Conclusions
With the condemnation of Origen, so much that is implied in reincarnation was officially stigmatized as heresy that the possiblity of a direct confrontation with this belief was effectively removed from the church. In dismissing Origen from its midst, the church only indirectly addressed itself to the issue of reincarnation. The encounter with
Origenism did, however, draw decisive lines in the matter of preexistence, the resurrection of the dead, and the relationship between body and soul. What an examination of Origen and the church does achieve, however, is to show where the reincarnationist will come into collision with the posture of orthodoxy. The extent to which he may wish to retreat from such a collision is of course a matter of personal conscience.
With the Council of 553 one can just about close the book on this entire controversy within the church. There are merely two footnotes to be added to the story, emerging from church councils in 1274 and 1439. In the Council of Lyons in 1274 it was stated that after death the soul goes promptly either to heaven or to hell. On the Day of Judgment all will stand before the tribunal of Christ with their bodies to render account of what they have done. The Council of Florence of 1439 uses almost the same wording to describe the swift passage of the soul either to heaven or to hell. Implicit in both of these councils is the assumption that the soul does not again venture into physical bodies.
Scriptural Support for Reincarnation
There is one episode in particular from the healing miracles of Christ that seems to point to reincarnation: “And as he was passing by, he saw a man blind from birth. And his disciples asked him, ‘Rabbi, who has sinned, this man or his parents, that he should be born blind?” Jesus answered, ‘Neither has this man sinned, nor his parents, but the works of God were to be made manifest in him.'” (John 9:1) The disciples ask the Lord if the man himself could have committed the sin that led to his blindness. Given the fact that the man has been blind from birth, we are confronted with a provocative question. When could he have made such transgressions as to make him blind at birth? The only conceivable answer is in some prenatal state. The question as posed by the disciples explicitly presupposes prenatal existence. It will also be noted that Christ says nothing to dispel or correct the presupposition. Here is incontrovertible support for a doctrine of human preexistence.
Also very suggestive of reincarnation is the episode where Jesus identifies John the Baptist as Elijah. “For all the prophets and the law have prophesied until John. And if you are willing to receive it, he is Elijah who was to come.” (Matt 11:13-14) “And the disciples asked him, saying, ‘Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?’ But he answered them and said, ‘Elijah indeed is to come and will restore all things. But I say to you that Elijah has come already, and they did not know him, but did to him whatever they wished. So also shall the Son of Man suffer at their hand.’ Then the disciples understood that he had spoken of John the Baptist.” (Matt 17:10-13)
Here again is a clear statement of preexistence. Despite the edict of the Emperor Justinian and the counter reaction to Origen, there is firm and explicit testimony for preexistence in both the Old and the New Testament. Indeed, the ban against Origen notwithstanding, contemporary Christian scholarship acknowledges preexistence as one of the elements of Judeo-Christian theology.
As for the John the Baptist-Elijah episode, there can be little question as to its purpose. By identifying the Baptist as Elijah, Jesus is identifying himself as the Messiah. Throughout the gospel narrative there are explicit references to the signs that will precede the Messiah. “Behold I will send you Elijah the prophet, before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.” (Mal 4:5) This is one of the many messianic promises of the Old Testament. One of the signs that the true Messiah has come, according to this passage from Malachi, is that he be preceded by a forerunner, by Elijah. Jesus was sometimes taken to be a reincarnation of one of the prophets.
In Mark 8:27, Jesus asks “Whom do men say that I am?” The consensus of opinion seems to have been that He was a reincarnation of either John the Baptist, Elijah, or one of the Old Testament prophets. It is hard to see how Jesus could have been a reincarnation of the prophet by whom He was baptized, but that has not deterred these believers in reincarnation around Jesus.
Indeed the reincarnationist can even find scriptural support for personal disincarnate preexistence. Origen took Eph 1:4 as proof for his case: “He chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish in his sight and love.” Jerome, who is just as uncomfortable as Justinian about preexistence, interprets the passage to mean that we preexisted, not in distinct disincarnate form, but simply in the mind of God (Against Rufinus 1.22), and from this throng of thoughts God chose the elect before the creation of the world.
The distinction is indeed a fine one, for Jerome is asking us to distinguish between that which exists as a soul and that which exists as a thought. What is illuminating for the reincarnationist is that this passage from Ephesians offers very explicit scriptural testimony for individual preexistence.
