Sermon on the Mount 16

September 779 in the year of the Romans-16

Excerpts from the Sermon on the Mount in authorial form

"Sermon to His Own - Morning - a Continuation (Maundy Thursday, 6th April 783 a.R.)

Only after countless millennia hath he found what he hath sought so long! And what darkness of hell the intercourse of his beyond-servants with the prophets and patriarchs of this his marked people hath brought upon the earth, ye see nowhere more clearly and plainly than in the letter of the documents of the spirit of the Hebrew writing, as also in the belief and in the works of this people themselves. Not that the men of this people are otherwise than those of another people; for that there are good men among them as everywhere, ye see in the number of the members of this people present among you.

But the spirit that ruleth the superiors, teachers, and leaders, and through them the people, maketh it what it is in its entirety; the spirit maketh it a people that is alien to all peoples of the earth, and that itself holdeth all other nations and peoples as 'strangers'. For the spirit of the being whom the fathers and prophets have raised to their sole god marketh them alone as his 'chosen people'; he demandeth and commandeth relentlessly to exterminate, murder, rob, or at least make serviceable to him all other peoples and strangers and enemies of his spirit.

And behold! When wise and great men of other peoples hold before the Hebrew superiors the satanic bloodlust and thirst for revenge of Yahweh, they immediately hold the 'scripture' against them, pointing to the letter: 'Thou shalt not kill, not rob, not steal!'—And truly these wise and great men of other peoples speak the truth when they shake their heads and speak:

This brief instruction and this commandment is not the spirit of Yahweh, for these few words contradict the whole blood-dripping law infinitely! They are the most glaring contradiction of all the other bloodthirsty statutes and commandments,—there, at this place, another spirit must have spoken and co-operated.

Ye know that it was Mine who have ceaselessly endeavored to help the servants and prophets of Yahweh, and the little good that is found in the Satan's writing among the mountains of bloodthirsty revenge is their work, whose light is swallowed up by the deep darkness of the whole.

Whereas all and every knowledge of the soul-spirit-living had hitherto been given to mankind only through prophets, and the old Satan had known how to rise through prophets of his spirit to the sole god of a people, the appointed time was thereby given to Me, in which I Myself have resolved to come, to become man Myself, to teach men Myself to recognize Me essentially-personally, and to sacrifice Myself, for eternal testimony and knowledge.

Whereas all kinds of knowledge of the light of Mine to the deepest darkness of hell have always been revealed to men only through prophets, they should now see, hear, and recognize Him on earth, Who alone is the eternal truth, Who alone is the true eternal life, and Who alone is the true light—Christ! I Myself have come, I Myself reveal Myself to you and to this world, that it may recognize God by the power of the essence of My spirit, by the spirit of My word, and by My works, Who and how I am in truth, that it may know that I alone am the eternal truth,—and that it, if it is of good will, may no longer be misled by anyone.

Whereas the malice of the servants of the spirit of hellish darkness, after I have gone into My kingdom, will gradually eliminate you all, rob and distort My word written by you, set the old Satan above Me, and worship him as the true god, so that no one may come to the knowledge of the truth and truly recognize neither Me nor the old Satan, I and My word will once again be revealed to mankind through prophets after a period of the worst raging and even worse abominations of dark Satan's servants; and ye are those who will reveal Me anew at that time!"

"A longer space of time will pass until then, yet this is to you a moment of eternity—and when the 'Son of Man,' whom I have promised you as the useful prophet, comes into this world, it will seem to you as if all that has happened so far had been only yesterday. But ye are first here on earth with Me, and ye will first, after I have gone into My kingdom, fulfill your self-joyfully accepted task as men on earth.

Like Me, ye shall also ceaselessly point to the spirit of the Hebrew writing, and explain to men the spirit of the letter of these documents of hellish darkness, as I do, for nowhere else has the old Satan so openly-unreservedly, so clearly, and so shamelessly revealed his lying malice, his bloodthirst, his thirst for revenge, his destructive rage, his devilish desires, and the darkness of his spirit as through the letter of the documents of this Hebrew writing.

Whereas he and his dark servants will persecute you as they persecute Me, think in severe affliction of what he and they have done to Me and what they ceaselessly continue to do to Me by persecuting you and all who will follow you. But I will give you the strength to endure all joyfully, for I will be with and among you everywhere.

