THE SPIRIT LETTERS

Message Forty-Four - Book Three - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF,was the final message in Book Three. The series is to be continued in:

Message One, Book Five - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF -

Is scheduled to follow in this series of messages: which are written in accordance with Apostle Paul’s directive, which appears at 2 Corinthians 3:3-6:

“Forasmuch as you are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered to us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the Living GOD; not in tablets of stone, but in fleshy tablets of the heart.

“And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward: Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything of ourselves; but out sufficiency is of GOD;

“Who also has made us able ministers of the New Testament; not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.”“If perfection were by the Levitical Priesthood [for under it the chosen people received the law] what need would there have been that another priest – Christ – should rise after the order of Melchizedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?! For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also in the law. “For He [Christ] of whom these things are spoken, pertains, or belongs, to another tribe, of which no man gave attendance at the altar. For it is evident that our Lord spraing out of Judah; of which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning a priesthood.

“And yet it is far more evident that after the similitude of Melchizedec there arises another Priest, who is not made after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.”“For HE testifies: Thou art a Priest Forever after the Order of Melchizedec.”

“The Law of Moses made nothing pefect; but the brining in of a better hope did: by which we draw nigh unto GOD. And inasmuch as not without an oath He was made priest; For those priests were made without an oath; but this [Christ] with an oath by HIM that said unto Him, THE LORD SWARE AND WILL NOT REPENT, THOU ART A PRIEST FOREVER AFTER THE ORDER OF MELCHIZEDEC).By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better Testament. And there truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death: but this man, because He continues forever, has an unchangeable priesthood. Wherefore He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come to GOD by Him, seeing He ever lives to make intercession for them!

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“For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens. Who needs not daily, as those high priests [in flesh], to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people’s: for this He did once, when He offered up Himself.

“For the Law makes men high priests which have infirmity’ the word of the oath, which was since the Law, makes the Son, who is consecrated for evermore.”

[Book of Hebrews, Chapter Seven: Verses 11 through 28].

Series to be Continued in Message One - Book Five - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF.

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Message Forty-Three - Book Three - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

COROLLARY: IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO COMPREHEND THE SPIRITUAL ORIGINS OF THE SON OF GOD AS JESUS CHRIST WITHOUT AN UNDERSTANDING OF REINCARNATION: [Continuation Of Message Forty-Two]

After Apostle Paul’s spiritual illumination by the Christ Spirit on the Damascus Road, He traveled far and wide, teaching the principles upon which the risen Christ’s New Covenant were founded. To the Ephesians, he emphasized that there is one Lord, one faith – in Jesus Christ the Son of GOD – and one baptism: that of the Holy Ghost. And also, that there is One GOD the Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in us all (Eph. 4:6). This latter verse provides the understanding that GOD the Father of all is actually the eternal Body of intelligent Spirit Energy that composes and encompasses all things that are, ever were, or that ever will be. Everything that exists everywhere is composed of the Holy Spirit Energy of GOD our Beloved Father-Creator, with which HIS Son makes all things that are made (1 Cor. 8:6).

Apostle John revealed that GOD is a Spirit, to be worshiped in spirit and in truth (Jn. 4:24); that the Son speaks the words of GOD because GOD gives HIS Spirit to Him without any limitation, and has “given all things into His hand” (Jn. 3:34-35; ref. Mt. 28:18. As Jesus declared: “All power has been given to me over heaven and the earth”. The Son of GOD thus became known as the Word of GOD, speaking the words of GOD. It was thereby confirmed that the Spirit Energy of GOD the Father of All is indeed above all, through all and in us all, as noted supra; and that the Son of GOD was created as a separate, independent entity from GOD, His Father (Ps. 2:6-12); continually receiving spiritual increases from HIM (cf. 1 Cor. 2:6-8). In Prophet Jeremiah’s time, GOD emphasized that the chosen people had committed two evils: they had forsaken HIM who was the fountain of living waters, and had instead “hewed themselves out broken cisterns that could not hold water.” They had changed their gods, which were not gods at all, and taken up the glory of other gods that were devoid of HIS Spirit – “broken cisterns” from which there was nothing to be derived (Jer. 2:11).

When Jeremiah reincarnated in the earth plane, it was disclosed that he apparently had incarnated on earth before and GOD had observed his ways, because HE spoke to Jeremiah, disclosing:

“Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee: and before you came forth from the womb I sanctified you, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.” (Jer. 1:5)

To the spiritualized children of GOD – who had advanced beyond the level of the “natural men” later described by Apostle Paul in 1 Cor. 2:9-14 – this meant that because Jeremiah had done well in one or more previous incarnations, he was again called for another opportunity to serve GOD as one of HIS prophets. Jereniah knew what this involved, and without delay, he tried to avoid becoming a prophet – and thus a target for Satan and his negative cohorts, that spelled trouble – and he spoke right up to declare:

“Ah, oh Lord, behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child.” (Jer. 1:6).

But the Lord of course did know Jeremiah very well, and HE replied: “Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak. Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the Lord” (Jer. 1:7-8). Now, we know that earth is GOD’s testing ground and that HE fastidiously watches to see whether souls obey HIM, or instead elect to go off on their own and even disobey HIM; as Satan the archangel HE had chosen to be covering angel over the earth had long before elected to at a time when the devil was perfect in his ways (Ezek. 28:14-15). And the Bible leaves no doubt that whomever is called to do GOD’s work – especially a prophet – will surely be confronted by a troublesome stretch of rough road. Jeremiah knew that very well, but the Lord also knew it, so Jeremiah’s attempt to avoid the vexatious responsibilities of a prophet did not have its desired effect. He had been called and knew he must serve, so he did.

All of which raises an interesting question: does GOD know what a soul will do during any particular one of its flesh incarnations in the earth plane? The answer is that HE apparently has a sound idea, based on a soul’s previous earth appearances, but biblical writings indicate that HE actually cannot be absolutely certain. For example, the Archangel Satan – selected by GOD Himself to be covering angel over all the earth because at that time he was “perfect in his ways” (Ezek. 28:14-15) – nevertheless turned against GOD his Creator (Lk. 22:31-32; 1 Pet. 5:8). GOD has granted man free will in order that by his decisions and actions he may develop himself during his flesh experiences in the earth plane. The Son of GOD illustrated this all-important principle: that all things gained or loosed on earth are gained or loosed in heaven (Mt. 18:18). As the result of Satan’s disobedience of his Creator’s Will, he faces negative future prospects (Rev. 20:10), except he in some way receives forgiveness, grace and mercy from Christ the Son of GOD.(Jn. 1:17.

Because GOD had seen the seemingly perfect Satan turn against HIM, as noted supra, even despite HIS Son’s state of perfection gained through his series of earth experiences from Adam to Jesus Christ of Nazareth, it appears that HE was determined to make absolutely certain that HIS Son would not ever turn against HIM. HE tested Him through a number of earth experiences, in particular during His sacrificial life as Jesus Christ on behalf of all mankind. HE permitted HIS Son to go to the Cross to offer His sacrifice on behalf of all who would ever afterward follow Him to the place He had prepared for those souls whose Maker He is:

“But to us there is but one GOD, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in HIM; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by Whom are all things, and we by Him (1 Cor. 8:6).

A question to ponder: Would it have been absolutely necessary for GOD our Beloved Father to require HIS Son, whom HE loved so dearly, to go to the Cross, had HE been otherwise absolutely certain that His Son would never turn against HIM? – as had Satan, whom HE had apparently unsuspectingly selected early-on in man’s earth incarnations as “covering angel” to watch over and protect the earth?

Series to be Continued in Message 44 - Book Three - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF.

Message Forty-Two - Book Three - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

COROLLARY: IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO COMPREHEND THE SPIRITUAL ORIGINS OF THE SON OF GOD AS JESUS CHRIST WITHOUT AN UNDERSTANDING OF REINCARNATION [Continued From Message Forty-One]

The Holy Bible itself bears testimony that a pattern of reincarnation is at work in the earth plane. It begins with the Son of GOD’s entry into the earth dimension as Adam – which spiritual fact is plainly inscribed in the Holy Scripture of truth for all who will concede the truth of what its words disclose. For one, it was asserted by Gospel writer Luke, when he recapitulated a portion of the generations of the Divine Lineage (Lk. 3:23-38), that Adam was the Son of GOD (Lk. 3:38). That divulgence having been written in a more or less abstract way, a clearer and more direct account was later rendered by Apostle John, who revealed: “He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sineth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of GOD was manifested that he might destroy the works of the devil (1 Jn. 3:8).

This revelational comment did not refer to the Son’s much later incarnation as Jesus Christ, but rather to His initial earth experience as Adam. This was subsequently confirmed and expanded-upon when Apostle Paul underwent his profoundly illuminating spiritual rebirth experience on the Damascus Road, duing which the Christ Spirit entered into him, and he was quickened and received the Holy Ghost, the spirit of truth and “other Comforter” (Acts Chapters 9, 22,26). Paul then traveled widely, teaching Jesus Christ’s New Covenant Gospel.

Among other things, Paul distinguished between the “First man Adam” – the original Adam described in Gen. 2:19-23, who manifested on the earth without parents (Lk. 3:38) – and “the last Adam,” Jesus Christ. The spiritually-illuminated Apostle explained:

“There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven. As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.” (1 Cor. 15:44-48)

Apostle Paul sharply delineated between “natural men,” unable to receive the things of the Spirit of GOD; and those spiritualized by GOD’s Spirit Energy (1 Cor. 2:9-14). This outlined the earthly gauntlet through which even the Son of GOD passed during his incremental life-after-life manifestations on earth as He was increasingly quickened by GOD His Father’s Holy Spirit Energy. As Adam, He had been a “natural man,” but as Jesus Christ, the “Last Adam,”He was raised up to GOD’s right hand and empowered over heaven and the earth (Mt. 28:18). It was the culmination on His series of earth incarnations beginning with Adam, during each of which the Son of GOD acquired spiritual increases of the kind described in 1 Cor. 3:6-8. GOD step-by-step elevated Him into His paramount position at HIS right hand in the heavenly hierarchy (Heb. 1:1-3).

As Enoch, the Son of GOD reversed his spiritual losses – sustained when He fell from GOD’s grace as Adam – by obediently walking with GOD all of His days (Gen. 22:24). During His subsequent life on earth as Melchizedec He was ordained into GOD’s eternal heavenly priesthood, which attached to Him as an integral part of His spiritual inheritance, and was sustained during His subsequent earth appearances. It was His priesthood of Melchizedec that qualified Him to serve as the great Moses’ minister when He incarnated as Joshua son of Nun and “rose up, and His minister Joshua and went up into the Holy Mount of GOD” to receive the tablets of stone upon which GOD had inscribed HIS Commandments (Ex. 24:13). According to the Bible, Moses did not need anyone to speak with GOD for him: GOD spoke to him “mouth to mouth” (Num. 12:8).

However, because Moses’ minister, Joshua son of Nun, was an earth appearance of the Son of GOD, He may well have at that time been privy to information at a spiritual level above even that of the great Moses, who was also a servant of GOD’s (Gen. 12:7-8). What is seen taking place is the gradual life-by-life escalation of the Son of GOD from the time of His having announced His own manifestation by GOD the Father of all (Ps. 2:6-12). During each of His earth experiences the Son eliminated some of His unspiritual ways and added to His spiritual side. For example, as the great Joshua son of Nun, He was a warrior; but when He subsequently reincarnated as Asaph He was a peaceful and highly spiritualized musician. Having taken that step away from carnality, He reappeared as Joshua son of Josedech; apparently ordained a high priest in the Levitical lineage, and at the same time with GOD’s eternal heavenly Priesthood He had acquired as His spiritual inheritance when He had incarnated as Melchizedec (Gen. 14:18-19). The writer to the Hebrews came close to revealing this remarkable truth, but stopped short because he felt that it was too “strong meat” for him to divulge at that time (Heb. 5:8-14).

The earth manifestations of the Son of GOD became markers along the Way He made passable for souls that would follow Him into the eternal heavenly dimension, the Spirit body of Christ:

“I go to prepare a place for you…and I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, you may be also, And whither I go you know, and the way you know.” (Jn. 14:3-4)

After Apostle Paul was illuminated by the Christ Spirit on the road to Damascus, he explained to the Corinthians:

“But now is Christ risen from the dead and become the firstfruits of them that slept. For since by man came death, by man also came the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall shall all be made alive. But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at at His Coming. Then comes the end, when He shall have put down all rule and all authority and power, for He must reign until He has put all enemies under His feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. And when all things shall be subdued unto Him, then shall the Son also Himself be subject unto HIM that put all things under Him, that GOD may be all in all.” (1 Cor. 15:20-28). The Son of GOD set the pattern for all souls incarnated in flesh in the earth dimension. Belief and faith in Him as man’s Savior, coupled with good works (James 2:24-26) by which to demonstrate faith in GOD and Christ the Son, opens The Way – the door – into heaven

Series to be Continued in Book 43 - Book Three - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF.

Message Forty-One - Book Three - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

COROLLARY: IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO COMPREHEND THE SPIRITUAL ORIGINS OF THE SON OF GOD AS JESUS CHRIST WITHOUT AN UNDERSTANDING OF REINCARNATION: [Continued From Message Forty]

GOD the Father of all – Whose Spirit is above all, through all, and in us all (Jn. 4:24; Eph. 4:6) – composes the fundamental qualities and essential character of all life that lies beyond the control of man. The Holy Bible reveals that at some point after GOD had created mankind, HE subdivided His Holy Spirit Energy, retaining the bulk of HIS own supremely powerful Self, and reserving certain power and authority to Himself. His Son, after His remarkable Crucifixion and Resurrection, appeared to certain of His followers, who asked Him if He would at that time “restore the kingdom to Israel?” (Acts 1:6), to which He replied:

“It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father has put in HIS own power. But you shall receive power after the Holy Ghost is come upon you; and you shall be witnesses unto me, both in Jerusalem and in all Judea and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.” (Acts 1:7-8)

Jesus declared to His followers:

“All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth” Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.” (Mt. 28:18-20).

It is biblically disclosed that He whom GOD has sent, speaks the word of GOD: for GOD gives not the Spirit by measure unto Him. The Father loves the Son and has given all things unto His hand. He that believes on the Son has everlasting life: and he that believes not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of GOD abides on him. (Jn. 3:34-36; but cf. Rom. 5:9: “But much more, then, being now justified by His [Christ’s] blood, we shall be saved from wrath [the Tribulation] through Him.

