Astrologers knew the meaning of these strange happenings. Legend has it that seven Sages sat in silence (meditation) for seven days and saw Hurley as the only male-child being born in the world at that hour. The Sages knew that this was a sign that he (Hurley) was an Avatar. As a child, he possessed the gifts of the word and healing, and was ordained a Minister of the Gospel by the age of 20.
During his youth, Father Hurley would often go into the woods and commune with the so-called dead, also he would preach and lecture to the animals and birds, healing them when they were injured. This was disturbing to both he and his parents. As a result, Father Hurley delved into his formal education, attending the Tuskegee Institute and Phelps Bible School. However, he would leave school and begin teaching in secular schools and performing his duties as a Baptist minister. Feeling a deep inner spiritual unrest and a desire to seek truth, Father Hurley kept searching for answers.
His searching led him to meet an elderly woman in Georgia, named Mama Laura who was clairvoyant. This woman gave him a spiritual reading, foretelling his upcoming spiritual journeys and studies in the eastern world. However, before studying abroad, she told him that he needed to meet and talk to a man by the name of Dr. Gadahlia from Persia, who would be instrumental in facilitating his travels to the east.
After meeting Mama Laura he continued to experience a deep spiritual unrest and heard a voice that instructed him to seek out Dr. Gadahlia. However, he was still reluctant to follow the promptings of the Spirit and took seriously ill. Finally, he realized he had to obey the Spirit. In the early 1900’s Father Hurley sought out and met Dr. Gadahlia and went on to travel to Persia with him, where he studied occult truths for 6 months. At the end of this time Dr. Gadahlia advised him to return to Georgia, and that he would have the opportunity to travel once again overseas for further enlightenment in the Far East.
In 1909 Father Hurley was afforded the opportunity to travel to India and Tibet as a valet for a Georgia State Senator, where he remained for 7 years [according to his writings] receiving instruction in the deeper Truths of finding the indwelling God, and developed the seven phases of Mediumship and Adeptship. From there, Father Hurley travelled to Egypt and studied at the School of the Prophets, where it is rumored there are still artifacts of him in the Pyramids. Upon returning to the United States, Father Hurley studied under the world renowned Dr. L.W. De Lawrence, from whom he received the keys of life (“Man of the Hour,” n.d.).
After going on a three, seven, and forty-day fast, God (Spirit) revealed himself to Prophet Hurley. Prophet Hurley, in returning unto his own nationality or race of people, the Black Nation, brought the truth that blacks might have light. He did as Jesus had done before him; he returned to his own people focusing his message upon them, so they would have light.
Through God’s inspiration, Prophet Hurley preached the everlasting gospel that Jesus taught; the gospel of finding the kingdom of God (Spirit) within man. Father G. W. Hurley founded the Universal Hagar’s Spiritual Church in 1923 under Divine inspiration. In the following year he organized the Hagar’s School of Mediumship and Psychology (1924) which is, “the largest Ethiopian School of Esoteric Wisdom in the world”, and in the years to follow the Knights of the All-Seeing Eye (1934), which is a Mystical Benevolent Order. The doctrinal foundation of Father G. W. Hurley’s philosophy can be found in the Universal Hagar’s Spiritual Churches Declaration of Principles which are its Creed and Ten Commandments.
What We Believe (Creed)
WE BELIEVE that God is Spirit.
WE BELIEVE that our bodies are matter, and a dwelling place for God.
WE BELIEVE that man is Spirit just like God.
WE BELIEVE that man is the name given by God to his creation (man).
WE BELIEVE our real selves are God (Spirit) clothed with matter (body).
WE BELIEVE that all life is God.
WE BELIEVE that every 2,100 years completes an Age.
WE BELIEVE that Adam was the leader of the Taurian Age (Earth Age).
WE BELIEVE there is no life except God.
WE BELIEVE that He has made His second appearance within Hurley.
WE BELIEVE that whatsoever good we need is within us at all times.
WE BELIEVE that when we have realized Christ we can draw all good from within us.
WE BELIEVE that the Christ is the wisdom and the power of God.
WE BELIEVE that all who will accept his teachings the Christ will appear to them.
WE BELIEVE in Ages, Times or Eras.
WE BELIEVE that Abraham was the leader of the Arian Age (Fire Age).
WE BELIEVE that Jesus was the leader of the Piscean Age (Water Age).
WE BELIEVE that Hurley is the leader of the Aquarian Age (Air Age).
WE BELIEVE that Hurley was born at the proper time to be the leader.
WE BELIEVE that he will bring heaven to all nations that will believe.
WE BELIEVE in mental telepathy and thought force.
WE BELIEVE that thoughts are spirit and to think of a thing is the prophecy of its fulfillment.
WE BELIEVE that all men are equal regardless of their color.
WE BELIEVE that the Spiritual faith is the only true mode of worship.
WE BELIEVE that all Protestants must accept the true faith, if not they will fall.
WE BELIEVE in doing unto others as we would have them do unto us.
WE BELIEVE Heaven is supreme reason, a happy state of mind here on earth.
WE BELIEVE that hell is a deplorable condition in the bodies of human beings.
Universal Hagar’s Spiritual Churches Ten Commandments
1. Thou shall believe in Spirit (God) within matter.
2. Thou shall ignore a sky heaven for happiness and a downward hell for human punishment.
3. Thou shall believe in heaven and hell here on earth.
4. Thou shall believe in the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man.
5. Thou shall believe in what you sow, you shall also reap.
6. Thou shall believe that the Ethiopians and all Nations will rule the world in righteousness.
7. Thou shall believe that the Universal Hagar’s Spiritual Church was revealed to Father G. W. Hurley for the blessings of all nations that will believe.
8. Thou shall not pray for God to bless your enemies.
9. Thou shall ask God to give you power to overcome them.
10. Thou shall believe that our relatives and friends whose spirits have departed from their bodies, are within our own bodies to help us overcome all difficulties in life (UHSC, 1923).
Like Jesus, Prophet Hurley taught that the kingdom of God (Spirit) comes not with observation, but that the kingdom of God (Spirit) is within man. He sanctified himself that we may be sanctified by the truth that he has shown us. Aspirants, Father Hurley inspired me to write this book. Many will doubt, but neither heaven nor earth shall pass away till everything he promised comes to pass! Of note, there have been many well written and very informative biographies of Father Hurley’s life. However none of them focused on his travels to Persia, Egypt, India and Tibet which he wrote about in his writings.
I know after some of you serious seekers and new converts have read this section on the biography of Father Hurley, you may have questions that you want answered. Among the many anticipated questions, these are perhaps the most important:
1. What Is An Age?
2. What Is The Aquarian Age?
3. Who Is Father G. W. Hurley?
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