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The Mystery Of Mysteries.

Divine love, brought by God’s Comforter into our soul in response to our prayerful desires, remains a mystery until it’s personally experienced. After that, it’s known indirectly through its effects but remains utterly mysterious in itself. It changes us profoundly, but its own pristine and incorruptible nature never changes in all eternity. As it builds in quantity inside us, this love eventually becomes who we are, yet never impinges on our personality or sense of individuality. These apparent contradictions only add to its elusive nature.

No one who experiences divine love can find adequate words to describe the sublime and overwhelming feeling of being directly touched by God. It’s a feeling that changes everything. We remain finite individuals but develop a divine sense of oneness with God.

Divine love acts as a catalyst, lodging permanently in our soul and imparting its immortal, unchanging nature to us. This causes us to become immortal. We’re told that only those who become divine are immortal. Being created in the image of God does not in itself confer either divinity or immortality since the image is not the same thing as the substance. Perhaps surprisingly, even after our soul has been completely transformed into a divine soul by this love, which is the essence of God’s own soul, we still retain the ability to change and can receive more love forever.

It helps our understanding to recognise that divine love is not just love. It’s a life force that embodies countless facets, including divine truth, knowledge, light, life and consciousness. It also germinates various seeds embedded in our soul that represent gifts that God implanted in us when we were created. These blossom  in the form of new skills and abilities as we progress, adding to our individual uniqueness.

It’s known that the divine love resides within one’s soul, but the internal structure of the soul is not well understood, at least in terms that our celestial teachers can convey readily to us in words. We’re told that a divine soul develops new senses that cause a range of new perceptions to arise, which allow us to explore higher dimensions of reality. Those without these perceptions remain totally unaware of these higher realms.

Of course, it’s not necessary for us to understand the interactions between divine love and specific parts of our being in order for us to benefit from the effects it has on us. In the end, it doesn’t matter. As possessers of divine love, we experience a wholeness and wholesomeness that is the most satisfying journey we can ever undertake.

Choose God’s Reality Over Human Reality.

Each day we invest in the human reality all around us and each day we’re disappointed. Failure and strife abound in society and affect how we live our lives. Discontent, depression, anxiety, suffering and anger are rife.

Meanwhile, God’s reality is enduring and is built on peace and love. When we enter this reality then we see clearly the futility of normal human thought patterns and activities. Human reality, which has always ignored God’s laws of creation, was always built on sand.

Don’t you want to be bathed in God’s love? To discover God’s laws and the way to supreme happiness? It’s not something dreamt up by weird religious people long ago. It’s real and was always real. Scepticism is fine, but cynicism, if it’s unwarranted, could destroy one’s chances of a better life. If you’re waiting for science to discover God then you’ll wait a long time. But you can discover God for yourself. Few choose to do so. Most are drawn to human reality, which carries with it the real risk to each individual of being damaged or broken by their experiences. Even a human life that is well lived pales by comparison with one spent walking hand in hand with God.

When you experience divine love coming into your soul, it changes everything. You will know from personal experience that God exists. This love changes you at a fundamental level and brings knowledge at a soul level that goes beyond our mindful reality. The experiences it brings are priceless and are based on a new awareness that arises as a result of the divine love opening up new perceptions in our souls. It doesn’t prevent you from leading a normal life, but your perspective will change.

The only possible reason not to choose divine love is because you don’t believe it to be true. Then why not try praying earnestly to God for it to come into your soul and see for yourself? So long as you invest your emotions in your prayers then they will always invoke a response.

It’s been predicted that when society breaks down in a fundamental way, which is quite close now, many will turn to God for help. Much of the suffering from feelings of being lost and fearful in those coming dark times can be avoided by anchoring yourself in God’s reality now. Along with guidance and protection comes peace and joy, allowing us to thrive even in difficult circumstances.

Why Is The Soul Still A Mystery?

The truth of the soul’s existence has been made plain in the Padgett Messages. The soul is the spiritual powerhouse and essence of our being and is capable of connecting us to God. The material mind was supposed to be more of an adjunct, useful for interacting with the material world.

So why do we struggle to relate to the soul? Our surface consciousness has beguiled mankind for millennia and we’re the product of that long-held fascination. As a result, we suffer from a serious imbalance between mindful and soul consciousness. Consequently, the wisdom available in our souls is often neglected when making decisions. This explains much of the dysfunctionality that surrounds us and why human endeavours often end in failure. This imbalance has largely blocked access to our soul wisdom and God. This is a considerable handicap to live with and has serious repercussions for us individually and collectively.

