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DIVINE REVELATION

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LAMB'S BOOK OF LIFE

BY SAMUEL L. CLARKE „

BOSTON, MASS.:

PUBLISHED BY SAMUEL L. CLARKE

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1894,

By Samuel L. Clarke,

In the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D. C.

INTRODUCTORY,

THE Lamb's Book of Life is written to introduce simply the coming of divine truth in every degree of life, and to uncover that which has been so long concealed from the world. This revelation is meant to interpret and place in its proper state the language of God, so as to instruct correctly the unlearned in spirit in everything that is really necessary for man to know in order to live a godly life. This revelation has cut a world-wide channel through the world, wherein it has spread its great waters and opened in the immense channel a sure and safe passage to life immortal. The writings show and prove to the world, among those who have eyes to see and understanding to understand, that there is no other power used to accomplish the works of the perfect salvation than the progressive, destructive, and creative words of God, which exist in three immortal, infinite, and all-powerful forms, — Divine Word, Spirit, and Truth combined. There is no other power, tact, nor science used to fulfil the work declared to take place with the members of these truths than the three first elements of life which I named, although there are many more things connected therewith to complete the irresistible power, the full machinery, which constructs the three elements, which will be found in these writings.

This revelation does not mean to assert, nor to convey the understanding that the members of the perfect truths will be plunged very suddenly into incessant happiness by reading and receiving these writings, nor that they will be cast down to despair and death because they irrationally refuse to grasp it when they first hear of it. But it means to work its own way reasonably and graciously, and to find and prepare its own members the true breasts to lodge in, by the purity and straightness of its work, which must work gradually and surely wherever it finds a lodging-seat. It discourses herein, and in the complete book of '' Divine Psychology," that the world has undoubtedly a new epoch of divine righteousness, which has caused a great breach in the world, and the turmoiling of nations, where the purity of the old and the new eras shall combine, and weed out all formality and impurity that conflict with the true life.

The combining of the old and new truths has weeded out the terrible reign of sin from those hearts who took hold of the perfection of truth when it first and suddenly appeared in the world ; and it shall continue to renounce the dead and useless works perpetrated by the so-called children of light,who shall take hold of these truths hereafter ; and the same shall lay hands on their spirits and nature, so that those who labor for the advancement of the perfect right may see and behold the realities there are in the era of purity, light, and understanding of all the true principles prepared for mankind to inherit.

THE LAMB'S BOOK OF LIFE.

Part I

[See Circular, showing the power and present mission of these writings. See " Divine Psychology," on the fulfilment of prophecies, God's impartial judgments against sin in humanity, and the " Book of Seven Seals," opened to the world, showing how mankind is to be reclaimed.]

THIS revelation, which is the late precept of divine truth, is sent, a direct message from God, to the world to issue among those who are growing very weary, and whose hearts are failing them, and who are hopeless because of the long period of time that God saw fit to withdraw his face and power from the world, and gave the world up to be servants of sin and uncleanness according to their desires. Many have suffered severely and endured everything which was allowed to come against them to try and purge every motive, taste, love, and desire in man. All the moral world has suffered to come to the end of the terrible reign of sin ; and they must continue to endure while waiting for those blessed promises, that long-sought-for glory, rest, and perfect satisfaction, and the fulness of the power of Christ to be demonstrated to the world, and to attain that unchangeable power, unerring" faith, hope, love, and uninterrupted submission that will lay siege to the smallest particles of sm and uncleanness, so that one final offering for sin will be made once for all. The foundation upon which every one is to stand now and henceforth, to be worthy of, and to receive the price to purchase the living promises of Almighty God, which are now concealed from the world by the realization of the union of the first and second coming of Christ, is for the readers of this revelation to hear, believe, and receive the one claim, which is the broad basis upon which I stand supported by the unequal power of God's wisdom and understanding to write of the perfect and imperfect life, and to issue it among the people, and that is this : the blessed Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, which is the pure word of God, has appeared the second time into the wicked world to reclaim falling and suffering humanity; but he does not exist in the world in a visible form of flesh and blood, but in a new and refined, pure, doctrinal revelation. Christ is not flesh and blood, bone and sinew, as he was when he prefigured his spiritual body and power at his first coming into the world.

It must be understood — and this is purely godly reasoning^ — that everything that has taken place, both small and great, since mankind put on the mortal image, which is death and hell, was God's concealed methods to work out the fulness of divine righteousness, and the establishment of the immortal image, the life of Christ. The many material changes which God has caused to take place before and between the coming of the fleshly and spiritual Christ, after using the flesh to prefigure what is contained in the spiritual world, were merely to fulfil what was determined against the devil's kingdom, which is set up in the spirits and nature of men in its grandeur. Now the same cleansing and healing powers are in the spiritual world, and are ready for use whenever one feels that he is in need of them, and has the price to procure them. The healing, cleansing, destructive, and creative powers which shall change the vile souls of men among those who will hear, believe, and receive Christ's coming to reign are in the pure words of God ; and those spiritual saints who are sleeping in the material saints shall, by receiving the pure word, awake and meet Christ at his coming to reign, by the power of his Father's omnipotent wisdom and understanding, over all sin and uncleanness.

My claim is hereby clearly understood. It is, Christ is now in the world among sinners and unclean men the second time ; but not as before, lest he build upon the old foundation and fail to make improvements, to take away the Cross, the strain, and the responsibilities. To them who are seeking him earnestly shall he appear, and be seen as he is, in this revelation, in language, spirit, and truth, which issued from the Almighty to fulfil and realize every promise which he has made unto the just since the world began, and to reward the unjust.

It is not for man to lean to his natural understanding and false reasoning to learn the real truths concerning what has taken place, for what purpose, what shall be hereafter, and why God should allow such things to be. Such questions are vain repetitions for the natural man, because God never has and never will make his determinations and mysteries fully known to the sinful man, whose desires and self-will are his own glory and intelligence. God has foreordained to give himself in full to the people who have obtained the price to purchase his life ; and there is no power to deprive the people of God of receiving his life when they reach the appointed time for the blessings to shower upon them. And for those who are fashioned with sinful tendencies, who will not receive the true Gospel of God, there is no such thing as escape from the wrath of God, for the day of escape is far spent.

This is to discover and locate the realities of the perfect world and the falsities of the imperfect world, and to reveal the workings of sin and righteousness in pure and plain language, just as the perfect and the imperfect are lettered, but slumbering, upon the pages of humanity. When this is done, I shall have proved, by the writings of the Holy Bible, that Christ, the Saviour of men, has already made his second appearing to the human world, and is working out men's eternal salvation in a concealed way.

Wherever Christ has appeared unto the human world the first time, in hope of the perfect salvation, he and his holy saints are slumbering in humanity, in wait for Christ's second appearing, which must be accomplished within the soul and nature of men, to quicken the slumbering substances, to give power to humanity to overcome every particle of the imperfect life, so as to receive the perfect whole.

This can, and shall, be done by receiving Christ's second coming to reign over his many enemies, which live and reign in men's customs, styles, laws, doctrines, wisdom, judgment, and understanding. The agreement in humanity between Christ's first and second appearing will form and establish the fulness of divine power in the soul, even as sin has come to the full in the souls of some people, to reject that which is eternal. But sin must reign in humanity until each person for himself receives the full life of Christ, both spiritually and physically, which must involve the teachings of his first and second coming combined.

The wisdom and the understanding of the natural world is one thing, and it belongs to the world ; but the wisdom and understanding of God is entirely different, and conflicts with that of men.

To endure in the world and to do good unto men for the praise and glory of men is one thing, and such belongs to the kingdom of men ; but to endure and to do good for the kingdom of heaven's sake, according to the true calling and purposes of God, is entirely different from that of men, and they disagree and conflict in their methods of work ; for righteousness in the council of God is wickedness and crime in the sight of men in some instances, and righteousness in the council of men is wickedness and crime in the sight of God in many cases ; although they of the world are allowed to use the name "Jehovah " the same as the elect, and to use the same language as though they were chosen by the power of the Almighty to do their unjust work.

To read the Bible, and to imagine that you are then summoned to work in the Lord's vineyard is not genuine ; it is absolutely a false conception, which has gone into the world and has already taken hold upon thousands, and influenced them to make themselves ministers and teachers of Christ.

