Certainly, the children are speaking... about reincarnation, and with it, perplexing the minds of their parents, the ministers of religions and the men of science.
This is something that cannot be disregarded so easily by human science.
With the most rigorous methodology, Dr. Stevenson registered the data, questioned, recorded in tape and analysed closely what the children claimed to be memories of a past life, and after pondering carefully the data, he arrived to the conclusion that there were very defined patterns emerging from most of that cases.
Stevenson later on published the a few of the most significant case studies in his now famous book "Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation" (1966).
The abundant and thorough serious documentation contained in the book sent ripples of astonishment to the scientific world, and attracted the interest and attention of many more researchers whom have taken these studies further, just as happened with the famous Sir Arthur C. Clarke, the visionary discoverer of what is known as Clarke's orbit, used by the communication satellites to circulate the earth in geostationary trajectories.
Clarke, a British science anticipation author, inventor, and futurist, most famous for the novel "The Sentinel" from where the Oscar winning movie "2001: A Space Odyssey", written in collaboration with director Stanley Kubrick was based, has been considered, along with Jules Verne and Isaac Asimov as the "Big Three" of science anticipation.
Clarke, a free thinker, a extremely skeptic and analytic man, after knowing and examining closely the data about children's claims of reincarnation both of England and Sri Lanka -where he lived most of his adult life-, finally surrendered to the evidence and was one of the first leading scientific writers who asserted that to refuse to accept the possibility of the reincarnation of the spirit was irrational, and along with other scientistds, defied those who denied to accept his conclusions, to offer a better and more sound explanation. Obviously, no one came forward.
Today, is such the amount of little children that have started to remember precise events of their previous lives, that there are already several books which deal with the information of these numerous cases, like Carol Bowman's "Return From Heaven", Thomas Shroder's "Old Souls: Compelling Evidence from Children Who Remember Past Lives", Dr. Brian Weiss's "Same Soul, Many Bodies", etc.
And the number of these children keeps growing every day.
These cases are occurring even within Christian communities, many of which, unknowingly, blindly obey the dictates which Emperor Justinian imposed at the Council of Constantinople, and continue to deny, based only on false assumptions and arguable interpretations of very few passages of the Bible, that reincarnation could exist.
Some of these children's cases can be found even among the families of the very ministers and pastors of the diverse sects and religions, which as expected, are shocked and puzzled by the evidence coming from the mouths of their own children, and therefore, hide these facts from their communities as much as possible.
So far, some of them have succesfully avoided these cases reaching the mass media, but there are so many of them and so overwhelming, that the information has began to leak, and it is just a matter of time for the general public to get to know the indisputable fact that there are many children that claim and prove that they are spirits who have been born again.
"Ye must be
born again..."
Jesus of Nazareth
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Of course there is... though not under the term 'reincarnation'. But since ancient times, in all cultures of the world, men have had the intuition of the existence of that concept. And the biblical writers were not the exception.
Obviously, in order to have an informed opinion upon reincarnation from a biblical stand point, is indispensable to take the Bible... and start to re-reading it, without prejudice or pre-established notions, in search of the truth.
The main problem arised from the denial of Christians to accept the concept of reincarnation is that, inadvertently, without realizing the full extent of its consequences, GOOD FAITH CHRISTIANS DENY THE POSSIBILITY OF JESUS BEING THE PROMISED MESIAH OF ISRAEL
Why?
Because the most relevant and important event that signaled the arrival of the Messiah, was delivered in the prophecy that announced that before He came, Elijah was to be sent..
And the proof that Jesus' disciples definitely knew this, is in Mark's Gospel:
And they asked him, saying, Why say the scribes that Elias must first come?And he answered and told them, Elias verily cometh first, and restoreth all things; and how it is written of the Son of man, that he must suffer many things, and be set at nought.
But I say unto you, That Elias is indeed come, and they have done unto him whatsoever they listed, as it is written of him.
Then the disciples understood that he spake unto them of John the Baptist.
Did Jesus lie to His disciples?
Because if we believe that Jesus was the Messiah, then it must be a true fact that Elijah did came again to the world, and he did it in John the Baptist.
In short: He reincarnated.
Are Christians, just as Jews still do, continue to refuse to accept that Elijah did came back, thus fulfilling the prophecy that he was to came first before the Christ?
And you, as a Christian, will you still keep on setting him at nought?
In the third part of "By The Emperor's Command" we will show you the documented and irrefutable scientic evidences that reincarnation is a verifiable and proven fact, beyond false supositions and fanatism fueled by a Roman emperor's political decisions.
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In today's Christianity, the law of the reincarnation of the spirit is widely taken as a heresy. But this wasn't always so.
