From The Eclectic Church
(ã 1987 A.
R. Schaffer)
(Taken
from: THE MESSAGE, Chapter Three, by: A. R.
Schaffer)
LOVE
SPEAKS
I cried out to
my God in confusion. I cried out to my God in anger. I cried out to him in
anguish. I cried out to God in faith. I cried out to God with hope. I Cried out
to my God in despair. But only when I cried out in love did he respond to me.
I have
looked at the beauty of this earth, and I've seen the ways of men. I wonder how
any God of love could create such beauty and then allow hunger, pestilence and war!
I wonder why so few are blessed with plenty, more than they will ever need;
while so many have little or nothing to ease their pain of living.
I have
wondered why we have been cast from Eden; why God would punish all humanity for
the sin of only one? I wondered where the Justice would be in such a God?
In
contemplation of these questions, I cried out to my God in love: "My God,
my God, please tell me why you seem soul unfair?
In
love my God heard me, and in my heart he replied.
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It is not I who willed the course of events
that mankind has chosen. You have not been cast from Eden, but dwell within it!
Look around you! Behold the beauty, see the plenty, see the all. Have I not
provided replenishment for all you use.
You ask why men starve, and I wonder the same
thing, just as you. In reality, there is more food than man can eat. It is not
I who have neglected to provide for my children, but their own brothers and
sisters who hoard and refuse to share.
Your minds are blossoming as they should, but
you use your knowledge in selfishness and greed. Do I not provide plenty for
all? Have I not created equal? Is it I who created the rich and poor?
What you have done, you can undo.
I look at the Paradise that I created for
you. I see foul water, the air is filled with dirt, the land is abused then
abandoned in quest for more. You kill my creatures; so often in needless waste!
I see my gift of plenty hoarded and exploited by just a few, and these men have
hearts like solid rocks. I see men act without thought for there fellow man,
without thought to future generations, without thought to the diversity of life
I have created, without thought that all that is comes from me!
I am saddened by your abuse of my creation.
Then you go on to proclaim: the Lord God
will give to you yet more! Hope is no longer in what I have given, but now it
is placed in what I have yet to give. You concern your minds with the realm yet
to come, yet abuse the realm I have a place to in. You proclaim a new heaven
and a new earth that is to come; while, you destroy each other and the earth
that I have already made!
I ask you my child, would a Father build his
children a new home if the children have not yet learned to be responsible for
the place in which they dwell? What logic would there be in that? And if such
logic can be deduced in your intellect, then consider and ponder what must be
mine!
You place your hopes in what I will give,
in what is to come! Why do you continue to concern yourself with such things
when you have not yet learned to respect what I have seen fit to bless you
with?
I Am pure love, but I am not a fool! You
are seeing me in your image, rather than seeing that you are in mine! My image
is love. Love is what I am! It is your love that makes you in my image.
Then, my children seek miracles, signs and
wonders from above. But my miracles are all around you. You take them for
granted because you are able to see them as the natural order of things.
What if I were to ask you: is it in not a
miracle that the natural exists at all? Are you not in fact a miracle? Are not
the events of the season's, miracles? And the replenishment of your greed with
the things of my good earth; is this too not a miracle? And what of the
diversity of life that exists in your world, from the freezing polar caps, to
the arid desert of heat ¾ of life that
flies in the sky, and survives in the pressures of the ocean depths. Isn't all
this life, not in fact, a miracle?
You have made my miracles commonplace! My
Beauty you ignore; yet you, my children, are still seeking more!
And how many have I helped in their
personal lives? How many have called upon me and I have heard? Yet, too often,
the thanks is only in word. You do not seek me in love. You do not seek each
other in love. Love each other and you will be loving me. Appreciate what is
given and worry not about what I have to give. Do these things and the wolves
will not be able to lead the sheep to the slaughter!
NOW HEAR WELL, MY CHILDREN:
You, my children, build me great temples
and sing me your praise, but respect for what I have made is rare among you.
From these temples you proclaim words in my name, but your words and deeds of
true love, are so few a child could count them.
