Excerpts from This Is My Word
Alpha and Omega.
The Gospel of Jesus
The Christ-Revelation
which the world does not know
Christ,
the Son of God,
the Co-Regent of the heavens,
the Redeemer of all men and souls
the builder and ruler
of the Kingdom of God on earth,
reveals Himself again.
Table of Contents
The Sermon on the Mount
Jesus of Nazareth gave mankind the Sermon on the Mount almost two thousand years ago. We can find essential parts of this teaching in the Bible (Mt. 5-7). The Sermon on the Mount contains the essence of the teaching of Jesus — fundamental statements for a life in accordance with the laws of God, guidelines for our relationship with our fellow men, with the animals, with nature. The one who puts these teachings into practice in his daily life will soon feel that his life is changing, that it is becoming peaceful and positive.
But
church leaders and politicians, especially those of the so-called Christian
world, claim that this teaching is utopian and cannot be put into practice.
Does this mean that Jesus of Nazareth was a utopian?
Or was He the realist who could show us the way out of the maze of the human ego?
Christ, the Son of God, walked this earth as Jesus of Nazareth. His Redeemer-Spirit lives and is active in each one of us since the “It is finished” on Golgotha. In the past two thousand years, He spoke again and again through the mouth of prophets. Today, in this mighty time of radical change, He reveals Himself anew through His prophetess. He explains and deepens His teachings which He gave to man as Jesus of Nazareth. This is also the case in His great work of revelation “This Is My Word, A and , the Gospel of Jesus — the Christ-Revelation which the world does not know”.
This work goes far beyond the content of the Bible; it gives us an overwhelming picture of what was, what is and what will be. In this revelation, Christ also gives mankind all-encompassing guidelines for a truly spiritual life in accordance with the divine laws. Thus, His words, spoken as Jesus of Nazareth, are fulfilled: “I have yet many things to say to you ...” (John 16:12). Building on an already existing gospel which is not part of the Bible, called the “Evangelium Jesu” (Gospel of Jesus), Christ describes His living and working as Jesus of Nazareth in this book “This Is My Word”. He particularly points out to us h o w to live in accordance with the laws of God, in accordance with the Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount in today’s time; and He gives us a preview into the future, into His Kingdom of Peace on the earth.
The Sermon on the Mount
of Jesus contains the essence of the path within which Christ teaches today in
Universal Life on all levels and in all detail through His prophetic word. The
Inner Path “Nearer My God to Thee” is the path of self-recognition and of
overcoming one’s human faults out of love for God. The person who successfully
walks this path to selflessness, to equality, freedom, unity, brotherliness and
justice receives the strength to more and more fulfil the Sermon on the Mount
and the Ten Commandments in his daily life — even in business and economy.
The intent of this book is to give all seeking people of our time an
understanding of the Sermon on the Mount of Jesus — not only those parts
documented in the Bible, but His teaching with explanations and deepenings which
Christ has given to mankind in our time through His prophetic word. Beyond that,
this book gives the reader insight into the depth of the work of revelation
“This Is My Word, A and W, the Gospel of Jesus — the Christ-revelation which the
world does not know”.
In this work, Christ builds on the book “Das Evangelium Jesu. Was war vor 2000
Jahren” (The Gospel of Jesus. What Happened 2000 Years Ago). However, since many
a thing therein is incomplete and sometimes falsely passed down, Christ explains
and deepens this text today. Those passages which the Lord does not address more
closely essentially agree with the truth of His life and work as Jesus of
Nazareth. Beyond that, Christ deepens and expands the essential reports in the
“The Gospel of Jesus”. Thus, in the complete work “This Is My Word”, mankind is
now given the entire truth, all essential aspects of the life of Jesus and His
teaching.
In the book “This Is My Word”, one or more verses from “The Gospel of Jesus” are followed by the words with which Christ explained, corrected and deepened the individual passages in 1989. This form is maintained in the rendering of the excerpts at hand. However, titles are used to subdivide the text and organize it in a clear way.
The words of Christ to the future inhabitants of His Kingdom of Peace about the life and activities of the pioneers of this kingdom are not repeated in the revelation text of the Sermon on the Mount from “This Is My Word”, because these statements do not concern the text of the Sermon on the Mount.
This book also contains the Twelve Commandments of Jesus which He has now given to mankind anew in His work of revelation “This Is My Word”, (Chap. 46:7-21). In essence, they are the Ten Commandments which God revealed through Moses and which Jesus of Nazareth expanded for His becoming Kingdom of Peace on earth.
The following information will also be important for the reader who wants to actualize in his life the commandments of the Sermon on the Mount of Jesus. After revealing the complete content of His Sermon on the Mount and the revelation of the path to God in the innermost being of every person, in 1991 Christ revealed the highest law to us, the Absolute Law, in His work, “The Great Cosmic Teachings of Jesus of Nazareth to His Apostles and Disciples Who Could Understand Them. The Life of the True God-filled Men”. It is the law of the heavens, given as further help to all those who have set out to become pure in heart again through the fulfilment of the laws of God.
God gave and gives. He does not ask whether man recognizes His word, the word of God, and lives accordingly. Each one can examine and decide for himself. May the one who can grasp it, grasp it.
1. When Jesus saw the
multitudes, He went on a mountain. And when He had sat down, the twelve came to
Him. He looked up at His disciples, saying:
2. “Blessed in the spirit are the poor, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
Blessed are those who grieve, for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek,
for they will possess the earth. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for
righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.
3. Blessed are the merciful, for they will attain mercy. Blessed are the pure in
heart, for they will behold God. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be
called children of God. Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’
sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of God.
4. Blessed are you, when men will hate you and exclude you from their company
and speak all sorts of evil against you and outlaw your names, for the sake of
the Son of Man. Rejoice in that day and leap with joy, for behold, your reward
is great in heaven. For their forefathers did the same to the prophets. (Chap.
25:1-4)
Christ explains,
corrects
and deepens the word:
The
Sermon on the Mount is the Inner Path to the heart of God, which leads to
perfection.
The blessed will behold the Christ and, in all meekness and humility, will
possess the earth with Me, the Christ. May it go well for the one who beholds
the glory of the Father-Mother-God in everything. He has become the living
example for many.
I guide My own to the recognition of the truth.
The one who is of the truth hears My voice, because he is the truth and thus
hears and perceives the truth as well.
The blessed are fearless and joyful; for they perceive and hear what those do
not see and hear who still hide behind their human ego, holding on to it with
utmost effort in order not to be recognized.
However, the blessed look into the prison of the human ego and recognize the
most hidden thoughts of their fellow men. With the power of their light-filled
consciousness, they radiate into it and call out to their fellow men:
“Blessed in the spirit are the poor, for theirs is the
Kingdom of Heaven.”
The words “the poor” do not mean material poverty. It is not this which brings
bliss in the spirit, but the devotion to God, out of which the person fulfils
what is the will of God. This is inner wealth.
The words “the poor” mean all those who do not strive for personal possessions
and do not hoard goods. Their thinking and striving aim at the community life in
which they manage the goods that God has given to everyone in a lawful way. They
do not aspire to worldly things. They serve the common good and extend their
arms to God and consciously walk the path to the Inner Life. Their goal is the
Kingdom of God in their inner being, which they want to proclaim and bring to
all people who are of good will. Their inner wealth is the life in God, for God
and for their neighbour. They live the commandment “pray and work”.
They strive towards the Spirit of God and receive from God what they need for
their earthly life and even more. These are the blessed in the Spirit of God.
“Blessed are those who grieve, for they shall be comforted.”
The grief of man does not come from God, but it is either the grieving one who
himself has caused it — or his soul has taken over a part of the debt of a
brother- or sister-soul in the realm of the souls, in order to pay off that debt
in an earthly existence, so that the brother- or sister-soul can enter higher
spheres of Inner Life.
God’s mercy will be granted to the one who bears his grief without accusing his
neighbour and recognizes his faults and weaknesses in the grief, repents of them,
asks for forgiveness and forgives. For God, the Eternal, wants to comfort His
children and to take away from them what is not good or beneficial for their
soul. For when the grief leaves the soul, that is, when the causes which became
effective in the soul are settled, man comes closer to God.
“Bear your grief” means: Do not complain about
it; do not accuse God or your neighbour. In your grief, find your sinful
behaviour which led to this grief.
Repent, forgive and ask for forgiveness, and no longer do what you have
recognized as sin. Then the debt in the soul can be erased by God and you will
receive increased strength, love and wisdom from Him.
If you meet a grieving and sorely afflicted person and he asks you for help,
then support him and help him as far as it is possible for you and as far as it
is good for his soul. And when you see that your neighbour thankfully accepts
the help and builds himself up with it, then give him even more, if it is
possible for you.
However, you who give help, do it selflessly. If you do it only as an outer obligation, you will receive no spiritual reward — and you will render no service to the soul of the person who is suffering and is sorely afflicted, but only to his body, to the vehicle of the soul.
“Blessed are the meek, for they will possess the earth.”
Meekness, humility, love and kindness go hand in hand. The one who has become
selfless love is also meek, humble and kind. He is filled with wisdom and
strength.
People in My Spirit, the selflessly loving ones, will possess the earth. Oh see,
the path to the heart of God is the path into the heart of selfless love. The
peace of God flows out of selfless love.
The people who walk towards the heart of God and the people who already live in
God work for the New Era, by teaching all willing people the path to God. In
this way, they take possession of the earth in My Spirit more and more.
“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
for they shall be satisfied.”
The one who hungers and thirsts for the righteousness of God is a seeker of
truth, who longs for the life in and with God. He shall be satisfied.
My brother, My sister, you, who long for righteousness, for the life in and with
God, be of good courage and raise yourself out of the sinful human ego. Rejoice,
for the time has come in which the Kingdom of God comes closer to those people
who endeavour to keep the commandments of life.
Behold, I, your Redeemer, Am the truth within you. I Am thus the path, the truth
and the life in you.
The truth is the law of love and life. In the Ten Commandments, which are
excerpts from the all-encompassing law of God, you find the guiding principles
for the path to the truth. Observe the Ten Commandments and you will draw more
and more onto the path of the Sermon on the Mount, in which the path to the
truth is fundamentally explained.
The path to the truth is the path to the heart of God, to the eternal life, which is selfless love. The Sermon on the Mount is the path into the Kingdom of God, into the laws for the Kingdom of Peace of Jesus Christ. When you go deeper into them and fulfil them, you will attain divine wisdom.
Recognize: No one should hunger or thirst for righteousness. Take the first step towards the kingdom of love by first being righteous to yourself. Practise a positive way of living and thinking and you will very gradually become a righteous person. Then you will bring the righteousness of God into this world; and you will also represent this because you fulfil the will of God, the Lord, out of His love and wisdom.
Recognize: The time is near when what was prophesied takes place. The lion will
lie beside the lamb, because the people have gained victory over themselves —
through Me, their Redeemer. They will form a great family in God and will live
in unity with all animals and with all of nature.
Be glad, for the Kingdom of God has come close — and, with the Kingdom of God,
I, too, your Redeemer and bringer of peace, the ruler of the Kingdom of Peace,
of the World Kingdom of Jesus Christ.
“Blessed are the merciful, for they will attain mercy.”
The mercy of God corresponds to the gentleness and goodness of God and is, for
all souls, the gate to the perfection of life. The people who have unfolded in
their souls all seven basic powers of life — the law, from order to mercy —
through Me, the Christ, who live in the Father-Mother-God, will enter again, as
spirit beings, through the gate of mercy into the selfless love, into the
Kingdom of God, into the heavens, and will live in peace. The seventh basic
power, the mercy — called, in the Spirit of God, goodness and gentleness — is
the gate to the eternal Being. All people who practise being merciful will also
attain mercy and will stand by those who are on the path to mercy.
Recognize: The path to the heart of God is the path of the individual in
community with those of like mind. For God is unity, and unity in God is
community in and with God and with one’s neighbour.
The one who has taken the first steps on the path to perfection will fulfil the
commandment of unity: One for all, Christ — and all for One, Christ.
The Sermon on the Mount is, as revealed, the path of evolution toward the Inner
Life. All those who are further ahead on this path of unfoldment towards the
heart of God help, in turn, those who are at the beginning of the path. In and
over all, shines the Christ, who I Am.
“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will behold God.”
The pure heart is the pure soul which has risen once again to be an absolute
spirit being through Me, the Christ in the Father-Mother-God.
The pure souls, which have become beings of the heavens again are then the image
of the eternal Father once more and behold the Eternal face to face again. They
see, live and hear at the same time the law of the eternal Father, because they
have again become spirit of His Spirit — the eternal law itself.
As long as people and souls still have to listen for the Spirit of God in
themselves, they are not yet spirit of His Spirit, not yet the law of love and
of life itself.
However, the one who has again become the law of love and life beholds the
eternal Father face to face and is in constant conscious communication with Him.
He also perceives the law of God, the life from God, as a whole, because he
himself is the life and love and moves in them. The one who moves in the
Absolute Law of God has also opened it up completely — from order all the way to
mercy. All the seven basic powers of infinity serve him, because he is in
absolute unity and harmony with all Being.
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.”
The meaning of these words is that those who keep the peace are blessed. They
will also bring true peace to this earth, because they have become peaceful
within themselves. They are consciously the children of God.