It is not the surrender of your earthly life that will trouble you, but because ye will have to watch and listen to the slow destruction and partial death of the gospel written by you, without being able to avert it, this will be your greatest torment.

Already some among you are asking:

Yea, can this happen, can it become so? Why dost Thou not prevent it, Lord, Thou Who art able to do all that Thou willest?

To you who think thus, I say: Nay! I cannot prevent it. My will is grounded in truth, and because violence is most distant from eternal truth, I cannot forcibly hinder any capable spirit from the effect of his own free will. I would have to take his free will from him by force, and by such violence would be worse than he is!

Indeed, a man can forcibly hinder another or others from the execution of an evil deed against him or his neighbor, by seeking to repel or weaken it; but he will always repel only the force of the earthly essence of the deed, never the will that is to realize the deed, and that remains even if the deed could not come to pass.

To what extent such forcible repulsion is necessary or even to be approved, the voice of one's own conscience, discerning between good and evil, infallibly decides. If the attacker puts himself in the position of the attacked, and vice versa, and they measure such a transposition according to the desire inherent in every capable spirit that no evil should befall him, and extend this wish of theirs to all their neighbors, then let them beat their breasts and say honestly and openly: What thou dost not wish to be done to thee, do thou also to no other! And if each measures the good and the evil by himself, he also knows exactly to what extent he hath done good or evil by a forcible repulsion.

All evil should and must not be. But because the world of the realm of this earth is the mirror image of heaven as well as the mirror image of hell, according to how the hosts of capable spirits passing through here strive to shape it into one or the other mirror image, good and evil are there, and with them come offense, violence, and strife.

But again I say to you: Woe to him who magnifies offense, practices violence, and seeks to kindle strife to humiliate others and exalt himself, to rob others and enrich himself! All this is an evil ill to which the individual surrenders himself as well as whole peoples and nations who are far from the knowledge of eternal truth.

In all this, however, it is always a matter of earthly goods, power, glory, and esteem, and in this, malice and treachery of violence can achieve great things, only to have to cede them sooner or later to a greater violence, treachery, and malice; for so the evil spirit of hellish darkness wishes, that malice, treachery, and violence may always have new nourishment, and his bloodlust may occasionally be stilled by the blood sacrifices of the 'battlefields'.

So it is with the earthly. In matters of the purely soul-spirit, in matters of knowledge, it is quite different; for there violence can achieve nothing, because there one's own will is and remains decisive; and if the will is not good, it is averse to any better knowledge, and if goodness, love, compassion, forgiveness avail nothing, violence of any kind only makes it worse!

Then God the Lord spoke:

The great and mighty of this world rule over the peoples and command them also with force. But it shall and may not be so among you, for I send you not that ye rule and command, but that ye lead men to true God and self-knowledge as I have led you to the true knowledge of Me!

As I have not come to be served, but to serve all, and to give this My life on earth as an eternal testimony, to the true knowledge of Me, and to the salvation of true eternal life for many, so also should ye not be served, but serve one another and all! He who would be truly great among you, let him be the servant of all—and he who would be truly the first among you, let him be the servant of all!

Truly I say to you: What ye shall bind to Me on earth, in My name and in My spirit, that shall be bound to the kingdom of heaven for true eternal life; but ye will be able to bind men truly to Me, to My kingdom, and to true eternal life only if ye yourselves are the living example to them of truth, goodness, love, compassion, forgiveness, justice, and self-sacrifice. He who then loosens himself from you also loosens himself from Me and from My kingdom, and bears his own guilt."

"In the true knowledge of Me, ye have the true knowledge of God; in the knowledge of your own eternal being as soul and spirit with the life received from and through Me, ye have the true self-knowledge through My word, and in all this, ye have the key to the kingdom of heaven and true eternal life.

This key opens My kingdom to all who willingly accept it from you and take it with them on the way to Me! And the same key bars the gates of hell before them, yea, it does not let them enter the way there at all!

With this key, My kingdom has now been opened to all who thirst for knowledge of eternal truth; and with the same key, the pit of all dark secrets, all dark secretiveness in lies, has now been opened and brought to the light of eternal truth.

In this key lies the rock on which ye will build My community on earth, and this rock will never be overcome by hell, for this rock is called: The eternal truth! Therefore hell has opened its gates and spewed out all its inhabitants to seize this key, to hide it unfindably, and to place keys there instead that will close the opened pit of all dark secrets again.

