The witnessing radiance of Light is not revealed in WORDS, but in POWER and in majesty and in the perfecting and the bringing forth of divinity right within oneself.
"Seek not for the things for which the Gentiles seek,” as Christ warned. "But rather seek ye the Kingdom of God; and all else will be added unto you." (Matt. 6:33 and Luke 12:31).
It is only as the heart of man is opened, by the great love, that he can possibly enter that divine Kingdom of God and receive the unspeakable glory which God has held locked within each individual's soul. And as one exerts himself to "think only the most beautiful things possible," he will automatically develop that love and will become as beautiful as possible. And as one sends that love forth with all the energy of heart, soul, mind and strength he generates a power beyond the natural mind of man to fathom. And forever will he be clothed in the spiritual radiance, "That the shame of his mortal nakedness will never appear." "And though his sins were as scarlet, they will become white as snow, to him that OVERCOMETH. And they will never come in remembrance before the Lord."
Such a one will "walk in glory and be clothed in Light," as Christine Mercie declared.
These greater blessings can never be claimed by those who are satisfied with all the failings and weaknesses of mortality. It is most assuredly true that "The wages of sin IS death!" And it is also true that those who OVERCOME sin also have the power to OVERCOME that last enemy -- DEATH!
The possibility of OVERCOMING and of becoming "perfect, even as the Father in heaven is perfect," has been there down the endless centuries, awaiting those who were willing to look beyond the common, orthodoxed vision of grubby mortality. This promise of perfection is possible else the command would not have been given. Man has failed to even look or to contemplate it because of the hardness of his heart and because of the great wickedness of unbelief. Yet this invitation to become perfect, "even as the Father in Heaven is perfect” is but the unveiling of the gifts and power of manhood to a small, grubby child. He is invited to grow into such possibilities. And growing, itself, is a natural process.
In the exercising of love and forgiveness is the growing accomplished. And in accepting such a possibility one begins to mature or to "evolve from the man kingdom." He leaves the realms of childhood and develops into the full stature of sonship. God has at last made apparent the method of passing beyond all mortal laws into the Order or Realm of the ancient Patriarchs.
As one lays hold of the PROMISES, through FAITH, and lives that First and Great Commandment, he is no longer under the laws of mortality. It is as one takes hold of the Promises, through Faith, that he discovers he is traveling that Straight and Narrow Way, and IT IS BEAUTIFUL. It is the path of PROMISES and one need travel it but a very short distance before the door to that Kingdom of God is opened wide. Its reality and its powers and its glories become the divine possession of that individual as he has opened his heart to be-live.
No one can possibly travel that STRAIGHT AND NARROW WAY of OVERCOMING without reaching the great ultimate goal of all existence. As he travels that divine Highway of Light his vision closes to the darkness and the Light becomes ever more real and perfect and glorious. This is a point of development where one reaches the point of Faith or progress where Light and perfection and joy and ecstasy are all that is left -- and "he is wrapped in the power and glory of his Maker and is caught up to dwell with Him!" This has been waiting for man to only begin to contemplate and to believe.
As one travels "This Straight and Narrow Way, that leads to Life Eternal” he naturally, and quite easily progresses beyond the Order of the Patriarchs and the PROMISES. He receives the fulfillment of the PROMISES. He becomes the radiance of their glory.
But no Promise on the earth, or in heaven for that matter, is of any worth unless it is possible to fulfill it and to receive its limitless power. And God said, "Behold, I never give a command or a Promise except I prepare the way for its accomplishment." And He is a God of truth and cannot lie! Neither can His Words return unto Him unfulfilled or void!
To comprehend and to receive the fulness of the marvelous wonders of those great Promises, that were hidden up from the foundation of the world, because of the blindness of men's minds and because of the hardness of their hearts and because of the gross wickedness of unbelief, comes the unveiling of the unspeakable glories of that which has been awaiting man from the beginning of time -- even before the dawn of history. And these great blessings are for this life -- and for all eternity. They are for the great, living NOW -- and the forever!