In fact, in the era of Jesus and the apostles, this notion was common and widely accepted among the people of Israel and the early followers of Christ.
So, where then did this rejection to that divine law of love came from?
Historic documents prove beyond any shadow of doubt that were the power and greed of the Roman emperor Justinian, pleasing the whim of the frivolous empress Theodora, women of questionable morality -do not confound her with the Catholic saint bearing the same name which lived almost 200 years after-, the ones that put good faith Christians in an authentic dilemma.
You see, by rejecting reincarnation, those brothers of us, unwittingly deny that Jesus could be the Messiah, the Christ so eagerly expected by the people of Israel.
And why is this?
Because before the arrival of the Christ, Elijah should came first, as the Scriptures prophesied... but in fact, he did... but the detractors of reincarnation seem not to have any problem with refusing to accept that the spirit and the power of Elijah actually reincarnated in John the Baptist, thus denying in this way that Elijah was once more in Earth and that Isaiah and Malachia prophesies were fulfilled.
And inadvertently, they join the Jewish people, who in their beliefs are still waiting for the arrival of Elijah since for them, Jesus was not the Christ, sustaining their belief precisely over this point.
If you are a Christian, you have to make a decision: Either you believe Jesus Himself in His own saying, which is that John the Baptist WAS Elijah -not methaporically or figuratively but in reality, in the flesh-, or you continue to obey a Roman Emperor command, as explained in the videoclip above.
Although many people thinks that reincarnation is an idea from India or China, in fact it is an universal notion that emanates from God, and that concept resides in the spirit and heart of Humanity since the very beginning.
In part 2 and 3 of these series of videos, soon to be posted here, are included the proofs and facts that show that the reincarnation of the spirit, since the more ancient books of the Bible up until the most recent scientific research, is something to be taken very seriously.
Due to the natural evolution of the human race, now we are able to understand, beyond metaphors and parables, the true meaning of this doctrine that was delivered by the prophets since remote times, just as Jesus did with His disciples.
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It was 1884... Severe and catastrophic events had started to take place since decades before throughout the entire world, both in Nature and in human societies: The terrorific Krakatoa supervolcano blast which cloaked the sun and moon with thick clouds of the dust remaining from the pyroclastic explosion; the downfall of monarchies all over the world, the civil war in the United States, the French invasion of Mexico, the impressive Leonids meteor shower and many more signs that the biblical prophecies of the return of the Lord and the opening of the Sixth Seal as anticipated by John in Patmos, and with it the arrival of the Lord surrounded by His legions of light, were taking place.
It was then when a young maiden, Damianita Oviedo, chosen to be the Lord's first spokeperson, begun to deliver astounding revelations and profound and simple explanations of what mankind thought to be mysteries.
The video clip below contains a brief description of that pivotal period, filled with wonders and miracles.
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And of course, the powerful and hegemonic Western culture, aided by centuries of masterpieces of art and at these days by the Hollywood ideal image of Jesus, engraved into the minds of the multitudes a certain design and style which, they claim, "must" be as close as the Galilean Rabbi as you can get.
But, ooops!
Science, again, raises a metaphoric eyebrow and out of the blue, a new, different approach comes from anthropologist investigators as showed in cable programs both in the BBC and the Discovery Channel.
After all, Jesus was born a Jew and chances are that his face and body, did not contradict His ethnic origin at all. In other words, he looked...well, like a Jew. Not your regular Tab Hunter, God forbid!
Furthermore, biblic data seems to support the idea that He, physically, didn't draw any particular attention to Him because of His looks.
It is very likely that He was, in many ways, an average, almost ordinary Jewish man, not that different from His own disciples. And certainly, not a high-class Jew but, instead, a lower class type of fellow. After all, He was raised in a little village, forgotten by the powerful and wealthy. And as you may remember, He was a man that made His living with His own strong hands: He was a carpenter.
So, there must be another reason for His popularity among the masses, something that granted Him all the attention and attracted towards Him seas of men and women of all sorts, and that reason, chances are, was His charisma.
And it is around this point that emerges the most powerful image of Him, not because of the actual physical, material one, no. But that of His divine and unique presence, the presence of the Son of God, the Son of Man.
So, come again; Are you that intrigued about the way He looked or of how many inches of hair covered His head, or the color of His skin? And what about the shape of His nose and lips? Is all this that relevant?
The "veritas iconus", the true icon of His face, may never be available to us and after seeing and believing that God usually has all the bases covered, it may not come as a big surprise to us to reach the point in which it doesn't matter anymore, for certainly the other image, the one created with His example, His love, His wonderful deeds and His teachings, is as vivid and present today as it was almost 2000 years ago.
And that's the true face of Jesus that I really care about. ]]>
First the spirits were brought to life and then the earth was created to serve as the material world to all of us, to serve as our home.
