Sermon on the Mount 6

September 779 in the year of the Romans-6

Excerpts from the Sermon on the Mount in authorial form

To the Multitude of Listeners

Now there is a people that seeketh to compel all other peoples under this god, who seeketh to compel all other peoples under this his chosen people, that all others may bring him like sacrifices. And this adversary of the light of eternal truth, this father of darkness, wickedness, and lies – will not that men know the true God, because he would be their god, and to make truth undiscoverable, he pileth up lies, one greater and more wicked than the other, to ensnare himself in his own toils when the times be fulfilled.

He hath caused his servants to describe precisely how he would have created this world in six days, but the time is nigh when his other servants, like unto those who were, will convict him of this lie also. He caused the leader-prophet of his chosen people to "reveal" how he made the first man from clay and breathed the "breath of life," the soul, into the nose of this earthly vessel. But the second man, the woman, whom he would have drawn from the rib of the first man, had the same life force; but because he would not breathe there, the woman hath life, but according to the interpretation of the Rabbis, no soul!

Behold how the men of this people value woman, and men will come who in the same spirit of Satan will do likewise. Such a "god" commanded his servants to write down this and much else that is of his spirit, that the "Scripture" might bear witness to such omnipotence "everlastingly"!

But I say unto you: Such "omnipotence" is a fabrication! And that very scripture shall be preserved, that when the times be fulfilled, men may recognize the lying, evil, and dark spirit who through his lies draweth the spirit of men into his own world and darkness, that they may not recognize God the eternal truth and themselves!

This "god" of hellish darkness will not that men recognize themselves as living souls and know that they were with God the eternal truth from eternity as soulful and spiritual beings, who, like the god of darkness, who hath become such through his later self-devised falsehood and wickedness, received life from and out of Me in the same time of the beginning, because I am the eternal truth, goodness, and love.

Not the lying and dark spirit of the scriptures, therefore, nor the true God hath formed man from earth, as a potter his vessels, but it was the living soul of cognitive spirit which, coming into the realm of the earth, took from the fruit of the power of the life that had arrived before it, formed the body of the earthly man, and, taking ever more from the earthly, created for itself in the course of time an ever firmer form, until it finally became as it is at present.

When the evil, poor "god" came from the abyss of the darkness of his hellish realm, he found this world, of whose creation and existence he had hitherto no inkling, and also the souls he had sought so long, he found on this earth as men; and he tried all that was possible to take as much of the earthly into his being as is possible for men. But because he had to recognize that his being and his, though so great and once infinitely greater, spirit was incapable of this, he resolved to continue to work spiritually as he had once done, and after long, long times, he succeeded in finding souls in men who had once been close to him and whom he could easily persuade here to exalt him as their "god," that they might not seek the God of eternal truth and reject all that would be even similar to His goodness, love, mercy, forgiveness, and justice.

The poor god of vengeance of all misery cast his nets, hath made a great catch of fish, and will make a much, much greater one. But he remaineth caught at the very bottom in the same nets he cast, though he may rejoice and rage so much for a time.

Not a letter and not a jot shall be taken from the "Scripture," the fruit of his dark and bloodthirsty spirit of vengeance, until the time be fulfilled, for a witness and for knowledge unto all who are of good will.

The time cometh – and it is not far off – that many men, misled by the dark teachings of the scriptures of this people and by the teachings of My word, which hath been distorted beyond recognition, without knowledge of God, without self-knowledge, without true knowledge, and without faith in eternal life, will walk towards death and "death," into a darkness from which there is no escape without good will to true knowledge. They will do likewise to this people, likewise pursue earthly power, wealth, and well-being to the detriment of their fellow men, in the opinion and belief that this life is the only, true, and real life, which should be enjoyed to excess without regard for others, yea, even at their expense, before man sinketh into the dark pit.

I, the eternal truth, the true light, and the true eternal life, God, have become man by the will of My spirit through My being, to show the erring souls the way to Me into My kingdom, to reveal to them My being and My spirit personally as man. I am come to sacrifice Myself and the eternal truth of Myself for them, that the abominations of blood and burnt offerings, the evil spirit of the abyss of hellish darkness, may be stopped, and that he may be recognized as the father of all lies and wickedness, as Satan and murderer of souls and men from the beginning.

