THE GODHEAD
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There are many things beyond human understanding that it pleases God for man to know in partial detail. Among these things is the nature of the Godhead. I have said that it is the destiny of all souls to become one with their creator, to share in the powers and privileges of the Godhead, and to know bliss for all of eternity. Know now, My children, that the exact nature of the Godhead is beyond human understanding. Know that there is nothing in human existence that compares with its nature.

You have been told that all of life is a preparation for oneness with God. You have been told that after each earthly life man is judged in all love to determine the extent to which he has progressed in his search for perfect love. You have been told that the exact nature of perfect love is beyond the comprehension of man, but that in his earthly experience man must strive to act in love and to feel this love in his heart under the most trying of experiences. Man must take into his heart his bitterest of enemies, his most ungrateful of friends, his most loathsome of oppressors. Man must be prepared to pass the threshold of death with a heart filled with love for all those he has known in this life and for all those who wait to welcome him into the next.

The nature of celestial organization has been likened to a government benevolent in all respects, with each heavenly soul suffused with love and acting in love at all times to please God in His desire that all His children be united with Him in the Godhead. It is not a simple matter for a soul to reach this perfection. There is a long period of what on this earth would be called service. Each of heaven's inhabitants is charged with the responsibility of helping those less advanced in spiritual perfection to progress toward oneness. It is not for man to know the exact nature of heavenly existence. It is enough for him to know that it is a society entirely benevolent with each heavenly soul totally devoted to God and to fulfilling God's wishes.

As has been written, as each soul progresses on the heavenly plane toward oneness with God, his powers and responsibilities increase. As the capacity for celestial love increases, so does the capacity to know oneness with God and so does the power to help other souls on both the earthly and the heavenly planes. The designation of angel is granted to those who have succeeded in their quest for spiritual perfection, for perfect love, for fulfilling the will of God in all ways. These angels are the messengers of heaven to those on earth. These angels are the guardians of men on earth, guiding them on their way, waiting to be heard, waiting to be heeded. These angels are dear to God's heart at all times and rejoice with Him as each soul achieves perfection. These angels are at all times loving, sharing, concerned.

Let it be known that there are gradations of power among God's angels, that some share fully in god-like powers, that others are less endowed, but all have the power to move men's souls, all have the power to communicate fully with mortals, all have the responsibility for sharing God's insistence that all men know oneness with the divine power of God.

Let it be known, then, that these angels of God who serve His purposes at all times are part of the Godhead, that this path is open to all souls and the destiny of all souls. It is not an easy path. It is not a simple journey. It is a path of joy and devotion and love. It is a journey marked by accomplishment and unselfishness. It is a journey that all souls take. It is a journey that ends in total bliss, in total understanding, in absolute love of God. It is a journey that starts with a single step, a single act of love. Let all men remember this at all times.

THE ANGELIC PRESENCE
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It is time that all men know of the greatness of the power of love, of the total miracles that love can create. It is time that all men know that it is their destiny to know this truth, to act in accordance with this truth, and to take their rightful places in the hierarchy of heaven. Much has been written about the nature of heavenly beings. Much has been speculated. Little has been known or accepted as absolute fact. All men should know that there is an order in the heavenly plane much like the order that exists in a society on earth which is benevolent and fosters the welfare of all its people. There is in the heavenly plane a constant striving for perfection among all spirits high and low in the heavenly order of things.

At all times those higher orders are bending their efforts to assist those less able to know perfect love to achieve this end. At each level of achievement there is recognition of the extent to which that spirit has aided and assisted to a higher level those spirits lower in the hierarchy. It is not for man to be able to comprehend with any exactitude the nature of this striving, its complexity, and its difficulty. It is enough for man to know that this is the nature of heavenly existence and organization.

Beyond assisting their fellow spirits, angels, for those are the most advanced of all spirits, are expected to aid those on the earthly plane to achieve spiritual perfection. They have great powers and great freedom to do as they will. They agree upon their duties and are judged by their achievements. At all times their efforts are designed to bring humans to a greater awareness of God and his heavenly hosts, and at all times to inspire in these humans an awareness of the need for love, the more absolute the love the more desirable it becomes.

The powers of God's angels are many and manifold, and stories of angels abound in writings throughout the ages. Some humans are and always have been more conscious of angelic presence. There have been miracles wrought by angels throughout the history of human existence. There are lesser miracles occurring constantly in human lives throughout the universe. The more spiritually advanced man becomes the more he can expect to be aware of the presence of heavenly bodies, of their communication with him, of their absolute devotion to the nurturing of his spiritual welfare.

At all times man should be aware of angelic presence and listen for angelic voices. The presence is there, the voices are there, but man alone is responsible for hearing and feeling. Man controls his own responses at all times.

Be now aware of the need to respond to the angelic voice that speaks to your heart of the power of love. Hear it now. Hear it always. It is your destiny to know perfect love, and God's gift to you is the ministrations of His angels to lead you along the path you must take. This is God's way.

