Sermon on the Mount 13

September 779 in the year of the Romans-13

Excerpts from the Sermon on the Mount in authorial form

To the throngs of listeners

Then Christ, the Lord, raised his hand and spoke:

Peace be with you all! But you, whom the proctor has sent, shall not be further troubled on my account today and for the next four days, for great will be your tribulation thereafter on the day that will be my day for eternal witness and true knowledge, a day on which the most terrible thing will happen, such as has not happened from the beginning of all things, nor will ever be able to happen in all the future of eternity!

And I say to you all: Great and dark is the wilderness of the spirit now, but greater and darker it will become, despite the light which I am and which will remain. For the servants of the spirit of hellish darkness will not rest, will not cease, and will not shun any means, even the most shameful, to turn the light of the spirit of eternal truth into darkness, as they turn evil and not only call it good but also praise it as holy. Many stand here among you who know the spirit of this people and its law through this people and abhor it because of their god.

But I say to them: There are not a few among you who will see the day when their closest and even their own children will praise the same "god" who now fills them with disgust and horror, as their own god, and will say:

"We thank you, great god, that you have sent us Christ!"

Remember, when it comes, that I have told you, and it will come! You may now receive this my word with as much head-shaking, with as much unbelieving smile, and with as much bright laughter as if I were playfully demanding the impossible of you, your children, and your neighbors.

But the servants of the spirit of hellish darkness, in the spirit of him whom they will exalt as the "god-father" of all men and also as my "father," will discover the lie and forcibly impose it upon the peoples, that I was sent into this world to be a "pleasing sacrifice" to the "father," who truly is and will be their "father," and they will seek to sacrifice me daily to him who sits on the stool of his grace in that den of murderers there, when he is sprinkled with the freshly shed steaming blood of poor victims.

Great, exceedingly great will be the power, the prestige, the wealth, and the glory of the servants of the spirit of hellish darkness. For overflowing with the spirit of this their "god and father," they will avenge not only the spoken word but also the word merely devised of their own accord with the most devilish torments, tortures, and agonizing killings, allowing no one to strive for the knowledge of the truth, so that everyone may suffocate in mere blind faith in the swamp to which they will drive the throngs of the poor; to all this, they will misuse my name and blaspheme and slander the holy spirit of eternal truth, which alone is my spirit, as it has never been blasphemed or slandered before.

In the spirit of this their "god-father," they will turn truth into falsehood, goodness into malice, proclaim the lowest lies as truths, praise the most devilish malice and the most satanic works as pleasing to god and holy, condone wars and mass murders, robbery, arson, and destruction, practice such and worse themselves, bless and distinguish the robbers, murderers, and plunderers, and promise them the kingdom of heaven.

But all those who do not blindly follow their every nod humbly, they will damn, torture, torment, kill, and seize all the earthly goods of those thus murdered; they will dwell in palaces with gold and silver-woven clothes and from there lead and drive the poor from one need, distress, anxiety, torment, and despair to ever greater ones, ceaselessly threatening them with the eternal pain of hell, until in great throngs of the poor every spark of the capacity for knowledge of their own spiritual power and their own free will has been suffocated and extinguished.

And people will rise up alongside and after, who, seized by pity for the throngs of the poor, will seek means to rescue them from the hell in which the servants of the spirit of hellish darkness hold them captive; and seeking in the scriptures that offer the servants of the evil spirit the justification for all their doing and not doing, they will find much that does not justify their works but accuses them, and they will write the scriptures in the dialects of the throngs, then hold the scriptures before them and call upon them to free themselves from their tormentors and leave the camp of hell. Great throngs will follow this call, in the good belief that they have turned their backs on the pool of the hellish abyss and turned to the truth.

Their and their leaders' opinion will not be evil, yet they will exchange the dark pool of the hellish swamp for a quite similar pool, which will not be recognizable to them as such only because it will bear a different name, whereby the circumstance that with the loss of such great throngs the almighty glory of the rulers of the former pool will lose much of its omnipotence and prestige will contribute much to even greater deception.

The supposed new rescuers and leaders will not feel and therefore will not know how heavily they themselves are poisoned by the spirit of the very pool they have left, and therefore it will suffice for them to have merely turned away from the pool; and they will accomplish nothing better and create nothing better, because they will take with them the spirit that, as "god," rules the swamp of his pool, which will be a cause for ever more far-reaching separation of the leaders and the throngs, and will create new torments, distress, misery, need, struggles, and despair.

