I AM HERE. Jesus.

Let me write a few lines.

I see that you were much interested in what the preacher said tonight about God and His Personality, and that you gave him several questions which he could not answer. This must be expected, for a true conception of God is not ordinarily given to men, or Who or What He is. Only by the development of their souls by the Divine Love can they obtain any conception of His Being. As their souls thus develop, they become a part of His Divinity, and their soul perceptions become opened up to a realization of Who God is, to a small degree at least. Then they know that He is something more than an all-enveloping Energy, supplemented by a purposeful Will.

The preacher has not these soul perceptions and cannot conceive of God, the Soul, but can only express to you the truthfulness of the evidences of God’s Existence, such as the Energy that he spoke of.

As you know, this Energy is His Spirit, although the preacher has not the exact conception of what this Spirit is or how It operates. He confuses the Soul and Spirit, and makes the mere Instrument with which God expresses His Energy to be the real, true Substance of God, the Soul. He is right when he says that he cannot go back of this Energy to find God, for his soul perceptions have not yet been awakened to a cognition of that from which the Energy proceeds, or which is the very Source from which flow all the manifestations that, to his mind, constitute God. He is like the theologians and philosophers who believe that these manifestations and energies and forces are the only God, the only Personal God. And he may be shocked to hear that his teachings amount to only this, but it is true. To him, there is no more Personal God than to the others, with this exception: that he attempts to believe that, in some manner and in some way, connected with this Energy, there is a Will which has in It a purpose of Love or Kindness or Fatherly Care. But the real, Personal God, with His Great Soul of Love which is always being bestowed upon the individual man, he does not conceive of or make his own.

God is Soul, and only Soul, which has in It all the Attributes of Love and Wisdom and Thought for the welfare of His creatures. He is a Thinking and Seeing God, and all the Energies of His Soul are used to make men better and happier. As is the natural father of the man a personal father, so is the Great Soul of God a Personal Father to all His children. And when men shall have the development of their souls in the Divine Love, they will know that God is Personal—something more than an all-enveloping Energy or Force, or mere manifestation of His Existence.

The preacher says, in substance, that God is everywhere, and His Presence may be realized by all who are willing to receive that manifestation; and that, whether they are willing or not, that Presence exists just the same. This is pantheism, toned down a little by his beliefs in a more Personal God, but still pantheism, and wholly wrong and violative of God’s Being.

THE SOURCE OF THINGS CAN NEVER BE THE THINGS THEMSELVES, ALTHOUGH, AS THEY FLOW FROM THE SOURCE, THE THINGS HAVE SOME OF THE QUALITIES OF THE SOURCE ITSELF. AND SO IT IS WITH THESE MANIFESTATIONS OF GOD’S EXISTENCE. WHILE THEY ARE OF HIS QUALITIES, YET, THEY ARE NOT EQUIVALENT TO HIS PRESENCE OR TO THE SOURCE FROM WHICH THEY FLOW. GOD IS NOT EVERYWHERE, BUT IS IN HIS HEAVENS. AND ALL THESE EXPRESSIONS OF HIS POWERS AND WILL AND ENERGIES ARE MERELY EVIDENCES THAT THERE IS A SOURCE FROM WHICH THEY ALL COME, BUT THEY ARE NOT THAT SOURCE ITSELF.

And, again, the preacher said that God created the body of man and not the “spirit,” as he calls it, meaning the soul, so that the body is a creation by itself and cannot contain the spirit or the spirit body in it. Further, that this spirit is outside of the human body, and, in a general way, a part of one “Great Spirit” that is universal and everywhere; and that, therefore, all men, no matter what their conditions may be in the earth life or in the eternity part of life, are brothers, and God is the Father of them all. Well, the preacher is mistaken in this, for every man has his own individual spirit and soul. And on the state or condition of that soul depends the happiness or misery of the man. Also, he is merely the brother of other men because he is a creature of God and made in His image, and not because he is a part of the “Universal Spirit” which the preacher believes permeates everything and exists everywhere. God is the Father because these children are His creatures, the objects of His Creation, and individualized, each working out his own destiny. AS WE HAVE TOLD YOU, SOME OF THESE CHILDREN WILL ALWAYS REMAIN THE MERELY CREATED CHILDREN, WHILE OTHERS WILL PARTAKE OF HIS DIVINE LOVE AND BECOME A PART OF HIS DIVINITY, AND INHABITANTS OF THE CELESTIAL SPHERES.

The preacher has many things to learn. And, as he believes in the search for the Truth, if he will let the Divine Love flow into his heart and transform his soul into the very Essence and Substance of the Father’s Divinity, he will be able to learn that many spiritual as well as material things are governed by law. Unless the soul gets into a condition that enables it to see and realize the higher Truths of the spirit world, it can never obtain knowledge of spiritual things. And one of the objects of such knowledge is God.

Well, I have written enough and will stop.

With my love, I will say good night.

Your brother and friend, 

JESUS.