Sermon on the Mount 9

September 779 in the year of the Romans-9

Excerpts from the Sermon on the Mount in authorial form

On the Falsehoods of the Pharisees and Scribes

O ye Pharisees, elders and scribes, ye hypocrites, knowing full well that millennia before the supposed creation and before the alleged time of your scripture, peoples and nations existed round about, who in knowledge and skill were then infinitely further advanced than ye are today! Ye liars and hypocrites, ye know well the nature of the tale of Paradise and the supposed first parents: ye know the darkness and evil of the prohibition of the knowledge of good and evil, as well as the malice of the barring of the way to the tree of eternal life; but only the haughty Sadducee speaks of it with malicious joy, to vex you hypocrites!

And these same Sadducees are they who likewise hold before you the tale of Noah with his three-hundred-cubit-long ark, which was to take in pairs of all the beasts of the earth and also food for many months, and bid you with biting mockery to think and reckon! They are also they who, to vex you, interpret with scornful accuracy the sordid incident of Sarai with her brother Abraham at the court of Pharaoh, and vex you hypocrites still more by alleging that they rely on scripture and assert that Moses cursed Abraham eternally, saying and writing:

Whosoever lieth with his father's or his mother's daughter, or taketh her to wife, let him be cursed eternally, and let his soul be cut off from his people!

Now Sarai was Abraham's sister, and ye hypocrites find in this case that Moses wrote for the present and future, but not for the past. Then the Sadducees ask you maliciously why ye do not interpret all that he ordained thus, but only that which suits you? And do not the Sadducees tell you that the plunder of Sodom was a vengeful deed of Abraham, Lot, and their accomplices, and that they – fearing vengeance – had to flee the region?

How, then, do the Sadducees interpret for you Jacob's brawl with your God? How scornfully they vex you with the inhuman "angels of death" who murdered the firstborn of the Egyptians, and in their bloodlust also the non-firstborn in one night, wherever the doorposts of the house were not smeared with blood, slaughtering and plundering?

And with what mockery, with what malicious joy they speak to you of the passage through the Red Sea, and bid you name the Pharaoh who is said to have perished there with all his host, and they pity you hypocritically that ye cannot do so.

Rightly they declare so many, many passages of your scripture to be lies, stolen goods, and senseless tales. But like you hypocrites, yea, with even greater malice and wickedness, they also oppose Me, Who am the eternal truth! They expose the lies of scripture only before you and only to vex you hypocrites, but Me, the eternal truth, they seek to slay just as ye do. How often have I told them all this and more:

God is eternal truth, goodness, love, mercy, forgiveness, justice, and self-sacrifice! Before Him all men are equal!

But your "God" has chosen only you, for the sake of the bloody foreskin and the blood sacrifices. Nowhere in scripture does he say that he is the God of all men, but:

Thou alone art my chosen people from among all the peoples of the earth, as long as thou keepest my covenant, and I am thy God; thou shalt have no other god beside me, for I am the Lord!

He knows full well, therefore, that there is a God quite other than he, who pretends to be God. He names the idols of the heathen made by human hands separately and differently, whereby he unwittingly confesses that he knows the eternal being and existence of a God, whose adversary he is and against whose eternal truth he rages with lying wickedness, far better than ye – and he wills not that ye should know the true eternal God; for from the moment that it were so, and ye followed also the spirit of eternal truth, which is the spirit of God, my spirit, his bloodlust and vengefulness would remain unslaked.

He knows how ye look as souls, and of what spirit ye are; for ye stand near to him in soul and spirit, and gladly ye satisfy his desires, that he may satisfy yours. Ye have stood near to him of old, and he has recognized you all again, and chosen you here on earth, that through your spirit ye may carry his further.

Because he knows you, he promises you through the fathers-prophets and through scripture gold, silver, riches, power, and victories over the peoples whom ye are to destroy and slay according to his command, or also to plunder and make subject to yourselves. Infinite, terrible crimes are to secure you well-being in the earthly realm – these are the promises of your God – and therefore Moses says so expressly that his works are blameless, and that all that he does is right!

