REVELATION 55
Received April 21st & May 3rd, 1955 by Dr. Daniel
G. Samuels
More on the Withdrawal of the Privilege of Receiving the Divine Love
I am here, Jesus:
I will answer the question which Dr. Stone wanted to know if it were
possible for Celestial Spirits to keep on obtaining the Divine Love of
the Father throughout all eternity, once the privilege of obtaining this
Great Gift has been withdrawn from mankind. I have already written
you to the effect that even though the privilege of obtaining this Great
Gift is withdrawn from mortals and spirits who have not obtained any of
the Divine Love of the Father at the time of its withdrawal, yet those
whose soul mates are in the Celestial Heavens or those who have some of
the Divine Love in their souls and are progressing through the spheres
towards the Celestial Heavens will retain the privilege of thus obtaining
the Divine Love for a certain period of time, as a period of grace before
the privilege is taken away from them as well.
Now in the case of Celestial Spirits, the privilege of obtaining the
Divine Love can never be withdrawn, and this also holds for souls with
some of the Love who are progressing towards the Celestial Heavens, for
the Father cannot withdraw from a soul His Love and Divine Nature once
He has bestowed upon that soul His Great Gift, for once some of the Divine
Nature is lodged in a soul, it can never be removed, and that soul has
the privilege of seeking more and more of the Father’s nature for all eternity.
The Divine Love in the soul of man or spirit gives to that mortal or spirit
a kinship in nature with the Father born as a result of the At-onement
that then exists between the soul of that mortal or spirit and the Great
Soul of God, if only to a certain extent, and in fact, this kinship grows
ever closer throughout all eternity as more and more of the Nature of God
is conveyed into the soul of that mortal or spirit. God does not withdraw
His own Nature or Essence from the soul of the mortal or spirit which has
done the will of the Father and has obtained, if only to a small degree,
His Divine Nature. And thus the Father may withdraw this privilege from
a soul which does not have the Divine Love, and those souls have lost nothing
which they did not possess before, but removal of the Love from a soul
possessing a portion of it would mean God’s taking away from that soul
the Great Gift which that soul obtained by prayer, and such a removal of
the Love would mean that the soul’s earnest longing for His Divine Love
would be in vain. So that no matter if the gift of the Divine Love
is withdrawn, it means that its withdrawal applies only to those who have
not sought for it and have shown themselves indifferent to its presence
and not desirous of its possession. It is never withdrawn from those
who have sought for it through the earnest longings of their souls, and
to such as have received, it is given, and they retain the privilege of
seeking it in greater abundance throughout all eternity.
The Divine Love is the essence and the nature of God and it is always
in existence, for if it did not exist, God could not exist, and therefore
it does not mean that if withdrawn by God that it ceases to exist. For
the age in which you and the Doctor live, and for a certain number of centuries
to come, this gift will continue to flow from the source of the Father’s
Being and when it does cease it does not necessarily mean that the privilege
will be withdrawn for all eternity, for souls yet unborn would thus be
deprived of the opportunity of seeking for it in the mortal as well as
in the spirit world, and thus it is conceived that the Divine Love may
flow for a period, cease for a period and then be rebestowed in the fullness
of time and this may or may not continue in a series of ebbs and flows,
as the Father so desires.
II
I would say in reply to your question, that the first parents were
given free will to use their soul desires as they wished and the result
of these desires showed that purity of soul was not a protection against
contamination, and the disobediences and transgressions that followed were
not merely the aberrations of the first parents, but those also of, and
intensified greatly by, the children, until evil became a force that proved
more powerful than purity, and man and his descendants degenerated in body
and spirituality until they could be likened to and in some respects were
worse than the beasts in the field. Man wanted to be free of dependence
upon God and sought to be co-equal with God in power and wisdom and immortality
without paying homage to his Creator, so that pride and arrogance and independence
were the first sins that entered the soul of men and defiled it and murder
was not far away, for sin is soul defilement regardless of type and degree.
Although it was God who withheld the possibility of man’s obtaining
the Divine Love after his fall, man’s condition became such when sin entered
that the Divine Love could not be sought for in that, in his pride and
independence, he willed that is should be removed as an indication of God’s
protecting influence. When man sinned because of his desire to be
independent of God, he showed God that he did not want God’s help in his
progress through life as a mortal and when he came to the spirit world,
the same sense of independence of God was evidenced. God did withdraw His
privilege of the possibility of obtaining the Divine Love, but man had
shown he did not want it if it meant acknowledging God as his Creator and
upon Whom he was dependant for his good gifts, and he was determined to
live without them for the sake of being his own soul master. The same deplorable
situation is manifest today as it was at the time of the great fall among
many individuals, and they will continue to possess this attitude even
after they come into the spirit world, and in fact, the majority will never
turn to God for this Divine Love, even though the privilege of receiving
it has been in existence since I appeared on earth.
There are good and evil spirits in the various spheres which are attracted
to man because of the similar condition of the man’s soul, and a man’s
desire to act in accordance with God’s laws will attract spirits of those
spheres which are imbued with the sense of the purity of God’s laws; man’s
desire to think and do evil will also result in attracting spirits of the
earth plane, and men’s desire to seek At-onement with the Father through
prayer will just as inevitably cause the bringing into existence of conditions
leading to the attraction to that man of the Celestial Spirits or those
spirits whose duty it is to help man turn to the Father and help him obtain
the Divine Love or more of it.
The withdrawal of the Divine Love at some time in the future indicates
that this is merely a privilege bestowed upon mankind by a Loving Father
and does not mean that the Divine Love will be withdrawn from mankind for
all eternity, for actually this is something which has not been revealed
to the Celestial Heavens as yet, but knowing the Father to the extent that
I do, I cannot believe that God in His Great Goodness and Mercy does not
have a plan of salvation which will permit all of His Created Souls the
opportunity to seek At-onement with Him even though at the time of their
incarnation the gift of immortality has been withdrawn.
For just as the souls of men were given the opportunity to embrace
the privilege of obtaining the Love as spirits, a privilege denied them
in the flesh before the time of my appearance, so it cannot be said definitely
that at some future date in God’s own good time the privilege will not
be in some way restored after the second withdrawal. And even though the
Celestial Heavens will be filled and its doors closed after the second
withdrawal, this does not mean that there will not be created another Celestial
Heaven in God’s realms, for as I said on earth, “In my Father’s house are
many mansions,” and the possibilities of God’s acts of goodness and loving
kindness are commensurate with His infinite ways of controlling His universe
and the creatures which it contains. God, being all Love and Mercy and
Wisdom, will not give to man, his children, a stone when they ask for bread
nor a serpent when they ask for fish.
At this time, I shall say goodnight and affirm that I am your older
brother and friend.
Jesus of the Bible
and
Master of the Celestial Heavens