(My thoughts on the book by Roy Mills titled "The Soul 's Remembrance".)
Have you ever wonder if Heaven really exists? Have you wondered if you are qualified to go to Heaven when you die? I also wonder about whether there is an afterlife for me or not.
The older I get the more curious I become as to what Heaven is really like and if there is one. I even have a lot of questions as to what my physical life was meant to accomplish. Did I come to the earth plain just to have a somewhat painful childhood? Did I come hear to teach kids from 12 to 75 electronics. Is there more to life than just trying to live from day to day the best I can? I believe that the real reason for my earthly life was to learn how to love and be loved. It's been difficult learning how to love myself and others because I received so little love as I was growing up. Maybe that's why I feel so strongly for people who have so much less than I have.
The majority of people in this world have had very trying lives. They experience trials and tribulations that are far more devastating than anything that I've experienced, and yet, as Roy Mills says that "problems help us to grow. Through problems and being able to solve them as we use our free will helps us to grow spiritually".
I think about the people living in slums, displaced by wars and those who have to dig through garbage hips looking for something edible just to survive. The people also search for something they could salvage and sell hoping to be able to buy something to eat. Why do people choose such a pathetic way of life? Then I remembered the story that Roy Mills talked about in his book titled "The Soul 's Remembrance", he was told that we all have free will, a gift from God. It is because we have free will that some spirit people preparing for a physical life believe that being poor well provide them with greater spiritual growth. It is a personal choice that they make before incarnating. The most amazing thing is, they accomplish their goal, they do grow spiritually in a way you and can not imagine.
Roy talked about the life he was embarking upon in this physical world and its hardship and pain, the life that he was shown while still in Heaven. Yes, he was shown what his life would be like in the physical world. He was also told that the things he observed could be changed by using his free will. By using his free will he could choose not to make wrong choices and suffer their consequences, it would be up to him. But one thing that Roy talked about is the fact that he would forget all the things that he was shown of the physical life he would experience while he was in Heaven after he incarnated.
Roy said "Forgetfulness is part of God's plan, because if we could keep talking to angels and remember Heaven every waking moment, we would limit the earthly experiences we are meant to have by constantly choosing what is right. And so much of what we must learn and experience comes from making the wrong choice and suffering because of it. We must have the innocence and experience of childhood in order to gain knowledge and grow. And sometimes those experiences are painful. The most important part of every earthly mission is that growth often comes from our most bitter trails".
Roy even talked about meeting God during his preparation to incarnate. Roy asked God to allow him to remember his life in heaven and be able to tell humanity what Heaven is like. Roy described heaven or the Spirit World as being "very bright, filled with white light. Even the people and angels there glowing with the same pure light. In fact, everything in heaven radiates light. It is impossible to accurately describe heavenly things with earthly language, because there just aren't words to describe them. Heaven is far more beautiful than a person could ever imagine.
While in heaven he asked the angel, who was preparing him for life in the physical world, about what happens to those people who make wrong choices called sins. He was happy to hear that "The Spirit Father never turns anyone away once their earthly lives are over, because we are His children, and there in nothing we can do to make Him stop loving us. He wants all of us to come home. But He also honours the free will He gave us". Even though "Some people choose to live in the darkness after they die, and are afraid that God will not forgive all the sins they had committed. When that happens, God does not force them to come back. He just keeps loving them, hoping they respond to His love and choose to come home. The choice is always ours".
While I read Roy Mills book, I re-read the first few verses of the Book of Genesis and noted that it says that "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth". Then I remembered the words of Christ who said in John 14:2 "In my Father's house (heaven) there are many places to live in; otherwise I would have told you. I am going now to prepare a place for you". As a Spiritualist I have read a number of books that talk about the Spirit World/heaven and the fact that God has prepared a place for you and me. We are all going to heaven to occupy one of the many rooms-places to live in that Jesus talked about.
After reading a number of books on the afterlife, I have come to the conclusion that heaven does exist and that we all go there when our physical lives are over. Like so many people in this physical world, I wish I could remember heaven as Roy Mills did. But I'm satisfied that I've done the majority of tasks I planed on accomplishing in this physical world and that God has prepared a place for me and I'm going there when this old body says good-bye to me. There are a few more task for me to complete before I go, then I'll remember heaven.