Spirits were created to the image of God and within each one of them God placed a divine light which is the conscience. The flesh was created as a useful tool for the spirits that need it to advance in the path of evolution. Once the spirit and the flesh were joined, humankind emerged.
Everything that God does is based on love and justice. Everything that we perceive through our senses and our minds should behold these attributes.
The first human dwellers preserved the image that their spirits had from the spiritual valley: a state of purity and innocence that allowed them to feel the warmth of nature and of friendship as well as the complete harmony among all creatures. When passions and the struggle for life appeared in their lives they were forced to try to find in science what they had lost due to the lack of spirituality they were experiencing.
Who revealed the mysteries of the flesh to humankind? The flesh itself.
Who revealed the mysteries of science? The mind did.
But the spirit was the only one that could convey the idea of the existence of God.
The Lord wants us to have rightful and healthy ambitions, to fight to be strong, great and wise. To be the owners of all the qualities the spirit is bestowed with. In order to do so, we have to practice our virtues: charity, humbleness, forgiveness and loyalty. All these virtues can be summarized in a single word: LOVE.
Life is like a tree with countless branches. None of which is alike and each one performs a duty or mission. It is important to understand that the origin of men is not a sin but the result of a natural law that not only mankind should follow but all creatures and everything in nature as well.
What makes humankind move away from its natural path of evolution are the vices and the lower passions which are against the law. We have to fill the universe with good deeds and pure thoughts.
This action will allow us to grow spiritually and to return to God with our hands full of merits. God emerges in our conscience, rejoices with our evolution and manifests himself in our good deeds. So we must be certain that He lives within us and is willing to help us if we allow Him to do so.
We all have to strive to possess as many spiritual "medals" as possible. To be nourished with the bread of eternal life, to fulfill our spiritual duties and to take advantage of the benefits offered by nature. Only understanding these truths we grasp the meaning of life, of our origin and of our wonderful, luminous end. ]]>
-Do you know why number 13 is considered bad news in Anglosaxon culture?
- Do you know the reason for Christmas' trees in that season?
- Do you know where the interchange of gifts in December started?
-Do you know why women use buttons in the right side of their blouses and vests?
- Do you know why men use them in the left side?
Chances are that the answers for these simple questions -and many more of that nature- are out of boundaries for the average human being. After all, even in elementary schools you'll find that teachers and mentors lead their pupils to obey and therefore, continue that long line of unexplained behaviors.
So then, why do men and women, children and elder, regardless of nation and race, creed or color, follow traditions so closely?
Why do they obey, as if it were divine commandments, rituals and traditions, when they ignore where or why those rituals and traditions started in the first place?
Why do they let it roll?
Speaking from a spiritual point of view, are traditions good for us? I know, I know, right at this moment you'll probably could give me the proper...and traditional answer: Traditions are the foundation for family values...and for my country's cultural roots (whatever nation it is the one in which you were born or you live in).
But, are they that necessary or good for man?
Let's see...
Christ, our Lord, said: "Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition."
Jesus was not a blind observer of traditions, as seen in Mark 7, where He had a strong opposed point of view, that was, to say the least, unusual in that time. Verses 8 and 9 describe the opinion of Jesus towards traditions. "For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups; and many other such like things ye do".
Hmm...many other things! And the words of Jesus kept slashing the observance of those futile customs and usages: "And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition".
Alas! It is not argument then that the tradition is our own...it doesn't matter who's tradition it is, it is still not a good one!
And what is there to say about the strongest tradition of them all, the Sabbath, which was (and still is) so dear for our Jewish brothers? In Mark 2:27 He clearly states that tradition is not that relevant at all: "The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath".
And in this era, the Holy Spirit communicated with men thru and gave us an even more wide explanation of things:
(All excerpts from the Third Testament)
"It is the fear of taking a step toward the evolution; one step forward, accustomed to following the traditions that his ancestors bequeathed him."
"Man fears to think and believe for himself, and he prefers to submit himself to the opinion of others, thus depriving himself of his freedom to know Me. For that reason, he has lived behind the times."
"The time of enlightenment has come for humanity and with which man acquires his own free will."
"How transparent and simple is the truth! How clear and simple is spirituality! However, how difficult it is to understand by one who is obstinate in the darkness of his fanaticism and of his traditions. His mind cannot conceive that there may be more than what he knows. His heart resists to renounce that which has been his god and his law: The tradition and the ritual."
"Traditions stall man to advance in the precious path of the progress of the spirit"
This is how the Divine Spirit gave the perfect lesson, through the life of Jesus, a clear example that man had never had before, and will never have again.
The Mission that He fulfilled, even though it was a lesson and an example to be imitated by humans of all times, was unique for that people, because all His powerful teachings and His sublime Word may be imitated but may never be equaled.
