• (Q)What is meant by "the day of the Lord is near at hand"?




(A) That as has been promised through the prophets and the sages of old, the time - and half time - has been and is being fulfilled in this day and generation, and that soon there will again appear in the earth that one through whom many will be called to meet those that are preparing the way for His day in the earth. The Lord, then, will come, "even as ye have seen him go".







• (Q) How soon?




(A) When those that are His have made the way clear, PASSABLE, for Him to come.






• (Q) For some time I have been thinking continually about the coming of the Kingdom on earth and His coming. Has it any bearing upon the lesson? Please give me more light upon the Kingdom and His coming.

(A) How long has been the cry of those that have manifested in the earth the glory of the Father through the Son, "Hasten, O Lord, the day of thy kingdom in the earth!" How have the promises read that the Son has given? "I go to prepare a place that where I am there ye may be also. I will come again and receive you unto myself." Then, as the individual heart attunes its mind and its body-activity into that consciousness of the desire for the hastening of that day. Yet the merciful kindness of the Father has, in the eyes of many, delayed the coming, and many have cried even as the parable He gave, "We know not what has become of this man. Show us other gods that may lead us in this day." Yet the cry in the heart and the soul of those that seek His way is to hasten that day. Yet, as He has given, in patience, in listening, in being still, may ye know that the Lord doeth all things well. Be not weary that He apparently prolongs His time, for - as the Master has given, "As to the day, no man knoweth, not even the son, but the Father and they to whom the Father may reveal the Son prepareth the way that all men may know the love of the Father." And as ye would be the channel to hasten that glorious day of the coming of the Lord, then do with a might that thy hands find to do to make for the greater manifestations of the love of the Father in the earth. For, into thy keeping, and to His children and to His sons, has He committed the keeping of the saving of the world, of the souls of men; for, as He has given, "Who is my mother? Who is my brother? Who is my sister?" They that do the will of my Father who is in heaven, the same is my mother, my brother, my sister." So, as He gave, "I leave thee, but I will come again and receive as many as ye have quickened through the manifesting in thy life the will of the Father in the earth." Hence know that, as thine mind, thine activities, long more and more for the glorifying of the Son in the earth, for the coming of the day of the Lord, He draws very nigh unto thee.

• (Q) Please explain what is meant by "He will walk and talk with men of every clime". Does this mean he will appear to many at once or appear to various peoples during a long period?




(A) As given, for a thousand years He will walk and talk with men of every clime. Then in groups, in masses, and then they shall reign of the first resurrection for a thousand years; for this will be when the changes materially come. In the manner as He sat at the peace conference in Geneva, in the heart and soul of a man not reckoned by many as an even unusually Godly man; yet raised for a purpose, and he chose rather to be a channel of His thought for the world. So, as there has been, so will it be until the time as set. As was given of Him, not given to man to know the time or the period of the end, nor to man - save by their constituting themselves a channel through which He may speak. To be sure, man and woman alike; for, as given from the beginning, they are one. Not as man counts oneness from the material viewpoint. Rather from that as He gave, "Where are those thy persecutors?" "No man, Lord." "Neither do I condemn thee. Sin no more." In the searching out of those who, where and when He speaks, or has spoken among or with, or through men, "By their fruits ye shall know them." They that bring more righteousness are the children of faith, hope, charity. These three; and they do so in MATERIAL world, the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit. Be thou, then, a channel that may oft walk with Him that gave not of else than, "Let not your hearts be troubled; neither let it be afraid. Let not thine right hand know what thy left hand doeth." Rather giving self to seeking, day by day, to KNOW the will of the Father as was manifest in Him, and may be manifest in Thee, for He will not leave thee desolate, but will come to thee - but not unless invited; for, as in the periods, as we find, when He walked with men as the Master among men, or when as Joseph in the kingdoms that were raised as the saving of his peoples that SOLD him into bondage, or as the priest of Salem in the days when the call came that a peculiar peoples would proclaim his name, He has walked and talked with men. Or, as in those days as Asapha [?] [Sons of Asaph? See Ps. 81:5 indicating that Joseph and Asaph were one and the same?], or Affa [?] in those periods when those of that same Egyptian land were giving those counsels to the many nations, when there would be those saving of the physical from that of their own making in the physical; or in the garden when those temptations came, or as the first begotten of the Father that came as Amilius in the Atlantean land and allowed himself to be led in ways of selfishness. Hence, as we see, all the various stages of developments that have come to man through the ages have been those periods when He walked and talked with man. In this, then, when - as we find - that those periods began in a like period from that of Joseph to Joseph, or Jesus, then again we see the cycle when perfected in body, overcoming the world in the body of man, will He appear in those VARIED experiences; for He tarries not, and the time draws near.






• (Q) We have been told that the Second Coming of the Master in the flesh would not take place until 1985. Is this approximately correct? Can't we expect to see Him sooner?




(A) How doth He interpret, as to the day or the hour? No man knoweth save the Father. Live ye then, each soul, as though ye expected him today. Then ye shall see Him as He is, when ye live such a life.






• (Q) He said He would come again. What about His second coming?




(A) The time no one knows. Even as He gave, not even the Son Himself. ONLY the Father. Not until His enemies - and the earth - are wholly in subjection to His will, His powers.






(Q) Are we entering the period of preparation for His coming?




(A) Entering the test period, rather.






• (Q) Is Jesus the Christ on any particular sphere or is He manifesting on the earth plane in another body?




(A) As just given, all power in heaven, in earth, is given to Him who overcame. Hence He is of Himself in space, in the force that impels through faith, through belief, in the individual entity. As a Spirit Entity. Hence not in a body in the earth, but may come at will to him who WILLS to be one with, and acts in love to make same possible. For, He shall come as ye have seen Him go, in the BODY He occupied in Galilee. The body that He formed, that was crucified on the cross, that rose from the tomb, that walked by the sea, that appeared to Simon, that appeared to Philip, that appeared to "I, even John."