Thursday, January 30, 2014
Sunday, January 5, 2014
The End Time or Not
Spiritual Illumination
SUNDAY, JANUARY 5, 2014
The End Time or Not
As I write this article, I have in mind to express the fact that man has been endowed with the gift of clairvoyance and Clairaudience since man first step foot on this planet earth. It is also my desire to express the fact that there will not be a great day of judgement as the Christian church has claimed for many centuries.
Another point I want to make is that God is a god of love not a vengeful God. As Tony Bisson says, "Revelations (the Book of Revelation in the Bible) urges from the very beginning recognition of the fact that "the time is at hand" - the time is near, not at some time long in the distant future. This message is about soul development or its undesired opposite, involution, directly relating to the death of the physical body. It is a warning that there will be accountability regardless of whether man has beliefs or a lack of beliefs - everything is revealed in the book of each one's life - motives, deeds and omissions. The laws of God work on the soul with precision. As you are only too well aware, the change we call physical death simply means the shedding of a material body, the "person" remains exactly the same: "He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still"
The Book of "Revelations is not about the end of the world, it is not about some wrathful avenger enjoying a slaughtering spree, it is about the end of the world for each individual on earth at the death of his or her physical body: Christ is the resurrection and the life: Believest thou this?"
The following paragraphs were taken from a book written by Anthony Borgia titled "Facts".
Borgia was a gifted medium who had the privilege of channeling the words of Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson who lived on earth from 1871 to 1914; he was a son of Edward White Benson, former Archbishop of Canterbury from 1883 until his death in 1896. Borgia says that met and was a friend of Robert Benson from 1909 until his death in 1914.
Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson died in hospital 1914. Upon his passing into spirit, Robert describes how he was met by an old friend and colleague, who died several years before him, by the name of Edwin. The full name of Edwin is not given in the several books that Anthony Borgia wrote from his channeling of Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson's dictations.
In Borgia's book "Facts", one of the books Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson dictated, talks about the Bible and how it was misinterpreted by The Church. Those interpretations have never been corrected and are still expounded by the various Christian church today. Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson has tried through his dictations to correct his own former beliefs as a priest. He asked the one in charge of the spirit realm where he was to enable him to tell people on earth what the Spirit World is really like and what they can expect. Robert says "I was already beginning to perceive many things, the principal one of which, and that which touched me most closely, being the totally wrong attitude adopted by religion in relation to the world of spirit. The very fact that I was lying there where I was, (in the Spirit World) constituted a complete refutation of so much that I taught and upheld during my priestly life upon earth. I could see volumes of orthodox teachings, creeds, and doctrines melting away because they are of no account, because they are not true, and because they have no application whatever to the eternal world of spirit and to the great Creator and Upholder of it. I could see clearly now what I had seen but hazily before, that orthodoxy is manmade, but that the universe is God-given".
As I search for more information to collaborate the Borgia books, I found a Christian Spiritualist website with a number of articles written as they were given by the Christ messenger Zodiac who was a teacher in the temple of Jerusalem at the time of Christ, through the deep trance mediumship of Miss Winifred Moyes.
I have also included several paragraphs from a book written from "Man and Spiritual World by The Rev. Arthur Chambers".
I start by presenting several paragraphs from Anthony Borgia's book "Facts" concerning the transition of Jesus from the physical to the spiritual. However, it is important that the reader understand that what the Christian church has been teaching for years is wrong and needs to be corrected. In fact, the majority of creeds and doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church have been adopted by the various Christian denominations and rewritten to suit their own interpretations of the Bible.
What Jesus proved from his transition from the physical to the spiritual is of utmost importance for modern man. "The transition of Jesus, as far as the spiritual process is concerned, was exactly in accordance with the law that governs all transitions. The process does not admit of any alteration or variation, any modification or exception. The ‘death’ of Jesus and his speedy return in his spirit body to his friends demonstrated, to them, in the simplest and most convincing way, what he had himself told them so often during his earthly life. He proved to them beyond a shadow of doubt that man survives the grave, that ‘death’ means death of the physical body only; that the spirit body and the personality which it harbours are indestructible and imperishable".
"He proved to them that death does not end everything; that man lives on and on. He showed them that while man can utterly destroy the life that is in the physical body, and commit butchery upon that body, the soul of man cannot be touched in the same way. Man cannot lose his soul".
