(from the introduction)
We’ll confirm at the outset that we do sincerely believe this book to contain the thoughts of Jesus of Nazareth, conveyed by automatic writing through the mind and pen of the listed author, Daniel Samuels. But we’ll quickly add that you, the reader, need not subscribe to this claim in order to enjoy or benefit from its message. The value of this book lies primarily in its contents, not its authorship.
...God is Love. Simple words, and yet we could spend an eternity learning the meaning behind them. In these three words, John the apostle tells us something of profound importance: that love is not just a four letter word, nor merely a "warm and fuzzy" feeling. In his simple statement, John suggests that there is a love which lies beyond "unconditional acceptance," even beyond those lofty expressions of human love involving personal sacrifice for the beloved. Very succinctly, John states that there is a love so holy, sublime, and majestic as to be "synonymous" with the name of God.
(from the first chapter)
I am here, Jesus. I am here in response to your request that I write a sermon for those who are interested in learning more about the Gospel which I really preached when on earth – a Gospel designed to show humankind the way to immortality through possession of God’s love. Through prayer for this love, the human soul becomes transformed into a divine soul, possessed of the essence of God.
Yes, that was my mission when I was on earth, and that was the great message which my Father in Heaven sent me to preach to all humankind. And it is the message which I have been, and am still endeavoring to bring to humankind over the long centuries from that time until the present. It is my hope that the clouds of incomprehension can be at last cleared away, and that humankind can know exactly what I preached when on earth, and learn the exact way to become at-one with God in His divine love and mercy, and thus be enabled to achieve that immortality of soul which they so much desire and so eagerly seek, and yet which seemingly evades their grasp and frustrated yearnings...
In these first sermons we will address the questions: Why is it that the churches neglect to turn humankind to the Father’s love? And, what is necessary for religious leaders to do to bring about the realization that God’s love is available to all His children?
I wish to show why it is so important for all humankind, regardless of religious affiliation or background, to understand my simple teachings, an understanding which the trappings and misconceptions of present-day Christian churches make so difficult and uncertain for the very congregations they serve and seek to guide. The Christian churches of today, built as they are upon the speculations of people who did not comprehend my teachings, cannot show the way to the Father and His love, because they have no understanding of God’s love as a precious gift – the "pearl of great price" – and so cannot lead their members to seek and obtain this love and its resulting new birth of soul.
These churches cannot inspire their members to seek God’s love because they no longer understand, and have not for long centuries understood, that God’s love, possessed by the human soul through prayer to Him for its coming, is the "Way" – and the only way – to at-onement with God.
The Christian churches of today emphasize the moral order of society, very much as did Moses with his Ten Commandments; and obedience to a moral order, as I have previously explained, has merely the force of purifying a person’s soul and bringing it into harmony with God’s laws. No matter how thorough the purification, morality does not have the power to bring about the transformation of a human soul into a divine soul, filled with God’s love and mercy.
No obedience to any moral code, I repeat, nor for that matter, any magical effect of anyone’s blood, can cause this transformation, for only God’s love, conveyed by the holy spirit in response to earnest prayer, can bring about such a transformation. No church as it is constituted today teaches this simple but great fact – which was the true gospel that I taught as the appointed Messiah of God.
It is for this reason, I must repeat, that the way to the Father and His gift of immortality lies not with the rituals of the churches, nor with their doctrines of moral behavior, nor through the "efficacy" of my blood or mere belief in my name. The way to the Father is explained in the simple gospel that I taught on earth, and that I am again teaching in these messages.
The present-day churches do not possess this knowledge of the way to at-onement with God, and this is why they must be given this, my true gospel, so that they may follow my teachings, and carry on my work of awakening humankind to the fundamental truth – that we may all be one through God’s divine love.
