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The Kingdom of Heaven
The true Kingdom of God, also known as the Kingdom of Heaven, or Celestial Kingdom, becomes revealed to us through Jesus’ teachings and the wonderful descriptions of what God has provided for His redeemed children who have partaken of His Divine Love to that degree that they have become wholly possessed of this Love and are fitted to occupy the Celestial Mansions.
In these wondrous Divine Spheres, where Jesus is the beloved Ruler and Prince of Peace, all of the inhabitants have the certain knowledge that they are Immortal souls, never again to suffer the death of the soul or its potentiality of becoming a part of God’s Divine Nature.
The life within the Kingdom springs from the Fountainhead and Glory of the Father, whose Great Love is the Foundation and Source of the exceeding happiness enjoyed by its inhabitants.
The beauty of the homes is unsurpassed’ the music is sublime’ the development of the soul perceptions and knowledge of each Divine inhabitant is without limitation. And there is that desire on the part of each to experience an ever-increasing possession of the Father’s Love and Mercy.
The first Three Spheres within the Celestial Kingdom of God are numbered; but all above those have no number and are referred to as “the Higher Spheres of the Celestial Heavens.” Jesus lives very close to the Fountainhead of God and His Immortal Love.
If we will only have faith and let the Divine Love take possession of our souls, each and every one of us may eventually find our eternal homes in the Celestial Heavens of God’s Universe where happiness and joy are one continual source of living, where each inhabitant is a Divine Angel, and where Love rules supreme.
Such a place and condition makes it plain that man has not yet restored to each even the Kingdom of the Perfect Natural Man, which is that condition of heart and soul that God bestowed upon him at his creation, before he fell from this exalted condition.
Jesus informs us that the Celestial Kingdom is still open to mankind and is in the process of formation. Upon completion, however, it will be closed and forever thereafter those who have not prayed for the Divine Love to fill their souls will have to remain content with only their Natural Love, which will give them the happiness of the perfections in which God created them, but which can never bring them the supreme joy and happiness which the Father’s Divine Love bestows, nor can they have the assurance that they will live for all eternity.
As Jesus wrote, man has the freedom of choice to fix his own destiny. That of the Perfect Natural Man or that of the Divine Angel.
The true Kingdom of God, also known as the Kingdom of Heaven, or Celestial Kingdom, becomes revealed to us through Jesus’ teachings and the wonderful descriptions of what God has provided for His redeemed children who have partaken of His Divine Love to that degree that they have become wholly possessed of this Love and are fitted to occupy the Celestial Mansions.
In these wondrous Divine Spheres, where Jesus is the beloved Ruler and Prince of Peace, all of the inhabitants have the certain knowledge that they are Immortal souls, never again to suffer the death of the soul or its potentiality of becoming a part of God’s Divine Nature.
The life within the Kingdom springs from the Fountainhead and Glory of the Father, whose Great Love is the Foundation and Source of the exceeding happiness enjoyed by its inhabitants.
The beauty of the homes is unsurpassed’ the music is sublime’ the development of the soul perceptions and knowledge of each Divine inhabitant is without limitation. And there is that desire on the part of each to experience an ever-increasing possession of the Father’s Love and Mercy.
The first Three Spheres within the Celestial Kingdom of God are numbered; but all above those have no number and are referred to as “the Higher Spheres of the Celestial Heavens.” Jesus lives very close to the Fountainhead of God and His Immortal Love.
If we will only have faith and let the Divine Love take possession of our souls, each and every one of us may eventually find our eternal homes in the Celestial Heavens of God’s Universe where happiness and joy are one continual source of living, where each inhabitant is a Divine Angel, and where Love rules supreme.
Such a place and condition makes it plain that man has not yet restored to each even the Kingdom of the Perfect Natural Man, which is that condition of heart and soul that God bestowed upon him at his creation, before he fell from this exalted condition.
Jesus informs us that the Celestial Kingdom is still open to mankind and is in the process of formation. Upon completion, however, it will be closed and forever thereafter those who have not prayed for the Divine Love to fill their souls will have to remain content with only their Natural Love, which will give them the happiness of the perfections in which God created them, but which can never bring them the supreme joy and happiness which the Father’s Divine Love bestows, nor can they have the assurance that they will live for all eternity.
As Jesus wrote, man has the freedom of choice to fix his own destiny. That of the Perfect Natural Man or that of the Divine Angel.
To All Who Reach For The Kingdom of Heaven
To the seeker of the New Birth of soul there is no greater inspiration than the love we bear for our Divine Elder brother, Jesus of Nazareth. Not only do we feel an eternal bond of Love with him that is the result of seeking and receiving portions of the Father’s Divine Love into our souls, but we look up to him as the perfect example of God’s own Love in man’s heart.
We are truly blessed to learn the truths of our brother’s life today - which is a continuing glorification of God and His Majesty because of his constant help to the Father’s children wherever they may be- as we are to learn the truths of his mission those long years ago in Palestine, when he first brought the Father’s Divine Love and the Kingdom of Heaven to light.