The Doctrine Itself
Looking at the sequence of creation from its inception to its conclusion, one could summarize Origen’s system as follows: Originally all beings existed as pure mind on an ideational or thought level. Humans, angels, and heavenly bodies lacked incarnate existence and had their being only as ideas. This is a very natural view for anyone like Origen who was trained in both Christian and Platonic thought. Since there is no account in the scriptures of what preceded creation, it seemed perfectly natural to Origen to appeal to Plato for his answers.
God for the Platonist is pure intelligence and all things were reconciled with God before creation – an assumption which scripture does not appear to contradict. Then as the process of fall began, individual beings became weary of their union with God and chose to defect or grow cold in their divine ardor. As the mind became cool toward God, it made the first step down in its fall and became soul. The soul, now already once removed from its original state, continued with its defection to the point of taking on a body. This, as we know from Platonism, is indeed a degradation, for the highest type of manifestation is on the mental level and the lowest is on the physical.
Such an account of man’s fall does not mean that Origen rejected Genesis. It only means that he was willing to allow for allegorical interpretation; thus Eden is not necessarily spacially located, but is a cosmic and metaphysical event wherein pure disincarnate idea became fettered to physical matter. What was essential for Christianity, as Origen perceived, is that the fall be voluntary and result in a degree of estrangement from God.
Where there is a fall, there must follow the drama of reconciliation. Love is one of God’s qualities, as Origen himself acknowledged, and from this it follows that God will take an interest in the redemption of his creatures. For Origen this means that after the drama of incarnation the soul assumes once again its identity as mind and recovers its ardor for God.
It was to hasten this evolution that in the fullness of time God sent the Christ. The Christ of Origen was the Incarnate Word (he was also the only being that did not grow cold toward God), and he came both as a mediator and as an incarnate image of God’s goodness. By allowing the wisdom and light of God to shine in one’s life through the inspiration of Jesus Christ, the individual soul could swiftly regain its ardor for God, leave behind the burden of the body, and regain complete reconciliation with God. In fact, said Origen, much to the outrage of his critics, the
extent and power of God’s love is so great that eventually all things will be restored to him, even Satan and his legions.
Since the soul’s tenancy of any given body is but one of many episodes in its journey from God and back again, the doctrine of reincarnation is implicit. As for the resurrection of the body, Origen created a tempest of controversy by insisting that the physical body wastes away and returns to dust, while the resurrection takes on a spiritual or
transformed body. This is of course handy for the reincarnationist, for it means that the resurrected body either can be the summation and climax of all the physical bodies that came before or indeed may bear no resemblance at all to the many physical bodies.
There will come a time when the great defection from God that initiated physical creation will come to an end. All things, both heavenly bodies and human souls, will be so pure and ardent in their love for God that physical existence will no longer be necessary. The entire cohesion of creation will come apart, for matter will be superfluous. Then, to cite one of Origen’s favorite passages, all things will be made subject to God and God will be “all in all.” ( 1 Cor 15:28 ) This restoration of all things proposed by Origen gave offense in later centuries. It seemed quite sensible to Origen that anything that defects from God must eventually be brought back to him. As he triumphantly affirmed at the end of his “On First Principles”, men are the “blood brothers” of God himself and cannot stay away forever.
The Controversy
During the period from A.D. 250 to 553 controversy raged, at least intermittently, around the name of Origen, and from this controversy emerged the major objections that orthodox Christianity raises against reincarnation. Origen of Alexandria, one of Christianity’s greatest systematic theologians, was a believer in reincarnation.
Origen was a man devoted to scriptural authority, a scourge to the enemies of the church, and a martyr for the faith. He was the spiritual teacher of a large and grateful posterity and yet his teachings were declared heresy in 553. The debates and controversies that flared up around his teachings are in fact the record of reincarnation in the church.