THE ANGELIC PROCESS
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In the span of time each life is but a brief interlude. Each life represents one step in the progression each soul must make to oneness with God. Each step ideally is marked by a striving to learn the lessons of love, to know perfection in this love. It is not possible to comprehend fully the role each soul plays in the drama of life with any exactness. There is a plan, a pattern, in all of existence, and its nature is known to all but those playing a part in this drama. At all times those spirits who dwell with Me are aware of the true destiny of each soul living an earthly life, and each is aware of the paths chosen by those in his care. There is a level of responsibility among all the angels of God which has been to this time only partially and rarely revealed. I have written of the angelic presence. Now I write of the angelic process.

Each man born to woman has from birth the care and protection of an angel, a spirit of rare perfection, of perfect love. Each angel agrees to be responsible for trying at all times to guide the soul during its earthly voyage, to speak to him in words of love and caring, to tell him insistently of the path he should take, of the choices he should make. Each angel of God takes his responsibilities as a total commitment, an absolute dedication. There is no way to describe the methods used by these angels who seek to guide souls. I have said that angels have great powers and are granted the power to use these powers as they see fit and necessary. Angels can assume many forms. They can speak with many voices. They can be many places at one time. Always they are part of the Godhead and always they seek to achieve perfection in their work among earthly travelers.

Their efforts are not always blessed with success, but their successes outweigh their failures overwhelmingly. Much of the time it is possible for angels to speak directly with those whose welfare is their responsibility. The humans who hear the voices of their angel teachers are often completely aware of this communication, a communication that is not necessarily exact in its verbalizing, though it may be, but is often conveyed in feelings, a sense of direction given and received, of a compulsion to make certain decisions and to take certain actions without totally understanding the reason why.

Children are most open to heavenly direction. They are born with an awareness of their divine origin and, as I have said, with a capacity for love which is not limited in any way. Most often this awareness and this capacity is blunted by human experience, but in a rare few it increases with the passing years, and this gifted minority makes rapid progress in its earthly voyage, guided at all times by the inner voice that speaks its love and its concern.

It is God's wish that this inner voice, this angelic presence, be more widely heard and respected. It is His wish that man so conduct his life as to know at each moment the guidance that is his, the love that he has only to accept, and the joy of a life lived in love and acceptance of this angel of God sent to him in caring and concern. Let no man doubt that such an angel waits for him to know the angelic presence, the message of love that God sends through His angels to all souls. It is in the nature of earthly life that challenges must be met. It is in the nature of life that temptations must be overcome. It is in the nature of life that man must strive for spiritual perfection, sometimes against odds that seem insuperable. But man must know that at each step of this journey he has the capacity for spiritual progress, that he has the capacity to hear this voice, urging, strengthening, caring, and loving him, to follow the path of love, the path that he must choose to fulfill his destiny.

Angels, as I have said, have great powers. They can manifest their presence in many and varied ways. They can speak to man in many ways. Always their powers are used with the full blessing of God Almighty whom they seek to please at all times in their endeavors. At all times these angels speak their love to their God, their love of Him and of all His children, all those making the earthly journey that is a prerequisite to the joy of heavenly existence.

Listen then, all My children, for the voice that speaks to you of My love, of the love that your angels bring to you at all times. Seek to communicate with this heavenly presence. Ask what you will of your angel. Your angel strives at all times to aid, to comfort, to support to speed you on your earthly journey and to accompany you on your transition to the heavenly plane. The earth is alive with these celestial spirits, the messengers of God to His children, the guardians of man at all times. Hear them. Heed them. They are God's gift to you in the name of love.

THE MANDATE TO LOVE
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In the most difficult of times man must remember the solace that comes from awareness of his true destiny. Once man achieves full certainty as to his eventual victory over all difficulty he is able to see more clearly the path he must take in his journey through earthly life.

Man, as I have said, is born with full awareness of his divine origins, of his goals gladly accepted as goals in this life, of the depth and intensity of his love for his Creator and for all those on the heavenly plane. He is able to hear these divine voices and is intensely aware of the ministrations of his angel who has guided him in all his preparations for this life and accompanied him on his journey to this earthly plane. The exact nature of the preparation the soul is afforded for each earthly life is not to be known by man in all its details, but let it be known that each soul before its earthly journey learns of all he must do in this earthly existence to satisfy his promises to his Creator and to achieve the level of spiritual perfection for which he strives. He is made aware of the temptations and pitfalls with which he may have to struggle, and he is made aware of the strengths he will have to develop to meet all the challenges he has accepted as part of his compact.

It is not in the nature of the heavenly compact that each detail of a life can be known in exact detail. All of life is a series of challenges and each of these challenges to man presents him with choice. The exercise of this choice is the basis of free will. Man throughout his life has a series of choices to make, from the earliest days of infancy to the last days of his earthly existence. The beginning and the end of life is set. All that remains is subject to the free will of man. Each step of his earthly existence is marked by choice. There are times when man is less aware of his choosing and times when choice causes anguish. At each turning in this life, at each choice made, however casual that exercise of free will may be, man has the capacity to respond to the challenge presented to him with love or to ignore his divine mandate and act in the absence of love. Control over his physical choices may be limited at times, but choice of his spiritual response is never limited. Even the basest of men having lived lives of loveless activity, of selfish pleasure, of reprehensible thoughts and deeds, knows the capacity for love and is capable until the moment of his earthly death of choosing to act in love.

