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Doctrines of divine psychology ...

Samuel L. Clarke · 1894 · Scanned text · Free in the US

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Author
Samuel L. Clarke
Language
English
Published
1894
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132,248 words · about 9 h 16 min
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8 reader sections
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Contents (8)
  1. PART I. Instruction on the Doctrines, Laws, and Commandments of about 1 h 59 min
  2. Part III about 1 h 16 min
  3. Part IV about 1 h 14 min
  4. Part V about 1 h 2 min
  5. Part VI about 1 h 2 min
  6. Part VII about 1 h 19 min
  7. Part VIII about 1 h 25 min
  8. II about 1 min

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PART I. Instruction on the Doctrines, Laws, and Commandments of

Divine Psychology.

I MAKE a revision and integration of the part of this doctrine heretofore published, so that it be clearly understood and reveal the complete book of the human soul both in atonement, revelation,- and doctrine. This book is presented to the people to show the victorious and scientific triumph of divine truth at its second advent to earth, showing and proving by works which have already been accomplished that the perfect divine truth, word, and spirit combined has herein been revealed from heaven to man to reclaim falling and suffering humanity, by the oblique course which this doctrine pursued being predestined of God to fulfil the cycle of time prophesied of in the Holy Bible, concerning the second coming of Christ to reign over and destroy his desperate enemies.

The oblique course which the Son of Righteousness took to fulfil the ancient and modern prophecies is the undeniable proof, and infinite testimony that the horn of salvation has appeared the second time without sin unto salvation, whose power, perfect image, works, judgments, righteousness, and equity are beheld and seen perspicuous in divine truth, word, and spirit combined in the utterance of the hidden secrets of the human soul. The full secrets of divine truth and righteousness, which are herein disclosed to the civilized world, are based wholly on the human soul's solving the different and diverse kinds of righteousness and sin existing in human nature manifested through outward signs of principles, which, in reality, are entirely spiritual in both purity and impurity ; still, human flesh was used all through the eventful career of this doctrine to show the power and duration of divine truth and the despotic tyranny of sin and iniquity. This scientific course of revelation will surely and undoubtedly reveal the full hidden secrets of that man of sin, the Son of Perdition, who by knowledge and experience is the predominating spirit of this expiring age of assimilation and pollutions. This revelation shall also disclose to the civilized world the fulness of ■God's divine truth and righteousness in man, and the fulness of sin and iniquity in man. This revelation will show and prove to the human world that Christ, the redeemer of mankind, has made his second advent to the spiritual, civilized, human world which is situated in the soul of man.

This revelation shall locate, describe, and show w^hat is divine truth and righteousness, and what is moral truth and righteousness ; and show what is sin and vice : which will disclose and separate divine truth and its righteousness from the truth and righteousness of the moral w^orld's polluted customs and formality of godliness, so that everything that God has created. whether to honor or dishonor him, will forever and eternally hold their creative offices, and perform their creative work perfectly. Then the different kinds and grades of purity and impurity will cease to mingle and intermingle, as hath been done all along through the past dark ages of the world's progress in both corruption and incorruption. This revelation shall make known no new truth, neither strange nor new God : but it presents in word, truth, and spirit combined, the Divine Spiritual God which has always been sought and hoped for by genuine humanity since mankind lost his creative state of holiness, perfection, and felicity. Neither does this revelation reveal and make known a new kind of sin and iniquity; but the sin and iniquity that has always prevailed clandestinely in and over pure human nature since mankind disobeyed the holy commandments of God, contaminated and degenerated humanity: although both sin and divine truth and righteousness will seem new, because it is revealed in its true form and expression. The instrument whom God raised up, purged, and refined and purified to reveal and proclaim these eternal truths is not eminent in the world of great and renowmed men of this day ; but as the Divine God is the real Author of this revelation, it is useless to seek customary prominence among men before presenting it to the world, because the real Author has a world-wide fame of supremacy ; therefore the Author of this book is universally spoken of. The revelation that I shall issue among the people is centred to the soul of both sexes of mankind.

and the revelations are based wholly upon the principles of mankind.. which is the soul, whether dehumanized, human, or transhumanized..

