Wonderful purpose of the physical creation

Contents

Chap. Subject Page I. The New Creation 12

II. War In Heaven 23

III. Wonders of God's Plan 35

Chapter I. The New Creation

AN UNDERSTANDING of the physical creation is essential to a knowledge of the human state. The term human life, so often used is a misnomer. Accurately speaking, there is no such fact as human life. Life is a unit and universal, and never is really divided. When all the error now afflicting the state, or condition, which we call human life is dissolved, it no longer will be human, but real, present human understanding to the contrary notwithstanding.

Speaking figuratively, in part, we are authorized to embrace the concept that, far back in the rolling ages of eternity, when the heavenly spaces of immensity were peopled only by spirit powers — pure spirit forms, without bodies, such as we now perceive — voices from the great white throne of purity and power — the voices of the angel trumpeters—summoned the heavenly hosts to gather under archangel leadership, to hear and study a new decree of the Most High. Thus in metaphor, we may say, that a new creation was proclaimed.

The Infinite One had decreed that as many millions of the heavenly hosts as should choose to accept them, and to pass the ordeal requisite for the wonderful attainment, should be provided with spiritual, ever living bodies, composed of the shining light of good deeds.

The transporting news rang out through the spaces of eternity, and thrilled the spirit forms of God's angel-children with surpassing expectation. The great enterprise and its sublime purpose at once became the objects of eager inquiry. All the angels desired to look into the heavenly plan. There was gladsome commotion in the spirit realms, as archangels and angels gathered about the

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creative throne of power and glory, to be instructed in the mighty scheme.

It was made known that a vast series of the cycles, or spaces of great immensity had been set aside for the creation of a wonderful system of worlds, to be called the physical universe. This universe was to contain a countless number of fixed stars, or suns, with planetary bodies connected with each, and a mighty host of other celestial bodies, in mutual dependence with them. These physical bodies were to pass through many chemical processes and conditions, until a perfect state of each should be realized. They were to be equipped with physical light, and temperatures, in a marvelous system of distribution, and chemical actions, and with all needful bounties and uses for sustaining life, and its many forms, and its different states.

It was further decreed that personal bodies should rise from the physical stuff of which the planets were made, and that each one of the heavenly, or angel, spirit forms, that should choose to do so, might go and dwell in one of these bodies, in a perfect state of everlasting life, for both body and spirit; that each planet, including our earth, should be made a storehouse of inexhaustible riches, in an abundance for each one, and enough forevermore, on an expanding scale, sufficient to meet all successively new requirements of eternal progress.

Thus, the proposed new physical universe, and the new bodies which these spirit intelligences should wear, were described at great length, and the angel hosts listened and appropriated the knowledge imparted, with rapturous interest. Then, there went forth from the great white throne, a call to the angelic hosts to decide whether or not they would elect to go to any one of these planetary bodies they might choose, and take up their abode in their new bodies, and thereby enter upon a more extensive life of usefulness.

It is to be noted here that each one of these spirit children of the Supreme Creator, already possessed the power of choosing in all such matters, to do or not to do, the will of their Eternal Father. Each also possessed the knowledge that disobedience would be overtaken by its own penalty.

Following this call for decision on the part of the angelic hosts there was great discussion, and as conclusions were reached, the deciding angels arranged themselves on the right, or on the left of the throne, those consenting on the right, and those dissenting, on the left. Those on the left were found to be under the leadership, and acting under the advice of the great arch-angel, afterwards called, Lucifer. Those on the right were under the guidance of the great archangel, Michael.

The former stood forth and announced the decision of himself and his followers, first. He said: "Father, we are content with our present state. We do not wish to go and dwell in physical bodies on any one of these far away planets. We, on the left of the throne refuse to go."

Then, the archangel, Michael, stood forth, and said: "Father, we on the right of the throne, know that all Thy statutes and decrees are righteous, and for our good. We love Thee, and we will go in fond obedience to Thy holy will."

It is expedient to call attention here to a wonderful fact — to a truth of the widest possible significance. It is that, in the last analysis, God is the only teacher, the one and only source of knowledge, for all his creatures, for all the spirit inhabitants of the eternal state, called heaven, and for all those in bodily states, who dwell on planetary bodies. In the great event mentioned in this chapter, the Supreme Creator added to the heavenly curriculum, by spirit processes, a study of physical life, and a practice in its methods. These included the appropriation of a knowledge of the wonderful resources of the physical state. It is sought here to impress the truth that the work of heavenly teaching, thus begun, still is going forward in heaven and on the earth, and on all the inhabited planets of the great physical universe; and that it will continue in progress, under the immediate direction of the same all-wise teacher, until all ignorance — error — is eliminated from every center, comer, or hiding place of this God-made physical universe, and until knowledge, truth and righteousness will reign, "wher'er the sun doth its successive journeys run."