You have ritualized, dogmatized, and made
me what you would have me be! But my truth you ignore! My salvation you reject;
for I am pure love and what more could one need?
Sing me your praise in the reality of your
actions and deeds; for what is done has much more meaning to me then what is
said. Ritualize and dogmatize if you must, but only for yourselves, and never
in my name, for what pleases me is pure love.
You seek to raise yourself to my level
before your time. You proclaim your will, and your words, as mine! Yet, you
trample your gifts, you destroy each other, and then you seek to reduce my
intellect by lowering it to yours! You neglect and abuse each other and you
abuse the creation I have brought forth. And then you dare to seek a new heaven
and a new earth! Where is the logic in this? Where is the sanity in what you
proclaim?
Yes, my children, I have been there. I have
sent messages through many of you as well. But you, my children, continue to be
fools. You do not listen and you do not see!
Can you not understand that when a child
starves its creator starves too, for I alone love that much. When you raise
your hand against your brother you raise your hand against your Father, for I
alone love that much. When you take more than you need, depriving those around
you, you steal from me; for I have created plenty for all, and I alone love
that much. And when you condemn your fellow man, you condemn me; for I am in he
and he is in me! And when you judge, moralize, and set yourself as
self-righteous, when you place yourself above your brother, you are proclaiming
yourself me!
But I ask you; where was your intellect
when I designed the cosmos? What power did you display to bring all things
about? What knowledge have you of love and its way!
I have come and I have inspired. You destroy
those I send and misrepresent their words. I warned you about the wolves in
sheep's clothing, but you allow those wolves to lead you to your slaughter. To
find those that are of me, look to their love, look for what they do for their
brothers and sisters in humanity, look at the way they treat my creation. Only
when a man loves all that I am, can that man be of me. Know that I am creation!
You can know you have chosen the right
path, when you see these things begin to change in your world. When love is
your priority. I tell you my messages is love, pure and absolute! I am pure
love and only love can lead you into paradise!
You have lost your way, my children,
through no fault of mine. I have given you mind, but you do not think straight.
Your mind has eyes, but you refuse to see. Your mind has ears, but you refuse
to hear. Your voice proclaims that which is false ¾ ignoring my truth! And of reason, logic, and all the rest
¾ it is as if mass madness has you all possessed!
Look long! Look Hard! Think! See what is!
Then ask yourself: does your present faith seem like the way that was given by
the intellect that created all the reality you see? Is my truth in your dogmas
and creeds, or, is my truth in the reality of all you can see?
I tell you, that you can change things. You
can undo what you have done. Love me in each other, just as I love you ¾ and your salvation is as simple as that!
Listen to me and be warned of the things of
which I will now speak. Do not use these words to proclaim my will or to
proclaim dogmas and creeds. These things are meant to inspire, to help guide
you on your way. Use them to guide your own actions as an individual, or as a
group ¾ but be wary of men who would try to use my inspirations
to judge and control the actions of their fellow men!
Make laws as you need them as a state, so
long as you need them to maintain order and need protection from each other.
Never declare laws in mine name! Any man truly committed to me has no need of
law, for if one has true love in one's heart they will always do the right
thing. And remember too, always strive to make your civil law fair and just.
Make your laws responsible to all, for you should remember I am in all men.
Judge only according to your own laws and never
in my name! Look only to your own heart, judge only yourself in things that
pertain to me. I have made you all unique, and I alone know my will for each of
you. Look at my creation and see the magnificence of diversity there. Yet, in
this diversity there is harmony and order, there is coexistence and purpose. It
is diversity that makes life worth living. It is diversity which makes beauty.
It is love which brings harmony and order to all diversity, and I alone am
capable of understanding this.
So be who warned not to judge your brother
in my name. Until you are without fault, until you can understand all that is ¾ you cannot perceive the reality of such judgments. You
cannot say what is good or evil to your God, for you do not have my intellect!
You do not pick a thief to judge a thief in your courts of law. Nor, would you
pick a child to judge a man. You do not let murderers make your laws, nor,
would you look to any animal to make your laws. In the same manner; what logic
would there be in me giving any man the power to judge another man, or letting
a man to declare my truth and my law for his fellow man? No man as any right to
declare truth in my name!
Be motivated by love, and judge only
yourself according to that love, for this you are responsible to me.
Do not continue to be such fools! Know
this: salvation comes in life; not in death ¾ have I not shown you this? Hope is not in bloodshed or in
suffering, but in the joy that love can bring. I am not a God of sorrow, but
one of joy!
Cease, for now, concerning yourselves with
the things of my higher planes. If you were to concern yourself with the world
I put you in, you need not have any fear about what will come. How can you
prepare for what it is to come when you are not responsible to what is? How can
you understand what I have to give, when you do not understand the gift I have
already blessed you with?
For those of you who cry out: "My God
what is to come?"
Seek love first and you need not understand
the rest. I say to you: until you learn how to love one another, and what I
have given to you; you need not speculate about what may be ¾ for if you do not love you are not worthy of it!
And to the man who has learned to love all
that I had made. The man that can see me in their brother. He that can see me
in my creation, the man that respects all that is. This man, too, need not
speculate; for I tell you he has already earned his place in what is to come.
I, pure love, shall be his comfort and this is all he needs to know!
But be warned again, my children, do not
act like fools. To act for a reward is to lose the merit in earning that
reward. To act out of fear of punishment has no merit at all. But, if you act
in pure love, which is to be part of me, and it is in me you shall reach your
fulfillment.
Always remember: when you wonder about what
will come to pass, it is your love which will determine that!
And, woe to those men who proclaim that I
created to destroy, for it is you who will be destroyed. I alone know the
purpose of my creation, and even if I told you, you would not understand. So,
cease from proclaiming what my intent is; for such things cause you to loose
sight of just how precious my gift of life is. All you need to know, all you
need to understand is that I created out of love, the love that I am. This
alone should quench your thirst!
Now you say there is evil and Satan is of
my hand. But it is you who have created him; in your failures, lies and greed.
He "is" because you allow him to exist! He grows because you refuse
to see. You feed him with your indifference, fear and greed. Satan is of man
and not of God. Satan could not come forth from me. It is only in love that you
can destroy him.
Know, that you can use your knowledge to be
all that I have made you. Have faith in yourselves as well as me, for I made
you more than you know just now. Your knowledge can solve your problems, bring
you great joy, and lead you to peace. To accomplish this all you need to do is
to seek me out in the love of your brothers and sisters, the love of my creation,
for you now know that I am pure love! Love is what will lead you to me. Love is
your only hope; for only in love can you fulfill the purpose for which you were
created! With out love you have no purpose!
Remember this: intellect without love is a
waste. Power without love is an abomination. Life without love is empty.
Salvation without love is not possible! Wealth without love is worthless. Sex
without love is meaningless. Good works without love are useless. Technology
without love is destructive. Communication without love is chaotic. Peace
without love can never be stable. Knowledge without love is the mark of a fool.
To seek me out without love will only end in disappointment, for all that I am,
all that was, all that Is, and all that will be, exists because I am pure love!
Yes, I am the God of your fathers' and
theirs'. I have heard their cries, responding with the truth in love. But they,
like you, heard only what they wanted to hear. They would not accept the simple
truth of love. They made the simple truth complex; with their dogmas, creeds,
theologies, and hidden interpretations of all that I am.
I am pure love, and it is as simple as
that! Love is what you need to be of me! Love is the ultimate truth in its
simplicity.
The man of wisdom will let this guide
him on his way.
Treat one another is you would treat
yourself and this is the way to begin. When you have achieved what you set out
to do, you will treat each other as you would treat me. Treat all the earth as
if it were planted by your own hand. When you have achieved what you set out to
do, you will treat it knowing that it is mine!
From my creatures, take only what you need,
for these things, too, are all of me ¾ and they are living and feeling too. Be not cruel or
thoughtless to them for they are of my hand just as you.
Your age has gained much insight about my
creation, and this is good; so long as you use such knowledge to better each
other's lives and live in harmony with all that I have given to you. If you use
your knowledge in such a manner you will prosper, free yourselves from much
pain, and no longer have poor among you. But, if you use the knowledge against
what I have designed, without love; you can only accomplish more sadness and
pain. You must work with the laws of what you call nature. You must work with
them in love. For to work against these laws, to work in selfishness and greed,
is to work against me!
Take care of your world like you do your
temples and shrines, for there is more of me in the single atom then in all your
glorious monuments combined.
Shelter the homeless; and it is there I
will dwell. It is in providing a home for your brothers and sisters that you
provide a home for me. I have no need of your temples of stone, but the temples
of flesh all around the world are often the temples in the greatest need. When
even the least of my creation is in need, I am in need!
Give in your love, tending to the needs of
your brothers and sisters in humanity ¾ and that is how you can pay tribute to me. Sing your
praises in word if you must; but let them never replace, or go beyond, your
deeds of love!
Now, hear me well.
There are those who say that to question me
is wrong. That in such questioning there is the weakening of one's faith. These
same men proclaim: 'it is by faith alone that men shall come to know me.' These
men pronounce many fruitless perceptions all as truth in my name. These men
impart to you that the Lord your God has spoken all there is to say, and that
they alone can tell you the meaning and purpose of my way.
But of these same men I ask, and men of
faith should too: how is the world a better place for what you say and do? Is
it love which moves you, or the will of your blind faith? And of your brothers
and sisters, of my creation: what have you to say of these things? What are
your actions, and your deeds, to show the reality of the concern for what is of
me? And does your faith lead you to truth? Does your faith coexist with the
truth as it is in reality; for what 'IS', is my truth! And does your faith lead
you to discover and learn more?
I tell you: the wise man will beware of the
men who tell them not to question what they have pronounced in my name, for it
is these men, not I, who are fearful of such questions. I am all that is. What
have I to hide? What have I to fear from your questions!
I have given you mind to learn the way of
your God ¾ that you may prosper, and your children may prosper more,
and their children even more. I have given you mind to learn the truth, as much
of it as you can perceive, for it is this truth used in love that will
accomplish the true will of your God.
Love is truth, and the truth is founded in
love, for all truth comes from love. So let your faith lead you to question,
and the questions to knowledge, and the knowledge to truth, and then use the
truth in love; it is in this way you will lead yourself to me!
Remember this: faith without question is
blind! Faith without question stagnates! Faith without question seeks to
control you! Faith without question seeks to control your brother! Faith
without question fosters ignorance! Faith without question deprives one of
truth! Faith without question makes you a slave to the faith! Faith without
question can make you a slave to another! Faith without question destroys the
freedom I have given to you! Faith without question is a danger to any man!
I did give man faith and it truly is a gift
from me. Only in faith can you come to know your God. It is only in faith that
you can grow. Faith is the seed sown to produce knowledge which yields the
fruit of truth.
Now, if a man truly believes, he need not
fear is questions; for I fear no question. If a man truly believes he will seek
to prove those beliefs, so that his brother might share in his peace. If a man
truly believes he will seek to prove those beliefs so they will never believe
in vain. If a man truly believes he will seek to prove his beliefs because
"I am truth", and truth will stand forever.
I tell you: true faith is never blind.
Faith is the foundation on which you can build truth. In true faith you will
grow in knowledge. True faith is that on which the free mind expands. True
faith will give you the ability to perform miracles. True faith is the
expression of the free will I have given to you!
So move forward in the faith I have given
to you, using it to find your answers, using it to perform miracles, using it
to discover my truth, using it to discover the wonders my creation has to
offer, using it to move closer to me. Use your faith in love!
Have I not said to you: ask and you shall
receive. Seek and you shall find. Knock and the door will be open for you. Yet,
when you ask and I offer, you reject, rejecting even me among you. When you
seek you do not find because you see only what you will; not what is mine! And
when you knock and I open the door, you do not walk through, instead you peek
like frightened children fearing the wonders behind the door.
Ask questions of me, not of men; for it is
only here that you will find the truth. Behold the wonders around you, for it
is there that you can unravel some of the mysteries of my creation.
Truth will not come from the mind of one
man; but from the collection of thoughts, reasoning, and knowledge of many! Men
must work together drawing truth from their differences. Men must realize if it
were not for your differences you could not learn. Men must come to realize, I
do in fact speak to all men; but, all men do not listen!
Know: I speak to all men who will listen to
me!
I have told you to come to me like children,
but you do not understand what I have said. You are to be like children in
their way of love. Be like children in their desire to know and learn. Seek
guidance from me like a child looks to their mother's and father's.
Be like a newborn infant in your love of
me!
You should know this: my truth and law will
stand forever. What is your truth and your law must change ¾ for you continue to grow. I spoke to your of fathers
before, according to their ability to understand. I am speaking this way to you
now. I speak to all generations, but many do not hear my works. My inspirations
will help you to grow, help you to prosper, and lead to love; when this is not
accomplished the inspiration is not of me. The reality of inspiration is in
what is accomplished; not in the words that are spoken!
Know this too: that to know the laws to
which the heavens respond, is to know the law of your God. To know the law of
that which you call nature, is also to know the law of your God. You cannot
know of law concerning things unseen for you cannot yet perceive them. I alone
know what lies beyond, how can you proclaim this? Why do you seek the world
beyond, when you do not appreciate or understand the reality I have a placed
you in?
I had given you faith only that you can
know me, for without it you could not. Use that faith wisely for it should
always lead you to truth. When your faith is in opposition to what
"is!" it is on the wrong path; for faith must stand in the light of
truth or your faith is not in ME. I am truth and truth has its origin in love!
My truth stands forever and this is my real truth! My truth never needs to be
proclaimed by men, for my truth stands 'of' and 'by' itself.
Know too: my truth continues to unfold, for
your minds are still young, needing time to understand. Your minds must learn
to love so you can gain wisdom as you accumulate knowledge. Revelations have
not ended as so many of you profess. Open your hearts and minds in love and you
shall be able to hear all the rest!
Trust in yourself and your own abilities
too. Know that each one of you make a difference in things as they are. Work
together in love, for this is the way to the joy that men of pure heart seek.
Each of you is more than you can know,
affecting my creation. I have demonstrated your potential, so go forth and seek
it out. Love one another as I have loved you, for this is the true key of
salvation ¾ for both the body and the soul! This I cannot say enough.
Now, I have said to you, my children: love!
But, I hear those who say: I do not know what love is?
I Am pure love, Existing to bind all the
power, all the forces, and all the energy of the universe into the reality you
see. Love is as real as gravity, magnetism, or the strong and weak nuclear
forces you have come to know. It is a force that you cannot measure and you
cannot see ¾ because you refuse to acknowledge that is part of your
reality. But look around you, my child, and you will see that love is the
essence of all reality!
Love must be nourished like the intellect,
and then it can produce fruit. Love must be expressed like ideas, and then you
will see what it can do. Love must be exercised like thought, and then it will
lead you to more love. Love must be given to truly be received!
Love, intellect, and dreams are of the
purest and most powerful energies which exist in the reality of what
"is!" ¾ both in the
seen and unseen alike!
You will know when men truly begin to love,
for then you will no longer be able to tolerate injustice within your ranks. When
men truly love they will share freely with their brothers and sisters who are
in need. When men truly love they will know the true meaning of joy. When men
truly love there will be no selfishness, no sadness, no pain. When men truly
love there will be no fear, no apprehension, no loneliness. When men truly love
there will be unity among all mankind!
Love is my peace! Love is the design by
which I intended men to live. Love is my supreme law. To love each other is
your very purpose. To love is to know me whom you call God. Love is the essence
of my nature!
It is I, pure love, who gave you life. Only
in love can your life be fulfilled. You are of pure love, each and every one of
you, no matter what your state. Begin to love one another and then you will discover
my truth.
I am the Creator of all You see. The force
which binds all the forces. The intellect which made knowledge and truth. The
power from which energy gets its power. The Infinite source of all that is seen
and unseen. I am the maker of Infinity! I am the lord your God, and you are of
me! I am pure love and love is what you can be. I am with you. I am part of
you. I am part of all you see. I am creation!!!
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