The tender love which the good Lord has thoroughly wrought and interwoven in my flesh and blood, bone and sinew, has stood firm and substantially upon its holy feet to declare the eternal truths unto the people, to rescue humanity from the cruel clutches and ravenous appetite of animalism. Before making plain the holy doctrine of truth I must first locate the bounds of this doctrine and show the sphere of utter and eternal darkness ; in order to do this I shall divulge the hidden realities of the apostolic Bible and locate the prophecies and doctrines therein revealed from heaven to mankind, to lead them gradually into a higher life. By locating the prophecies and doctrines of the apostolic Bible, the black veil of the times and time will be consumed which hangs thickly between man and immortality. Also the true utterance of the mysterious doctrines, prophecies, dreams, and visions of the apostolic Bible, which is clothed in sack-cloth and ashes from mankind, will be made manifest by this revelation. The realities of the apostolic Bible are concealed from mankind because it is written with the language of material and terrestial things, and interpreted in the same tongue, which conceals its pure spiritual language and meaning. Man's hope of obtaining the world of eternal rest, peace, and happiness after death is conveyed to the mind through the material language of the Holy Bible and the misunderstanding of its true interpretation.

The material universe is the express likeness of mankind, which makes man the microcosm of the secular world, because mankind, in characteristics, contains all substances of the universe, both of trees^ herbs, cattle, beast, fowl, fish, reptiles, and of creeping things of the earth. The spiritual universe in man, called the world, was polluted when the first man, Adam, sinned ; disobedience to his Creator caused him to sin and pollute the spiritual universe within him, which was created in perfect holiness. The polluting of the spiritual world in man did not tarnish the purity of the corporeal world. The polluted world in mankind has revolved from generation to generation through inheritance by the propelling upas of animal propensities, and shows its deadly effect among the human races in dehu manized principles.

As soon as mankind stepped into the current of animal propensities, its propelling current bore him gradually on through the past dispensations ; and the words of the Holy Bible were used as ensigns and purgative fountains, both oral and written, to convert man from extreme animalism to be loyal to all the laws, doctrines, and commandments of animal nature, which are founded and established upon materialism. The same world that was polluted in man in the beginning of depravity is present today in nature, still being inherited from heir to heir, to continue its prevalence in the human family as it hath done, if allowed, through the science of stratagem and art.

The Almighty God has deprived this science of corrupt craft in human nature the privilege of exercising power over divine nature as has been done over saints who receive the holy doctrine in the fulness.

All the waitings of the apostolic Bible in doctrines, prophecies, revelations, and parables have reference to the soul of mankind ; and the different evils which are spoken of refer to characteristics which are situated in the nature of all people. The same truth that will transhumanize one soul will perform the same work with another, providing they all comply with the same conditions in purity and sinceritv.

Man's principles, whatever they may be, are found in dark sayings of the Holy Bible, and in order to give the holy Exegesis of the Bible, and make plain the true doctrine of psychology, the revelation of the future life, the resurrection of the dead, the salvation of the wicked, the annihilation of death and hell, the extermination of mortality to transhumanize mankind, I must centre my doctrine and discourse on man's and woman's principles, and prompt my doctrine by Biblical standards, and achieve burning testimonies thereby to substantiate every word written to purge out of mankind the polluted world and burn up the chaff with the unquenchable fire of holy truth. My cause for taking this course to present this revelation unto the people is to cause them to see and understand thoroughly that every word of this revelation is wholl}?' against animal propensities, which means sin and iniquity prevalent in human nature manifesting its power in abominable characteristics and the numerous mortiferous diseases. Every germ of these nefarious principles can and shall eventually, by gradual degrees, be utterly annihilated from human nature to establish divine righteousness in the nature of mankind.

