- 24 - These are Divine laws that apply with equal force to all Creation. • There is nothing capricious about the ways of God. When I told you that a spirit does not regress into a lower stage, the reason is that, although it may have backslid in one respect, it will have advanced in another, so that a balance is struck. This, too, is governed by Divine law. You can form no conception of the ages that elapsed from the moment of the fall of the spirits to that day on which the first fallen spirit was fit to be incarnated in human form. II Peter 3: 8: ‘With God a thousand years are as one day.’ Christendom today is ignorant of all these facts, and they run counter to your own previous ideas. But should I conceal the truth from you because you may find it beyond belief and because your fellowmen may scoff at it? You have the opportunity of inquiring into these truths during the spirit communications at all sorts of Divine spiritistic services, and you will find my statements confirmed everywhere. Unfortunately, the important facts I have just revealed to you have been deleted from the Biblical account of the Creation. Scarcely any of them have been retained. • This account says nothing about the Creation of spirits by God, • nothing of the revolt and secession of the spirits, • nothing about the spheres of progress, nothing about the shaping of the odic bodies of the fallen spirits in various stages, • and nothing about the incarnation of those odic bodies into earthly substance. Your Biblical story of the Creation of the world describes it as if it were an original and entirely independent creation, quite unconnected with the creation of the spirits and their fall. • The original Bible contained all of these facts! But when the Holy Writ was revised later, the Powers of Darkness were at work to deprive mankind of the knowledge of how things are related in God’s Plan of Salvation and to withhold from them the consolation of knowing that ultimately everything will return unto God. I Timothy 2: 3-4: ‘For it is God’s will that all men be saved and attain to full knowledge of the truth.’ • It was for the very purpose of leading everything back to God that the material world was created. The Powers of Darkness were, of course, much better served by the doctrine of hopelessness and despair, and by the belief in an ‘eternal hell’, about which one of your poets [Dante] has written the dreadful words: ‘All hope abandon, ye who enter here.’ Such sentiments were far more acceptable to the rulers of hell than was the belief in a merciful God, who may, indeed, be angered and punish with just cause, but Who, in the end, will forgive His children and call them back to Him. The true conception of the Deity has been debased by the
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