This is the same phraseology Beloved Apostle John quotes Jesus as having used: that He will “come again and receive His disciples unto Himself that they may be where He is” (Jn. 14:2-3) Apostle Paul summed-up this extraordinary spiritual metamorphosis predestined to come when he declared to the Corinthians: “Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of GOD; neither does corruption inherit incorruption. Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to GOD, which gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.” (1 Cor. 15:50-58).

In light of the fact that GOD the Father sent HIS Spirit-Son as Jesus Christ, who incarnated to “destroy the works of the devil” (1 Jn. 3:8), and that the Christ Spirit is an independent portion of GOD’s Holy Spirit able to incarnate in flesh, it is essential that we understand the relationship between GOD the Father and our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of GOD. These two super-sacrosanct heavenly entities are delineated in the Holy Bible in ways that disclose that GOD and HIS Son “are one” and that both manifested in the Spirit-cloud described in the Holy Scripture. It is seen that early-on in man’s incarnations in the earth plane that GOD the Father appeared in the cloud over the children of Israel, whereas later biblical passages carry the clear implication that HIS Son also manifested in a cloud, and is foretold to continue to do so (Ex. 16:16; Lk. 9:35; Lk. 21:27; 1 Cor. 10:1-4). Examples of the transition of the empowerment of the Son to the point that all power over heaven and the earth was ordained to Him by GOD His Spirit-Father (Mt. 28:18) are found in Biblically-inscribed revelational information that helps us now, long after changes were wrought in antiquity, to perceive the transition of Spirit-Power from GOD as HE incrementally conveyed it to HIS Son. It gradually took place as the result of spiritual increases GOD ordained to the Son during each of His earth incarnations; especially after His fall as Adam, beginning with His incarnation as Enoch, during which experience He continuously “walked obediently with GOD” (Gen. 5:22-24).

His spiritual gains continued to multiply and accumulate when He appeared on earth as Melchizedec, as the writer to the Hebrews meticulously expounds. The kind of spiritual increases by which the Son of GOD was inexorably elevated toward GOD’s empowerment of Him over heaven and the earth (Mt. 28:18), were quickening Him during His life as Jesus Christ of Nazareth; even while He was yet a youth. It was biblically inscribed that He “increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with GOD and man” (Lk. 2:52) – which pointed-up His incremental spiritual quickening by GOD life after life on earth.

The Way to heaven is paved with more than good intentions: it is actually built upon a foundation of a soul’s faith and belief in GOD and Christ, evidenced by good works rendered incarnation after incarnation, by which works each soul is ultimately to be judged (2 Cor. 5:10). Redemption and salvation are granted by the forgiveness, grace and mercy of Christ the Son of GOD (Jn. 1:17;Titus 3:5). But Apstle James taught that there is a distinct and important relationship between faith and works, declaring:

“What does it profit, my brethren, though a man say he has faith, and has not works? can faith alone save him? Even so, faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. Yea, a man may say, Thou has faith, and I have works: show me thy faith without thy works, and I will show you my faith by my works. Thou believe that there is one GOD; thou do well: the devils also believe and tremble. But will you know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar? See how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect? And the scripture was fulfilled which says, Abraham believed GOD, and it was imputed unto Him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of GOD. You see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only. Likewise, was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way? [Ref. Joshua, Chapter Two]. For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also” (James 2:14-26)

The sum of these things is that each soul is given several “lifetime”opportunities by way of GOD’s system of reincarnation, to manifest in the earth plane during different periods of time and in a variety of distinctive situations, that it may demonstrate its spiritual qualifications. Life is a spiritual test, and no soul will be allowed in heaven that doesn’t deserve to be there.

Series to be Continued in Message 42 - Book Three - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF.

Message Forty - Book Three - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

COROLLARY: IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO COMPREHEND THE SPIRITUAL ORIGINS OF THE SON OF GOD AS JESUS CHRIST WITHOUT AN UNDERSTANDING OF REINCARNATION: [Continued From Message Thirty-Nine]

 Early-on in man’s flesh incarnations, GOD selected Archangel Satan – who at that time was perfect in his ways – to be “covering angel” over the earth (Ezek. 28:14-15). But Satan – consumed with his own power and handsomeness – took advantage of the free will GOD had given him, turned against his Creator, and disobeyed HIM. As a result, GOD three times promised to overturn Satan’s empowerment and reserve it until the one came whose right it was (Ezek. 21:25-27). The “one whose right it was” presently appeared in the earth dimension as Adam, along with His binary soul mate, Eve; the two predestined to work together through coming ages until their earth missions were fulfilled. In that life hey both fell victim to the wiles, lies and deceits of Satan (Gen. 3:12-13), and were trapped in the earth plane, where they died in the flesh, unable to return to their heavenly place. But their souls did not die: they were held in the interbetween – a holding point, or ethereal way-station – between the earth and heaven, to undergo a contemporary judgment, as described by the writer to the Hebrews in Heb. 9:27.

As a result of that interim judgment, the souls of Adam and Eve subsequently reincarnated to continue fulfilling their earth missions. Seven generations later, the Son returned as Enoch, during which earth life He walked obediently with GOD all the days of that life. At a certain point, GOD “took him” and he “was not” on the earth any more (Gen. 5:22-24). Again, his soul – His Spirit higher self – did not die; it once again underwent a judgment, after which it was prepared to again reincarnate; this time as GOD’s Eternal Heavenly High Priest, Melchizedec (Gen. 14:18-19; Hebrews Chapters Four through Ten). This Divine Priesthood, ordained by GOD the Father to HIS Son, being eternal, has never expired from the time of its ordination, but has been sustained through succeeding ages until, as prophesied, “the one came whose right it was” (Ezek. 21:25-27) – Jesus Christ.

Without an understanding of the principles of reincarnation, it is not possible to understand that the Eternal Priesthood of Melchizedec remained a part of the Son of GOD’s spiritual inheritance from the time it was first ordained to Him during His earth experience as Melchizedec: and was a factor in most – if not all – of His subsequent earth manifestations in flesh. A certain priestly character shines through His incarnation as Joseph son of Jacob: even the subtle divulgence that Joseph was the Rock of Israel spoken of by Moses (Deut. 32:3-4), alluded-to in Genesis:

“Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall. The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: but his bow abode in the strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty GOD of Israel; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel;) (Cf. Deut. 32:3-4). Even by the GOD of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with the blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb. The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.” (Gen. 39:22-26)

This Priesthood of GOD, ordained to HIS Son during His incarnation on earth as Melchizedec, became an integral part of His Spiritual Inheritance; as long afterward noted by the Hebrews writer:

“GOD, who at sundry times and in divers manners spoke in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken unto us by HIS Son, whom HE has appointed heir of all things, by whom also HE made the worlds; Who being the brightness of HIS glory, and the express image of HIS person, and upholding all things by the word of HIS power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; Being made so much better than the angels, as He has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.” (Heb. 1:1-4)

The Holy Eternal Priesthood of GOD, ordained by HIM to Melchizedec – an earth incarnation of the Spirit of the Son of GOD – never expired, because the Spirit of Melchizedec never expired:

“For this Melchizedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high GOD, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him; to whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all: first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of Peace: Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of GOD; abides a priest continually.” (Heb. 7:1-3)

This Priesthood of Melchizedec, being eternal, did not expire: it simply translated with the Spirit of the Son of GOD from His experience as Melchizedec, as an inheritable part of His spirituality, manifested during His subsequent incarnations. This became especially apparent during one of His subsequent extremely important earth manifestations as Joshua the son of Nun. During the Exodus, when GOD commanded that Moses and certain of the chosen people were to come up unto the Lord in the Holy Mount it was written that only Moses was to come near the Lord (Ex. 24:1-2). After certain preparations had been completed, Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abrihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up “and they saw the God of Israel: and there was under His feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in HIS clearness. And upon the nobles of the children of Israel HE laid not HIS hand: also they saw GOD, and did eat and drink” (Ex. 24:3-11),

The Lord then told Moses to come up to HIM into the mount, where HE would give him tablets of stone, and a law and commandments which HE had written, that Moses might teach them (Ex. 24:12). It was then inscribed: “And Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua :  and Moses went up into the mount of GOD. And he said unto the elders, Tarry ye here for us until we come again unto you: and, behold, Aaron and Hur are with you: if any man have any matters to do, let him come unto them” (Ex. 24:13-14).

Series to be Continued in Message 41 - Book Three - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF.

Message Thirty-Nine - Book Three - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

COROLLARY: IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO COMPREHEND THE SPIRITUAL ORIGINS OF THE SON OF GOD AS JESUS CHRIST WITHOUT AN UNDERSTANDING OF REINCARNATION: [Continued From Message Thirty-Eight]

Synopsis of Messages (1) to (10): GOD the Father of All (Eph. 4:6), early-on in HIS Creation of man on the earth, chose from among HIS heavenly Archangels, or “cherubs,” one named Satan and established him as “covering angel” over the earth dimension (Ezek. 28:14). As of the time GOD appointed Satan to that high-ranking position in the heavenly hierarchy as it then existed, Satan had been “perfect in his ways” from the day GOD had created him, until iniquity had been found in him (Ezek. 28:15). GOD gives every human soul the free will to do as it sees fit during its earth flesh incarnations, in order that by an ethereal process of trial and error it will be afforded adequate opportunities to shape itself life after life to prepare it for eternity in vastly higher dimensions of existence than the base temporal earth plane. The earth dimension is GOD’s testing ground, in which HIS Children may evolve away from being “natural men” (1 Cor. 2:9-15) to become spiritualized angelic beings (Lk. 20:36).

It is believed by many that GOD knows all things – that HE knows in detail what each soul will do during any particular flesh incarnation on the earth, even before that experience takes place. This idea is engendered by the fact that GOD had sanctified Jeremiah and ordained him to be a prophet to the nations even before he was birthed by his mother (Jer. 1:5). It is, however, much more likely that GOD – aware of what Jeremiah had done in previous earth experiences, and based upon that – was able to project what he would most likely do as a spiritualized prophet. But, as with Satan, who had been perfect from the time of his creation until iniquity was discovered in him (Ezek. 28:14-15), but when tempted, inexplicably used his free will to turn against GOD his Father who had given him life. His position had gone to his head, and he decided to build up the earth dimension according to his own ideas and will.

There is no credible evidence that GOD had known in advance that Satan would turn around and behave as he did. But there is palpable evidence that from that time forward GOD tightened the reins on all souls who sought a place in HIS heavenly kingdom..In Prophet Ezekiel’s time HE abjured Satan:

“And thou profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end. Thus saith the Lord GOD; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: this shall not be the same: exalt Him who is low, and abase him that is high. I will overturn, overturn, overturn it: and it shall be no more, until He comes whose right it is; and I will give it to Him. (Ezek. 21:25-27).

At that time, Satan was high up in GOD’s heavenly hierarchy, still empowered as covering angel over the earth; whereas the Son of GOD was caught up in the series of Spirit-quickening earth incarnation He had commenced as Adam; in which life He had set out to destroy the works of the Devil (1 Jn. 3:6). This marked the end of the reign of Satan as covering angel over the earth; he having long before been elevated into that overseeing position by GOD Himself (Ezek. 28:14-15). But after having observed Satan’s disobedience against HIM, and being aware of the reasons for it, HE had decided to terminate HIS negative son Satan’s reign (Ezek. 28:16-19), and to hold that powerful heavenly position in abeyance “until the one appeared whose right to it HE elected to establish” (Ezek. 21:27). Satan continued to be a negative testing force of GOD’s (Isa. 54:16).

Looking back, Satan had been chosen covering angel over the earth long before the Son of GOD was manifested to destroy the negative works the devil had built up. But by the time the Son incarnated as Adam with the intention of erasing the negative effects of Satan’s destructive selfish ways, powerful negative spiritual forces on earth had pervasively subverted most of man’s generations. It was into this spiritual morass, charged by the powerful negative spirit of the devil, that GOD’s Son entered into the hostile earth plane as Adam. He was a portion of the Spirit Energy of GOD, but was an independent part, free to do His own Will while incarnated in flesh on the earth. He had been granted the free will to do according to His own Will; as had Satan a son who had entered long before Him, and had elected to rebel against his Creator.

It is understood that the Son of GOD passed through a progression of earth incarnations after His initial manifestation as Adam, in each one making gains or sustaining losses under the rule the Son gave when He was Jesus:

“All things gained or loosed on earth are gained or loosed in heaven” (Mt. 18:18).

Another exigent spiritual rule also influenced Him:

“Unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required.” (Lk. 12:48).

By the time the Son manifested in flesh as Jesus Christ of Nazareth, GOD the Father had put Him through a considerable number of challenging earth incarnations, during which He had been incrementally quickened life-after-life by GOD’s Holy Spirit Energy, until He had reached such a profoundly spiritualized condition – as the “last Adam” – that GOD made Him a quickening Spirit” 1 Cor 15:45) – able to quicken others as He sees fit (Cf. Jn. 5:21; Rom. 8:11).

In consideration of all these above-enumerated factors: why was it necessary for the Son of GOD as Jesus to have been compelled to endure His tortuous experience on the Cross? It is understood by some to have been GOD’s final test of the Son HE had chosen from among all angelic souls that had incarnated and reincarnated in flesh from the time man’s initial testing earth experiences had begun. GOD gave HIS Son all power over heaven and the earth (Mt. 28:18), and HIS Son is to conduct final judgment (2 Cor. 5:10). There still remains a thousand-year period (Rev. 20:1-6), after which another brief period of testing is to ensue (Rev. 20:7-8). Then those whose names are not found written in the Book of Life (Rev. 3:5; Rev. 20:15; Rev. 21:27) will be brought to their fate; according to what they have done during their incarnations, whether it be good or evil (2 Cor. 5:10). Each earth experience provides an opportunity for earthbound souls to find and follow The Way into heaven made passable by Jesus Christ the Son of GOD. As He promised: “I will come again and receive you unto myself; that where I am you may be also” (Jn. 14:3).

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Message Thirty-Eight - Book Three - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

COROLLARY: IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO COMPREHEND THE SPIRITUAL ORIGINS OF THE SON OF GOD AS JESUS CHRIST WITHOUT AN UNDERSTANDING OF REINCARNATION

Continued From Message 37:

The remarkable redemptive pathway followed by the Son of GOD after His fall as Adam – which was His first earth incarnation after His having been begotten by GOD the father of all (Psalms 2:6-12) – marked the beginning of The Way into heaven that He life-after-life incrementally established for all souls that would ever afterward in faith follow Him there (1 Pet. 2:9). As Adam, the Son had manifested in a comparatively un-spiritualized condition; long afterward aptly described by Apostle Paul as a “natural man:” knowing the things of the spirit of man, but not, in that early incarnation, knowing the things of the Spirit of GOD (1 Cor. 2:9-14). As Adam, He had not yet acquired “full age” and was still imbibing the “milk” of spiritual truth, rather than the “strong meat” of it (Heb. 5:12-14). But during His subsequent extraordinary experience as Jesus Christ, He would possess astounding knowledge known only to Him and to GOD His Father; WHO would empower Him over heaven and the earth (Mt. 28:18).

Apostle Paul was an outstanding example of the remarkable changes the Spirit of the risen Christ was able to wreak upon a “natural man.” Paul, a dedicated Jew, had focused unceasing efforts on persecuting Jesus follower, but his dramatic spiritual rebirth experience on the Damascus Road abruptly converted him from an natural man into an fully-inspired servant of Jesus Christ, and GOD moved, guided and directed Him by through HIS Spirit. He repented his previous negative ways, and conceded that his negative actions had been the result of spiritual ignorance and unbelief (1 Tim. 1:12-14). Quickened by the Christ Spirit, He began to receive crucially-important revelational information that he in turn conveyed to the Romans, Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, Thessalonians, and to all the peoples to whom he and his cohorts were sent by the Holy Ghost. (Acts 16:6-10).

A spiritually-purposeful pattern was thus recast by the Son of GOD, specifically designed to replicate the pathway that GOD His Father had set Him on at the time He had incarnated as Enoch son of Jared; after He had inadvertently sustained spiritual losses during his initial earth incarnation as Adam (Mt. 18:18). The Son of GOD would later proclaim when He reincarnated as Jesus Christ:

“Believe you not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I speak to you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwells in Me, HE does the works. Believe Me that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me; or else believe Me for the very works’ sake.” (Jn. 14:10-11)

That which Christ the Son had seen His Father do, He was intentionally replicating::

“Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do: for what things soever HE does, these also does the Son likewise. For the Father loves the Son, and shows Him all things that HE Himself does: and HE will show Him greater works than these, that you may marvel. For as the Father raises up the dead, and quickens them: even so the Son quickens whom He will. For the Father judges no man, but has committed all judgment unto the Son” (Jn. 5:19-22; cf. 2 Cor. 5:10).

During each of His earth experiences, the Son of GOD shaped Himself and His ways according to the unique pattern of perfection set by GOD His Father:

“Though He were a Son, yet learned He obedience by the things which He suffered. And being made perfect, He became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey Him. Called of GOD an High Priest after the order of Melchizedec (Heb. 5:8-10).

It was by way of His successive progressive reincarnations life after life that the Son of GOD shaped Himself spiritually from His initial earth experience as Adam – who was the figure of Him who was to come – to eventually be quickened as Jesus Christ, whom GOD empowered over heaven and the earth (Mt. 28:18). As the spiritually-illuminated Apostle Paul explained to the Romans:

“GOD commends HIS love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. And not only so, but we also joy in GOD through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement. Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for all have sinned (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law). Nevertheless death reigned over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression, who is the figure of Him who was to come…For as by one man’s disobedience [Adam] many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one [Jesus Christ] shall many be made righteous. Moreover the law entered that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: that as sin has reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord” (Rom. 5:8-10, 12-14,19-21).

The earthly incarnations of the Son of GOD mark His incremental spiritual elevation from His initial manifestation in the earth dimension as Adam, through to His ultimate appearance as Jesus Christ. These appearances were as stepping stones in the Way He made passable from the earth dimension into heaven for souls seeking an eternal heavenly city whose builder and maker is GOD (Heb.11:10, 16). That city is the New Jerusalem seen by Apostle John when he was “carried away in the Spirit” during his Revelation experience (Rev. 21:10-23).

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Message Thirty-Seven - Book Three - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

COROLLARY: IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO COMPREHEND THE SPIRITUAL ORIGINS OF THE SON OF GOD AS JESUS CHRIST WITHOUT AN UNDERSTANDING OF REINCARNATION

SUMMATION: Biblical Explanation Of Why This Is True.

(1). GOD the Father of all – who is a Spirit (Jn. 4:24), existent above us all, and through us all and in us all (Ep4:6) – at an early time in man’s incarnations on the earth, anointed archangel Satan to be “covering cherub” over the earth at a time when Satan was perfect in his ways; before iniquity had been found in him (Ezek. 28:14-15). But Satan turned against GOD’s Will.

(2). GOD – with whom nothing is impossible (Lk. 1:37) – then did something which is humanly impossible and virtually inconceivable: HE took of HIS own Holy Spirit Energy and formed a portion of Himself into an independent Spirit Entity, separate from Himself, yet able to incarnate in a human flesh body in the earth plane. He was thus biblically considered to be GOD’s SON (Psalm 2:6-12). The entire Spirit-Force of GOD the Father is far too vast and powerful to incarnate in the flesh body of a human: it would utterly destroy it. But HIS Spirit-Son is able to receive GOD’s Holy Spirit Energy without any limitation (Jn. 3:34): which explains how He was able to accomplish such seemingly incredulous miracles when He subsequently manifested in His GOD-given state of spiritual perfection as Jesus Christ of Nazareth and became man’s Savior.

(3). The Bible discloses that the independent portion of GOD – composed of HIS Spirit-Energy and known as HIS Son – first incarnated in flesh in the earth plane as Adam (Lk. 3:38), and that His purpose for “taking on flesh” was to “destroy the works of the devil” (1 Jn. 3:8).

(4). As Adam – newly entered into the earth dimension – the Son was not as yet “spiritually-quickened,” not having previously incarnated in any earth experiences. He was in the same proportionate condition that Apostle Paul long afterward described as a “natural man” (1 Cor. 2:9-14): as yet unspiritualized, as – he, Paul – had been before his spiritual rebirth on the Damascus Road. During that experience, the powerful spiritually-illuminating Christ Spirit entered into him (Acts Chapters 9, 22, 26), From that time, Paul carried Christ’s New Covenant Gospel far and wide, preaching it with his cohorts wherever they were sent by the Holy Ghost (Acts 16:6-10). The risen Christ’s Spirit had reached into the earth dimension to quicken His followers, and they were to teach and quicken others (Jn. 16:15-16).

(5). After the Son of GOD, as Adam had fallen from GOD’s grace because of His disobedience – which served as a lesson to all mankind – His earth incarnations were held in abeyance for seven generations, after which he reincarnated as Enoch. During that manifestation – the Son’s second earth incarnation – He obediently “walked with GOD” all of that life, and “was not” because GOD removed Him from the earth (Gen. 5:22-24). As Enoch, the Son of GOD had obediently fulfilled what GOD required of Him. Then, in accordance with a biblically-disclosed spiritual rule which the Son would later disclose when He was incarnated as Jesus Christ [that "all things gained or loosed on earth are gained or loosed in heaven (Mt. 18:18)] – the Son of GOD as Enoch was credited with huge spiritual gains. These led to His reincarnation as GOD’s eternal heavenly high priest Melchizedec, (Gen. 14:18-19). The Hebrews writer long afterward spoke in glowing terms of that powerful Priesthood, explaining that it was an unfailing priesthood that was carried down through the generations as part of the Son of GOD’s spiritual inheritance (Hebrews Chapters Two through Nine).

He did not explicitly reveal that Jesus Christ held the Priesthood of Melchizedec as the direct result of His having manifested on earth as Melchizedec. He came close to revealing it, but apparently thought it best not to do so because – as he explained – those to whom he disclosed his revelational information were not at that time yet able to accept or comprehend it, they having accustomed themselves to spiritual milk, rather than to the strong meat of spiritual truth. The strong meat was only comprehensible “to those of full age who had exercised their senses to discern between good and evil” (Heb. 5:8-14). Escalation of the spiritual senses takes place by a soul’s passage through a sufficient number of quickening experiential incarnate earth experiences by which it sustains incremental losses, and makes spiritual gains life after life in the earth plane (Mt. 18:1). These “hone down the soul” and accumulate over time to produce a state of spiritual perfection acceptable to GOD, and to HIS Son (Rev. 21:22-27; 2 Cor. 5:10). The Son of GOD passed through a number of such preparatory incarnations on earth before eventually manifesting as GOD’s fully-perfected Son, Jesus Christ. That explains why it is impossible to comprehend His origins without an understanding of the role reincarnation played in His astonishing developmental spiritual journey from “the first Adam, to the Last Adam, Jesus Christ:” Apostle Paul explained this ethereal process at a time after his enlightenment on the Damascus Road::

“[The soul] is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power: it is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. And so it is written, The first man, Adam, was made a living soul; the last “Adam” was made a quickening spirit. Howebeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural (cf. 1 Cor. 2:9-14); and afterward that which is spiritual. The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is the Lord from heaven.” (1 Cor. 15:43-47). As Apostle Paul disclosed, until he was spiritually quickened on the Damascus Road, he was a “natural man, unable to receive the good things of GOD, because they were only spiritually-discerned. (1 Cor. 2:9-14).

The Son of GOD revealed illuminating spiritual truths by the Holy Ghost to Apostle Paul; who in turn communicated them to Jesus’ followers. They are not as hard to understand as they are difficult to accept by those who remain as yet “natural men:” as was Apostle Paul until his spiritual rebirth experience on the Damascus Road, as related supra.

Spirit incarnations and reincarnations are easier to comprehend when GOD’s Holy Spirit is understood to be composed of Spirit Energy existent at the highest vibrational frequencies as yet observable by man, and comprehensible to him.

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Message Thirty-Six - Book Three - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

COROLLARY: IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO COMPREHEND THE SPIRITUAL ORIGINS OF THE SON OF GOD AS JESUS CHRIST WITHOUT AN UNDERSTANDING OF REINCARNATION [Continued].

Incontrovertible biblical evidence that the Son of GOD had incarnated on the earth as Joseph the son of Jacob long before His manifestation as Jesus Christ of Nazareth, is found subtly secreted but clearly defined in the prophesies of Jeremiah, inscribed long before the Son appeared as man’s Savior

“I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn” (Jer. 31:9)

In this spiritual communication the Lord did not refer to Himself as the Father of Israel; but rather as a father to Israel: for which reason it is understood that this Lord who spoke by and through Prophet Jeremiah on this occasion was GOD’s Son: the Word of GOD. That He had indeed disclosed that which He had before incarnated on earth as Joseph son of Jacob, becomes apparent by a consideration of events that had taken place at a time when Jacob had grown old, and the stark realization had set-in that he was soon to join his fathers (Gen. 48:29-31), in what is often referred-to as “the other side.”

Because of the disappointing unspiritual conduct of two of his firstborn sons, Reuben and Simeon, Jacob effectually removed them from his lineage and replaced them by adopting Joseph’s two sons, first-born Manasseh, and second-born Ephraim, in their place. Jacob declared to Joseph:

“And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born to thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee in Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine” (Gen. 48:5).

An unusual situation developed when Jacob proceeded to bless his two newly adopted sons, Ephraim and Manasseh. When their father Joseph brought them before him, he placed Manasseh at his own right hand, and Ephraim at his left hand; but Jacob demurred. He crossed his arms, placing his own right hand on Ephraim’s head, and his left hand on Manasseh’s head; thereby signaling the spiritual elevation of Ephraim over his brother.

Joseph took immediate exception to this arrangement, but Jacob insisted upon it, advising Joseph that Manasseh’s descendants would also be a great people, but that Ephraim’s would be even greater, and that his seed would become a multitude of nations. That day Jacob set Ephraim ahead of his brother (Gen. 48:12-20).

The spiritual meaning of that which the Lord the Son of GOD had disclosed through Prophet Jeremiah, above-quoted, not only confirmed that Jacob’s blessing to his two sons had been true and correct, but also that He, the Lord the Son of GOD, had incarnated on earth as Joseph, one of the fathers of the Twelve Tribes; and had in fact been Ephraim.

It is understood that Joseph had at one point learned through the spirit that his father Jacob was ill, so he took his sons Manasseh and Ephraim to visit his weakened father (Gen. 48:1. At about the same time, Jacob also learned through the spirit that his son Joseph was coming to visit him, so he strengthened himself and sat up to welcome him (Gen. 48:2). Jacob disclosed to Joseph that GOD had before appeared to him at Luz, in Canaan, and blessed him, and promised to make him fruitful: to multiply him and “make him a multitude of people,” and would give that land to Joseph’s seed after him, for an everlasting possession. This obviously carried long-term implications; to the extent that the chosen people of Israel would fulfill the promise given to them.

Jacob had prophesied to Joseph that GOD would be with him, and “bring him again into the land of his fathers” (Gen. 48:21). This was afterward construed, in its letter sense, to have been fulfilled when, after Joseph’s demise, his remains were carried back into Egypt and buried there (Gen. 50; 26). But the spiritual meaning of it (cf. 2 Cor. 3:3-6), was that Joseph’s Spirit was predestined to reincarnate as Joshua son of Nun, during which earthly experience he was destined to play a major role in Israel’s future. As a mere youth he was called-out by Moses early-on in the remarkable Exodus to lead the children of Israel into battle at Rephidim – an encampment in Israel – against the seasoned warrior Amalek and his powerful army (Ex. 17:8). Joshua and the people succeeded so well the Lord commanded Moses to “write it for a memorial in a book,” and Moses built an altar he named Jehovahnissi, suggesting Joshua’s future position in the heavenly hierarchy.

Jeremiah the Prophet had foreseen many of these developments: he was able to receive and report the Lord’s Word. GOD had known him, and made him a prophet even before he was in his mother’s womb (Jer. 1:4). This suggested that Jeremiah had incarnated before in the earth plane, and that the Lord had observed that he would not be swayed from doing HIS Will, regardless of earthly flesh temptations.

And there was also Judah to be reckoned-with. When his father Jacob blessed him, he set in motion a powerful and inexorable prophesy, which foreordained that Judah and his lineage were to hold continuous spiritual supremacy over all the other tribes of Israel until Shiloh would manifest, and that it was to be around Him that the people were to gather (Gen. 49:10). Those who incarnated in Judah’s lineage from that time forward were to be primarily instrumental in sustaining the spiritual lineage established to inevitably lead to the birth of Shiloh; who was in fact Jesus Christ, who appeared at the end of a long line of Judahn’s, as Gospel writers long afterward traced through different branches of the Divine Lineage (Matthew Chapter One; Luke Chapter three).

