Chapter 23 - Part 2: Further Demystification

A time of darkness is hovering; the Earth will once again experience a catastrophic occurrence. With that occurrence in mind, and in light of what I have learned, it is clear to see that the whole of humanity will be served well if each individual recognizes and accepts personal responsibility for the ongoing existence of humanity. Through Jesus’ Word we have learned that His sacrifice and our personal effort in walking in the path He has pointed out will determine our individual eternal existence. The time has come for all of humanity to collaborate in working toward prolonging our physical existence on Earth. One state of being has effect upon the other, in order to be effective upon and within the Whole of which we are a part.

Each individual has the God-given potential to be transformed into an instrument suitable for an eternal life of glory. This transformation is made possible when we respond to God’s call to love, so as to emanate the energy of love. Glory is defined as the bliss of heaven, and one of the definitions for the heavens is the region around and above the Earth, sometimes called the firmament, the sky. Science tells us, and we know it to be true, that the human body is unable to survive on its own in these regions. Therefore to coexist in Heaven, in God, its perishable nature must put on imperishability, as is pointed out by Saint Paul in 1 Cor. 15:50-53:

Or else brothers, put it this way; flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God; and the perishable cannot inherit what lasts forever. I will tell you something that has been secret. We are not all going to die, but we will all be changed. This will be instantaneous, in the twinkling of an eye, when the last trumpet sounds. It will sound, and the dead will be raised, imperishable, and we will be changed as well, because our present perishable nature must put on imperishability and this mortal nature put on immortality.

Further, in Peter 1:24-25, we are informed that God’s Word is the instrument through which we will inherit glory:

All flesh is grass and its glory like the wildflowers. The grass withers, the flower falls, but the word of the Lord remains forever. What is this Word? It is the Good News that has been brought to you.

The hope for eternal existence is the Good News Jesus has brought to us. He has enabled it through His dying and rising from the dead; salvation and redemption are ours! We are assured of this in John 5:24, where Jesus said, “I tell you solemnly whoever listens to My words, and believes in the One who sent Me, has eternal life.” Therefore, we will be transformed into an instrument suitable for engagement in eternal glory when we positively respond to God’s Word, Jesus, by actively participating in His call to love.

We will be indestructible even by fire. God assures us of this through St. Paul in 1 Cor. 3:11-15,

For the foundation, nobody can lay any other than the one which has already been laid, that is Jesus Christ. On this foundation you can build in gold, silver and jewels or in wood, grass and straw but whatever the material the work of each builder is going to be clearly revealed when the day comes. That day will begin with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each man’s work. If his structure stands up to it, he will get his wages; if it is burnt down, he will be the loser, and though he is saved himself, it will be as one who has gone through fire.

Reflection upon those words convinces us of the necessity for transformation, for the perfection of our souls. Man’s wages, his capacity for indestructibility, his possibility for inheriting glory will be determined by how much he has loved, how much he has been transformed to be like He in whose image he is made, who is God, who is Love. Scripture supplies this truth for us in the following passage:

We ourselves have known and put our faith in God’s love towards ourselves. God is Love, and anyone who lives in love lives in God, and God lives in him. Love will come to its perfection in us when we can face the day of judgment without fear; because even in the world we have become as He Is (1 John 4:16-17).

Since love is a power able to do work, it is to be called energy because energy is a power able to do work. Further, since love is energy, and God is Love, we are moved to say that God, who is Love, who is Spirit (John 4:24) is an ever-present, transcendent, and at the same time immanent, source of power, of energy. As a Divine Being, He is the fullness of creation (Ephesians 1:23) who is Indestructible Energy, Alpha and Omega, having no beginning and no end. praise God! We are immersed in Him, working toward a degree of perfection so that we might remain in Him for all eternity.

The dictionary tells us that spirit, the vital essence or animating force in living organisms, especially man, is often considered divine in origin. The journey of life, of being, of spirit, is a never-ending chain of becoming like Him in whose image we are made. Successful transformation, which will gift us with eternal oneness with our divine origin, the Spirit Who is our Creator, will come to fruition only through the way Jesus has pointed out, the Way of Love.

When the convergence of religion and science finally takes place in recognizing love and prayer as energy, perhaps then the eyes of the world will be opened to recognize the love God has for the whole of humanity. Further, we must hope that they will then believe He has a desire to assume our fellow humans into eternal coexistence. Perhaps then they will at long last see the wisdom He had shown in sending His Son Jesus to reveal to us the way that this can occur both in this life and the one to follow, in the Way that is Love.

In ancient times, even two thousand years ago when Jesus walked the Earth, love was seen as a law. Consequently, the willed action, rooted in love, which serves as a catalyst to generate and release its energy was almost never thought of as such, and could not be employed and effective as a power.

At that time, humankind did not recognize energy; the mind of man had not conceived of energy as a power, and it just was not possible for him to see love and prayer as energy. The scope of man’s consciousness allowed him to see power, the ability to do work, as being the result of the efforts of men and animals and forces such as fire, wind and water. It was not yet the time of electricity and atomic power. Today, however, through God’s benevolence the scope of humankind’s consciousness has expanded to recognize the above as sources of power and energy. Energy has been employed on a physical level, and science has been awakened to isolate and harness the ever-present power waiting to be transformed into energy and able to do work for humanity.

The time has come for this same potential to be recognized on a spiritual level and, praise God, it is beginning to happen. As has been cited earlier, science is beginning to recognize the feasibility of love and prayer as an energy. It has been visually observed at work in the physical healing of cancerous lesions time and again. Throughout the world its power has been attested to and thus recorded as bringing about physical healing.