Before going further I shall proclaim the redeeming power of the Lord God, which is stretched forth in his handwriting to raise mankind from the animal world, create and fashion them to attain the transhumanized existence of the righteous man.

. Divine truth, word, and spirit combined in man and woman will create hol}^, happy, and perfect characteristics, which will be manifested in dealing with their fellowmen ; this is the transhumanized existence promised to the Israelite' races.

Holy truth, word and spirit combined, is the tried stone to cast into the earthly body of humanity according to their desire to create the elements of salvation to annihilate and eject the corrupt principles that secrete themselves in human nature, called the mortal soul, and are so deadly destructive to immortality. Divine truth is the supreme power which shall reign over death and hell unto the perfect salvation by inhaling it into the organs of the mortal soul to annihilate and exterminate the- dehumanized powers of the soul, and resurrect the dead elements of divine nature, which slumber beneath the turfy sod of animal propensities.

Divine truth is the power, and will exterminate every corpuscular atom of abomination when annihilated upon its land.

Divine truth, word, and spirit is the power that creates and fashions the soul in substance after the image and likeness of the immortal God.

After the elements of divine truth have ejected every evil and stain of sin from man's flesh and blood, bone and sinew, they breathe into the organs of pure humanity the respiring breath of divine nature, and man becomes a living soul, flesh and blood.

Man's principles, whether righteous or unrighteous, are to be found in the language of the apostolic Bible ; and the material world and its many substances, improved patents, and moving creatures, both of trees, herbs, beast, cattle, fish, reptiles, fowl, creeping things, water, land, sun, moon, and stars, are used as metaphors to show the real power and offices of mankind's principles, whether righteous or abominable.

It is declared in the Holy Bible that divine righteousness would subdue the mighty prevailing principles of abomination and lie down in the midst of them in safety.

Divine truth shall soon set everlasting seals upon those mighty prevailing principles of abomination that are loose in dishonorable tangible bodies, and are destroying the lives of their fellowmen.

These nefarious propensities loosened in mankind are caused by the retrogression of the present dispensation coming in collision with all the past ages of antiquities ; this is because the people of the late dispensation have reached the profound depth and apex of science and art of materialism.

The modern dispensation is giving birth to both modern and antique abominable glory ; therefore the present existing dispensation and laws of animal propensities are running precipitously into the styles, fashions, habits, and customs of the past epochs ; and these collisions make a continued upheaval of modern vainglory and antiquities. Men have no further progress in these many worlds which are fast running together, and are causing earthquakes, hurricanes, blizzards, and pestilences of every sort in the human soul ; this causes the great conflict between soul and body and animal propensities, overpowering divine nature in mankind. The many dispensations which mankind have passed through were the cleansing and purgative currents, founded and established by the Holy God to raise up seed to be instruments in the hands of his power, according to his purposes and man's glory, to perfect the glory of the terrestial kingdom, by bringing all terrestial things into the state of perfection, in form, art, color, patents, and styles. This shows the supreme and infinite wisdom of the Lord God in using mortal agents to effect his purposes, despite of sin and iniquity, both earthly and heavenly.

After the Holy God has used the mortal man to reach the climax in preparing the glory of the earthly and that of the heavenly, he stretches forth his redeeming handwriting to purge out of man those diluting germs of mortality from mingling with those principles of immortality in man that have been instruments of his glory in a hidden way ; by placing his arduous desire in mankind to perform a certain portion of work until the earthly glory was perfected ; and now the glory of the earthly is equally compared with that of the heavenly.