“Blessed are those who suffer persecution for
righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of God.”
Recognize: The one who followed Me was not respected by the worldlings, because
I, too, as Jesus, was held in disdain by them. At all times, people who stepped
into the true following of the Nazarene had to endure and suffer a great deal.
5. Woe unto you who are rich! For you have received your consolation in this life. Woe unto you who are sated, for you will hunger. Woe unto you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep. Woe unto you when all men speak well of you, for so did their forefathers with the false prophets. (Chap. 25:5)
Christ explains,
corrects
and deepens the word:
“Woe unto you who are rich, for you have received your consolation in this life.”
People
who look upon their wealth as their property are poor in spirit. Many who are
rich in earthly goods were given in the cradle the spiritual task for their
earthly life, to be an example to those rich people who tie themselves to their
wealth with hardened, relentless hearts and whose sole thinking and striving
consist in increasing this wealth for themselves. A person who is rich in
earthly goods and has recognized that his wealth is a gift — which he has
received from God only to bring it into the great whole for the well-being of
everyone and to administer it in the right way for all — is the one who
actualizes the law of equality, freedom, unity and brotherhood. He contributes
as a selfless giver so that the poor do not live in privation and the rich in
luxury.
In this way, a balance will gradually be established, an upper middle class for
all those who are willing to selflessly fulfil the law “pray and work”. Thus,
very gradually the true humanity of a community arises, whose members do not
collect personal earthly riches, but rather consider everything to be common
property given to them by God.
If a rich person considers money and property as his own and is esteemed in the
world because of his wealth, then — as the effect of his causes — he will live
in poor countries in the next earthly lives and there he will beg for the bread
that he, as a rich man, once denied the poor. This can happen as long as such
incarnations are still possible.
The soul of such a rich person will also find no rest in the spheres of purification. The souls that are poor in light who had to endure suffering and hunger in the earthly garment because of him will recognize him once more as the one who denied them what could have helped them out of the entanglement of the human ego. Many will accuse him and then his soul itself will feel how they suffered and hungered. In this way, a soul which was rich and esteemed as a human being in the earthly garment may suffer great need; this need is much greater than if it had had to beg for bread in the earthly garment.
Recognize: According to the laws of the Eternal, everyone who selflessly keeps
the commandment “pray and work” is due the same; for God gives everyone what he
needs and beyond that. However, as long as this commandment is not yet observed
by all people, there will be the so-called rich on earth. It is their task to
divide their accumulated wealth and to live just as those who selflessly fulfil
the commandment “pray and work”. If they think of the welfare of all and not of
their own, the inner wealth will gradually turn without and no person will
hunger or live in want.
Woe to you, you rich ones, you who call your money and property your own and
make your neighbour work so that your wealth may increase! I say to you: You
will not behold the throne of God, but continue to live where the feet of God
are — on earth, again and again in earthly garments, as long as this is still
possible. Even if you sponsor social service establishments, but you yourselves
are so much wealthier than those who are supported thereby, then you are
nevertheless servile to the satan of the senses, who wants the differences
between rich and poor.
Out of these differences, power and subservience, envy and hatred emerge. These give rise to fighting and wars. Those who cling to their wealth, even though they now and then think of the social good, thus serve the satan of the senses and act against the law of life: against equality, freedom, unity and brotherliness.
The one who considers money and property as his own and hoards them for himself, instead of letting these material energies flow, is a thief according to the law of life, for he denies his neighbours a part of their spiritual heritage. For everything is energy. The one who ties it up through “me” and “mine” acts against the law, which is flowing energy.
“Woe unto you who are sated, for you will hunger.”
The wealthy, sated man who fills only “his” barns is empty at heart. He knows only the mine and thine. His senses and thoughts revolve around “my” property, “my” possessions, “my” bread, “my” food. “All this belongs to me” — this is his world. Such a person will one day hunger and live in want until he realizes that everything is the Being; everything belongs to God and to all people who strive to do the works of God: to love selflessly and to fulfil the law of life for the earth, “pray and work”.
People
who speak only of mine and thine are people poor in light who already in this
incarnation prepare a further journey on earth or a long pilgrimage for their
soul in the realm of the souls and, in both cases, in the garment of a beggar.
The soul that is blinded by material things unconsciously craves for light,
because it is lacking in light. It compulsively tries to compensate for this
with outer things, such as earthly wealth, greed, gluttony, alcoholism or other
cravings and pleasures. It is insatiable.
“Woe unto you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.”
The one who laughs and mocks his neighbour will one day be very sad and will cry over himself — because he failed to acknowledge those whom he made fun of and mocked. He will have to recognize that, in the end, he has laughed at, scorned and ridiculed himself. For the one who judges and condemns his neighbour, who laughs at him, scorns and ridicules him, judges, condemns, laughs at, scorns and ridicules Me, the Christ.
Recognize that the one who sins against the least of My brothers sins against the law of life and will have to suffer under this. At the same time, he has bound himself to the one he held in disdain. Therefore, be on your guard and practise self-control. It is not what enters through your mouth that soils your soul, rather it is what goes out from your mouth that burdens the soul and person.
“Woe unto you when all men speak well of you, for so did their forefathers with the false prophets.”
If you
flatter your fellow man, so that he praises you and holds you in esteem, then
you are like the counterfeiters who, for the sake of their own advantage, pay
with false money .
It was and is similar with the false prophets, too. They were and are esteemed
by the people because they flattered the people and because those of high
standing among the people were in league with them, thereby expecting personal
profit and gain.
Recognize, you people in the Kingdom of Peace, that in the sinful world many
righteous prophets and enlightened men and women, as well, were slandered and
persecuted by the rich and the powerful of this world, by church leaders and
their adherents, and many of them were tortured and killed. At all times, the
satanic used as tools those who wanted to keep and increase their worldly wealth
for themselves, those who strove for power and also those who were servile to
the rich and powerful.
You should know this, so that you can understand why the old sinful world
perished in such a gruesome way.
In addition, false prophets were also those who did indeed preach the gospel of love, but they themselves did not live accordingly. And there were also all those who called themselves “Christians” and behaved in an unchristian way in their life. They were often famous because of their eloquence and were honoured and praised because of their wealth and prestige.
Oh see, nevertheless and in the course of time, all true prophets and enlightened ones contributed to the fact that the crystal of Inner Life, with its many facets of eternal truth, sparkled and shone more and more. In this way, the Kingdom of God on earth was very gradually built up.
It is up to you, dear brothers and sisters in the Kingdom of Peace, to cherish, guard and preserve this now perfect, sparkling and shining crystal, the Inner Life, like a precious flower. It is the law of love and wisdom of God, His order, His will, His wisdom, His earnestness, His goodness, His infinite love radiation, and His gentleness.
6. You are the salt of the earth, for every sacrifice must be salted with salt, but if the salt has lost its taste, with what shall one salt? Henceforth, it is good for nothing, but to be poured out and trodden underfoot. (Chap. 25:6)
Christ explains,
corrects
and deepens the word:
The righteous are the salt of the earth.
They
will repeatedly point out the deplorable state of affairs of this world and will
touch the sore point of sin. For much damage has been and is taking place in
this still sinful world — and many people became victims for the sake of the
gospel.
The righteous who were victims shall be rehabilitated by righteous men and women,
for everything shall become manifest through the salt of the earth. Now, in this
time of radical change from the old sinful world to the New Era, the Era of
Light, the righteous will bring injustice to light and will cause it to become
manifest, so that those who have done wrong may recognize themselves and atone
for it.
However, you righteous ones, who are the salt of the earth, beware that the salt does not lose its taste, that you therefore remain in righteousness and do not let yourselves be led astray. For who shall bring righteousness into this world, and who shall point out the deplorable state of affairs and sins which people have created? Surely, only those who know My name and are recorded in the book of the lamb.
The one who is no longer the salt of the earth falls among those who have taken and are taking My name in vain for their own purposes and have persecuted, slandered and killed the righteous.
When the salt of the earth loses its taste and man disregards his neighbour, he will succumb to his own causes; figuratively speaking, he will trample himself underfoot. His unexpiated causes will then bring about illness, infirmity and grief. The soul that is poor in light will live in want and will feel on its own soul body what it has caused to its neighbour.
7. You are the light of the world. The city that is built on a hill cannot be concealed. Neither does one light a candle and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it gives light to all who are in the house. Let your light so shine before the people, that they may see your good works and praise your Father who is in heaven. (Chap. 25:7)
Christ explains,
corrects
and deepens the word:
I Am
the light of the world.
In the mighty turn of time, more and more hearts were kindled by My light. The
people recognized the eternal truth in My words. More and more people walked the
Inner Path and accepted the gift of life, the teachings and lessons from the
eternal truth, in order to come nearer to God, the eternal Being.
Many men and women became My faithful ones, because they fulfilled the will of God. They became brothers and sisters in My Spirit and became the pioneers for the New Era, who laid the foundation of the Kingdom of God on earth and began to build upon it.
8. You should not think that I Am come to destroy the law or the prophets; I Am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily, I say to you: Till heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter nor one dot will pass away from the law or the prophets until all that is fulfilled. But behold, One greater than Moses is here, and He will give you the higher law, even the perfect law, and you shall obey this law. (Chap. 25:8)
Christ explains, corrects
and deepens the word:
As
Jesus of Nazareth, I taught parts from the perfect law, from the Absolute Law,
to the men and women who followed Me and to all those who listened to Me. I also
explained to them that the Absolute Law of love radiates into the law of sowing
and reaping; for the Spirit is omnipresent and is also active in the law of
sowing and reaping, the law of the fall.
Through Me, as Jesus of Nazareth, the incarnated Christ, and through all the
true prophets of God that followed, the Eternal taught and admonished His
children in the imperfect spheres that the law of the fall, the law of sowing
and reaping, is constantly active. The one who does not stop and think it over
and does not turn back in time will have to bear his causes as effects. The
Eternal was and is making every effort, even today [1989], to lead His human
children and all souls to His heart, to the law of eternal love, before the
harvest — the effects of the causes created by them — falls upon them. The
Eternal led and leads them to self-recognition through Me, Christ. He gave and
gives them the strength to clear up what they recognized and recognize as sin
and fault.
In
Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ, who I Am, came to this earth, into this world, to
teach, as the Son of Man, the eternal law to people and to live it as an example,
so that they would recognize the path to the eternal Father and fulfil His law —
and so that they may enter again into the eternal homes that He keeps ready for
all His children.
The people who followed My example during My lifetime on earth and who
actualized the eternal laws, were My true followers.
In the generations that followed, there existed a Christianity and a seeming Christianity: the true followers who freely followed Me, the Christ, by keeping the laws of the Sermon on the Mount — and the seeming Christians who just talked about Me, the Christ, but acted against the laws. In addition, there was the so-called coerced following of Christ: This resulted from the forced Christianization of the masses carried out by the churches.
Recognize: There is no coercion in the eternal law. God, the Eternal, has given all His children free will. The one who freely decides has, through his free decision, the strength for what characterizes true Christianity: equality, freedom, unity, brotherliness and justice. All coercion originates from the law of sowing and reaping, also called the law of the fall. It is given to man to freely choose his spiritual path. I, Christ, offered and offer the path to the heart of God, but I pressure no man to walk it. The one who pressures his neighbour lives himself under the pressure of the law of the fall and personifies the fall thought.
Several
so-called Christian denominations force their faithful into baptism with water.
Even the little children whose free will is not yet developed and who therefore
cannot yet decide for themselves are forced, through baptism by water, into the
membership of a church and thereby induced to participate in its other rituals.
This is an intrusion into the individual’s free will and, so to speak, a forced
Christianization. These are the things which take their course within the law of
the fall.
People who do not freely accept and receive Me, Christ, in themselves out of the deepest inner conviction, often have great difficulties in correctly understanding and accepting the Ten Commandments, the excerpts from the eternal law. This is because these have been pushed into the background through many externalizations, dogmatic ceremonies, rites, customs and cults. Within the denominations, these externalizations became the most important point; yet, they have nothing in common with inner Christianity, the Inner Religion, but originated, in part, directly from the times of polytheism and idolatry, and thereby from the region of the fall planes.
Only when people freely break away from the dogmas and rigid ceremonies that have been forced upon them, from rites and cults, as well as from their own conceptions of God, can they gradually be guided into their inner being, into their true being. There, in their inner being, they then discover themselves as true beings in God and as inhabitants of the Kingdom of God, which is within every person. This Inner Life is the true religion, the Inner Religion.
Recognize: The eternal, all-embracing, universal law, the law of the heavens, is
irrevocable. It is the law of all pure Being. The law of sowing and reaping came
into being through the fall and can be dissolved only through the actualization
of the eternal laws. However, it cannot be evaded. The law of sowing and reaping
remains active in each soul, until the sins are recognized, cleared up, atoned
for and given over to Me, the Christ of God. Then the fall law is no longer in
the soul. The soul is then freed from its impurity for the most part. It becomes
again the pure being in God, that lives the Absolute Law, as it strives again
towards the absolute, all-ruling law of love and of life.
