In this spiritual development teaching Hafed tells us that we need to wake each morning and ‘clothe’ ourselves with the spiritual quality of love so that we may follow the correct path.

He talks about the life that is yet to come for us in the spirit world.  A world full of wonder and magical realms where we learn new things from our spirit teachers and develop spiritually.  However, first we need to face the challenges, obsessions and temptations of this world and recognise them as the imposters they really are.

The spiritual development teaching begins:

Reading: Romans 8 v. 18

Introduction By The Preacher:

A growth of a tree is known by its height.

The height of a man is known by his works.

The works of a man are known by his labours.

So says the Preacher.

Hafed:

I greet you beloved, in the name of love and in the name of Him whom I call Lord and Master.  Peace be with each one of you.

It is always very satisfying to come to you in this sweet hour and join your minds to ours, so that for a little while we may be able to talk upon small and great matters.  I know your need to learn and I understand the capacity within you to put those teachings in your life and make them work for you.  I understand how difficult it is for some and how easy it is for others, who can see more clearly the ways of God and find within them a deeper and more sincere form of love.

Not all things are from God, only those things that grow in beauty and prevail over the ugliness of a man’s life, which he creates for himself and is self-inflicted.  The joy of knowing God is found in the knowledge of God.  To not only say “I believe”, rather to say “I know God.  He is one who lives and dwells within me and has His being in my life because I decree that it should be so.  I know God, because when He comes to me His love fills every corner of my mind and my heart is filled with joy.”

My children, the task before you is not the most difficult to learn, neither is the lesson set before you one of words, where you need to be able to use words.  For words are just words (without substance).

But the lesson set before you is seen by the soul, that inner eye.  It is understood by the spiritual mind, never understood by the carnal mind.  It is one that you see through the spiritual gifts God has invested within each one of you.  It comes to you more by feeling and knowing, than it does in any other form.  It is a way in which you grow in enlightenment, to be who you say you are: the children of God.  To become likened to the child that God wishes you to be, and He loves you all the more because you try to place yourself upon that path of light.

Love is your servant; let it come and serve you. As man’s servant comes to his master each morning to dress him, so then does love come to you, to dress you in the garb of spiritual beauty.  It reveals to you that greater light of truth and the great and wondrous joy that becomes your happiness in all things.

Do not doubt, for while I say to you that there are many things for you to doubt in, because the world presents those things in all the ugliness which man spawns upon the world.  Do not doubt, because doubt belongs to ignorance and you cannot see beyond the life that you have.  But let that truth become your eyes for tomorrow.  Let yourself be free from the fears that chain you to life, in all its many forms of imprisonment.  Love has nothing to do with any of these things.

Do not fear tomorrow for it is but one day and it will come and go just like yesterday; nobody can prevent it from happening.  Rather, look towards the life that is yet to be, for there you will find the fulfilment of all the things you hope for.  There, in the company of those who love you well, you will journey on beyond the realms of this world with all its troubles, fears and doubts, into a clear awakening of who you really are.  Love comes as a servant to dress you in the apparel of the royal family, for that is who you are.  You are the princes and princesses of the realm, for you are the Father’s children, are you not?  Whoever comes to him in love and asks to be received shall not be turned away, but will instead be fed the bread of Heaven to sustain you throughout your life.

You are buffeted on every side by those who oppose you, both from the realms of darkness and those who are yet in the body and are the servants of those in the realms of darkness.  They torment your minds with doubts about your future and your belief, but fear them not, for the love of God has overcome all of them.  But rather be a child, humble in every way.  Set your crown of life in the forefront of spiritual truth, so that you may gather to yourself all the wisdom that is to be found there.  Let it reveal to you the life that is yet to come.  I say to you that there are very few who even understand what that life is to be.  They cannot comprehend the mighty change that takes place with all of you.  A change so great that you will look back and wonder at yourself for allowing the world to chain you so closely to the doubts and fears and the evils that abide there.

