I will now tell you what this Divine Love means to everyone who has received it. He is in a condition of perfect peace, and his happiness is beyond all comparison, and he is not willing that anything or power shall lead him to those things that are not in accord with the Divine Love and God's laws of harmony. He is not only happy, but is away beyond the lower spirits in intellectual development and knowledge of the spiritual things of the Father. I know that no man is able to obtain the great soul perceptions until he has the soul development, and is fitted to live in the Celestial Spheres, where only love and harmony exist.....
I desire to write on the subject of: “Why the love of God--I mean the divine love--is necessary for man to possess in order that he may become at-One with the Father and an inhabitant of the celestial kingdom.”
Already I have written you what this divine love is in contradistinction to the natural love and how it is necessary to save men from their sins so that they may become inhabitants of the celestial kingdom, and that nothing but this love will make a man at-One with the Father, and that no mere ceremony or belief in me as the savior of men will effectuate that end. And now I will try to show you why this divine love is necessary, or as your learned men might say, show you the philosophy of the transformation of the mere man into the divine angel, which every man becomes who receives this love into his soul. In the first place. Man, as you have been informed,.....
I come to tell you of a truth which is important to all mankind, and which I desire that you receive just as I write it. So give your best care to receiving just what I shall attempt to write.
I have read with you tonight many sayings contained in the alleged epistles of Paul and Peter, and I realize that they do not seem to be consistent with the truth that has been declared to you by myself and by the apostles who have written to you.
I now desire that you shall understand some of these inconsistencies, and that you will discard from your mind these sayings of the apostles wherever they do not agree with what we have written or what we shall write In the first place, the continual reference of these epistles to my being God is all wrong and must not be believed. Neither should the statements be believed that my blood washes away sin, or that I died on the cross for the salvation of men, or that I took upon myself the sins of mankind and thereby relieved them from the burden of their sins and the punishment which they would have suffered otherwise in expiation of their evil deeds and thoughts.
Again, when it said that from the beginning the Father had foreordained my death on the cross, that all men might be redeemed from the penalties of sin thereafter, this is all wrong,....