Sermon on the Mount 15

September 779 in the year of the Romans-15

Excerpts from the Sermon on the Mount in authorial form

Sermon to His Own

(Maundy Thursday, April 6, 783 A.D.)

On Thursday, the sixth of April, in the Roman year 783, God the Lord in Christ gave His great sermon in the house of Arathama, and among other things, spoke to His own gathered around Him and the Holy Mother:

Morning

"What I have created for those who once turned away from Me, in that and within it, everyone finds the true cause of their unique existence explained, and thereby also the true purpose of their unique existence. Everyone must recognize good and evil within themselves in their effect, as well as in all their surroundings, and they recognize it despite all occasional objections, denials, and excuses; for no one wants evil to happen to them, no matter how much they hypocritically and insidiously praise it when it befalls others or when they themselves inflict it on others.

Indeed, man must defend himself against the malice of others, and if the defense is just, it is also good, even if the same evil befalls those who maliciously and insidiously sought to inflict it on others. This results in conflict and more conflict, but the realm of earth, although it is a reflection of the true world of My kingdom, and humanity has shaped it as such, and indeed could continue to expand it in active obedience to My word, is not the kingdom of heaven; it is people, however, who, full of the dark, evil, and insidious spirit, will, and striving, make life and thereby the realm of earth not only a reflection of hell but hell itself.

The recognition of good and evil differs from the recognition of truth and falsehood, for there, besides knowledge, faith mainly decides, whereas the recognition of good and evil mainly depends on feelings. Here, the soul decides more, there, the spirit decides more, and therefore it is not easy for many people, especially not in the great and all-encompassing, to fully recognize truth and falsehood and to strictly separate them.

Therefore, the true knowledge of Me belongs above all else to the recognition of eternal truth, then the good will to accept this knowledge; by virtue of both, the recognition that the being and existence of creation, humanity, and all other soul-spirit-living beings have the causes, consequences, purpose, and goal as I teach people, and that it is not otherwise, and finally, through all this, the truly, irrefutably true faith in Me.

What I have created for those who once turned away and departed from Me, I do not avoid; for I have come in essential person Myself to allow the worst that the falsehood, malice, thirst for blood and revenge, human hatred, and falsehood of hell and the old Satan have brought upon the earth, and what the old Satan especially has his circumcised elect practice there, to befall Me and rage over Me as an eternal testimony to the eternal truth of Me.

No one shall be able to say in eternity: 'Lord! You have indeed created the earth for us, that we may recognize good and evil there, do good to one another, and thereby return to You in Your kingdom for true eternal life. I and countless multitudes of my fellow humans have only willed good to others, only done good; but our life on earth was a single chain of afflictions, pain, torment, and despair, a hell that You Yourself avoided and did not touch with any finger.'

That and similar things no one will be able to say in eternity; for I have come, am here, and touch that same hell from the bottom up as no human can. Therefore, the nameless hatred of the old Satan and his worshipping, circumcised, chosen devils in human skin against Me; a hellish, devilish hatred to which the human CHRIST will fall victim – tomorrow already, but Who will rise again in His divine power on the third day thereafter, early, and remain with you for another seven weeks.

This is My work of redemption, that whoever, like you, is of good will, may recognize in and through Me, in My incarnation, in My being, spirit, life, name, words, and works, the only true, eternal, and all-good GOD, and according to My word and My revelation, also recognize themselves as the indestructible and imperishable being of the trinity soul-spirit-life; furthermore, that in this true God and self-knowledge, they no longer fall prey to ignorance, the errors of darkness, and the lie of death, but have the light of the knowledge of the truth of eternal life and do not fear death. This leads everyone who even honestly strives to be active according to My word to Me in My kingdom, to eternal life."

"People die; however, what dies in them is the discarded earthly body, never they themselves, because they are soul, spirit, and life, and because this trinity – indestructible and imperishable – is of an eternal being.

There are, besides the things of this world as well as outside of it, many things and forces that you cannot see, hear, or grasp; even the living soul, which each of you is, is a trinity of its being-spirit-life, and yet it is impossible for any of you to see, hear, or grasp this true essence of your own self.

Nevertheless, the nations and peoples of the earth have known from the very beginning that each individual among them is such a living, immortal soul, and they found it repeatedly confirmed through the communication of their prophets with the living souls of the afterlife, all the more so the more prophets arose among a people, and the more capable they were of serving as tools and interpreters for the living souls of the afterlife.

