Sermon on the Mount 11

September 779 in the year of the Romans-11

Excerpts from the Sermon on the Mount in authorial form

I am the Eternal Truth!

I have often said to them: You who consider yourselves sons of your god, also want to make Me a "son of God" like you, and therefore ask without ceasing who My father is and who sent Me, that I may say that it is your "God and Father." But I say to you: Not "the Father and the Son" are the truth, but God, Who is in Me, and I in Him! "Father" and "Son" are two persons, but God is only One. And He Himself has come to you, because I am here. And I say to them truly: I Myself have come! But they keep asking: What do you make of yourself? You, a man, make yourself God! Who sent You? We have a father – God!

And when I say to them: You do not know God; for if you knew Him, you would have to know Me and hear My word – then they mock Me, revile Me, curse Me, ask the same again, and hold up their god and father to Me again! But when I add: Your father is a liar, who has not stood in the truth, a man-murderer and Satan, then they seek to stone Me and seize Me, and they curse Me because the desires of the father of lies please them more than My word and Me.

And they will kill Me; this earth shall – according to their law – drink My blood; but it remains there for the salvation of many! They kill Me, but I will rise by the power of the truth of My will, as a testimony to the eternal truth of My word, that those who cannot see and hear Me – like you – may believe in Me and My word!

I will rise, and before I have gone into My kingdom, I will seek you out and give you further teachings, as a testimony and for the knowledge of the world.

By the fact that this My body loses its blood, it suffers "death" for a short time; but the same bloodless body will rise and live, because I will it, and that you may see Me and hear Me again among you as a testimony.

But as I leave My blood there, I will then also not take My body with Me; both shall remain there and embody Me countless times wherever My eternal being and My spirit are truly recognized and My word is truly followed, that I may strengthen every soul and every spirit that wants to come to Me and abide in My spirit through the life of this My body and blood.

But of this I will tell you more until the day comes; but know this already now: Whoever truly seeks Me, I am with him before he even knows that I am He whom he wants to find, and he also recognizes Me when he has never heard My name; for it is enough for him that he has found My spirit. Whoever truly seeks God finds Me and will truly recognize Me! But whoever thinks he has found a god whose spirit is not Mine and whose name is not Christ, has invented his own god, because he has found only the name God, which is no name in itself, and not the spirit of eternal truth; the name alone does not do it, but the spirit.

All men – from the beginning – spoke of God and gods, but only those have recognized God who have sought My spirit, and many have found it already in times past, because I was there and have withheld My spirit from no one who sought it. But because the spirit of this people has elevated the spirit of the abyss of darkness, the father of lies and bloodthirsty man-murderer from the beginning, to its "sole god," and the liar, who has not stood in the truth of My spirit and kingdom, threatens to destroy the whole earth through this people, therefore I Myself have come to save those from his darkness who want to be saved.

Not for My sake have I come, but to show this world the dark abyss of the spirit of that evil liar and to bring to men Myself the eternal truth, which alone I am in being, spirit, and life.

Whoever seeks the eternal truth seeks God! But whoever truly seeks seeks first God's holy spirit, and whoever seeks thus cannot pass Me by – and by My spirit he must recognize who I am in truth!

I keep saying to them: If you do not want to believe the word that reveals My spirit to you, then at least see the works that I do and that no one else has done, nor – except God – can anyone do, and they say to Me in response: "You have the devil!"

But to you, who are My disciples, and even more, who are My brothers and friends on earth, I say: Many thousands have seen and heard from Me what you have seen and heard. Many thousands have heard My word and seen My works like you; but count those out of all the thousands who truly know and believe!

Truly I say to you: Each of you has more fingers on his hands than he would find so many who truly believe they understand and want to accept the spirit of My word! I tell them who I am, I make the blind, the lame, and the incurable healthy, I fully satiate thousands upon thousands with a small piece of bread, I raise those who have been dead for days – and their spirit, will, understanding, and faith go so far as to make Me their king, because they calculate that then there would be no more sick, no one would have to work, and no one would have to die. So think most of the poor.