The law of sowing and reaping is valid until all that is unlawful is cleared off
and transformed into positive energy and every being lives again in God, out of
whom it came forth. To the same degree in which all beings from God have once
more been received into the heart of God, into the Absolute Law, so will all
purification planes – all part-material and material planes, including the earth
— transform into cosmic energy and again vibrate in the Absolute Law. The fall
law is then repealed, and the love of God is conscious and all-reigning in all
Being, in every being.
Not one
“dot” will be removed from the eternal law which the true prophets brought
before and after Me, and which I, as Jesus of Nazareth, lived as an example.
When it says “not the smallest letter”, then it means a single aspect of the
eternal truth, not the letter and the word of human beings as such. Human words
are often only symbols that hide what is deep within. Only when the person is
able to feel into the language of symbols does he recognize the truth and the
meaning of life, which lies deeply hidden in the human words.
“The
higher law” is the step into the perfect law. This will be taught to the mostly
pure beings, which have come from earth and the soul realms, in the preparation
planes, which are situated before the gate of heaven. The higher law is the last
level of instruction before the gate of heaven. It shows the mostly pure beings
how the lawful radiation is reactivated in the spirit body, so that it can be
applied in infinity.
As Jesus of Nazareth, I taught parts of the perfect law, the Absolute Law. The
whole truth still had to remain concealed from the people in those days, because
they were still too dependent on their belief in gods and were oriented towards
the various trends of belief of that time. For that reason, I spoke in the
following sense: When the time has come, I, the Spirit of truth, will lead you
into all truth.
On the
hill of Golgotha — this means, the place of the skulls — I was crucified by the
Romans, because the Jewish people had not accepted and received Me as the
Messiah. Although I preached, taught, healed and gave many signs of My deity, up
and down the valley of the Jordan, the stubborn Jewish people remained servile
to the ministers of the temple, thus becoming accomplices in the death of Jesus
of Nazareth.
With words in the sense of “It is finished”, the spark of redemption entered all
burdened and fallen souls. Thus, I became and I Am the Redeemer of all men and
souls.
As the
Christ of God, I acted and continue to act. In all generations up to the present
time [1989], I gave and give My revelations through true instruments of God,
through people whose souls are for the most part purified.
In this mighty turn of time, in which the Era of Light comes closer and closer
to man, I teach the eternal law in all its facets, and more and more people walk
the path within, to the love of God.
Now the time which I announced as Jesus of Nazareth has come: “Today you are not yet able to bear it, that is, to grasp it; yet when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth.” Now, in spirit, I Am among My own, the faithful pilgrims to the eternal Being, to the consciousness of My Father; and I teach them the absolute, eternal law, so that also those who will live in the Kingdom of Peace may fulfil it and thereby live in Me and I through them.
My words are life, the eternal law. They will be preserved in the pilgrims to the eternal life and in many written records as well — as it is with this book — for the Kingdom of Peace of Jesus Christ.
Recognize: Only the eternal law of love makes people free — not the law of sowing and reaping. This brings them only suffering, illness, misery and infirmity.
9. The one who breaks one of these commandments, which He gives, and teaches the people to do the same will be called the least in the Kingdom of Heaven. But the one who keeps and teaches them, the same will be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven. (Chap. 25:9)
Christ explains,
corrects
and deepens the word:
The Ten Commandments which God gave to His human children through Moses are excerpts from the eternal law of life and of love. The one who violates these commandments, who only teaches them to his fellow man but does not keep them himself, is a false teacher. He sins against the Holy Spirit. This is the greatest sin. This misleader uses the love of God, the law of life, for his own purpose. Thereby, he abuses the eternal law. Every abuse is robbery; and every robber is a hunted and hounded person who, sooner or later, is caught and convicted by his own deeds, by his own causes. For God is a just God; everything will be revealed through Him, the good as well as the not so good and the evil.
However, the one who keeps the law of love and of life, that is, who fulfils it in his daily life, and teaches people what he himself has actualized is a true spiritual teacher. He offers the bread of the heavens to the people and will thus satisfy many. The one who gives out of his own fulfilment is filled by divine wisdom and strength and, when the time has come, will shine like a star in heaven. For the God-filled person draws from the stream of salvation and selflessly gives to those who hunger and thirst for righteousness.
Recognize: The eternal law of love and of life comes into this world through such righteous men and women. Therefore, the one who keeps and teaches the eternal law will be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven; this means that he will earn a rich reward in heaven.
10. Verily, those who believe and obey will save their souls, and those who do not obey will lose them. For I say to you: If your righteousness is not greater than that of the scribes and pharisees, you will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven. (Chap. 25:10)
Christ explains,
corrects
and deepens the word:
The statement, “... those who believe and obey will save their souls, and those who do not obey will lose them” means that the one who believes and follows the laws of God will deliver his soul from the wheel of reincarnation, which will continue to draw him into the flesh until he has atoned for all that repeatedly drew him into incarnation.
Recognize: The mere belief in the law of life is not enough. Only the belief in
the life and the actualization of the laws of life lead man and soul out of the
wheel of reincarnation.
The one who does not keep the laws of God betrays God and sells his soul to the
darkness. Thereby, he covers the light of his soul, his true life. This person
then lives in sin and his soul lives in the slumber of this world. The law of
incarnation, the wheel of reincarnation which draws the soul into incarnation,
will still be in effect for some time, so that the incarnated soul may recognize
that it is not of this world, but is in the earthly garment in order to discard
what is human — and to uncover what is divine: its true eternal life.
Not all who know the written characters interpret them according to the letter only — but according to the meaning. For this reason, it should mean: If your righteousness is not greater than that of the many scribes — who pretend to be righteous and teach My law, but do not keep it themselves — you will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
Therefore, do not tie yourselves to the opinions and views of people. Actualize what you have recognized from the law of life; then you will recognize the further steps to the higher spiritual principles.
Recognize: The justice of God is the love and wisdom of God. The one who does not bring them to unfoldment in himself does not radiate them; he neither perceives the depth of eternal Being nor fathoms his true life. His earthly life is in a state of vegetation. He vegetates past the true life. He is spiritually dead in this life as well as in the beyond. Neither in this earthly existence nor in the life beyond does he have the right orientation, because he did not live according to the laws of life. He is not wise, but only passes on his stored knowledge. Thus, he becomes an adherent of sin and finally, a sinner. He acts against the eternal law and in this way falls deeper and deeper into the law of sowing and reaping.
11. Therefore, when you offer your gift on the altar and remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift before the altar, go there first and reconcile with your brother, and then come and offer your gift. (Chap 25:11)
Christ explains,
corrects
and deepens the word:
When you devote your life to Me, the Christ, and want to give your faults and sins over to Me and you recognize that you have not yet reconciled with your neighbour, then leave your sin lying before the inner altar for the moment. Go to your neighbour and reconcile with him — and, if you no longer want to do the same or similar thing which led to the sin, then lay your sin upon the altar. The altar is in the innermost part of your temple of flesh and bone. The Spirit of love and life will then transform the sin into strength and life. You will attain liberation from that which you freely, willingly and without pressure give over to Me and thus no longer do the same or similar thing. Your soul will then increasingly receive the light from Me.
Take heed of the following spiritual principle: When you have sinned against your neighbour exclusively in thoughts, through unloving, envious, revengeful, jealous or hate-filled thoughts, then do not go to him in order to talk to him about it. Know that your neighbour does not know your world of thoughts. If you let it become manifest in words, he will think about it. Come solely to Me, the Christ, who I Am in your inner being, and repent of your thoughts and send at the same time positive, selfless thoughts to the soul of your neighbour, thoughts of asking for forgiveness and thoughts of inner unity. Then I will undo what was caused in thoughts. And if you no longer think the same or similar thing, then it is already forgiven you.
Recognize: When you speak to your neighbour of your human thoughts, you might
possibly stir up in him some human aspect that is just in the process of
transformation. It could then break out once more in your neighbour. He then
begins to think and speak negatively again and burdens himself anew.
The law says that through your wrong behaviour not only the one who is
stimulated to reflect again burdens himself, but you, too, burden yourself when
you express your thoughts and, through this, activate in your neighbour the
humanness that was in the process of transformation.
However, if unlawful things leave your mouth in that you accuse and insult your
neighbour and speak ill of him — even if he hears it from a second or third
party — then go to him and ask him for forgiveness. If he has forgiven you, so
has the eternal heavenly Father in Me, the Christ, also forgiven you. But if he
has not forgiven you, then your heavenly Father in Me, the Christ, will not be
able to forgive you either. However, the love of the Father-Mother-God will
touch the still rigid heart more and more, so that the person can think things
over sooner and forgive you, so that God in Me, the Christ, can also forgive you;
then all that was once unlawful is annulled and transformed.
Beware of your own tongue! For the unlawful things which leave your mouth can do much greater harm to your neighbour and to yourself than your thoughts which you have recognized and given over to Me, the Christ in you, in time — before they have taken effect.
Recognize a further spiritual principle: You cannot see nor hear thoughts — and yet they are there. They vibrate in the atmosphere and can influence the one who thinks the same or like things. If you give them over to Me in time, they are cancelled — unless the soul of your neighbour has already registered them in itself. Then you will be guided in such a way that you will be able to do good to that person of whom you thought negatively. And if you do good selflessly, without expressing your earlier thoughts, then what you unlawfully thought about your neighbour and which he already absorbed into his soul will be erased in his soul. And what your soul radiated out is erased in you, as well.
12. Reach agreement
with your adversary quickly, while you are still on your way with him, lest one
day your adversary hand you over to the judge, and the judge hand you over to
the guard, and you will not come out until you have paid the last penny.
(Chap. 25:12)
Christ explains,
corrects
and deepens the word:
“Reach agreement with your adversary quickly, while you are still on your way with him” means: Do not let the sin that you have committed against your neighbour linger. Clear it up as quickly as possible, for he is still with you on your path through life in the earthly existence. If his soul has left the earth, you may have to wait until you can meet him again and can ask him for forgiveness.
Recognize: The judge is the law of sowing and reaping. If it becomes effective, the person will not come out from under it until he has paid the “last penny” — that is, until all that he has caused and not repented of in time is atoned for.
For this reason, use the chance to ask your neighbour for forgiveness and to forgive him as long as you are still on your path over the earth with him and the sin has not yet engraved itself into the soul and become a cause. The one who does not forgive nor asks for forgiveness has to bear the effect until he has “paid the last penny”.
Therefore, become one with your neighbour as quickly as possible. If the causes — for example, quarrel, resentment or envy — have already taken root in your soul, and if the same has also taken place in your neighbour whom you are against, then it is possible that your neighbour will not forgive you so quickly — not even when you have recognized your sin and repented. For the guilt complex may have hardened in his soul through the same or a similar way of thinking that you triggered in him. Due to the sinful behaviour, which you nurtured over a long period of time, he also nursed a grudge against you in his soul — and, like you, too, has thus created an extensive negative energy field, a guilt complex that now has to be worked on by both of you. The reconciliation can still happen in this earthly existence or later in the realms of the souls or in further incarnations.
Recognize: Before a blow of fate strikes a person, he is admonished by the
Spirit of life, which is also the life of the soul, and also by his guardian
spirit or by people. The admonishments from the Spirit are the finest sensations
which flow out of the soul or which the guardian spirit lets flow into the
person’s world of sensations or thoughts. They admonish the person to change his
way of thinking or to clear up what he has caused. The eternal Spirit of life
and the guardian spirit may also stimulate people to go to the one who is on the
verge of being struck by a blow of fate. They will then approach the person
concerned and will enter into a conversation which will spontaneously relate to
the matter in question. From this conversation, the cause of the looming fate
may be recognized and cleared up.
Thus, you recognize that the eternal light gives admonishments and indications
in manifold ways — both to your neighbours with whom you have created causes, as
well as to you, yourselves.
Through
impulses by way of the day’s events, too, the person is admonished in time,
before what was caused by him breaks in over him as fate.
The one who takes such hints seriously and clears up the sin which he has
recognized by repenting, forgiving, asking for forgiveness and making amends,
need not bear what was caused by him. If the sin is great, then it is possible
that he has to bear a part of it, but not the whole of it which wanted to break
out of the soul. However, the one who overlooks and fails to heed all the
admonishments, because he numbs himself with human things, will have to bear his
self-created causes until “the last penny is paid”.
13. You have heard that it has been said: You shall love your neighbour and hate your enemy. But I say to you who listen: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you. (Chap. 25:13)
Christ explains,
corrects
and deepens the word:
The
commandment of life reads, “Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you.”
Every person should see his neighbour, his brother and his sister, in each one
of his fellow men. You should recognize your neighbour, even in your seeming
enemy, and strive to love him selflessly.
When you become upset because of the hostility — which may have many faces — the seeming enemy may even be a good mirror for your self-recognition; for when something in your neighbour upsets you, the same or something similar exists in you, yourselves.
However, if you can forgive your neighbour who has blamed and accused you without being unduly agitated, no correspondence is in you; that is, you do not have the same or similar thing in you and thus, no resonance in your soul. It is possible that, in a former life, you already cleared up and atoned for what you were accused of — or even that you never built it up in your soul. Then, it was only in the soul of the one who thought and spoke against you and accused you. Therefore, if no emotion reverberates in you, if no echo comes from your soul, then you were a mirror for him. Whether he looks into this mirror for his human ego or not — leave that to God and to him, His child.