"There is no Judgment Day. Man, himself, is his own judge. His thoughts, his words, and his deeds, registered upon his mind, are his only judge, and according to how his earthly life has been lived, so will his place be in these lands of the spirit world Jesus clearly demonstrated to his old friends whom he had left behind that not only was life continuous and uninterrupted by death, but that it was possible and pleasurable and commendable and profitable for dwellers in spirit lands to return to the earth to visit their friends there, to talk with them, to help them and advise them where necessary, to continue the pleasant intercourse which the transition had seemingly disrupted".
"Jesus showed that it was right and proper for the one world to hold converse thus with the other. And he came right into the midst of his friends on earth and offered them the comfort of his actual presence. He practised exactly what he had formerly preached blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted".
"Those companions of old did not, in their sadness, have to turn to dismal texts; they did not have to trust in some mysterious and inexplicable ‘faith.’ They were not thrown back upon ‘hope.’ They were not told it was the ‘will of God.’ Instead, Jesus came and stood in their presence as one of them, as he had done a thousand times before when he was incarnate. His visible tangible presence did what no quotations from ancient chronicles could do; it did what no abstruse theological disquisition could ever accomplish. It brought supreme comfort and joy to a dozen or more sad hearts".
"Jesus was the great exemplar of communication between our two worlds, yours and mine (Spirit World and the Physical World). He showed that with proper development and under proper auspices it is indisputably right for the two worlds to hold a normal converse through the exercise of psychic faculties in a normal rational way".
"Jesus, among others, pointed the way for all mankind to follow, but Orthodoxy will have none of it. Communication with the Spirit World is devilish and damnable, and no good can come of it. The whole thing reeks of hell, and if it does not drive a person mad, he will merely escape that to roast in hell for all eternity. None but evil spirits come back to earth, and they do so for the purpose of dragging down to their own filthy level those who are foolish or misguided enough to ‘dabble’ in such pernicious practices. It is all necromancy; a calling-up of the dead. The good spirit will not come. If any claim to be a good spirit, it is a devil masquerading as an angel of light. What unutterable puerile nonsense! And what colossal ignorance!"
"There will be some—perhaps many—who will affirm that not only am I a devil, but that I am the very Prince of Darkness himself. Let them think so if it gives them an satisfaction. There are others, far, far greater than I am who have been regarded as demons from the realms of darkness, so that therein I find myself in good company!"
‘Thy Kingdom Come’
In an earlier chapter the writer discussed the Lord’s Prayer, "I suggested that I might be able to throw some light upon the joint relationship of our two worlds, and which might be, if you choose so to regard it, considered as giving some substance to the words Thy kingdom come".
"The theological idea that the request is supposed to embody, namely, that God’s spiritual kingdom may come to be spread throughout the whole world, is as vague as most theological ideas usually are. In fact, Orthodoxy has no clear notion in its mind as to what this clause in the Lord’s Prayer can really mean. It has a pious sound and a truly spiritual ring about it, and it can obviously do no harm to retain the words and repeat them".
"The words have recurred to my mind a number of times since I first came to dwell in these lands many years ago. In the spirit world, the Father of the universe is regarded as the King of Kings. But things are very different here in the spirit world as compared with the earth. We are forever seeing evidence of the Great Spirit of all. Indeed, in these realms, and in many, many others, it is impossible not to see such evidence. It lives with us, and we live with it. But such things are not evident to earthly minds. How, then, according to the terms of the Lord’s Prayer, was that kingdom to be extended to earth?"
"Let us go back a little while in history. What is most important is that the people of the earth world are totally unaware of the spirit world that is existing round about them. It is only the comparative few, whose psychic faculties have been developed, who have any perception of the great world that is unseen to other folk".
"Now, from the beginning of time upon earth it was never intended that our two worlds should be thus separated by any barrier. Primitive man, as the early inhabitants of the earth are called, was not shut off from his brother in the spirit world in such a wholesale fashion as are you today".
"Primitive though he may have been, primitive though he was in the eyes of today’s earth world, yet his psychic talents were more highly developed generally, and were not confined to a relative few, here and there. The exercise of such powers was widespread. Yet man of those times is".
"The process of civilising the earth has had the effect of reducing in enormous proportions the possession of any psychic faculties at all. Thus our two worlds have become more widely separated until those who possess any psychic powers are in the minority. They are the exception and not the rule. Man has paid the penalty for thus casting aside what he was meant to have and to use as his natural right upon earth, namely the power and ability to exercise those extra senses with which the spirit world could communicate with him".