Man and woman was the earth that was void of human form when darkness covered the face of the great depth and height of God's mysterious workings and power ; while the Holy Spirit moved upon the face of his holy word. It was the distinct thoughts of the three intangible gods in one head, called "Trinity," that uttered the fluent words of life by one holy command at the accomplishment of each purpose that worked reciprocally and harmoniously by the medium of divine nature that mentioned and gave name to everything that was made ; which was done only by plain alphabetic sentences. In order to produce light on -the future punishment, and happiness of

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mankind, I shall divulge the hidden secrets of the seven doctrines of the human soul ; and these seven doctrines will unfold and reveal to the world the entire hidden realities of the unknown worlds in both abomination, morality, and divinity, and reveal man's forthcoming blessedness, peace, and ecstasy, and also his punishment, misery, and woe before attaining to the perfect world, and state how, where and under what conditions all mankind shall receive the perfect life ; which will be done by revealing the office and power of each doctrine, and what light shall be produced, and what work has been and shall be accomplished by each one of the seven doctrines.

This will show the height, width, and length of this doctrine. This will exhibit the universal predominance of its power, and the eternal endurance of divine truth. These doctrines will show and prove that all truth is not divine, neither hath physical truth the power as that of divine : although physical truth may use the same language and method, it will fail to accomplish the same work, and prove itself powerless in divine matters. Physical truth may assume the name of divine, and run in the same system ; the work will not be done that it goeth forth to do. The only way to cause both divine and physical things to prosper is to show and prove to the people what is divinity and what is physics ; which course of revelation will separate the science of divine psychology from the science of metaphysics. Doctrine of divine psychology is the concentrated focus of the seven doctrines of the human soul, and shows that the soul is the ruler and power of the human corporeal body in every active stage of life. All principles prevailing in human nature discordant with the perfect life are the substances and propensities of different races of low and high bred animals, which, by craft and stealth, crept gradually into human nature and corrupted mankind. These seven doctrines will throw light on the different kinds and grades of nature metaphored as animals, water creatures, reptiles, fowls of the air, and creeping things of the earth, that roam wild upon the green plains, water courses, and wilderness of human nature, and are destructive, degenerative, and impedimental to the development of humanity.

There are no other doctrines in existence nor yet to come that are able to accomplish this work save these seven doctrines. Holy Exegesis is the true interpretation of the apostolic revelations, and prophetic fulfilment of dreams, visions, signs, and parables, which interpret the Bible language. The conflicts, hazards, and great tribulations which this doctrine encountered to reach this state and privilege constitute the holy Exegesis of the apostolic Bible. The revelation of the future life is the doctrine to reveal the nighapproaching life for God's elect, the perfect existence of immortal, tangible, and intangible bodies after death, and also the suffering and punishment of the wicked. The resurrection of the dead is the quickening power of divine truth that illumes the mortal soul and revives both the principles of divine righteousness and the laws and customs of metaphysical science in tangible bodies, so that they all be recompensed according to their works, which fulfils the resurrection of the wicked and righteous. Salvation of the wicked is the doctrine of the conversion of the wicked and moral principles in nature to obedience and submissive to the will, laws, and doctrines of the Divine God, so that human flesh will not have to suffer continually for the crimes of wicked souls. Annihilation of death and hell is the doctrine with sufficient force and power to destroy those despicable creatures in nature that will not consent to the doctrines of divine truth and turn from evil desires and do good. This manner of doctrine sets ablaze the burning flames of hell, while this terrible doctrine destroys the desperadoes in the soul. Extermination of mortality is the doctrine with ample power to remove from the soul the dead and mutilated bodies and debris which fill the soul and body with offensive odor and loathsomeness. All of this work can be accomplished and has already been accomplished by the scientific rod of iron signifying divine truth. Even so shall divine truth redeem falling and suffering humanity. The transhumanized existence of mankind is the full, holy, happy, and perfect state of human entity, which is the doctrine with creative and quickening power ; and this doctrine is called the " Lamb's Book of Life," because it is entirely a different doctrine from the others. These six doctrines give light, resurrect, reveal, convert, and destroy, and remove the ruins from the human soul.