The soul has a resilience and an innate goodness that survives the most difficult of earthly lives. There is no such thing as an evil soul. There is only the soul who has failed for the moment, for life is but a moment in the span of eternity, his divine mission on this planet, who has been so beset by difficulty that he has failed to do all that he promised before beginning his earthly sojourn.

What, you ask, is the nature of a God who would subject His children to the trials and travails of human existence? What, you ask, is the purpose of suffering, of repeated failure to meet the challenges that life presents with the love that is required of man in this earthly existence? What, you ask, can justify the inequities of human life if each man is held to the promise absolute to act in love? All of these questions invite careful consideration of the fact that man's free will has from the beginning created the world in which he lives, that from creation the nature of earthly existence has depended upon the extent to which man acts in love or fails to act in love at each point in history. Each glorious step forward in the history of planet earth is attributable to man's exercising his free will with love in his heart. Each black epoch is just as directly attributable to man's forgetting his divine compact and failing the lessons of love. Look back in history and know this truth, and know that each time that man has failed to act in love and brought violence and chaos into his life and the lives of those around him, there have been souls, loving souls, who have restored peace and order.

Earthly existence varies in the nature and difficulty of the challenges that man faces, but know that earthly happiness lies in the acceptance of the divine decree that each step of this existence must be marked by words and deeds of love, that love must dwell in the heart and animate the mind, that each step of this earthly journey takes man closer to the spiritual perfection that the soul seeks so long as at each step man exercises his free will with love in his heart and in his actions. Each time he fails to act in love he weakens his capacity to love. Each time he acts in love he strengthens his capacity for loving response and knows the joyful satisfaction that a loving response brings to him.

Not all men remember at each step of their earthly journey the joy of loving acts, loving thoughts, loving words. Let them know the power of love to transform life. Let them act in this awareness and let them make of the world a holy place, a place where all men are motivated by love of self, love of their fellow men, and above all love of their God who loves them fully and completely and demands this love entire from them.

SPIRIT GUIDANCE AND THE POWER OF LOVE
Revelations

In the best of times it is incumbent upon man to remember that at each step of his earthly journey he is surrounded by the spirits of those he has been bound to in love during his earthly journeys and on the heavenly plane. With this awareness, man finds it easier to pursue the paths of love. He finds it easier to do those things he should do in the name of love and to forswear the temptations of earthly existence in an awareness of his spiritual needs.

From the beginning of creation God intended earth to be for man a place of pleasure and holiness, a place where each soul could enjoy those experiences which were necessary for him to reach understanding of perfect love and to live his life at each step of the way satisfying this basic need. Much has been written of the experiences of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Know now that this is myth, but it exemplifies the plight of man once he had forgotten the divine mandate to live in love and fallen into worldly pleasures and concerns.

This did not happen quickly, nor did it happen in all places. There are still places in the world today where communities of men and women live out their lives in total love and devotion, and within the larger communities of the world today other men and women are aware of the needs of their brothers and know the pleasures of living in love.

There is no joy like the joy of giving and receiving love, of being bound to another soul by these tender ties. Such lives of love are at all times lightened by the awareness of the overwhelming love that God feels for His loving children. At all times, as I have said, there are many roads to the joy of oneness, but each of the roads is a road of love. There is no other way. This is, as I have said, God's single requirement of all His children, all those souls He longs to take to Him in the oneness of perfect love. Until all men know and recognize this overwhelmingly important truth, the world will continue to be an imperfect place. Until all men enter the Age of Love and Peace in an active seeking to transform this earthly plane with words and deeds of love, the world will know suffering of the body and suffering of the spirit.

Know though, My children, that the Age of Love and Peace is upon us, and that it is destined that all men hear the voices of those loving spirits who seek to guide him in the paths of love and seek to fill his heart and soul with awareness of the beauty of love given and received. Love engenders love, always. Love has an inevitability of its own. Love lights the way when the way is darkest. Love turns away anger. Love inspires hope in the most hopeless. Love is the gift of God that man, all men, must learn to cherish above all other gifts. Many who dwell in this presently imperfect world have learned this truth and seek to change their world for the better in every loving way within their powers. It is the wish of God that these numbers become legion and that in the New Age of Love and Peace all the world will know the joy of a universe transformed by love.

Saturday, 3/11/00 11:57PM - Lessons

Without exception, man born into eternal life comes to learn. Even those blessed souls come to earth of their own goodness and generosity, those perfect beings who need no longer to labor in the pursuit of perfection, even these perfect beings experience the joy of learning in their mission to share divine love with those whose need is great.

Let it be known that earth is rich with these blessed spirits, souls who have achieved perfect love and divine oneness who choose to leave the heavenly plane with no motivation but that of sharing their perfection, of teaching struggling souls to learn by their experiences and to reach the generosity of love that is essential to spiritual progress.

It can be said without contradiction that each soul come to earth knows the devoted caring of one of these heavenly beings. It can be further asserted that the soul in progress at each forward step in his passage through life owes all guidance to this angel he has the right to call his own. Often man, disbelieving in all things spiritual or religious, is sharply reminded of his error when he knows the unmistakable presence of divine guidance and comes to new awareness of privilege.