-"The apostles that he chose in that period, in whom He placed His essence, His knowledge and His love, and who knew how to spread the seed that Jesus had sown, honoring with their lives and deaths the example set by their Master, they may not only be imitated but equaled by you; they were incarnated spirits that came among humankind to fulfill a great mission, which was to show the world that the Doctrine of Jesus the Christ could be imitated by men".
Everyone was healed by Jesus, there was no wrong doing that could not be defeated by Him, there was no disease unknown to Him, there was no problem without solution, there was no sin without forgiveness and there was no misery without consolation, everything was in that source of love, in that Divine Doctor that could cure all, He healed everything with a single remedy, with a single balm: His love.
For the disciples of the Divine Master in this Era, I tell you that we can be the followers of those disciples and in our spiritual hands, in our spirit and in all our being, the Divinity has manifested itself as it used to do on those who followed Jesus in that period.
In that time he looked for those whose bodies were sick in order to awake their spirits, today He is seeking the spirits for them to rise and wake the others up.
We are aware that those who were blinded and could not see the spiritual life have opened their eyes to the light of the Third Era, as the leprous of sins and vices, they have been cleansed as they listened to the Divine Word; those who were chained to human passions, today they have freed themselves and are ready to work and to fight, opening their wings through the spiritual path; those who had renounced to a life of grace, today they contemplate the pathway opened by the Saint Spirit inviting them to spirituality, to the light, to perfection.
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But this gift has not yet reached in us its maximum development; our spiritual healing gift has encountered many obstacles due to the lack of faith and confidence that we have in it.
"I give you a single balm for all your ailments, they might well be from the spirit or from the body. This balm in order to make wonders, needs of true charity which has prayer as its foundation."
The Spiritual World tell us that if we devote ourselves with love and spirituality to developing this gift, we would see, in a short time, how the prodigies prophesied and promised by our Lord will take place before our eyes.
The development of the spiritual gifts requires from us more effort, abnegation and sacrifice, greater devotion, spirituality and preparation.
In order for the healing gift to flourish, to develop and to manifest greatly among us, we will have to experience more spirituality, have a greater heart:simply, more love.
When we are going to begin with our spiritual work, and we are ready to give balm to the sick, we have to make sure that our conscience is focused, our mind cleared and our heart cleansed and filled with good feelings, so that it can feel all the tenderness, charity and concern for its fellow man, for the fallen brother, for the brother that is suffering, bleeding and crying.
"You who have asked for the healing gift, because you know how to feel the pain of your brethren, will contemplate the development of this faculty, and your prayer, your word or glance, will take the balm to the sick".
If we want to develop the healing gift, it is necessary that our heart feels the pain that others are feeling and that our spirit gets rid of all selfishness, knowing that it carries a precious gift.
When we are performing our healing duties, we have to identify with the Spiritual World of Light that will arrive through our inspiration, as an emissary of the Doctor of Doctors, so that we can make the sick feel the healthy, clean and pure vibrations, filled with relief and light, that coming from them and mixing with our own hearty and kind vibrations, will make the prodigy in the needy.
"Think that besides teaching you how to pray, I have given you the gift of speech, and I have taught you how to anoint. Many times, I have told you that your presence can make prodigies if you are really prepared".
We must analyze that if the beneficial fluid comes from the spirit, then, it will flow over the spirit and not over the flesh of the sick person. It is not even necessary that our material hands touch or anoint the person that is sick. The spiritual fluid can be given through a glance, through a loving thought, or a word of comfort. The most material way to give fluid healing is by touching the sick person; and the most spiritual way is by using the gift of word, words that contain essence, tenderness and balm. ]]>
And He mentioned something else: "The true Spirituality is the freedom to your spirit in its journey and to the flesh in its path. The matter should not invade the paths of the spirit nor the spirit should turn to materialism".
But many still now wonder as Pilate did when he was facing Jesus: "Which is the truth?" And turning his back onto Him, he did not wait for the answer. But we now have the answer.
Our Father says: "The truth has its own arms to defend itself, which lie within the truth itself. And when this question is asked again: Where is the truth?" you will then answer: In love".
In another of His teachings, He confirms it in all certainty: "I assure you that the only truth is love. The truth is the Divine Love shown in the Universe. The one that can not understand the truth, is not able to recognize God".
If we meditate about this idea, we will see that all those other ideas that wrongfully focus on conquering the "truth" by means of walking away from the path of divine truth are wrong ideas, misleading ideas, ideas that will make us loose what we are all longing to have, true freedom.
We have to be aware that there is a tendency in the World to change the meaning of the words and of the Divine Teachings. Our Heavenly Father states: "The sense of the essential values has been replaced in such a way that this replacement has led to believe that the truth is exactly the opposite of what it truly is".