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Message Thirty-Five - Book Three - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

COROLLARY: IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO COMPREHEND THE SPIRITUAL ORIGINS OF THE SON OF GOD AS JESUS CHRIST WITHOUT AN UNDERSTANDING OF REINCARNATION [Continued]

The Son of GOD, having been ordained into His eternal Priesthood of GOD His Father while He was incarnated as Melchizedec, carried that heavenly Priesthood with Him into His incarnations that followed. After His remarkable earth experience as Joshua son of Nun, and as Asaph, He reincarnated as Joshua son of Josedech; ordained into the Jewish high priesthood, of Levi; and apparently – as the result of spiritual heredity – the GOD-ordained Priesthood of Melchizedec, into which He had been ordained during His previous incarnation, during which He manifested on earth under the name, Melchizedec.

When the Lord imposed the seventy-year exile upon Israel. HE stringently tested the chosen people, who were cast into a confused state of disarray. Many of their lineages were lost or became so muddled that even the priestly lineages of the Tribe of Levi were difficult to ascertain and confirm. But in the first year of the reign of Cyrus king of Persia a prophesy of Jeremiah’s was fulfilled when the Lord stirred the spirit of Cyrus, charging him to “build HIM a house in Jerusalem,” whereupon Cyrus issued a written proclamation, permitting those who were the “people of GOD” to go and commence rebuilding the Temple (2 Chron. 36:22-23).

In the second year of the reign of King Darius, Prophet Haggai reported that the word of the Lord had come to him for the edification of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, high priest, commanding that certain changes be made; including that the house of the Lord, the temple in Jerusalem should not lie in waste any more, but should be rebuilt (Hag. 1:4,8). Haggai, being the Lord’s messenger, assured the people that the Lord was with them. Then the Lord “stirred up the spirit” of Zerubbabel and of Joshua, and the remnant of the people that remained alive after the protracted deadly exile they had endured in Persia for seventy years, and they set themselves to work rebuilding the temple.

Prophet Nehemiah wrote of this post-exile period that some of his brethren had said to him:

“The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned” (Neh. 2:3). Nehemiah was asked by the king why his countenance was so sad? to which he replied that it was because his city and the sepulchers of his fathers were consumed with fire. The offshoot was that Nehemiah went to Jerusalem with the king’s blessings, and discreetly set to work with a few others, commencing to rebuild the walls of the city. Nehemiah then divulged to the people what the king had said to him, which strengthened their hands for the work, and the reconstruction of the temple at Jerusalem thereupon proceeded.

Nehemiah was a prophet, but actually – even more than that – he held the position of Tirshatha, a governor of Pershia. In the wake of the protracted exile, membership in the sacred priesthood lineage of Levi had become difficult to confirm or validate because during the seventy years even some of the priests had taken Persian and heathen women as wives (Ezra:10:10-11, 16-19). Consequently, Nehemiah the Tirshatha cautioned that the people should not eat of the most holy things until someone stood up with the Urim and Thummim (Neh. 7:65).

This estopped those who had returned home after the 70-year exile from going forward without GOD’s Will until HE had ample opportunity to choose which of HIS called children of Israel should rightfully be ordained as high priest in that time. It is understood that HE chose the Son of GOD, who had reincarnated on earth as Joshua the son of Josedech, who had before been ordained into the eternal Priesthood of Meclchizedec during His earth manifestation as Melchizedec (Gen. 14:18-19; Hebrews Chapters 5-10). That unique eternal heavenly Priesthood had become a spiritual hereditament possessed forever by the Son of GOD; which He held even during His incarnation much later as Jesus Christ, man’s Savior; whom GOD empowered over heaven and the earth (Mt. 28:18).

The Urim and Thummim contained precious stones which were made a part of the high priest’s breastplate. When he asked GOD for a reliable answer concerning some perplexing question, certain stones apparently lit up, or reflected light, in a way that portrayed the truth or falsity of that which was in question. Because this rare gift was possessed only by priests of extremely high spirituality, it served as an ethereal marker by which people in the congregation over which the priest presided could be assured of accuracy, and that he had authority to act.

The high priesthood ordained to Joshua son of Josedech was not likely inherited solely as a matter of his having been born in the Tribe of Levi: it was doubtless spiritually-conveyed to him by GOD, who quickened HIS Son’s spirit-energy with HIs own supremely powerful Spirit. During what was likely the Son’s next and last earth incarnation as Jesus Christ of Nazareth – He having been describe by the illuminated Apostle Paul as the “First and Last Adams” (1 Cor. 15:45-47) – the Son received GOD His Father’s Holy Spirit Energy without any limitation whatever (Jn. 3:34).

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Message Thirty-Four - Book Three - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

COROLLARY: IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO COMPREHEND THE SPIRITUAL ORIGINS OF THE SON OF GOD AS JESUS CHRIST WITHOUT AN UNDERSTANDING OF REINCARNATION [Continued]

After the Son of GOD’s earth experience as Joshua the son of Nun, He incarnated as Asaph, who was Chief Musician in the time of King David. What we know about Asaph is reported in the Books of Chronicles, Nehemiah, and the Psalms. Many Psalms were written by Asaph, and a number of them were dedicated by him to David; who also dedicated and wrote several Psalms in high praise of Asaph.

On a certain day, David delivered a Psalm “to thank the Lord into the hand of Asaph and his brethren,” after which he urged the people to give thanks to their Lord, and to call upon HIS name, and make known HIS deeds among the people (1 Chron. 16:7-8). It was written that after his Psalm was finished, “David left Asaph and his brethren before the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord, “to minister before the Ark continually, as every day’s work required” (1 Chron. 16:37). As in the case of Joshua son of Nun, here again with Asaph there is the biblical implication that the eternal heavenly priesthood of Melchizedec had not expired at the time of the passing of his soul from the earth plane, but had been sustained through the generations, remaining spiritually-efficacious through succeeding generations as the spiritual inheritance of the Son of GOD when He reincarnated as Asaph.

Psalms written by Asaph, and those dedicated to him by David and others, emphatically ascribe to Asaph a resolute spiritual conviction, character and closeness to GOD that reveals him to have ranked high in the heavenly hierarchy – pointing with a high degree of probability that his Spirit was indeed that of the Son of GOD. For example, Psalm 78 – presumed from its title, Maschil of Asaph, to have been dedicated to Asaph – includes the authoritative comment:

“Moreover [GOD] chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which HE loved. And HE built HIS sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which HE established forever. He chose David also HIS servant, and took him from the sheep-folds: from following the ewes great with young He brought him to feed Israel HIS people, and Israel his inheritance” (Ps. 78:68-71)

One Psalm attributed to Asaph, declares:

“O GOD, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps. The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy Saints unto the beasts of the earth. Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them. We are become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision that are around about us. How long, Lord? wilt thou be angry forever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?” (Psalm 79:1-5)

In an eye-opening revelational Psalm, Asaph directed a message to GOD implying that he had – as Joseph son of Jacob – been present at the time long before when GOD had called the chosen people out of Egypt, and had taken them by the hand to escort them safely out (Ex. 18:10), over the objections and resistance of the Pharaoh in power at that time.

“Sing aloud unto GOD our strength; make a joyful noise unto the GOD of Jacob. For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the GOD of Jacob. This HE ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I knew not.” (Psalm 81:1,4-5).

The spiritual implication in the above-quoted biblical verse, is that the writer of the Psalm, Asaph, had before incarnated as Joseph son of Jacob, who, when he “went out through the land of Egypt” had “heard a language he did not understand.”

A Psalm attributed to Asaph carries ethereal emotional overtones on the order of Jesus Christ’s Beatitudes – His Sermon on the Mount, biblically recorded in Matthew Chapter Five:

“GOD standeth in the congregation of the mighty; HE judges among the gods. How long will ye judge unjustly and accept the persons of the wicked? Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked. They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.

AND I HAVE SAID, Ye are gods: and all of you are children of the most High. But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes. Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all nations” (Psalm 82:1-8).

It is evident that the author of this Palm 82 was the one who inscribed in that Psalm: “I have said” – that he had made the remarks that follow in the next three verses, 6 through 8. And it is apparent that verse 6 in Psalm 82 reflects directly to an important comment later uttered by the Son of GOD when He incarnated as Jesus Christ: as reported in the Book of John. When Jews accused Jesus of having “made Himself God,” He replied:

“Ye are all gods; and all of you children of the most High. But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes. Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all nations” (Psalm 82:1-8). It is evident that the author of Palm 82 was the one who inscribed in that Psalm: “I have said” – and that he had made the remarks that follow in the next three verses, 6 through 8. And it is apparent that verse 6 in Psalm 82 connects to an important comment later uttered by the Son of GOD when He incarnated as Jesus Christ: as reported in the Book of John. When Jews accused Jesus of having “made Himself God,” He replied:”Is it not written in your law, that I said, Ye are Gods? If he called them gods, unto whom the word of GOD came, and the Scripture cannot be broken; [why] say ye of whom the Father has sanctified and sent into the world, “Thou blaspheme”; because I said, I am the Son of GOD?” (Jn. 10:33-36)

These above-quoted verses confirm that the Son of GOD had incarnated as Asaph during His earth experiences, at a time before He manifested as Jesus Christ. Which substantiates that a pattern of reincarnation – constructed upon a GOD-oriented foundational process of karmic refinement based on good and evil – governs man’s spiritual evolution in the earth dimension. As long ago written: “GOD has made man upright, but they have sought out many inventions. Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear GOD and keep HIS commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For GOD shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil” (Ecclesiastes 7:29; 12:13-14; cf. 2 Cor. 5:10).\\

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Message Thirty-Three - Book Three - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEI

T IS IMPOSSIBLE TO COMPREHEND THE SPIRITUAL ORIGINS OF THE SON OF GOD AS JESUS CHRIST WITHOUT AN UNDERSTANDING OF REINCARNATION [Continued].

It is understood that the Son of GOD was known in heaven – before His initial earth incarnation – as Amilius; and that when He incarnated in the earth plane with the name Adam, it was for the purpose of “destroying the works of the devil” (1 Jn. 3:8). In that initial flesh experience, He fell to the wiles, lies and deceits of the devil – who had at some previous time been made “covering angel over the earth” by GOD Himself, as recorded in the Holy Bible, the Scripture of Truth:

“Thou art the anointed cherub [archangel] that covers: and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the Holy Mountain of GOD: thou has walked up and down in the midst of the stones of the fire [early in earth’s creation]. Thou wast perfect in thy ways until iniquity was found in thee.” (Ezek. 28:14-15)

But the Spirit of the Son of GOD did not expire as a result of His fall from GOD’s grace. It is understood that when His flesh body expired His soul remained in what some have called the “Inter-between;” an ethereal “holding place” situated between heaven and the earth. By disobeying GOD His Father, The Son had inadvertently attached Himself to the vibrations of the lower-dimensional earth plane (Gen. 3:19). Seven generations after His fall as Adam, the Son of GOD reappeared as Enoch son of Jared, during which earth life He fully obeyed GOD, unfailingly “walking with HIM” throughout that entire incarnation (Gen. 5:22-24). GOD then rewarded His Son for having done so (Heb. 11:5-6), by bringing about His reincarnation as Melchizedec; as detailed in previous messages herein; and insinuated in the Book of Hebrews.

The Son of GOD’s heavenly priesthood, ordained to Him by GOD the Father during His earth materialization in flesh as Melchizedec (Gen. 14:18-19; Heb. Chapters Four to Ten) was an extraordinary spiritual gift that never expired, but was forever grafted on to His Spirit as an innate part of His Spiritual Inheritance. The Hebrews writer at one point began to explain the origins of the Priesthood of Melchizedec as it applied to Jesus Christ, but elected not to do so because, he explained, his listeners were still at that time “natural men” (1 Cor. 2:9-14), unable to receive and understand the principles of reincarnation. He went as far as noting that Jesus Christ was:

“Called of GOD an high priest after the order of Melchized: of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing. For when for the time you ought to be teachers, you have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the Oracles of GOD; and are become such as have need of milk and not of strong meat” (Heb. 5:10-14)

The Holy Bible leaves no doubt that the Priesthood into which GOD ordained HIS Son was permanent, without end, continuing with Him through following centuries as an innate part of His Spiritual Inheritance (Heb. 1:4-12). That, in fact, He still held that Eternal High Heavenly Priesthood when he subsequently manifested on the earth as Joshua the son of Nun: which is the only way we can discern how Joshua was spiritually positioned to serve as the great Moses’ minister. Moses was known as the spiritually-illuminated faithful servant of GOD, and for GOD to make Joshua the son of Nun Moses’ minister was not an inconsequential matter. Joshua’s accomplishments fill many biblical pages and comprise a notable part of the spiritual foundation prepared in contemplation of the Son’s eventual manifestation as Jesus Christ of Nazareth – which in Joshua’s time lay yet a long way off.

It was Joshua the son of Nun who battled against Amalek and defeated him and his people (Ex. 17:13), of which it was biblically inscribed:

“And the Lord said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovahnissi: For HE said, Because the Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.” (Exodus 17:14-16)

These above-quoted verses, interpreted according to their spiritual meaning, as noted in 2 Cor. 3:3-6, meant that the Lord GOD the Father had commanded Moses to write a memorial in a book, and to repeat and stress to Joshua, that HE, GOD the Father, was committed to warring against Amalek though coming generations. This carried the plain implication that: (1) Joshua the son of Nun was the man incarnated on earth at that time who was predestined to reincarnate repeatedly through future generations until all vestiges of the memory of Amalek had been erased; and (2), and that the altar named Jehovahnissi implied that Joshua was an incarnation of the Son of GOD, who was one day to incarnate in flesh as Jesus Christ of Nazareth with the Spirit of GOD in Him (Jn. 3:34). The root of the Name Jehovahnissi is Jehovah: which is a biblical name for GOD the Father (Ex. 6:3; Ps. 83:18; Isa. 12:2; Isa. 26:4).

The Bible explains that GOD IS a Spirit (Jn. 4:24), which leads to the inevitable conclusion that HIS Son is also composed of HIS Spirit Energy. The Bible reveals; considered in its spiritual sense;’ that when the Son, incarnated on earth as Melchizedec and received from GOD His Father His unique inheritable eternal heavenly Priesthood, it attached to Him from that time forward. One subtle sign of this is that when the Son long afterward incarnated as Jesus of Nazareth, He revived the hallowed Eucharist, featuring bread and wine to commemorate the Last Supper by the consecrated elements of bread and wine; which Holy Ritual He had introduced in the earth plane when He was Melchizedec (Gen. 14:18-19).

It is impossible to understand the origins of Jesus Christ’s manifestation on earth without an awareness of His preliminary incarnations after His fall as Adam, through His successive flesh manifestations as Enoch, Melchizedec, Joseph in Egypt, and Joshua the son of Nun, among other appearances: and the list does not end there. After the Son appeared as Joshua the Son of Nun He also manifested as Asaph, Chief Musician in David’s time; after which He reincarnated as Joshua the son of Josedech, high priest during the period when Prophet Zechariah was serving as one of GOD’s Holy Prophets.