How much of the true and good on the one hand, and how much of the false and evil on the other, or also how much error and delusion this communication respectively brought to the peoples and nations, you can see in the actions and creations as well as in the knowledge of the peoples and nations known to you, as well as in yourselves.

Through this communication, often lightless and dark, as well as evil beings of the afterlife, rose to become gods of humans. These humans placed them beside their good God, beside their gods, and acted according to their demands. Through the same communication, however, the evil spirit of hellish darkness, Satan, was also elevated to the sole 'god' by this people, who, as a testament and recognition of their belonging to him, accepted the shameless sign of circumcision from him and, standing in league with him against all peoples and nations of the earth, are marked in body and soul so that they cannot be mistaken anywhere.

Indeed, the evil spirit of hellish darkness, through his otherworldly and earthly servants, has often imposed himself as god on other nations and peoples, has sought to give them the same or similar revelations through prophets of his striving, and has demanded from them the same blood sacrifices of humans and animals as from this marked people. But he had to be content with the position of an evil god among all those peoples who also recognized him as their god, to whom sacrifices were made only to escape his vengefulness.

Many good beings of the afterlife, as well as the pure ones of My kingdom, have always revealed the truth of eternal life to the peoples and nations through their prophets and have been elevated by them to 'gods' because the peoples saw true life in them; but this always happened against the will of the revealers. In contrast, dark souls of the afterlife, as willing servants of the spirit of hellish darkness, proclaimed no true life, but only corruption, death, and destruction of the living soul, demanded sacrifices, and sought to enforce them through threats of the most terrible revenge; and whoever wants to glimpse into the deepest pit of such a bottomless and shoreless swamp of spiritual depravity and perversion, let him read the scripture of this marked people!

For it is this scripture that elevates the evil spirit of hellish darkness to a 'sole true god' and praises this Satan as 'thrice holy' because he is not true eternal life, not truth, goodness, love, mercy, forgiveness, justice, and self-sacrifice, but the pit, death, the lie, malice, hatred, revenge, injustice, damnation, corruption, and destruction, but in return promises his marked elect all the goods and all the things of this world at the expense of the non-elect and non-marked.

To block humanity's view and insight into the past, he gives, through prophetic people of this nation, revelations that other nations had long known before through their own and which they accepted only in the smallest part, rejecting most of it because it spoke against their better knowledge.

His revelations contradict the simplest reason just as much as the highest knowledge; for his accounts of the creation of this world are as dark as the darkness with which he begins and in which he hovers over the waters."

"He doth declare to have created the light, that he did sever it from the darkness; but what manner of light he created, the spirit of the letter of the writing of his revelations doth unmistakably show; for a deeper darkness than that of his spirit there is none!

That which in this his revelation is true, is his severing of the light from the darkness; for he who once created these, had to depart from the light, and as the father of lies, he could not abide in the realm of eternal truth. Therefore, he speaketh in such his revelations, calculatingly not of the light and darkness of the spirit, but of the light of the earthly day and of the darkness of the earthly night, ere he proceedeth to the creation of the sun, moon, and stars.

He doth declare to have made man, male and female, on the sixth day of his creation; will have them blessed and bidden to be fruitful, to multiply, and to fill the earth. But after he, wearied by all these works, had rested on the seventh day, he will have created a paradise and therein set his first chosen one. This one he will have made from clay and breathed into his nostrils his own breath, whereby the clod of earth became a living soul. Then will he have built the woman from the rib of this clay man, become a living man, and to her—unlike the man created before—breathed no living breath, hence no living soul.

The consequence whereof is, that only the marked circumcised believeth himself to be a living soul, but the woman of his own people, like all people of all other nations and peoples, he holdeth for soulless beasts, which are there solely for his preservation and his well-being.

That he may thus think and thus believe, therefore doth such a god forbid him, under threats of death, the knowledge of good and evil. Because the capable spirit of knowledge of every man must well perceive, even against his own will, what is good and what is evil, despite all contrary commands and prohibitions, such a 'god' doth curse not only all that is conducive to this knowledge for men, but also the field and all that he needeth for the preservation of his earthly life.

He doth reveal to man in devilish lies that as from earth he would return to earth, he concealeth from him in satanic malice the truth of eternal life, and he setteth, that he may further prevent man from seeking and finding the way to the tree of eternal life, his devils, whom he calleth cherubim, with flaming swords, to block the way to the tree of eternal life.

