Sermon on the Mount 22

September 779 in the year of the Romans-22

Excerpts from the Sermon on the Mount in authorial form

Words of God shortly after His Resurrection—a Continuation:

But the patriarchs of this people, and after them the mighty ones with their recognized prophets, chose only one single spirit, a spirit whom whole hosts of like spirit followed into the darkness and into the swamp of his malice. The spirit of the patriarchs and the spirit revealing himself to them through the dark hereafter found great mutual pleasure in each other, because they had known each other once before in another world and had stood near each other. They found themselves again in this world, on this earth, and without hesitation they were ready, for reciprocal services which corresponded to their greed for earthly might, possessions, and satisfaction of their lusts, to serve this spirit and in turn to satisfy his insatiable bloodthirst.

Thus a shameless and abominable covenant came about, which, repeatedly renewed, was repeatedly sworn to and expanded by both sides. The spirit demands blood, ever again blood! Blood of men, blood of beasts, the blood of the foreskin of his covenant, the blood of the uncircumcised—blood, greedily and insatiably blood!

As he once already, when his further dwelling in My kingdom of truth became impossible, had found satisfaction in making many spirits like himself by malicious lies, and in this way bringing the spirit of many to the edge of the abyss of his hellish darkness, so he now dwells here on earth with the same spirit who, through his own life with the soul being to which he inseparably belongs from eternity, is the soul of man.

Thus the evil spirit of hellish darkness demands sacrifice and again sacrifice; sacrifice of blood, pain, torment, suffering and torture, misery, wretchedness and destruction. Every non-fulfillment of this his satanic greed he threatens under curses with terrible revenge, and he proclaims through his prophets vows of revenge which surpass each other in devilish malice and cruelty.

Also, some other peoples know this spirit under another name, and they say openly that this is an evil spirit, a dark and terrible god of revenge. They fear him, and fear drives them to offer him blood sacrifices; but they worship the "good gods." Their ignorance is great, their error is greater, but they do not blaspheme the spirit of everlasting truth, because they do not know him.

And because those heathens who encountered this people were told, and they themselves saw and felt, that the evil spirit is the "only god" of these men, and they are also his bodily marked chosen ones through circumcision, their fear of this people was also so great that it took many centuries to put some stop to the raging of the evil spirit and his chosen ones.

But this evil spirit continues to behave through these his own as if he were God, and he will rejoice even more because through the intrigues of his chosen ones many others will also come and worship him more than these initially chosen ones do. They will indeed withhold the foreskin from him, but they will offer him streams of blood, devilish judgments through wars and all sorts of such murderous deeds. They will satisfy his lusts as well as their own with the shed blood of innocent fellow men, with their pains, fears, their suffering, their need, their misery, and their destruction, just as and much worse than the prophet Jeremiah, that faithful servant of the spirit of hellish darkness, says of this his lord, thus praising his bloodthirsty lusts:

Prepare shield and buckler, sharpen swords and spears, put on armor, set on helmets, run with the chariots, mount horses and go forth, rattle and dash forward—for this is the day of the Lord, Lord Jahweh, the ruler of the world, the day of revenge; that he may take revenge on his enemies, whom the sword shall devour and who shall be drunken with their blood; for they must become a sacrifice of slaughter to the Lord, Lord Jahweh!

I have repeatedly explained the "scripture" to you and given you to recognize the spirit of Satan. Compare My spirit with the spirit of the Hebrew scripture—and your eyes, heart, and soul shall be opened! The truth here and the lie there, the light here and the darkness there, the life here and the pit there, cannot remain hidden from you, because it is the spirit of truth who, in his light, reveals the dark abyss of the Hebrew scripture to everyone.

But I also say unto you this:

Others will come after you and call themselves your successors, as also some who will call themselves My vicars, as if God and His holy spirit, Who I am in the essence of everlasting truth, needed a "vicar" or could have one at all! Therefore, I have said and say again:

Go ye and teach all nations all that I have taught you!

Ye shall do it! But those shall not teach what I have taught you and commanded to keep. They shall teach the Hebrew scripture, clothe themselves according to the law of Moses, they shall blaspheme the holy spirit of everlasting truth through ceremonies and invoke the spirit of the "scripture."

The malice of the same spirit of revenge and bloodthirst shall, however, disfigure the scripture which two of you shall write, My gospel, by his earthly servants, and soon append it to his "scripture," to make one scripture out of both, so that an even greater darkness may arise! This monstrosity of a scripture they shall recognize and seek to cover its contradictions with greater ones!

