“The love and the mystery of the Creator defy any explanation. And any explanation that is accurate and true is but an approximation, for the reality and the love of God are always beyond human understanding and the understanding of any race of beings in the universe…
For all the religions were initiated by God and have been changed through human adoption, misuse and corruption.”
– Marshall Vian Summers
This is how God restores you, gives you clear eyes, freedom from the past. This is how God cleanses your mind and your heart and
God gives you authority over your affairs, yet God has authority over your direction. So the authority is shared, you see, at different levels. And
So this is a phenomenal event, but it is part of the Great Waves of change. The New Message has been speaking about this for
Pure Religion is really an arena of resolution because when you see that real spirituality and religion is based on experience and not on ideology, not on belief—belief does play a role, but it’s only to be helpful, not to be the ultimate because there are no ultimate beliefs.
Why Is war waged in the name of religion? Why does religion become what it has become over time? And even in present time, where in certain parts of the world there is real war waged in its name? We’re still living in this religion-as-war state.
Religion is important, particularly in giving people a beginning structure within which to work, which includes a spiritual practice, a spiritual understanding, hopefully a very beneficial way of looking at the world a new understanding of yourself and the fact that you’re here evolving spiritually, that you’re not merely a sinner that is trying to please God so you’ll be saved.
God has put the perfect guiding Intelligence within us. Be you religious or not, whatever your faith tradition or no faith tradition, it is there
Religion has become a palliative. It has become a distraction more than an illumination. It has become something that people use to run away from
God does not create belief. God does not create ideology. God only gives you wisdom and clarity and a high standard to live by.
Knowledge is the most powerful force in the universe because it’s eternal and it’s connected to God. If it’s eternal, you’re eternal—not like you
Power, wisdom and authority. You can’t give your authority to God. This is no spiritual welfare here. You can’t wait for God to tell
It is not enough to believe in God. It is not enough to adhere to the teachings of your tradition, if you have a tradition. It is not enough to follow the prescriptions given in the scriptures. These things do not guarantee the true life…
Any true religious and spiritual pathway begins with suffering and is clarified by suffering. To begin this pathway, one must honestly face their own suffering without blaming others.
Steps to Knowledge, is a spiritual practice that represents both a path to God and a path of contribution in the world. It engages you in solving the two most fundamental questions in life: Who am I? and Why am I here?
Christmas represents the emergence of Knowledge—the natural spiritual intelligence in the individual. This is exemplified in the life of Jesus, who beyond his own understanding even, a Greater Power emerged within him, overtook his life.
God is a pure experience of relationship because God is a pure experience of affinity. This is a pure experience of shared power. This
Humanity, hear My words. We speak of a greater reality — a greater truth that lives within each person, a greater truth that cannot be