Recognize: Even the mere sight of you stirs his conscience, which reflects to
him that, for example, he once thought and spoke negatively about you. Now he
has the chance to clear it up. If he does that, by repenting and henceforth no
longer thinking or doing the same or similar thing, then it is removed, that is,
transformed, in his soul. Only then will he see you with the eyes of the Inner
Light.
A sign that the negative has been transformed into the positive in one’s soul is
benevolence and understanding towards one’s neighbour.
14. Bless those who curse you and pray for those who abuse you out of wickedness, so that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven and who lets the sun rise on the evil and the good and sends rain on the just and the unjust. (Chap. 25:14)
Christ explains,
corrects
and deepens the word:
The one
who keeps these commandments is just towards his fellow man and, through his
life in God, will guide many people to the life in God. God does not punish and
chastise His children. This is already said by the words, “... who lets the sun
rise on the evil and the good and sends rain on the just and the unjust.”
God is the giver of life, because He Himself is the life. From the eternal law
of life, God gave human beings the free will to decide freely for or against Him.
The one who is for Him keeps the eternal laws of love and of life and will also
receive the gifts of love and of life from the eternal law. The one who feels,
thinks and acts against the eternal law receives what he has sown, that is, what
he felt, thought, spoke and did.
Therefore, everyone receives what he himself has sown. The one who sows good
seed, that is, fulfils the laws of God, will also reap good fruits. The one who
sows human seeds, which he brings into the acre of his soul as human sensations,
thoughts, words and deeds, will also harvest the corresponding fruits.
From this, you recognize that God does not interfere in the will of man. He is
the giver, helper, admonisher, leader and protector of those who endeavour to do
His will, because they turn to Him. The one who turns away from Him, by creating
his own human law, will also be controlled by his own human “ego-law”.
Thus, God does not interfere in the law of sowing and reaping. In manifold ways, God offers His help to His children; and those who sincerely pray to Him from their heart and fulfil what I, Christ in God, My Father, have commanded them — to love one another selflessly — are in God, and God acts through them.
15. For if you love those who love you, what reward will you have? For sinners also love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what reward will you have? For even sinners do the same, too. And if you greet only your brethren, what more are you doing than the others? Do not even the tax collectors do so? (Chap. 25:15)
Christ explains,
corrects
and deepens the word:
Therefore, accept and receive your neighbour in your heart, even if he does not love you, even when he does not stand by you and ignores you, by refusing to greet you. Do love him! Do stand by him selflessly and do greet him — even if it is only in thought, when he does not wish to be greeted with words. Even a greeting from the heart, which is given in thought, enters the soul and brings good fruit at the right time.
Make
sure that you act like the sun that gives — whether the person wants to see it
or not, whether he wishes for rain or storm, whether he desires the cold or the
warmth.
Give selfless love, as the sun gives to the earth, and respect all people, all
Being. Then you will receive your reward in heaven.
Do not flatter people. Do not discriminate, like people who associate only with those who think and act the same way and condemn those who think and act otherwise.
16. And if you desire something as much as your life, but it leads you away from the truth, let go of it, for it is better to enter life possessing the truth than to lose life and be cast into outer darkness. (Chap. 25:16)
Christ explains,
corrects
and deepens the word:
What the person craves for himself personally concerns his person, his base ego. All this is binding. A binding means to be tied to people and things. The one who ties himself to people and things, that is, who is bound to something, reduces the flow of cosmic energies.
If you tie a person to yourself only for your advantage, then, with your self-will, you pursue interests which lead you away from the life in Me, the Christ. You thereby forsake the impersonal selfless life, you entangle yourself in wanting to possess, to be and to have, and become impoverished in the spiritual life in your inner being. If you do not desist in time from wanting to possess, to be and to have, you will lose everything one day.
If you do not recognize yourself in the effects — for example, through the loss of all your worldly goods or in illness or in misery and in suffering — and then do not repent and make amends, you will wander in the darkness as soul and as man, because you were concerned solely about yourself, about your own personal well-being.
Therefore, recognize yourself every day anew and actualize the laws of God daily, and stop wanting something for your personal ego. Remain truthful — and thus, faithful to the law of God. Then you will enter into the life which is your true being — and you will be rich in yourself, because you have opened up heaven within you.
The truth which is impersonal cannot flow into the one who is not a vessel of the truth. Such a person is concerned only about himself and accumulates things only for himself. This behaviour leads to his turning away from God’s eternally flowing power and to “a life in a stagnant pool”: Only the negative flows into the pool and little flows out. This means that he will feel in his own body what he has gathered in his stagnant pool.
On the other hand, the eternal truth streams into and through the person who is a vessel of the truth. He receives from God and gives from God and thus becomes the spring of life for many. The cosmic life force, the source of all Being, streams through all forms of Being and through those human beings and souls who have turned towards God, that is, have become the vessel of God.
Recognize: The eternally flowing power streams only through the person and the soul who do not accumulate things for selfish purposes, but give selflessly. The stream of God flows unceasingly only through the ones who give selflessly. If God can flow unhindered through the person, then this person lives in the truth, in God, in the life which lasts eternally. Only such people give from Me, the life, because they are in Me, the life and the truth.
17. And if you desire
something which causes another pain and sorrow, tear it out of your heart. Only
in this way will you attain peace. For it is better to endure sorrow than to
inflict it on those who are weaker than you.
18. Be therefore perfect, as your Father in heaven is perfect.” (Chap. 25:17-18)
Christ explains,
corrects
and deepens the word:
Everything that goes out from you which is not divine — like unlawful thoughts,
words and deeds — can cause pain and sorrow not only for your neighbour, but
also for you, yourself. For what the person sows, he will reap.
The harvest corresponds to the seed. It will always be harvested by the one who
has sown — not by his neighbour. Your neighbour has not sown your seed, and
neither will he reap your harvest.
However, your seeds can have wings — like the seeds of different types of flowers, which, after blooming, are carried away by the wind and take root where they are able to hold fast. So it is also with your thoughts, words and deeds which can fall like winged seeds on the acre of your neighbour’s soul and can sprout if they find the same or similar conditions there.
The same or something similar to what is in you is present in him, if he becomes upset and angry by the words and deeds with which you caused him sorrow and, stimulated by your winged seeds, he thinks, speaks and does the same or similar thing. However, you have triggered it and can be called to account in the law of sowing and reaping. You are commanded to love your neighbour selflessly and to serve and help him — and not to cause him pain and sorrow by your behaviour.
If your
neighbour then burdens himself because of your unlawful behaviour, because you
intruded into the acre of his soul and brought causes into vibration, which he
later has to bear and from which he has to suffer greatly, then you are bound to
him. And if he, too, reacts unlawfully to your behaviour, he is, in turn, bound
to you. In this or another form of existence, you will have to clear this up
together.
Recognize: A small insignificant winged seed of human ego can create a great
cause, which already bears its effect in itself.
Therefore recognize that every cause must be removed.
A further example: If you send out your negative thoughts, words and deeds like winged seeds and your neighbour hears what you say about him but takes no notice of it, because he has no correspondence to it in the acre of his soul, then only you will burden yourself; and you are bound to him — not he to you. Your neighbour can enter into heaven because he has not accepted and received your negative seeds, for he has not thought or spoken the same or similar as you. However, if by your wrong behaviour you have set causes into motion in your neighbour that would not have had to come into effect in him, because he would have been able to clear them up later without pain and sorrow, then you are the one who bears the greater guilt and has to bear the part which you have caused to your neighbour.
If,
therefore, you have to endure pain and sorrow, do not blame your neighbour for
your condition. You yourself are the originator — and not your neighbour. Your
pain and your sorrow are the seeds in your soul which have sprouted — and also
show themselves in or on your body as harvest.
Only I, Christ, your Redeemer, can free you from this — and only when you repent
and no longer do the same or something similar. Then the burden is taken away
from your soul and things will be better for you.
Recognize: The one who recognizes his pain and his sorrow as his own seed and
accepts his suffering shows true inner greatness. This is a sign of spiritual
growth; spiritual growth gradually leads to perfection.
The pure being is perfect; it is the image of the Father-Mother-God. It lives in
God, and God lives through the pure being.
Blessed are those who are pure in heart; for they will behold God — because they have again become images of the heavenly Father. Meekness and humility stream from a pure, devout heart.
1. “Take heed that
you do not give your alms before people, in order to be seen by them. Otherwise
you have no reward from your Father in heaven. When you give alms, you should
not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in
the streets, so that they may be praised by the people. Verily, I say to you,
they already have their reward.
2. But when you give alms, do not let your left hand know what your right hand
is doing, so that your alms remain secret; and the One who sees into the secret
will publicly acknowledge it. (Chap. 26:1-2)
Christ explains,
corrects
and deepens the word:
The Sermon on the Mount that is lived is the Inner Path to the heart of God. What a person does not do selflessly, he does for himself. Selflessness is the love for God. Self-interest is human love. The one who does good for his neighbour only when the latter thanks him for it and praises his good deeds has not done it for his neighbour, but for himself. The gratitude and the praise are then his reward. He is thus already rewarded and will receive no further reward from God. Only selflessness will be rewarded by God. Selflessness grows and matures only in the person who has taken the first steps towards the kingdom of the inner being, that is, who has actualized.
The first steps towards this are the examination and control of thoughts: Replace egocentric, negative, brooding or passionate thoughts with positive, helpful, joyful, noble thoughts and with thoughts about the good in a person and in all that you encounter. Then you will gradually bring your senses under control. You will then also want nothing more from your neighbour and will expect nothing more from him. In the further course of the Inner Path, you will speak only what is positive and essential. Thereby, you gain control over your human ego because you have learned to rest in yourself. Then your soul becomes more and more light-filled and you find in everything that comes towards you the good that you are then able to address and express in the right way. If you have learned this, then you will also address negative matters lawfully. In this way, uprightness and honesty awaken in you and you remain faithful to God in all things.
This
spiritual evolutionary process towards selflessness is the Inner Path to the
heart of God. Everything that you do out of selflessness brings you manifold
fruits.
Therefore, if your sensations are without expectations and your thoughts are
noble and good, then the power of God is in your words and in your deeds. This
power is My energy of life. It goes into the soul of your neighbour and causes
your neighbour to also become selfless. For, sooner or later, what goes out of
your light-filled soul enters your neighbour’s soul and his nature, too,
depending on when he opens himself for it.
The one
who gives selflessly does not care whether his neighbour knows what he has given.
The selfless person gives. He knows that God, the eternal Father, sees into the
heart of all His children and that the Eternal, whose Spirit dwells in every
human being, rewards the selfless one when the time for this has come. This
alone is important.
Recognize: All good works, that is, selfless ones, become manifest in good time,
so that those who should see them may recognize them, in order that they, too,
become selfless, in that they, too, accept and strive for the life in Me, and do
what I have commanded them: to love one another selflessly, as I, the Christ,
love them.
3. And when you pray,
you should not be like the hypocrites who like to pray in the synagogues and on
the corners of the streets, so that they may be seen by the people. Verily, I
say to you, they already have their reward.
4. But when you pray, go into your chamber and when you have shut the door, pray
to your heavenly Father who is hidden away; and the hidden One, who sees into
that which is hidden, will publicly acknowledge it. (Chap. 26:3-4)
Christ explains,
corrects
and deepens the word:
When
you pray, withdraw into a quiet chamber and immerse deeply into your inner being;
for the Spirit of the Father, whose temple you are, dwells in you.
If you pray just to be seen or so that your neighbour may think you are pious
and devout, then I say to you that this is not devoutness, but false piety; it
is hypocrisy. Such externalized prayers are without power. The one who prays
just from his lips or in order to be seen sins against the Holy Spirit, for he
misuses holy words for his own self-interest.
Recognize: If you address God in prayer and do not fulfil in your life what you have prayed for, that is, if your prayers are only to display your ego and do not come from the depths of your soul and are not inspired by the love for God, then you sin against the Holy Spirit. And this is the greatest sin.
When your prayers do not flow selflessly from your heart, it would be better not to pray and to first become aware of your thoughts and human wishes and to gradually give them over to Me — so that the selfless love which is in you will grow and you will be able to pray from the heart. Then your prayers will be inspired more and more and imbued with the love for God and for your neighbour.
“... and the hidden One, who sees into what is hidden, will publicly acknowledge it” means that your thoughts of light and your power-filled prayers, which are inspired by the love for God, will one day bear fruit in this world. You will be allowed to recognize your seed of love and many will also recognize you as a source of love.
5. And when you pray
together, do not use empty repetitions, as the heathens do; for they think that
they will be heard when they make many words. Therefore, you should not do the
same as they; for your Father in heaven knows what you need before you ask ...
(Chap. 26:5)
Christ explains,
corrects
and deepens the word:
Only
the person who has actualized a little of the law of truth uses many words and
empty, uninspired repetitions in prayer and in daily life.
The one who speaks much about the law of truth and of life, thus using many
words for it, cannot fill them with power and life, because he himself is not
filled with the law of God. Such words are egocentric and, for that reason,
without love, even though they are chosen as if they were carried by love.
Uninspired speech does not reach the innermost of your neighbour’s soul, and
therefore finds no echo in the person, in and through whom the love of God rules.
