Jesus Explains His Pre-existence -
To Believe Means To Understand
Physical death and spiritual death (1).
Only the one who fulfils the commandments recognizes and experiences God in himself (2-3).
The Kingdom of God is seven- dimensional -
The infinite crystal: All is in all things (9-11).
Understanding the truth only through actualization (12)
1. Another time Jesus said, "Verily, verily, I say
to you, if one keeps My words, he will never see death.” Then the Jews said to Him,
"Now we recognize that you are possessed by a devil. (Chap. 52:1)
I, Christ, explain, correct
and deepen the word:
As Jesus of Nazareth, I spoke of the living word which is vivified by the Spirit of God. The person who lives the living word, the life out of God, will never see death, because he looks into eternal life and lays aside only his physical shell, which is of the earth and will return to the earth.
Recognize that the earthly body belongs to the earth, because it is from the earth. But the spiritual body belongs to God, because it is from God. The one who looks only to the perishable body does not understand My words, because for him, only the earthly life is the life.
But the true life is God, and the spiritual body is from God, the eternal stream; it moves in Him and never dies.
However, the soul can be in the darkness a long time, if the person has thought, spoken and acted in a dark way only. This is the spiritual death, because the burdened soul looks to the perishable alone and considers this to be the true life.
Yet, all those who devote their life to God - by thinking nobly, speaking purely and acting lawfully - bear the light in themselves and, after the death of their body, will enter into the light, that is, will not remain in the darkness, in the spiritual death.
Therefore, the one who keeps the law of God, the word of God, will not taste spiritual death; for already in his earthly garment, he lives in God.
The physical body is only a covering of the spiritual body; however, it cannot live without the spiritual body, the soul, in which is the source of life, the stream that flows from the life, God.
The spiritual person, who looks to God alone, by keeping His word and fulfilling the law of life, will lay aside his shell when the time has come for the physical body to become earth again.
Only the devil makes a devil of his neighbour. The one who himself is caught in the satanic insinuates the same of his neighbour.
The one who stands in the light of truth always looks to the good essence in his neighbour, to the truth, and will serve him and help him selflessly. He will not overlook what is dark, but will consider it from the light of truth and, if appropriate, also address it.
2. Abraham is dead, and so are the prophets, and You say: If one keeps My word, he will never experience death. Are You greater than our father Abraham, who is dead? And the prophets, too, are dead. Whom do You make of Yourself?”
3. Jesus answered, "If I honour Myself, then My
honour is nothing. It is My Father, of whom you say that He is your God, who honours Me.
And you do not know Him, but I know Him. If I would say: I do not know Him, I would be a
liar, just like you. But I know the All-Holy and I Am known to the Eternal. (Chap. 52:2-3)
I, Christ, explain, correct
and deepen the word:
The one who just speaks of God and does not keep the commandments of God does not know God; for God is the universal, eternal, omnipresent law of love. He will not experience God, the law, in another way, either. The law of love and of life is in every soul and in every human being. This is why man can experience the laws of God only in himself and can come closer to God in himself only by fulfilling His commandments.
Every person can come to know and experience God in himself, if he senses, thinks, speaks and acts according to the law of life - that is, selflessly.
God is active in all that selflessly comes from a person. The one who is selfless experiences God and also becomes aware of his God-sonship or God-daughtership.
You should replace the word "honour” by the word "respect”. Honour is due to God alone.
In earlier times, the word "honour”, too, had a different meaning than it has today [1989]. This is why you should endeavour to grasp the meaning in every statement, so that you find your way to the source of life, to the eternal law, which is deeply rooted in every statement. However, this is possible only for the person who strives to fulfil the commandments of God every day. The one who understands the word of God only literally will think and speak today just as the scribes and their adherents did at that time.
4. Abraham, your father, rejoiced to see My day. And he saw it and was glad.” Then the Jews said to Him, "You are not yet forty-five years of age and You have seen Abraham?”
5. Jesus said to them, "Verily, verily, I say to you, before Abraham was, I Am.”
6. And He said to them, "The All-Holy has sent many prophets to you, but you rose against them because they opposed your lusts, and you disparaged some of them and killed others.”
7. Then they picked up stones in order to throw them at Him, but Jesus was hidden and went out of the temple, right through their midst, and left again without being seen by them.
8. When His disciples were again with Him in a solitary place, one asked Him about the Kingdom of God, and Jesus said to them,
9. "As it is above, so it is below. As it is within, so it is without. As to the right, so also to the left. As it is before, so it is behind. As with the great, so with the small. As with the man, so with the woman. When this is recognized, then you will see the Kingdom of God.