Can you imagine that newness of life where you are changed from the man or woman you are now, into a new being that lives a different kind of life.  Not one that needs a place to abide, like a house.  Not one that needs a place to work or needs to prosper.  Not one that needs to grow in their ambitions and see them fulfilled.  Rather it is a newness of life that has never been known to you before and a freedom of life that you have never experienced before.  No boredom for you, no worries about how you are going to achieve this or that.  All your time will be filled with the learning of the new life which you have come to.  Not the life that is first given to you in the astral realm, but the life that lies beyond there, in other higher realms.  As you go on to each one, you lose the part of you that clung to something of the Earth.

As you grow freer, so you embrace new ideas and new concepts.  You become embodied with a greater power and freedom, where you may travel wherever you wish in your Father’s Kingdom.  Those who love you most and were your teachers before you ever came here in life, journey with you to teach you the way.  They show you the lessons that you must learn to grow, in order to fulfil your part in that new wondrous life.  There are no words I could use to begin to explain it.  There is no understanding here, of a life like that.  It is beyond the imagination of man.  All of these things, my children, are there for you in the future.  But what is it you must do, in order to reach that place?  You must hold fast to the truth that has been invested in you.  You must strive to fulfil the spiritual law of God that is at work within you.  Only this can purify you body, your mind and your soul and set you free from every dark thought, every dark seed sown within you.

When man hears of terrible events that take place in his world, do they not all cry out against them?  Yet quickly they forget and accept what has happened.  Others may seek revenge, which is a poison within them that can bring greater suffering to others if it is allowed to rule in your world.  There are many who seek to know the truth, who have arrived at that place in their lives where they realise there must be something more.  They wait along the road of life for you to bring them the knowledge to set them free.  That love which will bring a new joy of living and that peace to drive away their fears and anxieties.  Yes, they wait for you.

This is the road you must walk first, before you come to your Father’s Kingdom and take your place in that realm.  You must do your works and perform your acts of charity and mercy.  You must reveal the secret word that is locked up within you, that secret word of life eternal.  You must teach that it is better to love than to hate.  You must reveal the pathway they cannot see at that moment because of the darkness and fears filling their minds, which has been sown within them because of life around them.  You are to set them free.  But what if you fall by the wayside and are taken up with doubts and fears of the life you live?  Perhaps you concern yourselves too much with your own ambitions and desires?  Shall you still be there to greet and hand to them that precious gift of life eternal?  Life eternal is only good to those who can be free from its pain and saved from the gates of hell.  Life eternal only becomes a joy, when you know your God and know the salvation in the truth that is given to you.

If a man is obsessed in some way or another with an evil thing, his obsession will give to him great pain.  He will know his misery springs from the obsession, but he will not be able to overcome it, unless he has the weapons to do so.  He must find a conqueror to come to his rescue, a great strength that will overcome his weakness.  He must discover the truth and come to the knowledge of God.  He must find the knowledge of life eternal and the ways of love as his servant.  If he can find all these things, then he will break the chain that holds him and overcome.  His great strength will lie in the love of his God and the love of all mankind.  He will set his feet upon that path of service, whereby he may go forth to rescue others who are held fast by the obsession that once held him.  My children, none of you are free from one obsession or another; you are all bound in some way.  You are caught up in the web of Earth and the mist and the darkness that lies before you in life, which prevents you from seeing beyond.  Prevents you from coming to the great strength and determination to overcome and wipe away your tears and heartache.

My children, life is more than you know; much, much more.  Your thoughts are only scratching the surface of life.  In your belief, you consider life is the very joy of living and it depends on whether you are to live it in the lap of luxury or in poverty.  Both are different sides of the same coin.  If you spend all your time in pursuit of one or the other (material gain), you will lose the God given time to seek for your salvation.  Your salvation and true happiness do not depend upon either of them.