The person who speaks without inspiration about the law of truth and of life,
which he himself does not actualize, merely stimulates a person, who hears this
and likewise is still directed to outer things, to engage in arguing.
Recognize: The one who argues about spiritual laws does not know the laws of God.
Everyone who wants to argue is convinced that he knows better than his neighbour
and wants to confirm this to himself. The one who argues only gives evidence of
himself, namely, that he knows nothing and is uncertain. This is why he argues.
However, the one who has found the truth does not argue about the truth, not
even about what belief is. The word “belief” also implies lack of knowledge: In
the end, the person believes what he does not know or cannot prove. The one who
believes in the truth has not yet found the eternal truth. Nor does he move in
the stream of the eternal truth yet. Therefore, belief is still blindness.
However,
the one who has found the eternal truth no longer has to believe in the truth —
he knows the truth, because he moves in the stream of truth. This is the true
wise man, who has raised the treasure of truth in himself. The true wise ones
rest in themselves. This is inner confidence and stability. They do not argue
about belief, because they have found their way from belief to wisdom, which is
the truth.
Therefore, the one who only believes in God without knowing the depth of the
eternal truth, the eternal law, uses many words about his belief.
Even in
prayer, he will behave in a similar way: He uses many words, for he does not
inspire his words with selfless love. He is of the opinion that with many words
he is able to convince God or even persuade Him. He thinks he has to make
himself understood before God, for he assumes that God could understand his
prayers in a different way than what he meant. Heathens think and pray in a
similar way.
Recognize: The deeper the person immerses himself into the divine wisdom, the
fewer words he also uses in prayer. His prayers are short yet powerful, because
the word radiates the power that is lived.
... Therefore, when you are gathered together you should pray in this manner:
6. Our Father, who are in heaven, hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven. Give us day by day our daily bread and the fruit of the living vine. And as You forgive us our sins, so may we also forgive the sins of others. Leave us not in temptation. Deliver us from evil. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory in all eternity. Amen. (Chap. 26:5-6)
Christ explains,
corrects
and deepens the word:
The
community prayer, the Lord’s Prayer, is prayed with different words and contents,
because every community prays it according to the love-potential of the
community.
As Jesus of Nazareth, I taught the community prayer, the Lord’s Prayer, in My
mother tongue, that is, with other words, and thus with another content than as
was prayed in later times and in other languages.
The words as such are unessential. What is important is that the person actualize what he prays. Then every word that comes out of his mouth is inspired with love, power and wisdom.
You should not pray according to the letter nor strive to pray, word for word, the Lord’s Prayer which I taught My own. What is essential is that you inspire the words of your prayers with the love for the Eternal and for your neighbour, and that the contents of your prayers correspond to your life.
People who are filled by the eternal truth, the love and wisdom of God, will, in turn, pray in a way other than those who pray only because it was thus taught to them or because they belong to a denomination where the prayers are spoken according to the consciousness of the denomination.
People who are on the path to their divine origin pray freely, that is, with self-chosen words that are inspired with love and power.
People who live in My Spirit, who are imbued with the love and wisdom of God, who thus actualize the laws of God in their daily life will, above all, thank God for their life and for everything. They will praise and glorify Him and devote their life more and more to Him — in sensations, thoughts, words and deeds — because they have become life of His life.
People in the Spirit of the Lord live their prayer. This means that they fulfil the laws of the Eternal more and more and have themselves become the prayer, which is an adoration of God.
Therefore, the one who fulfils the will of God lives in adoration of God more and more. Such people not only keep the laws of God, but they have become the law of love and wisdom, for the most part.
In the
maturing Kingdom of Peace of Jesus Christ, in which I Am the ruler and the life,
the people will keep the law of God more and more. Many of them have become the
law — and thus, God-men who personify the life, God, in all that they think,
speak and do. Their prayers are the life in Me, the fulfilment of the eternal
law. With their life, which is the law of God, they thank God for the life.
And so, the thanks to God is the life in God. Their life, which is a single act
of giving thanks, streams into the Kingdom of Peace.
They pray according to the following words which they fulfil in daily life:
Our Father, Your Spirit is in us,
and we are in Your Spirit.
Hallowed is Your eternal name in us
and through us.
You are the Spirit of life,
You are our primordial Father.
We bear our eternal names from you.
You, eternal One, have given them to us
and have placed in our names the whole
fullness of infinity.
Our names, which You have breathed into us,
are the love and wisdom —
the fullness out of You,
the law in us and through us.
Our eternal kingdom is the infinity —
the power and the glory, in and from You.
We are heirs to the eternal kingdom.
Therefore, we are the kingdom itself,
the eternal home.
It is in us and is active through us.
Your infinite, glorious will is in us
and is active through us.
The power of Your will is our strength of will.
It is active within us and through us,
for we are spirit of Your Spirit.
Heaven is not space and time —
heaven and earth are one,
because we are united in You.
The love and power in us and through us
is our daily bread.
You, O eternal, glorious Father,
have brought forth in us everything
which vibrates in infinity.
Through us, You create
in heaven and on earth.
We are in You, and You prevail
in us and through us.
We are filled in Your Spirit,
for we are spirit
of Your Spirit.
We are rich in You,
for we live our heritage,
the infinity, out of You.
Our eternal heritage,
spirit of Your Spirit,
brings forth what we need
as human beings in the Kingdom of Peace.
We live in You and from You.
Life streams and gives itself.
We live in the fullness of God,
because we ourselves are the fullness.
The earth is the heaven;
and the Kingdom of Peace
is the wealth of the earth,
where we live and are —
spirit of Your Spirit.
We live in the inner kingdom —
and yet are human beings who personify externally
that which radiates in the inner being.
Praised is the name of the Lord,
He is the life in and through us.
The name of God is the law of love
and of freedom that is lived.
Sin is transformed —
The light is come.
We live from His light
and live in and from His Spirit,
for we are spirit of His Spirit.
In God everything has been cleared.
His name has made everything pure.
The glory of God be praised!
The will, love and wisdom of God
permeate the earth and the land.
We ourselves are earth and land —
will, love and wisdom.
The goodness of God is within us —
the good from God.
We are in God and act out of God.
The earth is the Lord’s —
it is the kingdom of love.
It is active in us and through us.
The life, the glory of the Father,
is active in us and through us —
from eternity to eternity.
In its essence, this glorification is the life of those who live in the Kingdom of Peace of Jesus Christ. They live in Me, the Christ, and I live through them; and together we live in the Father-Mother-God, and the Father lives through us from eternity to eternity.
7. For if you forgive
men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do
not forgive men their trespasses, your Father in heaven will not forgive you
your trespasses.
8. And when you fast, do not look downcast like the hypocrites. For they
disguise their faces, in order to appear as men who fast. Verily, I say to you,
they already have their reward.
9. And I say to you, you will never find the Kingdom of Heaven unless you
protect yourself from the world and its evil ways. And you will never see the
Father in heaven, unless you keep the Sabbath and cease your haste to gather
riches. But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, so that you do
not display yourself before the people with your fasting. And the holy One, who
sees into that which is hidden, will publicly acknowledge it. (Chap. 26:7-9)
Christ explains,
corrects
and deepens the word:
The commandment to forgive and ask for forgiveness holds true until all that is not in accordance with the eternal laws is atoned for and cleared up. The commandment to forgive and ask for forgiveness belongs to the law of sowing and reaping. It will be rescinded when all humanness has been expiated and every soul has become a pure, immaculate spirit being.
And so until then, the commandment holds true: Forgive and you will receive forgiveness. If you ask for forgiveness and your neighbour forgives you, then your Father in heaven has also forgiven you. But if you ask for forgiveness and your neighbour does not yet forgive you because he is not yet ready to do so, then your eternal Father will not forgive you either. The one who has sinned against his neighbour must also receive forgiveness from his neighbour. Only then does God take away the sin.
The
eternally just One loves all His children — also those who do not yet have the
strength to forgive. If He were to forgive only the one who caused a sin to be
committed and were not to forgive the one who was led by him into sin and cannot
yet forgive — where would the justice of God then be? Both of them can enter
heaven only when their sins are cleared up.
For this reason, be careful of what goes out of your mouth and pay heed to your
deeds, whether they are in accordance with the eternal law, that is, whether
they are selfless! Something negative is said or done very quickly — but it can
take a long time until it is forgiven.
If you have asked for forgiveness and your neighbour is not yet ready to forgive you, then the grace of God will become stronger in you; it will envelop you and carry you — however, He will not take away from you what has not yet been cleared up. The mercy of God will then become stronger in your neighbour, too, and, while taking into consideration his free will, will lead him in such a way that he may more promptly recognize his faults, repent and forgive you. Only when all those against whom you have sinned have forgiven you — that is, when everything has been cleared up — only then can you enter the heavens, because God will have then transformed all humanness into divine power.
God is omnipresent. Thus, He is also effective in the law of sowing and reaping. In everything negative is also the positive, God, the eternal law. When a person recognizes and repents his sins and faults, the positive powers will then become active in them and will strengthen the person, who has come to know his guilt, to clear up his sins with Christ’s strength.
Recognize the law of God; it is eternal life from eternity to eternity —
everything in all things: Everything is contained in everything, the smallest in
the large and the large in the smallest; the strength to forgive is contained in
the sin, and the ascent to the Inner Life, to the eternal Being, is contained in
the power that is set free through forgiveness.
Therefore, the divine can also be effective in the negative when the person asks
for forgiveness from his heart, forgives and sins no more. However, the person
must take the first step towards the Inner Life.
Recognize that everything you do — be it praying, fasting or giving alms — if you do not do it selflessly, but to be seen by your fellow man, then you have already received your reward from the people. God will not reward you then. And if you fast only because you are overweight, you will not increase the Spirit of your Father in you. However, the person who moderately takes in nourishment in the name of the Most High and fasts from time to time, in order to relax and purify his body so that the power of God can maintain all cells and organs in the right way, is the one who sincerely practises accepting and receiving in himself the life from God, in order to live in this life. And at the same time, he will dedicate his life to God, the Eternal, in prayer, thus gradually becoming the prayer that is lived.
10. You should do
likewise when you mourn for the dead and are sad, for your loss is their gain.
Do not act like those who mourn before the people and make loud lamentation and
rend their garments, so that others may see their sadness. For all souls are in
the hands of God and all those who have done good will rest with their ancestors
in the bosom of the Eternal.
11. Pray, rather, for their rest and ascent, and consider that they are in the
land of rest, which the Eternal has prepared for them, and will receive just
reward for their deeds, and do not murmur like hopeless people. (Chap. 26:10-11)
Christ explains,
corrects
and deepens the word:
The one who mourns for the dead is still far from eternal life, because he sees death as the end of life. He has not yet reached the resurrection in Me, the Christ. He is counted among the spiritually dead.
Do not mourn for your dead! For the one who mourns the loss of a person does not consider the gain of the soul, which — if it has lived in Me, the Christ — enters into higher consciousness spheres of life. For if their life in their earthly existence was in God, then it will also be in God in another form of existence.
Recognize that the temporal life, the life in the body, is not the life of the soul. The soul has taken on the flesh for just a short period of life, in order to clear up and settle in the temporal what it has inflicted upon itself in different earthly garments. The earth is to be seen as a mere transit station in which the souls in earthly garment can clear up in a short time what they cannot overcome so quickly beyond the veils of consciousness — also called the walls of fog.
When a
soul leaves its earthly garment, one cries just for the garment of the soul and
thus does not think of the soul that has slipped out of the garment.
After laying aside its earthly body, a light-filled soul will be led by
light-filled beings, invisible to man, into that plane of consciousness which
corresponds to the way of thinking and living of the person in whom this soul
was incarnated.
Recognize: Every soul which has left its body is drawn for some time to the
people with whom it lived together as a human being. Should it learn that its
former earthly relatives mourn for its shell, this is very painful for the soul.
The soul which is still close to earth recognizes very well why its relatives
grieve only over its human shell and why it is ignored as a soul by the mourners.
A soul which has to recognize this then feels the first deep soul-pain after
laying aside its physical body; for it becomes aware of why the person mourns
instead of thinking of it with love and unity. With this, it perceives many a
self-interested thought from its former earthly relatives. It cannot draw their
attention to itself, because it is not perceived by them. What it says the
person does not hear, and what it can see he does not see. But the soul
perceives a lot.
I encourage you to think about this: Do you grieve when the snake sheds its skin,
when it leaves its skin behind and slithers away?
It is similar with the soul. It leaves its perishable body, its shell, and travels on. Therefore, you are grieving over the loss of the shell, not thinking of the soul. The person who thinks of the soul thanks God who called the soul back to His bosom, if the soul used its life in God, in the earthly garment, and thereby came closer to Him. Remember that for a light-filled soul, putting aside the body is a gain.
And if you mourn the loss of a person just in front of people, you are playing the hypocrite. In reality, you think neither of the person nor of the soul. You think only of yourself. The soul which registers this recognizes that it has not been loved selflessly, that possibly it was there just for its neighbour’s self-interest.
Many souls have to recognize that, while in the earthly garment, their earthly relatives and acquaintances lived through them. This means that, as human beings, they could not develop themselves and live according to their own characteristics, because they had to do the will of those who demanded of them what was to their own advantage. Many of these souls perceive what they missed in their earthly existence and, for this reason, return once more into the earthly existence. Through the veils of consciousness, they return to the earth and, as souls, stay again among those who had lived through them. Still others seek to live on earth what they were unable to develop as human beings.