We now know, for instance, that from his infancy and throughout his life on earth, he yearned fervently for At-onement with God. As a result, he received an exceeding abundance of the very Substance of God’s Love into his heart and soul. With these constant inflowings, his soul became completely transformed into the Creator’s own Nature and he was born again into the great Divinity of a Loving God, at which time he became the Christ.
Our brother was the first human being to undergo the New Birth of Soul, the transformation into a living example of God’s Love in man’s heart. He never questioned that his mission was to spread the glad tidings to his fellow man that the Father’s Divine Essence and Substance of Love had been rebestowed on His children; that, as a direct result of earnest, sincere prayers and longings for this Love, the Kingdom of Heaven was available to every man.
Seek Ye First The Kingdom Of Heaven and all else shall be added unto you was his great teaching, joined by the eternal Truth that God Is Love and the vital message that Except Ye Be Born Again, Ye Cannot Enter the Kingdom Of Heaven.
During his public ministry, he demonstrated his soul’s possession of the Kingdom as he ministered to his fellow man from a soul filled to overflowing with Divine Love and Goodness, blessing all through the Love’s great power to heal and comfort, and to bind up the wounds of the heart. He encouraged every human heart and soul he encountered to turn to the Heavenly Father and humbly seek to receive His miraculous Love that frees the soul from sin and suffering and bestows true salvation.
The Kingdom of Heaven is the Celestial Kingdom in the great world of spirit- a place well as a condition of soul, where Jesus, the friend and elder brother to one and all, is Master and Prince of Peace. His loving help is the still, small voice that we hear from time to time, urging us to turn to our Father in Heaven and long for the inflowing of His Love into our souls.
The privilege to live in the Kingdom will exist for the just and the unjust alike, until the Divine Love is withdrawn from mankind a second time and the Kingdom is closed.
Through Mr. James E. Padgett, Jesus gave us all a prayer that seeks the inflowing of the Divine Love. He urged Mr. Padgett to use it often, letting his soul longings go out to the Father. He wrote this about it.
“This is the only prayer that men need offer to the Father. It is the only one that appeals to the Love of the Father, and with the answer, which will surely come, will come all the blessings that man may need, and which the Father sees are for the good of His creatures.”
Rev. Jocelyn Harleston
To the seeker of the New Birth of soul there is no greater inspiration than the love we bear for our Divine Elder brother, Jesus of Nazareth. Not only do we feel an eternal bond of Love with him that is the result of seeking and receiving portions of the Father’s Divine Love into our souls, but we look up to him as the perfect example of God’s own Love in man’s heart.
We are truly blessed to learn the truths of our brother’s life today - which is a continuing glorification of God and His Majesty because of his constant help to the Father’s children wherever they may be- as we are to learn the truths of his mission those long years ago in Palestine, when he first brought the Father’s Divine Love and the Kingdom of Heaven to light.
We now know, for instance, that from his infancy and throughout his life on earth, he yearned fervently for At-onement with God. As a result, he received an exceeding abundance of the very Substance of God’s Love into his heart and soul. With these constant inflowings, his soul became completely transformed into the Creator’s own Nature and he was born again into the great Divinity of a Loving God, at which time he became the Christ.
Our brother was the first human being to undergo the New Birth of Soul, the transformation into a living example of God’s Love in man’s heart. He never questioned that his mission was to spread the glad tidings to his fellow man that the Father’s Divine Essence and Substance of Love had been rebestowed on His children; that, as a direct result of earnest, sincere prayers and longings for this Love, the Kingdom of Heaven was available to every man.
Seek Ye First The Kingdom Of Heaven and all else shall be added unto you was his great teaching, joined by the eternal Truth that God Is Love and the vital message that Except Ye Be Born Again, Ye Cannot Enter the Kingdom Of Heaven.
During his public ministry, he demonstrated his soul’s possession of the Kingdom as he ministered to his fellow man from a soul filled to overflowing with Divine Love and Goodness, blessing all through the Love’s great power to heal and comfort, and to bind up the wounds of the heart. He encouraged every human heart and soul he encountered to turn to the Heavenly Father and humbly seek to receive His miraculous Love that frees the soul from sin and suffering and bestows true salvation.
The Kingdom of Heaven is the Celestial Kingdom in the great world of spirit- a place well as a condition of soul, where Jesus, the friend and elder brother to one and all, is Master and Prince of Peace. His loving help is the still, small voice that we hear from time to time, urging us to turn to our Father in Heaven and long for the inflowing of His Love into our souls.
The privilege to live in the Kingdom will exist for the just and the unjust alike, until the Divine Love is withdrawn from mankind a second time and the Kingdom is closed.
Through Mr. James E. Padgett, Jesus gave us all a prayer that seeks the inflowing of the Divine Love. He urged Mr. Padgett to use it often, letting his soul longings go out to the Father. He wrote this about it.
“This is the only prayer that men need offer to the Father. It is the only one that appeals to the Love of the Father, and with the answer, which will surely come, will come all the blessings that man may need, and which the Father sees are for the good of His creatures.”
Rev. Jocelyn Harleston