Look at the world and other men in different nations, who in their poverty and ignorance steal, murder, rape and become drunkards or drug addicts.  That is their way of life.  Do you not feel a great sadness for them, because they do not understand?  Or do you think to yourself, it is their fault, they chose that way.  Did they choose that way or were they left with no other alternative because man was too greedy to see their misery, and having no compassion for their plight, left them to their own devices?

There is no country in your world that you will not find a measure of this evil growing like a web, entangling the lives of many.  Even those who think they are above it, who think they are free from it, should be the least confident.  They are the very ones who are in real danger of losing all they have.  To those who wish to live by God’s Law, it is there for them.  It is no use speaking about mans’ law, because that is bought and sold on the market places of the world.  I speak about God’s law that is formed within you.  Not within the world, but made alive within you.  You have to bring it into being in your life, as it is the only way to guard yourself against the evils of your time.  You cannot be touched if that law abides within you.

When you make the change called death and rise to the higher spheres, you do not need the law, because you know what is right.  You know what is due to those who are less fortunate than yourself and you give all you can that they may receive.  You are not giving bread and water or a coin of the realm, nor is it a position of great height.  It is much more than that, for you are giving them the very seeds of life to live by.

My children, what you are gathering to yourselves now is for nothing and all my works with you will come to nought, if you fail to take up the sword of truth and do battle with the enemy of man.  It lies within your path, within your domain and you must choose what you will.  I can take you no further.  What you do now must be in your own interest, in order that you may be there at that right time when one who seeks for God, who is hungry for his love, asks you to give to him a morsel of food from the Lord’s Table.  There I will end and I will give the rest of time to any questions you may have.  I will do my best to give you answers.

Question:

What if some of these people don’t want to be helped?  What do we do then?

Hafed:

Nothing, you cannot help those who do not want help.  You must wait until they find the truth and get to that point where they know they need help.  When that happens they will ask, but until then there is nothing you can do but to pray for them.

Comment from Group Member:

I am clear on everything, but I wonder whether I would be able to do it?  It’s so easily said, but hard to put into practice.

Question:

How strong are we?

Hafed:

You are as strong as the love binding you to God.  As for answering whether you could do it or not, I think in many ways sister, you are already doing it, are you not?

Comment from Group Member:

Sometimes, but I seem to do it without realising.  Other times when I come face to face with someone I seem to back off wondering whether I can do it.

Hafed:

This hesitancy comes from having that little bit of doubt within you.  I wish all to know that when you go into the service of God and you try to help or do something for someone, do not believe that you are alone or it is left to you to do by yourself.  It is not.  There are legions of soldiers to help you and when I speak of soldiers I do not mean those who fight in wars, rather those who fight for truth, love and the souls of man.

Comment from Group Member:

Many times I think of the souls in the Third World and the little ones who are suffering so very much at this time.  I feel so very helpless towards them.  I know I can pray for them, but I feel it would help me to feel stronger in myself if I could only do what you and others did during your time on Earth.  You walked from country to country to help as many souls as you could.

Hafed:

Brother, you must realise that in my time the world was a different place to the world in which you live.  I had no responsibilities towards a wife or child.  I had only myself to look to and as long as it stayed like that, it did not matter to me whether I lived or died.  It was by the will of God that these things were done, just as it is by the will of God whether you will survive the night.  You understand me?  All these things are by the will of God.  In that time the way of life was not like now, where you have to go to work and pay your rent.  I had nothing like that.  I could lay my head upon a rock, with the canopy of the stars above me and I was at home and could sleep.  My needs were very small; a portion of food here, a drink of water there, but nothing more.  It was far better I carried the word of truth to enrich the souls of man than it was to think of anything else.  If a robber came upon me and took my life while I slept, it was the will of God.  If a wild beast had jumped upon me and taken my life, it would be the will of God.  It was not for me to argue with the Lord.  If he let me go forth to accomplish my mission, then that too was the will of God.  Just as I with my colleagues took to the Lord Jesus himself, those gifts from spirit, that too was the will of God.

