“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.

Wednesday, September 3, 2025

This past Saturday’s readings were from the Book of Baruch (The Oath of Secrecy) and the Prophecy to the Races of Man, Chapter 69: The Parousia (pp. 448 – 453). 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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“Commune with your soul within, and consider how wonderfully you are created. Meditate long upon your nature, contemplate the powers you possess. Consider your needs and desires; thus, you will find the proper path through life and a sure guide to direct your footsteps.

“As the union of heat and tinder produces fire, so does the union of soul and body produce life in man.

“Nothing is constant in life, except wisdom, knowledge and skill. Life ebbs and flows, as the tide and the fortunes of men wax and wane as the moon. The rich become poor, and the poor become rich. The powerful become weak, and the weak become powerful. Where the stream flowed

yesteryear is now dust, and the cooling waters have moved elsewhere. The lakes of last season have joined the wilderness, and the dykes have become pits. Fortune smiles upon the improvident, and misfortune smites the worthy. Men are born handsome or ugly, rich or poor; they inherit a life of ease or a life of struggle.”

-The Kolbrin Bible (MPR:4:1-3)

Commune With your Spirit

We should commune with our Spirit and contemplate how wonderful it is that we have been created with an immortal Soul, giving us the possibility of an eternal life in heaven. That eternal life is not guaranteed, but must be earned by awakening and developing our spiritual faculties and by obeying the Law of God.

Consider Needs and Desires

Considering your needs and desires doesn’t mean that you should give in to all your desires, but that you should learn to distinguish between real needs and physical desires that are often harmful to the process of awakening and developing the spiritual faculties. As for the powers we possess, this again is not talking about physical strength or other physical abilities, but our spiritual powers that few are aware of. As Jesus is reported to have said, “Have faith the size of a mustard seed, and when you tell a mountain to move, it will move.” In other words, when you truly believe in the unlimited power of spirit, you will be able to do miraculous things.

Union of Soul and Body

The true union of the body and soul does produce life. The ancients said this because they didn’t consider the body by itself a living thing. After all, its life is temporary. But when we successfully unite body, mind, and Spirit, we become truly immortal.

Nothing is Constant

The physical realm is all about change. Beings get old and die. Some who were poor get rich, and some who were rich become poor. Fertile land becomes desert, and desert becomes fertile land. The great Sahara Desert was once fertile land. Some do inherit a life of ease, while others get one of constant struggle, but such things can change, and often do. Some of the wealthiest people of today were once poor. Of course, true wealth comes from wisdom and knowledge, not material goods. So develop your spiritual Self, and gain wisdom and knowledge.

“He is not a New God but the Oldest God of All, the Father of All Ages, the Ancient One of yore. He requires no temple to establish His glory or sacrifice to give Him strength. A cheerful nature is more acceptable to this God than offerings of gold and silver by the bad-tempered man, or the sacrificial ox of the churlish man. He prefers the man who gives a willing hand to his neighbor, to one who brings Him treasure.

“A word of encouragement to a man in distress is of more value to Our God than loud praises in His temple. He does not take all and remain mute. He seeks not gifts with no purpose, or wasteful sacrifices. What can man give that will add to His glory? What thing fashioned by man could benefit the One God, who by taking thought could create a universe?

‘Work for Our God, and He will work for you. He remembers well the man, who labors on His behalf. He who labors to the benefit of others works for the Great God. He who improves Earth works for Him.

“The purpose of man’s sojourn on Earth is the glorification of man, not the glorification of God, who is the All Glorious One. Thus it is written in the plans of God.”

-The Kolbrin Bible (MPR:2:33-35)

Not a New God

While Christianity may be a relatively new religion, that doesn’t mean the God of Christianity is a new god. I’m not talking about Jesus, who many worship as god, but the True God that Jesus called “Father”. This is the same God worshipped by the Essenes and Pythagorians, among others. Simply because these old religions predated Christianity doesn’t mean they worshiped false gods.

No Sacrifices Required

While false gods may like sacrifices of blood and burnt offerings, the true God has no need, or desire, for such sacrifices. As the creator of all that is real, there is nothing we can give God that isn’t already His. The one sacrifice He desires is that we serve His Will and obey His Laws.

The One God, Who could Create a Universe

The true God is the one who created the real universe, the permanent universe of Spirit. The Universe of matter, which the Demiurge created, is a deformed and temporary creation full of death, disease, and suffering. None of those horrors exists in the realm of the True God of Spirit.

Work for God and God Will Work for You

God wants to save all of humanity, but He helps those who do His Work on Earth. That work is to help in the process of turning the deformed realm of matter back into Spirit. God wants us to help in that process, which means that we must first awaken and develop our own Spiritual faculties. Until we do that, we cannot truly understand God and what He wants from us.

Glorification of Man

This statement can be easily misunderstood. It doesn’t mean that we should worship other Men, or put the laws of man ahead of the Laws of God. It means that we must each achieve the glory God wants of us by developing our Spiritual faculties until we reach that high level of consciousness where we become One with the All, One with God and the Angels in Heaven.