But this knowledge, this truth and this righteousness cannot, under the divine plan, be forced upon any one in heaven, or on the earth. Each one of God's children must volitively choose to accept it, or suffer in the affliction of error, until such acceptance is heartily and fully made. There is no time in eternity, where God, in consciousness, resides, and those who seek a convenient time to inaugurate this beginning will find that only the eternal present — the everlasting now — provides this golden opportunity.

There are three great fundamental items of knowledge set forth in the sacred scriptures, which, in a study of the physical universe and man should be brought into the arena of the attention of consciousness at this threshold. The true significance of these will grow into the vision of our understanding as we proceed. They follow:

1. "The worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear." — Heb. 11:3.

2. "There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial." — 1 Cor. 15:40. "It is sown a natural body ; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body and there is a spiritual body." — 1 Cor. 15 :44.

3. "For the elect's sake those days shall be shortened."— Matt. 24:22. "While I was with them in the world I kept them in Thy name; those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition." — John 17:12.

A short key of explanation of the foregoing, which, also, discloses the great purpose of this little volume, here follows :

1. The great goal of the physical creation is the creation of celestial or spiritual (not spirit) bodies, for God's spirit-children, for the angelic hosts which, away back in eternity, were summoned before the creative throne of heaven to be instructed concerning the plan and purpose of this creation.

2. The elect are those of the spiritmultitude, who, having been instructed as to this plan and purpose, elected or decided — obediently chose — of their own volition, to co-operate with this plan and purpose, by going, or coming to this earth to dwell in physical bodies. This going or coming is still in progress, and will continue until, in turn, the faithful all have come. Not one of these will be finally lost. As will be seen, Satan is not able to pluck them out of the hands of him who said: "Those that Thou gavest me I have kept and none of them is lost."

3. The terrestrial body is the, so-called, human body, which we behold and see with the eyes. It is called material, or mortal. It is subject to death. It also is subject to resurrection, the resurrection of the understanding, by which the new body, the celestial or spiritual body, the warp and woof of which are now in the spinning and weaving, by true value deeds of which it is becoming the embodiment — ■ will be revealed. In this first resurrection this death is vanquished.

4. The wonderful mental and physical institution commonly called, industry, in respect to all its useful and wholesome callings, professions and pursuits, when carried on in right purposes is, under the ever overruling power and wisdom of God, working out this grand problem of the as yet physically unseen spiritual body of man.

5. The constitution of our earth, which is in the nature of a most wonderful atomic system of natural forces and their motions, which we sentiently perceive as gases, liquids and solids, provides for mankind the abundant source and the full supply of all bounties and uses needed for happy planetary life. This supply flows to the race by means of its ever rising industry and skill. Thus it is seen, that the earth is not composed of the "things which do appear" to misdirected sense, but of more precious stuff.

These scant data given in this place are intended as guides to thought, rather than as complete explanations. Extended elaborations will develop as we proceed.

Chapter II. War In Heaven

THE MILTONIAN allegory of "Paradise Lost and Regained," although at no time widely held to have been divinely inspired, and although generally out of use in our modern age, nevertheless symbolizes a great volume of relative truth. Doubtless there are many strokes from the brush of truth to be seen in that wonderful picture. I am not disposed to undertake the doubtful task of setting, or fitting metaphorical robes to the alleged war in heaven, but the sacred scriptures provide many foundations for those of high spiritual intuition, who may venture upon this work.

However, I am impelled by a command, which I have neither the power nor the desire to resist, to lay before the reader an account of a vision, or revelation which took possession of me when I lay physically helpless for months, afflicted as the diagnosed result of a terrible accident, or a designed attempt of merciless enemies to remove me from this stage of action. While nothing will be said concerning these circumstances, on later pages, it is aimed here to deal only with this revelation and its purport, in the same terms in which it was interpreted to me at the time. These terms are crude and broken, when compared with modern diction, but I have decided to allow them to stand precisely as they were, by methods of dictation, originally transcribed.

