DAS WORT - The Outpouring of the Holy Spirit - The Gospel of Jesus

Book cover. The Gospel of Jesus. The Christ Revelation.

This is My Word
Alpha and Omega
The Gospel of Jesus.
The Christ Revelation, which
the world does not know.

The Outpouring
of the Holy Spirit

Chapter 96

About the tasks and status of the disciples (1-3).
The one who is great in spirit serves and gives in humility and gratitude (4-5).
The beginning of the church hierarchy through superiors and dignitaries - The selfless servants of all give from their hearts (6-7). What happened during the inflow of the Holy Spirit? (8-9). The true brotherhood of Christ in the service of the common good (10). One for all, Christ (11). Human aspects in the original communities - The splintering of the early communities due to dissension and an attitude of obedience to authorities (12-13). Ceremonies and other works of man are not a part of the teaching of the Nazarene (14-15). Harmony of mind brings about freedom and unity (16). The explanation of the creed (17-23). The one who follows Me becomes the temple of love (24-25). I Am the truth (26). Through the work "This Is My Word”, the life will flow out into the world.

1. And after the disciples had come down from the mountain, they gathered in the upper room and were all united in common prayer and supplication; and their number was about one hundred and twenty.

2. And on that day James stood up and said, "Men and brothers, you know how the Lord, before He left us, chose Peter to preside over us and watch over us in His name, and said that it is necessary that one among those who were with us and witnessed His resurrection be chosen and appointed to take his place.”

3. And they choose two, Barsabas and Matthias, and they prayed, saying, "O God, You who know the hearts of all men, show us which of the two you have chosen to take part in the apostleship from which You have raised Your servant Peter to preside over us.” (Chap. 96:1-3)

I have not raised any person to watch over My own. Look deeper into the words "...chose Peter to preside over us and watch over us in His name”, and grasp their meaning.

To all who followed Me - including Peter, who asked Me who should preside - I said, among other things, in the following sense: The one who is the greatest among you shall be the least; and the one who can be given the most in light and power, through his life in the love of God, shall be a guide for many towards the love of God.

I have chosen all of you to be bearers of the light in order to fulfil - with those who will come after you and with whom you will possibly be together again - what I, the Christ of God, wanted to bring into the world as Jesus. Preside over the members of the growing communities only as it is suitable for a guide and never let yourselves be exalted and honoured as the greatest. For the one who lets himself be exalted and honoured does not live in My Spirit; he will be humbled. And the inner schools which lead to the inner mystery of life and which I can no longer establish - but which will emerge - shall be built up and inspired in My Spirit by those who live in Me, the Christ.

Thus, to all the men and women who are My disciples, the task is given now and in the future to fulfil what I, as Jesus of Nazareth, have taught and fulfilled. For, in the course of time, you and many with you will return several times to prepare and establish what I as Jesus was not able to do - because of the unbelief and stubbornness and sin of the Jewish people and of those who should have stood by Me.

Yet when I, the Spirit of truth in God, your Father and Mine, return, everything that I have said to you and have prepared in the spirit will take place on earth. For then I will be with My own in the spirit and will establish and build up with them all that was not possible for Me as Jesus of Nazareth.

4. And they cast their lots, and the lot fell upon Matthias, and the twelve received him, and he was counted among the apostles.

5. Then John and James separated Peter from their number by the laying on of hands, that he might preside over them in the name of the Lord, saying, "Brother, be like a hewn stone with six sides; you, Petros, are Petra, bearing witness to the truth on every side.” (Chap. 96:4-5)

Just as the disciples used the voting process, it also happened in the early communities that formed after My going home to the Father. And it also happens again in a similar way in the Covenant Community New Jerusalem and in all the original communities of My Work of Redemption, in Universal Life [1989].

The members of the communities did not and do not lay hands on the head of those whom they have elected into their community. They pray and commend the new members of the original communities to the Eternal and to Me, the Christ.

The one who lets himself be elected by the members of the original community commits himself to become the "hewn stone”: a polished stone which radiates the truth of God into the world in many facets and brings the truth to all those who thirst for it. The one who has become the hewn stone has found in himself the "stone of the wise” and radiates into this world in humility and gratitude, without putting himself above others.