The hellish wickedness that lies in this knowledge and in this confession is so satanic that Satan has surpassed himself through it. All that he does is to be right and therefore blameless; thus the most devilish work of Satan appears very simply justified by such knowledge! But I say to you again:

God does not do all things, but only that which is eternally proper to his holy being and spirit of eternal truth, in goodness, love, mercy, forgiveness, justice, and self-sacrifice. God does that which I do, and ye see that every lie, wickedness, and every vengeance, injustice, and self-love are foreign to me, and that I do not all things, but only that which God does in his eternal truth!

What your God does, scripture testifies so abundantly that he found it necessary to move Moses to confess him and his works as "blameless," and to declare all that he does to be right; for your evil works also appear thereby "justified." But I say to you:

This "blamelessness" and all that ye do is thereby for you, who are this God's chosen ones, a fully claimed "right," of which ye make boundless use to the harm and unspeakable suffering of all whom ye encounter.

But where, tell me, remains the true right of all other fellow men? Truly, according to the law of your God, apart from the circumcised of your people, there are beside you no fellow men, neighbors, and brothers, but only strangers, and that says all!

But I ask you: Where remains the justice of this your God? Heathens, called by you "ungodly" heathens, had to come and overcome you, to put an end to your endless abominations. And now that ye violent men feel a foreign power, ye cry out for a deliverer, for a "Messiah," because ye think that he alone must come for you, to realize your greed for power and unrestricted exercise of abominations, and to set you up again on top, so that fear and terror, horror and dismay, may once more befall all whom ye encounter or who even hear of you and your God.

A very short time ago it was so, and after another period it will be so again. But then – I tell you – many will have attained the spirit of true knowledge, and after a following period your God will no longer be able to rage against all other peoples, but only against himself and against you.

On Malhi Saddah

Ye read and teach the "scripture" in all its and your malice and lying wickedness, and will not know what even Moses knew full well, namely, that there is a God quite other than yours, and he himself calls this other God "God Most High"! How do ye read the scripture? And how do ye teach the spirit revealed through the scripture?

It is written: Abraham – who was then called Abram – returned from the battle of Chedorlaomer; but Malhi Saddah, the "king of Salem," whom ye more readily call Melchizedek, brought forth bread and wine, for he was a priest of "God Most High," who created heaven and earth!

This was written by the same Moses who at the beginning of the same scripture designates his God as the creator of heaven and earth, heedlessly letting him emerge from an eternal darkness, letting him create light only with creation – and now he acknowledges in another place that the God of Malhi Saddah is the Most High and the creator. He also knew more about the priest and true prophet of the Most High, but did not write it! Thus ye do not know today who this "king of Salem" was, and ye will not know; for this passage of your scripture is such a thorn in your side that in the High Council great disputes have often been held over the deletion of these sentences, because, despite their obscurity and brevity, they contradict so heavily the satanic spirit of the other passages of scripture.

But that ye may know, I tell you: When Abram and Lot, insatiable, shameless, and conscienceless in amassing the riches of this earth, continued to do so, and Abram with his servants had smitten those who had taken what had previously been taken and plundered from them through usury, and who in retaliation had also taken Lot with the women and servants, the prophet of eternal truth, Malhi Saddah, came to speak with Abram; he came to show him the way that leads from the abyss of spiritual darkness, through goodness, love, mercy, forgiveness, and justice, to the heights of spiritual light, to true God- and self-knowledge.

Scripture reports that Melchizedek was the "king of Salam"; but this was written much later by others; for Moses himself, according to tradition, wrote that Melchizedek was called king of Salem, but was not a king, but only a prophet of God Most High.

And I say to you: Malhi Saddah was just as poor in earthly goods as I am, and as are all who walk with me. He journeyed, preaching goodness and neighborly love, through wide lands, and wherever he heard of deeds of murder and outrage committed or expected through the malice of combativeness and the lust for war's horrors, he appeared there to preach goodness, love, forgiveness, mercy, justice, and peace, to exhort to peaceful life beside and with one another; he always pointed out that peace is the most blessed fruit of walking in truth, which, however, can never be attained without the practice of true neighborly love towards all fellow men! And again and again he spoke:

God, the most high spirit of a most perfect being, the only true, eternal one, beside and apart from whom there is no other, is the God of truth! Those who dwell with him in the light of his being, spirit, and kingdom come to me and send me to teach you this God of love and goodness, the God of mercy, forgiveness, and justice, and to tell you that he himself will soon come as a man to you all, for you and because of you, that ye may know his holy spirit, and through the spirit also him himself!

