Sermon on the Mount 4

September 779 in the year of the Romans-4

Excerpts from the Sermon on the Mount in authorial form

At that time, My name shall be known throughout all the earth, but My true eternal being, My spirit and My word shall not. For even all those who shall profess to be your successors shall be divided concerning My being, My spirit and My word, establishing diverse camps with diverse doctrines, and contending one against another in the lie and the malice of that spirit which they shall call their and My "Father," glorifying that scripture whose dark spirit of the hellish abyss of falsehood I have come to reveal unto men.

At that time, the earthly knowledge and skill of men shall be such that they shall declare the whole "creation" documented in scripture to be the clumsy babbling of an ignorant one, for they shall be possessed of things which were fashioned by human hands thousands of years before this creation. Yet these same men remain blind and deaf to the fact that less ignorance than the calculating malice and wickedness of falsehood hath created such a "creation," to bar men from the possibility of true self-knowledge, which lieth in the knowledge of the eternal being of the essence of the soul, its spirit and its life force once received in the true world from and out of God.

Men shall merely laugh at the ignorance, perversity and absurdity of the revelation of such a "creation," and in their malicious joy shall not perceive that they have every cause to weep, despite their great other knowledge, over their own knowledge coupled with malicious joy and wickedness.

And further I say unto you: Even at the time when ye shall bear My word among the peoples, the evil spirit which ruleth the men devoted to him shall strive to link and mingle My being, My spirit, My word and My name with the scripture of the spirit of hellish darkness, and in vain shall ye oppose it by My true word. But be of good cheer, for I say unto you:

Though they seek to link My name and My word with the scripture of hell, and though their malice, lying wickedness and violence succeed in all this, it shall come to light, to the testimony and true knowledge of many. For it is the spirit which beareth witness of Me, and revealeth to every one the infinite difference which existeth between My being, My spirit, My word, My will, My works and My teachings, and between the being and spirit of the Hebrew scripture, the Hebrew God, his word, his will, his insatiable thirst for blood and vengeance, and his "law."

But because the wickedness of men, despite the unmistakable infinite contrasts, shall not only attach Me and My spirit to the spirit of the scripture, but also subject Me to this spirit of the abyss of hellish darkness in guilty obedience, and shall persist ever more stubbornly and maliciously in such a "knowledge" which blasphemeth the spirit of truth, the eternal truth of My being, spirit and life shall remain closed to many. Many shall then turn away from such a doctrine, which shall be full of contradictions, and seek the eternal truth everywhere where it cannot be found.

Ask not whether all this must come to pass! I say unto you: Nay, it need not so come to pass, but it shall come to pass, because the free will of the spirit capable of knowledge must remain unrestricted, and in its inclination or disinclination towards the eternal truth shall bring forth that which is to come!

To bear fruit, the seed itself must seem to die; this have I told you often – and this requireth a space of time to take effect. All things require time, save God, and save God all things must first develop and unfold, so also My word and My teaching among men. Some among you have already fully known Me, and I say unto you that ye shall all fully know Me, and through you many other men also. But ye see that at this time there are countless who know Me not and will not hear My word, and of such there shall be great multitudes. Ye must learn to forgive, not only once, not only seven times, and not only seventy times seven, but all, every one, and always! Men judge – I judge no one! I am not come to judge, but to save the world!

Every sin shall be forgiven, save one, which is directed against the holy spirit of eternal truth! For whosoever will not receive the holy spirit of eternal truth, and treacherously and maliciously closeth himself against it, calling good evil and evil good, shall not obtain forgiveness, and judgeth himself, because his own free will judgeth him, whereby he rejecteth the holy spirit of eternal truth. Ye see that I forgive all and every one, and that I also teach to pray:

Forgive us, as we forgive, that ye and all those who shall pray thus through you may ever be reminded of forgiveness. Since ye bear My being and the holy spirit of eternal truth, which is My spirit, and My word. Look around you and behold the knowledge of God among men! They have God and gods – but they seek God and gods, for the spirit telleth them that that God and those gods, to whom their priests lead them under all manner of pretexts, and if these suffice not, by force, are all things, but no truth.

Ye who are with Me, ye know but few peoples and nations of the earth. I know them all; as well those who were from the beginning, those who live at this time, and all those who shall yet pass through the kingdom of this world in the future – and I say unto you:

In the beginning of earthly human existence it was not so; for the multitudes of men who appeared on earth remembered My being and spirit, they also remembered the circumstances which caused them to leave My kingdom. These multitudes who appeared on earth saw themselves in a kingdom which mirrored the image of My kingdom; but they immediately recognized that this kingdom was not the kingdom in which they once lived the bliss of true life timelessly and in abundance with all the countless multitudes of the spirit capable of knowledge, though unequally developed.