"The troubles of the earth have been brought upon man by his ignorance and folly, not by his supposed ‘sinfulness,’ as some claim. The church talks about the Great Day of Judgement but, Robert Hugh Benson says that there is no Judgment Day. Man, himself, is his own judge. His thoughts, his words, and his deeds, registered upon his mind, are his only judge, and according to how his earthly life has been lived, so will his place be in these lands of the spirit world".
"All people possess the powers of medium-ship inherently. In the majority of folk they want developing and bringing out, and regulating along adequate lines so that the best may be made of them, just as the artist and musician, shall we say, must develop his abilities by working upon the right lines. There is nothing unhealthy or morbid in such things because they are natural to man. It was intended that they should be so from the beginning".
"The Bible bears very clear testimony that man, while still an inhabitant of earth, possesses, at least, two wonderful super-physical faculties. It shows him as capable of seeing and hearing realities external to himself, which are invisible and inaudible to those who are only seeing with the physical eyes, and hearing with the physical ears". (Man and Spiritual World by The Rev. Arthur Chambers)
"These interior faculties to which we allude are known as Clairvoyance and Clairaudience". The following is an extract from an Address called "The Next Stage" (13th March, 1927) given by the Christ messenger Zodiac who was a teacher in the temple of Jerusalem at the time of Christ, through the deep trance mediumship of Miss Winifred Moyes.
"One or two instances of each of these phases of manifestation must suffice. The reader, when once started on the right track of thought, will see that the whole Book is one long record of man's clairvoyant and clairaudient power".
"This spirit-body is the envelope of the spirit. The latter is resident within it, and never exists apart from it. The spirit's envelope is not a gaseous, formless entity, but a body. Not, indeed, a compound of gross matter, but a composition spiritual in its nature, and organised. It possesses shape as well as faculties of sight, hearing and speech, and probably other faculties. In this respect there is a correspondence between it and the coarser physical body—its earthly enwrapment. St Paul noticed this correspondence, for he mentions 'celestial bodies and bodies terrestrial' (1 Cor. xv. 40 v.)".
"A friend, ordinarily so practical and unimaginative, positively asserts, in spite of our smile of incredulity, that a brother, thought to be alive and well at the time, was seen by him at the very hour at which (as he afterwards learned) he had died in a distant part of the world".
"Two ladies—sisters—were one summer afternoon sitting at needlework in a drawing-room in the suburbs of London. Happening to look up at the same moment, they saw, standing in the centre of the large room, a fair-haired little girl, who after a minute or more vanished. Both ladies were intensely astonished, and found that their description of what each had seen exactly tallied. They there and then made a note of the day and time of the appearance".
"Four weeks later the mail from India came in, and brought them a letter from a sister who had married abroad and had not since been home, informing them of the sudden death of her little child, and enclosing a photograph taken a few weeks before she died. The two ladies immediately recognised the photograph as that of the child they had seen, and, moreover, the hour mentioned by the mother, as that at which the death had occurred, corresponded (after allowing for the difference between London and Indian time) with the memorandum they had made".
"Two years ago, I was visiting at the bedside of a middle-aged man, who was dying of consumption in one of the infirmaries of London. On the day before that on which he passed away, at the close of a long conversation, during which I noticed his intellect seemed to be particularly bright, he said to me, 'You consider, do you not, that my mind is perfectly clear?' I assured him that I had never known it to be more so. 'Very well, then,' he continued, 'now I want to tell you what occurred last evening. But, first, you must understand that I was neither dreaming, nor under a delusion. As I lay here, my father, who died some years ago, stood in the place where you are now standing and spoke to me. He told me I had only a very little longer time to remain on earth, and said that he and other dear ones passed away were waiting to welcome me into the Spiritual World. I tried to raise myself in bed, in order to attract the attention of the nurse who was at the other end of the ward. I thought you might still be in the building, and I wanted her to send for you, that you, too, might see my father. I suppose the effort to raise myself must have been too much for me, for I slipped back on the pillow and felt I was fainting. When I opened my eyes again I looked for my father, but he was gone".
"There are two ways. We can reject the testimony, and in so doing brand a great body of our fellow-creatures (probably including some of our own family and friends) as deceivers, prevaricators and dreamers; or we can accept the testimony, and, after having made every allowance for exaggeration on the part of some, can find in it the consentient voice of Man proclaiming that the Word of God is true".
[ Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson was originally ordained as an Anglican priest, but later left the Anglican Church to become a Roman Catholic priest.]