The case against Origen grew by fits and starts from about A.D. 300 (fifty years after his death) until 553. There were writers of great eminence among his critics as well as some rather obscure ecclesiasts. They included Methodius of Olympus, Eppiphanius of Salamis, Theophilus, Bishop of Jerusalem, Jerome, and the Emperor Justinian. The first of these, Methodius of Olympus, was a bishop in Greece and died a martyr’s death in the year 311. He and Peter of Alexandria, whose works are almost entirely lost, represent the first wave of anti-Origenism. They were concerned chiefly with the preexistence of souls and Origen’s notions about the resurrection of the dead. Another more powerful current against Origenism arose about a century later. The principals were Ephiphanius of Salamis, Theophilus of Alexandria, and Jerome. From about 395 to 403 Origen became the subject of heated debate throughout Christendom. These three ecclesiats applied much energy and thought in search of questionable doctrine in Origen. Again the controversy flared up around 535, and in the wake of this the Emperor Justinian composed a tract against Origen in 543, proposing nine anathemas against “On First Principles”, Origen’s chief theological work. Origen was finally officially condemned in the Second Council of Constantinople in 553, when fifteen anathemas were charged against him.
The critics of Origen attacked him on individual points, and thus did not create a systematic theology to oppose him. Nonetheless, one can glean from their writings five major points that Christianity has raised against reincarnation:
- It seems to minimize Christian salvation.
- It is in conflict with the resurrection of the body.
- It creates an unnatural separation between body and soul.
- It is built on a much too speculative use of Christian scriptures.
- There is no recollection of previous lives.
Any discussion of these points will be greatly clarified by a preliminary look at Origen’s system. Although it is of course impossible to do justice in a few pages to a thinker as subtle and profound as Origen, some of the distinctive aspects of his thought can be summarized.
Your Mission in Life: The Answers
…You are not here by chance; you have not come by reason of coincidence. If you are here, it is because you have been sent to Earth to fulfill a restitution and with a mission. And that has nothing to do with material things nor with the pleasures of the flesh. |
Man, as part of Creation, has a mission to fulfill
Man, as part of Creation, has a mission to fulfill, just as all the works of the Creator have. However, he has been endowed with a superior intelligence and a free will, in order for him to achieve, through his own efforts, the development and spiritual perfection, which is the finality of his existence.
There are bonds between God and His creatures, which will never be broken, but if men feel isolated from their Heavenly Father, it is because of their lack of spirituality or lack of faith.
Neither death nor lack of love will destroy that bond which unites you to Me.
By means of the spirit, man is able to comprehend his Creator; understand His benefits, and admire His knowledge.
If you would identify yourselves with all My Work, instead of becoming conceited by your worldly knowledge, you would realize that mystery would not exist. Then, you would acknowledge and love one another as brothers, just as I teach you in each one of My works. Within you there would be kindness, love, charity, and, therefore, unity.
No one will be able to escape from My presence; there does not exist a place or dwelling where you can conceal yourselves from Me, because wherever you go, I am with you, and wherever you are, you are in Me.
Do not be satisfied in knowing all this, it is necessary that you feel Me, and in that manner, allow Me to manifest Myself through your deeds.
Meditate: if I am within you, where have you taken Me whenever you sin?
I speak in this manner, for I shall remove the ashes that exist in your heart until I find in it a spark of light.
Rejoice that you have in your Master the perfect model. Truly I say to you, that not before or after Christ, have you had an example like that which He gave you.
Would your Master be perfect if His disciple superseded Him in wisdom? No.
I prepare you, O My people, so that you will not profane My Law through ignorance. I open your eyes to the light of truth, so that you may understand the great responsibility that weighs upon you, and at the same time, make you realize how infinitely delicate your mission is within this work which I have entrusted to you.
Be watchful disciples, so that even in the middle of the night while you sleep soundly, you can perceive the hand knocking at your door. That troubled one who seeks you today may be the one who, moved by your charity, will also be converted into My laborer and may lighten your mission tomorrow. How many of those who come today asking for a little love, for understanding, or for justice, tomorrow will be the shield that will defend you or the witness who will save you! But what can you expect of the one who knocked on your door, with all his pain and hope, relying on your charity, but was not heard?
The 144,000 chosen
The chosen 144,000 have the mission to keep watch zealously over My Law, to reanimate the people in their journey; to defend the faith. They will be warriors of peace, teachers within My wisdom, doctors for all illnesses; comforters and prophets.
Do not cease to comply with your mission because you feel unworthy; truly I say to you, that he who knowingly violates the Law, does as much harm as he who has a mission and fails to give it fulfillment.
