THE LIFE & TEACHINGS OF JESUS 

PAPER 120 - The Life and Teachings of Jesus 

PAPER 121 - THE TIMES OF MICHAEL'S BESTOWAL 

PAPER 122 - BIRTH AND INFANCY OF JESUS 

PAPER 123 - THE EARLY CHILDHOOD OF JESUS 

PAPER 124 - THE LATER CHILDHOOD OF JESUS 

PAPER 125 - JESUS AT JERUSALEM 

PAPER 126 - THE TWO CRUCIAL YEARS 

PAPER 127 - THE ADOLESCENT YEARS 

PAPER 128 - JESUS' EARLY MANHOOD 

PAPER 129 - THE LATER ADULT LIFE OF JESUS 

PAPER 130 - ON THE WAY TO ROME 

PAPER 131 - THE WORLD'S RELIGIONS 

PAPER 132 - THE SOJOURN AT ROME 

PAPER 133 - THE RETURN FROM ROME 

PAPER 134 - THE TRANSITION YEARS 

PAPER 135 - JOHN THE BAPTIST 

PAPER 136 - BAPTISM AND THE FORTY DAYS 

PAPER 137 - TARRYING TIME IN GALILEE 

PAPER 138 - TRAINING THE KINGDOM'S MESSENGERS

PAPER 139 - THE TWELVE APOSTLES 

PAPER 140 - THE ORDINATION OF THE TWELVE 

PAPER 141 - BEGINNING THE PUBLIC WORK 

PAPER 142 - THE PASSOVER AT JERUSALEM

PAPER 143 - GOING THROUGH SAMARIA 

PAPER 144 - AT GILBOA AND IN THE DECAPOLIS 

PAPER 145 - FOUR EVENTFUL DAYS AT CAPERNAUM 

PAPER 146 - FIRST PREACHING TOUR OF GALILEE 

PAPER 147 - THE INTERLUDE VISIT TO JERUSALEM 

PAPER 148 - TRAINING EVANGELISTS AT BETHSAIDA 

PAPER 149 - THE SECOND PREACHING TOUR 

PAPER 150 - THE THIRD PREACHING TOUR 

PAPER 151 - TARRYING AND TEACHING BY THE SEASIDE 

PAPER 152 - EVENTS LEADING UP TO THE CAPERNAUM CRISIS 

PAPER 153 - THE CRISIS AT CAPERNAUM 

PAPER 154 - LAST DAYS AT CAPERNAUM 

PAPER 155 - FLEEING THROUGH NORTHERN GALILEE 

PAPER 156 - THE SOJOURN AT TYRE AND SIDON 

PAPER 157 - AT CAESAREA-PHILIPPI 

PAPER 158 - THE MOUNT OF TRANSFIGURATION 

PAPER 159 - THE DECAPOLIS TOUR 

PAPER 160 - RODAN OF ALEXANDRIA 

PAPER 161 - FURTHER DISCUSSIONS WITH RODAN 

PAPER 162 - AT THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES 

PAPER 163 - ORDINATION OF THE SEVENTY AT MAGADAN 

PAPER 164 - AT THE FEAST OF DEDICATION 

PAPER 165 - THE PEREAN MISSION BEGINS 

PAPER 166 - LAST VISIT TO NORTHERN PEREA 

PAPER 167 - THE VISIT TO PHILADELPHIA 

PAPER 168 - THE RESURRECTION OF LAZARUS 

PAPER 169 - LAST TEACHING AT PELLA 

PAPER 170 - THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN 

PAPER 171 - ON THE WAY TO JERUSALEM 

PAPER 172 - GOING INTO JERUSALEM 

PAPER 173 - MONDAY IN JERUSALEM 

PAPER 174 - TUESDAY MORNING IN THE TEMPLE 

PAPER 175 - THE LAST TEMPLE DISCOURSE 

PAPER 176 - TUESDAY EVENING ON MOUNT OLIVET 

PAPER 177 - WEDNESDAY, THE REST DAY 

PAPER 178 - LAST DAY AT THE CAMP 

PAPER 179 - THE LAST SUPPER 

PAPER 180 - THE FAREWELL DISCOURSE 

PAPER 181 - FINAL ADMONITIONS AND WARNINGS 

PAPER 182 - IN GETHSEMANE 

PAPER 183 - THE BETRAYAL AND ARREST OF JESUS 

PAPER 184 - BEFORE THE SANHEDRIN COURT 

PAPER 185 - THE TRIAL BEFORE PILATE

PAPER 186 - JUST BEFORE THE CRUCIFIXION 

PAPER 187 - THE CRUCIFIXION 

PAPER 188 - THE TIME OF THE TOMB 

PAPER 189 - THE RESURRECTION 

PAPER 190 - MORONTIA APPEARANCES OF JESUS 

PAPER 191 - APPEARANCES TO THE APOSTLES AND OTHER LEADERS 

PAPER 192 - APPEARANCES IN GALILEE 

PAPER 193 - FINAL APPEARANCES AND ASCENSION 

PAPER 194 - BESTOWAL OF THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH 

PAPER 195 - AFTER PENTECOST 

PAPER 196 - THE FAITH OF JESUS 

