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Progress On The Divine Path.

How do you recognise the progress you’re making on the divine path? Well, in the earlier stages, you may not see a lot of change, as life will likely continue in much the same way as before.

The experience of receiving divine love varies with the individual. It may be accompanied by a physical sensation. I feel divine love as a distinct cool energy, a bit like having goosebumps but on the inside (if that makes sense), usually in the chest area. I have never heard anyone else make this particular comparison. It may be accompanied by feelings of wellbeing and joy depending on one’s overall condition at the time. This wellbeing is quite unlike anything else I’ve ever experienced – it feels profound and unearthly, as if one has been directly touched by God, which is, in fact, the case. The physical sensation tends to be very short-lived in my experience – perhaps a few seconds or tens of seconds. It can be extended, depending on one’s ability to sustain the emotional feelings that trigger the flow of love. The feelings of wellbeing may persist for some time, depending on factors such as whether mundane earthly demands interfere and cause us to switch back to our normal selves.

Over time, a number of changes will gradually emerge. These may include some or all of the following (not in any particular order). This list is by no means comprehensive and is intended merely to give a sense of some of what to expect.

In their interactions with others, divine love practitioners will become increasingly humble in nature and more discerning of the needs of those they’re talking to.

They generally won’t talk a great deal about themselves and their experiences unless they have a strong feeling that it would be beneficial. Experiences, by their nature, are very personal, and if the audience is not spiritually ready, then they won’t understand and may end up rejecting the speaker. Viewpoints tend to change only slowly with experience rather than as a result of hearing personal anecdotes. Besides, spiritual experiences are a personal gift from God for your benefit alone and may mean little to others, even those closest to you.

To avoid the risk of creating disharmony, practitioners won’t correct you or tell you what mistakes you’re making except in special circumstances. It’s a mistake to point out errors and faults in another if you know that they have no interest in changing. Instead, the practitioner may stay quiet and just pray for that individual and move on. The soul connection that they make with another is what provides the most help.

They develop a heightened ability to be able to communicate with the spirit world and celestial beings in particular.

They become proficient at reading a person’s personality and sometimes know about specific events in a person’s life as soon as they meet them.

They develop an increasingly profound sense of fundamental truths that doesn’t rely on words, thoughts or anything else that comes from the material mind.

They start to lose their sense of personal willfulness and find themselves submitting more readily to God’s will.

God’s love will also awaken a unique combination of gifts in our souls, such as the power of healing, inspired speaking, etc.

The absence of these enhanced abilities doesn’t mean you aren’t making progress. The power of our mind can obscure the state of our soul for a long time. In fact, it’s unlikely we will become fully aware of our internal soul state until after we pass over.

Where you are on the path is less important than simply appreciating divine changes for what they give you. If you persevere, regardless of how you feel day to day, then at some point, you are guaranteed to be able to look back and be amazed at what you’ve achieved.

The Personality Of God.

Together, the various attributes of God, such as love and mercy, don’t constitute the entirety of God’s being any more than our personality defines our being. The idea that God can have a personality is hard for mankind to understand, but we’re assured by the inhabitants of the highest realms of the next world that this is a fact. One that’s very important for us to acknowledge. God does, as an actual fact, see everything we do and know everything we think. Everything is recorded in our own memories and will continue to exist indefinitely until the purpose of the existence of each memory, which is subject to precise laws, is fully served.

When we accept that our thoughts and acts cannot be hidden then we are more likely to act in accordance with God’s laws in order to minimise the suffering that inevitably ensues when we violate those laws. The fact that most of mankind doesn’t believe this to be true makes no difference to the outcome that each will have to face in the fullness of time. We are told that countless millions regret their actions on earth once they pass to the spirit world and realise, too late, what the true consequences are of their casual disregard for God’s laws.

The great truth of God’s personality can only be experienced as an actual truth once one’s soul has been developed to a sufficient extent by divine love and new perceptions arise in the soul that allow God’s form and nature to be perceived. A truth is no less a truth even if no one on earth has progressed sufficiently to realise the facts of the matter.

Leverage All God’s Blessings.

There’s no greater work that we can do on earth at this time than being an active supporter of God’s great plan for the salvation of mankind through divine love. All are equally loved by God but the celestial help that we attract as divine love activists is out of all proportion to our relative unimportance as one individual amongst billions. We’ll be helped in many ways, such as being given healing, protection and guidance.

This was also made clear to James Padgett when he transcribed the words of celestial beings over a century ago, and undertook the vitally important task of bringing Jesus’ true message of redemption through the new birth to mankind. A large army of celestial beings were tasked with helping this process. And it’s still true now when we step onto this path as ambassadors for divine love, ensuring each successive generation continues to be made aware, in an unbroken chain, of the availability of this love. It also reflects the fact that we live at a crucial juncture in the history of humanity, a time when God’s plans for a great reset of mankind’s values is finally upon us.