I awakened your spirit from his deep lethargy, and if I did not augment one more gift, it was because he possessed it all since his creation. But I had to remove from him his fatigue, his sickness, and at that moment judged him through his conscience. Once body and spirit were strengthened, I merged them into one being, into one will, in order for him to comply with My Law. What else can you wish for?
I said to you: Comply with this Law and you will have peace in this world, and afterward your spirit will be in Heaven. And so I awakened you, so that by knowing who you were, you would come to understand the eminence of your destiny and of your mission.
A long time ago, I chose you for this mission
and what I have done during this period, while inscribing a mark upon your forehead, has only been a confirmation of the destiny and gifts that you received from Me since the origin of your being.
Peace, strength, everlasting light, power over confused spirits; the gift of healing, of speech, the spiritual prayer and so many faculties which enrich your spirit, are the weapons with which you can work for the peace of this nation which will be a fruitful land of prophets, emissaries, teachers, and apostles of righteousness.
When all these prophecies are fulfilled, and men seek in the Scriptures some signs of them, they will be surprised to find, at each step, a clear indication of what your eyes beheld during this period and those that are to come. Then, humanity will say: Truly, this is the Third Era, the new coming of the Lord.
For some it will appear that these people enjoy some privilege, but later, all mankind will feel that the Spirit of the Lord is poured upon all his universal family, without distinction.
Disciples, understand and accept your mission with that love and obedience with which Jesus accepted His destiny. Pray; be watchful. Drink off, with patience, your cup of bitterness and learn how to carry your cross with love. Bless everything inwardly, and forgive those who offend you, with deeds from the heart.
The pact you make with Me is not an earthly commitment
it is a spiritual obligation which you have agreed to incur with your Father, with the One who has created everything. I teach you to fulfill your spiritual mission, but I also recommend that you comply with every obligation and every promise you make as a human, so that you may be recognized for the truth of your spirit and for the sincerity of your heart. Make sure that your yes is always yes, and your no, always no; then, there will be confidence that your determinations will always be firm. Never break a sacred vow, like those of marriage, of paternity, and that of friendship.
Awake, My people, so that you shiver before this voice of justice, so that you be moved to announce to your brethren that the Law, the light, the judgment, and with it humanity’s salvation, have arrived to the world.
The time of comprehension for you is here
the moment of lucidity has arrived, and the time when you will rise to make this light shine in other hearts is not far. I give you sensitivity and I give you knowledge so that you may comply with your spiritual mission.
May no one say to Me, that along his pathway there are great obstacles in order to comply, for if you believe that the “leaf of a tree does not move without the will of the Father,” you must understand that beyond what you call obstacles, you must fulfill your mission.
Love, serve, be useful, save, and comfort; make of your life fine examples, a beautiful and practical lesson, so that you will be imitated. Then you will be spreading spiritual light upon your brethren.
Oh, My people! Who have risen in pursuit of this voice, never forget that the charity of God has selected you for a great mission. That Divine mark is My caress of love; it is an antidote, a weapon, and a shield.
By speaking of My Doctrine, you will comply with the mission of sowing the seed of spirituality; but do so with humility, taking into account, that every deed containing vanity, will be a vain seed, never to germinate.
Do not see as impossible your compliance during this struggle.
Now I am anticipating to tell you, that you will not be the only ones who will redeem this humanity, nor will it be you who will transform the life of the peoples; I shall do so because they are superhuman. I only want you to fulfill the mission that corresponds to you and let the new generations take My seed beyond where you have been able to reach.
Live close to Me. I am the life, the beginning and the end of everything created. If I have placed in you mission similar to mine, it is because I love you, and I want you to imitate Me.
Redeem all hearts; perform miracles, love one another.
Can you imagine the joy of the one who returns to the spiritual life having fulfilled in Earth the mission that his Father has assigned him? His satisfaction and his peace are infinitely greater than all the satisfactions that in human life the spirit gathers.
Merciful Veil of Oblivion – Why can’t we remember past lives
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“Who knows what he sowed in past eras? Who knows of his deeds in past lives?”
“Your spirit has lived long, but your flesh does not know it. If your body has forgotten the first years of your infancy, how can it recognize the evolution of your spirit along the lengthy journey?”
“What do you know about your past, and how far back is your origin? What do you know about where you came from, where have you been, and where are you heading?”
