The Many Mansions In The One House
1. AND as Iesus sat with his disciples in the Garden (of Gethsemane) he said unto them:
Let not your heart be troubled; ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my parent’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.
2. Thomas said unto him,
Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?
Iesus saith unto him,
I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life: no man cometh unto the All Parent but by me, If ye had known me, ye should have known my Parent also: and from henceforth ye know and have seen my Parent.
3. Philip saith unto him,
Lord, shew US the All-Parent and it sufficeth us.
Iesus saith unto him,
Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? He that hath seen me hath seen the All-Parent; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the All-Parent? Believest thou not that I am in the All-Parent, and the All-Parent in me? The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the All-Parent (who dwelleth in me) doeth the works.
4. Believe me, that I am in the All-Parent and the All-Parent in me: or else, believe me for the very works’ sake. Verily, verily, I say unto you, They who believe on me, the works that I do shall they do also; and greater works than these shall they do; because I go unto my Parent.
5. And whatsoever ye shall ask in my Name, that will I do, that the All-Parent may be glorified in the Son and Daughter of Man. If ye shall ask anything in my Name, I will do it.
6. If ye love me, keep my commandments. And I will pray the All-Parent (Who shall give you another Comforter) to abide with you for ever; even the Spirit of Truth. whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth not, neither knoweth, but ye know; for the Spirit dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
7. I will not leave you comfortless; I will come to you. Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me; because I live, ye shall live also. At that day ye shall know that I am in my All-Parent, and ye in me and I in you.
8. They who have my commandments, and keep them, these are they who love me; and they that love me shall be loved of my Parent, and I will love them and will manifest myself to them.
9. Judas saith unto him,
Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world?
Iesus answered and said unto him,
If any love me, they will keep my words: and the Holy One will love them and we will come unto them, and make our abode with them.
10. They that love me not keep not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the All-Parent’s who sent me. These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. But the Comforter who is my Mother (Holy Wisdom)[1] whom the Father will send in my name, she shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
11. Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the All-Parent: for the All-Parent is greater than I.
12. And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye may believe. Hereafter I will not talk much with you; for the prince (of this world) cometh, and hath nothing in me.
13. But that the world may know that I love the All-Parent; as the All-Parent gave me commandment, even so I do. Even unto the end.
LECTION 72. 1. -In the language of the Churches of this day, there is but one mansion in the Father's house, and that is claimed by each of over 300 different sects as its own, and all outside are damned, not for their evil deeds, but because they cannot see as their rulers profess to see.