I am the everlasting truth! But the everlasting truth is God and His holy spirit, the spirit of everlasting truth who sanctifies men's spirits! In this spirit I am the true light, the true way, and the true everlasting life, I, My word and My gospel, but not the Hebrew scripture, which is the spirit of darkness, of violence and revenge, the spirit of Satan!

It shall remain preserved, and they shall read it, that I am the everlasting truth! They shall read it, that the Father is in Me, and I am in Him, thus we are not two, but that One is in Me, I, and the spirit of God is My spirit! They shall read it, that the Father is Myself, that whoso sees Me, beholds the Father, whoso hears Me and My word, hears the word of God, and whoso beholds the works which I do, sees the works of God!

All this and much more shall remain preserved despite the raging of the old Satan and his dark earthly servants. But they shall nevertheless set their "father" before Me and will not recognize that he is the spirit of the hellish abyss of lies and malice. Yea, they shall even go so far as to degrade Me to a divinely spiritless person.

My body and My blood, which I leave behind as an everlasting testimony, unto true knowledge and unto heavenly food and refreshment for the spirit and soul of men, as I have promised, they shall endeavor to sacrifice to the same spirit of hell a thousandfold and daily instead of the foreskin and other shameful and cruel blood sacrifices.

I have promised you that My body and My blood shall remain, and in the form of bread and wine I have offered Myself to you. Ye yourselves have partaken of the heavenly food, and I have asked you to give of it to all, as soon as I have thus left behind this My body as well, as has already happened with My blood. Give of it to all who shall desire it in spirit; for verily I say unto you: Do this in remembrance of the incarnation and self-sacrifice of God!

Everyone who comes with good will and with a pure and contrite heart to receive Me, My body and My blood, shall find Me ready to receive him, and he shall also receive of My spirit, that he may find the strength to persevere in the truth.

And though so many come, if they come with good will in the truth of My spirit, they shall be satisfied with this heavenly body and refreshed with the heavenly wine through Me, for I am essentially-personally present with each individual, as I am here among you. And though the number of loaves desired be infinite and the wine exceed the contents of the seas, I am there, fully and wholly in the smallest piece of bread and in every drop of wine, if the spirit of the one desiring strives towards Me and truly offers Me his soul, his spirit, and his heart, earnestly endeavoring in My spirit to follow Me through works and truly striving to bring forth good will to do so.

As I have fully satisfied thousands with one piece of bread, and as ye have seen, not just once, as I have multiplied the bread of this world according to My will by the power of My spirit, so that a hundredfold of what was initially present remained over, I will also multiply My body and My blood in such a way that there can never be a lack of it.

But mark this:

Only those who shall truly endeavor to come to Me shall be able to receive Me soul-spiritually. If a hypocrite comes, of dark soul and stubborn heart and spirit, he shall not receive Me, not heavenly food and drink, but merely earthly bread and the juice of the vine. I shall be present, but such a soul and such a spirit cannot receive Me, because he hypocritically only satisfies an earthly act, but does not seek My spirit and blasphemes the everlasting truth.

My spirit is omnipresent; thus I shall also be present everywhere where the earthly bread and the earthly wine are sought to be sacrificed as a "pleasing fragrance" to that spirit of the scripture, who—himself greedy for earthly life—finds cruel satisfaction only in streams of freshly shed steaming blood of innocent poor victims. I shall be present there; but they shall not be able to sacrifice Me to this spirit of hell! But because they absolutely want to sacrifice to him, they shall only sacrifice earthly bread and only earthly wine, and in this that spirit finds no pleasure, in this and from this he has nothing—and thereby he is judged!

But because he is thereby judged, he will endeavor to obtain freshly shed steaming blood in another way. Combining his own with the malice of the men serving him, he will fan the lie, and men will sacrifice themselves for his sake in wars and tribulations such as the world has not seen until then. But do not be frightened! Fear nothing and do not despair!

I read the question in your souls: Why dost Thou allow all this? Why wilt Thou endure all this? Why dost Thou not speak a word to destroy evil? That is your question! And My answer is: I am the everlasting truth. But the everlasting truth is God, and My spirit is in the same truth the immutable-unchangeable power of goodness, love, mercy, forgiveness, justice, and self-sacrifice.

