The Ironies of Human Beliefs and the Hereafter?

Godly Humor

the funny side of life

Volume 41

Now brethren, if you are convinced that I am speaking words of truth—truth worthy your acceptance, and still refuse to accept it, you are responsible to the Great Spirit, the Father and Creator of All.

Do not think that He will fail to call you to account. Judgment awaits you. Be persuaded then to abandon the course you have hitherto pursued. Cast away these senseless idols—

Be men and acknowledge the Great Intelligent One as your God, and him only.

Thus changed in mind, you will strive to conduct yourselves as the children of God. But if not, if you still persist in your idolatries, when you come to cross the river, beware!

You may be sent back in disgrace in the boat with an ape at the helm—

All mankind are our brethren, a universal brotherhood, all are related, as system to system in the starry heavens—all bound to God the Great Father, the Life-giver, the Infinite Intelligence.

—Hermes, the Egyptian

The fact is that churchmen generally, of whatever denomination, are obsessed by the notion that nothing in the spirit world has any solidity at all. 

You are of the spirit, they echo one another, and that can have no substantiality about it. 

What they really think and believe in their inmost minds they alone know. Whatever it may be, outwardly, they cannot contemplate either us—or the land we inhabit other than in terms of something, which is essentially tenuous and vapoury.

The reverse is the truth. We are essentially solid and substantial. To us our own world and its inhabitants are relatively more material than are your earth world and its inhabitants to you.

Among the superabundant advantages, which we have over you is the fact that we are imperishable while you are not.

—Spirit Robert Hugh Benson

As is the gardener, such is the garden. 

—Francis Bacon