SUNDAY, JANUARY 5, 2014
The End Time or Not
As I write this article, I have in mind to express the fact that man has been endowed with the gift of clairvoyance and Clairaudience since man first step foot on this planet earth. It is also my desire to express the fact that there will not be a great day of judgement as the Christian church has claimed for many centuries.
Another point I want to make is that God is a god of love not a vengeful God. As Tony Bisson says, "Revelations (the Book of Revelation in the Bible) urges from the very beginning recognition of the fact that "the time is at hand" - the time is near, not at some time long in the distant future. This message is about soul development or its undesired opposite, involution, directly relating to the death of the physical body. It is a warning that there will be accountability regardless of whether man has beliefs or a lack of beliefs - everything is revealed in the book of each one's life - motives, deeds and omissions. The laws of God work on the soul with precision. As you are only too well aware, the change we call physical death simply means the shedding of a material body, the "person" remains exactly the same: "He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still"
The Book of "Revelations is not about the end of the world, it is not about some wrathful avenger enjoying a slaughtering spree, it is about the end of the world for each individual on earth at the death of his or her physical body: Christ is the resurrection and the life: Believest thou this?"
The following paragraphs were taken from a book written by Anthony Borgia titled "Facts".
Borgia was a gifted medium who had the privilege of channeling the words of Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson who lived on earth from 1871 to 1914; he was a son of Edward White Benson, former Archbishop of Canterbury from 1883 until his death in 1896. Borgia says that met and was a friend of Robert Benson from 1909 until his death in 1914.
Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson died in hospital 1914. Upon his passing into spirit, Robert describes how he was met by an old friend and colleague, who died several years before him, by the name of Edwin. The full name of Edwin is not given in the several books that Anthony Borgia wrote from his channeling of Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson's dictations.
In Borgia's book "Facts", one of the books Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson dictated, talks about the Bible and how it was misinterpreted by The Church. Those interpretations have never been corrected and are still expounded by the various Christian church today. Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson has tried through his dictations to correct his own former beliefs as a priest. He asked the one in charge of the spirit realm where he was to enable him to tell people on earth what the Spirit World is really like and what they can expect. Robert says "I was already beginning to perceive many things, the principal one of which, and that which touched me most closely, being the totally wrong attitude adopted by religion in relation to the world of spirit. The very fact that I was lying there where I was, (in the Spirit World) constituted a complete refutation of so much that I taught and upheld during my priestly life upon earth. I could see volumes of orthodox teachings, creeds, and doctrines melting away because they are of no account, because they are not true, and because they have no application whatever to the eternal world of spirit and to the great Creator and Upholder of it. I could see clearly now what I had seen but hazily before, that orthodoxy is manmade, but that the universe is God-given".
As I search for more information to collaborate the Borgia books, I found a Christian Spiritualist website with a number of articles written as they were given by the Christ messenger Zodiac who was a teacher in the temple of Jerusalem at the time of Christ, through the deep trance mediumship of Miss Winifred Moyes.
I have also included several paragraphs from a book written from "Man and Spiritual World by The Rev. Arthur Chambers".
I start by presenting several paragraphs from Anthony Borgia's book "Facts" concerning the transition of Jesus from the physical to the spiritual. However, it is important that the reader understand that what the Christian church has been teaching for years is wrong and needs to be corrected. In fact, the majority of creeds and doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church have been adopted by the various Christian denominations and rewritten to suit their own interpretations of the Bible.
What Jesus proved from his transition from the physical to the spiritual is of utmost importance for modern man. "The transition of Jesus, as far as the spiritual process is concerned, was exactly in accordance with the law that governs all transitions. The process does not admit of any alteration or variation, any modification or exception. The ‘death’ of Jesus and his speedy return in his spirit body to his friends demonstrated, to them, in the simplest and most convincing way, what he had himself told them so often during his earthly life. He proved to them beyond a shadow of doubt that man survives the grave, that ‘death’ means death of the physical body only; that the spirit body and the personality which it harbours are indestructible and imperishable".
"He proved to them that death does not end everything; that man lives on and on. He showed them that while man can utterly destroy the life that is in the physical body, and commit butchery upon that body, the soul of man cannot be touched in the same way. Man cannot lose his soul".