With the help of great hosts of its earthly servants, hell will succeed in closing the pit of its dark secrets again and creating an even greater field for its lies through dark secretiveness than before. But because it and all its dark servants and slaves cannot undo the events of this time—My existence—and cannot get past Me, My word, and My works, nor past you, it will also hang My name with your names on the rock of the key of true God and self-knowledge; but it will replace the key of the knowledge of truth with keys of its dark secrets and lead My community to that from and before which I have come into this world to save all.

I have said the same to you repeatedly in other My words, and each time ye are newly dismayed. But I always say to you that all this will also serve as eternal testimony and for countless hosts to the true knowledge of Me, when the time comes that all this is revealed to men by you yourselves, who will have long since dwelt in My kingdom and from there proclaim Me again on earth through the beyond in the truth that I alone am eternally, when I send you to men at that time, who will hear you, follow your instructions, and through whom ye will proclaim Me to men.

All men, therefore, whom ye bind to Me on earth in My name and in My spirit, by bringing them to the true knowledge of Me and true self-knowledge through My word, are bound to Me, to My kingdom, and to true eternal life. But bound to Me in My spirit, they are loosened from him who once deceived them by his bombast and lies, and because of whom they have gone out of My kingdom.

The time is at hand that I give up this My earthly life, but give it back to this My earthly body and blood, rise again, and then work further among you for seven earthly weeks. No one has the power to take this My earthly life from Me, I Myself give it for eternal testimony and for the true knowledge of Me to all good will, for I alone have the power to give it up and to take it back to Me.

When I am no longer in this My body among you, I am yet with and among you. For truly I say to you, and of this be mindful in all future:

Wherever one calls Me, wherever two, three, more, and ever so many are gathered in My name and in My spirit, I am in their midst!

In My community and in gatherings held in My name and in My spirit, and where My word is truly alive in the souls of men, there also is true peace—My peace! And he who disturbs the peace of My community and gatherings held in My name and in My spirit, and I in their midst, also disturbs My peace, and My peace is not in him!

Furthermore, God the Lord spoke of the essence, power, and purpose of that new world of the beyond, which had not been until the time of His incarnation. As long as He worketh on earth, this common world will endure until He hath accomplished His self-appointed task, and explained thereto:

Through that common world of the beyond I come again and shall rise again in this My body, of which no drop of this My blood will be proper any more. This My blood will be shed and transfigured into its heavenly essence down to the smallest particle, while I shall still hang exalted on the cross in transfiguration, that the cross may have the exaltation and the power through Me, for the eternal salvation of all to whom the cross will serve for the true knowledge of Me, and who willingly find the power in the sign of the cross that remains eternally proper to the cross through Me.

Whereas the earthly life of the true prophets sent by Me to this world hath wrought much good and truth temporally and locally among all peoples of the earth, and hath served countless men for temporal and eternal salvation, My coming, My own word, My death, and My cross shall bring infinitely more to this world and the beyond. Also, this world and the beyond will receive more through My death and through My cross than they have received through My works there.

I have indeed freed and healed countless people here from their earthly-bodily severe infirmities and sufferings; I have called back into their earthly bodies a whole number of those who had already died days before, and freed many others from the oppression of dark and erring souls of the beyond by My mere approach. But of this and thereby the world hath nothing; for many of the healed had and have, alas, nothing else thereof than that they rejoiced in the health of their bodies and went away, often—as ye yourselves know—to thoroughly exploit their health in the earthly against My word. For they have not come or been brought to Me to hear My word and to accept the spirit of My word, but merely to become bodily healthy on earth."

"The bodily healthy people imagine and regard it as a matter of course that they have a healthy body on earth, because they know not what otherworldly influences work around them and what super-earthly help is ceaselessly given to them. But the evil striving of darkness on earth cannot be forcibly, violently, and perfectly suppressed; for how else would every man experience and recognize evil, if he did not personally-essentially experience it feelingly in himself, like the good?

That men find all the good that touches them a matter of course is indeed not so self-evident, yet understandable to those who know that they have lived for aeons of time in My kingdom, where only good prevails, where only good is practiced, and is therefore a matter of course there.

