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27 February 2024

What does the spirit creed of God reveal?


The Spirit Creed of God reveals a loving Father who is not loving in name alone, but in deed and truth―into whose dealings, nothing but love can enter―who is just and good and full of affection to the lowest of His creatures.

It [spirit creed] does not recognise any need of propitiation towards this God. 

It rejects as false any notion of this Divine Being vindictively punishing a transgressor or requiring a vicarious sacrifice for sin. 

Still less does it teach that this Omnipotent Being is enthroned in a Heaven where His pleasure consists in the homage of the elect and in the view of the tortures of the lost who are forever excluded in quenchless misery from light and hope.

No such anthropomorphism finds any place in our creed. 

God, as we know Him in the operation of His laws, is perfect, pure, loving, and holy―incapable of cruelty, tyranny, and other such human vices―viewing error with sorrow as knowing that sin contains its own sting, but eager to alleviate the smart by any means consistent with the immutable moral laws to which all alike are subject.


God―the Centre of Light and Love! 


God―operating in strict accordance with those laws, which are necessary for orderly existence! 


God―the grand object of your adoration, never of your dread!

We [spirit-lives] know Him as you cannot know―as you cannot even picture in imagination―

None has seen Him―

Nor are we content with the metaphysical sophistries with which prying curiosity and over-subtle speculation have obscured the primary conception of God. 

We pry not. 


The first conception with you even is grandernoblermore sublime. 

We wait for higher knowledge. 

You must wait too.


The elect are they who work out for themselves a salvation, according to the laws, which regulate their being.

We know nothing of the potency of blind faith or credulity. 


We know the value of a trustful receptive spirit―free from the littleness of perpetual suspicion. 

Such is Godlike, and draws down angel guidance. 

We abjure and denounce that destructive doctrine that faith, belief and assent to dogmatic statements have power to erase the traces of transgression―that an earth-life of vice and sloth and sin can be wiped away and the spirit stand purified by a blind acceptance of a belief―of an idea―of a fancy―of a creed.

Such teaching has debased more souls than anything else to which we can point.

Nor do we teach that there is a special and potent efficacy in any one belief to the exclusion of others.


We do not believe that truth is the perquisite of any creed.

In all, there is a germ of truth―in all, an accretion of error.

We know the exalted intelligences who stand high in spirit life―who were enabled to progress despite the creed they professed on earth.

We value only the earnest seeking after truth.


We do not care for the minute discussions, which men delight in. 

We shrink from those curious pryings into mysteries transcending knowledge, which characterise your theologies. 

We do not care for sectarianism except that we know it to be a mischievous provoker of rancour and spite and malice and ill-will.

The theology of the spirit is simple and confined to knowledge.

Hot air balloon – © Tomas Castelazo (www.tomascastelazo.com) (CC-by-SA-3.0)

22 January 2024

How do you rise from dead matter?

Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.

Cast aside the gross cares of earth. 

Throw off the material bonds that bind and clog your spirit. 

Rise from dead matter to living spirit―from earthly care to spiritual love―from earth to heaven.

Emancipate your spirit from earthly cares, which are earth-born and unspiritual. 

Cast aside the material and the physical and rise from engrossing interest in the worldly to a due appreciation of spiritual truth.

Vernal Fall on the Merced River just downstream of Nevada Fall in Yosemite National Park – God of War at the English Language Wikipedia (CC-by-SA-3.0)

27 November 2023

What is the first step to progress?

Recognise your own ignorance. 

This is the first step to progress. 

You are only now standing in the outmost court, far away from the temple of truth. 

You must walk round and round until you know the outer precincts―

Before you can penetrate the inner courts

Long and laborious efforts must precede and fit you for eventual entrance within the temple. 

Horses on Bianditz Mountain, in Navarre, Spain – Mikel Ortega (CC-by-SA-2.0)

10 August 2013

The Triangle of Discipleship

Self-denial, self-sacrifice and self-discipline are the upward tracks, thorn-vexed and rocky, which lead to the heights of knowledge and power.