But the elders, the Pharisees, Sadducees, and scribes hate Me because My being, My spirit, and My works frighten them. They know that My word is the truth, and they feel and know that the eternal truth is God, as I tell them. But they like their god, whose spirit is the worst adversary of eternal truth. But this too I tell you: They do not die out with this generation! Nations and peoples will know My name and call themselves Christians after it; they will carry the name CHRIST on their lips, but – like the scribes, Sadducees, Pharisees, and Jewish elders – elevate the father of lies and the abyss of soulful-spiritual darkness above Me, because My spirit will also frighten them!

No one can serve God and Satan at the same time. Satan demands services, he knows how to keep those devoted to him, and they gladly do so, because his spirit is their spirit, and therefore he endures on earth.

I demand no services that are to apply to Me; I demand no glorification, because no one can give it to Me; I demand no sacrifices, because all living things carry My life in them, and I am the true eternal life, not destruction! Destruction is the wickedness of lies and the greed of Satan; for all wickedness and all destruction is his spirit!

Therefore I tell you again: What you want your neighbors to do to you, do you first to them! That is the spirit of truth, that is My spirit and in its eternal truth the spirit of God! Whoever does that sacrifices himself to Me, but he serves and glorifies himself, and only thereby does he serve Me, glorify Me, and sacrifice himself to Me, as I also serve men, glorify them, and sacrifice Myself for their salvation.

No man has seen God to this day; but those who see Me see and hear God! But men see a man in Me, and even some of you who have followed Me have seen a man in Me long enough, and because I also tell you in truth that there are not two gods "Father and Son," but I am the father of Myself, He is in Me, and I am in Him indivisibly the same in eternity, you could not grasp it either. And yet the reason for this lies only in the fact that many of you have been taught God and gods from childhood, who are not gods, but partly hostile beings of that father who speaks to his own through the law and through the scripture that makes him God.

His fierce anger, his lust for blood and revenge, makes his own fearful, and they imagine him so that, becoming visible, spread out over the whole vault of heaven, he shows his clenched fist and, gnashing his teeth, hurls a curse, fiercer than the preceding curses, at all who do not want to be of his spirit, and threatens revenge.

Thus all the erring see God, thus many see Him, and thus He will continue to be presented to many as long as the Hebrew scripture and its bloodthirsty god of revenge are upheld. And the greatest effort of the spirit of lies, of wickedness, and of darkness will ensure that it is upheld; men will help him, and they will rejoice, will glorify the "scripture" and their "god," and will also call Me a god, whom they will think they have to sacrifice daily to the spirit of this scripture.

And you, My closest faithful, who are with Me and stand near Me, you are very far from this spirit – and yet his lie has occasionally held you in the spell of uncertainty and doubt. I know how to value all this, for you too see a man before you in Me, and you also could not grasp occasionally that I am poor, very poor, and do not want to call either a roof over Me or even a bed My own.

Yes, I have come as a man, because God cannot come to men otherwise if He wants to appear to them Himself face to face in an essential-personal way and reveal Himself to them through His spoken word.

I have come into this world as a man. 

The power of the eternal being, spirit, and life of God has remained the same, in and outside Me, unchangeable in eternity, the same, because My spirit can never change through Me.

I reveal the eternal truth to you through My word, and I confirm the word through works that no man can do, that you may see the power of the being and spirit of God in Me and in them. Men see these works and marvel, because no man has done such before. They are works of truth, goodness, love, and mercy that I do, that the power of My spirit may be revealed through them.

The small work for God's omnipotence amazes them, because they have not seen even the like. The great work of wonders, however, is not worthy of their attention, because – living amidst wonders – they consider everything self-evident and think that it cannot be otherwise. And this too is a darkness that shows its dark spirit even in the light of the sun, and it is the vestibule to the darkness of the soulful-spiritual abyss, because it does not heed the great wonder at all or seeks it in the activity of the power of its own being and spirit and not in the power of the living eternal being and spirit of God.

The sun governs earthly darkness as far as its rays strike the earth; but only those of its regions are struck by the rays that offer themselves to be struck by them; neither the sun nor the earth can change the least of it, because both are a work of the spirit whose will has formed them thus and not otherwise, that one may be preserved through the other in that activity that fully corresponds to the purpose for which the omnipresent spirit of God has created them.

It is the spirit of God and His will that gave ordered powers to all these things. But the powers of these things are neither spirit nor life, but only powers that, pressing each other, again and again only muster the strength to press further and to preserve the powers, without will, without knowledge, without feeling, without joy, without pain.

