Was Jesus a new creation as the First Man?

Is the account, which we have in the gospels of the miraculous conception of Jesus to be accepted as a truthful statement of facts?

Yes, I must believe the account therein given, for this reason—the Spirit of Light sent us to welcome and do homage to One whose appearance in the world had been prophesied for ages, and Who was looked for by many, as the great Deliverer or Saviour of mankind.

At Jesus' sepulchre, the angel message to the sorrowing friends was one of aspiration―

Why seek ye the living among the dead? He is not here―He is risen.

The fact that Mary, Joseph's betrothed wife, was not only clear of transgression in his eyes, but in the eyes of all her neighbours amongst whom she lived is proof sufficient, for had it been otherwise, she would, at once, have been condemned to die. 

The penalty, for such a transgression was the same in Persia.

That the conception was brought about by holy and spiritual means was well known to many good and wise men in that day, who knew well what it was and how it was accomplished. 

Hence, I believe that the Prince though really and truly a man was so full of the Spirit of God, that he may well be reckoned as a new creation—a second man made in the express image of the Most High—as much a new creation as the first man.

Jesus came to show and demonstrate that you lived on after leaving the earth plane. He taught that the God-force is truly within you, dimmed, yet inextinguishable. He was not received by his fellows, yet his Light, that high frequency of vibration, which He was able to transmit to earth lives on.

What would you advise as the best method for accomplishing individual reform in connection with Spiritualism?

That is a difficult subject to take up at present. It would take a whole sitting and would form a lecture in itself. But I would say briefly—With the continual inflow of persons of all characters and creeds, of some who neither fear God, nor regard men, of others who though believers in the future world are loose in their habits. Under such circumstances, I would say—

Set before such the bright example of Jesus, but at the same time, be yourselves living models of his goodness and truth. Speak as he spoke, do as he did, and looking on you as you stand before them, they will be drawn to look on him whom you imitate and become in due time his disciples, also. Then will they see, as they never saw before, his wondrous works—wonders never seen on earth, but through him.

He was indeed a spiritualist. Where will they get a medium to raise the dead? But if they quit their evil ways, forswear all deceit, love the truth and practise holiness, become humble as little children and ask to be guided in what they say and do, then will they see wonders done in their midst, not in darkness, but before all men in the light of day.

Learn humility, and the acceptance of the Divine Will. Never allow your physical body to dominate your spirit. Our time on earth is but a grain of sand when compared to the eternity of the soul. 

That is why Jesus was able to resist such terrible temptations. He knew that their duration was momentary and that pain was as illusory as pleasure. By exerting complete control over the material world, he gained power over it. All the miracles he accomplished were natural because he understood the cosmos and its laws.

Paul says of Jesus, "He thought it not robbery to be equal with God." Does Paul here not contradict what you have often asserted, that Jesus is not the Deity?

I still assert the same, and Paul does not contradict me. Jesus stood in the place of the Deity Himself to speak to a rebellious world. What medium in heaven or on earth could bring back the Spirit, which had broken the link that bound him to his body? Not all the Spirits in heaven combined could restore you to the body. The chain—the silver cord—once snapped, can be joined no more.

Jesus my Prince, and He alone could do it, for on him was bestowed all power by the Great Spirit, and from him only could the power proceed.

Have I not seen him in the fullness of that power order the Spirit back to the body? In the fullness of that power, He rules in heaven, earth and hell—the Great Governor over all this system of worlds. 

Paul does not contradict my assertion, for you will notice, he does not say, "He was equal with God," but that "he thought it not robbery to be equal with God," inasmuch as the divine power he wielded was the gift of Him who alone could bestow it.

There was no robbery—there could be none, for to Jesus was given the Spirit without measure. He was the very embodiment of the Great Spirit, yet he himself never said—"I am the Great Spirit—the Source of All Being—the Creator and Father of All." But John in the Gospel ascribed to him says—"All things were made by him?"

Had I not had many opportunities of studying Jesus, I might have come to a different conclusion on this point. 

Many times I could have worshipped him, and had I been Greek instead of Persian, this would have been the case, but conversant with the prophecies about him, I was prepared to receive him as indeed He was—the great Deliverer sent from God.

How his disciples should come to entertain any other idea, I do not know.

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