Who is the angel of the Lord?

The Jesus' Series

JESUS who is the angel of the lord?

In Letters from a Spirit, the unknown spirit author offers an account of actual experience, covering more than a year of the new or spiritual life, in the desire and hope of correcting the crude theories and misconceptions prevalent, concerning the state beyond—

Let us go back to the beginning—the One, I Am, Jah, Jehovah, God, for He is the Only Uncreate and hence the Source of All Creation.

In the words of the Christ, God is a Spirit—

A Spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have. Ye have neither seen His shape or heard His voice. No one hath seen the Father at any time. The only begotten Son who is in the bosom of the Father, He hath seen him—and so on, indefinitely. 

This will suffice as to the personal appearance of the Jehovah, for Christ expressly declares many times that He, Who was with Him before the world was, alone had seen Him.

No less the record reads—

And God talked with Moses, as friend with friend. Also, that he spoke to Abraham, and to many others, in the course of the Old Testament. But it is also true that no one has heard His voice or seen His shape.

The Universal Spirit of Life, pervading, creating and sustaining all things, flows from the Uncreate, the Jehovah, and nothing can have existence, but through this influx.

In the days when all avenues of approach to the natural world were open, the appearance of angels was not a matter of surprise. 

There was nearly open intercourse between the spiritual and material worlds.

But neither spirit or angel was suffered or desired to go where they had no cause or business, for the Kingdom of God is a Kingdom of uses, and you do not waste your strength in deeds without purpose.

When it became necessary for a special messenger to convey a truth or give direction, the spiritual influx or the inpouring of the Divine Life filled the person chosen for this service to the utter exclusion of the character of the individual, and the angel speaking spoke as of himself and was received by the hearers as the very presence and voice of God.

The Father quickeneth whom He will to do His errands. The difference, as we are taught, between this inspiration and that of the Christ is that, whereas in the one case, this influx was but the occasional gift in the Lord, He, being of the Father, that is, His inmost being or soul was of the direct life of God and hence divine, the Spirit always abode in Him. It was given to Him without measure. He was uncreate, as to the inmost or life, though He was created, as to the human nature.

He was human and divine in one, the divinity in humanity, the Uncreate in created Nature. He had life in Himself, He laid it down of Himself, He had power to lay it down and to take it up again.

When the earthly manifestation of His power was over and He had finished the work and He was glorified with the glory, which He had before the world was, He became the only form of God that we shall ever know, as He is the Divine in a human form.

He does not appear to any unless it may be the Angels of the Inmost Heaven. He is the media through which by His unity with the Uncreate, All Spirit and Life flows. In this sense, the Mediator, making it possible for the Divine Life to flow into our degraded, debased human nature.

In these spiritual and heavenly worlds—or rather states of being, the same media is necessary.

We are all being taught of God, but by means suited to our needs and capacities.

As one could not impress pure mathematical truths on a child's understanding, without illustration by lines, angles, arcs and circles, all the paraphernalia of geometrical signs, so we, mere babes or beginnings of life, need the signs to express to us the truths—or rather to bring them into the scope of our capacity. It is a common form of speech on earth that Truth is One, but the fact is that while there is but One Way, Truth and Life, the Infinite, which is not to be comprehended by the finite must be presented in innumerable forms and sub-divisions to be received by all.

The Inmost Heaven, we are allowed to believe, is of pure white light, and those who abide there are so purified, as to be fitted to receive and exist in that unendurable glory, but if we in our present condition should receive of that influx, we should simply shrivel like paper and be annihilated.

Hence for us, the Light is in all beautiful and lovely gradations suited to us though we know perfectly well that each coloured ray is but a part of the intense and blinding white, and so far, imperfect as a result though perfect as a means or part of the whole.

So of the divine life. 

Though it is one, we can only receive it as we are able, and though to all eternity, the finite can never comprehend the Infinite, we are taught what is needful for us by signs and appearances. We have presentations of facts, truths—or parts of truths of the influx of Divine Life into sentient forms.

The child Christ was really an Angel of the Inmost Heaven who was able to so receive the Divine Life as to confer life and light on this occasion.