This is the spirit of the god of this marked people, and because men cannot at present find the true way to the tree of eternal life, the tree of eternal life Himself has come among them. For despite Satan and his cherubim, I am here, I who alone am the eternal truth, the true light, the true eternal life, and the way to this life in My kingdom.

Let yourselves never be deceived by the school wisdom, the erudition, and the momentary knowledge of those who, praised as men of great spirit, speak much, write thick rolls and books about all things, and themselves act as if all knowledge and all ability were given solely to the greatness of their spirit. They are altogether poor fools, who, in false belief in their own greatness, seek to calculate all things, to fathom all things by the numbers of measure and weight, quantity and form, and, wandering into infinite distances, deliberately avoid the nearest things, because they are infinitely distant from themselves.

Of these men, however, you have least to fear, unless they oppose the truth you will proclaim with mockery. Drunk with the delusion of their own spiritual profundity, these poor fools will call you fools, and, if they are not malicious in all this, they will also pity you for your supposed spiritual poverty. But should such a poor fool oppose you, maliciously holding up to you his school wisdom, erudition, calculations, and knowledge, then bid him tell you why, wherefore, to what purpose this world is here, whence all the beings of living spirit are, whence spirit and life have come and continue to come without ceasing?

Ask why, wherefore, to what purpose all that lives once passes through whither it goes, to what goal it goes? And if he remains silent, confounded, and does not admit not knowing, then tell him all the whence, wherefore, why, then tell him the cause of all this, and set before him all the consequences; for as the cause begets the consequences, so these in turn confirm the cause infallibly.

The fundamental cause of all consequences is the being of all that is. This in turn begets causes, whose consequences become ever new causes, which in turn beget further consequences, all of which are grounded in the being of all that is, and confirm the fact that being alone has no cause. For as it is and will be, it was also, and for the simple reason has neither beginning nor end, because it is, resting in its being, which has no beginning, and only this being is natural."

Gewiss, hier ist eine Annäherung an eine Übertragung ins Frühneuenglische, unter Berücksichtigung der sprachlichen Eigenheiten jener Zeit:

"This world, as it is, was not, and it is unnatural, like all that which, as growth of field, of forest, as beast and as man, is earthly here or will yet be, to once pass through the realm of earth of this world and there to take effect. That which the capable spirit of man calleth super-earthly, super-sensory, and super-natural, that very thing is natural, that is, resting in the eternal being of itself. The unnaturalness of the earthly and of this world alone leadeth many to the erroneous assumption that they, as they are, are natural, and seeing in all that they hold natural a perpetual becoming and passing away, these men imagine that they too have only here become and here also pass away.

At present, this delusion encompasseth but few individuals, and at present, ye shall find little opportunity among the peoples known to you to enlighten such delusions in the truth. But if ye shall once again proclaim Me, My true being, My spirit and My word, from the light of My kingdom through the beyond to men, and indeed through a prophet of whom I have told you that he will come, at that time this delusion of becoming and passing away, the delusion of death through the earthly dying of the earthly body, will be so great that only few individuals will be there in the knowledge of the truth of eternal life.

If now there are only individuals who seek to calculate all that is only by measure, weight, and quantity, and to penetrate it by means of numbers, at that time there will be great hosts of men who, disputing knowledge among themselves, will be held to be of a greater spirit the more they present to each other petty, useless to none, yea, even childish, ridiculous assumptions; these, over-rich in numbers and words, shall yield a meaning about which the creators themselves will be unable to give clear information, because they will create something that, according to their will, shall be meaningful, but in essence—because useful to not a jot—senseless playthings.

Men of great spirit, who peer into the innermost of every thing of this world, to explain it to themselves and to others in the words of earthly languages, are countless. And ye know how wise they hold themselves and are held, when they speak, teach, and write of things more and differently than others have done until then.

But I say to you that the real knowledge of all these great-spirited men, despite its seeming development, unfolding, and perfection, remains buried under the mountains of its accumulation at one and the same point, so long as such men seek to penetrate and explore all else but first themselves, so long as they do not recognize who and what they themselves are, whence they come, wherefore and to what purpose they are here, and to what goal they should strive.

Indeed, the power of the capable spirit of knowledge can itself penetrate and explore that which this spirit, as man, cannot explain to others in the words of an earthly language, because there are even in the earthly things that, perceived, recognized, and penetrated by the power of the feelings of the soul, culminate in feelings that cannot be expressed and explained in the words of language, and yet precisely the great-spirited men gladly avoid this knowledge.