As this vision reaches to both spiritual and physical conditions, revealing and solving the practical problems of our physical world and man, I am able to revise the original transcription of the latter to conform to modern terminology. But as to the first, as stated, the original partly figurative terms are allowed to stand.

The following to the end of this chapter is from the original transcription:

We go back many millions of ages prior to present conditions on the earth, and prior to the advent of the beautiful Garden of Eden. Indeed, the glory of this most beautiful garden was planned in high heaven millions and millions of centuries ago. History tells us that in the beginning the God of nature created the heavens and the earth. Here is plain proof that God always existed. The earth was without form and darkness was upon the face of the deep, and the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. This is proof not only of spirit conditions and powers, but absolute proof of the vapors of the "Upper Deep" holding the seas and oceans of water that lay in their mighty basins today ; and of the reflections of the planet Mars that are reported by astronomers of that planet's oceans and canals, that they contained all the elements necessary to the formation of our earth. Hence, to hold out the true conditions of life, it was written that Adam was formed of the dust of the ground, and that God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.

Man thus became a positive and a negative being, as shown in the scriptures, where it is written that God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam ; and that He took one of his ribs and made a woman, and Adam cried out: "This is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh"; because she was taken out of man. Herein was set up the positive and negative, or the male and female conditions of the flesh of the creation.

Now, I am not attempting to set up a new doctrine; nor am I making these statements for argument's sake; and trust, therefore, that none will take any exceptions to what I say, owing to their belief in creed or doctrine. But read, or listen carefully, because I am going to lead you into an entirely new land, and show you new things and new states, from a perfect understanding of the elements of which we all are created — states and conditions from which we move and perform our daily tasks in our march measuring time through the spaces, or eternities.

Look! We now are supposed to be traveling backwards to millions and millions of years ago. The King Creator, the God of our nature, sat upon a great white throne of purity. He was the great beginning and the ending of not only our nature, but of all living, for, in fact there is nothing that exists but that contains life, in the fullest sense, not even our bodies, or the withered plant that falls by the wayside. It is the same with us when we are laid to rest, and the gentle breath has left this body. The spirit or soul, in what we call death, separates from the body, and the spirit returns, as it is written, to the God who gave it, not back into complete rest, but into practice. As it is written, when the Son of Man was crucified, he said to one of the thieves who was crucified with him, "Today thou shalt be with me in paradise," — another stopping place in the journey of eternity.

Look upon the right and upon the left of this great white throne of glory, in all its purity and holiness. There sat the right and left hand supporters of this great throne of glory. Jesus, the first-born of the throne was seated on the right, and he controlled all the immensity of space-life upon the right hand of the King of Glory, the mighty God of Nature; and he was ruler of all upon the right of the throne. Seated upon the left of the throne was Lucifer, also mighty in the understanding of the throne, and secondborn unto that bright and lovely home of purity, and in charge of all subjects upon the left of the throne of purity. And all other spirit powers that existed upon either side of the throne were subject to and were guided by Jesus upon the right, and by Lucifer upon the left.

Malichi was assistant to Lucifer, and Michael was assistant to Jesus, both being armor bearers and archangel trumpet sounders. The Holy Ghost was the mother of all spirit life, and sat at the foot of the throne, so that God the Father could look down upon her, from whence they together, through love and purity, guided all by their touch, which extended throughout the great immensity of space from and to the four quarters thereof.

As the stars now shine through the heavens, so at this time had spirits been created by God the Father, and the Holy Ghost, the Mother, until the vast spaces of immensity were filled with bright shining spirit powers, all in the likeness of the Father and the Mother. They were born into the throne as fixed spirits, with everlasting powers, as part of the throne, and thus they could not be destroyed, but must remain everlasting fixtures with like powers, with God the Father, and the Holy Ghost, the Mother, who had created them.

So when the immensity of eternal space was filled, God the Father consulted the eternal Mother, and they decided to call into existence earthly foot-stools, or stopping places, thus filling immensity, at certain fixed places, with planets of earthy materials like unto our own earth, with fixed laws and conditions governing them.

The command as to the conditions of this planet — the earth — was as follows: The spirit powers, both male and female, were to come here and dwell for three-score-years-and-ten, in earthly tabernacles made of the "dust of the earth/' They were to have complete dominion over the earth and all that dwell therein, for this space of time, namely, three-score-years-and-ten. The great sun planet was to give light, heat and growth, by day, and the great moon planet was to give us growth, and assist in giving us light, in seasons, by night; and all other planets in turn were to come into existence and play their parts throughout the onward march through the creative eternities.

