George
03-23-2003, 11:49 PM
Dear Brothers & Sisters,
There are a few sites, 2 to my knowledge that host all of the posted or 'sent to' contemporary messages.
http://www.thedivinetruth.com is one of them. http://www.new-birth.net/ is the other.
I urge you to read all of the original messages received by Padgett and Samuels in the early and mid 1900's and then continue reading the more contemporary ones.
Here are the last 2 received:
March 21st, 2003 – Cuenca, Ecuador – Received by H.R.
__________________________________________________ ______________________________________
The dynamics of life 1: Evil
My dear brother:
This morning, as so often during every day, I have been with you. With great interest I have observed you when you read and translated the message from David. In some way, it surprised you. You did not perceive in the message a strong outcry against war, although it leaves very little doubt that it does not approve it, stating: "don't think that just because war is wrong that the Father abandons his children."
I do not wish to analyze with you the whole contents of David’s message, but would rather like to take a very close look at another sentence that surprised you:
“… that (that is, starting a war) is a relatively common thing to do.”
Why did David say this?
I do not wish to poke with my finger in the wounds recently opened by the present war. So, I will not mention the names of people involved. But we may choose one of the many instances in history, when wars broke out, and when wars were started to "eliminate" individuals who constituted a mortal danger to the security of other nations, or even to their own people, which is also very frequent.
One wonders, of course, how it is possible that these dictators, who sometimes were, and are, true monsters of perversion, come to power? And the answer is that they were smart enough to take advantage of the very particular situation in which their people lived: conditions of misery, hunger, hurt pride, political radicalization, etc.
Then, going even farther into the past, we may wonder: Why did these people end up in such situations that served as a culture broth for the formation of extremists? And we see that in the bottom of the development lies another situation or event, which almost inevitably led to this state of the nation, constituting the cause, but not the trigger, of war. Because we have always to distinguish very carefully between the cause that leads to a dangerous increment of internal pressure, and the trigger that may even be an event of usually very little importance, bit that all at once, in the course of a certain spell of time, under the given situation of high tension, is sufficient to open the escape valve: And unfortunately, in many cases this valve’s name is war.
In order to illustrate this line of reasoning, we may analyze Mr. Hitler's life, who only because of the tremendous radicalization in Germany was able to get hold of the power. It was also influential that Germany’s population felt treated wrongly after WWI. What is more, they suffered from great economic problems: People were hungry, but they had no jobs. All this together, what I have just described, was the consequence of WWI.
In addition, when it could be seen already that a merciless dictatorship developed in Germany, and that Germany set about to expand its territory, occupying Austria and Czechoslovakia, one scarcely heard any voice of protest. What followed was the consequence of the passivity and indifference, even indolence, of the whole world.
We could go back even more to the past and analyze the causes for WWI. It was not the assassination of the Austrian successor to the throne that caused this war. This was only the trigger. The causes, or roots, to use a different term, go back a much longer time and lie much deeper. But I will not abuse of your time and refrain from analyzing also this topic.
What I want to state is that, when you finally search the roots for the causes that led to WWI, you will have to go much farther into the past, and so ever on, until you finally come to the stone age, and even more, to the act of disobedience of our first parents, which was very soon followed by homicide, as the Bible tells us in its illustrative symbolism.
In each human decision lies some potential of evil. If man gives in to this potential, a chain of events is triggered which leads to a result that we commonly call "lack of harmony." So many times discussions are started over the problem of whether war may be justified or not. But truly I tell you: The analysis is not so simple, taking into account that this class of decisions is taken after years, decades, and centuries of development that led to a state devoid of harmony. And the people who decide were also born and brought up in an atmosphere lacking harmony, which, of course, also influences their way of thinking.
Each inaccurate decision leads to situations ever more removed from harmony. These situations, for their part, influence the following decisions, and they make it quite probable that these will also be wrong, shifting even farther away from harmony. I call this development "the dynamics of evil."
I will continue my message later.