The spirit of omnipotence gave these powers to things by ordering them through His will so that they form another, earthly-worldly kingdom; in this, every being and its spirit awakens, which, striving after the evil-become being, was not satisfied in the kingdom of God and therefore could not endure there, but also those beings whose spirit in the kingdom of God did not come to the full consciousness of its being, by the power of the life given to every spirit at the beginning and now owned by the soulful being whose eternal own the spirit is. This serves to make the being of the soul, through the tangible of this world assumed there, itself tangible and a being of this earthly kingdom corresponding to its own spirit.

Every spirit, even without form and definite shape, inseparably bound to the being of the soul, must in this earthly world make do with what the nature of the shape and form of the soulful being eternally its own assumes, and every soulful-spiritual-living being already makes its spirit known to us through itself.

Among all soulful-spiritual-living beings, however, only man recognizes through his judgmental spirit which of the other beings – in the sense of danger – has a good or an evil spirit.

The animals themselves do feel their own spirit, but they do not know that and whether it is good or evil, and act accordingly, because they do not raise any concerns in this direction. Weaker species feel the danger of the other, foreign, and stronger species very well, and they fear, because their soulful being and their spirit cling to the earthly assumed there and do not want to lose it.

The smaller the spirit of the being, the more unclear the feeling, the consciousness, the fear, and the smaller the pain of its soulful being; the greater the spirit, the more feeling of its soulful being, the greater the resistance to a violent separation, and the more clinging to the earthly body assumed there.

But the spirit of all other beings is never equal to the spirit of man, because he alone is capable of cognition. There are indeed many among the other beings whose qualities many a man could and should take as an example; yet these beings are without their will, without their doing, as they are, and resemble most of their kind.

If you consider the soulful being, the spirit, and the life of the trees, the grasses, and the flowers, you will find that the way of life and the spirit of the same species are almost equal. And I say to you: Do not doubt that the tree, the grass, and the flowers have a soulful being and a spirit; where there is life, there is a spirit, and where there is a spirit, there is also the soulful being. Where there is no spirit, there is also no life and no soulful being! The soulful-spiritual-living being of plants is only unable to create such senses from the tangible as the soul and the spirit of the other beings; and that is good for them and the other beings.

If you consider the spirit and the being of the animals, you will find that the same species are almost of the same spirit, and the descendants remain of the same spirit and the same being, unless a greater spirit – that of man – subjects them to his will and, through the greatness of his spirit, subdues and directs theirs. But never does the spirit of man bring the spirit of the animal to learn to distinguish between truth and falsehood and to seek one of the two.

And further I say to you: This is the infinite difference between man and all other soulful-spiritual living beings, that man alone can raise himself to God by the power of his cognitive spirit and his own free will, because he distinguishes truth from falsehood and goodness from wickedness even then recognizes and feels them as such, when he has never heard these words before; for they are not owned as words, but as powers of his soul, and indelibly imprinted on it! But he shall and must decide either for the truth and its goodness, or for the falsehood and its wickedness, for therefore he goes soulful-spiritual-living once through the kingdom of the earth of this world.

At the beginning of this world, men knew God the eternal truth fully, because they could not absorb so much of the tangible of the things of this world, and were therefore more soulful and spiritual than men are now, and in their soulful being, as well as in their spirit, the memory of a world they had lost awakened. The same memory also led them to recognize the eternal truth; but they also recognized themselves as well as the cause and purpose of their existence.

Times followed times, and with them men, who, becoming ever greedier for the tangible of the things of this world and therefore – in the sense of refinement – becoming ever less soulful-spiritual, turned their spirit to the things of this world and not to themselves, not to their own intangible and immortal soul. Only a few later awakened to a memory of life in the true world of My kingdom; but those in whom this memory became alive rose to teach, to awaken a memory in the soul and spirit of the others.

And about that time, the spirit of the abyss of hellish darkness, the spirit of lies, wickedness, greed, envy, violence, and revenge, also reached the new kingdom, the world of tangible things, through the hereafter; and he rejoiced when he found those so long sought, whom he once thought he could draw all into his camp, here again as completely different, as earthly beings. But he rejoiced too soon! For all his efforts, all his attempts and exertions to take on the tangible of this world like the spirit of the soul of men and the spirit of the other soulful beings and to become a tangible being of this world likewise, failed miserably and only triggered a powerless rage far beyond any madness!