The Bible is the testimony of divine righteousness in the man of God, and the true guide to sustain him in every good work in life when the Holy Spirit quickens him to understand its teachings.

The Bible was not ordained and given for disputers, pickers, philosophers, and free-thinkers to chew upon, to strive in conversation for rivalry ; but it is a medium of divine and physical righteousness, and a guide and teacher for every man who is godlily inclined in every vocation of life. And if each person of trade and profession dealt justly by his fellow men, the Holy Spirit would quicken each person to those parts of the Holy Scriptures best suited for his condition, without taking thought.

The true teachings and understanding of the Bible are not brought to the minds of men and made to rule over sin in them day by day, because they fail to regard and establish the true and honest way of living. And for this cause the power of the Word of God, which he has revealed, from heaven for men's salvation, is stamped under foot, and crushed out of existence simply because men hate the true, the honest, and straight way.

In order to.be engaged in the service of Almighty God, he t must, according to his own purposes and determinations, call you away from your own will and desires, and choose you to be an instrument of his glory, just as men employ their servants to do certain work, and a certain amount of work, for so much salary. And no man on earth has entered the callings involved in the service of almighty power unless God revealed himself, instructed him plainly what he should do in order to live to God's glory, and what he should cease from doing in order to please God.

The idea of studying out and searching for the wisdom of God by the theory and philosophy of the world, the wisdom of men according to the prevailing custom of men in their science of divinity, is a fraud and illusion ; and this is making men more and more depraved and opposed to true godliness. Man cannot possibly serve God to his glory simply because he can or would like to ; neither can he enter the services of God because he feels that it is his duty to do something in that line because the Bible states that such is required of man. If men take this duty upon themselves, they evoke for themselves wrath and curses ; and their reward is not of God, neither from God, but of men and from men, although they are laboring falsely in the name of God, and imitate the chosen seed.

There are thousands of people who claim falsely to be servants of Christ, and have erred and worse than deceived themselves on this very same point, by assuming the names of servants of Christ. They have made themselves teachers and servants to satisfy their own fleshly lust, which is the world in them making errors, by lusting to do in the name of godliness what they are not organized to do, just as it lusts in them after that which pertains unto the world visibly. And this is the scheme of sin to deceive them and lead them into snares of wickedness with a godly object in view, as it does with worldly objects in view.

A person can be covetous and vainglorious in striving to attain to certain perfection of godliness according to men's philosophy of godly perfection just as truly as he can be covetous and vainglorious in seeking the wealth of the world. It is sin, I care not what course it pursues or what profession of life it follows.

Many strive for wealth, glory, and the honor of men ; but there are very few who obtain it to their souls' satisfaction, because they are unable to reach all the principal resources that swell the current of wealth, fame, and honor. And those who do obtain the wealth of the world to their souls' pleasure are the kings, queens, and princes of wealth, among whom it is reserved and handed down to their heirs. The riches of God, which he has foreordained to confer upon the heirs of salvation, are to those who are the exact likeness of his image, both in substance and spirit. It is not possible for one to receive the inheritance of righteousness when he has not the purchase possession. Divine righteousness was prepared in the beginning for all mankind, and not for animal kind.

There are millions and millions of people like unto mankind apparently, but in reality there are very few genuine human beings in comparison with the various animals, reptiles, fowl, and fishes which are existing in human forms. Unless people are thoroughly tried by the pure laws and doctrines of life, it is more than difficult to distinguish the human-statured animals from the human race. Refinement, education, politeness, dexterity, and the schemes of business talents do not constitute, really, a human being as God preordained him to be in his perfection. Still, time and rigid teachings and strict regard and obedience to the principles of the perfect laws and doctrines will cause the human-statured animals to progress from the animal world, and to be transformed by fire into genuine human beings, under which name they are now going and representing falsely.

Animal principles and appetites of various sorts, which bear rule over every mite of humanity, make them everything but genuine human beings. Years and years of training of animal dispositions have made the animal race more sagacious and prosperous in the world than the real human beings ; because the world is their home, and they have no other glory and pleasure in life, and no other aim to achieve, than to go as far as the world will allow them.