As long as people are bound to people or things — like possessions, wealth and power — their souls return to earth and slip once more into new earthly garments. There are manifold causes and reasons for souls to reincarnate. If a soul recognizes, for example, that it is chained to its relatives through sin, then it often becomes resigned and gives in to the wish to take on a new body. Inspired by this wish, it lives on the plane of consciousness that corresponds to its spiritual condition and is taught there. Among other things, it is made to understand the pros and cons of a new incarnation. It then goes into incarnation when the stars in which its pros and cons are stored — and thereby, also its pathway to earth — show the way to matter and when on earth an earthly body is conceived which corresponds to its spiritual level of consciousness. It then slips into this human shell at its birth.
The man who begot the body and the woman in whom the embryo grew attracted that soul with which they still have something to clear up together — or in order to walk the path of the Lord together, in selfless service to their neighbour.
The person should not look just to his body, but above all to the incarnated being within him and should strive to do the will of God and not to allow the human will of a second or third person to be imposed upon him
Recognize: Even if you say, “I do the will of my neighbour, in order to keep outer peace”, you prevent your soul and also your neighbour’s soul from developing and unfolding as it is good for both. You prevent yourselves and your neighbour from fulfilling the tasks which your souls have brought with them into the earthly existence: to purify themselves and to free themselves from the burden of sin, which perhaps was brought along into this incarnation from previous incarnations. The one who allows his fellow man to lead him by the nose — thus doing what others say although he recognizes that this is not his way — is lived and his own actual earthly existence passes him by. He does not use the days; he is used by those to whom he is servile and therefore does not know his own path over this earth as a human being.
The one who binds his fellow man, by forcing his will upon him, is comparable to a vampire who sucks the energy from his fellow man. He does not know himself and at the same time ties himself to his victim — and vice versa, the victim who lets himself be drained also ties himself to him. Both will be brought together again, in one of their lives, either in earthly garment or as souls in the spheres beyond — and this, so often and so long, until the one has forgiven the other.
If two people tie themselves to each other — no matter whether the one has done the binding or let himself be bound — both of them have burdened themselves and both must clear things up together, so that love and unity can be re-established between them.
No one can say, “I did not know about the laws of life.” I say to you that Moses brought you excerpts from the eternal laws, the Ten Commandments. And if you keep these, then you will not tie yourselves to each other, but will live in peace with one another.
Recognize: Only love and unity among one another show souls and men the pathways
to the higher life.
God, the eternally gracious One, offers His hand to each soul and to each person.
The one who takes it uses his earthly life. He treasures the days and is also
able to live them according to the commandments, by clearing up what the day
shows him. As soul, he will one day walk and rest in God, together with all
those who likewise have used their earthly existence in that they have, day
after day, recognized and overcome with Me, the Christ, what the day brought
them and showed them — joy and suffering.
And when you do not mourn the mortal shell which your neighbour has laid aside, for your own sake, but rejoice in spirit that the soul in earthly garment has recognized its spiritual life and has prepared itself for it, then you will pray joyfully for your neighbour to the Father, through Me, the Christ. You will send powers of love to the soul that is now nearer to God, so that it goes on to higher planes in order to unite with God more and more.
The soul feels the joy and suffering of its relatives. The souls which have passed away in Me, the Christ, feel linked through Me, Christ, with all those who still walk in the earthly garment. The joy of the soul for being remembered with love by its relatives fills it with strength.
Recognize: Selfless, loving prayers give power and strength to the soul which walks on its path towards the divine. It feels the unity in your selfless prayers and receives increased strength. Through this, it will more quickly lay aside the humanness which still clings to it and thus become free for Him, who is freedom and love — God, the life. The reward from God is great for each soul which earnestly strives to fulfil the will of God.
Recognize: Only the one who merely speaks about his faith, but does not live what he appears to believe in, is without hope. In the last analysis, the doubter does not believe in what he pretends to believe. Hopelessness develops from this.
12. You should also
not gather for yourselves treasures on earth, which the moths and rust consume
and which thieves dig up and steal. But gather for yourselves treasures in
heaven, where neither moths nor rust consume them and where thieves neither dig
up nor steal. For where your treasure is, there is also your heart.
13. The eyes are the lamps of the body. So if you see clearly, your whole body
will be full of light. But if your eyes are lacking or if they are dull, your
whole body will be dark. Now if the light that is in you is darkness, how great
the darkness will be!
14. No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other,
or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and
the mammon at the same time. (Chap. 26:12-14)
Christ explains,
corrects
and deepens the word:
Only the person who does not believe in God, in His love, wisdom and goodness, collects treasures on earth. Many people pretend to believe in God; however, you will recognize them by their works. Many people speak about the love and the works of God — by their deeds alone, you will recognize them.
Many people speak about the inner kingdom and about the inner wealth, and yet gather in the barns for themselves personally and accumulate worldly riches for themselves personally, in order to be held in high esteem by the people.
The one who is concerned
only about his personal well-being does not yet sense the bird of prey which has
already raised its wings in order to destroy the nest and steal the wealth which
the rich man, the builder of the nest, calls his personal property.
However, the one who strives first for the Kingdom of God gathers inner values,
inner treasures. He will also receive all that he needs and beyond that in the
temporal.
The one who is rich in his inner being will not live in want externally. But the
one who is externally rich and hoards riches will live in want some day.
Treasures will be taken away from the one who accumulates these on earth, so
that he may reflect upon the treasure of the inner being and enter into the
life, into the inner wealth.
The soul will lack divine light until it first strives for the Kingdom of God.
And as long as it is still possible on earth, a light-poor soul will again
incarnate into a light-poor body and will possibly live in poverty among the
poor. The recognition will come that the treasure, the wealth, is in God alone.
The one whose heart is
with God will be rich in inner values and will enter into the Kingdom of Peace.
I, Christ, give you a criterion, so that you may recognize where you stand —
either in the light or in the shadow, “For where your treasure is, there is also
your heart,” and there your soul will be one day.
Take heed: The one who reads these words and stands at the turning-point of the old to the New Era should hasten, so that he can still find his spiritual life! For when the New Era, the era of Christ, is manifest over the whole earth and the Inner Life is lived, there will no longer be incarnations for those who strive for outer values. Then, too, there will be no more incarnations for the worldly rich, so that they may atone, as the poorest among the poor, for what they neglected to do as the rich.
When the Kingdom of Peace of Jesus Christ has taken further evolutionary steps, there will be neither poor nor rich. All people will then be rich in My Spirit, for they will have opened up the inner kingdom. They will also live accordingly on the new earth, under another heaven.
Therefore, be prepared to serve God and your fellow man, too, out of love for God.
Recognize: No one can serve two masters, God and mammon. Only selfless love unites all people and nations. Both the human being on earth and the soul in the spheres of purification will one day be led to the decision: to serve God or mammon, to be for God or against God. There is nothing in between: either for God, or for the satanic.
15. Therefore, I say
to you: Do not be anxious for your life, what you will eat and drink; not even
for your body, for what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body
more than clothing? And what shall it profit a man, if he would gain the whole
world but lose his life?
16. Look at the birds in the air: they neither sow nor reap, nor gather into
barns, and yet your heavenly Father nourishes them. Are you not looked after
much better than they? But who among you could add one cubit to his life span,
if he wanted to? And why are you so concerned about your clothing? Consider the
lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin. And yet, I say
to you, even Solomon in all his splendour and glory was not arrayed like one of
these.
17. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and
tomorrow is burnt in the oven, why should He not much more clothe you, O you men
of little faith?
18. Therefore, you should not be anxious and ask: What will we eat? What will we
drink? or: What will we wear? (As the Gentiles do.) For your heavenly
Father knows that you need all that. But seek first the Kingdom of God and His
righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. Therefore, do not be
concerned about the evil of tomorrow. It is enough that each day has its own
evil.” (Chap. 26:15-18)
Christ explains,
corrects
and deepens the word:
The
person who worries about his personal life, about his well-being — for example,
what he will eat and drink or clothe himself with tomorrow — is a poor planner;
for he thus thinks only about himself, about his own well-being and about his
property. Thus, at the same time, he also plans in his pain and woe.
On the other hand, the one who fulfils the will of God is a good planner. He
will plan both his days and his future. However, he knows that his planning is
only a guideline that rests in the hands of God.
He lays his plan in the hands of God, works with the powers of God and lets himself be guided by God during the events of the day. For he knows that God is the all-knowing Spirit and the wealth of his soul. The one who entrusts himself to God, who places his day’s work in the light of God and who fulfils the law “pray and work” will receive his just reward. He will have everything that he needs.
If God, the Eternal, adorns nature and clothes the lilies of the field, how much more will He feed and clothe His child who fulfils His will! Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, but plan and commit your plan to the will of God — and God, who knows your plan, will fulfil for you what is good for you.
I give you an example: A good architect will carefully plan a house and pay attention to all the details. When he has finished his plan, he will check it once more and will then submit it to the builder for examination. If the latter agrees to the plan, then the workmen will work according to the plan. The architect and the builder will supervise the execution of the plan and will interfere only when something does not conform with the planning.
You should conduct your life in a similar way. Plan each day and plan well. Allow yourself some time for contemplation, too, in which you find inner stillness and can, again and again, think over your life and your planning. With His will, God will also permeate a carefully made plan of the day that has been placed in His will. The one who carries out his plan in this way need not worry about tomorrow. His belief in the guidance of God consists of positive thoughts; from these emerge positive words and law-abiding actions. Positive thoughts, words and actions are the best tools, because the will of God is active in them. This means that the will of God, His Spirit, works in every positive thought, in every selfless word, in every selfless gesture and deed. God will give the good planner all that he needs and beyond that.
Only the one who does not entrust himself to God, who lets the days slip by and does not use them, worries about tomorrow. The person who leads a carefree life and then blames his neighbour when he fails in many things, when he is sick, when he goes hungry, when he cannot acquire what he needs for his daily life — is no good planner. He is an anxious and egocentric person who attracts what he does not want and what he fears. The person who does not plan the hours, days and months with God’s help and does not place his plan and himself in the will of God cannot be guided by God. Only the one who entrusts his daily work to God and conscientiously fulfils the commandment “pray and work” can be guided by God and is fulfilled by Him — he is filled with love, wisdom and power. This means that his vessel, his life, is filled with trust and faith in God.
People
in the Spirit of God will not live in want. They are good planners, they are
strong in faith and work with the powers of the Spirit. Only the anxious person
is concerned about himself, about his small ego. He worries about tomorrow,
because he is not steadfast in God and does not believe in the wisdom and love
of God. With this, he unconsciously opens the barn for the thieves who come and
steal. He will lose what he has taken and hoarded for himself personally.
Man receives food, shelter and clothing from the hands of God. The one who
places his life, his thinking and his work in the hands of God does not need to
worry about tomorrow. He will have what he needs today, tomorrow and in the
future — and beyond that.
Thus, the one who lives in the inner kingdom will not live in want externally either. But the one who is poor in his inner being will live in want externally. If today he lives in the outer and increases worldly wealth for himself and keeps it for himself personally, then he is poor in his inner being and will live in want, that is, will be poor in another earthly garment.
Therefore, strive first for the Kingdom of God and His justice, then everything
you need, and beyond that, will be given to you by God. Look at the birds of the
air. They do not sow or reap, nor gather into barns; and yet your heavenly
Father feeds them. “Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they
neither toil nor spin.” Nature in all its diversity is clad more beautifully
than the richest of the rich. The one who thinks only about his well-being and
his full barns will earn his bread by the sweat of his brow, either in this
earthly existence or in another incarnation — as long as this is still possible.
True “praying and working” means working for oneself and for the common good.
Recognize: The lilies of the field — yes, all of nature — are there for all
people and give themselves to them in the most manifold ways. The one who is
able to grasp and appreciate this will not have to earn his bread by the sweat
of his brow. He will fulfil the law “pray and work” — for himself and for his
neighbours.
And when it is written, “they neither toil nor spin”, this means that man should
not think solely of himself nor work only to gain profit for himself alone, in
order to adorn himself and display himself.
Recognize: All Being is in the care of God. Animals, trees, plants, grasses and stones are in the care of God. They are in the life of evolution which is guided by the eternal Creator-God. Since all life comes from God, the animals, trees, plants, grasses and stones also feel. They experience within themselves the Creator’s power of evolution that vivifies them and leads them to further unfoldment in the cycle of the divine aeons. The power of creation, the eternal Being, gives the nature kingdoms what they need. The gifts of life flow to the forms of life to the same extent as these are spiritually developed.
The
eternal Father thinks of every blade of grass. How much more does the Eternal
think of His children who have already developed in themselves the evolutionary
steps of the mineral, plant and animal kingdoms! The children of God bear in
themselves the microcosm from the macrocosm and are thus in communication with
all of infinity.
But how poor is the person who worries about tomorrow. He himself shows that he
has not yet mastered yesterday, as he is not able to live in today, in the
present, that is, in God.
The inner being of man, the pure being, is the essence of infinity. The person who grasps this, as a human being, looks within and unfolds the laws of life, so that he may perceive everything external in the light of the truth.
