Good Spirits.

Have you noticed that whenever the supernatural appears in our popular culture it is always evil?

T.V., movies, books, music.....
It would seem that everything spiritual is evil.

But what of angels, fairies, cherubim and seraphim?
What of prayers and blessings?

There are good spiritual forces as well.

And we would do well to embrace them.


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Who Will Be a Saint?

In a world

where its cool

to be a villain,

who will be

a saint?


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An Evil Place (Goodwill).

The world is an evil place.

But not all the people in the world are evil.

People of goodwill are disempowered and distracted by a minority of evil.

Rock stars and celebrities, sportsmen and women, reality T.V. and talent quests all conspire to betray good people.

And the plutocrats who own our media collude to control us.

So that any goodwill that still survives in our world is lost.

The world is an evil place.

But not all the people in the world are evil.


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The Real World.

I can hear you now,"That's all very well but it won't work in the real world."

That's your fear talking.

You are not prepared to give love a try because you know it won't work, you'll just get trampled on.

That is fear.

And what is trampling but fear.
Get the next guy before he gets you.

This is the way of the world.
And it is driven by fear.

What did Jesus say?
He said not to retaliate but to turn the other cheek.

But does anyone do it?
Not even Christians.

But Love is the ultimate reality.
The Kingdom of God is ruled by Love.

"There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear."  1 John 4: 18 (NRSV)


[Scripture quotations (marked NRSV) are taken from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and are used by permission.  All rights reserved.]


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Building.

The foundations of Progressive Christianity were established by modern Biblical scholars who re-interpreted the scriptures as poetry and metaphor, not literal history.

Others have begun to build on these firm foundations.

Modern day prophets have returned to the essential teachings of Jesus - to love God, love our neighbor, and love our enemies - and begun to build a New Church in which all the relationships are maintained by unconditional love.

This is the work of God in the 21st century.

And we are privileged to be part of it.


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The New Church.

The Aquarian Church of God will be a structure in which all of the relationships are maintained by unconditional love.

It may not be a building at all.
It may be an international fellowship of hearts, a partnership of equals.

Love God, love your neighbor, and love your enemies.

If you do this you will love everyone and live in the light.


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The Good Within.

Jesus said, "'The Kingdom of God is within you.'"  Luke 17:21b (GNB)

Within each one of us there is a Divine Spark - a part which partakes of God's nature.

To identify with this spark we must live in the present moment - the moment of eternity.

To do this we must quieten the mind with its endless searching and distractions.

But the Divine Spark is not in the mind.
It is in the heart.

So to experience the spiritual we must enter the fifth dimension - within.


[Scriptures (marked GNB) are taken from the Good News Bible published by The Bible Societies/Collins copyright American Bible Society.]


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