The capable spirit of man can penetrate and explore all, if he first seeketh to see through himself, if he first exploreth himself, and if he first knoweth how to explain himself to others. But if he setteth aside the soul-spirit-living self, the living soul, whose inseparable property the spirit is from eternity, and seeketh to explore things built upon the same foundation of their eternal being and—like himself—living, without inquiring into the soul and spirit of their being and seeking to penetrate it, he seeketh wrongly; and if he will penetrate and explore with such a soul-spirit disposition of his things to which no soul-spirit-living forces are proper, but only mere forces of movement through mutual interaction, he seeketh wrongly. He goeth astray and departeth from true knowledge the more he believeth he hath penetrated these things, and the better he understandeth to make them and their forces serviceable to himself.

The consequence is the same as the consequence of all wrong paths: if the capable spirit seeketh all things else, but not first to fathom himself, he penetrateth neither the true being of things nor the true being of himself; he remaineth, despite his otherwise great knowledge, only one-sidedly knowing, must finally equate himself with all things of this world, and, seeing the becoming and passing away of all things earthly, believeth in his ignorance quite wrongly also in his own passing away.

Instead of attaining the knowledge of the truth of eternal life, he arriveth at the dark superstition of eternal death, and, livingly imprisoned in this darkness of lies, he doth not even strive to rise to the light of eternal truth. That it is already so now, ye see and hear in the wisdom of many who believe themselves to be of great spirit and are faithfully held to be so.

But I say to you that it will become infinitely worse, and that men of great spirit will pay more attention to a shard than to themselves, animated by the delusion that the shard can explain to them the being of all things and also their own existence.

But how the evil spirit of hellish darkness seeketh to strengthen, firmly anchor, develop, and spread precisely this belief in eternal death, the scripture of this circumcised people giveth witness, which shall remain for knowledge beside My word."

"No letter shall be taken from this writing; for the time will come when the capable spirit of men, who are of good will, by virtue of your instructions, will rightly perceive the spirit of this writing and thereafter also the essence of this spirit. They will draw comparisons between it and the spirit of My word and My works, and come to the knowledge that I alone am the eternal truth, I alone the true light of the spirit, and I alone the true eternal life.

He will perceive that, on the other hand, the essence of the spirit of the Hebrew writing is the father of lies, malice, revenge, bloodlust, destruction, darkness of the spirit, and champion of death, which exists not, and which he, despite all his bloodlust, revenge, and desire for destruction, will never be able to bring about, because I am the true eternal life and the father of all life – even his!

It is true that the writing given to the circumcised through prophets of the evil spirit of hellish darkness, translated into other languages, sounds much milder than it is in itself; for the circumcised and their rabbis, compelled by the first Ptolemy and by Antiochus Epiphanes to translate this writing into Greek, sought words that had to lessen and mitigate the baseness of the expression of the original writing. A multitude of such words have been found and also insidiously used. Yet the spirit of the whole remains the same and the selfsame spirit of lies, malice, treachery, bloodlust, revenge, and desire for destruction, the same and the selfsame spirit of Satan in all future!

Point to this truth without fear and trembling and without ceasing, as I ceaselessly preach it to all; carry this truth everywhere, when I have gone into My kingdom, and you yourselves will then carry My name, My spirit, and My word among the peoples and nations.

The mighty and the superiors of this marked people will sorely oppress you, hate you, and persecute you to destruction everywhere you go; for their kind will already be there before you, and they will receive word of your coming before you. You will be astonished to hear that My name is already widely known where you thought to be the first to carry it, and you will be horrified at what they make of My being, spirit, and word, for whom they represent Me, and how they pervert My word!

And if you speak the truth about Me, who alone am the eternal truth, to them and to the people with whom the marked ones live together there, they will drag you before foreign governors, kings, princes, and judges, offer them money and goods, insidiously accuse and slander you of evil intrigues against the authorities and institutions there, present you as leaders and subverters, as criminals and blasphemers of the Hebrew god as well as of the gods of the people there; they will not rest until they see not only all of you, but also many of those who will follow you with good will and full knowledge of the truth, die under torture and torment."

"Some among you, and even those who, after their passing, behold My kingdom and yet are present among you, have written much concerning the expectation of My coming, My incarnation, and the events thereof. John and Matthew will write My word, and so will many others who follow you in the knowledge of eternal truth, much of what you see, hear, and know from Me, to bring My name and Me to men, to give them My word and to preserve it, not only through the living word, but also in this manner.

End of part 15