Sermon on the Mount 21

September 779 in the year of the Romans-21

Excerpts from the Sermon on the Mount in authorial form

Words of God shortly after His Resurrection—a Continuation:

Forasmuch as I know all these things, therefore, and for this cause alone, I say not unto you: Go ye and build houses of God of the everlasting truth, but this I say:

Go ye and teach all nations what I have taught you, and if they, through you, receive My name, My spirit, My being, and My word, and following you, desire to return unto the true everlasting life in My kingdom, baptize them: In the name of God, Who is Jesus Christ in the holy spirit of everlasting truth!

Verily, the dark servants of the Hebrew god shall soon devise another baptism, and, deeming your baptism heretical, in the name of the same Hebrew god, shall curse and condemn all those who hold fast to this baptism, to you, and to Me. The devilish might and violence of the growing grandeur of these future temples shall contribute to the rest, so that in them naught of Me shall remain save My mere name Christ, and even that shall be deeply subjected to the Hebrew god. Truly, they shall set Me in images at his right hand, and, far less in his name than in Mine, shall drive men unto him by force, until great multitudes rise against them, against their Hebrew god, and, in their poisoning and ignorance of the truth, quite consequently, also against Me, and reject Me with the Hebrew god.

It shall soon now grieve you bitterly that ye cannot accomplish that for which I send you, yet I say unto you that it matters not the span of time, and that all which is to be accomplished shall be accomplished. For there cometh also that time when ye yourselves and many with you shall again proclaim the same truth, Me, My being, My spirit, and My word, not as earthly men, but from spirit to spirit through the spirit, after the manner ye know through the Essenes concerning the prophets, of whom even some are among you.

Oft have I said unto you: As many true prophets as there were, who served Mine as interpreters and mediators of the foretelling of My personal coming among the men of this world, have I sent them, and as hereafter a true prophet shall come to serve you and men with you in My name, shall I send him!

Many true prophets have desired to see what ye see, and have not seen it, but now see Me with you, and rejoice despite their bitter sorrow for Me in that which they now behold with you; but if they now see, so shall also the true prophet, whom I shall send unto you in due time, also see that which ye see today with the true prophets who were. As the true prophets ever heard the word of Mine and willingly followed their instructions, to shorten the roundabout way from spirit to spirit, because I sent them, so shall also the prophet, whom I shall send, hear you and follow your instructions.

Ye also are now and have been before Mine, who have suffered much for My sake, and shall suffer more evil for the sake of everlasting truth, for a testimony and for the true knowledge of many.

But as no prophet of everlasting truth could accomplish his mission, because he was ever hindered in his mission, more or less, even violently, by some of those who stood nearest to him and whom he counted among the best of his, so shall also that son of man, whom I shall send unto you as My prophet, who shall hear you and willingly follow your instructions, not be able to accomplish his mission. Yet I Myself am the true accomplishment of all given and yet to be given, and shall then also see to it that all which must be accomplished is accomplished.

That which I Myself set for Myself from eternity and before the beginning to accomplish, have I accomplished. Did the evil spirit of hellish darkness, to whom the true prophets I sent were already an abomination, practice abominations through his earthly servants upon them, because they are Mine, he had to practice greater abominations upon Me, Who am not a prophet of truth, but everlasting truth essentially personal Myself, in his insatiable bloodthirst and thirst for revenge, and how his earthly circumcised servants and slaves have striven for this, ye see in Me and are ever more horrified.

He who truly seeketh God, and speaketh of Him as Father, he who seeketh the Holy Spirit of Truth and calleth upon God, he seeketh Me, he calleth upon Me, and I am with him even then when he ceaseth truly to seek and acknowledgeth Me not, because of this My being assumed upon Earth, as the eternal Father of all Life. For many shall not, like unto you, grasp the true Miracle of God's Incarnation straightway, and many again not so soon as ye. Naught can be hidden from the Spirit of God, the Spirit of Truth, which is My Spirit, and by the power of this Spirit I know whether a man cannot grasp, or whether he will not.

Therefore have I chosen you unto Myself, because ye can grasp the greatest Deed, which crowneth the Almighty Power of God by the Spirit of Truth, and against which the whole Work of Creation is as naught: the Deed that God, to give Himself and His Spirit of Truth essentially-personally unto Mankind, hath become an earthly Man, and thus speaketh Himself unto you. Therefore have I chosen you unto Myself, because I know you from Eternity, and therefore are ye now with Me, although ye also could not at first grasp such a Deed.

More than three years have ye followed Me; at My side have ye seen, heard, and experienced that which no one before hath experienced, nor shall experience in the time to come. I have explained all unto you, and all have ye been able to grasp; but that I, as Man in My true, eternal Being, and by the power of My Spirit, am God in Being and in Spirit, this could ye not all grasp equally until this day, when ye do grasp, know, and believe! And therefore have I chosen you, because ye, who could not all grasp equally, do now believe the more! And your Faith shall be strengthened by the power of the Spirit of Truth, whom ye shall receive visibly unto true Faith, unto true Knowledge, and unto true Understanding.

Ye could not all grasp the Great equally until this day, but we have encountered many who, though not fully, yet have also grasped it. But because they find pleasure in the desires of their "god," who is the bloodthirsty murderer of men, the father of lies and darkness, Satan, who seeketh to lead all spirits capable of understanding into the hellish abyss of wickedness, and because they will not forsake him, they have indeed grasped the great Deed of this time in good part; but they have, by the evil will of their dark spirit, driven it from their souls, they would not grasp it, because My Spirit and My Word demandeth something wholly other of them than their "father" and their "god."

