Sermon on the Mount 19

September 779 in the year of the Romans-19

Excerpts from the Sermon on the Mount in authorial form

Sermon to His Own – Evening – A Continuation

The Institution of the Holy Supper

Then, however, the Lord spoke:

Verily, a meal shall be prepared for you, a holy meal – and this shall be kept and will be kept as long as the earth and the men upon it endure – and even in eternity ye shall remember this meal!

If ye eat not this my body in pure bread, and if ye drink not this my blood in pure wine, your soul shall never fully partake of my self and my power, and the spirit of your soul shall not be able to draw from it the power of this nourishment.

For my body is true food, and my blood is true drink for every soul whose spirit in true knowledge of me does not withhold from it the power of this heavenly nourishment, and knows that it and he abide in this power in me, and I in them, for their own eternal salvation.

True prophets of all times and peoples have proclaimed my becoming man, and even in the prophets of this perverse people it is written that all shall be taught by God himself! Now, whoever wishes to be taught by God, let him come to me!

No man has yet seen God on earth; but now the time is here, and ye see him! For therefore I myself have come, that ye may see him in a human form like yourselves; for how else would ye be able to hear my word with your earthly ears? The light of the spirit of truth, the living word of the spirit of truth, the living word of eternal life and salvation, my peace and the power of my works confirm my true being, to which all this is inherent; and thereby ye all recognize that I am the eternal truth, the true light, and the true eternal life!

Verily I say to you: He who sees me and truly recognizes me of good will, he who hears my word and observes it in works, knows who I am, even without my telling him particularly, he believes in me without my demanding faith from him, and he also has true eternal life through me, because I am true eternal life.

But in that which I have taken and brought from my kingdom to the fundamental being of this my earthly human form, to leave it also to you for eternal testimony and for the true knowledge of my becoming man, against which all my creation means nothing, I am also the truly living food of true eternal life for you, the truly living bread of heaven, and the truly living drink, the truly living wine of my kingdom – in which two I have come down from heaven, and which live in this my form through me.

Marvel not, therefore, when I say to you:

My body is truly food, and my blood is truly drink for your soul – the bread and the wine of heaven! He who worthily eats of this bread and worthily drinks of this wine in true knowledge of me and follows me through works, shall live in eternity!

For the bread, which this my body is, as also the wine, which this my blood is, I will give to every soul whose spirit of good will recognizes me and truly receives me, that I may live in his soul and he through me.

As the earthly body of man has earthly bread and earthly wine for pure earthly nourishment, so also the heavenly body of the soul that lives in my kingdom has its heavenly bread and its heavenly wine in a form and nourishment still infinitely purer, which I created for you at the beginning applicable to you, and which is inexhaustible there in transfigured pure being, without first having to be taken from the living being of the plant.

I have eaten the earthly bread with you and drunk the earthly wine in the days of my working there on earth. But from now on I will eat no more of this earthly bread and drink no more of this wine until that time when I will eat and drink with you the true bread and the true wine of heaven in my kingdom, and I will hold with you the meal of personal reunion – to your unclouded joy, bliss, and peace, which this world knows not!

From heaven, which is my kingdom, I have come. From the heavenly I have taken to my eternal being, that it might become my earthly body and my earthly blood – as it now is, and I leave it as truly heavenly nourishment for every soul which, by the power of the true knowledge of its spirit, feeling me, my spirit and my word alive, hungers and thirsts to receive me in the heavenly nourishment.

Therefore I say to you again: My eternal being, my spirit, and my life have remained the same, unchangeable – but the form, namely the being of this my human form? Yet have ye seen the form of my true being in the transfiguration, and know that a form is also inherent in my eternal being.

The fundamental being of your earthly form is the body of your soul; the fundamental being of this my earthly form is my eternal being, which, in order to appear in flesh and blood on earth and to reveal itself there essentially personally to men, has taken from the heavenly, that this might form the body and the blood of my earthly human form: this, transfigured by my power into its heavenly values, is the purest nourishment of your soul body, that this may be a living pure well, from which your spirit can essentially draw the power of living pure nourishment to keep itself alive pure.

If the cognitive spirit has received its heavenly nourishment through the true knowledge of me, thus through the true knowledge of God, and is truly of good will resolved to follow me through works of my spirit and word, the soul body, whose eternal own it is, shall also essentially partake of its heavenly nourishment through me.

