Sanctification: from mud to marble
Sanctification: from mud to marble. Heaven, hell, angels, demons and everything in between
Congratulations. You have arrived at the last and most important chapter of Creative Power II: Bring God Into It. You may have noticed that the Archangel Gabriel is the cover image of this original first printing. I’m not just trying to be churchy. My uttermost purpose with this book is to help guide you in building your wings and becoming an angel, yourself. There are quite a few heavy and philosophical topics that we will traverse together here, so like a good tour guide, I promise to make it as easy, relatable and clear as possible. That said, get ready to have your head rocked and your heart exploded. If I have done my job correctly, you will find that a doctorate in philosophical studies was not requisite for understanding and unlocking the greatest truths and most hidden treasures of the universe.
If we are to understand sanctification and sainthood (the very real process of becoming an angel), then we must start with basics: simple human life. This truth is best communicated in numbers because numbers are clear, numbers are cut and they are dry. We are taking otherworldly mysteries and breaking them down to everyday knowledge a human can grasp, itself no easy task, but much easier if we use numbers. I contend that there are three stages of the evolutionary process, and if you are reading these pages [that is: you are a human being] then you automatically fall into one.
Stages of the Soul and their Part Quantities
• Mud (animal-like) 2/2 parts • Clay (human-like) 4/4 parts • Marble (angelic spirit) 16/16 parts
There are three elements or stages, with their corresponding part numbers. A perfect animal, like a cat, dog or canary, is 2/2 parts mud: that is a pure animal. A whole or complete human being is 4/4 parts clay: that is an integral human. A whole, completed spiritual being – or angel – is 16/16 parts marble: that is a perfect soul.
At birth we are all 3 part creatures, that is one half animal and one half human. Since a whole animal is 2 out of 2 parts, and a complete human is 4 out of 4 parts, the baby human is a three part creature because a half animal is 1 part, and half a human is 2 parts: this is how we arrive at the absolute value of 3. Why do I contend babies are half animal? Because biologically speaking, although we are born to human parents, when you are a baby you are the closest you will ever be to being strictly animal-like: you eat, you defecate, you sleep and repeat. That is all you do. This is what animals do, also. You are not yet fully human, and the fact that you were born to human parents assures you are not fully animal, either. The bad news is that no one automatically sheds their absolute value of 3, half mud and half clay, simply by getting older. Some people never graduate to the next level: absolute value 4, fully human. At four you are 4 out of 4 parts human, made entirely of clay, and have lost all traces of animal nature, you no longer consist of any parts mud. It would surprise you to know that relatively few make it to the fully human stage, which is where I believe I am now, as of this writing. If you are fully human, you have shed your animal nature. This means you no longer submit yourself to base, animal cravings. What is an animal craving? Anything you do, selfishly, that lowers you to the same plain that animals inhabit. I covered these topics earlier, throughout the first half of the book. If you kill you are acting like an animal. If you violate other people’s rights, you are acting like an animal. If you cheat, lie, steal – you are acting like an animal. If you oppress others for unjust gain, you are acting like an animal. If you cannot contain your sexual desires, you are acting like an animal. If you regularly become angry and lash out at people and things, you are an animal. If you show lack of tolerance for differing beliefs, opinions and views, you are an animal. See how easy it is to remain at absolute value 3, and never make it to 4?
However remaining at 4 should not be your goal, either. You want to make it to the highest absolute value a living human can reach, and that is the number 10. Why ten? A ten is half human (2 out of 4 parts), and half angel (8 out of 16 parts). Two plus eight is ten, and that is the highest achievable stage to us mortals: half marble and half clay. What happens when you reach level 10? That is what I personally aspire to, which means I am not there yet. But I do have a clue as to what happens when we get there. The spirit is much more powerful than we can imagine: it has true, tangible powers. A spirit-filled person can seem detached and dreamy in the sense that hardly anything can be made to bother them. Why is that? If you are living in the spirit, and you know that the soul is eternal, then non-eternal troubles and concerns cease to become provocations for you. That said, remember that you are still half-clay, that is, half human. This means you cannot wholesale dismiss worries and concerns because as a living creature, you still have them! But these concerns lose their power over you. The closer you are to being an animal (the longer you remain at absolute value 3), the harsher the quantity and nature of concerns, the more that can crawl under your skin and bother you. Are you overly concerned about money and finances? You are still part animal, a 3 and not yet a 4. Do you regularly compare yourself, your life and your belongings to that of others? Still a 3. See how difficult it is to become a level 10? Yet I know it is achievable.
Heaven and Hell, Angels and Demons explained
I would not want for you to bet your eternity on these following words of mine, but I do believe they are worth giving some heed to. Taking the example from the last section deeper, we can plainly see how some become angels while others retrograde to full blown demons, by the time your final chips are cashed in. The more that your life is devoted to satisfying base and animalistic desires, drives and needs, the closer you die at level 3. Now place yourself in God’s shoes. Would someone who is born, lives and dies as a level three make a good angelic candidate? What does Jesus say about this?
33 Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country: 34 And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it. 35 And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. 36 Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise. 37 But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son. 38 But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance. 39 And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him. 40 When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen? 41 They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons. 42 Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes? 43 Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof. 44 And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder. - Matthew 21
14 For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods. 15 And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey. 16 Then he that had received the five talents went and traded with the same, and made them other five talents. 17 And likewise he that had received two, he also gained other two. 18 But he that had received one went and digged in the earth, and hid his lord's money. 19 After a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth with them. 20 And so he that had received five talents came and brought other five talents, saying, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me five talents: behold, I have gained beside them five talents more. 21 His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord. 22 He also that had received two talents came and said, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me two talents: behold, I have gained two other talents beside them. 23 His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord. 24 Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed: 25 And I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, there thou hast that is thine. 26 His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed: 27 Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury. 28 Take therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him which hath ten talents. 29 For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath. 30 And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 31 When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: 32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: 33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. 34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: 35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: 36 Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. 37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? 38 When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? 39 Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? 40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. 41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: 42 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink: 43 I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not. 44 Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? 45 Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. 46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal. - Matthew 25
You see? I am not too far off utilizing numbers to assign values to the worth of the soul, for the Master, Jesus Christ, has a similar methodology in his parable of the talents.
For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
And so we come to the end of this book. I had believed I would have much more to say on this topic of heaven, hell, angels and demons, but I do not. I can only muddle things up by meddling in them too long. In short suffice it to say, that you know deep within your own soul if you are closer to resembling marble or mud. My goal is to one blessed day reach the pinnacle: 16 out of 16 parts marble, the perfect angelic being. Now I realize that I cannot attain that high station until my day of death, so by no means do I wish to rush it.
Still, I breathe easier knowing that I am on my way to 10, and I can feel it in the way that my life has grown so happy, and my every, common day so blessed. My prayer for you is that in creating, you will bring God into it. That in living, you will place Him first. Everything else will fall in line as it should, as it has been promised to us from the beginning.
Luis Herrera A humble servant of the Lord Alajuela, Costa Rica September of 2017
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