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Message Thirty-Two - Book Three - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

COROLLARY: IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO COMPREHEND THE SPIRITUAL ORIGINS OF THE SON OF GOD AS JESUS CHRIST WITHOUT AN UNDERSTANDING OF REINCARNATION [Continued].

After the Son of GOD had fallen from GOD’s grace as Adam, and had reincarnated as Enoch to obediently “walk with GOD” all of that experience, He then returned to the earth plane as Melchizedec, eternal Priest of GOD the Father of all (Gen. 14:18-19); as described in detail in the Book of Hebrews. It is extremely important that the eternal heavenly Priesthood granted by GOD to His Son, when He incarnated as Melchizedec, had never expired. It became an integral part of the Son of GOD’s Spiritual Inheritance (Heb. 1:1-5), sustained with Him during his following successive earth incarnations.

When He manifested as Joseph son of Jacob, His priestly spiritual character was indicated by His uncanny ability to accurately read the dreams of those with whom He associated, as the Bible discloses in a number of places. His unspotted moral character was accentuated when He forthrightly rejected the advances of his master Potiphar’s wife, was falsely accused by her, and as a result ended up in prison (Gen. Chapter Thirty-Nine). But the Bible discloses that Joseph’s uncanny spiritual ability to accurately read the dreams of others brought about his release.

Later, when the highly-spiritualized Jacob blessed his sons – having called them together to reveal to them what was to befall them in the last days (Gen. 49:1), he implied that Joseph was an earth appearance of the Rock of Israel: a name later applied to the Son of GOD:

“Because I will publish the name of the Lord: ascribe ye greatness unto our GOD. He is the Rock, His work is perfect: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is He” (Deut. 32:3-4).

And even above and beyond that blessing, Jacob declared:

“Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well whose branches run over the wall. The archers have sorely grieved him and shot at him, and hated him: but his bow abode in strength and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty GOD of Jacob: (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel,” which is Jesus Christ (Deut. 32:3-4), supra, and cf. Jn. 10:11-16; Heb. 13:20).

When the Pharaoh was unable to understand the meaning of a certain dream of his, he sought out Joseph and asked him to interpret it for him. Joseph replied that it was not in him to do so, but that GOD would give the Pharaoh “an answer of peace” (Gen. 41:15-16). When his interpretation of the intriguing dream turned out to be a strikingly detailed prophesy of things to come, as well as a prospectus designed to outline a program to be followed by the Egyptians, Pharaoh saw the handwriting on the wall. He recognized Joseph’s unique spiritual capability – a priestly quality – and declared to his servants:

“Can we find such a man as this one? a man in whom the Spirit of GOD is? And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Forasmuch as GOD has shown thee all this, there is none so wise and discreet as thou: thou shalt rule over my house, and according to thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou. And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand and put it on Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck. And he made him ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried before him, Bow thy knee: and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt” (Gen. 41:38-44).

This foreshadowed events to take place long afterward when the Spirit that was in Joseph would reincarnate as Jesus Christ, and the spiritually-inspired David would declare:

“The Lord said unto my Lord, sit thou at my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool. The Lord shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies. The Lord has sworn and will not repent, Thou art a priest forever the order of Melchizedec (cf. Heb. 5:6, 10, 20, etc.) The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of His wrath – which is the Indignation yet to come upon the earth (Ps. 69:21-28; Isa. 34:2; Ezek. 21:31; Heb. 10:27). He shall judge among the heathen, He shall fill the places with the dead bodies; He shall wound the heads over many countries” (Psalms 110:1-6).

The Son of GOD’s flesh incarnation on the earth as Joseph son of Jacob was an important stepping stone in His skein of earth experiences leading to his eventual ultimate manifestation as the spiritually-pure Jesus Christ. In each earth experience He moved farther away from being the “natural man” that had characterized his initial earth experience as Adam – of which unspiritual condition Apostle Paul at a much later time wrote to the Corinthians (1 Cor. 2:9-14).

Until Paul underwent his dramatic spiritual rebirth on the Damascus Road, he was himself a “natural man,” persecuting Jesus’ disciples wherever he could find them. After he underwent spiritual rebirth and received Christ’s Holy Spirit Energy, and the Spirit of the Holy Ghost, he explained why he had done such negative works:

“I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has enabled me, for He counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry: who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief. And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Chrisr Jesus came into the world to save sinners: of whom I am the chief. Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me Jesus Christ might show forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on Him to life everlasting” (1 Tim. 1:12-16).

The Son of GOD’s flesh manifestation as Joseph son of Jacob marked the beginning of a series of earth appearances during which He would GOD His Father quickened Him: which He palpably illustrated by abruptly spurning the tempting spiritually-unacceptable, closeted advances secretly pressed upon Him by Potiphar’s wife. He instinctively knew to stay clear of such temptations, and the Bible indicates that GOD rewarded Him for having done so.

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Message Thirty-One - Book Three - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

COROLLARY: IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO COMPREHEND THE SPIRITUAL ORIGINS OF THE SON OF GOD AS JESUS CHRIST WITHOUT AN UNDERSTANDING OF REINCARNATION [Continued].

Disclosures by the source of revelational information that came through Edgar Cayce during his deep-trance readings – which were similar to those received by Prophet Balaam in early times (Num. 24:15-23) – provided enlightening information about the Son of GOD’s pre-Adamic existence in heavenly dimensions.

Working from the Cayce readings, Robinson Lytle * explained that a self-division of GOD’s discerning Spirit Energy took place, as biblically-described in Psalms 2:6-12:

“In the beginning was the Spirit, a vast sea of mind-force, of discerning energy, occupying all space and all tme. Omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, this was the source of all (cf. Ephes. 4:6): the First Cause, the Universal Force. This was the WHOLE, the essence of life, the I AM THAT I AM. – the Eternal GOD.

“The mind of GOD embraces the total life energy, for all in its elemental form is One. All time, all space, all power and matter, essentially are one and ae based upon the force of attraction and repulsion – the so-called Law of Opposites – the positive and negative law around which the universe revolves. The movement, the vibration, of this atomic structure is the manifestation of the Creator. During its nebulous activity the gathering of positive-negative forces becomes the creative power. Atoms, molecurles, cells and matter change; but the essence, the Spirit itself, does not change. Only the form of manifestation changes; not its relationship to the First Cause.

“The second cause was desire: desire for self-expression; the desire to create, the desire for companionship. The Spirit moved, and by moving Itself out of Itself, created a separate vibration; a separate manifestation, [this was the "making of the Son of GOD by GOD the Father.] Thus into this sea of peaceful and harmonious vibrations came one Amilius the Light; the first expression of Divine Mind; the first manifestation of the Spirit; the first Son who emanated in Spirit from the Source, GOD, as a beautiful thought is created; or as an idea is born. This was the First Creation.”

This expresses in somewhat abstruse words how GOD the Father brought into the world HIS firstbegotten Son, as biblically made known in Psalms 2-6-12. By this understanding, Amilius was the name of the Spirit in higher dimensions than the earth, who subsequently incarnated in the earth plane as Adam, dedicated to “destroying the works of the devil” (1 Jn. 3:8). But as Adam, the Son was as yet a “natural man,” unspiritualized,” as described by Apostle Paul in 1 Cor. 2:9-14, and He fell to the trickery of Satan; whom GOD had made covering archangel over the earth (Ezek. 28:14-18) at a time when the negative one was perfect in his ways and gave no indication that he would ever turn against GOD. This may have been one reason why Jesus Christ was required to undergo such an inexpressibly terrible testing on the Cross. His position at GOD’s right hand required that He be spiritually perfect and stable: that He could be absolutely counted upon to do GOD’s Will in all situations and under all conditions.

The Son’s incarnation as Adam had been followed by His incarnation as Enoch the son of Jared, during which life He obeyed GOD at every turn, “walking with HIM” throughout that earth manifestation (Gen. 5:22-24). As would be written of Him, He had “always loved righteousness and hated iniquity: therefore GOD, even thy GOD, has anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows” (Heb. 1:9).

After the Son’s remarkable earth manifestation as Enoch, He reappeared as Melchizedec, “Priest of the Most High GOD, and brought forth bread and wine with which to bless Abraham as part of the sacred Eucharist ritual He would long afterward incorporate as part of His New Covenant Gospel when He incarnated as Jesus Christ of Nazareth (Jn. 6:48-58).

The writer to the Hebrews had much to say about Melchizedec, but he declined to describe or explain in detail, because those to whom he addressed his remarks were “dull of hearing” (Heb. 5:11-14): they were yet “natural men,” unable to receive the things of GOD, which they could not understand because spiritual things are spiritually discerned (1 Cor. 2:9-14). After Apostle Paul’s dramatic enlightening experience on the Damascus Road, when the Christ Spirit had entered into him, he told the Corinthians that he could not speak to them of spiritual matters, but only of carnal things – as to “babes in Christ” – and “fed them with milk, not with meat, because they were unable to hear it, they being yet carnal” (1 Cor. 3:1-3).

The Hebrews writers explained in considerable detail how Jesus Christ held the eternal heavenly Priesthood of Melchizedec (esp. Hebrews Chapters Two through to Ten). But because his listeners were “dull-of- hearing natural men” he did not disclose the key that would have unlocked the whole spiritual mystery for them had they been able to comprehend it. It is only understandable in light of the insightful awareness that Jesus Christ had before incarnated as Melchizedec, during which earth manifestation GOD had granted Him the eternal Priesthood He held from that time onward – even until He was reborn as Jesus of Nazareth; as Isaiah had foretold (Isa. 7:14): as the result of a virgin birth by Beloved Mary. She had before incarnated as Eve when the Son of GOD was incarnated on earth as Adam. Many spiritual truths may only be understood as part of the pattern of reincarnation taking place among human souls in the earth plane.

As the Hebrews writer declared of Jesus Christ:

“And being made perfect, He became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey Him: called of GOD an high priest after the order of Melchizedec” (Heb. 5:9-10).

 * EDGAR CAYCE’S STORY OF THE ORIGIN AND DESTINY OF MAN, by Lytle Robinson, Copyright 1972 by the Edgar Cayce Foundation, Pub.Coward, McCann & Geoghan, Inc. N.Y.

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Message Thirty - Book Three - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

COROLLARY: IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO COMPREHEND THE SPIRITUAL ORIGINS OF THE SON OF GOD AS JESUS CHRIST WITHOUT AN UNDERSTANDING OF REINCARNATION.

The Son of GOD Himself illustrated for all mankind that there is a pattern of reincarnation at work in man’ generations, and the Holy Bible frames a graphic picture of its spiritual workings from the time the Son revealed his own genesis by GOD His Father (Psalm 2:7-12).

A detailed recapitulation began to be biblically assembled step by step by step with the disclosure in Jesus’ time that Adam had actually been the first flesh manifestation on earth of the Son of GOD: that “Enos was the son of Seth, which was the Son of Adam, which was the Son of GOD” (Lk. 3:38). Apostle John later explained: “He that commits sin is of the devil; for the devil sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of GOD was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil.” (1 Jn. 3:8; cf. Heb. 2:14-15: “Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, [Christ the Son] also Himself likewise took part of the same; that through death He might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; and deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.”

The Son of GOD, incarnated as Adam, failed in His initial saving mission, inadvertently falling victim to the wiles, lies and deceits of Satan; who held power over the earth, having been anointed by GOD the Father. GOD had said of him: “You are the anointed cherub that covers; and I have set thee so: you were upon the Holy Mountain of GOD; you have walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire; you were perfect in your ways from the day you were created until iniquity was found in you” (Ezek. 28:14-15).

It is indicated in the above verses that at a time before GOD the Father Created His Son, HE had created the Archangel Satan, who had begun his earth experiences without spiritual blemish; but that somewhere along the way he had turned against GOD, militating against HIM and HIS righteous ways. GOD had then turned to HIS Son – who, insofar as the Bible discloses – had not yet incarnated in flesh on the earth – and incarnated Him into the earth plane with the name, Adam. This was confirmed by Apostle Paul after he had been enlightened on the Damascus Road by the Christ Spirit (Acts Chapters Nine, Twenty-Two, Twenty-Six), when he wrote to the Ephesians about Jesus Christ:

“Now that He ascended, what is it but that He also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that He might fill all things” (Eph. 4:9-10).

Apostle Paul declared that GOD had “wrought the working of HIS mighty power when HE raised Christ HIS Son from the dead and set Him at HIS own right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principalities and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world but also in that which is to come. Further, that HE has put all things under His feet, and given Him to be head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him that fills all in all” (Eph. 120-23: cf. 1 Cor. 15:28). It is into Christ’s Spirit Body that His followers are to be received when He returns in the cloud to gather up His followers that

are his, that where He is they may ever be (Jn. 14:3-4; cf. Lk. 21:25-28).

When the Spirit of the Son of GOD incarnated on earth as Jesus Christ of Nazareth, He set out to teach Nicodemus; a ruler of the Jews who clandestinely sought Him out at night to learn spiritual truths. Jesus professed to him that except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of GOD. He explained that to be born in the flesh is just a beginning, a stepping stone: that “that which is born of the flesh is flesh, whereas that which is born of the Spirit is spirit (Jn. 3:1-6). Nicodemus, being yet a “natural man” despite his high religious ranking among Jews, did not understand that concept, and he asked how a man could be born a second time when he is old? Jesus then explained:

“No man has ascended up to heaven but he that came down from heaven: even the Son of man which is in heaven” (Mt. 3:13).

When Jesus spoke these words He was incarnated on earth, but the greater part of His Spirit – His higher self Spirit-portion – nevertheless was existent in higher dimensions than the earth. He had not at that time yet been raised up to GOD’s right hand, but presumably had been quickened by GOD’s Holy Spirit Energy that raised Him above the “many mansions” between earth and heavenly dimensions. He stood poised on the last spiritual stepping stone – His last earth incarnation – which would lead Him to a His glorious position in heaven at GOD His father’s right hand.

The spiritually-quickened Apostle Paul disclosed that man’s soul is sown in corruption, but raised in incorruption: that it is sown in dishonor but raised in glory – it is sown a natural body, but it is raised a spiritual body. When the Son of GOD had incarnated as Adam, he had been a “natural man,” albeit having GOD’s Spirit – as Paul would later explain:

“There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. And so it is written, ‘The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. Howbeit, that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. The first man [Adam] is of the earth, earthy; the second man [Jesus Christ] is the Lord from heaven (1 Cor. 15:44-47)

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Message Twenty-Nine - Book Three SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEFAn enigmatic spiritual mystery found in the New Testament:

“While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them:

“What do you think of Christ? whose son is He? They answered: the son of David. He replied, How then does David in spirit call him Lord, saying: The Lord [GOD the Father] said unto my Lord [the Son], Sit thou at my right hand till I make thine enemies thy footstool? (Psalm 110:1) If David called Him Lord, how is he his son? And no man was able to answer Him a word, neither dared any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.” (Mt. 22:41-46; cf. Mk. 12:36).