For the one who is great in the Spirit of the Eternal is the least among My own. Without putting himself above others, he gives what he has unfolded in himself: the truth out of the source of truth - God. He will be no superior, but will merely serve as evidence of the Inner Life to the maturing members of the community. And he will teach them and give them what they still need for their inner maturity, so that the stone of the wise, the eternal consciousness, may fully unfold within them, too, and that they, too, may radiate what heaven is: the law of love.

6. And the apostles were given staves to guide their steps on the way of truth, and crowns of glory as well; and to the prophets, burning lamps to spread light on the way, and incense holders with fire; and to the evangelists, the book and the holy law to remind the people of the first principles; and to the pastors were given the cup and the plate to feed and nourish the flock.

7. But nothing was given to anyone that was not given to all; for all were one priesthood under Christ as their master and high priest in the temple of God. And to the deacons were given baskets, that they might put therein the things necessary for the holy offering. And their number was one hundred and twenty, and Peter presided over them. (Chap. 96:6-7)

After My ascension, so-called head officials developed in the course of time, who asserted their official power; for the many people who came to the apostles and disciples and, in the course of time, formed the communities were in need of leadership. Some of the disciples remembered from their youth the customs which were considered lawful in the religious institutions of that time, but which came from paganism. In the course of time, they introduced these heathen aspects into the emerging Christian communities.

Thus, a so-called Christianity developed more and more, with outer rituals and ceremonies, a hierarchy of so-called officeholders, that is, superiors and dignitaries. I did not teach this as Jesus of Nazareth nor as the Christ of God.

Recognize that the greatest among My own is the one who has opened up the "stone of the wise” - the hallowed consciousness in the depths of the soul. He is the selfless servant of all. He is not a shepherd, but only a guide to the Inner Life, which he himself has opened up through the actualization of the eternal laws. As Jesus of Nazareth, I spoke neither of crowns nor of titles nor of dignitaries. These are terms for individuals who wanted to stand out from the people.

What I spoke as Jesus is the law. This is also what I speak as Christ. I did not appoint evangelists, deacons or priests. I wanted and want to have o n e flock, whose Shepherd I, Christ, Am.

I spoke to Peter and with this meant all those who faithfully follow Me. They should and shall be guides to the Inner Life, but should not put themselves above others in order to influence the people in a determining way.

That which is written here from the so-called "Gospel Of Jesus” was added only later on. It was brought into the emerging communities by some disciples who wanted to put themselves above others.

Besides, I did not call into being a so-called priesthood, but a large number of selfless servants, who are the servants of all. The righteous prophets carry no lamps; they themselves are lamps, lights of the truth which they carry into the world, for the salvation of all who long for the truth, for the Inner Life.

I taught them to bring the gospel of the heart - what the individual has actualized - but never the letter.

Those who truly wanted to follow Me were given the equipment for their journey - what they needed as human beings. For they went far away to teach what I had taught and had lived as an example to them. They had no books. The true followers carried in their hearts what I had taught. This is what they passed on selflessly. For only what flows out of the heart gains access again into the heart - not what comes from intellectual thinking and from book knowledge.

The truth which is recorded in the word can show the way to those who long for the truth. The letter alone is not the truth, but only the reflection of the truth.

8. And when the seventh day had come, they were all of one mind in the same house and, as they were praying, there came a sound from heaven like the roar of a mighty wind, and the room in which they were gathered was shaken, and it filled the whole house.

9. And there appeared cloven tongues like flames of fire and hovered over the head of each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in tongues as the Spirit caused them to utter. Then Peter stood up and preached the law of Christ to the multitude of all nations and tongues who were gathered there. As reported by those who had seen and heard this, each man heard the word in his own tongue with which he was born. (Chap. 96:8-9)

When many were united in prayer, the holy power, the Holy Spirit, increased in the souls which were lifted towards God. Many believed to be hearing a "sound from heaven like the roar of a mighty wind” which filled the whole room, the whole house.

Recognize that the eternal Spirit, the Holy Spirit, has no human sound which reaches the human ear. The inflow of the Holy Spirit into many righteous men and women caused a surge of blood in them, for the hearts of the fulfilled ones beat loudly. Then they heard the voice of truth within their hearts - each one in his mother tongue. In this state of being touched in their inner being and in their outer emotion, they believed to see tongues of fire. Those who truly saw them perceived the inflow of the Holy Spirit into their souls and hearts. And those who heard the word of God through the mouth of man felt it in their hearts as if it had been spoken in their language. Yet what they understood was what they could understand according to the maturity of their spiritual consciousness. Because they could understand the word of God in their innermost being through the mouth of man, they believed it was their language.