The own people will hate and persecute their own members, a brother another, a people another, and all among each other; and the time will come when many will see all the misfortune and hell of this world in the lies, the delusion, the treachery, and the malice of the spiritual teachers, leaders, and rulers, and will envy them for their still existing prestige, their power, their well-being, and their glory. They will call upon the throngs of the poor to follow them alone and to reject everything that those teach them who themselves do not believe what they teach and who prove to each other that they knowingly proclaim and teach lies for truths.

And because the need, distress, torment, and despair will be ever worse through a bloodshed, through pillage, robbery, and atrocities, such as there have been only twice before on earth in similar extent in terms of the number of victims, the new preachers of earthly well-being will draw great throngs after them and at their expense practice the same deeds as those against whom they will turn the throngs.

Great, exceedingly great will be the hatred, envy, and vengeful desire of all against all, and no one will want to see that it is one and the same spirit that sets them against each other, and whom they all willingly serve equally, whether they praise him there as their "true god" or whether they laugh at him there, deny him, and portray him as a bogeyman of the foolish; and many of the poor will see, hear, and feel that the new preachers of well-being on earth also fare well at their expense, and will gradually recognize more and more the spirit that rules them all, and then there will also be more and more who will strive for the knowledge of the truth!

They will feel exactly that the knowledge of the truth dwells only in the spirit, and that this spirit can be received only with good will, retained only with good will, and acted upon only with good will.

Thousands and thousands of "truths" of the spirit will be offered to them from all sides; but they, who are of good will, will soon recognize that the spirit of truth is in none of the "truths" offered to them, since the knowledge of one half of the truths leads to acts of violence, and that of the other half to unfathomable dark mysteries, of which the former are to be practiced ruthlessly and the latter are to be believed blindly without will. And since the spiritual need of the darkness of the wilderness of the spirit will be greatest, and many will cry out in the spirit:

Then Christ, the Lord, raised his hand and spoke:

Where art thou, eternal truth? Where art thou, God, if there is a personal God of the spirit and of eternal truth? Why dost thou not come, seeing as thou seest all the evil of this world, and as thou, if thou art true, dost also hear that countless throngs cry out to thee and desire to know thee as thou truly art, in their need, distress, torment, and despair?

Then the time will come when a prophet will arise, who will proclaim anew my name, my essence, my spirit, my word, and my works to men in truth, as I myself now proclaim and reveal this my word. Then my own will also be involved again—and many of you who hear my word—to proclaim me through him and through the spirit from spirit to the spirit of darkness in the wilderness of the spirit, to remind you of me in truth; this prophet, with his own, who will have recognized me through you and through him, will cry out in the darkness of the wilderness of the spirit:

Whoever of truly good will wishes to know God as he is by the power of his holy spirit of eternal truth, let him turn to him who was there in Christ and who has repeatedly said, and has proved thousands of times, that he alone is the eternal truth, the true light, and the true eternal life, God!

Many will hear him and his own, but many will continue to seek truths in disappointment in the wilderness of the darkness of the spirit that please them more than the truth that I am.

People will come even then and ask as you ask today:

Who, what, and how is the eternal truth?

And I tell you today clearly, openly, and plainly what I have repeatedly told many before and what applies to all the future of eternity: God is the eternal truth, and I am the eternal truth!

At the behest of the Echaimen sent by the Pharisees, scribes, and high priests, you have come here with me—and many among you, hearing the cries "Hosanna to the son of David," "Hosanna to the king of the Jews," cried and shouted along without even thinking a little about what they were doing and what consequences such actions would inevitably have drawn upon me, if the proctor and his own did not know what it was intended to achieve and what it was to bring about. But I have come here with you to tell everyone the truth once more publicly, that I am neither David's son nor do I want to become a king, since neither I nor my kingdom is of this world, and I tell you again that I alone am the eternal truth!

And to you, who are called "godless heathens," I leave the testimony that none of you has troubled me, none of you has hated me, none of you has cursed me, none of you has sought my life, none of you has sought to destroy me, and I tell you that none of you will raise his hand against me or lay hands on me with evil intent, even though the worthy sons of a David have hitherto counted on it safely by spreading the most treacherous of all lies, that I am a son of David.

