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Pastor Rejects New Age
Teachings
I intentionally refrained from replying to your
letter dated February 23, because I wasn’t sure how I should react to it.
I’m still not sure even now. However, you asked for my comments. So, as best
as I can, as inoffensively and gently as possible — But truthfully, as always
— I write to you now to tell you like it is. No holds barred.
There is so much more I want to tell you. A lot
of them, you won’t be able to understand or accept now. But do try to keep an
open mind. In his own time, the Lord will clarify all things to you.
- First let me refer to your letter dated
February 23:
You wrote that you design your own courses and
teach in your churches. I also teach God’s Truth. Since 1976, after I
attained to my own enlightenment with the help of Jesus and the Holy Spirits,
some of them we know as the archangels, I have been under continuous training
for this work. Instead of being confined only to the study of the Bible, my
studies, however, are more experiential and first-hand, and extends also to
all other schools of thought and religions. Let me assure you that
communication with them is still prevalent as ever they were during Biblical
times. And in Heaven, there is no segregation. All religions are one.
Further, the more advanced students among us
are not too overly concerned with personalities, even the person of Jesus.
Instead, they concentrate more on the concepts and teachings because these are
the real messages which we are to profit by. Hence, I am returning your book.
I’m sure there will be someone else you can give it to who will be more at
the level of its teaching.
My work relates to the dissemination of New and
Advanced Teachings which are to form part of what Christ will be teaching us
when he comes again very soon after the turn of this century. "Christ
will come again." This time however, instead of teaching in parables, he
will be speaking to us plainly. INNER QUEST is the
vehicle/organization/school which I have founded to accomplish this work.
While we are not yet fully operational owing to certain logistical constraints
of which you are well aware, nevertheless, all our basic courses have already
been written and prepared.
In writing the courses, I have tried to cite
the actual words of the Lord, himself, whenever appropriate references are
available. Where we disagree, we can always turn to his words for guidance.
For your perusal, I am sending you also our basic short course on the
Teachings of Jesus Christ.
- In your view, our beliefs seem so
irreconcilable. However, consider a mountain climber working his way up a
mountain. Limited as he is to his own personal experiences and knowing only
what is behind him, he has no real conception of what is over on the other
side of the mountain. As he reaches greater heights, his vision extends
farther and farther. Only after he reaches the peak is he really able to see
all around. Only then is he able to appraise the whole area and not just the
places that he had visited previously.
The Old Testament was intended for people who are far less evolved than we
are. Their reasoning faculties not yet fully developed, they were required to
be totally subservient to established authority, told to do this and that and
not to think so much, in much the same way that we need to warn little
children, for their own good so that they don’t come to any harm. However,
today, many are capable of increased comprehension. So to them and to all
others who are open to Higher Learning, the explanations, plain and simple,
are provided.
In our studies, there are rules to be followed.
Everything must be subjected to question, analyzed and tested before it is
accepted. Those who trek the Higher Paths are not just "told"
things. Instead, the Holy Spirits help and guide us so that we may experience
the Truth for ourselves, first-hand, and realize for sure that it is really
true. In every instance, we are allowed to exercise our own discrimination and
judgment in all things. It follows then that all, whether they be in spirit or
in the flesh, who try to force their ideas on us are not to be believed, much
less followed. Only in this way can we develop to full maturity and spiritual
perfection.
While we are able to and do communicate at
times with ignorant, lower spirits (spirits of the dead), these occasions are
few and only when there is a real spiritual need that can be addressed. The
more advanced among us prefer to communicate almost exclusively with Holy
Spirits for the instruction and guidance.
- John the Baptist is not yet a Holy Spirit but
is counted among highly developed spirits and saints. He advises and assists
us according to his knowledge and abilities. All spirits, high or low and
even if they claim to be God, Almighty, are only supposed to propose and
suggest. We are the ones to decide for ourselves whether to follow the
suggestion or not in line with the divine principles of free will and
personal responsibility.
- We can never find God through purely
intellectual pursuits, neither through blind faith. God is found only by
imbibing and living out His teachings on righteousness enabling us to become
more like Him.
- I also consider you as my friend and my
brother. God loves all of us, His children. But being children spirits, we
all need to grow up some more and "become perfect like Him." Being
all-powerful and all-knowing, God has found a way to bring all of us forward
so that not one of us needs to be forever consigned to an infernal Hell. In
fact, He never punishes, instead, all that He allows us to experience, even
those that bring pain and sorrow, are for purposes of our instruction, to
prepare us. After all, our real life — Spirit life — is in Heaven, not
here on Earth. God has prepared good things for all of us in Heaven after
we have earned the right to receive His blessings. Reincarnation ensures
that we are provided the ample opportunities we need to eventually succeed.
- I have been quite blunt, myself. If I had not,
I would have been less than honest with you. To complete my training, I have
joined various study groups to polish up my communication skills but mainly
to share and to teach. Once I have planted the seeds of Higher Truth, my
work is done. Others who will come after me will water and care for the
seeds. Each one can benefit according to his own efforts, if he applies the
divine teachings in his life.
In your letter dated May 25, you referred to Josh
as being more intellectual than you are and therefore it is your thinking that
he can be far more effective than you in sharing Christ. However, let us rather
be guided by what Paul told the Corinthians in his first letter to them. Charity
or love is the greatest spiritual attribute. We should be patient and tolerant
toward our brothers, even if we disagree with them. Just like us, they were
granted the singular right to decide for themselves the course of their own
life. No one should impose on another against his will or against his own better
judgment. "For we know only in part and therefore we prophesy in part. We
see through a looking glass, darkly." Therefore, we should respect each
other’s beliefs. Not yet having attained to perfect knowledge, we could be
wrong and they may be right, after all. But no matter our differences, we are to
love one another.
Knowledge, abilities or gifts and all powers are
worth nothing without love. Love should be expressed through love and service to
our fellowmen, all of them, non-Christians included. Don, this is your special
strength. Words can be so empty and meaningless. But deeds are what count the
most. Through your good deeds, you reveal to one and all God’s divine love.
Nothing else more effectively convince than these do. I was not at all impressed
by Josh’s intellect and ideas. But you have impressed me much, much more
through your simple, ordinary and everyday attitude of caring and self-giving.
In this, you are truly blessed and you are daily proving to everyone that you
are a true servant of the Lord.
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