The Celestial Heavens






All men are the children of God and His love and care are over all. They are very dear to Him otherwise He would not have bestowed His Love upon them and given them the privilege of becoming inhabitants of His Celestial Kingdom.

The bestowal of this Divine Love is intended in its operation and effect, to transform man from the merely purified natural man into the Divine Angel and thus create a Kingdom of God in the Celestial Spheres where only those who are divine can enter and find a habitation. This depends very largely upon man himself to establish the Kingdom in the Celestial Heavens.

God will not and does not by any power that He may have, establish this Divine Kingdom and if man had never received this Divine Love into his soul, there never would have been any such Kingdom brought into existence.

There is now a Kingdom in the Celestial Spheres, but not a finished one for it is still open and in the process of formation and is open to the entry of all spirits provided that man seek for it in the only way that the Father has provided and no man or spirit will be excluded from it who, with all the longings of his soul, will aspire to enter that Kingdom.

A time will come, however, when this Celestial Kingdom will be completed and thereafter neither spirit nor man will be able to enter therein; for this Divine Love of the Father will be withdrawn from man.

What is the way that leads to this Celestial Kingdom? The only way, for there is but one!

"Except a man be born again, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God"

The Divine Love of the Father when possessed by the soul of man, makes him, in his substance and essence divine; like unto the divinity of the Father and only such souls constitute and inhabit the Celestial or Divine Kingdom of God. And this being so, it must be readily seen that the only way to the Celestial Kingdom is that which leads to the obtaining of this Divine Love which means the New Birth. And this New Birth is brought about by the flowing into the souls of men this Divine Love; the very nature and substance of the Father, therefore causing men to cease being the merely created beings but becoming the souls of men born into the Divine Reality of God.

When man takes on the Divine Nature and becomes absorbed into the essence of the Father, he then becomes like the Father and whatever his image to the Father may have been when he was mere man, now he becomes the real substance, and limitations of possibilities become removed. Love sees no ending and intellectual development no boundaries, happiness no limitation and immortality becomes a thing of knowledge and the soul a new creature having the Divine Essence of the Father. And until this new creation takes place and the transformation becomes a reality and the soul be made at-one with the Father, man cannot enter into the Kingdom of the Celestial Heavens. Then no longer man but now a Divine Angel.

Strictly speaking, there are two heavens in God's Spirit Universe. Namely the heavens of the redeemed and transformed soul by the Divine Love, called The Celestial Heavens and there is the heavens of the restored perfect man called the Spiritual Heavens. Each and all of them being places of real perfection and substance.

As one star differs from another star in glory, so these several heavens within heaven differ from one another in glory and appearance and in those things which help to make the mansions of their inhabitants beautiful and attractive and glorious.

Heaven is not one Universal place where all the Christians, irrespecitive of their soul development go, but in that heaven are many heavens or spheres in which the spirits of mortals will find homes and also happiness according to their soul development or their spiritual development. Soul development comes only through and by the operation of the Holy Spirit, that energy which God uses to convey His Love into the soul of whomever seeks for it.

The appearance of this Celestial Heaven to those who have this Divine Love in their souls, far exceeds the capacity of the mortal to comprehend. There are trees and flowers and hills and dales and rivers and lakes. Beautiful landscapes and above all, a wonderful atmosphere that is created by this wonderful love of the Father and a glorious light that illuminates and gives life to all who live in it which comes from this Love of the Father. It is the sun, moon and stars and sunrise and sunset and summer clouds and evening shadows and morning glories. The earthly sun and moon and stars do not appear in this heaven for effulgence of the light from the Father's Love eclipses and eliminates the light of the material creations of the mortal world.

There are homes of the grandest splendor and beauty suited to the conditions of the various spirits which have in them everything that will tend to cause happiness and joy to their occupants and visiting friends. Musical instruments and books and paintings and furniture of every kind fitted to bring to the spirits contentment and joy and a realization of peace and rest from the cares that mortals have all through the earth life. There is a wonderful atmosphere which makes all spirits realize that they are the children of the Father and brothers of one another with feelings of love for all humanity.

The social life is beyond all conception. The spirits have their times of visiting as well as those of staying in their homes and many pleasures as well as work and helping spirits and mortals. There is singing and music and laughter as well as times of prayer and contemplation of deep spiritual truths.

Lighter social pleasures as well as in the solitary meditations and aspirations of the souls progress. There is happiness and enjjoyment and from those things which defile or make inharmonious, the thoughts and hearts desires of these spirits. All is gladness and there are none who have solemn downcast countanences that many on earth imagine portrays the truly righteous and redeemed of mortals. Love knows no sadness and as the soul speaks it's condition by appearance of the spirit body's countanence, the soul being so full of gladness and joy, the countanence can speak only those emotions of the soul. This is the result of the law which declares nothing can be hidden and every spirit must show forth the truth of its condition.

There are cities as there are on earth, but there are also villages and hamlets and homes in the country surrounded by green fields and shady vales through which run rivers and streams of silvery hue and clear as crystal, and also placid lakes which afford the pleasures of boating and sailing and other amusements for each spirit is provided the place that is most attractive to him and it is optional with him where his home shall be.

But all love and worship the Father and endeavor to make their neighbors happy and help the development of the soul towards a progression to the Father's Heavens which are higher yet.











     


     






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