This is My WordAlpha and Omega
This is My Word
Alpha and Omega
About the Little Children -
The Parable of the Fishes - The Forgiveness
of Sins
Bring the little ones to Me - Who is "the greatest in the Kingdom of God”? (1-2).
Anger in our neighbour and its consequences (3). The task of parents (4-5).
The earthly eyes and the spiritual eye -
God is the all-radiation, the all-streaming law (6-9). Clearing things up according to the
commandment of peace - To bind and to
release - Requests to God and their
fulfilment (10-12). Each one is his own judge -
Forgiving, worldly law and justice - Man and state (13-20)
1. At the same time, the disciples came to Jesus and asked Him, "Who is the greatest in the Kingdom of God?” And Jesus called a little child to Him and put him in the midst of them and said, "Verily, I say to you, if you do not change and become as innocent and teachable as this little child, you will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
2. But the one who becomes simple like this child is the
greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven. And the one who receives such a child in My name
receives Me. (Chap. 57:1-2)
I, Christ, explain, correct
and deepen the word:
Many souls come into this world with the intention of clearing up, in the earthly garment, what is still negative in them. They also come with the knowledge that they can be tested and led astray. Very precisely, they feel the good and the less good in their earthly body which is still developing. Souls which have consciously incarnated are very sensitive, for they came inspired with the wish to become divine again.
The one who neglects one of these little children or even leads it astray, by orienting it towards this world, sins against the Holy Spirit. It would have been better for him if he had not aspired to earthly birth. But the one who strives for a lawful life and takes care to guide to Me the little children, whose earthly bodies are still growing, is himself a light-filled being who strives for perfection, for the rebirth in the Spirit of God.
The meaning of the word "simple” is to be discerning, modest, merciful and kind.
The one who neither doubts in God nor is arrogant towards his neighbour nor wants to be a know-it-all, but actualizes the commandments of God, becomes wise. The wise one serves his neighbour selflessly. He does not ask for acknowledgement or reward. He gives of himself out of the life of God which is the fullness. He is "the greatest” in the Kingdom of God, because he fulfils the laws of God.
The word "the greatest” refers to the all-law. "To be the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven” means to go, after the physical death, into the Absolute Law, to go to the beings of light, who live in the all-law, in the Greatest, in the Eternal, in the All-One, God.
3. Woe to the world because of its offences to others! It
is impossible that offences do not come, but woe to him through whom the offence occurs!
Therefore, if your lusts and pleasures cause offence to others, cast them away from you.
For it is better for you to enter into life without them, than to be cast with them into
the everlasting fire. (Chap. 57:3)
I, Christ, explain, correct
and deepen the word:
Take care that nothing that is not divine comes out of your mouth and that you do nothing which harms your neighbour and the nature kingdoms. Do not exert pressure on your neighbour, in order to be able to indulge in your lusts and passions.
So do not cause anyone offence by your human behaviour, by your inclinations and stirrings. For if your neighbour does not forgive you, it could be that you would have to endure for a long time the grief and torment which your neighbour had to bear and endure because of you.
The recognition of what you have done to your neighbour can be very painful in your soul, like fire - depending on the causes which were created by you.
The meaning of the expression "everlasting fire” is to suffer for aeons.
4. Take heed that you do not neglect any of these little
ones; for I say to you, their angels perpetually behold the face of God. For the Son of
Man has come to save what was lost. (Chap. 57:4)
I, Christ, explain, correct
and deepen the word:
"... their angels” means that the light-filled soul of a child still lives consciously in God and sees into the Inner Life, which is God.
5. Likewise, it is not the will of your Father in heaven
that one of these little ones should come to suffer harm.” (Chap. 57:5)
I, Christ, explain, correct
and deepen the word:
The words "Likewise, it is not the will of your Father in heaven that one of these little ones should come to suffer harm” mean that the children are the children of the Father-Mother-God and are entrusted to their earthly parents only for this earthly existence. At the conception of the earthly body and at the birth of the child, the Eternal assigns to the parents the task of caring for the body of the child in the right way, to accept and receive the child, to care for and protect it, and to accompany it on its journey through life - by an exemplary life and by good deeds in the family and for their neighbour.
6. And some who were full of doubt came to Jesus, saying, "You told us that our life and being are from God, but we have never seen God, nor do we know of any God. Can You show us the One whom You call the Father and the only God? We do not know whether there is a God.”
7. Jesus answered them, saying, "Hear this parable about the fishes. The fishes of a river spoke with one another and said: They tell us that our life and being comes from water, but we have never seen water, we do not know what it is. Then some of them, who were wiser than the others, said: We have heard that a wise and learned fish who knows all things lives in the sea. Let us go to him and ask him to show us the water.
8. And so, some of them set out to search for the great and wise fish, and they finally came to the sea where the fish lived, and they asked him.
