CHAPTER IX The Messenger
This might be the
title of one of the last chapters in our book. I will tell you about
him. He is the incarnation of a high spirit who has taken up the task of
helping the earth, now in a very bad way. All this killing is becoming
wholesale scientific murder, and must be stopped. It is a sad
demonstration of the backwardness of your civilisation that the nations
should be destroying one another, and constantly sending over here
thousands of undeveloped souls, totally unfit for their new life. Most
of them will quickly reincarnate in order to learn the lessons necessary
to enable them to remain here.
The churches do
nothing, and the League of Nations is helpless. The
new teaching will check all the
slaughter, but it will take time for the
Messenger to become known, and he
himself not yet conscious of his high mission. He is not a clergyman.
The Church has had its teachers and had disregarded them. He is a
writer, and is now working o a book that will bring him fame: a word of
fiction, because that is all that the masses will read. When he makes
his appearance, you will
recall my words, and you will recognise him by
the message he brings.
The earth needs
regeneration about every two thousand years, because, by that time, the
original message has been so much obscured by the additions, dogmas and
superstitions of the priests. The Church is dying, and if no new
Messenger were sent, the world would lose all spirituality. The
civilisation of to-day, with all its death-dealing inventions, makes the
outlook more dangerous than
in the days when men
fought hand to hand. At first few will listen to the new Messenger, who
will of course be despised by the great majority, just as was Christ, but
in the end he will succeed in inaugurating a new religion to take the
place of so-called
Christianity, which as a European religion, is dead already.
You ask whether
there will be the usual “ virgin birth” story; no, for nobody would
believe it nowadays. That kind of thing was added later to Christianity,
Buddhism and other religions. At the time, nobody ever suggested that
Christ was other than the carpenter’s son and it was many years after his
death that the miraculous conception story was invented. The new teacher
will be deified in later years, but while he is doing his work, he will be
bitterly opposed by the bishops and clergy, who will fear to lose their
influence.
There will, however,
be a few who are sufficiently enlightened to recognise the Master. Were it
not for these few advanced souls who are on the watch for his coming, his
mission would be useless. The crazy crowd of pleasure-seekers and
money-makers would not trouble to listen, but there are always a few that
have not bent the knew to Baal, and they constitute the leaven that will
save the masses. The more you think about it, the more obvous it becomes
that some spiritualizing influence is badly needed on the earth, otherwise
humans beings would degenerate into mere brute beasts, and evolution would
come to a standstill.
I cannot yet give
you his name, but he is British born, and comes from the North. His
teaching will be his passport, and the spread of Spiritualism is paving
the way for his coming. Red Cloud and the other guides are the advance
guard who scratch up the soil, so that all the seed may not be lost. |
