The Royal Question

By Marilynn Hughes

THE ROYAL QUESTION (An Out-of-Body Travel Book): What is the Royal Question if not the final and most important question we must all ask about our lives here upon the earth? In the third and final book of ‘The Mystical Captive’ Series, we have traveled from the primordial Garden of Eden to the now fallen world of our mothers, our fathers, ourselves. Now that we understand that which we have lost, is it possible for it to be restored, renewed? How can such a thing be done in a fallen world? Through the great sacrifice of Our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.
But yet, this, too, is much too simplistic. You must understand the question. You must then understand the mechanism. You must then understand the renewal. Whence the Royal Question is answered properly by the soul, they are now fit to enter into the Royal Family of God shared by the Prophets, Mystics, Sages, Seers and Ascetics of all ages and of all religions. Hope remains despite the fall of man, but we must seek it.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Dec 12, 2012
• ISBN: 9781300401278

Book preview

The Royal Question

The Royal Question

By Marilynn Hughes

The Out-of-Body Travel Foundation!

http://outofbodytravel.org

The Royal Question

By Marilynn Hughes

The Out-of-Body Travel Foundation!

http://outofbodytravel.org

Copyright © 2012, Marilynn Hughes

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this work or portions thereof in any form whatsoever without permission in writing from the publisher and author, except for brief passages in connection with a review. 

All credits for quotations are included in the Bibliography.

For information, write to:

The Out-of-Body Travel Foundation!

http://outofbodytravel.org

[e-mail]

If this book is unavailable from your local bookseller, it may be obtained directly from the Out-of-Body Travel Foundation by going to www.outofbodytravel.org.

Having worked primarily in radio broadcasting, Marilynn Hughes spent several years as a news reporter, producer and anchor before deciding to stay at home with her three children. She's experienced, researched, written, and taught about out-of-body travel since 1987. 

Books by Marilynn Hughes:

Come to Wisdom's Door

How to Have an Out-of-Body Experience!

The Mysteries of the Redemption

A Treatise on Out-of-Body Travel and Mysticism

The Mysteries of the Redemption Series in Five Volumes

(Same Book - Choose Your Format!)

Prelude to a Dream

Passage to the Ancient

Medicine Woman Within a Dream

Absolute Dissolution of Body and Mind

The Mystical Jesus

GALACTICA

A Treatise on Death, Dying and the Afterlife

THE PALACE OF ANCIENT KNOWLEDGE

A Treatise on Ancient Mysteries

Touched by the Nails

(Watch and Wait)

A Karmic Journey Revealed!

Principles of THE WORLD BEYOND Death

Books of Terror

Evil Exists, it's Closer than you Think

Based on the Visions of Mary Hughes

By Marilynn Hughes

The Mystical Captive

The Mystical Freeborn

The Royal Question

Evergreen

The Autobiography of a mystic

Michael Jackson:

The Afterlife Experiences

A Theology of Michael Jackson's Life and Lyrics

Michael Jackson:

The Afterlife Experiences II

Michael Jackson’s American Dream to Heal the World

Michael Jackson:

The Afterlife Experiences III

The Confessions of Michael Jackson

Comparative Religious Mystical Theology

Out-of-Body Travel in World Religion

Forgotten Mystics in World Religions

Lesser Known Out-of-Body Experiences

Selfishness and Self-Will

The Path to Selflessness in World Religions

A Life of Cultivation

Near Death and Out-of-Body Experiences

(Auspicious Births and Deaths)

Of the Prophets, Saints, Mystics and Sages in World Religions

The Voice of the Prophets

Wisdom of the Ages - Volumes 1 - 12

At the Feet of the Masters

Miraculous Images:

Photographs Containing God’s Fingerprints

Suffering:

The Fruits of Utter Desolation

We are all Shadows

The Overview Series

The Oral Transmissions of the 52 Soto Zen Buddhist Ancestors

The Doctors of the Catholic Church

The General Councils of the Catholic Church

Marian Apparitions in the Catholic Church

Heresies in the Catholic Church

Miraculous Phenomena in the Catholic Church

Fascinating Figures in World Religion

Practices, Prayer, Ritual, Liturgy, Sacraments and Theology in the Catholic Church

Writers of the Philokalia

Protestant Reforms

Bridal Mysticism

Angelology

Demonology

Mystic Knowledge Series:

Out-of-Body Travel

Ghosts and Lost Souls

Spirit Guides and Guardian Angels

Reincarnation and Karma

Spiritual Warfare, Angels and Demons

Death, Dying and the Afterlife

Heaven, Hell and Purgatory

ExtraTerrestrials

Destiny and Prophecy

Initiations into the Mysteries

Visions of Jesus and the Saints

Ascension

Suffering and Sickness

Mystical Poetry

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

Teaching Stories of the Prophets in World Religions for Young People!

(Ages 10 to Adult)

World Religions and their Prophets for Little Children!

(Ages 2 - 8)

The Former Angel! - A Children’s Tale

(Ages 2 - 8)

The Mystery of the Key to Heaven!

