God has given us a soul that resides within our spirit body, which resides within our material body. The soul is the core part of our being in which resides our personality and core consciousness. There was a point in time when our souls did not exist. After coming into existence, souls reside in a sphere reserved exclusively for those that have not yet incarnated into a human life. At the point of incarnation, the soul splits into two, each part being the soulmate of the other. Soulmates generally incarnate at around the same time and may or may not meet during their earthly lives.
Only our soul was made in the image of God. The image is not the same thing as the substance but the potential exists for God’s own soul substance to infill our souls and make us divine. Divine consciousness is Christ Consciousness. When we die, the state of our soul determines where our place of residence will be in the spirit world. Those who have led negative lives will find themselves in darkness while those who have led morally upstanding lives will enjoy pleasant surroundings. God’s law is exact and none can avoid the workings of this law. The right to inhabit higher realms has to be earned; willpower alone will not suffice to allow a spirit to move into a higher plane than their soul condition fits them for.
Our material mind is not the same thing as our soul, although there is a connection between them, the mind being a reflection of the consciousness that arises in our soul. Mankind has developed the material mind to an extraordinary degree to the point it dominates our awareness. As a result, our soul consciousness languishes, barely recognised as even existing. Similarly, our spirit body has its own perceptions and awareness. In most people these spirit perceptions are switched off, otherwise we would be flooded with information from the spirit world all the time. Psychics have their spirit body senses switched on to a greater or lesser extent, giving them some awareness of the spirit world. After physical death, our awareness transfers fully to the spirit body and the perceptions of the spirit mind kick in to replace those of our material mind. On the divine love path we are encouraged to integrate these different centres of consciousness, especially our newly developing divine soul consciousness. This is easier said than done and a large part of the divine journey relates to the battle between material mind and soul for dominance. Once our soul mind comes into ascendancy then we are well on the way to graduating from our role as divine apprentices.
Through our physical bodies, our soul attributes are reflected in our interactions with the outside world. Through our spirit bodies, we interact with the unseen world of spirit. When we receive divine love into our souls then new soul perceptions open up and allow us to interact with a higher divine reality. No-one can engage in a divine life without first receiving this love.
A growing divine consciousness represents a change and a challenge to our normal way of thinking and each of us on the divine path has to choose whether to proactively acknowledge and integrate these new soul perceptions or not. Some may feel that their identity or sanity is threatened by the unfamiliar nature of their new experiences and will resist any change to their normal thought patterns. However, unless we develop a divine mind of the soul then we will never experience the greatest happiness that even God can bestow on us. It should come as no surprise that our material mind, with all its obvious limitations, will never allow us to explore and understand the various realms and dimensions that make up divine reality. The nature of the divine mind is such that it does not reach conclusions based on a linear sequence of thoughts. Instead, it sifts through information from multiple dimensions in parallel.
God’s love eventually changes everything in us and works for our highest good at all times. It is a substance that never changes in all eternity. It can be regarded as a form of energy but we are used to energy dissipating away or changing into something else. By contrast, divine love is perfect and permanent and provides us with a solid anchor to our being with which to experience all of God’s creation.
God’s love progressively ignites seeds in our souls that represent the various gifts that God has endowed us with. The exact combination of abilities that we possess is unique to every individual. These seeds will blossom at various points on our journey and will both surprise and delight us as they appear. They are just one of the many blessings that God showers on us when we walk the divine path.
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 think or act in ways that are contrary to God’s laws then we literally and figuratively darken our souls. The effect of this is to stifle our spirituality and make it harder for light to get in and out of our soul. This darkness inevitably invokes the law of compensation whereby in the fullness of time we suffer in accordance with the severity of the sins we have committed. Although this law operates all the time from the moment of transgression, the great period of soul expiation occurs after physical death, when we become more aware of our spiritual state and those things in us that cause us to be unhappy. This process of expiation continues until we have paid the price of our transgressions in full at which point the underlying darkness that causes our suffering is finally lifted and we have the opportunity to progress to higher spheres in the spirit world.
However, we may become progressively redeemed from this potential or actual suffering at any time by praying earnestly for God’s divine love to fill our souls. Divine love is the fulfillment of the law and by gradually removing any darkness in us we become relieved of the penalties of our sins without having to pay ‘to the last farthing’. The law of compensation is not actually set aside in this process, rather, a higher law is invoked whereby the darkness (on which the law of compensation acts) is cleansed from our being and, once entirely removed, there is nothing in us that can be the cause of further suffering under the lower law.
