"A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho" - Our Having Conscience Proves that We are Spirits

 

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Our Having Conscience Proves that We are Spirits

The Gospels and the teaching of Christ Jesus encourage people to perform good deeds and avoid evil like other no-nonsense religions and saints.

One medical professor one day began to wonder why men have conscience while there seems no reason for biological existence for men in this world.  After studying near-death experiences and Swedenborg's case, he understood that conscience of men was given by the God in the spirit world but not generated through their living in this material world. 

Most men know that the God (if He ever existed), religions, and their traditional culture exhort goodness and love, but they sometimes cannot stop doing evil things secretly behind others to satisfy their desires toward money, wealth, higher positions, etc.  Indeed, for a man as a biological entity to pursue richer life in terms of biology, it seems to be advantageous to do any evil things to secure his own profits if he believes that there is nothing left after his death.  For a man to promote his own happiness to the maximum degree in this world, he would do any evil to maximize his profits by abusing and getting control over others and thus neglecting benefits and happiness of others without minding their pains and toils.        

However, if he thinks, even unconsciously, that there might be the afterlife and the spirit world where the God presides requesting good and love, he would hesitate to be as evil as possible.

According to the reports of those who had near-death experiences, the spirit world is full of love and goodness.  Their experiences match Swedenborg's experiences in the spirit world where he spent some time while living in this world.  The spirit world leads to Heaven where love and goodness are affluent, though there is the hell where evil spirits go and hide from the God.

Therefor, we have to conclude that goodness and conscience are not generated by biological entities of men in this material world but are given by the God through Heaven and the spirit world.

Christ Jesus indeed said that the God is love and also the Spirit.   Therefore, He said, men should love the God as spirits.

Put simply, our having conscience proves that we are spirits in our essence not only mere biological living things.  Therefore, there is no wonder that some people have near-death experiences or Swedenborg saw and accessed the spirit word as a spirit. 

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Luke 10, King James Version

30 And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead.
31 And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.
32 And likewise a Levite, when he was at the place, came and looked on him, and passed by on the other side.
33 But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him,
34 And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.
35 And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee.
36 Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves?
37 And he said, He that shewed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise.

"this do, and thou shalt live" - The Place where Spirits of Poor Men are Welcomed

 

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The Place where Spirits of Poor Men are Welcomed

According to various people with psychic power who can communicate with spirits living in the afterworld or the spirit world, spirits of all dead men are allowed to enter into the spirt world unconditionally after their death but are required to educate and train themselves to ascend to higher levels in the spirit world so as to get closer to the God, which was however not told by Christ Jesus.

According to various people with psychic power, there are some levels and hierarchy in the spirit world.  At the lowest, spirits of evil men go and live doing the same evil things as those they did while living in the material world.  At the highest, the God lives surrounded by the highest angels.  And, each spirit of dead men wants to live as close as the God, so that it is required to enhance its mind of each spirit to be allowed to ascend the levels step by step.    

However, wisdom and knowledge held by spirits who were scholars, professors, church leaders, etc. are useless in the spirit world, according to Swedenborg.  Their wisdom and knowledge are not rooted in their inner minds but are only related to the outer material world.  Wisdom and knowledge effective in the afterlife or the spirit world should be all based on love to the God and neighbors.  

Therefore, spirits who love the God would spontaneously ascend the spiritual levels to get closer to the God as much as possible.  Spirits who love Satan would run away from light of the God as much as possible so as to hide in deeper levels, which should be called the hell.   

Anyway, according to Christ Jesus, the afterlife of the spirit world is the place where spirits of poor men are welcomed, consoled, and made happy by receiving love from the God.  They will want to be happier by receiving more love from the God, so that they will ascend the levels in the spirit world to get closer to the God. 

Put simply, structure of the afterlife or the spirit world was not mentioned by Christ Jesus, except that there are Heaven and the hell, but it is the place where spirits of poor men are welcomed, consoled, and made happy after death in this material world. 

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Luke 10, King James Version
25 And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
26 He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?
27 And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.
28 And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live.
29 But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbour?

"What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light" - Poor Men Can Get Eternal Life but Rich Men Cannot

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Poor Men Can Get Eternal Life but Rich Men Cannot

Life after death or eternal life is the central issue of the New Testament as Christ Jesus focused on it:

John 5
24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
25 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.
26 For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;
27 And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man.
28 Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,
29 And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.

It was also discussed by early followers of Christ Jesus, as life after death or eternal life must have been one of their main concerns:

1 John 5
11 And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
12 He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.
13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.

 20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.

On the other hand, those brainwashed by Satan often say that life is only once and one will turn to nothing after death, so that it is wise to enjoy life, while living in this world, as much as possible by earning money as much as possible even by selling one's soul to Satan.  However, Satan is not a simple man but a spiritual entity.  Believing in Satan means believing in existence of spiritual existence.  Therefore, it is irrational not to believe in existence of one's spirit after death.  

However, one may deny the existence of Satan and the afterlife while being brainwashed by Satan.  One can only believe in existence of this world and his existence in it while denying everything spiritual including the God, Heaven, Satan, the hell, the spirit world, the afterlife, etc.  When he is asked what he thinks about why and how this world was generated and he himself was born to live in this world, he may simply answer that he does not know or it is only by chance.  It is as if a big fool was denying everything but his own desire. 

But for poor men who have no hope of becoming rich or being relieved of any pains, the promise of eternal life can be the only hope he can have.  As such a poor man should see every evil being performed around him, he should also see Satan and its influence on people.  He should also know that he has to sell his soul to Satan and perform any evil thing to earn money or become rich.  If he cannot obey and follow Satan, he should remain poor but wish that he would be saved in the afterlife.  Accordingly, he should accept the teaching of Christ Jesus, since it gives him true hope.  Such a man would not say that life is only once so that he should be allowed to do anything or any evil to be any happy in this world.

Anyway, the eternal life or everlasting life is the largest wealth one can get.  And, Christ Jesus assured that poor men would be given it, since any man who accepts the teaching of Christ Jesus cannot help being poor.  In other words, rich men who deny the afterlife and reject the teaching of Christ Jesus cannot get the eternal life.  This is what was taught by Christ Jesus and thus should be the principle of the religion Christianity.     

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Matthew 10, King James Version
26 Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.
27 What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops.
28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
29 Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.

"for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord" - Christ Jesus Died around Rome at about 40 as a Poor Carpenter

 

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Christ Jesus Died around Rome at about 40 as a Poor Carpenter

We may wonder why Christianity grew and developed with its center at Rome in its early periods.  It could be Athens, Constantinople, Syrian Antioch, Alexandria, or Jerusalem.  It must not be enough to think that the reason is that St. Paul died in Rome as he was killed by Emperor Nero.

So, it is interesting that Florizel von Reuter (1890 – 1985) wrote that Christ Jesus died at the age about 40 near Rome while living as a carpenter after resurrection from the death on the cross.  Reuter, an American violinist, wrote the book The Master from Afar as he guided by a certain spirit.  This book described details of the last three years of Christ Jesus, which are briefly described in the Gospels.

According to The Master from Afar, Jesus survived as a big rain fell while He was put on the crucifix.  Roman soldiers were so embarrassed that they pulled Him down from the cross and left Him on the ground as they thought that He already died.  Subsequently, Jesus came back to life and ran away secretly through a port on the Mediterranean as He was afraid that Roman soldiers and the Jewish authority might accuse His relatives.  Finally, He found a job in a village near Rome as an old carpenter hired Him.  And, after death of the old man, Jesus took over his shop.  Before Jesus died, He happened to meet Peter and encouraged him to continue his work to preach His teaching.  And, when Jesus died, His spirit made a supernatural appearance in front of Mary of Magdala.    

The author depicted Christ Jesus as a social reformer with spiritual ability but not as the transformed God.  Therefore, this story cannot be accepted by the Vatican and other churches, but it gives some human insight into life of Christ Jesus as a man.  And it made it natural that Christianity grew and developed around Rome.  The spirit of Christ Jesus must have helped St. Paul live and work in Rome, though under house arrest.  From this point of view, it can be easily understood that Rome became the center of the early Christianity.

And, as Rome was the capital of the Roman Empire, Christianity could swiftly spread all over its territory and especially to the areas today called West Europe.  Indeed, the city Vatican must be close to the place where Christ Jesus died unnoticed by all as a plain man.

However, people must want to know how Christ Jesus secretly lived and helped St. Paul and other early Christians in Rome in the last nine years till his death.            

The background of the author Florizel von Reuter in terms of spiritualism is as follows:

During the 1920s his mother, Grace Reuter, developed apparent psychic powers by receiving supposed spirit messages through automatic writing. Florizel became closely involved with this and acted as a medium and as recorder of the findings, which were first described in The Psychic Experiences of a Musician (in Search of Truth) (1928) — with a foreword by writer Arthur Conan Doyle — and in its sequel The Consoling Angel (1930). These in particular described conversations with famous deceased musicians. His first important claimed contacts were Paganini and Pablo de Sarasate, and also the late Professor Heinrich Barth of Berlin. Messages were delivered through a type of planchette called an "Additor", used originally by his mother, and many of them were spelled out backwards.

He contributed an essay on "Nature Spirits" to the 1928 revised edition of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Coming of the Fairies, p. 156–157, and was associated with Baron von Schrenck-Notzing in a series of experiments with the Schneider brothers. 

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florizel_von_Reuter)

According to the psychic in the 18th century Swedenborg, not all the spirits coming to this world or communicating with spirit mediums can be trusted.  There are many spirits that deceive spirit mediums and other people.

However, if the spirit of Christ Jesus appeared to a pious believer, we should trust in Him after confirming that He is from Christ Jesus without doubt.  

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Matthew 10

King James Version
24 The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord.
25 It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household?
26 Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.
27 What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops.
28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

"how hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God!" - Poor Men's Souls Happy in the Afterlife

 

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Poor Men's Souls Happy in the Afterlife

What made them believe in Christ Jesus 2000 years ago, when there were no Gospels. complicated creeds, theological doctrines, church organizations, etc.?

Did Christ Jesus give big money to those poor people, so that they continued to appreciate and believe in Him for 2000 years?

First, Christ Jesus showed His heavenly power to heal the sick, even reviving the dead, and thus proved that He had come from the God.  Subsequently, He taught that the poor could enter into Heaven but the rich could not.

So, all the poor people 2000 years ago were rejoiced.  Their joy have continued till nowadays.  That is why the Vatican and other churches cannot neglect or deny poor people.    

On the other hand, those who became rich by selling their souls to Satan hated and suppressed the teaching of Christ Jesus.  Satan has used evil spirits and human followers of Satan to attack and harm believers of Christ Jesus.  If everybody believed in the teaching of Christ Jesus, none would try to be rich, since no rich men can enter into Heaven.  Accordingly, none would sell their souls to Satan.

In this context, the God used Christ Jesus to give people the notion that only poor men could be accepted in Heaven where they should be welcomed and satisfied.

However, Heaven is in the spirit world or the afterlife.  Essentially a man cannot enter into the spirit world unless he dies.  But, while living in this world, men have to be poor to be accredited with having qualification for entering Heaven.  From this point of view, true followers of Christ Jesus should be poor as much as possible while living in this world.

The background of this condition must be that there has been a war between the God and Satan through the spirit world to this world.  In the spirit world, no spirits need any money to buy foods, clothes, hoses, etc.  But in this material world, everybody needs money that is a tool of Satan.  To get money, men have to sell any part of their souls to Satan, so that they will be followers or servants of Satan. 

Therefore, it is a mystery that the God had created this material world where human beings with their souls inside were born and died.  But, after a man dies in this material world, his soul enters into the spirit world and can be further allowed to enter into Heaven unless he was rich while living in this world.  It is because being rich means selling his soul to Satan.

Anyway, as poor people believed that the God had sent His Son to this world to tell them that the poor could enter into Heaven to be fulfilled forever, Christianity was accepted by many and has continued even to date.            

Therefore, spiritualism handling spirits, the spirit world, and other spiritual things should reflect this teaching of Christ Jesus or at least battles between the God and Satan.

Satan would use evil spirits to give wrong images and notions about the spirit world to living people such that men can be rich both in this world and in the afterlife.  Accordingly there must be many souls who go to the hell after completing their rich lives in this world.  However, only poor men's souls can be happy in the afterlife or in Heaven. 

 

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Mark 10, King James Version

23 And Jesus looked round about, and saith unto his disciples, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!
24 And the disciples were astonished at his words. But Jesus answereth again, and saith unto them, Children, how hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God!
25 It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
26 And they were astonished out of measure, saying among themselves, Who then can be saved?
27 And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible.