The Testament of Jesus (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Testament of Jesus

In the name of the One, the Infinite.

Man is a fallen archangel. His primal and real home is the heavens. He has neither descended directly from his archangelic state to be a man, nor ascended directly to his present stage of existence from the condition of a devil of the lowest hell. At the first, God the eternal Father existed alone, silent, immense, and immovable. He is the One, the Infinite. None can comprehend him. Only the Infinite can comprehend infinity. From himself he produced the Second, who therefore is neither eternal nor infinite, but is universal, and everlastingly the Holy Spirit of God, and the greatest after him, in truth, his counterpart. From the Second, the Mater Magna of the universe, by the will of the First, the One, the Eternal, immortal spirits were created, as the sparks proceed from a fire. There were innumerable choirs of them, and by the First, and Second, and these immortal spirits, the heavens were made glorious. The will of these immortal spirits was free, and they were capable of desires. Suns and earths were created afterwards, to be habitations for some of them who dreaded not to lapse from their native heavens. Other hells of many kinds began to have existence, and will exist for ever for the fallen. Lapsed spirits alone are responsible for the existence of other than heaven-spheres. The conditions are made by their conduct, and neither willed nor planned by the All-Father. He makes no monsters, nor unhappy conditions. Possibilities last for ever.

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