In this spiritual development teaching Hafed examines what it really means to “Love Thy Neighbour”.
He cites the prophet Mohammed, who said it means to share your life with them. It means to give your neighbour the same as you would hope they would give you. To share with them your bread or whatever else they do not have. You would share your food, water and home and give them your love.
Hafed starts his spiritual development teaching:
Good Afternoon and God bless you my children
It is written, “Except your goodness is greater than the Pharisees you shall not enter the Kingdom of Heaven.” There are many that say to me that this is not so, because when you make the change called death you enter the Kingdom of Heaven. They believe wrongly that the spirit spheres are the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not so.
The Kingdom of Heaven is the ultimate goal that you have, but there are seven spheres for you to travel through before you approach there. Yet there are those who gather on Earth and have done so since the beginning of time, who when making the change called death, enter directly into the Kingdom of Heaven. For they are the souls who give up their place especially to come here to teach and help their brothers with the words of light, truth and guidance, so they may not continually go astray and thus enter the poverty of the soul. They come to point them towards the light that shines from the Kingdom of Heaven. They give up much in order to come here and do just this.
Many times I have spoken to you of those souls on other spheres in the universe, whose lives are totally different from yours. So far removed are they that you cannot even begin to understand. If I were to describe their life to you, you would probably think it must be extremely boring. For you need entertainment of different kinds to fill your lives with some kind of purpose and excitement. For it is what you see as being needful to you, but there are those in that sphere of life, who would not dream of doing or even searching for that kind of entertainment. Boredom does not come to them, for it is just a weakness of man. It’s a weakness that, yet again, he must learn to overcome and in good time he will do this. They are steadfast in the ways of peace and love, and their way of life is filled with joy and pleasure. It is an existence that I could not begin to explain; for there are no words I could use to explain it properly.
Question from Hafed:
Why do you think that I keep reminding you and bring this picture to you? Have you any idea of the reason why I do this?
Answer from group member:
To encourage us and to make us think beyond what is in front of us right now.
Hafed:
Yes, it is quite so. It is to show you the difference, the distance and the journey that you are on in order to go back home. It is a vision that I place in your hearts, not only for you to see the difference which lies between you, but hopefully to inspire hope within all of you. It was never placed there for you to grow despondent at the journey that still lies ahead. I know that the donkey who cannot see the carrot refuses to walk, but in you the journey is always renewed and hope always flows freely. Yes, despair will surely be thrown across your path, in which you can become enmeshed and held back. There are many of those from the lower realms who seek to put your journey at an end, but God who loves you all, calls to His faithful and does not leave you alone. He sends forth His angels of light to give you the inner strength to lift yourselves up and raise your minds above the earthly things that you may see the vision anew, to refresh your souls.
We gather together each week along this earthly path and I, as your teacher, wish you to know that I come to you at the command of him whom I call Lord and Master, who loves you. I tell you this not to grow in importance in your eyes, for that is wrong. I tell you this so you may grow to trust my words and know that because they are not mine, they are true. They are filled with the promise that is held for each and every one of you. There must surely come a time when you will stand as one of the servants of God and preach the truth to your fellow man. In order to do so, you must know what the truth is and you must also grow in spiritual stature within yourself, that no challenge from the lower realms can defeat your purpose and cause you to fall. No frailty within you, no root can rise up and blind you to the truth. No temptation can stand before you and defeat you.
At the moment all these things are there within you and so little by little, I teach you in that express and desired hope that you may free yourselves from all, which holds you fast to the Earth.
So this afternoon I would like to talk about one of the commandments “Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.” I would ask you for your explanation, even though it may appear to explain itself, but what do you think? What do you feel? Would any of you care to voice an opinion on this?
Answer from group member:
We should be in harmony with one another and to understand one another, even when being provoked. We should be diplomatic in all that we do and come together in peace.
Answer from group member:
To treat everyone with whom you come in contact with, in the same way that you would want to be treated yourself. Not how you are treated, but how you would want to be treated.
Answer from group member:
I would say it is being able to put yourself into their shoes and see things from their point of view, so you truly understand them.
Hafed:
All these things you said are just and true and yet there is more to be seen; more to be known.
You may react to what I am about to say by asking, “Who can do this?” It is something that I realise cannot be done in the world as a whole. Yet still it is for you to make it your goal, for it embraces many of the qualities of the spirit of God which He has given to his children so that they may unfold, as they grow nearer to Him in spiritual wisdom.
