Sermon on the Mount 8

September 779 in the year of the Romans-8

Excerpts from the Sermon on the Mount in authorial form

To the Jewish Elders

(782 A.D.)

Concerning the Hebrew God

Your father and god forbiddeth you the knowledge of good and evil, that ye may find his works of wickedness, bloodthirst, and vengeance good and blameless, and indulge yourselves in like desires. He shutteth you off from the way to the tree of eternal life, that ye may believe the lie of being earth alone and returning to earth, think only of the dark pit of eternal death, and accordingly strive to satisfy all your desires in the promises given you by him, to the detriment of all other peoples whom he hateth like you, and therefore commandeth you to exterminate or subjugate them, because they are of a quite different spirit and striving than he and you.

Because of the worship of many gods, ye call the peoples heathens, though some set only one true, eternal, and solely good God above all others, whether their own or foreign deities, but often have no such beside Him, albeit without knowing Him. But without your scriptures emphasizing it, and without your crying out, "Where is a god like our god, to whom no god is equal?" the peoples know it, and I also confirm it to you, that there is no second such "god"; for therefore, to confirm it not only to you, but to this world and the hereafter, have I come, and as often as ye have held up this your god as your father, I say to you now:

This your father is the evil spirit of hellish darkness, who hath not stood in the truth, speaketh lies of his own, is the father of lies. And that he is worse than all this, he confirmeth so clearly by the documents of your scriptures themselves, that only the same lie, wickedness, bloodthirst, and vengeance strive to interpret it hypocritically otherwise than it is, and because ye do so, therefore I say to you:

Ye well see and hear who I am. But precisely therefore ye cry out to Me, "Blasphemer, who art a man and makest thyself God," because I tell you the truth of who your god and father is, for which ye call Me "blasphemer" and for which ye curse Me with the same curses that, as the impotent fruit of his nameless hatred and his boundless vengeance, are his and yours alone. These will therefore only work upon you as they have worked upon him and his kind since the time he invented them and made them his own.

Thus your god maketh gods of you, that ye may fulfill his desires. But when I, the eternal truth, tell you the truth, ye call Me "blasphemer," curse Me with the curses that are his and yours, and think of nothing but that I should say before the people for his and your sake that he hath sent Me and is, like yours, My father too, for only therefore ye press Me before the people with the questions who My father is and who hath sent Me.

But if I answer you to such questions that I have come Myself and am My own father Himself, ye curse Me and ask the same further; so I say to you: He who knoweth Me knoweth Him who hath sent Me, he who seeth Me seeth the true father of all life, he who knoweth Me knoweth the father, and from now on ye know Him and have seen Him, because ye see Me!

And now ye curse again, call Me the cursed, uncircumcised Samaritan who hath the devil. And therefore I say to you once more:

Ye will die in your wickedness and in your sins, since ye now know who I am. But ye receive Me not. And many among you will perish in the darkness of your god and father, because, overflowing with his spirit and striving, they will set all their efforts to distort and destroy Me, My being, My spirit, My name, and My word, that the darkness of your god and father may rule on earth, and they in it, to their own and many others' ruin.

My word is the eternal truth, because in My being, spirit, and life I am the eternal truth, and therefore My word is also being, spirit, and life!

This firmament and this earth will pass away, but My word remaineth eternally, because it is being, spirit, and life of the eternal truth, which I am!

But those who ask and seek after the eternal truth from pure feeling of their soul will find Me, Me alone, and they will not pass Me by, but they will stop before Me, look up to Me, and they will truly become Mine, like these Mine today, many of whom, only out of fear of your violence and vindictiveness, shrink from confessing Me openly before you.

If ye would be children of God's eternal truth, ye must not keep laws of blood and burnt offerings, no law of bloody shameless mutilation, no covenant sign of a spirit who maketh covenants with the perverse sex against all other peoples of the earth, sweareth vengeance and destruction, demandeth eye for eye and blood for blood even among those fallen into his darkness – and knoweth to give the living soul nothing as a final goal but death and the darkness of the grave.

Ye must not hear and follow prophets, servants, and slaves of this spirit, for they are wolves in sheep's clothing, who hypocritically speak otherwise than they think and feign piety to entice and ruin you.

If ye would be children of God's eternal truth and have eternal life, follow the law of eternal truth, which true prophets have proclaimed to the peoples throughout all times and which I also tell you, because it is My law:

What ye would have others do to you, do ye first to them! This is the law of eternal truth, and thus spake all true prophets who have been, whom I have now come to confirm, that their predictions of My incarnation and their word that men will be taught by God Himself may be fulfilled.

And therefore I say to you: Everyone who would be taught by God and truly know Him cometh to Me, and if he is of good will, he will know Me!

I am the shepherd who will lay down his life for his own for eternal testimony and true knowledge of many. I will lay down this My life and take it again; no one taketh it, but I lay it down Myself, for I alone have the power to lay it down, and I alone have the power to take it again.

He who knoweth Me knoweth him who hath sent Me – that is: no one hath sent Me, I Myself have come!

The works which I do are done in My name, in My power, and I tell you this again and again: if ye listen to My word already unfeelingly, unwillingly, and unbelievingly, be at least accessible for the sake of the works, for in them also liveth My spirit, My will, My light, and My power, and ye can neither undo them nor deny them.

And ask Me not again who My father is! For I have told you and say again: He who knoweth Me knoweth the father of all life in the truth, which I alone am eternally! He who heareth Me heareth the father in My word of light and eternal life, and he who seeth Me seeth the father, and from now on ye know Him and have seen Him!

Because I alone am the eternal truth and the true eternal life, your god is a father of lies, because all his words and works are the very opposite of My words and works.

But this is your sin, which cannot be forgiven you, because ye know that I speak the truth, that I do the works of truth, and that I am the truth. But ye indulge in the shameful desires of your father, and in his name ye persecute Me, crying out that I blaspheme this your god!

The power of My spirit telleth you through your spirit that ye practice a wrong of lies and wickedness against Me; but ye violently suppress the admonition of My spirit, which pervadeth your spirit, and persisting in the lie of your father's spirit, ye sin intentionally and knowingly against My spirit, which alone is the spirit of truth. Intentionally ye remain clinging to the evil spirit of lies and cannot partake of forgiveness, because ye reject it as maliciously as the truth, which I am in the being of My spirit.

Were ye poor in spirit, were ye soulfully deaf and blind, and could ye not grasp, ye would be without guilt; but since ye are of great spirit, well hearing, well seeing, and well grasping, but give yourselves the appearance of not grasping, your guilt remaineth.

The soul with its spirit is of an eternal being, and therefore not created, but as a soulful-spiritual seed has been with and beside Me since all eternity in the worldless void of infinity, scattered and fallow like the basic things of soulless and spiritless matter!

Woe to the world because of offenses, and woe to the men through whom the offenses come! He who handleth the sword will perish by the sword! Judge not, that ye be not judged; condemn not, that ye be not condemned; forgive, that ye may be forgiven; and pray, "Forgive us, as we forgive"!

If I bear witness of Myself, My witness is true; for I know whence I have come and whither I go. Thus it is I who bear witness of Myself. Ye know not God, for if ye knew God, ye would have to know Me;

End of Part 8