Judas
"Judas: The dynamics of life 1: Love"
March 21st, 2003 – Cuenca, Ecuador – Received by H.R.
__________________________________________________ _________________________________________________
I desire to take up again my message.
I am appealing to your fantasy. Imagine an international news chain with their sophisticated equipment filming a report in the Middle East of the first century after Christ. Also imagine that the reporters have no knowledge whatsoever of Jesus.
They describe the vast merciless and cruel Roman Empire, harnessing the whole Mediterranean area, extending its frontiers up to the limits of the known world. They inform on the rebellious province of Judea, where the Roman occupant forces frequently clash with guerilla groups, and where the atmosphere vibrates with tension and insecurity. Even among the province’s very population hatred reigns, because there live two peoples, deadly enemies: One people calls the others heretics and bastards, damned in the eyes of God; and the others call to first ones usurpers who changed the true faith, seducers and renegades, who have fallen in disgrace in the eyes of God. Confrontations were frequent, and it was not safe for members of one people to venture into the territory of the other one.
Perhaps, and only perhaps, the reporters meet a very peculiar preacher, who roams through all of Palestine and preaches a message of Love and peace, one of those barefoot peasants, one who is not able apparently to attract more than other barefoot peasants. Of course, the reporters will not take him seriously. That Jesus from Galilee is only a wandering preacher among many others, he walks with a small group of followers, and is rejected even by the powerful of his own people. What should one expect from him? Would he be at least a footnote in a thick history book some day? No, impossible! He will be one of so many ephemeral fleeting stars that enjoy their day, and then end up in nothingness, to be forgotten forever.
However, Jesus had in his soul a piece of Heaven, his presence vibrated with Love, and everybody around him could feel this, and felt attracted, unless they closed themselves to this experience.
The power, the energy that Jesus transmitted was so great that a few centuries later, without the use of weapons, the vast and merciless empire would succumb in front of this force, an event that would change the course of history forever.
Much of this initial energy has been lost; the force was deviated and perverted. However, we can still feel it, and if we compare today's societies with those in the antiquity, we see very clear indications of change, slow and tortuous changes, but changes they are in any event.
This is the "dynamics of love." Each decision that brings us closer to harmony, makes it easier for us to take correct decisions in the future. The dynamics of love is a counterbalance to the dynamics of evil. And the situations we observe are the resultants of the power play between both.
Evil nurtures its forces through our drives, which in general serve highly selfish ends. The power of men to plan, their reasoning, adds a terribly dangerous element, because they are no longer content with making sure their survival, but they want more and ever more, they head from survival to life in luxury at any expense. Also, instead of giving in the face of their fears and to heed them, they cover them up and try to compensate them, threatening and intimidating other people in the vain intent of unloading their own fears upon the backs of others.
Love also needs nutrition. It is spirituality that strengthens natural love, so that it may be able to combat against evil. But the fight is arduous. One can hardly imagine that that Jesus' work would have been so successful, had I been only based on natural love. Yes, of course, you are right, Islam also spread with an astounding speed. But wars of conquest on the wings of religious fanaticism led to those ends. Christianity, however, at least in its beginnings, was impelled by the Supreme Love.
Each one of you is responsible for adding their small contribution, so that the balance of dynamics may eventually lean toward harmony. Each decision weighs, and it is wise to meditate well whether this decision will lead to an increase of harmony, or simply upholds the deplorable state of things, or even worsens it.
There is no use in discussing the justification or illegality of wars or of other pitiful events. None of us is here to judge, but to act and to incline the balance towards good.
You are all powerful, even if you do not know it. All people have access, if they choose so, to the mightiest Force that exists, our Father's Love. People’s prayers do not only fill their souls with this power, but they contribute to gather a pool of Love in this world, which like a gigantic power plant may flood the earth with its light. Each one of you is a channel, through which the fuel that impels the dynamics of love can descend.
Pray for the Love of God. Pray much, the world needs it.