The prophet Mohammed gave a more explicit answer to the commandment “Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.” They are not just words for you to know the meaning of. They are meant to be practiced fully in your life. To love thy neighbour as thyself means to share all your life with him. It means to give him the same, as you would hope he would give you. To share with him your bread or whatever else he does not have. You would share your food, your water and your home. You would give him your love.
Now I realise that in the world today it cannot be so, because the ways of man has made it impossible for this to happen (practiced by everybody). But it does not mean to say that your heart must be unclean because of the laws of man. But rather the truth should purify your heart, so you may see that your brother is equal to you in every way. So you may do whatever you can to help his plight, not just simply to guide him in the truth that God has given you, but also to be prepared to share what you have with him. Therefore you must reach that level of spiritual love that makes this possible.
If you were to say these things to people, they would laugh at you. Perhaps they would say cruel things, for they would not understand. But when we talk about the Kingdom of Heaven, these are the qualities of the soul you need to grow towards, to know that you are indeed on the path to Heaven.
It is not something bound up in words it is much, much more than this. It is a feeling of being at one with your brother. It is a spiritual link, a spiritual bond, which cannot be broken. We put into your care those who are weaker than you and in need of help. For the very poorest of man (materially) who possesses the zeal of God, will be the richest among those who have much and yet have nothing, for they do not know God.
You are coming to that awakening, where you are able to feel and understand something of the greatness of God’s love. You have a long way to go to fulfil that love completely within you. When it is so, you will understand fully why the way of life that others live in the spheres are far removed from you, do so with the greatest of joy and pleasure. They are freed from the daily toil that you rush to each morning. They are freed from the ambition of achieving things, in the worldly sense. They are freed from the worry of financial troubles. Neither do they have the obsessions of the drug taker, the loose woman, the gambler or the drinker.
It is not for you to look down on such people, for you must remember they are your neighbours and these are the weaker ones whom God has referred you to. Therefore, you must help in whatever way you can, even if it is only by remembering them in your prayers and enfolding them in your love. In time, they must grow from that anxiety into the light. Mans’ ignorance has created a way of life which has ensnared his children and brought to them great suffering and pain. They must strive to free themselves from those kinds of desires and you must do what you can to aid them. Those in the lower realms, who were likened to them when they lived here, increase the obsession by bringing to them that craving.
Do not think you are freed from this, for you are not. Perhaps you may have lesser frailties than they but if you do not take care, you too could fall into the snare. For if angels can fall from grace, cannot you? I would think so. So you must always be on your guard against your feelings and thoughts, for they are not always yours. They may have been moulded and created as a pitfall for you by those in the lower realms. So my children, you will begin to see the fight that is there, and how you must raise the zeal of God within you and fortify yourselves with his love and the knowledge that wisdom brings. Above all, you must have the desire to walk in God’s laws.
Here you are gathered together in this sanctuary of light, love and healing, which we constantly replenish and repair. To bring that peace so you may come and sit at your Father’s footstool and feel his presence. You all have a duty towards each other, just as you have towards your neighbour. You all must realise how you can cause the downfall of your brother or sister who sits here. You see it depends how you are prepared to live your lives and are willing to give yourselves to God.
You must love each other a great deal more than you do now, my children. Your concern for them must be as for your own family, for that demonstrates what love is and that is what God is. After all is said and done, it is that love of God that we are trying to raise up within you, to say nothing of those qualities of Christ. If there is one among you who thinks wrongly of another, then you must go to your God and ask for his forgiveness and aid to cast those thoughts from your mind. For those wrong thoughts provide a door through which those of the lower realms may enter and destroy this temple of light.
My son’s life (the medium Douglas Arnold) is always at stake, I want you to realise this. For it is he who they really want to bring down and without him, you can no longer prosper. Through him, the teachers of Christ come. But he is surrounded by the love of God and by the love of Christ and none can enter to destroy him for my Lord would not allow it. He would not permit it.
It is for you my children that I bring these things forward and speak to you of deep things that are in the law of God. If you cannot do these things, one towards the other, how are you to do them to those you do not know? It is from small acorns that great oak trees grow and you are the small acorns we are planting in the vineyard of God, in the hope that you may grow to give shelter to all men. Though you are few in number your truth may grow in the hearts of many, that you may take it into your mind and heart and fill your mouth with those gracious words that come from God.
