There was a man who died and was being taken to heaven
by angels. The angels said to him, “We are going to take you
to heaven, but first we will show you hell.”
The angels then took him to a place where there was a
great bowl, so great that it was as big as a lake. The bowl
was filled with a nutritious stew. All the way around the
sides of this bowl were people. Emaciated, starving, miserable
people. These people had spoons to eat the stew with, and the
spoons were long enough to reach the stew (about 12 feet). The
trouble was, while they could scoop up the stew into the spoon,
they could not get it into their mouths because the spoons were
too long. So here were all these pathetic people, suffering and
moaning in agony, constantly trying to eat the food that was
abundantly in front of them – all in vain. Next, the angels
took the man to heaven. To his surprise, he saw the same scene!
There it was, a giant lake-like bowl of the same stew, surrounded
by people with 12 foot long spoons. Yet something was
different here – all these people were smiling, happy, and
healthy looking!
“Why? What is the difference here that these people are
happy and well fed?”, the man said to the angels.
They replied, “Have you not eyes to see?”. The man looked
more carefully, and observed that one person would scoop up
the stew, and bring it to the mouth of another. Then someone
else would scoop up stew and feed it to the other.
The angels smiled and said, “Here the people feed each
other. Here are the people that learned the way of Love.”
Story written in the first century A.D., by an early Christian sect in Greece.
- In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. How? The Mind of God moved, and matter, form, came into being.
- Spirit is life. Mind is the builder, and the physical is the result.
- In each atom, in each corpuscle, is life. Life is that you worship as God.
- For the earth is only an atom in the universe of worlds.
- All souls in the beginning were one with the Father. The separation or turning away brought evil.
- For man may separate himself from God – the Spirit – but the spirit does not separate from man.
- All souls were created in the beginning and are finding their way back to whence they came.
- Each soul is destined to become a portion again of the First Cause, or back to its Maker.
- The Father has not willed that any soul should perish, and is thus mindful that each soul has again, and yet again, the opportunity for making its paths straight.
- Life is, in all its manifestations in every animate force, Creative Force in action; and is the love of expression – or expressing that life; truth becoming a result of life’s love expressed. For, these are but names – unless experienced in the consciousness of each soul.
- All power, all force, is a manifestation of that which is termed the God-consciousness.
- The coming into the earth has been and is, for the evolution or evolving of the soul unto its awareness.
- Birth in the physical is death in the spiritual. Death in the physical is the birth in the spiritual.
- Each soul enters with a mission. We all have a mission to perform.
- The conquering of self is truly greater than were one to conquer many worlds.
- He who understands nature walks close with God.
- What is truth? Law. What is Law? Love. What is love? God. What is God? Law and love. These are as the cycle of truth itself.
- You grow to heaven. You don’t go to heaven.
Quotes from Edgar Cayce – http://www.near-death.com/experiences/cayce03.html
“What man thinks continually,he becomes;what he cherishes in his heart and mind,he makes a pulsation of his heart through his own blood cells;and he builds,in his own physical,that which his spirit and soul must feed upon,and THAT BY WHICH IT WILL BE POSSESSED when it passes the realm where the experiences it has gained here in the physical plane MUST be used.”
“The Edgar Cayce Reader Volume I Page 99.”