A slightly different version of the mystery is also biblically published:

“How say they that Christ is David’s son? And David himself says in the Book of Psalms: The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool. David therefore calls Him Lord; how is He then his son?” (Lk. 21:41-44).

The prophets of Israel had foretold the appearance of a spiritually-anointed leader in the lineage of David, from which the idea grew up:

“And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, [David’s father] and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: and the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon Him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord. And shall make Him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord: and He shall not judge after the sight of His eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears: but with righteousness shall He judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and He shall smite the earth with the rod of His mouth, and with the breath of His lips shall He slay the wicked. And righteousness shall be the girdle of his reins.” (Isaiah 11:1-5)

This prophesy was followed by a similar prediction issued by the Lord through His Prophet Jeremiah:

“Behold, the days come, says the Lord that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a king shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth, And in His days Judah shall dwell safely: and this is the name whereby He shall be called: THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.” (Jer. 23:5-6)

The belief sprang up among the chosen people that it was the son of David who was to appear as Savior of the Jews. On an occasion when Jesus was passing near Jericho, a blind man along the way, hearing that Jesus was passing by, cried out:”

“Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me.” They that went before rebuked this man and told him to hold his peace, but he cried out again even louder, “Thou son of David, have mercy on me.” (Lk. 18:38).” Jesus commanded that the man be brought before Him, and asked what He could do for him. (Lk. 18:40-41) . The stricken fellow asked the he might receive his sight, and Jesus said unto him, “Receive thy sight, thy faith has healed thee.” He was immediately healed, and it was biblically inscribed that those who were following Jesus glorified and praised GOD” (Lk. 18:35-43).

But Jesus, as before noted, had questioned on what basis it had been said that Christ was David’s son? (Lk. 20:41-44), for which there are at least two explanations. Jesus may well have healed the blind man’s condition, even though knowing that He Himself was not in any comprehensible sense David’s son, as the above-cited quotation in Lk. 20:41-44 suggests. This idea arises from a comment ascribed to Apostle Peter after Jesus Christ’s Sacrifice on the Cross, and His having been raised to GOD’s right hand in heaven and empowered over heaven and the earth (Mt. 28:18):

“Men and brethren, let me freely speak to you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulcher is with us unto this day. For David is not ascended into the heavens, but he saith himself, THE LORD SAID UNTO MY LORD, SIT THOU ON MY RIGHT HAND UNTIL I MAKE OF THE EARTH YOUR FOOTSTOOL. Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that GOD has made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Jesus Christ.” (Acts 2:29,34-36)

There is a biblically-inscribed rationale explaining why it is impossible for Christ to actually have been the son of David: it is because of a revelational comment by Apostle Paul after he had undergone his spiritual rebirth on the Damascus Road and received the Spirit of the risen Christ and the Holy Ghost, the Spirit of Truth (Acts Chapters Nine, Twenty-Two and Twenty-Six):

“But to us there is but one GOD, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in HIM; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by Him” (1 Cor. 8:6). As written:

“Woe unto him that strives with his Maker! Shall the clay say to Him that fashions it, What do you make? He has no hands?! Woe unto him who says to his Father, What are you making? or to the woman, What have you brought forth? Thus says the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and HIS Maker, Ask me of things concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands, speak to me. I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded. (Isa. 45:9-12; cf. Ps. 104:2)).

Christ the Son of GOD is biblically identified as man’s maker, and it inexorably follows that David’s creator was the Son of GOD – which confirms that Christ is not the son of David, but the reverse: that David was a son of Christ’s, and thus a son of GOD’s.

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Message Twenty-Eight - Book Three - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEFWhen Jesus Christ returned after His Resurrection, He declared that all things must be fulfilled which had been written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and the Psalms concerning Him” Then He opened their understanding that they might understand the scriptures” (Lk. 24:44-45).

It had been written in a Psalm of David’s:

“The Lord [GOD the Father] has sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedc. The Lord [the Son] at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of His wrath [the Indignation, (Ref. Isa. 13:9-14)]. He shall judge among the heathen, He shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries” (Psalm 110:4-6).

Prophet Isaiah had written of this time of GOD’s Indignation, which is yet to come upon the earth:

“Behold, the day of the Lord comes, cruel both in wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and He shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it. For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in its going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine. (Cf. Joel 2:31). And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity, and I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible. I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man more rare than the golden wedge of Ophir. Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place in the wrath of the Lord of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger. And it shall be as the chased roe deer, and as a sheep that no man takes up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land” (Isa. 13:9-14; cf. Rev. 16:15-21).

It has been written of this destructive time to come upon the earth:

“For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled (cf. Dan. 9:26-27). There shall be great distress on the land, and wrath upon this people. And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled (Dan. 9:27; Rom. 11:25). And there shall be signs of the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars, and upon the earth distress of nations with perplexity; and the sea and the waves roaring: men’s hearts failing them for fear and looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and with great glory. And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up and lift up your heads; for your redemption draws nigh.” (Lk. 21:22-28).

The Lord the Son of GOD is to return in the cloud when it is time; in accordance with a quotation of Jesus’ reported by Apostle John:

“Let not your heart be troubled: you believe in GOD, believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you . I will come again and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there you may be also (cf. Acts 1:11).

It is inscribed in the Psalms that at an early point in man’s incarnations in the earth, the Lord the Son of GOD announced:

“I will declare the decree: the Lord [GOD the Father] has said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee. Ask of ME, and I shall give you the heathen for your inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession. Thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel. Be wise now therefore, O you kings; be instructed you judges of the earth. Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest He be angry, and you perish from the Way, when His wrath is kindled but a little.  (Psalms 2:6-12).

These verses coincide with David’s Psalm 110:4-6. quoted, supra, in which he confirmed that a day is to come when the Son at GOD’s right hand in heaven “will strike through kings in the day of His wrath; and that He will judge among the heathen” for which reason everyone – including the heathen – should put their trust in Him. This Psalm of David’s disclosed that it was the Son of GOD who was to “wait at GOD’ right hand (Heb. 1:3), until the time of The Indignation, which is the Great Tribulation written-of by Gospel Writer Matthew:

“When you therefore see the Abomination of Desolation, spoken of by Daniel the Prophet, stand in the Holy Place [whoso reads, let him understand:] then let them which are in Judea flee into the mountains: let him who is on the housetop not come down to take anything out of his house; neither let him which is in the field return to take his clothes. But pray that your flight is not on the Sabbath Day, for there shall be great tribulation such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And except those days should be shortened, there should be no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened (Cf. Zech. 14:2-9). Behold, I have told you before. For as the lightning comes out of the east and shines into the west, so also shall the coming of the Son of man be.(Mt. 24:15-27).

These prophetic biblical disclosures are followed by the further revelations:

“Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken. And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven; and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with great glory. And He shall send His Angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other (cf. Jn. 14:3). But of that day and hour knows no man, no not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. For as the days of Noah were, so also shall the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the Flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage until the day that Noah entered into the Ark, and knew not until the Flood came and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.” (Mt. 24:29-39).

So WATCH (Lk. 21:36; 1 Cor. 16:13; 1 Pet. 4:7; Rev. 3:3).

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Message Twenty-Seven - Book Three - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

John the Baptist was sent to pave the way for the Son of GOD’s incarnation on earth as Jesus Christ of Nazareth. John’s priestly entitlement was derived from both side of his parentage (Lk. 1:5), so when he appeared at the Jordan River, baptizing with water and preaching his doctrine of repentance as the Lord had laid down through HIS Prophet Ezekiel (Ezek. 18:20-24), Jews saw value in it and flocked to the Jordan River to partake of the spiritual cleansing it offered. Apparently that ritual produced observable spiritual effects, because it reportedly became immensely popular.

The humble John paved Jesus’ Way by forthrightly advising that He who was due to come after him was vastly greater, or more spiritualized, than he: that his own ritual of baptism by water was the forerunner to an even more profound baptism by the Holy Ghost, which was due to be offered by one destined to presently appear (Mt. 3:10-12). When John did meet Jesus, he immediately put two and two together, figuratively speaking, and saw the handwriting on the wall. He realized that he needed to be baptized by Christ, not the reverse. But Jesus knew that John’s baptism by water was taking hold among Jews, and that it behooved Him to undergo the ceremonious mystical ritual; which was obviously evincing persuasive overt effects. Not only that, but He knew that His version of the ritual was to be a means of conducting GOD His Father’s powerful Spirit Energy into those who received it; and that for Him to undergo baptism stamped His approval on that which was an introduction to the more powerful Spirit-Baptism He Himself was about to present to the world.

It is now understood that Spirit Moves: that it is not static, but rather that it translates from one person to another. When we draw close to certain people, we find that we are attracted to them, whereas when in the presence of others we are automatically repelled. The Spirit-Energy that passed from John the Baptist was that which had influenced him from one or more of his past incarnations, during which he had built up a strong spirit-force. He had, for example, lived as the remarkable Elijah the Prophet, as biblically implied by Gospel writer Matthew:

“In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, saying, Repent ye, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. For this is he that was spoken of by the Prophet Esaias, saying, the voice of one crying in the wilderness. Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make His paths straight (Ref. Mal. 3:1). And the same John had his raiment of camel’s hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and honey.” (Mt. 3:1-4).

It is not a peculiar coincidence that Prophet Esaias [Isaiah] is biblically described as, “an hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins, named Elijah the Tishbite” (1 Kings 1:3,8). Isaiah and John the Baptist were two separated manifestations on earth of the same spirit – angelic being — that incarnated in two different time frames. John the Baptist received the burdens and benefits of all of his previous earth manifestations, including his works as Prophet Isaiah. As John the Baptist, GOD granted him the entitlement of fulfilling the ritual of water baptism. It was a temporal measure, but an extremely useful stepping stone that introduced into the earth plane the all-important doctrine of repentance, which in turn led to Jesus’ more efficacious baptism by the Holy Ghost. It was after Apostle Paul underwent his spiritual rebirth on the Damascus Road by the Christ Spirit that he delineated a crucially-important distinction between the “spiritualized man” and the “natural man” (1 Cor. 2:9-14).

Paul disclosed to the Ephesians that “There is one Lord, one faith and one Baptism, one GOD and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all” (Eph. 4:4-5). This referred to the Spirit Energy of GOD, Who IS a Spirit; for which reason HE must be worshiped in Spirit and in truth (Jn. 4:24). Out of love for HIS Son, GOD gives HIS Spirit to Him without any limitation (Jn. 3:34-35). Therefore, those who believe in Christ are spiritually attached to Him, and therefore acquire everlasting life through and by His Eternal Holy Spirit Energy.

The flow of Spirit Energy From GOD the Father through HIS Son and then into those who are spiritually attached to the Son, forms the basis for Spiritual Baptism, as well as for salvation. It is the Spirit-Body of Christ – the Spirit Church – in which the Son has in the past appeared in the cloud; and in which Christ is predestined to return:

“I will come again and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there you may be also. And where I go you know, and the Way you know” (Jn. 14:4)

“You shall receive power after the Holy Ghost is come upon you…And when He had spoken these things, while they beheld, He was taken up; and a cloud received Him out of their sight. And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as He went up, two men stood by them in white apparel: which also said, You men of Galilee, why stand gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as you have seen him go into heaven.(Acts 1:8-11). Apostle John confirmed this coming event in Jn. 14:1-4.

“And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring: men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. And then they shall see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads, for your redemption draws near.” (Lk. 21:21:28).

“Behold, He comes in clouds (Psalm 88:4): and every eye shall see Him, and they also which pierced Him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of Him. Even so, Amen.” (Rev. 1:7)

Therefore:

“Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man” (Lk. 21:36; Ref. Zeph. 2:3).

“Therefore watch, and remember that for three years I continually warned everyone night and day with tears.” (Acts 20:31;cf. 1 Cor. 16:13; Col. 4:2).

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Message Twenty-Six - Book Three - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEFThe Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered by nomadic tribesmen in desert-baked caves at a site where the Qumran Sect, so-called, dwelt more than 2000 years ago. After they were interpreted, a portion of them was released to the public, after which other parts were incrementally published. John Allegro, one who first received a part of the scrolls, after a short time released his interpretation of them. They did not appear to shed very much new light on man’s overall biblical understanding, but one significant issue raised by implication in the texts had already been examined and partly explained by Mr. Allegro in a previous work of his. *

The Qumran Sect had apparently looked for the coming of two Messiah’s, rather than one; at least it appeared that two highly-placed spiritually-anointed individual’s were expected to manifest in the earth plane. One of these was to be a priestly Christ; the other a lay prince of some kind who would appear in the lineage of David. Mr. Allegro particularly emphasized that the biblical writer to the Hebrews had reached the conclusion that the Davidic Messiah had in some inexplicable way been ordained into a higher priesthood of an unusual order, patterned after that of Melchizedec (Gen. 14:18-19), which surpassed the empowerment of the Aaronic hereditary line ordained by GOD the Father through Moses; thereby combining all of earth’s priestly functions in Jesus Christ, HIS Son. Biblical scholars have long struggled to understand how the eternal priesthood of GOD could have extended from Melchizedec and to be ordained in Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

The writer to the Hebrews explained that Jesus had been born in and of Judah, into which tribe no priesthood had been ordained before or during Moses’ time (Heb. 8:14). According to biblical writings, the origins of Jesus Christ’s Priesthood were of a higher ordination than that of Levi, a priesthood ordained on earth by way of Moses. The Hebrews writer explained that in fact Jesus Christ did hold the same heavenly-ordained priesthood of GOD; which had long before been directly and irrevocably consecrated in Melchizedec by GOD the Father (Gen. 24:18-19). But how is such a translation possible where so many generations are involved?