Recognize that words were added to and taken from many statements, according to the understanding of the writer and the translator. And in the translations, those words were used which were familiar to the translators and corresponded to their understanding of the truth.

10. And of those who listened, three thousand souls were gathered in the community on that day; and they received the holy law, repented of their sins and were baptized and continued their life in the brotherhood of the apostles, in constant offering and prayer. (Chap. 96:10)

Recognize that not all who were gathered on the aforesaid day honestly repented of their sins, forgave and asked for forgiveness and sinned no more. Many only thought to have done so. They fell back into their old sins and became again who they were before the divine event.

None of them was baptized; however, all were blessed by the Spirit of truth. And all those who remained faithful to the truth, by living according to their prayers day by day and actualizing the laws of life more and more, gradually became the law of life. This is how they attained spiritual baptism; for they immersed into the eternal law, God, thus becoming the law of love.

All those who strove for the life in Me and conscientiously perfected themselves entered into the brotherhood of Christ, into the life in the Spirit of God. It is the fulfilment of the eternal law for one's own inner development, through the commandment "pray and work”. "Pray and work” did not and does not apply just to one's personal interests, but also to true, selfless service for one's neighbour.

As it was at that time, so it continued in the course of the centuries: Time and again, people stepped into My following - into the true brotherhood of Christ, which does not isolate itself in monasteries but grows in the midst of the world - among those people who strive to live in Me, the Christ, for all people of good will. The true brotherhood in and with Me, the Christ, is the fulfilment of the eternal laws in the midst of the world.

11. And those who believed gave up all their possessions, had everything in common and lived together in the same place and showed the love and kindness of God to their brothers and sisters and to all creatures. They worked with their hands for the common good. (Chap. 96:11)

All those who fulfilled the law of God - equality, freedom, unity, brotherliness and justice - put their belongings together and administered everything together, thus fulfilling the law of life: One for all - Christ; all for One - Christ. And all with Christ - for all people of good will. They lived - like the beings of light - with one another in selfless love, as brothers and sisters, and served the common good.

This brotherhood in My Spirit which, after My ascension, developed among those who truly followed Me also took place in all the following epochs. Again and again, people came together in My name in order to live in Me and with Me in the true brotherhood - in the service of the common good for their neighbour. For only this is the true and the absolute following of Christ.

More and more people strive to follow Me, in order to live in Me and to come into the brotherhood with Me and as a unit to promote the common good, thus bringing heaven to earth, the Kingdom of Peace of Jesus Christ.

The basis for the brotherhood in Me is selfless love in working together for the common good; for as it is in heaven, likewise will it be on earth - on matter, within the three dimensions.

The one who lives in Me, the Christ, lives in peace with his neighbour and with the nature kingdoms, with animals, plants and stones.

12. And from these, twelve were called to be prophets with the twelve evangelists and twelve pastors and their helpers were added to them and deacons of the universal community, and they numbered one hundred and twenty. And thus was the temple of David set up, with living men filled with goodness, just as the Master had shown them.

13. And James, the brother of the Lord, was given to the community in Jerusalem as its head and angel, and additionally twenty-four priests in a fourfold ministry, and also deacons and their helpers. And after six days, many came together and were joined by six thousand men and women who received the holy law of love, and they received the word with gladness. (Chap. 96:12-13)

As Jesus of Nazareth, I spoke indeed about the universal communities - which are the universal life, the life out of the Spirit of God - but not about evangelists, pastors and deacons or other officeholders. Human conceptions are wound around what I brought into this world as teaching and power.

What I, as Jesus, wanted to establish with those who were and are in the mission - mainly with people from the lineage of David and beyond that with those from other lineages, too - should have been established after My resurrection in all simplicity and modesty by My own with Me - with Me who was with them in spirit after the resurrection.

Many of those who let themselves be blessed, but not without fulfilling what I commanded of everyone, brought t h e i r conceptions into the simple inner structure which should have become visible, also externally, in the world. They adulterated My teaching with their tradition-bound thinking, which was still caught up in the hierarchy of superiors and subordinates. They appointed officials and linguists and assigned the emerging communities to them. They left the leadership up to them and listened less and less to the word of God and to the angel of the respective community. The attitude of obedience to authority took the upper hand, which resulted in disunity and quarrels.