I tell you no lies my children when I tell you your Holy Father is no longer prepared to accept the ways of man and His will, will be done here on Earth. Already He is taking down the temples that man has built, brick by brick. If they will not listen then He will leave them desolate. You have evidence of this already, for you see that those nations who were strong and great have fallen. The bricks of their great temples of philosophy have been removed. You see it happening all through Europe and through Russia. Because He has chosen to do this with their so-called communist regimes, it does not mean to say that He favours the ways of the West, or the East, or the North or the South.
It is His intention to put His laws in the hearts and minds of every nation so they may live by those laws and may truly know, “Thou shalt have no other God before me. Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt take nothing of thy neighbours.” Man will come to understand and live by this law for in his heart will come that new idea of life, new hope that will fashion his thinking. He will no longer desire to own much, rather to share much. No longer desire to receive much, but to give much. No longer prepared to waste his life on idle things, where the devil has his way, but to spend his life in the enjoyment of knowing his brother and his God, creating an existence where all work together to give to each other.
Those who give their lives in pursuit of ownership, desiring to own big houses, big firms, lots of land and much money will suddenly come to the knowledge of what Jesus said ‘What shall it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his very own soul’? They will suddenly come to realise how empty, dead and meaningless all their works have become, for they have profited nothing. It will be as though they had been in a trance, whilst they gathered and piled up all the dust of the earth, then worshipped and protected it. Then they awake to see the squalor they are sitting in.
Your gold and your treasure will be each other. Your contentment and your happiness will be in full knowledge of the joy that comes from your brother and that great inner yearning to please each other and your God. “Blessed are they who are pure in heart for they shall see our God, blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the Earth.” You will know the true meaning of all of this and you will see its true purpose come alive, like a newness of spirit which will fill you with a new ambition, new dreams and new hopes. You will want to tie your soul to the will of the Lord that you may travel with him wherever he may go. I hope I have been able to plant a few seeds in your mind that will grow up and be fruitful in times to come, so you may clearly understand about the higher set of values and just what they mean.
Farewell beloved, farewell. I journey a little way from you, only a little way, but always know we are there for you.
End of Spiritual Development Teaching.
Good Afternoon and God bless you my children
It is written, “Except your goodness is greater than the Pharisees you shall not enter the Kingdom of Heaven.”There are many that say to me that this is not so, because when you make the change called death you enter the Kingdom of Heaven.They believe wrongly that the spirit spheres are the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not so.
The Kingdom of Heaven is the ultimate goal that you have, but there are seven spheres for you to travel through before you approach there.Yet there are those who gather on Earth and have done so since the beginning of time, who when making the change called death, enter directly into the Kingdom of Heaven.For they are the souls who give up their place especially to come here to teach and help their brothers with the words of light, truth and guidance, so they may not continually go astray and thus enter the poverty of the soul.They come to point them towards the light that shines from the Kingdom of Heaven.They give up much in order to come here and do just this.
Many times I have spoken to you of those souls on other spheres in the universe, whose lives are totally different from yours.So far removed are they that you cannot even begin to understand.If I were to describe their life to you, you would probably think it must be extremely boring.For you need entertainment of different kinds to fill your lives with some kind of purpose and excitement.For it is what you see as being needful to you, but there are those in that sphere of life, who would not dream of doing or even searching for that kind of entertainment.Boredom does not come to them, for it is just a weakness of man.It’s a weakness that, yet again, he must learn to overcome and in good time he will do this.They are steadfast in the ways of peace and love, and their way of life is filled with joy and pleasure.It is an existence that I could not begin to explain; for there are no words I could use to explain it properly.
Question from Hafed:
Why do you think that I keep reminding you and bring this picture to you?Have you any idea of the reason why I do this?
Answer from group member:
To encourage us and to make us think beyond what is in front of us right now.
