Sermon on the Mount 7

September 779 in the year of the Romans-7

Excerpts from the Sermon on the Mount in authorial form

Further – to the multitude of listeners and the elders

From time immemorial, true prophets on earth have proclaimed to mankind through pure beings of My kingdom that God Himself will come among men and teach them to know Him, Who alone is the eternal truth and the true eternal life, as He truly is. And now I reveal Myself to this world no longer through them, but have come Myself to fulfill personally all that these prophets of eternal truth – instructed by Mine – have foretold and preached to their fellow men about Me. I am the truth and the eternal life! I am the true light that shineth in the wilderness of the darkness of the spirit of this world, for a testimony and for the knowledge of all who are of good will.

He who is of good will cometh to Me, heareth My word, seeth My works, and though he hath not known who I truly am by the power of My spirit, he goeth away in peace; for he feeleth that My word is God's word, that My works are God's works, – and let it be said for a testimony and for the knowledge of all time to come that ye who are called godless heathens by the dark servants and slaves of an incomparably darker, lying, and evil spirit, that ye come to Me in peace, and however many of you may depart from Me, they depart from Me with greater peace. None of you oppresseth Me and none of you mocketh Me if he cannot grasp My word; each of you cometh in peace, heareth, seeth – and if he goeth away again, he goeth with greater peace, since he hath come with good will. Thus ye of good will practice peace, and My peace attendeth you!

But consider the "good" will and the peace which the foremost, the elders, and by their instruction also the greater part of the people of the Hebrews bring to Me, Who have come to them for a testimony and for true knowledge. Behold how the Pharisees, scribes, and Jewish elders hate Me, persecute Me, threaten Me, oppress Me, and seek to eliminate Me, how they stir up and incite the people against Me, how they mock Me, despise Me, how they curse Me and forbid their own, under threats of their god's vengeance, to hear My word and even to partake of the works of My mercy; all this precisely because they know that My works are God's works and My word is the truth as I Myself am the eternal truth.

I come to them in peace, bring them the truth and by the power of the truth also the true eternal life, and – they curse Me! I hold before them their own "Scriptures" and by the letter of these documents I show them what a dark spirit of lies and wickedness is the author and father of these scriptures. But they – themselves full of the spirit of this their father – cry out that I blaspheme their god as none hath ever blasphemed him.

I tell them that even according to the certain knowledge of many other peoples this world and the men on earth have existed and were there for countless millennia before the god of their scriptures found that he was the one who recently wished to have created all this and much else other than it was created of the truth and in the truth; and further I say that he, in his ancient falsehood, convicts himself of new lies by such a revelation of his, giving testimony how far he is from the creation of this world.

I hold before their eyes how malicious, lying, insidious, and dark is the spirit calling himself "god" in the documents of their scriptures, forbidding men – as his very first commandment – the knowledge of good and evil under threats of death; and I ask them whether a never-before-seen speaking serpent would not have revealed a thousand times more knowledge and wisdom to men than this their "god." For it would have been able to proclaim to them the truth of the immortality of every living soul and also the truth that every cognitive spirit, which in the earthly is man alone, must unconditionally and inevitably strive to attain to the knowledge of good and evil as well as to the knowledge of truth and lies, and must also practice true goodness if he wishes to become godlike.

And when I call upon them to admit to Me or at least to themselves openly and honestly whether such a truth-loving and knowing serpent would not be set heaven-high above a "god" who forbids men the knowledge of good and evil under threats of eternal death, which existeth not in truth, they cry out to Me in answer "blasphemer," cursing Me as horribly as their "god" teacheth them to curse through the documents of the scriptures of his spirit. According to the same teachings of these scriptures, they swear the most terrible vengeance, as only their god can swear and practice it upon those who, finding pleasure in such a spirit, are his servants and slaves, with whom he can deal as he pleases, because they are overflowing with his spirit, will, and striving.

I heed neither their curses nor their threats, I tell them that I wish neither to offend nor to anger them, because I am not a cause of offense, but am peace in the truth, by the power of which I wish to free them from the wilderness of spiritual darkness and from the poisonous claws of the prince of this world – who is a god of all Asasels – and lead them to true knowledge and to true eternal life through the knowledge of eternal truth, which I alone am. But they spit against Me, lift up stones, and it truly happeneth not according to their will that these fall from their hands again before they are thrown.

In vain I show them again by the letter of their scriptures that there can be no more bloodthirsty, vengeful, annihilation-greedy, and lying spirit than the author of these their "scriptures." In vain I point out again and again that no man who is able to think and feel even partially, yet still humanly, can possibly approve of such boundless bloodthirst, vengeance, and annihilation-greed as the spirit of their scriptures practices and also compels them, who are his chosen ones because of their spirit and striving, to practice like shameful deeds under threats of the most terrible vengeance.

I hold before their eyes that only the lowest and most insidious hypocrite can bring himself to approve of so much and so nameless evil and even to praise and glorify the author of all this, the spirit of darkness, lies, and wickedness, as god, only because he claims to be god through the mouth of his prophets!