To know the soul requires us to have a spiritual awakening. The most powerful form of this comes with receiving divine love, which opens up new perceptions in our souls that provide us with all we need to be joyful and thrive spiritually. This is the only way we can progress to the highest realms of the afterlife known as the celestial kingdom. In most people, this path is contrary to what our surface consciousness wants and so few venture along it. In the Padgett Messages, Ann Rollins (James Padgett’s grandmother) had a long life but after she died and eventually got to the celestial kingdom, she found it sobering to see how few of the people she knew on earth had made it there in all the intervening time. It seems that few on earth find ‘the narrow path and gate’ whereby we can experience the glory of God’s celestial kingdom within a short time frame after we pass over.

The almost universal ignorance of the availability of divine love coupled with widespread disbelief in God and the spirit world explains why the soul largely remains a mystery to most of us. Furthermore, our normal consciousness feels comfortable and natural, so many people feel no incentive to explore further. Even when in possession of the truth, getting to know one’s soul is an ongoing journey for all eternity.

Only The Soul Can Become Immortal.

Our soul is the only part of us that can become immortal. The spirit body that we take to the spirit world with us when we pass over is a covering for the soul and is subject to change over time.

Like our material mind, the mind of our spirit body becomes redundant at the point we become fully divine, which is when our immortal soul mind is fully formed. Until then, the spirit mind will continue to exist. Over time, the spirit mind will become purified but unless the soul changes from the image of God to being divine then we will never become a divine angel and can progress no further than perfecting the natural love that we were born with.

Beyond the first few planes of the celestial kingdom, showing ourselves in the likeness of our old human form is no longer considered necessary, as we will have developed other ways of perceiving the identity of others by then. Nor does the environmental background stay fixed in these higher celestial realms – it changes to reflect the emotions of the inhabitants, something we would find extremely disconcerting in our current state.

Beyond these bare details, celestial beings cannot find words that we would understand to describe the wonderful environment that they inhabit.

Human beings look for meaning in many different mindful ideas. Few realise that divine love is the mystery of all mysteries that enables the soul to experience and know divine reality, including itself, God and all of creation. Focusing on developing our souls rather than our minds is what will lead us to immortality and a blissful future beyond our time on earth.

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.

Stepping Into The New Version Of You.

When I started to receive divine love in response to my prayers, I initially felt that I was the lucky possesser of this love. But I’ve ended up accepting that it’s the love that really possesses me. It has somehow become who I am now, deep down, but without me losing my sense of identity in the process.

In augmenting the reality I experience, it’s starting to diminish the strong attachment I had to my mind. I sense that in time, the mind will become a mere shadow of itself as I become more centred in soul consciousness, and I have already started to view the human body as just an appendage that I carry around. It’s entirely up to me how much I choose to live in this blossoming soul consciousness. Fortunately, I was never enamoured with who I was, especially my many limitations, so giving up my old sense of self and stepping into the divine version of me is easy, at least in principle. In practice, soul consciousness seems within reach at times and elusive at other times, depending on my spiritual condition.

It’s a lifetime’s work to live fully in one’s soul consciousness, but the rewards are great. There’s also a price we pay in terms of our heightened perceptions of all the suffering and darkness around us, much of which is hidden from normal view. Once our soul is on fire through God’s divine love then we’ll seem different to others and this will tend to polarise people for or against us. However, once the predicted great reset of humanity’s values takes place, these problems will gradually disappear as widespread acceptance of God once again becomes established around the world.

Divine Truth Is Shocking And Revolutionary.

Truth in this world is normally carefully controlled, whether by governments or anyone else in a position of power or influence. The truth is often deliberately concealed and much of what we’re fed is not true. In addition, truth is rarely found in a pure form due to mankind’s inability to discern what is true from the imaginings of our own minds. The mind has a tendency to make complex that which is simple.

I’ve written extensively elsewhere about what divine love is and how it radically changes us. As more people experience this for themselves, it will power a revolution. In truth, we’re not really awake until we receive enough of this love to understand who we are, what God is and the purpose of our existence. The answers to these questions are too profound to express in mere words or to be held as thoughts in our material mind. This is because God’s reality is divine reality – something we can’t perceive or experience in our current spiritual state. What we’re capable of understanding with our minds is superficial to the point of being somewhat banal by comparison with what exists. Only as we develop completely new divine perceptions in our soul, which gives rise to a new divine consciousness, can we finally start to perceive and live absolute truth. From the perspective of where we start and end up, this process, while beautiful, is also shocking and devastating – but in a good way. Many of our strongly held beliefs are shattered along the way, but, in practice, it’s so gradual that we don’t typically experience any real discomfort. We may, however, experience discomfort during the process of soul expiation, when painful memories from the past may rise to the surface in order to be released. If we were to experience all the changes suddenly, it would be incredibly disorientating and would seriously affect our wellbeing.

Humanity has got carried away with its own power, of being able to transform the world to be as we wish. Coming to the truth requires great humility and an understanding that all that is worth having is given to us freely by God. At the core of this is divine love. It’s not just a source of pleasant feelings, as might be supposed. This love gives birth to a new consciousness within us. Truly, God is love, is life. All who open themselves to receiving this love will, for all eternity, remember the day that they found it as the greatest of all blessings.

Many Will Never Choose The Divine Path.

When we choose to accept God’s gift of divine love, it’s important to recognise that the consciousness that will inform our future is not the consciousness we currently possess. Each drop of divine love changes our consciousness beyond what we can imagine until we experience it. This is why so many will find it hard to ever accept. As human beings, we cannot truly see or imagine our own soul, God or the love that God has provided for the purposes of developing us into divine angels.

On passing into the spirit world, spirits find that initially they are unchanged from what they were. There may be great surprise but there’s no great spiritual awakening. Spirits debate God’s existence just as fiercely as we do. Even in the spirit world, the great awakening that God wants us to experience comes only as divine love accumulates in our souls. A degree of faith is required since it’s impossible to prove in advance what can only be known through direct personal experience as we progress. However, no one has anything to lose by being open-minded and praying sincerely for this love to become part of their being.

Even on earth, we love to bathe in the light of the sun and none of us want to spend our time in complete darkness. In a literal sense, love is light and life itself, while darkness is akin to being dead spiritually. The highest form of love is the divine essence of God’s great soul, which God’s Comforter brings into our souls when we sincerely desire it. This love can never change into something else or leave us.  As it accumulates in us, it elevates our spiritual state – the more we have the closer to God we come.

Many spirits become engrossed learning about all that exists in God’s creation. They may acknowledge God but their focus is elsewhere. These spirits will achieve a certain level of perfection and happiness even without receiving any divine love. For those on the divine path, however, new avenues of learning open up whereby they can readily acquire knowledge through new soul perceptions rather than the laborious sequential thinking processes that we associate with our intellect.

Divine joy is beyond imagination but it’s been foretold only a minority will ever choose the divine path. It seems no one knows exactly why this should be the case. On worlds where divine love is accepted by all the inhabitants from birth as the norm, it would apparently be unthinkable for anyone to become a lost soul. On the face of it, it seems the fall of mankind many millennia ago into a state of depravity has left a legacy of sorts – a sort of spiritual blindness – that may affect some souls for all eternity. At the same time, divine angels work tirelessly to encourage all to step onto the divine path, so it seems the outcome for each individual is not preordained but depends only on our own will. May all choose wisely.

Become A Divine Subscriber.

Many of us subscribe to social media channels – to those who entertain, inspire or teach us. We often use social media as a welcome distraction from the challenges of our lives. But how many of us consider subscribing to God’s divine love, which has the potential, when taken as a daily dose, to permanently elevate us above the human condition that causes us so much suffering? In doing so, it gives us true happiness. We find ample entertainment, inspiration and learning in our own lives rather than experiencing life second hand through others online.

Few do subscribe. But many young people have been born at this critical time in the world’s history to help birth a new glorious age of peace and love. The revolution will be largely powered by this mysterious substance – literally the divine essence of God’s soul. This is freely available to all of us and is a substance that unlocks unimaginable potential within us.

Does anyone really believe we were supposed to exist in the pitiful state that passes for reality in our world? It’s only as you start to awaken that you become fully aware of just how distorted everything really is, including our own consciousness. The increased sensitivity we develop as we awaken can threaten to overwhelm us with the darkness and suffering that we will see all around us. In some ways, it’s easier to stay asleep. But the divine love we accumulate in our souls will give us the strength we need to flourish and thrive even when surrounded by the chaos of a world in transition.