I am the true nourishment of your soul, the true bread of heaven, which I have taken and brought with me for you, and with which I have come down from heaven, and as I say it to you, ye now understand the true sense, spirit, and being of the word: "This my body is truly food, and this my blood is truly drink for your soul, and whoever receives me worthily has true eternal life!"

During these words, he arose, and, transfigured in a wondrous light before the eyes of those assembled, spread his hands over the bread and wine prepared, blessed the two forms, and spoke:

To the heavenly nourishment of the soul whose spirit, in true knowledge of me, of good will, strives to follow me workingly, my blessing and my peace in my power! This is my body! – This is my blood!

He broke the bread into small pieces – and, placing them on the dish, the Lord spoke:

This is my body, which I will give for eternal testimony and for the true knowledge of me to every soul whose spirit will be of the same good will as your spirit is now.

Receive all this heavenly bread of my body and receive it into your soul, and do it in remembrance of my becoming man, my working, and my self-sacrifice on earth! It will serve you for the salvation of true eternal life!

Holding the cup with the blessed wine in his left hand and his right hand over those present, he spoke:

This is my blood, which will be shed for eternal testimony of my self-sacrifice and for the true knowledge of me, that it may be a true wine of heaven for your soul. Drink of it all, that your soul may feel the living power of the forgiveness of sins unto true eternal life, and do it, that your spirit may also partake of the power and abide in the truth!

Then he turned to Mary, the gracious one, sanctified through him, who stood there with hot tears in her eyes, and spoke to her:

Mother, take the dish and serve these my children with me! Then she took the dish with the holy into her hands, and he, taking one piece after another from the dish and dipping it into the holy of the cup, gave it to those kneeling around him – one after another – with the words:

My transfigured body in the bread form sanctified through me and my transfigured blood in the wine form sanctified through me serve you for living connection with me and for true eternal life!

After the Holy Supper.

After John the Seer had, in the name of all those present, thanked God Christ for all his graces and works, he fell upon his knees before the Lord and looked up to him in tears of bliss.

Then the Lord raised him up and spoke to his own:

Now ye are all of one spirit, of one knowledge, and of one striving, though not all of the same knowing; for many know too little of me and also of themselves, and therefore I say to you:

See to it that, when ye see me in the deepest humiliation, in distress, mocked, scoffed, reviled, cursed, tormented, tortured, and nailed to the cross by the Jewish elders and their servants, when ye see me die, defenseless and helpless as the poorest victim, that ye then do not doubt me and my power! For it must happen for eternal testimony and for the true knowledge of me, and to many the true knowledge of this my self-sacrifice will serve for the true knowledge of me and for their own eternal salvation.

Let none of you think that he himself and his own, or through them even further circles of those who have heard my word, seen some of my works, or experienced them in themselves and are therefore devoted to me, must intervene for me, so that what must happen for eternal testimony and for true knowledge does not happen!

For it is for this that I have come, to convict the most perverse people among all perverse peoples before the world, of what dark spirit, mind, and striving they are, because they deem and feel themselves bound in servitude to the darkness of hell by covenant – against all other peoples of the earth, as the darkness of hell ruthlessly demands through the "scripture."

That which I have already decreed in eternity before any beginning applicable to you to accomplish here on earth, I will accomplish, for eternal testimony and for the true knowledge of every cognitive spirit who is willing to recognize that I alone am the eternal truth, goodness, love, mercy, forgiveness, justice, and self-sacrifice, the true light and the true eternal life!

In my kingdom, where truth, goodness, and love are inherent in all soul beings of cognitive spirit, mercy, forgiveness, justice, and self-sacrifice cannot be practiced; for the truth, goodness, and love already generally prevailing there find nothing on which they could practice mercy, forgiveness, justice, and for which they could sacrifice themselves.

These qualities can therefore only be practiced on the opposite, which lives outside my kingdom, can only come into essential effect outside my kingdom; and that they may be revealed by myself in their full, most sublime, purest, and perfect effect even here on earth, tangibly effective and working, to every cognitive spirit who is of good will for testimony and knowledge of me, therefore I myself have come. Therefore I have assumed this my human form, to crown all the qualities of my unchangeably eternal truth with the most severe self-sacrifice and to accomplish them before the eyes of this world as a human being like you in earthly form.