"There is no Judgment Day. Man, himself, is his own judge. His thoughts, his words, and his deeds, registered upon his mind, are his only judge, and according to how his earthly life has been lived, so will his place be in these lands of the spirit world Jesus clearly demonstrated to his old friends whom he had left behind that not only was life continuous and uninterrupted by death, but that it was possible and pleasurable and commendable and profitable for dwellers in spirit lands to return to the earth to visit their friends there, to talk with them, to help them and advise them where necessary, to continue the pleasant intercourse which the transition had seemingly disrupted".
"Jesus showed that it was right and proper for the one world to hold converse thus with the other. And he came right into the midst of his friends on earth and offered them the comfort of his actual presence. He practised exactly what he had formerly preached blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted".
"Those companions of old did not, in their sadness, have to turn to dismal texts; they did not have to trust in some mysterious and inexplicable ‘faith.’ They were not thrown back upon ‘hope.’ They were not told it was the ‘will of God.’ Instead, Jesus came and stood in their presence as one of them, as he had done a thousand times before when he was incarnate. His visible tangible presence did what no quotations from ancient chronicles could do; it did what no abstruse theological disquisition could ever accomplish. It brought supreme comfort and joy to a dozen or more sad hearts".
"Jesus was the great exemplar of communication between our two worlds, yours and mine (Spirit World and the Physical World). He showed that with proper development and under proper auspices it is indisputably right for the two worlds to hold a normal converse through the exercise of psychic faculties in a normal rational way".
"Jesus, among others, pointed the way for all mankind to follow, but Orthodoxy will have none of it. Communication with the Spirit World is devilish and damnable, and no good can come of it. The whole thing reeks of hell, and if it does not drive a person mad, he will merely escape that to roast in hell for all eternity. None but evil spirits come back to earth, and they do so for the purpose of dragging down to their own filthy level those who are foolish or misguided enough to ‘dabble’ in such pernicious practices. It is all necromancy; a calling-up of the dead. The good spirit will not come. If any claim to be a good spirit, it is a devil masquerading as an angel of light. What unutterable puerile nonsense! And what colossal ignorance!"
"There will be some—perhaps many—who will affirm that not only am I a devil, but that I am the very Prince of Darkness himself. Let them think so if it gives them an satisfaction. There are others, far, far greater than I am who have been regarded as demons from the realms of darkness, so that therein I find myself in good company!"
‘Thy Kingdom Come’
In an earlier chapter the writer discussed the Lord’s Prayer, "I suggested that I might be able to throw some light upon the joint relationship of our two worlds, and which might be, if you choose so to regard it, considered as giving some substance to the words Thy kingdom come".
"The theological idea that the request is supposed to embody, namely, that God’s spiritual kingdom may come to be spread throughout the whole world, is as vague as most theological ideas usually are. In fact, Orthodoxy has no clear notion in its mind as to what this clause in the Lord’s Prayer can really mean. It has a pious sound and a truly spiritual ring about it, and it can obviously do no harm to retain the words and repeat them".
"The words have recurred to my mind a number of times since I first came to dwell in these lands many years ago. In the spirit world, the Father of the universe is regarded as the King of Kings. But things are very different here in the spirit world as compared with the earth. We are forever seeing evidence of the Great Spirit of all. Indeed, in these realms, and in many, many others, it is impossible not to see such evidence. It lives with us, and we live with it. But such things are not evident to earthly minds. How, then, according to the terms of the Lord’s Prayer, was that kingdom to be extended to earth?"
"Let us go back a little while in history. What is most important is that the people of the earth world are totally unaware of the spirit world that is existing round about them. It is only the comparative few, whose psychic faculties have been developed, who have any perception of the great world that is unseen to other folk".
"Now, from the beginning of time upon earth it was never intended that our two worlds should be thus separated by any barrier. Primitive man, as the early inhabitants of the earth are called, was not shut off from his brother in the spirit world in such a wholesale fashion as are you today".
"Primitive though he may have been, primitive though he was in the eyes of today’s earth world, yet his psychic talents were more highly developed generally, and were not confined to a relative few, here and there. The exercise of such powers was widespread. Yet man of those times is".
"The process of civilising the earth has had the effect of reducing in enormous proportions the possession of any psychic faculties at all. Thus our two worlds have become more widely separated until those who possess any psychic powers are in the minority. They are the exception and not the rule. Man has paid the penalty for thus casting aside what he was meant to have and to use as his natural right upon earth, namely the power and ability to exercise those extra senses with which the spirit world could communicate with him".