Transhumanity is the seventh doctrine of the human soul, the creative power of eternal purity, and the life-giving book wherein all the seven doctrines of the human soul co-ordinate and concentrate and establish the Holy City — the New Jerusalem — in the soul of man. The " Lamb's Book of Life," then, is what I am representing and offering to the inhabitants of the human world, under the title of " Divine Psychology," which is free for all who are governed and will be- taught and influenced by the spirit of divine truth, so that its spiritual wisdom, light, and life shall be inherited, realized, enjoyed, and understood in every silent and active stage of life throughout its entire sphere, even from the minutest to God's infinite power working in the human spiritual world.

And its current of purity shall still continue to flow around the orb of humanity in the finite world in its peaceful and mild efflux ; shall carry off all impurity, and wear down its rough substances, and hilly woodlands, and mountainous landscapes ; shall refine each layer of its stratum, and improve its architecture ; and shall fashion and erect its mansions in the same style and after the same plan which this doctrine makes manifest in wisdom's essential degrees in laconic remarks. It can be understood by the manifest power of God's wisdom in the quickening flesh prepared for this purpose and end, that each time divine wisdom circumvolves the brain lobe of humanity, it makes men and women more and more like God, in love, wisdom, sympathy, adoratipn, subrriission, and obedience, by being instrumentally presented to God for the mainteriance of his glory and man's present and future progress and happiness. The " Lamb's Book of Life " is the original, and present, and yet to come, divine purity, which is the propelling medium of God's power in man working in its combined elementary constituent forces governed by conscientousness to raise up its members through a gradual spiritual creation to populate the world of transhumanity, which is the real sphere for human entity while they live upon the earth in material bodies. The current of the " Lamb's Book of Life " begins to flow through human nature in its mild and creative efflux as soon as men are fully dead from the world, its established vainglory, and prevailing customs and styles. How can men be dead from the customs of the finite world while they exist in the world ? By existing in the finite world materially and living in God's divine kingdom in mental spirituality. How can this come to pass ? By receiving the integration of divine righteousness, complying with every condition which destroys the mortal hope and earthly craves, its love, glory, and pleasure. And all that flow in "the desire of men with power and glory to use the body will be the perfect image of God's intangible body. The establislied customs and fashions of the finite world which are not called for to sustain the body and maintain life cannot use a dead body ; because a body that is dead from the world cannot receive its glory.

The glory, will, and pleasure of God are the same of all men and women who have been crucified in the lust of the flesh and are dead from the world. Then the things which the dead body receives from the world are not the world, neither of the world, but of God and from God ; because all things that men receive who are dead from the world come through God, the cleansing fountain to the once dead but now quickened body in the new life. The truthful understanding and the acknowledgment of God's high and simple workings and power under the fall control of fear, submission, and obedience are the rudiments of all human knowledge, peace, prosperity, and happiness.

What is the " Lamb's Book of Life " and what does it consist of ? It is that manner of sound and pure doctrinal truth emanating from God through his purified, refined, and consecrated flesh, to give life to his chosen and peculiar people. How shall this manner of life-giving book fluctuate in its life-giving issue among the people in both the personal and great worlds, when it is not written, known, nor manifested in its spiritual government to reach the people who are spread abroad universally in the temporal world ?

The Lord God shall keep the life-giving book in that channel near whose shores the people of the Prince of this life live, and have made themselves ready to put on the life of the new era, by heretofore being loyal to the government of the old, leaving the type and shadow of good things behind to constrain others to print by the same. And those who do not dwell close by the waters of life, neither live upon this side of its peaceful shore, the Lord God will draw unto the waters of life by some one of his supernatural powers and supereminent attractions.

The " Lamb's Book of Life " shall emanate in friendship, love,, and truth with harmony and acquiescency, both spiritual and material, among his chosen people ; which means that every one who adheres to this doctrine with the tenacious substances of sincerity and purity to attain the " Lamb's Book of Life " shall be saved.

How can men relish and have a savoring taste for the " Lamb's Book of Life " when one part of divine psychology is continually warring against them and crucifying the old customs of nature which are fulfilled, that once had a hearty relish for the traditions of the old era.