And further I explain to them: If ye praise such a spirit as your god "thrice holy," ye are truly his chosen sons! And that ye are so, your blood and burnt offerings prove, the streams of freshly shed steaming blood prove, sacrifices before which even the most misguided heathens shudder and loathe. But ye yourselves boast of how terrible this your god is, how fierce his wrath and how dreadful his vengeance!

The heathens hear it, see you and your sacrifices, know you and this your god – but despise him and you, because they distinguish more honestly between good and evil than you; for none of their gods forbids them under threats of death to take from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and to fully know what is good as well as what is evil.

All indications, however, all proofs, all exhortations, all appeals to simple reason and mere humanity, all are in vain before such a spirit; yea, the more irrefutable the proofs, the friendlier the exhortations, and the less they can reasonably answer to the holding up of mere humanity and human dignity, the fiercer is their rage, their wrath, their hatred – and as they curse and damn Me as a "blasphemer who maketh himself God," they persist even more firmly in the spirit of their god. Knowing that I have come into this world fatherless, they insult Me with words whose meaning confirms their own origin and cry out even louder: We have a father, our god!

But I say to them: This your father is Satan, a soul- and man-slayer from the beginning, a chief of his Asasels, who hath not stood in My kingdom of true eternal life, because he speaketh lies of his own, is the father of lies, hateth Me, Who am the eternal truth and the true eternal life, as ye hate Me, who are his slaves and servants by will, because his spirit and his desires are your spirit and your desires.

And again they come with the same questions, who hath sent Me and who is My father; for they want nothing more than that I recognize their "father and god" as My father and God.

But if I say to them: God, the true heavenly Father of all life, is the eternal truth, and the eternal truth am I, as I am the true light and the true eternal life and the beginning, – then they curse, revile, mock, scoff, and cry out anew:

Man, despite thy wisdom, despite thy power, thy good words and works too, thou art but a man like us in body, and if thou art the father of all life, thou shouldest be able to show thyself to us not only as man, but also as the heavenly father; thou shouldest make the land into the sea, the sea into the land, make the sun stand still and the full moon endure – do this, and we will believe thee.

Now I tell them that I have assumed this My human form not only to show Myself to them, but also to tell them the eternal truth essentially in person, since earthly men, who cannot possibly see their own soul, which they are, are infinitely less able to behold the eternal being of God with their earthly eyes.

I hold before them that they, as men, are beings of soul, spirit, and life in an earthly body, which is fashioned and formed according to the being of their soul, but that they behold only this earthly form, though they are soul and feel livingly in all their thinking and doing.

How, I ask them, can they, in their soulful-spiritual and also earthly-bodily darkness, demand that I make My eternal being as the father of all life visible to them? And because they do so in their wickedness, hypocrisy, and falsehood, I tell them:

He who seeth Me seeth the father of all life, he who knoweth Me knoweth Him who hath sent Me, he who seeth My works seeth God's works, he who heareth Me heareth God, Whom ye know from now on, since ye see Me.

And this also I say to you, that great hosts in all eternity to come will not be able to see Me otherwise than in the transfigured being of this My form alone.

Ye claim to know God through your scriptures, but I tell you that through your scriptures the adversary of God's eternal truth confirms himself as such, but ye find pleasure in him precisely because your desires are his desires, his spirit and his striving, and therefore I say to you again: Ye know not God; for if ye knew God, ye would have to recognize Me! And many will recognize Me, to their own and many others' eternal salvation.

If anyone asketh after the heavenly father, let him know that He is in Me as I am in Him, and that we are not two, but One, I, Who say this to you. And when they cease from crying out and reviling, from cursing and damning in rage and wrath, I speak to them of you heathens and explain to them that there is no people except them whose scriptures of gods would not confirm the immortality of the living soul as the inevitable and unchangeable fact, already grounded in its being and existence. And I ask them further, what the spirit and god of their scriptures, as well as those to whom the same spirit and god in the scriptures saith "ye are gods," what these, what he, and what the scriptures know to report about the truth of eternal life? Only by this question are they struck – and they are silent. For their god and his scriptures have nothing left for the living soul but death and the grave!

They know this, for they know the letter of their scriptures and the spirit lying in this letter exactly, and they know also how even that foremost, elder, preacher, king, and prophet at the same time, whom they hold and proclaim to be the most glorious and wisest great man of their people, confirms and glorifies the letter of the spirit of his and their god of death and the grave.

And I say to them further: Such exalted wisdom must needs be preserved in letters, to be exemplary to every spirit striving for like greatness and glory – and therefore it is written in your scriptures:

As it goeth with men, so it goeth with beasts; as their death, so also their death. All is vanity, for all leadeth to the grave, all to one place; for from dust all becometh, and all turneth again to dust. Therefore a living dog is better than a dead lion, for the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing, have no more reward, and their memory is forgotten.

And I call out to them: How great must your knowledge and your wisdom be, if ye imagine and see in the spirit of this letter the pinnacle of knowledge and wisdom? Ye hypocrites! Ye well feel the insidious-malicious falsehood of the spirit of such knowledge, as well as the sad-lowliness of such wisdom, which in itself draweth down death and the grave, even you, who, despite better feeling and despite better knowledge, persist in the spirit of the letter of your scriptures, because this spirit is the spirit of your god, the spirit of your fathers, elders, leaders, kings, and prophets, and your own spirit.