But that the measure may be filled to overflowing, those who will claim to be your successors will establish a doctrine which, clearly considered, will be to the effect that I have come as an "obedient son" of this father, to sacrifice Myself also to his bloodthirstiness, to atone for the curses with which he hath laden mankind through the scriptures of his spirit, to confirm all his dark lies as truth, and to glorify him among men.

All true faith and, even more, true knowledge will be stifled by such an event and proceeding, and every thinking man will be much less surprised that many turn away from such a contradictory doctrine than that others can defend it fanatically and stubbornly and claim it to be My unique truth.

At that time, among all the men who shall know My name and My word – insofar as it hath been preserved pure until then – those will be accessible to the knowledge of truth who say in their hearts or openly: He, Christ, was a truly good man, full of goodness, love, mercy, forgiveness, justice, and self-sacrifice, a spirit above whom none can set himself who would call himself a true man; he hath sacrificed his whole doing and acting and even his life for the truth as none before him or after. Would men but try to act at least similarly to his teaching, the kingdom of God he mentioned must needs be formed on earth.

These and such men, despite their other ignorance and unbelief, will not be evil and wicked, though they regard God, angels, soul, and the evil spirit as mere words without being and deem the truth of eternal life not worthy of thought, and I say unto you:

These and such men will not be lost, because they will not be evil, but misled; and they will come to the knowledge of eternal truth after earthly life in the hereafter much sooner than those who profess to carry on Me, My name, and My word, but serve the satanic spirit of the scriptures, wickedness, and lies – in grievous blasphemy and profanation of the Holy Spirit of eternal truth of My being and My name!

And in like spirit with these blasphemers, further offspring of vipers will arise at that time, who will strive to rob those who say of Me that I was a truly good man of this handful of knowledge. This dark brood will claim that I was not there at all and that it is you who have created Me from tales. This satanic following will even seek to deny My existence as a man by all means of lies, wickedness, and malice, but they will knowingly be silent about the real being and spirit of him who calls himself Jahweh, El Shaddai, Zebaoth, and otherwise through the "Scriptures."

At that time, among those who will teach in My name, there will be not a few to whom the real being of Jahweh-El Shaddai will not remain hidden, because when reading the "Scriptures," which document his spirit and his insatiable bloodthirst and vengeance, they will be seized with horror and loathing, and they will strive as much as possible to circumvent his spirit in their teaching, because – in concern for their own well-being – they will not muster the strength to appear openly, to confess openly, and to bear witness openly to the truth of their knowledge.

But since such silent striving will not remain hidden, all the more others will arise and, with the scriptures of the spirit of hell in their raised hand, they will traverse lands and seas to gain companions of darkness, lies, wickedness, and ignorance.

"Here is the truth!" will resound in a thousand camps, and the poor will stagger from one of these camps to the other, but they will not find the eternal truth, because I will be maliciously and ignorantly withheld from them, and they will be taught that My true word and My spirit will remain hidden from them and that they cannot gain knowledge of eternal truth.

And at this turning point, My true word will be given again to men through you by the help of a mediator, without any glory and without spectacle, to those men who will not know what is happening to them, but who, poor in spirit of wickedness and rich in good will, will joyfully receive the spirit of truth, which is My spirit eternally, from you, for the knowledge and salvation of true eternal life for themselves and many others.

Men want to see God in His glory; they believed and believe that if God were to come to earth to teach them personally, this must happen with a spectacle and a glory that cannot be found in any tale. They think thus and believe thus because they know not God and His true glory! How should they, since their own glory is unknown to them, because they regard as the greatest glory that which is the very opposite of glory. And this is what hinders some among you who are with Me from the full knowledge of My true being – and ye think sometimes and occasionally that it would be better if I had come in God's glory and power – as men falsely imagine it – and in a spectacle that no man hath ever seen!

But I say unto you again:

I am come in My power, which hath never been embodied as man, nor shall be again. In the same glory and power I stand before you – in the glory and power of pure eternal truth!

