This presentation
comes from one of William LePar's bible classes. Often Mr. LePar would speak
from inspiration. Many times, his spiritual source, The Council, would speak
through him even though he was not in his trance state. We believe this is one
of those times.
Even though this
message is directed primarily towards Christians, all will find some value to
it. Mr. LePar and The Council voiced their opinion, many that all major belief
systems were essential to the spiritual growth of those souls who choose a
particular belief system. They also stated that some of those who did not
believe in Christ were better Christians than many who attended church on a
regular basis. How a person treats his family, his friends and others during
his life determines his true spiritual standing, not necessarily the religious
path he travels to find his Creator. Below
are Mr. LePar’s inspiring thoughts.
John 3:31-36, “He who comes from above is above all;
he who is of the earth belongs to the earth, and of the earth he speaks; he who
comes from heaven is above all. He bears witness to what he has seen and heard,
yet no one receives his testimony; he who receives his testimony sets his seal
to this, that God is true. For he whom God has sent utters the words of God,
for it is not by measure that he gives the Spirit; the Father loves the Son,
and has given all things into his hand. He who believes in the Son has eternal
life; he who does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God
rests upon him.”
The Knox Version has a footnote here about verses 31-36 saying
these verses may either be regarded as part of what St. John the Baptist said
(perhaps more probably) or as a comment by John, the writer of this Gospel.
That is in regards to which text you are going to take it from, what
manuscripts you are going to take it from as in the Greek and the Hebrew. One
of them is not quite as clear in specifying that those are the words of John
the Baptist. The other one specifies that it is, so whenever there is some
doubt in some respect like that then there is a note added. Regardless of who
is saying it, whether it is John the Baptist or John the Gospel writer, I don’t
think it is significant who said it. What is more important is what is being said.
John the Baptist sets before men the
eternal choice of either life or death. All through history the choice has been
set before Israel. In Deuteronomy 30:15-20, this records the words of Moses. “See,
I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I call heaven
and earth to witness against you this day that I have set before you life and
death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life that your descendants may
live.” The same challenge was offered again by Joshua – “Choose this day whom
you will serve.” That is from Joshua 24:15.
We can rest
assured that life concentrates on a man when he reaches a crossroad. The most
important thing is man’s reaction to Christ. If that reaction is love and
longing, that man will know life eternal. If it is indifferent or hostile, that
man will know death. It is not that God sends His wrath upon men; it is that
man brings that wrath upon himself.
This is the
only place in this Gospel that God’s wrath is mentioned in this manner. I would
say the reasons why John the Gospel writer does not dwell upon the wrath of God
is that John hopes that those who understand what John is saying and the
picture of Christ that is portrayed in his Gospel are beyond that type of
thinking. Some people prefer to ignore that which comes to us when we do not
work within the Divine Vibrations, when we go against such vibrations. Some
people wish to ignore that friction or wrath that WE set up, that friction
within that Divinity becomes the Wrath of God that we call upon ourselves.
Any true
conception of God is as a moral being to Whom sin is hateful, and if we believe
that, world history is world judgment. There is plenty of evidence for this
(and we are referring now to wrath) in the world today. Such a wrath (from God)
is not an outburst of an irate pride as it tends to be in human beings. To form
a true picture of the Wrath of God, we should think of the holy indignation
which a good man feels in the presence of stark evil and then multiply it
infinitely. Such a wrath must belong to Him whose nature is holy love, to Him
Who is God. This wrath is the higher self’s condemnation of its lack of desire
to create as perfectly as it can. In its pride and self-esteem, it does a
sloppy job of creation, for it seeks only to satisfy itself and not the
perfection of divinity that its source of light comes from. Now we are talking
here about us as individuals. In the Divine’s creation of each of us in our
original state, we were created perfectly, and it was of our own free will to
be less or other than perfect.
Even now, at
this very moment, the original essence, the Divine Essence that we are, is in
what one might consider a state of perfection, but in receiving the free will
that the Divine has given us, we still insist on feeding our own selfishness and
our own desires, so that the pride of the higher self, choosing to exist in its
own level, or its own dimension, does not contribute to the Divine Plan of God,
thus becoming imperfect or out of tune or out of step. The spiritual vibrations
of that entity do not mesh into the Perfect Pattern and add or create more
beauty to the general plan that is the Divine Plan of God or the Holy Love. So,
as it marches or moves out of vibration, it creates a disharmony or that which
is not aesthetic in terms of beautiful or inspiring, thus is imperfect.
To those who
may worry about correcting the ego or selfishness of the higher self, it should
be to your understanding here and now that the higher self has realized its
foolishness by creating you, that you are consciously aware of, in a position
and in a time when all that is necessary to reach your at-one-ment is by
accepting the Divine Love of God and believing in His Son Jesus Christ.
In essence,
what the higher self has come to realize is that in its desire to become
complete, it can only do so by admitting its imperfection, its selfishness, and
placing itself in the Divine Mercy of God, allowing itself to be in a position
to work for and with the Will of God. Thus, the higher self realizes its limitedness.
It has faith and trust in the love and mercy of God.
Henceforth,
you are a Gentile born into a Christian belief system or into a Western belief
system. So, you as an entity that is consciously aware in the material plane
can find satisfaction in knowing that you, the higher self, is willing to
submit its will to the Will of God.
Whether it
continues in this path, we can judge in the physical awareness by our actions
and how closely they subscribe to the Divine Laws of God. Our physical self is
a mirror of our higher self. This is in reference to attitudes and how well WE
manifest them in the physical.