Here they found all the manifoldness of this spirit, as also themselves clothed, enveloped and permeated by things they knew not, which gave the essences of the spirit capable of knowledge, as also themselves, such a strange appearance that they could scarcely recognize the individual kinds of plants and animals, but also found themselves so changed by these assumed earthly things that the knowledge of having entered another kingdom than that once inhabited by them could not be withheld.

Full knowledge was given to these first multitudes of men when they perceived with terror the uninterrupted seeming becoming and the like passing away! The temporal approached them, and the remembrance of that which had passed in eternity allowed them to fully recognize the true purpose of such a temporal earthly existence.

Thus the first times of earthly human existence stood in the knowledge of truth, and this was not disturbed for a long time, since until then that spirit of falsehood, malice and rebellion, who had misled such great multitudes by promises of building another – own – kingdom and had drawn many down into the abyss of his own darkness, despite his restless search for the multitudes of straying souls, who had not fallen to him, could not find the kingdom of this world created for them, because such a creation infinitely surpassed his knowledge and desires, as the light of truth surpasseth the bottomless pit of darkness.

The thinking power of some Greek sages is great, but the life force leadeth them astray. They inquire not only into and within their surroundings, but also into and within themselves, and have thereby come to the quite correct knowledge that they are soul, spirit and life in the human body, that the soul is not the spirit and the spirit is not the soul, but that these are two factors, feeling themselves by the power of life and consciousness, complementing each other in will and striving, and that life is only to be found where there is spirit and life!

Now, though they see the infinite manifoldness and diversity of the essences of soul and spirit, they assume that life in itself is one and the same life in the whole plant kingdom, in the animal world and in men, one and the same life force, which they can never investigate as they can their own soul, their own spirit and their own earthly body, so they quite rightly imagine it to be a divine power. Quite wrongly, however, they place this – imagining it to belong to the nature of the earth – in the earth, imagining it to be working through the same "nature," without being able to determine how! They place God there, thinking wrongly, combine him and "nature" into one concept, and thereby take away from God His personal being.

In itself, however, there is nothing evil in this, and because much good, yea, sometimes very much good, is connected with it, and many are thereby educated to greater inner purity, to compassion with their surroundings, to a sense of community and to activity which promotes the well-being of all, it is infinitely, infinitely better than to hold the evil spirit of hellish darkness, the old Satan, for the true God, to enter into alliances with him against all other peoples who live on earth, and to serve his devilish lusts by offering hecatombs of blood and burnt offerings, atonement and votive offerings of men and beasts.

To the Multitudes of Listeners

Many prophets have desired to see what ye see, and to hear what ye hear; they have not seen it, nor heard it, but with you they see and hear Me now.

Verily I say unto you: The hour is nigh, that even they whom ye deem dead in their graves shall hear My word, and those who obey it shall truly live forevermore. But the truth hath never been withheld from the prophets of this people, for My incarnation was proclaimed unto them, and they bear witness, saying:

"Men shall be taught of God" – and I say unto you: He who hears and wills to be taught of God, let him come unto Me!

The prophets of this people bear witness yet more, saying:

"Men shall be taught of God," for they also say:

"A virgin shall bear a son, whose name is Immanuel, which is to say, God is with us" – "And thou, Bethlehem, art not the least among the cities, for out of thee shall come He whose going forth hath been from of old, from everlasting."

And of the child born of the virgin, another of their prophets saith:

"Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, upon whose shoulder shall rest all dominion, and his names shall be called: Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace!"

Now those who hate and persecute Me know that I am that child of whom the prophets thus spake; yet they mock Me, they mock the virgin who bore Me, they mock My word, and seeking to diminish and revile My works, they ever ask who My father is, who hath sent Me, taunting Me that they are not born of fornication, they who, as carnal brothers and sisters, have a man for a father, yet each a different concubine for a mother, and call this legitimate birth.

They will not know that true matrimony is holy, for it bindeth two souls, two spirits, two hearts, and two bodies into one, for with them marriage is governed solely by the lusts of man, regardless of the evil of his deeds; and this is practised worse than among those whom they scornfully call Gentiles, yet they themselves are the worst of Gentiles, for they hate the truth, and will not know what goodness, love, mercy, forgiveness, justice, and self-sacrifice are, for all these are alien to their "god," and they walk in his lusts and his spirit, their hands full of blood.

If I tell them this, and also who their "god" is, I, who alone am the Eternal Truth and the true eternal life, I am a "blasphemer," and again they cry mockingly: Who hath sent thee? Who is thy father? And if I say unto them:

"He who seeth Me seeth him who hath sent Me, and he who seeth Me seeth the Father" – their hatred and wrath know no bounds.