(Ages 2 - 10)

Streams in the Willow

The Story of One Family’s Transformation from Original Sin

Compilations

Out-of-Body Travel and Near Death Experiences: Compiled Works through 2006

World Religions and Ancient Sacred Texts: Compiled Compiled Works through 2006

The Voice of the Prophets:

Abridged Lesser Known Texts

The Out-of-Body Travel Foundation Journals

Journal One:  The Importance of the Seven Virtues and Vices in Understanding the Practice of Out-of-Body Travel!

Journal Two: My Out-of-Body Journey with Sai Baba, Hindu Avatar!

Journal Three: The History of 'The Out-of-Body Travel Foundation!'

Journal Four: A Menage of Wonderful Writers and Artists!

Journal Five: The Stories of Cherokee Elder, Willy Whitefeather!

Journal Six: Discerning your Vocation in Life by Learning the Difference Between Knowledge and Knowing!

Journal Seven: When Tragedy Strikes

Journal Eight: Comparing the Buddhist Avalokiteswara's Descent into Hell with that of Jesus Christ!

Journal Nine: Huzur Maharaj Sawan Singh - Sant Mat  (Sikh)  Master Guru and Grandson Maharaj Charan Singh - Sant Mat  (Sikh)  Master Guru

Journal Ten: The Great Beyond

Journal Eleven: Ghosts and Lost Souls: Our Responsibility

Journal Twelve: The 800th Anniversary of Jalalludin Rumi, and the True Spiritual Heritage of Afghanistan and the Middle East

Journal Thirteen: Pensatia – Forgotten Rosicrucian Mystic

Journal Fourteen: Reverend John Macgowan – Forgotten Protestant Mystic

Journal Fifteen: A. Farnese – Forgotten Mystic Amanuensis (to Franchezzo)

Journal Sixteen: Comte St. Germain – Forgotten Immortal Mystic of the Mystery Schools

Journal Seventeen:  Franz Hartmann – Forgotten Mystical Adept

Journal Eighteen:  SA’D UD DIN MAHMŪD SHABISTARĪ –Forgotten Islamic Sufi Mystic

Journal Nineteen:  Dionysius - Forgotten Christian Mystic of the Early Church

Issue Twenty: Acvaghosha - Forgotten Buddhist Mystic of the Mahayana Path

Issue Twenty One: Bishop Shelemon of Armenia – Forgotten Nestorian Christian Mystic

Issue Twenty Two: Abú Sa‘íd Ibn Abi ’l-Khayr– Forgotten Islamic Mystic

Issue Twenty Three: Rev. G. Vale Owen - Forgotten Christian Mystic

Issue Twenty Four: Swami Abhedânanda- Forgotten Hindu Mystic

Issue Twenty Five: Moses Maimonides - Forgotten Jewish Mystic

Issue Twenty Six: The Bab - Forgotten Baha’i Mystic

Issue Twenty Seven: Shinran Shonin – Forgotten Mystic of Pure Land Buddhism

Issue Twenty Eight: Bustan of Sadi – Forgotten Persian Islamic Mystic

Issue Twenty Nine: John Bunyan – Forgotten Protestant Christian Mystic

Issue Thirty:  Ixtlilxochitl and Nezahualcoyotl – Forgotten Aztec Mystics and Myth Bearers

Mystics Magazine

Issue One – Christian Mystical Theology, Conversations with Jacob Boehme

Issue Two - Buddhist Mystical Theology, Conversations with Charaka and Acvagosha

Issue Three – Islamic Mystical Theology, Conversations with Imam Ghazzali

Issue Four – Egyptian Mystical Theology, Conversations with W. Marsham Adams

Issue Five – Hindu Mystical Theology, Conversations with Sri Ramakrishna

Issue Six – Jewish Mystical Theology, Conversations with Rabbi Simeon

Issue Seven – Sikh Mystical Theology, Conversations with Guru Nanak

Issue Eight – Zoroastrian Mystical Theology, Conversations with Charles William King

Issue Nine – Bahai Mystical Theology, Conversations with Bahaullah

Go to our Web-Site:

The Out-of-Body Travel Foundation!

http://outofbodytravel.org

The Royal Question

By Marilynn Hughes

Table of Contents

The Out-of-Body Travel Foundation!

http://outofbodytravel.org

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER ONE

Understand the Flow

CHAPTER TWO

The Death of Love

CHAPTER THREE

The Re-Birth of Eternal Love

CHAPTER FOUR

Of the Silent Divine Emanation

CHAPTER FIVE

Hope Springs Forth Eternal

Concerning the Glory of Kings

ADDENDUM

The Royal Question

INTRODUCTION

By Marilynn Hughes

The Out-of-Body Travel Foundation!

http://outofbodytravel.org

"Let us consider on this first day how the Eternal Word had no other end in becoming man than to infamous with his divine love. Let us ask light of Jesus Christ and of his most holy Mother, and so let us begin.

Adam, our first parent, sins; ungrateful for the great

benefits conferred on him, he rebels against God, by a

violation of the precept given him not to eat of the 

forbidden fruit. On this account God is obliged to drive him out of the earthly paradise in this world, and in the world to come to deprive not only Adam, but all the descendants of this rebellious creature, of the heavenly and everlasting paradise which he had prepared for them after this mortal life.