Therefore, defile not yourselves with hatred, envy, vengeance, blood, and abomination, into which the evil spirit of hellish darkness leads you, to make you his slaves. The most high God, the creator of all worlds, is true, good, and all-loving, and we are to walk in this his spirit, that we may, like those who speak to me and who come to me from him and speak to me of him, reach him; for we die to another life in another world, where there is no death, but only life!

If we walk as men on earth in his spirit, we shall go in that other world of life, which opens to us through death here, straight and unswervingly to him, into his world, which is full of the light of his being, his spirit, and his truth, to dwell with him eternally.

But if we walk as men on earth in the wickedness of the spirit of vengeance and abomination, in the spirit of the adversary of the truth and goodness of God – we err even here on earth, we live even here dissatisfied in envy, hatred, and also in terror, dismay, and if we die thus, we come to another world erring and shall continue to err there, because we willfully close ourselves here and thereby there also to the knowledge of the truth; we enter there paths that lead us to the world of the evil spirit, we can fall into the dark abyss from which there is perhaps no rescue, and live there in darkness and torment.

Therefore, cease the evil strife, cease the shameful wars, cease the slaying, killing, robbing, stealing, and bloodshed; cease also the blood and burnt offerings of man and beast, for all this is an abomination, a sacrilege, the heaviest blasphemy of His holy name, being, and spirit, to the most high and most pure spirit of the only true and eternal God! Only the evil spirit, who through you blasphemes the goodness and eternal truth of God, is he who through his own and through false and evil prophets causes you to do such things. To him and his devils ye sacrifice blood through the abominations of your blood and burnt offerings – and not to God, to whom such sacrifices are an abomination. Ye satisfy the cruel and evil desires of the evil spirit of hellish darkness, and those who themselves find pleasure in such horrific sacrifices are of his spirit, are his slaves and servants, and many remain so eternally!

The most beautiful and holy sacrifice is brought to the pure truth of the eternal God of goodness and love by that man who does good to every fellow man, is true and pure of heart, without malice and wickedness. Neighborly love is the holy and most God-pleasing sacrifice, as soon as it is also joined with mercy towards every living animal.

But if ye believe that ye must bring a visible, tangible, and especially God-pleasing sacrifice as a symbol of divine sonship and gratitude, then offer to the purest, most high spirit and being of God also a pure sacrifice, to which every fear, every suffering, every grief, every pain, terror, and dismay are foreign, and which yet gives of its own life to preserve life, if it lives on earth. Therefore, take the fruit of the field and the garden, lift up the soul, the spirit, and the heart to the purest being and spirit of God's eternal truth, and speak like the prophet Malhi Saddah:

Thus spoke Malhi Saddah everywhere he went; with bread and wine he offered prayers and thanksgivings to God, the Eternal, and many have recognized that he is a true prophet of the true God.

Even to the dark prophets of the Hebrews it has been said: Through a virgin a child is born to us, of whom it will be said: Immanuel, that is: God is with us. A child is born to us, upon whom all the glory of God rests, and he is called: Wonderful, Prince of Peace, Father of Eternity – God! And thou Bethlehem art small among the cities, but from thee shall come he whose being has been before the beginning and from all eternity. To the people who walk in darkness a great light will come, and to those who dwell in the shadow of death a light will dawn.

Confronting the Jewish elders who were pressing him, GOD the Lord spoke to them: All that I say to you there, yea, much more, has also been said to your prophets, despite the darkness they served and which ye continue to serve after them, who swear by those same prophets and claim to believe them. But now that the virgin has borne me in Bethlehem, now that I am here and say to you that in me the Prince of Peace, the Immanuel, Father of Eternity and of Life – God, whose being is before all beginning and from all eternity, walks among you and says to you: 'I alone am the eternal truth, the true light, and the true eternal life!' – why, for what reason, wherefore, and to what end do ye contradict the statements of your own prophets, yourselves, and above all me, who confirm my word by works that no one on earth has ever done or ever will do?

