There are two main spiritual texts which are vital to understanding our current human condition. These were both 'delivered' to humanity from spirits and universal personalities early last century, setting the scene for what is to come. There are numerous websites offering such material and below I will set out what I think are the most relevant parts to Divine Love Spirituality.
The Padgett Messages
Jesus and other Celestial spirits conveyed to James Padgett through automatic writing, what is said to be in the messages, Jesus' second coming. So the messages are vital to our growth of truth.
The main points relevant to DLS are:
There is a lot of other useful information within the many messages, and if nothing else they help you gain a good feeling for and insight into Jesus and his relationship with us.
There are however some problems with the messages, which limit their value in helping us see the bigger picture as to our self-denying, negative and evil state of mind and will.
I see the Padgett Messages as a great starting point, but they don't reveal all - far from it. They give us a taste, hint at more, yet without actually coming right out and telling us about our need to heal ourselves by longing for the truth: why we have to do it, what it actually involves, and how bloody hard it is to do.
The main points relevant to DLS are:
- That we are of natural love and in the image of God, and that we can become of the essence of God and so divine, through longing for and receiving the Divine Love.
- That there is life after death, we go on as spirits in various levels depending on our level of truth, belief and behaviour.
- The first major level in spirit consists of the mansion worlds. And MOST importantly they are currently divided; for those of us who have received some Divine Love and are intent on healing our evil ways, and those who wish to remain in their natural love and current condition of self, and so truth, denial.
- I relate to the mansion world division as: worlds 1,2,4,6 are for 'mind spirits' - those people intent on developing their mind at the expense of their soul. Worlds 3,5,7 for those people who have received Divine Love are are wishing to grow in truth out of the limitations of the mansion worlds, moving into the higher Celestial Spheres.
- That there is no such thing as reincarnation.
There is a lot of other useful information within the many messages, and if nothing else they help you gain a good feeling for and insight into Jesus and his relationship with us.
There are however some problems with the messages, which limit their value in helping us see the bigger picture as to our self-denying, negative and evil state of mind and will.
- They are very masculine based as in there are very few female spirits speaking with their feelings and about feelings. And Mary Magdalene doesn't have say.
- They give one the impression that all one has to do is receive Divine Love into ones soul and then even if some bad yuk within you comes up, not to worry, for the Divine Love will somehow magically take it all away. Which doesn't happen. There is no easy way out. Jesus is not going to come and take all the faithful off to the Promised Land, nor is soaking up Divine Love going to directly heal you of all your sin and error. We have to do that ourselves through our Soul-Healing. And as hard as it might be to accept, the fact is, many people have been longing for and receiving the Divine Love for the past two thousand years, and some now because of specifically reading about it in the Padgett Messages, and yet no one, so far as I am concerned, has said how it has fully healed them. Some people might believe that our evilness, the bad state we're in is simply too big for us to heal whilst on Earth, and so we can do the best we can whilst we're here continuing on in spirit, and that might be how it will be for them, but as for myself, I want to heal ALL of myself during my flesh life if I can. Hence my doing my Soul-Healing.
- They give the impression that it's easy growing in truth and ridding yourself of all your problems. One can simply zip up the Divine Love mansion worlds,if one is lucky, quickly becoming a Celestial, perfectly healed and full of love. And I think a lot of people upon partaking of the Love then use there minds to try and be more 'loving', that being what they would expect of themselves because they've now received some Divine Love. A very dangerous trap to fall into.
I see the Padgett Messages as a great starting point, but they don't reveal all - far from it. They give us a taste, hint at more, yet without actually coming right out and telling us about our need to heal ourselves by longing for the truth: why we have to do it, what it actually involves, and how bloody hard it is to do.
The Urantia Book
The UB is a massive book, too big for most people to plough through, and too hard going. However it is vital to our understanding of our evilness or negative state.
The main things relevant to DLS it points out, are:
The Urantia Book is wonderful for expanding your cosmic understanding of God. It's truly mind-boggling the enormousness of Creation. Part four about Jesus' life is incredible, and I would strongly suggest reading the papers on the Indwelling Spirit, as these tell us we can speak to God, that our 'small inner voice' comes from our 'adjuster'.