9. And when he heard them, he said to them: Oh, you
foolish fish, that you do not think. Yet wise are the few of you who seek. You live and
move in water and have your existence in the water; you have come from the water and you
will return to the water. You live in the water, but you do not know it. In the same way,
you live in God and yet you ask Me: Show us God. God is in all things and everything is in
God.” (Chap. 57:6-9)
I, Christ, explain, correct
and deepen the word:
The doubter sees things and events within the limitations of matter. The earthly eyes perceive only what is earthly, the condensed substance, matter. So it is only the things and events of this world which are perceived by the earthly eyes and registered by the cells of the brain.
The spiritual eye, the eye of the soul, looks behind the material; it looks right through matter and perceives the things and events of this world in the light of the eternal law. And the fine senses of the soul recognize the true and the untrue.
God is law - and the one who lives in the law of God draws and gives from the source of eternal life, from the truth. The human being in the ocean, God, perceives matter as a reflection, as a reflected image of the truth, which emerged through the negative workings of the darkness. The doubter, on the other hand, considers this coarse-materiality to be the true life and sees only the reflections of the human ego.
The one who considers matter to be the truth takes unlawful reflections as reality, because he lives in this illusionary light, in this world of thoughts.
The soul and the human being who live in God do not ask: "Who or what is God?” or "Is there a God?” They live in God, and God is active through them.
God is the cosmic ocean; God is radiation; God is light; God is energy; God is love and wisdom. God is nature, the animal world and the starry firmament. God is the alpha; He is the omega for coarse-materiality; for truth is eternity - and eternity is fine-material.
The Being - the primordial power - in which all pure creatures and beings live, is eternal, from eternity to eternity, because God is eternity.
Man lives and moves solely through God, the life, which is in him and everywhere - omnipresent. And all that lives, lives from God.
God is all-radiation, God is all in all things, the ocean, the life and the love. Everything pure consists of countless aspects of life and of love. The pure beings, too, the spirit beings, are - as images of the Father - the all-radiation, the law. God is the all-streaming law. The divine beings, the spirit beings, are compressed eternal law; they move in the all-stream, God.
The one who swims only in the riverbed of the temporal does not live consciously in the ocean, God; this is why he asks about the One who maintains and nourishes him and pulsates through him. There is no life without God, the all-ocean.
10. Once again, Jesus said to the disciples, "If your brother or your sister sins against you, go alone and make your brother or your sister aware of his or her fault; if they listen to you, you have gained them. But if they do not want to listen to you, then take two or more with you, so that every word may be confirmed by the mouth of two or three witnesses.
11. And if they do not want to listen to them, then tell the community; and if they do not want to listen to the community either, then consider them as those who are outside of the community. Verily, I say to you, whatever you justly bind on earth shall be also bound in heaven, and whatever you justly release on earth, shall be also released in heaven.
12. And once again I say to you: If seven or even only
three of you on earth are in agreement in what they ask, it will be done to them by My
Father who is in heaven. For if only three are gathered in My name, so Am I in the midst
of them; and if there is only one, so Am I in the heart of this one.” (Chap.
57:10-12)
I, Christ, explain, correct
and deepen the word:
As long as there are coarse-materiality and human beings who do not yet live in the law, in God - the Being, the eternal love - the law of sowing and reaping is in effect.
To the people who live the law of sowing and reaping, God gave a commandment which contributes to peace and to maintaining peace, when the person follows it:
When your brother or your sister sins against you, go and make your brother or your sister aware of his or her fault without the presence of a second or third party. When they listen to you and accept what you have advised them without emotion, and then act according to the commandment of peace, then you have won them for God. But when they do not want to listen to you, even though the question at issue is of significance for your life or for that of your neighbour or for the world, then take two or several people with you, so that they can hear and confirm your words.
When, even then, your brother or your sister does not want to listen to you or accept what you present, then bring it before the community, in the presence of those involved. And if the one concerned does not want to listen to the community either, then he or she thereby puts him- or herself outside of the community which is striving to fulfil the will of God. He or she should then live in the outer court outside of the community, in the world.
This commandment is important. If you have acted according to this commandment, but your concern is not heard or accepted, then, at the latest, in the spheres of purification it will become evident to the soul or the souls that have refused to follow this commandment. Then the witnesses will also appear again.
However, the one who does not want to change and keeps up his sinfulness and does not leave the community, in spite of the request and suggestion that he leave it, will be looked upon by the community as if he were no longer a member of the community. But if, through his negative radiation and his negative speech and action, he poisons members of the community, who then rebel with him against those who strive towards God, he then bears the main blame for the unrest within the community and will be called to account by the law of sowing and reaping. For when you are not with your neighbour, you are against him. Then you should also take the appropriate steps.
The words "to justly bind on earth” mean: When you think that what you have acquired lawfully is your property - that is, when you bind it to yourself - then this is against the heavenly law of freedom, of being free from every binding; and it is registered in the law of sowing and reaping. No binding - be it to people or things - has a place in heaven. The earthly word "binding” means that the person binds himself to what is dear and valuable to him in the world, to what he puts above the gifts of God.