Freedom is the natural state that all spirit yearn for, but to be able to reach it we have to know the way, and which one is it?
Not only did our Father stated it in the Second Era "I am the path, the truth and the life", but in this Era He explains even further by saying "The one that follows my teachings will find the true happiness, peace, knowledge and spiritual greatness. The one who complies with my Law, conquers freedom".
This is to say, that the one who does not comply with the Divine Law can not conquer freedom, and when men and women of this world think that to be free is to use the free will and moving forward by human interests and material ideas, they do not realise that they are fooling themselves and what they are really doing are turning themselves into slaves. We are warned by our Father who says: "Those who have entirely surrender to materialism, without further considering the voice of their conscience, and neglecting all what is related to the spirit, they are no longer fighting, they have been defeated in combat. They think they are triumphant, and they think they are free, they do not realise that they are prisoners and are in need of the legions of light to come to the darkness so they can be freed".
Oh, how mankind has been mislead by believing that just by the use of the free will freedom is granted!. We see everyday that when we think we are behaving "freely" we fall victims of low passions, of vices, we become slaves of the absurd pharaoh which is the world.
This is how the Master clearly states it in one of the Teachings of the Book of the True Life: "The chalice that you drink is too bitter and the chains that you pull are too heavy. You continue being the captive people of the Pharaoh. The more you wish for your freedom the more you are obliged to work and greater your tributes are. How far would your bitterness go? The surroundings in which you live and covers you, is the pharaoh of this era which is full of selfishness, hatred, greed and all the sins committed by mankind".
"The chains represent your needs that force you to subdue to the prevailing selfishness, to injustice and even to wickedness". "My Law, on the contrary, do not enslaves you, My Law liberates you".
And this Teaching about the Divine Law taking us to freedom is not a new one, brothers, for a long time it has been known by evolved spirits. David knew it, and he wrote in a psalm: "I will always follow your Law, forever and eternally, and I will always be free because I searched in your commandments..."
David knew as we ought to know ourselves, that only those who fulfill the Divine Laws can be free; all the other ideas about being free are illusions and deceptions...and this seems logic because the one that do not fulfill the Divine Law moves away from God, and the one that moves away form God is vulnerable and falls victim into temptation, into sin, into materialism and finally, into sadness.
And it is not that God withdraws for us, no, it is not! We all know that God never withdraws form us, but He makes us see the difference when he says: "Meditate: If I am within you, where have you taken Me when you sin?"
Its is in vain that men and women wish to find freedom in this world instead of finding it in the Law, this is because their surroundings do not allow them to do so.
Our Father states: "Be free, do not seek in this world your kingdom nor your glory". ]]>
"Free will and the influence of the flesh are the trials to which your spirit is subject to", confirms our Father in His Teachings of this Era.
What is the use of having been granted with the free will?
Obviously not to have used it in such a way to have become prisoners, but on the contrary, to make us masters of our own selves.
"If I granted the spirit with free will, is for the spirit to have its own disposition and in turn feel the master of its own life, of its acts and to be similar to Me". God says.
We cannot be similar to God if we are slaves, if we are not the masters of our own lives, masters of our own actions...but we know that the true resemblance with God is within the spirit, not within the flesh. And God clearly explains it to us when He says:
-"Within your spirit there is intelligence, sensibility and grace. Then manifest these attributes through the flesh which God has entrusted you with, do not say your flesh is imperfect, stubborn or incomprehensible, that it does not know how to listen the voice of your conscience and is willing to be directed only by the free will. No, it is not like this, you are the spirit and the guide, and you are in charge of taking care of the flesh and preparing it to become an obedient device for the spirit, a kind intermediary of the spiritual feelings and gifts that dwell in each one of you".
This concept has been repeated several times in many Teachings by the Father, the concept that it is the conscience in the spirit that should guide the man and the woman in their path through life. And it is not to the flesh that has been given such a responsibility. When men die the flesh remains in the Earth, and it is the spirit who has to present itself to the Father and account for its actions and deeds. When the spirit is defeated and enslaved by the flesh, that spirit completely looses its freedom, not only the spiritual one but the moral one as well, because it refuses to listen to the voice of the conscience, and which other thing can the conscience dictate but the fulfillment of the Divine Laws?
God says: "As I did over all the gifts, I have also placed over the free will the conscience, so while it enlightening you, it will also guide you to develop these gifts and to take them to perfection".
The indiscriminate use of the free will instead of approaching you to freedom it puts you farther away from it".
"As human beings have misused the free will, they have fallen victims to vices; for misusing the free will they have sinned in a despicable manner; well then, for the virtue of the free will, but now enlightened by the conscience, they will have to go back, step by step, over that path that has taken them to the abyss".