As one opens his sealed mind, his hardened heart and his entire being or soul to BELIEVE, the unfolding will come. And the blessings become his own. Thus he begins to travel that Straight and Narrow Path of desiring for things beyond the grubby, mortal level of drab existence. His exerted power to believe will open his mind to begin to desire. And his desiring is the "asking" which is required for fulfillment. Yes. "Ask (or desire) and you shall receive -- FOR EVERYONE WHO ASKS RECEIVES." One cannot possibly ask or desire without first opening up his mind to behold, his eyes to see -- and his heart to believe. It is all one and the same thing.
As one goes beyond all orthodoxed, dull, accepted, dead beliefs into the spiritual promises and possibilities he begins to rend that dismal, gross, deadly veil of unbelief. And only then can one's eyes be conditioned to behold the Light and the glory and the possibility of all that the awakened heart of man can possibly hope for or desire. This is how one steps through the door of grubby mortality into the divine Pathway of OVERCOMING as mortality and all its curses and evils are left behind. And this is a Path anyone on this earth can travel if so be he DESIRES.
This Straight and Narrow Path, of which Christ held forth the keys, is the Highway to Life Eternal -- in which a man need never die. And even with the unfolding of this tremendous Truth, of which Christ constantly bore witness, there are those who are dull, unprogressive and so self-centered in their orthodoxed conformity they will proclaim that they are not afraid to die. They are mediocre individuals and completely without understanding. One does not travel this road because he is AFRAID to die, but because he loves God.
The love of such a one will continue to increase, if his heart is sincere, until he truly loves God with all his heart, all his soul, and all his mind, then with the strength of his entire being that love will be rayed out in a dynamic glory of OVERCOMING. And that individual understands fully that he is not traveling that divine Highway of the Gods because of any groveling fear. The very first miracle accomplished by LOVE is to CAST OUT ALL FEAR! One travels the Road of Holiness because his own soul is reaching forth to glorify God with everything he has to offer. He also realizes that, because he has the courage and the fortitude to become a pioneer along this wondrous spiritual Path, he is building a Highway, paved with the transparent gold, for those who follow. Such a one is a privileged being indeed, for it is a far greater privilege to travel by FAITH than by knowledge. One becomes the trail-blazing guide to those who come later, traveling in comfort and ease.
As one loves with ALL his soul his entire being is renovated and purified and spiritualized and beautified and made perfect.
And only such are prepared to "Be born of the Spirit." It is then one is prepared to behold the things which mortal eyes have never seen, nor mortal ears ever heard and which have never before entered into the heart of man. Such a one, having fulfilled all the laws, through the perfecting of LOVE, will be prepared to enter into that divine Kingdom of God, which pertains only to those WHO LOVE HIM!
Such a purified one enters the jeweled Holy of Holies and discovers that he has become all the glories and the wonders it contains. Anything that is on the outside of man is never really his own. He can only claim definitely and permanently that which is within him -- or which he himself IS! He becomes the love and the purity and the perfection of all that he could possibly desire, in righteousness. He is those very things. He is filled with the radiance of those inner jewels and knows fully that all the virtues of perfection have become his own. It is then he is able to send forth the divine radiance of those precious jewels or virtues, for he himself has become divine.
The Straight and Narrow Way that leads to Life Eternal is the Pathway of LOVE made perfect, joy fulfilled, perfection established and glory accomplished.
But, as Christ said to Nicodemus, "If I have told you earthly things and you have not believed how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things?" All the things that have been written in this record have been earthly things, or conditions that must be taken hold of and fulfilled while in this mortal life. If it is seemingly almost impossible to comprehend being "born of the Spirit" and taking on immortality, then how is it possible to even give a hint concerning the fulness of the things which are spiritual?
"All that the Father has is yours!" The power of perfection! Divine LOVE glorified! Divinity accomplished and Godhood not only a possibility but a reality!
In the eighth chapter of Romans is given the information that "There are Lords many, and Gods many!" "And the scriptures cannot be broken!" Then stand forth Christ's dynamic words partially quoted from Psalms, eighty-two: "If he called them Gods unto whom the word of God comes * * * then why should you seek to stone me because I said, I am the Son of God?" Here Christ was pointing out that he had only claimed to be a son of God, though God had proclaimed that they were called Gods unto whom His words came!"