But men heed not the glory of truth, yea, they despise this greatest of all glories because it hath come through Me without spectacle, and because I exercise no violence in the sense of the "glory" they mean; for according to their knowledge, their belief, their understanding, and their own striving, there would be no glory without the unrestricted exercise of violence.

I do works which – being good and holy in themselves – confirm My power, works which only God can do! I do them for a witness to My power, the power of God; but I do them also that they may lead many to true knowledge. But behold men: the poor marvel at these works, and, being freed from evils by them, they thank God, Whom they know not; but they would exalt Me to their king because of these works, for they say to themselves that then there would be no more hunger, no more sickness, no more evil, and no more dying. So far reacheth their spirit and their knowledge!

And when I tell them that I cannot be a king of this world and this people, because My kingdom is not of this world and I do the works for the confirmation and witness of My word, that they may believe Me, the circumcised turn away or against Me and say:

He is a great prophet, but he exalteth himself and blasphemeth our god; surely this god hath sent him, as he sent us prophets of old; but he thinketh himself to be God and will not be our king out of boundless arrogance!

The Pharisees, scribes, elders, and Sadducees, who have so often found the power of My will, by which I do the works, confirmed with their own eyes and ears, and even those of them who have found the effect of this pure power of eternal truth confirmed upon their own bodies, rise up against Me maliciously and insidiously and cry out: He hath the devil!

In their darkness, blindness, and wickedness, they see not how infinitely high they exalt the devil above their own god by such words, when they credit him with the performance of such works as I do daily and hourly.

I have ever set before you and them the scriptures, explained them, and ever have I said: Read these your "Scriptures" as they are – and see of what spirit this your "god" is! Show Me the place where he ever once, even with a single word, mentioneth true eternal life!

Show Me the place where he ever once saith that he is eternal truth! All his promises, for which he invariably demandeth blood and burnt offerings of man and beast, go not one jot beyond the course of earthly life, because he maliciously opposeth the truth of eternal life and hideth the truth from you. Nevertheless, he commandeth that the covenants made with him against all the peoples of the earth be kept eternally, sweareth "terrible vengeance" in fierce anger, and curseth everyone who circumventeth or disregardeth his covenant, and relentlessly demandeth through his prophets the extermination – that is, the murder – of all who will not satisfy his bloodthirst.

Though he, like you and like all beings of soul and spirit, is from eternity and enclosed in it, he knoweth not its meaning and its being. He commandeth the men devoted to him to keep their covenant with him eternally, and saith that he hath created this world and man. Despite his great spirit, he considereth not that men also think and themselves know that what was first created and is created cannot possibly belong to eternity as it is, because as it is, it hath begun to become and thus also endeth, that it is not and cannot be transformed into that nature which is eternally there without origin.

He also knoweth that all the innumerable diversity of soulful beings with their equally diverse spirit can never return to the original nature of their eternal being – as it was before the beginning created by Me – because all the soul-spiritual, pervaded by My life force, liveth, and life can never again be lost or cast off or forfeited in any conceivable way.

But because the dark spirit, in his malice and lying wickedness, remembereth this and therefore concealeth it, he calleth upon men to keep his covenant eternally, without considering that the human race on earth hath arisen through the power of the life of the spirit of the soul, and that with the last souls of cognitive spirit who have come to earth for the purpose of becoming men, the human race on earth must also come to an end.

Many of you are come to see, some also to hear; but ye shall all see with open eyes and hear with open ears. Many of you have already seen, and they cannot see enough. But I say unto you that he also remaineth blind who receiveth not the spirit of My word with open ears, pure heart, and good will, he also remaineth blind, though he may have seen so much and so great things. Ye have seen and heard much elsewhere from others and also among yourselves; but little of it was and is of a spirit that hath heard, confirmed what was seen, and could have confirmed it conversely; for what was heard sounded good, but contradicted what was seen, as this contradicted what was heard.

Every work revealeth the spirit of its doer and creator. But this spirit, by the power of his word, can give his works another face, another appearance, as well as another meaning, and thereby deceive the beholder so that he remaineth blind to the often infinite difference between the works and words of one and the same spirit, and to the deep gulf that yawneth between them! The works of such a spirit are evil; but his word calleth them good, and this spirit is the spirit of hypocrites, who stand lowest among all criminals and are so deep in the swamp of hellish darkness that they are very difficult to save. They are recognizable to every other spirit of good will precisely by this, that they call evil good and even praise it as holy.