To finish I invite you to think about this overwhelming phrase from one of the Teachings of the Divine Master, in its briefness it contains a whole teaching that if it were follow it would bring happiness to men and women even in this world:
-"Put your free will under the control of My Law and your conscience, and you will never feel a slave but you will truly be free."]]>
Where does that urge come from man to live in that constant danger? Why is it that some do not become aware of the wonderful opportunity that life is? What takes some beings to perpetrate to themselves the end of their existence? Those who attempt against their own lives, or against the life of someone else, are those that do not live in spirituality, those who lack true faith, of the recognition of the Divine laws; those that did not penetrate in the justice that the law of restituition contains, and the love that motivates the marvelous law of reincarnation. The lack of knowledge of these truths allows that men sometimes ignore the emptiness of their existence.
Our celestial Father states:
"How many make their lives full of suffering due to lack of spiritual faith, because they think that the physical world is the only one that exists, and doubt that there is a spirit, because for them its existence has not been proven. These and some other sad reflections take them to desperation and even to death". T186:42
"Never feel alone and do not attempt against your life, because your days are also counted by the Father". T 147:18.
What happens to those that decide to cut off the thread of existence? Many years ago, being an adolecent, I lived a very painful experience which led me to want to know more about all of this. At seventeen, my friend Michael took his life without me being able to understand at that time what had happened. The only thing that I knew was that Michael was going through a difficult moment. His father had discovered that he failed many subjects, and his mother received a call to advise her that his son and his friends had stolen a cassette player, and in that same period he had broken up with his high school girlfiend. That day, when I saw that he did not go to school, after classes I went to his home to see why he had not assisted. Upon arriving, I saw many police cars that were outside his house; in the garden was Michael's lifeless body covered by a sheet. He had shot himself in the head with his father's pistol. His mother was sitting on the bench in the garden, her hair had gone grey in a matter of hours, and on the other side his father was crying. Suddenly, his older brother Andy approached me, and crying told me: " If someone would have been with him, he would not have committed suicide."
This did not serve as a consolation to me. To the contrary, it made me become aware of the emptiness and tremendous solitude that he probably had felt at that moment in which he probably seeked answers without finding them. Since then, one of the things that I have always wanted is to find the answers for him; when suddenly before my eyes appeared this marvelous truth which is this Divine Word. Through it, I have been able to find the replies to my questions, and often at the beginning while I analyzed and begun to understand, I remembered Michael and thought that if he would have known and seen this light, he would not have taken his life. Afterwards, as time has gone by and this knowledge has become greater and clearer to me, I realized that the truth which he did not find at that time is now his, because the spirit does not die and life continues, the experiences are infinite, and the opportunities as well, and the love of our Father is absolute.
So many things can go through the mind of a suicidal person at the crucial moment: the fear of facing the problems, the feeling of being tired to keep on going, the inability to understand the tests being faced, the disappointment in oneself, not being able to find solutions, lack of faith, not being conscious of the existence of something else; in the end, there could be so many reasons, but I believe that one of the most important ones that the suicidal finds to end his existence, is that he thinks that at the moment that he cuts the thread connecting his life, he will end all pain, the tests will discontinue, or imply, it will be the end.
Sad error, because the spirit does not die. The spirit, same as our Creator's is inmortal. What happens then to those that have taken their lives? Our Father explains:
"The spirit which returns from earth to the spiritual valley, bringing impressed upon itself the fatigue of the flesh, and arrives seeking the beyond as a resting place, where to sink in the forgotten, to erase traces of the struggle, such spirit will have to feel as the most unfortunate, and will not find peace or happiness until he wakes up from its lethargy, until he emerges from his error, and rises to the spiritual life which is, as I have told you before, love, work, the continued struggle in the path which conducts to perfection". T 317:14
"All of you have come to a new encarnation, and the pain which you take is so great that you ask Me to put an end to your existence; but I ask you: Don't you know that you cannot stop existing, and that if today you suffer on earth, upon your spirit passing on to the spiritual valley, will continue to live under the same test until settling his debts and learning his lesson?" T 103:15.
"Many of you wish to die because you find yourselves tired and without ideals on earth. It is certain that the body's death is the rebirth for the spirit, but the body which you occupy serves to purify you". T146:32.
Of what purification does our Father speak of? Of the one which in absolute justice we have to live to repair and restitute all of those errors which the spirit has been accumulating in all of its different reencarnations which are perfect opportunities that God, in his infinite love, has given mankind to be able to learn, to evolve, and to restitute his faults. That is why every existence of a spirit in a body is a unique opportunity to settle accounts, which must not be wasted. When man does not know of these things, he becomes a coward, confused, and loses his calm; does not feel with the strength to cope with pain. But, when the spirit is conscious of that new opportunity, finds in the love towards his Lord the strength and faith needed to pass the test.
"If a man die, shall he live again? All the days of my appointed time will I wait, Till my change come". Job 14:14
"Meet with your fate; do not wish to return to Me without having first gone through the path which I have pointed out to you because you would have the pain to contemplate stains in your spirit which it did not have a chance to clense, because it had not reached the end of its restitution. Reencarnations have passed over you and many have not appreciated the infinite grace and the love that in them, the Father has conceded to you. Understand that while the greater the number of opportunities, the larger your responsibility will be, and if these opportunities are not taken advantage of, that will be the bundle whose unsupportable weight will not be understood by many beings, and only My Doctrine can reveal to you." T 67:46
"Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron. ...He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder". Psalm 107:10,14
Many have believed that those which attempt against their own lives do not have divine forgiveness. Could it be true that they do not have a right to a new opportunity? If divine love does not have limits, could there be anyone who could not be saved? As always, the divine word comes to us to clarify our doubts:
"In this Third era, I have exited the tomb of the forgotten in which humanity has kept Me to resuscitate it, because I am life. Nobody can die, even he who tears out his existence by his own hand will hear that his conscience will claim his lack of faith". T 52:63
Brethren: The knowledge that day by day the divine word enlightens us should help to sensibilize our spirit to be alert and watchful, to be able to help those who need of us a word of consolation, or advice which can result in helping to take away from his or her mind those ideas that in a moment of desperation and profound confusion could convert a human being into a suicidal. Let us also watch our own existence and give to our spirit, as well as our body, the food which they need and the appropiate means required to be able to reach the end of this existence, when the will of our celestial Father has marked the hour.
"When this divine revelation is rightly interpreted by all, there will no longer be suicides and homicides, noone will take his life, and even less the life of his fellowman, man will have ample knowledge of all his acts." T 316:23
The word sheol, comes from Hebrew "Shael" which means: To self examine, inquire or interrogate, that is: To reflect. This means that the old concept which existed regarding sheol was not of the eternal punishment, but simply the place where the dead awaited or entered into reflection.
Various other verses also exist that demostrate that not only was sheol seen as the place for the dead to rest and await, but there were also some that thought that those alive could also arrive there. Such as in Psalm of David 16:9,10 that states: "...my flesh also shall rest in hope. For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell (Sheol)...".
Or verse 16:30 of Numbers: "...But if the Lord make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit (Sheol)...".
Upon the Septuagint being translated to Greek in Alexandria, between the years 250 and 100 A.C.. the word "Hades" appears for the first time instead of the word "sheol", which according to the Helenic tradition it was a place underneath. It was the concept of a hole, grave or pit. Hades comes from " alpha" and "eido" that in this concept means "nothing" and "to know" , which together means to know nothing, to ignore; in other words to be in darkness. This is the closest concept that the group of 70 found to translate to Greek what the word Sheol signified.
Once paganism entered Israel through the idolatrous kings, in the valley of Hinnom also known as Ge Hinnom, these pagan kings started to perform human sacrifices, which consisted of burning in large bonfires their first born in honor of their god Mo'lech Leviticus 18:21; 20:2-5; 2 Kings 23:10). These inhuman acts influenced in giving the valley of Ge Hinnom the concept of a terrible, filthy place.
With the arrival of the second era, in the Second Testament the concept of the ravine appears to burn impure things, and similar to the people of Israel in the dessert, the custom of using that ravine is adopted to burn the garbage. These places, in rememberance of the human sacrifices that were effected in the valley of Ge Hinnom, were named "Gehenna". In that manner, when one wished to speak of a place that corresponded to all that was impure, one referred to Gehenna.
The erroneous analysis of such phrases as this one makes the concept of "fire" surge as being the means of punishment for the bad deeds or sins performed by humans.
"...for He is like a refinerïs fire, and like fullers soap" Malachi 3:2.
"I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled? Luke 12:49.
"...and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable" Luke 3:17.
"Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire" Matthew 7:19.
"And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire..." Jude 23.
What is the real meaning of fire in this and various other passages of the First and Second Testaments? In order to understand, we must go to the nature of things: Which are the properties of fire? What happens when we subject something to this element? Fire consumes and purifies everything that it touches, but does that fire which the Scriptures talk about, does it act upon the spirit or the matter? Is it true that the fire punishes the human sins? Let us see what our Celestial Father tells us about this in the Third Testament:
And, if you believe that what is called eternal fire is not for the body, but rather for the spirit, that is another error, because in the spiritual kingdom, material elements do not exist, and fire has no bearing on the spirit. Whatever sprouts from matter, matter it is; whatever sprouts from the spirit, spirit it is. Third Testament. Teaching 352:45,46.
