Excerpt from
Chapter Six
of the Book
Spiritual
Teachings and Universal Truths
Copyright © 1998 by Raphael. All
rights reserved.
Immanuel's
Teachings vs. "Christianity"
Let
no one
deceive you concerning the truth about life, or the afterlife, with scientific
theories or by the foolish absurd traditions of people and their religions,
because the Evil Spiritual Powers that rule the world have established these as
truth, but when examined closely in the light of Immanuel's (Jesus Christ) true
teachings they become obviously untrue.
Why is it that the Teachings
of Immanuel no longer seem to exert any influence upon the people of today?
The reason is mankind no longer possesses Immanuel's Teachings in
their pristine purity and clearness, because in the course of time, many human
errors and deliberate falsifications have crept into the "Christian"
religions.
I am now going to compare
the true Teachings of Immanuel with the false doctrines of the so-called
Christian churches of today, and particularly with those of the "Catholic faith"
to whom most Christians belong and from whom most of the other Christian
religions have been derived.
At what point in
a brook do you find the purest and clearest water, near the source or near the
mouth? Most assuredly, near the
source, because as the spring water flows on as a stream, it loses its coolness
and with it, its purity and clearness.
Small brooks, coming into it from either bank, mingle their waters with
its current. Further down it
receives the drainage from human habitations, human and animal refuse and waste
from mills and factories. It no
longer refreshes and those who must drink its waters to quench their thirst do
so only when forced to and when no pure spring water is to be had. The same may be said of the truth. Taken at its source, it is a refreshing,
life infusing draft, but when drawn from the stream which has been flowing for a
distance through the lowlands of human error and worldly passions, its purity
and coolness are gone. The mixture
of untruth and error has given it an ill flavor. The thirsty truth seeker drinks of it
with inner repugnance and only when denied the clear water of the fountainhead
of truth.
The Teachings of
Immanuel met with a fate like that of the water from a spring which, as a brook,
flows by the haunts of people. It
also was defiled when it flowed through human channels. The evil that is in people and the
Powers of Evil which surround them, have so sullied and rendered unpalatable
Immanuel's pure precepts, that they have lost their life giving power. The source of all truth is God, a source
to which people cannot ascend in their terrestrial shapes. They must depend upon the bearers of the
truth who draw from that source.
These are God's spiritual messengers and only they are admitted to that
source. Only they possess the clean vessels
in which the truth can be brought fresh and unsullied to mankind.
The first and the
greatest of the truth bearers was Immanuel as a spirit. In the days preceding His incarnation it
was He Who, partly in person, partly through His subordinates in the spirit
world, brought the first draft of truth to humanity. Because of Him there existed the
communication with spirits by the ignorant and exhausted world of the Old
Testament and the coming and going, in the early days of the Christian era, of
truth bearing spirits, constantly drawing upon God's fountainhead and bringing
the water of truth, at Immanuel's request, to the parched souls of mankind.
It is,
accordingly, one of the fundamental precepts of the true Christian faith, that
people cannot proclaim the truth out of their own consciousness. They can do so only as instruments of
God's spirit world.
Even Immanuel as
a mortal could not of His own volition ascend to the source of the truth. As a man, He had no more inherent
knowledge of the truth than had others.
What He had known in the days when, as the first created spirit living
with God, had been obliterated from His memory by His entry into a material body
as completely as the knowledge of a previous existence is obliterated from the
recollection of other people, although the time was when they too lived with the
Father. The property of physical
substance by which the recollection of a previous existence is wiped out,
exerted the same action upon the incarnated Immanuel that it exerts upon every
other spirit incarnated in human form.
Consequently,
Immanuel after His incarnation was dependent upon the spirit messengers sent to
Him by the Father, as He acknowledged when He said, "You will see Heaven opened
and the Angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man." He was but God's envoy and had no
advantage over the divine envoys who had preceded Him, because they too had been
instructed by God's spirits.