This my body and this my blood will remain in the transfiguration by my power, and in the two forms of bread and wine every human soul will partake of this nourishment of heaven whose spirit, in true knowledge of me, ascends in my spirit and strives in good will to put my word into action.

By the power of my transfiguration, your soul has already received me in this my body and blood as true heavenly food and drink – true heavenly nourishment which I have assumed there in my eternal being for you and with which I have come down from heaven, so that your soul can essentially partake of heavenly nourishment here on earth, as once already in my kingdom. Receiving also of my power with this heavenly nourishment, every such soul of good will will be able to encounter the evil of the darkness of this world and of hell in truth and to endure in truth.

If I am no longer with you on earth in this my form, have left behind this my body and this my blood transfigured, and have gone in the power of my true eternal being into my kingdom whence I came, remember that my spirit is omnipresent in living power – and that I am also there among you in the transfiguration of this my body and blood!

No spirit as such is formed, since, being somehow firmly formed, it could not act outwards in many directions and distances. Because it is not firmly formed, it can also act freely outside the form of the soul being of which it is the eternal own. Thus also my eternal being is formed, but not my spirit, which, omnipresent and everywhere at the same time living and active, is the eternal own of my being, and, due to the power of its living omnipresence, cannot have a form.

That ye may see my power even then, when I am no longer among you in this my human form, I will send my spirit visibly to you, and that ye may see it, I will give it a form which is not its own. Ye shall see the spirit of eternal truth, the spirit of God, my spirit without the being of my form as the true light, and ye shall also see my seven unchangeable qualities as living lights of the true light.

And I say to you:

Then, when ye are essentially clothed with the power of the light of my spirit, go forth at once and teach all peoples all that I have taught you, and baptize in the name of God, who is Jesus Christ, in his spirit of eternal truth, those people of good will who wish to accept, practice, and keep it!

In this truly holy supper, which I have given you, your soul has, by the power of my transfiguration, received me, my body, and my blood, and is itself transfigured in it, which ye felt alive in the bliss and peace of true eternal life. And therefore I say to you:

When ye set out to teach me, the eternal truth, in the world, and to baptize the willing, give then to all who will desire it – and do it in living remembrance of the becoming man and the self-sacrifice of God!

Every one who comes with a repentant heart, a repentant soul, and a repentant spirit, of good will and pure desire, to receive my body and my blood transfigured in my power into his soul, will find me ready to receive him; he will partake of me with the living food of heaven through me, and receive of the power of my spirit, that he may find the power to endure in truth.

And though many more come: if they come of good will to put my word into action, their soul will be satisfied by receiving me; for I am present with each one, and though the number of breads to be provided may be infinite, and the wine exceed the contents of the seas, I am fully and essentially present in the transfiguration of this my body and blood in the smallest piece of bread and in every drop of wine, as the spirit of the soul that longs for me strives towards me and truly endeavors to put my word into action.

As I have repeatedly satisfied thousands bodily before your eyes with a few pieces of earthly bread, and as I have multiplied the bread of this world by the power of the will of my spirit through the forces inherent in him and my being, so that after the satisfaction of thousands a hundredfold more remained than was there before, I will multiply this my body and this my blood by the power of the transfiguration, so that it is there, inexhaustible without number!

For eternal testimony and for the true knowledge of all who are of good will to truly know me and to follow my word workingly to their own eternal salvation, I will give the life of this my earthly body and blood – but I will give it back to him! No one takes it from me, but I give it up to take it back, because I am the true eternal life! The malice and bloodthirst of the servants of the spirit of hellish darkness will take this earthly life from me, because I will give it up for eternal testimony and for the true knowledge of me, and malice will rejoice, thinking to have taken from me the life by which this my body and blood lives.

But I will give it back to him, that that may happen which has never happened on earth and will not happen otherwise in all the future of eternity – the resurrection of the bled-out, slain, and dead earthly body!

Indeed, I have awakened many of the dead to life for testimony and knowledge of my power, by recalling the living soul, separated from the earthly body, with its cognitive spirit, which is its inseparable own from eternity, into the earthly body abandoned by it, but made habitable for it again by my power.