The same spirit of hypocrites, who calleth his own evil works good, calleth quite the same works done by another like spirit evil and, moreover, rejecteth all the good works of a third spirit if they do not benefit him alone; but with all malice he opposeth this third spirit if his good works and words even bear the appearance of uncovering the malice of his works and the insidiousness of his words.

The works which ye have seen among you and your like correspond little or not at all to the words of those so active – and this, seen and heard in the long run, is finally regarded as self-evident or even necessary, dimmeth hearing, sight, feeling, misleadeth, and driveth to like activity, creating a hundred other evils out of one evil.

But he that hath ears to hear, let him hear: My word confirmeth My works, My works confirm My word, and I Myself confirm by My word and My works the spirit which in his and My being, words, and works is the same unchangeably equal eternal truth! What ye see in Me and what ye hear from Me is the spirit and power of God, in word and works the same and the equal eternal truth, which I am, Whom ye now see before your eyes as a man like you in appearance.

Let not My assumed body deceive you; for ever remember that not so much the being as such, but the spirit of the being is decisive, even to the being. Not the being maketh the spirit, but the spirit the being, which ye find confirmed in all beings of living spirit in this world, and of which the being of man alone maketh an exception, because among all beings of living spirit who pass once through this world, man alone is of cognitive spirit.

The spirit of every other being of living soul passing once through the earthly, be it that of the plant of the field and forest or that of the beast, fully correspondeth to the form, shape, and nature of its earthly body and frame. Only the body and form of man often, yea, alas, so often, deceive about the cognitive spirit of the living soul which he is, and he gladly deceiveth not only others of his kind but also himself about so many things.

Therefore it cometh to pass that such a man, despite the nature of his earthly body and form, not seldom sinketh soulfully and spiritually far below the lowest beast, because this, though not of a cognitive spirit, is of a purer spirit than that man who putteth his whole cognitive ability at the service of the evil spirit of hellish darkness and calleth this service good in insidious hypocrisy.

But many a human body and many a human form also deceive many others about the fact that they clothe a living soul in the earthly which, by the power of its cognitive spirit, reacheth to the pure beings of My kingdom and is unfolded to godlikeness, because its spirit of good will striveth to serve the truth and to do good, even without knowing who and what the being and spirit of eternal truth is.

In both such, but in many other cases, no cognitive spirit can be deceived in the long run if he himself will not be deceived, for the works of men confirm their spirit unmistakably and give the most eloquent testimony as to how far they are good or how far they are evil. But a still greater testimony of their will and striving they give by the choice of their "god" or their "gods," which are no god and no gods, because there is only One God, who by the power of His eternal being, spirit, and life is the eternal truth, the true light, and the true eternal life.

This holy truth hath not yet been proclaimed to any people by their god or by their gods, though it hath often been proclaimed to the peoples by true prophets of My spirit, since it could not be fully grasped by them in these words given to the prophets. For every spirit of knowledge grasps through the spirit from the spirit to the spirit and fully grasps what is given when he becomes of the same knowledge with the givers, who are of the same spirit with him in good will.

Most of you worship "gods," of whom you call some good and others evil. And if you worship all the gods alike, you are yourselves good and evil at the same time, because your own spirit, placed upon the gods, creates the spirit of such gods and thus also the delusion of the gravest errors of your own spirit.

There are many among you who find more pleasure in good gods than in evil ones; others among you are more inclined to evil gods, and accordingly some are in their works of a better spirit and will than others who are not of such good will. Yet even these stand infinitely high above those hypocrites among you who call good evil and evil good only to be able to call their own evil works good. To preach eternal truth to these hypocrites is in vain and a fruitless effort. For they declare the holy, the eternal truth, hatefully as a lie, the more they recognize how much goodness, love, mercy, forgiveness, justice, and self-sacrifice they would have to practice to become children of truth, children of God.

End of Part 6