Neither Enoch, Abraham, Moses, nor any of the Old Testamentary prophets
said things that came from their own minds, but all, in the words of Peter the
Apostle "preached the gospel by a holy
spirit sent forth from Heaven."
Immanuel repeatedly assured His hearers that
He spoke not of His own knowledge, but only as He had heard from the Father.
It was the Father Who directed Him as the occasion required by means
of His spiritual messengers "constantly ascending and descending above the Son
of Man", and "then you will know, that I do nothing of myself but only speak as
my Father has taught me", and " . . . I speak to the world only those things,
that I have heard from Him." (John
8:26)
The same
fountainhead of truth from which Immanuel had drawn was to serve all those who
came to spread His gospel after Him.
The first of these would be the Apostles, who were not merely to repeat
the words which they had heard Immanuel say, as they interpreted them, since it
is a common human failing to quote inaccurately when called upon to repeat what
someone else has said. Of a hundred
listeners to the same speaker, no two, when asked to repeat his remarks, will
agree precisely as to his words or his meaning.
Therefore, the
Apostles were to be instructed again by the spirits of the truth, concerning
those things that Immanuel had spoken to them as a man, in order that His words
might suffer no distortion from their erroneous interpretation. They were to receive from God's spirits,
confirmation of the Teachings proclaimed by Immanuel, as well as certain new
truths which He had withheld from them, either because under God's Plan of
Salvation these truths could not be announced before the Redeemer's "death", or
because the Apostles themselves were not yet qualified to receive and to
understand them.
You will find
this statement of mine confirmed in Immanuel's own words, "Then will I ask the
Father and He will give you other helpers, who will be with you henceforth,
those helpers are the spirits of truth."
(John 14:16) "I have
yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. Nevertheless, when the spirits of truth
have come, they will guide you into all the truth." (John 14:16) " . . . after me will come the
helpers, holy spirits, whom the Father will send in my name, to teach you
whatever else there may be and to recall to you what I have said." (John 14:26) According to these
words, the spirits of truth had a twofold task before them.
First, it was their duty to bring to the remembrance of the people all that
Immanuel, while on Earth, had told them, and to confirm its truth. After that, they were to continue the teaching that Immanuel had
begun and to proclaim those further truths that He had purposely withheld
because of reasons that I have already stated. In addition, the spirits of God were
to be with the people forever,
because of the power of evil and the weakness of humans, the fear of error was
ever present.
The living must
not be dependent upon the religious traditions of their ancestors, because such
human traditions would bear no guarantee of truthfulness, nor could those, to
whom they would be handed down, be expected to be able to know what part of them
was derived from God's well-spring of truth and how much was attributable to
human error.
Therefore, after
Immanuel's corporeal death, God's messengers arrived constantly as spirits of
truth, according to His promise.
The Apostles continually called upon them when urging their hearers to
the faith. Paul's writings
especially, abound in references to these messengers, he writes, "Now the
spirits which we have received are none of the evil spirits, which rule the
world, but spirits coming from God, that we may know the things that God in His
grace has bestowed upon us. Of this
we preach also, not in the words taught by human wisdom, but in words which are
taught to us by God's spirits, in this way we deliver the message of a spirit in
the same words in which the spirits gave it to us. True, a worldly-minded man does not
accept things brought by a spirit of God because he looks upon communication
with God's spirit world as madness, neither is he fit for an understanding of
such matters because only those who understand the laws by which spirit
communication is governed can form a proper judgment." (1st Corinthians 2:4-14)
Not only the
Apostles received their teaching from God's spirits, but also the "mediums" who
were to be found in every community.
As you already know, they were called prophets. Paul writes that the mystery of Immanuel
"has now been revealed unto His holy Apostles and prophets by a spirit of
God". (Ephesians 3:5) It was through these mediums as
the instruments of the good spirits that the truthful people could at any time
ascertain, whether a doctrine was true and how it was to be understood. Concerning this, Paul writes to the
Philippians, "If in any matter your belief should differ, that also God will
make clear to you." (Philippians
3:15) They had the privilege
of inquiring of God at their gatherings and were answered by His spirits
speaking through the mediums.