All people who are godly inclined are composed of two kinds of spiritual substances. One part of the spiritual body will strive to retain the world and its fashions; and this part is envious against God. The divine substance in the spiritual body will rebel against the opponents, to dispose of the polluted world and live wholly for the Divine God, according to his glory, to gain a happier world in nature, the inheritance of the holy kingdom, which shall not pass away, but shall rule over all other kingdoms. Seeing that all this must be done before men can reach this perfect state, it is not good for those to seek the kingdom of God who are inclined to glory in the world, the kingdom of men ; for the suffering will be greater than the flesh can stand ; the combat between soul and body will be too severe to live to put down the world. In this case, the evil deeds or carnal inclinations exceed their righteousness, and they can in no case enter the kingdom of heaven. They are permitted in the kingdoms of men, to live in congruity with their righteousness. This shows that it is not good for integral morals to resist the righteous-like traditions of men to inherit the kingdom of God, when they have no taste for divine righteousness, neither any hope of receiving such precious life. But they are permitted to seek out of the •' Lamb's Book of Life '' that manner of doctrine to bless them to live successfully according to the righteousness of morals, if they have a taste for the Lamb's doctrine concerning the kingdom of men. This method of doctrine will gradually and eventually convert the moral nature to relish and glory in the doctrines of the higher life.

Men must first be converted, and loyal to the doctrines of men, before they can be faithful and loyal to the laws and doctrines of the Supreme of all beings. The seven scientific doctrines of divine psychology are the consumers of nature in mankind, which have reached the consummate limits in the old era ; so that it may vanish away from those who take pleasure in living apart from the customs of morality, and assumed holy divinity, which are pertaining unto vanity ; such as are not called for to sustain the corporeal and spiritual bodies. All things that mankind desire and seek after, not commanded of God for the sustenance of the bodies, are vanity and vexation to the Divine Spirit.

I am hereby empowered to produce light on the mysterious advent of God's terrible but righteous judgments, and the second coming of his Christ, signifying the second advent of divine truth, word, and spirit combined in the man whom God raised up for this purpose to utter the fulness of his truth in simple, intermediate, and high degrees of language concerning the events which took place to fulfil the prophecies of the modern age and produce the world's greatest marvel. All that have eyes to see and understanding to understand shall see and understand God's mysterious power, which he established to fulfil and repeat Bible history spiritually in brief and pointed ways. There are many denominations, and the Lord God purposed and established them, and each denomination has a small portion of divine truth intermingled with words of theory and false conceptions ; but no denomination has the perfect truth in the fulness, because it has not yet been revealed from heaven to all mankind.

The Lord God only can pick out the gold from among the many words of the different denominations, and find all the precious stone, coins, substances, trees, herbs, and harmless creatures, to create another world in the hearts of his elect — which, when accomplished, will be called the kingdom of Christ, the transhumanized existence of mankind corporeally.

The reason why divine truth cannot exist in its fulness with any individual denomination which is established systematically upon the laws of animal nature and materialism is because there are diverse adversities of faiths and opinions concerning the present and future life, and no two agree on everything, neither think alike on the present and future doctrines. And these many diverse adversities of faiths and opinions sever in many parts the full doctrine of divine truth, and establish the different so-called Christian denominations ; and this mystery maintains discrimination regarding race prejudice, and is the flaming sword that is placed around the different Christian races and fails to submit and consent to union and brotherly love in honor of one God. These many faiths and opinions have prevailed mightily in human nature and crucified the fulness and realization of Christ, the life and light, since Christ was offered to redeem mankind from the tormenting, woful. and miserable world. If Christ flows not through human nature as the material waters flow through the lands of the terrestial kingdom, to cleanse, salvation, which God has prepared for his people, is a failure ; for if they look for a material Christ to appear and give them life, they make themselves antichrists. How readeth the Holy Scriptures on this mystery ? " The kingdom of God cometh not with observation : Neither shall they say, Lo here ! or, Lo there 1 for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you."

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