Christ also testified many times of "The Father within who doeth the works!" This Father within, of Whom Christ so continually bore witness is truly the Great God, "in whom we live and move and have our being!" This is the contact with God within, the divine power of the Almighty that "doeth the works." So Christ testified and bore witness of the Father within. Yet when He came forth from the tomb, after his three days and nights of teaching the Spirits in Prison (according to St. Peter), and Mary dropped at His feet to embrace and worship Him, He forbade her, saying, "Touch me not, for I have not yet ascended to My Father which is in heaven!" So the Father in Heaven was not the Father within with Whom he was in constant contact. There is truly "the Father within," and "the Father Which Art in Heaven!" And both are real and in complete agreement.
Warring, wrangling Christendom and all the heathen nations alike have contradicted each other and battled verbally over What or Who God is, as they have continued to tell about God without ever having KNOWN Him. Yet each and every soul is invited to seek God that he might KNOW HIM -- not just about Him.
"Seek me early and ye shall find me!" Yes! "Seek me diligently and you shall KNOW me!" And the Promise is: "That they might KNOW ME, THE ONLY TRUE AND LIVING GOD AND JESUS CHRIST WHOM YOU HAVE SENT!" This invitation has been waiting down the centuries for man to fulfill the conditions of its fulfillment.
One does not need to get involved in profane arguments about God. It is most assuredly true that there is the great God Who does fill all space, "in whom we live and move and have our being, and out of which all things were made -- and do exist," This is the God "who is nearer than hands and feet" -- THE FATHER WITHIN!
And there are also "Lords many, and Gods Many!" Which indicates that there are personal, individual Gods also, set to rule the heavens above and the earth beneath. And we are informed that this world itself is "THE SCHOOL FOR GODS!"
And what about this revelation: "As man is God once was! And as God is man may become!"
Over individual worlds and planetary systems, and over solar systems and galaxies and over universes there are Gods, set and appointed to rule in majesty and power and understanding as they have progressed along the Eternal Pathway of the Gods! There is no end to progress and to advancement to those who work upon themselves to fulfill all righteousness -- not self-righteousness. And only LOVE can fulfill all righteousness -- for of all the gifts it is the most divinely powerful. And it is eternal!
Those who accept the holy Promises of God, and fulfill them while in this life, will have the power to "evolve from the man kingdom into the God Kingdom." Such will have the comprehension to be informed of heavenly things, of which Christ could only vaguely hint when speaking with Nicodemus.
The very Road of Godhood is that Straight and Narrow Path and it must be traveled while in this life in order for one to receive the fulness of its Promises and powers along with the keys of Eternal Life, continuing forever along that upward Path of everlasting advancement.
The Path is so simple a fool need not err therein. It is the Road of "Love for God made manifest,” and the love for one's fellowmen so filled with forgiveness and mercy and compassion the self and all its negative, mortal traits are completely OVERCOME. This Straight and Narrow Path IS the Road of Triumphant OVERCOMING! And Praise and Love and Gratitude are the rhythm and the vibration and the music of its accomplishment.
These are the divine realities beyond Mortal Boundaries. These are the heavenly things which man has never lifted his vision to behold because of the gross wickedness of his unbelief, which has held him down the centuries in his earthbound condition of grubby mortality.
It is true that very few indeed have been able to comprehend or behold the "Great and marvelous things God has hid up from the foundation of the world!" Even the things pertaining to this earth have been ignored and smothered in that great, dark, dismal veil of unbelief.
"All that the Father has is yours!" -- The LOVE -- the understanding -- the power of creation and the unspeakable glory of Godhood.
The Straight and Narrow Way -- the Pathway to these dynamic PROMISES and the door to the Path is LOVE fulfilled and made perfect! Love for God and love for one's fellowman.
