A true Prophet is the Servant of the Most High. He is not a resultant of human education, for no scholastic centre could endow him with more than human knowledge. If scholastic colleges and ecclesiastic seminaries could have bestowed such a gift upon their students, assuredly this world would have been the home of vast communities of true Prophets.

Thus-wise a Prophet is not made. He is GOD’s direct creation. He is God-begotten, fashioned and illumined. A Prophet is one who has taken Divine Masonic degrees in the Heavens. In his Being he has ascended from one state of spiritual consciousness to another, growing in spiritual attribute through his contact with Angels and Gods until he has attained the status of an Illumined one. In this exalted inward state he can receive Divine Illumination and communicate it; he can henceforth fill the office of Divine Prophet.

Such an office implies universal sympathy. Though the Prophet will derive his personal equation through family and race, yet he will transcend these; for to be dominated by the thought of family, tribe and race would place the prophet under great limitation. And that could not be if his sphere of illumination were associated with the realm of Universal Being, and his message to the Eternal and the Soul. For the message given him to proclaim would be of universal import which would necessitate the transcension by him of the limited bounds created by personal, national and racial relationships. And herein will his message exceed in significance and scope and differ from that of many who might be regarded as prophets, but whose message is related to the prophet's own people or race. These latter are minor Prophets indeed. The true great Prophets have a message of universal value, and speak of Soulic, Celestial, and Divine Events. Therefore, it should not be difficult to differentiate between the messages of the true Prophets because of their universal significance, and those who are merely political and national enthusiasts, denouncing at times their own people, and upon other nations pouring forth judgments. It will be readily conceded by students of the prophetic books of the Old Testament, that there are two orders of prophetic utterances found in those books, the one relating to what could only be accounted local and national, and the other to themes and events of transcendent nature, themes relating to the Mysteries of Planetary, Celestial and Divine history, and of great Soulic value.

It is in the light of such revelations when these are fully unveiled, that the message of the real Prophet of GOD is distinguished from the most mixed addenda of the writings of the local and national teachers (though bearing the name of prophets), introduced by the various scribes, editors and redactors, and mixed up with the true Divine Message to the latter’s obscuration. For it was in this way that the ancient Scribes and Pharisees made void the Law and the Testimony from GOD given unto and through His illuminated ones.

From Ezekiel: A Cosmic Drama by John Todd Ferrier, pp 31-32.
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