What love is not?

Peter’s Poem

Love is not something you do, 

It is not how you behave. 

There’s nothing you can do that constitutes loving another, 

No action that is of itself loving. 

Love is a way of being. 

And more than that. 

It’s simply being, 

Being with another person, however they may be. 

Holding no judgements, having no agendas, 

No need to have them experience your love, 

No desire to demonstrate love, 

No intrusion upon their soul. 

Nothing but a total acceptance of their being, 

Born of your total acceptance of yours.

How do we walk closely with God?

Oh, for a closer walk with God!

Let this thought echo through your mind, because the desire is there, you will feel that you are being drawn closer and closer to that which is Love Divine.

What things are worth having?

The things, which are worth having have to be worked for, and they have got to be prized when they have been made your own.

Will God help me if I made a mistake?

Make this thought the foundation of your daily life, and when little or big things go wrong, place the source in the right direction and say at once—

Yes, I know I have done wrong (or I have been foolish), but Christ is trying to comfort me all the same.

What is a strange sight for heaven?

A strange sight for heaven, men equipped for battle, uniforms and weapons!

Are you the cause of your circumstances?

You are the cause of your circumstances. 

Trace the action of the laws of thought in your own mind and life and you will see that your life is and always was justly ordered, and that all your past experiences, good and bad, were the equitable working-out of your evolving self.

James Allen, As a Man Thinketh, Thomas Y. Crowell, New York, 1913, Chapter Two, Effect of Thought on Circumstances, 19

What does it mean that God is love?

Faith, work and determination—these bring you, not only happiness on earth, but privileges beyond any language to describe because they have linked you to the spirit, and the spirit is love, and love is God himself.

—Zodiac, The Christ Messenger

How to live the saintly ideal?

Life on the other side is only an extension of life on earth!

If your thoughts and desires have been only for material pleasures, your thoughts and desires are likely to be the same. 

Live the saintly ideal.

What is the way to real knowledge?

The way to real knowledge is through the gateway of Christ. 

Until you recognise that purity, love, and the holiness of thought are the necessary equipment to gain that greater knowledge, so it remains, not hidden, but overlooked. 

Through the portal of Christ, all must enter if they would learn that which is truth itself, if blunders and mistakes are to be avoided, then there must be dedication and rededication to the things, which are of God.

What is the meaning of godliness in life?

When we say God is a Spirit, we know what we mean, as well as we do when we say that the pyramids of Egypt are matter. Let us be content, therefore, to believe him to be a Spirit, that is, an essence that we know nothing of, in which originally and necessarily reside all energy, all power, all capacity, all activity, all wisdom, all goodness.

—John Adams in a letter to Thomas Jefferson (17 January 1820)

What do you have to do today?

I have got nothing to do today but smile.

―Simon & Garfunkel

How was eating an apple a sin?

Poor Adam and Eve, in breaking the laws of the Great Omus were severely chastened according to Moses. It was a strange thing, too, that they should be driven away by two heavenly beings, who visit us with such love, driven out as if they were beasts and not the immortal children of the Great Father.

Hafed, Prince of Persia—His Experiences in Earth Life and Spirit Life

Do angels have feathered wings?

Angels having wings are as rare in the world of spirits as on the plane where many an angel hovers without feathered airships.

God is my portion?

God in heaven is my portion!

There was a poor man whose pious parents left him no heritage, save an honest name and a good, God-loving heart―

Now, although in this, he had riches without measure, the world accounted him poor.

It went well with him at first, but by degrees, he tasted trouble. He lost the small fortune he had succeeded in saving by dint of work.

And the people pointed to him saying—Poor wretch! No, not poor, he said, God is my portion!

But misfortune pursued him. Most of his so-called friends turned their back on him, and those whom he had trusted most proved faithless.

He was deceived, calumniated, misjudged. And people shook their heads saying—How wretched and miserable you are to be sure!

No, he said, though his voice trembled, not wretched, for God is my portion! But the greatest trouble of all now laid him low―He lost his loving wife, and soon after, his only child.

The suffering man stood alone in a heartless world.

Again, the people said, shrugging their shoulders—Surely now, you will own yourself miserable and wretched, a very butt of trouble! No, he cried, repressing the welling tears, God is yet my portion!

And the people turned from him, saying he was singular and strange, and nicknaming him John Comfort, in virtue of his peculiarity.

But he, truly, was not wretched, nor indeed forsaken. The last words he was heard to speak on earth were—

God in heaven is my portion! And he entered into the joy of his Lord.

Letters from Hell

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