It is often not easy for man to acknowledge that he is guided by influences beyond natural explanation, and yet even as he protests the supernatural, he knows in his soul that he does not have a quick or reasonable explanation of all his spiritual life both gives and demands of him. He knows in his heart that no rational explanation will suffice, and so, at the very least, he suspends his disbelief and asks to know the balance of right and wrong in the seeming paradox he seeks to resolve.

Most men are infinitely kind in their beings and only occasionally find themselves indulging in unloving behavior. While they may not always understand what their hearts tell them, they sense in all that their hearts speak infinite truth.

Tuesday, 5/30/00 Midnight - Lessons

When man thinks of the future he most often thinks narrowly. There is an immediacy in his thoughts and in a sense rightly so. He plans his day to day existence as necessity dictates and as his heart desires. He knows a keen sense of responsibility for those he loves, and his thoughts of the future most reasonably are centered in his efforts to provide and protect those blessed souls against all adversity. This forward thinking is commendable and serves as reassurance to all of the certainty of loving concern and grateful awareness of this concern.

Occasionally man's thoughts stray from the immediate future and he speculates about the years that lie ahead of his current awareness. He thinks occasionally of the end of these years, seemingly so far removed from his present concern. The strong love most men embrace of life whatever its gifts or its deprivation fills his mind and only rarely does he contemplate his own mortality, a fact certain at all times, relative in its timing and application.

It is devoutly to be wished that the man who has spent his years in goodness and giving has also heeded those loving voices that have guided him in the paths he has taken and who rejoice always in his spiritual progress and his earthly satisfactions. Such a man ends his mortal existence in full awareness of his own worthiness to progress to a state of perfect joy. He is never disappointed.

Thursday, 6/15/00 11:44PM - Lessons

Beyond man's immediate understanding and perception lies a world of wonder. The earth teems with spirits, those sacred beings who are intimately involved and endlessly concerned for the welfare of those within their caring and for all other souls on their earthly adventure.

Man has come increasingly to be aware of the heavenly presence, of angelic guidance, and his awareness is indeed a blessing, for the more sensitive he is to the voice of his angelic teacher the more he will know the comfort of blessed and miraculous guidance. Increasingly souls in progress are speaking out about the wonders wrought by their angels -- of need being satisfied, of tragedy being averted, of comfort being afforded. It is not possible for those so favored to understand the manner of angelic intervention in human life, but their experiences leave no question of the reality of their angelic protection.

Man should never doubt the blessing that is his in angelic caring. He may choose to deny such a miraculous relationship, but this denial is of no consequence; his angel persists in his caring in the face of all rebuff and denial. If anything, angelic efforts increase. When man opens his heart to the acceptance of his angel teacher and guide, his spiritual life is infinitely enriched and he is capable of miraculous communication with this gift his angel represents. When he listens, he hears. When he opens his heart, he knows the depth and breadth of angelic belonging, and he is infinitely blessed.

Even those who choose to ignore the insistent love that is theirs for the asking find themselves directed at times in ways they do not understand.

Monday, 6/19/00 11:21PM - Lessons

It is within man's power at all times to meet the demands of the life he has chosen. This stark statement is one which gives pause to all those who read these words. It gives comfort to those in the midst of trial and fills them with new strength and hope. It puzzles those who seem themselves to be struggling against insuperable odds and find the thought of final victory little more than an illusion. It provides those most afflicted and deprived with awareness of inner strength which proves to serve them well.

It is a source of total joy to the soul in progress to learn through experience, sometimes bitter in its nature, that there is no hurdle too high to jump, no challenge so formidable as to defy solution. Man knows his own strength most fully when he is called upon for effort he is not sure he has, when he is tried beyond immediate awareness of capability. Life gains a new dimension for the soul in progress when it encompasses victory beyond expectation. Man revels in awareness of power over trial and disappointment and comes eventually to a realization of divine power and caring intervention. He knows, finally, that he is not alone in his struggles but that he is both aided and guided by divine presence, his to call upon in time of need, his to praise at all times.

Thursday, 10/22/98 11:02PM - The Divine Nature of Man

For all men there comes a time of recognition. Into each life comes an awareness that is beyond easy understanding. Man is meant to remember the vows he made before coming to this life, not in exact detail but in intent and purpose. Sometimes man in his forgetfulness is urged beyond his understanding to change his ways and to return to the path he needs to take. This urging is easily accepted, and yet often man is unaware of the urges that led him back to the road he was meant to take, to the responsibilities rightfully his that he is meant to discharge.

When this occurs, man is inclined to consider himself lucky to have become aware of the need to do all he chose. Instead he should regard himself as blessed, blessed by the ministrations of the angel teacher, his from birth, whose only concern is that he learn the lessons of love essential to his spiritual progress, Whether or not he recognizes the source of his new awareness, his angel rejoices in a job well done and tries to influence him further in the seeking of perfect love. Often these efforts succeed and the subject of the angel's urging finds himself blissful in his new found appreciation of the infinite value of love given and received.