Countless times have I told you that the true eternal God, by the power of the unchangeably equal truth of His holy spirit, is the true eternal life, the father of all living and of all living beings, who therefore can never lose their life again, because this is the power of His life force. He is it, Who once gave of this His power to all soulful-spiritual, that it – like Him – might live, and no one can take this power from the living again, as no living being can either lose it or lay it aside, not even if it willeth to cast off life of its own will, because the true being of all living is the living soul and the life force now proper to it is God's power.

The being of the soul is not grounded in this world, but in eternity, and therefore this world can neither shorten nor lengthen, neither create nor destroy the being of the living soul, because it is; for were the being of any soul not eternal, it – and therefore you too – would not be there! And as ye cannot make it undone to be there, still less can ye prevent being further on in the hereafter, living further on, and this alone is and remaineth decisive, how the cognitive spirit will shape its life and whither it will come.

For only his own free will decideth whether he entereth again into the kingdom of God, the kingdom of the light of eternal truth and true eternal life, or into the kingdom of Satan, into the pit of hellish darkness – to a life of eternal death-pain. Your god is the spirit of this death-pain and the grave! But I am the truth and the true eternal life!

And further I speak to the Hebrews: Many among you are of better knowledge and will than your god, for despite his threats of death, they are convinced of the immortality and indestructibility of the living soul. For they prove it by being themselves "questioners of the dead," seeking, paying, and secretly upholding soothsayers and prophets, but outwardly denying and professing to despise them. But if they are caught with them in "questioning the dead" and in soothsaying of their deceased, they excuse themselves by the "Scriptures" and refer to King Saul and the prophet Samuel, to whom I bear witness that among all your false prophets he is the most insidious and surpassed in bloodthirst only by his favorite and your king David.

The conversation of the poor, hunted, and betrayed Saul with the deceased insidious Samuel at the "prophetess" of Endor is the only point in your scriptures that sets aside the death and the grave of the spirit of your god and bears witness that the deceased liveth, can be called, come, and communicate through suitable prophets as his spirit, his will, his striving, and his knowledge are. But Samuel confirmeth even more; for his words to the once poor, but now standing in the true knowledge in his own light of peace, Saul, are the words of the same insidious Asasel from the hereafter as he was on earth: the death and destruction of Saul and the extermination of his whole house, which then the second Asasel, David, as a grateful pupil of his master, soon thoroughly took care of.

And I also tell them that they owe their knowledge of the truth of the immortality of every living soul much less to this passage of their scriptures than to you heathens; I hold before them once again that even if your gods are not such, but only erring conceptions of your spirit falsely seeking the knowledge of truth, this spirit nevertheless findeth in them the truth of eternal life.

These, though mere and false conceptions, contain infinitely more sublime things than a living spirit who, through his prophets, letteth himself be called god, calleth himself god, but before Me, Who am the eternal truth and the true eternal life, is nothing other than what I have repeatedly told you: Satan, a soul- and man-slayer from the beginning, a liar who hath not stood in My kingdom of eternal truth, a father of lies which he hath devised of his own.

Then their rage in his spirit against Me flameth up anew, and I tell you: They would have killed and eliminated Me long ago, were I not also the lord over the time which I have set Myself and determined Myself. Only when the time is there, only then will they torment Me, nail Me to the cross, and they themselves will do it, because no other hand will be found to do so.

Forecalculating like the insidious hypocrite David, they will choose the cross as My deathbed precisely to be able to proclaim hypocritically later that it is no kind of death of their law and that they therefore stand far from Me and the cross; for thus also the insidious intruder David hath tried to wash clean his bloodthirsty works hypocritically after he sold and delivered the poor sons of the king Saul, ensnared and betrayed by him and his kind with devilish malice, to foreigners for crucifixion, so that the whole house of the, though rough and angry, yet upright and honest king Saul might be exterminated and destroyed.

But the insidiousness of the Pharisees and scribes-hypocrites seeketh other ways: For a long time they have sent their paid Echaims everywhere after Me, so that these may spread the lie among the poor of their people who cling to Me that I am the last of the house of David and that they should receive Me everywhere with the cry: Hosanna to the son of David! Hosanna to the king of Israel! Hosanna to the king of the Jews!

They know how briefly the Romans deal with those who strive for a separate kingdom in the lands of their authority; and therefore they spread this lie, so that I may in no case escape their hatred and their vengeance, and so that if all their plans against Me should fail, I may not escape the snares of this lie.

I Myself will not escape them at all, for a testimony and knowledge to every cognitive spirit of good will for all eternity, of what being, spirit, will, and striving I am, and of what spirit their god is and they are: They, who are full of his spirit, will judge Me according to his law, ban Me, and let Me die in his and their own bloodthirst and vengeance, tormented, in the belief that they have eliminated Me, the eternal truth, for all eternity. It remaineth for eternal testimony and eternal knowledge, despite all insidiousness and malice, which will seek to obscure, darken, and make unrecognizable precisely this difference.

End of Part 7