Despite his great spirit, he remained unable to become an earthly-tangible being by his own power, and if he does reach that point, to which men of similar spirit will help him, he will become the exact opposite of what he wants to become for a short span of time. But that lies in the distant future, and I tell you this as a testimony, that many, when it has come, may know that I have said it.

At that time, however, many will know Me, many will truly know who I am in My eternal truth. But the followers of the spirit of the abyss of hellish darkness will still mock Me then and persecute all those who call Me Christ in the spirit of eternal truth, their only true God, and will abide in My spirit to the end.

Truly, the error of these men was and is great, but the worst was yet to come, and because it has long been here, I Myself have come to tell it to the people in whom the worst has taken firm root and from whom the most terrible has come forth, to bring to this world Myself the eternal truth, and to give it to all who want to become children of the eternal truth, My children, thus children of God again. The error of these men is great, but the wickedness of this people is infinitely greater!

The other peoples know good and evil "gods," but this people knows only one god, who, however, in his being and spirit, is the bottomless abyss of all darkness of hell, a father of lies and wickedness – Satan!

Blood, blood, and again blood, destruction, curse upon curse, wars, mass murders, persecution of all others, hatred, revenge, burnt and blood sacrifices, infinite and insatiable, and again blood and sacrifice!

The horrors of some peoples were great, and the distress of the sacrifices cried to heaven for mercy. The horrors of this people are greater, because all their doing and striving is for one spirit, and the evil desires of this spirit agree with the desires of the majority of this people. The doing and striving, the bloodlust, the vengefulness, and the raging of this spirit, however, devise horrors that most grievously blaspheme and revile the holy spirit of God, the spirit of eternal truth, by the spirit of the abyss of lies and wickedness raising itself to God and being recognized by this people as the only living true God, as well as glorified and worshipped as creator and father of all living things.

Truly I say to you: By their fruits you shall know the tree. But by the fruit of the spirit you must recognize much more easily and better whether it is a spirit of truth and goodness or whether it is a spirit of lies and wickedness.

Some of them want only a "God-Father" whom they do not know, and they reject Me. Others want to make Me a messenger or a "son" of a god like them, who is the worst adversary of My eternal being, spirit, life, light, name, and word, and of the eternal truth, which I alone am; this one has already judged himself in times past by creating the soulful-spiritual abyss of lies and hell, which received him and from where he hurls the darkness of his own lies and wickedness at the other spirit.

The time is near when it will happen, and you will still experience it; and even you, who are My disciples, friends, and brothers, will have to fight hard against the malicious and insidious robbery and distortion of My word, without being able to avert it completely, because the spirit of many men will unite with the spirit of the abyss more than ever to fight against Me, against the spirit of truth, and against you.

Woe to the evil spirit and those who, through him, already blaspheme and revile the holy spirit of eternal truth and will do so even more in the future! They judge themselves, and no mercy, no forgiveness can rescue them from the abyss of soulful-spiritual wickedness and hellish torment, because, full of the darkness of the evil spirit, they also mock mercy and forgiveness.

Sermon in Bethany in the house of Simon (April 1, 783 d. R.)

Verily I say unto you, that to many, that which I have taken upon myself, to take upon myself and to accomplish, shall not be enough, that beside these there shall be many others who shall despise and mock all that I have accomplished and because of that which is accomplished. I say unto you, that there shall be infinitely more of those who shall say that I had to accomplish all this without will, because I was sent into this world by him who is a God and Father of this people, marked by the bloody circumcision; these also shall great hosts of uncircumcised peoples worship and glorify as their "God and Father" just because he is the infinite opposite of my being and my spirit and therefore also my worst adversary.

That all this comes to pass, the circumcised servants of the circumcised spirit of their father shall eagerly see to it, and countless hosts of a similarly circumcised spirit shall find pleasure in placing my being, my spirit, my word, and my works beside and beneath the circumcised spirit of their God-Father.

I see how deeply you are troubled and horrified in your souls at such a sad foresight, and I see also that some among you doubt these my words, because they deem such an event impossible, since they see and hear how deeply all other peoples despise the God of this people and the marked people of his God. But I say unto you that it shall come to pass – and if not from one day to the next, yet soon, and that many among you shall witness the beginnings of such an event and suffer much thereby here on earth.

As in the times before and as now, even more in the future shall power-hungry, domineering, and violent servants of the dark prince of this world appear and seek to rule over hosts of peoples more than ever by instilling fear, anxiety, terror, and horror of a God who tests, tempts, punishes, avenges, and brings men to ruin, condemns, and destroys at his whim, who authorizes his servants preaching him on earth to wield the same power and to do the same as he wills for him.

Such a "God" is found in no other people on earth, in no other scripture, but only in the "scripture" and in the spirit of this marked people, whose elders and superiors shall do all they can to set him and themselves – more than ever before – above all. And I say unto you that they shall succeed in their and their God's spirit for a time; for they themselves shall set many from their midst at the head of the hosts adhering to you, persecute you, make the hosts obedient to their spirit and their God by enticements, cunning, treachery, hypocrisy, and violence, and among these then seek out those who, for the sake of their earthly advantages, shall accept the offers made to them, including the God offered to them, being power-hungry, domineering, and violent.

Having come to power in his spirit, they shall compel the powerless hosts of the poor to bow to this God and the power of his servants. Then this God and his servants shall stand above all, ruling all, as far as their power reaches, and they who accept their God from the Hebrews shall soon call themselves the true chosen ones and soon not know how truly and fully they are so.

In the spirit of their – that is, the Hebrew God – they shall at first confer with the circumcised and not know what to do with me, with my being, and above all, what to do with my spirit and where to place me, who has not come to test, not to tempt, not to avenge, not to punish, not to ruin, not to condemn, not to destroy, not to exterminate, yea, who has not even come to judge; for I have come to make this world blessed, if it willingly receives me and my spirit and even strives to confirm it.

My coming, my incarnation, my being, my word, and my works they shall not undo and also cannot deny that I alone am the eternal truth and the true eternal life. But because they cannot deny this, but must not and will not recognize me, the eternal truth that I am, in the spirit of their Hebrew God, they shall for times not contend about the position and the being, the striving and the will of their God, but about what they make of me, of my being and spirit, and where they place me, arguing, quarreling, and even fighting violently.

The spirit of darkness, lies, and malice shall be raised above me, and then a period shall follow in which God, who alone am the eternal truth and the eternal life, shall be blasphemed and profaned as never before, not even in the deepest error and not in the darkest and most deceitful malice of the mind capable of knowledge. For they shall not only make me and my spirit dependent on Satan and his spirit and subordinate me to him, but also seek to offer me up to his bloodlust figuratively – without ceasing!

And again, a period shall come when great hosts of minds capable of knowledge shall freely become aware of the enslavement and the darkness in which malice violently holds them, and these hosts shall violently break the chains of spiritual slavery, reject the God violently imposed and forced upon them, along with his dark striving.

But with this they shall first also reject me, and only because the servants of the spirit of hellish darkness, who until then have ruled them, blaspheme my name alongside the many names of their God and Father and misuse it even more blasphemously to cover their own and their God-Father's dark, deceitful malice.

Soon, however, many among the hosts who have broken the chains of spiritual slavery shall deem themselves free and realize that they are not free, but have exchanged the broken chains for other fetters, being equally oppressed as before and finding no peace in themselves or in their fellows.

Restlessly they shall look for the true cause of the new enslavement, seek new freedom. But they shall find neither this nor peace, because they shall be deaf and blind to the fact that the fetters holding them, despite all changes, are always the same, because the spirit creates them and this spirit is always the same and always the same spirit; whose servants only give the chains they have forged and laid upon the hosts ever new forms and names in order to oppress and fight the forgers of the same fetters of other form and name, to incite the hosts against each other in the dark spirit of malice and violence, and to keep themselves above all and secure earthly advantages.

About that time there shall be great tribulations, and many shall seek the spirit that alone can give them true spiritual freedom and, as a consequence, true inner peace. To these hosts coming at that time I call out even today:

Never and nowhere shall you find the truth, the true life, the true peace, and the true freedom as long as you set yourselves above my spirit; for my spirit alone is the true peace and the true freedom, because I alone am the eternal truth and the true eternal life!

Come to me, you who are of good will, to lead a life full of inner peace and free spirit here on earth, to true eternal life!

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