Truth itself is the great reward for those who are willing to ACCEPT IT, WHEN IT IS REVEALED TO THEM. But most people would rather perish than change one preconceived belief, regardless of its erroneous deception. It is easier for many individuals to relinquish their lives than one cherished false belief. However, he who desires to KNOW TRUTH must be willing to pay the price for it. He must be willing to open up his sealed mind and his hardened heart and to "ask God for knowledge to comprehend TRUTH!" Then only can he rend the black, dismal veil of unbelief which does cause him to remain in his awful state of wickedness, through which the great Truths can never penetrate. Few on this earth, at the present time have the stamina or the COURAGE to seek to Know TRUTH! But the Promise is and has always been: "KNOW THE TRUTH AND THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE from error, false beliefs, doubting, darkness, negation and evils! "AND HE WHO IS FREE SHALL BE FREE INDEED!" He will have the freedom and the power to "Come and go as the wind and no one will know from whence he came or whither he goeth!" Yes. He will be born of the Spirit. And, unless you have been born of the Spirit and have its great powers YOU DO NOT HAVE THE TRUTH, no matter what your claims may be.
Then God gave this information: "No man is ever damned for believing too much, but only for believing too little!" It is in the narrow, conformity of all skimped little orthodoxed ideas and petty doctrines that man is DAMNED or his progress is stopped, which the word "damnation" means.
The great miracles of the future will not be to awe the minds of men or to impress them with one's gifts and professed powers. The great miracles will be the miracle enacted within each individual as he rends that veil of unbelief, knowing that nothing is impossible with God. As one rends that veil of darkness he will have overcome the evils of his life and he will henceforth be clothed in Light as he acquires a body free from sorrow or affliction or pain. He will receive a body filled with Spirit insomuch that the flesh will be transformed into the glory of its own true, spiritual substance.
And as God is loved with the whole soul or entire being of man that individual will be transformed or translated into a "new being." He will truly be "born of the Spirit" as he becomes a divine instrument in the hands of Almighty God to help redeem and save individuals -- and the world. He will be a co-worker or a co-heir with the Lord Jesus Christ Himself -- a joint-heir with Him, having OVERCOME he will be co-equal. The physical, mortal cells of his body will be transformed and will take on immortality or the fulness of their divine counterpart.
All atoms were composed from the rays of Living Light, or the substance of things hoped for, in the beginning. Their very essence and foundation is Spirit -- and in the great transformation they are glorified by the spirit which is given to abide in them. And so is man himself glorified and redeemed and translated.
"These are the great and marvelous things which have been hid up from the foundation of the world." These are the things which eyes have never seen, nor ears heard, nor which have never yet fully entered into the heart of man. And even now, that they are made plain, so plain a fool need not err in fulfilling them, only the righteous will have the spirit of understanding which is required to behold the greatness of God's unspeakable blessings which He has in store for those who love him!"
These TRUTHS have never before been unfolded because man has refused to believe anything which his five mortal senses could not verify or which his orthodoxed mind has not been conditioned to accept. They have been hid because man has refused to believe them as his scanning of the Word has opened to his eyes only the things he desired to behold in order to verify only that which he has already accepted. And so the great truths have remained hid up from the foundation of the world.
"And the LETTER" has killed as men have accepted only of the letter and so have filled the cemeteries with their relinquished bodies as they "GAVE UP THE GHOST." Yes! They gave it up! Though it was not required of them, if they had accepted the divine PATH OF OVERCOMING -- that Straight and Narrow Way that leads to Life Eternal!
These great and eternal PROMISES have at last been unveiled so that those who are humble and searching may discover them and apply them -- for they are LIFE! And every person on the face of the earth may live and prove them if so be he is desirous to KNOW TRUTH. TRUTH goes beyond any small, orthodoxed group! Truth belongs to God! It is eternal! And no man in existence has a monopoly upon TRUTH! One may know Truth if he is only willing to seek for it -- and as it unfolds apply its glorious unfolding in his own life -- and then? He becomes the great eternal TRUTH! For "He was that TRUTH in the beginning!"
THESE TRUTHS AND THESE PROMISES of Almighty God belong to you!
And if you "ask," God will be with you in your desire to accept and fulfill.
So be it, in the Name of Jesus Christ! Amen!