Not all men are so open. Not all men heed the angelic voice offering wisdom and guidance, but increasingly in this world so fraught with danger and temptation angelic voices prevail and more and more souls in the turmoil and temptation find themselves moved in ways they do not fully understand to act in love even when it is most difficult. Their awareness of the joy that a life lived in love offers is reward both to them and to the loving spirits whose total concern is their spiritual welfare, their inevitable progression.

So, beloved children, recognize all that is offered to you in love and guidance. Do not be skeptical. Do not undervalue yourselves. Do not doubt that your spiritual welfare and continued progress to perfection is of paramount concern to those angelic beings close to the heart of God.

Monday, 10/26/98 11:40PM EST - The Divine Nature of Man

It is always true that man's best refuge is within himself. He knows in moments of desperation when it seems to him that he is totally abandoned that this is not so. He knows that even when he considers himself friendless and without recourse to human aid, there is succor within. He knows in his innermost soul that there is a link between him and the benevolence of the world of the spirits. He knows that he is never abandoned by those loving entities that guide him always, that he needs only to listen and to feel and to heed the innate awareness of power beyond the ordinary.

This power is all to all men. Yet it is not uncommon for man to lose this inner awareness and to suffer from the void that paralyzes and tempts the soul to despair. In all of life's experiences, man seeks to find meaning, and when understanding evades him he does well to trust in his instinctive will to both survive all trials and to comprehend their value.

There are times, of course, when the lonely and despairing soul fails to find within himself the strength he so desperately needs. It is at these times that heavenly intervention becomes his salvation. He hears an inner voice counseling patience and persistence and urging further faith and hope. There are times when the soul, seemingly tried beyond endurance, is tempted to surrender to despair, to ignore this inner voice speaking to him of faith and love, and there are times when man yields to this temptation and considers himself lost. There are times when death intervenes and man achieves understanding only when he passes from life to new life.

Man is blessed whether he achieves new hope in this life or in the next, for hope, along with love, is food for the soul. It is desirable, or course, that man achieves awareness before the end of his earthly voyage, but if he does not he finds glory in discovering that death offers a new beginning and that he has achieved new strength in the transition that all souls make.

Strength, then, is not only of the world of man seeking perfection in this world. It is a quality he brought with him into this world, expended as he felt necessary, and taken in greater or less measure with him into a new life full of renewal and promise. The soul, once despairing, despairs no more.

Saturday, 10/31/98 11:52 EST - The Divine Nature of Man

In the fullness of time, all wonders become known. In the fullness of time all mysteries are comprehended, all questions answered, all doubts dismissed. In his earthly existence man cannot imagine the mind that comprehends all that is seemingly elusive of human understanding, and indeed he is correct in his skepticism. He is in all ways, generally, aware of the limits of his human understanding. Some men surrender to this limitation and seek guidance within themselves and by heeding the voice within that speaks of the spirit, of the soul that began this journey and will end it in earthly time when he has completed all he came to do.

Not all men heed this inner voice speaking of meaning beyond the readily apparent in human life. Some men, indeed at times most men, become embroiled in their earthly struggles to the extent that they choose to ignore the significance of these struggles. They fail to consider the ephemeral nature of earthly existence and to ask to find within themselves awareness of the significance of all that life offers whether good or bad. The man who forgets to question is the man who loses direction. The man who seeks inner counsel and follows the fullness of his heart's words is a happy man and in his seeking he finds not only happiness but ultimate reason in existence.

It is vital that all men learn this lesson. In the best of times and in the worst of times and in all times else, man is well advised to listen closely to the dictates of his heart, to seek to know the answers he seeks and to respond in full awareness of the significance of a loving response to all that life demands. Man cannot fail if he does this. He can fail only if he rejects the divine guidance fully offered him. This is folly.

Monday, 11/2/98 3:33PM EST - The Divine Nature of Man

What man knows when he enters earthly life is soon forgotten, and it is his responsibility to seek to satisfy all the demands of this life which he agreed to so readily before beginning human existence. He has much help in this endeavor from those who guide him from afar and seek to communicate their love and their concern. All men are capable of hearing this heavenly urging. All men have the particular guidance of an angel teacher devoted at all times to their spiritual progress. In the darkest of times this angel's devotion brings hope. In the brightest of times this angel rejoices in all that man succeeds in learning of what he needs to do to progress in God's eyes.

There is a direct relationship between earthly happiness and awareness of the need to learn the lessons of love and to be governed by them in each action and in each word. It is not necessary for man to hear exact spoken words from this angelic being. It is necessary only that he seek to be guided and to trust the dictates of his heart, for indeed angelic communication finds expression in this way. The heart speaks to the mind and the message given is received.

This divine communication is the supreme gift man knows in his earthly journey. It speaks always of love and it fills the heart of man with sweet awareness of this love. It inspires him to share his capacity for love, even to those least likely, and in this sharing find the emotional richness that translates into human happiness.

Monday, 11/16/98 11:07PM - The Divine Nature of Man

There is such a wonder in man's hunger for love, in his desire to take into his heart all those bound to him in earthly ties. It is man's nature to love from the very moment life begins until the last moment when life ends. In the time between, whether it is measured in days or decades, man receives the love he hungers for always. He does not always recognize this love, coming as it does from sources beyond his human perception. Let it be said, though, that no man journeys through life without this enveloping love, the love of spirits bent on guiding him to fulfillment of all his heart desires, to eventual oneness.