Divine love is stronger than the darkness in the world. Darkness always shrinks from light. God’s will is for us to shine a divine light into whatever darkness surrounds us. If, instead, you confront darkness with physical force in an attempt to destroy it, then you become the darkness.

I pray earnestly every day for divine love to fill my soul and transform me into a being with divine consciousness. Subscribing to divinity is free and God’s channel of divine love is available 24 hours a day.

Spiritual Probation And Soul Expiation.

Our time on earth is the great period of spiritual probation, when we can use our free will fully for good or evil. When we pass over, any negative tendencies we have will be severely constrained in terms of our ability to indulge them by the environment we find ourselves in. Our places of habitation are graded and fixed according to our soul condition so that those who are of a somewhat spiritual disposition are shielded from those from lower realms who would endeavour to harm them.

Our entry to the spirit world marks the start of the great period of soul expiation, when memories of all earthly wrongdoings will at some point resurface and torment us until we remedy the underlying conditions within us that cause us to be out of harmony with God’s laws. This applies to all negative acts that were not fully resolved in terms of the spiritual compensation process while still on earth. Expiation can be achieved either by feeling deep remorse and making amends, or by receiving God’s divine love, which removes the darkness in us that is the fundamental cause of our suffering. The latter is a far faster way of making spiritual progress. Divine love is a great blessing from God that has the potential to minimise any suffering we experience and opens the door to unimaginable bliss.

However, similar to when on earth, many spirits are in love with their own minds and value their independence from God. Besides which, their place of habitation eventually progresses to what we would regard as a wonderful heaven. The promise of an even higher state of being that literally cannot be imagined and where we become ‘as one’ with God (and may appear to lose our independence) is therefore of no interest to most of these spirits. The divine angels who try to encourage them to progress further have to reduce their vibration to make themselves visible to these lower spirits. This means that they are not much different in appearance to those they minister to. Consequently, the lower spirits may just dismiss them as beings like themselves who have different views but know nothing more than they do. Such are the pitfalls of spirit life. To be forewarned is to be forearmed.

It should also be recognised that no human or spirit is truly independent of God and all rely on God’s constant existence and inexorable laws for our own wellbeing. Contrary to what some may fear, doing God’s will and at the same time experiencing incredible freedom is the norm for all who choose the divine path. Divine love brings the assurance of immortality since our soul becomes transformed to be of the same substance as God’s soul. Spirits that lack this divine essence cannot be certain of existing for all eternity. What we do in our short earth lives seems to have a disproportionate effect that can determine our future for a very long time to come. May everyone choose wisely.

Wake Up And Step Off The Path.

Some speculate that the consciousness of mankind became fractured a long time ago and we then diverged down a path that most civilisations in the universe manage to avoid during their evolution. It resulted in a massive expansion of our intellects at the expense of the utter neglect of our souls. The soul was designed to be the spiritual powerhouse of our being. These two centres of consciousness were always supposed to be in balance, along with that of our spirit body.

This failure to find a balance between the different faculties  of our being – the material and spirit minds, and the soul – has directly resulted in the grotesque world that we’ve created. One in which unimaginable suffering takes place daily. A world created by God but remade in our image through misuse of our free will over millennia.

History shows that until recently, a large part of the population believed in God. Those beliefs are now widely viewed as being the result of superstition and ignorance. In fact, because people lived simple lives in the olden days, there were opportunities in quiet moments for their souls to influence their thoughts and gently remind them of the unseen spirit world that lies beyond this material existence. The soul will always try to prompt us to recognise its existence so that it can reclaim its rightful place in our lives.

Now, even the belief in God has largely gone. Our lives aren’t quiet anymore. Humanity has been successful in normalising this weird state of affairs to the point that it’s hard to imagine the world being any different from what it is. But no one escapes the harsh realities of what we’ve created. Even the rich fill their lives with distractions to cover up the underlying pain, emptiness and sense of futility they feel.

There’s still great beauty in the world and many kind-hearted people. But the power of darkness is overshadowing everything. For far too many, reality has become a nightmare. It’s time for all of us to wake up and step off the path. Balance can be achieved by praying for God’s divine love to fill our souls. This progressively brings us greater levels of divine consciousness (the true meaning of Christ Consciousness). This consciousness will give us all we need to successfully redress the problems that humanity has created for itself. I’ve said elsewhere that humanity faces a spiritual crisis, not an intellectual one. We’re very clever but not very wise. The world will change as we change. The highest path is that of divine love.