This is a form of forgiveness granted only to those who follow the divine path. Those who follow the path of natural love will find that this lower form of love is not sufficient to save them from suffering from the consequences of sin and, consequently, they will pay the penalty of violating God’s laws in full. Of course, remorse, the desire to make amends and the natural love all play a part in relieving the soul of its burden of darkness but the suffering will always be felt in full until redemption has been earned or the afflicted soul turns to the divine path to seek God’s forgiveness through obtaining divine love.
Divine love is therefore the great destroyer of sin and error from our being, making us as one with our Creator in divine nature. In doing so, it does not violate any of God’s laws as may be supposed by those who believe all wrongdoing inescapably results in divine retribution.
The power of divine love to remove the cause of our suffering at its root is astonishing and a wonderful example of how God makes provision for our wellbeing and happiness.
A prayer to God doesn’t need words and can just be the expression of a deep longing. When I pray with words I may say something like ‘Heavenly Creator, fill my soul with divine love and keep me always in your perfect care. Change my body, mind and soul to be what you want them to be for my own highest good and the highest good of all. Guide me so that each moment I walk the perfect path through life that you want me to take’. We should always express deep gratitude for the help we receive.
To be in a state of grace means our soul consciousness overshadows our material mind to the point where we are so full of love that our only desire is to share it with all and help others experience the living presence of God in their lives.
To be reborn of spirit means to be given a new divine soul that is filled with God’s divine essence. This divine soul has no prior existence before we start receiving divine love. As we grow in this love, we start to experience a new divine consciousness that allows us to share God’s reality, which is quite different from ordinary consciousness. At the exact point that our divine soul is fully formed we are in a state that enables us to enter the celestial kingdom. At this point also, our material mind is completely eclipsed by our new-found consciousness and, like an unused muscle, is no longer needed.
The idea of receiving both a major soul upgrade and mind upgrade is absolutely incredible. If this is true then why haven’t we heard of it before? Well, serious scholars of the bible have just about managed to articulate and experience what I’ve been describing. The availability of divine love was foretold in several places in the old testament, including Ezekiel 36:26: “A new heart will I give you and a new spirit will I put within you, and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh and will give you a heart of flesh”. Our heart is the seat of our being, namely, our soul. The spirit is the Holy Spirit, which I have called the Comforter, which is an instrument (an active energy) of God’s being dedicated to bringing God’s love into our souls. This is the true message that Jesus came to declare (not the misguided, false traditional Christian concept of being reborn through belief in the so-called vicarious atonement, whereby the spilling of Jesus’ blood redeems us from our sins). There are many references in the new testament to having the Holy Spirit within us. The kingdom of heaven mentioned by Jesus is both a spiritual state of being and a place high up in the next world which only those with divine souls may enter. However, the description and terminology used in the bible leaves something to be desired and that is why Mr Padgett was used to convey anew the glad tidings of our potential to be reborn as immortal beings, sharing God’s own divine essence. What else would God’s own great soul be made out of other than pure love?
I am aware of several books that were written before the Padgett Messages, where the references in the bible have been understood by the authors well enough to allow them to experience the glory of the new birth. Not everything in these books is totally correct, as the bible contains many errors and omissions but, nevertheless, the writers have done remarkably well to find their way to one of the greatest truths we can ever discover. These scholars faced many obstacles to their understanding such as whether receiving the great inflow of love representing the new birth is a singular event or something that could be repeated many times. Nor is it clear in the bible exactly what needs to be done to cause this great change in our innermost being.
It is deeply regrettable that it took 19 centuries to elapse before the truth was made plain and freely available to all. The underlying reasons why our celestial teachers were unable to communicate these truths earlier is touched on in the Padgett Messages. One of the main reasons was that the grip of the church was so strong for so long that anyone claiming to have a new gospel of truth for the world would have been declared a heretic and executed. Another is that the free will of the individual can interfere with the transmission of the material into the medium’s mind, as apparently happened with Swedenborg, who was shown much of the spirit world while asleep but was unable to reconcile his memories of those events with his existing religious beliefs. We have a great deal to be grateful for, both to James Padgett and those in this world and the spirit world who contributed to the content, recording and publication of the messages. We should also be grateful to those handful of divine love mediums around the world who have continued the collaboration with celestial beings and made a great deal of useful information available in recent times.
The Padgett Messages - The Core Truths 
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