The spirit of Imperator Servus Dei 
 


Vertical panorama of the Royal Chapel of the Palace of Versailles | David Iliff | CC-by-SA-3.0

09 August 2013

Victory comes after conflict

Victory comes after conflict – peace after tribulation – development after steady growth.
 
Fireplace – Ryan Mahle (CC-by-2.0)

Selfishness is the plague-spot of the spirit

Selfishness is the plague-spot of the spirit – the very paralysis of the soul.

San Francisco International Airport at night – Andrew Choy (CC-by-SA-2.0)

Life is a journey, a conflict, a development

Life is a journey, a conflict, a development. The journey is uphill and the way is thorn-beset and difficult. The conflict is unending until victory crowns the final effort. The development is spiritual from a lower to a higher plane, from the child of earth to the measure of the stature of the Christ. We cannot change the unalterable. We cannot reach the Perfect Good except after a conflict with evil. It is an eternal necessity that we be purified through struggles with the evil that surrounds us. It is the means by which the spark once struck off from the Divine Soul wins back its way to Him and enters into its rest.

Emperor Dragonfly – Ken Billington (CC-by-SA-3.0)

We must work out our own salvation

We make our own future, stamp our own character, suffer for our own sins and must work out our own salvation.
 
Hot spring at Leirhnjúkur, Iceland – Andreas Tille (CC-by-SA-3.0)

Selfishness and sin bring misery and remorse

Selfishness and sin bring misery and remorse before they can be purged away.

Sharpless 2-106 – NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

Selfishness must be eradicated by self-sacrifice

Selfishness must be eradicated by self-sacrifice.

WWII – Europe – France – Into the Jaws of Death – U.S. Troops wading through water and Nazi gunfire, circa 1944 – Chief Photographer's Mate (CPHoM) Robert F. Sargent National Archives and Records Administration

08 August 2013

There is no judge but the voice of Spirit

The judgment of condemnation needs no paraphernalia of assize but is conducted in the silent recesses of the soul itself. Every act is registered, every thought recorded, every habit known as a factor in the future character. There is no judge but the voice of Spirit communing with itself and reading its own doom. 
 
The cool clouds of Carina – ESO / APEX / T. Preibisch et al; N. Smith, University of Minnesota / NOAO / AURA / NSF (Optical)

07 August 2013

In the world but not of it

His resurrection is symbolic of the change that passes on the risen life of spirit – in the world but not of it; moving in it as a visitor who conforms but does not belong to it. The law of Love animated Him. Whenever He appeared, whatever He did, this was the motive. The records left to us, both meagre and erroneous as they are, are yet sufficient to show this. He fulfilled the law of love and then ascended to His own proper sphere – no longer seen but felt – no longer a personal presence but an effluence and influence of grace.

The Eiffel tower at sunrise, taken from the Place du Trocadero, Paris, France Tristan Nitot (CC-by-SA-3.0)

The word of truth must pass through conflict to final victory

The word of truth must pass through conflict to final victory, even as the soul in its solicitude and isolation must contend with adversity until it perfects through suffering and wins the crown by the cross.

ESO’s Very Large Telescope peers into a distant nebula – ESO / R. Chini


The life of the progressive spirit

Begin within. 

A spirit has three enemies – itself; the external world around it and the spiritual adversaries that beset the upward path. These are described as the World, the Flesh and the Devil. Begin with self – the Flesh. Conquer it, so that self can be abnegated and the spirit can emerge from its hermit-cell and live and breathe and act in the free scope of universal brotherhood. This is the first step. Self must be crucified. The life that it leads is a life of the spirit; for flesh has been conquered and the world has ceased to charm.

But in proportion as the spiritual perceptions are quickened, so spiritual adversaries come into more prominent view. The adversaries, who are the sworn enemies of spiritual progress and enlightenment, will beset the aspirant's path throughout his career of probation.  The faithful soul presses on, for it is the means to develop the higher faculties and the steps by which entrance is won to the higher spheres of bliss.