Through this attitude, human ways of behaving began to flourish, for each one wanted to be the greatest. The result was discord and division among the members of the first early communities, which then resulted in schisms. It was My wish that My own would establish the inner temple and carry out what the lineage of David and some people from other lineages were and are commanded to do: Found and build the Kingdom of God, the Kingdom of Peace of Jesus Christ.

And so disagreements arose. However, all who became true followers and remained faithful to My teaching received the word of justice, the law of life. Those who were able to grasp it received it with inner joy and gratitude.

A certain order is required until people fulfil the eternal law of God. Therefore, elders, teachers, leaders and healers should still be active in the original communities until all members of the original communities are mostly in the law of Inner Life. However, no one should distinguish himself as someone special. The greatest among them should be the least. The elders, teachers, leaders and healers should be people who are deeply immersed in My following. They should be only guides, not authorities.

As it should have been then, so shall it be again now [1989] in the original communities of Universal Life, in those original communities in the centre of which is the Covenant Community New Jerusalem in the emerging New Israel.

14. And as they gathered together on the Lord's day after the Sabbath was past and were making the holy offering, they missed Mary and Joseph, the parents of Jesus. And they looked for them, but did not find them.

15. And some among them said, "Surely, the Lord has taken them away, as He did with Magdalene.” And they were filled with awe and sang praises to God. (Chap. 96:14-15)

My foster-father was at that time a being in God and no longer a human being. He was among the many invisible ones who were preparing for the fulfilment of the mission. Some remained in the spirit, served Me in the spirit and invisibly served those who were in the earthly garment. Others prepared for incarnation, in order to serve Me, the Christ, as human beings.

I had entrusted Mary to John. In a quiet place, she was united in prayer with Me and with all those who surrounded her in the spirit.

Soon after My resurrection and ascension, also after the inflowing of the Holy Spirit, there was much insecurity among the apostles and disciples and among those who had joined them; this led to dissension.

Every dissension has its voices. Some understood the meaning of My teachings and My parables as they were able to grasp them according to their spiritual consciousness; the others held on to their conceptions and believed that the truth should be as they had grasped My teachings and My parables with their mind.

From My ascension on, this dissension remained until the first early communities broke up. This led to the emergence of authorities. They decided on what should be right and what should be made of My teaching - which contains the law of life and the freedom of will - a binding religious doctrine. Thus, the words which were at first symbols that made the Inner Life understandable were fitted into a human world of thought. Using My name, Christ, they elected authorities such as pastors, priests and still others. In the course of time, they built up in My name a denominational hierarchy, with splendid houses of God and cathedrals and palaces in which they resided. Thus, Christianity grew rigid and became an institution with dogmas, doctrines, cults, worldly rule, church fees and taxes and much more.

Since their hearts were impoverished, they included in their denominational system of doctrines more and more pagan cults so that they could offer the people outer celebrations, which they embellished with much ceremonial, in order to stimulate their faithful. They called them Christian celebrations, which should be held in honour of God. In reality they were - and in part still are today [1989] - snares with which they bound and bind their faithful to themselves. The ecclesiastic laws, the dogmas, doctrines, structures and customs became, for many, prisons from which it is difficult to escape.

They did not and do not observe the commandment of freedom; they decided and decide, for example, that people should be baptized when they are children, before they are instructed and can receive the blessing of the church.

But the commandment of freedom says: Teach first. This means to teach your children the laws of life - and if they keep them and fulfil them in their daily life, they will be baptized by Me, the Spirit of Christ, with the Spirit of truth, for they have immersed into the truth, into the law of life. However, the one who himself can no longer distinguish between truth and customs and looks at the veils of traditions, sees only the church commandments and doctrines, ceremonies and cults and believes that all this work of man is part of the teaching of the Nazarene, because everything was and is [1989] still embellished with My name.

In Me, the Christ, there are no authorities and no thinking in terms of rank - and therefore no servility either. In Me, the Christ, there are only brothers and sisters who live in the eternal Father and in Me and who are of one spirit.

Even though in the universal original communities there are still [1989] elders, teachers, leaders and healers, these are just designations for the respective tasks of the members of the original communities. These members distinguish themselves in the communities by their true following of Me. The elders, teachers, leaders and healers are brothers and sisters in o n e spirit with all the members of the community.

