Chapter 6 - Messages from the good World of Spirit concerning religious questions

- 11 - The words of the Bible: ‘Male and female He created them’ and ‘Be fruitful and multiply’ apply to all created spirits. Christ is the highest spirit God in His omnipotence could create. He is in every way God’s most perfect image, in so far as any created spirit can possess the Creator’s perfection. Hence, Paul rightly calls him ‘the image of the invisible God, the first-born of all Creation.’ (Colossians 1: 15) • Christ is therefore not God, as is so generally taught today, but the first created ‘Son of God’, His highest and most perfect creature. Following Christ, six further spirits, also called ‘sons of God’, came into being, but they owe the existence of their celestial bodies to the first created Son and cannot equal him in greatness, power and glory. The second ‘son of God’ was the one you call ‘Lucifer’ – the Bearer of Light’ – after Christ the greatest of created spirits, who later deserted God. Another of ‘God’s seven sons’ you meet in the story of Tobias, in which the great celestial spirit that had accompanied young Tobias in human form made itself known to the youth’s family with the words: Tobias 12: 15: ‘I am Raphael, one of God’s seven sons.’ Except for the first created Son of God, the whole created spirit world was brought into existence not by direct Divine Creation, as was God’s first-born Son, but came into being through that Son by way of progressive spiritual procreation. Thus, Paul writes in his Epistle to the Colossians: Colossians 1: 16-17: ‘Through Christ were created all things in heaven and on earth, things visible and things invisible, thrones and rulers, powers and forces; all things were created through him and for fellowship with him, and he stands above all things, and all have him as the source of their existence.’ Just as the whole human race owes its physical existence to the first human being, so the whole spirit world owes its physical existence to Christ. As humans have inherited only their material bodies from their first ancestor through many generations, while their spirit is united with their body in every instance without any collaboration on the part of their procreators, so the celestial beings owe their celestial bodies to the firstling of celestial Creation, to the first-born Son of God, while their spirits, coming from God, were in each case joined by God to their celestial bodies. From what I have already told you of the difference between ‘celestial’ and ‘material’ bodies, you know how to distinguish between the two. In spirit beings the body exists in spiritual form, a subject to which Paul alludes in his first Epistle to the Corinthians: I Corinthians 15: 40-44: ‘There are celestial bodies and terrestrial bodies: but the outward appearance of the celestial bodies is different from that of the terrestrial ones.... Just as there is a material body, there is also a spiritual body. The spirit receives its form in what is called the ‘odic body’. The spirit itself is a spark of God and shines according to the body in which it dwells.

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