"Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven, shalt be thrust down to hell" - The God is Greater than Love

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The God is Greater than Love

Geraldine Cummins (1890 – 1969) spiritually communicated with F. W. H. Myers (1843 – 1901; a British poet and a founder of the Society for Psychical Research) and delivered the book The Road to Immorality written based on the spiritual communication.

Whether you believe or not that there can be communications with the spirits of deceased persons, the descriptions in the book match most of reports of near-death experiences, which became popular since Raymond Moody issuing books on such experiences since 1970s, in terms of death, the afterworld, and states of human souls after death.  However, the Vatican and other Christian churches have not encouraged people to promote the notion of immorality of human souls based on near-death experiences or modern spiritualism, which started in Europe and America in the 19th century.  Indeed, they did not authorize Swedenborg who wrote many books about the spirit world based on his own experiences of seeing the afterlife while living in this world in the 18th century, although he was a pious Christian (but not a Catholic).

In these books of Swedenborg and the modern spiritualism, there are some unique views on the God, Christ Jesus, the spirit world, etc. that are different from those officially adopted by the Vatican and other Christian churches.  Especially, views and thoughts on the God and Christ Jesus are important in judging divine authenticity of those books, if they are against Catholic creeds.         　

In The Road to Immorality, the spirit of Myers talked through Cummins that living people with finite minds should conceive the God with the expression that "the God is greater than love," although Christ Jesus said that "the God is love."  

It is because Christ Jesus used this expression in a different way and meaning than those for past people who had used the word love with human meanings.  The fact that Christ Jesus used the expression "the God is love" means that only Christ Jesus among all the human being who had ever lived in this world understood the true meaning of this expression.

This is an argument that cannot be discussed with a slicker or a tool of Satan.  If we interpret the words of Christ Jesus from a human pint of view or as words with human meaning, the expression of "The God is love" might sound simply emotional.  Nonetheless, Christ Jesus also said that "The God is the Spirit."  In this case, nobody should wrongly think that the God once lived in this world but died at a certain time. 

Anyway, non-nonsense men involved in spiritual matters seem to see the God as the the supreme ruler of the spirit world.  Even non-nonsense spirits that have spiritually communicated with living men seem to admit that they are all under power, dignity, glory, and love of the God.

The Vatican and other churches should change their attitudes, views, and policies on modern spiritualism.  They have to admit that every human being has his own soul that will enter into the spirit world to be a spirit leaving its body after death in this world like Christ Jesus as the modern spiritualism suggests.        

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Luke 10, King James Version

15 And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven, shalt be thrust down to hell.
16 He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me.
17 And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name.
18 And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.
19 Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
20 Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.

"when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet" - You but Not Christ Jesus that Is on the Cross

 

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You but Not Christ Jesus that Is on the Cross

Everybody knows that Christ Jesus suffered on the cross before His death.  But He knew that His soul would continue to live in the spirit world after death in this world.  But nobody has discussed this issue and found the answer.

From the beginning, the mission of Christ Jesus and the Gospels that report His mission are based on the notion that there are the afterworld, Heaven, and the hell.  Therefore, Christ Jesus should not have been afraid of death, since He knew that His soul should go on living in the spirit world after death in this world.  So then, what made Christ Jesus suffer so hard on the cross before His death?

The answer must be love to people but not sins of them.  It can be partly true that Christ Jesus suffered on the cross because He took and carried all the sins of people on behalf of them so as to make them relieve from retribution.  However, it is more likely that Christ Jesus saw power of Satan on people making people rebel against the God and leading them to corruption and degeneracy.  As a result, more and more people would fall into the hell, for which Christ Jesus felt responsible and remorse.

In other words, Christ Jesus should have seen so many people falling into the hell in the future.  Due to love to people, Christ Jesus must have felt great pain.  The images of the future revealed to Christ Jesus on the cross must have been so horrible, since so many people brainwashed by Satan would fall into the hell.

Christ Jesus must not have suffered due to His own tragedy or personal pains or for the weight of sins He carried on behalf of people.  But He suffered due to tragedies and pains that the people brainwashed by Satan should suffer in the future, and He felt responsible for it.    

Some people have mistaken Christ Jesus on the cross as a representative of sinners.  To tell the truth, the image of Christ Jesus on the cross represents everyone suffering due to divine punishment as he is brainwashed by Satan.  

"It is you but not Christ Jesus that is on the cross" must be the message that should be delivered by the Vatican and other churches.   

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Matthew 10, King James Version
12 And when ye come into an house, salute it.
13 And if the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it: but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you.
14 And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet.
15 Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.
16 Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

"The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling" - Spirits Requested to Ascend to Higher Levels

 

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Spirits Requested to Ascend to Higher Levels

In Japan, there is one story, named Kozakura-hime Monogatari (The Princess Kozakura Story) well known to people interested in spiritualism, about a woman who had been the wife of a samurai 400 years earlier and appeared to a certain woman in the 20th century through spiritual communications.  

The spiritual communications between the spirit and the certain woman who was wife of Wasaburo Asano, a notable researcher of spiritualism in Japan before WWII, continued for about 7 years since 1929 when the wife got spiritual ability at death of her boy.  The spirit called itself Kozakura-hime (Princess Kozakura) and talked about its life while living in this world as well as various states in the afterworld.  After fully talking experiences in the spirit world, the spirit declared that it would stop the communications.   Asano wrote the book about these spiritual communications between his wife and the spirit, which became a best seller at the time.  Subsequently, Asano died in 1937.

And 40 years later, around 1969, the spirit of Princess Kozakura appeared to a local historian who lived around the place where Princess Kozakura once lived as the wife of a samurai local lord.  The historian studied about Princess Kozakura to find that she had died without giving birth to children, so that her name was not recorded in the family history of the clan of her husband.  So, the historian visited the Asano's wife to inform her of the spiritual appearance of the spirit of Princess Kozakura and get some information about her.  The historian gave the spirit a religious name of shintoism to appease her and officially admit her existence in history.  Then, the spirit of Princess Kozakura stopped appearing to the historian.  And, soon after it, Asano's wife died in 1969.

The spirit or Princess Kozakura came to know Asano's wife when her boy died and entered into the afterlife.  Then, Princess Kozakura became the guardian spirit of Asano's wife.  From communications between Princess Kozakura and Asano's wife, some interesting status and circumstances in the spirit world were revealed.

Spirits in the afterlife or the spirit world are requested to spiritually study and train themselves so that they will ascend to higher levels in the spirit world.  And, as shintoism was popular in the samurai class at the time of her life, Princess Kozakura said that gods of shintoism presided over some parts of the spirit world.  However, there are upper levels where other gods preside.  

There are also spirits of animals and plants in the spirit world who behave and talk like human spirits, according to Princess Kozakura.  And, there are also spirits of some mystical creatures known in the Japanese society several hundreds years ago. 

Except parts in her explanations about the spirit world, which are unique to the era in Japan when Princess Kozakura lived probably in the 15th century, the status and circumstances of spirits in the spirit world match those in the spirit world and near-death experiences reported by modern Europeans and Americans. 

In this context, it seems to be true that souls of dead men continue to live in the afterworld as spirits with the same minds as those they had while living in this world but with different spiritual bodies.  Nonetheless, spirits in the spirit world are requested to educate and enhance themselves and ascend to higher levels closer to the supreme God, although they do not have to worry about clothes, foods, and residence.       

Today, a shintoism shrine enshrining Princess Kozakura stands in a costal area near Tokyo where she lived as the wife of a samurai local lord about 500 years ago.  And nowadays, the spirit of Princess Kozakura seems to live or rest peacefully in the afterworld.                     

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John 10, King James Version

11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
12 But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.
13 The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.
14 I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.
15 As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.
17 Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.

"Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery" - Conan Doyle's Efforts to Propagate Spiritualism

 

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Conan Doyle's Efforts to Propagate Spiritualism

Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930) is famous not only for his novels featuring Sherlock Holmes but also for his belief and efforts to diffuse spiritualism. 

However, his work New Revelation (1918) shows his passion to influence modern Christianity with a hope that the truth of Christ Jesus should be taught to Christians.  According to Doyle, Christ Jesus was the person with the highest spiritual power.  The Gospels should be read from the view point that miracles and healings by Christ Jesus were based on His ability to use spiritual power.  Doyle also believed that there was the afterlife.  He also thought that WWI had occurred due to the failure of the Vatican and other Christian churches in teaching truth of Christ Jesus while diffusing problematic creeds that could not prevent WWI.  And, the main reason for this failure of traditional Christian communities was, Dole thought, that they had not read and interpret the Gospels from the spiritual point of view.                

One of interesting points in his argument is that the event called the Transfiguration of Jesus in the Gospels shows Christ Jesus' spiritual power to evoke spirits of ancient Jewish saints such as Moses while using St. Peter and other disciples as spirit mediums.  

In the Synoptic Gospels, (Matthew 17:1–8 Mark 9:2–8, Luke 9:28–36), the account of the transfiguration happens towards the middle of the narrative. It is a key episode and almost immediately follows another important element, the Confession of Peter: "you are the Christ" (Matthew 16:16, Mark 8:29, Luke 9:20). The transfiguration narrative acts as a further revelation of the identity of Jesus as the Son of God to some of his disciples.

In the gospels, Jesus takes Peter, James, son of Zebedee and his brother John the Apostle with him and goes up to a mountain, which is not named. Once on the mountain, Matthew 17:2 states that Jesus "was transfigured before them; his face shining as the sun, and his garments became white as the light." At that point the prophet Elijah representing the prophets and Moses representing the Law appear and Jesus begins to talk to them. Luke states that they spoke of Jesus' exodus (εξοδον) which he was about to accomplish in Jerusalem (Lk 9:31). Luke is also specific in describing Jesus in a state of glory, with Luke 9:32 referring to "they saw His glory".

Just as Elijah and Moses begin to depart from the scene, Peter begins to ask Jesus if the disciples should make three tents for him and the two prophets. This has been interpreted as Peter's attempt to keep the prophets there longer. But before Peter can finish, a bright cloud appears, and a voice from the cloud states: "This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to him" (Mark 9:7). The disciples then fall to the ground in fear, but Jesus approaches and touches them, telling them not to be afraid. When the disciples look up, they no longer see Elijah or Moses.

When Jesus and the three apostles are going back down the mountain, Jesus tells them to not tell anyone "the things they had seen" until the "Son of Man" has risen from the dead. The apostles are described as questioning among themselves as to what Jesus meant by "risen from the dead".

The Vatican and other churches should diffuse the notion that there is a soul in everyman which will enter into the spirit world after bodily death in this world to continue to live in the spirit world as a spirit.

However, Christ Jesus also emphasized that poor men's souls would enter into Heaven but rich men's souls should fall into the hell to be eventually taken out.  As the Vatican and other churches have accumulated significant wealth, and their leaders are rich in terms of material assets they possess.  Therefore, in principle, the Pope and other leaders of various churches are destined to the hell as Swedenborg wrote.  They must be afraid that people would come to think this way if Christian communities followed the spiritual view on the Gospels.     

The spiritualism of today should first give a drastic influence on the Christian communities.


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Mark 10, King James Version

7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;
8 And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.
9 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
10 And in the house his disciples asked him again of the same matter.
11 And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.
12 And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.

"while they made ready, he fell into a trance" - The Spirit World Not Necessarily Safe and Peaceful

 

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The Spirit World Not Necessarily Safe and Peaceful 

Near-death experiences seem to be experienced or reported by many, probably more than millions of people, nowadays since Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, Raymond Moody, etc. launched studies on states of death, dying, near-death experiences, etc. in 1960's and 1970's.

However, states of death, dying, near-death experiences, etc. were reported by Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) in his books such as Heaven and Hell, Spiritual Diary, etc.  Nonetheless, the Gospels of Christianity are based on the notion that there is the spirit world, Heaven, and the hell where souls of dead men go.  And, even Buddhism is based on such a notion.  Therefore, for believers in Christianity, Buddhism, etc., such a notion that there is the afterlife should be a matter of common knowledge.   

There is also another notion in the Gospels, which is that Satan with evil spirits attacks Christ Jesus and His followers.  So, there is a sense of the war between the God or Christ Jesus and Satan.

And as Satan is also a spiritual entity, the war between Christ Jesus with His followers and Satan continues in the spirit world.  There are may evil spirits in the spirit world as even Swedenborg wrote.

There are also some people who claim that they have the ability to communicate with various spirits in the spirit world and earn money by giving services with the ability to those who want to make communications with spirits of their deceased relatives.  Some people have gained popularity like entertainers on TV.  But, such spiritual business must be dangerous, since there are Satan and evil spirits in the spirit world.

One of main features of Swedenborg lies in this point.  He gave warning against evil spirits who was trying to attack and destroy human beings.  He wrote that malicious intentions of these evil spirits are so strong that human beings would be destroyed by them without protection by the God.  In this context, it can be well understood that the Vatican authorizes some exorcists who are specialized in fighting against evil spirits that haunt human beings.

Indeed, Swedenborg wrote that if human beings saw various spirits and the spirit world while living in this world, they might go mad.  (Swedenborg himself was guided by the spirit of Christ Jesus to see the spirit world.)  So, spirits and the spirit world are usually hidden from eyes of human beings.  The spirit world is not safe and peaceful as some people with spiritual ability say.  And those who had near-death experiences mostly say that they saw only peaceful states of the spirt world.  But what they saw should be just entrance to the spirit world.  If they had really died, they should have seen evil spirits in addition to spirits of their deceased relatives.

One of the reasons why we can trust Swedenborg is that he gave warnings against Satan and evil spirits in his books.  Anyway, we should not forget that Christ Jesus, as a man, was killed on the cross by those who were brainwashed and controlled by Satan and evil spirits.   We need help from the God or Christ Jesus when we handle spiritual entities and the spirt world.  And, it is recommended for people who had near-death experiences or others to read Swedenborg's books.  

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Acts 10, King James Version

9 On the morrow, as they went on their journey, and drew nigh unto the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour:
10 And he became very hungry, and would have eaten: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance,
11 And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending upon him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth:
12 Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.
13 And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill, and eat.
14 But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean.
15 And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
16 This was done thrice: and the vessel was received up again into heaven.