Terms such as elders, teachers, leaders and healers must not be seen as titles of authorities. The one who considers those who fulfil these tasks to be authorities is guilty before the law of freedom - just as those became guilty who, after My ascension, broke up the emerging early communities by appointing authorities.

In the eternal Being, there are the seven cherubs and seraphs, the princes of the heavens and the elders. Yet they are equal with all spirit beings: They all are children of the Father - without exception. Names like cherubs, seraphs and elders are names which contain and point out the corresponding tasks determined by creation.

16. And the Spirit of the Lord came upon the apostles and the prophets among them, and when they remembered what the Lord had taught them, they confessed and praised God all with one voice, saying: (Chap. 96:16)

"... with one voice” means: They were of one mind. Harmony of mind gradually brings about freedom and unity in Me, the Christ.

17. "We believe in One God: the Infinite, the secret source, the eternal Father, from whom all things come - the invisible and the visible - the All-in-all through all and around all. The holy One in whom all things exist - what was, what is and what will be.

18. We believe in one Lord, our Lady, the perfect holy Christ: God of God, light of light begotten. Our Lord, the Father, Bridegroom and Son. Our Lady, the Mother, the Bride and the Daughter. Three manifestations in one indivisible essence. A twofold trinity. That God may become manifest as the Father, Bridegroom and Son of every soul, and that every soul may become perfect as the Mother, the Bride and the Daughter of God.

19. And this by the ascent of the soul into the Spirit and the descent of the Spirit into the soul. The Spirit comes from heaven and is incarnate, from the eternally blessed virgin in Jesus and every Christ of God *, and was born and taught the path of life and suffered under the worldly rulers and was crucified and buried and descended into hell. And He rises again and ascends into glory, from where He gives light and life to all.

20. We believe in the sevenfold Spirit of God, the giver of life, which came forth from the holy twain, which came upon Jesus and upon all who are faithful to the inner light; which dwells in the community, in the Israel elected by God; which comes again and again into the world and enlightens every soul which seeks; which gives the law which judges the living and the dead; which speaks through the prophets of all times and all countries.

21. We believe in the one holy, all-encompassing and apostolic community: the witness to all truth, the receiver and giver of the same. Created of the Spirit and the fire of God; nourished by the waters, seeds and fruits of the earth. Which - through the Spirit of life, its twelve books and sacraments, its holy words and works - links together the chosen ones in one mystical union and unites mankind with God, making us partakers of the divine life and substance, attesting this in holy symbols.

22. And we await the return of the all-encompassing Christ and of the Kingdom of God, wherein righteousness dwells. And the holy city which has twelve gates: Therein are the temple and the altar of God. From where proceed three orders in fourfold ministry, to teach all truth and to make the daily offering of praise.

23. As in the inner so in the outer. As in the great so in the small. As above so below, as in heaven so on earth. We believe in the purification of the soul through many births and experiences, the resurrection from the dead, in the eternal life of the just, from eternity to eternity, and rest in God forever. - Amen.” (Chap. 96:17-23)

I, Christ, explain, correct
and deepen this confession of faith
according to the laws of life:

(Verse 17) "...the secret source” means: the hallowed source. For in God there are no secrets.

(Verse 18) The words "our Lady” mean the mother-principle in the Father-Mother-God.

"God of God, light of light begotten” means: the Christ is the Son of God who came forth from the Father-Mother-God, the beheld One, who is created in some aspects of Inner Life and is spiritually begotten in other aspects of Inner Life, the Son from the holy, eternal Father and the Mother.

In the Father-Mother-Principle is also the daughter, the female principle, which has more aspects of the Mother.

The bridegroom and the bride symbolize the union - also called matrimony - of the two powers, positive and negative, male and female, Father and Mother.

"Three manifestations” means: Three powers: the positive power, the positive pole, the giving principle, the Father-power - the negative power, the negative pole, the receiving principle, the Mother-power. Both powers together, the Father-Mother-Principle, are also called the primordial power or the Holy Spirit, in which the part-power, the omnipresent power of the Co-Regent, the Christ of God, is active. Since all powers are contained in everything, the three powers - the Father-Mother-powers and the part-power in the primordial power, the Christ-of-God-power - are contained undivided in each being.