Your brother in Christ,
Judas.
There are a few sites, 2 to my knowledge that host all of the posted or 'sent to' contemporary messages.
http://www.thedivinetruth.com is one of them. http://www.new-birth.net/ is the other.
I urge you to read all of the original messages received by Padgett and Samuels in the early and mid 1900's and then continue reading the more contemporary ones.
Here are the last 2 received:
March 21st, 2003 – Cuenca, Ecuador – Received by H.R.
__________________________________________________ ______________________________________
The dynamics of life 1: Evil
My dear brother:
This morning, as so often during every day, I have been with you. With great interest I have observed you when you read and translated the message from David. In some way, it surprised you. You did not perceive in the message a strong outcry against war, although it leaves very little doubt that it does not approve it, stating: "don't think that just because war is wrong that the Father abandons his children."
I do not wish to analyze with you the whole contents of David’s message, but would rather like to take a very close look at another sentence that surprised you:
“… that (that is, starting a war) is a relatively common thing to do.”
Why did David say this?
I do not wish to poke with my finger in the wounds recently opened by the present war. So, I will not mention the names of people involved. But we may choose one of the many instances in history, when wars broke out, and when wars were started to "eliminate" individuals who constituted a mortal danger to the security of other nations, or even to their own people, which is also very frequent.
One wonders, of course, how it is possible that these dictators, who sometimes were, and are, true monsters of perversion, come to power? And the answer is that they were smart enough to take advantage of the very particular situation in which their people lived: conditions of misery, hunger, hurt pride, political radicalization, etc.
Then, going even farther into the past, we may wonder: Why did these people end up in such situations that served as a culture broth for the formation of extremists? And we see that in the bottom of the development lies another situation or event, which almost inevitably led to this state of the nation, constituting the cause, but not the trigger, of war. Because we have always to distinguish very carefully between the cause that leads to a dangerous increment of internal pressure, and the trigger that may even be an event of usually very little importance, bit that all at once, in the course of a certain spell of time, under the given situation of high tension, is sufficient to open the escape valve: And unfortunately, in many cases this valve’s name is war.
In order to illustrate this line of reasoning, we may analyze Mr. Hitler's life, who only because of the tremendous radicalization in Germany was able to get hold of the power. It was also influential that Germany’s population felt treated wrongly after WWI. What is more, they suffered from great economic problems: People were hungry, but they had no jobs. All this together, what I have just described, was the consequence of WWI.
In addition, when it could be seen already that a merciless dictatorship developed in Germany, and that Germany set about to expand its territory, occupying Austria and Czechoslovakia, one scarcely heard any voice of protest. What followed was the consequence of the passivity and indifference, even indolence, of the whole world.
We could go back even more to the past and analyze the causes for WWI. It was not the assassination of the Austrian successor to the throne that caused this war. This was only the trigger. The causes, or roots, to use a different term, go back a much longer time and lie much deeper. But I will not abuse of your time and refrain from analyzing also this topic.
What I want to state is that, when you finally search the roots for the causes that led to WWI, you will have to go much farther into the past, and so ever on, until you finally come to the stone age, and even more, to the act of disobedience of our first parents, which was very soon followed by homicide, as the Bible tells us in its illustrative symbolism.
In each human decision lies some potential of evil. If man gives in to this potential, a chain of events is triggered which leads to a result that we commonly call "lack of harmony." So many times discussions are started over the problem of whether war may be justified or not. But truly I tell you: The analysis is not so simple, taking into account that this class of decisions is taken after years, decades, and centuries of development that led to a state devoid of harmony. And the people who decide were also born and brought up in an atmosphere lacking harmony, which, of course, also influences their way of thinking.
Each inaccurate decision leads to situations ever more removed from harmony. These situations, for their part, influence the following decisions, and they make it quite probable that these will also be wrong, shifting even farther away from harmony. I call this development "the dynamics of evil."
I will continue my message later.