Ye tell your own, as well as the other peoples, of the miracles that your God is said to have worked especially among the Egyptians and then on the journey to Canaan. But these miracles are so transparent that the people, despite all commands, have never believed them, the Sadducees rightly find them to be nothing but mere mockery, and ye hypocrites do not believe them either, because ye are better and quite differently informed among yourselves.

All these recounted, written, and asserted miracles of your God contradict each other like himself, and their nature, spirit, sense, and striving is evil, for they all begin and end in one and the same darkness of violence, curses, vengeance, bloodlust, plunder, and destruction of others, in fire, smoke, lightning, thunder, darkness, hail, terror, and plagues.

My works are not miracles, but the power of my will, and they are good; if ye will not hear my word and receive into you the spirit, light, and life of my word, then learn from my word what it means to do good to all, to show to all true soul-love, mercy, forgiveness, and true justice in a belonging to the neighbor that, as your scripture commands, includes not only the circumcised Hebrew, but embraces everyone; and it is my works that show you clearly and plainly that I will have mercy practiced by you all towards one another, and not blood and burnt offerings, which are of the devil.

All people are children of God, my children. They are all chosen and called to true eternal life, the world of my kingdom is open to all, for they all have my life within them like you, and by the power of my life they live; they were all once with me in my true world created only for them.

I am the eternal truth, the true light, and the true eternal life! From heaven I have come into this world, and no one has sent me. The messenger is but a servant and a slave of him who sends him – he must represent that for which he is sent, he must do it in the name of his lord, and he must praise him just as he praises the cause he represents.

But ye see and hear that I speak in my own name, speak of my kingdom, reveal myself to you, and tell you that I alone am the eternal truth, the true light, the true eternal life, and the beginning through which all that has come into being, which before the beginning valid for you was not so formed and in the main had not been at all.

I tell you that this firmament with this earth will pass away, but my word will live and remain alive in all eternity! Ye see my power in my works, which I do in my name and which no other can do.

All this tells you plainly that no one could have sent me, but that I myself have come by the power of my will, to tell you in what darkness of spirit and soul ye live, and to convict you of the hypocritical lie and malice that ye praise hellish darkness as light, and therefore call evil good, good evil, falsehood true, truth lie, and Satan your God.

If I were sent, he who sent me would have to be greater and my lord. Then I would not be allowed to speak in my own name, nor to give revelations in my name, which would cancel out, one and all, the revelations given to your fathers or taken by them from the sagas of older peoples; then I would have to say that he who sent me is the eternal truth, the true light, the true eternal life, and the beginning. But because I alone am the eternal truth, I speak and do all things in my name and in my power.

Your spirit recognizes the true spirit, sense, light, and life of my word and my works; but the dark mark of your soul does not allow the knowledge of the spirit to become alive in the soul; therefore ye continue to ask with scorn, mockery, and threat at the same time who has sent me, and thus I give you the answer: He who sees me sees him who has sent me! Ye understand this well; but for this very reason the evil spirit of hellish darkness drives you all the more fiercely against me through the own darkness of your soul and your spirit, and even then, if I were to say not a word about your god, ye cry out: Blasphemer, who art a man and makest thyself God!

Thus ye understand well what I make myself out to be! But I say to you: just as no one can make himself out to be in my eyes what he is not in himself, so I make myself out to be none other than he who, by the power of my eternal being, spirit, and life, am unchangeable and immutable, even in this my human form.

Your father says in your scripture to Moses: I have set thee as God over Pharaoh; Aaron shall be thy prophet, and thou shalt be his God, and he also calls gods those elders who were to lead and judge the Hebrew people. Were I to say even once before the assembly of this people that I teach in the name of this their father and do my works in his name and in his power, they would thus set me above the "gods" whom he has called "gods" among them.

But because I have repeatedly told you and continue to say that this your father is Satan, a murderer of souls and men from the beginning, a liar who has not stood in the truth, who speaks lies of his own and is the father of lies, your hatred in his spirit against me is boundless, and anew ye cry out: Blasphemer, Mamzer, who canst call no father on earth, thou art vowed by us to our God, sworn, already banned, and must die – thou uncircumcised, cursed one!

End of Part 9