Speaking of the
earlier prophets, as well as of those who preached the gospel in his own day,
Peter says that they "preached the gospel by a holy spirit, sent forth from
Heaven". (1st Peter 1:12) To which he adds in another
epistle, " . . . no prophecy of scripture is of private interpretation, because
no prophecy ever came by the will of man, but people spoke from God, being moved
by a holy spirit." (2nd Peter
1:20,21) The word "prophecy"
which occurs so often in the Bible does not mean, as you believe, the prediction
of an event to come, but all speech by a spirit of God through a human
medium.
In the Old
Testament God urged people to seek the truth from Him, "Inquire of me!" And He revealed the truth through His
spirit messengers. By His own
statements, Immanuel, as a mortal, received the truth from spirits of God. He promises His Apostles that they too
will learn the truth from the spirits of truth. The Apostles testify that this promise
of Immanuel was fulfilled and that they received their Teachings from God's
spirits.
But from where does
"Christianity" of today draw the truth? Can the ministers of the various
"Christian" denominations say of themselves that a spirit of God is speaking
from them? Can they testify, as did
Paul, that they "speak not in words which man's wisdom teaches . . ." but that
they have the mind of Immanuel?
They cannot.
They are in the employ
of their churches, whose respective creeds they studied under human instruction
at schools, seminaries and universities.
What they absorbed there was "man's wisdom", professorial wisdom, with
all of its errors and that is what they preach to their congregations. Of spirits as messengers from God and as
heralds of the truth they know nothing.
In their eyes it is, to use one of Paul's terms, foolishness, to expect
any further teachings from a spirit of God at this late day. According to "modern" ideas, no further
teachings are needed, in their opinion, such teachings may have been necessary
in the days when people were supposedly much more ignorant than they are in our
"enlightened" age.
A man like Moses
may have felt that he must communicate with God's spirit world and to "inquire
of God" in order to learn the truth.
So also the great prophets, Immanuel Himself, as well as His Apostles,
but today all that is considered as old-fashioned and as a thing of the
past. To be sure, people have made
great progress in science, you can all read and write and have millions of books
to which you can refer, and in addition you have no end of learned
"theologians", "doctors of divinity" and professors. They can surely tell you what the truth
is. It is quite the contrary.
As a matter of
fact, it is precisely these doctors and professors of the "sacred theology" who
are responsible for the introduction of those doctrines against which Paul
speaks these words of warning, "Wishing to be regarded as versed in the law
although they do not understand the meaning of the terms which they use or the
things of which they speak with so much assurance." (1st Timothy 1:7)
The spirit world of God has long since been
eliminated from the Christian creeds.
The heads of the churches have exiled the holy spirits. But wherever spirits of God have been
forced to yield, spirits of another nature presented themselves, like those of
which Paul writes to Timothy, "God's spirits declare expressly, that in times to
come, many will fall away from the truth and, turning to spirits of deceit, will
spread doctrines inspired by demons." Into the places of the good
spirits stepped the Spiritual Powers of Evil, whose chief concern it is, to
obscure and to reverse the truth, an end which they seek to accomplish by
playing upon every human weakness, such as vanity and arrogance of learning, or
the greed for power, distinction, money and luxury. All of these motives are utilized by
them to tamper with the truths of God's wisdom, love and mercy, and to forge
these into chains with which the heads of the churches manacle their poor,
inexperienced adherents and render them subservient to themselves.
The root of all evil is
greed, the love of money.
Even in the so-called
Christian churches money plays the most important role. Lucifer knew what he was doing when he
made bait of money in the field of religion. He knew that this was the surest way
of binding the "spiritual" leaders fast to error. He knew that none of them would be
unduly ready to give up a well paid position for life, as the servant of a
church, even after they had recognized the erroneousness of the doctrines they
had been preaching.
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