The main things relevant to DLS it points out, are:
- The Lucifer Rebellion. Reading the papers concerning the Rebellion and Default of Adam and Eve are essential. They tell us how our evilness came about. And from them one can understand that we are evil - the whole of humanity. We exist in a state of rebellion, which means we live denying the Truth. So denying God, Jesus and Mary, ourselves and nature. Earth is currently quarantined from the greater universal structure. And we don't understand the severity of our truth-denying condition because it's all forced onto us; or, we're forced into taking it on upon incarnation - by default. So we are evil by default. We don't have any direct say in it, it just happens to us, and it's our parents who bring it about. Generation after generation we raise children believing we're good and loving parents, and yet the same thing is, which no one seems to realise, that all that so called 'loving parenting' is actually enforcing the parents evilness on the child. It might be very hard to accept and grasp, however when you come to do your Soul-Healing you'll understand. That all your problems, all your sin and error, all your fuckedness, and why every bad thing happens to you, is all a direct result of your early childhood. Some parents are of course more 'loving' than others, however it doesn't matter, and we've all got to at some point come to terms with the truth, be it in the mansion worlds or now on Earth: that we're not as good as we might believe we are; that in fact we're all in a very bad way - we're all living evilly. So ALL we do is wrong. Each of us expresses our evilness uniquely. We live in a world that perpetuates our evil condition, currently doing nothing to heal it or even stem the tide. Every day people rely more on gadgets, drugs, work, sex, families and friends to prop themselves up, to keep going, to try and be happy. Everyday we are losing ourselves a little more to impersonalness. Every day is yet another day of living untrue to yourself and moving deeper into your personal darkness - even if you're having the time of your life (especially if you're having it).
- There is no reincarnation.
- There indwells within us a spirit fragment of God - The Indwelling Spirit.
- It also is too heavily weighted in the masculine.
The Urantia Book is wonderful for expanding your cosmic understanding of God. It's truly mind-boggling the enormousness of Creation. Part four about Jesus' life is incredible, and I would strongly suggest reading the papers on the Indwelling Spirit, as these tell us we can speak to God, that our 'small inner voice' comes from our 'adjuster'.
The Value of Evil
As much as we might hate being of it and living in it, even feeling completely overwhelmed by it, still, as the Urantia Book tells us, evil has great value, and so has a lot to offer us.
Our experience of being evil is not to be simply thrown out the window. There would be no point to it if we lived being bad, then suddenly upon partaking of the Divine Love, we became instantly good.
We have much to gain and learn from our experiences of evil, which is why I imagine God has put us in it. Evil is comparatively a rarity in the universes of love and perfection, and one could even say we're very fortunate to be given such a unique experience. When we arrive at the time to do something once and for all about our suffering; when we decide to seek the truth to heal all our evilness, no matter what it takes - to become true no matter what the cost, even if it means going it entirely alone having to give up all other relationships; when we decide it really is time to start looking after our own soul, then we have to come to terms with our wayward state.
And as we work through our healing, painstakingly divesting ourselves of such corruption and impurity, we begin to see all the good evil is offering us as we start to grow daily in truth.
When each day new insight, awareness, understanding, revelation - both personally and about the world, come to you, and all because you're starting to honour and accept yourself through your feelings, all have nothing to do with your mind, then you begin to wonder at the amazingness of it all, how out of such vile, putridness can come something as valuable as truth.
So out of badness comes something good. We are inherently good, we've only been made to be bad. And having used our badness to help us come back to being good, then with the truth in our souls we might be able to fully appreciate all we've been though.
Our experience of being evil is not to be simply thrown out the window. There would be no point to it if we lived being bad, then suddenly upon partaking of the Divine Love, we became instantly good.
We have much to gain and learn from our experiences of evil, which is why I imagine God has put us in it. Evil is comparatively a rarity in the universes of love and perfection, and one could even say we're very fortunate to be given such a unique experience. When we arrive at the time to do something once and for all about our suffering; when we decide to seek the truth to heal all our evilness, no matter what it takes - to become true no matter what the cost, even if it means going it entirely alone having to give up all other relationships; when we decide it really is time to start looking after our own soul, then we have to come to terms with our wayward state.
And as we work through our healing, painstakingly divesting ourselves of such corruption and impurity, we begin to see all the good evil is offering us as we start to grow daily in truth.
When each day new insight, awareness, understanding, revelation - both personally and about the world, come to you, and all because you're starting to honour and accept yourself through your feelings, all have nothing to do with your mind, then you begin to wonder at the amazingness of it all, how out of such vile, putridness can come something as valuable as truth.
So out of badness comes something good. We are inherently good, we've only been made to be bad. And having used our badness to help us come back to being good, then with the truth in our souls we might be able to fully appreciate all we've been though.
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