The actual human beings cannot prosper while they look wholly to the glory of the world, as does the animal race, because they are warned that they have souls to give over to destruction, and souls immortal to gain, wherein satisfaction, peace, and pleasure reign, and that the world of vanity is not their home and glory. As long as this conscious and rational thought is continually rubbing and wearing down the desires, loves, and hopes in the world, there is no power of courage nor any energy to go forth with work of any worth and be successful, as the members of the world can do.

The involuntary doctrines taught by divine nature in the rational thoughts of the elect are continually condemning and imprecating the polluted glory and honor of the world until the King of eternal glory comes in and creates the true glory for all useful things. This is the reason why the true elect cannot prosper in the business world. They are drifting from place to place without success, awaiting the appearing of the heavenly glory, which is the primary basis of their prosperity, peace, and contentment. Man's final conclusion with the world, and exemption from its prevailing sins and curses, depend entirely upon his taste and desire to do right, and upon gods in the same before man entered into the world.

If a man has a ruling desire to live in the world in acquirement of its glory and success, and never wishes for anything different from that which the world contains, it is unwise for the man whose life, glory, and success are in the divine world to persuade the worldly man to seek the life beyond the world. The worldly man can be taught the true way to live in the world, which is his life and pleasure ; but never attempt to urge upon him the doctrines of the other world. It produces mixtures and non-success if true godliness is urged upon a person who cannot possibly receive it to accomplish any good. The pure life of Christianity should not be taught to persons who have not that power of conscience and godly influence working within them ; for if they are left at large to act, speak, and perform according to their own feelings as to which world they shall turn their attention, time, talent, and skill for life and success, their own conscience will compel them to choose the life best suited for them to live and enjoy, because the power must rule when they have heard and learned the chances which they have in either world, and what they are required to be and to do in order to have success. That which one is required to do to achieve success in striving to obtain earthly glory is a fatal curse if he is striving to attain the riches of the other world. The striving to obtain earthly glory, honor, riches, and blessings ceases as soon as the eternal progress of heavenly glory sets in.

I care not what a man's talent or occupation may be, if he has a secret thought working with zeal and hope to reach a purer and more perfect knowledge of God, it will reveal itself and find its heaven, just as wickedness will search out new plans to accomplish its mission by manifesting itself in man.

Sin needs no persuasion, for it is already destined to perform its work manifestly ; so will the righteousness of God working in man develop and find in itself peace and justification without persuasion, whatever befalls it or whatever condemnation is maliciously brought against it.

The life of God working in man is a secret trust, support, and safeguard for the man who lives the life of God, just as much as gold, silver, and riches are the secret trust, support, and comfort of man in the temporal world, and such as are conformed to the glory of the world. And it is impossible to live the pure life of God and be conformed to the customs of the world, and at the same time prosper in both worlds in your essential aims and desires.

The natural m-an is the substance of the world, and in the bowels of the earth ; and he must be taken from the world to work out, receive, and live the pure life of God to his own glory and honor, just as men choose the different substances of the temporal world for their glory and honor, and to use in any way that they may see fit. The election of man as heir to eternal happiness, the mansions of perfection, depends wholly upon two conditions : first, his desire and love for the life of God ; second, it depends upon God's predestinations of man's election to the throne of eternal life. No man can be chosen, nor made an heir to the throne of life unceasing, until he is required of God to perform a certain kind and portion of work according to his will. A man may be ever so zealous to turn from the glory of the world, and to enter into the holy services of almighty power to perform some work to his glory before the specified time — it will be of no effect in changing the predestinations of God, neither will it have effect until the arrival of the appointed time. And if such zealot were not ordained to enter into the services of God, that worldly and selfish zeal to be God's freeman is all in vain ; but if he is the chosen seed according to God's glory and honor, that continual zeal is preparing him for the appointed time by making him more and more conformed to divine will when the appointed time is fulfilled.

