES TO ALL OF NATURE AS WELL AS TO MAN. TO GROW, TO BECOME
NEARER PERFECTION, IMPLIES THE DECAY AND DISAPPEARANCE OF SOME
ELEMENTS WHICH HAVE PERFORMED THEIR MISSIONS AND WORK IN THE GROWTH
OF THE THING CREATED. AND NEVER DO THE SAME ELEMENTS CONTINUE IN THE
DEVELOPMENT OF THAT WHICH THE LAWS, IN THEIR OPERATIONS, BRING TO
GREATER AND GREATER PERFECTION.
But, in all this work of creation, there are laws of disintegration
and apparent retrogression operating as well as laws of positive
construction and advancement. And, again, these former laws do not
operate by chance, but by design, just as do the latter class of
laws.
For the purpose of bringing forth the perfect creature—be he man or
animal or vegetable or mineral—the Creator of all knows when
retrogression as well as the laws of advancement and increased
effectiveness shall operate. He never makes a mistake in setting
these laws into operation, and He never pronounces the result of His
Work, “Not Good."
As has been said, a thousand years are as a day with God. And while
it may appear to man for many long years that there are
retrogressions and delays in bringing to perfection a creature of
the Creator's Works, yet, that apparent retrogression is not such a
fact, but only a course or method adopted for bringing forth the
higher, or greater, perfection. I know it is difficult to explain
these workings of creation to the finite, earthly mind, but you may
grasp some conception of what I desire to make known.
MAN, IN HIS CREATION, WAS NOT OF SLOW GROWTH, AS WERE SOME OF THE
OTHER CREATIONS OF GOD. RATHER, HE WAS FROM AND AT THE BEGINNING
MADE PERFECT, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE QUALITIES OF DIVINITY AND
IMMORTALITY. HE DID NOT GROW FROM A LOWER CREATURE BY THE SLOW
PROCESS OF EVOLUTION, AS SOME OF YOUR SCIENTISTS HAVE PROCLAIMED—AND
THIS A SELF-EVOLUTION, RESULTING FROM INHERENT QUALITIES WHICH WERE
DEVELOPED BY EXPERIENCE—BUT HE WAS CREATED THE PERFECT MAN
INSTANTLY.1
I will stop for the present.
Your brother and friend,
JESUS.
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