Judas
"Judas: The dynamics of life 1: Love"
March 21st, 2003 – Cuenca, Ecuador – Received by H.R.
__________________________________________________ _________________________________________________
I desire to take up again my message.
I am appealing to your fantasy. Imagine an international news chain with their sophisticated equipment filming a report in the Middle East of the first century after Christ. Also imagine that the reporters have no knowledge whatsoever of Jesus.
They describe the vast merciless and cruel Roman Empire, harnessing the whole Mediterranean area, extending its frontiers up to the limits of the known world. They inform on the rebellious province of Judea, where the Roman occupant forces frequently clash with guerilla groups, and where the atmosphere vibrates with tension and insecurity. Even among the province’s very population hatred reigns, because there live two peoples, deadly enemies: One people calls the others heretics and bastards, damned in the eyes of God; and the others call to first ones usurpers who changed the true faith, seducers and renegades, who have fallen in disgrace in the eyes of God. Confrontations were frequent, and it was not safe for members of one people to venture into the territory of the other one.
Perhaps, and only perhaps, the reporters meet a very peculiar preacher, who roams through all of Palestine and preaches a message of Love and peace, one of those barefoot peasants, one who is not able apparently to attract more than other barefoot peasants. Of course, the reporters will not take him seriously. That Jesus from Galilee is only a wandering preacher among many others, he walks with a small group of followers, and is rejected even by the powerful of his own people. What should one expect from him? Would he be at least a footnote in a thick history book some day? No, impossible! He will be one of so many ephemeral fleeting stars that enjoy their day, and then end up in nothingness, to be forgotten forever.
However, Jesus had in his soul a piece of Heaven, his presence vibrated with Love, and everybody around him could feel this, and felt attracted, unless they closed themselves to this experience.
The power, the energy that Jesus transmitted was so great that a few centuries later, without the use of weapons, the vast and merciless empire would succumb in front of this force, an event that would change the course of history forever.
Much of this initial energy has been lost; the force was deviated and perverted. However, we can still feel it, and if we compare today's societies with those in the antiquity, we see very clear indications of change, slow and tortuous changes, but changes they are in any event.
This is the "dynamics of love." Each decision that brings us closer to harmony, makes it easier for us to take correct decisions in the future. The dynamics of love is a counterbalance to the dynamics of evil. And the situations we observe are the resultants of the power play between both.
Evil nurtures its forces through our drives, which in general serve highly selfish ends. The power of men to plan, their reasoning, adds a terribly dangerous element, because they are no longer content with making sure their survival, but they want more and ever more, they head from survival to life in luxury at any expense. Also, instead of giving in the face of their fears and to heed them, they cover them up and try to compensate them, threatening and intimidating other people in the vain intent of unloading their own fears upon the backs of others.
Love also needs nutrition. It is spirituality that strengthens natural love, so that it may be able to combat against evil. But the fight is arduous. One can hardly imagine that that Jesus' work would have been so successful, had I been only based on natural love. Yes, of course, you are right, Islam also spread with an astounding speed. But wars of conquest on the wings of religious fanaticism led to those ends. Christianity, however, at least in its beginnings, was impelled by the Supreme Love.
Each one of you is responsible for adding their small contribution, so that the balance of dynamics may eventually lean toward harmony. Each decision weighs, and it is wise to meditate well whether this decision will lead to an increase of harmony, or simply upholds the deplorable state of things, or even worsens it.
There is no use in discussing the justification or illegality of wars or of other pitiful events. None of us is here to judge, but to act and to incline the balance towards good.
You are all powerful, even if you do not know it. All people have access, if they choose so, to the mightiest Force that exists, our Father's Love. People’s prayers do not only fill their souls with this power, but they contribute to gather a pool of Love in this world, which like a gigantic power plant may flood the earth with its light. Each one of you is a channel, through which the fuel that impels the dynamics of love can descend.
Pray for the Love of God. Pray much, the world needs it.
Your brother in Christ,
Judas.