Yet all are to run and not falter, and wait in faith where it is bestowed ; for the election of man to the throne of the righteousness of God is sure, as he has promised it to all who contain his substance, receive his Word, and partake of his Spirit as pure as he bestows it. There is another great thought of man's election to eternal happiness, and his final sentence to misery and woe, and, lastly, death, which seems to some, or to many, to be unjust of God, — to allow the suffering of humanity to prevail, when he is the power that causes man to go into sin, that he may learn the craft of sin, and at last know the agony of sin in every degree of the mortal life.

Again, it seems unmerciful on the part of the Almighty to allow such brutal suffrages to continue, while at the same time he has power to cause them to cease, and to give peace and satisfaction to his people, and to make them to know the true and unerring way, his will and pleasure, and to avoid the many errors that purchase the penalties of sin. But God will not cause a thing to cease, whether it produces suffering or death, while such is tending directly to the fulfilment of his predestinations ; therefore, in this case, the power that is all-powerful has no power to cause a thing to cease that is drifting on to the true end, where the cessation of trouble will stand.

Part II

THE complete book of *' Divine Psychology " means that there is a new, pure, powerful, and more advanced truth in existence, which means the return of the original life to man. It means to destroy and purge out the impure life, which is death, and which, by degrees, stealthily crept into humanity and corrupted it. It does not mean to destroy any existing good nor welfare of man, but it means to cleanse all things that were made for man's glory and honor. When I say : To cleanse all things, it means to cleanse the motives, aims, desires, and loves of man, so that every man of truth will work for the welfare of his fellow creatures, and not for the mere accumulation of wealth.

This book shows how the author of it discovered and revealed the perfect doctrines of life ; and how the members who are connected with it conducted themselves, which caused the discovery of the new world, its laws and doctrines, and also the fallacies there are in the old world. And it also shows how the works and trials of the author concur with the writings of the Holy Bible, the words of which were the great waters for man to sail upon, in search of every sin and crime, and to discover the new world prepared for the saints of the living God. It shows that each marked change which took place while producing the writings contained in this book was deliberately ordained by the Holy God for righteous purposes ; and each significant change was a fiery fulfilment of the Holy Scriptures.

The complete book of "Divine Psychology" clears up every mystery that heretofore densely overshadowed the mission and purity of the perfect truths, and reached the extreme depths of sin and iniquity which underlay and overlay the complete whole of perfection in the forthcoming age. This book does not mean to exalt nor to honor beyond measure the material body of him whom God used as an instrument to perform and outline the complete whole of the perfect salvation. It means to give due honor and respect to everything that God has created and formed for his glory, whether it be man, beast, herbs, fowl, wealth, wisdom, style, or anything in existence working to this end ; and there is nothing that exists that is not tending to this purpose and end in some way.

Shall God destroy that which he has created and caused to perform, when it is tending to promote good ? Or shall he be indignant over his own creation, formation, and production ?

The things that exist unto the destruction of almighty power, when the time arrives for them to be brought to naught, are destroyed by the power and wrath of God, and according to his glory, as much as though they were created and formed to his glory.

The wrath of God against the things fitted unto destruction is his method of destroying the agents ruled out of use after he has finished his purposes with each kind created unto destruction. The almighty power of divine nature, in its purposes, created and formed many machineries, weapons, and agents to use in the performance of God's work, that it may be carried out in perfect order, as man has been empowered and endued with wisdom to discover and patent the many agencies to accomplish their work in the temporal world.

After the more-advanced discoveries come into existence and use, they destroy, or lay aside, the old in honor of the new; so does the growth of immortality put down the mighty strains and unjust servitude, — the old and impure method of serving God, as it is called, — and establish a civil, free, and pure way of living the life of God.

What advantage is it to the man who disbelieves in and opposes the will, to become a servant of God ? There is none. But if God ordained a man to carry out his purposes against the man's will and sentiments, the man is not to be rewarded, nor to become great in the sight of men ; it is solely that God's determination in the creation and formation of that man may be fulfilled.

How long will it take a man to become fully conformed to the perfect will, — if it is determined that he shall, — if the man is opposed to the will of the Almighty ? It depends upon what purposes God has to work out of that man's case, who is naturally opposed to his will. It may possibly take as long as it will take a child to learn the alphabet, and to read and write well, when he has no taste for learning. So can the opposing man's spiritual progress grow, by gradual degrees.