“I hold in My hands the book of your past existences, in which there are truly many blemishes, but there are also clean pages of your future life and of your transformation. I see it all and I know it all.”
“I conceal from you that book of your past, for if you were to contemplate its pages, you would weep of sorrow and sicken with sadness. And in many, the bitterness and horror would be of such magnitude that they would consider themselves unworthy of forgiveness and redemption.”
“Think upon how many times, in this life that you now have, there have been days when you have prayed at dusk to forget all about what you went through since daybreak. Imagine of the heavy burden that men would have to carry if they were to remember each and every one of their past wrongdoings, mistakes and even crimes of all their past existences. It is my divine compassion the one that protects you with the merciful veil of oblivion.” |
Why Men Don’t Remember Their Past Lives
A great spiritual teaching is required so that man can walk in accordance with the voice of his conscience, because the flesh, surrounding him in the world, in spite of everything being saturated with Divine love, wisely devised for the good and the happiness of man, constitutes a test for the spirit, from the instant he comes to inhabit a world to which he does not belong, united to a body whose nature is different than his own.
There you will find the reason why the spirit forgets his past.
From the instant he incarnates in an unconscious newborn body, and merges with it, he begins a life with that being. In the spirit, only two attributes remain present: the conscience and intuition, but the personality, the deeds performed, and the past, remains temporarily concealed. That is how it has been disposed by the Father.
What would become of the spirit who has come from the light of an elevated realm to dwell among the miseries of this world, if he were to remember his past? And how much vanity would be among men on being revealed to them the greatness that, in another life, existed in their spirit!
It is necessary for you to know that the spirit, before incarnating, has had a vast preparation, since he is to remain subjected to a long and sometimes arduous test. However, thanks to that preparation, he is not disturbed on penetrating into this life. He closes his eyes to the past, in order to open them to a new existence, and in that manner, from the first instant, he adapts himself to the world to which he has arrived.
During this period, I do not come to reveal to man the past of his spirit, but to assure him that his spirit has lived; that he has come to carry out an elevated mission to Earth, and that he must return to his mansion, not only without any blemish, not even with the same light he brought, but rather with a greater light.
The time will come when the human heart and mind, purified and tested in spirituality, will be able to receive, through intuition, the voice of their own spirit, when they will know how to receive with clarity and purity all the revelations that the spirit will transmit to the flesh.
At this time you still cannot contemplate the past of your spirit through your human life; nevertheless, the Father comes to say to you: How very long has your journey been! How very much has your spirit struggled to hold himself up along the way! How very much has he been hurt by the thorns of life and how many stretches along your path have been marked by the blood of your footsteps!
Your spiritual past is unknown to your physical body. I leave it imprinted in your spirit, so that it will be like an open book and be revealed to you by your conscience and your intuition. That is My justice, that before sentencing you, I give you the opportunity to correct your fault or mend your error. If the past was erased from your spirit, you would have to again retrace the roads traveled yesterday and hasten past ordeals again; but if you heed the voice of your experience and allow yourselves to be illuminated by that light, you will behold your pathway clearer and the horizon more brilliant.
Truly I say to you, that there is not a single spirit among humanity who has not known all the enjoyments and eaten all fruits. Today your spirit came to enjoy the liberty to love Me and not be a slave of the world again, or of the gold, or of lewdness or the idolatry.
I, the Master, come to inspire you with the memories of your spiritual past that your heart does not know because they pertain to the spirit, when he lived his true existence, when your dwelling was elsewhere, and you had not as yet dwelled in this body you now have, which is a crucible, adversary, and a lesson for the spirit.
I bring you memories of the spiritual life, hidden behind the veil of your materiality, to tell you that that life waits for you again, so that you may come and enjoy it fully after your pilgrimage, your experience, and your evolution.
When you have returned to the infinite realm and feel the joy of dwelling in it, you will not tire of blessing this world of tears, where you came to learn and appreciate the happiness, the peace, the light.
You already have the certainty in this period, that you have come to dwell on Earth in multiple occasions, because you believe in the reincarnation of the spirit. But this revelation, as I have delivered it to you, will shake the world; it will cause a revolution among Mankind, and because of it, they will understand the explanation of many mysteries and the fortitude for their spirit, because it is a law of love, and My light is within it.
You still do not know, Oh beloved people, how many times you have come to dwell on Earth through different physical bodies; and even when the flesh scrutinizes itself and interrogates its own spirit, you are unable to contemplate your past, your previous lives, because I, as the Father, have prohibited this knowledge. I have not allowed your spirit to uncover its previous lives through this human existence, this being still a prohibition by the Holy Spirit who is among you.
However, you are preparing the future generations, those who will come possessing spirits of great spiritual elevation, and who are still inhabiting in the Hereafter, where they are purifying and elevating themselves to come to this planet. To them will be given, by the Holy Spirit, the faculty of recalling their previous lives, to learn of their past, because that will be beneficial to their own spirit.
If I have not granted it to you, it is because I still find weakness in your spirit, and even more in the flesh, and I comprehend that you would be unnerved contemplating your past. He who has sinned much and offended his Father, would not have the strength to resist the repentance and the outcry of his conscience; and he who had been great would be filled with vanity; he who had been unimportant, would feel humiliated, and in his heart would be born a yearning for vengeance. It is for that reason that your Father, who is perfect wisdom, has not yet wanted to reveal through your material body, the past of your spirit.
That grace is reserved for the future generations; to those whose knowledge of the past will not cause any harm, and you will be, for them, like an open book before their eyes. Those spirits will be the revealers of many mysteries; those who will come to clarify the life of the spirit through their own material lives; those who will speak to this world of other worlds and of that long journey which is the spiritual path.
Prepare yourselves, My people, so that you may pass on that heritage to those who are to emerge from you, and so that this grace can exist in your descendants, so that the bodies that you engender and conceive, may be obedient instruments toward the spirits of the future generations, because I am now preparing, through you yourselves, a new world for this Humanity. You are the seed which I am cultivating during this period, and irrigating it with the clear waters of My teachings.
Damiena Oviedo – Maiden of the Third Era
On the 24th of December of 1863, Roque Rojas founds the first house of prayer for the followers of the manifestation of Elijah in the Third Era. On that day, twelve males and twelve females in representation of the spiritual people of Israel were “sealed”.
Of the twelve women, the first seven were virgins representing the Seven Seals and in the sixth place was Damiana Oviedo, young maiden, representing the Sixth Seal.
Years later, in 1869, Roque Rojas prepared in advance a solemn act to commemorate the Passion of the Lord Jesus, but finding fanaticism and lack of preparation amongst his followers, and exasperated over the incomprehension of his people, he destroyed the contents of an ark where the revelations written by him were preserved, and proceeded to close the place.
Damiana Oviedo gathered the fragments of the ark and put them away.
On the year 1879, ten years later, Roque Rojas died (see Roque Rojas) and Damiana Oviedo continued meeting with some of the faithful and persevering followers of Roque Rojas in his home.
One day in May, 1884, entering a deep state of spiritual ecstasy, Damiana received the inspiration of the Divine Ray for the first time through her understanding, giving way with this to the fulfillment of the prophecies delivered in times long past and to the Coming of the Lord.
Since the first revelation, the Spirit of Truth delivered to that people the prophecies of the forthcoming times. And within them, the ceasing of communication through human understanding by the 31st of December, 1950, the growth in number of followers and places where the Divine word would be received and the struggles that were to divide the people of the Lord at the end of that period were also announced.
It was Damiana Oviedo, “Damianita” as she was affectionately referred to by those who knew her, a bastion within her people, and still today, long time after her death at a very old age, hers is the spirit of light that guards over the disciples of the Holy Spirit.
Bibliography: “Dawnings of the Newcoming of the Lord. The Messenger”, Pamphlets of the house of prayer “El Redentor”. Mexico City 1970.
Prodigies of Israel
The Prodigies of the Children of Israel
During past times, there were periods when the people of God knew how to spiritually interpret everything that occurred around them, because they were the people who lived within the Law, who loved Me, and who lived a simple and virtuous life. The fibers of their heart were still sensitive, as was their spirit.
Those people lived in continuous spiritual communication with their God. They heard the humanized voice of their Creator; they knew how to receive messages from the spiritual world; from those beings whom they called angels; and during their evening of repose, in the peacefulness of their heart, and through the gift of dreams, they received messages, warnings, and prophecies, to which they gave credit and obedience.
God was not only on their lips, but also dwelled in their heart. The Law for them was not merely something written, but it was lived by men. It was only natural that their existence was filled with miracles that you do not contemplate now.
When I speak of My people of Israel, of the people of the Lord, I refer to those who made My Law known; to those who announced Me; to those who were faithful to Me; to those who proclaimed the existence of the living God; to those who perpetuated the seed of love, and to those who were able to recognize in the Son, the presence and the word of the Father.
Those are the ones who form the people of God, that is Israel; the strong one, the faithful, the prudent one.
Those who persecuted My prophets, those who lacerated the heart of My envoys, those who turned their backs on the true God, to bow before the idols; those who denied Me and mocked Me and demanded My blood and My life, those, though they call themselves Israel because of their race, were not the chosen people; they were not the people of the prophets, of the legion of illuminated ones, of the faithful soldiers.
Because Israel is a spiritual name that was unduly taken to denominate a race.
You should also know, that all those who aspire to form part of My people, can achieve it with his love, his charity, with his zeal and fidelity to the Law.
My people do not have lands nor specific cities in the world. My people have no race, but rather, is within all races, among all of Humanity.
Those are My people; the one who recognizes Me and loves Me; the one who obeys Me and follows Me.
Spiritual Ignorance
A great spiritual ignorance envelops Mankind. They are unaware of their destiny and of their responsibility on Earth, and that is why they have lost their way.
Man is ignorant of who he is, and for that reason, he is unaware of the wealth amassed within his spirit. He has confined himself to develop his human faculties, but has ignored those of the spirit due to his lack of interest in what is elevated and noble.
How could Humanity discover the powers that it carries within?
It has been necessary for Me to draw near your heart, to awaken you from your profound spiritual lethargy in which you were submerged, and remind you that you are not only flesh; that you are not small, and much less outcasts.
Upon hearing My word, you have said to Me, filled with joy: “Father, is it possible for so many gifts to exist within our being?” Then you have begun to comprehend something of what you are, and what you signify within the Universe.
The Doubt
Sometimes you have doubted about the gifts which I have said you are possessors of, and I say to you, that your doubt originates from the fact that you have not developed them and therefore, they have not become manifest in the manner you would wish.
It is true that there are cases in which, just with some faith, you may realize surprising deeds, but you should know that it was My love that granted you that miracle in order to encourage your faith, even though you are still not capable of carrying out that deed.
The development of the powers of the spirit is lengthy, so much so, that one physical body is not enough for him, nor is only one existence on Earth sufficient. However, My providence, which is in everything, is preparing new bodies for each spirit, where he will continue his development, aiding in his perfection, in order to reach the place destined for him.
Spiritual Gifts of Healing
Of Spiritual Healing
Heal all the sicknesses of the body as well as the spirit, because you have the mission to console, to fortify, and to heal your fellowmen.
But I ask you: What healing could you transmit to the needy, if you were sick? What peace would you emanate from your spirit, if he is disturbed by worries, suffering, remorse, and low passions?
You can only offer your brethren what you treasure in your heart.
You must now store as much as you can of the good things that I have been imparting among these people, and learn to preserve them through adversities and setbacks, so that when the time comes to fulfill your mission, you may come out victorious in the struggle. The peace, the light, and the balsam, will form one single part with your whole being, in such a way, that not only by anointing a sick person will you heal him, but with your word, your thought, and with your eyes, you shall transmit health, peace, and fortitude, and in many cases, your presence alone will emanate those virtues.
The Power of Faith
But do not believe that just by knowing that I have granted you these gifts will be enough; no, besides, you should know, that you need the power to manifest them, and it is indispensable to conquer it with your faith in Me, with charity towards your fellowmen, with limpid sentiments, and unselfishness.
He who does not work within these principles, even though gifted by Me, nothing good will he deliver, because those gifts only flourish and are lavished through noble, pure, and elevated sentiments.
Of course, in spite of their lack of preparation, there are many who are leaving traces of miracles along their way, but they are not the ones who are giving. It is I who has mercy of the needy, of the sick, of the poor in spirit, and of the men of good faith; and then, those workers attribute My miracles to themselves.
There are other cases in which the one who is going to deliver what I have entrusted to him, is unable yet, because he ignores the manner of getting prepared, but his faith is great and he feels charity towards his fellowman. To the latter, I grant him to perform miracles to stimulate him at his work, so that he perseveres and perfects himself.