This unconscious feeling of the self-evidence of all good every human soul brings with it into this world, and this feeling becomes truly alive only when evil approaches man. But then no man, who—with few exceptions—himself creates or co-creates the evil that befalls him through the former turning away from Me and the willful leaving of My kingdom, blames himself or those of his fellow men who create evil in small or large ways and bring true catastrophes upon whole peoples.

Man also very rarely blames the dark powers of the evil spirit of hellish darkness, but holds God responsible for all evil, asking at least how God can allow it? Ignorance seeks the blame for all evil everywhere else, but not where it lies and whence it comes. And because evil comes, this ignorance doubts God's goodness and God Himself.

Read the Hebrew scripture, and without Me having to explain its spirit and meaning, ye yourselves will find therein who smites mankind with the heaviest soul-spiritual, but also with all kinds of earthly-bodily pestilence, leprosy, sores, and infirmities, who threatens them lyingly with the eternal death of the dark pit, and wants to make them believe that they are earth and will become nothing but earth again.

Hear what I tell you about life and death: Dying and death are infinitely two different things; for death exists exactly as much as nothingness does not exist. 'Death' is nothing but an insidious invention and a lie of the evil spirit of hellish darkness, to make his threats effective with it against the ignorant and erring or malicious—like himself. But dying is nothing other than entering another world.

But life and consciousness are also greatly two different things. Essentially in power, both are there; but consciousness can be displaced by faintness and unconsciousness for a shorter or longer time, even for periods, but never life as such itself, because it, the inseparable property of the spirit and its soul-body, is the power of My own life force; it can therefore never be laid down, lost, forfeited, or destroyed again, because I am the true eternal life.

When I am there, the kingdom of God, My kingdom, has come to you, through Me and through that newly created world of the beyond that has existed since the days of My incarnation and will be stripped of its powers on the day I return to My kingdom. It will then be formed and equipped with powers for small periods of a few earthly days, offering the human souls of all worlds of the beyond the opportunity to find, see, hear, and speak to each other in it for this short period, and—insofar as they are of good will—to find the possibility to behold and hear Me for the true knowledge of Me.

Now that I am here among you, after the accomplishment and after My death I shall pass through that world, and when I have passed through it to the gates of hell, I shall return and rise again in this My body, which will be bloodless. In this body I shall be with you for seven weeks, remind you again of all that I have said, and then take leave of you, who are Mine, and also of this world, to return to My kingdom, whence I came.

As My blood was transfigured into its heavenly essence at My death on the cross, so shall I also, at My departure from you and from this world, leave My body to you and the world as the true bread and the true wine of heaven. They serve as food and drink for every living soul of capable spirit of good will, who, through your work and your self-sacrifice, will also recognize Me alive, vividly feel My work, My suffering, and My self-sacrifice, and, thus truly seeing, knowing, and feeling in true self and God-knowledge, will believe in Me and confirm My word for their own eternal salvation.

Blessed are ye if ye yourselves see, hear, feel, recognize, and thus know and believe! But already take measure by the good will and by the blessedness of those who are to come, who will not be able to see and hear Me as you do, but will yet truly recognize Me, truly feel Me, and, confirming My word like you, will believe in Me in true knowledge, for true, eternal life!

But what those prepare for themselves, and what awaits those who, like you, have heard My word, have seen many of My works, and must recognize from them alone that I, despite this human form, am not of this world, which I have not only repeatedly told them, but also proven by My works, which God alone can do and which are My works, that ye know, who are also well informed about this.

Yet all this lies in the free will of every capable spirit; and because every soul of capable spirit has the decisive, determining factor in the free will of its own spirit, eternal omnipotence cannot forcibly shake this free will of the capable spirit, and for the simplest of all reasons will never wish to forcibly compel it, because it is the omnipotence of the immutable, unchanging, same eternal truth, goodness, love, compassion, forgiveness, justice, and self-sacrifice.

Then the Lord spoke, among other things:"

I have baptized John with My spirit and with water as the only man on earth, so that he may pass on My spirit through the spoken word of My true knowledge and baptize with water in My name and spirit those who, in equal knowledge of Me, receive My spirit, to confirm, affirm and confess it. He has baptized John with My spirit, so that the memory of all that has happened in eternity may be awakened in him by the power of My spirit, and that he may fully remember Me. He alone—as the greatest of all the prophets ever sent by Me—was capable of this, and therefore he is the only man I have baptized on earth.

End of Part 16