When the Jewish elders pressed the Lord concerning marriage, He said unto them:

How dare ye speak of marriage at all? Then the Jews cried out unto Him:

Aye, thou bastard, who knowest not thine own father, who hast no father at all, how dare thou speak of marriage? And Christ said unto them:

Yea, I say unto you, what ye call marriage is none; for each of you hath a multitude of wives and mistresses. The children know not in the end to whom they belong – and this ye call marriage? And the children ye call legitimate? If one of the many wives but look upon another man, ye cry adultery.

What do ye yourselves? And ye would speak of marriage?

I say unto you: If two people find each other – man and woman – they shall suffice for each other. He is not their lord, as ye make him. The woman among you is less than a beast. Ye cast her out, yea, ye sell her to another; yet ye deem yourselves exalted above all. Ye may do as ye will by your law, the woman hath no soul with you – and ye speak of marriage?

Turning to the others, Christ further saith:

If two find each other in earthly love, they shall suffice for each other, and I need give no special commandments beyond that which I have already said: What ye would have others do unto you, do ye likewise unto them!

Discourse with Nicodemus

One night, when Nicodemus, the Jewish ruler, came to Christ secretly, the Lord said unto him:

The eternal being of God is in and of itself as personal as the personal being of any soul-spirit entity is in and of itself. But because the radiance of God's spirit pervades all things sufficiently at all times and without ceasing, He is by virtue of this attribute of His spirit ever-present, and by virtue of this attribute of His spirit also all-knowing, wheresoever He Himself may be personally. Thus, the infinite greatness of God is not founded in His personal being, but in the nature and power of His spirit, to which the personal being of God corresponds most perfectly in its nature and attributes – without needing to be greater than thou, dear Nicodemus, seest Me there.

Yea, thou seest Me, Nicodemus, thou hearest My word, and thou feelest My hand! I am there in a human body like unto thine, therefore a man. Inwardly thou art soul, spirit, and life; an indestructible and imperishable trinity of an eternal being, because the life which is inseparably thine from the beginning created by Me is from Me and of My own eternal life force. Because I am before all the soul-spirit seed is awakened to the consciousness of its own being and life by the gift of life from Me and of Me, I am in the eternal trinity of My being, spirit, and life another, already the giver and not the receiver.

And I say unto thee, as unto all others, that I am the eternal truth, the true light, the true eternal life, and the beginning, and if thou feelest the power of the truth, the light, and the life of My word and of all My works which I do, deep in thy soul, thou wilt of thine own good will recognize that in the man Christ is not a human soul, a human spirit, and a human life, but the eternal being, the spirit, and the life of God is and worketh. When Nicodemus pointed out that though he did not agree with the "scripture" in his heart and understanding, he was nevertheless marked by circumcision, the Lord said unto him:

Nicodemus! In the shameless circumcision lie all the bloodlust and all the dark and devilish lusts of the prince of hell as marks of his striving; therein lies the mark and seal of the covenant with him against all that is contrary to him and against all who see in him, according to the scripture, who he is, Satan! Yet this shameless mark was inflicted upon thee without thy will, without thy desire, and thou art not to blame. It is a crime to bind newborn children into a covenant without allowing them, as adults, to freely decide for themselves. But this is precisely what the father of all crimes and all lies commands, as he commands to inflict the same shameless mark forcibly upon adults, the Jewish-subservient strangers.

But I say unto thee: Not the hellish mark alone maketh the Jews allies and slaves of the old Satan, but also their own spirit, their own will, their own striving, and their own lusts, which the prince of hell and his followers have read out of their souls, and therefore he hath made covenants with them against all other men; thus he is worthy of his chosen people, and they of him!

But thou, who hast long since rejected much of thine own accord, which thou shouldst never have rejected as a Jew, art as it were no longer counted among the old Satan's chosen ones; this hath been brought about by the feelings of thy soul, the purer and higher striving of thy spirit, which neither circumcision nor the bloodthirsty and vengeful statutes, threats, and curses of the Hebrew god have been able to hinder. Thou hearest Me, the eternal truth, thou wilt recognize Me, and in the true knowledge of Me thou wilt be born again in spirit and in soul, to the salvation of the true eternal life in My kingdom. Verily I say unto thee, unless thou art born again in spirit and in soul, thou canst not enter My kingdom!

When Nicodemus asked Christ how this could be, He answered:

Behold, thou art one of the most esteemed scribes, thou art a master of the scripture, and knowest thou not this? Your god and your scripture will know nothing of the eternal being of the essence of the soul with its spirit, of the rebirth, that is, the resurrection of the soul and its spirit, and of the true eternal life, that the lie of death may reign among you, and with it the darkness of the soul and the spirit.

But I say unto thee: Man is not born again as many think, for every soul with its spirit passeth through the kingdom of the earth of this world but once; but every soul.

End of Part 4