This, briefly, is the life of the progressive spirit – self-sacrifice – self is crucified; self-denial – the world is vanquished – and spiritual conflict – adversaries are beaten back. In progressive life, there is no stagnation; no rest; no finality. It is a daily death and a constant fight for perpetual progress. It is the quenchless struggle of the light that is within to shine out more and more into the radiance of the perfect day.

Sony Centre at Night, Berlin – Andreas Tille (CC-by-SA-3.0)

06 August 2013

We must strive to rise above the material

We must strive to rise above the material and to leave it behind.

New York City at night – Paulo Barcellos Junior – CC-by-SA-2.0)

So it is now

There must be orderly progression and systematic development throughout God's universe.

Folding reflector positioned to bounce sunlight – Brocken Inaglory (CC-by-SA-3.0)

05 August 2013

You know our mission

In days when faith has grown cold and belief in God and immortality is waning to a close, we come to demonstrate to man that he is immortal, by virtue of the possession of that soul which is a spark struck off from Deity itself. We wish to teach him of the errors of the past, to show him the life that leads to progress, to point him to the future of development and growth.

Three polar bears approach the starboard bow of the Los Angeles-class fast attack submarine USS Honolulu (SSN 718) while surfaced 280 miles from the North Pole Chief Yeoman Alphonso Braggs, U. S. Navy

04 August 2013

Do you ever think what is the state of such a spirit?

Money-hunting is the business of life and pleasure is too often found in bodily gratification and sensuous enjoyment. The air is thick with the greed of gold, with lust of power, with self-seeking in all its myriad forms. The spirit – do you ever think what is the state of such a spirit?

A thick band of dust snaking across the Red Sea between Egypt and Saudi Arabia NASA

03 August 2013

All souls are equal before God

Each one – the most degraded brother who labours in the lowest sphere of earth and even the most degraded soul that struggles here in darkness and sin unspeakable – is not shut out, for all souls are equal before God and there is nothing which has been attained by one that may not be attained by all if they strive earnestly for it.

Apollo 11 Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin's boot print – NASA / Buzz Aldrin

The old battle between good and evil

It is the old battle between good and evil – between the progressive and the retrogressive. Spirits of all degrees of malignity, wickedness, cunning and deceit gravitate into the ranks of that opposing army. Our inability to see the operations of these undeveloped adversaries renders us unable to grasp their existence or to appreciate the magnitude of their influence in our world.

Earth-bound and unprogressed spirits whom incarnation has brought no gain hover over their old haunts. They live over again their wretched, polluted earth-lives by influencing congenial spirits still in the body and so gratifying their lusts and passions second-hand.

The poor wreck whose lusts have survived physical death finds his resource in seizing on an impressionable medium and goading him on to sin, so that he may get such enjoyment as alone remains for him. The debauched drunkard, who sank his body in disease and saturated his spirit with the poisoned draughts of liquid fire, now haunts the dens where his pleasure used to be and goads on the wretches whom it finds possible to influence. 

The sot, dead – as you falsely think – is a sot in spirit still. 

He leers with spite as he drives another soul to a lower state of misery and gloats as he draws his own foul gratification, fostering a sink of infamy and disgrace.

These things go on all around us – plague-spots that flourish and abound among us. We are blind to the dark influence of these baleful spirits and its malign influence radiates and perpetuates vice among congenial spirits yet on earth. The Undeveloped of every grade and class are a perpetual source of antagonism  and their ranks are being perpetually swelled by spirits debased and degraded by human ignorance. 

To their efforts operating on congenial spirits in your world you must refer much of crime and misery that exists among you – war with its attendant horrors which yet disgrace and defile your world and blots your boasted civilisation and refinement. To them attribute the fostering of the crimes that befoul your great cities that spread a mantle of corruption over them and make them homes of iniquity and dwelling-places of shame.

A massive dust storm cloud is close to enveloping a military camp as it rolls over Al Asad, Iraq just before nightfall on 27 April 2005 – Corporal Alicia M. Garcia, U.S. Marine Corps