Since all powers are contained in all beings from God, the Father-principle represents the Son, and the Son, the Father. The Mother-principle represents the daughter, and the daughter, the Mother.

(Verse 19) "And this by the ascent of the soul into the Spirit and the descent of the Spirit into the soul” means that the one who takes the first step towards the Spirit of life will also be met by the Spirit. The soul on the path to perfection rises to the Spirit of life, to the Father-Mother-God; and the Spirit, the Father-Mother-God, comes toward it.

The Spirit, God, the Father-Mother-Principle, flows into the soul to the same degree as it accepts again its heritage, the powers of infinity; whereby it attains again the perfection in God, the Father-Mother-Principle.

"The Spirit comes from heaven and is incarnate from the eternally blessed virgin” means that the Spirit of the Christ of God came into this world in the Son of God. He was and is the Co-Regent of the heavens, the Son who in Jesus became the Christ, the Redeemer.

The laws of nature are noble laws, if man keeps them pure. By way of the pure begetting, I, the Son of God, immersed Myself into the young woman who became the mother of Jesus. "Virgin” means: young woman.

As Jesus of Nazareth, I taught the holy laws of God and lived them as an example to people. With My teachings and with My life, I showed them the way into the eternal life. I suffered under the worldly rulers and was crucified, because My own, to whom I came, did not accept or receive Me.

The body of Jesus was laid in the grave and was then made divine through the transformation of matter into divine substance.

As the Christ of God, the Redeemer, I descended into hell by irradiating all the realms of the fall, making them planes of purification.

The resurrected One, who ascended to God, the eternal Father, and lives again in God as Co-Regent of the heavens, will return in all glory when the Kingdom of God on earth has been established.

My Spirit, the redeeming power, is in all souls and human beings. The one who turns to Me, the Christ of God, the Redeemer, by fulfilling the laws receives more and more light and power and will enter into the life, which I Am.

(Verse 20) "... sevenfold Spirit of God” means that it is the seven basic powers of God which give life to all Being. These seven basic powers of God are the omnipresent law, God, the life in all that is.

The "holy twain” means the two primordial powers; the giving and the receiving powers - the male, the Father; and the female, the Mother.

The two primordial powers form the core of the Primordial Central Sun, which is the life-power-station of creation, from where the life - the seven basic powers - streams into the seven prism suns. The primordial light - the seven basic powers, the primordial power - is split in the seven prism suns and radiates into the All in seven times seven powers. The seven times seven powers are also called the consciousness radiation. For they irradiate all the consciousness aspects of infinity, including matter.

It is the Spirit, God, in Me, the Christ, who dwells and is active in the true Christian communities and in the members of the communities who fulfil the will of the Eternal in Me, the Christ.

The Spirit, God, in Me, the Christ, has chosen and founded the New Jerusalem in the New Israel. Life radiates from there over the whole earth, and from the light-filled people and the purified earth into the planes of purification to all souls.

The Spirit, God, the truth, radiates into this world in Me, the Christ. The one who seeks, by striving for the commandments of Inner Life, will find his way to the law, God, and become the eternal law which I Am, Christ, in God, My Father and yours.

"... who gives the law which judges the living and the dead” means that the one who lives the law, God, enters into the law, God, into the eternal truth.

The law of Inner Life does not stop, neither before human beings nor before the deceased, the so-called "dead”, the souls in the realms beyond the veils of consciousness which are between this life and the life beyond.

The one who violates the law, God, judges himself to the same extent that he has violated the law of life, the eternal truth.

Verily, at all times - in the past and in the present - the Spirit, God, spoke and speaks through true prophets.

My word, the word of the Spirit, is without limit. It streams through all times and into all countries. And the person who has awakened in the Spirit of life knows My voice. Yes, My sheep know My voice, no matter in which country they live as human beings.

(Verse 21) "We believe in one holy all-encompassing and apostolic community” means:

The foundation pillars of Inner Life on which My true apostles and disciples founded the early communities shall be built upon. The spirit of the community is the only holy One. When the members of the community fulfil the law of life by living in the truth, then they are the blessed ones. These blessed ones, the brothers and sisters who live in My Spirit, form the true community.

They are the witnesses of the truth, and the community which is formed by them is the maintainer and giver of the truth. Everything else is human conceptions and also intrigues, which have nothing in common with Me, the Christ.