"The troubles of the earth have been brought upon man by his ignorance and folly, not by his supposed ‘sinfulness,’ as some claim. The church talks about the Great Day of Judgement but, Robert Hugh Benson says that there is no Judgment Day. Man, himself, is his own judge. His thoughts, his words, and his deeds, registered upon his mind, are his only judge, and according to how his earthly life has been lived, so will his place be in these lands of the spirit world".
"All people possess the powers of medium-ship inherently. In the majority of folk they want developing and bringing out, and regulating along adequate lines so that the best may be made of them, just as the artist and musician, shall we say, must develop his abilities by working upon the right lines. There is nothing unhealthy or morbid in such things because they are natural to man. It was intended that they should be so from the beginning".
"The Bible bears very clear testimony that man, while still an inhabitant of earth, possesses, at least, two wonderful super-physical faculties. It shows him as capable of seeing and hearing realities external to himself, which are invisible and inaudible to those who are only seeing with the physical eyes, and hearing with the physical ears". (Man and Spiritual World by The Rev. Arthur Chambers)
"These interior faculties to which we allude are known as Clairvoyance and Clairaudience". The following is an extract from an Address called "The Next Stage" (13th March, 1927) given by the Christ messenger Zodiac who was a teacher in the temple of Jerusalem at the time of Christ, through the deep trance mediumship of Miss Winifred Moyes.
"One or two instances of each of these phases of manifestation must suffice. The reader, when once started on the right track of thought, will see that the whole Book is one long record of man's clairvoyant and clairaudient power".
"This spirit-body is the envelope of the spirit. The latter is resident within it, and never exists apart from it. The spirit's envelope is not a gaseous, formless entity, but a body. Not, indeed, a compound of gross matter, but a composition spiritual in its nature, and organised. It possesses shape as well as faculties of sight, hearing and speech, and probably other faculties. In this respect there is a correspondence between it and the coarser physical body—its earthly enwrapment. St Paul noticed this correspondence, for he mentions 'celestial bodies and bodies terrestrial' (1 Cor. xv. 40 v.)".
"A friend, ordinarily so practical and unimaginative, positively asserts, in spite of our smile of incredulity, that a brother, thought to be alive and well at the time, was seen by him at the very hour at which (as he afterwards learned) he had died in a distant part of the world".
"Two ladies—sisters—were one summer afternoon sitting at needlework in a drawing-room in the suburbs of London. Happening to look up at the same moment, they saw, standing in the centre of the large room, a fair-haired little girl, who after a minute or more vanished. Both ladies were intensely astonished, and found that their description of what each had seen exactly tallied. They there and then made a note of the day and time of the appearance".
"Four weeks later the mail from India came in, and brought them a letter from a sister who had married abroad and had not since been home, informing them of the sudden death of her little child, and enclosing a photograph taken a few weeks before she died. The two ladies immediately recognised the photograph as that of the child they had seen, and, moreover, the hour mentioned by the mother, as that at which the death had occurred, corresponded (after allowing for the difference between London and Indian time) with the memorandum they had made".
"Two years ago, I was visiting at the bedside of a middle-aged man, who was dying of consumption in one of the infirmaries of London. On the day before that on which he passed away, at the close of a long conversation, during which I noticed his intellect seemed to be particularly bright, he said to me, 'You consider, do you not, that my mind is perfectly clear?' I assured him that I had never known it to be more so. 'Very well, then,' he continued, 'now I want to tell you what occurred last evening. But, first, you must understand that I was neither dreaming, nor under a delusion. As I lay here, my father, who died some years ago, stood in the place where you are now standing and spoke to me. He told me I had only a very little longer time to remain on earth, and said that he and other dear ones passed away were waiting to welcome me into the Spiritual World. I tried to raise myself in bed, in order to attract the attention of the nurse who was at the other end of the ward. I thought you might still be in the building, and I wanted her to send for you, that you, too, might see my father. I suppose the effort to raise myself must have been too much for me, for I slipped back on the pillow and felt I was fainting. When I opened my eyes again I looked for my father, but he was gone".
"There are two ways. We can reject the testimony, and in so doing brand a great body of our fellow-creatures (probably including some of our own family and friends) as deceivers, prevaricators and dreamers; or we can accept the testimony, and, after having made every allowance for exaggeration on the part of some, can find in it the consentient voice of Man proclaiming that the Word of God is true".
[ Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson was originally ordained as an Anglican priest, but later left the Anglican Church to become a Roman Catholic priest.]
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