Hafed:
Yes, it is quite so.It is to show you the difference, the distance and the journey that you are on in order to go back home.It is a vision that I place in your hearts, not only for you to see the difference which lies between you, but hopefully to inspire hope within all of you.It was never placed there for you to grow despondent at the journey that still lies ahead.I know that the donkey who cannot see the carrot refuses to walk, but in you the journey is always renewed and hope always flows freely.Yes, despair will surely be thrown across your path, in which you can become enmeshed and held back.There are many of those from the lower realms who seek to put your journey at an end, but God who loves you all, calls to His faithful and does not leave you alone.He sends forth His angels of light to give you the inner strength to lift yourselves up and raise your minds above the earthly things that you may see the vision anew, to refresh your souls.
We gather together each week along this earthly path and I, as your teacher, wish you to know that I come to you at the command of him whom I call Lord and Master, who loves you.I tell you this not to grow in importance in your eyes, for that is wrong.I tell you this so you may grow to trust my words and know that because they are not mine, they are true.They are filled with the promise that is held for each and every one of you.There must surely come a time when you will stand as one of the servants of God and preach the truth to your fellow man.In order to do so, you must know what the truth is and you must also grow in spiritual stature within yourself, that no challenge from the lower realms can defeat your purpose and cause you to fall.No frailty within you, no root can rise up and blind you to the truth.No temptation can stand before you and defeat you.
At the moment all these things are there within you and so little by little, I teach you in that express and desired hope that you may free yourselves from all, which holds you fast to the Earth.
So this afternoon I would like to talk about one of the commandments “Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.”I would ask you for your explanation, even though it may appear to explain itself, but what do you think?What do you feel?Would any of you care to voice an opinion on this?
Answer from group member:
We should be in harmony with one another and to understand one another, even when being provoked.We should be diplomatic in all that we do and come together in peace.
Answer from group member:
To treat everyone with whom you come in contact with, in the same way that you would want to be treated yourself.Not how you are treated, but how you would want to be treated.
Answer from group member:
I would say it is being able to put yourself into their shoes and see things from their point of view, so you truly understand them.
Hafed:
All these things you said are just and true and yet there is more to be seen; more to be known.
You may react to what I am about to say by asking, “Who can do this?”It is something that I realise cannot be done in the world as a whole.Yet still it is for you to make it your goal, for it embraces many of the qualities of the spirit of God which He has given to his children so that they may unfold, as they grow nearer to Him in spiritual wisdom.
The prophet Mohammed gave a more explicit answer to the commandment “Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.”They are not just words for you to know the meaning of.They are meant to be practiced fully in your life.To love thy neighbour as thyself means to share all your life with him.It means to give him the same, as you would hope he would give you.To share with him your bread or whatever else he does not have.You would share your food, your water and your home.You would give him your love.
Now I realise that in the world today it cannot be so, because the ways of man has made it impossible for this to happen (practiced by everybody).But it does not mean to say that your heart must be unclean because of the laws of man.But rather the truth should purify your heart, so you may see that your brother is equal to you in every way.So you may do whatever you can to help his plight, not just simply to guide him in the truth that God has given you, but also to be prepared to share what you have with him.Therefore you must reach that level of spiritual love that makes this possible.
If you were to say these things to people, they would laugh at you.Perhaps they would say cruel things, for they would not understand.But when we talk about the Kingdom of Heaven, these are the qualities of the soul you need to grow towards, to know that you are indeed on the path to Heaven.
It is not something bound up in words it is much, much more than this.It is a feeling of being at one with your brother.It is a spiritual link, a spiritual bond, which cannot be broken.We put into your care those who are weaker than you and in need of help.For the very poorest of man (materially) who possesses the zeal of God, will be the richest among those who have much and yet have nothing, for they do not know God.
You are coming to that awakening, where you are able to feel and understand something of the greatness of God’s love.You have a long way to go to fulfil that love completely within you.When it is so, you will understand fully why the way of life that others live in the spheres are far removed from you, do so with the greatest of joy and pleasure.They are freed from the daily toil that you rush to each morning.They are freed from the ambition of achieving things, in the worldly sense.They are freed from the worry of financial troubles.Neither do they have the obsessions of the drug taker, the loose woman, the gambler or the drinker.
It is not for you to look down on such people, for you must remember they are your neighbours and these are the weaker ones whom God has referred you to.Therefore, you must help in whatever way you can, even if it is only by remembering them in your prayers and enfolding them in your love.In time, they must grow from that anxiety into the light.Mans’ ignorance has created a way of life which has ensnared his children and brought to them great suffering and pain.They must strive to free themselves from those kinds of desires and you must do what you can to aid them.Those in the lower realms, who were likened to them when they lived here, increase the obsession by bringing to them that craving.