It is difficult, understandably, to imagine this divine love being visited upon those that society would regard as villains and reprobates. It is difficult to imagine the powers of divine guidance failing so completely. Indeed this is cause for question. What needs to be said, however, is that no matter the degeneracy of man's behavior, no matter the degree of defiant refusal to feel remorse, no matter how hopeless the cause, the spirits that guide man in his earthly journey never cease their striving to lead man back into the paths of love.

It is not possible for us on this earth to determine the degree of success that this loving caring knows. Who can look into the heart of man and see truly all he feels and desires? It is enough to feel confident that the most lost of souls, the most reprehensible of human voyagers, have the capacity before they leave this existence to become aware of their failings and to know the joy of repentance and acceptance of failure. This is salvation.

Wednesday, 11/25/98 11:10PM - The Divine Nature of Man

When we consider the plight of man in this life we are always moved to pity and fuller understanding. Man born into this existence comes fully aware and fully equipped for all the challenges that lie ahead. This awareness diminishes rapidly, and man is left to do as he must depending upon his human resources. It is not necessarily true that he loses contact with the soul that guides him always, but all too often man gets swept up in the needs of this world and neglects his inner being.

It is easy to assert that spiritual awareness is a luxury, an ability offered to the very few fortunate souls who are freed from the trials of human life. This is an unfounded assumption, erroneous in its very existence. Man is aware no matter his material or social or spiritual appurtenances that all he knows beyond the facts of life is a gift. All he experiences beyond the daily details of his life he knows in full appreciation of gifts beyond the ordinary.

Each life come to fruition is a life which has learned the absolute wonder of help beyond the ordinary. It is tempting for man to feel himself so completely in charge of his destiny that he disregards the help he receives from those divinely aware of his needs. Indeed man is generally loathe to credit any outside force or influence for his good fortune. In time he will learn the folly of this gross assumption of power, but it serves him temporarily in experimentation. Man is meant to experiment, to probe the further aspects of his capabilities, of his potential.

When man chooses to abandon security and to aspire, he needs always the comfort and often assurance of his inner voice. I do not suggest that man faced with a difficult decision relating to his material welfare is divinely inspired in earthly matters. On the contrary, man needs only to listen and he will hear divine voices urging him down the path of love given and received, offering to him opportunities, long neglected, to finally act in love and to know perfection in his heart.

Believe me, all those who have known the power of love, there is no limit to this power. It cannot be destroyed. It cannot be replaced by any other emotion. It reigns supreme. No other emotion stirs the heart of man in such a way. All other emotions are offspring, worthy in and of themselves, but hollow without close relationship to their origin.

Be close, My children, in holy company.

Wednesday, 12/30/98 11:50PM - The Divine Nature of Man

Under no circumstances is man permitted to fail in his ultimate quest. There are an infinite number of paths he may choose to take. There are many obstacles that may cause him to doubt the wisdom of his choice, but there is no obstacle so great that it cannot be overcome. At each juncture of the road of life, man is faced with choice, a choice he alone can make in full awareness of his individual responsibility. If he errs, he alone must seek correction, though he is often aided by those who love him on the earthly plane and those who love and guide him from afar. Always the loving spirit who is with him always seeks to guide him out of error.

There are times when man fails to recognize the error of his ways, who proceeds down the path he should not take oblivious of the dangers that lie ahead. In those cases man fails to listen closely to the wise words that are his to hear and to heed and he suffers thereby.

Rarely does man pursue a foolish path for very long. He most often recognizes the folly of his ways and seeks to redress errors and to find the peaceful self satisfaction that all men seek. In these cases little harm is done, and yet the soul may experience delay in his advancement to spiritual perfection. In all cases the soul having gone astray rejoices in recognizing its errors and amending it ways to find pleasure in this earthly journey. The source of this pleasure is always the same. The source of earthly happiness is always in the giving and receiving of love, knowing absolutely that all else is insignificant, that there is no substitute for this divine sharing.

All men are brothers on the same journey. It matters not what each one knows in richness or in poorness, in sophistication or in simplicity. It matters not the circumstances of each individual life. What matters is the communality of man traveling through life, their shared origins, their intrinsic goodness, their need to progress to the ultimate goal of oneness with the divinity. Man is always conscious of his striving to reach this ultimate goal, but wisdom comes in time and in his new awareness this goal finds reason.

Tuesday, 1/5/99 11:55PM - The Divine Nature of Man

In all his efforts to achieve perfection, man is aided. He is aided by those divine spirits who wished him well as he began his earthly journey. He is aided by the one who chose to journey with him and to guide him in all ways to the end of his human existence. He is aided by all those he chose to know in life and to know in the full exchange of love and caring. Thus is man blessed. Thus is he fortified to meet the trials of human life, to answer the questions put to him, to conquer temptation, to succeed in his progress.

For some this aid is not enough. Man granted the power of free will is sometimes intoxicated by this power and chooses to pursue a path that offers gratification in many ways but which as well causes him to lose sight of his original goal. He forgets that he has come to this world to know the joy of spiritual progress. He forgets that the essential element of spiritual progress is to put the giving and receiving of love above all else in his life.