Then, what does the allegory of fire symbolize in the Scriptures? Could there be then another type of fire, different from the one we know?
"When the conscience of a sinner is able to separate the spirit from its materialism, and points out its errors, the understanding of its ingratitude will cause repentment and the shame suffered will be so intense, that it will seem weak next to it, the false idea of material fire as a purifying element of the spirit. Teaching 76:38 (ditto)
"Conscience is the light of God, and that light is fire of love that consumes all impurity. Therein the fire that smelts the new spirt, to rise again full of light. Teaching 76.39. Third Testament.
When we understand all of this in a spiritual manner, and learn that the fire referred to in the Scriptures is in reality the conscience, that voice of God that sooner or later acts as a purifying fire in the spirit, we can then also understand those verses of the First Testament which state:
"Is not my word like as a fire? Saith the Lord; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?" Jeremiah 23:29
Fine, now that we have analysed were the concept of fire surged, let us now seek the origin of the concept of "Hell".
The word "Inferno" comes from the Latin word "Infernus" which means "Inferior". This word appeared in the Scriptures when the Latin version called "Vulgata" was made in the fourth century A.C. The translation was made by he who was known as "Saint Gerome", who together with his assistants decided that the word "Inferno" or "Infierno" ("Hell" in English language), was what best united in one, all the other concepts, that is Sheol, Hades, Gehenna, etc. La Vulgata was imposed over time over all the other Latin translations, and in the year 1546, the Council of Trent proclaimed it as the official version of the Catholic Church.
That is how various different concepts were united in only one new concept. Sheol and Hades ceased being a place for the "dead" to wait, reflect, or rest, and Gehenna the ravine to burn garbage. Together they were converted to "Inferno" or "Hell".
The most important truth that we found in this analysis is: That the symbol of fire in the Scriptures, is the symbol of purification and repentment of the spirit upon comfronting its own conscience; that the inferno or hell as such, as a place of eternal condemnation where fire will make sure to punish all sinners for all time to come, does not exist, because what is sentenced to eternal condemnation is sin, not the sinner (Revelation 19:10). This has always been known:
"...And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand..." Isaiah 28:18.
"... And I say also unto thee, that thou are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it". Matthew 16:18
What our Celestial Father has revealed about hell to us in this era are concrete reasons which allow us to become aware of our lack of analysis and mistakes. Consider the following Teachings from the Third Testament. Album of Wisdom:
Did I not explain to you that God's greatest attribute is love? Would you not believe then that an eternal torment would be an absolute negation of the Divine attribute, of eternal love? Teaching 164:34
I did not form death or hell, because My Spirit, upon conceiving the idea of the Creation, I only felt love and from deep within Me, only life sprouted; if death and hell existed, they would have to be human deeds since they are small, and you already know that nothing human is eternal. Teaching 303:42
What value would My Law and My Doctrine have if they where not capable of saving spirits from error and sin? And what purpose would My presence as man on earth have had if they were going to be many who would be lost forever in an expiation without an end? Teaching 352:48
Why condemn man to extermination or to eternal pain when his sin is only temporary and the product of his ignorance? Why condemn a being which within carries My own Divine essence?" Teaching 297:10.
Did you ever stop to think whether it could be possible for a place to exist where there would be more pain and destruction than in our own planet? Could it be possible that another place could exist where death, sickness, poverty and hatred could prevail more than in this, our earthly inferno? Why would God have to bother to create an inferno, if we have already taken the time to create one"made to order", in accordance with our lack of compliance with the Divine Laws?
There are those that think that with corporal death comes the spirit's rest, and others who think that upon desincarnating, because of the sins committed,they must go straight to hell, or some other place to pay for their sins. What happens when a spirit desincarnates having these ideas? Or as a rebel becomes confused and does not accept that his time in that body has terminated? What happens when upon leading a life without control and full of faults to the Law, the spirit disencarnates in a violent manner, or commits suicide? Or, what about those that simply do not know what to expect?
In the movie "What Dreams May Come" the author makes an interesting proposal to this respect, basing himself in certain texts of the English version of the Third Testament, when he describes that upon disencarnation each spirit creates his own hell or place for expiation, depending on his beliefs and practices; in accordance with the light or confusion that exist in him, depending on his errors and on his right deeds. What has our Eternal Father revealed to us regarding all these doubts?
"What men call glory or hell, are not determined places. It is the essence of your deeds which your spirit picks up when arriving at the spiritual valley. Each one lives his inferno, inhabits his world of expiation, or enjoys the beatitude derived from elevation and the harmony with the Divine Spirit. Teaching11:56. Third Testament.