To be bound is the opposite of freedom, of being released. The one who releases himself from what is earthly, by not considering it as his property and possession, will enter heaven as a spirit being and will live in the fullness that comes from God.
The following instructions from God, from the eternal law, are also commandments for men, aids for opening the Inner Life:
When people, no matter how many, come together in My name and together strive to fulfil the laws of God, then what they ask of God is already fulfilled in their souls - if it is good for soul and person. Then it becomes manifest to them when the time has become ripe for it.
I, the Christ, Am in the midst of men and souls who honour the Most High in their thinking and acting. And even when it is only one who asks for the gifts of salvation and strives to fulfil the laws of God, the request is already fulfilled in his soul, too - before he asked for it. For the eternal Father beholds His children in the light of the eternal law and knows them; and He will give their honest hearts what is good for them.
Therefore, be comforted: God knows all His children. He sees in every heart. And if one of His children - out of love for Him - renders Him honour in everything, then I, the Christ, Am active in his heart.
13. Then Peter came to Him and asked, "Lord, how often may my brother sin against me, that I forgive him? Seven times?” Jesus said to him, "I say to you, not seven times, but seventy times seven. For unrighteousness was also among the prophets, even after they had been anointed by the Holy Spirit.”
14. And He told this parable, "There was once a king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants. And when he had begun to settle accounts, they brought him one who owed him a thousand talents. But as he could not pay, his lord commanded that he and his wife and his children and all that he possessed be sold, so that the debt could be paid.
15. Then the servant fell down at the feet of his lord and begged him, saying: Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay you everything. Then the lord was moved by compassion and he set him free and forgave him his debt.
16. But the same servant went out and met one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred pence, and he grabbed him and took him by the throat, shouting: Pay me your debt.
17. And his fellow servant fell on his knees before him and implored him, saying: Have patience with me, and I will pay you everything. But he would not; he went and had him put in prison until he would pay his debt.
18. And when his fellow servants saw what he had done, they became very sad and told their lord all that had happened.
19. Then the lord sent for him and said to him: O you wicked servant, I forgave you your debt because you begged me; should you not also have pity on your fellow servant, just as I had pity on you? And his lord was angry and delivered him up to the torturers, until he would pay all that he owed.
20. Likewise will the heavenly Father judge you, if you
do not forgive each one his debt from your heart, whether brother or sister. Nevertheless,
let each one see to it that he pays what he owes, for God loves the just ones.”
(Chap. 57:13-20)
I, Christ, explain, correct
and deepen the word:
Forgiving and asking for forgiveness make the person free and the fill the soul with light.
The one who forgives, no matter how often his neighbour has sinned and sins against him, does not burden his soul and also keeps his body free from burden. The one who forgives from his heart will forgive again and again - no matter how often one sins against him through sensations, thoughts, words, or deeds. The one who forgives his neighbour without thinking negatively about him is not bound to the sinner. But the one who thinks negatively about the sinner is bound to the debtor in proportion to the intensity of his thoughts.
The judgement reads: By the standards with which you measure, you, too, will be measured. This means that the measure of your negative sensations, thoughts, words and deeds is your judge - but not God.
Therefore, have no negative thoughts about those who sin against you. Forgive, and forgive over and over again - and you will remain free from the burden of sin and will not be bound to the sinner.
However, the sinner will be bound to you until he has become reasonable and no longer commits, against you or other fellow men, what you have already forgiven him long ago.
Forgive and ask for forgiveness. Do not let the causes remain pending. As soon as you recognize them, you should settle them.
"Likewise will the heavenly Father judge you, if you do not forgive each one his debt from your heart, whether brother or sister” means that likewise, the heavenly Father will not forgive you, if you do not forgive each one his debt from your heart.
Recognize that God is not the worldly law, but He is justice.
Man has his earthly laws; for him they are his rights. As long as man does not know the law of life, the justice, he often thinks he is acting in a correct way. But with this, he entangles himself more and more in the law of sowing and reaping, because the law does not always correspond to the justice. The law of man is not by any means the justice of God.
The one who insists on his rights counts on the rights of human laws, but not on justice. What he demands, obtains and accomplishes by insisting on his rights cannot last before the law of God, the justice. It is not the heavenly Father who judges the person, but it is he, the person, who judges himself according to what he sows.
These inherent laws are valid between man and man and not between man and state, the "Caesar”. For as long as the incarnated spirit being is a human being, he is subject to the laws and obligations of the earthly state, of the "Caesar”, and, as a human being, should fulfil, vis-?vis the state, the "Caesar”, what is not against the law of God. This is why it is said: Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's and unto God the things which are God's.
If man keeps the laws of the state, he can also lay claim to the laws of the
state; and the state, the Caesar, is also obligated to give to the one who gives to it.
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