The Psychic Life of Jesus

Taken from the book The Psychic Life of Jesus by the Rev G Maurice Elliott

When Judas had left the Last Supper, Jesus predicted that the eleven would be persecuted, excommunicated and very likely killed. But he encouraged them by saying that all their lamenting and sorrow would be turned into joy. He told them, however, that they would all desert him at the last. “I am only to be with a you a little longer,” he said, and added “where I go you cannot come.”

The disciples were heartbroken at the thought of losing him. ‘Where are you going?” asked Peter. Jesus told him that he was going where none of them could follow him at present but that they would follow him later on.

“Why cannot I follow you for now?” said Peter. “I will lay down my life for you.”

Jesus had already seen clairvoyantly, or heard clairaudiently, that before the cock crowed in the early morning Peter would three times deny that he knew him. He told Peter so. And it was so.

How hopeless the disciples and Peter must have felt! Jesus had revealed to them their fickleness and disloyalty. No wonder they could not go where he was going. And Jesus saw the trouble that was in their hearts, and said to them, “Let not your hearts be troubled. In my Father’s house are many mansions.”

This is most interesting. The word ‘mansions’ does not mean ‘houses’. It means ‘stations on a journey’ which afford accommodation for the night, and suggests progress and rest, rest and progress, to the journey’s end.

These ‘mansions’ or stations, was the name given by Jesus to the ‘spheres’, the ‘planes’, the ‘heavens’. And it is enlightening in this connection to notice that Jesus did not tell his disciples to pray the words “Our Father which art in heaven.” He told them to pray “Our Father who are in the heavens.’

Did he mean that the universal spirit of the Father was in all the mansions, in all the heavens? Why not/ he surely must have had the ‘mansions’ in mind when he spoke of the Father in the heavens.

But how did Jesus know that there were these ‘mansions’, these ‘stations’?

Spiritualists would at once answer that he knew of them because he had been to them, seen them, passed through them. Why would Spiritualists say that? Because those ‘ministering spirits’ whom God sends forth ‘to succour and defend us’ – known to us today as ‘guardian angels’ or ‘guides’ have told them of their journeys through the spheres earthward. So far as I am aware, these guides have all lived on earth at one time or another.

Spiritualists talk to the denizens of the ‘many mansions’, the spheres; and they know (if men know anything) that Jesus was right. Paul knew. He has told us that he was caught up to the ‘third heaven’.

Sir Oliver Lodge writes, “There is no ‘next’ world.’ He means that the universe is one. “What we call ‘the next world’ is co-existent and simultaneous with this’, he says. And if we were to ask him how he knows, he would answer, “So they tell us from ‘the other side’.” Yes this great scientist has spoken to the denizens of the ‘many mansions’ who were once dwellers upon earth.

Now, if no one living today had spoken to, heard, or received a message from a denizen of another sphere it would not prove that spheres and survival are myths. But it would prove that we, in our generation, have no proof that men survive physical death, or that the spheres exist.

Those who are able to believe what the religious teachers of the world are reported to have said about Survival and ‘other world’, hold a belief, but they do now know. The only way to know whether the ‘dead’ continue to live is to communicate with them.

The only way to know whether the universe is three-=storied (heaven, earth, hell) or many-storied (many mansioned heavens, earth, the hells( is to ask the ‘dead”.

And when the ‘dead’ are asked, they not only confirm what Jesus is reported to have said about these things, but tell us a good deal more.

And here is an interesting fact : the reported words of Jesus which follow immediately upon his words, “Where I go you cannot come” are these : “I give you a new commandment; Love one another even as I have loved you.”

It is as if Jesus had said, “I am going to the sphere of Love where none but the Love-conscious, those perfected in Love, can come. But I leave with you the secret of the way, the love-way. Love, as I have loved, and you too will presently come where I am going.”

And is not that the supreme message which the “heavenly messengers” are never weary of delivering? Are they not above all else “Apostles of Love”? But echo what Jesus has said? Is not his word enough?” The orthodox do not understand. They fail to grasp the situation. The position is this:

The teaching of Jesus about Love being the passport to the highest heaven is of no value to the multitudes who have yet to be convinced that there are many heavens, and that Survival is a fact.

Moreover, it is extremely difficult for the multitudes to reconcile the beautiful teaching of Jesus on Love with his horrible words about ‘everlasting punishment’ and his threat, ‘believe or be damned,’ etc.

Scholars know, of course, that he made no reference whatever to ‘everlasting punishment’ or to the damnation of the soul! The multitude does not know this.

The Report on “Doctrine in the Church of England” states that the Gospels cannot be accepted ‘as always reproducing the ipsissima verba (actual words) of our Lord.”

On the question of “Survival”, the Report points out that the ‘main tradition of the Church’ has postulated a period of ‘disembodied existence as intervening between the death of the individual and the final consummation’. It admits that this ‘notion’ presents difficulties and says ‘we must be content to employ partially irreconcilable symbolisms, and to remain otherwise agnostic.’

I dare not trust myself to comment on the above paragraph, except to say this: No person on earth can imagine, visualist, form a conception of, think of, ‘disembodied existence’. It is unintelligible.

Well now, seeing that we do not know exactly what Jesus said and what he did not say, and that the Church’s ‘postulates’ and ‘notions’ upon vital matters are in some cases unthinkable, unintelligible, is it surprising that multitudes are agnostic?

But when any intelligent person learns that Survival is a proven fact, he is naturally anxious to enquire and prove it for himself.

And when he has done so, he finds that the guides confirm all the love-teaching which Jesus is reported to have given, and condemn all teaching that is inconsistent with, and antagonistic to, that teaching. They confirm also the truth of there being ‘many mansions’.

That is why Spiritualists are such keen students of the gospel and are able, with the help of the ‘heavenly messengers’, to separate the Church’s dross from the heavenly gold in the teaching of Jesus.