But listen! The law had now become a fixed, changeless law, by the decree of the Father; and in order to carry it into effect, the throne addressed Jesus and Lucifer, saying to them to command their supports to sound their trumpets, and to command, and gather all spirit-powers subjects together from the uttermost parts of immensity, as he, the Father was about to call into existence these earth bodies. So the trumpets were sounded, and all spirit powers were assembled round this great throne of purity in which there existed not a single reason for an impure thought up to this time, much less such a fact as a sin.

As stated, the throne was surrounded and permeated with purity, and was so pure that the great Godhead had never felt other than that creation should proceed through the spaces of eternity in perfection, peace and harmony, obedient to the Father's command. The spirits at the sound of the trumpets, like wireless telegraphy, were soon assembled around the throne, singing praises to God the Father and Mother, and thus with their voices, making the heavenly spaces ring with great joy. A gladsome spirit prevailed, for all seemingly were wont to give praise.

But apparently, all the while, Lucifer, in his wonderful brightness had been worked into a rebellious state; and at the close of the first songs of praise, he arose and stood before the great throne. He said : "Father, we upon the left hand have decided that this state of existence is entirely satisfactory to us, and, therefore, we do not wish to go down to earth, and lower ourselves to the position of becoming a little lower than angels, or perfect state of our existence here. We prefer to remain just as we are, rather than go to the earth and dwell in earthly tabernacles, although we are to be given complete dominion over this new creation during the period of "three-score-years-and-ten."

But Jesus here stepped forward and, replying, said: "Father, in that thou hast promulgated the command and hast called forth this new existence, we upon the right hancT realize that this is now a fixed, changeless condition, and, therefore, must stand forever. We, on the right, will go and dwell in earthly tabernacles, as fast as they are created or prepared for us."

But now, behold! All those upon the left hand are now seemingly in deep commotion. They are gathering in groups, and, apparently, with one accord, they defy the throne. Here, then, the first sin was committed, and it was promulgated in high heaven, before the throne of purity; and this first sin was disobedience to the throne.

Lucifer now stepped before the throne and said: "Father, we will not go!" So this great throne, for the first time, was confronted with a new condition, namely, impurity within purity, or disobedience and sin, rising from the thoughts and actions of those on the left, who espoused the wrong cause of Lucifer.

And just as a right-minded earthly father, today, seeks to punish his disobedient children, so the Heavenly Father proceeded to correct his erring spirit-children. These children, remembering that they were as gods, themselves, prepared to rebel against the throne, and as it is written in the seventh verse of the twelfth chapter of Revelations: "And there was war in Heaven ; Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels," (See, also, verses 8 and 9), "and prevailed not; neither was there place found any more in heaven."

And the great dragon, with his evil host, was cast out of heaven — the heavenly state — and since that event he is called the old serpent, the devil, or satan, the personal embodiment of sin. Then began the great work of peopling the earth by the emigration from heaven of the obedient spirit powers, each in its turn, as earthly bodies were prepared for them.

But Lucifer and his host, all in evil spirit forms, came to earth, also, and the war of the spiritual rebellion was transferred from heaven to earth, where it still prevails.

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Chapter III. Wonders Of God's Plan

(From Original Transcript)

OW, GOD knew that Satan would continue the war, even on the earth, so it was necessary to provide some means to protect those who had consented to go to earth and dwell in earthly tabernacles, since with Satan and his angels set at liberty on the earth, they would seek most diligently to overthrow the works of the father, by keeping up a war on the spirits that had taken up their abode here in the flesh. Hence, it followed that Michael, the seventh spirit-power of the throne, who marshalled the good spirits on the right of the throne, victoriously against Lucifer and his evil host was given charge of the earth-war, on the side of purity, which Satan, in opposition, had planned to carry forward on the earth.

This provision was made until the redemption of the earth could be arranged for, and to cover the period until the good spirits that had agreed to come to the earth should all have had an opportunity to come and dwell here in fleshy tabernacles. It is known that not until that time will the second resurrection take place, and the second coming of the Christ be realized.

It therefore is plainly evident that the first sin was disobedience, and was committed in high heaven, by and under the rebellious leadership of Lucifer, who stood next to the great heavenly throne. It is written that Michael and the dragon fought, and behold Lucifer, the dragon, and all they upon the left hand of the heavenly throne were cast out of heaven into outer-darkness. This is direct proof of a heavenly division. It is further written : "And I beheld Satan as lightning cast out of heaven." Yea, and the lightnings flashed and the thunder sent forth their pealing sounds, for there was war in heaven, even in that heaven of purity. For this great beginning of a great creation spread from the very center of the throne unto its uttermost parts. And here, for the first time was also established a great gulf between eternity and the creation.

Now we can correctly see through the veil and understand the declaration, "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end" ; but this does not in any way refer to, or have a bearing on, the great immensity of eternity, without beginning and without ending, in which we see the mighty figure of God Himself in his entirety, without beginning and without end, eternally in the heavens.

Behold, the likeness of God is seen everywhere. When we look upon the sun shining in all its glory, and the moon with its gentle light, by night, and behold the twinkling stars, we see God. Then, again, turning to the sun's rays, and the gentle dew-drop, and view all the splendor of plant life, we cannot but cry out within ourselves, "0, Mighty God of all nature, who made the heavens and the earth, and all that in them are." Turn which way we will, God's countenance ever is with us in plain view ; and from this we cannot fail to know that all things are life, and that all life is a part of God. Hence, we can understand the saying that even the hairs of our head are all numbered; and that even the sparrow cannot fall except with the knowledge and presence of God.

Then, again, we behold God in his majesty, within the waters of the mighty ocean, and in the myriad forms of life swimming within them. Then, when we look out through the atmosphere of space surrounding us and behold the wonders of the winged fowls, or birds, and note their beautiful plumage, we cannot resist from exclaiming as before: "0, Thou Mighty God, who made everything that is good for man, and has placed him but little lower than the angels, that he might satisfy the desire expressed by the great throne before Lucifer rebelled!"

We behold this mighty God again in the center of the great eternity, with all his love and power, bringing into existence other spirit-powers — indestructible spirit-powers — like unto himself, with power everlasting, which cannot be destroyed, because they are a part of himself, as we can see by the illustration, "bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh."

We see the most sacred likeness of God in the fact that man shall leave his father and mother and cleave unto his wife. So it is written. "Thou shalt have no other God before me, for I am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers from the fourth even unto the tenth generation." But, in a wonderful way it is said that all is but as yesterday unto him, as to all suffering and dying, during the three-score-years-and-ten, as the allotted period we are to stay here on this earth, in the visible body is not even as one step in the march through eternity.

Therefore, our earth-life and its sufferings, when compared with the joys of eternity, is not even as one day ; and with all the sorrows and tribulations, the sufferings and the rough places encountered in this life, by the faithful and the true, who are fighting the battles of God and truth as against Lucifer and his fallen angels are with God and our departed friends, and all those who have agreed to come here and dwell, and those who have, as yet, not been permitted, or that have not as yet reached their turn ; for they look down upon us in this moment of life, as we look upon some great panorama, or painting of a struggle with some person, or nation for supremacy in worldly contests, or conflicts. It does not worry loved ones, who have gone before, and who see us in our struggles, because, after passing the shadow of death, as it is termed, into that state, as it is written, all will have become God-like.

See the blessed Jesus standing before that throne, and all those upon the right hand of that throne of glory! This was millions of years ago when all was happiness and joy in heaven; and they all with one accord, even though knowing that Satan was abroad in tEe land, and would be going up and down continuously, seeking whom he might devour, and thus be carrying on the war on earth that was started centuries and ages ago in heaven; — even with this knowledge, they agreed to come to earth at God's command, as they have come, and are still coming, to carry out the great enterprise of creation.

Why is this great command still in process of being obeyed? Because Jesus said to the Father that as sin had entered into life, he, at a time appointed by the Father would come to earth, without the instrumentality of natural process, and into the flesh, through the immaculate conception of the Mother woman. And now we have this wonderful story of the first coming of Christ in the flesh.

The decrees concerning the creation of the earth and man had become the fixed law of high heaven, and, therefore, could not be changed. Then the trumpets were sounded a second time, and immediately there was a wonderful gathering together of heavenly hosts to the extent that all the heavenly spirits from all the great four quarters of the heavenly spaces were now assembled round the great white throne of purity, singing Glory to God and praising him for all conditions in which they were to have and share. All earth temples or bodies were to be formed by God, Himself, and as formed, a spirit power was to descend and take possession of each in turn.