Recognize: Infinity serves the person who thinks and lives in an all-encompassing way — that is, without limitation. People in the Spirit of love are not self-centred, but are all-conscious. They are in constant communication with the divine powers in all Being. Whatever they do, they do from within, with the power of love. They plan and work according to the commandment “pray and work” and do not waste the day. They know the preciousness of the day, of the hours and of the minutes and make use of the time.
Therefore, the one who really lives does not worry about tomorrow; he receives already today what he will have tomorrow. For the one who lives in God will not be in want, neither today nor tomorrow. But the one who remains anxious and clings to his possessions will be poor tomorrow.
However,
the one who sees himself as a cosmic being, who fulfils the will of God fully,
acquires wisdom and strength. The life of the person who is filled with love and
wisdom is imbued with the power of God. He will not lack anything. But the one
who worries about tomorrow and sees the future as gloomy attracts evil; he will
have his burden every day.
Therefore, do not think anxiously about tomorrow! Plan with the power of God —
and let the Eternal work through you. Then your thoughts are positive magnets
that attract, in their turn, what is positive and constructive. For thoughts,
words and deeds are magnets. According to their kind, they again attract the
same or something similar.
1. “Do not judge, so that you will not be judged. For you will be judged in the same way you judge others; and with whatever measure you measure, you will be measured again in turn. And as you do to others, so will it be done to you. (Chap. 27:1)
Christ explains,
corrects
and deepens the word:
You have read that thoughts, words and deeds are magnets. The one who judges and condemns his neighbour in thoughts and with words will experience the same or similar things on himself.
Recognize that your negative thoughts, words and deeds are your own judges. “With whatever measure you measure” — whether in thoughts or in words and actions — so will you yourself be measured. Just as you belittle your neighbour, in order to exalt yourself, so will you be valued: You will know and suffer your own worth. And if you say, “What the one has is sufficient for him — the other one should receive more”, then one day you will possess only as much or even less than the one to whom you have conceded less: Just as you treat your neighbour in thoughts, words and deeds, so will you yourself fare some day.
2. How is it that you see the splinter in your brother’s eye and are not aware of the beam in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother that you want to take the splinter out of his eye? And see, a beam is in your eye. You hypocrite, first take the beam out of your own eye; only then will you see clearly, in order to be able to take the splinter out of your brother’s eye. (Chap. 27:2)
Christ explains,
corrects
and deepens the word:
Only the person who is
not aware of the beam in his own eye talks constantly about the splinter in his
neighbour’s eye. Only the one who does not know his own way of thinking and
living busies himself with trying to extricate the splinter from the eye of his
brother. The one who does not know himself nor his beam — the sins in his soul
which are reflected in his own eyes — has no eye for the truth. His eye is
clouded by sin. Thus, he sees in his neighbour just what he himself still is: a
sinner. Only the one who works on the beam in his own eye perceives more and
more clearly. Then he will be able to recognize the splinter in his brother’s
eye more and more clearly and, in accordance with the law of love for one’s
neighbour, will help him to remove it.
Therefore, the one who speaks negatively about his fellow men, who belittles and
slanders them, does not know his own faults.
You should recognize them by their fruits. Each one shows who he is, that is, his fruit. The one who becomes upset about his fellow men and makes fun of them shows who he truly is.
The one who first discards his own faults is also able to help his neighbour. This is why each one who speaks adversely about his brother’s faults — and in so doing does not notice the beam in his own eye — is a hypocrite.
3. You should not
give what is holy to the dogs nor cast your pearls before the swine, lest they
trample them with their feet, turn round and rend you.
(Chap. 27:3)
Christ explains,
corrects
and deepens the word:
Going with the words of truth from place to place, from house to house, using your skills to persuade and convince and missionizing to every one you get hold of is not in accordance with the eternal law of free will. For that would mean that you do not hold the truth sacred, and do as is figuratively written, “You should not give what is holy to the dogs nor cast your pearls before the swine.” This means, you should not force the word of God upon your neighbour. The person who thinks that his neighbour should believe and accept what he thinks he is convinced of still has doubt himself and questions his own belief.
To missionize means to want to convince. The one who wants to convince is himself not convinced in his own inner being of what he extols.
So, be good examples in
your belief and not those who missionize. You can offer the content of your
faith and leave everyone the option, to believe in it or not, whether he wants
to go along with you or not.
The freedom in God is an aspect of the eternal law. When your neighbour
approaches you of his own free will and asks you about your belief, he is taking
the first step towards you; and the one who is firm in his faith will then go
towards his neighbour and answer him.
The one who is in divine communication with his neighbour will not tie him to his belief — but will communicate to him only as much as he himself has recognized and actualized. Only the person who has developed little selfless love wants to tie his neighbour to his belief.
Therefore, beware of the overly zealous ones who want to convince you of their belief. Offer the eternal truth in spoken and written word — and live accordingly yourselves; then those who have recognized the life in themselves will approach you.
4. Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened to you; for every one who asks will receive and the one who seeks will find, and to those who knock it will be opened. (Chap. 27:4)
Christ explains,
corrects
and deepens the word:
Only the person who has not yet entered into his inner being, into the kingdom of love, asks, seeks and knocks at the gate to the Inner Life. The Kingdom of God is in the soul of every person.
The first step on the
path to Inner Life, on the way to the gate of salvation, is to ask God for help
and support. The next step is to search for the love and justice of God. The
pilgrim finds the life, the love and justice of God in the commandments of life,
which are signposts on the way within.
A further step is to knock at the inner door, in the little chamber of one’s own
heart. This gate to the heart of God opens itself only to the one who has
sincerely prayed, searched and knocked. The inner gate does not open to the
intellectual who seeks only outer values and ideals. The doubters will not be
received either.
Therefore, the one who asks, seeks and knocks must do it out of love for God and
not in order to test the love of God.
Recognize that the
person who just wants to test whether the love of God really exists will himself
be put to the test very soon. The gate of the heart is open to the one who lives
in God. He need not ask anymore; he has already received, for God knows His
children. The one who has entered into the heart of God has already received in
his soul. This means that the fullness from God shines more intensively in his
soul and radiates through him, through the person. The one who has entered into
his inner being no longer needs to seek — he is at home in the kingdom of the
inner being. And the one who consciously dwells there no longer needs to knock;
he has already entered and lives in God, and God lives through him.
Only those will ask, seek and knock who still stand on the outside and do not
yet know that, deep within their soul, they bear what makes them truly rich: the
love and wisdom of God.
5. Which man among
you here gives a stone when his child asks for bread, or a serpent when he asks
for a fish? If you, who are evil, can nevertheless give good gifts to your
children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who
ask Him.
6. Whatever you want that people should do to you, do it likewise to them, and
whatever you do not want them to do to you, do not do it to them either; for
this is the law and the prophets. (Chap. 27:5-6)
Christ explains,
corrects
and deepens the word:
Recognize that you should not demand from your fellow man what you yourself are not willing to give.
When
you expect your neighbour to do something for you, ask yourself the question:
Why do you not do it yourself? The person who expects, for example, money and
property from his neighbour, so that, in his laziness, he himself will not have
to work, or the person who expects faithfulness from his neighbour while he
himself is not faithful, or the one who wants to be accepted and received by his
neighbour, yet neither accepts nor receives his fellow man — is selfish and poor
in spirit.
Whatever you demand of your neighbour is what you yourself do not have in your
heart.
It is
unlawful — out of an attitude of expectation — to force one’s fellow man into
acts, statements or ways of behaving, which one, of oneself, would not be
willing to do.
If you have recognized your expectant attitude in wanting something from your
neighbour, turn back quickly and first do yourself what you demand of your
neighbour.
All
coercion is pressure, which produces in turn coercion and counter-pressure.
Through such extortionary behaviour towards your fellow man, you tie yourself to
him and make of yourself — as well as of the one who lets himself be blackmailed
— a slave to a baser nature. Coercive methods such as: “I expect of you and you
expect of me — each gives the other what the other demands” lead to binding.
What is bound has no place in heaven. Both the persons tied to one another will
meet again one day, either in the fine-material life or in further incarnations.
This form of binding does not apply to one’s place of work. When, in your professional life, you have freely taken a position in a certain field of work, and the responsible person gives you duties that you should carry out within the framework of your job, you have already given your consent to that upon joining the enterprise. You have freely taken your place in the field of work and on the work team, in order to do what is assigned to you. Thus, when you choose a job, you should also carry out what is assigned to you in accordance with the field of work you yourself have chosen. The statement “Whatever you want that people should do to you, do it likewise to them ...” therefore, does not apply to a self-chosen profession or field of work.
“Whatever you do not want them [the people] to do to you, do not do it to them either” means: If you do not want to be laughed at and ridiculed, or do not want to be robbed or lied to, or do not want to be deprived of your belongings, or do not want to be led by the nose, or do not want to be robbed of your free will, or do not want to be beaten or insulted, then do not do that to your fellow man. For what you do to the least of your brothers, that you do to Me — and to yourself. What you do not want to be done to you, you should not do to any of your neighbours either — for everything that comes from you returns to you. Therefore, examine your thoughts and guard your tongue!
7. Enter by the strait gate. For narrow is the path and strait is the gate that lead to life, and few are those who find them. But wide is the gate and broad is the road that lead to ruin, and there are many who walk on it. (Chap. 27:7)
Christ explains,
corrects
and deepens the word:
“... narrow is the path and strait is the gate that lead to life” means that the darkling presents himself to every one who endeavours to walk the narrow path to life and shows him — as he did to Me, as Jesus of Nazareth — the treasures and comforts of this world. The satanic should be resisted and opposed every day anew. The one who is not watchful will be servile to him.
Recognize that every person who takes the first steps towards the life first
feels confined and restricted, until he has finally made a decision. For he
should now cease to do the human things which he thought and did until now.
The first steps lead into the unknown — they are called belief and trust. Until
the first steps are taken, the path to life is strait and narrow. The first
hurdles that should be overcome on the path to the heart of God are called:
Change your way of thinking and cease your old human habits! Repent, forgive,
ask for forgiveness and do not sin anymore! For every individual this means a
personal effort and a readjustment of everything that was customary to him up
until then.
However, the one who perseveres with My strength will leave the narrow path and reach the great road of light into the kingdom of the inner being, on which he will strive towards the gate to absoluteness, to the life in God, together with those who journey into the light.
Man is
tested every day: for or against God.
The one who decides against Me, by keeping all human comforts and everything
that makes him human, will not be led into temptation on the wide dark street,
since he has sold himself to the tempter. Many, indeed, take this road to ruin.
They are not tested like the ones who walk the narrow path to life.
The one who has sold himself to the tempter thereby also gives his unrestricted assent to what he has to harvest on account of his seed.
8. Beware of false
prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but are inwardly ravenous wolves.
You will know them by their fruits. Can one gather grapes from thorns or figs
from thistles?
9. Likewise, every good tree brings forth good fruit, but a bad tree brings
forth bad fruit. Every tree that does not bring forth good fruit is only fit to
be cut down and thrown into the fire. Therefore, you should distinguish the good
from the bad by their fruits (Chap. 27:8-9).
Christ explains,
corrects
and deepens the word:
At the
end of the days of materialism, of the “time of avarice and greed”, many false
prophets will appear. They will talk much about the love of God — and yet their
works are works of men. Not the one who speaks of the love of God is a true
prophet and a spiritually wise man, but only the one whose works are good.
Only the person who first examines his own attitude has the gift to discern
whether he himself truly believes in the gospel of selfless love and also
fulfils what is meant by the gospel, and what he himself has already actualized
in selfless love towards his neighbour.
You can
recognize your fellow man and sense the difference between the good, the less
good and the bad, only when you have attained a certain degree of spiritual
maturity.
The one who still condemns his neighbours and thinks and speaks negatively about
them cannot yet value his fellow man. He lacks the gift of discernment. He only
passes judgement and does not look more deeply.
If you
yourself are still a bad fruit, how can you recognize the good fruit? The one
who does not actualize the laws of God therefore lacks the gift to differentiate
between what is good, less good and bad.
And so, the one who wants to judge his neighbour should first examine himself to
see whether he possesses the gift to differentiate between the just and the
unjust.
A good fruit can be discarded very quickly and the bad one approved when the
rotten fruit makes a show of itself with much talking and acts with a lot of
seemingly convincing words and gestures.
Recognize: Like attracts like. The rotten fruits are closer than the good fruits
to the one who is himself still a rotten fruit. But the one who is selfless is a
good fruit and the good, the selfless, is also close to him.
The one who is selfless also has the gift to differentiate between the good, the
less good and the bad fruits. And so, the one who wants to differentiate between
the good and bad fruits must first be a good fruit himself. Only the good fruit
can recognize the bad. The bad fruit seeks like-minded bad fruits again and
again, in order to act against the good ones. The bad fruits condemn, discard,
judge and bind.
The good, ripe fruits are understanding, benevolent and tolerant, and are kind towards their neighbour. They do address the wrongs, but they keep their neighbour in their heart. This means that they no longer judge, condemn or convict.
I
repeat: You shall recognize them by their fruits.
The good fruit knows the bad fruit, yet the bad fruit does not recognize the
good fruit. The good fruit looks only upon the good, the bad fruit only upon the
bad. The human being thinks, speaks and acts accordingly.
