Sermon on the Mount 18

September 779 in the year of the Romans-18

Excerpts from the Sermon on the Mount in authorial form

Sermon to His Own – Evening – A Continuation

The hour is come that the Father of all life be glorified in the body of the Son of Man through the crown of his self-sacrifice for eternal testimony and all good will to the knowledge of eternal truth.

This my testimony will bring many through you to the true knowledge of me, and to those of good will this knowledge will give power over the evil one and over the flesh unto true eternal life, which they have from me, from within me, and through me.

Thus liveth every spirit of every soul by the power of my life, but the true eternal life in my kingdom liveth truly only the cognitive spirit which, of good will, hath endured and remained pure in the eternal truth of me and my kingdom.

Every soul of cognitive spirit, however, which once turned away from me and went out from my kingdom to follow the host of the dark, evil, and lying adversary, did not reach him, but fell in the void which it sought to traverse but could not, into unconsciousness and powerlessness.

It hath now come into this earthly world created by me, to pass through here once, awakened to the consciousness of its own life and being. It liveth indeed there and will continue to live in all future of eternity; yet to the true eternal life in my kingdom will only those return who, of good will, recognize the only true God in him who for their sake became man himself, and whose name is Christ now in eternity.

I have glorified the eternal truth on earth through word and works of goodness, love, mercy, forgiveness, justice, and will set the crown of self-sacrifice upon it, that my work on earth may be accomplished for eternal testimony and for the knowledge of truth for many. Ye, who are mine, will take part in my work, as I send you, and through your self-sacrifice ye will glorify the eternal truth, to enter into that glory which ye had with me in my kingdom before this world was.

I have revealed the name of God to men, the name of him who alone is the eternal truth, the true light, and the true eternal life – Christ – and now my own, who are you, know me, keep my word, and will bear witness to men, who, like you, will become mine through you, of good will.

I send you among the peoples of this world, and many will recognize by your word that I have given it to you, that ye bear my spirit and my word alive within you, proclaim me and my word to them; by your works many will recognize that I have sent you, and many will believe in me through you, unto true eternal life.

By the power of my spirit, I abide with and in you, with and in them, and will keep alive the blessed peace of all mine, that they are one among themselves, one with you, and one with me, all who, like you, of good will, recognize me through you, believe in me, and strive to observe my word workingly, that they, one with you and with me, may remain mine for all future of eternity.

As ye have experienced from me, many will experience from you that, like me and you, they also are not of this world, but that they all once lived with me in my kingdom for aeons of time in bliss and peace, but have gone from me to follow the evil one. But now they come one after another to the earth of this world, and since they once did not reach the dark place of the evil adversary of eternal truth, he has long since sought them out there to subdue them completely and to destroy them completely.

Pretending to be God, he has long spread fear and terror among the peoples of the earth through dark souls of deceased men, using dark prophets of his spirit, under the most diverse names, forcing them by threats of death, vengeance, and curses to offer him men and beasts as blood and burnt offerings. And I myself am come to preserve them from the evil one and from destruction!

They are not of this world, as I also am not of this world; they shall not fall prey to the evil one and be completely destroyed, but sanctify themselves to the eternal truth in working observance of my word; for my word is the truth which leads to the light of true eternal life in my kingdom.

From thence, whosoever will, may perchance come to the earth, but here on earth may perceive only that which is soul, spirit, and life; all else is closed to him, as though it were not, even the earthly body of earthly beings, and thus he perceives men only as souls. If one wishes to come to another world of the hereafter from his own, he must lay aside the body of his world, that is, die, to fashion for himself in the other a body corresponding to it.

Yet have I, since the hour of my becoming man, also created a Common World, a world of the hereafter, into which the dwellers of all worlds of the hereafter may come or be brought, without needing to lay aside their bodies; for the forces of the Common World pervade all equally and give them a bodily covering, which allows all to see, hear, and speak with one another.

This Common World of the hereafter has existed since the hour of my becoming man, stands in connection with my kingdom, with me, and with you. All the innumerable hosts in it know of me, see me and you, hear my word, which I have repeatedly spoken to those multitudes of men who deem their departed dead in the graves or burned to ashes as though they were not, whereas they are just as essentially personal and alive as those who believe in their non-existence.

I let the Common World remain until I myself have spoken there in the time between my death and my resurrection, and then until I have gone into my kingdom. And I say to you, as to all those who, like you, see me and hear my word: If the Common World is dissolved, all that is bodily, which no longer corresponds to the gained better knowledge and the good will of the individual, also passes into dissolution; that which corresponds remains, and this will bring the bearer – without his needing to die – into the most luminous worlds of the hereafter, many, however, very many, even to me into my kingdom!

And I say to you that I will also in the future, on the memorial days of my becoming man, my self-sacrifice, the sending of my spirit – and at the request of my beloved mother – on the memorial day of the death of John the Baptist, baptized by me, on which ye shall remember all the departed, always create such a Common World, as long as there will be men on earth – until then the last of the children who once turned away from me and willfully, wantonly went out from the true world of my kingdom will come to this earth, die, and come into the hereafter or even to me into my kingdom. Then the all of this world with the earth will have fulfilled the purpose for which it was created, and will dissolve into the seeming nothingness that it was before.

Since the time of the creation of the all of this world with the earth and with the hereafter, the afterworlds in their various natures extend from the light boundaries of my kingdom to the boundaries of the darkness of the "creation," that is, the hell of the old adversary of eternal truth, the Hebrew God. These offer the departed men even in the hereafter the possibility to recognize what they have not recognized on earth, because it remained hidden from them there, or because they did not wish to recognize it and rejected it for all sorts of, mostly selfish, reasons.

The worlds of the hereafter represent – figuratively speaking – a ladder that leads up to the light of eternal truth and eternal life, as well as down to the darkness of death.

Most of the departed, that is, those separated from their earthly bodies, come into one of the worlds in the middle of this ladder mostly unconscious, but are awakened from this state partly by the forces of the respective world acting upon them, partly by the souls of cognitive spirit of other worlds of the ladder working there, and are sought to be brought to the knowledge that is inherent to those working there; thereby those who have come to the consciousness of their being – according to their own soul-spirit disposition and the resulting free decision – can go up or down the ladder of the worlds.

The duration of unconsciousness, which is more a sleep than that itself, is mostly also determined by the soul-spirit disposition that was inherent to the person concerned on earth, and can therefore be short or long and very long, which, however, cannot come to consciousness to anyone, and is only disadvantageous to the wicked in that they feel heavily oppressed and persecuted by their evil works done on earth in occasionally half-awake states, as in dreams.

But as I will rise, no man can and will rise. For as all the works of God accomplished there by me, so also my resurrection after my death shall be nothing but the testimony of my power and serve the true knowledge of me, as I will also remain there in my completely bled-out body for a full seven weeks and be working; this event will cause the Jews and then also their Judaized henchmen to do everything to extinguish it and replace it with inventions that will be a contradiction of themselves.

My resurrection they will never be able to represent as undone and conceal from men. But as for the "resurrection of the dead," I have repeatedly told you that it is the resurrection of the soul, the spirit, and the life inseparable from both in the true God- and self-knowledge.

Without this knowledge, men are soul-spirit "dead," even with the best bodily well-being and earthly creation; for they then know not whence they come, for what causes and for what true purpose they are there, whither they go from there – and all this ignorance makes them shudder before death. They fear "death," which means complete destruction and eternal non-being of themselves to so many, the death which the Hebrew God alone proclaims cursingly – and which does not exist in truth!

End of Part 18