Rarely does man fail to recognize his error in trusting to material gratification to achieve happiness. Most often men, having tasted the pleasures that earth offers, are aware that they have erred and they seek to recover the blessed awareness that they brought with them into earthly life. They discover anew the joys of love, both human and divine, and they hear anew the blessed voices urging them to know their full capacity to live in love.

Blessed are those who have known temptation, who have erred, and recognizing their error have come to full awareness of the true purpose of human life. Blessed are those who have aided and directed those erring souls back to the comfort of love, of giving without condition, and of receiving without reservation.

All of heaven rejoices when man pursues the path he has promised to take in full awareness of its significance.

Monday, 1/11/99 9:50PM - The Divine Nature of Man

It is implicit in human existence that man recognizes the power of love from the very start of his existence. Man does not unerringly follow the road of love in all cases, but the vast majority of human voyagers, once love has been experienced, are aware of its supreme importance in the cycle of life.

Not all human paths are straight and smooth. All too often man becomes distracted and beguiled by temptation and surrenders to deeds and feelings that are unworthy of the striving soul. His progress is impeded, and he loses the steady confidence he once knew in awareness of his goals and all that is necessary to achieve them. At all times man is offered guidance and assistance by those heavenly bodies attuned to his need and fully resolved to be perpetually useful.

It behooves man to embrace the good efforts of these loving spirits, to know their efficacy, and to be grateful for their caring. With full awareness of these heavenly beings, man cannot go astray.

Saturday, 1/30/99 10:25PM - The Divine Nature of Man

When man hesitates, he knows uncertainty. His hesitation may be of little consequence. It may be of enormous consequence. It may be of consequence far between these two extremes.

Whatever the nature of the decision man faces, whatever the degree of its seriousness, in that moment of hesitation man knows a moment when he is not sure of himself. He is not, generally, accustomed to this kind of self mistrust, but it is of advantage to him that he recognize in his hesitation a need to reassure himself, to be more certain of the degree to which he feels fully confident in his judgment.

Man is blessed when he takes full advantage of his hesitation, when he asks himself to know more fully the degree of his uncertainty, momentary as it may be. Often this uncertainty seems an intrusion, an unreasonable and unjustifiable intrusion, a reminder of man's perennial limitations. On the other hand, such hesitation and accompanying uncertainty may be regarded as a blessing, a warning not to be precipitant in a decision that might better be postponed.

Let us simply say, then, that these moments of hesitation, of giving pause, may well be gifts beyond man's immediate understanding. They may cause him to pause without reason, to postpone action. At such times man in his wisdom may recognize the hand that stays his action, may not dismiss the power of an outside force he has not even considered in this life's experience.

Yet in his capacity to learn, he may conclude that he has been blessed in a way beyond the ordinary and he may become more aware of the extraordinary that is on occasion a part of life's experience.

Monday, 2/1/99 11:40PM - The Divine Nature of Man

Without asking, man knows divine grace. From the very moment of birth, he has at his side a being of light who chooses total devotion to him above all else. There are times when this perfect being encounters difficulties untold, when all the angelic power is not enough to protect completely this precious charge from harm. In these cases the duty becomes one of reconciling.

No life is free of challenge. Some lives are marked by tragedy. Some lives are cut short by the acts of others, some by the choices made before birth. It is difficult for man to understand life cut short for any reason. It is important that he realize that this life cut short is a life admitted to joy untold. There is no regret for the soul returned to its origins. There is no sorrow. In each case, the soul returns in the joyous company of its angel teacher who has shared all the travail of human existence, however brief that time, and who is at long last able to embrace fully the soul so well loved.

No matter the brevity in the length of human life, each soul knows from start to finish the infinite caring of a spirit imbued with great power, caring in all ways, totally devoted to guiding its human charge to ultimate glory. It is a pity when man either rejects this selfless guidance or blinds himself to its possibility. It is blessing indeed when man's awareness permits himself to take full advantage of this wonder and to revel in its goodness.

So, all you who wonder, open your minds and hearts to the power that awaits your acceptance. In such acceptance you will find joy untold and perfect peace.

Wednesday, 2/3/99 11:55PM - The Divine Nature of Man

In all men there exists strength that survives all failure, all tragedy, all unhappiness.

It is apparent early in human life that man is capable of experiencing problems and learning from the difficulties inherent in these problems. The very process of confronting difficulty and solving the problems inherent in such difficulty is enriching. In the process of seeking and finding solutions man discovers in himself resources beyond those he was aware he possessed. He gains in confidence in his triumph over problems he had not either prepared for or anticipated, and he becomes aware of capacities and strengths he had not heretofore either valued or considered. In all of his striving he knows success as a sweet reward and begins to feel that he is bound to succeed in future trials.

Not all men know the sweetness of success. There are cases where humans in trial, equally endowed with talents and confidence, fail to accomplish their goals. They do not succeed as they would choose in overcoming the obstacles that bar their way, and in the bitterness of defeat they begin to doubt their God given ability to confront all the problems that life presents. If one failure is followed by another then the sense of desperation is compounded and man does indeed consider himself lost.