Behold, then, all mankind together condemned to a life of pain and misery, and forever shut out from heaven. -But hearken to God, who, as Isaias tells us in his fifty-second chapter, would seem, after our manner of understanding, to give vent to his affliction in lamentations and wailings: And now what have I here, saith the Lord, for My people is taken away gratis? And now, says God, What delight have I left in heaven, now that I have lost men, who were my delight? My delights were to be with the children of men. But how is this, O Lord? Thou hast in heaven so many seraphim, so many angels; and canst Thou thus take to heart having lost men? Indeed, what need hast Thou of angels or of men to fill up the sum of Thy happiness? Thou hast always been, and Thou art in Thyself, most happy; what can ever be wanting to Thy bliss, which is infinite? That is all true, says God; but (and these are the words of Cardinal Hugo on the above text of Isaias) but, losing man, I deem that I have nothing; I consider that I have lost all, since my delight was to be with men; and now these men I have lost, and, poor hapless creatures, they are doomed to live forever far away from me.

But how can the Lord call men his delight? Yes, indeed, writes St. Thomas, God loves man just as if man were his god, and as if without man he could not be happy; as if man were the god of God himself, and without him he could not be happy. St. Gregory of Nazianzen adds, moreover, that God, for the love he bears to men, seems beside himself: we are bold to say it, God is out of himself by reason of his immense love; so runs the proverb, Love puts the lover beside himself.

But no, then said the Lord, "I will not lose man; straightway let there be found a Redeemer who may

satisfy my justice in behalf of man, and so rescue him

from the hands of his enemies and from the eternal

death due to him."

And here St. Bernard, in his contemplations on this subject, imagines a struggle to ensue between the justice and the mere) of God. Justice says: "I no longer

exist if Adam be not punished; I perish if Adam die

not. Mercy, on the other hand, says: I am lost if man be not pardoned; I perish if he does not obtain forgiveness."  In this contest the Lord decides, that in

order to deliver man, who was guilty of death, some innocent one must die: Let one die who is no debtor or death.

On earth, there was not one innocent. Since, therefore, says the Eternal Father, amongst men there is none who can satisfy My justice, let him come forward who will go to redeem man. The angels, the cherubim, the seraphim, all are silent, not one replies; one voice alone is heard, that of the Eternal Word, who says, Lo, here am I; send Me? Father, says the only-begotten Son, Thy majesty, being infinite, and having been injured by man, cannot be fittingly satisfied by an angel, who is purely a creature; and though Thou mightest accept of the satisfaction of an angel, reflect that, in spite of so great benefits bestowed on man, in spite of so many promises and threats, we have not yet been able to gain his love, because he is not yet aware of the love we bear him. If we would oblige him without fail to love us, what better occasion can we find than that, in order to redeem him, I, Thy Son, should go upon earth, should there assume human flesh, and pay by my death the penalty due by him. In this manner Thy justice is fully satisfied, and at the same time man is thoroughly convinced of our love! But think, answered the Heavenly Father think, O my Son, that in taking upon Thyself the burden of man s satisfaction, Thou wilt have to lead a life full of sufferings! No matter, replied the Son: Lo, here I am, send Me Think that Thou wilt have to be born in a cave, the shelter of the beasts of the field; thence Thou must flee into Egypt whilst still an infant, to escape the hands of those very men who, even from Thy tenderest infancy, will seek to take away Thy life. It matters not: Lo, here am I, send Me Think that, on Thy return to Palestine, Thou shalt there lead a life most arduous, most despicable, passing Thy days as a simple boy in a carpenter s shop. It matters not: Lo, here am I, send

Me Think that when Thou goest forth to preach and

to manifest Thyself, Thou wilt have indeed a few, but

very few, to follow Thee; the greater part will despise

Thee and call Thee impostor, magician, fool, Samaritan; and, finally, they will persecute Thee to such a pass that they will make Thee die shamefully on a gibbet by dint of torments. No matter. Lo, here I am, send Me"

The decree then being passed that the Divine Son should be made man, and so become the Redeemer of

men, the Archangel Gabriel speeds on his way to Mary. Mary accepts him for her Son: And the Word was made flesh." (The Incarnation, Birth and Infancy of Jesus, Christ, By St. Alphonsus Liguori)

CHAPTER ONE - Understand the Flow

Unless God reveal the lover

You can never reveal your innermost secrets

I live in the call of the world and its wreckage

But hence, the lover continually calls

Through the whirlwind of the night

Into the crevasse of the human mind

To gather within it the knowledge

That fills its world with lacking

The void that remains in all human hearts

Which seeks to find its own

Often disguised as the call of a lover

Is often the interior reckoning of the beloved

Divine Love

THE DIVINE LOVE I. IN THE WORLD IT IS LITTLE C0MPREHENDED WHAT LOVE IS; AND YET IT IS MAN'S VERY LIFE. That this is little comprehended is evident from the common saying What is love? What