The one who lives in Me, the Christ, lives in God and accomplishes the works of God - in this world, too.

In the true communities in Me, the Christ, there are no superiors and subordinates. The true communities in Me, the Christ, consist of brothers and sisters who strive to fulfil the will of God and who already fulfil it. These communities in Me, the Christ, are created by the Spirit of life and imbued with the fire of God.

The one who is aglow with the fire of God fulfils the laws of God. He is for all people and also for the nature kingdoms. And so, he lives with all people in his heart. He treasures and respects the life in nature and is sustained and nourished by God by means of the earth, the waters, the seeds and the fruits.

The following statement, "Which through the Spirit of life, its twelve books and sacraments, its holy words and works links together the chosen ones in one mystical union and unites mankind with God, making us partakers of the divine life and substance, attesting this in the holy symbols” was brought into the early communities by p e o p l e . It does not correspond to the eternal law.

The one who truly lives according to the law of God is a pure temple of God. He does not need books, sacraments or symbols. He has become the holy word, the law, God.

Nothing remains a mystery to the one who has become the law of God. The life in God is the law, God, and the one who lives in the eternal law also knows all the laws of God - for he is irradiated by the primordial light, by the seven basic powers of life, which reveal everything to him. He draws and gives out of this.

These are the people who come together truly in My name and are true partakers of the divine life. They are beings in the earthly garment who have founded and maintain the Inner Religion and who know no superiors and subordinates, no ceremonies, rites, cults and dogmas.

The Inner Spirit-of-Christ Church, the Inner Religion, in which all people are brothers and sisters, unites, accepts and receives all people in God. The true followers, who are in Me in their inner being, came and come from it. They founded and found the original communities of Inner Life in which only I, Christ, Am the Shepherd, because I Am their life in the Father.

Mystical life means inner union in the temple of the inner being with all those who strive for God. This was My wish as Jesus of Nazareth; this is also My wish as the Christ of God. With people who strive to fulfil the will of God and who already live in the fulfilment, I will bring the Inner Life closer to My own, in the becoming Kingdom of God on earth, in the emerging Kingdom of Peace of Jesus Christ. When the Kingdom of God, the Kingdom of Peace of Jesus Christ, has spanned the earth, then people who need neither religious books for their life nor ceremonies, cults, rites, sacraments and the like, will live in the Kingdom of God on earth. They are united in God, because they live in Me, the Christ. They fulfil the eternal law and thus know about all things of life.

For them the book "This Is My Word” will be a historic work of reference which serves them for understanding the past events, from which they recognize the "for and against” of mankind, which continues in and among the souls - in the realm of the souls.

(Verse 22) The return of the Christ of God, who I Am, is at hand. In the present time [1989] and in future epochs, I gradually establish the Kingdom of God on earth, in which peace, unity and justice prevail.

"And the holy city which has twelve gates” is the New Jerusalem on earth. It forms the inner altar for all universal original communities all over the earth. For it is from there that the light of the Eternal in Me, the Christ, radiates the laws of Inner Life to all communities. The inhabitants of the Kingdom of God on earth will recognize, acknowledge and keep these laws, and there will be order. The duty of each single member of the community is the selfless service, through which all members of the communities praise and glorify God.

Those who are given the ability to teach will teach the laws of God to the children who come forth from the mystical unions - from the matrimony of two people, man and woman in God - and will guide them in such a way as to keep these laws in the brotherhood with Me, which unites all people in the Kingdom of God on earth.

(Verse 23) "As in the inner so in the outer. As in the great so in the small. As above so below, as in heaven so on earth” means:

God is omnipresent. As it is in the innermost, in what is pure, so it is also in the outer existence. As it is above, that is, in heaven, so will it become on earth, too: pure.

In its earthly structure, the earth is only the reflection of the heavens, but not heaven itself. However, through the power of love, heaven, too, will come to earth, the pure, to the pure. For the souls will purify themselves through the power of the Christ, which I Am - even though they may have to go through many earthly births and experiences, until they recognize themselves and repent of their humanness, the sins, which they have recognized, ask for forgiveness and forgive and make amends for what they have caused and then sin no more. They will awaken from spiritual death and resurrect into eternal life and, as pure beings from God, will again return to God, their Father, from whom they have come forth as pure beings. In the eternal Being, they will then live and work with all pure beings in love, wisdom and justice, and the love and glory will have no end. For the eternal light, God, in whom they live, i s - as they all a r e - from eternity to eternity.