Often in the depths of despair man finds reason to hope. He finds himself aided in ways that redeem him, that take him back to the place he thought lost forever. Often he has little or no comprehension of the nature of his redemption, his return to all he had thought lost. Sometimes he is moved to mindless but heartfelt thanks to forces he does not even dimly comprehend. Yet in his soul he knows that if he is not responsible for his salvation some one or some thing else is.

It is enough for man to recognize such outside forces at such critical times in his life. If he is thoughtful he will dwell upon the mysteries of his victory and will begin to see light. He will be thereby infinitely enriched.

Monday,4/26/99 10:12PM - The Divine Nature of Man

In the interests of justice it must be said that man is often tried, by his standards, to be aware of all that life demands of him. He is puzzled by the conflicting emotions he knows, by the strange and inexplicable experiences that he knows, by the wondrous feelings that possess him. He lives in acute awareness that his experiences are by no means ordinary, that he must be acutely aware of all he is given in extraordinary awareness and direction. He knows that he is at all times an extension of divine will and that he must respond to this awareness.

Not all men are so blessed, but there is within all men a core of awareness, a feeling of belonging to a world beyond the ordinary, beyond human experience. No man exists without this inherent awareness, and yet few of the many succeed in perfecting the communication that is meant to guide them in all ways. Regardless of the sensitivity and awareness of a single individual, that soul lives in the protection of those devoted to his welfare and who seek always to communicate their love and their caring.

In those rare instances where the soul in progress is so distracted, the voices of his guiding angels go unheard, and while he may succeed in doing all that is required of him in this life, he is still deprived of the joy afforded by these spirits of love and encouragement. In some cases the soul in progress may not be consciously aware of this heavenly guidance, but deep in his soul he knows the path he must take, the path of love entire, the path to joyful accomplishment and accountability.

All men know in the end the beauty of response to those appointed to supervise their spiritual progress. When the soul in progress becomes deafened, even temporarily, to the urging of these beloved guardians, he knows regret and a soulful emptiness. Even when he prospers materially he is not completely gratified. Under the best of circumstance he learns once again to listen, to heed the dictates of his soul, to know the guidance that seems to take him back into the pure pursuit of goodness. He learns to love in full faith and trust and sharing. He has succeeded. He needs no more.

Saturday, 8/14/99 11:40PM - The Divine Nature of Man

At all times and in all ways man is blessed with guidance beyond his immediate perception. At all times man is capable of responding to this guidance, this insistent urging for good, and when he does so he finds himself pleased with himself in all ways and pleasing to all others whose lives touch his.

Sometimes man is keenly aware and duly appreciative of all that he knows in heavenly direction. He may hear clearly the voice of his angelic mentor when he pauses to listen. He may be aware of times when he is saved from error and peril by intervention beyond his control. His life is enriched by all that he knows of divine caring, and he seeks to lead his life in a way that he trusts is pleasing in all ways to those caring spirits whose concern is his welfare.

All men granted this heavenly guidance are not equally aware, though often they do not ascribe this guidance as divine in origin. They may call this guidance by various names. Some men speak of "hunches" that direct them in certain ways. They may ascribe their inner voices to their own subconscious. They may refer to "lady luck." They may call it "karma." In all these cases the reference is the same. Whether they choose to acknowledge angelic guidance or not is of no import. They respond regardless of what they ascribe their urgings to.

There is no limit to the power of angelic intervention in the lives of mankind. There have been innumerable reports of miraculous intercession. Faith has been bolstered by these reports. Yet faith is not demanded of man. The most skeptical of souls is granted angelic guidance as surely as the most devoted believer. No man is denied this wonder. Man needs only to respond in goodness.

Monday, 3/29/99 11:50PM - The Divine Nature of Man

In all of life man knows the intimate relationship he has been granted with the angel spirit who is his guide in total love. He is not always aware of the exact relationship that they share. He does not always feel an exact presence. He does not see this perfect creature except in time of great blessedness. He does not always recognize and heed the voice that speaks to him always in love and caring.

Sometimes, however, man is granted these gifts of awareness of his devoted angel guide. Increasingly man is coming to expect such awareness, and his expectations have met assurance and gratification.

Whether or not man is granted full awareness of his angelic teacher and guide, he is aware in his innermost being of a caring beyond easy explanation. In times of crisis he knows comfort. In moments of panic he knows calm. In moments of need and loneliness he knows the comforts of love and belonging. Often man dismisses these gifts as self generated, and in a sense they are, for his angelic being is indeed part of his being, constant in attendance, totally faithful in service, absolute in devotion, perfect in love.

Man is often heard to speak of the "best part" of another. This "best part" is indeed a reality and is in fact the presence of the wondrous spirit who has come to be guide and teacher and whose devotion knows no limit, who desires no recognition, but whose total gratification lies in the progress his beloved charge knows in spiritual development, in learning the lessons of love.

Certainly the angelic presence makes itself apparent in some cases in extraordinary ways, but the important work of these angelic teachers is often, most often, undertaken in full faith that without recognition of any kind they will know success in their guidance.

We look always to these blessed beings and know their wonder.

© 2010 Cornelia Silke dba New Light Publishing