And I say unto you:

Against a single one of the seven powers of truth, the entire power of lies, malice, and violence cannot prevail; for the more these dark powers rage, the more secure, rapid, and heavy is their fall. The destruction would be very easy and simple! But what, tell Me yourselves, would then be the everlasting truth, which is only such because it endures immutably-equally eternally! Can goodness, love, mercy, forgiveness, and justice simply destroy the contrary, because the will of the contrary is an opposing one?

Nay! None of these My powers can even think of destroying an opposing will; because they are all properties of the everlasting truth, the highest perfection of the living being and spirit, thus God's properties, which proceed in their power from the spirit of truth and as a holy whole purely reveal the will of God, which is My will. The destruction of an opposing will and striving of a spirit capable of knowledge, who has the ability to choose freely, is only striven for by the malice of lies alone.

But as the power of truth could never work without the essence and spirit to which it is proper, yea, could not even exist, just so is the lie unthinkable without the essence and spirit to which it is proper. But the essence, whose spirit the power of truth is an immutable-unchangeable property, remains from eternity eternally unchanged in the same essence and spirit, and therefore is most perfect God, Who have brought you My spirit of the same truth.

But that essence whose spirit now the power of the lie is proper, once beheld the essence, the spirit, the life, and the light of God not as ye now see Me as man, but in the perfection of His eternal essence, His power, and in the full pure greatness of His spirit; it appropriated so much of the power of the perfection of God that it far surpassed almost all the other beings of knowledge-capable and great spirit in knowledge and ability. It was then as godlike as soon no other of the countless spirit beings possessing free will and knowledge-capability. God, in His eternal truth, knows no secret, and He has never withheld from the free spirit even the slightest that would be able to lead the spirit capable of it to Him.

He wills it, and it is the holy striving of His love for all this spirit to bring all this spirit so far that he, by free will and by the power of the knowledge of eternal truth, may be like Him, for only then is a true eternal life full of bliss and holy peace possible in His kingdom in His presence. All the spirit capable of knowledge shall be like Him by the power of his free will, and the more perfectly the beings of such a spirit strive to be, and the greater the number of those who appropriate the highest that is possible for them to attain in truth and endeavor to work further in truth in true knowledge, the greater is His joy.

But that essence, of which I have told you that it was once as godlike as few, did not go through the knowledge of eternal truth to work further in it; the spirit of this essence directed all his desire towards knowledge and ability and sought in the course of time to surpass the omnipotence of the essence and spirit of God.

He awakened by this unfulfillable and impossible desire and by his presumption the admiration and applause of a host of beings of like spirit; and as he perceived the knowledge he had hitherto as a hindrance restraining his will, and increasingly persuaded himself that his will was not able to expand and increase the knowledge and ability already attained, but both noticeably decreased, he devised a knowledge that should surpass the one previously grasped in truth! And thus he invented the counter-knowledge of truth, the lie!

I have often told you that it is the spirit who, by the power of his life in the soul inseparable from him, creates a corresponding essence for himself.

The new, willfully false knowledge of the spirit that had become evil inevitably resulted first in his own disfigurement, and the thus disfigured spirit in an ever-deepening change and disfigurement of the soul's essence. The power of the lie always unleashes worse malice through the spirit, and from the former great angel became a Satan, whom the light of the kingdom of God could no longer bear and who withdrew into his self-created kingdom of darkness, into the abyss of hell, whither his following followed him. These were events that had a sad and terrible effect on all spirit and caused unspeakable suffering to the spirit of truth, to Me, although I knew from eternity about this turning point of the appearance of the same spirit against Me, the eternal truth.

Immutable-unchangeable as the essence and spirit of God is, He feels suffering and joy without being able to be changed thereby. Ye have no measure for His suffering or for His joy, as ye have for His power of omnipotence.

But this makes Him unchangeable, because His joy and His suffering spring from truth and, like it, His spirit and He Himself are pure. For this reason, His joy cannot give more than He gives without ceasing, and His suffering knows no resentment, no retribution with evil, no revenge, and no destruction.

In the life and activity of the free spirit capable of knowledge of men on this earth, ye see the repetition of many former events in My kingdom, which took place shortly before and during his departure from My kingdom. How many are there who seek the truth to strive towards it? And how many seek the lie and act according to their power?

Verily, I say unto you:

I have come to bring men Myself My spirit of truth and to reveal to them the essence of God through Me, My word, and My works, that My kingdom may also be recognized here, and as far as this world allows, be established here, that My kingdom may come to you, until ye, once going through the earthly kingdom of God established here and working here on earth in the truth of My spirit, may afterwards again hold the blessed entry into My kingdom.