So perhaps there are things in your time that you can do, even though you are restricted so much.  Do you not do them?  You give welcome to those who are in need of healing.  You speak the word of truth to those who will listen.  You have a generous heart and a praying mind.  What more then, my son

Comment:

It’s just that I feel that I want to do more.

Hafed:

Then perhaps you will.  Who is to say what the will of God is.

Question:

I don’t want to be limited to our own country really, but if I am, so be it.

Hafed:

My son, the children of God are in every country and their needs are just as great in their own way, as are those in the Third World.  Remember those in the Third World have not known the way of life that you know and so it is no great loss to them.  There are those here, who find themselves homeless, hungry and with fear, so the suffering is equal.

Comment from Group Member:

When the Pop industry got together and raised millions of ponds for the children in need and for other countries, the lorries carrying the aid were stopped and things were stolen and it breaks my heart to see to this go on.  Even the corrupt governments took so much.

Hafed:

I see what you mean sister, although it is not really a question.  I can see your anguish with it all, but that is the way of man.  Are there any other questions?

Question:

Can I just clarify one point.  Are you saying we should be purely reactive to people who seek the truth from us, or are you saying we should search out these poor souls?  If it’s the latter, then when will we be at that point in our spiritual education when we are able to do this?  You told us not so long ago that we are still in the kindergarten.

Hafed:

That is so but it is my hope that you reach beyond the kindergarten.  But I also said that they wait down the road to meet you on the morrow.  I did not say today, next week, this year, but down the road.  When you have gathered all that your Heavenly Father has to give you, in wisdom, in song, in joy and in love, which enables you to go to them.  Or when they come to you and you give to them what they need.  Just as each one of you here today came with a need?  Did you not all seek me out to find an answer?  Were you not in the same position at one stage to another?  Then he who I use now, and call my son, was there to meet you, was he not?  Who knows where your lives would have gone had he not been there to guide you and point the way.  To tell you that utopia is not where you search and I will show you a different way.  Had he not done that for you, where would you be?  I wonder?

Comment from Group Member:

Lost in the wilderness.

Hafed:

But here you are and all we ask is that you give to others the same as we have given to you.

Comment from Group Member:

You are looking for more commitment, aren’t you?  You are looking for deeds rather than words.

Hafed:

Yes I am looking for action rather than talking.  The first priority is to be here to receive what you are going to give to those who wait down the road.  Do you understand me my children?  You must agree that there has been a lot of absenteeism and I worry over this.  I know the saying which says “Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but I fear the other one that says “Out of sight, out of mind.”

Comment from Group Member:

I feel that from this time people will attend more regularly.

Hafed:

I want to get you all together, again.  So that we can all resume the pathway we once began to tread.  It is needful, it is necessary, because I have a time that is allotted to me.  I cannot go beyond that time, because my son will no longer be present with you, as he too must journey on.  So you see, there is need for haste, need for concern, to receive the gifts of the spirit.  Not only that we, who labour to you in this sweet way, may fulfill all that the Master has sent me about.  But also my son (the medium) may finish the painting of his works so we too may hang our painting in the great hall of works.

Be still within yourself and let God enter in.  Let his love come and be your servant.  Let his truth be raised up within you as your companions along the road of life.  Be still and know that he is God and with him all things are possible.  Do not fear death, even though it may come along the way, for death is a great joy to many and a great fear and anguish to others, but you will find the joy before the anguish.

So my children, I leave you for now with these thoughts hoping they may take root within you and spring up as a full understanding of the work that lies there before you.  Read again the chapter from Romans 8 starting at verse 18.  Read it and take it in because it is true and beautiful for all of you. You too must become the adopted sons and daughters of God, if you are to become the princes and princesses of the realm.

Farewell my children, farewell.

Hafed’s spiritual development teaching ends.