The one who lives in Me needs no confession of faith, for he lives the law - just as the beings of heaven are and live the law.

24. And as the clouds of incense rose, the sound of many bells was heard and also a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying:

25. "Glory, honour, praise and laud be to God, the Father, Bridegroom and Son, one with the Mother, Bride and Daughter, from whom the eternal Spirit goes forth, through whom all beings are created. From all eternity, now and in all eternity - Amen - Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia.” (Chap. 96:24-25)

The person in God needs no outer forms and rites. The sound of the so-called bells are then the melodies of the heavens which flow through a light-filled soul, a pure heart, because the being from the Father-Mother-God lives again in God, the Father and the Mother. This is the path of each soul in which I, Christ, Am. I Am the way, the truth and the life.

The one who follows Me becomes the temple of love. This temple has no outer customs. All people and beings and the whole of creation are received in it. The one who lives in this temple, in his innermost being, the Sanctum of God, will glorify, honour, laud and praise the Eternal, together with the beings from God, by fulfilling the holy law, which is God, the Father-Mother-God. The Eternal beheld and beholds all beings and gave and gives the heaven in which they live eternally.

26. And if anyone takes from or adds to the words of this gospel or hides the light thereof, as under a bushel, the light which is given by the Holy Spirit to us, the twelve witnesses, chosen by God for the enlightenment of the world, for its redemption: Let him be Anathema Maranatha until the apparition of the Christ Jesus, our Redeemer, with all the Saints. Amen. (Chap. 96:26)

I Am the truth, and the truth which I Am shines in countless facets into this world.

The so-called "Gospel of Jesus” is one of the many facets of the truth. Not just any person, but I, the Christ of God, took, explained, corrected and deepened it and added further light to it, that is, further facets of the truth, so that the people of the present generation [1989] and of future generations may see the eternal truth - Me, the Christ of God - shining from many facets of the truth.

I Am the truth, and the truth gives to the children of the truth - and thus it is the truth.

I, the Christ, do not curse or wish any person ill. This is what those people do to themselves who abuse Me, the Christ, the truth, for their human ends.

I Am the gospel of truth, and the truth, which I Am, gives to the generations in such a way that they can understand today and in the future in the light of the truth.

Here ends the holy gospel of the perfect life of Jesus, the Christ, the son of David, in the flesh, the Son of God, in the Spirit.

Here ends also the gospel of the holy twelve, as originally recorded by the apostles and later handed over to the true followers of the Master in the early days of the community of Jerusalem.

"Here ends the holy gospel of the perfect life of Jesus, the Christ, the son of David, in the flesh, the Son of God, in the Spirit” means: Here ends the book "The Gospel of Jesus”, which was taken into the work "This Is My Word”, the latter being given from the truth.

Only what is external can have an end, but not what is divine. It streams and streams and always has something to say. It is the law of life, which is continuous revelation.

Therefore, let life stream out through the work "This Is My Word” which is at the same time a historic work of reference. If you do not seek the letter but grasp the meaning, the heavens will open up for you - the heavens which I let become manifest in My words, given through a human mouth to all those who strive for heaven by truly following Me.

The blessed sensations of Jesus - the son of David in the flesh, the Son of God in the Spirit - never end. They were pure in Me, Jesus, and, in Me, the Christ, are one with all who feel similarly as Jesus did.

Through the Covenant Community New Jerusalem and through all universal original communities, this work "This Is My Word” goes into this world to the children who follow God and to the children who follow the world. As children of God, all will become one in Me, the Christ. That is the truth. For no sheep will be lost. The children of the world, too, will consciously become children of the light, because they, too, bear the light of the Eternal, the eternal life, within themselves.

I Am the Christ of God, who came into this world as Jesus and accomplished what leads to the unification of all peoples, to the purification of the earth and to the refinement and assimilation of all coarse-material forms. For God is Spirit, is fine-material, pure life. Everything will be guided back into the pure Being through the primordial power, God, the Father-Mother-Principle, and through the part-power of the primordial power, through the Son and Co-Regent of the heavens who comes to His own in the Kingdom of Peace of Jesus Christ as Jaehowea, as brother to the brothers and sisters who are in the earthly garment.

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