God needs dedicated representatives on earth for that plan to succeed and the number of those currently on the divine path is relatively small. Thankfully, there’s no conflict between wanting what’s best for us personally and wanting what’s for the highest good of all. But it’s nice to know that by doing God’s work at this crucial time, we are multiplying the help we’ll receive way beyond what we could expect to attract to us in different circumstances. The ramifications of this for those divine love practitioners who stay true to their life plan and purpose will reverberate in their lives way beyond their time on earth. This is an astonishing truth and one that we should dwell on at length when considering how we set priorities in our lives.

We should also feel compassion for those who squander their lives by succumbing to dark thoughts and actions that will cause untold suffering after entering the spirit world, which is the great period of soul expiation. We are told that there are millions of spirits who wish they had known during their earthly lives what they subsequently learned in the spirit world and who would have lived a very different life as a result. This is a case where it’s better to learn from others rather than through our own experience.

The Crystal Fountain Of God’s Love.

There is a hymn called the ‘Crystal Fountain’ that includes the lines: ‘Oh, come to the bright crystal fountain, Its waters, though priceless, are free’.

This hymn may have been inspired by Revelation 22:1, which states: ‘Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God’.

The crystal fountain is a reference to the living waters of God’s divine love that heal us and resurrect our parched soul to eternal life. This happens when we make the decision to pray to God to grant us the mantle of divinity, whereby the divine essence of God’s own great soul gradually remakes our soul as a divine soul, with many of God’s attributes. This is the true meaning of Christ Consciousness.

We exist in a great unseen sea of divine love and can immerse ourselves in it at any time simply by asking sincerely for it to become part of us. The Holy Spirit is God’s instrument that conveys this love into our souls. This is the true path of redemption, causing all darkness in us to be removed. All are deemed worthy of this love by God regardless of how far they may have fallen in the eyes of mankind. There is no such thing as an unpardonable sin. We are told that there are many in the hell realms of the spirit world who wrongly believe they are forever damned to stay in hell because of the false teachings on this matter they heard when on earth.

The availability of divine love is the message of salvation that Jesus came to proclaim to the world. Those who instead rely on the so-called ‘vicarious atonement’ to secure their salvation will be severely disappointed when they cross over to the spirit world and find that nothing inside them has been changed as a result of this particular belief. In the Padgett Messages, Jesus himself makes it clear that his death on the cross was not preordained and that the spilling of his blood does not have the power to cleanse anyone of their sins. Instead, we should believe in the true message of Jesus, which he taught during his ministry on earth, and seek the new birth of the soul through acquiring divine love.

The World Needs To Change.

The fundamental cause of the world’s problems is a lack of love rather than an inherent ignorance of how to solve those problems. That’s why engaging our intellects in relation to a world in crisis is largely pointless – we face a spiritual crisis, not an intellectual one. There simply isn’t a widespread appetite to change the systems we have in place that are responsible for untold damage to the natural world and the exploitation of countless souls who are forced to live in abject poverty. Put simply, there is no shortage of clever people with solutions to our problems should we choose to tackle them, but there is a lack of spiritual maturity in our societies in general and our leaders in particular.

Our celestial teachers tell us that as a result of our intransigence, earth changes will escalate and bring an end to the thoughtless materialism that is responsible for destroying so much in the world. These changes will sweep away much of what mankind has created and cause a major reset in society that will eventually lead to a new way of living that is much more in harmony with God. Meanwhile, God is sending massive waves of positive energies to this earth that will awaken many from their spiritual slumber. It’s inevitable that this period of transition will cause worldwide suffering and destruction. However, God’s intervention will save the world from an even worse fate that would otherwise await us. We should prepare for this breaking storm by seeking a spiritual awakening in God’s divine love. This will allow us to experience inner peace and joy regardless of material circumstances. Instead of turning to God, many who are fearful of change will cling to a ship that is sinking.

As we accrue divine love in our souls, we come into greater harmony with God. We will be guided on how to solve our own and the world’s problems. Helping others who will be lost in a sea of change is of paramount importance. We will automatically shine a divine light into the world as a beacon for all those who are coming to understand the need to turn to God as the suffering in the world grows. The love we emanate from deep inside us influences others far more than anything we can say. We should seek to live in our soul consciousness and be a visible example of the love the world needs.

The truth the world needs to hear in words is simple: we should pray earnestly to God for divine love to infill our souls to ignite a new divine consciousness that will fill us with joy and bring us into harmony with God’s laws. Obeying the divine laws of creation will then allow us to live in a peaceful, loving world of abundance where our actions are in harmony with the natural world around us.

The Divine Dance.

We should always approach our relationship with God with the innocence of a child. This acknowledges that God has no hidden agenda, no ulterior motive in helping us. This attitude helps to lower the barriers that we put in place to protect ourselves from others harming us. In our prayers, opening up and expressing the underlying vulnerability we feel is precisely what’s required to bring God’s divine love into our soul, which slowly transforms us into angelic beings.

On our journey, faith takes us beyond where scientific logic can go. We shouldn’t allow the secular norms of society to cheat us of the birthright that God presents us with, which is the option to become ‘as one’ with God in divine nature. In this way, we can choose to engage with God in a divine dance that lasts for eternity.

The societies we live in are highly controlling and coercive. By contrast, the freedom that we experience in our relationship with God brings a profound joy, which comes as our soul is fed with the nectar of divine love.

Everyone can see that the old world we grew up in is crumbling away. In many ways, the foundations of our societies were built on sand. Even though escalating changes may bring temporary chaos and hardship for all of us, I, for one, am not clinging to the past. Spiritual treasures last forever, unlike our material ones. I have faith that the loving energies that God is bombarding this world with will ensure we emerge from this period of transition as transformed beings rooted in a deep spirituality that is much closer to our soul’s true desires.

Without Love, Nothing Would Matter.

If love didn’t exist, would anything matter? A complete lack of love is a state akin to spiritual death. The highest type of love is divine love, which incorporates the principle of immortality – literally endless life. We receive this great gift by praying earnestly to God for divine love to fill our soul. Divine love is experienced not just as an emotional or spiritual state – it is also a substance, a building block that eventually recreates us as a new divine soul. At that point, our soul shares a great deal in common with God’s soul, although we remain as finite beings and retain our individual identity.

Every time we think or act negatively, we suppress the light within our being and reduce our ability to give and receive love. So when we indulge in unloving thoughts and actions towards others, first and foremost, we harm ourselves. Expressing negativity makes our path back to God longer and more painful. When we feel these types of emotions, we should seek God’s protection and retreat into the sanctuary of the deepest part of our being where love exists and from where we can readily connect to God. That way, the energies we radiate will either be loving or neutral but never unloving.

This expression of the love inside us gives our lives great meaning and satisfaction, far more than habitually filling our lives with shallow distractions. We should practise stepping into God’s world of love daily so that we lead a life that we can look back on with no regrets.

Now’s The Day And Now’s The Hour.

As we develop our souls in divine love, we need to support the changes occurring at a soul level by refusing to indulge our material mind in thoughts that are contrary to the loving state we aspire to.

Since we have free will, God will not change the thoughts that we choose to have. Because our minds are strong, those thoughts can easily overpower the tender shoots of burgeoning love growing in our souls. Our thought habits, which are heavily influenced from birth by the often hostile and controlling environment around us, are our responsibility, not God’s. Since our patterns of thought become normalised, it can come as a shock to realise just how far from loving we can be at times. We may, for example, feel justified when we are intolerant of those we dislike – rather than feeling compassion for them as fallible human beings just like us.

We need to root out this harmful mental behaviour in order to support the path we’ve chosen. The battle against our mind’s ingrained habits can seem daunting. In my case, it was a long time before I properly took heed of this advice and consciously tried to curb the detrimental tendencies of my mind. I wish I had acted sooner. The words “now’s the day and now’s the hour” come to mind as I write this – a reminder to remain vigilant of our thoughts at all times until the soul finally comes into ascendancy over the mind.

In addition to divine love, we should pray for help in making wise choices in our thoughts and actions so they become compatible with our spiritual ambitions. We also need to reach out to those around us who may be unaware of divine love so that they too can find salvation from the pitfalls of a difficult human existence on earth.

The Vastness Of God.

How can we understand the vastness of God? It cannot be expressed meaningfully in words. It’s not surprising that we have to develop completely new soul perceptions before we can significantly increase our knowledge of God. These perceptions come as our core nature progresses in divine love.

Those who are content with a mere intellectual understanding of God, which of necessity can only be shallow, miss out on the most satisfying journey any of us can experience. True understanding of God comes about by becoming more like God in our basic nature. God is love, and so we must become love – specifically divine love, which is the essence of God’s own soul and incorporates divine consciousness in every drop that we receive.

Once we start receiving this love, we will begin to realise how narrow our view of reality was when it was experienced purely from our material mind’s perspective. We will see clearly that much of our life was shallow and illusory. Great courage is required to accept that the life we’ve invested in so heavily prior to this point was, in many ways, a fabrication created by a somewhat unguided, over-active and over-indulged mind. Along with any anguish we may feel at this stark realisation comes a great freedom and sense of truly knowing ourselves for the first time. Dear reader, no personal criticism is intended in this rather harsh assessment of our human nature – we are what we are, which is the result of millenia of human existence on this planet spent separated from God. What matters is the opportunity given to us to become as one with God in divine nature.

So, will we know the vastness of God through our newly acquired divine perceptions? Yes, our knowledge of God will expand exponentially as we grow in divine love. We’ll have an increasingly close personal relationship with God and receive much in the way of guidance and blessings. We’ll experience the infinite depth and breadth of God’s love. Much will be given that will never be available to those who choose the path of self-realisation rather than God-realisation. The divine journey will never end.