The whole of humanity will derive great benefit from love and prayer when it is declared to be energy. In fact, one day, our acceptance or rejection of this possibility could prove to be a matter of life and death for us–that is, life and death on a physical level–because at some future time we will be called upon to employ its power. Our cooperative efforts while engaged in focused prayer will release God’s power to forestall or or reverse an approaching worldwide catastrophe.

In focusing in on the reality of what has transpired, not only in these past thirty-five hundred years, but ever since man as we know him has walked upon the Earth, we are able to reflect upon and reason to a truth about our God: In His omnipotent state, being the same yesterday, today and forever, He is changeless. Whereas we, His children, humankind, are in an ever changing, evolving state. In these past six hundred years it has become obvious that man’s scope of consciousness has expanded and changed. Particularly in the past hundred years, its unfolding, according to God’s plan, has been rapid beyond comparison. From travel by horseback to the ability to travel to the moon and beyond, humanity has made great progress.

This progress is also unmistakable when we consider how many things which only yesterday were accepted as truth which have subsequently been refuted. For example, Aristotle and his contemporaries concluded that the Sun revolved around the Earth. Galileo was able to show that the Earth was not fixed in its position in space but in fact rotated around the Sun.

In this example alone, we have an irrefutable instance of the expansion of man’s consciousness. We are also afforded an insight into an unchangeable truth: On a physical, temporal level we cannot be secure in any discovered truth, because tomorrow it could very likely be refuted, or expanded upon and changed. What we knew yesterday may have been recognized as fact, but it was only a seed of truth with a potential for further revelation.

Also, we are able to see that God’s Being, the Alpha and Omega, is not subject to change, therefore we do embrace His Word as Truth. However, it is necessary that we bear in mind the circumstances, status and scope of humankind’s consciousness at the time the Word was heard, for this does have influence upon the subsequent uttering, recording, and presentation of that particular Word.

In consequence, our perception of God may change as we change, much as a child’s perception of his father changes as he grows. The father remains the same father but, as the child matures, so does the concept he had once held of his parent. Therefore the perception of the child is not the same as that of the adult.

Through God’s grace, the child matures, and understanding and wisdom develop. Similarly, our concept of God changes as His Holy Spirit enables us to have a clearer understanding of Him and His Word. In the same way, we may be encouraged in our hope that the mystery, the veil, will be lifted even more in God’s call to love and pray. In focusing on that thought, we may conclude that the knowledge we presently hold concerning the power of love and prayer may be seen as a seed, ready to blossom forth as a powerful energy.

Certainly what the Holy Spirit has placed upon my consciousness concerning the energy of love and prayer I offer to the reader based on a depth of faith in the Words of God Our Father and His Son Jesus Christ. Objective reasoning, however, may also be employed. We need only reflect upon present day healings that are a result of prayer to lend affirmation and substantiate the concept of love and prayer as energy. Therefore the concept may be viewed as being based on both faith and reason; it is a step closer to that hoped for convergence of religion and science.

Scientists too, however, must concede that their findings are based on faith as well as reason. Dr. Henry Margenau of the Sloane Physics Laboratory at Yale University confirms that statement in the following words:

The most fundamental of scientific axioms are only postulates. Even the laws of arithmetic are not empirically true, but are based on hypotheses which today seem true, but tomorrow may be disproved. Accurately speaking, we must concede that a scientific commitment is based on faith as well as reason, just as religion is based on reason as well as faith.

I am confident in quoting Dr. Margenau’s statement, because my presentation is offered on the basis not only of faith but of reason as well. It only make good common sense that there has to be more than is obvious to us in God’s call to love and pray.

God was not finished with us two thousand years ago. He did not simply give us His Word then, and leave us to our own devices since. As our consciousness has expanded in so many other areas of knowledge, here too in God’s call to love and in our positive response to that call we have graces and gifts awaiting us. There can be no doubt that mystery does indeed shroud the power of love and prayer. Yet we may be certain that for God to grace this release of power and energy, for us to see the seed of it blossom forth, we must respond to His call to love and pray.

In 1 Cor. 2:6-16, St. Paul, in the power of the Holy Spirit says:

But still we have a wisdom to offer those who have reached a maturity; not a philosophy of our age, it is true, still less of the masters of our age, which are coming to their end. The hidden wisdom of God which we teach in our mysteries is the wisdom that God predestined to be for our glory before the ages began. It is a wisdom that none of the masters of this age have known, or they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory; we teach what Scripture calls; the things that no eye has seen and no ear has heard, things beyond the mind of man, all that God has prepared for those who love Him. These are the very things that God had revealed to us through the Spirit, for the Spirit reaches the depths of everything, even the depths of God. After all, the depths of a man can only be known by his own spirit, not any other man, and in the same way the depths of God can only be known by the Spirit of God. Now instead of the spirit of the world, we have received the Spirit that comes from God, to teach us to understand the gifts that He has given us. Therefore we teach, not in the way in which philosophy is taught, but in the way that the Spirit teaches us; we teach spiritual things spiritually. An unspiritual person is one who does not accept anything of the Spirit of God; he sees it all as nonsense; it is beyond his understanding because it can only be under - stood by means of the Spirit. A spiritual man, on the other hand, is able to judge the value of everything, and his own value is not to be judged by other men. As Scripture says: Who can know the mind of the Lord, so who can teach Him? But we are those who have the mind of Christ.