Wednesday, September 10, 2025

This past Saturday’s readings were from the Gospel of Philip and the Prophecy to the Races of Man, Chapter 63: An Unfulfilled Prophecy Revealed (pp. 403 – 412). Click here to read the first scriptural reading, and click the audio button below to hear the reading from our Second Advent scripture.

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In Light+,

Gene

“Each man’s life should leave its impress on Earth, and each man should depart a better man for having lived. Repine not for lost opportunities, for opportunity does not perish at death. Do your best here and

you will do better elsewhere. Be wise here, and you will be wiser in another place.

“Earthly success is not the measure of a man’s achievement, for a gain here may mean a loss elsewhere. An earthly loss may mean a spiritual gain; the scales are always just.

“When in old age you say, “Alas that life is short,” then consider the way you abused and wasted it in your youth, is not your reward fitting? Remember that the paths to pleasant old age are chosen in youth.

They are the paths of simplicity, moderation, cleanliness and virtue.

“Consider the ruthlessness of rulers, the greed of the rich and

the willfulness of the powerful. If these dare to enslave the Earth and wreck misery upon the people, knowing they can enjoy the fruits of their oppression but a brief span of years, what would they not set out to achieve were their span of life doubled or were they immortal?

“Therefore, the Great God in His wisdom has ordained the proper span of man’s life. If, then, you think life is short, why dissipate it so and why waste the precious days? Is it not economy, which makes a man rich, and not abundance?

“The wise man lives fully all his life, and he is always conscious of being alive. The fool is always beginning to live, and the weakling shrinks from it and seeks forgetfulness in comfort. Those who half

live are already half dead.”

-The Kolbrin Bible (MPR:4:33-38)

Leave an Impression

It is a good thing to leave an impression behind when our earthly life is over, provided that impression is positive. To leave an impression as a criminal, a liar, or a greedy person is not desirable, yet many choose to do so. As spiritual people, we should leave an impression of one who has helped people and the planet itself become more spiritual, as is God’s desire. At the very least, we should leave an impression of one who is kind, loving, generous, and helpful.

Repine Not

We should not fret over our mistakes or missed opportunities of the past, but instead, seek to do better in the present and the future. Very few of us have been spiritual since birth. We may have even gone through a period of being very materialistic. But if we learned our lesson and became more spiritual, we need not worry about the past. It is possible that we will have a karmic debt to pay, but it is possible that our good deeds of today will wipe out those debts. Also, as the quote says, if you do your best here, you will be able to do even more good in the afterlife.

Earthly Success

What most people consider success on earth is not true success at all. Having a lot of money or material possessions is not true success. Having political power is not real success. Those things are gone when you depart the earth, and wasting your time on them means you will probably do little to develop true success, which is the awakening and developing of the spiritual faculties. Earthly success is fleeting; spiritual success makes one immortal.

Span of Life

While it can be argued that if spiritual people lived longer, they could do more good, it is also true that if evil people lived longer, they would do more evil. Unfortunately, at this time the evil people in the world outnumber the good, so it is a good thing that physical life is limited to 120 years, at most. It is possible that in the future, when we become more spiritual, that may increase quite a bit. And it is not so much how long you live as how you live that matters. Sometimes, those who accomplish great things live short lives. So don’t be a fool and hide from life; embrace life, and use it as an opportunity to grow spiritually.