GOD is unity. Deity is universally co-ordinated. The universe of universes is one vast integrated mechanism which is absolutely controlled by one infinite mind. The physical, intellectual, and spiritual domains of universal creation are divinely correlated. The perfect and imperfect are truly interrelated, and therefore may the finite evolutionary creature ascend to Paradise in obedience to the Universal Father's mandate: "Be you perfect, even as I am perfect."

 

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Biophotons: The Human Body Emits, Communicates with, and is Made from Light

By Sayer Ji, founder of GreenMedInfo.com

Increasingly science agrees with the poetry of direct human experience: we are more than the atoms and molecules that make up our bodies, but beings of light as well. Biophotons are emitted by the human body, can be released through mental intention, and may modulate fundamental processes within cell-to-cell communication and DNA.

Nothing is more amazing than the highly improbable fact that we exist. We often ignore this fact, oblivious to the reality that instead of something there could be nothing at all, i.e. why is there a universe (poignantly aware of itself through us) and not some void completely unconscious of itself?

Consider that from light, air, water, basic minerals within the crust of the earth, and the at least 3 billion year old information contained within the nucleus of one diploid zygote cell, the human body is formed, and within that body a soul capable of at least trying to comprehend its bodily and spiritual origins.

Given the sheer insanity of our existential condition, and bodily incarnation as a whole, and considering that our earthly existence is partially formed from sunlight and requires the continual consumption of condensed sunlight in the form of food, it may not sound so farfetched that our body emits light.

Indeed, the human body emits biophotons, also known as ultraweak photon emissions (UPE), with a visibility 1,000 times lower than the sensitivity of our naked eye. While not visible to us, these particles of light (or waves, depending on how you are measuring them) are part of the visible electromagnetic spectrum (380-780 nm) and are detectable via sophisticated modern instrumentation.[1],[2]

The Physical and “Mental” Eye Emits Light

The eye itself, which is continually exposed to ambient powerful photons that pass through various ocular tissues, emit spontaneous and visible light-induced ultraweak photon emissions.[3] It has even been hypothesized that visible light induces delayed bioluminescence within the exposed eye tissue, providing an explanation for the origin of the negative afterimage.[4]

These light emissions have also been correlated with cerebral energy metabolism and oxidative stress within the mammalian brain.[5] [6] And yet, biophoton emissions are not necessarily epiphenomenal. Bókkon’s hypothesis suggests that photons released from chemical processes within the brain produce biophysical pictures during visual imagery, and a recent study found that when subjects actively imagined light in a very dark environment their intention produced significant increases in ultraweak photo emissions.[7] This is consistent with an emerging view that biophotons are not solely cellular metabolic by-products, but rather, because biophoton intensity can be considerably higher inside cells than outside, it is possible for the mind to access this energy gradient to create intrinsic biophysical pictures during visual perception and imagery.[8]

Our Cells and DNA Use Biophotons To Store and Communicate Information

Apparently biophotons are used by the cells of many living organisms to communicate, which facilitates energy/information transfer that is several orders of magnitude faster than chemical diffusion. According to a 2010 study, “Cell to cell communication by biophotons have been demonstrated in plants, bacteria, animal neutriophil granulocytes and kidney cells.”[9] Researchers were able to demonstrate that “…different spectral light stimulation (infrared, red, yellow, blue, green and white) at one end of the spinal sensory or motor nerve roots resulted in a significant increase in the biophotonic activity at the other end.” Researchers interpreted their finding to suggest that “…light stimulation can generate biophotons that conduct along the neural fibers, probably as neural communication signals.”

Even when we go down to the molecular level of our genome, DNA can be identified to be a source of biophoton emissions as well. One author proposes that DNA is so biophoton dependent that is has excimer laser-like properties, enabling it to exist in a stable state far from thermal equilibrium at threshold.[10]

Technically speaking a biophoton is an elementary particle or quantum of light of non-thermal origin in the visible and ultraviolet spectrum emitted from a biological system. They are generally believed to be produced as a result of energy metabolism within our cells, or more formally as a “…by-product of biochemical reactions in which excited molecules are produced from bioenergetic processes that involves active oxygen species,” [11]

The Body’s Circadian Biophoton Output

Because the metabolism of the body changes in a circadian fashion, biophoton emissions also variate along the axis of diurnal time. [12] Research has mapped out distinct anatomical locations within the body where biophoton emissions are stronger and weaker, depending on the time of the day:

Generally, the fluctuation in photon counts over the body was lower in the morning than in the afternoon. The thorax-abdomen region emitted lowest and most constantly. The upper extremities and the head region emitted most and increasingly over the day. Spectral analysis of low, intermediate and high emission from the superior frontal part of the right leg, the forehead and the palms in the sensitivity range of the photomultiplier showed the major spontaneous emission at 470-570 nm. The central palm area of hand emission showed a larger contribution of the 420-470 nm range in the spectrum of spontaneous emission from the hand in autumn/winter. The spectrum of delayed luminescence from the hand showed major emission in the same range as spontaneous emission.

The researchers concluded that “The spectral data suggest that measurements might well provide quantitative data on the individual pattern of peroxidative and anti-oxidative processes in vivo.”

Meditation and Herbs Affect Biophoton Output

Research has found an oxidative stress-mediated difference in biophoton emission among mediators versus non-meditators. Those who meditate regularly tend to have lower ultra-weak photon emission (UPE, biophoton emission), which is believed to result from the lower level of free radical reactions occurring in their bodies. In one clinical study involving practitioners of transcendental meditation (TM) researchers found:

The lowest UPE intensities were observed in two subjects who regularly meditate. Spectral analysis of human UPE has suggested that ultra-weak emission is probably, at least in part, a reflection of free radical reactions in a living system. It has been documented that various physiologic and biochemical shifts follow the long-term practice of meditation and it is inferred that meditation may impact free radical activity.[13]

Interestingly, an herb well-known for its use in stress reduction (including inducing measurable declines in cortisol), and associated heightened oxidative stress, has been tested clinically in reducing the level of biophotons emitted in human subjects. Known as rhodiola, a study published in 2009 in the journal Phytotherapeutic Research found that those who took the herb for 1 week has a significant decrease in photon emission in comparison with the placebo group.[14]

Human Skin May Capture Energy and Information from Sunlight

Perhaps most extraordinary of all is the possibility that our bodily surface contains cells capable of efficiently trapping the energy and information from ultraviolet radiation. A study published in the Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology in 1993, titled, “Artificial sunlight irradiation induces ultraweak photon emission in human skin fibroblasts,” discovered that when light from an artificial sunlight source was applied to fibroblasts from either normal subjects or with the condition xeroderma pigmentosum, characterized by deficient DNA repair mechanisms, it induced far higher emissions of ultraweak photons (10-20 times) in the xeroderma pigmentosum group. The researchers concluded from this experiment that “These data suggest that xeroderma pigmentosum cells tend to lose the capacity of efficient storage of ultraweak photons, indicating the existence of an efficient intracellular photon trapping system within human cells.“[15] More recent research has also identified measurable differences in biophoton emission between normal and melanoma cells.[16]