This conclusion is justified when it is considered that the Spirit in Jesus of Nazareth was that of the Rock of Israel described by Moses in Deut. 31-30; Deut. 32:1-4. In the same way that it is impossible to understand the origins of Jesus Christ without an understanding of the principles of reincarnation, so it is not possible to understand how Jesus held the eternal Priesthood of Melchizedec except it is understood that the Spirit in Jesus had before incarnated as Melchizedec. The Bible supplies no other basis upon which to propound the transposition of that sacred eternal priesthood of GOD; which had been successively inherited in turn afterward by Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ minister; Asaph; and then Joshua the son of Josedech. As the Hebrews writer explained, it was Christ, GOD’S Son, by whom GOD had made the worlds (1 Cor. 8:6). He Himself had been made so much better than the angels because He had by spiritual inheritance obtained a better name than they” (Heb.1:2-4). The Son had inherited the children that GOD had given to Him, as confirmed in Jn. 17:6-26, and as explicated in the Old Testament:

“When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when HE separated the sons of Adam, HE set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel [Ref. Jn. 17:8]. For the Lord’s portion is HIS people; Jacob is the lot of His inheritance.” (Deut. 32:8-9)

There are aligned lineal flesh, mental, and spiritually-inheritable characteristics that pass through man’s generations from one to the next, capable of bringing about alterations in him of either a good or evil character. The resulting fluctuation is known as karma – a system of spiritual justice governing an incarnated soul’s state or condition during each of its successive earth incarnations. According to biblically inscribed principles, there is a providence granted by GOD that allows a soul to clear its karmic slate and be cleansed of its current or accumulated stains of sin by way of reincarnation and repentance. This is a long standing biblical principle:

“The soul that sins, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him. But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he has committed, and keep my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die. All his transgressions that he has committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him; in his righteousness that he has done shall he live. But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, shall he live? All his righteousness that he has done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned in them, shall he die.” (Ezek. 18:20-22,24).

But it is understood that upon the death of the flesh body of every human being, there is a judgment during which each soul’s activities during that contemporary incarnation are evaluated (Heb. 9:27), and during which its future course is determined: whether it is to proceed to another of the “many mansions” written of by Apostle John (Jn. 14:2), or is to be received unto the Spirit Body of Christ, to be ever with Him (Jn. 14:3).

By applying these principles we re able to understand that the spiritual loss sustained by the Son of GOD as Adam, He erased in His reincarnation seven generations afterward by His perfectly-obedient life in flesh as Enoch. He afterward manifested as Joseph son of Jacob, and by the time He later manifested in flesh as Melchizedec He had acquired GOD’s Holy Spirit Energy to the extent that He was quickened into HIS heavenly eternal high priesthood. That priesthood translated with Him until His earth experience as Joshua the son of Nun – Moses’ minister. At that point He was spiritually qualified to go up into the Holy Mount of GOD with Moses in the capacity of his intercessor to GOD. And He carried that heavenly Priesthood through His earth experiences from that time forward.

The writer to the Hebrews explained that the priesthood of Levi, ordained on earth through Moses, was not empowered at the same high spiritual level as that directly ordained by GOD to Melchizedec (Heb. 7:26). He pointed out that at the time when Abraham had met Melchizedec after the battle of the Kings (Gen. 14:18-19), Levi had not yet even been born (Heb. 6:5-10).

The thrust of these matters is that Jesus held the Priesthood of Melchizedec, which He had received as part of His Spiritual Inheritance; it having passed down to Him through the generations from the time He had been ordained into it when He had incarnated as Melchizedec. It is noteworthy that as Melchizedec He had no parents – had manifested on the earth as he had when He had appeared as Adam (Lk. 3:38; 1 Jn. 3:8) – and both He and His Priesthood were conditioned never to expire. (Heb. 24-26)..

In sum: Jesus Christ had no Levitical family background, nor any other recorded earthly-ordained priesthood, nor did He need one to fulfill His earth mission: because He by inheritance held the heavenly priesthood of the Most High GOD: which He had held from the time He had incarnated on the earth as Melchizedec.

As insinuated by the Hebrews writer, a temporal earthly priesthood ordained by man is subject to human infirmities. GOD has the power to establish effective priesthoods according to HIS Will, and there are prospects that just such a priesthood is predestined to yet arise in higher dimensions. Apostle Peter, believing that it had already been ordained, suggested that its foundation had been framed in a holy priesthood “acceptable to GOD by Jesus Christ” (1 Pet. 2:5,9); and Apostle Paul described its basis to the Ephesians (Eph. 2:18:22).

But, Beloved John noted in his Revelation that those who participate in the “first resurrection” are blessed and holy; that the second death shall have no power over them, and that “they shall be priests of GOD and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years.” (Rev. 20:6). These will apparently be ordained in some way as Priests of Christ, and through Him hold a version of the Priesthood ordained after the order of that of Melchizedec,

* THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS, A REAPPRAISAL, Penguin Books, pp. 167-168, 171-172.

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Message Twenty-Five - Book Three - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

THE COMING OF THE LIGHT

By E. W. Dykes

Part Four: Conclusion

Because heightened moral development is a key attribute in the spiritual quickening of cosmically conscious man, and because free will plays such a predominant role in the Spirit that brings it about, it is significant that comparatively recent developments in eastern Europe and elsewhere appear to indicate the clearing away of underbrush which has enmeshed mankind from the beginning.

Doubtless there is much more to be revealed on this subject of the Coming of the Light – which is understood to be the quickening Spirit of GOD the Father of All and Christ HIS Son – so it seems good and right to review what has been discussed and set a target conclusion.

(1) Although GOD and HIS Holy Spirit of Creation remains mysterious and ineffable to us, it is our responsibility to learn all we can about how things in both the material and spirit world function. Spirit Energy, that of GOD’s Light, is not only the cause of all things, it is also the medium through which all things are made evident to us. Those in past ages who have moved out ahead of the masses to provide new and valid information and enlightenment, have been responsible for the advancements that have been made. They are as pioneers as surely as were those explorers who have through the ages opened new territories to be settle – and as are those of sterling character who probe the regions of space today.

(2) The enigmatic workings of time remain a mystery, albeit physical mankind functions within a time frame, whereas beyond the earth it is non-existent. Our path through it has been the process of our physical and spiritual evolution, but with each new step forward in our understanding it becomes increasingly evident that, as Apostle Paul long ago taught, the invisible things of GOD from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made (Rom. 1:20). We accordingly reach the understanding that spiritual changes taking place on the invisible side of life, bring about changes of all kinds in the earth plane as well as in the spiritual plane. As written, it was Christ who “opened the understanding of His followers, that they might understand the scriptures” (Lk. 24:45

(3) As yet unknown constituents of Energy may in time be discovered by scientists, but for now we are able to understand some of its workings through concepts offered by music; harmony and resonance being of the greatest importance. Dissonance is one of man’s temporary sufferings; being of a negative character and chaotic, it must eventually give way to harmonious resonance. For example, under Jesus Christ’s Gospel of Love, Truth and Righteousness – which must ultimately prevail – wars will become no more than dreadful past nightmares. The one major war in heaven took place when Michael and His Angels battled against Satan and his Angels, and won out over them (Rev. 12:7-12). ThFor example, John G. Bennett, in his four monumental books entitled THE DRAMATIC UNIVERSE, writes that there can be no doubt that the evolution of life on earth has moved ahead at an accelerated pace. It can be explained through the process of resonance.

(5) CONCLUSION. A principal characteristic of the coming of a higher level of spiritualized people is the observance by many of the subjective Light. In such spirit-quickened individuals there immediately follows a dramatic increase in traits and characteristics of extraordinary value. Many who undergo spiritual birth – who are “born again” – immediately begin to change their lives for the better. Although it is not generally known, there are increasing numbers of individuals becoming illuminated and making life changes, even though they have not been in a near death situation. We can explain Prophet Daniel’s enlightenment as a result of his encounters with the Archangel Gabriel, through whom the Spirit of the Son of GOD flowed. It is thus concluded that we are indeed now witnessing The Coming of the Light, and that this Light may be expected to be continue to be observed as we pass through the Latter Days.

Why is there reason to believe we are in the Latter Days, and that Spirit Light may escalate in this period? Because it is becoming increasingly evident that we are now in an important and long-prophesied time. [We are seeing wars and threats of wars, and disasters on a scale greater than have before been observed in a concerted form. Much higher powers control these events and occurrences, and such disasters as are currently being seen on the earth as appear to be harbingers of "the day of the Lord" presaged in both the Old and the New Testaments. Man is fleeing from morality in vast numbers, moving into an increasingly negative mode, placing emphasis on dissonant music, art, and many unspiritual ways of life – all of which lead to the conclusion that the time of testing during this period is drawing to a close.]

Interpretations of biblical prophesies point to this period. The ancient Mayan calendar points to the year 2011. Nostradamus foresaw a time of reckoning to take place at about this time and the astrological calendar identifies this period as the beginning of a “new age. One additional crucially important factor is seen in the fact that man’s freedom is being fought for on an international scale, and freedom is an absolute requirement for spiritual advance. It is the responsibility of individuals to find and follow The Way Made Passable, and they founder in The Way in those nations restricting freedom of thought, ideas and spiritual seeking. A heightened awareness has in the past led to man’s increasing knowledge and understanding – it is necessary for moral and spiritual change – and it is unavoidable because whether he desires it or not, or is even aware of it, man has been set on the path to harmonious unconditional love. The question is, will he accept it? Those who turn aside from dissonant evil ways stand to inherit the Light of GOD, and are among those directly experiencing THE COMING OF THE LIGHT.

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Message Twenty-Four - Book Three - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

THE COMING OF THE LIGHT

By E. W. Dykes

Part Three

In light of the previous two parts of this discussion, the question arises: how does the theory of the evolution of species fit into the picture? Albeit controversial, it is an issue we cannot afford to bypass: we ignore its lessons at our peril. A careful study of the subject turns out to be extremely favorable to man. In the evolution of species there are three levels of consciousness which apparently developed in a particular order. The first was sensation, common to all simple life forms such as insects, slugs, worms and so on. The second was simple consciousness, which came into existence in the higher animals, including primates. The third, believed by many to be the only remaining one, is self-consciousness, a characteristic identified in mankind. We are reflective beings who identify ourselves as individuals.

Over the millennia it is apparent that new species have appeared at intervals which seem to be a reflection of some kind of phenomena, one which we find to be characteristic of resonance, which leads to the kind of harmony that, at least theoretically, pendulums find. That is, the second living species came on the scene a very long time following the appearance of the first. It appears that succeeding species have emerged in ever shortening intervals, with mankind appearing last. (This coincides with the understanding that man, complete with a spirit soul, has apparently walked on the earth but a short time, compared to the many millennia during which the earliest simple creatures appeared.)

In the case of mankind, evolution proceeds as a matter of resonance apparently asserting itself in order to result in an ever-increasing rate of change. A creature with a body similar to that of man appeared on earth between one and two or three million years ago. On the other hand, it was perhaps only 300,00 years ago that self-aware man came along: that is, he was a person aware that he was an individual entity. Coming on down to perhaps 40,000 years ago or so, the ability to sense and discern colors was added, then the sense of fragrance. Next, very importantly, came the moral sense. A bear will kill a man and never look back, he feels no remorse. LeComte DuNuoy and R. M. Bucke have written highly respectable books in which they maintain that man, complete with a moral sense, is only twelve to twenty-five thousand years old. And it is after the advent of a man’s development with a moral sense that his musical sense appeared.

Around 3700 years ago, Moses was born. During his lifetime he attained the state now known as “cosmic consciousness.” R. M. Bucke studied this phenomena carefully, and concluded that “cosmic consciousness” represents the fourth level: that is, one level above self-consciousness. I personally am inclined to embrace that idea. It is interesting to note the various attributes listed as evidence of this upgrading in consciousness. These include:

— The subjective light. A person becomes aware of an intensely bright light but only he sees it. This is similar to claims made by persons who have undergone a near death experience, referred-to as an NDE. (Interestingly, Prophet Daniel was one of a number of biblical characters who reportedly saw and heard what he did to the exclusion of others around him.)

— During such experiences a sudden moral elevation takes place: experiencers are never the same afterward.

— The experience is also accompanied by an intellectual elevation. The individual becomes aware of knowledge which has remained outside his normal range of thoughts and ideas

— Also, the NDE’r gains a profound sense of immortality. He in some way knows that what we call death is not the end of the road, and he loses all fear of it.

— The experience is usually accompanied with a loss of the sense of sin: the individual changes his earthly ways, substituting feelings of unconditional love for sinfulness.

— Generally speaking, the experiencer is transformed into a state of being which might be termed “magnetically attractive.”

We may reasonably infer from this pattern of spiritual development that when major changes come, a comparatively few individuals emerge as patterns for the many to come after them in increasingly large numbers. Many unusual men and women have opened new doors for others to pass through who followed them into the earth plane. Because Spirit is Energy, Jesus Christ, who the Bible asserts had the Spirit of GOD without measure (Jn. 3:34), is considered by Christians to be the foremost of these.

All of the above leads to the conclusion that the principle of resonance plays an extremely large role in evolution. Add to that, that a higher form of man has already appeared on the earth, which leads to the most meaningful prospects of all: that a large influx of such highly spiritual people appears to be imminent. But some will ask, “What about evil? Does not the principle of resonance also apply to increases in evil?”

The answer is No, and we find the reason why when we turn to the analogy of music. With respect to resonance, dissonance also comes into play – the antithesis of resonance. It adds up arithmetically – 1,2,3,4,5,6, etc. Harmonics add up exponentially — 1,2,4,8,16,32 etc. The world pays much more attention to discord than is deserved. Prospectively speaking, positive good far outweighs negative evil in its importance, and will inevitably prevail to bring about evolutionary changes of monumental importance.

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Message Twenty-Three - Book Three - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

THE COMING OF THE LIGHT

By E. W. Dykes

Part Two

Once we acknowledge the possible existence of such high energy frequencies, we become free to postulate not only the existence of the soul, but also an invisible universe which we might well name “heaven.” With that in mind, let us conjecture on what may transpire at the moment we call death. What happens when the human body is no longer able to support the soul, or spirit, which has been its guiding force?

Returning to an earlier comment by which to explain this phenomenon of an invisible heaven: consider what the figures on a radio dial actually stand for: each one stands for a particular frequency. That is, its signal signifies the energy which carries messages from that station: it operates at so many cycles per second.

WHBC-FM, for example, operates at 94.1 megahertz; which, in terms of frequency, is 94.1 million cycles per second. When you adjust our dial on the FM band to 94.1, then your station becomes WHBC because it operates its transmitter at that frequency. When you turn the dial, you are simply tuning your radio to receive signals at some other range of frequency. In moving the indicator across the numbered band, your set – and you – then become aware of new sets of conditions – aware of other stations operating at the frequencies to which you have changed. The same is true in the case of television. You may observe an event taking place on the east coast, and with the simple twist of the dial, become aware of other occurrences on the west coast.