Do not think you are freed from this, for you are not.Perhaps you may have lesser frailties than they but if you do not take care, you too could fall into the snare.For if angels can fall from grace, cannot you?I would think so.So you must always be on your guard against your feelings and thoughts, for they are not always yours.They may have been moulded and created as a pitfall for you by those in the lower realms.So my children, you will begin to see the fight that is there, and how you must raise the zeal of God within you and fortify yourselves with his love and the knowledge that wisdom brings.Above all, you must have the desire to walk in God’s laws.
Here you are gathered together in this sanctuary of light, love and healing, which we constantly replenish and repair.To bring that peace so you may come and sit at your Father’s footstool and feel his presence.You all have a duty towards each other, just as you have towards your neighbour.You all must realise how you can cause the downfall of your brother or sister who sits here.You see it depends how you are prepared to live your lives and are willing to give yourselves to God.
You must love each other a great deal more than you do now, my children.Your concern for them must be as for your own family, for that demonstrates what love is and that is what God is.After all is said and done, it is that love of God that we are trying to raise up within you, to say nothing of those qualities of Christ.If there is one among you who thinks wrongly of another, then you must go to your God and ask for his forgiveness and aid to cast those thoughts from your mind.For those wrong thoughts provide a door through which those of the lower realms may enter and destroy this temple of light.
My son’s life (the medium Douglas Arnold) is always at stake, I want you to realise this.For it is he who they really want to bring down and without him, you can no longer prosper.Through him, the teachers of Christ come.But he is surrounded by the love of God and by the love of Christ and none can enter to destroy him for my Lord would not allow it.He would not permit it.
It is for you my children that I bring these things forward and speak to you of deep things that are in the law of God.If you cannot do these things, one towards the other, how are you to do them to those you do not know?It is from small acorns that great oak trees grow and you are the small acorns we are planting in the vineyard of God, in the hope that you may grow to give shelter to all men.Though you are few in number your truth may grow in the hearts of many, that you may take it into your mind and heart and fill your mouth with those gracious words that come from God.
I tell you no lies my children when I tell you your Holy Father is no longer prepared to accept the ways of man and His will, will be done here on Earth.Already He is taking down the temples that man has built, brick by brick.If they will not listen then He will leave them desolate.You have evidence of this already, for you see that those nations who were strong and great have fallen.The bricks of their great temples of philosophy have been removed.You see it happening all through Europe and through Russia.Because He has chosen to do this with their so-called communist regimes, it does not mean to say that He favours the ways of the West, or the East, or the North or the South.
It is His intention to put His laws in the hearts and minds of every nation so they may live by those laws and may truly know, “Thou shalt have no other God before me. Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.Thou shalt not steal.Thou shalt not kill.Thou shalt take nothing of thy neighbours.”Man will come to understand and live by this law for in his heart will come that new idea of life, new hope that will fashion his thinking.He will no longer desire to own much, rather to share much.No longer desire to receive much, but to give much.No longer prepared to waste his life on idle things, where the devil has his way, but to spend his life in the enjoyment of knowing his brother and his God, creating an existence where all work together to give to each other.
Those who give their lives in pursuit of ownership, desiring to own big houses, big firms, lots of land and much money will suddenly come to the knowledge of what Jesus said ‘What shall it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his very own soul’?They will suddenly come to realise how empty, dead and meaningless all their works have become, for they have profited nothing.It will be as though they had been in a trance, whilst they gathered and piled up all the dust of the earth, then worshipped and protected it.Then they awake to see the squalor they are sitting in.
Your gold and your treasure will be each other.Your contentment and your happiness will be in full knowledge of the joy that comes from your brother and that great inner yearning to please each other and your God.“Blessed are they who are pure in heart for they shall see our God, blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the Earth.”You will know the true meaning of all of this and you will see its true purpose come alive, like a newness of spirit which will fill you with a new ambition, new dreams and new hopes.You will want to tie your soul to the will of the Lord that you may travel with him wherever he may go.I hope I have been able to plant a few seeds in your mind that will grow up and be fruitful in times to come, so you may clearly understand about the higher set of values and just what they mean.
Farewell beloved, farewell.I journey a little way from you, only a little way, but always know we are there for you.