I have come that My kingdom may also come to you! And behold how men have received Me and how they have dealt with Me, Who am the everlasting truth! They have made Me endure the death on the cross after previous torment as no one before; for not all beings of soul and spirit can feel the same pain with equal wounds, because the pain and torment inflicted on the soul's essence by the earthly body are vividly perceived by the spirit, and the greatness of the spirit as well as its perfection increase the pain and torment. Therefore, I say unto you that ye find no measure for the terribleness of My endured and still continuing torment.

Must I thus suffer? Nay! I must not. But I thus suffer for everlasting testimony and for the knowledge of all spirit capable of knowledge and willing to know, that I suffer unspeakably through his turning away from Me, through his estrangement and through his turning against Myself, but that he can never experience from Me, Who am the everlasting truth, any suffering, any pain, any oppression, any torment, and any evil retribution, because he punishes and judges himself by his turning away from Me, by his estrangement and turning against Me.

Great is the pain and torment that I suffer and for which ye have no measure; but infinitely greater is My suffering in the knowledge that I have accomplished all this in vain for so many and that all My doing and all My self-sacrifice is offered in vain for so many.

Many shall be inspired by the same spirit and likewise give themselves out with malicious pride as "God-overcomers," though they shall call themselves otherwise than Israel; for not the name is of decisive importance, but the spirit! I have expounded to you the "scripture," and not once, according to its spirit and Mine, and everyone who has received and kept My word has also recognized the essence of that spirit which, in the Hebrew scripture, through men of like spirit, exalts itself to "God" and behaves as if it were "God."

Until now, however, only this people has sacrificed to the spirit of the scripture in malice, lies, and cruelty what blood could be sacrificed. But the time is not far when others shall seek to sacrifice more to the same spirit in My name. And they shall blaspheme and revile God, the holy spirit of truth, My essence, Myself, Who as essence also now as man in My and My spirit's power am the same personal creator, redeemer, and the true, eternal life, unchangeably-immutably in the spirit of truth, infinitely more.

For they shall subordinate Me to Satan, so mix Me and My spirit of truth with the spirit and with the essence of Satan, and create for themselves such a "god" and such a "truth," that no one shall be able to recognize the eternal truth, the spirit of eternal truth, and still less the true eternal essence of God, Me! All this shall come to pass. But therefore be neither sorrowful nor dismayed!

The truth knows no violence, because it must remain unchangeably-immutably! But that is its eternal existence without beginning and without end, because it is founded in the essence and in the spirit of God, in My essence and spirit!

What is changeable and will not recognize the eternal truth inevitably goes towards the abyss, even though it may rage and storm ever so much against the eternal truth.

The servants of the spirit of hellish darkness shall establish such earthly might and power that no man shall be able to rise against the Satan spirit of this power for a long time without falling prey to the thirst for revenge of all the inhuman devils. But many shall also not be able to rise because their spirit shall be poisoned by false teachings, and they shall become incapable of receiving the truth from you, My own, because of their poisoning. But those who shall nevertheless arise to cast a spark of light into the darkness, in their own opinion and from their own, shall achieve the opposite, because they shall only stir around in the confusion, in the lie, and in the poison, and thereby create new malice and even greater confusion.

Thus it shall become ever worse for a short and yet very long course of time, until it comes to pass that the majority of men shall completely reject a horror image composed of the darkness of Satan, his lies, and My robbed and falsified word; and the most insignificant earthly thing, the smallest coin, yea, the shoe strap, shall have more value in the eyes of these men than such a "god" as shall be taught to them.

But I also say unto you this:

These men shall also reject Me with the rejection. But I say unto you more: Many, very many, shall find Me precisely thereby! And this shall become the greatest confirmation of the truth, that they alone shall find Me and My spirit and truly recognize that I alone am God, the everlasting truth, the true light, the true way, and the true eternal life; at that time ye, with the other Mine, shall again teach men, not as men in the earthly body, but as souls of My light, from spirit to spirit through the spirit, and thereby many shall afterwards come to the knowledge of everlasting truth and shall find Me.

It shall not be easy, for the spirit of lies, malice, and darkness shall also make every effort to maintain his dominion over the soul and over the spirit of men. He shall also send out his own, that they also may work from spirit to spirit through mediators and thereby encounter the spirit that shall work in My truth!