But because they see how false their calculation is and that they can never achieve what they have decided against me through others, they will now, in the spirit of their god, satisfy his and their bloodlust and vengeful desire on me themselves—and if it happens, do not think of trying to stop them! For whatever happens and whatever they will accomplish on me happens for the eternal witness and knowledge of the truth to all who are of good will! You have come here with me in peace, and you have heard the word of truth in peace. But now—go in peace again, and peace be with you!

To the delegates of Pilate

No one can undo what is to come, nor even change it, but the Spirit alone; for it is the Spirit alone that creates all that happens, which was, which is, and which will happen in the future. Before any beginning, when God alone created by the power of his holy Spirit of eternal truth and true eternal life, all that happened was also in him alone, as the word God alone was the property of the essence of his Spirit.

There were with and beside him before any beginning countless hosts of all kinds of beings of infinitely different spirits and infinitely different forms, and like him, not created, because their being is just as eternal as the being of God. But only the essence of the Spirit of God had the power of life before any beginning, only he possessed the power of life before any beginning, only he was before any beginning the eternal trinity: essence-spirit-life!

None of the countless hosts, groups, and kinds of beings of the spirit that were with and beside him before any beginning possessed the power of life, and therefore no being of the spirit was aware of its being, could not act, was not dead, but like the sand of the desert, it was barren and unfruitful, scattered in spaces. These were only useful to the most perfect essence of the Spirit of God; they had to be formed into a world in which every lifeless duality of essence-spirit would be permeated by the rays of the light of the Spirit of God and with them by his own power of life, receive the same power of life, become aware of its own being, and be able to act by the nature of its own essence and spirit.

This is the creation of God, and thus his kingdom was created by him, the kingdom of the light of the spirit of eternal truth, the kingdom of true eternal life, the beginning of which I have spoken so often, namely the beginning of all that happening which is the fruit and consequence of the activity and effect of every spirit capable of knowledge, but above all of the will of every spirit capable of knowledge. Therefore, do not imagine the beginning of your being and all living being that you see on earth here on earth!

For I say to you:

Every being of the living spirit, from the blade of grass to the tree, to all kinds of creatures up to the trinity essence-spirit-life capable of knowledge, which is the physical human of this world, stands by the power of the capacity of knowledge of its own spirit above all spirit not capable of knowledge; all these beings of the spirit are eternally there. The beginning of which I speak does not apply to their being, but to the happening in which they all without exception received life by the power of the will of my eternally living spirit and became aware of their being.

This happening and this beginning of the life of all beings of the spirit that are, reaches into times of a past for which you have no measure, into times that reach back a thousand times further than this world in which you now live, in order to go through it once with your own powers, although all that, measured by the existence of eternal being, was yesterday.

But keep firmly in the essence of your spirit the knowledge that that power of life, which every being of the spirit, which until the beginning of which I speak was a dormant duality of essence and its own spirit, not aware of its being, has received from me, is the power of life of my spirit. It can neither be lost nor taken away from any living being that goes once through the kingdom of the earth of this world as a living soul; the essence of the living soul can also never be destroyed, because it—inseparably from its own spirit and this from the power of life given to it from me—is a whole of its own eternal being.

What you see there as living is the living soul with its own spirit, immortal and indestructible; for if the living soul did not come as the living seed to take from the earthly and work earthly, living things would not be there; but because it is, it was and will remain in all the future of eternity!

Therefore, when you speak of the living soul, do not say: I have an immortal soul, or: I have the spirit, and it remains alive, but know and say:

I am an immortal and indestructible soul—I, who bear the earthly body there in order to go through the kingdom of the earth once and be able to work there. I, who am the living soul, also live when I lay down this earthly body or when it is violently taken from me, I live because I am! Because I am, I was and will be; for if I had not been, I would not be there—but I am!

And do not say: I die, but my spirit goes to the hereafter and it will live, for I say to you:

There is no spirit without the essence whose property it is; it is in the most insignificant and negligible as in the most perfect and greatest always inseparably bound to the essence, like the power of life proper to it and through it also to the essence; this trinity essence-spirit-life is the soul that you are, that all living things are, and that after laying down and losing its body built up in the earthly, enters and remains in the same trinity in the hereafter, because it is!

And also know this: There is no death and no destruction of the living soul. But the spirit capable of knowledge can and does create a life for itself that is infinitely worse than the death of destruction with which the liar, whom these circumcised have raised to their "sole god," threatens everyone. All must go through the kingdom of the earth of this world precisely for this reason, to take from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and, the more perfect, the better and more indispensable to recognize what good and evil is; they must find the truth in goodness, love, mercy, forgiveness, justice, and self-sacrifice, and the lie in treachery, malice, injustice, persecution, revenge, and the desire for destruction, and, capable of knowledge, by the power of their own free will, freely recognize, choose, act according to their own free will, and thereby also freely decide for themselves.

For true eternal life, the knowledge of good and evil is indispensable for every spirit capable of knowledge; for it is this that follows the knowledge of truth and lies and leads every spirit capable of knowledge who is of good will to true knowledge of God and self.

This knowledge was proper to the great throngs of beings of the spirit capable of knowledge who were the first of their kind to enter the kingdom of the earth of this world, in order to work there, embodied earthly and awakened from unconsciousness, once as earthly humans, and to see what God has created for the salvation of all those who, once following the lying enticements of the evil spirit, have left the kingdom of God to sink into worlds that offer no possibility for the effect of the life force of the spirit; these are therefore worlds in which, despite the life force of the spirit of the beings, only forgetting, unconsciousness, and impotence prevail.

The first throngs of the spirit capable of knowledge who came from there to the kingdom of the earth of this world remembered as earthly humans the sad happening of the rebellion of the spirit of lies against the light of the spirit of truth that had once taken place. They were reminded of this happening by those who, standing in the truth, remained in the kingdom of God and who from time to time sought out their earthly brothers from there to remind them and show them the way that leads them back to the kingdom of God, which they had left so carelessly or so willfully.

For a long time, these first and the countless throngs of humans who followed them possessed true knowledge of God and self; they knew that everything living on earth comes from the world of silence, impotence, and forgetting to this place, in order to go through it once, embodied earthly and awakened from impotence, and after laying down the earthly body, to go to that world of the hereafter which the spirit capable of knowledge has created for itself by the power of its will, action, and knowledge on earth.

Only when the evil spirit of hellish darkness and his own, led by those who, themselves of evil intent, were also evilly turned away from the knowledge of eternal truth in the earthly, found this earth and there those whom he had sought for so long, only from then on was the knowledge of the truth in the earthly ever more poorly ordered; for he and his own set and set everything to erase and kill every memory of the spirit capable of knowledge of his own as well as of God's eternal being by the revelation of lies.

No people ever living on earth has raised the evil spirit of hellish darkness to its sole god, to serve only him and through him himself, to make alliances with him against all other peoples and nations, and to seek to destroy everything that is even capable of bringing humanity closer to the knowledge of eternal truth.

**But what no people has ever accepted, what every people has rejected and turned away from, this people marked in body and soul has fully realized; and with this happening, the time has also been fulfilled which true prophets of all times and peoples have foretold, proclaiming that the true eternal God himself will become man to proclaim the eternal truth, himself, as he is eternally the same, the living, true God, personally to every spirit capable of knowledge who is of good will; and I say to you: The time is

Even though I have come for my own most grievous self-sacrifice, do not think that those who, in the spirit of their god, will wreak all vengeance upon me and satisfy all his and their bloodlust, are in any way innocent because I have resolved to sacrifice myself for witness and knowledge and have perhaps destined them to accomplish this. For by such an opinion, you would also acquit all robbers and murderers who, after plundering a house, setting it on fire, and carrying off all the goods, then cruelly murder the householder who seeks them out and confronts them with their evil deed for the sake of his children, hypocritically saying: We are not guilty of his blood, for why did he pursue us? He knows who we are, and if he came nonetheless, his blood comes upon himself, for he wanted it so!

If such a testimony of murderers and robbers serves you to know treachery, lies, and malice, my testimony shall and will serve you and many to know the truth. And if the coming sad event brings you a few hours of tribulation, know that this too will serve many for witness and knowledge.

Peace be with you!

End of Part 13