10. Not all who say to Me: Lord! Lord! will enter the Kingdom of Heaven, but those who do the will of My Father who is in heaven. Many will say to Me on that day: Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name? Have we not cast out devils in Your name? Have we not done many wonderful works in Your name? Then I will declare to them: I have never known you; depart from Me, you evil-doers. (Chap. 27:10)
Christ explains,
corrects
and deepens the word:
The one who only calls on My name and does not fulfil the will of My Father is poor in spirit, despite his seemingly spiritually effective speech and his seemingly courteous words, and will not enter into the King-dom of Heaven.
But the one who accomplishes selfless deeds without expecting reward or acknowledgement is the one who does the will of My Father, for he acts as he thinks and speaks.
Selfless deeds result only from God-filled sensations and thoughts. If a person’s thoughts are impure, then his words are insipid and his deeds egocentric.
Recognize that the one who appears to speak out of the I Am, that is, who seems to speak My word and appears to accomplish deeds in My name and lives well from this, has already received his reward. He will receive no further reward in heaven. The one who does selfless works of love and works for his earthly bread will receive the just reward in heaven.
Recognize that the spiritual bread is the spiritual nourishment for the soul.
The bread for the body should be earned according to the law of “pray and work”.
The spiritual bread comes from the heavens and will be offered to those who keep
the law of love and of life and also fulfil the commandment “pray and work”.
God gives men the earthly food through the earth. The fruits of the earth
require preparation through the work of the hands.And in this way, the worker is
worthy of his wage.
Recognize the difference between the bread for the soul and the bread for the
earthly body. Both do flow from one source; yet the one is spiritual and is
offered to the soul, and the other is condensed substance, matter, and is given
to the physical body. That which the great Spirit, God, gives man for his
physical body requires human work; for example, it must be sown, cultivated,
harvested and processed. For this, man should also be paid by man.
Only the one who does everything out of love for God and man will be received
into the Kingdom of God.
11. Therefore, I
compare the one who hears these words of Mine and follows them with a wise man
who built his house solidly upon a rock. And the rain fell and the floods came
and the winds blew about this house. And it did not fall in, for it was founded
upon a rock.
12. And the one who hears these words of Mine and does not follow them should be
compared with a foolish man who built his house upon sand. And the rain fell and
the floods came and the winds blew and beat against that house and it fell in,
and great was its collapse. But a city which is built solidly, walled solidly in
a circle or on the top of a hill and founded upon a rock can never fall nor be
hidden.”
13. And it happened that when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were
astonished at His teaching. For He addressed the head and the heart when He
taught and did not speak like the scribes who taught only by the authority of
their office. (Chap. 27:11-13)
Christ explains,
corrects
and deepens the word:
The one
who hears and follows My word develops his spiritual life. He founds his life on
Me, the rock. He will then stand firm against all storms and floods. After this
earthly life, his soul will consciously enter into the spiritual life and will
be no stranger there, because the human being already lived in the kingdom of
the inner being when on earth.
The prophetic spirit is the fire in the prophet and in all enlightened ones. God
did not and does not speak through them as those spoke “who taught only by the
authority of their office”. The prophets and enlightened ones spoke and speak
with the full authority of the Eternal, the speaking God, whether people want to
admit it or not.
It is written, “He addressed the head and the heart.” What the intellect, the
head, takes in is talked over and argued by the “head-thinkers”. Despite this,
many a tiny seed falls into their heart. The one who receives the word of life
with his heart also moves it in his heart and causes the good seed, the life, to
sprout immediately.
But the one who wants to grasp the word of God only with his intellect will have
to later recognize — possibly only after some blows of fate — what he rejected
by his suspicion and intellectual presumption. He will have to recognize that
the seed, the word of God that was given from the horn of plenty of life through
prophets and enlightened ones, would have spared him much.
The book “This Is My Word” will be valid all the way into the New Era, into the time of Christ. My life then, as Jesus of Nazareth, and My word as Christ today [1989] are the foundation.
The way
I thought, taught and lived as Jesus of Nazareth will be a standard for the way
of living and thinking of the people of the New Era in the Kingdom of Peace of
Jesus Christ. In this way, I Am very close to them. They will greet Me in the
spirit as their brother and will accept and receive Me as the ruler of the
Kingdom of God on earth.
This book is a work of love and of life. From it, the people in the Kingdom of
Peace will also learn how I initiated and built up the Era of Light on earth.
They will learn that I worked through many faithful ones who fought and suffered
with Me for the New Era. Thus, this book “This Is My Word” is a historic
document. It will be read now — in the declining old world — as well as then —
in the New Era which is rising up more and more.
The people will also recognize from it the fulfilment of the divine Mission of Redemption, which started with My work as Jesus of Nazareth and then as the Redeemer, as the Christ of God — and now as the builder of the New Era, in which I prepare My coming as the ruler of the Kingdom of Peace, in which I Am brother to those who live with Me and with the many whose hearts are pure in the brotherhood of Christ.
Christianity’s Bible contains the Ten Commandments of God, which Moses brought to mankind, and also parts of the teaching of Jesus of Nazareth.
In His work of revelation “This Is My Word, A and W, the Gospel of Jesus, the Christ-Revelation which the world does not know”, Christ now discloses through the prophetic word all essential aspects of His earthly life and of His teaching which go far beyond the content of the Bible.
In Chap. 46:7-21, we learn that already two thousand years ago Jesus gave the Twelve Commandments to mankind, the commandments for the growing Kingdom of Peace on this earth. They are a continuation of the Ten Commandments of Moses through Christ, the Son of God, the Redeemer of all men and souls. In this work of revelation it is written:
And Jesus said to them, “Behold, I give you a new law which, however, is not new but old. Just as Moses gave the Ten Commandments to the people of Israel, according to the flesh, so will I give you the twelve commandments for the kingdom of Israel, according to the Holy Spirit.
Who is this Israel of God? All those, from every nation and every tribe, who practise righteousness, love and mercy and follow My commandments are the true Israel of God.” And standing up, Jesus said:
“Hear, O Israel, Jehovah, your God, is the One. I have many seers and prophets. All live and move and have their existence in Me.
You shall not take away the life of any creature for your pleasure or your profit, nor torment it.
You shall not steal the goods of another, nor gather for yourselves more land and riches than you need.
You shall not eat the flesh, nor drink the blood of a slaughtered creature, nor anything else that harms your health or your consciousness.
You shall not make impure marriages, where there is no love and purity, nor corrupt yourself or any creature that has been created pure by the Holy One.
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour, nor wilfully deceive anyone with a lie in order to harm him.
You shall not do to anyone what you do not want to have done to you.
You shall worship the One, the Father in heaven, from whom all things come, and honour His holy name.
You shall honour* your fathers and mothers who care for you, as well as all righteous teachers.
You shall love and protect the weak and oppressed ones and all creatures that suffer wrong.
You shall work all that is good and necessary with your hands. You shall eat the fruits of the earth, so that you live long in the land.
You shall cleanse yourselves every day and, on the seventh day, rest from your work, keeping holy the Sabbath and the feasts of your God.
You shall do to others what you want them to do to you."
Appendix
What Is Universal Life?
Universal Life can be compared with a great and mighty tree.
Its life grew out of a little seed that was planted in the acre of this world:
the revelations of the Eternal, of the Christ-of-God, that first took place
before a small circle of Christ-friends.
The
seed sprouted and became a small seedling that already showed what was hidden
within its core: God’s light, that is love and wisdom.
As this little seedling grew, it brought further light: the Homebringing Mission
of Jesus Christ with the first instructions of the Christ-of-God for a divine
life among men.
This
work of teaching and explanation that was called into life by the Christ-of-God
eighteen years ago, quickly grew into a strong plant, a small tree that was
rooted in God’s love and wisdom: All the basic wisdom of life was given to us
men, so that we can find the way into a God-life that brings forth its fruits.
Ever more people drank from the well of divine revelations, and the little tree
became a tree of life. People gathered to fulfil the will of God. And so from
the small seed that bore the life, God, grew the great and mighty tree of life
called Universal Life, meaning: Living in the Spirit of God, living not only for
the individual but for all who are of good will.
The
root of this work of God – Christ in His divine revelations given through a
period of over 20 years – has reached millions of people, thus fulfilling what
Jesus commanded of His own: To bear the gospel of love into all the world. Two
thousand years ago Jesus said the following: “When the Spirit of truth comes, he
will guide you into all truth.” In our time of change, He is come and guides us
into all truth - insofar as we can understand His words and receive them into
our consciousness.
Now, the fruit of the deed is ripening on the great and mighty crown of the tree
of Universal Life. It is the work of God through all those who, attracted by the
great light-force of Christ, found their way to those who are building this work
of life together. It is a small people, a people in Christ that is emerging for
Christ, for a new world under the sign of love and wisdom and of peace, upright
men and women who daily live more and more in His Spirit. It is all those who
say yes at every moment to the great Spirit of unity, of peace and of love, thus
making it possible for the work of the Lord to spread worldwide in few years. It
is all those who feel called to put into practice God’s love and wisdom in
community. Daily, they are active for the higher values of life, for the Kingdom
of Peace, the Kingdom of God on this Earth, that was announced already by
Jehovah, and for which all Christians pray in the Lord’s Prayer.
The Inner Path
“Nearer, My God, to Thee”
“Follow
Me” said Jesus of Nazareth. This is a clear challenge which at the same time
brings up the question: How can we do this today in the 20th century? The Spirit
of the Christ of God teaches the Inner Path in Universal Life, so that we people
can find our way to a positive, meaningful life in God. We come to know
ourselves, the positive characteristics, but also the human weaknesses. We
develop independence, straight-forwardness and understanding for our neighbour
and overcome frustrations, aggressions, fears and their causes step by step – we
practically become our own psychologist. Above all, we experience that we are
never alone, but that God is near us and stands by us at all times. With Him, we
are able to better master the situations of our life more and more. Through the
consistent work on ourselves by mastering our faults and weaknesses with the
power of the Christ of God, the Inner Path leads to a life of love for God and
neighbour, to the unity with God.
The Inner Path begins with two courses of preparation. In the first course, we
learn to align our feeling, thinking and acting more and more with the Spirit of
the Christ of God within us. Then in the second course we become aware of the
spiritual power, the divine energies within us, by learning to address the
spiritual consciousness centres in the physical body for, among other things,
the health of soul and body.
Easy physical exercises to harmonious music support the spiritual alignment of
the one who strives for God. They effect a further balance of soul and person.
On the
first four levels of the Inner Path, the intensive schooling, the student
unfolds step by step the first four spiritual levels of evolution – the levels
of order, will, wisdom and earnestness.
On the first level of the inner path of schooling, the level of order, we learn
to put our thoughts in order, to put reins on our speech, to refine our senses,
thus turning them within. Here one is called to recognize himself! This means to
recognize all human weaknesses, to overcome them with Christ and to no longer do
what we have recognized to be negative. Not through fanaticism, but out of love
for God, we counter our human ego – our selfishness and our faults. By repenting,
forgiving, asking for forgiveness, making amends and not-doing-again, and
through the transforming power of Christ, we become free to live in peace with
our neighbour – step by step.
On the second level, the level of will, we become more sensitive and permeable
to the spiritual powers. The conscience reacts in a more subtle way. It lets us
recognize the various aspects of our humanness about which we knew little or
nothing until now. Specific tasks and exercises show this to us us little by
little. It is thus possible for Christ to let us sense more and more, by way of
our sensations, what the will of the Father, the law of God, is. At the same
time, we learn true, lawful concentration.
By mastering our humanness for the most part, we gradually become free from the
chains of egocentricity; our spiritual horizon expands; clarity and inner
stillness move into us.
We walk
the level of wisdom in order to continue to unfold our spiritual consciousness.
The actualization of the eternal laws opens us for the Inner Life ever more, so
that we can feel that we are now guided by the Spirit-consciousness, the Inner
Helper and Adviser. At the same time, we develop the ability to recognize our
neighbours as they are – and not only as they appear to be. This is possible
because we have recognized ourselves in the course of this path of schooling of
the inner being.
Through the consistent and step-by-step actualization of the eternal laws, we
come more and more into the constant fulfilment, into the life of the selfless
deed.
On the
level of earnestness, the fruits of fulfilling the divine laws show themselves
through a life in the Spirit of God. The spiritually sovereign person who thinks
and acts in a clear and straightforward way is mostly free from wanting anything
for himself. Completely aligned with the divine, the eternal I Am, he grasps the
essential in everything, sees the positive and builds upon it; he recognizes
what is lawful and applies it. Thus, the law, God, is able to work through him
more and more; he becomes a co-builder of the Kingdom of God on this earth.
When we have unfolded the level of divine earnestness, we are free from still
existing bits of human programmes; in this way, we leave the wheel of
reincarnation.
Our divine brother, Christ, Himself, then leads us, via our light-filled inner
being, to perfection, to the heart of the eternal Father.
The Inner Path can be walked as an intensive course in community with other
participants or as a correspondence course using the books of the Inner Path.
Third Edition 1996
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The Inner Religion
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translated from the original German title:
“Die Bergpredigt.
Leben nach dem Gesetz Gottes.
Danach streben die Urchristen im Universellen Leben.”
From the Universal Life Series
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