The spirit of lies and his own shall cause the word "God" and also My name to be heard by other men through human mediators, shall speak through mediators of truth, of light, and of eternal life, that the hearers may accept malicious lies as truth, darkness as light, ignorance and false knowledge and become blinder than before.

At that time, there shall be more "prophets," mediators, seers, and those who question the "dead" than at the time when Moses and his own spoke from spirit to spirit with the beings of darkness, and Moses therefore cruelly commanded all other seers and mediators to be stoned or more cruelly eliminated, because they sought the truth and, instructed by good souls of the hereafter, recognized the malice of the spirit who spoke with Moses and his own and gave information to others about it.

At that time, in that future event, the evil spirit and his own, when they recognize that great hosts strive towards the eternal truth of My essence and spirit, shall incite the future Pharisees, scribes, Sadducees, wise men, and elders, and they shall all turn maliciously against those little ones who have truly recognized Me and My spirit or wish to recognize Me. They shall resort to lies, coercion, and violence, that their own ignorance, their soul-spiritual swamp, their lying arrogance, and malicious wretchedness may not be revealed. They shall continue to pass off the filth of their conceits as the reflection of their greatness, in order to further blind the poor, misguided, and soul-spiritually poisoned men and lead them into spiritual and bodily ruin.

The Jewish patriarchs and their descendants have only made the covenant with the abyss of hellish darkness and promised him cruel blood and burnt offerings because he made promises of earthly well-being, esteem before the world, power, wealth, and dominion over all other peoples. Had the dark and bloodthirsty spirit not done this, they would certainly not have entered into any alliance with him—and would have sought to achieve the same without him, because their spirit is similar to this spirit.

But many others shall come who shall indeed reject the shameful covenant of circumcision, but nevertheless claim the fruits of the covenant for themselves, because they shall be of like spirit with the allies of Satan—and thus there shall be base and shameful struggles between the uncircumcised and the circumcised, as well as even baser and more shameful alliances for the fruit of the covenant, for well-being, for esteem, and for wealth, for power, and for dominion.

In the spirit of a "god" whom both shall worship and who is Satan, they shall haggle and fight for the fruit of his promises to his excessive delight, for this struggle shall also create and offer victims to his evil and dark bloodlust.

But when the time comes—and it shall come—when men rise up and receive, accept, and pass on the eternal truth, Me and My spirit, once again after a long time through you who are Mine, the same Satan shall summon the circumcised and uncircumcised deniers of My eternal truth and blasphemers of My spirit, as well as all the other followers of Satan and ungodly hypocrites.

They shall cease the struggles waged against each other to turn all their wrath, all their cunning and malice against a handful of men who, instructed by you who are Mine, truly recognize the eternal truth and the holy spirit of God, Me, and shall proclaim this My spirit and Me in My truth in such a way that this My word shall once again be revealed, for testimony and for the knowledge of the eternal truth!

And all the future scribes, Pharisees, Sadducees, wise men, scholars, elders, powerful, and foremost, but also the seduced and devoted to the same evil spirit peoples of those future days, shall vie for mockery, derision, slander, oppression, and destruction just as they do today.

As today the scribe, the high priest, Pharisees, Sadducees, and Rabbi argue among themselves about eternal life in the kingdom of that spirit whom they call "God," and as they also speak of the resurrection, contrary to revelation and against the law of their dark god of revenge, so shall the coming Rabbi, Pharisees, scribes, and high priests do, who shall devise other names for themselves.

And as today many learned wise men, Sadducees, together with most of the elders and powerful secretly laugh at the spirit whom the Pharisees and scribes call "God," openly deny, disavow, and mock eternal life and the resurrection, so shall the coming, uncircumcised learned wise men, Sadducees, foremost, and powerful do.

The evil spirit of darkness remains their ruler in the future as now, whether they laugh at him and deny him or whether they worship him as their "god." If their spirit is close to this spirit, if their desires are similar to or even the same as the greed of this spirit, it remains quite indifferent to the evil spirit whether they worship him or laugh at him, because they are soul-spiritually where he wants them to be, and they serve him anyway.

Today all the circumcised great ones have united against God, Who alone is the eternal truth, and against His spirit, against Me, to destroy Me, Who alone am the eternal truth of the essence and spirit of God, God in the eternal truth of the same spirit, and, notwithstanding this My assumed human body, also in essence the same God eternally! They believed that by the violent removal of Me they could also remove the eternal truth, because—blinded by the earthly—they promise themselves and hope for more from the malice of their own lies and from the spirit of the abyss of hellish darkness.

End of Part 22.