10. For in Me there is neither male nor female, but both are one, perfect in the universe. The woman is not without the man, nor is the man without the woman.
11. Wisdom is not without love, nor is love without
wisdom. The head is not without the heart, nor is the heart without the head, in the
Christ, who reconciles all things. For God created all things by number, weight and
measure, one corresponding with the other. (Chap. 52:4-11)
I, Christ, explain, correct
and deepen the word:
God is the all-unity. Eternity is an infinite crystal which shines in countless facets. The words "as it is above, so it is below. As it is within, so it is without. As to the right, so also to the left. As it is before, so it is behind. As with the great, so with the small” were given to people for their better understanding. However, the one who has entered into the kingdom of the inner being knows and experiences in himself that the three dimensions mean nothing to the soul which is imbued with the light of God.
Recognize that the Kingdom of God is seven-dimensional. The three-dimensional forms exist only in matter; in it there is the above and below, the within and without, the right and left, the before and behind, the great and the small. In God, life is a mighty crystal which sparkles in countless facets. It radiates and everything is manifest in its radiation. It knows no limitation. It radiates in an unlimited way, for eternity is unlimited.
In you, O man, is everything - the smallest and the greatest. Each divine impulse, each divine primordial sensation and each divine thought comes true in you. That which is before and behind, above and below, to the right and to the left, is in you. Thus, all that is, is manifest in you, yourself.
That which is, is eternal - and remains eternally manifest in the spirit being and in all of creation. Words are notions. So the Inner Life, too, has to be expressed with words for the human beings.
Infinity, all that radiates from the pure being, from God, takes on form and shape in the entire universe.
And when it says, "the great” and "the small”, it means the steps of evolution of the spiritual forms in the pure Being: A spark of light takes on form and shape and gradually becomes the all-power, the active radiation; out of it emerges the spiritual body, which is one with the primordial radiation, the radiation of eternity.
The one who devotes his life to God and purifies his soul is again aware of all this, because he then lives again in the consciousness, in God.
God is the Father-Mother-Principle for all and in all spirit beings. The eternal Father, who is also Mother, gave and gives to each of His children the all-radiation, the essence of infinity, as heritage.
The word "give” implies all further powers of evolution, in which spirit beings are, in turn, spiritually begotten through the Father-Mother-Principle in the spirit beings. From the Eternal, they all receive the whole of infinity as heritage.
Recognize that the spiritual body is compressed, eternal law, God. It consists of the essence of the All, which contains all the facets of infinity.
In the law, God, the male and female sexes do not exist. God created the positive, the giving principle, from His Father-radiation and the negative, the receiving principle, from His Mother-radiation. The spirit beings are either positive or negative principles. In the all-radiation, as well as in the duality, there are two - and yet, they are one in the All, because both are in compliance with the stream of the eternal law and live in it.
Both the giving principle and the receiving principle are one forever. The receiving principle is not without the giving principle and the giving principle is not without the receiving one. Said in the words of the world: Man and woman are eternally one. In unity, they are active; in unity, the spiritual procreation develops out of the principle of the giving and the receiving, out of the Father-Mother-Principle, which is active in every spirit being.
The laws of God are contained in the great, that is, in the fully active radiation, and also in the smallest, in the first step of evolution. All is in all things:
The rays of will, wisdom, earnestness, patience, love and mercy are in the ray of order. Order, wisdom, earnestness, patience, love and mercy are in the ray of will. Order, will, earnestness, patience, love and mercy are in the ray of wisdom. And it is the same for the rays of earnestness, patience, love and mercy.
All powers are thus contained in each power. All things considered, these powers constitute the all-radiation, God, the mighty universal crystal of eternity.
The words "For God created all things by number, weight and measure, one corresponding with the other” express the all-radiation: All in one. Thus, all is in all things.
12. Those who understand these things can believe them.
When they do not understand them, then these things are not for them. For to believe means
to understand, and not to believe means not to understand.” (Chap. 52:12)
I, Christ, explain, correct
and deepen the word:
"Those who understand these things can believe them” should mean that the truth can be grasped, that is, understood, only by the one who strives for the truth. Faith alone does not grasp the truth, because faith is just a step towards the truth, but not yet the truth itself.
The one who believes first of all accepts the word of the truth. Only the one who then actualizes it will understand the truth, because through the actualization of the truth, he will find his way to the truth, to the law, God.
Faith thus means to accept the truth first of all. The actualization of faith then
leads to the understanding of the truth.
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