In a previous article, Does Skin Pigment Act Like A Natural Solar-Panel, we explored the role of melanin in converting ultraviolet light into metabolic energy:

Melanin is capable of transforming ultraviolet light energy into heat in a process known as “ultrafast internal conversion”; more than 99.9% of the absorbed UV radiation is transformed from potentially genotoxic (DNA-damaging) ultraviolet light into harmless heat.

If melanin can convert light into heat, could it not also transform UV radiation into other biologically/metabolically useful forms of energy? This may not seem so farfetched when one considers that even gamma radiation, which is highly toxic to most forms of life, is a source of sustenance for certain types of fungi and bacteria. More on melanin-mediated energy production here.

Gerald Pollack, PhD, who wrote The 4th Phase of Water has identified water molecules, which constitute 99% of the molecules in our body by number, as capable of storing the energy of sunlight like batteries and driving the majority of processes within our body as a primary, non-ATP-based source of energy. Dr. Pollack wrote a guest article for us on the topic here, Can Humans Harvest The Sun’s Energy Directly Like Plants?

The Body’s Biophoton Outputs Are Governed by Solar and Lunar Forces

It appears that modern science is only now coming to recognize the ability of the human body to receive and emit energy and information directly from the light given off from the Sun. [17]

There is also a growing realization that the Sun and Moon affect biophoton emissions through gravitational influences. Recently, biophoton emissions from wheat seedlings in Germany and Brazil were found to be synchronized transcontinentally according to rhythms associated with the lunisolar tide.[18] In fact, the lunisolar tidal force, to which the Sun contributes 30 % and the Moon 60 % of the combined gravitational acceleration, has been found to regulate a number of features of plant growth upon Earth.[19]

Intention Is a Living Force of Physiology

Even human intention itself, the so-called ghost in the machine, may have an empirical basis in biophotons.

A recent commentary published in the journal Investigacion clinica titled “Evidence about the power of intention” addressed this connection:

Intention is defined as a directed thought to perform a determined action. Thoughts targeted to an end can affect inanimate objects and practically all living things from unicellular organisms to human beings. The emission of light particles (biophotons) seems to be the mechanism through which an intention produces its effects. All living organisms emit a constant current of photons as a mean to direct instantaneous nonlocal signals from one part of the body to another and to the outside world. Biophotons are stored in the intracellular DNA. When the organism is sick changes in biophotons emissions are produced. Direct intention manifests itself as an electric and magnetic energy producing an ordered flux of photons. Our intentions seem to operate as highly coherent frequencies capable of changing the molecular structure of matter. For the intention to be effective it is necessary to choose the appropriate time. In fact, living beings are mutually synchronized and to the earth and its constant changes of magnetic energy. It has been shown that the energy of thought can also alter the environment. Hypnosis, stigmata phenomena and the placebo effect can also be considered as types of intention, as instructions to the brain during a particular state of consciousness. Cases of spontaneous cures or of remote healing of extremely ill patients represent instances of an exceedingly great intention to control diseases menacing our lives. The intention to heal as well as the beliefs of the sick person on the efficacy of the healing influences promote his healing. In conclusion, studies on thought and consciousness are emerging as fundamental aspects and not as mere epiphenomena that are rapidly leading to a profound change in the paradigms of Biology and Medicine.

So there you have it. Science increasingly agrees with direct human experience: we are more than the atoms and molecules of which we are composed, but beings that emit, communicate with, and are formed from light.

[1] Herbert Schwabl, Herbert Klima. Spontaneous ultraweak photon emission from biological systems and the endogenous light field. Forsch Komplementarmed Klass Naturheilkd. 2005 Apr;12(2):84-9. PMID: 15947466

[2] Hugo J Niggli, Salvatore Tudisco, Giuseppe Privitera, Lee Ann Applegate, Agata Scordino, Franco Musumeci. Laser-ultraviolet-A-induced ultraweak photon emission in mammalian cells. J Biomed Opt. 2005 Mar-Apr;10(2):024006. PMID: 15910080

[3] Chao Wang, István Bókkon, Jiapei Dai, István Antal. Spontaneous and visible light-induced ultraweak photon emission from rat eyes. Brain Res. 2011 Jan 19 ;1369:1-9. Epub 2010 Oct 26. PMID: 21034725

[4] I Bókkon, R L P Vimal, C Wang, J Dai, V Salari, F Grass, I Antal. Visible light induced ocular delayed bioluminescence as a possible origin of negative afterimage. J Photochem Photobiol B. 2011 May 3 ;103(2):192-9. Epub 2011 Mar 23. PMID: 21463953

[5] M Kobayashi, M Takeda, T Sato, Y Yamazaki, K Kaneko, K Ito, H Kato, H Inaba. In vivo imaging of spontaneous ultraweak photon emission from a rat’s brain correlated with cerebral energy metabolism and oxidative stress. Neurosci Res. 1999 Jul;34(2):103-13. PMID: 10498336

[6] Y Kataoka, Y Cui, A Yamagata, M Niigaki, T Hirohata, N Oishi, Y Watanabe. Activity-dependent neural tissue oxidation emits intrinsic ultraweak photons. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2001 Jul 27;285(4):1007-11. PMID: 11467852

[7] B T Dotta, K S Saroka, M A Persinger. Increased photon emission from the head while imagining light in the dark is correlated with changes in electroencephalographic power: support for Bókkon’s biophoton hypothesis. Neurosci Lett. 2012 Apr 4 ;513(2):151-4. Epub 2012 Feb 17. PMID: 22343311

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[14] F W G Schutgens, P Neogi, E P A van Wijk, R van Wijk, G Wikman, F A C Wiegant. The influence of adaptogens on ultraweak biophoton emission: a pilot-experiment. Phytother Res. 2009 Aug;23(8):1103-8. PMID: 19170145

[15] H J Niggli. Artificial sunlight irradiation induces ultraweak photon emission in human skin fibroblasts. J Photochem Photobiol B. 1993 May;18(2-3):281-5. PMID: 8350193

[16] Hugo J Niggli, Salvatore Tudisco, Giuseppe Privitera, Lee Ann Applegate, Agata Scordino, Franco Musumeci. Laser-ultraviolet-A-induced ultraweak photon emission in mammalian cells. J Biomed Opt. 2005 Mar-Apr;10(2):024006. PMID: 15910080

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[About the Author]

Sayer Ji is founder of Greenmedinfo.com, a reviewer at the International Journal of Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine, Co-founder and CEO of Systome Biomed, Vice Chairman of the Board of the National Health Federation, Steering Committee Member of the Global Non-GMO Foundation

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A● You have actually combined three questions into one , each of equal value so I will divide this answer into three sections to better help you understand the value and meaning of each inquiry and its answer.

PHOTO: In Search of God

Q● It's better not to pray than to pray without the spirit of GOD?

A● Without the inclusion of God prayers are merely verbalized wishes, the expression of sincere desires. When prayer becomes so materialistic that it has degenerated into a pseudomagical technique of avoiding the expenditure of that effort which is requisite for the solution of the problems of life on this world it fails to meet the laws of prevailing petitions to God.

True prayer is always indited by the spirit of God indwelling the minds of the children of God. All other petitions are simply things hoped for in human experience. True prayer is the breath of the human soul and it always brings forth an addition of power not an added burden of life. We do well to always follow our urge to pray to God. The truest prayer is in reality a most personal and intimate communion between man and his Maker.

Prayer functions as the most potent agency of religion in the conservation of the highest values and ideals of those who pray. When prayer leads up to the appearance of the concept of a divine and heavenly Father, prayer is always a socializing, moralizing, and spiritualizing practice.

There is also a domain of prayer wherein the intellectually alert and spiritually progressing individual attains more or less contact with the superconscious levels of the human mind, the domain of the true communion with the indwelling Spirit of the Father. Once prayer has evolved to real communion with God there is a definite spiritual phase of prayer which concerns its reception and recognition by the spiritual forces of the universe, and which is entirely distinct from all human and intellectual association.

True prayer contributes greatly to the development of the religious sentiment of an evolving human mind. It is a mighty influence working to prevent isolation of personality.

Prayer also represents one technique associated with the natural religions of racial evolution which also forms a part of the experiential values of the higher religions of ethical excellence, the religions of revelation.

True prayer, always stands for man’s communion with a personal and superior being. On this world Jesus was the one perfect example of prayer leading up to unbroken communion with God. Of all human knowledge, that which is of greatest value is to know the religious life of Jesus and how he lived it.

So here is his counsel on how to pray and how he regarded prayer.

When Thomas the apostle of Jesus asked: “Master teach us how it pray” Jesus answered.

“John indeed taught you a simple form of prayer: ‘O Father, cleanse us from sin, show us your glory, reveal your love, and let your spirit sanctify our hearts forevermore, Amen!’ He taught this prayer that you might have something to teach the multitude. He did not intend that you should use such a set and formal petition as the expression of your own souls in prayer.”

“Prayer is entirely a personal and spontaneous expression of the attitude of the soul toward the spirit; prayer should be the communion of sonship and the expression of fellowship. Prayer, when indited by the spirit, leads to co-operative spiritual progress. The ideal prayer is a form of spiritual communion which leads to intelligent worship. True praying is the sincere attitude of reaching heavenward for the attainment of your ideals”.

“Prayer is the breath of the soul and should lead you to be persistent in your attempt to ascertain the Father’s will. If any one of you has a neighbor, and you go to him at midnight and say: ‘Friend, lend me three loaves, for a friend of mine on a journey has come to see me, and I have nothing to set before him’; and if your neighbor answers, ‘Trouble me not, for the door is now shut and the children and I are in bed; therefore I cannot rise and give you bread,’ you will persist, explaining that your friend hungers, and that you have no food to offer him. I say to you, though your neighbor will not rise and give you bread because he is your friend, yet because of your importunity he will get up and give you as many loaves as you need. If, then, persistence will win favors even from mortal man, how much more will your persistence in the spirit win the bread of life for you from the willing hands of the Father in heaven. Again I say to you: Ask and it shall be given you; seek and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened to you. For every one who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks the door of salvation will be opened”.

“Which of you who is a father, if his son asks unwisely, would hesitate to give in accordance with parental wisdom rather than in the terms of the son’s faulty petition? If the child needs a loaf, will you give him a stone just because he unwisely asks for it? If your son needs a fish, will you give him a watersnake just because it may chance to come up in the net with the fish and the child foolishly asks for the serpent? If you, then, being mortal and finite, know how to answer prayer and give good and appropriate gifts to your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the spirit and many additional blessings to those who ask him? Men ought always to pray and not become discouraged”.

“Let me tell you the story of a certain judge who lived in a wicked city. This judge feared not God nor had respect for man. Now there was a needy widow in that city who came repeatedly to this unjust judge, saying, ‘Protect me from my adversary.’ For some time he would not give ear to her, but presently he said to himself: ‘Though I fear not God nor have regard for man, yet because this widow ceases not to trouble me, I will vindicate her lest she wear me out by her continual coming.’ These stories I tell you to encourage you to persist in praying and not to intimate that your petitions will change the just and righteous Father above. Your persistence, however, is not to win favor with God but to change your earth attitude and to enlarge your soul’s capacity for spirit receptivity”.

“But when you pray, you exercise so little faith. Genuine faith will remove mountains of material difficulty which may chance to lie in the path of soul expansion and spiritual progress.”

So to summarize how to pray to God and in the Spirit

God does not so much listen to the words of a prayer but to the attitude of the soul and desire of the heart.

We should go off by ourselves amidst the quiet surroundings of nature or to go into our rooms and shut the doors when we engaged in prayer.

Prayer must be: Unselfish — not alone for oneself.

Believing  — according to faith.

Sincere — honest of heart.

Intelligent — according to light.

Trustful — in submission to the Father’s all-wise will.

The earnest and longing repetition of any petition, when such a prayer is the sincere expression of a child of God and is uttered in faith, no matter how ill-advised or impossible of direct answer, never fails to expand the soul’s capacity for spiritual receptivity.

In all praying, remember that sonship is a gift. No child has aught to do with earning the status of son or daughter. The earth child comes into being by the will of its parents. Even so, the child of God comes into grace and the new life of the spirit by the will of the Father in heaven. Therefore must the kingdom of heaven — divine sonship — be received as by a little child. You earn righteousness — progressive character development — but you receive sonship by grace and through faith.

Prayer led Jesus up to the supercommunion of his soul with the Supreme Rulers of the universe of universes. Prayer will lead the mortals of earth up to the communion of true worship. The soul’s spiritual capacity for receptivity determines the quantity of heavenly blessings which can be personally appropriated and consciously realized as an answer to prayer.

Prayer and its associated worship is a technique of detachment from the daily routine of life, from the monotonous grind of material existence. It is an avenue of approach to spiritualized self-realization and individuality of intellectual and religious attainment.

Prayer is an antidote for harmful introspection. At least, prayer as the Master taught it is such a beneficent ministry to the soul. Jesus consistently employed the beneficial influence of praying for one’s fellows. The Master usually prayed in the plural, not in the singular. Only in the great crises of his earth life did Jesus ever pray for himself.

Prayer is the breath of the spirit life in the midst of the material civilization of the races of mankind. Worship is salvation for the pleasure-seeking generations of mortals.

As prayer may be likened to recharging the spiritual batteries of the soul, so worship may be compared to the act of tuning in the soul to catch the universe broadcasts of the infinite spirit of the Universal Father.

Prayer is the sincere and longing look of the child to its spirit Father; it is a psychologic process of exchanging the human will for the divine will. Prayer is a part of the divine plan for making over that which is into that which ought to be.

Our praying should be done in the spirit and in the heart — silently.

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Q● So what is the spirit of GOD?

A● The spirit of God is an undiluted fragment of the Universal Father’s Spirit that comes to indwell the minds of his earth children! And this spirit fragment of God is the actual presence of God in man.

This spirit fragment of God indwelling the minds of his earth children is the pilot of the human soul and the guide of the human mind. Just as the earth father has a part of himself in his own children on earth so to does God have a spirit part of himself to unite with the human soul and actually fuse and become one with his faith-born children on earth. The faith- sons and faith-daughters of God.

This spirit fragment of God indwelling the minds of his earth children is not a spirit fragment of the infinite spirit also known on earth as the third part of the Divine Trinity of GOD - The Father – The  Son – and the Infinite Spirit; but is an actual spirit fragment of the Father himself. So behold what manner of love the Father has given onto us; that we should be called the sons of God.

THE endowment of imperfect beings with freedom entails inevitable tragedy, and it is the nature of the perfect ancestral Deity to universally and affectionately share these sufferings in loving companionship.

The love and devotion of the indwelling spirit of God is the most truly divine affection in all creation. The love of the  Creator Sons (Christ known on earth as Jesus) in their ministry to the races is superb, but the devotion of the spirit fragments of Divine Father to the individual is touchingly sublime, divinely Fatherlike. The Paradise Father has apparently reserved this form of personal contact with his individual creatures as an exclusive Creator prerogative. And there is nothing in all the universe of universes exactly comparable to the marvellous ministry of these impersonal spirit entities that so fascinatingly indwell the children of the evolutionary planets.

What the spirit of God does in us Indwelling the mortal mind.

The spirit fragment of God should not be thought of as living in the material brains of human beings. They are not organic parts of the physical creatures of the realms. These spirit fragments of God known on high as Thought Adjusters  or Divine Monitors can more properly be envisaged as indwelling the mortal mind of man rather than as existing within the confines of a single physical organ. And indirectly and unrecognized the Spirit Adjuster is constantly communicating with the human subject, especially during those sublime experiences of the worshipful contact of mind with spirit in the superconsciousness.

It is exceedingly difficult to help struggling men and women to achieve a better understanding and attain a fuller appreciation of the unselfish and superb work of the Fathers Spirit Adjusters living within them, who are so devoutly faithful to the task of fostering man’s spiritual welfare. These Divine Monitors are efficient ministers to the higher phases of men’s minds; they are wise and experienced manipulators of the spiritual potential of the human intellect. These heavenly helpers are dedicated to the stupendous task of guiding us safely inward and upward to the celestial haven of happiness. These tireless toilers are consecrated to the future personification of the triumph of divine truth in our life everlasting. They are the watchful workers who pilot the God-conscious human mind away from the shoals of evil while expertly guiding the evolving soul of man toward the divine harbors of perfection on far-distant and eternal shores. These Spirit Adjusters are loving leaders, our safe and sure guides through the dark and uncertain mazes of our short earthly careers; they are the patient teachers who so constantly urge us forward in the paths of progressive perfection. They are the careful custodians of the sublime values of creature character.  The wish  of the Hosts of Heaven is that we could love them more, co-operate with them more fully, and cherish them more affectionately.

Although these Divine Indwellers are chiefly concerned with our spiritual preparation for the next stage of the never-ending existence, they are also deeply interested in our temporal welfare and in our real achievements on earth. They are delighted to contribute to your health, happiness, and true prosperity. They are not indifferent to our success in all matters of planetary advancement which are not inimical to our future life of eternal progress.

The Father’s Spirit Adjusters are interested in, and concerned with, our daily doings and the manifold details of our life just to the extent that these are influential in the determination of our significant temporal choices and vital spiritual decisions and, hence, are factors in the solution of our problem of soul survival and eternal progress. The Father’s Spirit Adjuster, while passive regarding purely temporal welfare, is divinely active concerning all the affairs of your eternal future.

The Father’s Spirit Adjuster remains with us in all disaster and through every sickness which does not wholly destroy the mentality. But how unkind knowingly to defile or otherwise deliberately to pollute the physical body, which must serve as the earthly tabernacle of this marvellous gift from God. All physical poisons greatly retard the efforts of the Spirit Adjuster to exalt the material mind, while the mental poisons of fear, anger, envy, jealousy, suspicion, and intolerance likewise tremendously interfere with the spiritual progress of the evolving soul.

Today we are passing through the period of the courtship of our  Spirit Adjuster; and if we all prove faithful to the trust reposed in us by the Divine Spirit who seeks our mind and soul in eternal union, there will eventually ensue that morontia oneness, that supernal harmony, that cosmic co-ordination, that divine attunement, that celestial fusion, that never-ending blending of identity, that oneness of being which is so perfect and final that even the most experienced personalities can never segregate or recognize as separate identities the fusion partners — mortal man and Divine Spirit Adjuster. In other words the Spirit of the Father becomes one with us, making us both human and divine as was demonstrated by Jesus. So through living faith we become an eternal child of God.

Q● And how can I get it?

A● You are already in possession of this beautiful Spirit of the Universal Father. The very fact that you make these inquiries is living proof of that spiritual reality. The Universal Father and now his Creator Son always respond to the faintest flicker of faith in the human soul.

The next step in the journey to finding God our Father and becoming increasingly more like him is the attainment of a powerful and Living Faith that will take you from your present faith reach up to the conviction of certainty about your status in the Spiritual Family of God as one of his ascending sons/daughters of God.

The good news is that even your Faith is a gift from God. Ask and you will receive. Knock and the door will be opened. Seek and you will find.

The way, the life, and the truth has been established on this world by the presence of the Spirit of Truth and if you so desire you can learn more about this good spirit helper of men’s souls here.

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