These people live and will bear witness to me with you, but will – like all others – die, to leave behind their earthly body. For this can neither enter the hereafter nor ever into the world of my kingdom, and a resurrection of the earthly body will never take place, because it, like all earthly things, is perishable and not a bearer of eternal life, but lives for a time by the life force of the spirit and the soul that have built it up there on earth.

I alone will rise again and give my life back to this my bled-out body as well as to my blood shed in self-sacrifice, that both may remain in heavenly transfiguration through me in my life force for all those who, in true knowledge of me, will strive to be mine, for the salvation of true eternal life in my kingdom! Hear what I say to you:

Tomorrow I will die, that is, separate myself from this my body, borne there, completely bled out on the cross, which will say everything to the Common World of the hereafter created by me in the hour of my becoming man, and remind everyone once again of all that I remind you of in these days and today.

I will also carry the same into those worlds of the hereafter that have not partaken of the Common World in their liking for soul-spirit darkness; and when I have also accomplished there what I go there for, I will come again, take possession of this my body, rise again in it on my day – this shall be – before sunrise, then remain with you for another seven weeks, and on the fiftieth day enter again into my kingdom, whence I came.

As I am now, I will be no more among you. But I do not leave you alone as orphans, but remain with you and among you, by the power of the omnipresence of my spirit; that ye may be ever reminded of this in all the future and abide, I will convince you on the eighth day after my return to my kingdom that I am with you, with you, and among you. Ye will behold my spirit in the light of my power in your midst and above you, and receive the light of its power as vividly as now through my word.

This event will be a comfort to you that I will no longer dwell among you as I do now. It will give you the power to go, to proclaim to the peoples of the earth me, my being, my spirit, my name, my word, and my works, and to baptize those who accept me in true knowledge of me and of themselves, who wish to be mine by workingly following my word and to come to me in my kingdom after the passing of their earthly body; and the memory of the sending of my spirit will not let you grow weary.

The power of my spirit, who will live in yours, work, and keep my peace with you, will let you overcome all adversities and malices of this world. Ye will endure with those won for true life until the earthly end, then come to me in my kingdom; ye will bitterly complain that all your labor, toil, tribulations, and even the joyful surrender of your earthly life have not been able to prevail against the falsehood, malice, and wickedness, the hatred and the devilish machinations of the Jews and their Judaized henchmen from among the peoples, and have not prevailed. For the Jewish lies, inventions, distortions, twists, and falsifications of my being and word will find more and more followers, greater and greater spread, and also belief, whereby the truth will be increasingly suppressed. But I say to you:

It will indeed happen, for eternal testimony as well as for the true knowledge of the raging of the evil spirit of hellish darkness on earth, especially through his chosen confederates, and more will happen than ye believe – but as I myself, so will eternal truth never perish, for I am eternal truth!

Though the malice, wickedness, and falsehood of the Jews and their poisoned henchmen from among the peoples may rob my word, my gospel, which John will write together with Matthew, as well as your word, which ye will write in my name and spirit to the people won for me and my kingdom, and twist, distort, and falsify it in the Jewish and Judaized sense and spirit; through your activity, labor, and sacrifice, the truth of my becoming man, my working and dying on the cross, my resurrection, ascension, and sending of my spirit will nevertheless remain to you, my own!

People will be led to the Hebrew God by the actions of the Jews and their Judaized henchmen, but in their soul and spirit imagination they will still carry more of me, because I, as a human being like them, am here, and they can imagine me in human form more easily, more truly, and more vividly than the Hebrew God.

This one knows only to appear to his chosen ones in darkness, in fire, lightning, thunder, and smoke, and again only in darkness; he demands them under devilish curses and threats to offer him without ceasing blood, burnt, vow, and atonement sacrifices of man and beast, all of which the Judaized servants and ministers of hell, praising the Hebrew God and the Hebrew scripture, will partly conceal from their believers, partly explain quite differently than it is.

Through the doings of the Jews in that time, it will come so far that to many people the shoe strap will be worth more and mean more than my name and me, whom they will hate without knowing why and wherefore.

All this ye will perceive from my kingdom through the hereafter and by the power of your own insight into the earthly, and ye will lament over it; but – your sorrow will give way to joy, for when all this happens on earth, your time has also come.

When true prophets of all times of the earthly existence of men proclaimed my future becoming man to the peoples in their time, and their last and greatest, John the Baptist, cried into the wilderness of the soul-spirit darkness of the Jews: God the eternal truth has come down from his kingdom and is present among us in Christ the Lord! – I will, when the time comes which I have shown you, send you and the men of the great people the prophet through whom ye will proclaim:

God the eternal truth was present in Christ the Lord, but falsehood, malice, wickedness, and hatred of the Jews with their Judaized henchmen and helpers have made Jews of him and of us, have placed the Hebrew God above him and us, have placed the Hebrew scripture above his gospel, and have deeply humbled him under the old Satan El Shaddai-Yahweh.

Many will prick up their ears, but the Judaization of their soul, their spirit, and their heart will resist, and the hatred of others against me will put all possible obstacles in the way of you, the prophet, and his own, and there, there ye will have joy in him. For he will endure, willingly follow all your instructions, never speak of his own, but only what ye will tell him to speak and write through him. From you, from my own, he will take, and he will glorify me in the truth, which I alone am eternally!

Ye will have joy in not a few of his own, who through you and him will be led to me and to the true eternal life in my kingdom, but sorrow for those who, from the beginning of the event, will pass themselves off as his most sincere and best brothers, friends, yea, as his protectors – as if ye and I were not his protection! These will appear full of hatred against him and even incite the authorities of the land against him, only because he will follow only your instructions and orders, not theirs. But as everyone who does evil judges himself, so will the burden of their works against him and against you oppress them in eternity.

The knowledge of the events in the future, of which I am now speaking, will comfort you, strengthen you, and not let you become faint-hearted, when ye soon experience how false, malicious, wicked, and devilish the Jews will proceed against the eternal truth of me, my word, and against you, to place their Hebrew God, their Hebrew scripture before and above me and your scriptures.

But I say to you: My word is a truly good soul-spirit seed, full of the power of eternal truth, full of the true light and life of myself; and as every good seed, to bring forth manifold and good fruit, must seemingly die beforehand, so will the good seed, my word, twisted, distorted, falsified by the Jews and their Judaized helpers, and dragged into the swamp of Jewish devilry, seemingly die beforehand, which must not confuse you and make you faint-hearted. For even that will serve as testimony and knowledge to many what an outcast of hell that is!

I will die – even tomorrow, and because it must happen, since I have also come into this world for this reason, none of you, nor any of my absent ones, shall or may undertake even the slightest thing against it! I will die, separate myself from this my body borne there, then take possession of it again and rise again in it. I die truly, but my word will only seemingly die.

But as I will rise again, so will my word also rise again, when the time comes of which I have spoken to you. And in these and other words I have repeatedly said it to my own – and they asked me whether the man whom I will send in that future would find faith on earth? And I say to you that he will find as much faith as ye find when ye proclaim me and my word to men after I have gone from you into my kingdom.

Ye have seen, heard, experienced, and felt how infinitely difficult it is to bring men from among the peoples, let alone the Jews, to the true knowledge of God and self. I myself am here, have preached for three and a half years to multitudes of thousands, have spoken, taught, explained to them, and daily, yea hourly, have accomplished works on countless of their own, which no man has accomplished, which no man has ever done, nor will do, because no man can do them – and it suffices when I say to you: Count yourselves together with those of whom ye know that they, having seen me, heard my word, seen some of my works, or even experienced them in themselves, have gone home from me in true knowledge of God and self; and ye will not come to more than five thousand, who, moreover, scattered over the near and far lands and places whence they came to me, represent a number which, measured by my coming and working, appears small, yea, negligible, and yet is appropriate.

For all men, with a few isolated exceptions, which, however, as a whole make up a considerable number, are still the same who, because of the boastings of the father of lies, have turned away from me and left my kingdom to run after him, who promised to create what I could not create, and by which my creation, together with me and all that opposed him, must perish and be destroyed. They are the same who were once my children in my kingdom, who ran after him and were only kept from reaching his creation of hellish darkness and falling to him by their dying in the emptiness of infinity, far from the true world of my kingdom.

Now they come little by little to the earth of the all of this world, and there, with their soul, spirit, and earthly-body development, a god-consciousness awakens, though indefinite, yet unsuppressible, more or less felt, but ever recurring, which makes them seek God, whom they do not find, because he has vanished from their memory in his true personal being.

It was not so at the beginning of human existence on earth; for then many – though not fully and completely – had a memory of the terrible things that had happened, and thus also knowledge. But in the course of time, this memory also suffered greater and greater losses and changes, which speculative men took advantage of to create for themselves a "god" or even several "gods," to use any false seer, soothsayer, necromancer, and the like false prophets, if not to appear themselves as such and at the same time as "servant and mediator" of the found "deity," with which the priesthoods arose.

The main characteristic of the privileges of the priesthood and every priesthood is a megalomania arising from lies and hypocrisy, to be representatives of their deity or deities on earth, to demand divine worship from the believers for themselves, and to be able to impress on them that without them there is no approach to God, no hearing, and no salvation, since they alone have the plenitude of power over all this. What else characterizes the priesthood and every priesthood is their boundless lust for power, which, wherever there is even a semblance of a possibility, tolerates no other authority than their own.

Despite the many "gods" and their priesthoods, there are "God-seekers" everywhere, who belong to those who think more than others, but who also nowhere find the "God" they seek, because it would have to be a God of their views and wishes – and he does not exist! But they themselves bear witness that a God-consciousness lives in them, which cannot be reconciled in any way with all that the priesthoods represent and defend.

I send you, that after I have gone from you into my kingdom, ye may carry the true knowledge of me, me, and my word among the peoples, and lead the willing to me and my kingdom for their own temporal and eternal salvation. Ye are my apostles, bearers and preachers of eternal truth, and if this your working is to be a truly apostolic-priestly office, it must have nothing to do with what the peoples call the priesthood, and what ye all know as the priesthood, and must remain infinitely far from all that!

Ye must serve men, not strive to rule them! Ye must provide for your own livelihood, as long as it is possible, ye may not demand or take any payment for your teaching, preaching, baptizing, and other functions exercised in my name and spirit; ye may not force anyone to believe in me in any way, but shall leave it entirely to the free good will and decision of every human being whether he wishes to accept me and work according to my word for the good and salvation of the community, and ye must be a model of working to all, as I have been and am a model of working to all throughout my earthly existence.

If I have come into this world not to be served there, but that I may serve all for their temporal and eternal salvation, ye also may not be served, but shall be true servants of those who come to the true knowledge of God and self through you, accept me and you, freely decide to follow my word workingly, and wish to seal all this by accepting baptism in my name and spirit for all the future.

As I do not prefer one of you – my mother alone excepted, because she is my mother in my becoming man – to the others in any way, and do not set one above the other, so none of you may set himself above the other and prefer one or the other to the other.

In one and the same duty, all shall and must also have the same right, which, ever mindful of one's own holy duty, at the same time recognizes greater knowledge, greater abilities, and better suitability for the guidance, care, and direction of the people to be led and led to me, restless working, and exemplary conduct of one and the other, loyally follows them, and thereby serves the whole, thus also oneself and me.

When ye found communities among the peoples in my name, my spirit, and my word, their members, even before ye have gone further, shall choose one or even some of the leading, caring, preaching, and working members themselves from their midst, whom ye may indeed propose to them, but may not force upon them in any way, since they know each other best. Be not hasty in admitting people into the community, for not the number of members of a community bearing my name is decisive, but the inner, soul-spirit value of each individual member, be it man or woman, sister or brother.

They must be shown at the introduction and instruction about their eternal being, about the causes and purpose of their unique earthly existence, as well as about my coming into this world, that not the calling to me, "Lord, Lord!" not the worship of me, not the praising of my name, and nothing of the sort can bring them back to me in my kingdom, but far before all that, the working that serves the temporal well-being and salvation of the community of men.

He who serves his fellow men in this way also serves me in truth! I want no servants who serve me, but children who recognize and love me again as the father of all life, children who know that all that they have done and do to each other, they do doubly and manifoldly to me. They, who have no measure for my suffering and for my joy, must always be reminded and mindful of my word:

Whatever ye have done and do to the least and lowliest among you, ye do to me! All that ye would that others do to you, do ye to them beforehand! Therein be a shining example and model to them!

End of Part 19