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Sermon on the Mount
(Part 2)

CHAPTER 26
Sermon on the Mount (Part 2)

The first steps on the Inner Path, a process of evolution into selflessness (2).
Prayer as self-display or inspired prayer (4). Truly wise ones rest in themselves and do not argue (5). About the Lord's Prayer (6). Forgiving and asking for forgiveness; the justice and grace of God (7-9). The earthly death - The consciousness of the soul afterwards - The mourners - Re-embodiment - Bindings between human beings and souls - The correct attitude (10-11). Collecting treasures - The end of incarnations in the New Era (12-14). Worrying about oneself, planning with confidence in God - Correct way of praying and working - All Being is in God's keeping (15-18)

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)

I, Christ, explain, correct
and deepen 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)

I, Christ, explain, correct
and deepen 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)

I, Christ, explain, correct
and deepen 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)

I, Christ, explain, correct
and deepen 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)

I, Christ, explain, correct
and deepen 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)

I, Christ, explain, correct
and deepen 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)

I, Christ, explain, correct
and deepen 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)

I, Christ, explain, correct
and deepen 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.