The nature of this My human form hath deceived you longer, but them not so. Ye marvel with great wonder at My Works, but My Word ye understood at first but in part, and as soon as ye saw Me suffer, doubt was already in the hearts of many among you, and they thought within themselves:

The Spirit of God is in Him, but He Himself is yet but a Man, perchance but God's Son, as it is proclaimed by the prophets of the Jewish Essenes. For were He God Himself, how were it possible, and how could He suffer without resistance that the vilest offscouring of the inhuman brood of serpents should deal so terribly-cruelly with Him? He must needs be able to destroy the whole venomous brood of vipers with a mere thought! Of this we are persuaded. Why doth He do no such thing?

That I could do it, of this ye are persuaded. But because I have not done it, some have doubted Me. Had they understood My Word always, and held it always in living remembrance, no doubt would have arisen in them. Now ye are fully persuaded that I could indeed do it, but that I cannot, because unto the Spirit of God, My Spirit, are seven powers proper: Truth, Goodness, Love, Mercy, Forgiveness, Righteousness, and Self-sacrifice, and they are My immutable-unchangeable Law, and I know no force of destruction.

Had ye My Word living within you, ye must know that destruction is no such thing; the soul of man, with its spirit and its life, can be separated by force from the earthly body, and this given over to decay prematurely. To destroy the living spirit of the soul's being, and the soul itself, none can do – not even God – because the power of life was given unto every spirit by Him and from Him. I gave this power by My Might, according to the eternal Law of My Spirit, unto every being through the spirit of every soul, and I cannot, by the power of this Law, reclaim it in Eternity.

Only the eternally immutable-unchangeable Spirit, whose perfection can be no greater and higher, holdeth within itself the Almighty Power, and the Powers of the immutable-unchangeable Being and Spirit of God work ever unchangeably, at whatsoever center the Being of God, to whom this Spirit is proper, may be. Do ye now understand that the Spirit, and not the Being as such, is decisive?

Every soulish being, living by the Spirit – the power of life could be given only unto this and is its own – hath a definite form by the Spirit, which is an inseparable property of the soul's being from Eternity. But only the Being is formed, not the Spirit; for it is not the soulish being, but the power, which is connected with the power of life, and unfoldeth, formeth, and leadeth that soulish being, whose property they are, according to its original nature.

In Eternity, wherein there is no beginning for you – and for all Spirit – I knew the time when I Myself resolved to come into this World, whose creation lay once in the aeons of the future. I did this to speak Myself unto the spirit of men, who had turned away from Me and were blindly striving towards the abyss of darkness created by Satan, to teach them Myself, to give them My Spirit of Truth, and to sacrifice Myself for the testimony of this same eternal Truth, for Time and Eternity. My Spirit, My Life, My Being hath remained unchangeably the same! But the form which I bear there, the appearance?

I had to speak unto men; they had to hear Me, to see Me; My Works and My Deeds had to be revealed unto their bodily earthly senses, that they might in this way, and by the spirit capable of understanding, reach the soul, which is mostly little sensitive, and often even closed, against revelations of a purely spiritual kind.

I had to perform deeds in the human body, to speak and to do works which no man can do; I had to reveal Myself unto men in speech – to confirm Word and Works by the greatest Self-sacrifice, and to crown all this by the power of My Resurrection, by My parting from this World, and by My re-entering into My Kingdom.

Tell Me yourselves: In what other form than in that of a man like unto you could or should I accomplish all this? Ponder reasonably, truly, and true Understanding shall come! But that it cometh, I shall further provide – and the time shall come when ye shall long have dwelt in My Kingdom, but shall carry your Understanding further among the men, who, without having seen Me or you, shall truly recognize Me and you, because they shall seek the Spirit of eternal Truth; and they shall find Me by the Spirit and by your aid. At that time, mankind shall be more godless than it is now, despite its "god" and its deities.

And I say unto you again:

If ye would that men should do aught unto you, do ye first unto them, for this is the Spirit of God, this is His Law, and only thus shall a true prophet speak, if he speaketh in the Spirit of eternal Truth, in My Spirit!

Today the poor gnash their teeth, clench their fists in secret, and curse the bloodthirsty Satan, who "blesseth" the power, wealth, and might of the individual, that he may appear justified according to the Law when he sacrificeth the poor unto his greed. They say to themselves that the evil Azazel is indeed an angel compared to such a bloodthirsty god of vengeance; for the poor Azazel receiveth kindly and without thoughts of vengeance the scapegoat driven into the wilderness, upon whose head a priest hath laid the sins of the people, taketh the sins from it, and quietly putteth them away. Satan devised a devil who would be better than himself, were he to exist.

But at that time, men shall publicly curse God, whom they shall not know, mock Me, and blaspheme and profane the Spirit of Truth, which is My Spirit, as never before.

Many shall arise and teach that all that is hath arisen in part from all, to form a whole, to arise and to pass away. They shall say that God is a devised tale for fools, and that a being which could be called "God" outright is a mockery; and they shall preach the dying of man as the death of utter destruction and non-being, and shall contend for the power of might with those who indeed preach a "god," but shall depict him so that he must appear to every spirit capable of understanding not only as a sadly-cruel mockery, but also as an impossibility and open lie, who is not himself an outright lying hypocrite or a sluggard in spirit.

And at that time shall ye, with many others, carry your Understanding again among the men, and convey unto them that which ye have conveyed unto them long time before, and which hath been so wickedly distorted or destroyed.

Again and again have I said unto you, and again I say unto you:

Never yet, and to no people, hath the spirit of hellish darkness, the spirit of wickedness and lies, Satan, revealed himself so fully and wholly as unto this perverse people! Every other people, since it was driven into errors, hath hitherto known good and evil "powers" or "spirits," and because it found no other explanation either for the manner of the revelations or for the true nature of these "powers," it declared them to be "good and evil gods."

End of Part 21