Now to apply this evidence to the theoretical principles relating to the soul. According to this theory, the soul is an entity of very high-level energy. It is restrained from operating at any higher levels than it possesses because it is a captive in the flesh body, which is composed of more dense and slower frequencies. But at the time of death of the flesh body – I personally refer to it as graduation! – the soul’s release from the limitations of the flesh body permits one’s consciousness to become aware of a new set of conditions: the spirit dial has been turned, so to speak, so new stations or channels become available to that soul. And that new environment may be the invisible world of Spirit, which will at that time become visible. We commonly refer to it as “heaven.” It is a new and different dimension of existence.

Now it is understood that the universe is composed of Energy, a concept that is not ordinarily in dispute to anyone who has any knowledge or understanding of the Universe. And we know that energy is in constant vibration, otherwise it would not be called Energy. Some 2000 years ago the Greek philosopher and mathematician, Pythagoras, referred to the Universe as “frozen music.” To most of us this statement has been thought of a no more than an interesting metaphor, when in fact it may have been a profound insight.. In 1966, Unity published a book by Donald Hatch Andrews titled “THE SYMPHONY OF LIFE” in which, at considerable length, he made a strong case for the Pythagoras view that all music is in vibration. That is, it is Energy. But the similarities extend far beyond that.

The structure of octaves and the order of vibrations which make them up, are surprisingly coincident with the periodic scale of the physical elements which compose all mankind’s building blocks. Further, the “notes” made by each atom fit neatly into these octaves. What’s this you say – atoms sound notes?! Indeed they do! but at a level of sound much higher than men can apprehend; in fact, twenty-four octaves above! Consider that the earth, considered as a single whole entity, makes a sound through its frequency which is 20 octaves below that which man can hear. That sound occurs once every 54.1 minutes.

Striking a note is one thing, which every atom does, but the key word is resonance. It is resonance – reinforcement of the vibrations – which brings to full expression the beauty of music. For example, some singers sing with a voice well described as “tinny.” They lack the quality of timbre or resonance. The voices most of us find enjoyable are those with overtones, and these come through resonance.

And there is more to this matter of resonance, which has to do with sounds not audible to human ears. Consider, for example, a 19^th century clockshop with, say, 45 “grandfather” clocks on the floor, each with a pendulum the same length as the others. If the shopkeeper were to start all of these clocks within the time span it would take him to move to each one and start the pendulum in motion, in the first 2 to 3 hours it would be unlikely that any two of them were in harmony with each other: that is, swinging together. It has been found to be inevitable, however, that at some point – usually within the first four or five hours – two of the clocks will reach a state of harmony with each other and swing simultaneously. A third clock will join this harmony in less time than it took the first two to get together and so on, until perhaps a dozen clocks will have joined the procession. What is even more remarkable, the remaining clocks will then join the first twelve almost simultaneously, so that all 45 will be in perfect unison.

The point to be made here is that the beginning of harmony is gradual but inexorable, but as the number increases, the time span between their coming into harmony is reduced until at last it seems as if there is a mad rush to be a part of the process. Which leads to a discussion of evolution in Part Three.

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Message Twenty-Two - Book Three - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEFThe following series of brief messages records a talk given some years ago by Mr. E.W. Dykes, Canton, OH. It delves into the subject of the mysterious ethereal “plasma” – biblically known as Holy Spirit Energy – understood to be a sublime form of GOD’s Energy of Life, which in each human being constitutes an individuated energy field known as his soul. In this writing, Mr. Dykes connects Spirit Energy to materiality in an intriguing and informative way. All who knew the writer of this piece, knew him to be a kindly, good-humored scholarly gentleman, a diligent seeker of spiritual truth whose works have been recorded for others to consider, albeit he some time ago passed beyond the veil.

THE COMING OF THE LIGHT

Part One

By E. W. (Bill) Dykes

I think my selection to be this morning’s speaker was made too late for any advance notice of the event – which may explain why several of you are here. Coming in ignorant innocense as you did, I don’t want to take unfair advantage of you, and if you have just recalled that you have a previous appointment, please feel free to depart now rather than part way through. Later you might disturb some of the sleepers.

After a rather thorough upbringing in what I shall term a traditional setting, I fell victim to the then current materialism, or determinism. We had been led to believe that science could explain everything – that is – as soon as it got a few more knotty problems out of the way. But as each of those problems came under the eye of further refined research, deeper problems surfaced. More anomalies resulted and each of them pointed away from the direction that earlier science had seemed to indicate. Then quantum physics put to rout the belief in determinism. Free will, an absolute must for spiritual beings, has been restored, freed by the demise of determinism.

There are still a number of scientists who have not abandoned the Newtonian ship – it is rumored that they cannot face having to rewrite all their notes; particularly if they are professors. The cannot bear the thought of maybe having to go to church, saying all those things, singing all those songs; not realizing that attendance or no-attendance is not the point at all. I can sympathize somewhat with those views. You see, I went through it myself, though not as a scientist. After a fifteen year hiatus, I chose to come to come to church again: not as a duty, and certainly not as something that God demands, but because I like to. I like the people here.

I became aware that it was not necessary to accept certain ideas simply because the Bible seemed to say so, or because organized religion was on that side. I found that survival of personality had a reasonable explanation, rather than being a sort of the pie-in-the-sky belief. I learned that the practice of prayer required practice and that it works only when properly practiced. I learned that words are not necessarily the key to successful prayer. I came to the conclusion that all so-called mysteries have an explanation in the invisible universe. It seems to me that Science as an institution must take that giant step soon, and I think it is coming.

I prefer an approach based on logic as a means of identifying elements of life which many persons would consider highly speculative. A review of that might help to understand the possibilities in the particular theory on the coming of the light. At this point, if anyone is wondering, I guarantee you that I shall eventually reach the point of the coming of the light. But it won’t be easy. Inherent in it are a series of explanations which may not seem to bear on the subject at all. Some of them may not even appear to have any relationship to the others. But because I already know what is in the last paragraph, I can assure you that the various pieces of the puzzle will come together to undergird the “coming of the light.” At this point I can assure you that I shall make the case for the emergence of a higher level of mankind; one that will have a respect for all life, one that will truly experience real peace and prosperity. And it may come much sooner than we imagine.

In my first talk, I made a provisional hypothesis of the case for survival, one which science cannot possibly deny, because it does not violate any known scientific principles. Science has already reached the conclusion that everything in the physical universe can be reduced to energy. All matter is reducible to atoms and all atoms are known to be energy.

And all energy is in vibration – it has a frequency which can be measured. That is, it vibrates at so many cycles per second, and that vibrational rate is known as its frequency. Thus, when I speak of the energy band, I refer to a pictorial or graphical illustration of the relationships between the various kinds of energy. As an example, you will find alternating current at the low end of the energy band which vibrates at just a few thousand cycles per second. Cosmic rays, the highest recognized energy force, are at the high end of the energy band, at about 10 to the 36^th power cycles per second, a figure so large as to defy human comprehension. Nonetheless, there is no way open to science to deny the possibility of the existence of energy at even higher frequencies than cosmic rays. The theoretical principle, then, is that consciousness operates at a still higher frequency at which no instruments yet designed have been able to detect. This is a very reasonable theory. The mind, after all, has to be something. It is here suggested that evidence for the mind and the consciousness will be found in the energy band, and almost certainly with the high frequency.

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Message Twenty-One - Book Three - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

Planet earth is a testing place in which incarnated souls expend their allotted days doing that which their minds lead them to do. GOD has given every soul the free will to follow its own pathway, regardless of where it may lead. But one needs to exercise care in choosing the course it will follow, for in each earth experience a soul predetermines its future. This is reflected in the Book of Enoch, ostensibly written in the wake of the Son of GOD’s earth experience as Enoch, during which he reversed His fall as Adam by obediently walking with GOD throughout that incarnation (Gen. 5:22-24).

The Book 2 Enoch emphatically expresses this principle:

“Just as a man asks something for his soul from GOD, so let him do to every living soul, because I know all things: how in great times to come are many mansions prepared for men; good for the good and bad for the bad, without number, many. Blessed are those who enter the good houses, for in the bad houses there is no peace, nor return from there.” (2 Enoch 60:1-2)

The souls of man have been incarnating and reincarnating in flesh bodies on the earth for many centuries, each successive life presenting new and fresh opportunities to make important spiritual gains or losses which – even though he is for the most part unaware of it – predetermine what “house” in other dimensions to which he will be consigned when his earth experiences are finished. In the “bad houses,” as noted, supra, “there is no peace, and there is no return from there.” Jesus reflected this principle when He explained to His Disciples why they were privy to important spiritual truths whereas others were not (Mt. 13:3-30), particularly instructing them:

“For whomsoever has, to him shall be given and he shall have more abundance: but whomsoever has not, from him shall be taken away even that which he has.” (Mt. 13:12).

Jesus repeated this teaching after telling his followers the story of a man who had traveled to a distant country and left proportionate stores of his goods with each of his servants, doing so “according to the ability of each of them.” Some invested that which had been consigned to them, for which their master rewarded them when he returned from his journey, but some had simply buried the share they were given and had gained nothing. The master took from these what they had initially received, and it was given to the servant who had gained the most (Mt. 25:14-30).

At the time of the creation of each soul, it receives a portion of GOD’s Holy Spirit Energy, which it expends during its successive earth experiences. If it does good works, it acquires increasing amounts of GOD ‘s Spirit; but if it chooses to do evil, it suffers spiritual losses that are accounted against it. This principle affords the basis for a biblical writing at the time of the Exodus:

“Because all those men which have seen my glory and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice: surely they shall not see the land which I swore unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoke me see it” (Num. 14:22-23).

As biblically-recorded early-on in man’s earth incarnations, GOD observed that man was wicked in his ways, and HE vowed that HIS Spirit might not always strive with man because he was also composed of flesh (Gen. 6:3-6). As Jesus would much later declare:

“The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak” (Mt. 26:41)

It was not until after Apostle Paul underwent his spiritual rebirth by the Christ Spirit on the Damascus Road (Acts Chapters 9,22,26( that he wrote of the difference between the “natural man” and the spiritualized man (1 Cor. 2:9-14): which he had learned first-hand, having himself become an example..

What is difficult for a man to envision, is that there is a huge gulf between earth and the eternal heavenly dimension; which is the subject of Jesus’ parable recorded in Lk. 16:19-31; part of which forewarns that those “on the other side” cannot cross over:” The soul of a man who had done evil during his earth life and then died, and had “seen the Light” too late, pleaded for help. Having reaped that which had he sown to others while incarnated on earth, he begged Abraham to send Lazarus, who had been saved, to his house to advise his five brothers yet on earth, lest they end up in the hellish place as he had. But Abraham replied,

“They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them. The plagued soul replied, ‘Nay, father Abraham, but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent.’ But Abraham said to him, ‘If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, even though one rose from the dead.’” (Lk. 16:19-31).

But one has written of what is to transpire when Christ returns in the cloud to gather those souls who are His and receive them unto Himself, that they may ever be where He is ( Mt. 14:3):

“When His day comes there shall be peace, glory, harmony, and brotherly love, so bow your head and call on the Lord while He may yet be found.” (Edgar Cayce Reading 5752-6)

Series to be Continued in Message 22 - Book Three - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF.

Message Twenty - Book Three - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEFJ

Joseph the son of Jacob, a key incarnation of the Son of GOD, had “grown up” from the Abrahamic lineal tree as its main BRANCH – as had been foretold in Num. 24:16-19 –and confirmed in the Book of Chronicles:

“Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for he was the firstborn; but, inasmuch as he defiled his father’s bed, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph the son of Israel: and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright. For Judah prevailed above his brethren, and of him came the chief ruler [Jesus Christ]; but the birthright was Joseph’s (1 Chron. 5:1-2).

In Jewish ancestries, the firstborn son in a family ordinarily held the birthright over any other sons. It was his duty, obligation and honor to take over familial responsibilities if and when the father should grow old, or for some other reason be incapable of handling the family’s affairs. That this rule was not destined to permanently prevail was underscored when the extremely spiritualized Jacob replaced two of his own natural-born sons, Reuben and Simeon, with his son Joseph’s two sons Ephraim and Manasseh (Gen. 48:5) and then set second-born Ephraim ahead of first-born Manasseh.

Jacob then blessed all of his sons, instructing them:

“Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.” (Gen. 49:1).

Jacob then spoke of Judah as one whom his brothers would praise; whose hand would be on the neck of his enemies: one before whom his father’s children [his brothers] would bow down: “a lion’s whelp that had gone up from his prey.” This meant that the time for Judah’s lineage to prevail over the children of Israel was nearing an end – as was foreshadowed by the next verse:

“The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet – empowered in the place in which he stood – until Shiloh come; and unto Him shall the gathering of the people be.” (Gen. 49:10).

The Shiloh who was predestined to come to replace Judah’s lineage was Jesus Christ: He was to become the Lawgiver (Isa. 33:22; James 4:12). Jesus, as Shiloh, afterward taught that those who believe in Him and follow Him need have no fear of those who can kill the body and after that can do no more, but rather should fear Him who, once He has killed, has the power to cast into hell (Mt. 6:25; Lk. 12:4-5).

“Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He also Himself likewise took part of the same; that through death He might destroy him that the power of death, that is, the devil; and deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. For verily, He took not on Himself the nature of angels; but he took on Himself the seed of Abraham. Wherefore in all things it behooved Him to be made like unto His brethren, that He might be a merciful and faithful High Priest in things pertaining to GOD, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.” (Heb. 2:14-17).

Jesus Christ, having been born in Bethlehem, in Judah, in fulfillment of prophesy (Micah 5:1-3), it was difficult for Jews to accept Him as their Messiah, or to permit Him to teach them, because, insofar as was known, He held no valid priesthood:

“It is evident that our Lord sprang out of Judah, of which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning a priesthood. And it is yet more evident that after the similitude of Melzhizedec there arises another priest, who is not made after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life. (Heb. 7:14-16).

These all-important verses explained that Jesus Christ still held the eternal Priesthood of GOD, with which GOD had anointed Him when He had incarnated as Melchizedec. It was a spiritually-ordained eternal priesthood – not a temporal one of the kind that expires at the death of a human priest. As the Hebrews writer explained,

“Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest who is set at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens. A minister of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man (Heb. 8:1-2).

This heavenly tabernacle “which the Lord pitched,” is the true Christian Church, the Spirit of Christ the Son of GOD, into which Beloved John taught that the souls of those who have Christ’s Spirit in them are to be “received into Himself” when He returns in the cloud to gather those who are His; that they may ever be with Him, where He is (Jn. 14:3; Lk. 21:27).

Series to be Continued in Message 21 - Book Three - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF.