Religious peace - brotherhood - can never exist unless all religions are willing to completely divest themselves of all ecclesiastical authority and fully surrender all concept of spiritual sovereignty. God alone is spirit sovereign.

As we advance into the 21 century AD. The Spirit of God is developing in the minds and beings of humankind. The Spirit of God is a Spirit of Life. It is a “living” Spirit that lives within us. With it God gives us the “free gift” of eternal life. And to accompany it is our Sovereign choice of Free Will. It is left to us to choose to recognize this Spirit of God within us, open our hearts to hear and receive this Spirit, and say Yes to the pro offer of Eternal Life. Awakening to the “living” Spirit within us our faith becomes a “living faith” our personal relationship with God and our fellow human being a “living relationship of Spirit”.

Awaken all of you who are of a mind to experience this “living faith” to live the Living Faith, to be this Living Faith. To you and All who have already awakened to this living Spirit with in us, May God’s Peace and Love be with you and us all.

And as it is written here as the Spirit comes alive and grows in you so will it be written in your hearts according to His Will and Your relationship with the The Infinite and All Loving Father.

Peace be with You.

155:6.1 And so, while they paused in the shade of the hillside, Jesus continued to teach them regarding the religion of the spirit, in substance saying:

155:6.2 You have come out from among those of your fellows who choose to remain satisfied with a religion of mind, who crave security and prefer conformity. You have elected to exchange your feelings of authoritative certainty for the assurances of the spirit of adventurous and progressive faith. You have dared to protest against the grueling bondage of institutional religion and to reject the authority of the traditions of record which are now regarded as the word of God. Our Father did indeed speak through Moses, Elijah, Isaiah, Amos, and Hosea, but he did not cease to minister words of truth to the world when these prophets of old made an end of their utterances. My Father is no respecter of races or generations in that the word of truth is vouchsafed one age and withheld from another. Commit not the folly of calling that divine which is wholly human, and fail not to discern the words of truth which come not through the traditional oracles of supposed inspiration.

155:6.3 I have called upon you to be born again, to be born of the spirit. I have called you out of the darkness of authority and the lethargy of tradition into the transcendent light of the realization of the possibility of making for yourselves the greatest discovery possible for the human soul to make—the supernal experience of finding God for yourself, in yourself, and of yourself, and of doing all this as a fact in your own personal experience. And so may you pass from death to life, from the authority of tradition to the experience of knowing God; thus will you pass from darkness to light, from a racial faith inherited to a personal faith achieved by actual experience; and thereby will you progress from a theology of mind handed down by your ancestors to a true religion of spirit which shall be built up in your souls as an eternal endowment.

155:6.4 Your religion shall change from the mere intellectual belief in traditional authority to the actual experience of that living faith which is able to grasp the reality of God and all that relates to the divine spirit of the Father. The religion of the mind ties you hopelessly to the past; the religion of the spirit consists in progressive revelation and ever beckons you on toward higher and holier achievements in spiritual ideals and eternal realities.

155:6.5 While the religion of authority may impart a present feeling of settled security, you pay for such a transient satisfaction the price of the loss of your spiritual freedom and religious liberty. My Father does not require of you as the price of entering the kingdom of heaven that you should force yourself to subscribe to a belief in things which are spiritually repugnant, unholy, and untruthful. It is not required of you that your own sense of mercy, justice, and truth should be outraged by submission to an outworn system of religious forms and ceremonies. The religion of the spirit leaves you forever free to follow the truth wherever the leadings of the spirit may take you. And who can judge—perhaps this spirit may have something to impart to this generation which other generations have refused to hear?

155:6.6 Shame on those false religious teachers who would drag hungry souls back into the dim and distant past and there leave them! And so are these unfortunate persons doomed to become frightened by every new discovery, while they are discomfited by every new revelation of truth. The prophet who said, " He will be kept in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on God, " was not a mere intellectual believer in authoritative theology. This truth-knowing human had discovered God; he was not merely talking about God.

155:6.7 I admonish you to give up the practice of always quoting the prophets of old and praising the heroes of Israel, and instead aspire to become living prophets of the Most High and spiritual heroes of the coming kingdom. To honor the God-knowing leaders of the past may indeed be worth while, but why, in so doing, should you sacrifice the supreme experience of human existence: finding God for yourselves and knowing him in your own souls?

155:6.8 Every race of mankind has its own mental outlook upon human existence; therefore must the religion of the mind ever run true to these various racial viewpoints. Never can the religions of authority come to unification. Human unity and mortal brotherhood can be achieved only by and through the superendowment of the religion of the spirit. Racial minds may differ, but all mankind is indwelt by the same divine and eternal spirit. The hope of human brotherhood can only be realized when, and as, the divergent mind religions of authority become impregnated with, and overshadowed by, the unifying and ennobling religion of the spirit—the religion of personal spiritual experience.

155:6.9 The religions of authority can only divide men and set them in conscientious array against each other; the religion of the spirit will progressively draw men together and cause them to become understandingly sympathetic with one another. The religions of authority require of men uniformity in belief, but this is impossible of realization in the present state of the world. The religion of the spirit requires only unity of experience—uniformity of destiny—making full allowance for diversity of belief. The religion of the spirit requires only uniformity of insight, not uniformity of viewpoint and outlook. The religion of the spirit does not demand uniformity of intellectual views, only unity of spirit feeling. The religions of authority crystallize into lifeless creeds; the religion of the spirit grows into the increasing joy and liberty of ennobling deeds of loving service and merciful ministration.

….155:6.19 And when Jesus had finished speaking, he beckoned to Andrew and, pointing to the west toward Phoenicia, said: " Let us be on our way. "

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155:06.02 God is no respecter of races Acts 10:34 (Compare) "Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons."

155:06.02 God is no respecter of races Colossians 3:11 (Compare) "Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all."

155:06.02 God is no respecter of races Ephesians 6:9 (Compare) "And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing threatening: knowing that your Master also is in heaven; neither is there respect of persons with him."

155:06.02 God is no respecter of races Galatians 2:6 (Compare) "But of these who seemed to be somewhat."

155:06.02 God is no respecter of races Galatians 3:28 (Compare) "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus."

155:06.02 God is no respecter of races Job 34:19 (Compare) "How much less to him that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? for they all are the work of his hands."

155:06.02 God is no respecter of races Romans 2:11 (Compare) "For there is no respect of persons with God."

155:06.02 God is no respecter of races Sirach 35:12 (Compare) "Do not think to corrupt with gifts; for such he will not receive: and trust not to unrighteous sacrifices; for the Lord is judge, and with him is no respect of persons."

155:06.02 God speaks via prophets Matthew 11:13 (Same) "For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John."

155:06.03 Darkness into light Isaiah 9:2 (Compare) "The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined."

155:06.03 Darkness into light John 3:19-21 (Same) "And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God."

155:06.03 Darkness into light John 8:12 (Same) "Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life."

155:06.03 Darkness into light Luke 1:79 (Same) "To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace."

155:06.03 Darkness into light Luke 11:35-36 (Same) "Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness.
If thy whole body therefore be full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle doth give thee light."

155:06.03 Darkness into light Matthew 4:16 (Same) "The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up."

155:06.03 Death unto life John 5:24 (Same) "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."

155:06.03 Death unto life Romans 5:21 (Compare) "That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord. "

155:06.03 Death unto life Romans 8:2 (Compare) "For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death."

155:06.03 Jesus' "call": be born of the Spirit 1 Peter 1:23 (Compare) "Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever."

155:06.03 Jesus' "call": be born of the Spirit John 3:3 (Same) "Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."

155:06.03 Jesus' "call": be born of the Spirit John 3:7 (Same) "Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again."

155:06.06 Perfect peace Isaiah 26:3 (Reference) "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee."

155:06.12 Childlike faith: spiritual simplicity Luke 9:47-48 (Same) "And Jesus, perceiving the thought of their heart, took a child, and set him by him, And said unto them, Whosoever shall receive this child in my name receiveth me: and whosoever shall receive me receiveth him that sent me: for he that is least among you all, the same shall be great."

155:06.12 Childlike faith: spiritual simplicity Luke 18:16-17 (Same) "But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.
Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein."

155:06.12 Childlike faith: spiritual simplicity Mark 9:36-37 (Same) "And he took a child, and set him in the midst of them: and when he had taken him in his arms, he said unto them, Whosoever shall receive one of such children in my name, receiveth me: and whosoever shall receive me, receiveth not me, but him that sent me."

155:06.12 Childlike faith: spiritual simplicity Mark 10:13-16 (Same) "And they brought young children to him, that he should touch them: and his disciples rebuked those that brought them.
But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.
Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein.
And he took them up in his arms, put his hands upon them, and blessed them."

155:06.12 Childlike faith: spiritual simplicity Matthew 18:2-4 (Same) "And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven."

155:06.12 Childlike faith: spiritual simplicity Matthew 19:13-15 (Same) "Then were there brought unto him little children, that he should put his hands on them, and pray: and the disciples rebuked them.
But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.
And he laid his hands on them, and departed thence."

155:06.15 Fruits of the Spirit Ephesians 5:9 (Compare) "For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth."

155:06.15 Fruits of the Spirit Galatians 5:22-23 (Compare) "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law."