The Neverending Heritance
To say that I deprive of his gifts, the one who does not use them well, is a mistake, but the one who does not apply them for the purpose I have outlined, instantly looses the power to manifest them.
How could I deprive man of his spiritual gifts, when these are the means to attain his salvation and his only weapons to defend himself?
If My justice worked as you believe it does, I would have already taken away the light from his conscience and from many minds I would have retained the intelligence; but again I say to you, that I do not want to retain those gifts from men, because those attributes are precisely those through which they will redeem and elevate themselves towards perfection.
You tell Me that there are those who lose their reason and those who prematurely lose their life or some faculty. True, but it is not I who wrenches from them what is already theirs. They are the ones who, because of their weakness, imprudence, or blindness, deprive themselves of what the Father has given them as a freedom.
Is it not true that My hand of justice is present in all of this?
But if you ponder a little bit, over the way I apply My perfect justice, you will be convinced that it is My love that appears in each of those cases, returning the light to some, the peace to others, and the life to still others, though to recover what they have lost, I tell you also that before that, they have to pass through a great purification.
Gifts Within
The Spiritual Gifts in All of Us
And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:
And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.
And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord come.
Joel 2:28-30
The period that Joel prophesied that men would receive upon their spirit and flesh, the Spirit of God, is this; and it is only the beginning. It is necessary for you, as the first disciples, to leave a good seed, in order for your good deeds to bear good fruits, which will encourage the wayfarers of tomorrow along their journey, and not be a stony path on which they could stumble.
Truly I say to you, that the spirit has many eyes to contemplate Me. Recognize this gift and develop it, because through it will be fulfilled the word of that prophet who said that the time would come, when Mankind would have prophetic visions and dreams.
Spirituality will bring the awakening to the dormant gifts or faculties and the sensitivity to all the fibers of the heart.
My presence will be palpable. When you speak about My Doctrine, you will be inspired by Me and you will speak with phrases of immense wisdom, which will even surprise men of great learning.
From generation to generation, the gifts of the spirit will be manifesting themselves greater and clearer, and those things, emerging from even the most skeptical and unbelieving, will be a truthful testimony of what I announced in past eras and have come to confirm in this period.
This is the time when the dormant gifts and faculties in the spirit become unleashed and manifest themselves through men, because the bodies by this time have already attained the evolution and the indispensable sensitivity for the communication with the spiritual.
From the children up to the elders, passing on through the youth, everybody will have manifestations that, in the beginning, will seem strange to them, because it has been a long time that Humanity has stayed away from the spiritual, but they will later take it as something absolutely natural in the superior life of man.
It will be when children speak of profound teachings, when men and women have spiritual visions and prophetic dreams, and when the gift of healing is propagated all over the Earth.
The Denial
How combated will be the first ones to manifest the awakening of the gifts of their spirit! But I will give them strength and patience to resist the criticism, the judgements, and the mockery.
Great will be the surprise among the gentlemen and the distinguished ones of the Earth, when they confirm the truth of My return, because in their hearts they will ask themselves why has He come.
Among the poor there will be a great rejoicing because their heart will tell them that the moment of grace, of liberty and peace for the oppressed and for those who have had infinite hunger of love and justice, draws near.
This Work, that you now see limited to your smallness and hidden in poverty, will surge as a divine splendor, illuminating all the Earth, wakening the dormant spirits, lighting up the faith in the hearts, opening before the mind of Mankind, the Book of the True Life, the book of the truth.
You have marveled at the gift of intuition; and the gift of healing has amazed you. It is necessary, then, that you leave a good example to the spiritualists of tomorrow.
Those who will manage to attain great progress in this communication, will receive not only words, phrases, or ideas, but also teachings, filled with perfection. Your hands shall be like those of the designated scribes, writing, as did John the apostle, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.
When you find yourselves surrounded by unbelievers, of scribes and priests, and you feel inspired by My Spirit, do not tell anyone that it is the Father speaking to Humanity through you. In that communication your eyes will be open and your spirit in ecstasy, marveling in what the lips are revealing at that instant.
The gift of prophecy through vision, will also be spread, and will uncover mysteries not yet revealed, and will allow you to see the future. However, the seer will never be a judge or informer of his brethren.
