3 December 2025

You Are Close To The Kingdom.

There’s a curious expression that gets used several times in the Padgett Messages, namely, ‘You are close to the kingdom’. It’s not the expression itself that raised my eyebrows since it’s an obvious reference to the celestial kingdom. It’s the context that is very revealing. This phrase is used several times to reassure James Padgett that if he prays to God for divine love in the prescribed manner, then he wouldn’t be long out of the kingdom.

What’s surprising is that he was told this almost from the outset – before he would have accumulated much love in his soul as a result of his prayers. If so, then all of us are likely in the same position, which is not what I expected since, to me, progress seems very slow. Of course, James may have received a certain amount of divine love unconsciously at an earlier stage of his life, which would have helped. But it was also clear that he had been far from virtuous at times, unlike what you’d expect if his soul was being strongly influenced by divine love.

There’s two points worth making. First, from the perspective of our celestial teachers who watch countless spirits progress slowly along their chosen spiritual paths, they know from observation that those who discover divine love while on earth are likely to enter the celestial kingdom within a short time after passing over. In recent times, there’s been testimony from a number of spirits that corroborate this from their personal experience. Second, it seems that while all serious divine love practitioners will make fast progress relatively speaking, there’s an option for all of us to do so extremely fast. This is harder because it requires more dedication, whereby our whole life is devoted to the divine path. It seems it’s particularly hard to take the final steps to becoming a celestial while on earth, but we can get so close that the transformation is almost complete. The point is that God has provided the potential for an incredibly quick journey, should we choose it, so that any suffering we endure is minimised.

James was also told that he could be very close to where Jesus resides within a short time. This seems even more surprising given Jesus, like all celestials, will have been progressing at an exponential rate in the spirit world, since celestials have a far greater capacity to receive divine love than we do and so are pulling away from us. I initially dismissed this statement as an unconscious bias being introduced by James’ mind while receiving the messages. However, I don’t rule out that it could be true. I think one of the reasons that James was selected for the role that he carried out may have been because he had an unusually strong susceptibility to receiving divine love once he became convinced of its existence.

There’s also what I refer to as the Ponzi effect. As the person on earth who is most directly responsible for reintroducing divine love in modern times to the whole world, I speculate that James may forever benefit from all the good that continues over time to come from that one action. If we introduce someone to divine love, could we continue to benefit when they then introduce someone to it, and so on? This idea may not be correct. But if it is, then by performing such an epic act at such an early stage of his soul journey, James may well have earned himself a very privileged and exalted position in the celestial realms.

Getting to the celestial kingdom is not a race. But knowing it’s close at hand is reassuring and can only add to our motivation. It seems that what we choose to do or not do during the relatively short period we spend on earth can have a surprisingly large effect on our future.